Peaceful Earth Dynamic

NO PARTICULAR REASON for posting this. Just because I like(d) this.

Bad Credit - How Do Open Lines Of Credit And Accounts Affect My Score?

It also will depend on the model of credit assessment whether an open account affects your credit score negatively or not. This means that for some lenders an open account will equal a negative factor and for others it may be positive. Thus, finding a balance may be difficult but it is not impossible provided that you understand how to maintain some sort of equilibrium between open accounts and the balances on them.

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8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher | So You Want To Teach?

Now that I am pretty adequate at getting children to be and stay quiet throughout class so that I can teach them, I run the risk of slacking off and stagnating in my teaching technique. The whole if it’s not broke, don’t fix it mentality could very easily take over.

Increasing Alexa Ratings - Does it Matter?

Flickr Photo Download: McCommunism

Amit and Polina do China: McCommunism / learn chinese

"If the Vader-Luke-Hand Scene Had Been Shot In Retrospect" on Google Video
If the Vader-Luke-Hand Scene Had Been Shot In Retrospect

Publishers fail to spot plagiarized Jane Austen | Oddly Enough | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Even Jane Austen would have trouble finding a publisher today, a struggling author revealed Thursday.

David Lassman sent off to 18 publishers assorted chapters from Austen novels in which he changed just the titles and the names of the characters.

He called himself Alison Laydee after Austen's early pseudonym "A Lady."

Seventeen publishers rejected or ignored his bid for literary glory. Only one spotted the ruse and told him not to mimic "Pride and Prejudice" so closely.

Lassman, who decided on the experiment when struggling to get his own novel published, told British media: "Getting a novel accepted is very difficult today unless you have an agent first. But I had no idea of the scale of rejection poor old Jane suffered."

Chinese actress most widely read blogger in world

Chinese actress "most widely read blogger in world"

Hi Readers,

Earlier, I did a review on a lesson I did this Spring semester with writing students on similes and metaphors HERE. I thought my students did fairly well.

What I’ve reprinted below (including the intro paragraph) came into my mail today: these are NOT from my students (can also be found HERE--thanks, Femmebot). Note that most of these are really analogies.

I found some of them hilarious though and, as some commenters have pointed out, covertly ingenious is some cases. Anyway, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing examples of--what I assume to be--unintentionally silly / mixed metaphors. My colleague suggested that it would be nice if writing students would at least indulge in this much creativity from time to time!

*Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners . . .

*[Please click HERE to read the rest of this blog-entry]*

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http://www.esl-school.com

ESL-School is absolutely chock-full of helpful advice and hints on running your ESL operation in a more efficient and productive manner. It says this about itself "What ESL Employers, Administrators, School Owners and Hiring Managers need to know . . . " Even the comments, from other ESL experts in the field, are fascinating.

http://www.esl-jobs-forum.com

ESL-Jobs-Forum is a place "Where New and Seasoned EFL and ESL Professionals Come Together To Network. Join us to "Share. Listen [and] Learn." Among the many "hot" topics of discussion are issues of discrimination in ESL/EFL, problems getting one's foot in the door in reputable institutions, keeping the job, job advancement, worthy teaching resources and more.

 

 

http://www.eslemployment.com

ESL employment is a new initiative in the ESL/EFL field designed to provide full access to employment opportunities for the job seeker and simplify the recruiting and employee staffing process for employers. ESL employment provides a resource that is user-friendly, intuitive and focused. By solely targeting the ESL/EFL job market, ESL employment has created an optimal solution for today's rapidly growing English language employment needs.

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Definitely NOT for nationalists.

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One Planet / One People. Need more be said? National boundaries are an insane, outdated, counter-productive concept.
Let there be peace, sanity, prosperity and serenity. Let there be goodwill.
This teacher's mission: to promote values that embrace education, progress, tolerance and understanding.

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Searching for Sanity beyond the Self!