That is a quote from Arnold Glasgow discussed at Philosiblog in a post of the same name.
The concept is that you won’t become a success at what you want to do (get so hot you are ‘on fire) by accident or luck (spontaneous combustion) but only by very hard work (setting yourself on fire).
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“Tragedy of Fraud – The Ripple Effects from Fraud and the Wages Earned” describes the tragic consequences from fraud.
There are ripple effects that spread out to harm innocent bystanders. The perpetrator draws a wide range of well-deserved wages that will be paid in full.
The book looks at two fraud incidents to learn what happens after a fraud is discovered. One took place in a local megachurch and the other in the mayor’s office of a small city.
This book is a compilation of blogs posts that have been previously published at Nonprofit Update and Attestation Update. The posts have been edited slightly and reorganized for easier reading.
Major sections of the book:
The other book I have available at Amazon is Once Upon Internal Control.
That’s the idea some people are advancing to suggest the extensive data gathering conducted by the federal government is okay.
I plan to discuss this in detail. In the meantime, I want to start putting some pieces of information on the table.
Moxie Marlinspike has a superb article in Wired: Why “I Have Nothing to Hid” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance.
You may think you haven’t broken any laws.
But are you familiar with all 27,000 pages of the United States Code?
The news yesterday that the U.S. will provide some sort of arms to the rebels in the two-year old civil war in Syria moves us one giant step towards deep involvement another regime-changing war.
I’m way over my head in terms of understanding what’s going on there, so it’s time to see if I can get a clue.
Seems like every morning there is a big story with details of the vast array of surveillance conducted by the federal government. Here is a broad overview of news in the last 2 weeks.
Because of fracking and horizontal drilling, the one year increase in U.S. oil production in 2012 was the largest increase in our history. The bounties from shale could spread to other countries.
U.S. production increase
The Wall Street Journal reports in their article U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth on data released by BP:
In the latest sign of the shale revolution remaking world energy markets, crude production in the U.S. jumped 14% last year to 8.9 million barrels a day,
Philosiblog expands that idea in a post of the same name.
Using the analogy of riding a river shows we have a major role to play in our future. We can even create our future.
Think of two people in a river. One is just floating on a raft, unable to predict what is coming, because they aren’t looking around and aren’t doing anything to move or steer. The other person is in a kayak, looking for the path they want, and actively steering and moving themselves to that point. Read more…
Professors at 10 more large university systems can access MOOC courses for use in their classes.
Coursera, which is one of the big providers of what are called Massive Open Online Courses, is expanding its reach.
The Wall Street Journal reports Web Courses Woo Professors.
A bill to ban fracking was defeated in the California Assembly week before last at a vote of 37-24 with 18 abstentions. That method of getting oil out of the ground has been used here in California for only 60 years. I missed the news coverage of the vote so had to get caught up through the Wall Street Journal’s editorial, Fracturing in California.
The editorial points out that as you would expect the votes to ban energy development came from the wealthy coastal districts.
The votes to defeat? Read more…
Joke of the week – if my computer or website crashes, can I get a backup copy from NSA?
Lots of publicity this week on extensive federal monitoring of citizens and non citizens. No time to write a full post, so just a quick note to put some dots on the page. Hopefully will have time to connect them later
Four massive stories this week:
Philosiblog expands on that comment by Johnathan Winters.
How long will you wait for the perfect opportunity to kick in the door and drag you into the future?
Sometimes you have to take a so-so opportunity and make it work. Read more…
In terms of Bentek’s forecast from 2011, production is already at 2016 levels. It is so cool they were wrong!
In the distant past of April 2011 (that data is only 24 months old), production was around 500k bopd. Production was forecast to hit around 700k bopd by the end of 2012 and around 900k bopd by December 2016.
That info from RBN Energy’s article Too Wrong for Too Long? How 2011 Bakken Crude Forecasts Compare to Today.
The graph of actual and forecast production now?
How do you talk to a reporter with minimum risk of being found out? What does the answer to that question tell the rest of us who don’t have really juicy stuff to spill to a national reporter?
You leave digital crumbs every time you use the internet or your computer or any device that accesses the ‘net. How then to securely leak info to the media?
That’s the conclusion after reading Eagle Ford Shale’s post Eagle Ford Oil Production Growing Twice As Fast As Thought – Bentek.
RBN Energy reviews their forecast from the distant past, specifically two years ago. They find: Read more…
Exporting natural gas would have two major advantages, it seems to me.
First, it would stabilize prices in the U.S. and around the world by integrating markets that are not connected.
Second, by creating more demand for U.S. produced gas and stabilizing prices it would encourage more exploration and production here. That is important because exploration has dropped off because of the currently low prices. We should export gas if we want to create the incentives that will result in production of more gas.
