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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 10, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…
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ING DIRECT Summer Reading List
I’m a proud customer of ING DIRECT. They have made a big effort in trying to make saving hip. I’m sure trying to push that marketing concept through a financial services company was no small task. But I just got a cool email from them recommended some books for the summer. I thought I would…
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Seth Godin: Agent of Change
Here’s a pretty interesting general marketing blog I just came across. Seth Godin: Agent of Change
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Fast Company Now – Attitude Adjustment
many of today’s young workers are massively disaffected with their jobs and often constitute a negative influence on the whole workplace. I was reading a Management for Dummies book put out in 1996. It’s all about empowerment, encouragement, being an effective leader. It’s been common knowledge for sometime that managers must be compassionate, empathetic, encouraging…
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EBSQ Artist – Joseph Gut – Art For Sale
If you aren’t familiar with EBSQ artists, but like art, I highly recommend you check out the scene. You can search these artists on ebay by typing in EBSQ and you can go to ebsqart.com. This is a group of self representing artists. What this means is that they are basically cutting out the middle…
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13 Part 3
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Ok. This is the last I’m going to do of this. Here are the different versions I’ve collected, verses 4-8 side by side: NAB – New American Bible version ESV – English Standard Version KJV – King James Version…
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13: Part 2
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Of I Corinthians 13:1-13, these are the versus that really speak to me: “4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own…
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Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13: Part 1
Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com If you aren’t aware, I’m in a string quartet. I play the cello. I do a lot of weddings. I would imagine I’ve done a couple hundred at this point in my career. I can safely say, in my…
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My Spirituality Disclaimer
OK. Before I go any further down this spiritual path, I need to make a policy statement. I am in no way Christian. I am much closer to atheist than most spirituality. I happen to like Buddhism, although I know very little about it. One of the reasons I like it is because it is…
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Finding Nothing In Myself
In Tuesday’s yoga, I realized my own Nothingness that I talked about seeing in Indiana here:Sage Lewis: Allegory of the Cave and God I felt strongly being the observer watching the entire world, starting from my mind and body, it all being completely out of my control. I don’t own any of it. I may…
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On Taking
Something that I don’t think was covered, or at least I don’t recall it off hand, in Think and Grow Rich, is that in order to become rich, part of the mental shift is that you must become a taker. Maybe this isn’t an issue for many people, but I realized that I’m not a…
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Work Addiction
I don’t really know how I manage to do this to myself. But I am apparently addicted to yet another thing. Not that I didn’t know this already, really. But I really felt it this morning. Today is the first day of my 3 day vacation. I woke up this morning at 5:30 and I…
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Gymnastics resource – Flying High Enterprises
Are you into gymnastics? Or do you have a child who is into gymnastics? Well if you do, you probably are in need of gymnastic supplies and equipment. Surprisingly, there isn’t a lot available online for gymnastics equipment. But take a look at Flying High Enterprises for gymnastics equipment They’ve got stuff like: Indo Boards…
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Management By Strengths
I was just recommended this course by someone who left me a comment in another blog post. I’ve spent just a couple minutes looking at the page. But I can see its usefulness. In a nutshell, it’s managing people based on their Myers-Briggs results. It’s something I’ve tried to do in an unstructured way. This…
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Indy on Father’s Day
Here’s my boy on father’s day: Now what could possibly be better than that.
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Money Quotes
As part of my recent money theme, here are some Money Quotes. Of these, these were the ones that suited my current interests: Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people…
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CBA For Becoming Rich
OK. Here’s how I have learned to accomplish goals. You do a CBA – a Cost Benefits Analysis for doing something and you do one for not doing something. Having a CBA and reading it regularly when you think things are getting hard will often get you through the tough times. This has worked for…
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My Two Goals
The journey of business never ceases to entertain me. Where I mentally am now in business is very different than where I was even a month ago. Without getting into the specifics as to how I’ve gotten to this point, I have two goals now at SageRock. The company is now five years old… every…
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Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired – Yahoo! News
This is an interesting article discussing blog policies at work. Here’s an interesting example policy: Jen recently helped draft the company’s first-ever blog policy. The policy says, in part, that employees can’t violate the privacy or publicity rights of another, can’t personally attack employees, authors, customers, vendors or shareholders and can’t post material that is…
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Indiana Lewis Photo Shoot – June 11, 2005
Yesterday was Indiana’s first official photo shoot. Here’s all the proofs – all 216 of ’em. If you have any particular favorites let me know in the comments section. Indiana Lewis Photo Shoot – June 11, 2005
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America’s Most Unwired Cities
62. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio 78. Akron, Ohio And then, to make matters worse: 16. Columbus, Ohio 5. Toledo, Ohio There’s no reason why Akron and Cleveland can’t make it in the top 20. If every technogeek in the area volunteered their time to put in one wifi point in their favorite pub or coffee shop we’d…
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Are you tracking conversions on your website? If you are not measuring lead form or sales conversions, give it some serious thought. Knowing conversion information will justify all your online marketing efforts and is essential for making good decisions moving forward. SageRock – www.sagerock.com now offers one of the most affordable and comprehensive conversion tracking…
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shared folder access problem in VPN for Twin Wan Router TWR XC-DPG503 VPN: XiNCOM
I recently had a problem with my vpn that I thought I might share with folks. It took me a lot of time to figure it out. But if you find this maybe it will help save you some time. I have a vpn set up between my office and my home network. My vpn…
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4 Behavioral Types From How to Mind-Read Your Customers
I read an interesting book about understanding the behaviors of people to better sell them. It was: How to Mind-Read Your Customers by David P. Snyder Its premise is if you understand the psychology behind how a person acts you can then serve them better by working with them on their terms. Interestingly, he suggested…
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The 6 Basic Fears
On page 202 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, he covers The 6 Basic Fears They are: The fear of poverty The fear of criticism The fear of ill health The fear of loss of love of someone The fear of old age The fear of death All fears, he suggests, come from…
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Fresh Inc. – How to become (or not become) a CEO
This is an accurate perspective, in my opinion, of the value of owning your own company. He [William Johnson, CEO of Heinz] talked about the “qualitative, intangible skills” that leaders acquire from failures, citing New York Yankees’ manager Joe Torre, who was repeatedly fired before ever winning a World Series. A commenter went on to…
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510 W. Smith Rd. Medina, Ohio 44256 Real Estate Listing – My mom’s house
You all know my mom’s house is for sale right? Well, check it out here: 510 W. Smith Rd. Medina, Ohio 44256 Real Estate Listing – My mom’s house
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Local Akron Area Groups
I want to join a group in the area. These are some that I’m giving consideration to: Young Professionals of Akron (YPA) – a non-profit organization dedicated to providing young professionals in the greater Akron community the opportunity to enrich their careers through social, philanthropic, and educational activities. Art Cetera – a project of the…
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Inspirational Quotes
I found a good site of quotes. I pulled out some of the ones I particularly liked. But you can see the full list here: World of Inspiration – Inspiration, Motivation, Inspirational & Motivational Quotes / Quotations “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather “Far…
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Relationship Assessment – Do you have a healthy relationship?
Here’s a site that was recently put up from a friend of ours at SageRock. I haven’t taken the assessment yet. But I plan to. Check it out: Relationship Assessment – Do you have a healthy relationship?
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YOGA – What I learned today
Calm, Centered, Present-ness Effort and Surrender. Of the two, Surrender is much more powerful. I’ve learned that in other days practicing Yoga. I learned today, surrender means being in the present. Effort is living in the past and future.
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