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BlogCatalog Community Fundraising Event Challenge for Public School Teachers & Students 2007-05-28 10:27:00 Public schools of USA need YOU!BlogCatalog has teamed up with DonorsChoose this week to raise awareness and the budget for some of the poorest schools in America (including the much suffered area of New Orleans).DonorsChoose is an unique kind of charity organisation aimed at helping public schools in the projects submitted by their teachers; your donation goes to the project of your choice (if you've ever wondered where your money goes once you've given it away, here you can see exactly how it's spent).So if you have a passion for a particular subject, area or project you can make it happen for those children.The goal is to raise $25,000.00; at the moment we're on $195, so we need a massive action to complete this challenge.Unfortunately, donations are accepted from U.S. citizens only, however you can join in by spreading the word regardless of your location. If you're a blogger, please go to BlogCatalog Discussion to see how to participate.Help Public School
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What's three times as dangerous as war? 2007-06-04 15:24:00 According to my absolutely favourite comedy-quiz, BBC's QI (Quite Interesting that is) and The Book of General Ignorance (compilation of most interesting questions and even more interesting answers from the show) the bigger killer than drink, drugs or war is...WORK!Yes, work. Here are the facts..."Around two million people die every year from work-related accidents and diseases, as opposed to a mere 650,000 who are killed in wars.Worldwide, the most dangerous
jobs are in agriculture, mining and construction. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the year 2000, 5915 people died at work - including those who had a heart attack at their desks."Top 3 most dangerous occupations:1. Lumberjack2. Fisherman3. PilotTop 3 causes of death:1. Car accidents2. Falls3. Murders"The single most dangerous specific job is said to be that of Alaskan crab fisherman working in the Bering Sea."So, if you're one of those - find something better to do before it's too late!Read more...
Thoughts on Financial Freedom 2007-06-14 07:44:00 by Chris Widener (excerpted from Week 16 of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan) Financial
freedom is a buzzword for our generation. It is the pursuit of literally millions of people. So what is it? Is it that elusive? Can anyone achieve it?Let me start by saying that this is not about how to earn money, or even more money. Rather, it is about how to find financial freedom, which surprisingly, may or may not involve making more money.The first step in finding financial freedom is to realize that financial freedom has absolutely nothing to do with how much money you have or make.What? Exactly. Financial freedom is something that goes on inside of you.This is why someone who makes very little can be happy and someone who makes a ton can be extremely stressed out over his or her financial situation. So the first step is to realize that financial freedom is more about our attitudes toward money than about the amount of money."Okay Chris, I'm with you. So what are the attitudes that provide Read more:Freedom
Be what you would seem to be 2007-06-15 07:29:00 - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. Lewis Carroll
Wit and Wisdom - Work 2007-06-21 05:56:00 Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do.Oscar WildeThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.Joseph AddisonMost people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.Elbert HubbardMy son has taken up meditation. At least it's better than sitting and doing nothing.Max KauffmannI work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.Rita RudnerSexual harassment at work: is it a problem for the self-employed?Victoria WoodIf you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers...Homer Simpson-------Source: The Funniest Thing You Never Said by Rosemarie Jarski Read more:Wisdom
The Formula for Failure and Success 2007-07-12 07:39:00 by Jim RohnFailure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day.Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every day? The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters.On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour generally doesn't result in an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from any immediate consequences of our deeds.If we have not bothered to read a single book in the past ninety days, this lack of discipline does not seem to have any immediate impact on our lives. And since nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety days, we repeat this error in judgment for another ninety days, and on and on it goes. Why? Because it doesn' Read more:Formula
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in... 2007-07-19 14:24:00 All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert EinsteinImage:freeimages.co.uk
The Major Key to Your Better Future is You 2007-07-27 12:35:00 by Jim RohnOf all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth. It's really the open door to it all. In fact I'd like to have you memorize a most important phrase. Here it is, "The major key to your better future is YOU."Let me repeat that. "The major key to your better future is YOU." Put that someplace you can see it everyday, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, at the office, anywhere where you can see it everyday. The major key to your better future is YOU. Try to remember that every day you live and think about it. The major key is YOU.Now, there are many things that will help your better future. If you belong to a strong, dynamic, progressive company, that would help. If the company has good products, good services that you are proud of, that would certainly help. If there were good sales aids, that would hel Read more:Major
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CREATIVITY 2007-08-07 07:35:00 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Albert EinsteinHumanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.Eric A. BurnsTo live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton PearceCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
QI is back! 2007-09-21 09:04:00 QI, one of my absolutely favourite quizzes, is back (tonight 10.00 pm on BBC2) with the 5th series of its usual humorous misconception-dispersing squabble.As a reminder, here are few episodes from the previous series...
The Ipmrotnace of Slpeling! 2007-09-20 07:33:00 I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.I'm not sure about the source of this article, but it's a definite proof that our mind is more powerful than we think!
Word Puzzle: Stripping the Word 2007-09-18 05:33:00 What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.The solution will be revealed in 24 hours.------------Solution: see comment no.3 Read more:Puzzle
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Simply Solving the Puzzle 2007-09-17 07:21:00 by Vic JohnsonWhen most young children are given a puzzle to solve or put together that is especially challenging, most will make a good effort at solving it, but if unsuccessful will soon lose interest and abandon it. Some will even become angry at their failure to solve it and may throw a tantrum.Contrast that with the experienced puzzle player who proceeds to put the puzzle together with an air of certain confidence that they will complete it. They know that they have all of the pieces of the puzzle before them so it is only a matter of finding out which pieces work where and once that's done the puzzle will be complete. Putting a piece in the wrong place is not a cause for concern; it's simply another step toward putting all of the pieces in their proper place.I think of all the times in my life when I acted like a young child in dealing with the current puzzle in my life. Instead of turning over and trying the next piece, I got angry and walked away from the puzzle, seeing the p Read more:Puzzle
2007-09-12 08:13:00 "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where –" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "– so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Logic Puzzle: Yum, Arsenic! 2007-09-11 06:42:00 In a far away land, it was known that if you drank poison, the only way to save yourself is to drink a stronger poison, which neutralizes the weaker poison. The king that ruled the land wanted to make sure that he possessed the strongest poison in the kingdom, in order to ensure his survival, in any situation. So the king called the kingdom's pharmacist and the kingdom's treasurer, he gave each a week to make the strongest poison. Then, each would drink the other one's poison, then his own, and the one that will survive, will be the one that had the stronger potion. The pharmacist went straight to work, but the treasurer knew he had no chance, for the pharmacist was much more experienced in this field, so instead, he made up a plan to survive and make sure the pharmacist dies. On the last day the pharmacist suddenly realized that the treasurer would know he had no chance, so he must have a plan. After a little thought, the pharmacist realized what the treasurer's plan must be, and Read more:Puzzle
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Bone Idol 2007-09-05 08:07:00 by Christopher RichardsMy mother worshiped me when I was a child. She called me bone idol. I don’t know why she didn’t refer to me as a gold idol or a demigod. But there you are, children can’t fathom the depths of mothers’ minds.I was always perplexed at her seeming frustration with me. “You just don’t push yourself,” she would say. It was odd that she would talk to a minor deity in this way. I wasn’t clear about why pushing, or pulling for that matter, was a good idea. And why push myself? How does one push oneself? The phrase was a conundrum.Perhaps it was a Zen koan? I had read about the one hand clapping. You were supposed to meditate on the idea, and, if you did it right, you would become enlightened. I’m not sure if being enlightened is good for schoolboys but my mother obviously was dropping subtle hints. I was a sensitive child and could pick up a subtle hint in a flash. But I wasn’t always sure what the hint meant. I spent hours in my bedroom pondering how
Wit and Wisdom - Truth 2007-09-27 05:34:00 “Never assume the obvious is true." William Safire “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” Mark Twain “What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth
.” Linda Ellinor “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Albert Einstein“The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world” Max Born Read more:Wisdom
Logic Puzzle: Pills 2007-09-25 06:34:00 You've been placed on a course of expensive medication in which you are to take one tablet of medicine A and one tablet of medicine B daily. You must be careful that you take just one of each because taking more of either can have serious side effects. Taking an A without taking a B, or vice versa, can also be very serious, because they must be taken together in order to be effective. In summary, you must take exactly one of the A pills and one of the B pills at one time. Therefore, you open up the A bottle, and you tap one A pill into your hand. You put that bottle aside and you open the B bottle. You do the same, but by mistake, two Bs fall into your hand with the A pill. Now, here's the problem. You weren't watching your hand as the pills fell into it, so you can't tell the A pill apart from the two B pills. The pills look identical. They are the same size, same weight, same color, same everything, and they are not marked differently in any way. What are you going to do? You can Read more:Logic
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Logic Puzzle: 3 Envelopes 2007-10-02 07:18:00 There are three envelopes and exactly two statements are written on each of the envelopes. The statements on one of the envelopes are BOTH TRUE, the statements on the other envelope are BOTH FALSE and the remaining envelope has ONE TRUE and ONE FALSE statement. Here is what is written on the three envelopes: First Envelope: (a)The formula is not in here. (b)The formula is in Envelope 2. Second Envelope: (a)The formula is not in Envelope 1. (b)The formula is in Envelope 3. Third Envelope: (a)The formula is not in here. (b)The formula is in Envelope 1. Which envelope contains the formula ? Read more:Logic
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Logic Puzzle: Black & White Balls 2007-10-11 08:03:00 Imagine that you have three boxes, one containing two black balls, one containing two white balls, and the third containing one black ball and one white ball. The boxes were originally labelled for their contents (BB - WW - BW) but someone has inadvertently switched the labels so that now every box is incorrectly labelled. Without looking inside, you are allowed to take one ball at a time out of any box that you wish, and by this process of sampling, you are to determine the contents of all three boxes. What is the smallest number of drawings needed to do this? Read more:Logic
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Wit and Wisdom - Work 2007-10-09 07:42:00 Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do.Oscar Wilde They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.Joseph AddisonMost people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.Elbert HubbardMy son has taken up meditation. At least it's better than sitting and doing nothing.Max KauffmannI work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.Rita RudnerSexual harassment at work: is it a problem for the self-employed?Victoria WoodIf you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers...Homer Simpson-------Source: The Funniest Thing You Never Said by Rosemarie Jarski Read more:Wisdom
Riddle: What's going on? 2007-08-11 08:14:00 30 men with ladies twoGathered for a festive do.Dressed quite formal, black and white,Yet movement turned to nasty fight.What's going on? Read more:Riddle
Bizarre Books: Do It Yourself 2007-10-31 06:56:00 12 do-it-yourself books that go beyond ordinary: treat yourself (or your loved ones) to DIY brain surgery, kinky toy or a coffin.Do-It-Yourself
Coffins: For Pets and People -Dale Power,Jeffrey B.Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors - Tom NardoneThe Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Survival Shelter Construction Manual - Michael A. PuglieseBankruptcy Do It Yourself - Janice KoselDo-it-yourself brain surgery & other home skills - Stewart CowleyDo-It-Yourself Piston Polishing - Scott O'HaraThe Do It Yourself Lobotomy - Tom Monahan2DO Before I Die : The Do-It Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life - Michael OgdenHow to Touch a Leper: A Do-it-yourself Guide to Healing - Paul OlsonDr. Block's Do-it-yourself Illustrated Human Sexuality Book for Kids - Dr. Charles BlockKinkyCrafts 99 Do-It Yourself S/M Toys for the Kinky Handyperson -Lady Green & Jaymes EastonThe Cat Repair Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for the Cat Owner - Ruth B. Read more:Bizarre
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Friday Freebie : Self-Growth Giveaway 2007-11-23 08:34:00 Get yourself an amazing $4,570 worth of self-development products just by signing up for Bradley Thompson's newsletter.Free downloads include:2 FREE hypnosis downloads from Instant-Hypnosis.com. Boost your confidence, develop your spirituality, let go of fears & more!How to Get the Truth Out of AnyoneYou’ll never be lied to again, especially once you learn the bonus “covert” secrets.The Emotional Freedom Technique - The Ultimate ManualLet go of fears, phobias or addictions, improve your self-image and heal your physical body!Mind Mapping SoftwareBoost your creativity and intelligence! Using Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping methods, this exciting software tool will enhance your IQ and help you brainstorm great ideas.Get ANYBODY to Like You in 30 Seconds!Title says it all!Advanced Memory CourseHave trouble forgetting names and faces? Who doesn’t! But with this 60+ page memory course, you’ll learn the advanced tricks that Tony Buzan WON’T teach you. Written by Andy Gray.Overcoming Read more:Friday
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is the world's first online learning company devoted exclusively to personal development and entrepreneurialism. Sign up for their newsletter to find out more and get your free e-book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.Also, by donating just $2 to charity, you can become a trial member for 2 weeks and get $1,949 worth of bonuses to keep, which include:-8 Proven Secrets to SMART Success-Creative Juice: The 12 Key Lessons-Jim Edwards' The Secret to Winning-Moving From Vision to Action-Work Yourself Happy-The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn-The Winners Mindsetand many more... Click here to get your free book. Once you're signed up for the newsletter you'll have an option to start your free trial (recommended). Read more:Friday
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