February 10, 2009 • 8:00 pm Comments Off
John Chow has a blog post about a site offering to donate 100% of the proceeds from book sales to the victims of the Australian fires. This is a worth while cause, please read and help if you can.
Read about it here:
Get 5 books for The Price of 1 And Help People Too | John Chow dot Com
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Filed under: Family, In The News , Australia
November 29, 2008 • 2:51 pm Comments Off
So, it looks like Mr. Obama isn’t as honest Abe as everyone thought. He has hired back, after the election the adviser that called Mrs. Clinton a ‘monster’.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time – Blogs from CNN.com
Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who stepped down from her post earlier this year after labeling Sen. Hillary Clinton a “monster,” is now working for the president-elect’s transition team.
Okay, so where is the change? Where is are the morals?
Filed under: Family, In The News , Obama, President
November 21, 2007 • 7:18 pm 5
This post is completely off topic for educational technology, but this news item completely hit me in my soft spot.
When I was in my 20’s I was reading the print copy of SI, it was the only copy back then, when I read about a female high school track runner who broke her leg 100 yards from the finish of her race. She was the anchor for the 4×400 relay in a state meet and was leading by a lot when she broke her leg. Not wanting to let her teammates down she crawled to the finish line.
That high school girl inspired me to do a lot of things. She showed me what loyalty, courage and guts were all about. I never thought I would see anything like it again in my lifetime, but I see it everyday in the news.
Today I add another one to my list. This one is also a female high school cross country runner in her last high school race. She also breaks her leg and crawls to the finish line. The difference here is that we are in the Internet age where we have video and access to this personally. Watch the video, (11/23 – 2am – the video feed at FOX News is currently not working. Continue to check the URL to watch it when it comes back up.) listen to the young lady. If only our whole country had the courage and guts she shows on this video, what we could accomplish!
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Filed under: Education, Family, In The News, K-12 Schools , Courage, Cross Country, Guts
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