Temple Shootings... What is the Solution?!

I did a little experiment on my personal Facebook page today after the terrible Sikh Temple shootings.  Always wanting to know why, I'm an Aquarius, what can I say.  :)  Anyhoo, I wanted to hear what others thought would be the solution to the rash of gun violence that is plaguing America.

Below is the story, my question, and the responses.  The names have been changed to protect the innocent.  

I'm still thinking about my response.  What's yours?

What is the solution to our country's epidemic of gun violence? I honestly don't know. Anyone? All opinions are welcome, and haters will be deleted. Keep it professional.
Sending love and peace to those touched by this awful massacre at a Sikh Tempe in Wisconsin this morning. ♥

UPDATE: A gunman opened fire Sunday morning at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding at least three others, including a police officer, before being shot to death, police said. A law enforcement offi

cial told NBC News the gunman was dressed in tactical gear and armed with a single handgun.

Read more and stay tuned for updates: http://nbcnews.to/OSL69p

Photo: A man wipes away tears on Sunday outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis. (Jeffrey Phelps / AP)

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    C: This Temple is mere miles from where I grew up. So sad that people can see different, and think bad.

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    C2: I think if everyone carried and learned hire to use a sidearm or a sword or both the world would be a much more polite place. Also if NO one had access to weapons the works would be safer. too late for that.

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    P: the only way our country can turn around from all these actions and hatred is to truly turn this country back to the Christian beliefs that this country was based on, that is the reason we have always been the strongest, safest country in the world. We have taken prayer out of our schools, the 10 commandments out of our courts and a huge percent of our country believe that everything good in our lives, we did on our own. NOT!

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    A: Start by banning automatic assault weapons, end the hate filled media like Fox and Limbaugh who reinforce hating your neighbor.

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    S: I agree with Pat. We need to put God back into things,not try to take him out. Whatever happened to "In God We Trust"! Out country was founded on this belief. Get with it people before it is to late!

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    S2: How about respect for EVERY type of worship? Instead of just the worship of a prescribed GOD? Perhaps the idea of compassion for all instead of for only those who we deem similar to us would make the world a better place.

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    S1: That is true S2. We must respect every type of worship. After all; there is ony one God and the way we chose to worship him is up to us. The important thing is that we DO believe!

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    A: The problem with P & S1's point is that Christianity has been hijacked in this country by those filled with hate (Rush, all of Fox, Westboro Baptist Church, etc), who preach a lot, but mirror the exact opposite of what Jesus taught. This leaves a bad taste in the mouths of those who love others of different faiths, races, sexual orientation, etc. if one is not raised in an environment of love & respect & kindness towards all, then hanging the 10 commandments it government buildings will do nothing to help us.

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It's been a while...

Wow, we've been gone a long time.  

We're back.  We're blogging.  Did you miss us?  Probably not.  But if it happened again, you will.  

It's been a long road to where we are now.  Clients have come, clients have gone.  Met some great people along the way.  Had amazing things happen.  Had some pretty crappy things to, but we're here to move forward.  We're here to write this little note to anyone who may read it to tell you our 'mission statement'.  Think Jerry Maguire.

Redmond Business Solutions, LLC is on stronger ground than we've ever been.  *I* have made some strategic decisions as of late that will help secure our future, and our sanity.  

1.  We will not represent nor will we work with a client in which we do not believe.  

2.  All clients who hire Redmond will receive the best care, ever.  You will also receive the truth, albeit direct, that we believe you will need to hear.  Most of the time it will be really good.  Sometimes it will be constructive.  Just know that we want the very best for all of our clients.

3.  Redmond is not a non profit organization.  We need to make money.  Don't ask us to 'do you a favor' or 'work for free'.  Don't tell us 'when we're rich, you will be too'.  That's great if you really mean it, but until the time of your wealth arrives, we have bills to pay.  We attend training classes, networking programs, purchase software, travel costs, living expenses,  etc.  We're here to make money, too.  We spend a lot of time becoming experts in our field.  Please respect that.

4.  We listen.  We advise.  We support.  We innovate.

5.  Expect the truth.  Said it before, I know.  Just making sure you're listening.

6.  Your nephew.  Yes, your nephew can build websites.  Unless your nephew is a certified member of the graphic design professional organization AIGA, has a certification in the full Adobe suite, can write CSS code after years or experience, has owned their own business for over 5+ years, and has 30+ years in business organizations, sales, operations, project management, graphic design, marketing, branding, social media... please don't try to compare our services to what your nephew can do.  If that's what you believe is our competition, you should probably go ahead and hire him.  We'll be here when you're ready for real business assistance.  

It's getting late, and I think we've covered almost everything. Great to see you all again!

Until tomorrow...

Jan

Erasure’s Andy Bell Asks Everyone To Give A Little Respect

Erasure’s Andy Bell Asks Everyone To Give A Little Respect

"...for the times, they are a changin..."

How do you keep up with technology?  Our business is to be focused on it, but what about yours?  Unless your company is like ours, it must be challenging.  

Maybe we can make it simple for you.  Here's some fun stuff that's going on right now that business should check out.

1.  If you're not using Foursquare, go RIGHT now and add your business.  How better to get word of mouth advertising than have someone check in from your business, and have all of their friends see it. "Jan has checked in at Hanny's".  Hanny's?  What's Hanny's.... Yeah, FREE advertising to a smart group of spenders that are loyal, and LOVE to check in from your location.  Go, add your business.  We'll wait.

2.  NEW Facebook!  Is it improved?  We're not sure yet, but it's going to be different.  Be prepared for the changes.  If you don't have a social media expert on staff or outsourced, you're already behind your competition about 5 years. Do it.  Now.

3. Twitter. Yes, it's been around for a while, but for those of us who use it on a daily basis, there is a resurgence of Twitter lovers coming around.  It's almost like the technology was there, like Bluetooth, for instance.  It was created, but no one really knew what to do with it. NOW we're all getting it, and it's proving to be invaluable.  There's no better way to directly contact your loyal and soon to be loyal customers and clients that to create conversations with them on Twitter.  For those people who get it, it WORKS!

4.  Does this surprise you?  This is what your competition is doing to promote themselves:

1. Twitter : 88%
2. Facebook : 87%
3. LinkedIn : 78%
4. Blogs : 70%
5. YouTube : 46%
6. Social Bookmarking Sites : 27%
7. Forums : 26%
8. Social news aggregators : 22%
9. Ning : 17%
10. MySpace : 11%

5.What are you going to do now? What's the next New Media idea that you need to know about?  You need someone who cares about your business, and is keeping up with New Media.  If you don't choose Redmond to do that, choose someone, or you will lose the marathon.

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Rethinking How We Learn and Work

Why, asked psychiatrist and author Edward Hallowell, do we get our best ideas in the shower? He was addressing an audience of educators and families sponsored by the 92nd Street Y in New York City, asking them to rethink how we are raising and teaching children.

Hallowell answered himself. It is the one last refuge, he said, the one place where we aren't being bombarded by media and where we can be alone with our thoughts and feelings.

Have you noticed, asked the technology thought leader Linda Stone, what happens when we sit hunched over our computers, responding to a steady stream of emails? Stone was speaking to a group of business leaders I had organized, asking them to rethink how we work and live today. Stone, too, answered herself. She said that we get "email apnea," which she has defined as a "temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing while doing email." She has written about the dangers of email apnea -- how it can disturb our bodies' balance of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitric oxide -- and even how it can trigger a physical flight or fight stress reaction, without giving our bodies the opportunity for rest and recovery so necessary for our mental and physical health.

I don't think it's an accident that there are so many calls to rethink how we learn and work today. Our images come from an industrial mentality. Interestingly, these images aren't just reflected in our ideas. Schools today often still look like classrooms of the past, desks all lined up, facing the teacher, who is supposed to dispense knowledge. And although offices have migrated away from an assembly line vision, the shift into cubicles is not that different from a factory floor mentality.

Technology is disrupting these visions. Barely a day goes by when I don't hear concern about what technology is doing to us and to our children. As Linda Stone has written, we can't continue to function on what she calls "continuous partial attention," which she differentiates from multi-tasking. We aren't just shifting from one task to another, she has written, but we are hyper-alert, paying attention to input coming from every direction at the same time, including listening to conversations, responding to computers and smart phones.

A page one article in article in the November 21st New York Times by Matt Richtel explores what is happening to children who are "growing up digital," asking how they can learn to focus in a world of distraction. This was the same conclusion I came to in my 10 years of research for Mind in the Making. The first essential skill I write about for children is "focus and self control." I point out, however, that we don't learn to focus by sitting still and listening passively but by active engagement.

There are some reoccurring commonalities in these calls for rethinking how we learn and work:

We need to focus on managing our attention and energy, not just our time. We tend to divide our days into time chunks. And that is definitely true for children. Think of the school day, separated into classes that change every 50 minutes or so. Now some schools are experimenting with providing longer time periods for learning and finding that it can be very effective. Linda Stone has noticed thatadults who measure their accomplishments by what they can cross off their to-do lists are more burned out than those who manage their attention. And Tony Schwartz continues to show companies that they will be more effective if they focus on promoting employees' energy, not controlling their time.

We need to give ourselves time for rest and recovery. Ask anyone who is really proficient at anything -- from intellectual to artistic to physical pursuits. They need time for full engagement and time for rest and recovery, as well as time for plugging in and unplugging from technology. Yet, our images of working hard at school or at work revolve around running non-stop, squeezing more and more in. And recess at schools is increasingly being abandoned, presumably to provide more time for studies -- but often to the detriment of those studies.

We need experiences that are first hand, engaging, meaningful, and give us some autonomy. Reviews of the research on learning for Mind in the Making make it clear that these ingredients go into the best learning environments. So the teacher who tries to pour knowledge into children as empty vessels or the boss who has a command and control approach are less successful than those who provide us with experiences where we feel can make a difference, that are meaningful to us, where we have some say in what we do, and where there is a response to what we do. This is one reason that digital media can be so engaging. We aren't passive recipients -- we do something and there is a response. The best schools and workplaces are figuring out how to use these principles in designing learning and work experiences.

And let's not forget happiness and fun. At the business conference I organized, Ross Smith of Microsoft reported that when his team created games as a part of their work, their work results were much more impressive. Playful learning continues to emerge as significant in effective education. And it is no accident that the CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh's new book on Delivering Happiness is a best seller.

It is time to rethink learning and working!

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Yep, sing that just like Mr. Rogers would have done!!  Here's the deal.  We want new fans who want to be fans.  You want something fun, informative, intelligent to read.  We want to give it to you!!


So, in our quest to recruit you (do we sound like Harvey Milk?), reread our last blog post, become a fan, and for all of  you that become a fan, we'll give you our Painkiller Concoction recipe  (and a  few other things) for FREE.


Come on, who doesn't like free stuff? 


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A fun Sunday time out.

Anyone that knows the staff (all 3 of us) at Redmond Business Solutions know what we LOVE Hula's Modern Tiki!  YUM!  A delicious and fun place to eat and drink the evening away.  One of our favorite drinks at Hula's is the Painkiller.

TODAY... as we like to play mixologist, we're going to try and duplicate it!  It should be a fun and tipsy affair.

Check back for updates.