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Our Muslim Heritage
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, Billy wrote: In article , "Lelandite" wrote: On holiday in Europe, Bert noticed a marble column in a church in Rome with a golden telephone on it. As a young priest passed by, Bert asked who the telephone was for. The priest told him it was a direct line to Heaven, and if he'd like to call, it would be one thousand dollars. Bert was amazed, but declined the offer. Throughout Europe Bert kept seeing the same golden telephone on a marble column. At each, he asked about it and the answer was always the same: a direct line to Heaven and he could call for a thousand dollars. Bert finished his European tour in Ireland. He decided to attend Mass at a local village church. When he walked in the door he noticed the golden telephone, but underneath it there was a sign stating: DIRECT LINE TO HEAVEN, 25 cents. "Father," he said I have been all over Europe and in all the cathedrals I visited, I've seen telephones exactly like this one but The price is always $1000.00. Why is it that this one is only 25 cents?" The priest smiled and said, "Son, you're in Ireland now. It's a local call." ;O) thoroughly enjoyed. But even Ireland hasn't figured it out that it costs a red penny to talk to God. Your garden sounds wonderful. It's time like this when I wish I lived on a bigger lot. I miss my fresh greenbeans and peas and other veggies. But I do have tomatoes and squash growing. Donna in WA I presume that your having the same miserable weather that we're having, except in spades. Woke up to rain this morning. Rain predicted for tomorrow, with possibility of showers on Fri., grrr. I see that they've got rain in the midwest too, only they are some 10 degrees warmer than here. Sort of reminds of a very dry spell we once had. Being smart I brought in all sorts of mulch . I was ready but the next year it was too wet and being too wet is impossible to deal with I think. Guess we have to be flexible and lucky and ................ -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden What use one more wake up call? |
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Our Muslum Heritage
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"Thos" wrote: How does this relate to gardening you stupid ****?? Which stupid **** are you talking to asshole? "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , Bill who putters wrote: In article , Higgs Boson wrote: On May 21, 6:44 pm, wrote: Our Muslim heritage Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story." ' He's turned out to be just another politician, kissing ass where he deems it expedient, especially to Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Wall Street. The entities that are really runniing our country. Amazing, how a guy I thought was smart, doesn't realize you don't extend your hand to mad dogs who want to bite it off -- whether they're from hostile Muslims or from the equally-hostile, destructive, un-American far-far-far-Right wing Republican party (what's left of it after it's been taken over by those who openly said, from Inauguration Day onward, that they are working to wreck Obama's presidency). Note: I'm an Independent voter, but I really hoped for better from Obama. [...] I'm with you on this. Still I think we get what we deserve and I do not see ( in the media) few complaining intelligent voices. God I miss Bill Moyers already and Keilor is getting there too. What to do? Saw this (below) the other day. If being smart is a good thing with all those Harvard folks going to wall street. Wonder I think not still education of the heart is needed and it may be helped by example and nothing else. Here is something else just to contradict myself I saw the other day. Isn't it obvious that what the public thinks doesn't matter. Sunday, May 23, 2010 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 27% are even somewhat confident that Congress knows what itıs doing when addressing that nationıs economic challenges. Forty-one percent (41%) of voters say that a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ama_administra tion/daily_presidential_tracking_poll What we need is for these "baby killers" to bring our troops home, cut military spending in half, and give us campaign finance reform, but . . . that ain't gonna happen. What will happen is national wealth will keep disappearing into private pockets, and we'll be left with a huge public debt, like Greece, and just when the citizenry start to boil over, a "new threat" will emerge to take our minds off what a bunch of thieves they are. If they though they had enough bayonets, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Welcome to the "new and improved" feudalism. ............ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/uonr-bih052010.php Public release date: 20-May-2010 [ Print | E-mail | Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Claudene Wharton 775-784-1169 University of Nevada, Reno Books in home as important as parents' education in determining children's education level University of Nevada, Reno, sociologist leads 20-year study of over 70,000 cases in 27 countries RENO, Nev. * Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of education their children will attain, according to a 20-year study led by Mariah Evans, University of Nevada, Reno associate professor of sociology and resource economics. For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But, strikingly, this massive study showed that the difference between being raised in a bookless home compared to being raised in a home with a 500-book library has as great an effect on the level of education a child will attain as having parents who are barely literate (3 years of education) compared to having parents who have a university education (15 or 16 years of education). Both factors, having a 500-book library or having university-educated parents, propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average. Being a sociologist, Evans was particularly interested to find that children of lesser-educated parents benefit the most from having books in the home. She has been looking for ways to help Nevada's rural communities, in terms of economic development and education. "What kinds of investments should we be making to help these kids get ahead?" she asked. "The results of this study indicate that getting some books into their homes is an inexpensive way that we can help these children succeed." Evans said, "Even a little bit goes a long way," in terms of the number of books in a home. Having as few as 20 books in the home still has a significant impact on propelling a child to a higher level of education, and the more books you add, the greater the benefit. "You get a lot of 'bang for your book'," she said. "It's quite a good return-on-investment in a time of scarce resources." In some countries, such as China, having 500 or more books in the home propels children 6.6 years further in their education. In the United States, the effect is less, 2.4 years, than the 3.2-year average advantage experienced across all 27 countries in the study. But, Evans points out that 2.4 years is still a significant advantage in terms of educational attainment. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Americans who have some college or an associate's degree, but not a bachelor's degree, earn an average of $7,213 more annually than those with just a high school education. Those who attain a bachelor's degree earn $21,185 more each year, on average, than those with just high school diplomas. The study by Evans and her colleagues at Nevada, UCLA and Australian National University is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies ever conducted on what influences the level of education a child will attain. The researchers were struck by the strong effect having books in the home had on children's educational attainment even above and beyond such factors as education level of the parents, the country's GDP, the father's occupation or the political system of the country. Having books in the home is twice as important as the father's education level, and more important than whether a child was reared in China or the United States. Surprisingly, the difference in educational attainment for children born in the United States and children born in China was just 2 years, less than two-thirds the effect that having 500 or more books in the home had on children (3.2 years). ### The study, "Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations," was published in the journal, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (online at www.sciencedirect.com). Nevada's land-grant university founded in 1874, the University of Nevada, Reno has an enrollment of nearly 17,000 students. The University is home to one the country's largest study-abroad programs and the state's medical school, and offers outreach and education programs in all Nevada counties. For more information, visit www.unr.edu. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html |
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The advisers were addled by the able aftereffect accepting books in the home had on children's educational accomplishment even aloft and above such factors as apprenticeship akin of the parents, the country's GDP, the father's activity or the political arrangement of the country.
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