Ken’s Corner

About one in five teen girls (22 percent) and one in five teen boys (18 percent) say they have electronically sent nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves to someone else. (Source: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy)

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed;
if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
–Mark Twain

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed;
if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
–Mark Twain

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
— Addison Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
— Addison Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
— Addison Walker

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.
— Anon.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about the things that matter.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that when surgical teams followed simple checklists – like pilots do – to prepare for surgery, fatalities were cut in half. The typical surgical checklist used in the study contained 19 actions that needed to be carried out during the surgery.
- (Source: Time.com, Jan. 14, 2009)