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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
At a computer security conference, the Apple Corporation announced that it is joining companies like Google, Facebook, and others who offer rewards to hackers who come forward with information about security flaws in their software. Apple said they would offer cash rewards of up to $200,000 for the insight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
In Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson writes, “Emotional balance, calm, and vibrant joy are the rewards of love.” —Jim L. Wilson Hold Me Tight, 257 Luke 6:35 (HCSB) But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A man who planned a social experiment by posing as a homeless beggar and then giving passersby twice their money back said his plan was foiled when no one offered him a donation. Konrad Ydhage planned to sit in a relatively affluent area and ask strangers for one Kronor (about .14 U.S.). He planned to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
A K-Mart store in Maine reported that a woman who described herself as terminally ill donated around $3,000 to pay off the remaining balances on 16 layaway accounts. The woman was only in the store about 15 minutes before paying the accounts. An employee who talked with her said the woman said she wasn’t…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
One new study published in Psychological Sciences says even babies recognize a display of injustice, even in circumstances that do not directly affect them. The research involved children aged 19 to 21 months of age, and found even from a very young age the children have a general expectation of what…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A recent Japanese study found that compliments can help improve student and employee performance as much as monetary rewards. “To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded money,” said researcher Norihiro Sadato. We can never underestimate the power of the words we…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 28 views
Jong Sim Rim won the 3rd weightlifting gold medal for North Korea and, like all North Korean athletes, she credited her success to the great leadership of the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim, Jong Un. However, few people from the western world take this seriously. So what was the real reason for the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Picking up hitchhikers is not a good idea, but for Edmonton Oilers hockey star Gilbert Brule, giving a ride to a stranger worked out well. Brule and his girlfriend were heading out to walk their dog when they drive by a man wearing sweat pants and a hat. Brule said despite the clothing, he thought the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Café del Soul noticed that a nest of German Cockroaches attacked their place of business with a vengeance and infested the restaurant. Rather than running the business as usual they wrote a public letter to their customers posted it everywhere and called the Health Department on themselves. This caused…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The longest living human on record in the modern era was Jeanne Calment of France. She lived to be 122 and died in 1997. The New England Centenarian Study at the Boston Medical Center studies aging and people who live past 100. The Gerontological Society of America reported that the number of Americans…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
You would think that someone who spends his life dispensing justice would find it for himself, but that isn’t always the case. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed twice in 2012. The first time it by a man holding a machete in the Caribbean, the second time in his townhouse in his Georgetown…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A prisoner wrote an article in a newspaper, which stirred up controversy among the readers. He wrote that his life in prison was more enjoyable than that of free men outside the prison because he had everything he needed such as food, clothing, and entertainment in the prison. Some readers commented…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Have you heard of “Murph”? He has cleaned Willie Mays’s spikes, ordered bats for Barry Bonds, and rubbed baseballs for Juan Marical. In the realm of sports superstars, Mike Murphy plays a small but essential role for his pro baseball team, the San Francisco Giants. Recently, he was the one who presented…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
There was a time in our world during both the First and second World Wars when men and women who served their country would go off and many times would be gone four or five years before they ever came home. We're told that a good Marine serving his country went off to fight. When he left, his wife was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 41 views
At the ripe old age of 89, a year before English politician Sir Leonard Woolf died, he said, “The world today and the history of the human ant hill would be exactly the same if I had played ping pong instead of sitting on committees, writing books, and producing memoranda. I have therefore to make this…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
Rick Warren’s wife writes: Heading home to California … a friend and I passed through the Dallas–Fort Worth airport. On the way to the connecting gate, we heard loud patriotic music playing and saw a group, mostly women, wearing colorful hats, cheering, and waving American flags. The troops were coming…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Kathy and I met my freshmen year in college. I still remember our first date: October 9, 1977. That was a life-changing day for me. Somehow I just knew when that first date was over that she was the person for me. Over the next two years we were in college together, but since she was a couple of years…
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One stormy night an elderly couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The clerk said they were filled, as were all the hotels in town. “But I can't send a fine couple like you out in the rain,” he said. “Would you be willing to sleep in my room?” The couple hesitated, but the clerk…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A new poll has discovered that while eight in ten Americans claim to believe in God, only three out of five can say they are “absolutely certain” that God exists. Specifically, the Harris Interactive Poll found 59 percent of Americans are “absolutely certain” there is a God, and 15 percent claim to be…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 19 views
Denver, Colorado has a new interstate that circles half of the city. It is a toll road. The E-470 toll road is now cashless. Tolls are recorded “either because motorists have a transponder or by photos taken of a driver's license plate, which generate a bill in the mail.” --http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_12749078…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
JUSTICE Anssi Vanjoki, was caught racing his Harley down a street in Helsinki, Finland. The police clocked him at 47 mph in a 31 mph zone and the judge assessed him with a $103,600 fine for speeding. The millionaire executive is fighting the fine, not because he wasn't speeding. He is appealing the amount…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
REWARDS The day before D-Day, Barnard Bail rendered emergency medical treatment to a pilot, saving his life. Bails action during the bombing raid over France enabled the pilot to safely land his plane. During the incident the pilot vowed to recommend Bail for high decoration for his unyielding dedication,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 7 views
A Chicago businessman tells about coming out of his office on a cold, blustery day. The snow and rain and sleet were all mixed up and the wind whipped fiercely about him. He rolled up his collar and ran for his car. But he didn’t reach his car. In the doorway of a store he saw a ten-year-old boy. The…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 7 views
WELL DONE! Corporate Psychologist Tim Irwin tells this story about his son: “We were in the third round of the playoffs, football is big in Georgia like it is in Texas, and it was a classic Norman Rockwell night – everything was perfect. It was an incredibly hard fought game. Our son (who would also…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 17 views
The Persian Legend of the King: A certain king needed a faithful servant and had to choose between two candidates for the office. He took both at fixed wages and told them to fill a basket with water from a nearby well, saying that he would come in the evening to inspect their work. After dumping one…