There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power. But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power -- and here I think you're referring to military power -- then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with.
I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan.
So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world.
(Applause.)
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.
Complete Transcript:
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/16869.htm
Colin Powell quote
You've Got Propaganda!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Irena Sendler
Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strangers. But for this humble Polish Catholic social worker, who was barely 30 when one of history's most nightmarish chapters unfolded before her, the pivotal influence was something her parents had drummed into her.
"I was taught that if you see a person drowning," she said, "you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not."
When the Nazis occupying Poland began rounding up Jews in 1940 and sending them to the Warsaw ghetto, Sendler plunged in.
With daring and ingenuity, she saved the lives of more than 2,500 Jews, most of them children, a feat that went largely unrecognized until the last years of her life.
Sendler, 98, who died of pneumonia Monday in Warsaw, has been called the female Oskar Schindler, but she saved twice as many lives as the German industrialist, who sheltered 1,200 of his Jewish workers. Unlike Schindler, whose story received international attention in the 1993 movie "Schindler's List," Sendler and her heroic actions were almost lost to history until four Kansas schoolgirls wrote a play about her nine years ago.
The lesson Sendler taught them was that "one person can make a difference," Megan Felt, one of the authors of the play, said Monday.
"Irena wasn't even 5 feet tall, but she walked into the Warsaw ghetto daily and faced certain death if she was caught. Her strength and courage showed us we can stand up for what we believe in, as well," said Felt, who is now 23 and helps raise funds for aging Holocaust rescuers.
Sendler was born Feb. 15, 1910, in Otwock, a small town southeast of Warsaw. She was an only child of parents who devoted much of their energies to helping workers.
She was especially influenced by her father, a doctor who defied anti-Semites by treating sick Jews during outbreaks of typhoid fever. He died of the disease when Sendler was 9.
She studied at Warsaw University and was a social worker in Warsaw when the German occupation of Poland began in 1939. In 1940, after the Nazis herded Jews into the ghetto and built a wall separating it from the rest of the city, disease, especially typhoid, ran rampant. Social workers were not allowed inside the ghetto, but Sendler, imagining "the horror of life behind the walls," obtained fake identification and passed herself off as a nurse, allowed to bring in food, clothes and medicine.
By 1942, when the deadly intentions of the Nazis had become clear, Sendler joined a Polish underground organization, Zegota. She recruited 10 close friends -- a group that would eventually grow to 25, all but one of them women -- and began rescuing Jewish children.
She and her friends smuggled the children out in boxes, suitcases, sacks and coffins, sedating babies to quiet their cries. Some were spirited away through a network of basements and secret passages. Operations were timed to the second. One of Sendler's children told of waiting by a gate in darkness as a German soldier patrolled nearby. When the soldier passed, the boy counted to 30, then made a mad dash to the middle of the street, where a manhole cover opened and he was taken down into the sewers and eventually to safety.
Decades later, Sendler was still haunted by the parents' pleas, particularly of those who ultimately could not bear to be apart from their children.
"The one question every parent asked me was 'Can you guarantee they will live?' We had to admit honestly that we could not, as we did not even know if we would succeed in leaving the ghetto that day. The only guarantee," she said, "was that the children would most likely die if they stayed."
Most of the children who left with Sendler's group were taken into Roman Catholic convents, orphanages and homes and given non-Jewish aliases. Sendler recorded their true names on thin rolls of paper in the hope that she could reunite them with their families later. She preserved the precious scraps in jars and buried them in a friend's garden.
In 1943, she was captured by the Nazis and tortured but refused to tell her captors who her co-conspirators were or where the bottles were buried. She also resisted in other ways. According to Felt, when Sendler worked in the prison laundry, she and her co-workers made holes in the German soldiers' underwear. When the officers discovered what they had done, they lined up all the women and shot every other one. It was just one of many close calls for Sendler.
During one particularly brutal torture session, her captors broke her feet and legs, and she passed out. When she awoke, a Gestapo officer told her he had accepted a bribe from her comrades in the resistance to help her escape. The officer added her name to a list of executed prisoners. Sendler went into hiding but continued her rescue efforts.
Felt said that Sendler had begun her rescue operation before she joined the organized resistance and helped a number of adults escape, including the man she later married. "We think she saved about 500 people before she joined Zegota," Felt said, which would mean that Sendler ultimately helped rescue about 3,000 Polish Jews.
When the war ended, Sendler unearthed the jars and began trying to return the children to their families. For the vast majority, there was no family left. Many of the children were adopted by Polish families; others were sent to Israel.
In 1965, she was recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust authority, as a Righteous Gentile, an honor given to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Nazi reign. In her own country, however, she was unsung, in part because Polish anti-Semitism remained strong after the war and many rescuers were persecuted.
Her status began to change in 2000, when Felt and her classmates learned that the woman who had inspired them was still alive. Through the sponsorship of a local Jewish organization, they traveled to Warsaw in 2001 to meet Sendler, who helped the students improve and expand the play. Called "Life in a Jar," it has been performed more than 250 times in the United States, Canada and Poland and generated media attention that cast a spotlight on the wizened, round-faced nonagenarian.
After each performance, Felt and the other cast members passed a jar for Sendler, raising enough money to move her into a Catholic nursing home with round-the-clock care. They and the teacher who assigned them the play project, Norman Conard, started the Life in a Jar Foundation, which has raised more than $70,000 to help pay for medical and other needs of Holocaust rescuers.
Last year, Sendler was honored by the Polish Senate and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which brought dozens of reporters to her door. She told one of them she was wearying of the attention.
"Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth," she said, "and not a title to glory."
Sendler, who was the last living member of her group of rescuers, is survived by a daughter and a granddaughter.
For more information on Irena Sendler, or to contribute to the Life In a Jar Foundation, go to www.irenasendler.org
elaine.woo@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-sendler13-2008may13,0,4435918.story
"I was taught that if you see a person drowning," she said, "you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not."
When the Nazis occupying Poland began rounding up Jews in 1940 and sending them to the Warsaw ghetto, Sendler plunged in.
With daring and ingenuity, she saved the lives of more than 2,500 Jews, most of them children, a feat that went largely unrecognized until the last years of her life.
Sendler, 98, who died of pneumonia Monday in Warsaw, has been called the female Oskar Schindler, but she saved twice as many lives as the German industrialist, who sheltered 1,200 of his Jewish workers. Unlike Schindler, whose story received international attention in the 1993 movie "Schindler's List," Sendler and her heroic actions were almost lost to history until four Kansas schoolgirls wrote a play about her nine years ago.
The lesson Sendler taught them was that "one person can make a difference," Megan Felt, one of the authors of the play, said Monday.
"Irena wasn't even 5 feet tall, but she walked into the Warsaw ghetto daily and faced certain death if she was caught. Her strength and courage showed us we can stand up for what we believe in, as well," said Felt, who is now 23 and helps raise funds for aging Holocaust rescuers.
Sendler was born Feb. 15, 1910, in Otwock, a small town southeast of Warsaw. She was an only child of parents who devoted much of their energies to helping workers.
She was especially influenced by her father, a doctor who defied anti-Semites by treating sick Jews during outbreaks of typhoid fever. He died of the disease when Sendler was 9.
She studied at Warsaw University and was a social worker in Warsaw when the German occupation of Poland began in 1939. In 1940, after the Nazis herded Jews into the ghetto and built a wall separating it from the rest of the city, disease, especially typhoid, ran rampant. Social workers were not allowed inside the ghetto, but Sendler, imagining "the horror of life behind the walls," obtained fake identification and passed herself off as a nurse, allowed to bring in food, clothes and medicine.
By 1942, when the deadly intentions of the Nazis had become clear, Sendler joined a Polish underground organization, Zegota. She recruited 10 close friends -- a group that would eventually grow to 25, all but one of them women -- and began rescuing Jewish children.
She and her friends smuggled the children out in boxes, suitcases, sacks and coffins, sedating babies to quiet their cries. Some were spirited away through a network of basements and secret passages. Operations were timed to the second. One of Sendler's children told of waiting by a gate in darkness as a German soldier patrolled nearby. When the soldier passed, the boy counted to 30, then made a mad dash to the middle of the street, where a manhole cover opened and he was taken down into the sewers and eventually to safety.
Decades later, Sendler was still haunted by the parents' pleas, particularly of those who ultimately could not bear to be apart from their children.
"The one question every parent asked me was 'Can you guarantee they will live?' We had to admit honestly that we could not, as we did not even know if we would succeed in leaving the ghetto that day. The only guarantee," she said, "was that the children would most likely die if they stayed."
Most of the children who left with Sendler's group were taken into Roman Catholic convents, orphanages and homes and given non-Jewish aliases. Sendler recorded their true names on thin rolls of paper in the hope that she could reunite them with their families later. She preserved the precious scraps in jars and buried them in a friend's garden.
In 1943, she was captured by the Nazis and tortured but refused to tell her captors who her co-conspirators were or where the bottles were buried. She also resisted in other ways. According to Felt, when Sendler worked in the prison laundry, she and her co-workers made holes in the German soldiers' underwear. When the officers discovered what they had done, they lined up all the women and shot every other one. It was just one of many close calls for Sendler.
During one particularly brutal torture session, her captors broke her feet and legs, and she passed out. When she awoke, a Gestapo officer told her he had accepted a bribe from her comrades in the resistance to help her escape. The officer added her name to a list of executed prisoners. Sendler went into hiding but continued her rescue efforts.
Felt said that Sendler had begun her rescue operation before she joined the organized resistance and helped a number of adults escape, including the man she later married. "We think she saved about 500 people before she joined Zegota," Felt said, which would mean that Sendler ultimately helped rescue about 3,000 Polish Jews.
When the war ended, Sendler unearthed the jars and began trying to return the children to their families. For the vast majority, there was no family left. Many of the children were adopted by Polish families; others were sent to Israel.
In 1965, she was recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust authority, as a Righteous Gentile, an honor given to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Nazi reign. In her own country, however, she was unsung, in part because Polish anti-Semitism remained strong after the war and many rescuers were persecuted.
Her status began to change in 2000, when Felt and her classmates learned that the woman who had inspired them was still alive. Through the sponsorship of a local Jewish organization, they traveled to Warsaw in 2001 to meet Sendler, who helped the students improve and expand the play. Called "Life in a Jar," it has been performed more than 250 times in the United States, Canada and Poland and generated media attention that cast a spotlight on the wizened, round-faced nonagenarian.
After each performance, Felt and the other cast members passed a jar for Sendler, raising enough money to move her into a Catholic nursing home with round-the-clock care. They and the teacher who assigned them the play project, Norman Conard, started the Life in a Jar Foundation, which has raised more than $70,000 to help pay for medical and other needs of Holocaust rescuers.
Last year, Sendler was honored by the Polish Senate and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which brought dozens of reporters to her door. She told one of them she was wearying of the attention.
"Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth," she said, "and not a title to glory."
Sendler, who was the last living member of her group of rescuers, is survived by a daughter and a granddaughter.
For more information on Irena Sendler, or to contribute to the Life In a Jar Foundation, go to www.irenasendler.org
elaine.woo@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-sendler13-2008may13,0,4435918.story
Think Mental Models
How normal people become really smart
Most humans do much of their problem solving not by searching selectively, but through simply recognizing the relevant cues in situations similar to those they have experienced before (solution by recognition).
“The better decision maker has at his/her disposal repertoires of possible actions; checklists of things to think about before he acts; and he has mechanisms in his mind to evoke these, and bring these to his conscious attention when the situations for decision arise.” -- Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate
This website, inspired by the work of Charles Munger, provides over 100 checklists that can be brought consciously to mind to aid the thinking process.
Each model is described by at least one distinguished user. Examples include Warren Buffett, Richard Feynman, Robert Rubin and Peter Drucker, among others.
[from Dah Hui Lau]
Most humans do much of their problem solving not by searching selectively, but through simply recognizing the relevant cues in situations similar to those they have experienced before (solution by recognition).
“The better decision maker has at his/her disposal repertoires of possible actions; checklists of things to think about before he acts; and he has mechanisms in his mind to evoke these, and bring these to his conscious attention when the situations for decision arise.” -- Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate
This website, inspired by the work of Charles Munger, provides over 100 checklists that can be brought consciously to mind to aid the thinking process.
Each model is described by at least one distinguished user. Examples include Warren Buffett, Richard Feynman, Robert Rubin and Peter Drucker, among others.
[from Dah Hui Lau]
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Dalai Lama Renaissance
I saw in the Hi Life section of the 5/8/08 Star-Bulletin (evidently this section is not on the web) that the film, Dalai Lama Renaissance, was being shown at the Unity Chuck of Honolulu.
"Narrated by Harrison Ford, the 80-minute documentary tells the story of 40 of the world's most innovative Western thinkers who travel to India in the Himalayan mountains to meet with the Dalai Lama to try and solve many of the world's problems. What happened was surprising and unexpected, as an 18-person, five-camera crew documented much of the weeklong meeting and exploratoin of the future of mankind.
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Actually I see this film opens one day after Indiana Jones 4.
I didn't know much about the Dalai Lama until I bought the movie Seven Years In Tibet at Safeway for 5 bucks. Then I bought 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama used at Blockbuster. Both interesting.
Then I saw recently two DVDs being sold at Costco: A Path to Happiness (I see some of it on youtube) and The Art of Peace. Oddly, Amazon says the latter DVD is due to be released on July 1.
"Narrated by Harrison Ford, the 80-minute documentary tells the story of 40 of the world's most innovative Western thinkers who travel to India in the Himalayan mountains to meet with the Dalai Lama to try and solve many of the world's problems. What happened was surprising and unexpected, as an 18-person, five-camera crew documented much of the weeklong meeting and exploratoin of the future of mankind.
* * *
Actually I see this film opens one day after Indiana Jones 4.
I didn't know much about the Dalai Lama until I bought the movie Seven Years In Tibet at Safeway for 5 bucks. Then I bought 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama used at Blockbuster. Both interesting.
Then I saw recently two DVDs being sold at Costco: A Path to Happiness (I see some of it on youtube) and The Art of Peace. Oddly, Amazon says the latter DVD is due to be released on July 1.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Colin Powell's Rules
I found this old clipping in (one of my) stacks of stuff. I don't know how old it is, but the paper is yellowing.
Colin Powell has 13 rules by which he has collected over the years and written down on a small white card labeled, "Colin Powell's Rules." Many of his admirers in the Pentagon keep a copy at their desks or in their wallets.
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
A search on the net turned up Maureen Dowd's somewhat cynical revisions.
Colin Powell has 13 rules by which he has collected over the years and written down on a small white card labeled, "Colin Powell's Rules." Many of his admirers in the Pentagon keep a copy at their desks or in their wallets.
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
A search on the net turned up Maureen Dowd's somewhat cynical revisions.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
feng shui and clutter
The feng shui perspective recognizes clutter as a blockage to the chi -- or energy flow -- in your house or office. Blockages of any kind are seen as inhibiting growth, health and harmony, so de-cluttering is often the first step in implementing feng shui not only in a home, but also within yourself.
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A great book dealing with this topic is Karen Kingston's Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. I read it and proceeded to clear up some clutter. (Unfortunately, looking around I see I still have a long long way to go. But I think it's better than before. Still working at it. You may have better results. I like to do things the slow way, a little bit by bit.)
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A great book dealing with this topic is Karen Kingston's Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. I read it and proceeded to clear up some clutter. (Unfortunately, looking around I see I still have a long long way to go. But I think it's better than before. Still working at it. You may have better results. I like to do things the slow way, a little bit by bit.)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Lob Songs
I'm giving away my copy of Lob Songs (I believe I made two, but I don't know where the other one is).
Anyway, in case I want to make another one, here's the list.
1. Book of Lob 2:18
2. Dedicated to the One I Lob 2:03
3. Will You Still Lob Me Tomorrow 2:41
4. All You Need Is Lob 3:47
5. She Lobs You 2:19
6. All My Lobbing 2:05
7. And I Lob Her 2:27
8. You Can't Hurry Lob 2:53
9. When A Man Lobs A Woman 3:45
10. I Just Called To Say I Lob You 4:21
11. How Sweet It Is (To Be Lobbed By You) 3:33
12. Crazy Lob 2:58
13. Could You Be Lobbed 3:55
14. Can You Feel The Lob Tonight 2:56
15. Can You Feel The Lob Tonight / Elton John 3:59
16. I Just Can't Stop Lobbing You 4:13
17. Saving All My Lob For You 3:54
18. Greatest Lob Of All 4:48
19. Greatest Lob of All (Junior Vasquez Mix) 4:49
20. Lob You All The Time 2:37
Actually I tried to get William Hung's version of Can You Feel The Lob Tonight, but I think the CD is a little off and it couldn't be extracted.
Anyway, in case I want to make another one, here's the list.
1. Book of Lob 2:18
2. Dedicated to the One I Lob 2:03
3. Will You Still Lob Me Tomorrow 2:41
4. All You Need Is Lob 3:47
5. She Lobs You 2:19
6. All My Lobbing 2:05
7. And I Lob Her 2:27
8. You Can't Hurry Lob 2:53
9. When A Man Lobs A Woman 3:45
10. I Just Called To Say I Lob You 4:21
11. How Sweet It Is (To Be Lobbed By You) 3:33
12. Crazy Lob 2:58
13. Could You Be Lobbed 3:55
14. Can You Feel The Lob Tonight 2:56
15. Can You Feel The Lob Tonight / Elton John 3:59
16. I Just Can't Stop Lobbing You 4:13
17. Saving All My Lob For You 3:54
18. Greatest Lob Of All 4:48
19. Greatest Lob of All (Junior Vasquez Mix) 4:49
20. Lob You All The Time 2:37
Actually I tried to get William Hung's version of Can You Feel The Lob Tonight, but I think the CD is a little off and it couldn't be extracted.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Ultimate Sinatra Documentary
Financial adviser Guy Steele knows a bit more than most people about legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra (he wrote a time line of Sinatra's life that amounts to more than 1,000 pages), and he shares his vast knowledge with Hawaii Public Radio listeners Sundays at 5 p.m. on 89.3 KIPO.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Sinatra's death, and Steele will honor the occasion with an overview of Sinatra's music and movies -- featuring plenty of Sinatra's most popular hits -- on his May 18 show.
Steele began "Sinatra: The Music and the Man" in 1998, just after Sinatra died. "I wanted to produce the ultimate Sinatra documentary," said Steele, whose interviews with musicians and arrangers such as Billy May provide behind-the-scenes anecdotes that supplement the music he selects for the entertaining hour. But Steele's approach is unusual in that every show over the past 10 years (except for a few repeats) reflects Sinatra's life and career in chronological order. The early 1998 shows brought listeners back to 1939. Now, in 2008, Steele has reached 1963. He covers "the good and the bad" from a tiny recording studio in his home.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Sinatra's death, and Steele will honor the occasion with an overview of Sinatra's music and movies -- featuring plenty of Sinatra's most popular hits -- on his May 18 show.
Steele began "Sinatra: The Music and the Man" in 1998, just after Sinatra died. "I wanted to produce the ultimate Sinatra documentary," said Steele, whose interviews with musicians and arrangers such as Billy May provide behind-the-scenes anecdotes that supplement the music he selects for the entertaining hour. But Steele's approach is unusual in that every show over the past 10 years (except for a few repeats) reflects Sinatra's life and career in chronological order. The early 1998 shows brought listeners back to 1939. Now, in 2008, Steele has reached 1963. He covers "the good and the bad" from a tiny recording studio in his home.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Yawns
They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all, shop at local stores, if they shop at all and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all.
They may have disposable income, but whatever they make, they live below their means, in a conscious effort to tread lightly on the earth.
They are a new breed of Gen Xers and Ys, Young and Wealthy but Normal, or Yawns.
The acronym comes from The Sunday Telegraph of London, which noted that an increasing number of rich young Britons are socially aware, concerned about the environment and given less to consuming than to giving money to charity.
Yawns sound dull, but they are the new movers and shakers, their dreams big and bold. They are men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s who want nothing less than to change the world and save the planet.
They may have disposable income, but whatever they make, they live below their means, in a conscious effort to tread lightly on the earth.
They are a new breed of Gen Xers and Ys, Young and Wealthy but Normal, or Yawns.
The acronym comes from The Sunday Telegraph of London, which noted that an increasing number of rich young Britons are socially aware, concerned about the environment and given less to consuming than to giving money to charity.
Yawns sound dull, but they are the new movers and shakers, their dreams big and bold. They are men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s who want nothing less than to change the world and save the planet.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Free TV on the internet
While browsing with LocateTV, I noticed there are some free episodes of some old TV series at AOL video.
Among them are The A Team, The Addams Family, Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Adventures of Superman, Alias Smith and Jones, The Animatrix, Astro Boy. And that's just the A's!
A few more: Bewitched, The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie's Angels, F Troop, Family Ties, Fantasy Island, The Flintstones, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Fujitive, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, I Spy, Ironside, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Kojak, Kung Fu, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, Lost In Space, MacGyver, Magilla Gorilla, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Mary Tyler Moore Show, McHale's Navy, Miami Vice, Monk, Mr. Bill, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, My Favorite Martian, Numb3rs, The Office, Partridge Family, People's Court, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Simon and Simon, Speed Racer, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Three Stooges, Thundercats, The Tonight Show, Underdog, V, WKRP in Cincinnati, Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening!, Wonder Woman. (To name a few.)
[5/14/08] I see that Star Trek is also available directly on CBS.com. I assume these are the new digitally enhanced episodes. [10/10/14] New link. Also available at startrek.com.
[9/5/08] See also hulu.com.
[7/11/12]
King of Queens on youtube. [10/10/14 link no longer active]
Mary Tyler Moore on youtube [first three season on hulu]
Dick Van Dyke Show at hulu
Bob Newhart Show at hulu
Green Acres at hulu [but not on hulu plus]
[4/7/16] It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of LocateTV.
The website will be shut down on April 4th, 2016, with registered users no longer able to access shortlists, My Picks, or receive weekly digest emails.
Born from a desire to find the new and the niche in telly, LocateTV grew from the tombstones of old to the wonderfully rich site it is today, with the unique ability to connect you with the TV you want to watch always at the heart of our mission.
We are heartbroken that after just over seven glorious years it is time for us to hang up our TV guide hat. We are eternally grateful to everyone who had supported the site over the years, from vendors, content editors and developers, to our fantastic users — you made our passion a reality.
Thank you.
Among them are The A Team, The Addams Family, Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Adventures of Superman, Alias Smith and Jones, The Animatrix, Astro Boy. And that's just the A's!
A few more: Bewitched, The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie's Angels, F Troop, Family Ties, Fantasy Island, The Flintstones, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Fujitive, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, I Spy, Ironside, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Kojak, Kung Fu, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, Lost In Space, MacGyver, Magilla Gorilla, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Mary Tyler Moore Show, McHale's Navy, Miami Vice, Monk, Mr. Bill, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, My Favorite Martian, Numb3rs, The Office, Partridge Family, People's Court, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Simon and Simon, Speed Racer, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Three Stooges, Thundercats, The Tonight Show, Underdog, V, WKRP in Cincinnati, Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening!, Wonder Woman. (To name a few.)
[5/14/08] I see that Star Trek is also available directly on CBS.com. I assume these are the new digitally enhanced episodes. [10/10/14] New link. Also available at startrek.com.
[9/5/08] See also hulu.com.
[7/11/12]
King of Queens on youtube. [10/10/14 link no longer active]
Mary Tyler Moore on youtube [first three season on hulu]
Dick Van Dyke Show at hulu
Bob Newhart Show at hulu
Green Acres at hulu [but not on hulu plus]
[4/7/16] It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of LocateTV.
The website will be shut down on April 4th, 2016, with registered users no longer able to access shortlists, My Picks, or receive weekly digest emails.
Born from a desire to find the new and the niche in telly, LocateTV grew from the tombstones of old to the wonderfully rich site it is today, with the unique ability to connect you with the TV you want to watch always at the heart of our mission.
We are heartbroken that after just over seven glorious years it is time for us to hang up our TV guide hat. We are eternally grateful to everyone who had supported the site over the years, from vendors, content editors and developers, to our fantastic users — you made our passion a reality.
Thank you.
Friday, May 09, 2008
My Philosophy
This Sally Forth comic strip kind of sums up my philosophy of life. "Leave the earth a little better than you found it."
Just try to do what you can to make things a little better step by step. (Others try to do it in big jumps.) But maybe my steps are too small.
Oddly googling the phrase brought little results. However Yahoo had a good answer.
[I remember remember reading something in one of my education books that you want to always have the feeling that you're making progress. Or words to that effect. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly where it was now.]
Just try to do what you can to make things a little better step by step. (Others try to do it in big jumps.) But maybe my steps are too small.
Oddly googling the phrase brought little results. However Yahoo had a good answer.
[I remember remember reading something in one of my education books that you want to always have the feeling that you're making progress. Or words to that effect. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly where it was now.]
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Age and Happiness
It turns out the golden years really are golden.
Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues.
"The good news is that with age comes happiness," said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. "Life gets better in one's perception as one ages."
Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues.
"The good news is that with age comes happiness," said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. "Life gets better in one's perception as one ages."
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