The Center for Nonviolent Communication

Global organization helping people compassionately connect with one another through Nonviolent Communication, a process created by Marshall B Rosenberg, …
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Nonviolent Communication Skills

NVC offers practical, concrete skills for manifesting the purpose of creating connections of compassionate giving and receiving based in a consciousness of interdependence and power with others. These skills include:

1. Observations: Differentiating observation from evaluation, being able to carefully observe what is happening free of evaluation, and to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting us;
2. Feelings: Differentiating feeling from thinking, being able to identify and express internal feeling states in a way that does not imply judgment, criticism, or blame/punishment;
3. Needs: Connecting with the universal human needs/values (e.g. sustenance, trust, understanding) in us that are being met or not met in relation to what is happening and how we are feeling; and
4. Requests: Requesting what we would like in a way that clearly and specifically states what we do want (rather than what we don’t want), and that is truly a request and not a demand (i.e. attempting to motivate, however subtly, out of fear, guilt, shame, obligation, etc. rather than out of willingness and compassionate giving).

To commemorate the movie, Medicom will be releasing an awesome “Where The Wild Things Are” Kubrick toy set, featuring overall 6 characters from the movie. Due to come out in October 2009, the Kubrick Set can already be pre-ordered at many toy stores.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=975

Kindle Tips – Top 25 Kindle Hacks

1. Sleep Mode – press Alt + the text key (aA) as though you were waking it from sleep. Putting Kindle into sleep mode also conserves battery life.
2. Display the time while reading a book by using Alt-T. You can also press the search button on any screen and enter @time to get the time and the date.

1. ManyBooks mobile site (Kindle Compatible).
2. FeedBooks – you have to download http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide and can then downloads books directly. There is a help article, or you can use the mobile version of feedbooks (which is not as easy as using the book).
3. Munsey’s mobile site.

Kindle Tip #4 – View PDF files on your Kindle.
Rather than using the amazon experimental conversion which can be sketchy, Convert PDF files to Kindle format using MobiPocket Creator on PC (choose the publisher edition), or using Stanza on Mac. Full details at my article on converting PDF files for the Kindle.
You can also try PDF Hammer’s tool for editing PDF files in your browser.
Kindle Tip #5 – View blogs for free on the Kindle.
Please do note that blogs have a subscription fee to cover Amazon’s costs for the WhisperNet service. If a lot of people start circumventing the paid route, there is a chance that the methods used might get blocked and/or charges apply to WhisperNet. So if you must use free blog downloads, please use them in moderation -

1. BlogLines – Read RSS feeds using Bloglines.
2. FeedJournal – there is a nice article on getting blogs to your kindle for free using feed journal.
3. Kindle Feeder – please note that this is almost certainly illegal according to amazon’s tos. So i’d recommend using one of the other options.
4. FeedBooks -  you can create your own newspaper (multiple feeds) or feed (single feed).
5. MobiPocket Desktop – There are over 34k newsfeeds available through Mobipocket Desktop. The process is simple to set up; you select the feeds, and set them to be downloaded onto your device. Downloading the feeds to your Kindle is automatic. Although automatic downloads are specifically disallowed under Kindle terms. You probably have to use MobiPocket Desktop 6.0.

1. Use Yahoo Messenger at http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/messenger/.
2. Use Gmail at http://m.gmail.com - Help at reelsmarts article and Gmail etc article.
3. Use YMail at http://m.yahoo.com.
4. Use google reader at http://www.google.com/reader/m.
5. Use google calendar mobile version at www.google.com/calendar/m.

1. Ebookmall
2. Fictionwise
3. ebooks.com – An update courtesy Dennis – Ebooks.com is DRM protected and technically while it is possible to do it there are legal issues doing so. See http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/12/kindle-swindle-tag-campaign-from-defectivebydesignorg/ for more info.

 Sew a Where the Wild Things Are hat

mad hatter
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queen of hearts

we went to see Where the Wild Things Are and it was so good

  
Kata Karkkainen
 
John Cleese

Kelly Osbourne!

Simon Le Bon

Krista Blomquist (volleyball player, exactly my age)
 
Fran Lebowitz
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