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ASCD: Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Taking the Digital Plunge about 22 hours ago
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One powerful aspect of 21st century learning is the fact that anyone with an Internet connection can find like-minded peers to learn from using such free tools as blogs and RSS feeds. What I like the best about my digital learning network is that it's spread across continents. Clay Burell is Korea's best kept secret, asking provocative questions about the changing nature of schooling. Jenny Luca is an Aussie dynamo, encouraging teachers to create meaningful service learning projects. Kevin Jarrett runs one of the most inventive elementary-level computer labs in New Jersey.
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Coming: Ten Years of Creationist Science Textbooks? | Beyond School about 22 hours ago
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I’ve GOT to share this Twitter reply from jrdixey:
@cburell In the 80s I worked for a small textbook publisher & they told me they left the word Evolution out of indexes just for TX approval.
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How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending! - Salon.com on 2009-11-28
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- The 2010 Pentagon budget means "every man, woman and child in the United States will spend more than $2,700 on (defense) programs and agencies next year," reports the Cato Institute. "By way of comparison, the average Japanese spends less than $330; the average German about $520; China's per capita spending is less than $100."
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- "President (Obama) is on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since World War II," reports National Journal's Government Executive magazine.
- In 2000, the Pentagon admitted it has lost -- yes, lost -- $2.3 trillion. In 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a subsequent Department of Defense study said it was only $1 trillion. To put such numbers in perspective, contemplate what those sums could finance. $1 trillion, for instance, could pay the total cost of universal healthcare for the long haul. $2.3 trillion would cover universal healthcare plus the bank bailout plus the stimulus package.
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- BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10 on 2009-11-28
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans Robert Temple on 2009-11-27
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Humbaba now besought his life,
And said to Gilgamesh:
'Small you were, Gilgamesh -
Your mother bore you,
And you are of the offspring of ........
Agreable to the command of Shamash
Of the Lord of the Mountains, you rose up
"But he is the offspirng
In the midst of Uruk:
The king - Gilgamesh!"
(Here three lines are missing, except that the mention of the name of Gilgamesh can
be made out twice:)
I will sit down with you and...........
Trees, as many as you already have said......
I will defend you! The wood of the myrtle................
It is enough...........
Enkidu said to him, said to Gilgamesh:
'My friend, do not listen
To what Humbaba says.'
(Here some lines are missing. A mutilated fragment published by Gernot Wilhelm in
1988 can be inserted about this point. Humbaba appears to castigate Enkidu for bringing
Gilgamesh to him:)
'...... You have led him before me!
...... splendour.'
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Clay Burell on 2009-11-27
A variant ordering, which emphasizes the aid of Shamash in bringing Gil and Enkidu to Humbaba.
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It still agrees with the details of Enkidu saying, "Don't listen to him," and Humbaba condemning Enkidu for leading Gilgamesh to the Cedar Forest.
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(Humbaba then appears to complain either to Gilgamesh or Enkidu that he did not
stay at home enjoying simple comforts:)
'Could you not marry a wife
And satisfy yourself with her voluptuousness?'
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Clay Burell on 2009-11-27
Money quote. Humbaba is the voice of civilized anxiety at the rapine of Nature. We see it in the Greeks with the Kronos / Uranos castration in Hesiod's _Theogony_.
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- 2 more annotations...
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- AKKADIAN MYTHS AND EPICS 73 on 2009-11-27
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia on 2009-11-27
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He Who Saw Everything: Verse Translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Rider):Amazon:Books on 2009-11-27
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describes the discovery of fragments which demonstrate that the play was originally performed on stage
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Clay Burell on 2009-11-27
Fascinating, if true. Gilgamesh was a _drama_? That one-ups Greece considerably. Investigate.
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Jennifer Reply:
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Thanks, Clay. It was the mid-1980s. Their take on it, IIRC, was that TX folks would only look at the index, and if they saw the word Evolution, they would put it in the “skip” pile and it wouldn’t get a second look. So they just took the word out of the index. I don’t know how accurate the actual content was (I was working on something else at the time) but my impression was that the only place the big bad “E” word was missing was from the index. I don’t remember the grade level of the science series. I also got the impression that this was pretty common practice among textbook publishers at that time.
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