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March 26, 2004
Beth Terry, Motivational Keynote speaker Beth Terry
Hope AND Information
Kids Need Both and So Do We!
 
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Beth's Brain Food:
Hope AND Information
Kids Need Both and So Do We!

The Columbine shootings - remember them? April marks the 5th anniversary.

On Tuesday morning, I was thinking about Columbine -- and the challenge of youth violence in America. I have been researching my next book, so I've spent time with a top scientist at Barrow Neurological Institute here in Phoenix studying the effects of separation, media violence, and the consumer culture on our kids.

The researcher said one problem with kids is their tendency to romanticize and idealize situations. They don't fully understand the finality of their actions. They don't appreciate the fragility of life the way adults do.

A few hours later I heard helicopters hovering directly overhead. Outside were police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and a flock of News vans complete with roof-mounted cameras. What happened? It is spring break. Two 12-year old boys...

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  Quote This!
"People are uncertain because they don't have the self-confidence to make decisions. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile."
-Julia Child

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  News You can Use!
Beware of "Phishing Expeditions": According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Phishing attacks went up 60% in February. This is the latest in cyber-identity-theft scams. For more information, visit the Anti-Phishing Working Group web site or view this Federal Trade Commission information.

"Phishing" attacks involve the mass distribution of 'spoofed' e-mail messages with return addresses, links, and branding which appear to come from banks, insurance agencies, retailers or credit card companies. These fraudulent messages are designed to fool the recipients into divulging personal authentication data such as account usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. Because these emails look "official", up to 5% of recipients may respond to them, resulting in financial losses, identity theft, and other fraudulent activity."

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  Today's Chuckle
Signs That You're working too hard:

  1. Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
  2. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
  3. Keeping up with sports entails adding ESPN's homepage to your bookmarks.
  4. You actually e-mailed your Christmas list to your parents.
  5. Pick up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
  6. You consider 2nd day Air and Interoffice Mail painfully slow.
  7. You assume any question about whether or not to valet park is rhetorical.
  8. Your grocery list has been on your refrigerator so long some of the products no longer exist.
  9. You get excited when it's Saturday so you can wear sweats to work.
  10. You refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as "deliverables."
  11. You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
  12. You think that "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.
  13. You know the people at airport hotels better than your next-door neighbors.
  14. You ask your friends to "think out of the box" when making Friday night plans.
  15. You think Einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix.

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