Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence…Robert Frost
What might you learn today because you chose to listen without judgement?
This site is a fantastic resource with many guided meditations, ready for you to use.
Every person must answer to their own reflection.
“If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.” ~Bill McCartney~ This includes the promises you make to yourself. Do you know yourself as someone who keeps their word?
The Curtoons Cartoon Company, a cartoon division and brand of Shaggy Duck™ Studios, is owned by professional cartoonist and logo designer Curtis D. Tucker (below), who has been rolling out funny cartoon characters since 1980 when he created Joe Vacation’s Family Album in Mrs. Trojan’s homeroom class.
Mr. Tucker a.k.a. Shaggy D has a Bachelors degree in Graphic Advertising Design from the University of Central Oklahoma. He began his career in the t-shirt business as a silk screen printer and eventually became the Director of Advertising for a large company in Enid, Oklahoma.
All the while, Curtis continued to create cartoon characters for clients in the evenings and built up a large customer base. He eventually quit his director’s position to devote full time to Shaggy Duck™ Studios and it’s many brands.
The first brand created was The Curtoons Cartoon Company. Curtoons went online in May 1999 and has become the premier cartoon logo design company on the Internet, creating logos for clients in almost every major country in the world.
I recently bought one of their designs and it is sent in many handy formats plus Curtis is a pleasure to do business with. A very hands on, personal experience. Thank you Curtis.
Healing is not just something that “happens” and now you are well. It is very often, perhaps usually, a journey, a process. Just as Dis-ease is a process, a result, an effect of some cause, not usually just something that “happens.” Both Healing and Dis-ease really reflect Life, which is also a process, a Journey, a Learning.
Of the two, Healing and Dis-ease, it seems that Dis-ease is the “default” mode, that which comes most easily and is most likely to occur. I am sure there are lots of reasons: sin, the Creation groaning until the Son of Man is revealed (Romans, in the Bible), selfishness, self-seeking of pleasure at multiple levels (another cookie, anyone?), genetics, toxins, trauma, etc.
Healing is, by definition, the “Recovery” Mode, usually arrived at via a reactionary process to the Dis-ease state when it is recognized.
Both Healing and Dis-ease have Acute (sudden, unexpected) phases, times when they do just seem to show up or “happen” without any obvious cause. On the Dis-ease side maybe it is the allergic response to the cat that you never knew about, or the broken arm from playing pickup football on an afternoon. On the Healing side we would call the sudden episode a “Miracle” or “spontaneous remission”. When thinking about Healing, this latter is perhaps what is most often hoped for, aimed at, defined as “Healing.”
However, it is the Chronic aspect of both Dis-ease and Healing that offer the most interesting points of discussion, and growth. Chronicity implies continued, regular activity or behavior over an extended time, producing a particular result.
Read more about this at Jon’s blog: http://goodheartgroup.blogspot.com
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
How can you help?
We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.
Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: “Blackle.com – Saving energy one search at a time”.
There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling “energy saving tips” or visit treehugger.com a great blog dedicated to environmental awareness.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”…Anonymous
What have you given up on that you could restart?
If you’re tired of all the negativity on the news…your Personal Peace Impact Meter is the best positive news around…AND…it’s news you control. So if you’ve ever wanted to do something about all the horrible things reported on the news, you can. Just…activate your Personal Peace Impact Meter right now!
This too will pass.
Notice that the only constant in life, is change. You can count on change. If something seems dismal today, the whole situation could turn around in an instance. With awareness of that knowledge, how would you respond differently to some of your current situations?
Google Alerts are emails automatically sent to you when there are new Google results for your search terms. We currently offer alerts with results from News, Web, Blogs, and Groups.
Google Alerts currently offers 5 variations of alerts – ‘News’, ‘Web’, ‘Blogs’, ‘Groups’, and ‘Comprehensive’.
Simply visit the Google Alerts home page, enter your search, the type of alert you’d like (News, Web, etc.), how often you’d like us to check for results, and your email address. You can create and confirm your Alert in one visit on your “Manage Yours Alerts” page. To access this page, you’ll need a Google Account. To create your account, click the link at the bottom of the Google Alerts home page or visit the Google Accounts home page directly.
The frequency you select when you set up your alert determines how often we check for new results, not necessarily how often you’ll receive alerts. If you select “once a day,” we’ll check for new results once a day, which means you’ll get a maximum of one email per day. If you choose the “as it happens,” we’ll check for new results continuously and send you an alert whenever we find a new result.
Despite what has been believed as irrefutable biological truth, there is now a body of evidence that suggests that we didn’t have the full picture. The study of Epigenetics shows that changes which occur to you as a result of your environment and behavior can be passed on to future generations. We don’t fully understand “the how” yet, but the evidence of this phenomenon seems quite clear.
And no, these changes don’t have anything to do with the way you treat your kids. They have everything to do with how you treat yourself.
For example, a cancer you get today could have been triggered by your great grand-mothers exposure to an industrial poison.
The passing of these non-genetic traits has been observed now across multiple generations of mice.
The implications are huge.
If these findings are right, then everything you do …
… what you eat, your use of recreational chemicals (including alcohol and tobacco), where you live, your moods, your stress levels …
All of these things can not only affect your health, but any adverse (or favorable) affects could be passed on to future generations as well.
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to change your lifestyle, I don’t think you’ll find a better one than that.
Source: http://www.markjoyner.name/logs/
Over 1 million people have attended Andrew’s seminars and keynote speeches across Australia, Asia and North America. His presentations are laced with humour and he draws lightning-fast cartoons as he speaks!
Andrew’s talent is in making complex issues simple, and he relates to CEO’s, middle management and high school students with equal ease. He entertains while providing audiences with the tools and inspiration to live more successful and more prosperous lives.
Many of Andrew’s books are also used as training manuals and reference books by psychologists and psychiatrists the world over. In the USA there are even university courses based on his books.
He has appeared on 3,000 radio and TV programs on 4 continents. Andrew is a much sought after speaker worldwide.
Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it…Brian Tracy
What could you do more of?
You may finish Unleashing the Ideavirus thinking that you really did not learn anything drastically new, yet it is unlikely that you will feel that you’ve wasted your time. This book cleverly packages important ideas that have obvious practical use.
Priorities come before goals.
You need to have as much of a clean slate as possible before you have space to create. It may be worth perusing the Clean Sweep program at www.forwardsteps.com.au before moving ahead with new goals and targets. You’ll move forward with greater power.
A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then, to make them searchable, transformed into text using “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched.