I normally do not post lengthy emails, but here goes. I wanted however to share this one because it is very poignant and has a healing and meaningful message that I thought you would appreciate.
Very nice analogy………….food for thought!
The Mayonnaise Jar
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough,
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee:
A professor stood before his philosophy class
And had some items in front of him.
When the class began,
Wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students, if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again
If the jar was full… They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand
And poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything
else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded
With an unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced Two cups of coffee from under the table And poured the entire contents Into the jar, effectively Filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor, As the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life..
The golf balls are the important things – Family,
children, health, friends, and favorite passions ?
Things that if everything else was lost
And only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter Like your job, house, and
car. The sand is everything else –
The small stuff..
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ He continued,
‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
Important to you.
So…
Pay attention to the things That are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.
There will always be time
To clean the house and fix the disposal.
‘Take care of the golf balls first –
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand
And inquired what the coffee represented.
The professor smiled..
‘I’m glad you asked’.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’
Please share this with other “Golf Balls”
The question then: will Jerusalem take up the challenge in initiating and spearheading the development of the new bible even if out of Israel’s political necessity? Is the final global rapprochement in preparation for the voyage to the stars the task of the Jewish people?
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References
1. Anon., Astrological Ages and the Statistics of Intelligent Design, futurepredictions.com, http://futurepredictions.com/2007/03/18/63
2. Pardo, D. A., The Common Heritage and the Future of World Religion, in The Maltese Islands on the Move, Vella C. (ed), Central Office of Statistics, Malta, 2000, p. 271-278
3. Pardo, D. A., A Statistical Identity for the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls, http://futurepredictions.com/2008/12/07/dead-sea-scrolls/, http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/back_dss.php
4. Pardo, D. A., A Statistical Discussion of Biblical Genealogies, FutureTalkBlog, http://futurepredictions.wordpress.com/tag/reincarnation
__________________________________________ The other side Atheists aren’t that bad. This is NOT an argument for atheism… It’s a defense of atheists.
Torah
The Hebrew Bible (also known as the Jewish Bible, or תנ”ך, Tanakh in Hebrew) consists of 24 books. Tanakh is an acronym for the three parts of the Hebrew Bible: the Torah (Pentateuch), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
The Torah, or “Teaching,” is also known as the five books of Moses, thus Chumash or Pentateuch (Hebrew and Greek for “five,” respectively).
The five books are:
I Genesis (Bereishit בראשית),
II Exodus (Shemot שמות),
III Leviticus (Vayikra ויקרא),
IV Numbers (Bemidbar במדבר), and
V Deuteronomy (Devarim דברים)
The Torah focuses on three moments in the changing relationship between God and people.
The first eleven chapters of Genesis provide accounts of the creation (or ordering) of the world, and the history of God’s early relationship with humanity.
The remaining thirty-nine chapters of Genesis provide an account of God’s covenant with the Hebrew patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (also called Israel), and Jacob’s children (the “Children of Israel”), especially Joseph. It tells of how God commanded Abraham to leave his family and home in the city of Ur, eventually to settle in the land of Canaan, and how the Children of Israel later moved to Egypt.
The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of Moses, who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. His story coincides with the story of the liberation of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, to the renewal of their covenant with God at Mount Sinai, and their wanderings in the desert until a new generation would be ready to enter the land of Canaan. The Torah ends with the death of Moses.
Traditionally, the Torah contains 613 mitzvot, or commandments, of God, revealed during the passage from slavery in the land of Egypt to freedom in the land of Canaan. These commandments provide the basis for Jewish law Halakha and are elaborated in the Talmud.
The Torah is divided into fifty-four portions which are read in turn in Jewish liturgy, from the beginning of Genesis to the end of Deuteronomy, each Sabbath. The cycle ends and recommences at the end of Sukkot, which is called Simchat Torah.
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Walker F. Todd, Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and former Federal Reserve official.
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Is the world ready for what Simon Johnson Atlantic Monthly writer states, that “what we face now could, in fact, be worse than the Great Depression—because the world is now so much more interconnected and because the banking sector is now so big”?
As an optimist we stand by our assertions that the wisdom among the elite is still that the current slump “cannot be as bad as the Great Depression,”
but writer Simon Johnson concludes that this view is wrong.
The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.
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Testing the Selectorate Explanation of the Democratic Peace
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by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The Dyadic Selectorate Model
The theory shows that leaders who require a large coalition to remain in office favor spending resources on public goods rather than on private benefits for their coalition of supporters (…). Leaders who rely on a small winning coalition, such as autocrats, hold power by spending resources disproportionately on private goods to reward their backers.
Oil giant Exxon Mobil plans to spend up to $600 million on a program to make biofuel from algae.
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Founders, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., and the leading scientific teams they have assembled. Dr. Venter
I believe the best examples of disruptive technologies that could change our future are in the new fields of synthetic biology, synthetic genomics, and genome engineering. These fields can change the way we think about life by showing that we can use living systems to increase our chances of survival as a species. Simply put: this area of research will enable us to create new fuels to replace oil and coal.
- J. Craig Venter, 2007 (Dimbleby Lecture)
More on Venter creating life….
Digitizing Biology /
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SO Gates quadruples CYBER attack funding for experts…
Comprised of about 20,000 servers allowing scientists who need a million CPU hours to run an experiment overnight, the distributed nature of the grid allows them to access that computing power from any part of the worldwide network.
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Is 3% to default of $3 trillion in commercial real estate…?
$30 billion now in default in 2009 – $80 billion ready to drop, soon up to $200 billion in troubled assets on the fence claims Peter Slatin, Forbes financial columnist and editor of the Forbes/Slatin Real Estate Report, says we’re just at the beginning of problems.
The 2007 hype that caused it – private equity over paid.
Ardsley Advisors Managing Partner Peter Avalone says the government isn’t doing enough to prevent the commercial real estate bubble from bursting.
Commercial Real Estate Bubble About to Burst
Yes now you can live 10 years longer by inhibiting a protein called TOR that plays a key role in cell growth.
Now tests on 600-day-old mice – equivalent to 60-year-old humans – have shown it also extends life expectancy by up to 14 per cent.
Dr David Harrison, of the Jackson Laboratory in Maine. USA, who carried out the research, said: “Rapamycin may extend lifespan by postponing death from cancer, by retarding mechanisms of ageing or both.
“It has implications for treatment and prevention of age-related diseases.”
Oxford University researcher Dr Lynne Cox said: “This is very exciting. Whether it’s sensible to increase lifespan is another matter – perhaps increasing health span might be a better goal.”
But Dr Matt Kaeberlein and Dr Brian Kennedy, of Washington University in Seattle, said healthy people should not take rapamycin to slow ageing because it cuts immunity to disease.
Why not states manufacturer Wyeth who produces Sirolimus.
Sirolimus inhibits the response to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and thereby blocks activation of T- and B-cells. In contrast, tacrolimus inhibits the production of IL-2.
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Thomas Friedman
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
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The U.K. Statistics Authority's Richard Alldritt is an expert in how governments fudge the numbers. He and his math-police squad are rooting out the truth, whether it's to reveal the real gender pay gap or the actual rate of knife crime.
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European Parliament is coming out in opposition to a U.S.-backed intellectual property treaty accord, and is demanding the treaty's secret text become public.
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Even though people might be dying to get off the government's no-fly list, it includes names of the dead on purpose. Following the "Underwear Bomber" incident Christmas day the list has ballooned.
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Moving away from high-budget blockbusters to scaled-down treasures built by small teams proves enticing to veteran videogame developers. Part of the appeal: A nostalgic remembrance of the early days of game development.
A massive effort to understand Gulf War Syndrome finds physiological differences in the brains of healthy veterans and those suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.
This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider’s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.
Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.
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