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WWI Poetry Project

"Killer" has been working on animating a WWI poem for his history project this term.  With the help of a local sixth former (17-year-old) who's a computer whiz, Killer has completed the project and uploaded it to YouTube. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt9R3IGlOXE Please visit, comment, and encourage him -- he found the whole thing a lot of hard work, and I'd like to see him get some attention for it. Thanks.

Name that Personality Type

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I've been investigating my children's personality types.  For this purpose, I like the book called Nurture by Nature  written by Paul D. Tieger.  Although I found it difficult to pinpoint my own type, that's probably because I'm ENFP -- the one that finds it difficult to make decisions! The knock-on effect is that I find it hard to decide what my children are as well.  However, they stumbled onto a quiz that they took on-line. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp Thus, they informed me of their personality types themselves. I was surprised to discover that Killer is an introvert.  He always seems so outgoing and jolly and energetic, but then again, I'm not the only one who has noticed that he sometimes gets out the Beano books and reads while his friends are over. Considering how much he and I seem to clash, I'm also not surprised that he's almost exactly my opposite: ISTP. ISTPs are easily bored with convention I'll investigate further whethe...