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Willams says very little but in doing so lets you say all the more.
Is the wheel barrow on its side?
Is it collecting water?
Is it dirty with chicken waste or feed?
Has the wheelbarrow fallen into disrepair?
What does the image of this short poem bring to your mind?
Complexity through simplicity.
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I don’t believe it!!! I do love Christmas, but in its season.
I went into America’s conveyor of inexpensive pop items Tuesday and what to my wondering eye did appear….. IT WAS SANTA AND HIS 8 TINY RAIN DEAR!!!!
Yes Wal-Mart has already started putting out their Christmas merchandise in the seasonal section. I don’t believe it.
Don’t get me wrong. I do love the Christmas season. It’s not just buying present for family and friends but the traditional home spun cultural items that have become part of the American Christmas experience. Norman Rockwell prints, and Jimmy Stewart – it can be a wonderful life if you work at it- The innocents of a time long past, the first day at the department store after Thanksgiving and watching Santa ride down Main Street on a big float.
Who doesn’t remember those cartoons? Ok they are a little commercial, but aren’t they quintessential Americana?
HO! HO! HO!
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Politics in Class:
Don’t you just hate it when you’re teacher starts injecting his political views into class. I don’t care!! I’m paying a little over $5,500 a semester, the only political attitude I wont out of a teacher is the understanding that if I’m late for class on a Tuesday in November , its because I was out expressing my political opinion. I was VOTING!
No, I’m not talking about English 15. I was expecting a little political attitude in a class about writing arguments. The most furious argument in our nation are arguments about politics. That is one of the things that makes this country so great. For example, ask anyone that knows a little Chinese history, what happens to political dissidents in that nation? Think Tiananmen Square Massacre (wikipedia.com∞) … They were that nations college students..
I mean my Architecture 210 class.
What is the worst part is that it’s so blatant. My teacher was talking about how the design of the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge was designed so as to eliminate one of the most blighted blocks in lower east New York City in the early 1900s. So what? That wasn’t the political angel.
The problem is that he points out that ironically, the underside of the river side of the Manhattan Bridge became a shanty town during the economic boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and that the evil Giuliani forcibly evicted the homeless in the late 1980s…
Were that to be true, there would be NO political slant in the class. The problem comes arises from the complete fabrication of facts in the case. First off. New York city was in the middle of economic turmoil until the late 80s. The city was finically bankrupt. Pay role was missed a couple of times. A number of venders went bankrupt because NYC failed to make payments. What is the most flagrant failure in my teacher’s tail is what he used it to blast Mayor Giuliani, making it a political statement.
He clamed Giuliani forced the homeless from the cite in the late 1980s. The problem is that Giuliani was mayor of New York City in 2001. Remember the pictures of him during the events of September 11th? That was 2001. Currently, New York has a law that says none may be mayor of NYC for more than 2 consecutive term. Each being 4 years in length. That means that if Giuliani was mayor in 2001 and replaced in 2002, and he had 2 consecutive terms, totaling 8 years. He wasn’t elected to the mayor’s office until 1993 and sworn in in 1994!!!! NOT the late 1980s. IN the 80s, the mayor of NYC was Koch (D)(www.nyc.gov∞).
SO lets keep politics out of the class room…if the class isn’t about argumentative style.
NYC official page on mayor lineage:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/mayors.html∞
For what it's worth Koch was no gem of a human being either. If you ever want evidence (and want to watch an awesome movie for whatever reason), check out "Style Wars." It's a brilliant PBS documentary about graffiti culture in NYC in the 80s. Koch says some pretty staggering things when they interviewed. - EschaTon
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NO JOY IN MUDVILLE TONIGHT!!!
Like the old fable, this is no joy in mudville (Happy Valley) tonight. The hopes for the first undefeated football season in more than a decade came to a tragic end this evening.
I am a little surprised at how this made me feel. It has been a long time since I got this involved in Penn State Football. While I was a work today I found a radio and plugged it in. Some of the crew members at the restaurant didn’t wont to hear a Penn State Victory.
They were not to upset when the first half was over… But they became annoyed when PSU got 2 touchdowns in just a few minutes. Then the last few minutes were utterly nerve racking experience. But I knew it. As soon as Penn State had their last touchdown I just new it. I wasn’t wrong. Our Defense almost shut down and then those 2 seconds. Where did they come from?
But as I said in my analogy… IT is only a game. But DAM!!! I was hoping to see an undefeated season.
As for the workers at the restaurant, one of them said, “ I’m gong to the other room to get away from him before he has me clean something I don’t wont to”(usually the grease trap). I snickered and let him go. I can always have him clean something, a lost football game needn’t be the reason.
By the way, WHERE DID THOSE 2 SECONDS COME FROM?!
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Hello all, this is just a quick post about my favorite band…. JOURNEY
They just released a new CD, “Generations” It move really good. They performed at the BJC over the summer and passed out copies of this new CD for all to enjoy. It hit the stores on 10-4.
I was going to play their song “Livin’ to Do” off of their 2001 release, ARRIVAL, for the music class, but didn’t get to it. It has a real bluesy feel to the intro and the hole CD is great.
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AS for JOURNEY . . . They are, well, great at producing the ‘rock ballads’ of the 70s and 80s. I think I like them because of my seldom tapped romanticism that I can feel resonating through their classic rock.
I need to answer my one question: “Where were you on 9-11?”
I almost did in this post but I wimped out…. It’ll come soon…. But JOURNEY’s 2001 CD was a big part of that long four month period. It isn’t something I talk about. I don’t even talk about it to my friends at the fire house, and we talk about anything!!!!!!! If you do what we do, you have to be able to talk, and joke about anything with your fellow firefighters. You just have too. But I haven't.
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Cambodia:
Totalitarian subjugation of ones fellow man is the antithesis of altruistic rule.
The unachievable utopian ideals of communism have a history of totalitarian control over the very people that it claims to free. It has been proven through history, the classless society that is called for in pure communism is not a realistic goal. Those who lead the revolt of the proletariat never intend for themselves to fall back among the ranks the common populous. The true achievable utopia, is that of the new ruling class, and to maintain the support of the loyalist, the new ruling class must maintain a level of social conflict between the loyalists and separatists.
Cambodia, like many of its South East Asia neighbors, had long been in political turmoil. The French had once ruled Cambodia as a subservient colony just as they had ruled Viet Nam prior to the Americas involvement Viet Nam war. Prior to the arrival of the French, the fields of Cambodia saw a struggle of power between Viet Nam and Thailand. During the later year of the Viet Nam War, the communists of the North Vietnamese began to use the trails (Ho Chi Men Trail) in Cambodian country side a means to resuply and move Viet Cong Troops. As the American’s pulled out of South East Asia, the tenuous balance that was Cambodia shattered. In the political upheaval, the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia.
The ruler of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, took over the country and established his nepotistic communistic regime. To exert his power, and to build his utopia, Pole Pot pitted his loyalist rural warriors against the new enemy. The city dwellers. First executed were those that had political ties to the old government, police, and teachers. Pol Pot wonted to reestablish Cambodia as an agrarian nation and needed to eliminate those who would resist this process. Besides those in the former government, their families were also executed, to eliminate the possible threat retaliation they represented.
For further information about Cambodia, visit The World Factbook, on line and run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cb.html∞
Or, “A Country Study: Cambodia: The Widening War.” Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
Call number: DS554.3.C34 1990, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html#kh0033∞December, 1987
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Is it truly 10:30… I only have 2 more papers to write for tomorrow. I should be done by 6AM!!! Oh wait… do w have a paper do in English too… $#@& that’s three paper tomorrow……..actual I remember the English paper. I spent about an hour in the Learning Center this afternoon going over it with a semi useless tutor. See did point out a couple of spelling errors but that was about it.
Its 3:30 am and I'm done. Time to . . . . .
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Is altruism it dead?
Altruism. Unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others (Marriam-Webster Online Dictionary; www.w-m.com)
And if you are aware that what you are doing is altruistic, is it truly an altruistic act?
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Did you read about the trouble that StarBurst had at the writing center? I had basically the same experience as StarBurst, except that I asked the grad student (tutor) to read it herself. She pointed out a few misspellings I made (Daa Mr. Dyslectic, I usually have a few). Then she told me it was the best paper she had read that shift…. ( CLUE: PATRONIZING maybe?). I too didn’t get an ‘A’. I still need the spelling assistance. Maybe I should make it there during the day when the non grad students are running the writing center… IF I have the TIME. . .
TICK,
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Time goes buy!As for your family EschaTon, I do hope they are all OK but I was referring to the New Orleans populace that just sat in the city, drinking in the bars, and begging the fate of the coming storm while being taped for the 6:00 P.M. news. I am also referring to the New Orleans Mayor, all I can say for him is he is no Giuliani.
I know the problem is more complex than what can be covered in a quick 10 minute BLOG, but there are helpless masses inhabiting every city. You can also find them in the West Virginia’s Appalachia country and downtown Bellefonte. I don’t think you will ever find any one educator that believes this is what they are doing. I believe the problem is more systemic. A system that thinks just throwing someone else’s money at a problem will solve it. TICK, TICK, TICK, I have got to go. There is a test in my AM. And still, time goes buy.
Hmmm ... interesting point about the writing center. Personally, I've never been, but, with some help from you guys, I would be willing to talk about specific questions to ask the writing center jockies. I think that may help focus your session and get them to give something helpful. - EschaTon
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Response to ∞ comments on ∞.
Is the public school system actually failing, or is it only generating what the liberal establishment truly wants, an uneducated populous? A populous, un able to do for them selves ( like so many of the ‘helpless’ in New Orleans that just sat and waited for the federal government to come swooping in to the rescue). A populous that is incapable of fallowing even the most basic of nature’s instincts… self preservation.
Isn’t the public school system actually producing a never ending populous of the ‘needy’, generation after generation. A blind mass that feeds upon what they are told by those who claim to help, but who really just want to perpetuate the masses dependency on an ever growing government. A dependency that is in turn used to justify that government’s exponential growth.
“Don’t worry, we’ll just tax the rich!” And create more dependency.
"The 'helpless' in New Orleans that just sat and waited for the federal government to come swooping in to the rescue..." would that include my 89 year-old grandparents in Gulfport who my parents (and not the government) had to get out, despite a gas shortage and a complete break down of law and order? What about some of my other family members who were washed away by flood waters? What about the people who actually did take shelter and then were lost by FEMA's inept handling of the aftermath? Or the people who did evacuate Texas only to be stuck on the interstate when Rita hit? Are these people who lost everything and then were forgotten by their government "helpless"? Maybe. I'm sure my grandparents didn't want to leave the house they built after helping to win World War II because they were too stupid to value self preservation. It's very easy to sit up here, out of the storm's path, and judge the actions others have to take in the face of events we couldn't even begin to fathom.
I agree that a helpless population is partly to blame on the liberal largess of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society (despite the track record of every president to come after him, Johnson is the worst president this country has ever had). However, the end of the Great Depression can also be blamed on liberal economic policies (the bastards). Either way you read it: FDR's liberal policies at home or his feeling that, morally, the US had to get involved in stopping Nazi Germany were both the result of a liberal, progressive politic and one or the other was responsible for the end of the greatest crisis that ever faced this nation.
I'm not trying to argue for one position or the other (I think all politicians are equally culpable in enacting evil): I'm just trying to show that this arugment is overly reductive. There are a lot of claims made here, but no reasons. How does the public school system instantiate this population of need? I was always led to believe that this was TV's role. I'm inclined to agree with your position on the public school system creating generations of "needy" citizenry, but I'd like to see how you arrived at such a conclusion. Argue your points. - EschaTon
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The Landing Zone
How to establish a landing zone:
http://www.alphafire.com/frontpage/0410051.jpg∞
Photo curtsy of Alpha Fire Co.
You’ve been on duty for just over an hour. Your responding to an accident call on a winding back country road. Someone needs the resources of the regional trauma center. By ambulance, the trip may take as long as an hour so the medical crew calls for the helicopter. Your job has just changed. You now need to set up a SAFE Landing Zone for the helicopter.
How are you going to set up a safe landing zone?
First:
1} Find a flat level surface that measures a minimum of 60 feet square. (100 feet would be preferred.)
It can not have a slope greater than 10%. If you are not using a pre-determined county landing zone, use your G.P.S. unit to get coordinates.
2} Notify dispatch that you will establish the LZ, and where you will be located. Also ask for a landing zone channel. This channel will allow you to speak directly to the helicopter pilot.
( “Center County, Engine 514” . . . “514 will have Landing Zone at . . .”)
3} Secure the LZ. Make sure no one can walk or drive through your LZ. Do not use yellow barrier tape. It might get sucked up in helicopter blades.
4} Mark and make the LZ safe. Mark all four corners of the LZ and clear all loose debris from the LZ. In daylight, use four traffic cones laying on their sides, pointing into the middle of the LZ to mark it. At night, dusk or dawn, use either battery operated strobes or read flairs to mark the same corners. Be careful during times of drought if you must use road flairs.
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/lifelion/images/lifelion.gif∞
Gif curtsy of Penn State Life Lion, Hershey Medical Center
5} Contact the pilot as soon as you can hear the helicopter. Let the pilot know of ALL hazards within 500 feet of the LZ and what direction, if any, the wind is coming from.
6} Turn off all white flashing lights, head lights, camera lights and don’t allow flash photograph, while the helicopter lands. Especially at night.
7} Have crew stage in a secure area away from rotor wash. DO NOT let any personnel stand in the LZ to ‘guide’ the helicopter down. DO not pull a hand line so as to keep the engine mobile.
8} ONLY approach the helicopter under the direction of the helicopter crew. The blades of some helicopters sweep as low as 3 feet in front of the helicopter.
9} Stop ALL traffic within 150 feet of the helicopter. FAA regulations require the safety zone.
10} Keep all people clear of the helicopter while it is on the ground.
11} Once the patient is loaded, and the helicopter takes off, you have had a successful LZ. Inform rescue command and dispatch that the helicopter has taken off. Ask rescue command’s permission to close the LZ. Bad accidents my require a second or even third helicopter for multiple patients.
Once command has advised you that you may close the LZ, you have successfully run your first LZ.
In central Pennsylvania, there are three organizations that operate helicopter transports. They are:
∞, Danville, PA.
Stat MedEvac∞, Altoona, PA
Hershey's Life Lion∞, Hershey, PA (Penn State)
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Hello PEOPLE hello in there!!!!
I got an idea… Lets see how many ANALOGIES we can come up with over the weekend! It might make out teacher think he’s getting us to think….
I’ll start it off:
For the ladies:
- Your beauty is like a spring breeze.
Refreshing, uplifting and capable of pulling me out of winter’s deepest doldrums.
- Your love is like a candle’s flame.
It can light the darkest room yet be blown out with a wrong breeze.
How about some fun . . . Insulting:
-Your brain is like a broken glass,
The pitcher of life is overflowing with the juice of knowledge but your glass lets it drain right through and remains dry.
- Your intellect is like a dirigible…
Its lofty, but moves SLOW, and sometimes, full of hot air.
- Your driving skills are like a stick of chalk.
Sooner or latter there’s going to be a body outline on the pavement.
- You lie like a cheap oriental rug.
Lumpy and frayed
- Your girlfriend is like a rental car..
Anyone with a credit card and a few bucks can have a ride.
Sorry really, really bad
Lets try Political:
- Your ideals are like the titanic.
Antiquated, over engineered, and poorly designed, built with faulty materials and sinking fast.
That’s enough from me for now. How about you… How many can you come up with. After all, we do need ideas to blog about.
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http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5262/kilroy46ac.jpg∞
I was not sure what to pick for my icon. I know the obvious answer would be something relating to the fire service. A leather helmet, like the one I have, or a Maltese cross, like the one that adorns all fire equipment as the icon, or badge of the fire service. Instead, I decided to choose something different. I actually wonted to avoid anything fire service related. So: where to go? What to choose?
I decided to pick a simple image of ‘Kilroy’. Why, you may ask? I chose this simple image as small honor to my father. My dad turned 80 years old on Aug. 31. He was a sergeant with Patton’s 3rd Army, 87th infantry in Europe during World War II. This year is the 60th anniversary of the end to that great war. I wonder if we learned anything from it or not? Such as how bad the ideas of appeasement, isolationism are.
To learn more about the Maltese cross visit the ∞about the cross’ history.
As for ‘Kilroy’? He too has a web page. It is kilroywashere. Org∞
It has a listing of stories about the exploits of ‘Kilroy’ during WWII and the Korean War.
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