Please remember to send in a post about homeschooling for the next Carnival of Homeschooling. The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held here at The Foodie Army Wife.
This will be the 423rd edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.
The latest Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is at Joyous Lessons.
This week I'm hosting the Carnival of homeschooling for the 3rd time. Hooray! I love reading all the entries that I receive and I hope you do as well.
I love reading what other homeschoolers are doing so that I can gleam new ideas or solve some of my own problems and get new resources. There's so many great resources out there and it's all for free, the problem I have is keeping up with so many blogs.
We're getting into the dead and cold of winter, it has been such a cold winter for us here we don't want to let the kids out. It's that cold. My dog runs out to use the washroom, and runs right back in. This is my energetic Labrador retriever who would rather play outside than come in. Yes, that's how cold it is.
Which also means that we shouldn't really have any distractions from homeschooling right? Well, we shouldn't anyways, but I find myself getting into a homeschooling lull after the holidays so we're having fun playing board games and enjoying some family time together while the books can wait. Do you get those winter blues after the holidays? Well, perhaps you need some encouragement.
Thirteen years ago when Janine and I started homeschooling we were a bit cautious about telling people. Partly it was because we were still learning the value of homeschooling. After a couple years we become more comfortable about how the education experiment was going and we were more confident about the value of homeschooling. We could see great benefits to our children, and to the other homeschoolers we hung out with.
Today Janine and I are willing to bring up the topic of homeschooling in a conversation when it is appropriate. Whereas ten years ago we might have tried steering the conversation on to other topics. Now that we have become sold on homeschooling and recognize the many great benefits we have no problem admitting that we are homeschoolers.
I think part of the reason why many people fearful to come out of the homeschool closet is because they are still new to homeschooling. They are still learning the value of homeschooling. My guess is there are very few long time homeschoolers who are shy about owning up to being homeschoolers.
If you are hesitant to admit you homeschool, my advice is to take it easy and don't worry about it. After another year or two you will have much greater confidence that homeschooling is a viable option.
Please remember to send in a post about homeschooling for the next Carnival of Homeschooling. The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held here at Living Life and Learning.
This will be the 422nd edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.
Alasandra is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at Alasandra's Homeschool Blog.
Robert E Lee was born on January 19, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. His father, Colonel Henry Lee, also known as "Light-Horse Harry," had served as a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War and gone on to become one of the war's heroes, winning praise from General George Washington.
Over twenty years ago I started using a Franklin planner. The company merged with Stephen Covey's company to produce the Franklin-Covey system. Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People had a large impact on the approach suggested for using their planner. One of the key components is to really ponder on your most important values and record them. These values help you recognize the various roles you take on in your life. Then as you do your weekly planning you reflect on your values and roles. This helps you focus on the things which are really important to you and helps you not to be distracted by things which seem urgent but are of little worth.
When I first started using this system and the planner I spent several hours pondering on my values and roles. I dutifully recorded them. Life seems to be hectic and unfortunately I get distracted, so I don't sit down every week, but on average I manage to sit down a couple times a month to reflect on the most important activities in the upcoming days. I've found the Franklin-Covey approach a great help in keeping me focused and making sure I am working on what is truly important to me.
I believe having a system like this can help us be much, much more impactful than if we just kind of float along. In addition to teaching our children how to read, do math, know a little bit about history and so on, one of the really vital things we can teach our children is how to organize their lives so they will not flounder but move purposefully forward.
As our children have gotten older Janine and I have encouraged them to step back and make goals. We've asked them to take charge of their lives. We've worked to give them the tools and techniques to manage themselves. In one sense this may be one of the most important lessons we teach our children.
Michael Staton claims The Degree Is Doomed. I enjoyed the post.
Physics has a concept called momentum. Things will keep going the way they are going unless there are significant forces. I can see reasons why the college degree may lose its value, but I don't think it will happen over night, and it maybe that only some degrees lose their value.
I happened across an article on The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers.
Meanwhile, Back in the Fatherland ... is an update on what is happening with the Wunderlich family in Germany.
I am so glad homeschooling is legal in the United States.
"The one worry I have", says Lenin, "is this: will the people follow you? What do you think, comrade Stalin?"
Two Russian border guards, Ivan and Vladimir, on a cold winter morning. Looking across the border, Ivan is smiling to himself, then he notices that Vladimir is also smiling.
Ivan [suspiciously]: "What were you thinking about?"
Vladimir: "Same thing you were thinking about, comrade."
Ivan: "Then it is my duty to arrest you."
The old man goes home, and his wife says, "So they're out of meat again?"
What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist have in common?
#2: Collect the whole set.
A candidate and a voter are having a conversation outside the polling place.
Voter: I would not vote for you if you were St. Peter himself.
Candidate: If I were St. Peter, you would not live in my district.
He should have had Ted Kennedy drive her home that night.
Found at the end of a submission by Alexander Falk to the info-mac digest.
This travelling guy was once driving outside a small town and right in front of a mad peoples home (madhouse or whatever it's called) his front wheel comes off. Looking into the problem he finds that all four of the wheel's nuts have come off. `This is a fine mess' he thinks loudly `how am I ever going to get out of here'. In frustration he sits down by the side of a road to think things out. All this while there was a mad inmate who watched the whole scene from his window. After a while he calls out to the traveler asking him to approach the window. The man looks at him and decides that the last thing he can handle is a conversation with a lunatic and ignores him but eventually gives in when he persists. When he approaches the window the mad man tells him to take one nut out of each of his other wheels and use it temporarily on wheel that's come off. This way he could get to next town and buy 4 more. The traveler looks at him in disbelief, this had never occurred to him. Totally blown away by this, he apologizes for his rude behavior previously and ask him why he's in a mad house when he's has so much common sense. To this he gets the reply "I'm mad not STUPID".
The meek will inherit the earth--if that's OK with you.
Here are some funny(?) phrases and constructions that my wife brought home from her class. (She is a high school English teacher.) These actually appeared in her students' homework and exams. I thought that they were funny enough to be included in rec.humor.
I loved her so much that I put her on a pedal stool.
When I grow up I want to be a whorse trainer.
She left him because he took her for granite.
In the Middle Ages Europe was swept by the Blue Bonnet plague.
When you have finished the final step, Walla! you're ready to bake your cake.
From my Franklin Covey planner.
Stars is a fun way to see where how our close stars are located.
The latest Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up at Letters from Nebby.
Please remember to send in a post about homeschooling for the next Carnival of Homeschooling. The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held here at Alasandra's Homeschool Blog.
This will be the 421st edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.
Paying more for an education than it is worth is about how the costs of higher education make exceed the benefit.
The title says it all: Another reason to homeschool - to teach your children to be honest.
Janine posted a picture of the foster boy we ended up adopting: Update on "Baby Bop"
Write down several things you worry about. Circle those things you can do something about and work on them. Forget the rest.
If you homeschool in California you may find Academically Preparing a Homeschool High School Student for a State of California University informative.
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Home Spun Juggling.
Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling: The Model Homes edition!
By "model," I mean "miniature reproductions." Last week, my family went to the Holiday Train Show at the NY Botanical Garden. It's become a tradition for us to visit and see what's new. Each year, designer Paul Busse and his team add to the collection of historical buildings and homes in this display. There is always a surprise. Just like our journey as homeschoolers, following the model trains always leads to unexpected discoveries, giggles and wonder. Come along for the ride.
From there's-gotta-be-a-better-way file: A man from Kokomo, Indiana drove his car to Indianapolis to pick up a truck he purchased. The problem: two vehicles, ONE driver. So, he drove his car up the road, parked and walked back to the truck. Then, he drove the car a ways past the truck.... The dealership is 63 miles from Kokomo. The story ran in the Indianapolis News.
"If you took all the economists and laid them head to toe, they would stretch around the world three times and the only thing they would not reach is a conclusion."
How many investment brokers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: MY GOD!! IT BURNT OUT!! SELL ALL MY G.E. STOCK NOW!!!!!
B: Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and sell it before it crashes.
Heard on WITR yesterday: RIT students have organized their annual community involvement volunteer project. This year's project will be to help clean up Mt. Hope Cemetery. The project has been titled "The Grateful Dead".
A rabbi, a priest, and a lawyer were all caught in a shipwreck. Naturally, there are a lot of sharks circling around. All of a sudden, one shark darts in and grabs the priest for lunch. No more priest. The rabbi starts praying frantically, but to no avail, as a shark comes in and eats him, too. Now the lawyer is really worried, as a shark is coming for him. But, miracle of miracles, the shark puts him on its back, carries him to shore, and lets him off. The lawyer, curious, waits till the shark is far enough away not to eat him, and asks, "How come you didn't eat me?" And the shark replies, "Professional Courtesy!"
A nice thing about homeschooling is about the freedom to make your own schedules.
Be patient with yourself when breaking unfavorable habits.
Schedule time to work on breaking an unfavorable habit.
On Sept. 28, a production B-1 Bomber crashed. The cause: a flock of birds.
The obvious question is, why not devote some of the billions of dollars being spent on national defense to build bird farms?
The Army could fence up thousands of birds in selected locations, and release them if enemy planes were detected.
This would be called the "Strategic Fence Initiative".
Now then...Why are they collecting the phone numbers of a bunch of honest people?
I once asked why you are asked for your phone number when using your charge cards. The clerk explained that thieves have been caught because they stupidly put down THEIR home phone number, not the phone number of the person who "owned" the card.
ME [picking up phone]: Hello?
ME: I don't have any children.
SALES REP: Do you have any grandchildren, then?
The city of Whittier, California was founded many years ago, mainly by Quakers. There is a prominent sign composed of large, brass letters on one of the financial institutions in that community identifying it as the Quaker City Bank. The last letter of the first word fell off during an earthquake yesterday, making the sign read "Quake City Bank."
This is a visual representation of our 1st Grade Curriculum. We are a bit eclectic. Also, our son is a non-traditional learner with some neuro-processing challenges.
I create most of my own worksheets using Peterson Directed Handwriting fonts. I got the idea for my "daily sheet" from Saxon Math.
I change the counting pattern and then number each day. You may have noticed that the number of the day corresponds to the date. So basically, I repeat math facts for the counting numbers 1-31. We have stackable counting blocks that are the exact size of the square. I give Baby Bop the correct number of counting blocks. He counts them out for me, then divides them into two towers and then writes the number of blocks for each tower in the square. We recently added a subtraction question following a similar format.
Next, I have a work sheet which is a scripture summary. I read the scripture verses with Baby Bop. We talk about it and then he copies a simple scripture summary. I use the same scripture all week and just print out a new worksheet for each day.
I try to do a page of Explode the Code every day. Because Baby Bop struggles with phonetic awareness, this is harder than it sounds.
I also give him a sheet for writing. I help him write a sentence and he draws a picture to go with it.
On Monday, we have a music teacher which comes to the house to give piano and violin lessons. (I love having a music teacher that comes to the house because it saves me so much time). I realized that I couldn't help Baby Bop with his practicing since I don't play violin. I also realized that I could use my daughter's full size violin. So, now I take violin lessons with my son.
Baby Bop also has a tutor with training in occupational therapy who comes to the house once a week and he goes to speech therapy once a week. We utilize outside classes, such as gymnastics class, theater class, and science class. All my children attend a homeschool co-op once a week that includes a variety of classes.
And of course, Baby Bop plays with Legos, toy dinosaurs and stuffed animals.
This sums up my 1st Grade curriculum.
Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
It is going to be a long five months.
The huge Shell Oil Co. toxic waste trial scheduled to gear up in San Bruno this fall has produced reams and reams of paper. So many, in fact, that the San Mateo County Clerk's office has partitioned off a room where two clerks do nothing but sort and file all those stacks of paper.
They've named their space the "Shell Oil Control Center" and posted a sign outside: "Life is Shell, and then you die."
" A microchip off the old block."
What happens if you cross a midget and a computer?
"you get a short circuit".
So the Pope, a Monsignor, and some young priest were hanging out in the Pope's office talking. Suddenly, through a partially closed door, they see Jesus Christ himself strolling down the hall. They look at each other aghast. The Pope strides across the office, sits down at a typewriter and starts banging away at it. Over the clatter, the Monsignor shakenly asks "Your Holiness, what are you doing?! That's Jesus himself coming down the hall!".
The Pope, still typing away, looks up and says testily, "I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna look real busy."
What did Senator Biden say when he first met with his staff after the New York Times broke the plagiarism scandal? "Don't worry, guys. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!"
Perhaps the cruelest cut of all was when someone asked a Biden staffer why Biden was still in the race. The staffer responded that they had been unable to locate a copy of Hart's resignation speech.
In the face of all this scandal, Biden has announced that if nominated, he will not run, and if elected, he will not serve.
Many people think that the concepts and ideas that they read about typical SF story are derived from the imagination of the writer. How do you know this? Many of the things I have read about would require an imagination that borders on mental illness. Are these writers producing autobiographies, thinly disguised as science fiction? Just in case, I present here a brief guide, to help you in the event that something you have read about actually happens to you.
1. If you get a phone call from Mars.
Speak slowly and be sure to enunciate your words properly. Limit your vocabulary to simple words. Try to determine if you are speaking to someone in a leadership capacity, or an ordinary citizen.
Q. What if he or she doesn't speak English?
Hang up. There's no sense in trying to learn Martian over the phone. If your Martian really had something important to say to you, he or she would have taken the trouble to learn the language before calling.
2. If you get a phone call from Jupiter?
Explain to your caller, politely but firmly, that being from Jupiter, he or she is not `life as we know it'. Try to terminate the conversation as soon as possible. It will not profit you.
3. If a starship, equipped with an FTL hyperdrive lands in your backyard?
First of all, do not run after your camera. You will not have any film. Be polite. Remember, if they have an FTL hyperdrive, they can probably vaporize you, should they find you to be rude. Direct them to the White House lawn, which is where they probably wanted to land, anyway. A good road map should help.
4. If you wake up in the middle of the night, and discover that your closet contains an alternate dimension?
Don't go in. You almost certainly will not be able to get back, and alternate dimensions are almost never any fun. Remain calm and go back to bed. Check your closet in the morning. If it still contains an alternate dimension, nail it shut.
Hope this one doesn't happen to you. There is not much you can do about it. It can be quite unpleasant.
6. If you meet an older version of yourself who has invented a time traveling machine, and has come from the future to meet you?
Follow the books on this one. Ask about the stock market and cash in. Don't forget to invent a time traveling machine and visit your younger self before you die, or you will create a paradox.
I hope this guide will be of help to you, should you find yourself confronted with any of the situations described. If anything like the above should happen to you, get out your typewriter, and crank out a story.
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This will be the 420th edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.
"You will gain admiration from your pears."
Comice? Bartlett? Canned? I don't grow or eat them, anyway.
"It is a tragedy in our society that we have so few innovators, and so many copiers."
"If marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have in-laws."
When an elderly and distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is very probably right. When he says that something is impossible, he is quite possibly wrong.
Why is it that we park in driveways and drive on parkways?
Why does a ship carry cargo and a truck caries shipments?
One in two Californians believes that people are less honest today than they were 10 years ago, according to a statewide poll released today. What's more, many of those surveyed for the latest California poll admitted to committing dishonest acts, according to pollster Mervin Field, but Field thinks that some of those people may have been lying.
If your housekeeper is deported who will clean up after the kids?
"Friends come & go, but enemies accumulate."
Sue and Bob, a pair of tight wads, lived in the mid west, and had been married years. Bob had always wanted to go flying. The desire deepened each time a barn stormer flew into town to offer rides. Bob would ask, and Sue would say, "No way, ten dollars is ten dollars."
The years went pay, and Bob figured he didn't have much longer, so he got Sue out to the show, explaining, it's free to watch, let's at least watch. And once he got there the feeling become real strong. Sue and Bob started an argument. The Pilot, between flights, overheard, listened to they problem, and said, "I'll tell you what, I'll take you up flying, and if you don't say a word the ride is on me, but if you back one sound, you pay ten dollars.
So off they flew. The Pilot doing as many rolls, and dives as he could. Heading to the ground as fast as the plane could go, and pulling out of the dive at just the very last second. Not a word. Finally he admitted defeat and went back the air port.
Out in the old west, in a dingy, two bit town, there was a bar, built of a few pieces of wood, and a couple sheets. A dog came in one hot dusty afternoon and asked for a beer. After the bartender got over his surprise, he yelled "Get out of here, we don't serve your kind."
"Not till I get some rye."
"No way, I want my drink."
The bartender pulled out a rifle and shot the dog in the leg. The dog limbed out, bleeding all over the place. A couple days later the door swings open, there's the dog, dress in a black vest, a big ten gallon hat, and two pearl handled pistols.
"Sculley, Jobs plotted to take over Xerox"
John Sculley and Steven Jobs, giddy with enthusiasm and flush with confidence, plotted in mid-1984 for Apple Computer Inc. to take over Xerox Corp., according to a manuscript of a forthcoming book by Sculley. In scheming to acquire a company six times Apple's size, Sculley and Jobs were doing what they knew best: to think big, to defy the odds, to go for broke . . .
Rather than just make marketing alliances with large companies, as they had done with GE, Sculley thought, Apple ought to actually buy other companies outright. Not small companies, as Jobs suggested. Big companies.
"We're not thinking big enough," he told Jobs. "Maybe we should expand our band width (sic) and think if there's a company out there that could really help us take advantage of this technology. The obvious one to me is Xerox."
The idea itself was intoxicating. Jobs and Sculley bounced the prospect off former Xerox computer scientist Bob Belleville and then took it to Al Eisenstat, Apple's in-house general counsel.
The Xerox gamble fizzled, though, not because of Eisenstat but - in part - because of Jobs. Just as Jobs' impetuous behavior eventually cost him is place at Apple, it got the better of him during earlier talks with Xerox executives.
[Sculley] recalls saying to Jobs: "I know you don't admire Xerox as a company because it hasn't been able to commercialize its computer products very well. But let's just go in [to a meeting with Xerox executives] and listen and keep our minds as open as possible. Let's demonstrate to them that we're really mature people."
Although Sculley remembers Jobs promising to "behave," he claims the chairman [Jobs] began to attack Xerox almost immediately, proclaiming, "I really shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it. You guys don't have any idea of what you're doing." That sour moment alone may have been enough to make any Apple-Xerox marriage tricky . . .
I got acquainted with a young widow, observes a writer, who lived with her step-daughter in the same house. I married that widow. Shortly afterward, my father fell in love with the step-daughter and married her. My wife became the mother-in-law and also the daughter-in-law of my own father, and my wife's step-daughter is my step-mother. My father's wife has a boy, who is naturally my step-brother because he is the son of my father and of my step-mother, but because he is the son of my wife's step-daughter, my wife is the grandmother of the little boy, and I am the grandfather of my step-brother. My wife also has a boy. My step-mother is consequently the step-sister of my boy, and also his grandmother because he is the child of her step-son; and my father is the brother-in-law of my son because he has his own step-sister for a wife. I am the brother-in-law of my mother; my wife is the aunt of her own son; my son is the grandson of my father; and I am my own grandfather!!!
Welcome to the eighth anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling. The first Carnival of Homeschooling was published in January of 2005. This is the 419th edition.
The start of a new year is a traditionally a time when many step back, review the previous year and ponder what they want to accomplish in the coming new year. I have spent dozens of hours in the last couple weeks doing this conventional activity.
ChristyK shares one of the end of year activities that she likes to do in Holidays, housecleaning and homeschooling, posted at Houseful of Chaos. She finds that homeschooling gives meaning to the odds and ends she finds while housecleaning, as just about everything can be turned into a lesson in some way.
Melissa has a fun way to look back over hundreds and thousands of years in Classical Conversations A CC Timeline Book, posted at The Cork Board. It is a handy way to integrate timeline cards and history memory work.
Barbara has some kinds words and makes a great point in Homeschool Encouragement, Every Single Week for Eight Years and Counting, posted at Barbara Frank Online. Her summary is: "The Carnival of Homeschooling is awesome, but don't use it to make comparisons." Thanks Barbara!
Jan has A Dose of Encouragement & A Handful of Advice, posted at Encouraging Homeschooling Mothers. She has some great advice on what to do at the start of a new year.
From cold, cold New York, Cristina shares advice that it is Better to Bake than Curse the Cold, along with a couple other ideas on how to survive this time of year, posted at Home Spun Juggling.
From far off Germany comes Astronomy for Kids - Week 1 - Star Map, posted at Highhill Education. This is the first post of an astronomy unit study. Detailed instructions are given for creating a star map for locating constellations. More astronomy activities will follow in the weeks to come.
Jamie writes of her experience with Pinterest and the Homeschooler, posted at MomSCHOOL. She has found Pinterest to be an awesome place...a world of neat, beautiful, and crafty. Yet, back here in reality... Pinterest can be used to homeschool your kiddos in a fun and easy format!
A concerned mother asks for advice about homeschooling her 4-year-old daughter. Several people have responded to How would you answer this? posted at Trivium Pursuit.
After the holiday break it can be hard for both parents and children to pick up the harness. Getting Back to School has some suggestions, posted at Online Education for Kids.
One of the problems with the start of a new year is all the goals we start making. You CAN NOT Get It All Done … And Why It's Really Okay! has some great advice on how to get a fresh perspective, posted at HomeGrownMommy.
Homeschool Music - No Tiger Moms Here has a low-key approach to music studies that results in slow--but steady and relatively tear-free--progress, posted at Petticoat Government.
As part of the end of year reminiscing I have included A little bit about the Carnival of Homeschooling.
Kathy says "Mark Twain had strong opinions and a gnarly wit. I imagine if he were to write a top 10 list for aspiring writers, it would go something like this" Mark Twain's Top 10 Rules for Writing, posted at Life Verses.
Denise asks "Have you made a New Year's resolution to spend more time with your family this year, and to get more exercise?" Everyone can exercise their mental muscles with the 2014 Mathematics Game, posted at Let's Play Math!
Christine shares the experience of working with her daughter in Collaborating With K, a cross post with Christine Guest Designs, from Our Curious Home.
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We thank everyone who has helped out. Thank you to all the participants in this carnival. And thanks to all those who help promote the Carnival of Homeschooling.
With the 8th anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling I thought some might enjoy a little history of the carnival and maybe links to some of the resources.
My wife and I started blogging in October of 2005.
We had been following various blogs for a couple years and decided to give it a try. At the time one of the blogs I read regularly was The Education Wonks. For several years EdWonk ran the Carnival of Education. The carnival did a great job of capturing various topics about education scattered across dozens of blogs. I read the Carnival of Education almost every week.
After Janine and I blogged for a month the thought hit me that there was no Carnival of Homeschooling. There were hundreds, maybe even thousands of homeschooling blogs at the time, but no one had organized a Carnival of Homeschooling. We talked it over for a couple weeks and then decided to take the plunge.
On January 2006 we published the first Carnival of Homeschooling. It was a lot of work, especially since we had never done it before, but we got lots of submissions and it came together well.
Since then we have had a Carnival of Homeschooling every week. We had a great group of bloggers who take turns hosting the carnival. I am so grateful. Currently we have about 30 hosts and I just rotate the carnival through the hosts. Over the years we've had hosts bow out and we've others take up the load.
Most people who submit to the carnival normally end up reading the Where to send your submission for the next Carnival of Homeschooling post. At the beginning we had some differences in vision for the carnival and a list of expectations was captured in Participating in the Carnival of Homeschooling.
I keep the Carnival of Homeschooling archive fairly up to date, though one time it fell a couple months behind. Initially I just captured the carnival edition, the date, the blog and the carnival. After awhile one of the hosts suggested including the theme for each carnival, which I've done.
There is also Schedule for the Carnival of Homeschooling which gets updated every couple weeks. At the start I used to try and schedule three and six months out, but I found that every so often as we got close to a carnival date something would come up and a host would need to back out, so now I generally try to schedule three to six weeks out.
The last link I'll include here is to the Guidelines for hosting the Carnival of Homeschooling. We found it helpful to spell out exactly what we expected the hosts to do. Whenever someone expresses an interest in hosting the carnival I have them read the guidelines and ask if they can support and follow them.
It has been a great eight years. At some point I'll probably pass the carnival on to someone else or shut it down. I'm not ready to do either, but I expect that some day it will be time for me to move on.
The main reason the carnival has been so successful is all the hundreds of people who have hosted, helped promote and participated in the carnival. With over 400 editions and a rough average of 30 posts per carnival we've had 12,000 posts submitted to the carnival That is a ton of support and I am truly thankful.
"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion."
The "Environmental Engineering News" published some rather sobering information about punishment for drunk driving convictions in other countries. In Australia, the names of drunk drivers are printed in newspapers under the caption, "He's drunk and in jail." In Malaysia the driver is jailed and, if married, the spouse is jailed. In the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden there's an automatic jail term of one year. In Turkey, drunk drivers are driven 20 miles out of town and forced to walk back. In Bulgaria, a second drunk-driving conviction results in capital punishment. In El Salvador, your first offense is your last -- execution by firing squad.
The first 90% of the task takes the first 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% takes the other 90%.
At a mental hospital the staff found some of the patients were gaining weight, so they were put on a diet of a glass of Tab and one apple for lunch. After eating their light lunch, the group would start to sing to everyone else. This became known as the "Moron Tab and Apple Choir".
Recently, Munich, Germany was having a severe problem with there dog population. It was skyrocketing beyond belief. In a matter of a couple of weeks, the population doubled and then even tripled. They had to put together a special emergency committee to solve the problem. But, the dogs continued to multiply. The dogs started to infest Munich's neighboring city's. One day, the committee got a call from a nearby mill. The man was frantic. "Please, you've got to send help! The hills are alive with the hounds of Munich!"
In shark infested waters, a wise fish never travels without a porpoise.
In high school we had an interesting teacher we called tortoise, cause he taught us.
There's a battle outside and we join in the fray.
`The Observer' [English national Sunday paper] reports on `the nightmare of a woman robbed of 8,750 pounds'.
Guns don't kill people. Driving 40 in the fast lane kills people.
Don't shoot me, I'll move over.
Cover me, I'm about to change lanes.
If you have tried to pick up or drop off passengers at Los Angeles International Airport, this should be familiar to you.
The white zone is for loading and unloading of guns only ... no shooting.
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Another speaker, the father of six kids, was asked why didn't he stop at one or two. The reply was "My wife and I don't think all the children in the world should be raised by beginers."
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So far all we've gotten seven submissions to tomorrow's Carnival of Homeschooling.
It would be really nice to have a decent amount of posts for the 8th annual anniversary edition!
If you have something, please go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
Please remember to send in a post about homeschooling for the next Carnival of Homeschooling. The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be held here at Why Homeschool.
This will be the 419th edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling.
This will also be the 8th annual anniversary edition!
Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like Today — in 2014 is a fun read. And the article has links to other predictions of the future from the 1960s.
This infographic is a nice summary of how education has changed in America over the last couple hundred years.
I have a lot of respect for John Stossel. Over the years I have enjoyed many of his shows and his columns.
My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they'd most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common Core.
Most Americans don't even know what that is. But they should. It's the government's plan to try to bring "the same standard" to every government-run school.
This may sound good. Often, states dumb down tests to try to "leave no child behind." How can government evaluate teachers and reward successful schools if there isn't a single national standard?
But when the federal government imposes a single teaching plan on 15,000 school districts across the country, that's even more central planning, and central planning rarely works. It brings stagnation.
As they say, read the rest of the column.
This will also be the 8th anniversary edition!
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Our Curious Home.
Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling. I sorted through old family photos taken in December to illustrate this carnival, I figured the same patterns would show up this year in your families as well as mine.


There are many reasons why a person will commit a crime. Many psychologists, sociologists and other scientists have attempted to come up with a single reason or unified theory for why all crimes are committed. However, the impetus for the commissions of crimes cannot be that easily defined. The reality is that there are a multitude of reasons that people commit crimes, be it upbringing, the society that they live in, psychological reasons or even a combination of several or more factors.
According to the biological theory of crime causation, "the brain is the organ of behavior..." and the basic determinants of human behavior are basically genetically based and may be passed from generation to generation, therefore it stands to reason that a tendency towards the commission of crime may be inherited (Pearson Prentice Hall, 1995-2010).
One study, done at the University of Texas in Dallas, "analyzed the genetic and environmental influences on criminal traits of 4,000 people. The researchers discovered a strong link between genes and criminality" (Searles, 2012). The study determined that for those criminals who were life-long offenders, the criminal behavior was influenced more by their genes than their environment. One journal, Criminology, suggests that "genes play a key role in determining who leads a life of crime and who stays on the straight and narrow" (Searles, 2012).
The case of Scottish cannibal, Alexander "Sawney" Bean, and his crazy incestuous family is a perfect example of this theory. The family would ambush unsuspecting passers-by at night and rob and murder them. After committing the murders, the victims were taken back to the cave where the family hid, dismembered and cannibalized them, removing all evidence of the crime. It has been said that the Bean family even started robbing fresh graves for 'food' (Ronnie, 2010).
The sociological theory of crime causation tends to make the assumption that the criminal acquires his interest, ability, and means of self-justification in crime through his network of acquaintances and associates, i.e. his friends, family or pseudo-family, the society and culture in which he is brought up (Giasr, 1958).
A perfect example of this theory of crime causation would be any gang. Take MS-13, for example. MS-13, otherwise known as Mara Salvatrucha 13, has been called one of the most violently dangerous and most organized gangs in the United States (Top Documentary Films, 2005).
Gangs are made up of a hierarchy of individuals who have their minions (the members in the lower echelons of the organization) do their dirty work for them in order to prove their loyalty. In return for their obedience, the leaders of the gang give their subjects drugs, status or money; enhancing their prestige within the group. Children who are either recruited into the gang at a young age, or who are born into the gang, are raised to become future members and committing crimes is simply the way of life for them. It is this society which acts as a pseudo-family for them that inducts them into this way of life from early on.
According to the psychological theory of crime causation, the reason people commit crimes is because of personality imbalances that have been developed early in childhood. These people may be suffering from some sort of disease or may not have had the type of upbringing that society deems "normal" and their responses to different situations seem inappropriate or abnormal to the rest of society.
Sigmund Freud is possibly the most noted of psychologists who subscribed to a psychological theory of crime causation. "He believed that every individual carries [the] residue of the most significant emotional attachments of our childhood, which then guides our future interpersonal relationships" (Siegel, 2005). Although his theories have been subsequently later questioned, they remain the basis for many other theories also attempting to explain the reasons behind why people may commit crimes.
The brainwashing resulted in what is more commonly known as Stockholm syndrome. A condition where a captive identifies with their captors and builds an empathic relationship. In this case, the Stockholm syndrome caused Hearst to change from a sweet, upper echelon young woman into one of the gun toting, bank robbing members of the SLA, demonstrating the Stockholm syndrome in action where the victims begins to sympathize with their kidnappers; becoming emotionally attached to their captors and beginning to have positive feelings toward them.
Whichever of the preceding theories a person may subscribe to, one thing can be said about criminals and why they commit crimes... it is complicated. One case may have the markers of one type of crime causation, but if you search hard enough into the reaches of the criminal's mind and history, you will most likely be surprised to find that perhaps there are a multitude of possible reasons why they committed their crime, while another case may appear to be cut and dry and describe a certain theory to a "T".
FBI. (2014). The Patty Hearst Kidnapping. Taken from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst-kidnapping.
Giasr, Danin. (1958).The Sociological Approach to Crime and Correction. Retrieved from http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2773&context=lcp.
Pearson Prentice Hall. (1995-2010). Major Principles of Biological Theories. Retrieved from http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_schmalleger_crimtoday_3/13/3544/907274.cw/index.html.
Ronnie. (2010). Scottish cannibal, Alexander "Sawney" Bean, and his crazy incestuous family. Midnight Showing. Retrieved from http://midnightshowing.com/2010/03/scottish-cannibal-alexander-sawney-bean-and-his-crazy-incestous-family/.
Searles, Rebecca. (2012). Genes, Criminal Behavior Linked In University Of Texas Study. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/genes-criminal-behavior-linked_n_1234423.html.
Siegel, Larry J. (2005). Criminology. California: Thomson Wadsworth.
Top Documentary Films. (2005). MS13: World's most Dangerous Gang. Retrieved from http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ms13-worlds-most-dangerous-gang/.


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in order to get all .py filenames, recursively walking a directory hierarchy.
Any way to do what I want?
EDIT: I'd like to specify that I'm not interested in the specific case of ls, but the question is about the glob syntax.
In order to do recursive globs in bash, you need the globstar feature from bash version 4 or higher.
Since Bash 4 (also including zsh) a new globbing option (globstar) has been added which treats the pattern ** differently when it's set.
It is matching the wildcard pattern and returning the file and directory names that match then by replacing the wildcard pattern in the command with the matched items.
Normally when you use **, it works similar to *, but it's recurses all the directories recursively (like a loop).
To see if it's enabled, check it by shopt globstar (in scripting, use shopt -q globstar).
The example **.py would work only for the current directory, as it doesn't return list of directories which can be recurses, so that's why you need to use multiple directory-level wildcard **/*.py, so it can go deeper.
Please find on SO few syntax tests which I did for finding all the files recursively.
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Q: How to reference an EntityPlayer method in a class I am trying to program a minecraft server, but I need to access the getCurrentActiveItem(or something like that) method from the EntityPlayer class. The reason for needing to do this is to have an item in hand do something like heal the player or something. The problem is, Nothing is static. I learned to code from a program called youth Digital, and they don't allow me to edit any code that was not created by me, so I cannot just put static on this method. I did some research and found some pretty specific answers. They were about making a new instance of a class, I guess. Putting it in the code just gives me an error. I have tried stuff like this:
EntityPlayer player = new EntityPlayer.class;
public class player = new EntityPlayer.class;
class player = player.instanceOf("EntityPlayer.class");

and other similar stuff. All gave me an error that I am not advanced enough to decipher. Here is my code:
package myservermod;

import com.youthdigital.servermod.game.*;

public class Player extends PlayerData {

  public Player(EntityPlayer parPlayerObject) {
    super(parPlayerObject);
  }

  @Override
  public void onUpdate() {
/*Cheats*/
   //Teleport Cheat
   if(Conditions.cheatEntered("teleport")){
     Actions.teleportPlayers(GameManager.getStringFromCheat(1));
   }
/*Red Team*/
   //Enter the Red Team
   if(Conditions.didRightClickBlock("redTeamEntrance")){
     Actions.teleportPlayers("redTeamBase");
   }
    if(Conditions.didRightClickBlock("dirtBlockBuy")){
      Actions.setBlockWithMetaAtPos("redDirtButton" , Blocks.stone_button, 3);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void onJoinedServer(){
    Actions.teleportPlayers("lobby");
  }

  @Override
  public void onStartGame() {

  }

  @Override
  public void onResetGameToLobby() {
    Actions.teleportPlayers("lobby");
  }

  @Override
  public void onRespawned() {

  }

}

A: Ok, you're mentioning what you can't access because it's static.
The thing is, you should not access it in a static way!
player.getItemInHand() is a method that must be accessed from an object, so it returns the ItemStack that is in the hand of the player, not on a static hand (belongs to no object, therefore nobody!).
What you should do:

*

*First, and more important: You should NEVER create a new player via new.
Player is an object created by Bukkit, you shouldn't ever try to create your own new Player.

*You should get your player by stating who's the player you want to get to bukkit:

To get the ItemStack in a player's hand by the player's name
Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer("YourPlayer");    //Notice that the method getPlayer() is static to Bukkit!
ItemStack item = player.getItemInHand();    //Notice that you're accessing your object player, not creating a completely new one, and not accessing it statically!

You mostly likely want to detect the Item in Hand from an event, for example to spawn a chicken when you click with a stick:
(Take a look at the bukkit event handling documentation for further event-handling knowledge)
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerInteract(PlayerInteractEvent event) {
    Player player = event.getPlayer();
    ItemStack is = player.getItemInHand();
}

A: There is getItemInHand on HumanEntity. Bukkit JavaDocs

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(LEAD) In ILO summit, Moon vows S. Korea's continued efforts to better workers' lives
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SEOUL, July 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday his country will continue efforts to improve the rights of workers, pointing to his liberal administration's push for the parliamentary ratification of more International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions.
He was speaking in a video message to the virtual global summit of the ILO, titled "COVID-19 and the World of Work -- Building a better future of work."
It was joined by more than 60 heads of state and around 20 chiefs of international organizations, including the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
Moon emphasized the significance of mutual prosperity in response to the transition to a digital economy and "employment shock" from the coronavirus crisis.
"Korea is determined to protect existing jobs and create new ones by embarking on the path to mutual prosperity," he said. "We will join international efforts to improve the quality of life for workers, including through the ratification of the key ILO conventions."
On Tuesday, Moon's Cabinet approved a motion on adopting the three conventions: No. 87 on freedom of association, No. 98 on the right to organize and collective bargaining, and No. 29 on the prohibition of forced labor.
South Korea joined the ILO, a Geneva-based U.N. agency, in 1991, but it has yet to ratify four of the eight core conventions. Officials here say it is still premature to ratify convention No. 105 on the abolition of forced labor since it clashes with local law and requires legal revision via social dialogue.
Moon took note of South Korea's labor policy initiatives rooted in the time-honored tradition of its people to help each other in difficult times and share burdens.
"Over long periods, Korea has been steadily advancing toward a society that respects labor, based on the recognition that labor is the very foundation of society," he said. "We continue to make efforts to reduce working hours and raise the minimum wage."
Even prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, South Korea had been seeking to create "more quality jobs" in local communities through a three-party partnership among local labor circles, the business community and the government.
"This job creation model is spreading across many cities all over the country," Moon said.
He added, "The importance of solidarity and cooperation resonates more powerfully than ever before as we continue our fight against COVID-19."
The international community should work together to overcome the crisis in a way that "reduces inequality and bridges disparities," and the ILO stands at the very heart of such endeavors, the president said.
"Korea will work and act together to this end," he stressed, ending his speech that lasted close to seven minutes.
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A stream, from its course in far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it had crossed every other barrier, the stream tried to cross this one, but found that as fast as it ran into the sand, its waters disappeared.
It was convinced, however, that its destiny was to cross this desert, and yet there was no way. Now a hidden voice, coming from the desert itself, whispered: "The wind crosses the desert, and so can the stream."
"By hurtling in your own accustomed way you cannot get across. You will either disappear or become a marsh. You must allow the wind to carry you over, to your destination.
But how could this happen? "By allowing yourself to be absorbed in the wind."
"The wind," said the sand, "performs this function. It takes up water, carries it over the desert, and then lets it fall again. Falling as rain, the water again becomes a river."
"How can I know that this is true?" "It is so, and if you do not believe it, you cannot become more than a quagmire, and even that could take many, many years. And it certainly is not the same as a stream."
"But can I not remain the same stream that I am today?"
"You cannot in either case remain so," the whisper said. "Your essential part is carried away and forms a stream again. You are called what you are even today because you do not know which part of you is the essential one."
When it heard this, certain echoes began to arise in the thoughts of the stream. Dimly it remembered a state in which it -- or some part of it? -- had been held in the arms of a wind. It also remembered -- or did it? -- that this was the real thing, not necessarily the obvious thing to do.
And the stream raised its vapor into the welcoming arms of the wind, which gently and easily bore it upwards and along, letting it fall softly as soon as they reached the roof of a mountain, many, many miles away. And because it had its doubts, the stream was able to remember and record more strongly in its mind the details of the experience. It reflected, "Yes, now I have learned my true identity."


CAUSES, CURE, PREVENTION, AND INSTANT RELIEF FROM IT.
I am sure you must have heard of the latest news about people dying of the so-called 'Thunderstorm Asthma' in Melbourne, Australia.
(CNN) An unusual combination of weather conditions leading to a freak illness known as thunderstorm asthma has left four people dead in Australia.
Thousands of people were rushed to hospital Monday with breathing problems in the southern Australian state of Victoria as emergency services struggled to cope.
Australia has a high prevalence of asthma, up to 1 in 6 children and 1 in 10 adults are affected. The condition is associated with towns and cities. ASTHMA IS NOT CURRENTLY CURABLE … (Dr. Palani: You will find a possible cure for it below, in this article of mine).
The above stories sadden me a great deal!
That prompts me to put up this article, based on my 41 years of research in the area of Ecological Healing System (or, 'EcoTherapy' for short) – a scientific complementary therapy I have discovered, so that people worldwide – Australia included, need not die of any kind of Asthma attacks anymore!
Asthmatics tend to feel their body is very heaty (due to hyper acidosis of the body – not temperaturewise).
Almost all the asthmatics tend to have a ROUND face (not angular or linear).
Most of the asthmatics tend to have a skin disease called Ringworm.
They tend to have plenty of wax and ear-itch in their ears.
Their tongue surface tends to have thick deposit of plaque.
Women with asthma tend to have erratic menses.
+++ a few more are included in the table.
The asthmatics tend to use fan at high speed all the time.
They prefer to eat high density food (that does not contain much water).
They tend to consume milk prepared from powdered milk.
They tend to drink less water.
They use mosquito poisons (sprays, fumes from coils, etc.) daily night in their bedrooms.
IMPORTANTLY: They tend to sleep in bedrooms with all windows closed, with a view to preventing mosquito entry. That increases the RH (the moisture content of the air inside the bedroom) manifold.
+ + + a few more can be read in the book.
Who gets asthma? When, why, and how do they get them? All those who habitually under-urinate (with the exception of those who drink extremely little fluid), to the extent of allowing profuse sweat called hyperhidrosis to occur in them, will invariably be prone to asthma attacks, along with one or more of the closely associated diseases.
In hyperhidrosis, when the sweat evaporates, it chills the skin surface.
External air containing plenty of moisture enters the lungs, and that moisture condenses* there.
Those droplets block the breathing holes called alveoli.
When air penetrates forcibly though the blocked alveoli (while inhaling and exhaling), it produces the wheezing noise, and also makes breathing difficult.
In some countries / regions, the air may contain plenty of moisture. In some others, it tends to be dry, with very little moisture. (This is called the Relative Humidity – RH).
In Malaysia, an RH of 95% is common during late nights and early mornings. This is the major reason why there are too many asthmatics in Malaysia.
When the asthma-prone people go to highlands, or to any country where the RH is very low, they do notget the attack at all – even if that environment is heavily filled with pollen grains and dusts.
If and when the air contains only moisture, the asthma-prone people would develop only the wheezing problem. This is so because, the blocking water droplets would still permit some amount of air to pass through the breathing holes.
If the moisture-containing air carries in it pollen grains, carpet dust, asbestos particles, industrial emissions such as unburnt coal, sulphur dioxide, traffic-related pollutants such as dusts, diesel emissions, unburnt oil particles, etc.,), then the blockages can become impenetrable to air.
As a result, the oxygen-carrying air may not be able to enter into the lungs, and that alone can result in instant death.
To prevent the death, the brain / the sympathetic nervous system induces cough, and that clears the holes for the air-exchange – only if the condensates are 'movable'.
When intense condensation of water droplets repeatedly flood and block the alveoli, the brain too creates repeated cough – resulting in 'nagging cough'.
The above knowledge shows that the best asthma prevention method should consist of PREVENTION OF PROFUSE SWEATING by INCREASING THE URINATION.
If the outer body surface does not get chilled, then the air-borne moisture will NOT get condensed within the lungs, and the asthma attack (or even the cough) will never happen.
(b) the abundance of air-borne moisture(i.e., the level of RH).
The body of a person who drinks plenty of water(and therefore under-urinates) will perspire excessively compared to the one who drinks little water.
The internal lung environment will be more conducive for water condensationin the former person compared to the latter.
The rate of watercondensationwill be plentiful in a location where the air is very moist (high RH, e.g., 90%) compared to the one with dry air (low RH, e.g., 20%).
This would mean that, even if a person grossly under-urinates after drinking plenty of water, but is living in an environment that has very dry air (with a very low RHof e.g. 10%), the person will not get any asthmaattack (or cough) even if he is prone to it since long.
Likewise, the reverse should also be true.
That is, even if there is plenty of moisturein the air (e.g., 95% RH), if the person does not suffer from hyperhidrosis, meaning that he urinates nearly all the waterhe drinks, or, he drinks extremely little water*, then, he too would not develop any asthmaattack (and also the coughassociated with it). In this case, we simply label the person 'healthy'.
In other words, asthmais not an inherited disease. A person born to asthmatic parents need not develop asthma for certain.
If a mother happens to be UNDER-URINATING, AFTER DRINKING PLENTY OF WATER, then, she tends to raise her children the same way – that is, she would train them to drink plenty of water, and would NOT train them urinate liberally. That will make them prone to be asthmatic. We tend to mislabel that as hereditary.
Often, hill stations tend to have cool and dry air, with a low RH. In addition, the air-borne pollutants too may be absent.
Therefore, if an asthma-prone patient were to live in a hill station, he may not get acute attacks.
Water is least viscous and light weighted.
When soluble or insoluble substances (e.g., oil) and particle pollutantsget mixed in it, its viscosityand weight will increase, and would also turn sticky.
These will make the expulsionof the condensate from the alveolimore difficult, necessitating a harder and more forceful cough.
If the condensates happen to be excessively thick that even severe coughs cannot remove them, then oxygen supply would get severely impeded, resulting in suffocation, which when continues, would result in the death of the person.
Pure wateris not an irritable substance.
But when combined with strong acid or alkalinepollutants, it gets irritability to varying ranges.
Such a water condensate will narrowthe airway by causing inflammationof the tissues.
This is another important reason why the Melbourne or any other city-dwellers suffer from acute attacks.
I have already explained above that ALL those who sweat profusely are the ones who would get alveoli blockages, and thereby asthma.
Those who drink plenty of water and under-urinate are the ones who would sweat profusely.
If a person drinks ABUNDANT water (e.g., >4 L daily), and under-urinates (say, about 3L), then, the remaining water would form the profuse sweat.
In this case, the person would have a SKELETAL-LOOKING*, very thin body frame (because of the severe losses of nutrients through the excessive urinations). (* See Palaniappan, V.M. 1998. Obesity: Causes, Cure, and Prevention. ISBN 978-967-9988-05-8. 471pp.).
His excessive sweat production may make him an asthma patient.
However, since his water consumption is very high, his body fluids are bound to be THIN (and not viscous).
As a result, such skeletal-looking thin people tend to cough frequently, rather than getting acute attacks and related deaths.
The THIN people almost never die of asthma attacks.
A person drinking less water (e.g., 1 L/day), and under-urinates (say, 200 ml), would still sweat profusely.
Due to his under-urination habit, he would become obese (see Palaniappan, 1998), and of course, would sweat profusely.
Because of the REDUCED water consumption, his body fluids (similar to his blood becoming thick) tend to become highly viscous.
The viscous fluid tends to create 'tight' blockages of the alveoli.
Covering the face with a thick blanket while sleeping enhances inhalation of the moist exhaled air, and that tends to enhance the alveoli blockages as well.
Such a condition, besides giving rise to severe cough, would make him an easy target for acute attacks and related death.
THE STORY OF ASTHMA FROM BIRTH TO DEATH.
The new-born baby is wrapped around with the use of a warm cloth.
In addition, the infant may also be worn witha TIGHT napkin(or diapers).
When an infant (or even a grown-up baby) is worn with a tight napkin, he/she* stops liberal urination.
The tight napkin only encourages the child to withhold the urinal pressure.
That makes the baby to produce excessive sweat.
However, babies kept in a cool environment (air-conditioned or otherwise) does not show off the sweat: it is called 'insensible perspiration.
Yet, the body (skin) surface of the baby becomes chill, in spite of the warm cloth wrapping.
As long as the baby is kept in a DEHYDRATED air-conditioned room, the baby does not develop cough, bronchitis or asthma, cough.
This is so because, only the DRY air would enter into the lungs of baby.
However, if the child is brought out to be in a natural environment (e.g., bedroom with open windows), the baby would start inhaling the 'natural' air.
If and when the bedroom windows are kept closed for the prevention of mosquitoes for instance, the moisture inside the room increases manifold, and makes things worse.
If the air contains plenty of moisture (high RH), then the under-urinating baby's body and skin surface would turn chill due to the evaporation of the sweat, and that would then enhance water condensation at the lungs.
This would then give rise to nagging cough, wheezing, breathing difficulties, bronchitis and/or asthma.
Under-urinating, over-sweating babies with bronchitis or asthma tend to become over-weight, with a round face (See Palaniappan, 1998).
I have found babies raised in relatively under-developed countries do not get bronchitis or asthma.
To a great degree, this can be attributed to the liberal urination habits of children due to NOT wearing tight napkins.
o (b) a regularised pattern of hyperhidrosis.
Classes are held for long hours. When interval occurs, the children would prefer to play around at eat at the canteens, rather than spending the time waiting in the queue in the toilet area.
Such a practice makes them under-urinate, which in turn makes them to sweat profusely.
Such a condition worsens when they play running around.
These make them get bronchitis and/or asthma.
People working in offices tend to under-urinate because of the over-indulgence in their works + the air-conditioner tends to dehydrate their body, thus reducing the urinal pressure.
People working in factories are discouraged from going to toilet frequently. They then learn to withhold their urinal pressure.
Elderly people, for want of energy, often refrain from frequenting the toilet, and that tends to make them asthmatic.
Bed-ridden patients also tend not urinate properly, and that makes them to suffer likewise. It would go worse if they happen to sleep in bedrooms with windows closed, for that would increase the internal moisture, which, when breathed in would enhance water condensation in the lungs.
* Anti-inflammatory drugs: These help reduce inflammation in the airways + mucous production. These are mostly corticosteroids.
* Bronchodilators: these help relax the muscles of airways, and open them for easy air-flow.
* We should of course remember that both the above two do NOT CURE the disease. They help the patient live comfortably by suppressing the symptoms.
Condensation of air-borne moisture in the breathing holes of the lungs should be prevented.
To do that, profuse sweating that occurs due to under-urination should be prevented.
One should practice and develop the habit of urinating once every two hours while awake. This will stop profuse sweating.
One should avoid drinking far too much of water (e.g., >2 L may not be good).
If a person takes a shower using bot water at very high temperatures, he/she would sweat profusely AFTER the shower. This would then promote hyperhidrosis for rest of the day, even if the person happens to cool down under a fan or an air-conditioner. Therefore, only lukewarm / tepid water should be used for bathing purposes.
As a rule, all asthma-prone people should avoid doing sweat-producing exercises.
Asthma-prone people should AVOID drinking VERY HOT coffee, tea, and other beverages, for that would induce profuse sweating.
They should keep at least one window open while they sleep by night.
They should NOT cover their face with thick blanket while asleep.
They can choose to live in a place where the AIR is dry, with LOW Relative Humidity (RH).
Live in a place where there are NO air-borne pollutants.
Living in pollution-free / traffic-free villages would help a great deal.
Living in the midst of trees and bushes (even if they happen to disseminate pollen grains) would help substantially.
Use of TISSUE PAPERS (that emit irritating chemical-containing dust particles) should be totally avoided.
IF ALL THE ABOVE ARE STRICTLY CARRIED OUT FOR A MINIMUM PERIOD OF ABOUT 2 MONTHS, THE VICTIM MAY COME OUT OF THE PROBLEM, MORE OR LESS PERMANENTLY.
HOWEVER, LONG-TERM CHRONIC PATIENTS MAY HAVE TO PRACTICE ALL THE ABOVE FOR ANOTHER MONTH OR TWO FOR A FULL RECOVERY.
Once the hyperhidrosis stops, water-logging in the lungs would cease, and that would stop the coughs.
Once breathing problem stops, adequate oxygen supply would resume, and that would prevent the headaches.
· +++ Curative procedures for all of the associated diseases are given.
· Since ACUTE asthma attacks are the results of TOTAL BLOCKAGE of the breathing holes in the lungs by the thick, viscous WATER condensates, the mere REMOVAL of the WATER from the lungs would provide INSTANT RELIEF to the patient.
This can be achieved almost instantly (within few seconds) by making the patient BREATH IN HOT AIR FROM A HAIR DRIER.
The patient should feel comfortable to inhale the HOT AIR, and that must be continued non-stop for a few minutes – say, 3 minutes or so. Even worst suffocations would ease within a minute or so.
I have successfully used this method I developed on numerous asthma patients to save them from severe attacks. I have never failed.
· If a hairdryer is not available, inhaling the hot air that arises from a stove in the kitchen too should prove useful.
· If an Infra-Red Lamp (that is used for a relief of muscular pain, back pain, etc.) is available, that too can be used for the purpose of drying up the lung's blockages.
The lamp should be held at a distance of about 30 or 40 cm, and the hot air should be inhaled.
While doing this the eyes must be protected from the rays properly. Alternatively, the lamp can be held in a lateral position to the face, rather than a frontal exposure.
Since the heat from the red rays can burn the tender nasal tissues, the lamp should be held at a distance so that it would not incur any tissue damage.
It may take about 3 – 5 minutes or so before finding a relief through this method.
· For this purpose, even a table lamp with a normal heat-producing bulb can be used to heat up the inhaled air.
· Standing under a hot sun in a tropical country also may prove useful for such a dehydration of the lung fluids.
· If the patient happens to be in a cold winter, sitting close to the fire place should prove useful in the drying up of the lung fluid.
Ref; THE DEATH OF SIX PEOPLE IN MELBOURNE DUE TO THE THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA.
In the first place, thunderstorms are often associated with rainfall. When it rains, and also for a while AFTER the rain, the air is bound to be moist.
Melbourne is second largest city in Australia: with lots and lots of vehicles and industries of all kinds emitting a wide variety of pollutants (that can irritate the lung tissues and cause inflammation)– enhancing the floating of acid substances, toxic dusts, unburnt oil droplets and coal particles in the air.
Sunshine seems to occur for 9 hours daily in Melbourne now, and the temperature ranges from 12 – 22oC. These two may not have any direct influence over the asthma attacks.
The rain abundance as such may not mean anything much.
On the other hand, if the rain lasts for long durations – even as drizzle, that would keep the air moist for prolonged hours, thus increasing the water condensation potentials within the lungs.
During DAY time, under normal circumstances, the 'heated' particle pollutants tend to go upward from the ground level, and by late night and early mornings, the air tends to be HEAVY and MOIST with high Relative Humidity (RH), and therefore, tend to go down to ground level.
However, the current highest temperature in Melbourne is only 22oC (72oF), and this may not be enough to heat up the pollutants or evaporate the air-borne moisture to drive them upward. Hence, the air with ALL the particle pollutants, moist, sticky and heavy, tend to be at the ground or chest level all throughout the 24 hours.
The RH in Melbourne appears to be about 68% in the mornings and 52% in the afternoons*. These readings should be considered relatively harmless. However, if the windows are kept closed, then the internal RH reading tends to shoot up to much higher levels.
By Malaysian standards, this cannot be considered high. Yet, based on the differences between the two readings, the air in the mornings appear to more moist and HEAVY with 68%.
However, this particular disaster appears to have occurred at a time when it was heavily raining in Melbourne*, with, of course, the thunderstorm. Therefore, the RH of the ambient atmosphere must have gone up even to 95 or 100%.
It appears that the Asthmatics in Melbourne seem to be inhaling into their lungs abundant, highly viscous and oil-containing particle pollutants whenever it drizzles (or rains).
Based on my explanations in the first part of this article, it is quiet probable that those six people who died of asthma now, must have been either obese people or at least slightly over-weight, and NOT thin or skeletal people.
Further, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM SWEATY PALMS AND FEET (due to hyperhidrosis, resulting from under-urination) ALL THE TIME. That must have made them susceptible to alveoli failures.
Further, these victims must have, most probably, been doing some sweat-out physical exercises in the OPEN (e.g., jogging), or even over a treadmill within shelters on the said Monday, during which time they could have inhaled the 'spoilt' moist air that chocked them to death.
Their sweat must have chilled their outer body, and the 95% (?) moisture from the air they breathed in must have condensed in their lungs, causing something almost similar to pulmonary oedema – that is, their breathing holes alveoli must have clogged/chocked up, making the air exchange almost impossible. This must have resulted in their death.
If those people stayed indoors, and if they did NOT do any physical exercise to the extent of producing profuse sweat over their body, they would not have had the massive and acute attack.
While staying indoors, they could have kept all the windows in their bedroom closed, especially while asleep by night, allowing the accumulation of moisture to a dangerous RH level.
Further, if those people had read my book on Asthma which I have referred here, they could have avoided the mishap.
Alternatively, they could have saved themselves by inhaling hot air from their hair driers.
(Most scientists tend to blame the dispersal of pollen grains as well as the fungal spores. I am of the firm opinion that these two do NOT seem to be the causative factors for triggering or intensifying asthma attacks.
Of course, be in close touch with hospitals to overcome any emergency need.
Drink at least 2 L water daily.
Do not do sweat-producing exercises when the environment is moist, especially during rains.
Better to avoid taking showers when it rains, or immediately after a rain.
Avoid drinking a VERY HOT drink when the air is moist, for the sweat produced (because of the drink) would promote water condensation in your lungs.
Do not prevent ventilation: Avoid moisture build-up inside the house/bedroom. (Cold air contains more oxygen, and hot air has less. So, dry and cold environment should be OK).
Keep a hair-drier ready for use, in case of emergency choke-ups.
It should prove useful to read this article a few times to understand all aspects of this disease.
If you have a friend in Australia, you may want to bring his/her attention to this article in this BLOG.
If you have the means, please bring this to the attention of all authorities in your country and also those linked to WHO.
After all, our sole intention is to save all humans from any of this kind of mishaps.
(It appears that the second part of the Diabetes article I promised of writing will have to wait for some time.
With best wishes and thanks for reading this article.
If can, may I request my friends to share this article in their Facebook accounts, and the like.
In the medical world (although it is said that there is no cure for asthma so far), a wide variety of help are available for the asthmatics.
In case of emergencies or otherwise, every patient is strongly requested to seek the help of a Registered Medical Practitioner for solving his/her health problem of any kind.
I am a Research Scientist, with a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences / Ecology, and I do not have a degree or training in the practice of Allopathic / Western medicine.
I have been communicating/ conveying all my ecologically-oriented research findings/ discoveries to the World Health Organisation (WHO) officials – the Director General Dr. Margaret Chan and 17 other Regional Directors – since three years, and am anxiously awaiting for their response, recognition and approval.
Until my findings are recognized and approved by WHO, every Reader of this article (as well as all others who may visit / read this BLOG) should consider this as information meant only for the furtherance of research works.
However, if you wish to use any of these ideas / techniques at your own risk, as per prevailing Law, you should first get the approval of your Registered Medical Practitioner.
In cases of misadventures, I should not be held responsible in any manner whatsoever for any possible mishaps.


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