Happy Piña Colda Day

by Carl Kruse

July 10 is National Piña Colada Day and while the contrived holiday verges on the embarassing, any moment to celebrate the delectable drink is fine by me and so here we go, a tribute to the piña colada. But from whence comes the cocktail?

Supposedly the 19th century Puerto Rican pirate Cofresí gave his crew a drink of coconut, pineapple and white rum to get them going, and this was what later would be the piña colada, though many historians dispute this story.

A recipe for a “pina colada” is included in The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock, published in 1930. This recipe includes white rum, coconut milk and crushed pineapple blended with ice. But this is a recipe for a “pain killer,” of British Virgin Islands fame not really a piña colada.

In 1950, The New York Times reported that “Drinks in the West Indies range from Martinique’s famous rum punch to Cuba’s piña colada (rum, pineapple and coconut milk),” throwing confusion as to the origin of the drink.

The Caribe Hilton in San Juan claims one of its bartenders, Ramón “Monchito” Marrero created the piña colada in 1954. Supposedly Monchito settled upon the recipe for the piña colada — still used today — which he felt captured the essence of Puerto Rico. The hotel was presented with an official government proclamation in 2004 recognizing it as the actual birthplace of the piña colada.

Not to stay quiet, Barrachina, which is still standing on Fortaleza street in Old San Juan and has served amazing food for years (recommended if ever in the old city), claims that it was actually one of its bartenders, Don Ramon Portas Mingot, who created the piña colada in 1963. If you visit the restaurant today they have erected a plaque proudly proclaiming this. But this would have been nine years after the Caribe Hilton’s drink so the Barrachina claim is unlikely.

In his latest painting artist Carlos Davila Rinaldi celebrates Puerto Rico’s national drink – the Piña Colada, which a generation of Fat Tuesdays and Wet Willies have not been able to tarnish.

No matter who came up with the drink, the government of Puerto Rico declared it the official drink of the island in 1978.

And with all this talk about piña coladas, I could use one right about now.

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Do We Need To Research UAPs?

Carl Kruse and the Carl Kruse Nonprofits Blog are sponsoring the upcoming online chat held by the SETI Institute, namely “UAPs: Are They Worth Scientific Attention”, which is slated for Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:00PM PST. This event is covered by posts on this blog and this other blog.

The SETI institute has invited Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra, SETI astronomer and senior research investigator at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, and Dr. Ravi Kopparapu, planetary scientist and an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to discuss and investigate UAPs (namely Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). Often referred to as UFO’s and associated with paranormal or pseudoscientific beliefs, the focus of the discussion will be on whether scientists should focus more on the investigation of these phenomena.

SETI Institute’s Allen Radio Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California, USA

The analysis of recent UAP sightings, as detailed in a recent U.S. Navy report of June 2021, have failed to generate attention in the scientific panorama. This U.S. Department of Defense report mentioned that UAPs were definitively not caused by any U.S. advanced technology programs. But went on to say that there is also no evidence that these objects came from outer space.

sThe question arises: what are they then, and where do they come from? Earthly or other worldly? If we try to discard the taboo surrounding this phenomena, such as paranormal theories and fake news, even discarding their possible extraterrestrial origin hypothesis, the participants of the chat argue that genuine scientific inquiry is needed to understand this phenomena. We actually don’t know much about it, and this is the reason why scientists should care more about studying them and finding a explanatory answer to this inquiry. While Carl Kruse and the Carl Kruse Blog are sponsoring this chat, they make clear that it is their position that UAPs are probably not extraterrestrial in origin.

SETI Talks are presented to the audience at no cost, and are supported by independent contributors. The chat is exclusively online, so make sure to register in order to have access to this event.

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Taking The Genius Route In Princeton

by Deanna Baelestra

If you’re a lover of math and science, then Princeton, New Jersey, is a wonderful place to visit. You can walk the same streets as Einstein, Gödel, and Zworkyn. You can see where they lived and worked, much of which can be seen on the “genius route.” The genius route is a walking tour map created by Hadas Zeilberger. 

Most of the places on the map are private residences, and tourists are not allowed inside, but you can walk past and revel in the fact that you’re walking in the footsteps of greatness.

 A Few Stops On The Genius Route:

• Institute of Advanced Study 

This is not a private residence but a world famous research institute where Einstien, Gödel, Beurling, and many other famous scientists worked. Albert Einstein worked in Fuld Hall 115. 

• The former home of Arne Beurling, Swedish mathematician

Using only pen and paper, he once deciphered an early German cipher machine in just two weeks with no help. 

• The former home of W. Zworkyn, inventor of the television set

This pioneer of technology was a Russian-American inventor and engineer. 

• The Einstein House, 112 Mercer Street. Einstein famously put in his will that his home never is turned into a museum or memorial.  Check out the Carl Kruse Nonprofit Blog for more details about Einstein’s house and other homes of great minds: Carl Kruse Houses of Great Minds.
  
  

Albert Einstein outside his home in Princeton, New Jersey

• The former home of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States

He was also the president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey before he became president. 

• Princeton Cemetery, the final resting place of thought leaders Gödel, von Neumann, and many others. 

Unlike some of the other stops on this route, here you can walk the grounds and visit the gravesites of many famous historical figures. 

You’ll find all these stops and more on the walking tour of genius. This is an accessible bucket-list item you can do in the afternoon the next time you’re in the area. The whole area is ripe with the histories of some of our most innovative thinkers. 

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Science says classical Music Can Improve Mental Health

by Deanna Balestra

We’re more than a year deep into a global pandemic that, in addition to many deaths, has caused wide-spread isolation. As social creatures, there is nothing more damaging to our mental health than being alone. So it’s no mystery why we are currently having a significant mental health crisis across the world, with more reports of depression, anxiety, and self-harm than ever before. 

It seems that music, classical music to be exact, may hold an important key to improving mental health in isolation. Backed by the scientific community, classical music works on many levels help heal our broken hearts and minds. 

Classical Music Validates Our Feelings

As Hazal Anna Rogers pointed out in her article, On the Wonders of Classical Music, listening to sad songs actually seems to connect with and heighten our sadness. At first blush, that seems like a bad idea, but not when you understand why that phenomenon happens. Music actually helps you connect to your feelings and process them. Our knee-jerk reaction is to push away sad feelings, but music allows us to use them to grieve and then move on. 

All Music Provides Stress Relief

Neurologists have shown that classical music helps decrease stress and lower cortisol levels in your blood. It also helps lower blood pressure and makes it easier to sleep. These are all wonderful and supportive things for your mental health as well. 

Building Relationships Through Music 

Music can give you social stimulation, even when you are alone. Think about listening to an opera; the music is so powerful that you connect to the characters on an emotional level even if you can’t translate the lyrics. This connection helps mimic the feeling of social interaction and can be a valuable tool to getting through the isolation of quarantining during a pandemic such as COVID-19. 

Try listening to classical music at home, while taking a walk, or when trying to fall asleep at night. You’ll be surprised at the number of physical and mental benefits your body will start to receive. 

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The Top Business Challenges For A New Entrepreneur

If you want to start a new business, there are certain challenges that may arise in your journey of becoming a successful entrepreneur. These challenges are even more rigid if you are a newcomer.

Carl Kruse who himself an entrepreneur and have more than 25 years of experience, pointing some critical challenges that you may face If you’re just getting into the game, or you’re thinking about becoming an entrepreneur.

Choosing The Right Business

If your business doesn’t help people, doesn’t provide a solution, or doesn’t give people something they want then your business is worthless. To do a great business you should own great product or service. If you believe in your products, only then you can make people believe in it.

Funding The Business

It is the most critical challenge as we know the money is the main resource for any kind of business. So here we have two solutions:

• To borrow money from some other people or bank loan.
• Use only a small amount of money and find a creative way to get your business going.

Making Customers

There is a certain type of person who will be your customer. Not everybody in the world is buying what you’re selling, so your job is to simply find the people who are in need of your service. If you have a quality product then people will automatically come to you, no need to spend hundreds or thousands on marketing.

Recruiting Employees

As a small entrepreneur, typically the last thing you’ll do is hire employees. You’ll want to hire employees when your workload is too much to handle yourself and you have the revenue to pay your employee.

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Simple Ways To Stay Positive As An Entrepreneur

Many people believe the main issue in their life is their income and that by changing their income they will change their life in such a way they will be happy. But first, you must change your mindset, while will then change your income and ultimately your life. It must be done in this particular order, much like planting a garden, to get the results you want.

As an Entrepreneur, there will always be setbacks, so you must re-visit these steps on a regular basis.

Actively Work On Your Mindset

How you do this is personal to you. You may find it by reading or listening to motivational books, meditating, yoga or exercise. Maybe you feel more positive when you talk to certain people in your life on a regular basis, or it may be a combination of many things. Whatever helps you remain positive, do it on a consistent, regular basis. This is something every successful leader works on all the time.

Stop Comparing

Most everyone is guilty of this. Remember that everyone starts from the beginning. Every successful person goes through their own struggles. If you compare yourself with others, it will hold you back.

Keep Focused On What You Want To Become

This is slightly different from your why. Keep doing the daily activities that will get you where you want to go.

Learn  To Become A Happier Person

No matter what, if you are generally feeling unhappy, it is impossible to have that positive feeling. You actually can become a happier person in general by developing strategies to overcome this. Learn to see things from another point of view and give up the need to be right all the time.

Never Hold On To The Past

Accept what has happened in your life and move on. Move forward. Things are going to happen and you must learn to simply move on. Learn to separate your business success from whatever is holding you back.

Smile! Laugh! Relax!

Give yourself a much-needed break from time to time. Have some down time and reward yourself when you reach small goals you have set for yourself.

To become successful as an Entrepreneur, you must first change your mindset before you change your income, which will have an impact on your life. Trying to go through these steps out-of-order simply doesn’t work. Once you change your mindset, the rest will follow.

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Reasons Why Small Business Fails

Entrepreneurs are determined, competitive and they have the personal qualities they need to run a successful business. But still, some of them fails to take their business to the next level.

Carl Kruse is listing here some of the most common mistakes that small business owners make in their business operation.

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Why You Should Consider Becoming an Entrepreneur?

Being an entrepreneur makes you a better person. There are numerous reasons for this. From being your own boss and making the rules, to having a more flexibility, enhancing the quality of life around and the ability to work anywhere you want.

Here are few reasons shared by Carl Kruse, that why entrepreneurship makes you amazing.

Mr. Carl Kruse is an eminent entrepreneur and Specialized consultant.He had worked with the political risk arm of Kroll Associates in Washington, D.C. where he was the director of its information & intelligence service. He is highly active in the non-profit sector, particularly with organizations that focus on science, the environment, education, and art.

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How to Motivate Your Employees?

A good employment is very tough to find, but every entrepreneur knows a good employee is even harder to keep. To get the most from your employees, you need to motivate them.Keeping your employees motivated is challenging for any business owner or manager. Happy workers are productive workers.

In this video, Carl Kruse has shared some key tactics to keep your employees motivated.

Carl Kruse has more than 25 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and consultant. He is highly active in the non-profit sector, particularly with organizations that focus on science, the environment, education, and art.

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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur?

Being an entrepreneur is not an easy task. Discipline, dedication, and passion are the key factors, however, some good habit also plays an important role in becoming a successful entrepreneur. Every entrepreneur is different, but all have a common goal to achieve. You can check which characteristic you already possess. If you do not have all the characteristics, don’t worry. You will possess rest of the characteristics with practice & strategic planning.————–

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Plan Your Day in Advance:

From the biography of many successful entrepreneurs, you will learn a very basic, however, most crucial thing about starting a day is plan your day advance. It is very easy in business to let other’s run your day according to their priorities. However, you should take a time to plan your day in advance. Phone calls, Business meetings, appointments, emails never end. You should plan your priorities according to their importance.

Set Real Goals:

To become a successful entrepreneur one should set the real & achievable goals. Make short term goals to measure your success rate. Once you set the goal, your instinct continually pushes you to achieve it.You can set a long-term, mid-term and short-term goal to clear the confusion what to do next.

Get Proper Nutrition and Exercise:

The healthy and fit body gives you the strength to unlock the path of your dreams. You need to be active throughout the day. Take plenty of water, have your breakfast and keep moving to stay fit.

Take Calculated Risks:

It’s good to take risks, but that should not be for fun. Calculated risk often seems crazy, however, those who take calculated risks in business knows the numbers and probabilities behind it.

Know your strengths and weakness:

A true businessman knows their strengths and weakness and it takes humility to judge yourself. Once you know about your strengths and weakness, it is easier for you to decide who to hire, who to partner with and what skills you possess.

Hire A team, players:

Another crucial factor which decides your success is the quality of your staff. Entrepreneurs who afraid to hire A-team players often close the door of their success. They either feel impeded or they won’t offer the incentives essential to hire the best.

Above listed entrepreneur skills and behavior will give you a vision of a good leadership and unstoppable entrepreneur.

Carl Kruse has more than 25 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and consultant. He is highly active in the non-profit sector, particularly with organizations that focus on science, the environment, education, and art.

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