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These are the only ones I was able to find at Netflix:
High school level Basic Math - 30 lessons, 30 minutes each (Murray Siegel) 1998
High school level Algebra 1 - 30 lessons, 30 minutes each (Monica Neagoy) 2000
High school level Geometry - James Noggle 2000
High school level Chemistry - 2000
Unfortunately, each lesson is on a single DVD so in order to view the whole course you have to check out all 30 DVD's.
I searched these titles based on the reviews from this site. The authors of these reviews list the recommended ages as 15-18.
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Algebra I
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Algebra II
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American Civil War, The
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Apostle Paul
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Bach and the High Baroque (DVDs and outlines)
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Basic Math: High School Level
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Chamber Music of Mozart, The (DVD)
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Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear
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Dante's Divine Comedy
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European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century
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From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism
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Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance
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Great Ideas of Philosophy
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Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music (DVD)
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High Middle Ages
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High School Level-Chemistry
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High School Level-Geometry
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History of Ancient Egypt
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History of Science: Antiquity to 1700
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History of the United States, The , 2nd Edition
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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
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Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century
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Joy of Science
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Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas
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Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis, The
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Philosophy and Religion in the West
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Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory
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Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
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Shakespeare: The Word and the Action
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Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
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Victorian Britain
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World History: The Fertile Crescent to the American Revolution
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Algebra I
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Well, it doesn't fit into your categories, but I'd never heard the expression "hairy eyeball" until visiting these boards. :DOkay Stacey... what does that mean?
I think it was something Patty in WA (now Patty Joanna) used and it was a hit. Here's a link to a roll call post with an example of the hairy eyeball at the end.
No clue if all the links work or not. Just figured what the hay ... make my day ... now go away ... I want to play ... morgan le fay ... whaddya say?
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One of you kind ladies explained to me what a Vienna Sausage is.
What food, feminine hygiene product, or medical condition had you never heard of previously, but now do, because of this board?
Well, it doesn't fit into your categories, but I'd never heard the expression "hairy eyeball" until visiting these boards. :D
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When is flea and tick season here?
We've usually lived in cold weather regions and only had to worry about ticks when hiking.
Since moving here, I've heard a lot about flea and tick problems, but I'm not sure if it's year-round or what.
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How sweaty do his feet get? My dd has something called dyshidrosis eczema. I'll link to a previous conversation.
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I saw this wall calendar at Staples one year and tried it out. Since then I've reordered it online because I liked it so well. We use double-sided foam tape and put it on the fridge, so I can keep track of daily activities and appointments. I write in pencil only. It's mostly for appointments, games, lessons, trips, and outside activities.
I have a different calendar for keeping track of homeschool assignments, etc. Right now it's Mom's Family Desk Planner. I think I got it at Hastings.
I also like those little desktop calendars just for my own viewing pleasure. I had a countdown calendar, but it's almost over. Just got a Planet Earth calendar for Christmas. I keep that on my desk.
We had a word-a-day calendar for last year. I think we got it for free in the mail or something. Now we have a Spanish word-a-day calendar. That's in the kitchen and just for fun.
Oh, almost forgot. I keep one of those 2 year planner calendars in my purse, too. That's a calendar for my own personal use though. I've kept one since high school, and they're like little snapshots into my past! My little mini-diary.
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I did this a while ago, so I'll copy and paste.
I've seen some tests discussed on the board before, and I was trying to figure out the differences between them and decide which one to give to my dc. I thought I'd share this in the hopes that it might help someone else. I appreciated having this information summarized and compiled for me.
This site discusses the five most commonly used tests. I don't know if that's nationwide or just within their state, but I thought it was helpful.
Most Common Standardized Achievement Tests
We've never tested before and are not required to do so, but I'd like to this year. I was going to go with the CAT (California Achievement Test) and couldn't decide between the Complete Battery or the Survey. But after reading this I decided to go with the Iowa Basic (ITBS).
You can order the Iowa Basic tests from Piedmont Education Services by April 17th for test and scoring during Feb 27- June 17, 2006. It's $38 per test, and a bachelor's degree is required to administer this test.
Iowa Basic (ITBS) from Piedmont Education Services
Here are a couple of links that list several different places to order tests. Testing Services
Standardized Achievement Test Suppliers
When I recently posted about this, there was a discussion about which tests different people preferred. I went on the hunt again and found this article:
Iowa vs. Stanford Test Comparison (broken link)
This is their current blurb:
Should I use Stanford or The Iowa Tests?
Both are top-rated, nationally standardized tests. Both are designed to accomplish the same purposes. Both evaluate thinking skills. Both provide thorough results reports, and neither is more "difficult" than the other. Although the tests are similar in many respects, there are some differences that may affect your decision. Whichever test you choose, there are advantages to using the same test from year to year.
- Stanford tests evaluate listening skills through grade 8, The Iowa Tests through grade 3.
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ITBS permits a wider grade range of students to be tested at the same time.
- Both tests require administrators to meet certain qualifying requirements (Stanford / The Iowa Tests).
- Stanford is administered untimed; ITBS/ITED is timed.
Hope this is helpful!
- Stanford tests evaluate listening skills through grade 8, The Iowa Tests through grade 3.
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Why, yes. Yes, I do.
I sometimes make mistakes in my check register,
so this way I can catch it.
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I was laughing the other night because my oldest dd was excited to be texting back and forth with my mom.
Then I started wondering how many other 64-year olds text their grandchildren.
How many 60-somethings do you know that text? Myspace or facebook? Email?
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Don't forget to check out your local gaming stores, like Game Stop. This summer they had several available when all the other stores were sold out.
Yep.
And, congrats to you, Lori!
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I love reading Christmas letters.
Anyone care to share?
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Thanks much!
I was trying to come up with a nickname for my parents for a project I'm working on for them.
I liked Chenille, so I tweaked it a little and settled on Captain & Chanel.
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Remember Captain & Tennille?
What rhymes with Tennille?
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You know you're from Texas when you go to another state and order a "COKE" and actually get a COKE!
You know you're from Texas when you drop your weekend plans because your high school football team made it to playoffs and the entire city is road trippin it to the game...last one out turn off the lights!
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM TEXAS WHEN YOU LEAVE AND WANNA GET BACK A.S.A.P!!!
You know you're from Texas when you are in 3 or more groups referring to Texas...
You know you're from Texas when this happens...
"So, I'm currently living in Ireland, and everytime I say I'm from Texas, it becomes my name. As in "Oy! Texas! Tell these guys about Doubla Bush!" or, "Wow, that place is really big, I think. This is a shout-out to a state that could easily eat the entire country I currently live in."
You know you're from Texas when you can drive for a full day and still be in Texas.
You know you're from Texas if your license plate is COW TIP
You know you're from Texas when you leave Texas or even the country and are asked if you ride your horse to school....
You know you're in Texas when..."Y'all's" is the possessive form of "Y'all"
You know you're from Texas when... It is not uncommon for people to fly from one city in Texas to another. Other people look at us like we're crazy when we say that, but do they realize how big Texas is? I mean, El Paso is closer to LA than to Houston.
You know you're from Texas when... school just MIGHT shut down because it MIGHT snow...
You know you're from Texas when saying YALL is like breathing... I mean really, how many Texans have ever said YOU ALL....
You know you're from Texas when you're darn proud of your Tex-Mex and you leave the state and their Mexican food tastes like... Taco Bell... try to explain Tex-Mex to them, educate them, Tex-Mex is life.
You know you're from Texas when you can sit outside of an ice cream shop in shorts, short sleeves and flip flops with a nice breeze and not even be chilly... on December 19th...
Texas also has one of I.M. Pei's architectural masterpieces: the Meyerson symphony center, one of the most highly praised music halls (hailed especially for its nearly unparalleled acoustic capabilities).
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You Know You're in Texas When...
You can say 110 degrees without fainting...
You eat hot chilies to cool your mouth off...
You can make instant sun tea...
You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron...
The temperature drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly...
You discover that in July, it takes only 2 fingers to drive your car...
You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window...
You notice the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance...
Hot water now comes out of both taps...
It's noon in July, kids are on summer vacation, and not one person is out on the streets...
You actually burn your hand opening the car door...
You break a sweat the instant you step outside...at 7:30 a.m. before work...
No one would dream of putting vinyl upholstery in a car or not having air conditioning...
Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"...
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state...
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, "Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because nobody gives a carp about Iowa.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, Rick Husband, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is the 24 hr restaurant that caters to your every need,
and after you're done eating you find yourself saying.....what a burger..then you look outside..you see the orange and white W and it reads....WHATABURGER...and you only find that in Texas
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.
NO ONE DOES ANYTHING BIGGER OR BETTER THAN IT'S DONE IN TEXAS.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
Roadrunners don't say "Beep Beep"
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live inTexas.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple no one's seen before.
Possums will eat anything.
Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
If it grows, it sticks. If it crawls, it bites.
Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
There are valid reasons some people put concertina wire around their house.
You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle, they do get stuck.
The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct. 2 until June 25, then it stops totally until Oct 2.
Onced and Twiced are good words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
Graduating 1st in your class means you left in the 8th grade.
"Coldbeer" actually is one word.
People really grow and eat okra.
Green grass DOES burn.
When you live in the country, you don't have to buy a dog. City people drop them off at your gate in the middle of the night.
When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the doctor.
"Fixinto" is one word.
The word dinner is confusing. There's only lunch and then there's supper.
Backards and forards means I know everything about you.
"Je'eet"? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
You measure distance in minutes.
You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Picante.
You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, Still summer, and Christmas.
There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population over 1000.
Going to Walmart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.
A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop .. it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.
You know someone who ate the 72-oz steak and got it for free.
You prefer Whataburger to McDonalds.
You know whether another Texan is from South, West, East, North, or Central Texas as soon as they open their mouth.
Your Pastor wears boots
The Blue Book value on your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
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Disclaimer: I didn't know about the thread connecting tea with toys. I'd seen Doran's Make Tea Not War avatar and assumed that was what the references to tea was all about. That was my thinking when I included the smoking only after making tea as a poll choice.
And now I wish I'd thought of this as an option:
I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker, Sure don't want to hurt no one.
Thanks for playing and thanks for sharing.
P.S. I'm one of those reformed smokers your mother always warned you about. Started in college and mostly was a social smoker off and on through the years. Smoked when I went out and on breaks at work but not around my kids, never in my home or car, and never when I was pregnant or nursing. I found it easier to quit earlier on and harder to quit the last couple of times.
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I'm done! I'm done! Yippee!
Now I might pick up a few more gifts here and there but, for the most part, I'm finished.
Whew!
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I don't like budgets.
They're like diets.
Don't need 'em.
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:grouphug:
I know it's hard to see a parent's health decline. But, really, if it weren't osteoporosis and diminished lung function from smoking, it would be something else. If you weren't angry about his smoking, you'd be angry because of all the cheeseburgers he ate or the chemicals he was exposed to, or....
I know it's hard to keep a loving attitude toward someone who needs so much care, but silently condemning your father for his choices will just make it harder to care for him. It will also make it harder for him to bear his ill health with equanimity if he suspects you blame him for his illness.
I hope you both can find some peace during the holiday season and enjoy the time you have left together. You'll have time to campaign against smoking later, but you won't always be able to show your father your love.
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I understand what you're trying to say, and I think you have a valid point. Unfortunately, this is a very touchy subject, so the responses are going to be very emotional.
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Anonymous ... although maybe the mods can see?
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Most excellent news!
Oh, for cryin' our loud. Mass email forwards/assumptions are so annoying.
in General Education Discussion Board
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I used to reply with a link to snopes, but after some angry responses I just started responding with this. It sure has cut down a lot on the junk mail!
Excellent article from http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/web1/bcc_field.htm
My friends send me "stuff". And organizations I belong to send me "stuff". And mailing lists I am on send me "stuff".
When you send people stuff you can send it in two distinct ways:
1. So that everyone can see everybody else's email address, and
2. So that everyone can't see everybody else's email address.
When you put the email addresses in the "To" field or in the "CC" field, everyone can see everyone else's email address.
But, when you use the "BCC" field, the system hides the addresses of everyone else.
I am writing this page to encourage everyone to learn about the "BCC" field and to learn how to use it.
The "BCC" field gets its name from "Blind Carbon Copy". "BCC" is a term that was originally used (back when dirt was a novelty and typewriters used carbon paper) to indicate a carbon copy that was being made but wasn't being acknowledged. It was a kind of "secret" copy, one that the addressee didn't know about.
Today, in internet email it has a different use. It is used to hide email addresses so that you don't disclose everyone's email address to everyone else.
Why should you hide the address of everyone else? Because when you don't those addresses can get forwarded all across the internet.
When you send twenty of your friends an email showing all twenty email addresses and those people forward that email to twenty of their friends, suddenly 400 people now have your friends' email addresses.
These email addresses remain in the email and many people don't edit them out. I once received an email that had been forwarded and forwarded and I was able to harvest 278 email addresses from that one email.
Ever wonder how your email address gets on those spam lists? This is one way.
Consider if every time your friend called their friend, they handed out your phone number to people who didn't know you. And then those people handed it out to people that they called.
Or what if every time your friend wrote (through the mail) their friends, they handed out your snail mail address to people who didn't know you. And then those people handed it out to people that they wrote.
This is what happens when people send your email address to people who don't know you.
Are you writing 5 of your friends who all know each other? No problem. They all have each other's email address anyway. You aren't disclosing anything.
Are you in the office or in a business transaction. No problem.
But, the next time you open up that email that was forwarded to you with a joke, motivational story, funny cartoon, or even with one of the ubiquitous virus alerts, look through that email. See how many email addresses you can see for people you do not know. And as you forward that email across the internet to your friends sending those email addresses to spammers, remember that you know how to hide your friends' addresses to protect them.
When you write, remember that you can be spreading your friends' email addresses all across the internet. Learn how to use BCC. And use it.
Hints for BCC
Some ISP's won't let you send only to BCC. If you try to send only to BCC and your ISP bounces your email, you may need to put at least one address in the "To" field. Here is a trick: use your own address in the "To" field. You can either put your own address directly, or, if you want to be even more clever, create an address in your own address book to use.
For example, you could create an address in your address book called "My Friends" and give that entry your own address. Then when you want to use the BCC, put "My Friends" in the "To" field and the real addresses in the BCC field.
The email will show up addressed to "My Friends". The other addresses will be hidden.
And another one:
5 Rules of Forwarding
Forwarding of e-mails is one of the topics I get contacted about the most. And, one which also causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings more than any other topic. Daily, e-mails flow in from onliners asking about a "nice way" of telling someone they care about, relative, friend or associate to not forward attachments, chain e-mails, political commentary or the jokes that are so prevalent online.
Netizens are afraid to ask others to stop and those who are asked to stop, no matter how nicely, get offended and feel as though their thoughtfulness is not appreciated. But let's think about this a moment. How really thoughtful is it to click the forward arrow, then a bunch of e-mail addresses and hit send? Well, your brain had to "think" about those steps but does that make the effort truly "thoughtful." I don't think so...
Here are the 5 Rules of Forwarding E-mails that those who are being truly thoughtful follow. If everyone followed them all the problems associated with forwarded e-mails could be avoided. Sticking to these guidelines will assist both those thinking they are thoughtful and those who don't want to appear otherwise:
Don't forward anything without editing out all the forwarding >>>>, other e-mail addresses, headers and commentary from all the other forwarders. Don't make folks look amongst all the gobbly-gook to see what it is you thought was worth forwarding. If you must forward, only forward the actual "guts" or content of the e-mail that you are of the opinion is valuable. Check out this neato free program to help you out: Email Stripper.
If you cannot take the time to write a personal comment at the top of your forwarded e-mail to the person you are sending to - then you shouldn't forward it at all.
Think carefully about if what you are forwarding will be of value (accurate information), appreciated (something the recipient needs) or humorous (do they have the same sense of humor as you do) to the person on the other side. Or do you just think it is worthy? If you cannot think of why the person you are forwarding to would like to receive the e-mail - then don't forward it.
It should go without saying (But I have to say it because folks do so anyway.) that forwarding of chain letters; regardless how noble the topic may seem, virus warnings or anything that says "forward to everyone you know" simply shouldn't be forwarded because it is plain old B.S. or commentary that many will not appreciate. If you must forward e-mails of this type because you simply can't help yourself, at the very least check @ Snopes.com to be sure that what you are forwarding isn't a hoax.
If you must forward to more than one person, put your e-mail address in the TO: field and all the others you are sending to in the BCC field to protect their e-mail address from being published to those they do not know. This is a serious privacy issue! Do not perpetuate a breech of privacy started by other forwarders who included their contact's addresses in the To: or Cc: field by continuing to forward those visible addresses to your contacts! Remove any e-mail addresses in the body of the e-mail that have been forwarded by those who brush off the privacy of their friends and associates.
The above 5 rules will help qualify if an e-mail is worth forwarding and the right way to do so if it is. If one cannot make these extra efforts, then they really have no excuse to get mad or have hurt feelings when asked to stop. And if asked to stop forwarding, don't get mad; just realize the person on the other side certainly has the right to make that request.
On an aside, also keep in mind that if you are forwarding a private e-mail that was sent to you, you must get the sender's permission to forward it on to others (or post it publicly). E-mails are copyright protected by their authors. Not only that, common courtesy dictates that you should ask the author first if the e-mail sent for your eyes only can be forwarded to strangers or others for which it was not originally intended.
At the end of the day, when it comes to receiving unwanted forwarded e-mails, if you fear hurting someone's feelings by asking them to stop forwarding you e-mail, know they probably meant well, were really thinking of you, were trying to make a point - ahhh, just hit delete!
Judith Kallos
http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/5-rules-for-forwarding-email.html