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All residents and users of the lake are advised to avoid contact with areas of the lake with visible blooms (where the water appears green or streaky). Do not allow pets in the water. Seek medical assistance if you experience any health problems after exposure.
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Christmas Teaching Theme
Word Wall Words
In this book,
Rudolph has a different colored nose on each page. I used a piece of
velcro to make the book interactive by matching the colored nose to
the color word on each page. The text reads:
What will you
You can't guide
If your nose is
Santa gave a
But what will he
If your nose is
Your way cannot
be seen
Through the
wintry weather
If your nose is
You're such a
silly fellow
Who will know
it's you
If your nose is
How will you get
You can't see in
the dark
If your nose is
It's time to go
to town.
But Santa's
wearing a frown
'Cause your nose
is brown!
It's time to fly
at night.
But you're quite
a sight
'Cause your nose
is white!
The children are
in bed.
And now I
know you're ready
'Cause your nose
is red!
Reindeer Tricks
In the book on
the right, Rudolph is a stick puppet who illustrates some positional
words as he flies. He ends up falling off a roof and landing in a
snowdrift (a pocket covered with cottonballs.) Directions to make
this book can be found in Kim's kid-made books at:
Hi Terri,
I am going to have to change that link. Kim, who made the book,
retired and took her site offline. Another teacher has her books on
her site now. Here is the link:
Emergent Reader
Holiday Books
Maureen Tumenas,
a former kindergarten teacher, wrote these emergent reader books and
generously offered to let me post them on my site.
Important: They
are designed to be copied
back to back
and stacked on top of each other.
Brown Reindeer, Brown Reindeer, What Do You See?
Christmas Lights
Is Santa
I Can See Christmas
I See
Our Christmas
Make a
collaborative class book by having each student illustrate and
finish this sentence:
The one gift
I most want for Christmas is _______________.
All About
This book
provides some factual information about reindeer.
Helper, Kindergarten, Nov/Dec/Jan 1996-97
Holiday Shapes
Have students
illustrate each page with the correct number of shapes OR have the
shapes pre-drawn on the page and have students decorate them.
winter day I looked to see that
holiday shapes were all around me!
triangle trees standing in the snow.
square gifts with Christmas bows.
diamond cookies just made to eat.
5 round
latkes for a Hanukkah treat.
6 star
shapes in the winter night.
rectangles shine with Kwanzaa light.
Christmas Tree
Copy a Christmas
tree on green paper. Illustrate each page as directed.
On my Christmas
tree there will be
A shining star
just for me.
A ringing bell
just for me.
On my Christmas
tree there will be
A blinking light
just for me.
A singing bird
just for me.
A smiling angel
just for me.
Christmas Tree
I don't recall
the source for this activity, but Christmas pictures are inserted on
colored circles to make ornaments. I passed out these out to the
children and they put them on the "tree" when they heard something
that rhymed with their ornament picture. An example might be: Santa
doesn't play a game, but my clandle has a flickering _____. (flame)
Play a game to
review words and letters. They may draw one ornament on the "boy" or
"girl" Christmas tree for each flash card they can read.
Use curved and
straight pieces decorated in candy cane stripes to make letters and
Make a
Santa mobile. Put a mustache, nose and eyes on a 6x18" piece
of pink construction paper. Glue a 1 inch white band to the
top and roll this into a cylinder. Staple 2 red triangles
inside the top of the cylinder; bring these triangles together
at the top by stapling on a white circle. Decorate with a
holly leaf and berries. Accordion fold 6 one and a half inch
strips of white paper and glue inside bottom of Santa face.
Hang by the circle at the top.
Cut light
bulbs from paper or craft foam. Students write one letter of
their name on each bulb. Use pinking shears to cut black
strips of paper and fold them over yarn and staple to the
bulbs to attach to the necklace.
Use an
Ellison die-cut to punch out 2 Christmas trees from craft
foam. Glue on sequin decorations and let dry. Cut one tree
halfway up from the bottom and the other halfway down from the
top. Slip 2 trees together so it will stand.
Trace one
footprint and two handprints to make a reindeer. Add wiggly
eyes and a pompom nose. Hang ten in a row and use the antlers
to practice counting by fives and tens to 100.
beads (tri-beads) on to a pipe cleaner and bend over to make a
candy cane. Put the beads on in a pattern--AB or ABC to
reinforce math skills.
Make a
Santa by stuffing a water bottle with red crepe paper. Make a
belt from black electrical tape. Add wiggly eyes and a
cottonball beard.
decorated gingerbread men into a tree shape.
paint a coffee can. Insert a wire handle and sponge paint a
snowman decoration on the can. Use the can to carry home
Christmas ornament gifts.
Snowman Ornament
child's palm and fingers white. Carefully have them hold the
blue ball to create the five snowmen. Use a paint marker to
make hats, faces, and scarves. Attach a tag with this poem:
aren't just five snowmen
As anyone
can see.
I made
them with my hand
Which is a
part of me.
Now each
year when you trim the tree
look back and recall
Christmas of 2004
When my
hand was just this small!
Tag for Handprint Snowman Ornament - Updated for 2008!
Looking ahead: 2009 • 2010 • 2011
Cut large
green and red circles with a 12 inch diameter. Have students
color and cut out 2 simple pictures such as Santa, a snowman,
a star, or a gingerbread man. Attach an ornament hanger to the
top of each side of the ball after gluing a picture on each
side. These make colorful decorations hanging from the
Candy Cane
an oval shape (about 4 inches long) from green paper or felt.
Cut two slits (close to an inch long) horizontally about an
inch apart. Add red mouse ears, a red pompom nose, and bead or
wiggle eyes. Slide a candy cane through the slits and the
round end becomes the mouse's tail.
Tree -
This tree
was designed by our Art Teacher, Ms. Bittle.
Countdown - Glue a
cotton ball on each day in December to count down to Christmas
This idea
came from Mrs. Begg's site. I used Adobe Photoshop to "liquify"
the children's ears and make them longer and pointy. The
children cut out the hats and collars and glued on the
Make read
and green chains to count down the days till Christmas. The
star at the top has this poem:
From December 1 till Christmas
Is the longest time of year.
Seems as though old Santa
Never will appear.
How many days till Christmas
Is mighty hard to count
so this little paper chain
Will tell you the exact amount.
Take off a link every day.
It isn't very hard.
Christmas Day will be here
When you reach the star.
Sew or hot
glue a pocket at the top of the felt for the dowel rod. I used
pencil to lightly trace a Cool Whip lid in the center so the
heel of the child's hand made something close to a circular
shape for the center of the wreath. Paint the child's hand
with acrylic paint. Use a finger dipped in red paint to make
some holly berries. Glue on a red bow. Write the
child's name and year at the bottom of the wreath. Tie a piece
of yarn to each end of the down for a hanger.
This tree
was created by Mr. Hatherill, our other kindergarten teacher's
father. The children painted the pieces and used a pencil
eraser dipped in paint to make the ornaments.
Leave this
letter, 2 bags (oats and gold glitter), 2 spoons and the
labels to be "found" by your class. You can add the
ingredients to a Christmas ziplock bag or make a reindeer
lunch bag like the one below.
Dear Mrs.
Flanagan and Little Giraffes,
Here are
all the things you'll need to make the secret reindeer food
that will help my reindeer find their way to your house on
Christmas Eve. there are 2 spoons and 2 bags of secret
ingredients. Use the big spoon to scoop out 2 spoonfuls of
magic food. Use the little spoon to scoop out 1 spoonful of
magic gold. Mix them together in a bag. Sprinkle this on your
lawn or sidewalk on Christmas Eve so we can find your house or
apartment. Don't worry if some is left over...sometimes
reindeer don't eat a lot when they have to fly. I sent along
some directions for you to take home with the magic food. Be
good! HO! HO! HO!
Tag for
back of bag:
Be sure to
take this magic food
sprinkle it on the lawn.
Christmas, Santa's reindeer
miles before the dawn.
The smell
of oats and glitter path
Will guide
them on their way.
And you'll
wake up to Santa's gifts
Next morn
on Christmas day!
Program Clothes
Make elf
hats shown in the picture. Add a sentence strip headband
to fit each child. Cut a collar from white construction paper
that has been folded. Add cut out holly leaves and red marker
holly berries in between the leaves. Tie bows with red crepe
paper streamers that have been stapled to the collar.
Roll a Christmas Tree
Students need a blank
sheet of paper (or use the dotted template below). They work in
small groups and take turns rolling a die to make a Christmas tree,
including the top, the middle, the bottom, the tree trunk, the star
on the top and at least 6 ornaments. The first one to finish drawing
his tree is the winner!
Click here to print out the
Roll a Christmas Tree game.
Click here to
print a pre-drawn
dotted tree. This would be helpful for the students if they roll
a 4, 5, or 6 before they've drawn the tree. It gives them a point of
reference to draw their trunk, star and ornament.
If drawing the
star is too difficult you might show them how to make an easier one.
First make an X and then put a vertical line and horizontal line
through the middle so it resembles a star (or snowflake).
Roll a Gingerbread Man
Students need a blank
sheet of paper (or use the dotted template below). They work in
small groups and take turns rolling a die to make a gingerbread man, including
his head, body, face 2 arms, 2 legs and at least 3 buttons. The first one to finish drawing
his gingerbread man is the winner!
Click here to print out the
Roll a Gingerbread Man game.
Click here to
print a pre-drawn
dotted gingerbread man. This would be helpful for the students if they roll
a 3, 4, 5, or 6 before they've drawn the head or body. It gives them
a point of reference to draw their face, arms, legs and buttons.
Dye Christmas
macaroni to use for patterning, counting or story problems. The
fireplace math mat is from Box It or Bag It math.
The fireplace
math mat is from Box It or Bag It math.
Christmas Patterns
Use Christmas
foam shapes to make a pattern.
Christmas Headband
These patterns
can be made into a headband.
Christmas Crunch Cereal
We graphed
Christmas Crunch Cereal.
Click here for a
copy of the
Christmas Crunch Graph.
Candy Cane Numbers
Use curved and
straight pieces decorated in candy cane stripes to make numbers.
Gingerbread House Money Math
Making a
gingerbread house can be a wonderful opportunity to practice
counting money. The materials to decorate the houses could be
"purchased" for pennies, nickels or dimes. Each child would be given
a specific amount of money and each topping (chocolate chips, M&M's,
coconut, skittles, gum drops, etc.) would have a price posted by it.
bread into triangle shape and spread on peanut butter. Use pretzels
for ears, chocolate covered raisins (or brown M&Ms) for eyes and a
red M&M for a nose.
Apple Santa
Make an Apple Santa by putting
large marshmallows and red and green gumdrops on toothpicks and
inserting them in the apples for arms, legs and head. A face can be
drawn with frosting from a tube or by dipping a toothpick in food
Christmas Tree
Thanks to Hada
for sharing this picture and idea of using an ice cream cone
decorated with green icing and candy to make a Christmas tree.
Gingerbread Houses
3 boxes of
graham crackers...4 halves for the sides of the carton and 2 halves
for the roof...(angle them to make a pointed roof)
1 can of vanilla frosting for each child
1 milk carton washed out and taped shut for each.
1 plastic knife for each
1 solo plastic plate to place the carton on.
Assorted bags of candy to decorate the houses (each child could be
assigned a topping to bring in such as chocolate
chips, gum drops, m & m's, or skittles)
Paper plates to put the candy on...two children share the candy on 1
2 bags of coconut for snow
2 bags of spearmint leaves for bushes
1 bag of Hershey kisses for chimneys
Newspaper to cover desks
Have 1 parent helper for every 2 children. Frost the carton and
assemble the house and roof. Decorate the house with candy. Use
additional frosting on the plate to make snow and a path to the
door. Let them dry over night
and take them home the next day. This project can be integrated into
the curriculum as a math activity by having the children "purchase"
the decorative toppings--see the idea above in the Math section.
An alternate suggestion is to
hot glue the
graham crackers to the milk cartons first. It is hard for the
children to attach the crackers to the carton anyway, plus it uses
so much icing. And, if they don't use very much icing, then when
they start putting candy on it, the crackers fall off.
You can read the Gingerbread Baby story and then give them a small
gingerbread shaped cookie. Have them put the cookie in the carton,
because they caught the gingerbread baby and they are going to make
a house for him. After the children are gone for the day, hot glue
the crackers to the cartons so they are ready for the next day. If
you have parent helpers, you could do this all in one day. Then the
children can decorate the houses without using all that icing. It
would probably take 3 to 4 cans of icing for 18 children.
Send home a note to the parents with the gingerbread houses, stating
that the crackers have been glued on and not to allow the children
to eat the crackers but only eat the candy.
Set up the
chairs facing outward in a circle just like in Musical Chairs.
Start the music and stop it. Everyone gets a seat just as usual and
everyone takes a seat. For the next round, remove one chair, but
NOBODY leaves. Everyone stays. Start the music again, but this time
someone will have to scoot over and SHARE a chair when the music
stops. Next round, remove another chair, and another. All the while
they'll have to keep sharing chairs (and eventually laps). It's
great fun but I would suggest stopping when you have 4 chairs left.
Set up two,
three or four relay lines, depending on the manageable size of your
class. (If you have more lines, everyone will get more than one
chance, which is MUCH better!) Make a sturdy headband with 'hand
cutouts' for antlers---one headband for each relay line. Obtain two
empty shoeboxes for each line. The first person in each line will
step into the empty shoeboxes, don the antlers, and shuffle the
distance (however long you decide on), ring a little bell, then
shuffle back. The fun part for them is shuffling across the floor!
Set up all the
chairs in a BIG circle facing inward. (The chairs should NOT be
touching.) Have available four sets of different Ellison
holiday-themed cutouts. Give ONE to each child after they're seated
in a chair facing inward. Call the name of one cutout such as
"reindeer". All those who are holding a reindeer get up and walk
across the circle to sit in a seat that was vacated by someone
else. This goes pretty smoothly until you start to pick up the pace
by calling TWO cutouts at once, then THREE, then FOUR. You can vary
the game by saying "all the Christmas trees must HOP to an empty
chair", etc.
Supplies: Cut circles out of
red construction paper, Vaseline
Divide into relay
teams. Have the first children in the lines put Vaseline on their
noses and then put the red circles on their noses. Race to the
finish line, drop the nose into a bowl and return to tag the next
person in line. Continue with each new person adding their red nose
to the bowl. If their nose falls off, they go back, add more
Vaseline and reapply the nose.
(relay race)
Supplies: 4 candy canes per
team (have a few extras due to breakage)
The first player holds
4 candy canes between his fingers and passes them down the line,
teammate to teammate, without dropping them.
Supplies: Small Santa sleigh
Have the
children sit in a large circle and blindfold one child. Another
child will be given the sleigh and must say:
Santa Santa, where's your sleigh?
Someone's come and taken it away.
Guess who, guess who?
The blindfolded
child gets three guesses. The child who has the sleigh is next to be
Supplies: Straw for each
child, Ornaments cut out of tissue paper (tree, bell, star, etc.)
Pass the
ornaments down the line, teammate to teammate, by inhaling and
exhaling on the straw to hang onto or release
the ornament.
No hands!
This is played
similar to Simon Says. The player up is "Santa". Player will say
"Santa says hop on one foot". The children will hop on one foot.
Santa will say "Stop". The children are to keep hopping on one foot
until the player says "Santa says stop". Repeat for additional
activities such as, "Take one baby step forward, step backwards,
turn around, sit down". Sometimes Santa will say "Santa says" and
sometimes he won't.
Supplies: Stocking for each
team, spoon for each team, bowl
for each team, wrapped
Divide into
teams. Have children line up at one end of the room. At the other
end, hang a Christmas stocking for each team. Place a bowl of candy
and a spoon in front of each team. Each child takes a turn taking a
candy from the bowl with the spoon. They then carry the candy on the
spoon to the stocking and drop the candy in the stocking. Race back
to the next person in line, give them the spoon. First team to fill
the stocking wins!
Play this game
just like Duck,
Duck Goose.
pieces of red and green yarn around the classroom. Divide into teams
and each team and assign each team a color. They have to find all
the yarn pieces of their color and then tie all the pieces together.
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Ida Maude and Dr. James L. Hughes Visit a Monument
Sally and the Bagpipes, or, Oat-Power Farming
Dictionary (How to Understand Sally Etc.)
School Boy
Lunch on the Bill-Board
Run, Run, Run
Beautiful Dorothy Johns
Boy Chemist
The Plaster of Paris and Plate Glass Swimming Mask Mock-up
The Destroyer Runs Amok (w/pic)
The Laundry Tub to the Rescue
The Laundry Tub as a Safety Resource (w/2pics)
Sound on a Jet d'Eau
The Window Rattlers Ride Again (The Bell) (w/pic)
Me 'n' Sir Humphrey
Billy and the Nose
Wayne U. Days
The Meticulous Braggart (Compare w. Naomi and I Do Victor Meyer) (w.pic)
Memory Training (Compare w. Pool)
Naomi and I Do Victor Meyer (w/pic)
Pool (Compare with Memory Training)
Swimming Summers
The Rescue
Three Score and Finally Swimming
The Old Show-Off
Tears at the Wading Pool
Aurora Orientalis
Farewell and Hail (The Walk to the Bus Stop)
Your Word is Law (Lamp Shades on Demand)
Tin Can Sailor
Momentous Cheese and Mysterious Cookies (w/pic)
Oldendorf Crosses the T
Crossing the T, the Middie's Dream
First Aid and Spear Carrying
Sol Miller and the Rainstorm (w.pic)
The Palm as a Repair Tool
Faith in a Bucket
October 23, 1943, Crossing the T, the Midshipman's Dream
Fifteen Knot Ducking
How to Be a Civilian
Aunt Myrtle
How to Choose a University
I Made That Mistake in 1976
A Beautiful Glow lit the Fume Hood
Honest Picklocks
Negative German Train Timetable and the Orange Tip
On the Subject of Figs
Be Done
Aging in Overalls
Strange Tracks and Arthur Heming
Souvenir of San Francisco
Wild Dogs and Bad English
Coon Hunting School
Woodchuck Attack!
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The Bewildered Motorist
Desk Desert and Mountain Meadow
Death of a Leaf Blower
On the Subject of Figs
Rebridging (w/pic)
Field Day with a Tycoon
Snow in the Morning
The Extreme Sensitivity Convention
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For those that haven't heard of Crazy8, Knicksonline.com's video genius, allow me to introduce you to one of the best Knick video producers on the web. His youtube channel has quickly become the nerve center of all online Knick video analysis and his popularity on message boards is one of the most rabid. I'm thrilled to have worked with Crazy8 on putting together this video post on Ronnie Brewer- someone who Crazy8 realized wasn't getting enough credit for the role he has played on the Knicks this season. Enjoy. -Rich B
Be sure to check out Crazy8's youtube channel and visit Knicksonline.com to stay up to date with what's on the minds of die-hard Knick fans from all across the globe.
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This has undeniably been one of the best starts to a Knick season that we have seen in years and much of it is to due to, as Amare would say, phenomenal effect that NBA vets have had on the team. Previously a bit of a meme, the "Ancient Knicks" isn't so funny anymore. When thinking about the superb play of vets, names like Kidd, Wallace, and even Prigioni- who still counts despite being the oldest rookie in the league, roll off the tongue. There is one vet whose effect on the team has arguably been one of the most significant and hasn't really gotten much recognition. With that said, let's correct this and heap some praise on Ronnie Brewer.
Brewer has always been known for two things: Defense and his ugly ass shot. It's no surprise that his defense has been consistently stifling for opposing players, but if its one thing that has been a shocking is his much improved offensive output. Yes, it is an ugly shot form but say what you want about it because he's been burning nets around the league. Don't be fooled by the 6.8ppg he is averaging as a starter, pay closer attention to his three point shooting which is a career high of .405%. It's been well documented how deadly the Knicks can be from behind the arc with most thinking of Novak, but Brewer has improved tremendously in this area. For a career .241% three point shooter to balloon up to .405% is pretty dramatic. This isn't just an added bonus for a defensive minded Knick team, its delightfully game changing.
With as dominant as Melo has been, the fact that at almost any given moment the other marksman on the floor are just one Melo double-team away from hitting an open shot with surgeon-like precision is something that has been giving opposing coaches migraines all year long. And now, the impossible has happened: the one guy coaches didn't have to even think about on defense is just a week or so away from hitting the most three pointers he has ever had in a full season. The other thing about Brewer is that the value he has brought to the team has far outweighed the cost of his vet-minimum contract. When compared to Novak who is just starting to get around to becoming "Novakaine" again it could be argued that Brewer is the one that should be rewarded more when offseason contract talks start to begin. Of course this is said out of a very small sample size so lets see if this trend continues for the rest of the year and revisit which player is more expandable then. Either way with Shumpert a few weeks away from returning, Coach Woodson is going to have to figure out which players will have their minutes cut. If he elects to go with defense over perimeter offense, then Brewer is his man. If he elects to go with perimeter offense over defense, is Brewer statistically still his man? Probably not; but this is for Woody to figure out.
Lets not get caught up in three point shooting though. Brewer has also shot very well from the rest of the floor and has shown that he can even find other ways to score without hitting open jumpers. And of course what is most important about Brewer is the same thing that has always been his bread and butter: his defense. A lot of players can make baskets but very few can stop others from doing so, and that's precisely what Brewer has always been famous for. Ronnie, if you are reading this, please know how appreciated you are by Knick fans because you are a big part of the reason why the Knicks have become fun to watch again. And if you don't believe me, lets hear what someone else who knows Ronnie better than we do think about him:
"Ronnie's just a great team player, that's who he is. He plays to win, plays for the team, hard-playing, does a little bit of everything. (He) can score, pass, play-make, play great defense and he's a great teammate, very coachable. He did a great job for us when he was here and he's doing a great job for the Knicks" –former coach Tom Thibodeau.
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'Mayang' beats 'Dili Tanan' in MOR's music awards-A A +A
Friday, July 18, 2014
CEBU CITY — The laid-back radio hit that charmed its way into the Cebuano hearts, has also marked an appeal to Filipino nationwide.
Visayan Pop (VisPop) Songwriting Campaign's third placer Balay ni Mayang bagged the Regional Song of the Year Award during the MOR Pinoy Music Awards held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Metro Manila last July 11.
In celebration of its first anniversary, My Only Radio (MOR) 101.9 For Life! presents MOR Pinoy Music Awards, an event to celebrate and honor the greatness of original Pinoy music (OPM) and Filipino musicians.
The top-charting song written by Kyle Wong of the Wonggoys and Marianne Dungog (aka Mayang) got its inspiration for the composition from Kyle's visits to Mayang's house.
The song is sung by Kyle Wong and Martina San Diego. For the "Regional Song of the Year" Award, Balay ni Mayang battled against two other regional song nominees: Paglaum by Marjun Taroy and Dili Tanan by Rommel Tuico.
"It feels surreal knowing that the song made it that far. I still couldn't believe that a song so simple could be appreciated by a lot of people not only Cebuanos but from other regions as well," Mayang said.
When asked of her message to aspiring Visayan talents, Mayang suggests to continue supporting local music.
"Let us show the other side of the Visayan music scene, we are not just all about novelty and bisrock. Let us showcase the new generation of Visayan artistry," Mayang said. (Denice Dabon, STC Mass Com Intern)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on July 19, 2014.
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- goprairie said...
The Christians and Jews and Muslims around me all advocate tolerance of each other and of the various versions within their own groups and are proud of the progressiveness of their tolerance. As a non-practicing Christian who even so gently mocked some of their practices and spoke firmly against the extreme practitioners of any, I was tolerated and they were polite to me. Once I labeled myself 'atheist', the tolerance was gone and disgust replaced it. It was okay for all of them for me to have a different view of God and even be a little irreverent of their practices, but their tolerance ends once I pass into full atheism. I get called heathen, pagan, devil-worshiper, self-worshipper, and so on. The negativity and hostility took me by surprise from these gentle tolerant people. I guess I need to find a basement support group!!
- January 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
I can't stand that "Atheist Rapper" guy; the same obnoxious person who wears that "The Black Carl Sagan" t-shirt.
What a way to cheapen and reify something that doesn't need garish or tacky shows like this. As much as I respect him, this goes for Dan Barker's atheist-themed folksy music, too.
Concerning the guy in the video, his low-level, pedestrian empiricism is a positivistic dogma that begs the question concerning quarks, bosons, or strings. I know what he means when he demands evidence, but his strict empiricism may be without foundation.
Ontological Naturalists who have a pluralistic ontology (e.g. Platonists) would run dialectical circles around him.
Guys like this, including his ilk such as Darwin Bedford, David Mills, Reginald Finley, Brian Sapient, and a number of others, are often very embarrassing.
(Sensing that this would be quote-mined, I should point out that the above people mentioned are like Frege and Russell compared to JP Holding, the bullies at "Atheism Sucks," Todd Friel, et al.)
- January 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM
- Speedwell said...
Anonymous @ 6:25:
How fortunate it is that the truth status of evidence doesn't depend on whether or not the evidence is tasteful.
- January 24, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Jamie G. said...
@ Anonymous,
I can't say that I totally agree with Finley or Sapient's style, but I appreciate what they are doing. I greatly appreciated David Mill's book. And I really like Dan Barker, his book, his show, and his campy music Why? Because although they may not represent the top of the intellectual rung, they were out there for "low-brow blue collar" guys like me. I don't think the masses will understand all the intellectualism behind atheism right away, and initially many have the knee-jerk emotional detachment from their religions, so guys like this help encourage and embolden those that are yet confident enough to step out and be proud to be an atheist.
Personally, I find your comment a little offensive, as if atheism is for the intellectual elite alone. Yes, I find the arrogance of Sapient and Finley distasteful and unappealing, but they are doing things that even Debunking Christianity isn't.
No, I don't expect that the "smarties" should dumb it down for the rest of us. But it would be nice if there wasn't so much "Gosh, they are stupid" by the higher-IQ atheists out there.
- January 24, 2008 at 7:42 AM
- John W. Loftus said...
Jamie, I agree wholeheartedly. We need authors and bloggers on every level. What Christian, for instance, would ever be upset if some person was converted as the result of reading Josh McDowell? None that I know of.
- January 24, 2008 at 7:49 AM


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As a Department we are committed to providing cutting edge technology to support the curriculum and provide students with the experience and skills to become confident, autonomous users of ICT.
The Department recognises the importance of ICT in the curriculum both as an experience of skills and concepts in their own right and as a means of enriching, enhancing and extending the delivery of all subjects across the curriculum. Opportunities are provided to enable all students to experience, use and discuss ICT to thoses ends. It is intended that ICT will facilitate new teaching and learning opportunities throughout the curriculum, where possible, in respect of a student's individual educational needs, as well as enriching and enhancing existing ones.
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Two major cross curricular projects are completed in Year 9 where we work in conjunction with the Art and DT Departments. The students begin the projects in Art and DT and then work on the ICT related parts in their ICT lessons. During this time they cover advanced use of Photoshop, Desktop Publishing and presentation applications.
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This Flash animation was created by a Year 7 student for her '5 A Day' project.
These animations were created by Year 7 students who drew pictures of fantasy machines in Art which were then scanned and animated in ICT.
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Wattpad's open letter to the writing community – help us stop piracy
I met Allen Lau, co-founder of Wattpad, at the IDPF conference and reported on his strong interest in keeping infringing material off his site. Allen has just issued an open letter to writers asking for their help in this endeavor. He sent me a copy and here it is. I found Allen to be a forthright and open person and I believe he is sincere in this effort.
Open Letter to the writing community
As noted in a recent New York Times article published on May 11, 2009, digital piracy in the literary world has ballooned in recent months as an expanding appetite for e-books has spawned a bumper crop of pirated editions on a number of websites such as Wattpad.
Firstly, while the New York Times article is correctly pointing out a real problem, we would like to strongly emphasize that it is not our desire to make the website open to copyright infringement. Wattpad's goal has always been a destination site for writers to publish their own works. Users upload copyright material without the permission of the copyright owners violate Wattpad's terms of use: http://www.wattpad.com/terms.
Since Wattpad's inception, we have been actively monitoring uploads to identify and remove inappropriate content. However, we have been facing increasing challenges in the recent months. Due to the exponentially increasing volume of uploads and the difficulties in identifying unauthorized material, it is beyond our capability to effectively monitor uploads.
As a result, in April 2009 our website underwent a significant redesign to combat piracy, which included the introduction of a content filter to prevent repeat infringement, tracking and banning repeat offenders and other technology aided advancements. As part of the redesign, we also launched a pilot program called "Authors In Charge" that is specifically set out to help identify and remove infringing material by copyright owners directly (http://www.wattpad.com/press?pr=043009). Many writers, including New York Times bestselling authors, have joined the pilot program with great results. The "Authors In Charge" program is the industry first to take such an initiative in order to protect content owners and at the same time support creative use of our innovative service for both writers and readers. This reflects our commitment to eliminate copyright infringing material from the website.
In recent weeks, we have seen a dramatic decline in the number of takedown notices we have received from copyright owners, which is an indication that these changes, to a degree, are effective in combating privacy. Despite these efforts, we recognize the daunting challenge we face in combating copyright infringement. Therefore, we would like to send out an open invitation and welcome the entire writing community to join the "Authors In Charge" program. Similar community self-policing methods has been used successfully by other websites, such as Wikipedia, in monitoring inappropriate content. With more authors participating in this program and other proactive measures that we continue to develop, we truly believe that we can completely eliminate content piracy on Wattpad in the near future.
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Asana as Eros.
A love affair with yoga.
Consider this scenario:
Sue starts going to yoga classes at her local gym because she heard it's a great way to increase muscle tone, improve all-round fitness and generally get in shape. That those who've recommended yoga to her say it's also really relaxing seals the deal.
After attending class twice a week for several months, she does notice a difference, not just in her ability to do the postures, but also in her mind. It feels somehow more spacious, more quiet, at least while she's practicing; it lasts for the rest of the day. It's almost as if there's an inner smile spreading throughout her entire self all the way to her skin.
Without necessarily even being able to describe why, Sue just knows that her life is better because of her yoga practice; when she practices her day goes better, when she skips class, she notices a difference.
One day she stays after class to talk to the teacher who, it turns out, also teaches at a yoga studio in the neighbourhood. Sure enough, Sue goes along to the studio to take more classes with her teacher and pretty soon has dropped her gym membership and is going to the yoga studio four or five times a week. Does it sound familiar, anyone?
She loves taking class at the studio, particularly chanting Om at the beginning and end of the practice and the time spent meditating at the start of the class. She finds herself becoming really interested in what the teacher says during class and pretty soon, she starts browsing the bookshelves in the lobby after class and before she knows it, she's reading 'Light on Yoga' by Iyengar and learning about the yamas and niyamas.
And it doesn't stop there! Having become accustomed to hearing chanting on playlists during yoga classes, she decides to check out a kirtan at the studio, dragging her husband along for company. At first it's a bit weird to be singing Sanskrit mantras to deities, (particularly since she's an atheist!) but pretty soon an infectious joy starts to replace the weirdness and she's in a full-on bliss fest.
Wait a second – from taking a class a couple of times a week at the gym to get a tighter butt, to chanting to God in a yoga studio on a Saturday night… What?
Based on my own experience, and that of so many others I've spoken to this scenario is not too far-fetched. You started practicing yoga asana because you wanted to get fit (a tighter butt), meet hot guys, girls, get rid of insomnia, deal with stress; or just because you could get two weeks for $25 at your local studio.
But over time, you started meditating and educating yourself about yoga philosophy and teachings by reading and going to workshops. You started chanting and you discovered your inner Ganesh-loving bhakti self.
You found yourself part of a vibrant, inclusive community that imbued your life with meaning. You started talking about chakras and sadhanas. Your life became more enjoyable and you started to laugh more. When you finally got into that arm balance, you felt good about yourself, in every aspect of your life.
Why is it that hatha yoga is so potent, that for many people it becomes a catalyst for all kinds of shifts in their lives?
To fully answer this question could take years and is way beyond my ken, but as a daily (okay, almost daily) practitioner for the last ten years, and teacher for eight of those years, I have some insights from my direct experience.
My background in philosophy has allowed me to see parallels between the yoga tradition coming out of India and other great traditions with rich philosophical systems, such as that of ancient Greece. In this vein I recently wrote about the eros of yoga, understood as the ability of physical practices and chanting of Sanskrit mantras to take to us a place of deeper connection with the boundless source of all that is permanent.
At some point in my philosophical training I read Plato's 'Symposium', in which he talks about the ladder of love and how eros (the realm of the sensuous) draws us into love's fold, and thereafter Love itself pulls us towards the place where there is only love, only coming to rest in the formless.
When we've reached the top of the ladder of love, we have moved beyond identifying love (only) with physical attraction and have come to love Love itself. I remember that when I read this account of the progression from the realm of the purely physical/sensuous to that of the spiritual/transcendent, I was immediately struck by how the same schema could be applied to yoga and the move from the physical to the non-physical.
While my philosophical training gave me access to Plato's view and the acuity to see the links between the ancient Greek and Indian worldviews, it was yoga practice that gave some oomph to the insight. My own experience of moving from yoga as just a physical practice to help me deal with stress and anxiety; to yoga as gateway to the mystery of my own heart and an embodied experience of mystical teachings, led me to the view that hatha yoga is about so much more than the physical.
I am aware that I'm not exploring virgin territory here. The yoga tradition itself tells us that yoga is a system—or set of techniques—for attaining union and for refining our connection to ourselves (and everything else) and for working with the mind.
Hatha yoga as we know it, is a 20th century phenomenon and certainly not part of the "ancient practice" of yoga that so many people talk about. But it seems that, particularly here in the States, undue emphasis is placed on the physical culture of yoga as an end in itself, and this is mistaken.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love practicing and teaching asana, and I love that my body is longer and leaner as a result of my practice. I love the endorphin rush I get from a strong physical practice, the fact that I feel integrated body/mind/spirit in a way I don't before I practice.
And I'm so grateful for the fact that the practice helps me manage my anxiety and brings me to a place of deeper equanimity and stillness. I love how my mind gets quieter as a result of practicing and how I feel more spacious after practicing.
I'm thrilled that asana practice has made me more connected to my body; it has made me love and appreciate my body more. And I love the exhilaration of doing fun backbends and arm balances.
But the longer I've practiced asana, the more I've come to understand that it's not about the pose. There'll always be a harder pose and there'll always be someone whose body is more flexible, stronger, more open than yours (or mine). That doesn't mean that they're a "better" yogi, it just means that their body is more flexible, stronger or leaner than yours (or mine).
Asana alone is not yoga; asana is a doorway to yoga. Sometimes yoga happens during asana practice, but merely moving your body, even if it is into supercool advanced poses, is not yoga.Yoga requires connection to the breath, intention and focus.
I don't want to sound all holier than thou; there are definitely times when I am practicing and notice that I'm not really present. Well, my body is present, but my mind is planning, remembering, blaming, wishing, etc.; on some level, I'm just going through the motions. Most times I'm able to come back to my breath to anchor my mind and make room for yoga. My point is just that I'm dealing with the same stuff as everyone else.
Yoga is the practice of coming back to the present moment, to the breath, to the pose, and it is in the very merging of our awareness with our breath that we can transcend the fluctuations of the mind and experience ourselves as one with the flow, the universal pulse. So when I say that asana is eros, I mean that it is that which is sensuous but draws beyond the sensuous to connection with something more eternal.
It's really cool to be able to do advanced poses but its even cooler to be able to remain equanimous under pressure. What's the point in being able to put your foot behind your head if you can't stay calm and if you can't feel compassion for other people? Mere physical dexterity does not make a yogi! But tapas (effort, steadfastness) in practice yields results.
As we struggle to master a pose the struggle itself teaches us that it's not about the pose, it's more about who I'm being—what qualities I'm cultivating—as I practice the pose.
I'm not trying to be preachy here. I'm someone who has struggled to become equanimous my whole life. I have a short fuse and I can be impatient and I've been told that I sometimes come across as harsh, although I don't intend to. Sustained and consistent yoga practice has helped me to soften and become (significantly) more equanimous. If I can do it, anyone can.
Practicing asana has undoubtedly changed my body, but in a deeper way, it has changed me. I have become less reactive and more responsive; I am getting better at remembering to breathe when I feel stressed out; and some of the wisdom I've heard from the mouths of teachers far and wide—in the form of yoga philosophy, prayers, Sanskrit mantras, Buddhist koans, and poetry of the mystics—has lodged in my heart and in my mind.
In many ways I've become more empty, less attached. I'm better at practicing aparigrapha (non-hoarding), I'm softer, more open; because yoga has helped me to feel safe in my body and in the world—which I haven't for most of life because I've been in a lot of accidents.
But most importantly this practice has taught me to read the book of my own heart, to listen to my own inner wisdom.
I've confronted many different aspects of myself on my yoga mat: fear, joy, anger, sadness, self-hatred, vulnerability, strength and determination, tenacity, open-heartedness… I've been a sobbing mess on my mat and felt incredible joy. I've learned more about what I'm not than what I am: I am not my thoughts. I am not my feelings. I am not the constant fluctuations of my mind, nor the multitude of sensations in my body.
Sometimes, when I practice asana, I'm connected to my breath and focusing on the rhythm of the inhalation turning into exhalation; then the poses are an extension of the breath—as if my body was surfing on the ocean of my breath—and I experience myself as the whole. Or, in other words, I become the pulsation of the universal throb.
There is just yoga happening: body, breath, pose are one. I think this was Feuerstein meant when he said that the point of asana practice is for us to transcend duality and experience non-duality (Advaita). And this is what Plato meant when he said that eros leads us to the realm of pure Love.
Shankaracharya, the renowned non-dualist philosopher wrote:
I am neither the mind, intellect, ego nor memory,
neither the ears nor the tongue nor the senses of smell and sight,
neither ether, air, fire, water or earth.
I am consciousness and bliss; I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
I am beyond all things.
I am everlasting, self-luminous,
taintless, and completely pure.
I am immovable, blissful, and imperishable.
I am without thought, without form.
I am neither detachment nor salvation nor anything that could be measured.
I am consciousness and bliss; I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
The bliss that he's describing is abiding equanimity and presence, beyond the peaks and valleys of our emotional lives: Satchitananda, being, consciousness, bliss. Everything that I've learned about the practice of yoga points in this direction far beyond deep backbends, jump backs and perfect handstands.
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14 Responses to "Asana as Eros."
Really insightful. I'm an injured yogi, and it has forced this progression from body to mind on me. (Probably the only way it would happen.) Excellent, Dearbhla. Thank you.
Glad you liked it Peter. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply!
The first seven paragraphs of this story were scarily exactly my sequence!
This is a wonderful essay, most of I completely concur with: contemporary yoga is too often reduced to asana, which as you point out is a (potential) gateway to yoga. That "potential" in quotes is where we may have a small disagreement. While the scenario you describe is indeed quite common, I think that it speaks more of the individual than of any kind of inherency of asana to lead someone from taking classes to get a firm butt to more transformative, spiritual practice.
How many, after all, never leave the gym class? I know many folk who continue to practice asana for its physical benefits, without ever developing an interest in the contemplative practices. When student's DO take the path you describe, I believe it is because of that individual's karma.
Thanks again for a sweet essay!
Hi Frank,
thanks for your reply. I think we're in closer agreement than you think…just as in the case of eros, the source itself (Love) is pulling the lover beyond love of the mere physical, for example, one night stands, asana is just the vehicle of a deeper source whose magnetic field pulls the practitioner deeper towards union with the boundless source. You're right: some people never move beyond asana as a physical practice just as some people never move beyond one night stands. And that may speak to an unwillingness to go deeper into connection with themselves in both cases, as both relationship with another and relationship with oneself (as forged through yoga practice) are exquisite and not easy intimacies.
Though, in the case of someone who only practices asana for its physical benefits, it's entirely possible that they have a robust spiritual life as a practicing Jew/Catholic/Lutheran etc.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment.
Well said! May we all continue, may we all go beyond. We never know what will inspire a person's next step; so best to never cease sharing according to our capacity. I began my practice in 1971 under the influence of Ram Das, Bhakti Yoga and the classical system of Yogendra from Bombay. Maintained inspired classes until 1988 when the seeds of commodification,yogadgets :-), and uber commercialized training programs were spreading fast. At the same time honest interest and commitment to embedding yamas and niyamas in the practice of those attending classes dwindled, like sunlight in an Arctic winter. Combined my understanding of heart centered yoga with a non-neurotic, non-robotic macrobiotic depth and breadth in 1979 and never looked back. There are in my studied opinion far too many people attempting to teach about things they are not deeply connected to their daily life. I don't see it as bad, but I still have enough sentimentality and attachment in me to feel a twinge of sadness for so many Going down paths that amount to no more than a detour away from the more meaningful work you refer/allude to in your article. Once again, thank you, I enjoyed having access to your spirited words and meaning.
Thanks for your comments Wayne. I appreciate you taking the time.
Om Shanti,
What an honest blog…you have so beautifully chronicled the path that every committed yoga practitioner takes! When we are on the brink of making yoga an Olympic sport ( God help us! ), such articles as yours need to be circulated, so more and more people understand 'yoga' is a tranformative energy that cannot be measured on a competitive platform! Its such an individual process that helps you plumb your very depths. With what scale will you measure this journey?
Thank you for your insightfulness and for your committment to spreading the true essence of yoga..
Thanks Rahi!
I like the general parallels you draw, but eros in the Symposium actually leads us to the beautiful itself, not love itself. It is not the formless, but a form in and of itself. Plato's character Diotima describes it to Plato's character Socrates, in these terms. "'When a man has been thus far tutored in the lore of love, passing from view to view of beautiful things, in the right and regular ascent, suddenly he will have revealed to him, as he draws to the close of his dealings in love, a wondrous vision, beautiful in its nature; and this, Socrates, is the final object of all those previous toils. First of all, it is ever-existentand neither comes to be nor perishes, neither waxes nor wanes; next, it is not beautiful in part and in part ugly, nor is it such at such a time and other at another, nor in one respect beautiful and in another ugly, nor so affected by position as to seem beautiful to some and ugly to others. Nor again will our initiate find the beautiful presented to him in the guise of a face or of hands or any other portion of the body, nor as a particular description or piece of knowledge, nor as existing somewhere in another substance, such as an animal or [211b] the earth or sky or any other thing; but existing ever in singularity of form independent by itself, while all the multitude of beautiful things partake of it in such wise that, though all of them are coming to be and perishing, it grows neither greater nor less, and is affected by nothing" (212a).
I don't think it takes away from your overall point, but I think for both the Platoni and the yogi there is something to see, but the what there is to see for Plato, at least as he tells the story in the Symposium, is not formlessness, but pure form. Your own offspring of beautiful ideas has given birth to more of my own, so check out teachingphilosophyandyoga.blogspot.com for an expanded response on the difference between form and formlessness and why that might matter in terms of what we love
Hi Anne,
thanks for your comments. I did click through to the piece you wrote and was surprised to see that you attributed this piece 'Asana as Eros' to 'your friend and student Shannon Lee'. My name is Dearbhla Kelly.
I was quite interested to see your blog, what's your philosophy background?
A couple of clarifications: you are mistaken in your discussion of the Patanjali worldview with regards to my piece. Nowhere do I mention Patanjali, whose classical dualism would indeed not fit with the Platonic theory of Forms. I very specifically mention Shankaracharya, the father of Advaita Vedanta, (non dualism) which came after classical dualism.
Also, I think in your piece you conflate Plato's theory of Forms as per the Republic, Phaedo and Phaedrus with Symposium and I don't think this works. I think what you write about poses towards the end is an over literal reading of my piece….of course poses are forms..it would be ridiculous to say other. Have another look at what I say about why poses (practiced with attention to the breath in order to harness the fluctuations of the mind) take us to a place beyond the pose itself.
You're right that I did take some liberty by saying that in the Symposium Love itself is what pulls us in. But if we apply the principle of charity (which we ought, as good philosophers) it's not such a big stretch…
Interestingly the quote you include above could just aswell apply to Brahman as to beauty. There are many examples of this in the literature, Shankaracharya, Skanda Purana, Upanishads.
Thanks again for your comments.
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