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Uncaging my joy

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:02:49 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: I decided last week that I would like to live more generously. I find that I clutch things (my money, my time, my love) too closely to my breast, and this is from fear. My fear cripples my joy.

I am going to uncage my joy.

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Being generous begins with treating each person as though they have already achieved the potential for greatness that is in every one of us. It is in essence a sincere desire to make others' lives easier or more pleasant.

Extend this thoughtfulness to strangers, even if all you do is smile and say hello, or let them on to the highway in front of you.

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Generosity, it seems, brings more happiness than selfish indulgence. Giving just a few dollars or a few minutes to someone else may help you live longer, be happier, and be healthier.

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give." ~ Winston Churchill

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The thing about being strong is that being strong means not getting what you want or what you need and yet being okay anyway.

When I was young, my father would regularly tell me to be generous. The thing about being generous is that it makes it easier to be strong.

That’s really a very smart thing to teach a child.

Tags: on being generous

CG

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:31 GMT

clipped by: f15827
clipper's remarks: teach the tech about CG.

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What a Great Message to Send to Kids

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:11:39 GMT

clipped by: cmstratton
clipper's remarks: I have to say, this story is a perfect example of the wrong message we've been sending to kids for years.

As a former HS teacher, I've experienced first hand how kids now have an expectation that they all should be rewarded, all should succeed, and all should be entitled to and given everything they want.

Parents don't want this kid to play not because they're afraid he'll hurt their kids physically, but because they're afraid their kids won't succeed.

Instead of teaching the message that sometimes in life you encounter obstacles and need to work harder to overcome them, this story teaches kids if you encounter an obstacle, it's the obstacles fault and you can just give up.

In other words, you shouldn't expect to have to work hard to achieve what you want in life - it should just be given to you.

Some say it's too early to teach that lesson, but I say it's never too early. This is a perfect opportunity to teach your kids how hard work can pay off and lead to success.

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The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.

"He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"

Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrators.

Jay Leno Quotations...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:56:31 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: He makes you to laugh, simultaneously making you to think...

Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

US comedian & television host

edwired: You Have Been Warned

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:32:19 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: edwired.org

It’s the first day of the semester–always a happy time for me–and particularly because this semester I have two small classes to teach (a luxury for me).

But what really has me charged up this semester is that I’m teaching a new course, “Lying About the Past” that is an investigation of historical hoaxes, plagiarism, and fakery. The first half of the semester my students will be examining the history of historical hoaxes. The second half of the course is a practicum, by which I mean we will work together as a group to create an online historical hoax that we will then turn loose on the Internet to see if we can actually fool anyone.

Our plan is to launch the hoax, whatever it might be, before the end of the semester. So remember. You have been warned.

Tags: hoaxes education history

God's honest truth?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:55:11 GMT

clipped by: pitim
clipper's remarks: The law is being presented in Sweden as if it mostly concerned fundamentalist Christian sects in the backwoods; but the Christian Democratic party, which represents such people if anyone does, is perfectly happy with the new regulation. There is little doubt that combating Islamic fundamentalism is the underlying aim,

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The Swedish government is making it illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as if it were true. Britain should follow suit.

The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools - after all, it has no truth value. But everything that takes place on the curriculum's time will have to be secular. "Pupils must be protected from every sort of fundamentalism," said the minister for schools, Jan Björklund.

Creationism and ID are explicitly banned but so is proselytising even in religious education classes. The Qur'an may not be taught as if it is true even in Muslim independent schools, nor may the Bible in Christian schools.

The decision looks like a really startling attack on the right of parents to have their children taught what they would like.

Cat Resolutions

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:21:53 GMT

clipped by: moonspirit4ever
clipper's remarks: The entire list is hilarious Enjoy

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My human will never let me eat her pet rat, and I am at peace with that.

I will not puff my entire body to twice its size for no reason after my human has finished watching a horror movie.

When my human is taking a bubble bath, the two pinkish-brown things sticking up out of the bubbles in her chest region are NOT to be played with!

I will not use the bathtub to store live mice for late-night snacks.

I will not teach the parrot to meow in a loud and raucous manner.

I will not speed dial the overseas numbers.

I will not put a live vole in my food bowl and expect it to stay there until I get hungry.

I will not eat spider plants and hallucinate behind the toilet.

Any critter that lives in the house (hamsters) stay in the house and any wild critters (frogs and earthworms) stay outside. I am not allowed to set the hamster free in exchange for finding a frog to put in the fish tank.

Birds do not come from the bird feeder. I will not knock it down and try to open it up to get the birds out.

Science Battles Ignorance

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:14:16 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: By ignorance I mean literally ignoring reality and substituting myth and superstition. The solution is simple. If the students insist on replacing reality with dogma on science tests let them be graded accordingly.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

But in a nation where evangelical Protestantism and other religious traditions stress a literal reading of the biblical description of God’s individually creating each species, students often arrive at school fearing that evolution, and perhaps science itself, is hostile to their faith.

Tags: school, evolution, biology, florida

That'll teach him.

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:02:48 GMT

clipped by: granny pat

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Some great Malapropisms....

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:07:04 GMT

clipped by: grammydjb1
clipper's remarks: In a crazy way they almost make sense.....

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TODAY'S CLEAN LAUGH

*Some Great Malapropisms...*

"I don't want anybody stepping on anyone else's thunder."

"You can't pull the sheep over my eyes!"

"I don't mean to take the steam out of your sails, but...."

"I used to be as sharp as a button."

"That way I can kill two bricks with one stone."

"If my grandfather was alive today, he'd be turning in his grave."

"You can't teach an old leopard how to change its spots."

*Thanks to Pastor Tim for this joke!*
http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh

Educating evolution

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:49:29 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: It is so amazing that after so many years and progress; educating youth about evolution is still considered revolutionary.
this must be evolved

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A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

In February, the Florida Department of Education modified its standards to explicitly require, for the first time, the state’s public schools to teach evolution, calling it “the organizing principle of life science.” Spurred in part by legal rulings against school districts seeking to favor religious versions of natural history

over a dozen other states have also given more emphasis in recent years to what has long been the scientific consensus: that all of the diverse life forms on Earth descended from a common ancestor, through a process of mutation and natural selection, over billions of years.

“If you see something you don’t understand, you have to ask ‘why?’ or ‘how?’ ” Mr. Campbell often admonished his students at Ridgeview High School.

On the projector, Mr. Campbell placed slides of the cartoon icon: one at his skinny genesis in 1928

one from his 1940 turn

another of the rounded

“How,” he asked his students, “has Mickey changed?”

Tags: evolution, religion, education

Play yourself to the top

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:24:42 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: It seems that our description regarding what is considered as experience is evolving.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Is It Possible To Teach Experience? European Researchers Say Yes

The team developed software that helps players acquire real-life skills and realistic experiences through game playing. But this game is no executive toy.

But change is hard, rarely goes smoothly and often courts disaster. ChangeMasters plans to make the process easier by equipping executives with real-life skills and realistic project management experience using a serious game. Serious games attempt to achieve real-world results through videogame technology.

Not quite Second Life

The game does not look like many modern games. “We initially produced an interface like the online game, Second Life. It had a 3D, richly visual environment. But executives spent too much time exploring the environment rather than playing through the games,” he says.

The game incorporates the familiar tools of corporate communication, including newsletters, emails, memos, executive information systems (EIS) and formal networks

Tags: computers, business, games

Social Networking Guidelines for safety

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:18:07 GMT

clipped by: douchrti
clipper's remarks: Another great article from TrendMicro. Where do they get these writers?

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Guidelines for Online Socializing

Parents, teachers, and others who care for young people who are socially active online should first set reasonable expectations. Forbidding young people to use social networking sites may force them to "go underground" and find other avenues (e.g., library computers, mobile phones, or friends' computers) to continue their online social life. A positive alternative is to teach them how to think critically about what they are seeing, reading, hearing and sharing online, and to ask for advice when something doesn't seem right.

Tags: social networking, guidelines, safety

what I hope you would teach your children about the temple - benson -apr 86

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:09:55 GMT

clipped by: daffodil82

Clip Source: lds.org

The temple is an ever-present reminder that God intends the family to be eternal. How fitting it is for mothers and fathers to point to the temple and say to their children, “That is the place where we were married for eternity.” By so doing, the ideal of temple marriage can be instilled within the minds and hearts of your children while very young.

These are choice memories to me, and I have often reflected on them. In the peace of these lovely temples, sometimes we find solutions to the serious problems of life. Under the influence of the Spirit, sometimes pure knowledge flows to us there. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. These answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

faith vs science in florida high schools

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:25:14 GMT

clipped by: kroqben

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

in a nation where evangelical Protestantism and other religious traditions stress a literal reading of the biblical description of God’s individually creating each species, students often arrive at school fearing that evolution, and perhaps science itself, is hostile to their faith.

Some come armed with “Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution,” a document circulated on the Internet that highlights supposed weaknesses in evolutionary theory. Others scrawl their opposition on homework assignments. Many just tune out.

With a mandate to teach evolution but little guidance as to how, science teachers are contriving their own ways to turn a culture war into a lesson plan. How they fare may bear on whether a new generation of Americans embraces scientific evidence alongside religious belief.