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Who is that in the back row sneaking in some email reading while in the middle of a training session and blogging when she should be paying attention to data collection for student improvement and professional practices data and curriculum...

Ron Paul Statement to the National Press Club The American Majority The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any electi

................................I'm going to quote something from an article I read earlier today by David H. I. Geoffrey, the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It gets pretty deep:"Narrativity is intrinsically a legal fiction," says Marx; however, according to Abian, it is not so much narrativity that is intrinsically a legal fiction, but rather the genre, and sub

I am rich.I am thin.I am fabulous.Those are affirmations intended to make me, well, rich, thin and fabulous. I say them every day. The Law of Attraction tells me my life is a reflection of my thoughts so lately I’ve been thinking very generously. From what I hear the Universe will honor my positive thoughts and return all good things to me. Like this: my children are freakishly well-behaved.Bu

"Driven For Distraction" é o primeiro trabalho de longa duração que Hint edita pela Tru Thoughts, sucedendo em semanas ao aclamado EP homónimo que recolheu excelentes críticas, como por exemplo a de Laurent Garnier.Mantendo, e até melhorando, a qualidade do registo a que nos habituou nas suas edições via Ninja Tune, Hint presenteia-nos com um álbum misto de temas instrumentais e vocalizad

oh, what to do when you have a fabulous new 'bubblegum pink' laptop? spend hours upon hours exploring and investigating and pressing all the wrong buttons and probably forever tainting it's virgin pristine condition, of course! yes, oh yes, sad but true...i have been completely neglecting cupcakes for my new toy. shame on me, i know but it's just too pink to resist!when i opened the box and my bro

Will Clower fatfallacy.com tells us about Dietary Weapons Of Mass Distraction (WMD) As hoards of low-carb proponents invade the nutritional landscape, the increasingly tired low-fat guard seems to be giving way before their steady march and drumbeat.This invasion is a preemptive strike to find and remove the stockpiled food molecules that could be used to attack your health and explode your weigh

I am a distracted person. It's only gotten worse since the 4th gremlin came along. I'm also easily addicted to certain things; easily consumed. Before I had internet, there were books, sewing projects, writing projects, cooking projects, and on and on. It's never about the project or thing itself, but rather a personality quirk of becoming so involved in what I'm doing that other things suffer.

With the presidential candidates having filed their required Senate Financial Disclosure Statements this week, the attention of some observers has turned to details of credit card debt currently carried by John and Cindy McCain. The bulk of the McCains’ obligations stemmed from a pair of American Express credit cards that are held in Cindy McCain’s name. [...]

Does anyone remember the sweet television show called distraction? It was a trivia game show where three contestants would have to answer questions while also being well "distracted" For example to 'ring in' to answer a question one may have to pee to make their buzzer go off. sound disgusting? I think it's awesome. However I'm trailing away from my original thought. It didn't take long for

This article is a continuation from Premature Anguish - A Repeat PerformanceLori and I crawled in bed exhausted from a long, emotional day at the hospital with Caitlin. Neither of us had gotten a good night sleep in six days, so even though I was worried about our little girl I quickly fell into a deep sleep.A few hours later, I was awakened by the sound of our son Ty coughing and whining in his

Both men and women can benifit from using the attraction/distraction teqnique when it comes to chosing an outfit. The attraction/distraction techniques works by finding your best asset and your worst, wear a bold and bright pattern or accessories on your best asset and wear a dark and subtle fabrics on your worst. When choosing dark fabrics [...]

Yahoo issued the following press release responding to the breakdown in today’s Microsoft negotiations (interesting that Chairman Roy Bostock is taking center stage here, not CEO Jerry Yang). As we said earlier, this is just the beginning of a very long week for Yahoo. Yahoo! Issues Statement in Response to Microsoft SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 03, 2008 (BUSINESS [...]

Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing ... [In Brief] Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing environment we've mentioned before, has usefully updated to import text files, export PDFs, email documents and create printer-friendly pages. Link - Kevin Purdy - Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT - Feed (44 subs) in brief User comment: Comment from Andre KibbeEliminating distractions is a more reliable way not to be distracted than "having some discipline." I would argue that rich formatting, not fullscreen text editing, is gimmicky. Andre Kibbe User comment: Comment from ultrasur1these applications seem gimmicky to me. if you don't care to be distracted, just have some discipline. not too hard. ultrasur1 User comment: Comment from AashayI'll

Cricket great Sunil Gavaskar on Monday added fuel to the row over the Indian Premier League, saying the Test squad was distracted by the upcoming extravaganza.Gavaskar questioned the players’ commitment after India crashed by an innings and 90 runs in the second Test against South Africa in Ahmedabad on Saturday, their worst defeat at home in almost 50 years.“The question that is being asked is whether the Indian team was sufficiently prepared for the Test match,” Gavaskar wrote in his syndicated column in the Hindustan Times.“The absence of some players for two whole days out of the three days between the first two Tests was strange to say the least.“They could have done with an extra session at the nets rather than dancing at the launch of their (IPL) franchise.”Gavaskar, who

Here’s a video of Lucy Pinder doing some ads spots for some kind of TV show, product or whatever. All I know is that if you’re going to promote something, I think putting her in awesomely revealing outfits will make it very difficult to get your message across. Seriously, I challenge any of you - yes, even you ladies out there - to try to stay focused on what she’s saying rather than on her huge

A pearl for the fans of the so-called fat beat. If you happen to know [and like ...obviously] DJ Krush or DJ Hide, it's most likely something for you. Check yourself ;) Website: MySpace, Last.fm Label: Autonomy Records (UK) Format: CD Country: UK Released: 1998 Genre: Electronic Style: Downtempo, Trip-Hop, Abstract Hip-Hop, Nu-Jazz Bitrate: 256 kbit Size: 114,89 mb Tracklisting: 1. The Deep

My biggest concern with having 24 people milling around my house for Thanksgiving was that we would be too crowded to have a good time. Sure, I remember how we used to all cram ourselves into my Grandpa's single wide trailer every year for Christmas. We survived. Just barely. And by cram, I mean Cram in the most literal sense. The kind of cram when you're trying to finish up all the laundry and

Dear DiaryI don't know how to break this to you. I've been wrestling with my thoughts all day and can't bear it any longer. You see, I've not been completely honest with you. I'm nothing but a dirty, rotten user.Right now I have nothing good to say to help brighten your day or bring a smile to your beautiful face. I don't plan on taking the time to ask how you are and this is probably the first time I've ever shown you any sort of respect. I write purely out of selfish, boredom-alleviating reasons, and to offer myself a means of escape from my monotonous task of mailing out House of Brothers EP promo CDs, which I have been doing for the best part of three hours now. It's not that I don't love you, because I do, in my own special way, it's just that I fear that this is all you will ever be to me. Someone I only turn to you in these such times, and not, as I should, to dedicate any true amount of care or affection towards you. You will never be anything more than a bit on the s

I was working when he asked if I could join he and his friend for a beer. I knew I should be the good employee and keep working. In the past, with the others, I would have just said exactly that.Instead, I worked until I got to a good stopping place and met them out. I was stressed and frazzled when I got there. But within minutes I was laughing and relaxed. I keep telling myself to not get

"The latest Veronis Suhler report on the state of media says that online advertising will be bigger than newspaper advertisting in the U.S. — $62 billion — by 2011; this already happened in the UK. An inexorable path." The migration to the web is for many reasons.The economical was the beginning, then other factors kept the readers.One of them is the fact that it is the user who choses what and how and when and can say no to unwanted ads, or just ignore them.To be succesful the advertisement must look more like entertainment than suggestion.The user is not anymore a passive consumer, he likes to decide and likes to interact.That explains the huge success of Social Networks.The marketing of the future has to keep that in mind.Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas... http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A//woip.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Just trying to get a jump on the Editorial CurveAccording to CNN:"Car bombers targeted throngs of Iraqis Wednesday as they spilled into Baghdad streets to cheer a national soccer victory, killing at least 17 people and leaving scores more wounded.Attacking revelers in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 62, said an Interior Ministry official. Later, in the southeastern neighborhood of Ghadir, a second car bomb killed at least seven and wounded at least 27, the official said. The attack is near an Iraqi army checkpoint.Thousands of fans had filled the streets of the capital after Iraqi athletes competing in Malaysia defeated South Korea, catapulting the nation to the Asian Cup finals for the first time."Having foolishly believed in the past that Iraq is a central or the central front in the war on terror I have now come to my senses having read the above. Our military should not be in Iraq to either referee soccer matches

I’m crafting a visualization and brief post for Monday, in the meantime I present you with an amusing distraction and a challenge. From i can has cheezburger?, the best LOLcat ever. Your challenge: Identify which web company/service the cat is, and which one the mouse is.

I’m crafting a visualization and brief post for Monday, in the meantime I present you with an amusing distraction and a challenge. From i can has cheezburger?, the best LOLcat ever. Your challenge: Identify which web company/service the cat is, and which one the mouse is.

            Can I just tell you that I love my sister-in-law?  Seriously.  LOVE her.  And I know you might be asking yourselves why or wondering what’s come over me, but that would only be because you are not, at this very moment looking at what I’m looking at.  If you WERE looking at it, you would not be wondering what my motivations were, you would be trying to figure out if there was a way to reach through the interwebs and snatch it off of my desk.  And while I feel sorry for you, it will not stop me from gloating over my own good fortune.  That good fortune being the bestest sister-in-law EVER giving me the bestest present EVER…um EVER!!!       Do you see it?  Do you love it?  Doesn’t it just make you want to nuzzle the screen and give it kisses?  Doesn’t it?  DOESN”T IT!?!?!   How about now?  Now don’t you want to absorb the vivid hues into your skin and soak in the CG sunlight?   What abo

Writers in general are famous for procrastination, we will seemingly do anything except knuckle down and actually write that Nobel prize winning novel. And now that I have started this blog in order to showcase, market and monetize my work I am beginning to think that I have simply added another distraction to allow me not to work on my novels and stories. Of course this is not really true, in order to be a successful write I need to brand myself, market my novels and make money. The definition of a professional writer is a person who gets paid to write. So I have decided to turn the distraction of having to produce regular posts for my blog into motivation to write. At the very least I want to write interesting, informative and entertaining posts. Many famous authors have also worked as journalists and freelance writers in order to pay the bills. And by starting this blog I am doing the 21st century equivalent. I am making the focus of this blog how I write, when I write, my thoughts

Satellite Solutions is a premier satellite company assisting customers all over the country sign up with satellite service. Satellite Solutions also determines what is the best choice for you and will recommend either DISH Network or DIRECTV. Satellite Solutions also helps people in rural America, or other areas, that do not have access to high speed internet via cable lines or high speed phone lines and set them up with a company called WildBlue.Satellite Solutions is currently running a Summer Special promotion on its services.There's also a 'Today's DISH TV Deal"One thing good about Satellite Solutions is it is a direct sales partner with Dish Network Satellite. Thus, you'll get the best deals whether through ordering online or even if you rather talk to a live representative. Best of all, if you find a better offer, call them at 1.866.869.3109 and they will better the deal.Satellite Solutions promises free & quick installations. Often times a next day installation is available.

I took the day off blogging yesterday to ensure I was nowhere near the ability to surf and google. Granted, I still had my hands on a laptop.... my business one, but I managed to work the whole day hardly thinking about my status.David spent the day with his Grandma, and after I brought him home he felt warm. By the time bedtime rolled around he had a 102 fever. Needless to say, I am like the walking dead this morning... S. and I were up all night tending to the boy. He has no other symptom except for the fever... is he getting sick? who knows. I woke up this morning wondering what I was going to do with him, his fever had gone down after a few tylenol doses, but he was in no shape to go to school. So he's at my Mom's again.After I dropped him off with his blankie, I made the usual trek to the RE's office for blood draw #6. I suppose today's results should indicate how well tomorrow's u/s is going to go... until then, I am trying to keep busy and not worry.It will be wh

I took the day off blogging yesterday to ensure I was nowhere near the ability to surf and google. Granted, I still had my hands on a laptop.... my business one, but I managed to work the whole day hardly thinking about my status.David spent the day with his Grandma, and after I brought him home he felt warm. By the time bedtime rolled around he had a 102 fever. Needless to say, I am like the walking dead this morning... S. and I were up all night tending to the boy. He has no other symptom except for the fever... is he getting sick? who knows. I woke up this morning wondering what I was going to do with him, his fever had gone down after a few tylenol doses, but he was in no shape to go to school. So he's at my Mom's again.After I dropped him off with his blankie, I made the usual trek to the RE's office for blood draw #6. I suppose today's results should indicate how well tomorrow's u/s is going to go... until then, I am trying to keep busy and not worry.It will be wh

I took the day off blogging yesterday to ensure I was nowhere near the ability to surf and google. Granted, I still had my hands on a laptop.... my business one, but I managed to work the whole day hardly thinking about my status.David spent the day with his Grandma, and after I brought him home he felt warm. By the time bedtime rolled around he had a 102 fever. Needless to say, I am like the walking dead this morning... S. and I were up all night tending to the boy. He has no other symptom except for the fever... is he getting sick? who knows. I woke up this morning wondering what I was going to do with him, his fever had gone down after a few tylenol doses, but he was in no shape to go to school. So he's at my Mom's again.After I dropped him off with his blankie, I made the usual trek to the RE's office for blood draw #6. I suppose today's results should indicate how well tomorrow's u/s is going to go... until then, I am trying to keep busy and not worry.It will be wh

I took the day off blogging yesterday to ensure I was nowhere near the ability to surf and google. Granted, I still had my hands on a laptop.... my business one, but I managed to work the whole day hardly thinking about my status.David spent the day with his Grandma, and after I brought him home he felt warm. By the time bedtime rolled around he had a 102 fever. Needless to say, I am like the walking dead this morning... S. and I were up all night tending to the boy. He has no other symptom except for the fever... is he getting sick? who knows. I woke up this morning wondering what I was going to do with him, his fever had gone down after a few tylenol doses, but he was in no shape to go to school. So he's at my Mom's again.After I dropped him off with his blankie, I made the usual trek to the RE's office for blood draw #6. I suppose today's results should indicate how well tomorrow's u/s is going to go... until then, I am trying to keep busy and not worry.It will be wh

Putting out bad vibrations, a sex toy is being blacklisted from the island country of Cyprus. The Love Bug 2, a remote controlled vibrator with a 6 meter range, has been labeled as a threat and disruption to military systems."...the Love Bug 2 has been banned because the Cypriot military is concerned its electronic waves would disrupt the army's radio frequencies."The Love Bug 2 continues to be available in Cyprus, but the warning has been made. Airlines may want to issue similar warnings, as there's little else for us to occupy ourselves with on those international flights.[Thanks, Hugh!]tags technorati : cyprus military toy vibrator

Do you think you have any irritating driving habits? A new survey has revealed that while half of women drivers believe they don’t, 90% of them don’t share that feeling when it comes to male drivers and their irritating habits. Women’s car insurance specialist Diamond surveyed both male and female motorists to find out what irritates them most about other road users and passengers of both genders, and women were certainly harsher about men than the other way around - although they didn’t escape criticism entirely. - 31% of women think the most irritating driving habit men have is speeding, - 30% of women think the most irritating driving habit men have is losing their temper, but - 29% of men think the most irritating driving habit women have is lacking courtesy to other road users. Diamond managing director, Sian Lewis, said, “The old stereotype that men are always criticising women’s driving has been turned on its head by these results, as it&rsqu

Discovered William Sledd this week, too cute. He delivers his fashion sermons, dubbed "Ask a Gay Man: Fashion Edition"..."Hair edition" etc, in a cute southern twang with perfectly coiffed hair on You Tube. Do check out his closet video, boy if I had that kind of time on my hands what I could do!!Be sure to check out both his website and You Tube Collection.Sledd has been featured as of late in the LA Times, Elle Magazine, WWD, and in Glamour Mag's Suze Yalof Schwartz's blog.Tres entertaining.'Never Wear Overalls':'Ask a Gay Man: Fashion Edition#5":

As the parent of a teenage driver, Police Chief Roger Boatner, of Lakeland, Florida worries when his daughter is behind the wheel. However, his worries are not with her own driving skills or with the locations she visits. He worries most about the many drivers he sees doing nearly everything but driving as they cruise down the street.

T h e last several weeks we have had numerous dentist appointments. When we have the children's teeth cleaned, we try to have at least two, if not three, done at a time, to save us from so much running...

Happy Monday, although with the fucked up shit that went down at Virgina Tech today... well, maybe a nice tune can serve to take your mind off of it for a second.DJ Morpheus is a Belgian dude, probably most famous for being one of the top guns at the excellent Crammed Discs label and curating the legendary Freezone series of compilations. Every now and then he's put out a mix CD under his own name and, tragically bad cover art aside (seriously though, it looks like a movie poster for a bad buddy movie about a loveable loser and his inanimate sidekick... and another thing, if he's gonna call it In My Bag, why does he have a box? Shouldn't you either get a bag or call it In My Box? These are the things that keep me up at night. I need help), this one here is a real winner, featuring some fantastic mid-tempo funkiness. To wit:Bah Samba - Black Blood (Funky Lowlives Mix)Buy It!Of course, you can pretty much never go wrong with Funky Lowlives and Bah Samba has put out a number of so

Thank you all for your sympathy.An odd glimmer of joy has appeared. A baby black bird fell out of its nest, right next to B. He ran in and told us, we ran out, scooped it up with an old cloth diaper, and put it in a box in the second bathroom. We looked up what to feed it in American Boy's Handy Book, which has, in fact, proved handy. We settled upon smashed hard boiled egg (happy Easter) with a bit of water stirred in. Rodney, he has been named, ate it up eagerly and promptly pooped. He has settled in nicely.

Ever get annoyed by having a cluttered desktop full of windows? There's a slew of applications out there for this very task. I've hand picked just two that I think are the best combination for distraction free use of my Mac

Friend and artist Philip Edson has been a great source of encouragement for my abstract work and has given me much sound advice. He has suggested that I may be confusing myself by looking at works by many other artists. And do you know? I believe that he is absolutely right! As I surf around art blogs and websites I see so much that I admire that my own 'vision' gets more and more indistinct and uncertain. Also 'playing' on the Internet is the perfect alternative to working at the easel for a born procrastinator like myself! But I couldn't resist just half an hour of surfing this morning ......And I found two very interesting artists today at the artists.org - both are female but are very different in style and subject matter. Sophia Hadjipapa's paintings are largely set in and around the bathroom, of all things! Painted from a variety of angles her work is arresting, not only because of the subject matter but also because of her use of colour and design. However, the accompanyin

As hoards of low-carb proponents invade the nutritional landscape, the increasingly tired low-fat guard seems to be giving way before their steady march and drumbeat. This invasion is a preemptive strike to find and remove the stockpiled food molecules that could be used to attack your health and explode your weight. Low-carb campaign hawks insist they are out there, ready to be launched against

Kimi Raikkonen has given pause to the concept that a new close collaboration with Michael Schumacher may charge Ferrari towards victory in 2007.The retired seven time world champion has stayed at the Italian squad as a sort of advisor this year, but Finn Raikkonen played down the relationship they are likely to share. "We never really spoke to each other in the past, because we were rivals," Raikkonen, 27, told the French sports newspaper L'Equipe.He added: "And now? I am not exactly sure what Michael does. If we have something to discuss with each other, we will discuss it, but I don't know. We'll see."Mark Webber said recently that he would not personally condone Schumacher's presence in his own driving garage, but Raikkonen denied that it bothers him."When you are in formula one, everyone is watching you, so whether Michael is there or not is not going to distract me."After Schumacher visited the Ferrari garage at Barcelona this week, Raikkonen added: "It was nice that he was