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(This is a much-shortened version of the original article.)   August 5, 2010 , By Jason   1. Know what you’re getting into Facebook is a business. Facebook will always be free . But there is a cost. Facebook’s Privacy Policy - a short version: everything you post, every person you friend, every group you join will be made public to your “friends”, “friends of your friends” or “everyone”—depending on your privacy settings. 2. Secure your PC What does 500,000,000 people on one website look like? To cybercriminals, it looks like a gigantic, unsecured goldmine. Updated Internet security is a must. 3. Use a unique, strong password Create a complex password. Here’s a simple password system we recommend . You should also use different passwords for your all of your various accounts. Never let browser remember your password. Lock your PC when you step away from it. 4. Filter your friends So ask yourself this: Does everyone you email need to be your Facebook frie...

• If someone raises an issue, ask them a question about what they have raised so they know you have heard and are listening. • Set a time for private discussion. • Don't second guess the other person • Don't reinterpret what they are saying, let them have their own point. • If it's confrontational tell them you need time to digest the information. • Standing up to a bully. In a public space say, Why are you bullying me? Why does it give you satisfaction to keep bullying me? Please leave me in peace. If it carries on the teacher must confront the bully in front of the class, and the class must discuss it. • You need to learn how to do something other than counter-attack.

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Companies having funds set aside for sexual discrimination cases that give equal amounts of money to each party's defence.

D ~ Describe the situation E ~ Express how you feel S ~ State what you want K ~ Know the possible outcomes

1. Stand up for what’s right. If you’ve had a glass too many, let a designated driver take you home. 2. Stand up to corruption. Don’t bribe. 3. Stand up for morality. Report crime. 4. Stand up for your community. Get to know your neighbours. 5. Stand up against indifference. Take an interest in those around you. 6. Stand up for free speech. Listen to the other side. 7. Stand up for your future. Respect the environment. 8. Stand up for education. Read to your children. 9. Help instead of Hinder. Say yes when asked to do a favour, don’t look for excuses. 10. Acknowledge goodness. When you have something good to say, say it.

getting elected officials to pay attention to your issue, advice from an official officials operate on reputation and preservation of self they are getting broadcast to all the time via email and phoned and meetings and contributions letters work, staff picks them out but the officials read a few handwritten, once a month - they will call you when the issue comes up four-paragraph format - what do you appreciate; what's on my mind (attack tactics not the person); give them an exit (you needed this information so you could do the right thing); here is the information or what information do you need signature - establish your influence original to district, copy to headoffice

Aristotle - Justice is giving people what they deserve. Then we argue about who deserves. The flute should go to the best flute player. What was the thing meant to do? A flute was built to produce great music. The qualities that are worth recognising and honoring the deservee. Contemporary - Golfcart, and a man who is disabled, can't walk well. Pro (golfer says give him the cart) - its not part of the game. Con (non golfer says don't give it to him) - stamina counts. Courts decided to give cart because it's about hitting the ball, but one of them said no... you can't determine the nature of golf - because the nature of golf is amusement, fun, not productive activity. Are rules arbitrary, or are they there to bring out the finesses of the game? What about fairness? Obvious solution. Let everyone ride in a cart. But the real problem of the golfcart was What abilities are worthy of recognition and honor? Golfers are sensitive about the athletic status of their game.... Yo...

fashion industry doesn't have copyright, you can copy someone's design under your own protected trademark with impunity clothes are too utilitarian was the reason it was decided it shouldn't be protected they are 'influenced' by the broadest pallettes - everyone else's ideas - a culture of copying copyright thinking goes that if there's no ownership, there's no incentive to create... crap designers contstantly sue people copying them, and they lose Tom Ford - The counterfeit customer is not our customer, (so we aren't worrying about copying). virtues of copying - breathes life into old trends, vast pallette, trends get established more quickly induced obsolescence accellerates change, initiates innovation designers create a signature look and everyone knows when they are being copied jokes can't be copyrighted, food can't be copyrighted, cars can't be copyrighted, furniture, magic, hairdos, opensource software, databases, tattoo ...

she noticed that the hunger goes with insecurity and that the poorest nations of the world were also the most angry looked into school feeding programs - gets kids to school and nourishes them poverty and hunger leads to child malnurition versus education and nourished children leads to end of poverty feedbag - each bag sold would schoolfeed a kid for year - 55 million kids fed for a year what are you doing for Anericas kids - 49 million kids are hungry, one third are obese - a billion people around the world are obese agriculture - consolidated farming - corn soy and wheat. But America doesn't export a good system and systems around the world are deteriorating. Farmers in America are fat, farmers elsewhere are starving America's farming system has led to obesity, not to mention sodas in the developing world is going to America's system and becoming obese agriculture and obesity are one system, not separate the 30 Project - long-term ideas for food system change, c...

Notes courtesy of a friend, who may want to be credited, but she should let me know. :) need alkaline not acid.  lemon alkaline and apples, all fruit and veg alkaline. Eat peel. Wash fruit and veg with warm water.  use salt in hot water also for cauliflower and broccoli. Not that high. 4-12 alk sweet potato 9.8, 9 orange, asparagus grapes cauliflower broccoli carrot potato egg plant 4.6, egg white 4.8...below 4 tomato celery seaweed, high iodine fix thyroid and thick blood problems. Diabetics. Breast cancer. Prevent cardiovascular probs and high blood pressure. acid: all meat, incl chicken and fish 2 portion acid: 3 portion alk kumquats for colon cancer and grapes mango for colon, not if you have skin probs papaya stomach and lymph, yeast for digest strawberry good colon watermelon great all cancer peach high in iron pear good for lungs, liver dry nose throat gout cough cook tomato for more vitamins banana very ripe more vitamins, good for hear...

Some 21s lists that I made up, more at my website 21 ways to get over being dumped Go on a wild kissing spree Arrange a dinner party every Friday night from then on Stop talking about it, eventually you will kill the synapse that used to think about it Take up a new sport or exercise routine Join a club Start a club Write a book about what to do to get over being dumped - not one of those new age things, a horror where your ex dies in the end Hunt down someone the complete antithesis of your ex, and flirt outrageously Start a new business, something you have always wanted to do - or at least take the first step. Make a list of all the things your ex prevented you from doing, and do all of those things - every day. Dump your boring old therapist that got you into this mess, and get a new one. Take a trip to a white beach 21 most obnoxious famous people Tom Cruise Anthony Quinn Clark Gable George Bush Mel Gibson 21 ways to lose weight Sweat and Starve - exercise and...

Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions... The short version of the story so far: School had a fake prom and sent Ceara Sturgis - the lesbian - and disabled students - to the fake prom while parents organised a secret offsite prom and invited the rest of the student body; left her out of the yearbook despite the fact that she is an honors student (drug dealers are in the yearbook); tortured, marginalised, stigmatised . I think the morality of the hatemongers that would do these things to Sturgis is questionable. They think they are standing up against a declining morality. I think the hatemongers are the leaders of the decline. They think that their children will not be gay because they fear the reaction of their parents. I think the hatemongers' children will be fearful and gay. They think they are standing up for God's word. I think the hatemongers are the definition of what God does not want. They think they are showing their children what is right. I think the...

• Eat Pray Love writer • people ask her if she's ever afraid she can't top her success - Yes • chemical engineers never get asked if they can top their success - why do creatives have a reputation for instability • and there is a deathcount of creatives who died at their own hands • creativity and suffering are linked • in history you had a brilliant daemon who was the source of your genius and looked after you and prevented you from having to take advantage of your talent • now it's become your responsibility, your burden to be brilliant • Olé was originally Allah and gods name was part of events and joy • Olé for having the stubborness to show up and be creative

• a wise man knows when and how to make the exception to every rule • doesn't have to slavishly follow policy • real-world problems are dynamic • you need permission to try new things, to fail, and to learn from failure • "We hate to do it but we must follow procedure" - spares you from thinking • first tool - rules, second rules - incentives - what else, because these don't work • moral skill is chipped away by overreliance on rules, incentivism stops us from exercising our morality • scripts for teachers because we don't trust them - rules prevent disaster but ensure mediocrity • incentives put people in mind of how they can serve themselves - demoralises activities, they lose morale, and the activity loses morality • DO celebrate and acknowledge moral exaplars (Atticus Finch, moral heroes), ask people around you to celebrate moral heroes • employees should be inspired by their superiors • find ordinary heroes • be ordinary heroes • nurture moral sk...

• using their fingers. Gestures • wants a system whereby consumers can get info immediately when they are wandering around to info -  wirelessly access info networks, take pictures, project onto a wall, new in newspaper, scores on score sheet • contraversially, projections onto people infor about them • draw a watch on your arm

• children's natural curiosity makes them investigate Mullins' box of 12 legs • prosthetics are no longer a sign of disability, now the possibilities have become 'augmentation' • 'formerly disabled' are now leaders in physical augmentation

she is a game developer, game designer her goal 'to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save it in games' and to persuade more people, including the audience, to spend more time playing goals to solve the worlds problems we must spend 20 billion hours of games per week epic win is an outcome you never thought you would be capable of, we want to see epic win face on problem solvers her phd why we are better in games than in real life motivated to do something that matters, by collaborating, stickwithitness gamers never feel like they can't do it, what makes them so sure there are lots of characters willing to trust you at your current level there's always something specific to be done tons of collaborators all around there's an inspiring story of why gamers are there in the game lots of feedback in terms of achievements it's so nice to be on the verge of an epic win all the time that they don't want to be in the real world ...

Crazy PCness Crazy lawsuits People are too scared to act on their own best judgment Hindsight bias is always perfect so you can always say that person did something wrong Risk would be no more (fantastical nonsense) Defensive medicine - terrified doctors order up to 200 billion dollars worth of unnecessary tests, fear makes them paralysed and they are afraid to act, contents are hot labels on coffee, fishing lure packet says harmful if swallowed Education - 60 steps to suspend a child, teachers spend 43% of their time trying to maintain order, lawsuits by students if they do maintain order, corrosion of authority, banned running during breaks Government - no pebble left unturned to get projects going, and decades of lawsuits by people who don't agree Law - is not trusted, inconsistent, overdetailed Playground - there will be no seesaws because Values - in our attempt to eliminate bad values, we created a world where people can't have good values. Accountability - you...

When there's a group i want to belong to that promotes a certain moral imperative, how do I choose?  The first way I decide on which of two similar groups to belong to, is 'how many members'. The second way is 'how much communication the creator creates'. Granted the dealbreaker is the quality of the communication, but numbers are powerful.  It takes stamina and guts to speak alone. Support is a gift. Support has an effect on an advocate's confidence. If there are no advocates because the cynics stifled them, how would our world look? Activists are advocates. If activism is not your thing, fine, it's not everyone's thing. But don't use cynicism's power to withdraw support.