Steve Case to resign

AOL TW today announced that Punahou boy Steve would resign as chairman later this year.

AOL TW today announced that Punahou boy Steve would resign as chairman later this year. He apparently bowed to pressure resulting from the company's post-merger troubles.

Well, at least the media can now stop referring to Ed Case as "AOL TW chairman Steve Case's cousin."

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I saw it more as pulling a Bill Gates. The empire (battered though it may be now) built, it's time to downshift and perhaps enjoy the spoils more. The question is, with most of AOL's bigwigs gone, whose going to be his Steve Ballmer?

Some locals are already a-titter with hopes that his resignation will mean more Steve Case in Hawaii... on the presumption that it will be a good thing for the local tech industry.

Ahh, but Gates is still chairman and de facto champion of MSFT. Case will no longer be either. I predict Case moving on to something else in the next year.

On the second thought, I also hope that Case will be more involved in Hawaii tech!

The Fish With Big Ideas. By Michael Levy

Simon was a little fish with big ideas. He lived in the deep waters
of a large ocean that was not charted on any map. The reason being,
human beings had yet to become an animal that lived on earth. In fact
there were no animals or birds on earth, for most of the surface was
covered with salt water.

When Simon was just a little tiddler he loved to swim and frolic with
all the other deep water fish. But as he began to mature into a
teenage fish he started to wonder where all the light beams that
shone down on him, through all the darkness, came from.

Some days it was very dismal indeed, whilst other days the waters
seem to illuminate with a fascinating glow. He soon realized the
closer he swam to the surface, the brighter it would become. However,
all the other older fish told him he must not go too near the
surface, otherwise he would perish from too much light. You see they
were also told by their parents that too much light will destroy
them, so they always feared the light and stayed deep in the water
where very little light shone down from above.

Simon would have none of their superstitious fears, for when he grew
bigger and stronger, he left his family and began to live much closer
to the surface. One day he met another fish named Susy and they found
love, joy and synchronicity with each other at first sight. They
became fish soul mates and swam everywhere together.

One day Simon and Susy both thought it would be a good idea to see if
they could jump out of the water, from beneath the surface, to get a
quick glimpse of what it was like to experiencing pure daylight. They
were very adventurous. Simon and Susy thought similar thoughts and
wanted to explore everything they could.

So they took a big deep fish breath and holding fins they leapt out
of the water together and seemed to fly in the air for a few moment
before plunging back below the surface. Wow! That was the most
exhilarating experience they ever savored in their short lives. Again
and again they sprung from the depths and into the glorious sunlight.
Day-by-day they were able to stay out of the water a little longer
and could fly further above the surface.

One evening when they were enjoying their evening meal of plankton,
they both wished they could sprout wings and fly. They knew if there
secret wish was ever told to any other fish, they would be ridiculed
and become a laughing stock. Every moment they focused their thoughts
together as one being and imagined themselves flying through the air
and never returning to the water.

A few years went by ... Simon and Susy had become fully grown fish.
They continued to enjoy their fun and games of flying above the
surface of the water for a few seconds and then returning back. One
day something different happened. Like a miracle, when they started
to fly, lo and behold, they flew higher and higher. They began to
glide through the air on wind currents. All of a sudden they
discovered their dreams and wishes had come true. Simon and Susy had
sprouted wings and they could fly through the air with the greatest
of ease.

After a while they spotted land ... An island with an abundance of
trees and plants with delectable berries. A miracle had indeed
occurred ... Because they persisted in their belief that one day they
could fly, amazingly they had transformed themselves into birds.

Simon and Susy were the first birds on earth. They had found a
paradise island that supplied all their food and shelter. As time
progressed the couple produced a large family. Perhaps the birds you
see in the sky today were fashioned because, two little fish with big
ideas, had a great thought. They understood that all creative
thoughts come from an infinite source of intelligence that can create
and evolved all manner of creatures large and small.

Just ponder for a few moment what a fantastic miracle it is, that a
spinning rock in space, metamorphosed itself into a superabundant
paradise called earth. Look around the country at the beauty of the
mountains, lakes, flowers and trees. Look in the shopping mall stores
at all the ingenuity of humanity... Take a look at all the super
products and produces you can purchase...Everything you see came from
nothingness. Just an idea that manifested from universal
intelligence. Some of it man-made, most of it nature made, but all of
it came from the same source of intelligent ideas.

Also, just ponder for a few moments... If your father did not have a
wink in his eye and an amorous thought in his mind, his sperm may not
have entered your mothers egg. You may never had existed if a
thought in your parents mind did not turn into an act of love making.
The minuscule one atom they reproduced had access to all the
intelligence of the universe. And that one little atom that
reproduced itself into billions of atoms, is now you in all your
grown-up glory, who still has access to infinite universal
intelligence. The only thing that can block your connection is your
intellect/ego.

The potency of though is very powerful and if it can turn a fish into
a bird, just think what a wonderful, spectacular utopia, every human
being can turn their lives into. All it takes is a vivid imagination
and a continuing-conscious-connection to the creator/evolver of all
things bright and beautiful.
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"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and
creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur
to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream
of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner
of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no
man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do
or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in
it. Begin it now." _ Attributed to Goethe?
************
"The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest
so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit
themselves
to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us."
Hannah Whitall Smith _ 1832-1911American Minister and Reformer
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"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now,
start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and
small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice
straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it
is only kindness!" _Anne Frank
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Michael Levy is the author four books "What is the Point? "Minds of Blue Souls of Gold" "Enjoy Yourself - It's Later Than You Think" and "Invest with a Genius." Michael's poetry and essays now grace many web sites, journals and magazines throughout the world. His web site in ranked number one/two in the world out of 3,000,000 web sites when "Inspirational books" are the search words on Google's search engine.
Web Sites : http://www.pointoflife.com

"It is not education that breeds success, rather, it is the success (spirit) in the breed ...That educates others."_Michael Levy.

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