Hi All! This is the beautiful story of one who did not accept the diagnosis and refused to GIVE UP.
I was truly inspired by this and felt his pain. Too often patients are written off and we accept the diagnosis. The biggest idea from this video is to at least try. You should not just accept what you're told, doctors are not the Creator. They are only giving you their medical opinion based on their limited knowledge. That is the best they can do. There is a higher power you can tap into it or you can give up. The choice is yours. What do you have to lose? Me, I never give up. If you have your own story to share or just what to leave a comment feel free to do so. Thanks, Michelle
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I am still in the Ultimate Blog Challenge and will be posting every day in October.
**I made my 500th post yesterday so I will have to decide on a way to celebrate that milestone.**
Thank you so much for being a part of this journey with me and check back to see how we can celebrate.
Hi All! Today's feature is two treasuries by Etsy Artists of Color (EAOC) team.
There are two treasuries that will rotate. A treasury is a curated list of handmade gifts. Etsy.com is a site for art, handmade and vintage products. Each picture is a clickable link that will gift you information about the items and you can purchase from.
Hi All! "Word of mouth" has always been the best marketing. Now on Linkedin you can do the same thing with a new feature called "Endorsements", which makes it easy to recognize some for their services or expertise. Here's how David Berger of Linkedin says it will work,"With just one click, you can now endorse your connections for a skill
they’ve listed on their profile or recommend one they haven’t added
yet. Think your connection is great at programming AND project
management? Let them know! Here’s how you can endorse your connections:
On the top of a connection’s profile, you’ll see recommended endorsements for them. You can suggest additional skills as well.
You can also endorse them from the new Skills & Expertise section that now showcases these endorsements.
Want to see who has endorsed you? We’ll notify you via email and on
LinkedIn whenever you are endorsed. You can scroll to the bottom of
your profile page under “Skills and Expertise” to see the faces of
people who think you’re great at what you do. You can also accept any
new skills recommended by your peers that you may not have thought to
include on your profile. Or you can also add a new skill by clicking on
“add a skill” on your profile page. Check out how it works:
I have received larger sales from Linkedin than from any other social media site. I think this new feature will go a long way to help small and medium size businesses increase their business on Linkedin.
This is an article the Kansas City paper listed below. Do you think its time we lifted the embargo againt Cuba?. We do business with Russia? Why not Cuba?
In Cuba, international businesses abound just not from the US By KEVIN G. HALL AND FRANCO ORDONEZ McClatchy Newspapers HAVANA -- Leaving Jose Marti International Airport in this capital city, a billboard reminds vividly of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. It shows a noose with the phrase, "Blockade: The Longest Genocide in History." The embargo, partially imposed in 1960 and fully in place two years later, is not a blockade. That's clear by the abundance of foreign goods and investment in Cuba. It is a blockade, however, in the sense that U.S. companies are blocked from doing business in Cuba. That hasn't stopped their international competitors from Canada, Mexico, Brazil and even China from setting up shop. It's striking when visiting the island just how much the rest of world now trades with, invests in and sends tourists to Cuba. Just drive east from Havana on the Via Blanca highway along the northwestern coast and toward Varadero, the Cuban resort city where Europeans, Canadians and efore you reach Varadero's beaches, there are plenty of reminders of globalization.
Near the town of Santa Cruz del Norte, China's Greatwall Drilling Co. is searching for oil in cooperation with the Cuban state oil company known as Cupet. Some workers sport red jumpsuits with the company's GWDC logo. Much of the machinery was made in Romania during the era of Soviet control over the East Bloc.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, expected to become his nation's next leader in 2013, visited the joint venture in June. Greatwall has developed more than 63 wells in Cuba since 2005, the newspaper China Daily reported then.
Greatwall's parent company, the China National Development Corp., won a contract in 2010 to expand a Cuban oil refinery jointly owned with Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA.
Just down the road from Santa Cruz del Norte, the Canadian flag flies in a joint venture between Cuba's stat
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/15/3555680/in-cuba-international-businesses.html#storylink=cpy
I can relate to the Cubans I had the ocassion to meet the Cuban Attache(?) to Washington at an event in Detroit many years ago. He was a tall Black man, light complexioned like myself. I was really saddenedwhen he told me that in Cuba before the Revolution he was not even allowed to clean toilets. Those of African descent no matter what your complexion were virtually slaves in their own country.
I could relate, I remember when Coleman Young was elected Mayor of Detroit. Eugene Harrington a local reporter was standing in front of a burning building and stated,"The last one out turn off the lights."
Twenty years later the TV station made him go back to Twelfth Street, now Rosa Parks Boulveard. There was a middle aged gentleman sitting on his front porch down the street from the shopping center Black folks had built. When Harrington walked up to him, the man recognized him and stated," I remember you! You're the reporter who said, The last one out turn off the light." "Well guess what, the lights still burning."
This was during a time when the Mayor of Dearborn publicly stated,"Any Black caught in Dearborn after dark was taking their life in their hands."
Seems like the more things change the more they remain the same. Rest in peace Trayvon Martin.
All said the embargo against Cuba is just STUPID. Those who fled Cuba after the revolution are just still po'd that they lost their plantation master lifestyle in Cuba.
The time is now for America to stop being the dog wagged by its tail and do the right thing by lifting this embargo.
Small business America will thank you.
Please leave you comments and left me know, yea or nay what you think.
