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Everything is a choice. You have limitless decisions. They range from the insane to the mundane. You get to decide when you get up in the morning and when you go to bed, if you go to the office and what time you leave to get there. You could walk or drive or run, skip, crawl, or hitchhike to work. What you eat each day is a choice. How you handle criticism, how hard you work, and if you tell the whole truth — these are all choices that you will make today. Thousands of options. Thousands of decisions you get to make. Most of them you won’t even think about. You’ll do whatever comes naturally or whatever seems to cause the least resistance with those around you. Some decisions will take time to think about. You’ll prepare and plan and ponder. The small stuff — like how much water you drink each day or how much sleep you get each night — you’ll most likely ignore. You’re too busy scoping out the big decisions. Never forget the big successes ...

On today’s episode of Exploring the Eighth House , I had the pleasure of interviewing forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek and her husband TJ Mitchell about their book, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner . The main topic covered was about death, and pretty much everything people either want to know or don’t want to know about death. The fact of the matter is, the thought of death frightens most of us and as a result, the reality is shunned. Dr. Melinek speaks about her experiences as a forensic pathologist that she is faced with all the time. We cover the topics relating to body decomposition; the common misconceptions that people have about forensic pathologists and death investigators; and having to deal with having difficult conversations with family members about the death of a loved one. TJ Mitchell talks about his experience with co-writing em>Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner with ...

On today’s episode of Exploring the Eighth House , I had the pleasure of interviewing forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek and her husband TJ Mitchell about their book, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner . The main topic covered was about death, and pretty much everything people either want to know or don’t want to know about death. The fact of the matter is, the thought of death frightens most of us and as a result, the reality is shunned. Dr. Melinek speaks about her experiences as a forensic pathologist that she is faced with all the time. We cover the topics relating to body decomposition; the common misconceptions that people have about forensic pathologists and death investigators; and having to deal with having difficult conversations with family members about the death of a loved one. TJ Mitchell talks about his experience with co-writing em>Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner with hi...

New Resources for Educators and School Leaders Available Today Byline: Anthony Salcito, vice president, Microsoft Education To the community of 100 million players around the world, Minecraft represents many things – creativity, strategy, collaboration and survival, just to name a few. What many may not realize is that Minecraft has the power to transform learning on a global scale. By creating a virtual world and then advancing in it, students can learn digital citizenship, empathy, social skills and even improve their literacy – while getting real time feedback on their problem solving skills from the teacher. In fact, more than 7,000 teachers around the world are already using Minecraft in the classroom. Building on this natural use of Minecraft in the classroom, we announced today with Code.org , that we are bringing a Minecraft-inspired coding tutorial to students and educators, created especially for Hour of Code, an annual, global campaign held during Computer S...

The other night, Maggie Doyne  of Blink Now ,  became the CNN 2015 Hero of the Year. Maggie is a 29 year-old American woman, who has 50 kids and lives in Nepal! Erin and I with Maggie Doyne and her children, Kopila Valley Children’s Home, Surkhet, Nepal Maggie’s story and the path she decided to take early on in life, has touched the hearts of people around the globe and changed the lives of hundreds of Nepalese women and children. Maggie was a high school classmate of my daughter, Erin. After graduation, Maggie decided to take a gap year and travel before heading off to college. Eventually, she ended up in Nepal and saw a country devastated by 10 years of civil war and thousands of orphaned children left in its wake. She used her babysitting savings to buy property and build a home for herself and orphaned children – she was 19 years old. Maggie has 50 children now, has built a primary school for 250 kids and is currently building a high school. When Maggie...

The terrorist attacks that just recently happened in France shook people up around the world, just like in all other previous cases of terrorism being involved. People have been understandably angry about what occurred, such as myself. However, there has been a lot of stereotyping of Muslims. I’ve been noticing a lot of unfair comments about how “all Muslims are terrorists”, just like there were after previous attacks of terrorism. The stereotyping was even worse after the 9/11 attacks. Calling all Muslims “terrorists” is wrong and uncalled for because there are many people who are part of the Islamic faith that are peaceful and are very much against terrorism. There is also a lot of stereotyping of people who have depression and mental illness which needs to come to an end. I will list the common stereotypes that you hear about people that have depression and/or other mental illnesses. 1. They are nutcases . People who have mental illness of any kind are...

The terrorist attacks that just recently happened in France shook people up around the world, just like in all other previous cases of terrorism being involved. People have been understandably angry about what occurred, such as myself. However, there has been a lot of stereotyping of Muslims. I’ve been noticing a lot of unfair comments about how “all Muslims are terrorists”, just like there were after previous attacks of terrorism. The stereotyping was even worse after the 9/11 attacks. Calling all Muslims “terrorists” is wrong and uncalled for because there are many people who are part of the Islamic faith that are peaceful and are very much against terrorism. There is also a lot of stereotyping of people who have depression and mental illness which needs to come to an end. I will list the common stereotypes that you hear about people that have depression and/or other mental illnesses. 1. They are nutcases . People who have mental illness of any kind are n...