LifeStraw® Personal 'One of the Ten Things that will Change the Way We Live´ by Forbes

LifeStraw® Personal is a portable water purifier for prevention of common diarrhea disease – can be carried around for easy access to safe and clean drinking water.

More than one billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water.
The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 km.
Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.

Please Donate a Life Straw. It is very simple and maybe the most direct great gift.

https://www.imaworldhealth.org/Donation/SecureDefault.aspx

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25% of the World's Construction Cranes are in Dubai

Such are the contrasts of a megalopolis where a reported 5,000 buildings at this very minute are under construction, where they claim that 25 percent (some are now saying 30 percent) of the world's building cranes run 24/7, and the current work force of 848,000 (total population 1.4 million) is projected to more than double by 2015.

A cab driver is telling a tourist "America thinks 50 years ahead. In Dubai with think 100 years ahead." Now this is a works project!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT2QOyd4dKw

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=Dubai%20Construction&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#hl=en&q=Dubai%20Construction&gbv=2&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv&st=month&start=20

The Route of What is Possible

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.”


Louis Agassiz quotes (Swiss born American Geologist, Teacher and Naturalist, 1807-1873)

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UPS MAY BE GREEN NOT BROWN

"UPS -95,000 big square brown trucks delivering packages every day. And this realization — that when you operate a gigantic fleet of vehicles, tiny improvements in the efficiency of each one will translate to huge savings overall — is what led U.P.S. to limit further the number of left-hand turns its drivers make."
"UPS employs what it calls a “package flow” software program which maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make

Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons. So what can Brown do for you? We can’t speak to how good or bad they are in the parcel-delivery world, but they won’t be clogging up the left-hand lane while they do their business. "

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New York Times 2007 Year of Ideas

Braille Tattoos
Airborne Wind Generators
Digital search parties

The Edible Martini

Annually The New York Times Magazine publishes The Year in Ideas. The December 8 Magazine contains 70 ideas ranging from brilliant to quirky. Clearly it demonstrates "What is Possible"

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/12/08/magazine/index.html

Ways to SAVE AND GENERATE ENERGY from The New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=3a9e514db4759318dac57e8e5fd5462862c424ed

Will we need Two Licenses?

The Flying Car - deliveries 2009

Terrafugia has solved the last sticky issue - automatic folding wings. I am worried about the cars blind spots!

http://www.terrafugia.com/ They even have a flight simulator on the website.

Thanks to http://www.gizmodo.com/ for the introduction. "Gizmodo, the gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural."

From Samuel Goldwin

“It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities”
(Polish born American movie Producer and Founder of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924. 1882-1974)

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Is it Possible to Redesign the Wrench - Simply

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Business & Industrial Products
Revolutionized Wrench
Design Credit:
Proprietary Technologies

"The Revolutionized Wrench provides exceptional
user ergonomics, comfort, control and torque through an innovative design that offers a 500 percent larger surface area over traditional wrenches. The wrench heads and outer handles are positioned perpendicular to each other to provide maximum grip area when applying force. However, there is no planar rotation in the wrench handle to interfere with grip or comfort. In addition, the outer handles have a thin profile to ensure the accessibility of each wrench head to a work piece. Professional users will particularly benefit from this new ergonomic design by experiencing less repetitive stress and fatigue problems. In addition to seven patents, the Revolutionized Wrench has received numerous industry awards and much media attention, including a commendation from the National Arthritis Foundation.

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Competing in Computers - Again

Go to an Apple store. You'll know it by following the teenagers. Think of all the computer store failures. Dell and Gateway invested millions and withdrew.

These stores or should we say, destinations, are a hub of activity and sales. Visit one and you'll see Apples original school approach alive and well. You'll see staff, who are actually excited about working there. You'll see plenty of people buying.

These are electric places and demonstrate "What is Possible"

Thank You Viewimages.com

Curiosity and Creativity

http://www.mypersonalbrilliance.com/curiosity/

This an interesting website, with a interesting guests

The path to Personal Brilliance is:

Awareness, Curiosity, Focus and Initiative

There are many pod casts and the recent guest "The Name Tag Guy" spoke on Curiosity. He suggests every day
"Ask Yourself 100 Questions"
"Ask Yourself one question over and over and over"
"Asking People Unexpected Questions"

"Self Help is oversold" Sometimes, but not always