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The World’s Wealth – over 200 years
This is a quite remarkable distilling of 200 years of global economic life into a four minute summary – enjoy!! http://www.flixxy.com/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes.htm
QUOTES to give us pause…
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” — e e cummings “We don’t quit laughing because we grow old. We grow old because […]
THE DONKEY
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his […]
Tobacco industry has much to fear
David Hill April 8, 2011 Plain packaging will slash smoking rates – and cigarette-makers know it. In 1967, as a fresh-faced researcher looking to make an impression in my first real job, I conducted an experiment to assess the frequency of cigarette advertising on television. I was astonished when the study revealed Melburnians were shown […]
Joy and sorrow… a heart-warming story…
Consumed by my loss, I didn’t notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend – my mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. Always supportive, Mother clapped loudest at […]
Soft sand of kindness: a nice true story
Showing compassion in a multiracial community is not difficult ¢â‚¬“ all you have to do is follow your heart.By CAPTAIN L.W. SIM AS a little boy growing up in a multi-racial fishing village in Malacca in the early 1960s, I could run freely through the houses, boat sheds, churches, temples and mosque in the vicinity. […]
Euthanasia
‘Unproductive burdens’ still have a right to live David van Gend From:The Australian March 25, 2011 12:00AM THERE was a moment during the last national debate on euthanasia that deserves to be revisited by a new generation of legislators, a moment that crystallised fears that the so-called right to die would come to be felt by […]
How to win an argument . . . like a Christian
By Guest Blogger Andy Zehner Chaplain Mike made a nice post last Friday regretting what happens when Christians get ¢â‚¬Å“political. ¢â‚¬ By adding my own bit here I affirm what he said. Anything we do from a desire to score off someone else is wrong. But there ¢â‚¬â„¢s another point I would add. It is too small a […]
The Rite Journey
Dear Principal, Head of Pastoral Care, Head of Senior School, Head of Middle School, Year 9 Co-ordinator, Interested staff This evening, ABCTV’s program 7.30 (the ‘new’ local version of Stateline) is screening a segment on a significant new educational initiative that has come out of South Australia called The Rite Journey. It is a program […]
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman Time, Feb. 21, 2011 On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that […]
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