There is a woman, a French politician,who when she entered her job in the Conseil Régional d'Ile de France a few years ago and saw that illegal ways were used for spending public money wentto the press and said the whole lot, so that it would be stopped. It costed her partly her career but she still says today that if this kind of thing come again to her notice, she will do it again, thus standing against something which could be called a conspiracy.
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A man called Jérôme Deschamps is producing a theatre play at the moment called "les pensionnaires". The play is about all those institutions where people are assisted and helped through tough times, for example an hospital, or a retirement house. What he wanted to show through the play was the fault lines of these systems and the unfortunate side of them that have developed, although the coding at the root is right. During an inteview a few days ago, J. Deschamps was recounting a chat he had with someone after the show one evening. A woman came to him and said that it had been a really good play and "yes, they were bastard , those who work in these institutions". J. Deschamps answered "No, the thing is that these - which were shown - are the unfortunate aspects of it, but the thing is good in itself". And the woman answered "no, we are really bastards, you know I work as a nurse in a hospital and when people haven't finished their meal when we come around to pick up the trays, I take it away from them. This is disgusting. I'll never do it again". J. Deschamps then answered "Well, if it made you realize that and change, that's a good thing".
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READ THIS LET IT REALLY SINK IN... THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW... Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivate. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity." Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'." Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. You have two choices now: 1. Delete this. 2. Forward it to the people you care about.
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A M M A N, Jordan, August 3 - Something seems to be driving Jordan's boyish king to slip out of his palace at every opportunity-twice in the past week-disguised as just an ordinary guy trying to make a living. On his most recent foray Monday, King Abdullah II posed as a taxi driver, Royal Palace officials said-even managing to talk himself out of a traffic ticket. Five days earlier, they confirmed newspaper reports that he had ventured out with the head of the palace press center, posing as a television news crew. The king-in-disguise ploy is certainly one way to circumvent bureaucracy and hear what his citizens have to say. It also recalls the populist touch of King Hussein, Abdullah father and predecessor, who often mingled among his subjects. But Hussein's disguises were usually no more elaborate than the end of a headdress draped across his bearded face. Abdullah's jaunts have combined secrecy with a deft touch for publicity. They are also the actions of a man who was never groomed to be king. He became crown prince only shortly before his father's death in February, replacing his uncle, Prince Hassan, who had been the heir-designate for decades. Officials in Dark Palace officials, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said they didn't even know Abdullah had gone out alone a day earlier until he came back to tell them about his day. He offered few details-saying he was in worn-out clothes, but not specifying whether he donned jeans or the more traditional long, white robe. He drove one of Jordan's ubiquitous bright yellow taxis, which usually are Japanese or German luxury sedans. The officials said the king spent more than two hours Monday afternoon chatting with the passengers he drove to both posh suburbs and the slums of Amman. At one point, officials said a traffic officer with whom Abdullah had stopped to talk lectured him for failing to wear a seat belt, as required by Jordanian law. The king asked to be forgiven just this once, and the officer let him go with a warning. When Abdullah posed last week as a television reporter, he disguised himself with a white beard and traditional Arab robe. Armed with a video camera, he and his aide wandered through the kingdom's free-trade zone, inspecting operations and talking to local and Arab investors about the problems they face at work. Then the zone's management heard that a television crew was conducting interviews without a permit and sent someone to stop them. The king removed his beard and headdress, and a cheering crowd gathered around him.
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No More Mystery Meat For School Lunches
BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters)
Their politics have long been ''crunchy granola'', and now their school lunches will be too.
Berkeley, California, longtime hippie haven and world capital of political correctness, is expected to approve a plan Wednesday which would make its school cafeterias among the first in the nation to offer all organic meals.
``We have kids who are coming to school who don't understand the process,'' said Karen Sarlo, a spokeswoman for the Berkeley Unified School District. ``This is part of a whole effort to improve nutrition and educate our kids and our families about good nutrition.''
So long mystery meat, farewell corn dogs. The organic plan, which supporters say should sail through a second reading by the school board Wednesday, will pack Berkeley school lunches with such delicacies as pesticide-free baby carrots and sandwiches made with organic bread.
Students will grow some of their own food in school gardens, and the rest will come from local organic farmers. The policy requires milk to be free of bovine growth hormones, and dumps all irradiated and genetically altered foods from the cafeteria menu.
``The whole philosophy is to have food become part of the education,'' Jered Lawson, who is helping train teachers how to incorporate garden lessons into math, science, and literature classes, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rick Deburgh of the California School Food Services Association said Berkeley's organic lunch plan was the first he'd ever encountered.
``That's pretty rare and pretty expensive -- but Berkeley is an unusual place,'' Deburgh told the Chronicle.
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