how many different seven number combinations could you get from seventeen numbers?
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Math Question
@ 2008-06-20 – 16:27:55
how many different seven number combinations could you get from seventeen numbers?
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Downing Street petition: Dyslexia is a Thinking Style, not a Disability!
@ 2008-04-11 – 19:30:16
Dear Friends,
I am connected with an organisation called The Learning People, who have launched a UK petition on the Downing Street website to reclassify dyslexia as a thinking style rather than a disability.
You can access further information about the campaign, and sign up for newsletter updates, on our blogsite at http://www.dyslexia-gift.org.uk
If you are a UK resident or ex-pat British citizen, you can sign the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk
Please help us publicise the campaign by telling everyone you know, and by passing the word around any other relevant networking groups you subscribe to.
Our sincerest thanks,
Tatjana Lavrova
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Feel the Burn, Baby!
@ 2008-03-08 – 07:36:12
I've just been reading Violent Acres, a particularly acerbic writer on the block whose post today, Return From The Dead, cleverly points out why, in actual fact, coming down with the lurgies is actually beneficial.
"Hold on," you say, "surely being ill is a bad thing, and you should vaccinate, hygienate and isolate yourself from all known diseases?"
Well, VA doesn't think so, and I agree. A non-threatening illness like the 'flu only serves to make us grateful for when we feel healthy. As VA says:
Without hardship, we wouldn’t appreciate the calm. If we eliminated every obstacle from our path, the pure satisfaction of overcoming the odds would be forever lost to us. How can you be truly grateful for the food in your mouth if you’ve never gone hungry? How do you gain respect for life if you’ve never faced death? You can’t. You fucking can’t.
What has always amazed me is the human capacity to overcome any obstacle in life, and the ability to endure. It also explains why I treat people who tell me things are hopeless with disdain: if it wasn't hard, why bother in the first place? Hard-won experiences are precious, valuable lessons are painful not because of the human cost but because they are never forgotten. At risk of a cliche, they harden our character, teach us right from wrong, demonstrate the value of patience and provide us with insight and wisdom.
"Climb every mountain, search high and low" thus spake Mother Superior
In brief, hard lessons cost more, so they're always better. Plus, you never take anything for granted again. It seems to me that the benefits of enduring hardship, of emerging victorious from the battle of life far outweighs the costs of suffering. As Baha'u'llah says, "When the swords flash, go forward! When the shafts fly, press onward!" The additional benefit is you have a great story to tell 'round the dinner table!Tobbot, aka Tobstv
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E-Learning the future?
@ 2008-02-16 – 20:45:18
Is e-learning the future, or are we automating the process of education? Will it eliminate the function of the teacher by replacing it with a facilitator?
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