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Brigitte Weidlich
Namibia's Zambezi Region with its sub-tropical vegetation and rich wildlife in unspoilt wilderness offers tourists an unforgettable experience. Two new developments will even enhance this – a brand new bridge over the Zambezi River near the Kasane border post, where four countries have a joint border and a multi-million funding project for the region's wildlife.
In addition, the Namibian government re-opened the Kasane border post opposite Kazungula in Botswana to the public again this month, following a long shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Other good news is that Namibia will be host to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference in mid-June, which is dedicated to strengthening the African brand as a tourism destination.
New 923m long bridge boosts tourism and trade
Namibia's Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba attended the inauguration of the new 923 metre long Kazungula Bridge on 10 May, which connects Botswana with Zambia at the confluence of the Chobe and Zambezi River. Before the bridge was built, only a ferry and a pontoon transported travellers and truckers across the Zambezi River.
The borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia meet at this point. Previously, tourists wanting to visit the famous Victoria Falls, which are less than 100km away and travelling from Namibia's Zambezi Region via Kasane and Kazungula (in Botswana), could only cross into Zambia at Livingstone across the iconic Zambezi bridge. Now, they can choose to enter Zambia already via the new bridge at Kazungula. This alternative route on a tar road offers views onto the northern banks of the Zambezi and eventually the Vic Falls, closer to Livingstone.
The most western bridge from Namibia to Zambia of course is the one just outside Katima Mulilo to Sesheke, which was completed in 2004. It has a length of 900 metres.
The new bridge at Kazungula in Botswana is a joint project of that country together with Zambia. It is operated as a toll bridge and has two car lanes in each direction, a single railway track for trains and pedestrian walkways on both sides. At each end, there is a one-stop-border post. The total cost of the project was $259.3 million (about N$3,62 billion).
The African Development Bank provided a loan covering about a third of the cost and both governments received financial support from Japan and the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund. The bridge was built by South Korean Daewoo Engineering & Construction company.
"The Kazungula Bridge is a model and benchmark for the southern African region and the continent," said President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi at the inauguration ceremony.
Due to the fact that the new bridge is within the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area (KAZA TFCA) it is expected that it will boost tourism as the ferry and pontoon system is no longer necessary. KAZA is the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world with 371,394 km2 under conservation, stretching from northeastern Namibia to Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. About fifty percent of the total population of African elephants can be found in this area.
Wildlife management for KAZA is strengthened
The KAZA TCFA is also an important migratory route for elephants and other wild life species. However, the area is also home to rural communities who rely on agriculture, fishing, and hunting to sustain their livelihoods. Nowadays, they are not always able to meet their basic needs. Unsustainable shooting of wild animals for meat puts pressure on their numbers and protected areas from increasing human populations, urbanisation and changing lifestyles.
A new sustainable wildlife management programme was launched in Namibia this month to support the governments of Namibia and Botswana to address threats from unsustainable levels of game hunting and fragmentation of habitat, preventing animals from obtaining their necessary resources for survival. The programme also addresses poaching of animals because of human-wildlife conflicts.
One of the aims is to combat the poaching and killing of animals due to antagonism between human populations and wildlife. The project also aims to increase the resilience of the communities faced with erratic rainfall and frequent droughts due to climate change.
The amount of 3.5 million Euros (about 60 million N$), was secured for the sustainable wildlife management programme in north-eastern Namibia and northwestern Botswana until 2024.
In Namibia, the project will be implemented by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) of France, with the support of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) local office.
"The focus of the project is to benefit both the wildlife and ecosystems in the KAZA TCFA and the resilience of local communities that rely on them, at least in part, for food and income," said Farayi Zimudzi, FAO representative in Namibia.
The project sites include 12 community conservancies in the Khaudom-Ngamiland and Kwando wildlife areas, as well as the Kyaramacan Association in the Bwabwata National Park. Rural communities in northwestern Botswana will also benefit.
Together, these sites will foster ecological connectivity throughout the KAZA landscape. The focus includes developing innovative mechanisms to reduce unsustainable hunting practices; promote the sustainable use and management of wild meat, provide technical assistance and strengthen capacities to deal with human wildlife conflicts. Cross-border collaboration and strengthening of the governance of protected areas will also play an important role.
This programme is already active with a similar approach in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) programme is an initiative of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and is funded by the European Union (EU). Additional co-funding comes from the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM). The SWM adopts new approaches to conserve wild animals and protect ecosystems, while at the same time improving the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and rural communities who depend on these resources.
UNWTO conference in Windhoek 14-16 June
Namibia will host a conference in mid-June focusing in branding Africa as a tourism destination after the Covid-19 pandemic. The United Nations World Tourism Organisation's (UNWTO) regional director for Africa, Elcia Grandcourt visited Namibia in early May with regard to the conference preparations carried out by the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB).
According to the Minister of Environment, Tourism and Forestry, Pohamba Shifeta, up to 150 people will participate physically at the UNWTO conference, mainly from national tourism management organisations and officials from ministries responsible for tourism from African countries. The UNWTO Secretary General will attend as well as several African tourism ministers.
The conference will also offer virtual participation. In addition, small enterprises will get an opportunity to enhance their digital marketing skills.
"The focus will be on national and regional branding to enhance Africa's image as a tourist destination and improve the digital branding and skills of micro and small and medium tourism enterprises, particularly here in Namibia", said Minister Shifeta.
"Positioning Africa as a tourism destination of choice based on its rich cultures, spectacular scenery and wildlife as well as other attractions will be the main focus", he added.
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What is Newsy? Newsy is a national news network delivered primarily over the internet (until now).
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Un-Taming the Tension
Posted: September 3, 2020
Some tension can and should be held without causing major dissension…
Pastor George Garrison continues his occasional series, "Thursday Thoughts," on topics prompted by the American struggle with COVID-19, racial inequality, and a presidential election in a deeply divided nation.
We have learned many things about ourselves as a society during these days of the pandemic, not the least of which is that, collectively, we do not handle tension very well. I'm not referring to the interpersonal tension among family members or close friends as a result of shared close quarters (although that is certainly a factor in our lives as well!); I'm referring to a tension of ideas and beliefs with those around us. While it is easy to blame this tension on the pandemic, I think it's safe to say that COVID-19 has not caused us to become more divisive; it has simply exposed what was already there.
Generally speaking, we Americans do our best to alleviate tension, or at least minimize it. We do this by becoming more strident in what we hold dear and feel most comfortable believing. What the pandemic has done in addition to providing a very serious health risk is also provide a world-wide platform for great social risk. And it's much more than just a battle between the masks, and the mask-nots.
As a society we would much rather tame the tension than allow it to exist in all its uncomfortable forms. Taming the tension means we either focus on what the health ramifications are if pandemic restrictions are relaxed or what the economic ramifications are if they are not. It means becoming more strident in backing one political party and dismissing the other. It also means invalidating a movement completely based upon particular aspects of its agenda.
Our world seeks to ease the tension in competing views at all costs, not realizing that being tension-averse often results in more of it on a social scale. But this is where the people of God can be profound agents of change. Society needs to see in us followers of Christ that it is possible to hold things in tension without causing major dissension. Why, specifically can Christians lead the way in this regard? Because orthodox Christianity is inherently a belief system that leaves the tensions of its very tenets un-tamed.
In his book Bad Religion, Russ Douthat highlights the tension in the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. Douthat writes, "Orthodox Christians insist that Jesus Christ was divine and human all at once, that the Absolute is somehow Three as well as One, that God is omnipotent and omniscient and yet nonetheless leaves us free to chose between good and evil. They propose that the world is corrupted by original sin and yet somehow also essentially good, with the stamp of its Creator visible on every star and sinew. They assert that the God of the Old Testament, jealous and punitive, is somehow identical to the New Testament's God of love and mercy. They claim that this same God sets impossible moral standards and yet forgives every sin. They insist that faith alone will save us, yet faith without works is dead. And they propose a vision of holiness that finds room in God's Kingdom for all the extremes of human life- fecund families and single-minded celibates, politicians and monastics, queens as well as beggars, soldiers and pacifists alike."
Douthat also points out that many (if not all) of the heresies of the Christian faith have arisen out of the desire to alleviate its tensions. The divine nature of Christ is elevated at the expense of His human nature, and vice versa. Physical desires are seen as inherently evil, or something to be pursued without restraint. But as believers we realize that the tension in our tenets is to be navigated and not tamed, which puts us in a position to show the world that things held in tension do not have to lead to dissension.
To be more specific, the world should see us embracing the un-tamed tensions in life because that is what we have already been practicing consistently by embracing our orthodox beliefs. This means that we should respect the governmental guidelines given for maintaining a healthy livelihood while at the same time realize those very same guidelines have taken away many peoples' livelihood. This means backing a particular political party (or no party, if one is of the independent bent), but also recognizing there are aspects of merit in both parties. This means affirming that Black Lives Matter, while still disagreeing with other components of the movement.
The building blocks of our faith and our society reveal that not all tension is meant to be tamed. We are never promised a tension-free life in this temporary human kingdom, only in God's eternal kingdom. And the degree and intensity to which we tame the former just may belie what the world needs to see in us as members of the latter.
Praying for all of us as we navigate the tensions of these days,
Pastor George
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Arriving In The Maldives
Arriving In The Maldives
Traveling to the Maldives during this Covid time was not so easy.
To enter this atoll-nation in the Indian Ocean, we had to submit a negative Covid test result, done within 96 hours of departure.
To ensure that we would comply with this requirement even if our flight were to be delayed, each of us did two separate PCR covid tests, on different days before our departure.
All tests came back negative and on time.
Our airline changed our departure schedule four times in the days prior to departure, but none of the changes affected our required window of 96 hours before departure.
A day before our departure, Germany instituted a new rule requiring every transit passenger to have a negative covid test when connecting through Germany, done within 24 hours of departure.
We did not know this until we arrived at the Denver airport and tried to check in our two big bags full of diving gear.
The airline refused to check us in because our negative covid test results were not done within 24 hours of connecting in Germany.
We had to think quickly in order to make our flight.
One option was to change our flight to the Maldives and not connect through Germany.
This we could not do, even with the help of the friendly staff at the airline counter.
The other option that came to my mind, was to do yet another Covid test, one that was available at the Denver airport.
There were a few problems.
One was what to do with our big bags.
The second was that they required a previous appointment, and the third problem was that the test center was located behind the security line, in the departure gates area.
We could not get to the gates area, because the airline would not issue us boarding passes.
But we came early enough to not despair.
The airline staff told us that they would issue us a "Gate Pass" (who knew they even existed), if we showed them that we had an appointment for the covid test.
I quickly went online and made appointments for Jules and I, about two hours before our departure time.
Then started the speedy operation to make it in time to our flight to the Maldives.
Jules stayed with our bags, while I took the gate pass and ran to the packed security line.
The man at security must've sensed my eagerness to fly to the Maldives, because he handed me a card that allowed me to keep my shoes and go in the speedy TSA free line.
I took the airport train and was at the covid testing center in fifteen minutes.
My appointment was in an hour and a half, but I explained my predicament to the nice lady at the counter, and she let me in early.
I was ushered into a cubicle and a nasal covid test was done in minutes.
I got my negative covid test results in fifteen minutes and ran back to the train and then back to the baggage claim area, and took the escalator to the departure floor, where Jules was waiting with our bags.
He got his gate pass and did exactly as I had done, except that I already explained to the testing center that he too would be coming early in order for us to make our flight on time.
With our third set of negative covid test results in hand, we boarded the plane to Germany, connected again in Vienna and arrived in the Maldives almost two days later, tired and disoriented.
To get to our remote resort, we took a local flight and then a boat ride, which deposited us in an island paradise.
Impossibly soft white sand, beautiful modern villas over the water, turquoise water full of fish, and best of all, a diving center with friendly and experienced staff.
Diving felt SO GOOD!
Initially I felt so weak, and it took me a few days to get stronger again.
I have not enjoyed the sun and the sea for so long, and I almost forgot how if feels to dive in clean waters surrounded by sharks, eagle rays, turtles, bright coral and schools of fish.
The current is mostly strong here in the Maldives, but still I went diving every single day, except for one day when they canceled my dive because the staff at the resort had to get vaccinated against Covid.
I almost forgot how much I loved being under water.
The colors soothe and energize me.
Even at night when I close my eyes in bed, I see in my mind's eye the many abstract paintings that the soft live corals make.
The world under the sea is a beautiful garden of live creatures and living plants.
Please let us all take care of it lovingly, so it will be here for a long while….
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Of the many spectacular Pete Boden images that came out of the Super Boat International season-opener eight days ago in Cocoa Beach, Fla., one best-captured the rough-water nature of the race. Running uncontested to victory in the Superboat Extreme class, the AMH Construction/Instigator cockpit duo of Aaron Hope and Anthony Smith endured a spectacular stuff in the four- to eight-foot seas—and continued without missing a beat.
Despite a wicked stuff in Cocoa Beach, Aaron Hope and Anthony Smith didn't miss a beat in the AMH Construction/Instigator V-bottom (click image to enlarge). Photo courtesy/copyright Pete Boden/Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
"I've never had that happen before," said Hope, who drove the team's 40-foot Fountain with Smith handling the throttles. "I've talked to a lot of people who have been around for a while, and they told me that was some of the roughest water they've seen.
"Anthony and I were surprised," he continued. "Neither one of us saw it coming—we called it a rogue wave. It happened in a second and hit us all of the sudden. A lot of those things can end badly, but we punched right through it and kept on running. That was quite a ride."
Of course, Boden—speedonthewater.com's chief photographer—didn't miss the shot. Like Hope and Smith, Boden has the right stuff.
"I couldn't believe he caught it," said Hope. "It happened in a second and it was over."
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Plenty of in the slot Drum caught on Thursday. Also many too small to keep. Whatever you are catching, its fun fishing. There were Drum in S Nags Head and Oregon Inlet. They are catching Trout and Drum down south.
There should be some charter boat news this weekend.
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May 31, 2006
Mira Nair is off the MY SASSY GIRL remake but it looks like she's set to remake the hit Bollywood comedy, MUMBAI MBBS. Starring Chris Tucker in the Sanjay Dutt role. That simple sentence has opened up a wormhole in time and space. Sorry.
Sanjay Dutt is famous for his gangster roles (notably in VASTAAV), his self-deprecating sense of humor and comic timing, and his inability to dance convincingly. In MUMBAI MBBS he played a gangster who impersonated a doctor in order to make his parents happy. Now Nair is remaking the film with Tucker in the lead role and while she's looking to cast some of the original actors she's also looking for a female lead to co-star.
"Chris Tucker will be playing the main character in the film," said Nair, adding that filming should begin after Tucker finishes making "Rush Hour 3."
(read the full story here. And thanks to Al and Jennifer for sending this in. I could feel their horror through the email.)
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This is ridiculous, the original film was bad enough. And then we had to sit through the tamil remake, though at least Kamal Hassan made it more enjoyable to watch than Sanjay. And finally we had to sit through the horrible telugu remake w/ Chiranjeevi. How many times can they remake one crap film?
Though at least it is Mira Nair this time. Salaam Bombay still remains one of the best films in the history of Hindi cinema
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By: Amari Dryden, @Amari_Dryden
Front Office Sports is proud to have sat down with David Meltzer, CEO of Sports 1 Marketing. Mr. Meltzer created Sports 1 Marketing with former CFL and NFL quarterback Warren Moon after leaving Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment. He offered a look into his roundabout journey through technology before coming to the sports business world. He was gracious enough to offer up his wisdom about how to manifest your dreams through gratitude and empathy.
What was your career path to get you to where you are today, going from a law graduate of Tulane to CEO of Sports 1 Marketing?
So instead of most people with a direct career path, I went in a different way. Believing in myself, instead of practicing law I got myself involved in the internet and worked for a company called West Publishing who in the pre-chasm stage of the internet sold legal research online. They started something called Westlaw and so instead of bringing myself as a lawyer I sold legal research online.
Three and a half years into my career, the internet really became important and Thomson Reuters bought us for three and a half billion dollars. I became the youngest executive at Thomson Reuters Anderson Consulting, which later became Accenture. They did the merger between Thomson and West Publishing. They hired me away to be director of their biggest start up company in the Silicon Valley called Everypath, which was a wireless proxy server company. So I went from pre-chasm internet to the chasm of internet and then into pre-chasm of wireless where I worked with a midware company that transcoded the internet onto phones."
We worked with WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) phones and palm pilots and from there I met every carrier, hardware company and application company. Samsung in the late 90's wanted to get into the phone business and they hired me as the CEO of their first convergence device. A Convergence device is the early way to say smartphone, so we had the world's first Windows CE device with Bluetooth and a SF slot. The irony of that business was that they told to me we were too big and too expensive for the market and now in twenty years we've gone right back to really big expensive phones.
I find it really interesting and fun but I was very successful there as the first CEO of what was called the PCE phone. After that I retired in my thirties and that's where I really began to learn where my career would start. I consulted and spoke around the world and ended up buying a golf course which ended up making me lose all my money. I had to go back to work so I started learning how to manifest things and think about and meditate and dream about what I wanted in a very specific pragmatic way just the same way I used to work.
I now use my mind to manifest or attract what I want. I really dreamed of being a sports agent when I went to law school. I played football and baseball in college and I wanted to be involved in sports but I wasn't talented enough to do it after college. I thought that'd be a great thing to manifest and sure enough I met Leigh Steinberg, Jerry Maguire and I became Chief Operating Officer within 48 hours of meeting him and then six months later became CEO of Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment.
From there about six years ago, Warren Moon and I, we were partners with Leigh, spun off our own company specifically to make a lot of money, help a lot of people and have a lot of fun. That's how I got involved with Sports 1 Marketing. It's a roundabout way but it gave me a wide variety of experiences from business to law to internet to technology to phones and golf and eventually to Sports1Marketing.
What were some of the challenges you faced going from a world-renowned firm such as Leigh Steinberg's to branching out and creating your own with Warren Moon?
The biggest challenge was to understand a very concise business model based off of how to leverage two things. One was relationship capital and the second was situational knowledge or how to monetize sports, how to extract the emotional irrationality that surrounds sports business and stick to the pragmatic business model that Warren and I created aimed at making a lot of money, helping a lot of people and having a lot of fun.
So the challenges were to get away from the Jerry Maguire stigma of leaving Leigh Steinberg and reengineering the brand, reengineering the values and reengineering the vision of those who knew us.
We had a new concept to shift the paradigm to bring the right people to projects, not represent the people in the projects and by utilizing and bringing the right people to the projects we're able to attract the right people and ideas, the high net wealth individuals, the sponsors, the activations, the speaking engagements, VIP services, the corporate side of things we do as well as the patron inside of raising a lot of money for charities while still making a lot for Sports 1 Marketing.
What qualities does a person need to have to be successful in your field?
This might sound trite but what they need to have is perseverance. That's the quality. There's no lack of opportunity in sports. It's a multi-billion dollar industry and it's growing every day. There are so many opportunities if you're more interested than interesting you will succeed if you have resolve. There's no lack of opportunity, there's lack of resolve. Most people don't have the persistence and the resolve to see how to get involved and start in sports but there are so many great things to do in sports and all you really need to have is persistence to be successful.
In a video on the Sports 1 Marketing website, you give advice to people wanting to break into the sports world saying, "Be more interested than interesting." Can you go more in depth for our readers about what that means?
One of the things that we do is that we live in our comfort zone and we don't get into that learning zone. We want to live in the learning zone by everything that we do to be more interested than interesting. We want to provide more value than we receive. For example in the context of looking for a job, so many people think that going through the motions of sending out 2500 resumes to every team, league and organization is what's going to get them to start in sports but it's really not.
What would get you there is getting into depth and looking at what other opportunities exist in sports. Some of the examples I use are I met a kid when I was speaking at Notre Dame who got a job with Scotts Lawn Care and everyone kind of rolled their eyes. He was a MBA from Notre Dame and I started asking him about Scotts Lawn Care. He said you know there are three people applying for the job and I did a lot of research to find out that the job entailed managing a multi-million dollar budget in order to spend those dollars in the sports world.
That job was basically to hire celebrities and athletes and put on big events for Scotts and to host their big dealers and retailers. Basically the job was to travel around to sporting events and projects around the biggest celebrities. I said to him stop there and he said it pays around high six figures and I said wow this is a great example of being more interested than interesting.
While everyone else is applying to the Chicago Cubs to work for them for 30,000 dollars a year, here you are making 250,000 dollars a year. You're paying the athletes so they actually like you where everyone else wants to be Jerry Maguire and represent the athletes. Running that big sports agency you learn that like any other client, if you're costing them money there's always going to be tension and animosity in that relationship. If you're making them money, there's going to be a great bond between you and your client.
Here you create a great bond between you, the celebrities and the athletes that you're hiring, you and the retailers and distributors you're hosting at these events and you with the event planners, media and all the other people and ideas that are involved in these projects. Proving my model that if I ask a million kids over the year who would like to work for a sports agency like David Dunn at AthletesFirst, or who would like to work for Scotts Lawn Care as their sports director, there would be a million kids working for David Dunn and no one working for Scotts where maybe working for David Dunn at AthletesFirst is the worst job in the world and the best job may be at Scotts Lawn Care.
What inspired you to write your book "Connected to Goodness" and how do you hope it helps people looking to work in the sports business profession?
I was blessed as a millionaire in my twenties, a multi-millionaire in my thirties and I lost my gratitude and empathy and surrounded myself with the wrong people and the wrong ideas. I lost economically. I went bankrupt. Even before I went bankrupt, my wife, who is my savior because she stuck with me, told me that I had lost my way and that I should go back and codify the principles that I live by and I should start living by those principles because I wasn't the same person that she knew.
We had a huge home in Rancho Santa Fe, Porsches, Ferraris, everything you could dream of monetarily, three beautiful daughters and I took it all for granted. I lost my gratitude and empathy and those were the two things that made me who I was. I went back and codified my life into three imagination principles: foundation, guideposts and manifestation and then three action principles: discipline, strategy and awareness and the key elements under those. I started living my life through that process.
I not only regained everything including adding a fourth child, my only son, I learned how to manifest everything I desired in the right way, filled with gratitude and empathy, gratitude meaning thankfulness, empathy meaning forgiveness. It happened so quickly that I decided that I needed to share it with other people, to manifest anything they wanted in life and business including getting a job in sports which most people think is the most challenging thing.
When I travel around the world speaking I ask who here wants to work in sports and they all raise their hand and then I say well who here thinks it's difficult to get a job in sports and everyone raises their hand and who here thinks it's competitive and they keep their hands up.
Who here thinks it's near impossible to get a job in sports and they keep their hands up. In the next 50 minutes, my job is to teach you it is probable if not for your perspective or reality that you will get a job in sports by utilizing these principles that I utilize to make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun. Regardless of the profession, I like to inspire others or empower others to get everything they want and desire and then learn from it.
Just because we manifest what we desire doesn't mean we're going to be happy but it does make us happy to get what we want. Then we have to learn to sustain that happiness to make sure that we can continually manifest and learn from what we wanted. Some of it may have been misguided or misadjusted but in the end it will create happiness. If people are happy, there will be no death, destruction or disease. My ultimate goal is to empower others to empower others to be happy. It seems that people looking for sports jobs, if they get those sports jobs, they're more happy than not.
What has been the most memorable moment of your career?
The most memorable moment of my career when I was just getting back on my feet when I just became CEO of Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment. I used to own 25% of Steve Clarkson Dreammaker, a quarterback guru who coached everyone from Will Smith's kids to Joe Montana's kids, great quarterbacks like Leinart and Cassel, all of these unbelievable people.
I was out in Hawaii with Warren Moon, Joe Montana, and Leigh Steinberg. I was sitting there with Joe who I become friends with, and Joe leans over to me and says, 'You know, Dave. What do you think about this? You think you should when you drop back, drive back on your left foot and turn? Or I like to just lean back on both heels and do my drop using a balanced approach.' That might sound like a weird moment to be my most memorable moment but it was so memorable because I was thinking to myself only a few years earlier I had lost millions of dollars, I wasn't in a job in sports, here I just had my fourth child.
My son was born in March and now it is July and I never had been happier in all my relationships. More purposeful in what I do and most importantly my quarterback hero, no offense to Warren Moon who's one of the greatest ever, Joe Montana who at that time, I get googly eyed still, was asking me for quarterback advice.
That was the most memorable moment of my career but just recently its arrival that I was able to manifest throwing the first pitch out at the Yankee game with all my family and friends and associates there. We had two suites and I threw a blazing fast thirty mile an hour knuckleball for a strike, out there with my Angels jersey on and my family and friends and my kids were on the field with me. It was the most memorable moment of my career.
Any parting wisdom for anyone trying to break in to the sports world?
Here's the wisdom in simple way to manifest what you want in the sports world. Number one: consciously think about what you want. The moment you do that, it becomes a possibility. Trust that it's possible and then think about what you want utilizing your foundation, your personal values, your experiential values, your giving and receiving values, utilize the guideposts of clarity, balance and focus that will bring you confidence.
When you feel confident, move on to utilize your perspective, your free will to connect to what's good, connect to providing value utilizing what I call the Ben Franklin effect of seeing what you can do for others and more importantly ask for help. When you do that, something magical will happen. You will become inspired and when you become inspired, that possibility instantly becomes a probability.
Now take the appropriate discipline, strategy and awareness utilizing things that are simple like creating good habits, hard work, persistence, resolve, all of those things and then you turn your probability from being inspired by taking action you make that probability your perspective which is your reality.
That's the simple mechanism to get whatever you want and it's a matter of consciously thinking about what you want with a specific purpose becoming confident and inspired and then taking specific action to allow that to happen at this vibration or in this world and that becomes your reality. That's the proven wisdom to become happy and to get whatever you desire in life and business.
We would like to thank David for his time and insight and we wish him the best in all his future endeavors!
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Friday, January 1, 2010
My 2010 card collecting goals
2. A bat card of every member of the 500 Home Run Club - Currently the 500 Home Run Club only has 24 members (carlos Delgado will probably join in 2010) and I already have 7 bat cards of 500 Home Run Club members (Griffey Jr., Thome, Ramirez, Thomas, Sosa, Sheffield, and Jackson) so I only need 17 more, 18 if Delgado makes it. This is an impressive list of players, but their bat cards are plentiful. Ruth and Mantle will be the hardest for me to get just because of the cost. 2001 Sweet Spot has quite a few of these players in their bat insert set and so I am trying to get as many as possible from that set.
3. The Rookie Card of every player that has won the Rookie of the Year Award - This will be a daunting task because one player in 1947 and 1948 won and at least 2 players (1976 and 1979 3 players won) from 1949 on have won the award. It's surprizing but the majority of Rookie of the Year winners have not gone on to have stellar careers. Sure their have been a few Hall of Famers who have won the award (Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Tom Seaver, Rod Carew, and Johnny Bench to name a few) but honestly do you even know who Walt Dropo, Jack Sanford, Gary Peters, Stan Bahnsen, and John Castino are? I am working on a list and will get it on my blog soon so that I can enlist the help of the blogging world on this task. I currently only have a handful of these cards. My goal for 2010 will be to collect half of these cards. (I have to leave something for 2011)
4. Cards of players holding more than one bat. - I only have 4 of these cards right now and my goal for 2010 is to have 50 of them. I have seen some older cards featuring players holding more than one bat, so I know that they are out there. i just have to track them down.
5. Complete the 2008 Topps Trading Card History set. - This set consists of 75 cards. I have about 30 of them currently. I need to get a list together and complete the set.
6. Complete the 2004 Topps Derby Digs Jersey Relics set - This set features pieces of jerseys worn during the 2003 Home Run Derby. I currently only have one card from this set, Garret Anderson but would like to get the entire set.
7. Add 100 cards to my Personal Collection - My personal collection will consist of game used, autographs, numbered, rookies, etc. that I want to keep for my personal collection. My focus will be on game used and autographed cards of Diamondback players.
8. Grow my Brandon Webb collection to 200 cards - Webb is by far my favorite Diamondbacks. I'm not sure how many Webb cards I currently have, but it's got to be over 50 different cards. My 2010 goal will be to increase that to 200 different Brandon Webb cards. I need to get some sort of checklist going.
9. Organize my Ken Griffey Jr and Mike Piazza collections - I collected Griffey and Piazza heavily from 1989 to 2004, but really haven't done anything since. I probably have about 500 different Griffey cards and about 300 different Piazza cards that I need to decide what to do with. Will I keep them and add to them or will I trade/sell them to focus on my other collecting goals.
10. 50 TTM autographs in 2010 - Growing up I had sent out a few autograph request here and there, but in 2009 I discovered TTM. It has been a lot of fun. I sent out a few dozen cards and have only recieved a handful back, but I am determined to get 50 TTM autographs in 2010.
So there you have it. My 2010 card collecting goals. I look forward to working on each one of these and checking back to see how I have done on December 31, 2010.
14 comments:
It's always nice to have goals. Best of luck to you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM
If you ever decide to get rid of your Griffey cards in a Mariners Uniform let me know.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2010 at 7:00 AM
Good luck with your goals.ReplyDelete
The Diamondbacks website has their all-time roster: http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/ari/history/players.jsp
Good luck on your goals.ReplyDelete
I have quite a lengthy list of goals for 2010, to keep me busy at all times, so I know how it feels to have multiple goals going at once.
I too am jumping back into the TTM scene, can't wait to see how far you get.
Goals are good... I hit 200 cards on my pc collection last month, it was a great feeling... I will search and see if I have any cards of guys with multi bats. I like that angle! Also, pulled a Justin Upton jersey from 2009 Heritage. Do you have it yet? Good luck on your goals!ReplyDelete
Good luck on your goals. I am going to do a "2010 Goal" post of my own now (o:ReplyDelete
That's an interesting list. I actually found about 15 cards in my collection that have players holding multiple bats. I never noticed that kind of thing before. Let me know if interested.ReplyDelete
Right on! Go D-Backs!ReplyDelete
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If you need any of these D-Backs, let me know.ReplyDelete
Mr. DKWilson,ReplyDelete
I have a card that I think you may want...how do I email you a scan?
Hey I've got some cards that you may be interested in. Here's my email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Here's my site: http://morethancardboard.blogspot.com
dkwilson you are a hard man to find contact info for. I would like to know if you have any interest in trading for the Randy Johnson card here or for any of the other cardsReplyDelete
I have a multi bat card where Frank Thomas is holding three. It is a 1993 Topps. Trade me? I wont need much for it, I'm easy to trade with, but I also have a lot of WebbReplyDelete


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With the increasing promotion and public awareness of walking during the day for health and fitness gains, the awareness and popularity of pedometers has also risen as a way to monitor that activity.
There are a lot of step-type monitors on the market, from cheap units for a couple of bucks to high-tech ones that can ding you for up to $50. What's the difference? Which ones are better?
The basics: The less expensive ones have little pendulum-like gadgets that are rocked back and forth by your body's movement to "count" steps. Problem is, the less expensive the pedometer gets, the less accurate the pendulum technology. We have used the ones that were given for free from McDonald's and just turning in your office chair counted as steps, meaning a user could be mislead as to how much activity they were really getting. More expensive ones that still use pendulums are more accurate, and the really expensive ones that use computer chips and high-tech devices are the most accurate.
That brings us to the two we tested (one each from HighGear and Accusplit), which are on both ends of the good-to-better spectrum with various levels of extras such as watches or chronographs. We tested them in a variety of settings, in walks, on runs, inside, outside, going up stairs and inclines, and going down stairs and declines. We even wore them all day to track daily activity. By the way, we don't believe the ones you can find for $5 or even less are much more than toys.
HighGear is a techie company that makes MP3 players, Global Positioning Systems, altimeter watches and such stuff for gearheads. Now comes the Fitware line that includes some high-tech pedometers too, ranging in price from about $30 to $45.
The Fitware line of pedometers will be the most accurate in counting your steps since the motion-sensor technology employed by HighGear tends to ignore general jiggle and wiggle movement, such as a turn in a chair or a reach for a cabinet. It clips firmly to your waistline or belt. The Fitware PR model we used also has a watch, stopwatch (chronograph), finger-tip pulse meter, alarm and, of course, the step-counting tool.
If you aren't at all tech-oriented, this may not be the unit for you since, although not highly complicated, it still involves setting features, inputting personal data, and figuring out four buttons that are as good as unlabeled since the print is simply the tiniest of tiny type that is black on black and utterly impossible to see.
Now, that said, once you get this baby going, you're going to get the best reading of real steps during your day. Even the fingertip pulse — a measurement not known for being super exact — isn't bad for ballpark readings. You can change the battery yourself; the pedometer is slightly rubberized in finish for easy grip; and it has a backlight. The numbers on the readout also face up once it's on the belt so you can look down for an easy fix. Another model comes with a radio, and a simpler model for $15 less comes without radio or pulse meter.
SNEWS® Applause Meter: 4.5 hands clapping (1 to 5 hands clapping possible, with 5 clapping hands representing functional and design perfection)
Suggested Retail: $45
For more information:www.highgear.com or 1-888-295-4949
Accusplit pedometers are slightly lower priced, with the Eagle 180 Activity Pedometer hitting the middle of the company's pedometer assortment. Accusplit also makes stopwatches, timers and other such gear, including electronics for sports and colleges.
If all you want is no-brainer, the Accusplit Eagle is for you. You set the time, your stride length, clip it on your waist, zero it out with a push of one button, and you're on your way. It also has a stopwatch (chronograph) and says it measures distance in miles.
This model has a leash so you can secure it to your waist with a second tether. A good thing too since we have dropped pedometers on the floor when going for bathroom breaks or simply adjusting pants — don't ask. Its buttons are well-protected by a flip front that you pop open and look down on the counter inside to check your status. It also has a five-year no-proof-of-purchase-needed warranty. Now THAT'S cool.
In wearing the two pedometers simultaneously, we did find the Accusplit picked up more random movement here and there, sometimes as much as 20 percent more during a day. But if you were just walking from point to point, the two measured insignificantly different step counts.
Bottom line is, a pedometer is motivation. In fact, we got a little addicted to it ourselves and were astounded how much (or how little on some days) movement we got. Either way you go, you'll make the right investment.
SNEWS® Applause Meter: 4 hands clapping (1 to 5 hands clapping possible, with 5 clapping hands representing functional and design perfection)
Suggested Retail: $27.50
For more information:www.accusplit.com or 1-800-935-1996