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Up to 30% of people with the most common form of hemophilia develop antibodies that attack lifesaving protein injections, making it difficult to prevent or treat excessive bleeding. Now researchers have developed a way to thwart production of these antibodies by using plant cells to teach the immune system to tolerate rather than attack the clotting factors.
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New test adds to scientists' understanding of Earth's historyDecember 5, 2012 12:37 pm | News | Comments
A new study provides the first direct chronological test of sequence stratigraphy, a tool for exploring Earth's natural resources. The model allows geologists to better understand how sedimentary rocks are related to one another in time and space and predict what types of rocks are located in different areas. The information may help scientists more reliably interpret various aspects of Earth's history.
Well-ordered nanorods could improve LED displaysOctober 25, 2012 2:16 pm | News | Comments
Synchrotron-based imaging has helped develop enhanced light-emitting diode (LED) displays using bottom-up engineering methods. Collaborative work between researchers from the University of Florida and Cornell University has produced a new way to make colloidal "superparticles" from oriented nanorods of semiconducting materials.
Chemists pioneer new technique for nanostructure assemblyOctober 19, 2012 8:51 am | by Donna Hesterman, University of Florida | News | Comments
Engineered nanostructures are typically challenging to create with any sort of sophisticated. However, a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods has been developed the could represent a major breakthrough in the field. It shows how thermodynamic forces can be used to manipulate growth of nanoparticles.
Biologist discovers mammal with salamander-like regenerative abilitiesSeptember 26, 2012 5:38 pm | News | Comments
For years biologists have studied salamanders for their ability to regrow lost limbs. But amphibian biology is very different than human biology, which makes the recent discovery of a small African mammal with an unusual ability to regrow damaged tissues potentially crucial to new research in regenerative medicine.
Experiment corrects prediction in quantum theorySeptember 20, 2012 8:03 am | News | Comments
An international team of scientists is rewriting a page from the quantum physics rulebook using a University of Florida laboratory once dubbed the coldest spot in the universe. The Microkelvin laboratory is one of the few places cold enough to generate and study the Bose-Einstein Condensate, a state of matter in which individual particles act as a whole. Recent research has confirmed, and corrected, certain predictions about the phase transitions for this state of matter.
Physicists set new record for graphene solar cell efficiencyMay 24, 2012 7:52 am | News | Comments
Doping may be a no-no for athletes, but researchers at the University of Florida say it was key in getting unprecedented power conversion efficiency from a new graphene solar cell created in their laboratory.
Making an emerging technology safe for the environmentMarch 22, 2012 3:35 am | News | Comments
The percentage of electronic waste occupying our landfills has grown at an alarming rate over the last decade, giving rise to concerns about the toxicity of components used in consumer electronics. Researchers at the University of Florida are looking for ways to minimize environmental hazards associated with a material likely to play an increasingly important role in the manufacture of these goods in the future.
Discovery refutes previous theory about galaxiesOctober 11, 2011 5:28 am | News | Comments
The world's largest optical telescope has allowed University of Florida astronomers to see new details about deep space galaxies, finding new clues to explain the evolution of galaxies like our own.
Manufacturing method paves way for quantum dot-based LEDsSeptember 6, 2011 6:55 am | News | Comments
University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither. Instead, America's future lighting needs may be supplied by a new breed of light-emitting diode, or LED, that conjures light from the invisible world of quantum dots.
Discovered: Oldest evidence of nails in modern primatesAugust 19, 2011 5:54 am | News | Comments
Researchers have recovered and analyzed the oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern primates, confirming the idea nails developed with small body size and disproving previous theories nails evolved with an increase in primate body size.
Study shows tundra fires could accelerate climate warmingJuly 29, 2011 5:09 am | News | Comments
After a 10,000-year absence, wildfires have returned to the Arctic tundra, and a University of Florida study shows that their impact could extend far beyond the areas blackened by flames. With the amount of carbon released in these tundra wildfires, roughly twice the amount of greenhouse gases put out by the city of Miami in a year, the study suggests that these fires could impact the global climate.
UF-led team awarded more than $6.5 million for oil spill projectsJuly 8, 2011 6:18 am | News | Comments
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a University of Florida (UF)-led team more than $6.5 million to study the environmental and psychological effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on communities along the Gulf coasts of Florida and Alabama.
Making peanuts safer with pulsed lightJune 13, 2011 4:51 am | News | Comments
A Univ. of Florida researcher has developed a new technique to make peanuts safer for people with peanut allergies. Using a pulsed ultraviolet light, or PUV, the researcher reduced the allergenic potential of peanuts by up to 90%.
Researchers refine system to detect explosive materialsJune 10, 2011 7:50 am | News | Comments
Airport security workers this year will employ an array of pre-boarding detection measures to scan for deadly materials smuggled into the luggage of the world's 625 million passengers expected to travel this year. None, however, yet uses what researchers at the Univ. of Florida believe is the world's first explosive detection system that utilizes ultraviolet light to zero in on specks of dangerous explosives found on these items.
Making plastic from discarded plant materialMay 31, 2011 10:17 am | by Robert H. Wells | News | Comments
Plastic may compete with paper in the grocery line, but it doesn't have to compete with the world's food supply, according to Univ. of Florida researchers. They've developed a way to produce plastic that doesn't use valuable natural resources, such as food or fuel, for raw materials. The new method uses a strain of bacteria to create bioplastic from discarded plant material, such as yard waste.
A new way to analyze epidemicsMay 24, 2011 11:01 am | by John Pastor | News | Comments
An international team of researchers led by the Univ. of Florida has created a new way to analyze the spread of dangerous viruses. The method uses sets of mathematical rules to do something software cannot easily accomplish—analyze subtle DNA difference to more fully understand health threats such as HIV, hepatitis, or even influenza.
Researchers develop method to remove phosphate from waterMay 11, 2011 8:31 am | News | Comments
Phosphate poses one of Florida's ongoing water-quality challenges, but a process developed by Univ. of Florida researchers could provide an affordable solution, using partially burned organic matter called biochar to remove the mineral.
UF leads world in reconfigurable supercomputingFebruary 15, 2011 5:44 am | News | Comments
Univ. of Florida researchers say their supercomputer, Novo-G, is the world's fastest reconfigurable supercomputer. They claim Novo-G is able to perform some important science applications faster than the Chinese supercomputer touted as the world's most powerful.
Revisited human-worm relationships shed light on brain evolutionFebruary 11, 2011 4:41 am | News | Comments
"Man is but a worm" was the title of a famous caricature of Darwin's ideas in Victorian England. Now, 120 years later, a molecular analysis of mysterious marine creatures unexpectedly reveals our cousins as worms, indeed. An international team of researchers has produced more evidence that people have a close evolutionary connection with tiny, flatworm-like organisms scientifically known as "Acoelomorphs."
Nanosponges speed semiconductor devicesAugust 31, 2005 8:00 pm | Award Winners
The semiconductor device industry is continually driven to improve performance. In order to achieve increasing speeds and decreasing costs, manufacturers have introduced new materials such as ultra-low k dielectrics. These dielectrics, however, are soft, fragile, and can be easily scratched and delaminated during chemical mechanical planarization. Researchers from Sinmat Inc., in a joint effort with the Univ. of Florida, have developed Soft, Elastic Nanosponge Materials that have significant advantages over to state-of-the-art slurries based on conventional particles.
Less is better, and less expensiveAugust 31, 2004 8:00 pm | Award Winners
Sinmat, Inc., and two other collaborators, developed the Genteel Slurry, a mixture of chemicals and particles that enables a CMP process to make multi-level nanoscale copper wires to connect millions of transistors on an integrated circuit device.


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Abstract: 1TheUltimate SuccessSECRETIs it possible that there is one single, super-powerful secret ofsuccess of far greater importance than all others?DAN S. KENNEDYwww.dankennedy.com 2
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Ultimate Success
Is it possible that there is one single, super-powerful secret of
success of far greater importance than all others?
Copyright © 2005 by Dan S. Kennedy
Revised Edition © 2006 by Dan S. Kennedy
ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by
any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Published by: Kennedy Inner Circle, Inc.
5818 N. 7th St. #103, Phoenix, AZ 85014
Licensed for reprint to certain authorized additional publishers.
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While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, neither the Authors nor the Publisher
assumes any responsibility for errors, inaccuracies or omissions. Any slights of people or organizations are unintentional.
This publication is not intended for use as a source of legal or accounting advice. The Publisher wants to stress that the
information contained herein may be subject to varying state and/or local laws or regulations. All users are advised to retain
competent counsel to determine what state and/or local laws or regulations may apply to the user's particular business.
The purchaser or reader of this publication assumes responsibility for the use of these materials and information. Adherence to
all applicable laws and regulations, both advertising and all other aspects of doing business in the United States or any other
jurisdiction is the sole responsibility of the purchaser or reader. The Authors and Publisher assume no responsibility or liability
whatsoever on the behalf of any purchaser or reader of these materials.
A Favorite Story….the much revered, very wise, aged rabbi is on his deathbed, his rabbinical students
gathered for the deathwatch, arranged with the smartest of the students at the rabbi's head, the next
smartest second, and so on, down to the pitied dunce of the class, at the foot of the bed. As it becomes
increasingly apparent that the old rabbi was soon to depart, his best student leaned over and whispered,
"Before you leave us, could you please, finally, give us THE secret of life itself, great master teacher,
After a few moments of thought, with considerable effort, the rabbi managed to croak out, "Life is like a
The honored student turned to the one next to him and said," The master said 'life is like a river.' Pass it
down." And so each student in turn passed the wisdom down to the next. But the dunce said, "Hey, wait a
minute, life is like a river? What does that mean? Ask him what he means by that."
Ashamed and tentative, each student passed the question back up the line. The best student again leaned
over and said, "I'm sorry, master teacher, but the dunce, down at the end, he does not understand. He
wants to know: what do you mean? – life is like a river."
With every ounce of strength remaining in his dying, frail body, the rabbi managed these last words:
"Okay, so it's not like a river."
"A Lobster When Left High And Dry Among
The Rocks, Has Not Instinct And Energy Enough
To Work His Way Back To The Sea,
But Waits For The Sea To Come To Him.
If It Does Not Come,
He Remains Where He Is And Dies,
Although The Slightest Effort
Would Enable Him To Reach The Waves,
Which Are Perhaps Within A Yard Of Him.
The World Is Full Of Human
Men Stranded On The Rocks
Of Indecision And Procrastination,
Who, Instead Of Putting Forth Their Own Energies,
Are Waiting For Some Grand Billow Of
Good Fortune To Set Them Afloat."
- Dr. Orrison Swett Marden
What You Will Discover In This Book
Why have I written a book with such an audacious title?
It sometimes seems like only yesterday that I was a punk kid with big ideas, adding gray to my hair to try
and look a little older. I certainly do not have that problem now. I could stand to take some of the gray
out. After a speaking engagement not long ago, my friend Lee Milteer observed that my groupies seem to
be getting a lot older. Anyway, I feel like I've stacked up enough expensive experience to justify
committing some opinions about "the ultimate success secret" to paper. I have gone from broke to well
off; from severe struggle peaks of success in not one but three professional fields; and, along the way, I
have had the good fortune of working with, hanging out with quite a number of exceptionally successful
people from business, sports, entertainment. Famous people, like Joan Rivers, who started over after her
husband's suicide and her loss of her career, working for $500.00 a week on "Hollywood Squares",
pronounced a washed up has-been by her own agent; who re-invented her career and her life with courage
and determination. And non-famous people, like Gladdie Gill, a 50+ year old school teacher living
uncomplainingly with Hodgkin's disease; on her summer vacations, climbing mountains, traversing
Alaska in a jeep; at home, taking care of every imaginable orphaned animal; at school, defying dullard
administrators to give her students the richest imaginable learning experiences, thus earning the support of
an entire community of parents and kids, and having a truly lasting impact on many lives. I have had the
privilege of working closely with a great many "from scratch" entrepreneurs who've built empires,
extraordinarily successful salespeople, top executives, top speakers. I have quite literally been surrounded
by and immersed in success for years. And I'm a good observer. I have not let this go to waste.
It is impossible to count the number of authors, researchers, psychologists, "motivational gurus", etc. who
have been fascinated by the question of what causes some people to be successful and others to fail. We
know it is not "environment", as some liberals insist; it cannot be, because out of the very worst
environments come fabulously successful individuals, repetitively enough not to be passed off as
aberration. Blaming external factors, and excusing a person's results because of external factors, is not
going to lead anybody to the answer to this question.
In the United States, probably the most famous of authors to have attacked this question thoroughly was
Napoleon Hill. His findings are summarized in his best-known book, THINK AND GROW RICH, a
bestseller in its time, and, solely thanks to word-of-mouth, a steady seller, surviving and remaining on the
fickle bookstore shelves for decades. (If, by some chance you have not read this book, you must.) In 1917,
America's first billionaire, Andrew Carnegie, set Napoleon Hill on a mission to discover the
commonalities, the "principles" shared by hundreds of the most exceptional achievers of their time.
Eventually, Hill arrived at thirteen such principles. Recently, management guru Stephen Covey had a
blockbuster best-selling book with his "Seven Habits" of highly successful people. My speaking
colleague Zig Ziglar talks about the "Ten Qualities" of successful achievers. Thirteen. Ten. Seven. Pick a
number. Well, I have the audacity to step forward and tell you that I've boiled it down to ONE.
I changed the question to:
Is there one, single secret to success
of such overriding importance that,
if concentrated upon exclusively,
will literally change a person's entire
life experience and results?
If so, what is it?
That's right – one. I believe that I have identified the one, single, sole "secret of success" universally
shared and relied on, above all other success secrets, by all extraordinarily successful individuals. And it
is my contention that any person who discovers, accepts, comes to understand, and gives priority,
paramount importance to this one secret can and will quickly crate unbelievable breakthroughs in his or
her life.
Incidentally, my focus has been quite different than Napoleon Hill's. I have paid a lot less attention to the
thinking of the successful, and paid a lot more attention to their behavior.
In this book, I have NOT come out and simply stated the ultimate secret. Frankly, I could write it
down on a 3x5" card. There are several reasons why I haven't done that. First of all, it's darned hard to
get $19.95 for a 3x5" card. My accountant, Snarly Stubbyfingers insists that we create things we can sell
for profit. (If I refuse, he swears he'll up and leave and he's the only one here with the combination to the
safe where we keep the Oreos and the good Scotch.) Second, if I just tell it to you outright, in its shortest
form, it lacks useful impact. I've found it is of little use to those I simply tell it to. On the other hand,
those who ferret it out for themselves seem to place great value on it and get great value from it. So, I
hope you can discover this secret for yourself. It is waiting for you in a number of places in this book.
I don't have any special reason to be overly mysterious, though – so, a clue. The "spark" that drove me to
write this book may, in itself, be revealing. A very mundane event got me going. I had been thinking
about writing a book on this particular subject for quite some time. I'd been assembling notes on it for a
couple years. But there was one little incident that got me to work. On a restless night, late at night, I was
thumbing through TV GUIDE trying to find something to watch for an hour or so when I noticed this
Move: ACTION JACKSON!
That name instantly appealed to me. Who was 'Action Jackson'? How did he earn such a dramatic
Well, the movie turned out to be a bad B-picture; a run-of-the-mill cops-and-bad-guys, black exploitation
film starring Carl Weathers. I would not recommend the movie. But the hero's name stuck in my mind
long after the details of the movie faded. Action Jackson. That, I thought at the time, perfectly describes
the kind of person who gets the most out of life.
Think about some of the biggest blockbuster movies of recent years. Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Die Hard.
Lethal Weapon. Batman. The Fugitive. Think about the enduring success of the James Bond series. Why
have these films been such enormous
box office moneymakers? I think one of the answers is the dramatic juxtaposition between the movies'
always-in-action adventurers and most peoples' comparative slow motion lives.
The constant, the universal characteristic of such big screen
heroes is their bias for action. And for an hour or two, everybody becomes an Action Jackson, living
vicariously through these heroes.
What the Mediocre Majority never learns is that they do not have to settle for living vicariously through
others. Anybody can be an Action Jackson --- dive headlong into the greatest adventure of all; setting and
rapidly accomplishing meaningful, worthwhile goals, meeting fascinating people, visiting exciting places,
living an exciting life. Even people who are above-average achievers are often guilty of seeing themselves
and their own lives "smaller" than need be.
Well, I am here to tell you that those who live life "large"
do share a single, ultimate secret. Through the stories,
experiences and examples I've assembled for you, in this
book, you can now discover that very secret and get it working
for you.
Dan Kennedy
PS: If you are – or become – interested in more of what I have to say about the puzzle of difference between extraordinary
achievers and ordinary plodders, you might want to visit a web site of mine: www.renegademillionaire.com.
PPS: You may have purchased this book on your own, and if so, my thanks and congratulations. But it's
also quite likely you received this book as a gift from one of the different business and marketing
consultants, advisors, experts or coaches that I've worked with. If that's the case, you should know that
the person who gave you this book as a gift is someone who embodies the Ultimate Success Secret
through his or her own behavior and business. That person prizes the secret, works at living the secret,
and now has invested in passing along the secret to you. If you uncover it and find it valuable, by all
means, let them know.
Additional Publisher's Note: this book was first written and published in the early 1990's. Not all
references to the author's life or to others in the book have been up-dated. This, in no way, invalidates
the timeless message of the book, as you will see.
Chapter 1
Have you ever been inside a real prison? A friend of mine, some years ago, served one year in the Ohio
State Penitentiary, and I went to visit him frequently. I can tell you: nothing you see on TV or in the
movies can even half prepare you for the shock of the real thing. I don't remember how many times I
went inside and back out from behind those prison walls, but the awe, fear, disability and depression I felt
never lessened, from the first time to the last. No description I could write could convey the
powerlessness that came over me in that environment.
There are millions of people enduring that environment every day.
But that's a small number compared to the many millions of people who might as well be in such a prison
for the little joy and satisfaction they're deriving from life. People build their own prisons, incarcerate
themselves in them, and make the environments every bit as bleak, stark, depressing and debilitating as
the actual penitentiary I visited in Ohio. These peoples' private prisons' block walls are constructed of
complaints and resentments, the mortar from excuses, the bars forged from pessimism and
We might say that they are locked up in "Pity Prison". Their sentence is indefinite and of their own
making. They could walk out as a free man or woman at any time – if they would just apply The Ultimate
Secret Of Success.
A Word About Heroes
As I finished the first edition of this book, the "O.J. Simpson trial" had sparked a national discussion of
the relative wisdom or lack thereof of turning sports champions , entertainers, and other public celebrities
into heroic role models. NBA star Charles Barkley publicly insisted "Athletes are not role models."
Unfortunately, we cannot discourage countless young people from giving them hero status. The argument
against viewing people as heroes based on their proclivity for making baskets, catching passes, packing
concert halls, or delivering lines in movies is a good one, as too many seem to have an equal proclivity for
squandering their status, money and time on drugs, alcohol, epic sexual misbehavior and violence.
Actually, there are plenty of REAL heroes all around us. Yesterday, while killing time at the airport, I got
my shoes shined. The lady doing the job, I'd guess about 35 or 36 years old, was finishing her second
shift of the day with me, at 6:00 PM. Just as she was finishing, the pay phone rang; as it turns out, her
teenage daughter and son are required to call her every hour to check in. She is a divorced mother of two,
a high school grad, with very limited marketable job skills, doing a relatively tough job, compensated by
tips so the quality of her work, her attitude, her smile are critical; she is raising two teenagers; and she is
saving up money to go back to school. I had to inquire and prod to find all this out. She was not
complaining, not whining, not looking for pity. A real hero.
After a speaking engagement in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I was eating dinner in the Holiday Inn
restaurant. Seated several tables away, alone, was a man about my age, in a wheelchair. His hands were
apparently of little use to him. He dined on a bowl of soup and a soft drink, both consumed through a
straw. When the check was brought to him, he somehow produced his wallet – I didn't see how – and
extracted dollar bills from it with his teeth. Here was a man saddled with obvious shoulder-to-toes
physical disabilities that made a simple journey to a restaurant difficult, tiring, possibly embarrassing. No
one would criticize him for dropping out and copping out. But he refused to let his handicaps imprison
him. A real hero.
During a weekend in Las Vegas. I was leaving Caesars Palace, the man getting his car from the valet
ahead of me was also in a wheelchair. He and the valet knew each other and joked together as the man
hoisted himself from his wheelchair into the car. The valet then left to retrieve my car. I walked over and
asked the man if he would like help getting his wheelchair into his car. "Thanks," he said, "but it's not
necessary. I've been doing this for myself for 30 years and I'm thankful that I can." One-handed, he
folded up the wheelchair, pulled it into the car behind him, slid across the seat, and drove off. He, too,
refused to be imprisoned by his handicap. A real hero.
I had reason to recall these two instances and individuals recently, as my Dad had a re-occurrence of an
unusual neurological condition that put him flat on his back in the hospital, unable to sit up by himself,
feed himself, stand, walk or do much of anything else. His doctors did their best to convince him that he,
at best, might not go beyond being helped into a wheelchair. He set goals for regaining leg strength and
balance. Then for control of the upper body. Then for feeding himself. Then for dressing himself. Then he
moved from hospital to long-term care facility, today's euphemism for nursing home. Then he set goals
for walking. For dressing himself. And finally he got into his own car and drove himself to his apartment.
Then he came back to work at the office.
I once had a blind man in a sales organization I managed. He had not been blind at birth but had lost his
sight in his late teens. He worked with his wife in our business, and was an enthusiastic, effective
salesperson. He told me a favorite pastime was washing and waxing his car at ten or eleven o'clock at
night, in the dark; it didn't matter to him but it sure bugged his neighbors! I asked him how it was that he
had avoided bitterness or self-pity. He told me: "very early on, I got to meet and talk with many other
blind people and I realized that many had let their lack of sight ruin their lives. They built little prisons for
themselves and locked themselves in. I was determined not to do that." A real hero.
Each of these individuals' lives demonstrate that positive attitudes and actions, even in the most negative
of circumstances, can make a big difference.
Phobias are real. I've had the privileges or working with Florence Henderson on a couple of TV projects,
and gotten to know her – did you know that, following the cancellation of 'The Brady Bunch', her career
dried up, and her fear of flying rose up and dominated her, crippling her pursuit of career opportunities,
because she could not get on an airplane? Barbara Streisand stopped doing concerts thanks to
uncontrollable stage freight. Johnny Carson reportedly suffered from incredible anxiety before every
show. A comedian I know well, who I won't name, has such severe stage fright he vomits before most
But there's not a phobia on earth that can't be treated, conquered, controlled.
Who's afraid of speaking in public? Just about everybody! Several surveys have shown that more people
fear public speaking than fear heights, snakes, serious illness, accidental death or financial failure. One
survey of Fortune 1000 executives revealed speaking to groups as their #1 fear. I've been fortunate to earn
a large income from speaking; as my career progressed, from a few thousand dollars to $50,000.00 and up
from each speech. But if you went back to the time in my childhood when I stuttered almost
uncontrollably – when I could turn one short sentence into one long s-s-s-s-s-seminar – who would have
predicted this career for me?
Although the problem lessened as I matured, to this day I am still "at risk" of getting "hung up" on a
word, starting to stutter, embarrassing myself, on stage, on the phone or in conversation. Was it smart to
choose careers in selling and speaking? Who would have blamed me for letting this influence my career
choices? I refused to do that.
My friends John and Greg Rice were imprisoned by their midget size, until a man by the name of Glenn
Turner ("Dare To Be Great") got a hold of them. John and Greg can't reach all the elevator buttons
without something to stand on, and Glenn Turner was the first person to tell them that even "little men"
could do big things. John and Greg have become very popular motivational speakers, on the subject of
'Thinking Big!' – even though they have to climb up onto a table so the audience can see them. They
achieved considerable success as real estate salesmen, even though they had to ask their customers to
describe the things above sink level that they couldn't see. They've been featured on countless TV
programs and in movies, built a sizable real estate investment business, and live a top quality lifestyle in
sunny Florida.
Go ahead, name a handicap. Born and raised in a ghetto, as a latch-key kid, then surrounded by gangs,
crime, drugs. A physical handicap. A crippling accident. A terrible disease. Illiteracy. Lack of education.
A speech impediment. Severe phobia. Name the handicap. There are two stories to be found for every one
you can think of. Story #1, unfortunately the most common, will be of people who've let that handicap
imprison them. Story #2 will be of the person who has accomplished the most extraordinary things in
spite of, in some cases because of, that very same handicap.
Each individual, by his or her actions, chooses which story will be theirs.
I Can't I Will
Resentment Gratitude
Desire For Sympathy Desire For
Dwelling On "It's Not Fair" Search For Opportunities
Acceptance Invention
"Maybe Tomorrow…" Do It Now!
Withdrawal Participation
Depression Celebration Of Even
Small Victories
"It's An Impossible Situation, But It Has Possibilities"
- Sam Goldwyn
Chapter 2
Once driving from Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri, to fight boredom, I was listening to a radio
call-in show, hosted by a lady psychologist. I no longer remember her name or the name of the caller, but
I certainly remember the conversation.
The caller, a woman, 40 years old, in her second marriage, spilled out a load of unhappiness and misery.
Her husband didn't pay enough attention to her. Her kids were grown and no longer needed her. She was
bored. Finally the host stopped her and said: "you will continue to be unhappy as long as you depend so
much on others to make you happy."
I pulled the car off to the side of the road and jotted that down as a fill in the blank formula:
You Will Continue To Be Un-________
As Long As You Depend On Others
To Make You ____________
Then I wrote down a few examples:
** You will continue to be unimportant
as long as you depend on others to
make you feel important.
** You will continue to be
un-prosperous as long as you
depend on others to make
you prosperous.
** You will continue to be
uninspired as long as you
depend on others to make you
Let me tell you how this Miracle Formula came to me. The very first seminar I ever attended, now more
than 25 years ago, where "success concepts" were presented was a real eye-opener for me. The speaker
talked about what he called the most unpleasant success principle in the world. Well, who wants to hear
about the most unpleasant anything? But I was there, so I listened. He said, repeatedly, "You are exactly
where you really want to be."
Now let me tell you where I was. I had driven to the seminar in a 1960 Chevy Impala and it was not 1960.
When it rained, this sad old car leaked from the top and from the bottom. The seats never dried out; they
stayed musky damp in the summer, they froze and cracked in the winter. The car's frame was broken
clear through, so its rear end was held up with a contraption of bailing wire, wood blocks and a
turnbuckle. But there was no shame for this car. I'd paid just $25.00 for it, on payments, and it was all I
could afford at the time. And the condition of the car was symbolic of a few other aspects of my life. So
when that speaker said: you are exactly where you want to be – hey, I
didn't like that very much.
It took me a while to stop arguing and start thinking.
Then I finally wrote down a "formula" from what I thought about, as a result of his statement. I could give
it to you on the back of a matchbook – it doesn't require a whole BOOK to give you this – but don't let
that diminish its importance. It is my non-humble opinion that this painfully arrived at formula has truly
profound importance.
Here it is:
Everybody wants more control. If you take all your personal, career, financial and other goals, everything
you think you want out of life, and boil all that down to a single overriding objective it is the desire for
greater control. Greater control over finances, present and future. Greater control over your time and
lifestyle. Greater control over your kids. Etc., Etc.
Ironically, as much as we desire greater control, we are the ones who give it all away. Every time we
- It's the location of our business
- It's the season
- It's the economy
- It's the supervisor who has it in for me
- It's the ay I was brought up
- It's my partner/co-worker/spouse/etc.
- It's ___________
Each and every time we say an "it's the…." We really DO two things simultaneously: one, we push away
a small "weight" of responsibility, and that temporarily makes us feel better, but, two, we give up an
equal-sized amount of control. Whenever we deny responsibility, we give up control. Get rid of a "pound"
of responsibility, lose a pound's worth of control.
The Miracle Formula In Action:
Why DOES One Person Prosper
And Another Suffer?
I happen to know two people very well who are very much alike. They own two almost identical
businesses. Their businesses are in neighboring, very similar towns. My observation is that they are
equally skilled in the technical and administrative aspects of their business.
One, Peter E., has struggled for about seven years just to say in business. He has gained very little if any,
financial ground during those years. His life is a day-to-day struggle for survival.
The other fellow, Robert L., started six years ago. His business has grown by 10% to as much as 30%
each year, every year. He is now getting ready to turn it into a fortune through franchising.
When I talk with Peter E., I hear a lengthy discourse on all the outside influences that negatively affect his
business. The economy, taxes, banks that won't give small business a fair shake, competition from huge
corporations, and his list goes on and on and on. Every time I talk with Peter, I hear the same list. A
broken record playing over and over again.
I acknowledge, by the way, that these factors do exist. I am frustrated by some of them myself. But the
issue is not the existence of these factors. The issue is how much control Peter lets them have over his
business. Every time Peter recites his list, he shuffles off responsibility for his situation, and that
temporarily helps him feel better. But with the responsibility goes the control.
When I talk with Robert, these matters only occasionally come up. Instead, he talks excitedly about the
innovative strategies he has discovered and developed to keep his business growing regardless of external
influences. He exhibits healthy curiosity and quizzes me about strategies I've seen o discovered recently
that might work for him. "How does that client of yours in x-business deal with this y-problem?" – he
wants to know. Often, he'll say something like "I really screwed up on this situation. Let me tell you
about the base I missed and what I'm doing about it."
Robert accepts all the responsibility for his success or failure, his errors and his achievements, and
because he does, he retains control
A couple years ago, I did a speaking tour of all the CEO Clubs (Chief Executive Officers) in the country,
for Joe Mancuso's Center For Entrepreneurial Management, and I talked with groups of corporate
presidents in nearly a dozen different cities. If I heard it from one CEO, I heard it from a dozen: "It's
getting harder and harder to find worthy people to promote from within."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Only about 5% of all the people we employ consistently exhibit self-reliant behavior."
"What do you mean by 'self-reliant behavior'?"
One President answered this way: "Well, take the typists here in the office. They know that a proofreader
checks their work for errors, so they rely on her rather than bothering to check their own work and
consistently present her with typing done right the first time. Then we've got fifty sales reps in the field,
Accounting has to constantly chase and nag every one of them to get their paperwork. My Sales Manager
told me the other day that we've got one guy who we give wake-up calls to."
Another President said, "We have about 20 people in the Chicago plant. Only three or four consistently
get here on time, ready to work. I figure about 5% of all the people we've ever employed, in all the
different jobs, accept full responsibility for successful completion of every aspect of their jobs."
When you think through what these CEO's said, you have a simple answer to a long list of questions…..
*How can I move ahead in my career?
*How can I get a better job?
*How can I start my own business?
*How can I have a better relationship?
*How can I maintain a positive outlook?
*How can I make more money?
Most people have unsaid extensions to these kinds of questions:
*How can I move ahead in my career – when others have more education
than I do?…..when the boss likes Steve better than me?
*How can I get a better job – when the economy's so bad?
*How can I start my own business – when I haven't got any money?
…..and so on.
The answer to these questions and many more like them is: self-reliant behavior.
How Long Will You Wait
Before Taking Charge?
The many times that that I followed General Schwartzkopf on a program, I listened as he posed this
rhetorical question: if you are put in charge, when you are put in charge, what should you do? TAKE
He was talking about the very essence of leadership – not waiting, not procrastinating, not looking around
to copy how others did it or are doing it, not waiting for a committee to cover your butt with its
recommendations; instead, stepping forward to do what needs to be done and to do what is right.
All too often, even when an individual finally gets the chance to be "in charge" that he has coveted, he
accomplishes little. For years, other players on the NBA Chicago Bulls grumbled and groused about being
stuck in the shadow of Michael Jordan. They coveted the chance to command that spotlight and lead the
team. But when Michael Jordan retired, that spotlight searched vainly for that team's next leader. In 1994,
it couldn't find one. The most logical heir-apparent embarrassed himself and his entire team in the
playoffs by throwing a 'hissy fit' over not being named by the coach as the man to get the ball and try the
final shot in the final seconds of a closely contested play-ff game. This would-be leader let his ego control
his actions. Incredibly, he refused to go back in from the time out and give his best efforts to the play that
had been called. You can look around and see such individuals' squandering their opportunities constantly
in just this way.
But I would go even farther: why wait until you are put in charge? Take charge anyway. The fact is:
there's a leadership vacuum just about everywhere. Maybe in your home. Probably in your business or
place of employment. In your industry, in your community, in your church, in your country. And I
suggest this leadership vacuum offers you the opportunity you seek to change your life for the better. Let
me give you a very down-to-earth example:
Mary S. was at a seminar I presented for doctors some years ago. She was there with her husband, a
dentist. She pulled me aside on a break. "Could I talk to you alone for a minute?" So she and I ducked out
of the meeting room, went down the hall, and found an empty meeting room to step into.
"I'm so frustrated," she told me. "There are so many things you've been talking about that we could do to
build up the practice. We keep going to seminars, hearing good ideas, but my husband never gets
anything new implemented. Nothing happens. The staff now knows that when he comes back from a
seminar talking about new ideas, all they have to do is wait a few days and it'll all blow over. And the
practice hasn't grown a bit in three years."
"What kind of things would you have him do?" I asked.
"Join the Chamber of Commerce, attend meetings and make contacts with other business people in the
community," she said. "And start a mailing campaign to area business owners and executives. And put
out a monthly newsletter for our past and present patients. And put together a little how-to book,
something like 'How To Keep Healthy Teeth For Life.' And, in the office, our reception area desperately
needs re-decorated. The staff needs some help with handling telephone calls, especially from new patients
calling in because of our yellow pages ad. And –"
"Wait a minute," I raised my hand like a traffic cop and brought her to a halt. "Mary, these all sound like
inarguably good ideas to me."
"But he won't do any of them," she said sadly.
"Well, Mary," I asked, "What are you waiting for?"
For the first time that night, Mary was speechless. She returned to the meeting room with a particularly
thoughtful look on her face.
You see, it's one thing to complain about another person's failure to pick up the ball and run with it. In
this case, Mary was certainly justified in being frustrated with her husband's lack of ambition and
initiative. But she'd been complaining to him and about him for three years. She'd been frustrated for
three years. Obviously, that wasn't going to change anything. Her only apparent options: accept him and
things exactly as-is and stop being aggravated, continue being frustrated every day of her life for the rest
of her life, divorce him and leave, or pick up the ball and do some running of her own.
Most would choose one of the first two options. Thoreau observed "Most men (and women) lead lives of
quiet desperation."
About a year later, Mary S. appeared at another of my many seminars for doctors. Again she cornered me
on a break, apart from her husband. "I want to tell you," she began, "that I was very angry with you and
the way you answered me that night. I wanted some sympathy. And I wanted you to go have a tough talk
with my husband. But I sure didn't want you to challenge me."
"Should I apologize?" I asked.
"Hardly," she answered. "Let me tell you about my new life." Mary no longer worked in the office as a
dental assistant. Instead she had hired her replacement, then appointed herself 'Director Of Marketing.'
She joined the Chamber of Commerce, a businesswomen's club, a Toastmasters group, and enrolled in a
Dale Carnegie class. She assembled a book – "Secrets Of A Healthy Smile For Life" – and she began
speaking to groups of school children, PTA meetings, civic groups, everywhere she could on behalf of the
practice. She put together a practice newsletter, assigned writing tasks to other staff members and
occasionally even to patients, got it done, published and
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The other day, I ran across this blog post featuring fruit infused water and decided I had to give it a doTerra twist! So, for my workshop last night we made fruit infused, essential oil flavored water! We filled one pitcher with water and then slipped in orange slices from our tree and added a few drops each of Grapefruit, Wild Orange and Citrus Bliss doTerra essential oils. The next pitcher of water had sliced strawberries and a few drops of doTerra Lime essential oil. To the third pitcher, we added blackberries and doTerra Peppermint essential oil. You can actually mash the fruit a bit to get more flavor. (Many thanks to my sister-in-law, Janette, for her help with the food last night!)
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How very lovely!
How very lovely!
Eric Streenstra has created quite the paragon of green energy. And yellow energy. And blue energy. And red energy. You get the idea. This go-kart is still able to... well... go, while being made almost entirely out of LEGOs. I just hope that doesn't include the pedals. I think you know why.
I mean, it's a shame to see a Gamecube give up its life like that, but surely it was a last resort?
DeviantART user Mathijs Sterrenburg modified his toaster to look like the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now is the time where I would usually make a crack about a "blowing on it" if it broke, but in this case, I find such a joke is actually appropriate: if your toast is too hot, blow on it!


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Listen Up Heroes!
As you might know, it's essential to keep an eye on the surroundings of the battlefield. Every little movement could mean your end, and thus the victory of the foe. In order to train your eye for the largest and most spectacular fights of your life, we have devised some special training for you!
See the pictures below. At first glance they are both identical... or maybe not? They differ only in minor details. Can you find all 10 mistakes?
Every week we will choose a new screenshot to modify and become a spot-the-difference-picture. The creator of the screenshot receives a small gift that is not revealed here. Today we have to thank AlmostSanji. His screenshot was chosen for our first entry in this new series of community events!


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Interior Design Trends For 2010: Layered Floors & Wallpapered Ceilings
Both layering area rugs and wallpapering ceilings can make a room feel more intimate and cozy and, especially in winter, that sounds like a great idea.
In consultation with a number of interior designers, the San Francisco Chronicle gleaned 10 design trends upcoming in 2010. Overall the trends are going for more of the same: more mix and match of colors, styles, and textures, a continued interest in the collection of artisan works as opposed to brand name items, and an anything goes attitude when it comes to fitting pieces into your decor.
But what interested me most were the posited trends for layered flooring and wallpapered ceilings, again trends that resurfaced recently, but ones I think that can make the biggest bang for your buck.
Here are some examples of rug layering which may give you some design ideas of your own.
First is a great blend of rugs with similar designs and colors, but varied placements and color tones. Musical Chairs
Apartment Therapy shows how several of the same small rugs can be layered to create a more uniform look...
... also sharing what the Lost Art Salon, in Chicago, has created in its library....
Zebra skins are often used as floor coverings. Layered, they provide a warmer feel to the room.
Here's a skin (perhaps faux?) of another kind used to create cozy white-on-white layers.
Non-traditional floor coverings, like this vinyl patchwork rug, are in too, and they're great to mix and match, but place them carefully - or purchase a lot of home accident insurance!
A wallpapered ceiling adds interest to a square room, but avoid using the same wallpaper for walls and ceilings, unless you have woodworking at the edges to break them up. Otherwise your square room will make you feel boxed in. Flickr.com
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I not only think it's stupid, it is also a safety hazard. Whoever came up with that idea is not thinking clearly.
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everything ultimately horrible, apart from the very first picture
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Not only does it look silly to have layered floors, but it's a safety hazard. Clearly not a place for children. Besides, it would cost so much more then just buying ONE really nice rug and having it in the middle of the room for all to admire.
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OMG people are so resistant to new ideas -- rug layering has been used successfully in every nomadic tent on the planet withouth major injury. People including children can negotiate uneven terrain outdoors with no problem. It's like saying "remove all the furniture because people will be tripping over the legs -- safety hazard!" rug layering creates a beautiful tribal and cozy look. I'm all for it. Thanks for the nice article.


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One of two cards I just designed to celebrate the twinning of Oxford with Grenoble. Contact email@example.com if you'd like to buy a pack.
Postcards are £1 each. Packs of 4 (2 of each design) are £3.50.
Blank cards are £1.50 each A pack of 4 is £5.
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AND IT'S ONDecember 1, 2012 by MC | Filed under A Borscht-In 2012.
Guest-blogger month is in full bloom here.
Check out recent posts by Scott Stein, proprietor of the excellent group blog When Falls the Coliseum, and Ruth Waytz, my super-awesome (as well as mega-awesome) friend from Los Angeles, California.
New stuff is coming from some other talented individuals as well.
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To strengthen Hong Kong's cultural ties with Vancouver and promote Asia's world city's heritage to the Canadian community, the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office (Canada) (HKETO) and the Canadian Cancer Society of British Columbia and Yukon (CCS), today (January 4, Vancouver time) jointly announced a four-day event - "Hong Kong Cultural & Heritage Celebrations" - to be held over Chinese New Year in Vancouver.
The "Hong Kong Cultural & Heritage Celebrations" are presented by the HKETO in association with the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, and organised by CCS.
The highlights of the Hong Kong celebrations are wushu (martial arts) and Cantonese opera performances at the Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts on February 4 and 5. Other events include a Chinese New Year dinner at Chinatown Floata Restaurant on February 2 and a two-week Hong Kong Heritage Exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver scheduled to be opened on February 2.
Led by Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Patrick Ho, with former Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs, Ms Shelley Lee, as honorary deputy leader, the 70-member delegation will fly in from Hong Kong as the city's Goodwill Ambassadors to send their greetings to the people in Vancouver.
"Following the great success of a wushu performance in 2004 in Calgary and a Cantonese opera performance in Montreal in 2002, we are delighted to bring these two groups of performers to Vancouver to demonstrate to Canadians Hong Kong's vibrancy and sophistication as Asia's world city through the beauty and artistry of their performances," said Mr Bassanio So, the Director of the HKETO at today's press conference. He thanked the Hong Kong Wushu Union and Hong Kong Cantonese Opera for their participation in the event.
"To strengthen our relationship with Vancouver, and as a gesture of goodwill, we are pleased to turn over the net proceeds from these two performances to the Canadian Cancer Society," he said.
Speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister of Canada, the Honourable Stephen Owen, Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State (Sport), thanked the Hong Kong SAR Government for presenting the event in Vancouver, and described it as a significant move in reinforcing the "long-standing good relations" between Hong Kong and Canada. "Apart from our strong economic and trade links, we are now building up our cultural links."
In a letter to the organisers, Mayor Sam Sullivan of Vancouver, said the Hong Kong celebrations would "make an impact on people living with cancer in our community."
The gala performance at the Centre in Vancouver will start at 7.30pm on February 4 (Saturday), and a matinee will be held the following day at 2.30pm. The matinee is targeted at the younger population, and students will be invited to take part as a cultural exchange program. Well-known Hong Kong Cantonese Opera performers Chan Kim-sing, Wong Chiu-kwan and Ng Chin-fung, will perform two opera excerpts, "Chasing After Her Husband from Di Qing" and "The Barracks from the Unmatchable Pair" for their Vancouver audience. The dazzling Cantonese opera portion of the program will last about an hour.
In addition, about 30 young athletes with the Hong Kong Wushu Union - many of them Hong Kong's champion wushu athletes and medal winners at the recent Asian Games and international wushu competitions - including renowned World Champion Ms Li Fai, will come to Vancouver for the cause, and join the second half of the performances. People in Vancouver will have a unique opportunity to witness this ancient Asian martial arts form in a spectacular format. The action-packed performances include tai chi, swordplay, spearplay, bare-handed exercises, and different styles of "quan" (Chinese boxing).
Prior to the joint wushu-Cantonese opera performances, a fascinating exhibition entitled "Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: A History of 6,000 Years" will be opened at the Chinese Cultural Centre on February 2 at 4pm. Presenting a glimpse of Hong Kong's heritage from the Neolithic Period, the Bronze Age, to the Qing Dynasty and Hong Kong under British rule, the exhibition will help enhance Canadians' understanding of and interest in the history and culture of Hong Kong.
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2014 Eakin Philanthropy Award Recipients Named
The Fairfax County Park Foundation announced the 2014 recipients of the Eakin Philanthropy Awards, honoring Mike Rolband, president of Wetland Studies and Solutions (WSSI) and Transurban-Fluor for their generousfinancial support of park programs and capital projects. The Park Foundation is a charitable organizationwhich supports the Fairfax County Park Authority by raising private funds, obtaining grants and creatingpartnerships that supplement tax dollars to meet community needs for park land, facilities and services.
Mike Rolband of WSSI of Gainesville, Va., was recognized for his generous and skillful work on the Wetland Restoration Project at Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Va. WSSI was engaged by the Park Authority to plan, design and oversee the renovation of the central wetland area which has been steadily filling with stilt and debris. In order to restore water depth and wildlife habitat to healthier conditions experienced in the 1980s, WSSI creating a plan that laid out an imaginative and creative approach to restoring and enlarging the wetland system of Huntley Meadows. Throughout the project's life, WSSI contributed nearly 400 hours of pro bono time, free materials and staff training, all beyond the scope and requirements of the contract. Their contributions were conservatively valued at $186,000.
The Park Foundation also recognized Transurban-Fluor, known locally for the construction and operation of the 495 and 95 Express Lanes. Transurban-Fluor has been a tremendous supporter of Park Authority programs and projects since 2009. Donations over the years to the Park Foundation total more than $125,000 and help support a broad spectrum of agency efforts. These contributions include support for the Summer Entertainment Series, Wakefield Run Stream Restoration, Dunn Loring Park bike racks, Adapted Aquatics and swim camps at Audrey Moore RECenter, disc golf course improvements at McLean Central Park, the Nautical Cove play area and recently installed shade structures at Chessie's Big Backyard, the Take 12/Healthy Strides 10k/5k/fun run and improvements to the GCCCT Trail.
The Eakin Philanthropy Award, established in 2009, is named in honor of the Eakin family, donors of the first parcels of parkland to the Park Authority over 50 years ago. Since those meager beginnings, the Park Authority has acquired more than 23,500 acres and is one of the largest landholders and stewards of open space in Fairfax County. The award recognizes significant financial or in-kind contributions, projects with broad, long term benefit to the community and visionary contributions which create new programs or facilities and provide a new approach to addressing community needs.
Awards will be presented at the Elly Doyle Park Services and Outstanding Volunteers Award program this November. For information, call the Public Information Office at 703-324-8662.


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What is a landspout?
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A landspout is a very weak tornado that is not associated with a wall cloud or a mesocyclone.
It is the land equivalent of a waterspout.
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A LONG-STANDING mystery about HIV has been solved - yet again. A team in New York claims to have found the elusive blood factor that allows some HIV-infected patients to stay healthy.
The work is important because it could lead to new treatments for HIV. But some experts say molecules already discovered account for much of the protective effect. Others insist we've yet to identify the factor.
The hunt for the elusive factor dates back 16 years to a study done by Jay Levy's team at the University of California, San Francisco. His team was studying HIV-positive people who didn't get AIDS. They concluded that a certain type of immune cell in such individuals - the CD8 T cell - produces a small protein that helps them fight the virus. People who get AIDS don't have this CD8 antiviral factor, or CAF.
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22 June 2006
WFP has begun a US$3.5 million construction project to build 25 schools in southern Sudan, where primary school attendance rates are the lowest in the world.
29 May 2006
WFP has announced that food aid rations – recently reduced by half for more than three million people in Sudan – would be increased to 84 percent in energy content from June to September in Darfur, thanks to the latest donations towards WFP's emergency operation.
7 May 2006
WFP has received a donation of US$30 million from the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) for WFP's massive road works project in the region.
4 May 2006
WFP has praised decisions by governors of three Sudan States to renew and expand their support to WFP school meals by committing precious resources to monitoring, transport and other support.
28 April 2006
Despite the horrific suffering of millions of vulnerable people across Sudan, WFP has said that a severe shortage of funds has forced it to make drastic cuts in food rations from May.
21 April 2006
WFP warns that any continuation or escalation in the current conflict in Chad could have serious implications for the humanitarian effort and leave thousands of people short of food in both eastern Chad and across the border in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.
20 April 2006
WFP welcomes an Italian donation of Euros 1 million (US$1.2 million) towards its emergency operation in Sudan, which is providing food assistance to more than 6.1 million people throughout 2006.
18 April 2006
WFP welcomes its first ever contribution from the Government of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
14 March 2006
As a result of insufficient funding, WFP has been forced to reduce food aid rations to some 230,000 Somali and Sudanese refugees living in two camps in remote areas in northeast Kenya.
21 February 2006
As the media and the humanitarian community focus on the spreading drought in the Horn of Africa, WFP is deeply concerned that more attention is needed to highlight the persistent problems faced by the world's refugees – most of them in Africa.
- How equal rights boost food security Source: IRIN News
- 20,000 believed displaced after unrest in Sudan's Darfur Source: AFP/ GlobalPost
- Conflict in Darfur threatens humanitarian assistance in Sudan: WFP Source: Xinhua News Agency
- 'Real peace' elusive in Sudan's Darfur 10 years on Source: The Daily Star (Lebanon) / AFP
- Sudan Launches Major Dam to Boost Agricultural Production, Investment Source: The New York Times


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United Drives to collect school supplies during August
WASHINGTON, DC (August 17, 2009) - D.C. United announced today plans to continue the 2009 season of United Drives by collecting school supplies before the team's August 22 home match against the Los Angeles Galaxy. All items collected at the game will benefit United for D.C. and its signature program, United Reads.
Established in 2002, United Reads supports childhood literacy through partnerships with neighboring elementary schools and local health care centers located throughout the greater D.C. area. The program serves as one initiative of United for D.C., the club's non-profit arm committed to the creation or support of programs, events and organizations that advance educational and social welfare opportunities for the area's youth.
Fans who donate an item will receive a "Buy One, Get One Free" ticket voucher, redeemable for any home match remaining on the 2009 regular season schedule after the L.A. Galaxy game.
The collection bin will be located outside RFK Stadium's Gate A, and is open from two hours prior to the game until 15 minutes after kick-off. Donations are also accepted in the D.C. United offices, located on the fourth floor of Gate A. This season marks the seventh year of the United Drives campaign, which collects much-needed items to help with each beneficiary's mission.
Each month during the 2009 Major League Soccer season, D.C. United will collect items at every home game to benefit pre-determined non-profit organizations within the Washington, D.C. area. Please see the United Drives schedule below.
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September 9, 12, 27 - Toiletries (Thrive DC)
October 3, 17 - Coats (Mission of Love)
For more information on United Drives initiatives or any of D.C. United's community relations programs, call (202) 587-5000.
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Doug Hicks, email@example.com, (202) 587-5448,
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