Who gets crits like these?
“Open-minded, free-ranging, intellectually playful …an unadorned pleasure in [...]
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Iran continues to persecute its largest minority the Baha’is. A summary is to be found here;
There is a great deal of material both other videos and written material just GOOGLE ‘Baha’i persecution in Iran’
Please add your protest wherever and whenever you can for these and other such minorities.
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Dr Roger Greenaway has a fine site and set of resources covering topics around Action Learning and Experiential Learning - see HERE
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Inspirations to Motivate us for Success - vitamins for the heart, mind and soul!
New project - starting on 26th May -first monthly installment of quotations that I find inspiring and motivating.
Here are my late-May & June ‘get-motivated-for-success’ favourite quotations. They are ones that inspire and motivate me and I hope that they will help to [...]
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The human spirit flows.
The human spirit flows, unless it is impeded, or blocked or distorted. Where, when and how it is generated is a metaphysical matter - unless you are an out an out materialist. But it flows through us and changes through the day into physical energy, mental energy, social energy, [...]
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In his bookThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team:A Leadership Fable (pub. Jossey-Bass) Patrick Lencioni presents a model of what he sees as the influences that dis-empower a team, and make more or less dysfunctional.
His five factors are;
The first dysfunction is absence of trust amongst team members. If team members are not genuinely open with [...]
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You can find an interesting range of essays - some 60 or so - a lifetime’s academic work - by Trevor Pateman by clicking HERE
Trevor says:
This site publishes my lifetime’s academic work. Click on any of the Sections to access around sixty individual essays. New material is added to the site at approximately [...]
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The Number 1 Australian blog has many great posts. One is
12 Traits of Successful Bloggers
I was just doing an interview on an Aussie radio station and was asked to name some traits of successful bloggers. My initial reaction was to giggle - because no two successful bloggers are the same - however as I [...]
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Upon refklection I think this might be a joke to test gullibility - so be warned!
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning [...]
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This is one of many films by Nic Askew.
Watch all Nic’s films - my guess is his work will fire a revolution in video on the web. He has shown us how to do ‘deep and fun’, ‘word-and-image’ videos in 2 or a few minutes. He has to lie somewhere between inspiring and genius - [...]
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To look upon beauty, in art or in nature, is to realize our own beauty.
Photo source
The relative context of perspective - or new perspective from re-contextualizing?
Art teaches. Nature teaches.
Buddhism is compassion. When we realize our own beauty the boundaries of our compassion expand.
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Someone called Vamakhepa has produced a range of stunning yantra designs such as this
Vamakhepa says;
Kālī (Mahavidya) yantra
This form of the Kālī yantra is used for her representation as one of the ten Mahavidyas or main forms of Devi. The geometry of the central portion is similar to the one used above. [...]
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I have long thought male circumcision to be only marginally less barbaric than female circumcision this site should answer most questions:
Listed in the British Medical JournalThe Circumcision Information and Resource Pages are an Internet
resource that provide you with information about all aspects of
the [...]
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Jimmy Atkinson in Software has put together an excellent list of 50 OpenSource alternatives to the programmes that drive you crazy - and cost a fortune:
Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? Some, like Norton Ghost, are superb tools for anyone to use. But, the fact that these tools are proprietary can [...]
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Below is the introduction to a fascinating paper the whole of which can be reached HERE
The following is a contribution to Serendip by Phouttasone (Pilou) Thirakoul, who wrote it during her senior year (1996-1997) as a Psychology major and Neural and Behavioral Sciences concentrator at Bryn Mawr College. Pilou’s essay provides a useful introduction to [...]
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Day (2004) “Teaching & teacher education are complex endeavours that, at their best, involve a synthesis of the head (intellect), hand (actions) & the heart (emotion)”.
(From Day, C. (2004). Change Agendas: The roles of teacher educators. Teaching Education, 15(2), 145 – 158.)
Thanks to Ms V M for forwarding this.
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Below is information from the front page of the Authentic Business website which still offers a wide range of very interesting materials and ideas - as such it deserves wider circulation. Let’s hope that someone might develop it further.
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This site has masses of inspiring and fascinating content but is no longer regularly updated. For more [...]
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The list of PC World’s top 101 free software programmes is HERE
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EDUCAUSE is a good source of information about the use of technology in education. Their site is HERE
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To read and hear the top 100 speeches go to the American Rhetoric site HERE
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