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Hope for Rural America

It's been quite a while since I moved away from my childhood home in rural Georgia. I love living in a larger town and enjoying all that comes along with that; restaurants that don't serve anything "country fried," diverse people to be around and Internet above dial-up speeds but there is a certain charm to being "home." On a recent visit, I was thrilled to hear about Wild Blue Internet. Finally, I can spend time… Continue

Added by Howard Strang on November 6, 2009 at 4:10pm — No Comments

I love blogging ...some blogging tips for you

Use your blog like twitter, through out the day post small segments you can even write them about what you are doing. Make interesting content Make friends without bloggers If you want a free blog go to google sign up for a free email then sign up for blogger tada you are in business check out my blog… Continue

Added by Ruthie Appleby on October 7, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

New here just wanted to say hi to everyone :)

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Added by Ruthie Appleby on September 7, 2009 at 9:34pm — 1 Comment

Integrating Technology and Teacher Collaboration

April 24, 2009

Integrating Technology and Teacher Reflections by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on April 23, 2009 at 6:19am — No Comments

DOD are developing

DOD are developing military software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight. The Ipod is becoming the U.S. Military's new secret weapon.

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Added by zenzer on April 20, 2009 at 2:19am — No Comments

Social Media Networks

In the golden age of the record album friends would gather around the hi-fi system to share the latest music, most of them not paying a cent. Today, music fans do pretty much the same thing — online, in social networks. But now, just about none of them pay.

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Added by vaselek on April 10, 2009 at 3:55am — No Comments

The Occupation-Matrix: Kids Cancer

حدثتني زوجتي مؤخرا بعد عودتها من زيارة للبلاد عن الارتفاع الملحوظ لعدد الاطفال المصابين بالسرطان و ذلك عن طريق ملاحظة اهل قريبه لنا مصابة بالثليسيميا تغير دمها في نابلس و القسم المعني بجانب قسم السرطان منذ ذلك وانا منشغل بهذا الموضوع و بحثت عن اوراق او احصائيات تعالج هذه الظاهرة بالانترنت فلم اجد بحسن الصدفة تلقيت اليوم الاميل ادناه بينما البارحة تداونا موضوع السرطان الرأسمالي اتمنى ان تجدو علاقة بين مبادئ الاقتصاد الموجِّه للصناعة (من يصنع و يستورد هم منا وليسو من المريخ) و بين علاقة الناس ب… Continue

Added by Jafra (Wael Al Saad) on February 21, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Die Freiheit aus einer palästinensichen Sicht

Die Welt muss kappieren, dass die Welt nicht erst seit der Gründung des "Staats" Israel begann. MMn die ganze "Staatlichung" der Arabischen Welt hat damals, nur damit ein Staat für den Juden in Palästina ensteht, stattgefunden. So haben die Kolonialmächte gewollt ~ teile und herrsche . Die UN war und ist ein anderer Form der Kolonialisierung. Man siehe, die Erfindung-von-Staaten-Lösung war schliesslich nur eine "temporäre" Lösung für die Zionisten und die Mächtige Welt. Die ganze Arabische Welt… Continue

Added by Jafra (Wael Al Saad) on February 21, 2009 at 1:25am — No Comments

My Blog Has Moved!

I'm having more fun with this blogging business than I expected I would. But the blog on the Internet Time Community is limited in features. I have setup a new blog site and will be migrating the posts from this blog over there. Come visit the new site at http://jlmorris.wordpress.com/, where you will not be required to create an account to leave a comment. Yeah! You can also "subscribe" (look over in the right hand margin.) Subscribing doesn't cost a… Continue

Added by John Morris on February 3, 2009 at 9:04pm — No Comments

منظمة التحرير أين و ما الحل؟

م ت ف هي جزء مهم جدا جدا من تاريخ النضال الفلسطيني و المكرسه لاي تطور جديد و لانجازاتها كل التقدير لكن بشكلها الحالى اصبحت للاسف معطل لهذا النضال منظمة التحرير بشكلها الان كممثل شرعي ووحيد للشعب الفلسطيني هو شعار وهمي انتهت مدته لم يعد يتناسب مع مفاهيم العصر و المستقبل -ام نريد حل قضايانا بفاهيم الماضي ؟- لان مفهوم التمثيل و القيادة تطور الى حد كبير لينقلب على الانظمة المغلقة و يثبت عجزها . للاسف عنق الزجاجه القيادية الابواتيه الذي جعل منا قبائل لم يطور استراتيجية و ادوات تتراكب مع تطور العلم و… Continue

Added by Jafra (Wael Al Saad) on February 1, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

هل القوة هي مفتاح العدل و السلام الحقيقيين؟

بعد مجازر غزه زادت دعوات و افكار التوحد بشكل ملحوظ و هذه بوادر خير و يدل على جم الذخيرة الفكرية لشعبنا المعطاء. بمعظم كتاباتي و افكاري انوه على ضرورة استحداث ادوات هذا العطاء لنستطيع (اعادة) تشريح قضيتنا بدقة بشكل متكامل علمي و منظم من كل الجوانب و من كل وجهات النظر الفلسطينية مستغلين خاصية تواجدنا منذ اجيال بأماكن مختلفة حاملين ثقافات و خبرات مختلفة بجانب الدعم الشعبي العالمي الذي سيوفر لنا كل الظروف و الامكانيات لنشق طريق وحدتنا مع اننا لا نحتاج لاحد فعلا .. اذ لا يجوز الاكتفاء بالوعي الفردي ف… Continue

Added by Jafra (Wael Al Saad) on January 28, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Proof of Effort

At some point it was suggested my unexpected period of unemployment was also an opportunity. In that conversation I started dreaming about what could possibly be the most wild thing that could happen out of this layoff… Being November and just after an unprecedented US Presidenti… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 26, 2009 at 10:36pm — No Comments

Golden Fleece Award Candidate?

When the Golden Fleece Award was created in 1975 by then US Senator from Wisconsin, William Proxmire, it was intended to point out waste in government spending. I still have memories of hearing about $1000 hammers and $5000 toilet seats on submarines. The award was used to highlight attempts by government officials to "fleece" the public by showing invoices supported by itemized billings, but when examined more closely added up to taxpa… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 25, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

What's wrong with this picture?

Although 24,600 HP employees are expected to lose their jobs in 2009 bringing his total "body count" to a cool 40,000 in just three years, 2008 was a good year for CEO Mark Hurd. From the Associated Press via the MIT Technology Review, "HP chief Hurd got pay valued at $34 million in '08". A few clips... SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Under three years of Mark Hurd's leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co. has added more than $30 billion in sales, se… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 22, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Still Sitting at the Crossroads

I'm inspired again today by another of Jessica Hagy's Indexed pictures.

Although I might replace the "fast food" label with either "job search" or "Wal-Mart greeter" (my son knows this as my tongue-in-cheek later-in-life alternative to… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 22, 2009 at 8:05am — No Comments

EXTRA! Update on GMAT

This just in… I have received the final score on my GMAT and it was stellar! I knew the writing portion would be the best of three but had no idea I'd do THIS well. I received six out of six points… I aced it! GMAT has three components and they are delivered in the following order during a 255 minute period - writing analysis (essay), quantitative skills, verbal skills. The writing analysis, the part I did so well in, is scored separately from the quantitative and verbal skills because i… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 21, 2009 at 2:15pm — No Comments

House for Sale

I've been working hard to get my home ready for sale. It was listed on the MLS yesterday. The link is active, but only a minimum amount of information has been populated, my agent will be updating this over the next few days. I expect to be on a "realtor tour" next week and am hoping for a quick sell. This past weekend the weather in Corvallis almost hit 60 degrees. Since the paint requires 50 degrees for application, we took adva… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 21, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Well, That's Over With…

Ok, I intentionally made that title ambiguous. Intentionally ambiguous to reflect my insecurity about whether I've made a bad choice to pursue additional education. The testing center for the GMAT was very nice and I quickly forgot that I had paid twice for something many people avoid like the plague, to take a standardized college entrance exam. The mere fact that I knew what I was getting into and did it anyway should be a badge of courage, right? Maybe not. I knew going in that I have better… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 16, 2009 at 8:54am — No Comments

Aaaarghhhh!!!

Today was my GMAT test date in Eugene. Scott wanted to go along and so did Fergus. So the three of us loaded into the car and took the 60 minute drive to University of Oregon testing center. Scott dropped me off and did some shopping. He also walked Fergus around campus and got quite a bit of attention from numerous coeds… I tried to tell Scott that Fergus is a "chic magnet" and now he knows what that means. To take advantage of my presence on campus and to increase my "memorability" to a few of… Continue

Added by John Morris on January 14, 2009 at 9:52pm — 2 Comments