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8/11/09 11:26 pm
Your result for TA Test : What is your driver?...
Hurry up!17% Be strong, 8% Be perfect, 17% Try Hard, 58% Hurry up and 0% Please people The basis of HURRY UP is that there is some additional virtue in doing some thing in a short time. You will probably rush at things, talk rapidly, interrupt and finish others' sentences and try and do more than time allows. You handle well in a crisis and tend to do things at the last minute. As a consequence you are often late and miss deadlines. You have poor judgement over how long and how much energy jobs require and can leave people behind (literally and metaphorically). You are prone to mistakes in terms of, poor quality and inattention to detail. Person with a driver BE PERFECT can drive you to despair. You work well when ACTUALLY under time pressure because your energy will be high... For improvement you need to think and plan ahead with regard to the REALITY of available time and have short term goals with defined standards. (bite sized jobs). Give yourself a permission to be satisfied with what can be done comfortably within the given time.
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7/29/08 12:44 am
Your result for The Batman Villain Test... PenguinPenguin 
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7/22/08 12:30 pm
Your result for The Color Code Test... Color Code: WHITE: The Peace Keeper17% Red, 29% Blue, 34% White and 20% Yellow! 
Here is the basics: For a more in depth analysis, I suggest you look up the Color Code, and take a more intensive test. WHITE MOTIVE: PEACE WHITE NEEDS: To feel good (inside), To be allowed their own space, To be respected, Tolerance. WHITE WANTS: To withhold insecurities, Kindness, Independence, Contentment. SUMMARY: Whites are motivated by peace. They will do almost anythign to avoid confrontation. They like to flow through life without hassle or discomfort. Feeling good is even more important to them then being good. Whites need kindness. They resent being scolded. They dislike harsh words. They open up instantly to people who are kind, but Whites recoil from those who are hostile. Whites prefer quiet strength. they enjoy thier quiet independence. This can often be percieved as bullheadedness. Whites like to keep a low profile. They like to be asked their opinions but they won't volunteer them. Whites are independent. Unlike Reds and Blues who want to control others, Whites seek only to avoid being controlled. They don't like to be pushed, and they can be fearsome when they finally "blow up." Whites are motivated by other peoples desires. They want suggestions however, not demands. Take The Color Code Test at HelloQuizzy
6/12/08 08:52 pm
from: "The Duty of Delight"  Dorothy Day, one of the founders of the Catholic Worker movement, kept personal diaries throughout her life. She left explicit instructions that her journals not be published or shared with the public until 25 years after her death. Day died in 1980. And now Marquette University Press has published her diaries. Edited by Robert Ellsberg, one of Day's followers from late in her life, the collection of personal reflections is titled The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day.
Fascinating reading that provides an unique look into the life and soul of Dorothy Day, activist and pilgrim.
Here's an excerpt from Ellsberg's Introduction to the collection:
If Dorothy Day is one day formally canonized, this diary will offer something quite unusual in the annals of the saints--an opportunity to follow, almost day by day, in the footsteps of a holy person. Through these writings we can trace the movements of her spirit and her quest for God. We can see her praying for wisdom and courage in meeting the challenges of her day. But we also join her as she watches television, devours mystery novels, goes to the movies, plays with her grandchildren, and listens to the opera.
Many people tend to think of saints as otherworldly heroes, close to God but not exactly human. These diaries confirm Thomas Merton's observation that sanctity is a matter of being more fully human: "This implies a greater capacity for concern, for suffering, for understanding, for sympathy, and also for humor, for joy, for appreciation for the good and beautiful things of life."
To be human is constantly to fall short of the ideals one sets for oneself. Dorothy Day was no exception. There are frequent reminders in these pages of her capacity for impatience, anger, judgment, and self-righteousness. We are reminded of these things because she herself points them out. ("Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others," she writes, "it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.") And so we are reminded too that holiness is not a state of perfection, but a faithful striving that lasts a lifetime. It is expressed primarily in small ways, day after day, through the practice of forgiveness, patience, self-sacrifice, and compassion.
This will be a good and inspiring read, I can tell already. [Order a copy of The Duty of Delight by clicking on the Amazon.com thumbnail to the right and below. Your purchase will benefit Central Dallas Ministries!]
. Labels: Catholic Worker, Christian spirituality and peacemaking, community, Dorothy Day, risk and community development, social action, social justice
5/21/08 06:57 pm
| MUSEUMS KEY TO PRESERVATION OF IDEAS SAYS MGM SURVEY | | By 24 Hour Museum Staff | 20/05/2008 |
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Museums are the best way of preserving our ideas for future generations; Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Martin Luther King are the most inspired historical figures; and the atom bomb and reality TV are the worst ideas of all time. |
These are the findings of the new Museums and Galleries Month 2008 survey, which was carried out by The Campaign for Museums and the 24 Hour Museum, and is in keeping with the theme of this year’s Museums and Galleries Month, ‘Ideas and Innovation’. The survey asked what are the best and worst innovations of all time? Who is the most inspired figure in history? Where have you had your best idea, and how should we preserve today’s ideas and innovations for future generations? Perhaps predictably the wheel was voted as the greatest ever idea or innovation, with 32% of votes, while the Internet was close behind at 23%. Interestingly, only 5% of respondents over the age of 40 voted for the internet, with the strongest support for the web coming from the under 30s. Other innovations on the list included penicillin, equal rights for women and the pill. |
Charles Darwin. Courtesy Bromley Council |  |
Support for museums proved strong amongst participants in all age groups, with almost half naming museums as the best way of preserving our best ideas for the future. “Museums and galleries play a unique role in preserving and displaying some of the greatest innovations and ideas in the history of mankind, and this survey shows that people continue to value them as a source of inspiration,” said Loyd Grossman, Chairman of the Campaign for Museums. Libraries also had a strong showing, doing particularly well in the younger age groups, contrary perhaps to some of our stereotypes. Only 15% of people – the majority of whom were male – felt that digital records were the best method for preserving our ideas. In response to the question of which person from history is responsible for the best ideas, Leonardo da Vinci was the clear favourite across both sexes and all age groups, with 27% of the vote. |
 | Leonardo da Vinci - the Leonardo Initiative includes one of the most comprehensive websites ever devoted to Leonardo Da Vinci. © Leonardo Initiative |
Darwin was particularly popular amongst men, with 32% of male respondents naming him as their first choice as we approach the 200th anniversary of his birth. Fifth place was shared by two feminist icons – Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Wollstonecraft, with support for both coming almost entirely from women. “The survey results offer a fascinating insight also into the figures and ideas from the past which are most significant to us," said Campaign for Museums Chair, Loyd Grossman. "It raises some interesting questions about how we will preserve our own ideas and innovations for the future.” The survey also asked where people had their best ideas, and this generated a range of responses, proving that time spent on the train or in the bath is not necessarily wasted. |
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5/21/08 06:42 pm
I know that obvious in her LJ handle ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stargzr_htn keeps her eyes more skyward and less Jurassic these days, I thought she still might find this of interest.
| JURASSIC COAST FOSSIL WARDEN WARNS AGAINST CLIMBING ON LANDSLIDE | | By Caroline Lewis | 20/05/2008 |
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Following the recent dramatic landslide at Charmouth on the Jurassic Coast, the summer fossil warden has gone out ranging over the beaches early this year. |
Warden Stuart Godman was due to start patrolling the Dorset beaches around Charmouth and Lyme Regis in July, but since the landslide is attracting many fossil hunters now, he has started his rounds already. Employed by the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team and Dorset County Council's Countryside Team, Stuart will be available most weekends and the half term until June, after which he will be on the fossil-laden beaches full-time for the summer holidays. His job is to help people discover the amazing story of fossils, but also to warn them of the dangers of chipping away at the cliffs. "It is essential that people collect fossils responsibly and do not climb where there is an ever-present danger of rock falls and mudflows," he explained. After the massive landslide at Black Ven (between Lyme and Charmouth) on May 6 2008, there are risks from rock falls and also a danger of being cut off by the tide. The West Dorset coast contains mudflows, and newly exposed debris from an old landfill site now poses an extra hazard. Some collectors have recently been climbing onto the slip that fell, much to the concern of local authorities and emergency services. |
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Stuart is urging fossil hunters to stay away from the unstable scree slope – which doesn't contain the right kind of rock for fossils to be lurking in, at any rate. "The best and safest place to find fossils is on the beach where the sea has done all the hard work, washing away the soft mud to leave well-preserved fossils in the sand and gravel," he said. "This will be the case with the new landslip. Rough weather will wash away the fallen rocks to uncover the fossils on the beach." "This new landslide will also cut off the beach walk with the incoming tide sooner than people may expect." The landslide is testimony to the very nature of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site – it was a natural event of the type that plays an integral part of the ever-changing environment along the coast. It is this rock movement that makes the Dorset and East Devon coast famous for its geology, fossils and coastal processes. Stuart will be based at Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, and will range as far at Monmouth Beach in the west and Seatown in the east. Last year, the first year the post was in place, there was a significant reduction in the number of holes caused by digging in the cliffs. |
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4/18/08 09:33 pm
http://www.pinktentacle.com/ 18 Apr 2008 Kage-e (”shadow pictures”) — a popular form of Edo-period woodblock print — were appreciated by children and adults and commonly used as party gags. These pictures consist of two parts: a “shadow” image and a “real” image. The shadow image, which typically bears the shape of a common, easily identifiable object, is viewed first. The real image, viewed second, reveals the surprising true identity of the shadow. Here’s a nice example by ukiyoe master Kuniyoshi (ca. 1852). It shows what appear to be the silhouettes of goldfish… 
But look again… 
It’s a flying tanuki crushing a hunter under the weight of its mammoth testicles. Here are a few more kage-e by Hiroshige (ca. 1842). The shadows cast on shoji doors belong to men in interesting poses. 
Pine tree
Uguisu (Japanese bush warbler) on a plum branch
Salt-dried fish
Kettle
Hawk
Stone lantern
Goose on a rock
[Related: Joge-e: Two-way pictures]
4/16/08 06:18 pm
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/16/shenzen-travelogue-g.html
  Animator and comics artist Guy Delisle's travelogue Shenzhen is a fascinating, meandering look at one of China's most storied new cities: Shenzhen, the enormous, lightspeed boom-town factory megalopolis just the other side of Hong Kong. Delisle was stationed there as a supervisor for some animation that had been outsourced to China, and he dwelt there in an introspective solitude, drawing and writing about the city as he inhabited his own mind. I'm endlessly fascinated by these Chinese new cities (I'm working on a novel that's partly set in them), where buildings can grow by a storey a day, where people flock from the countryside to do information-age labor at pre-industrial wages, where commerce and control wage an endless war for dominance in the most populous nation on Earth. Shenzhen is a really lovely, idiosyncratic, first hand warts-and-all account of the city as seen through the eyes of foreigner. The good, bad and ugly are here, built around Delisle's running account of the daring food adventures he takes himself on. Link
4/16/08 05:18 pm
My Personality
| | | Neuroticism | | Extraversion | | Openness to Experience | | Agreeableness | | Conscientiousness | |
| Wyrmwwd is not to sure about some of my results, well what can I say.
You do not feel nervous in social situations, and have a good impression of what others think of you, however mostly your emotions are on an even keel and you do not get depressed easily. You lead a moderately paced life. You like some energetic activities, but also like to relax and take it easy. Generally you are not considered to be an emotional person, however you are aware of and in touch with your emotions. You are mostly a compassionate person, however you prefer to make objective judgments when possible, however you are not adverse to confrontation and will sometimes even intimidate others to get your own way. You are not an overly cautious person. You will think about alternatives and consequences but make up your mind fairly quickly.
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3/29/08 04:12 pm
What Japanese Creature are you?
Congratulations! You're a kitsune baby!!! Wily, cunning, seductive, vampiric, femenine, and possibly gay (yay!)... There are a thousand adjectives we could use to describe this sexy/furry critter. Kitsune are some of the more powerful spirits out there, and you're one of 'em! (At least figuratively). These shapeshifting spirits love to cast illusions on weary humans and love seducing those big burly samurai and emperors into doing whatever it is they want. Go you!
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1/10/08 09:28 am
This is especially for joplatypus, fozmerican. And the rest of us who love words and phrase from other places.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/10/woz110.xml
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