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Whirlpool pledges $5 million to Habitat for Humanity – Atlanta Business Chronicle

Whirlpool Corp. renewed its partnership with Atlanta-based Habitat for Humanity International, promising to give $5 million for a range and refrigerator in every new Habitat home built in 2014 and to build six new Habitat homes.

Since the partnership began in 1999, more than 81,000 families have received a Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) refrigerator and range and more than 150 houses have been built around the world with the help of thousands of Whirlpool employee volunteers.

via Whirlpool pledges $5 million to Habitat for Humanity – Atlanta Business Chronicle.

The House of My Spirit

Shavawn M. Berry, Photographed in 1988 by Mori Bak Shavawn M. Berry, Photographed in 1988 by Mori Bak

For my mother

“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. […] You can never get away from where you’ve been.”Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

Wallpaper Girl

In a few days, I ‘ll shuttle through another birthday, another twirl around the sun. I am almost twice the age of the woman I was in the [above] photograph.

It seems impossible, but it’s true.

I look deeply into that face and wonder how it is possible she felt so useless, so small. When I look at her now, she seems impossibly and…

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Do the best that you can … but be kind to yourself.

Not an April Fool, am I nor is Mickel

Sillymickel's Blog of the Obvious Unspoken Things

Do the best that you can but … aware of the better thing to do … but be kind to yourself. Part of it is realizing that you can be reckless and even screw up and make mistakes and you are always held and guided and comforted. You cannot get this wrong. You are perfection. Even thinking you are imperfect and need to change something is part of the perfection … and falling short is part of it, too.

Be caring of others, and passionately committed to changing yourself and helping the suffering … but be kind to yourself in the process.

The entire Universe is on your side. You be, too.

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Spin alert, spin alert, spin alert! Disinformation campaign! U.S. could free Israeli spy in deal to save peace talks: source close to talks | Reuters

An Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage Middle East peace talks, sources close to the negotiations said on Monday.

via U.S. could free Israeli spy in deal to save peace talks: source close to talks | Reuters.

Interesting way to try and get around justice, national policy, common sense. Reuters playing along?

Bringing Systems-Thinking to #Ebola2014

On the mark, as I have been saying for a number of years – based on open systems theory.

Mens et Manus

How #Ebola2014 Got to Guinea – A Follow-Up Piece

Historically, the vast majority of documented Ebola outbreaks have been confined to communities in Central Africa [1]. However, a 2004 report by the CDC predicted that Ebola would eventually emerge in tropical West Africa – and now, as we watch the disease wreak havoc on Guinea and its neighboring countries, it’s clear that they were right [2]. This said, there are still a few questions that deserve our attention.

What we know is this: what we’re seeing today is the first Ebola outbreak in Guinea ever recorded [1].

Now, is it possible that Guinea has experienced outbreaks in the past – prior to 1976 when the disease was first “identified” by modern medicine in South Sudan and the DRC [1]? Absolutely. And given that most scientists agree that Ebola is a zoonotic disease[3], could it…

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