Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
1038 U.N. Standards?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog head scratch I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Semiotic: : a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics- semiotic adjective- semiotician \-0-8ti-sh0n\ noun- semioticist \-8-t0-sist\ noun [128] Compare to “ideonic.” Signification: Meaning; import; sense. [33] Simile: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “She is like a rose.” [n/a] Skein: A length of yarn or thread wound on a reel for use in manufacturing. [25] Stychomythia: dialogue especially of altercation or dispute delivered by two actors in alternating lines (as in classical Greek drama) [4]
From Midrash and Literature edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick.
Athein and Zaw are still marching east, having covered approximately 20 percent of their journey since they departed Portland, Oregon, on the first of the month. I still have my fingers crossed that their trek will take them along I-90 through northern Ohio where they have a standing invitation to eat and rest in Cleveland.
From the South Idaho Press:
With their destination set for the United Nations offices and their goals set even higher, a pair of protesters departed from Portland more than three weeks ago on a voyage they hope will raise awareness about the plight of their home country, Myanmar.
Athein and Zaw are taking turns walking the 2,896 miles it will take to reach New York City. The duo departed March 1, and on Thursday they reached Burley – almost 600 miles from where they started.
Athein said such a protest done in his native country would have landed him in jail for 20 years. He said that is just one of the many reasons behind the protest march.
“Innocent people, our people, want freedom and democracy,” he said. Athein described his homeland as a terrorist country, controlled by the military. “It”s a threat to the nation of people and a threat to freedom and liberty.” Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Move, Shoot and Communicate.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. This week he brings us all a reminder that we complain to much: From My Dad.
Yangon- Myint Thein, the spokesman for Myanmar’s National League for Democracy opposition party who was jailed repeat- edly, died at age 62 in Singapore, relatives said Saturday. Myint Thein was most recently detained for a month last year following the September anti-military protests in Yangon that left at least 31 people dead and led to thousands of arrests.
He died Friday evening after battling stomach cancer in Singapore General Hospital since January 31, his daughter said.
Myint Thein had been active in the Burmese democracy movement since 1988, when mass anti-military demonstrations first rocked the isolated, formerly socialist state, ending in an army-led bloodbath that claimed up to 3,000 lives.
Since winning a parliamentary seat in the 1990 elections, he had been detained several times without trial, including a three-year stint between 1998 to 2001.
As a close aid of NLD leader, the Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, he was named the party’s spokesperson in 2004.
He was last detained in Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison on September 27, 2007, after the peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks ended in a brutal crackdown.
Myint Thein’s health deteriorated while he was in detention and he had to be hospitalized upon his release on October 30.
‘He was formerly healthy and strong. Frequent detentions and lack of medical treatment and inadequate food in prison made him sick and infected some diseases,’ said Aung Din, executive director for the US Campaign for Burma.
Myanmar was formerly known as Burma.
After being diagnosed with stomach cancer, authorities permitted him to fly to Singapore for treatment in January.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Midrash and Literature edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick.
Putative: 1 : commonly accepted or supposed 2 : assumed to exist or to have existed- putatively adverb [107] Recension: An editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination resulting from such revisions.[15] Recherché: 1 a : EXQUISITE, CHOICE b : EXOTIC, RARE2 : excessively refined : AFFECTED3 : PRETENTIOUS, OVERBLOWN [92] Sectaries: Plural of Sectary, a member of a sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic. [20] Semantic: Pertaining to, or arising from, the different meanings of words or other symbols. [30]
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: The seven steps leading to self-unification:
Prepare a list of what you value most, your highest priorities in life.
Write each valued principle as an action statement.
See that your unifying principles are the highest truths and mutually compatible.
Write a paragraph of clarification under each unifying principle you put down.
Prioritize your unifying principles.
Evaluate your performance over the past few weeks or month with regard to each unifying principle.
Bring your performance into line with your unifying principles. p. 40
I don’t know what percentage of the six-billion-plus people in the world depend upon rice as their staple source of carbohydrates, but I know it is large enough for the non-rice dependent citizens of the world to be very concerned when this number of people face starvation because they can’t afford to buy their most basic food.
From Irrawaddy:
Philippine activists warn about possible riots. Aid agencies across Asia worry how they will feed the hungry. Governments dig deeper every day to fund subsidies.
A sharp rise in the price of rice is hitting consumer pocketbooks and raising fears of public turmoil in the many parts of Asia where rice is a staple.
Part of a surge in global food costs, rice prices on world markets have jumped 50 percent in the past two months and at least doubled since 2004. Experts blame rising fuel and fertilizer expenses as well as crops curtailed by disease, pests and climate change. There are concerns prices could rise a further 40 percent in coming months. Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is My Redundant Productivity System.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. This week he brings us all a reminder that we complain to much: From My Dad.
When I joined the Navy my dad gave me two pieces of advice: first, if I got a tattoo, I shouldn’t get a girl’s name; and second, that I should take at least one day in each foreign country I visited to get out to see how people lived. It was good advice and the blogger at Getawayhookups agrees with the second bit.
Normally, I wouldn”t pick a fight with the world”s only incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize winner, but I think Myanmar”s Aung San Suu Kyi should stop urging tourists to avoid her country, which she does to prevent money from flowing to the despots who run it.
There”s no denying that Myanmar (formerly Burma) is in bad hands: Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in Rangoon on and off since 1989. In 1990, her national election victory was ignored by the military-backed State Peace and Development Council. Meanwhile, General Than Shwe”s brutal junta has destroyed 3,000 villages, displaced 1.5 million refugees, and conscripted 70,000 child soldiers. Still, Suu Kyi”s call for an ongoing travel boycott seems misguided. It isn”t depriving the SPDC of vital foreign cash, like she claims. It”s depriving her democratic movement of potential supporters all over the globe.
Travel boycotts have long been used to deny funds and legitimacy to oppressive regimes, from apartÂheid-era South Africa to Castro”s Cuba. On paper, economic boycotts make sense, but their effect is outweighed by the benefits of having travelers take a look for themselves. Whether the setting is Myanmar or Tibet, the best way to combat oppression is to become an eyewitness. Once you”ve done that, it”s impossible not to share what you”ve seen. Continue Reading »
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Midrash and Literature edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick.
Proclitic: (of a word) closely connected with the preceding word and not having an independent accent or phonological status. (see Enclitic) [15] Proem: 1 : preliminary comment : PREFACE 2 : PRELUDE- proemial \pr-8Î-mÎ-0l, -8e-\ adjective [106] Propound: to offer for discussion or consideration- propounder noun [165] Prosaic: 1 a : characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : FACTUAL b : DULL, UNIMAGINATIVE2 : EVERYDAY, ORDINARY- prosaically \-8zÀ-0-k(0-)lÎ\ adverb [120] Pseudepigrapha: Non-canonical writings professing to be Biblical in character. [xi]
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