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  • The interesting point here is that far from having a clear conscience on the issue, as her defenders try to portray, Rand in fact is obviously conflicted, and only acquiesces after several meetings and arguments - and even then tries to distance herself from the decision by giving power of attorney to the social worker to apply for the government benefits, rather than simply doing it herself. Why this extreme reluctance, when she supposedly had provided her own philosophical get-out-of-jail-clause?
  • past is like a foreign country.
  • The only question is why she would still consider the fact that option even existed to be ultimately evil.
  • Ignorance of context sometimes gives people remarkable confidence!

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• 24 Dec 10
  

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  • Researchers find in a new study published in the Review of General Psychology that people with higher IQs are more likely to try out and enjoy mind-altering sutbstances than their dimmer compatriots. As the abstract reports:

     

     

    Why do some individuals choose to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, and use illegal drugs while others do not? The origin of individual preferences and values is one of the remaining theoretical questions in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values than less intelligent individuals. Consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs is evolutionarily novel, so the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume these substances. Analyses of two large, nationally representative, and prospectively longitudinal data from the United Kingdom and the United States partly support the prediction. More intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, are more likely to grow up to consume more alcohol. More intelligent American children are more likely to grow up to consume more tobacco, while more intelligent British children are more likely to grow up to consume more illegal drugs.

     

     

    Based on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Psychology Today also  reported:

     

     

    The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence, measured in junior high and high school, and adult alcohol consumption seven years later in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data in the United States.  The association is clear and nearly monotonic.   The more intelligent Americans are in their childhood, the more alcohol they consume as young adults.

     

    

     

    It is important to note that both income and education, as well as childhood social class and parents' education, are controlled in multiple regression analyses of these data from the US and the UK.  It means that it is not because more intelligent people occupy higher-paying, more important jobs that require them to socialize and drink with their business associates that they drink more alcohol.  It appears to be their intelligence itself, rather than correlates of intelligence, that inclines them to drink more.

     

     

    I suspect that many H&R readers already thought that this might be the case.
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  • When journalists use links to “pay” people for their useful contributions to a story, they encourage and coordinate the production of journalism.
  • Are curious about alternative solutions and eager to research options
  • Deconstruct good decisions and how people arrived at them; use it as a teaching opportunity. You can do the same for faulty decisions, especially your own.
  • Identify and challenge their own biases; are as willing to challenge their own hypothesis as embrace it
  • Invest in staff training that goes beyond "what to do and how to do it" and includes an emphasis on "how to think about it."
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  • Don't simply demand compliance with rules. Rules can be important to the welfare of staff, consumers and the organization, but great bosses focus on the values that underpin the rules.
  • who held the position 10 years, says he quit because of a 'major rethinking and restructurin
  • Support responsible staffers when they, in good faith, take a risk and fail. As people become more independent decision makers, they may stumble. You can help them rebound.
  • Model critical thinking yourself. Rely on more than just your gut or past experiences and show genuine respect for research and reasoning.
  • Don't assume that your way is the only way of doing things. Encourage input from others.

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  • Catch Me If You Can by L.B. Gregg
    M/M Romance
    March 2, 2010
    E-Book
    Samhain Press
    Reviewed by Mandi

  • Frost Moon by Anthony Francis (Skindancer #1)
    March 1, 2010
    Urban Fantasy
    Paperback, 284 Pages
    Bell Bridge Books
    Reviewed by Mandi

  • Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between by J.A. Saare
    February 7, 2010
    Urban Fantasy
    Paperback/E-Book, 244 Pages
    Eternal Press
  • Keeper of Light and Dust by Natasha Mostert
    February 2010 (Paperback release)
    Paranormal Thriller
    Paperback, 340 pages
    Penguin Group (USA)
    Reviewed by Karra
  • Red Hot Fury by Kasey Mackenzie (Shades of Fury #1)
  • Assassin’s Honor by Monica Burns (The Order of the Sicari #1)
  • • The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science by Elga Wasserman — a collection of interviews with women who are members of the American National Academy of Sciences, focusing on their experiences in traditionally male-dominated fields.
      
      
    • Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World by Barbara T. Gates — I want this book SO BADLY it’s not even funny. As the title tells us, it’s about female naturalists in Victorian and Edwardian times, and how they fared in a world where sexism was even more blatant than it is today.
      
      
    • Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne — a group biography of fourteen women who either won a Nobel prize or played a fundamental role in a Nobel prize winning project. It’s important to note that out of over three hundred Nobel winners in several science-related fields since 1901, only nine were women. By depicting the battles these women had to fight, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne sheds some light on the reasons why.
      
      
    • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox — a biography of chemist Rosalind Franklin, whose crucial contribution to the discovery of DNA’s structure was never recognised.
      
      
    • Women in Science: Then and Now by Vivian Gornick — like The Door in the Dream, this book is based on interviews, but it’s more specific in that it asks women scientists about any changed they have (or have not) noticed when it comes to what they have to face over a period of twenty-five years.
      
      
    • Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science by Patricia Fara — A YA biography of several women scientists from the 17th century to the modern era, covering big names like Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale and Rosalind Franklin as well as some lesser-known ones.
      
      
    • She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff edited by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders — another book I’m dying to get my hands on. This is an anthology of 24 essays spotlighting women who work not only in science and technology, but also in other nerdy fields such as video games or the comic book industry. I’m especially interested in this book because it deals with sexism in geek culture, a topic close to home.
  • Brett, Peter V.

    The Desert Spear

    04/13/10

    The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a general—some would say prophet—who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it? Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Shar’Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weapons—a spear and a crown—that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkind—whether they like it or not. But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Shar’Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demons—or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligent—and deadly—than any that have come before.
  • Pelegrimas, Marcus 

    Teeth of Beasts 

    Skinners #3

    04/27/10

    Horrible things move through the shadows of our world—bloodsuckers, Full Bloods and mongrel beasts, shapeshifters and minor freaks. For centuries creature hunters known as Skinners have protected humankind. But who protects the Skinners . . . from madness? Unbeknownst to the human population, a pestilence is raging through an unseen community of low-level monstrosities. What seems, at first glance, a boon for the mortal cause has horrific connotations—as the Skinner team of Cole Warnecki and Paige Strobel races across the Midwest to uncover the shocking secret of the “Mud Flu.” For a nightmare of destruction and blood sacrifice is looming—one born of an unholy meeting nearly two centuries ago—that will pit man against beast, and Skinner against Skinner.
  • Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    Dragonfly Falling

    Shadows of the Apt #2

    04/27/10
    

    Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire's imminent threat to their survival. In a colorful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.
  • OCD, vampires, and rants, oh my! has a rant and post on the many "re-written" classics from Pride Prejudice and Zombies to Jane Slayre. Worth a look to see what you missed. Speaking of missed, Jackie at Literary Escapism adds The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells, Eric S. Brown and Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers – A Canterbury Tale by Paul A. Freeman to the list. Ooops and not to be forgotten as identified by VampChix are Little Vampire Women, Emma and the Vampires and of course Romeo and Juliet and Vampires. Dark Faerie Tales in her Books to Watch list also references Cinderella: Ninja Warrior and Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer, both by Maureen McGowan.
    
  • Aguirre, Ann

    Hell Fire

    Corine Soloman #2

    04/06/10

    As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It's too bad she can't seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow-lending his own supernatural brand of luck-Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother's death and the origins of "gift". But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find that something is rotten in the state of Georgia. Inside Kilmer's borders there are signs of a dark curse affecting the town and all its residents-and it can only be satisfied with death...
  • Quick, Amanda

    Burning Lamp

    Arcane Society #8

    04/20/10

    Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Bestseller Jayne Ann Krentz, writing under her historical fantasy nom de plume, turns in a top-notch performance in the second Dreamlight novel. Crime lord Griffin Winters rules a vast underworld empire in Victorian London, but he fears the descent of a familial curse of madness brought on by an ancestor's alchemical experiments. Only a powerful magical artifact, controlled by a woman of rare power, can save him. Magically gifted orphan Adelaide Pyne, recently embarked on a crusade to save women from prostitution, could be that woman, and a psychic connection soon draws Adelaide and Griffin into a dangerous partnership. Fast-paced and cleverly constructed, the tale perfectly balances lively adventure, passionate romance, and the paranormal against an elaborate and refreshingly original background. Arcane Society fans will be thrilled, and new readers will find this stand-alone story very accessible.
  • Grant, Mira (aka Seanan McGuire) 

    Feed 

    Newsflesh #1 

    04/27/10

    The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.
  • Mann, George 

    Ghosts of Manhattan 

    04/01/10

    INTRODUCING THE WORLD'S FIRST STEAMPUNK SUPERHERO. 1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe. Yet things have developed differently to established history. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107. Coal-powered cars roar along roads thick with pedestrians, biplanes take off from standing with primitive rocket boosters and monsters lurk behind closed doors and around every corner. This is a time in need of heroes. It is a time for The Ghost. A series of targeted murders are occurring all over the city, the victims found with ancient Roman coins placed on their eyelids after death. The trail appears to lead to a group of Italian-American gangsters and their boss, who the mobsters have dubbed 'The Roman'. However, as The Ghost soon discovers, there is more to The Roman than at first appears, and more bizarre happenings that he soon links to the man, including moss-golems posing as mobsters and a plot to bring an ancient pagan god into the physical world in a cavern beneath the city. As The Ghost draws nearer to The Roman and the center of his dangerous web, he must battle with foes both physical and supernatural and call on help from the most unexpected of quarters if he is to stop The Roman and halt the imminent destruction of the city.
  • Walker, Saskia 

    Rampant 

    04/1/10

    Possession is only half the fun… The moment she arrives at her rented vacation cottage nestled in Scotland, Zoë Daniels feels it—an arousal so powerful she's compelled to surrender to the unusually forceful carnal desires…with nearly anyone who crosses her path. Crawford Logan, the boat builder with the wayward grin. The devilish restaurateur Cain Davot, who seems to know more about Zoë than he lets on. And even her sexy neighbor Grayson Murdoch, whose eyes delve deep into her soul as he explores every inch of her body. Yet there's something unsettling about the way the locals watch her, something eerie about these overwhelming encounters. Zoë knows she's not quite in control of herself and begins to wonder if there's any truth to the legend of Annabel McGraw, a powerful, promiscuous eighteenth-century witch who once owned the cottage, and whose spirit t is rumored to affect anyone who stays there. Zoë doesn't t believe in anything that even hints at the occult, but t now strange visions are turning frightening…and only y one man's touch can bring her back to earth.
  • I sometimes wonder what kind of innovation renaissance the USA would undergo if it really did pass proper universal coverage. Who would start her own business? What would your neighbors invent, patent, and produce? I thrill to imagine people with the liberty to start over, try something new, to make things — without the stifling terror of being left uncovered or uncoverable. I dream one day of dancing on these eggshells, like the rest of the industrialized world.
    - Blog post by Cherie Priest
  • Carnavan, Trudi

    The Magician's Apprentice

    03/30/10
    

    Taking place hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians' Guild, The Magician's Apprentice is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy. In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn. When the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage get violent, Tessia unconsciously taps unknown reserves of magic to defend herself. Lord Dakon, the local magician, takes Tessia under his wing as an apprentice. The hours are long and the work arduous, but soon an exciting new world opens up to her. There are fine clothes and servants and - to Tessia's delight - regular trips to the great city of Imardin. However, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. For a storm is approaching that threatens to tear her world apart.
  • Snyder, Maria 

    Inside Out 

    (Young Adult) 

    04/01/10

    Keep Your Head Down. Don't Get Noticed. Or Else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution.
  • Benedict, Lyn (aka Lane Robins)

    Ghosts & Echoes

    Shadow Inquiries #2 

    04/27/10

    Sylvie is back from vacation, and all she wants out of life right now is for the Magicus Mundi to leave her alone for a bit. No dead things, no mayhem, no life-and-death struggles. Just because Sylvie managed to take some time off doesn't mean that the Magicus Mundi has to follow her example, though, and it's been piling things up on her doorstep while she was away. Still, she can pick and choose her cases, right? Solving a string of burglaries sounds perfect--mind-numbingly boring and mundane. Until you throw in Sylvie's missing sister, a generous helping of necromancy, and a Chicago cop possessed by a disturbingly familiar spirit. As the Rolling Stones sang, "You can't always get what you want."
  • Here is the very nice cover art for Elizabeth C. Bunce's upcoming sophomore novel--Star Crossed. I got all jumpy when I saw it as I have been really looking forward to this release ever since I went absolutely wild over Bunce's A Curse Dark as Gold. The writing was so stunning, and the reworking of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale so surprising and pitch-perfect that I vowed to read whatever the woman wrote. Star Crossed features a thief/spy named Digger, a land where magic has been banned, and a rebellion in the works. I simply cannot wait. Star Crossed is due out October 1st
  • Kitanidis, Phoebe 

    Whisper 

    (Young Adult) 

    04/27/10

    Joy is used to Hearing Whispers. She's used to walking down the street and instantly knowing people's deepest, darkest desires. She uses this talent for good—to make people happy and give them what they want. But for her older sister, Jessica, the family gift is a curse, and she uses it to make people's lives—especially Joy's—miserable. Still, when Joy Hears Jessica Whisper I want to kill my Hearing dead, and kill me too if that's what it takes, she knows she has to save her sister, even if it means deserting her friends, stealing a car, and running away with a boy she barely knows—a boy who may have a dark secret of his own.
  • The Fire Opal by Regina McBride

    Award-winning novelist McBride makes her YA debut with this tale of young woman named Maeve who embarks on an impossible journey to save her mother and younger sister from a fate worse than death. I like the girl on this cover. I like her dress and her simple shawl and all the Celtic overtones. I'm looking forward to accompanying her on her quest for the magical stone that will bring her family home once more. Due out May 11th.
  • Creasy, Sara

    Song of Scarabaeus 

    04/27/10

    Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing . . . until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn—a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken. If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies. If she doesn't cooperate, the pirates will kill them both. But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally as the merciless Crib closes in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure . . . a world called Scarabaeus.
  • Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Beth Durst

    Not long ago I read my first Sarah Beth Durst novel--Ice--and, though I found it a bit uneven, I enjoyed her take on the East of the Sun, West of the Moon fairy tale. I have to say, I think this new cover rocks. At once you can feel the modern collide with the Gothic and you want to know more. This one follows college-bound Lily as she tours Princeton and stumbles across a portal to another world. Also--talking gargoyles! Due out October 12th.
  • Battle Royale

     

    by Houshun Takami

     

    624 pages

     

    Published February 26, 2003

     

    Fiction, translated

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  • This is a direct parallel to what happens each day in classrooms. Typically the higher achieving students are very happy to be told what to do because they have developed skills in giving teachers what they want. They're good at it and can remain a non-committed learner and have success as defined by high grades. The moment we ask students to take charge of their learning, it suggests a level of commitment, engagement and discomfort that many aren't willing to accept. Asking students what they want to learn and how they want to learn it is a shift of major proportions. I'm not suggesting we fully adopt a system where authority and guidance have no place but at present, there is very little opportunity for students to take control and charge of their learning.  I'm not sure we're ready to move in that direction  until we can get teachers to begin to own their learning as well.
  • This is a direct parallel to what happens each day in classrooms. Typically the higher achieving students are very happy to be told what to do because they have developed skills in giving teachers what they want. They're good at it and can remain a non-committed learner and have success as defined by high grades. The moment we ask students to take charge of their learning, it suggests a level of commitment, engagement and discomfort that many aren't willing to accept. Asking students what they want to learn and how they want to learn it is a shift of major proportions. I'm not suggesting we fully adopt a system where authority and guidance have no place but at present, there is very little opportunity for students to take control and charge of their learning.  I'm not sure we're ready to move in that direction  until we can get teachers to begin to own their learning as well.
• 13 Oct 09
  

  Jeremy Duncan

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• 08 Oct 09
  

  Autumn Corvus
  • Creating comic strips can be a fun way to get kids interested and engaged in writing. Witty Comics provides a simple platform that students can use to create two character dialogues. To use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to the students.
    
    Applications for Education
    Witty Comics provides pre-drawn background scenes and characters which leaves students free to focus on the story they're trying to tell. Students only have three frames with which to work in. The three frame limit will make students focus on selecting their words carefully for maximum storytelling effect.
    
    If Witty Comics is too basic for your needs, you may want to explore one of these other great options.
    
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• 30 Sep 09
  

  mireille stlaurent
  • T&T assures us that
• 14 Sep 09
  

  Jingyao Wang
  • blogging, but that just confirms the extent to which it has become an accepted part of life in the networked world.
  • architecture, politics and power,
• 11 Sep 09
  

  yoshitaka iwadare

  • 現時点では日本語で利用するときには少なくとも「 ^ 」の前にスペースが一つ空いていないと認識しないようですが、記号一つで１秒で期日を入力できるようになったのは大きいです。利用することのできる記号は以下の５種類です。

     

    
• 07 Aug 09
  

  Connie Boyd

  Similar to diigo? Contains video & explanations.

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• 03 Aug 09
  

  Kim Kuruzovich

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• 28 Jul 09
  

  sara sims
  • approaches
• 23 Jul 09
  

  jessicakelleher

  Netscape bookmarks Bookmarks Menu Bookmarks Toolbar

• 22 Jul 09
  

  elliot polak

  library 754 class

• 21 Jul 09
  

  Matt Townsley

  Evan's post on tech integration at the primary level.

  primary education

• 17 Jul 09
  

  Howard Rheingold

  Another day, another way to find, sort, and digest the firehose of online content. Right?
  
  This time, we bring you something very exciting. Guzzle.it is one of the cleanest, coolest, most intuitive, most customizable news dashboards we've seen. It's lightning fast to set up and makes finding and reading news and blog posts that are hyper-relevant very easy, indeed. It reminds us of a more personalized Alltop or one of the nifty, custom-built dashboards a tech journalist might have. Best of all, it allows for multiple fields of interest and creative layouts. Guzzle.it just might change how you read the Internet.
  
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• 14 Jul 09
  

  Roger Zuidema

  education rss feeds Bookmarks reader google

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  • Take Diigo as the first example, a social bookmarking site,
• 03 Jul 09
  

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• 18 Jun 09
  

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• 22 May 09
  

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  • FarmsReach wants to make ordering from local, small farms as easy and reliable as ordering from Sysco. Farmers with smartphones would snap quick photos of their produce, then upload their products into their “virtual stalls.” Restaurants could cruise through the vegetables online and pick what they wanted. It’s a classic farmer’s market with a high-tech twist.
• 18 May 09
  

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• 22 Apr 09
  

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  • So when you compare the un-annotated Kelly essay to the marked up Johnson piece (this link lets you see all the notes), there is a vastly different feel, for me at least. And it would be even more different if you would add your own annotations to the piece. In my presentations, one of the most powerful examples of how this particular tool is a potential game changer is when I show this article, “Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis” in the un-annotated form and then turn the highlights and conversations on. There is nothing but critical thinking and analysis happening there as supported by, um, technology. The irony is palpable.
• 15 Apr 09
  

  Andrea Zanni
  • In the new picture, constraints and self-organization can shape peaks, too. Either way, reaching an apex is the key effort.
  • Find a way to make computable the systematic knowledge we’ve accumulated
  • Mathematica is also a remarkably efficient programming language in which to implement complex algorithms.
  • Mathematica is familiar to scientists and engineers as the most powerful, most general tool for scientific computation, a role it has played since Version 1 was released in 1988.
  • optimal fitness is a moving target, or a moving peak so to speak, that is formed in part by other organisms and by variation and behavior of the current organism itself
  • The idea that the value of a network equals n squared came to me after I failed to get networks to work on a small scale, despite many repeated experiments." He noticed that networks needed to achieve critical mass to make them worthwhile. But he also noticed that as he linked together small local networks here and there, the value of the combined large network would multiply abruptly. In 1980 he began formulating his law: value = n x n.
  • Questo è un libro che dovrebbe essere imposto per legge tra le letture obbligate di qualsiasi politico che intenda operare nell'epoca della rete (oltre al profumo e ai tailleur, ovviamente), anche a costo di inculcarglielo a martellate
  • La nozione di Gibson di "affordance" degli strumenti, pur essendo il risultato di una sua ricerca sulla percezione, è determinante per avvalorare l'utilizzo degli strumenti. E come potremo lasciar fuori la nozione di Wittgenstein, di comprensione negoziata, da una discussione sul linguaggio? Allo stesso tempo, gli strumenti sono "portatori di modelli di ragionamento preventivo" (Pea) e riflettono un tipo di ideologia. Questa concezione è determinante anche nell'asserzione di Postman secondo cui ogni tecnologia incarna un'ideologia
  • physics, the landscapes are inverted. Here physicists talk about basins in the landscape of thermodynamics
  • Automated presentation
  • Quando un piccatissimo monsignor Sgreccia dice a Fini che le gerarchie ecclesiastiche non vogliono leggi ispirate da “precetti religiosi” ma solo il diritto di far sentire la propria voce sui temi etici, e quando sul caso Mills questa voce tace, è chiaro che per le gerarchie ecclesiastiche il caso Mills non tocchi temi etici.
  • Gary ha replicato con qualcosa del tipo "non lo sappiamo e non mi interessa. Posso insegnare perfettamente qualcosa senza sapere i dettagli di come lavora la mia mente". Onesto

  • Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially.* Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value for all members.

      

    [*I use the vernacular meaning of "exponential" to mean "explosive compounded growth." Technically, n² growth should be called polynomial, or even more precisely, a quadractic; a fixed exponent (2 in this case) is applied to a growing number n. True exponential growth in mathematics entails a fixed number (say 2) that has a growing exponent, n, as in 2ⁿ. The curves of some polynomials and exponentials look similar, except the exponential is even steeper; in common discourse the two are lumped together.]
  • New Kind of Science (NKS)
  • he may read the book a second time in order to observe how the arguments follow
  • Gratis OA (free of charge but may be licensing restrictions) and Libre OA (free of charge and free of licensing restrictions).
  • Il connettivismo è una teoria dell'apprendimento nell'era digitale, sviluppata da George Siemens in base alla sua analisi dei limiti del behaviourismo, del cognitivismo e del costruttivismo per spiegare l'effetto che ha avuto la tecnologia sul nostro modo di vivere, comunicare e apprendere
  • Mathematica has worked on “computational aesthetics” for years.
  • Egli sembra gioire della contraddizione, per esempio, tra onda e particella che emerge in ogni tentativo di superare una posizione pragmatica nei confronti della teoria. [...] Non allo scopo di risolvere queste contraddizioni e ambiguità, ma nel tentativo di farcele accettare egli formulò una filosofia, che chiamò complementarietà.
  • When Homo sapiens was still in the early stages of his evolutionary development, he hadn't yet figured out many other uses for water than to drink it. Water is one of the most abundant resources on earth, but if you're just using it to drink, you don't use much of its potential. When people invented rafts and boats a whole new world, literally, opened up to them. They all of a sudden didn't have to see expanses of water as impediments to getting to the other side, and once navigation was thus discovered, waterways and seas became the most important transportation routes upon which empires were built. There is something similar going on with the way we use information. Homo sapiens of today hasn't quite figured out what to do with the oceans of information available to him, other than 'by the drink' - by reading articles. There remains an enormous amount of "unknown knowns" if we do not find a way to do more with information than read articles and books, or consult databases. We have to develop ways of extracting knowledge out of large amounts of information. We have to invent the equivalents of rafts and boats to navigate information. And still read, but manageable amounts (after all, we still drink, too). Some people deplore the fact that more and more information becomes available. They even extend that to open access. If indeed the only thing one can imagine doing with it is read ('drink'), then solutions are being sought in selection, in limiting access, in having the choices made by others. But if one can imagine truly navigating the ever growing seas of information, the verb will not be to deplore the abundance, but instead, to explore it.
  • The thing that truly sets Wolfram|Alpha apart is that it is able to do sophisticated computations for you, both pure computations involving numbers or formulas you enter, and computations applied automatically to data called up from its repositories
  • It is a language that feels very comfortable to subject-matter experts: people who know chemistry or economics, but not programming.
  • While the magicians are educating the scientists, so far the scientists haven't offered much in return. Cowboy trick aside, Teller says, "this is an example of entertainers getting there first."
  • I should like the reader first of all to go quickly through the whole book like a novel, without straining attention too much or stopping at the difficulties which may be encountered. t
  • Vittorio Foa senatore, rivolse ad un suo ‘collega’ parlamentare: “La differenza tra noi e voi è che abbiamo vinto noi e voi siete senatori. Se aveste vinto voi, io sarei ancora al confino”.
  • WA uses NKS principles and the Mathematica engine. He says he’s in this project for the long term
  • often with very simple rules
  • “They need to know that not everything’s in Google!” Okay. But more and more is. I’m very much less than convinced that “good information lies in the Deep Web!” is the line we’re really promoting. I think it’s “Google sucks,” which by proxy means “the open Web sucks,” which makes me as an open-access advocate feel both insulted and disconsolate. Do I think librarian affection for proprietary databases might play a role in general librarian disaffection for open access? And might that have been one of my ulterior motives for asking the question? Why, yes and yes again. ...
  • Gli strumenti aumentano la nostra capacità di comunicare e di interagire con gli altri
  • n questa prospettiva, il connettivismo fa proprie le idee all'avanguardia di filosofi e teorici delle generazioni precedenti. Ma ciò che lo rende speciale è la particolare combinazione e integrazione di concetti che riflettono l'ampiezza della società umana e gli sviluppi dei sistemi informatici. Per questo, continuo a pensare che che esitano caratteristiche uniche all'interno del connettivismo
  • computation is what turns generic information into specific answers.
  • Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission
  • In fact, knowing that the journal is published by Elsevier gives it credibility!
  • La possibilità tecnologica di copiare, riscrivere, reinterpretare e diffondere qualsiasi materiale a basso prezzo scatena l'offensiva dei grandi detentori dei diritti di proprietà, cioè non tanto gli autori quanto la grande industria monopolista dell'intrattenimento culturale, provocando una guerra totale contro l'uso delle tecnologie digitali e riuscendo a modificare la legislazione a proprio favore
  • Peter says he doesn’t know the future of OA
  • Under libre OA, how are our scholarly attributions protected?
     A: It’s a range. One end is public domain, which does not preserve attribution. But all the CreativeCommons licenses preserve attribution. Most scholars don’t want public domain; they want CC-attribution.”Creative Commons attribution license provides everything a scholar could want.”
  • è che la stessa struttura d'apprendimento che crea connessioni neurali, si ritrova anche nei tipi di collegamenti che facciamo tra le idee e nel nostro modo di relazionarci con gli altri e con le fonti d'informazione. Un solo scettro per comandare tutto
  • Cos'è il connettivismo
  • The fundamentally symbolic nature of the Mathematica language allows an unprecedented degree of interoperability between different parts of the system, and between different algorithms and data sources
  • even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then
  • It’s obviously spun out of control and needs to be pulled back in — lasting 70 years after the death of the creator is absurd — but we need to do far more than just shorten its term. Compensating creators for every use of their works obviously contradicts the maximal open sharing and reuse of works that drives culture forward. Creating a legal and economic environment with incentives for creators does not contradict the open sharing and reuse of works
  • Ora, se così va intesa la cultura, tutte le tecnologie che facilitano questo processo sono da considerarsi benemerite

  • Robbins said the trick worked only when he moved his free hand in an arc instead of a straight line. According to the thief, these arcs distract the eyes of his victims for a matter of milliseconds, just enough time for his other hand to pilfer their belongings. 
  • I suggest the at times the same forces which create peaks in evolutionary landscapes can also be thought of as wells, and we might better understand the path of a species in time not as an uphill climb onto an adaptive peak but a downhill fall into an adaptive wel
  • If he then takes up the book for the third time, I venture to think he will now find the solutions to most of the difficulties he marked before; and if any still remain, he will discover their solution on a final reading
  • Why should we go through so much effort and agony to teach undergraduate students to use library-provided subscription databases when the vast majority of them will never again have access to those databases once they graduate?
  • When most peer-reviewed journals are OA
  • One thing I'd like to add to the discussion is the notion of data literacy. The traditional UI for search is one dimensional. The value of the data in the web (and the extended notion of the data web) is multi-dimensional. Effort is required on the part of the user to become data literate - being comfortable with results that are not lists
  • Libre gold OA: “When most OA journals are libre OA.”

  • Ever notice that most car specs focus on acceleration, not braking? It's more fun to focus on getting fast than it is on getting slow.

    How would you manage or market differently if you knew that you had to hit the brakes, and hard? Slowing one thing and speeding up something else.
  • La scienza non si sviluppa nel vuoto; i sapienti sono uomini, hanno bisogno di vivere e come ci ha già detto Aristotele, hanno bisogno di tempo libero
  • Perché il problema è che Google produce valore e lo monetizza utilizzando un sistema di raccolta pubblicitaria innovativo, molto adatto a internet, relativamente più concorrenziale di quello tradizionale. I giornali invece di solito utilizzano un metodo di raccolta pubblicitaria più simile a quello tradizionale che è nato per un mondo senza internet
  • How does this compare to the Semantic Web?
     A: Had the Web already had been semantically tagged, this product would have been far far easier, although keep in mind that much of the data in WA comes from private databases
  • For-pay journals allow green OA
  • This tendency of networks to drastically amplify small inputs leads to the second key axiom of network logic: the law of increasing returns
  • Negli anni ‘80, uno dei maggiori ricercatori di Intelligenza Artificiale (o, come va di moda chiamarla oggi, di Scienze Cognitive), Douglas Lenat, era reduce da due mezzi insuccessi nel tentativo di sviluppare macchine “creative”: aveva inizialmente sviluppato un programma, Am
  • La saggezza convenzionale risulta semplice, conveniente, comoda, ma non necessariamente veritiera.
  • in-line editing, cioè la possibilità di aggiornare direttamente una parte senza ricaricare la pagina
  • We’ll do a variety of levels of API. First: presentation level: put output on their pages. Second, XML-level so people can mash it up. Third level: individual results from the databases and from the computations. [He shows a first draft of the api] You can get as the symbolic expressions that Mathematica is based on. We hope to have a personalizable version. Metadata: When we open up our data repository mechanisms so people can contribute, some of our ontology will be exposed.
  • When most TA journals have OA backfiles.” This is expensive to do. Google will do it, but Google’s terms are difficult: They don’t give the journal a copy of the digital files
  • significato da attribuire alla cultura umana
  • chi verrà dopo di noi non dovrà pensare che eravamo tutti prostrati come Vespa, arresi come De Bortoli. C'era gente normale, con una famiglia e un lavoro più o meno normale, che in casa propria si faceva le domande che i giornalisti non volevano o non sapevano più fare. Non eravamo la maggioranza, non pretendevamo di esserla: ma esistevamo. Devono saperlo i posteri: non si sono bevuti il cervello in quindici anni, gli italiani. Non tutti.
  • Operando per la creazione e visualizzazione di modelli dal punto di vista cognitivo
  • We have a sophisticated ontology
  • The pickpocket has found a weakness in the way we perceive motion," Macknik says. "Show the eyes an arc and they move differently.
  • In fact, the easiest way to create Wolfram|Alpha without Mathematica would have been to write Mathematica first, then use it. Which is precisely what we have spent the past 23 years doing.
  • Vygotsky
  • E’ l’aria, è l’aria che fa un po’ schifo: quella di un Paese dove comanda uno solo, con un consenso quasi unanime, e qundi non conviene nemmeno sfiorarlo
  • occorre che fra le leisured classes, e forse anche fra quelle classi che non lo sono, il possesso del sapere scientifico appaia desiderabile, sia circondato di rispetto e anche di prestigio. A queste condizioni soltanto si possono creare le scuole scientifiche, senza la cui esistenza lo sviluppo della scienza è rigorosamente impossibile
  • If 20% of researchers publish 80% of the articles, we could reach cross-over fairly quickly in some fields.
  • Studiosi come Barnnett suggeriscono che dovrebbe essere definita più precisamente "supercomplessità", dato che non siamo capaci di comprendere la direzione che le cose prenderanno in futuro
  • "Abbott used to say he wasn't satisfied with a trick unless people began to weep," Teller says. "He was that good."
  • The permission problem is harder than digitization
  • It’s mostly bottom-up. We have domains
  • Un ulteriore supporto al connettivismo lo troviamo nelle nebulose teorie sulla complessità dei sistemi di pensiero
  • Probabilmente per uno che amava il suo ruolo di gatekeeper, beato tra i pochi, il libro di Shirky non è ottimista ma assomiglia a una martellata sui denti e gli descrive un mondo da cui scapperebbe volentieri.
  • Never underestimate the web,
  • La cultura invece va interpretata in ogni caso come un'attività di riscrittura operata a vari livelli
  • è una bella giornata di maggio dell’anno 2009 [*] e non si sente fiatare un vescovo o un cardinale, neppure di quelli cosiddetti progressisti. Il gregge manda feroci belati di tumulto intestino, e al pastore manco per il cazzo.
  • adaptive landscapes. In these metaphorical places, species climb uphill towards optimal fitness. Going up is a struggle. Climbing takes energy
  • Biologists
  • 5000 udienze per esaminare gli sterminati verbali delle intercettazioni. Ora per farla franca in Italia basta fare un reato troppo complesso o troppo diffuso
  • In a network economy, small efforts can lead to large results.
  • So many users  said they like Kindle because they suffer from some form of arthritis that  multiple posters indicate that they do or do not have arthritis as a matter  of course. A variety of other impairments, from weakening eyes and carpal-tunnel-like  syndromes to more exotic disabilities dominate the purchase rationales of  these posters
  • E io lo so che c’è chi l’ha detto molto meglio, chi ha parlato di sinistra e destra come ideologie in modo ben più scientifico, parlando di uguaglianze, differenze, libertà. Ci sono secoli di letteratura politica alle spalle. Ma non riesco a togliermi dalla testa che, semplificando all’osso, alla fin fine la differenza tra certa Italia e il resto del paese sta tutta in quel ‘beh, sì’ che non ha bisogno di aggiunte o ulteriori riflessioni.
  • • Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication — email versus chat, or conversations versus documents?
     
    • Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?
     
    • What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers' current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms?
  • ”Meaning of life” does answer “42″
  • Io posso dire molto poco circa la complementarietà, ma una cosa la voglio dire. Mi sembra che Bohr usi questo termine in senso opposto a quello usuale
  • Q: What would you think of a more Wikipedia-like model? Do you worry about a competitor making a wiki data that is completely open and grows faster?
     A: That’d be great. Making WA is hard. It’s not just a matter of shoveling data in. Wikipedia is fantastic and I use it all the time, but it’s gone in particular directions. When you’re looking for systematic data there, even if people put in systematic data — e.g., 300 pages about chemicals — over the course of time, the data gets dirty. You can’t compute from it.
  • Spencer, Dewey e Piaget
  • Come base epistemologica per il connettivismo, ho trovato il lavoro di Stephen Downes sulla valutazione della conoscenza connettiva. Più di recente, Dave Cormier ha proposto il concetto di conoscenza rizomatica e di comunità come curriculum.
  • Connettivismo significa applicare i principi delle reti alla definizione sia della conoscenza che dei processi d'apprendimento
  • s Springer’s taking over of BioMed Central a good thing?
     A: Yes. BMC is for-profit. BMC was the world’s largest OA publisher. Now Springer is. Springer says that OA is a sustainable part of their bsiness. My reading is that Springer is preparing for an OA future
  • Il nome scelto dal Vero Matematico che ha studiato il tutto, Conway (sempre lui, sì), è il seguente: decadimento audioattivo.
  • Alfred Elton van Vogt
  • algorithms
  • Troviamo un insieme formato da filosofi, neuroscienziati e intelligenze artificiali come Churchlands, Papert, Minsky, McClelland, Rumelhart, Clark (conoscenza personificata), Spivey e altri.
  • Wolfram|Alpha is in a sense the “killer app” for Mathematica. It is a chance for Mathematica to show off the astonishing range of things it is capable of doing when it is deployed, not against a specific problem, but against all problems.
  • Il connettivismo tratta i principi dell'apprendimento a diversi livelli: neuro-biologico, concettuale e relazionale-sociale
  • I find it reassuring that the principles other efforts value mesh so well with what we’re doing.
  • Q: I wonder how universities will find a place for this.
     A: Very interesting question. Generating hard data is hard and useful, although universities often prefer higher levels of synthesis and opinion. [Loose paraphrase!] Leibniz had this nailed: Take any human argument and find a way to mechanically compute it.
  • Dio non perdonare perché questi sanno quello che fanno!
  • Si chiese: cos’é che distingue il calcolatore da noi? Risposta: l’immensa quantità di informazioni che noi diamo per scontate ma che lui non conosce. Ad esempio, che una forchetta si usa per mangiare, o che una foglia tipicamente sta attaccata ad un albero. E quindi concluse: creiamo un programma che le conosca, tutte queste cose. Anzi, che conosca TUTTO. Un’enciclopedia.
  • (free software foundation) How does this change the landscape for open access? There’s info in commercial journals…
     A: When there’s a proprietary database, the challenge is making the right deals. People will not be able to take out of our system all the data that we put into it. We have yet to learn all of the issues that will come up.
  • Data curation.
  • Diede ottimi risultati in alcuni giochi di strategia, ebbe qualche altra idea notevole, ma in seguito comincio’ a bloccarsi sempre più di frequente. Ad un certo punto, secondo la leggenda, ebbe l’idea di cancellare tutte le sue idee, ma l’idea stessa si cancello’ prima di riuscire a fare ulteriori danni.

  • I network sono importanti in ogni aspetto della società, non solo per l'educazione. Questa importanza è in parte identificabile con la metafora di Internet....ma le reti sono sempre esistite. Come sostiene Barabasi, le reti sono ovunque. Abbiamo solo bisogno di vederle.
       

      

      
  • [eszter] For some data, there are agreed-upon sources. For some there aren’t. How do you choose sources?
     A: That’s a key problem in doing data curation. “How do we do it? We try to do the best job we can.” Use experts. Assess. Compare. [This is a bigger issue than Wolfram apparently thinks where data models are political. E.g., Eszter Hargittai, who is sitting next to me, points out "How many Internet users are there?" is a highly controversial question.] We give info about what our sources are.

  • If you think about it, this sentence has implications that make OA materials perfect for linked data integration. It implies:

      
     
    • you have a stable, unique URL for the work
     
    • there isn’t a paywall or login requirement in front of the actual work
     
    • there isn’t any user agent discrimination—text in a Flash viewer need not apply (I’m looking at you, Scribd)
     
    • they’re in a format that’s useful as data; maybe [X]HTML?

  • Bene: sono passati 25 anni da quando cominciarono ad inserire frasi nel programma. Si saranno stancati? Manco per idea. E quante ne avranno aggiunte, chiederete voi: un migliaio? Diecimila? Cinquantamila?

     

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  • magic of n² is that when you annex one more new member, you add many more connections; you get more value than you add
  • Forse è comprensibile che il Vaticano abbia gran attenzione per la propria ragion di Stato. E’ lecito però domandarsi per quanto tempo i cattolici, quelli che credono nei valori cristiani, nella famiglia, nell’indissolubilità del matrimonio, nell’esclusività della sfera coniugale per il sesso, nell’inviolabilità dei minori, potranno sopportare questo farisaico sepolcro imbiancato.
  • There’s no manual, no documentation. You get to interact it with just how you think about things
  • Linguistic analysis to understand the inputs
  • La mente viene vista - con accenti diversi - come personificata e distribuita attorno a numerosi apparati, relazioni e artefatti. Nel suo libro sulla Conoscenza Ripartita, Hutchins ne ha divulgato il concetto.
  • It’s for expert knowledge for anyone who needs it
  • Openness? Of API, of metadata, of contributions of interesting comparisons, etc.
  • Il connettivismo si radica nel clima di abbondanza, di rapido cambiamento, nelle svariate fonti e prospettive informative e nella necessità cruciale di trovare un modo di filtrare le cose e dare senso al caos. Per questo, nel connettivismo, la centralità delle reti consente di mettere in ordine sia l'abbondanza che la diversità.
  • And we ought to ask why. Aren’t universities interests in line with OA?
  • Lui sembra piuttosto insistere sul fatto che, nelle nostre analisi, si debbano usare elementi che si contraddicono l’un l’altro, che non si sommano o non derivano da un tutto. Con l’espressione complementarietà egli intendeva, mi pare, l’opposto: contraddittorietà
  • Business model?
     A: The site will be free
  • It turns out that ambiguity is not nearly as big a problem as we thought.
  • We’re looking for synergies But we’re generating these on the fly; it won’t get indexed.
  • “Beh, sai cosa c’è? Vaffanculo

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  • students can use to learn to locate numbers and sequence numbers. The numberline presents the student with a number to locate within a range. Once the correct range of numbers is selected, the student then has to select a smaller range in which to place the given number. This process goes on until the student has a range of less than five numbers.
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  • Glenn Beck, the conservative ideologue whose show is mocked by fellow Fox News anchors, recently attacked plans to modernize our electric grid. After Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy adviser, said that a smart grid means “we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak, you’ll still be able to cool your house, but that’ll be a savings to the consumer,” Beck argued that would lead to “one-world government” with “Czar Browner” in charge of everyone’s air conditioners:

     

    I can’t wait for the 97 degree day in August when Czar Browner in Washington decides it’s in my country’s best interest to make sure I’m not cooling my house. . . . There’s no way the government would turn down the air conditioning at the wrong place and kill someone.
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  • People essentially earn what they believe they deserve to earn.
  • The first step is to assume full reponsibility for your current financial situation.
  • Focus on creating and delivering passive value first.
  • If you put a fraction of the responsibility for your situation onto someone else, you’re taking it off yourself. That’s going to work against you down the road when you use it as an excuse to slack off in a moment of weakness.
  • “I was interested in booking a reading, but when I looked at your rates, I thought, ‘Whoa — no way I can afford that.’” Those people aren’t a match for Erin’s service; they can’t afford it.
  • In order for Erin to earn these higher rates, she had to go through a mental process of giving herself permission to earn that much
  • as I focused on those past problems, I couldn’t move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.
  • When you raise your rates, you may price yourself out of one market, but you’ll price yourself into another market.
  • One of the best ways to improve your service is by putting it into a permanent form. This way you can provide value even when you aren’t physically present.
  • The only person who can step it up is you. Do you want to keep living at your current level, or are you ready to level up?
  • Instead of trading hours for dollars, the idea is to invest your time building something that will provide enduring value, even when you aren’t physically present.
  • Long-term employees (salaried or hourly) usually don’t have anywhere near the same level of financial enthusiasm as these other groups. That’s why they’re willing to trade hours for dollars and donate most of the results they generate to someone else, such as an entrepreneur, salesperson, or investor.
  • You can’t allow yourself the out of blaming the world, the economy, your spouse’s failings, or some other factor
  • op speakers get paid $20,000 per speech easy.
  • If you don’t like the situation you’re in, then you change it.
  • If you get the value side right, the income side will typically take care of itself.
  • It’s about accepting the truth that if anything is going to change, your will must be the force that changes it.
  • you always possess response-ability
  • You aren’t some weak and powerless being.
  • But it’s only our thinking that makes it seem normal. Someone else would consider your current income a pathetic sum for the work you’re doing. Can you accept that you’re being grossly underpaid right now?
  • if your situation is to change at all, then it’s all on you, or it will never happen.
  • Focus on the giving side, and the getting takes care of itself.

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• 08 Feb 09
  

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  • The idea of this site is to provide a central location for “how to” guides so  that you can start building your own PLN
  • Students will research and construct a pamphlet that includes: symptoms of  disease, genetic causes of disease, genetic testing, population/risk, possible  treatment, genetics screening techniques, cost, social and ethical  implication.
    
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  • Students will research and construct a pamphlet that includes: symptoms of  disease, genetic causes of disease, genetic testing, population/risk, possible  treatment, genetics screening techniques, cost, social and ethical  implication.
    
  • Students will use one or all games to review basic information and Punnett  Square problems. These games use soccer, basketball and the game show idea deal  or no deal
  • Students will use one or all games to review basic information and Punnett  Square problems. These games use soccer, basketball and the game show idea deal  or no deal.
    
  • Activities: Students research and construct a time line that stars from the  middle of the 19th century and projects into to the near future. Appropriate  pictures will be drawn or placed on the time line to help emphasize historical  facts that include scientific discoveries, industrial applications, and current  events that may be related.
    
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  • 你不曲解一下别人的理论，你就成Giddens了。
     
     如果人人都想做Habermas，就说明这学术圈风气实在不太好。
  • 此番央视自焚，我惊奇的发现，除了对消防烈士表示惋惜意外，我身边的人都是喜闻乐见的，我强压自己阴暗的心理，企图以人文关怀面对这个灾难，但我不得不承认，我是幸灾乐祸的。
  • 我对刘的这种小贵族式的政治图谋的最大反感，就是这种表面上反政治其实又极端自私的政治

  • an intriguing excavation she conducted not in the Middle East, but in the college garden.

    It was when the air-raid shelters were being built in 1939 and, in the digging, some Anglo-Saxon burials came to light and -- as the bombs were about to fall -- the Newnham students and dons, under the direction of Garrod, set about a scientific excavation.
  • • 去故宮那日大雨，氣溫降到19.7度，幸而問人借了一件長袖外套，兩只腳卻一直泡在水里。一圈下來，到出口處大雨初停，見對面景山，矮小蔥蘢，有凄涼意。
    • 傍晚五點的北海圖書館，靜靜矗立在暮色中，如舊照片。
    • 四月的安吉，山上皆是竹子，遠望如宋元人筆法。山下是水庫，水深，因而綠，至此才明白“碧波蕩漾”是怎樣。
    • 四月的揚州，坐一條船慢慢蕩過去，兩岸皆植大柳樹，花比江南的要紅要大要艷要潑辣，真是熱烈的美麗。
  • 我们暗暗恐惧于自己同样面临的深渊般的困境，想从中找到一个叙述的线头，讲它讲成故事一讲成故事，我们自己的道德难受就有摆放的地方，我们心里或良心里就会好受一些，娱乐的欣快感就来自于此。
  • 罗蒂在《文科知识分子十一条》里说到了这个 sham battle about how to construct reading lists，他认为，文科系科、教育管理当局和文科教师之间的这种各让学生读不同的书的做法之间的冲突，是无谓的。他说，斯特劳斯分子们说让学生去读什么书是取决于书的内在优异（intrinsic excellence）),尼采-海德格尔-德里达派认为决定于书里的内容是否追求了人的公平政治（fairness）和人的本真性。分析哲学是认为边我们认为的哲学史，也不用读，因为那不是哲学。罗蒂自己认为是，在大学文科，师生一起读一些书，一是为了让学生读了书后就与上代人与别的阶级里的人有了共同参照点。这样,祖父母与孙儿孙女,上好大学和上不好的大学的人总会读过一些一样的书。二个需要是,教师总想去教那些曾打动/激动/改变过他们的人生的那些"书"。
  • “艺术及于人生的效果，其实是很简明的：直接效果是我们创作或者鉴赏艺术品时所得的乐处。这乐处有两方面：第一，是自由；第二，是天真。
  • 分析哲学自己严格要求自己本来没错，其严格的autocritique，是其优点。历史地看，是它先自己主动向大学系统的审查献媚，呈上其严格的科学性和客观性在先，然后开始了它对于其兄弟学科的倾轧。我们指控的是它的后者。分析哲学为代表的那些较“科学”的学科，使得阅读不再成为一种重要的工作，使得阅读和写作脱节，大家假装都在做严格的研究了，后者造成了我们的文科的面目可憎和语言乏味。
  • 改进产品不仅是一个技术问题，也是一个社会再组织的问题……因此，仅仅实行土地改革、减收地租、平均地权并不能最终解决中国的土地问题。最终解决的办法，不在于紧缩农民的开支，而应该增加农民的收入。因此，让我再重申一遍，恢复农村企业是根本措施。

  • 一是为了知道我们的那些字、说法习惯和制度的最初学者出处；二是为了找到我们共同的自我约束规范和法则；三是为了知道我们今天已与当初有了多大的改变。

     

    而这三路之外，就全是histography了
  • 埃和欧之间的对话是达到论争的平衡的，作者是要让他们各说各有理
  • 君等虽别，不出天地间，苟同此志，吾亦可以忘形似矣
  • 批评了他们小看哲学系和哲学阅读对于个人的ｃｒｅａｔｉｖｅ　ｓｅｌｆ－ｏｖｅｒｃｏｍｉｎｇ的作用，最后讨论了象詹姆斯和普鲁斯特这样专写有钱人的自我生活拓展的很自我中心的作家，为什么竟也有利于人类自治和人类本真性追求的。
  • 刘这是一种张狂的螳臂挡车式的翻译政治－解释政治－学术政治。因为恐惧新政治，害怕那种正来到我们身上的由民工这样的政治主体冲击着而激活起来的将要到来的中国民主政治前景，他就发嗲地来装出有什么高深的政治，想来教化，用教师爷的派头来抵抗我们这个社会的政治开放。
  • 刘为什么那么地能用他的学问来轻浮，来象学问专制者那样要搞学术思想的样板戏给我们看？我认为那是他的害怕真政治，是想来教化，是天生以为自己在政治上是高人一等。民主社会、货币社会和消费社会不好，因为它拉平道德和修养和思想学问？但我要问：凭你刘的这点文本解释细读功夫（而这是社会包养了你几十年让你专门经营的一种吃饭功夫啊），你凭什么说你被拉平了？你的解释埃斯库罗斯的文本的功夫里，真的有高出一个高中生的语文能力的地方么？
  • 一个高中生凭常识也一般都天生不会犯他这种轻浮的解释孽障的。
  • 我从早到晚的紧张，我想不出主线，我不适合学魏晋，我只能解决小问题，没办法发现一个大问题并解决它。我憎恨自己的胆怯，我早就发现了这个问题，但我以为随着我读书的深入问题会解决，但是不行，我早该知道……我应该去学宋史或元史，明清史也好……我写一篇论文硕士毕业转方向去考博士可好？
  • 哲学阅读比文学阅读更容易成为陈词滥调，但这并不是说文学阅读就一定是自我解放了。
  • 重新描述和重新情景化，这是我们不管读哲学还是文学，都必须做的，本来就是阅读的目的。他将文学式的阅读和哲学式的阅读当作同一回事儿，将过去我所有读过的书，都放到当前这个上下文。
  • 那种讲究字眼的老辈人，轻重往往是在语气中透出来的。
  • 一种斯特劳斯式的故意不向次等公民说真情的伟情，学者一玩，往往会很得意，感到自己是云中客了呢。其实，逃避思想论争和政治斗争，会使一个学者的学术修养和阅读写作技术退化。当一种政治是由学者嘴里宣布出来的时，其僵化、险恶和残酷，你是尽可以想象的。亲爱的，请你当心学者政治，怎么远避都不为过！

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  • When we want to build a new skill or just increase our comfort level with a new activity, the frequency of the activity is a key factor to consider. Squeezing the same experiences into a shorter period of time can greatly increase your performance gains
• 08 Jan 09
  

  Forrest Hook

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  • Auburn's new coaching staff has hit the ground running already, convincing the nation's No. 1 overall prospect, a five-star wide receiver, to officially visit the Tigers this weekend. Check inside for the scoop on this big recruiting coup for AU's new staff
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  • These Sushi pillows are hand made in the USA by people who really really like Sushi.
• 06 Jan 09
  

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  • 1st Century Skills are all about, teaching our kids to navigate the world as they are experiencing it, not the world we experienced.
• 24 Dec 08
  

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  • Waarom zou je geld uitgeven als het gratis even goed is? De Consumentenbond vergeleek een aantal bekende programma's met de gratis tegenhangers. © www.fok.nl
• 16 Dec 08
  

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  Even before Inauguration Day Barack Obama has made perhaps the most crucial decision of his presidency.

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• 04 Dec 08
  

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  • وخامت گسترش اين بيماری در اين منطقه به گونه ای است که در برخی از اين کشورها از هر سه بزرگسال يکی به ويروس اچ آی وی آلوده است.
  • هر روز 14 هزار نفر به جمع افراد آلوده به ويروس ايدز در جهان اضافه می شود
• 02 Dec 08
  

  Oliver Ding

  • Plurk比Twitter最大的優點，就是其SEO做得沒那麼好，因此在Plurk上發過的訊息及說過的話並不易透過Search Engine找出來。加上我在Plurk上遇見的話題多是比較Causal與Personal，也就較易把朋友的視線吸引過來聊天。而且因為其不太好的SEO功能，令我們聊的內容不會這麼易被公開(雖然它的本質就是公開)。

     

    Plurk比Twitter立體，按時間軸分了Thread，讓我們易於Follow及參與朋友的討論，令討論氣氛更加熱熾。Twitter沒有那麼立體，沒有Thread，但亦令其溝通比較簡單直接，令我很易可以用Google Talk甚至Twitterfox來更新；相反Plurk又很難透過IM來更新。

     

    還有不得不提的是Karma這個因素。不少玩Plurk的朋友，都會不期然追Karma，為得更多Emoticon或者可以更改版面。這也令Plurk多了一些為Post而Post的無聊訊息。 
• 26 Nov 08
  

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• 13 Nov 08
  

  Lance Roth
  • O Lord, grant me to greet the coming day in peace. Help me in all things to rely upon thy holy will. In every hour of the day reveal thy will to me. Bless my dealings with all who surround me. Teach me to treat all that comes to me throughout the day with peace of soul, and with the firm conviction that thy will governs all. In all my deeds and words guide my thoughts and feelings. In unforeseen events, let me not forget that all are sent by thee. Teach me to act firmly and wisely, without embittering and embarrassing others. Give me strength to bear the fatigue of the coming day and all that it shall bring. Direct my will, teach me to pray, pray thou thyself in me. Amen.
• 12 Nov 08
  

  Dan Lawyer
  • Theater…is a process where you iterate, you see what works, you try it in rehearsal, and then you make changes, and then you try it again." ~ Jared Spool makes an interesting connection between User Experience and The Theater.
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  • Loewy created this quasi-futuristic jukebox for United Music Corp. in 1958. You might have selected from a mixed-bag playlist of 45s like these 1958 hits:

     

      "Don't" — Elvis Presley
     "Great Balls of Fire" — Jerry Lee Lewis
     "Johnny B. Goode" — Chuck Berry
     "Good Golly Miss Molly" — Little Richard
     "La Bamba" — Ritchie Valens
     "Fever" — Peggy Lee
     "Poor Little Fool" — Ricky Nelson
     "Rebel Rouser" — Duane Eddy
     "All the Way" — Frank Sinatra
     "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" — The Four Preps
     "A Wonderful Time Up There" — Pat Boone
     "Tequila" — The Champs
     "Catch a Falling Star" — Perry Como
     "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" — Laurie London
     "Twilight Time" — The Platters
     "Witch Doctor" — David Seville
     "All I Have to Do Is Dream" — The Everly Brothers
     "Purple People Eater" — Sheb Wooley
     "Yakety Yak" — The Coasters
     "Splish Splash" — Bobby Darin
     "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu)" — Dominico Modugno
     "Rockin Robin" — Bobby Day
     "Tom Dooley" — The Kingston Trio
     "To Know Him Is to Love Him" — Teddy Bears
     "The Chipmunk Song" — The Chipmunks/David Seville
     "Jingle Bell Rock" — Bobby Helms
• 27 Oct 08
  

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• 03 Oct 08
  

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  • Superheroes have nothing on this guy
    
    As a follow-up to our recent Superheroes article, here is a movie poster for the Sultan Rahi's action vehicle:
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  • First, there's the paradox of choice. In a media-saturated world where you see and hear about so many people doing so much interesting stuff day in and day out, it's even more difficult to settle down on one pursuit than it was 10 to 20 years ago, when people simply didn't have as many options. With so many things out there you could do, so much greener grass over the fence taunting you, it feels almost impossible to commit. Choosing one thing really means you're not choosing a million others, and for those of us with trouble in the commitment department, that can keep us being goal gigolos well into adulthood.
  • First, there's the paradox of choice. In a media-saturated world where you see and hear about so many people doing so much interesting stuff day in and day out, it's even more difficult to settle down on one pursuit than it was 10 to 20 years ago, when people simply didn't have as many options. With so many things out there you could do, so much greener grass over the fence taunting you, it feels almost impossible to commit. Choosing one thing really means you're not choosing a million others, and for those of us with trouble in the commitment department, that can keep us being goal gigolos well into adulthood.
• 17 Sep 08
  

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  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.
  • Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor, in a $50 billion all-stock deal. American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.

  • Yesterday was the third time this fiscal year that the Government withdrew money from the CDF for budgetary support during the worsening economic climate.

    Production could be reduced

    Finance Minister Audley Shaw told the House that the low demand for bauxite on the international market makes it a strong possibility that production in the sector could be reduced, which could mean less money for the fund.

    "To the extent that there is a cut in production, then that would lead to a compromise for the Capital Development Fund," said Shaw.

  • Last year, the Clarendon refinery produced 1.15 million tonnes of alumina, said Fitch, earning CAP revenues of US$117.2 million from the sale of 606,000 tonnes of alumina.

    The company has projected salesfor FY 2008/09 of US$148 million, but it also expects production costs to run US$21 million ahead of sales at US$169 million.

    CAP, which is among the ranks of state-owned lossmakers needing to be propped up by taxpayers, signalled at the top of the fiscal year that it would need US$172 million of support to assist with debt servicing, capital expenses and operating costs.
  • Parliament has given approval for Finance Minister Audley Shaw to use the Capital Development Fund (CDF) in order for Government to meet its financial obligations.

  • However, the government is prepared to provide the companies with concessions to prevent them from closing plants that would throw up to 5,000 workers employed in the industry out of jobs.

    Already the firms have laid off at least 350 workers and could cut more.
  • Many of the the job losses have occurred in debt-ridden public agencies that have been draining the public purse
  • With these developments the crisis is entering a new and extremely dangerous phase
  • The bonds, which are guaranteed by the Jamaican government, are now rated 'B/RR4', down from 'B+/RR4'.
  • The levy was projected to bring in more than $8 billion in revenue for the Government this year, but is off target so far by a third. The negotiations form part of efforts by the Golding administration to shock the economy back to life.

  • Fitch said the operating loss was "primarily a reflection of high production costs in relation to caustic soda and fuel inputs and CAP's inability to pass them through to end customers."

    The pass-through limitations were due to a long term supply contracts with Glencore into which the company is locked up to 2012.

    "With the constraints currently being experienced in the capital markets, CAP does not have other significant sources to shore up its liquidity position," Fitch said.
  • The government's refusal to help with a bail-out of Lehman will strip many firms of the benefit of being thought too big to fail, raising their borrowing costs. Lehman’s demise highlights the industry’s inability, or unwillingness, to rescue the sick, even when the consequences of inaction are potentially dire.

  • In the current financial years, which ends on March 31, 2009, the government projected earnings of $8.6 billion from the bauxite production levy, or just over two per cent of $265 billion in taxes it expected to pull in for the fiscal year.

    But with the with aluminium prices having collapsed in the world market in the face of the global recession, the government's earnings from the levy for the first seven months of the fiscal year — up to the end of October — at $3.21 billion, was $1.55 billion or 32.5 per cent below projections.

    Bauxite production for 2008 is to projected to be marginally above last year's 14.6 million tonnes
  • Fed had bailed out Bear Stearns in March and the Treasury had taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last weekend, expectations were high that they would do the same for Lehman. And that was precisely the problem:

  • Bauxite is the raw material from which alumina is refined.

    Alumina, in turn, is smelted into aluminium - a metal widely used in the aviation, motor vehicle and building industries.

  • Fitch is concerned that the company is too highly leveraged.

    "At the end of March 2008, CAP had US$326.2 million of debt and US$16 million of cash and marketable securities translating to a total debt-to-EBITDA ratio of negative 9.4 times and a funds-from-operation-adjusted-leverage ratio of 6.9x," the agency said.

    CAP's 8.5 per cent unsecured notes which mature in 2021 are trading at around US$70. Yields are at 12.6 per cent.
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• 19 Aug 08
  

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  • Palringo lets the user set up an unlimited number of groups and send a voice, text, or picture message to all group members at once
• 07 Aug 08
  

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  • Now the chance that Buist would become all black like all of the other schools on the peninsula has dissipated (thanks to those demographics again). The reasoning behind its four lists went with it. The fact remains, students who live in District 20 are frozen out of magnet schools in the other constituent districts, while the students who live in other constituent districts are NOT frozen out of the one magnet school in District 20.
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• 20 Jul 08
  

  kyle reese

  Bookmarks Toolbar

• 19 Jul 08
  

  Yan Sheng

  Interest

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  • “你以为我卑微,不美,我就没有了感情了吗?　我们的灵魂是平等的,就像我们都是赤裸着来到这个世界一样。”

  • That was a bit of a setback.

      

    你总会遇到挫折。

      

    But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason.

      

    但是记住，它们的出现不是没有原因的。

      

    The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

      

    砖墙并不为了挡住我们。它在那里，只是为了测试，我们的决心到底有多迫切。

      

    Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

      

    它在那里挡住了那些没有强烈决心的人。它挡住了那些人。

      

    Remember brick walls let us show our dedication.They are there to separate us from the people who don’t really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

      

    记住，砖墙的存在是为了显示我们自己付出的决心。它使得我们，同那些并不真的想实现梦想的人得以区分。

  • i. Helping others.

      

    帮助他人。

      

    ii. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's what drives us.

      

    永远不要失去好奇心，它是人类前进的动力。

      

    iii. Loyalty is a two way street.

      

    诚以待人，这样别人也会忠实地对待你。

      

    iv. Never give up.

      

    永远不要放弃。

      

    v. You can't get there alone. People have to help you. You get people to
     help you by telling the truth.

      

    你不能单打独斗，必须有人来帮你。只要你讲真话，就会有人来帮你。

      

    vi. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

      

    当你把事情搞砸，首先要向别人道歉，首先关心他们的损失，而不是你自己的损失。

      

    vii. When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

      

    如果你做了正确的事，好的结果自然会发生。

      

    viii. Get a feedback loop and listen to it.

      

    注意倾听反馈。

      

    ix. Show gratitude.

      

    感恩。

      

    x. Don’t complain. Just work harder.

      

    不要抱怨，而要加倍努力。

      

    xi. Be good at something, it makes you valuable.

      

    要有一技之长，它使你有价值。

      

    xii. Work hard.

      

    努力再努力。

      

    xiii. Find the best in everybody.

      

    注意发现他人的优点。

      

    xiv. Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

      

    做好准备。所谓幸运，真的是机会和准备的结合。
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  • Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

      

    你必须要有一些真本领，这样可以让你更受欢迎。

  • You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

      

    你必须练好基本功，否则后面的事情都不会发生。

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• 16 Jul 08
  

  Milorad Bojic

  Stipendija u britaniji

  Ljuba

• 15 Jul 08
  

  colin xu

  做SAAS关键之一--robbin

  格言

  • our product or company. There are two problems with this theory: first, the reporter isn't going to revise the original piece; and second, she's not going to write another article covering the same topic in the near future.

      

    Thus, the most likely outcome is that the reporter thinks th
  • 外界对阿里巴巴公司的争议很多，褒贬不一。最近连续多次去杭州和阿里巴巴公司接触，阿里巴巴给我留下最深刻印象的还是公司的企业文化。
  • 很多做3G业务的互联网公司，可能会感到机会终于来了。不过我一直觉得，把希望寄托在电信运营商身上，比把鸡蛋交给大象来保管风险还大。拜运营商所赐，中国第一代互联网创业公司──早期ISP们全军覆没，同样拜运营商所赐，SP大喜大悲，短短几年盛极而衰。现在，几乎所有运营商都期望对互联网施加更多的控制，让互联网变成运营商恩赐的一种功能，网络中立在我们这里根本无从谈起。
  • 过去是一段历史，未来是神秘不可知的
  • 感觉最遗憾的是出席的社区方面的嘉宾太少了，阿里自身的网站全部都是用Java开发的，但是似乎没有什么在Java社区方面有号召力的人，他们在DBA方面到是一批itpub的社区高手。
  • 3、网站运营
  • 说中国境内没有热钱或者热钱不会造成严重问题，那是胡说。但是，把所有事情的起点归于热钱，恐怕也是错的。在我看来，热钱是结果，而不是原因，不想长篇大论说背后的理由。给大家看几幅图。我选了泰国，韩国，马拉西亚，印尼和菲律宾，是亚洲金融危机最重灾区的几个国家，时间是从1990年到1998年，危机前七年和危机当年和次年。选这些国家和这个时间段的原因是，这些国家被广泛认为是因为由于大量热钱流入导致的金融的危机。这些图的纵轴是这些国家的经常项占GDP的比重，负值表示经常项赤字，正值表示经常项盈余，横轴是年份。从这些图上，你可以看到一个明显的共性，所有这些国家在危机前都持续的有经常项赤字，经常项的赤字其实就是资本项的盈余(这里面有些技术性的差别，我不展开讨论了)，换言之，在危机之前，这些国家都是资本的净流入国，现在可以安全的认为，很多这些流入的资本都是热钱。危机发生之后，所有这些国家的资本项都转为正，换言之，资本项出现赤字，也就是说，出现了资本外流，现在我们知道，这是热钱外逃。
  • 中国以及互联网这两个概念都习惯于钻进投资者的脑中，现在这两个令人陶醉的特质集中体现在一间公司上，两种泡沫产生叠加效应，那就是阿里巴巴

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• 04 Jul 08
  

  mooyee2006 yang
  • A look at what's new
  • business web 2.0 for business on-line

Public Stiky Notes

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  Blaise Lowe on 2009-11-09
  Fun DIY projects!

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