What are you thinking . . . .
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become your character.
And watch your character - for it becomes your destiny.”
What we think we become!
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Frank Outlaw -
"When You Got Nothing, You Got Nothing To Lose."
Dan Cohen founded 'Music & Memory' with a simple idea: Someday, if he ended up in a nursing home, he wanted to be able to listen to his favorite ‘60s music. He’d heard a recent news report about how iPods have grown so popular. Why not bring used iPods as well as new ones into nursing homes to provide personalized music for residents? When Dan had his brainstorm in 2006, he discovered that none of the 16,000 long-term care facilities in the U.S. used iPods for their residents. Drawing on his background in leveraging technology to benefit those who would otherwise have no access, he volunteered at a local nursing home in Greater New York, creating personalized playlists for residents. The program was a hit with residents,staff and families, and became the prototype for a bigger effort. With funding from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in 2008, Dan brought 200 iPods to residents of four New York long-term care facilities and tested the program on a larger scale. Successful outcomes spurred the creation of Music & Memory as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2010. Since then, we have implemented iPod personalized music programs in hundreds of care facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Some of the feats that Robbie has achieved during his career are simply astounding. On 29th March 2008, he broke his own world record twice during the Crusty Demons Night of World Records show in Melbourne, Australia. On his second attempt he broke the world record by travelling 104.42 meters (342 feet 7 inches). He landed hard on his back tyre and was not satisfied by the jump, so he decided to jump once more. On his third jump he again broke the world record, this time with 106.98 meters (350.98 feet) and landed perfectly.
He has also jumped across an open Tower Bridge in London - incorporating a back-flip for good measure - and has won many ‘Best Trick’ trophies to fill up his house in California – which he probably jumps over from time to time.
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Because authorities will not normally give him permission for such dangerous exploits, Robert usually appears at dawn on the site of whichever giant skyscraper he has chosen to climb.[citation needed] His exploits attract crowds of onlookers who stop to watch him climb. As a consequence, Robert has been arrested many times, in various countries, by law enforcement officials waiting for him at the end of his climb.
His rock-climbing physical training and technique allow him to climb using the small protrusions of building walls and windows (such as window ledges and frames). Over the course of his climbing career, he has become so used to cramming his fingers into the cracks of ledges and hanging from balconies that he is actually unable to completely straighten his fingers.[citation needed] Many of his climbs provide him no opportunity to rest and can last several hours. He sometimes has a small bag of climbing chalk powder fastened around his waist.
ACCIDENTS
In a 2005 interview, Alain Robert said that he has fallen seven
times in his life. The worst was his fall in September 1982.On 18 January 1982, at 19, he fell 15 metres (49 ft) when his
anchor and rope gave way during training. He fractured his wrists,
heels and nose and underwent
three operations.
On 29 September 1982, at 20, he fell 15 metres (49 ft) when his
rope came undone while abseiling. He was in a coma for five days
and fractured both forearms, his elbow, pelvis and nose. His elbow
was also dislocated and a nerve was damaged, leaving him partially
paralyzed. He also suffered cerebral edema and vertigo
He underwent six operations on his hands and elbow.
In 1993, he fell 8 metres (26 ft) while showing students how to rely
on their legs when climbing. He kept his hands behind his back on
an easy route but lost his balance and fell headfirst, shattering
both wrists. He went into another coma and spent two
months in the hospital.
In 2004, he fell 2 metres (6 ft 6.7 in) when climbing a traffic light
whilst posing for a photo in an interview. He landed on his elbow and
needed forty stitches; just one month later he climbed the world's
tallest skyscraper at the time, Taipei 101.
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"Polli, a 27-year-old self-described "body flight professional," said he got the idea for the stunt while hiking with friends on Montserrat mountain,near Barcelona, Spain. To be quite honest: I am extremely scared of dying - and I am scared of heights. I never would have embarked on this kind of sport if I had had to be the first to do it. But in fact there were other parachutists, skydivers and base jumpers who'd been doing this for twenty years. So I just asked myself why can they do that and I can't? Is there something I really can't do or is it simply fear that is stopping me? Wingsuit flying or wingsuiting is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit,which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. Modern wingsuits, first developed in the late 1990s, create the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. Wingsuits are sometimes referred to as birdman suits (after the makers of the first commercially available wingsuit), flying squirrel suits (due to their resemblance to the animal), or bat suits (due to their vague resemblance to the animal or perhaps the superhero). A wingsuit flight normally ends with a parachute opening, and so a wingsuit can safely be flown from any point that provides sufficient altitude for flight and parachute deployment, normally a skydiving drop aircraft or BASE-jump exit point. The wingsuit flier wears parachute equipment designed for skydiving or BASE-jumping. The parachute flight is normal, but the canopy pilot typically unzips the arm wings after deployment to be able to reach the steering toggles and control the parachute descent."
'I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.' ~ Leonard da Vinci
Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971, to a Canadian mother (Maye Musk) and a South African-born British father. He taught himself computer programming and at age12 and sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School and graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. He moved to Canada in 1988 at the age of 17, after-obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. In 1992, received a degree in physics from the University Pennsylvania. He stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He moved to California to pursue a PhD in applied physics at Stanford but left the program after 2 days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations. In 2002, Elon became an American citizen. Elon is an engineer and entrepreneur who began computer programming when he was 10. He sold his first commercial computer program by the time he was 12. The first company he founded, Zip2 was acquired by Alta Vista for $340 million in cash and stock. He would eventually go on to co-found PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, among other entities. When eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion in October 2002, Musk's 11.7% earned him a $165 million payday. Elon is currently the CEO of SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla. Today, Elon Musk own 28% of Tesla a stake worth more than $5 billion.
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"I’m too weak. I’m too slow. Too big. I ate too much for breakfast. Got a headache. It’s raining. My dog is sick.
I can’t right now. I’m not inspired. It makes me smell bad. I’m allergic to stuff. I’m fat. I’m thin. It’s too hot.
I’m not right. I’ve got shin splits. A Headache. I’m distracted. I’m exerting myself too much. I’d love to really but I can’t,
I just can’t.
My favorite show is on. I’ve got a case of the Mondays. The Tuesdays. The Wednesdays.
I don’t want to do this;
I want to do something else. After New Years. Next week. I might make a mistake. I got home
and I feel bloated.
I have gas. I got a hot date. My coach hates me. My mom won’t let me. I bruise easily. It’s too dark.
It’s too cold.
My blister hurts. This is dangerous. Ahhh sorry, I don’t have a bike. I didn’t get enough sleep.
My tummy hurts.
It’s not
in my genes. I don’t want to look all tired out. I need a better coach.
I don’t like getting tackled. I have a stomach ache. I’m not the athletic type. I don’t want to get sweaty.
I have better things to do.
I don’t
want to slow you down.
Do I have to do this? As soon as I get a promotion.
I think I’ll sit this one out.
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And My Feet Hurt!"
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During Kittinger's project, there were three high altitude jumps accomplished from a balloon-supported gondola; the first
from 76,400 feet; the second from 74,700 feet 25 days
later; and on Aug. 16, 1960, from 102,800 feet, the highest altitude from
which man has ever jumped. It was Kittinger who did the jumping. In freefall for four and a half minutes, Kittinger fell at speeds
up to 714 mph, exceeding the speed of sound. He experienced temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit. Kittinger
opened his parachute at 18,000 feet and
landed safely in the New Mexico desert after a 13 minute 45 second descent.
"The Baumgartner's launch was originally scheduled for October 9, 2012, but was aborted due to adverse weather conditions.
Launch was rescheduledand the mission instead took
place on October 14, 2012 when Baumgartner landed
in eastern
New Mexico after jumping from a world record 39,045 metres (128,100 ft) or just over
39 kilometres (24 mi). On the basis of
provisional data, Baumgartner also set the record for the highest
manned balloon flight (at the same height) and fastest
speed of free fall at 1,342 kilometres per hour
(834 mph) making him the first human to break the sound barrier outside
of a vehicle. Baumgartner was in free fall for 4 minutes and 19 seconds,
17 seconds short of mentor
Joseph Kittinger's 1960 jump."
"His curiosity is boundless. The tricky part for Mike LaBrie sometimes is compelling his body to go on the many new adventures his curiosity has mapped out. But the charismatic 25-year-old from Dracut is very persuasive. The state Registry of Motor Vehicles discovered this during its futile attempt to force LaBrie to attach a handicap adapter to his steering wheel. LaBrie laughed at the RMV's suggestion. A gasoline explosion burned 95 percent of his body and nearly killed him when he was 3. His fingers on both hands are little more than stubs. But LaBrie uses what fingers he has to play both the piano and guitar and work at lowering his 12 handicap in golf. With his father's help, he convinced the RMV that driving a car would be a snap."Soon as you tell Mike he can't do something," warns Central Catholic golf coach Vin Pastore, "he does it."He has bungee-jumped off a 300-foot-high tower in New Jersey. Not daring enough?Recently, he opened up his guitar case in Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston and performed his own soul-searching songs for the world to hear. ("The words replace the things that I can't say out loud. I hide behind the ink on this page," LaBrie sings in his song "More Than Just a Friend.") Within an hour, $50 in coins and small bills had been dropped in his opened case by passers-by."My dad thought I looked like a bum," LaBrie says with a laugh."He is a conqueror," says Pastore. "You never know what will be next for him. But you know it will be exciting."Four years ago, LaBrie's newest adventure was golf, a challenging enough game for someone able to grip a golf club normally. LaBrie's father, also named Mike, and grandfather, Richard Fadden, are avid golfers, so LaBrie figures it was inevitable he take up the game seriously. But LaBrie's father noticed also that his son seemed determined to take on increasingly more challenges requiring use of his hands. LaBrie had been an outstanding youth-soccer player in Dracut. He remains an accomplished snowboarder -- among many other things."He had mastered things with his feet," Says his father."I don't know what turned him to his hands. Just a challenge, I guess."
Dorsey developed a small business platform called 'Square', designed
to accept
debit and credit card payments on a mobile device.
It was released in May 2010. The small, square-shaped
device attached
to iPhone, iPad or Android devices via the
headphone jack, and as a
mini card reader allows a person to
swipe her or his card, choose an
amount to give to the recipient
and then sign his or her name for confirmation. Square is also
a system for sending paperless receipts via text
message or
email, and is available as a free app for
iOS and Android OS.
The company grew from 10 employees in December 2009 to
over a hundred
employees by June 2011. Square's office is
located on Mission Street in
San Francisco's South of
Market neighborhood.
In September 2012,
Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc.
at $3.2 billion The means he
grew Square
from $0 to $2 billion in just 3 years!
To The Crazy Ones
Who Never, Ever Give Up!'
"Nick Vujicic was born to Duška and Boris Vujicic in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia.
Although he was an otherwise healthy baby, he was born without arms and legs;
he had no legs, but two small feet, one of which had two toes.
He has two siblings, Michelle and Aaron."
"Nick Vujicic was born to Duška and Boris Vujicic in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia.
Although he was an otherwise healthy baby, he was born without arms and legs;
he had no legs, but two small feet, one of which had two toes.
He has two siblings, Michelle and Aaron."
(<click) stepped out on to the Moon. 12 men walked on the Moon allowing them to join 'Histories Most Elite Club'.
(<click) the most widely distributed photographic image in
history. On December 11, 1972 he walked on the Moon.
He followed that with two terms as a
US Senator. Schmitt is a Harvard graduate & teacher, an accomplished
Jet and Helicopter Pilot, a Moonwalker and a US Senator.
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