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Friday, January 6, 2017

Caught . . .

"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
--Maya Angelou

"In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed."
--Robert Fanney

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”
--Ted W. Engstrom

"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."
--Paul J. Meyer

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
--Thomas A. Edison

"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
--Stephen Richards

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
--Benjamin Franklin

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
--Napoleon Hill

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
--Dennis Waitley

" If you are going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
--Henry Ward Beecher

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle

"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Caught
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Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Past . . .

(inspired by http://www.americanshipper.com/main/asd/commentary-the-real-threat-and-solution-for-us-job-66343.aspx)

One major platform item of the U.S. President-elect was the idea that manufacturing jobs can and should return to the United States. While the outsourcing of manufacturing, increased levels of imported goods, and free trade in general have been vilified as U.S. job killers, a more potent dynamic is being omitted from the conversation, which is technology. It's not that we cannot manufacture in the U.S., it's that the things we manufacture are expensive. Technological innovation is not going to stop as a result of non-factual information originating with public servants. While advances do threaten current jobs, they also create new, different jobs such as the programming and maintenance of systems and machines which perform highly automated functions.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Interference . . .

. . . ah Vlad. Why'dya have to do it?

"I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected."

-Vladimir Putin

". . . But other countries' elections are free game. . . "

-Ray Jozwiak

in·ter·fer·ence

ˌin(t)ərˈfirəns/

noun

1.
the action of interfering or the process of being interfered with.

"he denied that there had been any interference in the country's internal affairs"

synonyms: intrusion, intervention, intercession, involvement, trespass, meddling, prying;

informalbutting in

"they resent state interference"
2.
PHYSICS

the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or canceled.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

On and On . . .

. . . flow the hours
Like rolling waves upon the sea
And like so many and so varied flowers
Each one some nectar for the bee

We're keeping tabs and writing numbers
Logging each minute in the book
We have a choice to
Either dread the counting
Or see the bricks if we just look

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the
Best you can

There’s no protection from the power
We’re generating everyday
The blazing lights shine
From each lofty tower
Just to illuminate the way

Things that never occur to you
In the spring
Become clearer with each moving
Season passing

All options must be on the table
All points of view be kept in sight
And if you don’t do ev’ry thing you’re able
Make sure you do those which are right

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the

Best you can

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Monday, January 2, 2017

Magic . . .

. . . and the tremendous power that it holds will never be fully explained nor understood . . .

(from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/power-of-music)
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp

"Even when involving an extremely unhappy topic, or originating from a most unlikely source, or presenting a disagreeable or plainly untrue thesis, music can still move me."
- Ray Jozwiak

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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Firsts . . .

. . . bases, ladies, men, and uh . . .

If Clinton had won the election, Bubba Bill would have become our first . . . uh. . .

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh)
". . . As consort to the Queen, Philip supported his wife in her new duties as sovereign, accompanying her to ceremonies such as the State Opening of Parliament in various countries, state dinners, and tours abroad. As Chairman of the Coronation Commission, he was the first member of the royal family to fly in a helicopter, visiting the troops that were to take part in the ceremony. Philip was not crowned in the service, but knelt before Elizabeth, with her hands enclosing his, and swore to be her 'liege man of life and limb'. . ."

(from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/bill-clinton-first-lady-hillary-clinton-president)
". . . Angela Merkel’s husband, Joachim Sauer, has continued his work as a chemistry professor, although he does attend state occasions alongside her. Earlier, Margaret Thatcher’s husband, Denis Thatcher, was known for his total devotion to his wife, his remove from politics, and his expression of hard-right views in private. No one ever cared about what he wore. . . "

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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Resolve . . .

"One of the glories of songwriting is that you never know what's coming next. . . please keep doing what you are doing and filling the world with song.”
-Loralyn Coles, MASC Director &
Scott Elliott, MASC Assistant Director

". . . (I) wanted to just acknowledge the insanely hard act of completing these projects, and wish you renewed inspiration and energy in 2017 in a world where music is increasingly devalued, fragmented and marginalized. . . As someone who mostly ignores these facts and keeps practicing, performing, playing, recording and releasing CDs, I resonate with your work. "
-'Steve B.' (an OHO friend & fan)

"Never give up, never surrender."
―Commander Peter Quincy Taggart (of Galaxy Quest)

"Precisely what we intend. . . "
-Ray Jozwiak

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