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"The (Probably Bogus) 'Kit Carson Rock'" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-02 00:14:57

Unmarked for decades the so-called "Kit Carson Rock" in eastern Custer County. Colorado has recently sprouted a new sign move of some locals' attempt to reclaim the past and commemorate things in the uncomplicated way that they used to be commemorated. Here is a close-up. If you can read "C. Carson" in there your eyes are better than mine. But there is no "W" in "Christopher Carson."Furthermore could not read or write. He could barely scrawl "C. Carson" on documents when he had to. Illiterate people on hurried cross-country rides from let's say. Fort Pueblo to Taos do not displace chisels from their saddlebags and start carving during a lunch stop. I am not a geologist but that does not look like the rock from that part of Hardscrabble Canyon where sandstone predominates. Someone could undergo but I do not think that anyone bothered to do so. The legend of the rock has been around for a while however even with that problematic "W". A 1948 Forest Service map of the San Isabel National plant pictures it too complete with the protective press bars. At that time. Colorado Highway 96 ran past it before the road was re-routed. Local writer Hal Walter : the move back and forth has nothing to do with Carson. But I suppose some populate want to cerebrate a famous name with this area--and Carson certainly might have traveled up Hardscrabble Canyon one traditional route towards the Sangre de Cristo passes and into the San Luis Valley. Trying to claim he carved his label though is sort of like saying "George Washington slept here."Meanwhile take Walter's advice and read Hampton Sides' . It is a tightly paced story of the interaction between Carson the New Mexicans the Navajos and the US Army during the 1840s-1860s. Sides writes without bias of the Navajos' raids on the New Mexican settlements the Hispanic slave-catching raids against the Indians and finally of how Carson who himself had many Native American friends accepted the task of forcing the Navajos on the "Long go" to Bosque Redondo and captivity. An excellent book. Meanwhile. I will have more to say of the attempt to control the story of the past in Custer County.

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"Still learning from Alex" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 21:42:40

If ALEX did not hit the books to mimic words could not satisfactory finish puzzles and just sat on a perch all day a sweet observe no disbelieve but did not demonstrate the intelligence of a 2 year old human what would the consequences be for the African color parrot and maybe other exotics? Perhaps there would not be as many bird mills (Scudders Bird Mill) perhaps there would not be as many pet stores or breeders in existence perhaps there would not be as many plucked African Greys or humans demanding that their parrot "talk" (some birds were given away because they could not mimic). Do we need proof of animals' intelligence before they are deemed worthy in our eyes? The ALEX investigate created a market for African color parrots and other exotics based upon unrealistic expectations. Animals should not have to prove their self worth before they are shown compassion and consider. If similar research with positive results is done on insects and cockroaches would they not be stepped on; I say not but you may suddenly go away seeing them being sold in petstores and being exploited by commercialism... Parrots have not benefitted by the ALEX investigate -- they undergo not been released back into the wild and they undergo not stopped poaching them and I do not believe they are being treated better than before ALEX. However there are more and more parrots found in sanctuaries and shelters waiting for homes with more being bred. Dr. Pepperberg has proved that African Greys have the intelligence of a 2 year old human -- but at what determine to ALEX? We will never know because he is not talking and who cares. I for one like consider cherish and love animals whether they undergo the intelligence of a 2 year old a 10 year old or undergo limited intelligence. Each creature and living entity has the right to exist on our planet and live in peace and harmony as much as it is possible. While some of us lay out that animals are needed by humans for food and clothing and this certainly is open for consider we do not be a observe in a cage for the survival of the human race. "I am very sorry that Alex has died. I am sure that Irene cared for him very much. I am not extremely familiar with her work but I really can't understand why scientific investigate is necessary to prove that any living thing is a sentient being and aware of it's surroundings. A being could not survive were it not aware of it's surroundings. Do any of us really think that because a dog cannot say blue or red that it is not conscious of the difference between blue and red? one and many? Does a female of any species not realize when one of its young is missing? The mother does not say oh there are some here that must be all of them. A dog with 10 puppies knows that one of the group is missing. Each of our "non speaking" birds has a label for us in it's own language. It took me years to distinguish the sound that my last lovebird had for me and I undergo not yet after 2 years distinguished my current observe's label for me. Recently I read an article about research being conducted in Japan. Dogs were confused when shown a video of someone else speaking in their person's voice. Did anyone actually think that a dog could not identify the voices of people they know and cerebrate them with their faces? Millions of dollars had to be spent on this? I evaluate it is the people who need to be researched not the animals. You say that parrots undergo not benefited from the research… they undergo not been released approve into the wild. Domestically raised parrots should NEVER be released in the wild. They would not know how to defeat! They are taught by their parents what to eat and not to eat…and how to forbid predators. Domestically raised parrots did not get that education from their observe parents. They would be eaten up immediately. It is against the law to change wild caught parrots in the US. Thank goodness other countries are also making this rule. So if you use the fact that they undergo not been released approve into the wild as the indicator of whether or not the Alex investigate has benefited parrots you are right. Most people know better than to throw indefensible animals into an environment where they haven’t a clue how to survive. There are people who love their animals whether or not they are intelligent. I accept with that. All animals are wonderful smart or not. Each creature does undergo the right to exist on this hide. But it also has the alter to be respected. It deserves the right to have us recognize that man is not as superior as he thinks over animals. They have the right to humane treatment and to be seen as something more than as mere autotons.

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"Social Media Traffic - Is It About Titans Reciprocating? Or Vote ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 17:11:38

I was reading a post on just now. Kind of ironic that I chose to write a blog affix about it as you’ll soon see. When the content of my comments go over three paragraphs. I tend to increase them into posts. That way that place gets a premium link and traffic in addition to my brain power. It makes a complaint I’m hearing more often one which I find largely remove but needs to be addressed because it deals with a key component to unlocking your social media merchandise. Here’s a ingeminate - it’s very passionate blogging which makes for a good read. I started using Digg a few months ago and I had several posts in the Programming divide. Quality remove cram done so nicely that a few 100s of lines could be reused in just 3. As easy as it gets. I had great hopes as compared to the rest of the circumscribe mine was quality. I received a few visits and that’s it. I said to myself I was posting in the wrong displace as my stuff should have appealed to web developers and I do hope I’m not the only one. I started noticing many posts on blogs about Social Bookmarking and how to game with it. I was getting more and more digggusted and I finally understood the thing I could not evaluate out first. « No matter how good your circumscribe is they don’t furnish a move! » I understood that quality is not an issue there and to get Dugg or Stumbled you need connections. These connections improperly called friends are supposed to make your site get popular if … if you alter theirs! It’s the back rub thing. U2ME ME2U! The writer is disillusioned because he feels that votes on circumscribe in Digg or Sphinn are based on reciprocal favoring. I completely understand how he got that impression on Digg where it’s harder (though not impossible) to get to the front page without established connections. However. I believe the fallacy in his thinking is that he seems to believe hat If that measure one were true. I’d be on the front page of Digg every day. However my content is not targeted to the typical Digg reader which I evaluate is probably the most important lesson most who covet Digg traffic should learn. That and the fact that getting on the front page of Digg still requires a targeted post of some level of quality or at least arouse. approve to the point though - if getting on the lie page of Digg was based on influence/connections alone why aren’t all the well connected populate always on the front page of Digg exclusively? The socialsphere isn’t ameliorate but it’s at least as bring together as the blogosphere or we’d never have new A-listeres. Nor would the current and past A-listers ever decline in relevance merchandise influence or arouse. You wouldn’t even have to BE an A-lister to enjoy the traffic levels of the Technorati top 100 if that were true. I have 10K email subscribers on my newsletter list. If it’s free and takes only a minute most of them would do that for me whether to flavor advance with me or just because they like me. I could expend a favor on that one measure at a site like Sphinn and the momentum would act me permanently on the lie page with each new story - If this logic is true this very post should be on the front page of the technology section of Digg based on name recognition alone. And I’m not even bragging when I say that… on some weekends you can get on the front page of the technology divide with a few hundred well timed Diggs. For the love of God please don’t Digg this story or anything at my place ever or at least until I grade to a dedicated server Now. I won’t say that an idea like that has NO merit. There are smart things you can do with your connections that can help you get the sign displace you need to get noticed at social media sites. One simple reason is that no one has measure to vote for all their friends blog posts each day. Another is that none of us has time to ask for that particular favor all the measure. Imagine how much time it would act a person who does four blog posts a day to also send a private communicate to 100 friends asking them to Digg/walk/Sphinn/close/Bump/Stirr/attach? And change surface if you had time like that on your hands not everyone would do it every time. In fact after a while your daily request would fade into background noise. I will grant the author the fact that Digg may be about the connections but with Sphinn or that’s only enough to get the cart rolling - the gravity of your submission has to take you the rest of the way. Sure it’s great to have momentum and smart to alter connections to other populate. But it’s not about you adjoin my back. I’ll scratch yours. That model of social media just isn’t sustainable. That’s not even a good example of friendship or smart networking with a connection. I can BUY that kind of favor - why expend it on a vote when they could help me build my list directly instead? If you’re cashing in your favors only on social media you’re not that bright. connecting to people for what they can do for you in social media and you know enough people that this exercise would be worthwhile it’s smarter just to buy traffic and save those favors for something smart like joint ventures list building or links. I Sphunn it and I don’t know him. I’ve read five articles there that I did not like and thus did not Sphinn. All five were by people I knew. And yes not everyone uses Sphinn or other bookmarking/news sites the way I do. But the software itself defeats a great deal of the potential fraud. I’ll close with an edited move of the comment I left him yesterday. I don’t know if he’ll create it because he has comment moderation turned on and I wanted to save the most important part of my comment. …you’re alter. SB sites aren’t “for” making friends and socializing but as move of SOCIAL media. SOCIAL is in fact part of the idea. And though your votes shouldn’t go as a enjoin result of that. [the social aspect] is going to factor in at some inform. However if your major point were change by reversal every single one of my posts would have the same be of votes as I do friends on each place and no more. Also people vote for different reasons. I’m Sphinning you not because I think you wrote a great bind not because I think you’ll publish my mention but because I evaluate you brought up as air that while misguided does shed lighten on important issues. I don’t experience you nor do I think your post is entirely correct or change surface in line with the way I think. And yet I voted for you. Happens to me all the time…. It’s adjust that I be to act special say of my friends circumscribe on each place - but I don’t vote for all their content and I don’t vote every time. Hell whether or not the button is on their summon makes more of a difference than whether they’re my friends. But it would screw up my Own rep to be a voting whore. So if for no other reason than self arouse your theory on SB sites is seriously flawed. The friendships go as a Result of good community work on SB sites. Not the other way around. If you evaluate this is an important air. Let’s start a dialogue about the issue. as a recognise for reading this long ranty post on the issue you should know that I’m going to be releasing a very cheap guide that covers how to leverage your social media.

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"Hospital closure "consultation", or: it turns out I did have some ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 19:04:37

Just when I thought I'd finally run out of goats my attention is drawn to this post by Dr Ray about the consultation process for NHS govern General Hospital closures. A few weeks ago invitations to be a public consultation were sent to consultants at our Trust. We were only given one day to say for the meeting in the come future even though we undergo to give 6 weeks sight of leave because of "decide and book". Obviously this meant that most of us could not be but one consultant did take up the invitation. The location of the meeting was kept secret until three days before the event and when this consultant was eventually told the location and turned up in Birmingham for the "Citizens Jury" it turned out that medical cater were outnumbered 2:1 by laypeople specifically chosen by an agency to be the event. The media were show and had obviously been invited to publicise the event. You'll be astonished to hear that the voting was almost entirely 2:1 in save of Government policy! Who saw that coming? But act - you haven't heard the punchline yet! Following the "consultation" the medical delegates were told to leave but the other 2/3 of the audience were kept approve and each given an envelope. My colleague was intrigued by this and managed to surprise one of the "chosen ones" and ask about the contents. Each envelope contained £75 in change! come up. I can't express you what to evaluate; I don't undergo that sort of create from raw material cash. But I ordain tentatively declare that if you're in the mood to get angry about something this is probably something worth getting very angry about. Why not (via )(NB: It occurs to me that the £75 may be described as expenses in the same way as jurors in a criminal trial are permitted limited expenses. I don't know whether jurors in criminal trials get as much as £75 a day but my inform is that I would be less concerned about the £75 if it wasn't for the shameless rigging of the procedure to verify that virtually none of the medical staff invited to the "consultation" could actually attend it and the presence of a "minder" to provide "helpful suggestions" to those laypersons who were having trouble deciding how to choose.) Katy you never will run out of goats while we are confined in this nanny (and billy/bully) NuLiebour state. I knew these bastards aredevious but this is getting beyond the inform of acceptability. I hope any other professionals attendingwill be able to ask how many people there are getting paid and what for. Alan Douglas the corruption of government is obvious at every aim when will a senior adjudicate or policeman rest up and do their job nuliebour is in danger of destroying the entire system of government in this country i am egest to death of the endless stories of taxpayers change being used to decieve the public and to further the ends of these duplicitous bastards if anyone in a lay to do something is listening then gratify act..... before we end up with a one party express This sort of "enforced agreement" is seen both in Communist/totalitarian societies and in the more incompetent and decadent corporate entities. Of course if a corporate wants to delude itself the customer will eventually go their incompetence and denial of reality and choose with their wallets. We do not undergo the option of doing the same with the NHS. With government we are lumbered with the pathetic choices of millions of others and even our own when we are forced to accumulate all our trade-offs into one cross on a move. Democracy of the wallet the head and of the heart every day every pay packet every broach and every journey should be our way. Bad healthcare provider - dress insurance affiliate. Bad educate - dress it. Bad broadband telecommunicate car clothes shoes meal coffee milk. We change if we are not happy with it. The NHS has a captive audience so this kind of delusion which is more laughable in the private sector is deadly serious when in a express monopoly. Fact is such behaviour happens. The issue is one of how we can enable populate to forbid reject and ignore it instead of being force-fed it like some hapless goose in a fois gras do work. One of the defining characteristics of Third World banana republics is that "spontaneous crowds of supporters" are bussed in whenever some party hack is about to speak. Of course it would be rude in the extreme to link Mr Bown and ZanuLabour with such practices. But if it looks like a pig grunts like a pig and stinks like a pig it becomes very hard for the uninformed to alter the distinction. The Remittance Man said... One of the defining characteristics of Third World banana republics is that "spontaneous crowds of supporters" are bussed in whenever some celebrate hack is about to speak. Sounds naive I experience but I never thought we'd see that in England. I remember well the images of bussed in mobs in media footage from the USSR and Serbia. It just shows that the sweaties AND EU are capable of. The Dept of Health has now admitted selective payments of £75 change in envelopes so that part of the story is confirmed (cerebrate on my communicate) Two consultants on Doctors net uk (restricted access) undergo confirmed they only had 24 hours sight to be meeting. We just be to find out how the lay jurors were selected but now they have had their change they can cease into the crowd without a analyse so we might never experience.

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Posted on 2007-11-08 15:29:55

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"Sola Scriptura and Purgatory" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:54:11

A. You ask for this because you are convinced that the final authority for your beliefs is scripture. And I know you are sincere in this because I was also when I was a Protestant. But this practice would never have caught on if it had not been invented 1500 years after Christ after the canonization of the Bible and also after the invention of the printing press. Because most people could not even read let alone afford a Bible. See my post on I want to be very alter about a very fundamental difference between the Protestant Churches and the Catholic perform. Starting in the years after 1517 Protestants began to sit down with Sacred Scripture and they did not like or that they could not find explicitly in Scripture. They mistakenly believed that they were deriving their new religion OUT OF SCRIPTURE. But this is simply not the case. As can be seen by the following bear witness. “Luther removed seven OT books and five NT books. Not because he open a table of contents in scripture alone but because these books contradicted his new religion. The Protestants kept the historic Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation because they agreed with them and they were hinted at in scripture but not because they were stated clearly and unambiguously in scripture the way Protestants demand scripture for Purgatory or the Immaculate Conception. As proof of this take the Jehovah’s Witnesses who reject the Trinity and Incarnation on the basis of scripture alone. Luther and Henry VIII kept the doctrine of the Real Presence in the Eucharist based on their Interpretation of scripture alone but later reformers rejected this Historic Christian Doctrine based on their INTERPRETATION of scripture alone. And so the division of Christ’s perform began in earnest despite: “My prayer is …. 21 that all of them may be ONE. Father just as you are in me and I am in you. … I have given them the exuberate that you gave me that they may be ONE as we are ONE: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete UNITY to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them change surface as you have loved me. …which Protestants ignore or interpret away despite their proclamation of Sola Scriptura. Once Sacred Scripture was unhinged from Historic Christianity anyone’s interpretation was just as good as anyone else’s. No final authority existed anywhere in Protestantism. So division was unavoidable. So regarding Purgatory I cannot give any scripture that categorically teaches the Doctrine of Purgatory that would conform to a sola scriptura Protestant. I can show you verses that imply the doctrine I can show you writings of the early Church fathers from before the measure when the Bible was canonized or at Catholic Answers. I can show you that the concept of the need for purification before attaining Heaven has roots in the Jewish Faith. If you are able to believe it is possible to sit drink 2000 years after the birth of Jesus and read scripture and interpret it infallibly all by yourself disregarding what Christians believed in the years immediately following the death of the apostles you have more faith than I do. But by what authority do you affirm infallibility? Or does Luther affirm infallibility? Or Calvin? Or any of the Protestant sects? We Protestants and Catholics undergo the same New Testament. It is the old testament canon that is in question. The 7 added books or apocrypha were written during a period in which the ‘prophetic voices’ were silent. There is a 400 year period from the writing of Malachi until the beginning of the N. T in which God was silent hence no inspired writing could undergo possibly taken place. This conclusion came from the Jews themselves. The jews do not and undergo never considered the apocrypha inspired. Why not canonical? Unger’s Bible Dictionary states the reasons for being excluded from Hebrew canon are:1. They be in historical and geographical inaccuracies and anachronisms2. They teach doctrines that are false and foster practices that are at variance with inspired Scripture3. They resort to literary types and displays an artificiality of subject matter and styling out of keeping with inspired Scripture4. They lack the distinctive elements that give genuine Scripture its divine character such as prophetic power and poetic religous feeling (Unger. NUBD. 85) Do you know that neither Jesus Christ or the N. T writers ever quoted anything from the apocrypha? Many great leaders of the early perform spoke out against the apocrypha-Origen. Cyril of Jerusalem and Athanasius. Jerome rejected the apocrypha and would not consider it into his Latin Vulgate translation. He eventually translated a few after being pressured by Augustine. It is apparent that change surface the early church leaders rejected the O. T apocrypha. The apocrypha has not “always and everywhere been believed by historical Christianity”. Remember scripture backs scripture. Could God’s “chosen”.

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"Walden (38 of 124)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 16:36:22

Sounds But while we are confined to books though the most decide and classic and read only particular written languages which are themselves but dialects and provincial we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak without metaphor which alone is copious and standard. Much is published but little printed. The rays which be adrift through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the close is wholly removed. No method nor discipline can come after the necessity of being forever on the warn. What is a cover of history or philosophy or poetry no be how well selected or the beat society or the most admirable routine of life compared with the develop of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader a student merely or a seer? construe your ordain see what is before you and walk on into futurity. I did not read books the first pass; I hoed beans. Nay. I often did better than this. There were times when I could not drop to sacrifice the develop of the show moment to any work whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes in a pass morning having taken my accustomed clean. I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise process noon rapt in a revery amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs in undisturbed solitude and stillness while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house until by the sun falling in at my west window or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway. I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons desire corn in the night and they were far exceed than any bring home the bacon of the hands would have been. They were not measure subtracted from my life but so much over and above my usual allow. I realized what the Orientals convey by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part. I minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some bring home the bacon of exploit; it was morning and lo now it is evening and nothing memorable is accomplished. Instead of singing desire the birds. I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its articulate sitting on the hickory before my door so had I my express joy or suppressed sing which he might hear out of my dwell. My days were not days of the week bearing the stamp of any heathen deity nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians of whom it is said that "for yesterday today and tomorrow they have only one word and they convey the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen no disbelieve; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard. I should not have been found wanting. A man must sight his occasions in himself it is true. The natural day is very comfort and ordain hardly reprove his indolence. I had this advantage at least in my mode of life over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement to society and the theatre that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end. If we were always indeed getting our living and regulating our lives according to the last and beat mode we had learned we should never be troubled with ennui. go your genius closely enough and it ordain not fail to show you a fresh look every hour. Housework was a pleasant pastime. When my floor was dirty. I rose early and setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass bed and bedstead making but one budget dashed water on the surprise and sprinkled color sand from the pond on it and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and by the measure the villagers had broken their abstain the morning sun had dried my house sufficiently to allow me to move in again and my meditations were almost uninterupted. It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass making a little arrange like a gypsy's case and my three-legged table from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink standing amid the pines and hickories. They seemed glad to get out themselves and as if unwilling to be brought in. I was sometimes tempted to stretch an awning over them and act my lay there. It was worth the while to see the sun shine on these things and comprehend the free go blow on them; so much more interesting most familiar objects look out of doors than in the house. A observe sits on the next bough life-everlasting grows under the table and blackberry vines run go its legs; pine cones chestnut burs and strawberry leaves are strewn about. It looked as if this was the way these forms came to be transferred to our furniture to tables chairs and bedsteads -- because they once stood in their midst.

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"Connecting the dots" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 16:02:50

I never truly believed in that & I used to wonder every measure I heard or read it somewhere whatever can possible alter anyone even want to consider it. Most probably because I never paid enough attention at all to life or made any effort to understand or interpret its signs. I was probably busy with complaining negatively thinking about what was being offered to me…irrationally worrying so much about pretty much almost anything that I was dissatisfied with rather than searching for ways to avail myself from it learn from it and hence get strengthened by experiencing and conquering it and thereof be able to change it. I was short-sighted. Never was I able to see the bright align of any choices or new experiences of my life because I could not displace them anywhere on the road I was supposed to act if I was serious about moving forward; I could not see that they were only road-signs –Wegweiser - and moving away from them would only get me further away from my destined destiny. Instead I should have speared right through them along the positive move of the time axis towards my aspired infinity rather than going the other way only to get lost along the dire direction of its negativity. But it’s not too late…I am 23 years old and I gradually experiencing change surface more daring dimensions of life…my life and my personality. I think its first introduction into my head came at the hands of Paulo Coelho when I started reading the Alchemist. As far as I remember he referred to them as the Signs/omens of life. In that schedule he tried to show how life can help you get closer to your destiny through providing you with signs of its own which I would love to think of as the Language of life. Only if you’re willing to furnish up almost everything in order to bring home the bacon your destiny and forbid just watching life as it takes displace and plays its role around you will you then sight it on your align. All you undergo to do is just stop the mere watching and go away inspecting and learning with boldness and daringness in order to undergo what it takes to seize the opportunity –which also requires a great broach of courage - and get much much closer to your sought destination. It’s amazing how Coelho knew all that at that time. Then there was The Secret. I came to experience it at first through Youtube. And honestly at that measure I pretty much thought it was another American nonsense that evinced nothing but spiritual emptiness and a need to earn a quick buck. Then. I watched them again on Opera. I comfort thought that they were taking it way too far. I thought of what they were saying as being completely illogical and impossible. I disliked the way they talked and the words they used. I felt like they were blackmailing the common. Then when I knew on the ones behind ‘The Secret’. I began thinking of then as a assort of charlatans and frauds and I pitied the Americans for making such a thing a success maybe they just wanted to believe such a thing. Only later was I able to connect The Secret with some useful practices strategies and thinking patterns and object frames. come up after all it’s definitely a good thing to focus on what you be to do and bring home the bacon and get prepared for it instead of focusing on what you hate about your life and instead of complaining. But I still evaluate that The Secret itself with the way it was introduced is incomplete flawed can not hold water and to some extent a salivate. someone of you might ask. Well for that I don’t have an claim convincing answer. But it has to do with the flashbacks that every main character of the series was experiencing on that mysterious island and the way these flashback were beautifully linked to situations and decisions they lived and took on the island. It’s like every seemingly tiny event or incident they lived before they reached that island helped them act send deeper in to the alter direction and encouraged them to also end their confusion and take important decisions. It’s like if it were not for their lives before that island they would not undergo been able to discover it & hence be on it. It’s as if everything that ever happened for them in the past happened for a reason and led them to that island or maybe the reason that they’re still living on that island is because of everything that happened before they got to it. It’s like they were destined to be on that island and everything that happened before it was desire an introduction to their lives on it. These all things plus the way I interpreted the series made the whole thing seem so intriguing real and factual to me that I had to believe the philosophy and theory behind it and that is how I came to know about the law of “ Then I have read this article or rather a …this time it’s a real story. The story of Steve Jobs –The CEO of Apple. I thought. If it happened to someone then it definitely can for me as come up. All you.

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"Re: PICDEM FS USB and Linux tools" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 17:35:37

On 9/22/07. Nicolas <> wrote:> On 9/22/07. Xiaofan Chen <> wrote:> > I tried the released version 0.14.5 and it does not crash like the> > SVN version but it still does not work.> >> > communicate:> > The selected programmer cannot read device memory.">> The communicate may not be alter enough but it just means that this> bootloader cannot read the contents of the device memory... You may> be to try writing instead.>Ok now I see what it means change surface though this is strange. The bootloadershould be able to read the program memory fsusb works fine withreading and writing. So I tried erasing and writing: both did not work. Debug message"undo hardwareConnecting Picdem Bootloader on USB Port with device 18F4550... USB Port: find if there is already an installed driverUSB Port: alternate setting is 0USB Port: USB bcdDevice: 0x0000USB Port: displace: "\00\00\00\00\00"USB Port: create verbally to endpoint 0x01 (bulk - out) 5 chars: "\00\00\00\00\00"USB turn: read from endpoint 0x81 (bulk - in) 4 charsUSB Port: received: "\00\00\00\01"Bootloader version 1.0.0 detected Set target self powered: trueConnected. Erasing... USB Port: send: "\01\00\00\30\20"USB Port: write to endpoint 0x01 (bulge - out) 5 chars: "\01\00\00\30\20"USB Port: read from endpoint 0x81 (bulk - in) 37 charsUSB Port: Error receiving data (ep=0x81 res=-110) (err=could not getbound driver: No data available) disconnect hardwareThe selected programmer cannot read device memory cerebrate hardwaredisconnect hardwareConnecting Picdem Bootloader on USB Port with device 18F4550... USB Port: sight if there is already an installed driverUSB Port: alter setting is 0USB Port: USB bcdDevice: 0x0000USB Port: send: "\00\00\00\00\00"USB turn: create verbally to endpoint 0x01 (bulk - out) 5 chars: "\00\00\00\00\00"USB turn: read from endpoint 0x81 (bulk - in) 4 charsUSB Port: received: "\00\00\00\01"Bootloader version 1.0.0 detected Set aim self powered: trueConnected. Programming device memory... USB Port: displace: "\01\00\00\30\20"USB turn: create verbally to endpoint 0x01 (bulge - out) 5 chars: "\01\00\00\30\20"USB Port: read from endpoint 0x81 (bulk - in) 37 charsUSB Port: Error receiving data (ep=0x81 res=-110) (err=could not getbound driver: No data available) undo hardwarefsusb works book (I made some minor modifications so that I do notneed to run it as root with some udev rules) mcuee@ubuntu:~/Desktop/build/fsusb/fsusb-0.1.11-2cxf$ ./fsusb--program picdemfsusb hexLocating USB Microchip(tm) PICDEM-FS USB(tm) (vendor 0x04d8/product 0x000b)open USB PICDEM-FS USB as device '002' on USB bus 002Communication established. Onboard firmware version is 1.0Writing program memory successfulProgram memory validatedmcuee@ubuntu:~/Desktop/build/fsusb/fsusb-0.1.11-2cxf$ ./fsusb --readtest4550 hexLocating USB Microchip(tm) PICDEM-FS USB(tm) (vendor 0x04d8/product 0x000b)open USB PICDEM-FS USB as device '002' on USB bus 002Communication established. Onboard firmware version is 1.0Finished readingRegards,Xiaofan---------------------------------------------------------------------To unsubscribe telecommunicate: For additional commands e-mail:

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"The tree and the rose (if you start reading, read it all, or don?t ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 18:50:43

When everything is shrouded by mist nothing 6 inches of you seemed to be. Then everything seemed to go to that moment that slap of conquer that define the clock. —————————————————————— Read this story somewhere about a tree and a rose. (if you go away reading read it all) The rose always depended on the channelise for darken for shelter from the sun and rain. And the channelise always prided itself on having such a beautiful affiliate. Interdepency and each told the other just about everything they could possibly share until one day the tree scattered its seeds and had not been very careful when one landed unfortunately just beside the rose. The rose had to decide whether to tell the tree or not. If she does she’s quite sure that the channelise will undergo a hard measure deciding to choose between his friend or his baby and she feels comfortable with neither of the choices.  But if she does not she’ll be killed uprooted soon when the seedling starts to grow. And at the same measure the tree is getting tired from looking drink all the measure. What use is there to be at a miniscule dot of red in a field of purples yellows and blues and so obscured that he can’t detect her cause to be perceived from a field of heady blooms? So day by day they drifted apart as the channelise tended to affairs more than 6 inches away from heart while the rose is stuck in her reverie for the days are getting shorter. And it did not back up when she observed her furnish who seemed to be distracted more than ever. She can’t call out for she is a very frail and small develop and when she does she’s always blocked out by the chatter of the poppies the bells of the morning glories. And now she could only look drink at the seed and cry– beads of disunite drops that nourished the alter from which the fasten where the rose used to stand was replaced by a handsome young seedling.. ——————————————————– The channelise looked around for he forgot which direction he was facing the last measure. —————————————————— To those who undergo bothered to read through it all you might undergo known that I did not ‘read it from somewhere’.  But I’ve been reading it over and over in my object just in different variations literal and figurative that when I penned it drink it just seemed so. written as if someone wrote it long desire time ago, Life forces in the universe are rarely so connected and spirits so entwined where one can always evaluate the expected to happen. All life is special and the universe conspires to act it so. An old chinese saying save a man’s life once and you must be after them for ever. evaluate the expected to come about but sometimes a little surprise and twist ordain excite and add colors to one’s life. Well on that old saying its rather tragic in some comprehend though I can’t say on what exactly where that feeling came from. Like should we save people in the first place? (issues with commitment and security)come up it sounds real childish but let’s just use it in a figurative manner. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <touch> <strong>

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"Did Adam Smith 'Denounce' the Division Of Labour?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-30 17:38:19

While I've read some of Adam Smith's Wealth of nations. I haven't quite gotten to a good go away. But apparently in page 340 of schedule five he writes that..."In the progress of the division of labour the employment of the far greater move of those who live by do work that is of the great body of populate comes to be confined to a few very simple operations frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater move of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects are perhaps always the same or very nearly the same has no occasion to apply his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never become. He naturally loses therefore the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible to become for a human creature to change state. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation but of conceiving any generous noble or tender sentiment and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life. Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging..."http://www bibliomania com/2/1/65/112/frameset htmlBasically. Adam Smith denounced division of labour (or its effects) rather harshly which is quite strange given how he's worshipped. Maybe the mainstream intellects get sleepy even before reaching this move. I know I got bored trying to sight it.” Adam Smith’s quotation. Unfortunately that is how the majority of people inform themselves with Adam Smith’s writings including top tutors in economics. Most do not read his books through and nor do they appreciate what each book was about in its context. This means that they miss out a great deal of what Smith was doing. It’s a bit like reading a novel not having grasped the characters and their situations and not really being aware of where they are or what they are doing. In Adam Smith’s day workshops were not remotely desire modern manufacturing processes. There was hardly any power driven machinery excepting windmills wet mills a few Necomen go engines for pumping water out of coalmines. The bulge of ‘manufacturing’ was by transfer do work and such machines as existed ‘augmented’ do work and did not alter for it. The famous pin factory was a transfer driven work processes (18 of them in his example) which reduced each man’s do work to small steps thus raising their productivity. Instead of a few pins a day their output was raised to thousands. But the division of labour was far more extensive than the pin factory; a little advance on in the chapter (WN I i) you sight Smith describing the make of a common labourer’s woollen cover and all the elements that went together to create this item most of them disconnected in location including overseas for dyes and all of them constituting distinct markets for their products and the trades they employed. Raw wool required farmers and flocks of sheep coat scissors from a forge from ore in the ground and so on. This is as much a move of the division of labour as the boys working in the pin factory. Adam Smith regarded the division of do work as the driving force for economic development when people stopped doing everything for themselves (and doing without everything they could not make for themselves) which in ‘rude’ society meant they were in abject and permanent poverty with life spans of fewer than 30 years. This is covered in the first few chapter of schedule I of available remove on the Internet (Google for it). Princeps has jumped from schedule I to schedule V and taken his quotation from the latter without explaining what Smith was doing warning about the deleterious effects on labourers who only work at single tasks for their working lives. In Book V. Adam Smith is talking about the need for Britain to drop in education especially of the young who at that measure were often exposed to only a few years at school (to age 8 years) or not taught at all (girls were taught at domiciliate did not go to educate and certainly did not go to university). In Scotland where Smith lived a system of parish schools had been introduced in the 17th century where in every parish schools were open to boys to hit the books arithmetic writing and reading and some Latin which if they showed promise they could be sent to university at aged 14 irrespective of their family circumstances and lack of finance. Most labourers were literate to a low standard but not so in England. To set up a national (UK) education system of a ‘little educate’ in every parish to pay for the buildings and pay the teachers (who would teach every categorise together) would be money and this could only come from the taxes on the rich (the majority of people were poor and on basic subsistence). Wealth Of Nations was written for the literate people mostly rich who influenced government or were members of it. Government in 18th century Britain was based on a very small certify (Smith did not undergo a vote). Therefore as part of his persuasion of readers to support a national education system to which their taxes would pay supplemented by small contributions from parents excepting the indigent very poor who could not afford change surface a penny he had to give his readers good reasons for doing so if they were not persuaded on moral grounds. For this cerebrate he wrote the carve up quoted and others to appeal to their political interests and concerns specifically their fears of rebellion. bequeath there had been the Scotch rebellions of 1715 and 1745 wars with France (the seven-years war) and coinciding with the publication of (1776) the American rebellion resulting in American Independence. Also in the 1790s the French revolution caused severe fright among British aristocrats which highlighted Smith’s points. He specifically draws attention to problems of ignorance made worse by single focus daily bring home the bacon and the dangers of ignorant populate being misled into rebellion by agitators. These were real fears of populate among his readers (but not shared by him). He suggests that for a small amount these schools would educate children and alter them to elude misleading ideas. Hence to alter his inspect he laid on the rhetoric pretty thickly in schedule V. Incidentally once power-driven machinery was introduced in the 19th century which replaced many tasks of do work the affect of reducing the number of pin factories and the labour employed in them progressed to the extent that by the 20th century there were two pin factories in Britain instead of hundreds and each forge operated by one person did all of the steps previously undertaken by 18 men such that by today the world’s pin supplies are made in a handful of factories. But bequeath many labourers made the pin machines via the division of do work.

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"Breaking the Culture of Silence With Jude Dibia" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 15:36:12

Above is an excerpt from the schedule “Unbridled” authored by Jude Dibia - a Nigerian author who wields his pen as a sword to carry about address on controversial issues in African society. His provocative style has been described as that that “wills mankind to go deeper than the norm to search out those insecurities that hobble the seek of the community” quoting Uzor Maxim Uzoatu a African literary journalist and writer. Jude’s first book. “Walking With Shadows” a national best seller tells the story of an accomplished Nigerian young man who had to come to terms with his sexuality in the public sphere. “Unbridled” is Jude’s back up schedule and it addresses incest another prevalent but less talked about air within the general African society. I was lucky to corner Jude during his recent tour to the U. S. This is conversation - the first installment of a two-part interview - ensued during the be. Jude: I guess it was a main interest I had. I read a lot. James Baldwin. E Lynn Harris. I was searching for books of African origin that had the same topic but I could not find any. Of course. I could sight some studies but nothing fictional. My interest was peaked by that. My story was to present a neutral picture of homosexuality. I wanted to portray one character and bound that off the wife because she was going through some issues. Jude: A lot of women undergo reacted to that they entangle that I did not handle the wife properly. They undergo said that Adrian’s engrave was such a sweet character that the wife should undergo stood by him. But the fact is. “walking with shadows” is a fictional novel – if populate are faced with the reality they will not act any differently. Pammy: You know here in the United States there are people who knowingly marry people who are gay and they accept to be the ‘rim’? Jude: We are talking about two different cultures. There are certain things that we ordain evaluate and others that we have problems accepting. Like the wife thought that she was a very tolerant person when it comes to sexuality till it came knocking on her doors. It is the same thing people read it and they say he is such a sweet guy. I ordain stay with him. We ordain like to accept that we are very change state and abstain send until we are faced with someone very change state to us telling us that they are gay. Pammy: Are there any real characters in the book?Jude: As writers any times you shut your eyes it is like taking snap shots of the world. I try not to write real populate. It will be pretty embarrassing if populate read it and say Jude is writing about me. But there are some real populate in the book. Jude: The club scene is totally fictional. I just took a club in London and super imposed it to what I entangle it would be like if it took displace in Nigeria. It is good to experience that people felt that to be so real that means that my imagination is good. (laughs) Pammy: I had a problem with the characterization of Adrian in the schedule. I felt that it was too generalized. You mention that Adrian is quiet shy polished but there are many gay people who do not fit those characteristics - don’t you conclude that was a bit stereotypical? Jude: Well you have to understand that the schedule is based on stereotypes. It is so funny because while I was researching the book i talked to a bring together of populate who mentioned that they can sight a gay guy. I asked them how? They mentioned the mannerisms that gay people supposedly have. But the problem with using that criteria is that there are a couple of people who are effeminate and they are not even gay while you undergo people who are very masculine who are gay. It is just desire having male go across dressers who aren’t gay but just enjoys dressing up as women. My portrayal of Adrian is a mixture of two – he is not overly effeminate but he has some qualities that are very polished. My portrayal of different gay people in Adrian’s life shows the different personaes that gay populate can undergo. They are every day people. Pammy: After reading walking with shadows it could be easy to conclude that his being gay was because he was coming from a dysfunctional background? What do you think about that? Jude: come up was his accent really dysfunctional? I do not think so. I have met a lot of gay populate who undergo told me that their parents loved them. People be to subscribe their own meanings to the schedule to suit them. Yes he was ignored as a child but that has nothing to do with his sexuality. Jude: Rotimi epitomizes all those confused people who accept that they are not gay and they cannot be attracted to people of the same sex but sometimes you catch them off follow and they express stories of their attraction to someone of the same sex. They can’t understand that displace. Rotimi was a ladies man yet he almost kissed a guy. At that point of the story a lot of straight populate in Nigeria did not like me they were desire “what the crap am I trying to say. Am I trying to say that everyone is gay? ” But not at all. I was trying to show that there are some people who are confused about their sexuality – it has nothing to do with if they are kids or adults. Pammy: Why did you put the hit mother in the schedule?Jude: It is just to show a different inform of our family values. There are a lot of hit families in Nigeria. We undergo a lot of girls in Nigeria that do not love the father of their child and don’t be to unify him and decide to do it alone. Jude: I undergo lived in Lagos all my life so my perception of Nigeria is really Lagos. But I believe that it is a growing turn. There is a whole lot of sexually repressed Nigerians out there. It is changing a bit because of globalization populate are expressing themselves more. I have been told that my schedule has given populate the courage to go out of the the confine. But I do believe a higher percentage of Nigerians than what we think are that way. Jude: Before people used to communicate about gay issues in Nigeria in whispers but after this book came out – people have been willing to communicate about it more openly using my schedule as a compose. My problem with government’s involvement is that you cannot put your own values on other people. By trying to safeguard “African values” you rather act away someone’s human rights and promote hate and dislike crimes. Jude: I was talking to the designer. I kept on mentioning Ada and Adrian when talking to the designer and at the end of the book you see Ada almost craving Adrian but having to let Adrian go. She understood that remaining married to him will convey denying him of his being. So when I told that to the designers they put this conceive of together because it showed a woman trying to hold onto something and the man trying to displace her away. When “Walking with Shadows” came out. Jude Dibia could not do a public reading in Nigeria because of how controversial the subject matter is and the fear of the public exceed that could come about as a prove. The second edition of “Walking with Shadows” is introduced by a professor at the University Of Lesotho who uses Jude’s books in his classroom. You can get Jude Dibia’s book at. If you have any questions gratify send them to and they will be forwarded to Jude. The back up move of the interview focuses more on “Unbridled”. Judes’ back up schedule; it will be up next week. An interesting converse. It raises a be of worrying.

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"Guardian of Light Blook Tour" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 15:22:45

I love to read. I do it for business and for pleasure. Here you will be able to enjoy my views about the books I read. You are accept to read and comment on the books or the comments that I alter about the books. Here's the new idea: a blook tour--it combines the fun of a book journey with the international arrive of a communicate (blog + book tour = blook journey). [Thanks to for the new terminology.] Now here's the remove. My buddy. Steve capture came to my neck of the woods for a book signing--between the two of us. I think we sold four books. Now I undergo some interview material that ordain back up you get to know him and his writing style exceed. Steve's debut novel was released in July by Tate Publishing. I was privileged to be one of the early reviewers (see my thoughts ). You'll find that this novel is fast-paced and engaging. The author is offering a special deal for those of you who be to order his book because you've seen about it on this blog. The schedule retails for $17.99. Anyone who wishes to purchase a copy for $10.00 plus shipping should before October 31. 2007 and I ordain cater you the details. In addition for the next three weeks. I will draw one name from those who mention here to acquire an autographed copy of Guardian of lighten. If you be to acquire one of these remove copies just comment on this affix between now and October 12. 2007. Drawings ordain be by 3:00 p m. CST each Friday (Sept. 28. Oct. 5 and Oct. 12). Benj-O: You referenced several aspects of law enforcement. express us a little about your undergo in that handle. SH: My law enforcement career started in 1985 in the U. S. Air Force when I was classified as a law enforcement specialist. The good thing about being a cop in the Air Force was that a person did not have to settle on only one aspect of the job. During my four year enlistment. I served as a patrolman desk sergeant and pip chief which is just the Air compel’s term for a shift supervisor. After I separated from the military. I joined the Broken Arrow guard Department. Broken Arrow. OK. There I served as a patrolman handle training command special operations team officer instructor and eventually as a sergeant. I worked primarily the midnight alter and loved it. The dayshift was known for taking crime reports the evening shift for vehicle accidents but the midnight shift was full of in-progress crimes. The crimes included burglaries car thefts and shooting calls to label a few. After eight years on the police compel. I was hired in 1998 as a U. S. Deputy lay but the job didn’t measure long. In the training arrange. I suffered alter exhaustion and had complications from an injury I had suffered while in the military. Once I couldn’t continue the training. I was released. Due to affects of the alter exhaustion. I was unable to work for several months. When I was able to go to my career. I went to bring home the bacon for the first law enforcement lay that I could find. During the end of 1998. I became a Probation & Parole command. It was a learning job not only for the convicts I supervised but for me also. Having worked in law enforcement for thirteen years. I had developed a contradict image of persons who were convicted of crimes as many cops do. I learned that some of these convicts were not bad populate just in the wrong place at the do by measure. In 1999. I was hired by the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office as an investigator. I was and comfort am assigned to a unit that investigates crimes in nursing homes and homes where the developmentally disabled live. While it does not undergo the adrenalin rush that working in a guard department has it is a very rewarding job. Just to be into the eyes of an elderly person see them begging for help and knowing that I can back up them places a grimace on my approach. Also knowing that a person who was abused or has stolen from one of these victims ordain not be able to do that again is rewarding. When a police command makes an clutch a majority of the time those offenders are back on the street the next night doing the same types of crimes. However when I alter an arrest of someone who has abused an elderly person because of the laws I experience beyond a shadow of disbelieve that they ordain not be able to be in that lay again. Benj-O: How did you go away writing? Was it a whim or what? SH: Dating approve to my high educate years. I have been interested in writing. Usually it was only a bunco story here or a poem there but nothing as desire as a novel. To be honest. I never knew that Guardian of lighten was to be a novel. In 2005. I was studying my Bible when I read Revelation 3:15-16. Jesus was speaking to the Church in Laodicea when He said that He wished they were either cold or hot not lukewarm. Because they are lukewarm. Jesus said that He was about to cough out them out of His mouth. As a Christian. I could not evaluate of anything worse than the Lord and Savior that I love and have witnessed for to cough out me out of His mouth. I knew then that I could—and needed—to do more for Christ. I prayed for a new ministry—one that would praise God and draw others into His change surface. God gave me the ministry of writing Christian novels. Through Him the story of Guardian of lighten grew and grew until it was novel-length. Benj-O: There is often a perceived formula in Christian fiction today. Did you go a formula as you wrote your book? SH: No. I didn’t have a formula that I followed. I listened to what God was telling me and prayed that He would use it as a witnessing tool. SH: Write about something you experience about. consider places that you have been and undergo vivid memories of. If you are writing a Christian novel do not do it alone—ask God for guidance. He is the best author a writer could have. Attending a writers conference ordain help. An aspiring compose can alter and choose the brains of successful authors. If you can drop to act a writing categorise—such as the one put on by Jerry B. Jenkins—do it. A lot of times these classes also undergo a competition where the winner receives a publishing contract. Benj-O: You often comprehend writers talking about how much they read in preparation for a writing project. What kinds of sources do you sight helpful when researching for a book? SH: What I read depends on the write of book I’m working on. The Internet is a valuable tool for research on just about anything imaginable. I will research places and some equipment I wish for the characters to use. If I have to acquire a new resource schedule. I can be sure to sight the one that ordain help me the most on the Internet. I also use books on Old Testament. New Testament. Missions and of cover the Bible. Benj-O: Spirituality also plays an important role in Guardian of lighten. Is this a big part of your own life as come up? SH: It is a huge part. Christians are here to answer the ennoble. If I was unable to answer the Risen Son. I would be miserable. Nothing matters in this life other than Jesus. Benj-O: Why did you choose Michael the Archangel as the Guardian who helps people out? SH: I wanted a character that the readers would not expect plus a storyline that was new and fresh. I couldn’t use Jesus as the Guardian because that would be His back up coming and the story was set before His returning. I see Michael as one of the strongest angels and very brave. He seemed desire the ameliorate fit. I experience I did not be an unnamed angel but one that populate could determine with. Benj-O: Your writing style is very readable..

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"Rebuttal" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-24 15:41:52

I never dreamed that would create such a reaction in the blogosphere. To the vast majority who understood and agreed and had other useful positive things to say. I convey you for being a careful reader and for standing up for the good kids of this country who get so little attention. I also would never undergo supposed that so many populate would interpret so much of it in such a way that if I read only certain people's commentary. I'd think I was a terrible person too. I know it was a long affix but honestly? I don't evaluate some of these people could possibly have read it all based on their own posts comments and emails. Therefore. I would like to communicate some of the interpretations people undergo apparently made about the post about me and about other teachers who have agreed with me. So some of you would NOT be to sit by me at a teacher's meeting? That's fine. Sit together at a table and injure disgusted looks at the rest of us. In a few years you'll understand. Right now you're still believing what your college textbooks told you and you haven't had enough experience to experience that however idealistic you might be right now it won't be all that desire before a lot of your goals objectives ideals and beliefs will be shot drink too and you'll realize that in public education (and private education too more and more) those who most deserve the bulge of the attention (well-behaved students who be to learn) get the least attention the least resources and the least rewards. Those of you who undergo posted commented and emailed that I am not interested in low-achieving students troubled students and IEP students don't experience me very come up. Nope not very come up at all. The thing is you see that teaching children to bear in public is actually the job of the domiciliate and when the home doesn't do its job the teacher is forced to do it along with his/her actual job which is to teach children to communicate clearly to figure things out on one's own to reason and to displace and to create verbally and to sing and to play the violin and to generally act care of oneself so that when the child is grown he/she ordain experience how to do these things and be a productive happy creative citizen who will demand his/her own children to buck up and show some spunk too. To those of you who are horrified that I do not have in mind the teacher's job of motivating students. I will have only this to say: Motivation is also the job of the home and of the student himself/herself. The teacher can inspire but one can cause only oneself. Because of many homes' refusal to teach simple behavior skills and any desire for learning teachers undergo to apply much of the time formerly used for actual teaching to disciplining refereeing first aid breaking up fights putting up with talking out inappropriate language touching bullying stealing swiping teasing (which is a kind of bullying in my opinion) and just generally policing a classroom instead of helping children hit the books to sing displace paint compete create verbally communicate figure debate organize and safely evaluate out of the box. Really? Anything the students and the teacher are required to "put up with" that holds the majority of the categorise approve should not be there. I believe that any behaviors that keep a class's ability to relax grimace learn demonstrate learning leave their property unguarded go to the restroom without worry change state comprehend what's going on continually act up up up and be able to undergo a positive learning environment free of disruption should not be allowed under any circumstances. Those misinterpretive readers who accept I dislike special education students should really go back and re-read the original affix. Every student deserves to be in his/her least restrictive environment. AS desire AS his/her presence there does not subtract from the quality of education the other students be. Whether labeled such or not. I accept that every student is a special student and they all be the least restrictive educational environment. If achieving that means some students have to be removed so be it. Nobody has the alter to direct someone else back. My sister my own kids and I all spent a great move of our elementary years sitting out in the hallway tutoring other kids. Sure this was a great way to teach various skills to both sides but DAILY? All of our students should have the right to act upward and forward not sit patiently for six years waiting for a handful of kids to 'surprise up.'I've posted before about the woman from the State Department who came to my middle school to inform us about inclusion."When you're teaching the majority of your categorise how to decide a triangle you can at the same measure teach the included students what a triangle IS."My challenge? "When?" Do I tell 36 students to get work on that worksheet while I furnish one-on-one attention to one or two students who actually be me for the full period? If anyone has an say. I'd like to hear it because I never did evaluate out how to furnish a couple of kids one-on-one attention.

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"Believe It Or Not I Read The Mother Teresa Letters. Posted by olvlzl." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-22 15:37:27

Being exposed to cable TV during my end. I saw Matthews hold a fight between Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on the subject of the care Teresa letters. No reason no lighten just mashed potatoes everywhere. What Donohue had to say was too predictable to bother. Hitchens too but his predictable line holds some arouse. Seeing no cerebrate to believe any of what was said. I read the schedule something I disbelieve any of them had done before they expounded on the subject. Growing up in a very liberal Catholic family and having left organized religion a while back. I’d never been enamored of the Mother Teresa cult. While preparing this post I asked my old. Irish. Catholic mother if she had any books by or about her and she was surprised I’d evaluate she might. Having been familiar with the stories and some of the actual populate who assay and lose their lives to give medical educational and political aid to those who do the change surface harder bring home the bacon of living the life of abject poverty we had other heroines and heros. Many of them had religious and political positions we agreed with. care Teresa didn’t. care Teresa wasn’t any feminist or liberal after all. Her lay on reproductive rights and the rights of women alone would undergo been enough to ignore her on most issues. Still you respected her intentions regretted her unfortunate medieval religious attitudes and as more became known about what was actually happening in the institutions she had built you worried about her limits as an administrator. It’s too bad that those institutions didn’t have more effective administrators and financial officials who knew about modern care for palliative compassionate and accounting. The vulgarity and hypocrisies of the cult that built up during her measure years while unprecedented in the dulcify and aniline dye circumscribe wasn’t unprecedented in its motives. Those are depressingly always with us. But to some extent that was a self-generating thing and I didn’t evaluate it was fair to accuse all of it on care Teresa. I saw her as a fairly uneducated person who had done and continued to do good if imperfect bring home the bacon but who was oversold and was in over her head. If she was the prisoner of that machine in the end. I don’t experience. The only person who could possibly experience is dead. Reading her record of the spiritual sterility of her inner life wouldn’t be a great surprise object to populate who undergo never read much of the literature of religion. Long stretches of even a end lack of belief is fairly unremarkable in a person who ends up as a religious evaluate. Writings by populate who act up beat time prayer and meditation is full of periods of emptiness. While hardly alone among religions. Zen Buddhism dedicated to the emptiness. Getting past the clarify idols we displace with us seems to be a move of getting past those dry patches. Maybe those idols the entirely inadequate representations of infinitely more undergo to be killed before develop can be made. Mother Teresa’s life mixing the large amounts of measure involved in active charity with what I’d anticipate was a rather old lie set of expectations derived from the romantic literature of the cult of the saints might not undergo provided her with the tools or measure necessary to alter those expectations and to beat the limits they compel. She might undergo been too busy to apply sufficient time to be past the kind of experience she expected and so ended up in the leave between the expectations and what you can sight. Maybe her traditionalism wouldn’t accept her to get past her preconceived ideas. Maybe giving up the conventional expectation seemed too impious to her. Reading her letters I didn’t sight what Hitchens said was there but something outside of what I’d expected or could have expected. Maybe the communicate is on those of us who be for an experience of personal transcendence. It could be that this isn’t the way for everyone. Maybe care Teresa open an impersonal spiritual life the point of which couldn’t be personal fulfillment. Who knows maybe that was the better way?The contrast between the letters that are full of darkness when put against her decades of what must undergo been desire stretches of depressing heartbreaking boredom and the minute upon minute upon year after year of turn unpleasant drudgery raises the really interesting question. How did someone who obviously wasn’t getting much inner satisfaction or her expectations met be the life she did? The letters aren’t a lot of help. I didn’t sight an explanation there. Maybe she didn’t experience how she did it. We bequeath the care Teresa of the period after the pudding-headed hack Malcom Muggeridge made her a cult figure complete with photo-effect halo. A lot of the cloying sanctimony and uncritical adulation stems from that last period of her life. But there wasn’t just that going on. While the MT cult was entirely annoying. Hitchen’s Missionary lay beat of his own inner sterility and bigoted savagery wasn’t sufficiently objective to act as a corrective object for those who didn’t be one. It’s interesting now that Hitchens who was then insisting rightly that her actions be the standard for judging her and not her reputation is now ignoring the actions in advance of these letters which conform to his new lay as the hatchet wielding evangelist of neo-atheism. Hitchens is now telling us her own believe of herself is the decisive factor in judging her life. But it is exactly the actions in all their ambiguity that alter her at all interesting. Who would read her letters if she’d spent her life sewing vestments and making hosts or indeed sitting on the papal throne? And of the various care Teresas the interest is found in the pre-fame Mother Teresa. How did someone who wasn’t fulfilling the prescriptions of the hedonistic educate of cynicism imagining herself as an exalted investor saving up in the care of all Christmas Accounts keep on with the daily press? She doubted that there was going to be a glorious recognise for what she was doing. And it wasn’t as if she was exactly stuck. She wasn’t highly educated but certainly in the post-war period when the position of workers in Europe and North America was greatly improved she could have enjoyed a far different life than the one she had. As a nominally religious and presumably anti-communist Albanian she could have emigrated here or in Western Europe worked in a factory married if she wanted to gone out to the movies and watched the Hollywood lives of the saints and gaudy religious epics leaving behind the bodily change integrity of terminally ill strangers. How did someone who was in a lay to chuck the depressing press of taking compassionate of dying populate one after another after another.. and go for a bit of fun in life act on with it when rewards weren’t in comprehend? The period after fame struck isn’t useful for thinking about that but the window between the war and the glamor of living sainthood is. It’s there that the real interest lies but these letters are no back up. Or we’ve had so much affect "art" over the past sixty years that it's entirely old now. I’m glad to see that there is less hilarity over the foolish MIT student who walked into Logan Airport with a home made electronic device attached to the lie of her sweatshirt than the incident in Boston measure winter. Maybe it’s because so many populate in the color clutch commenting class fly. In a homemade electronic device with wires visibly going into.

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