Saturday, July 21, 2012

20 question Guess the Actor and you could win 10 points

20 question Guess the Actor and you could win 10 points?
Category is a Person: 1. I am Male 2. Bright lights surround me 3. I have over 50 films under my belt and counting 4. I am an Actor, Director , and Writer. 5. Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 25 nominations 6. Received an Oscar for best picture , and directing 7. Has made 2 Icons out of his films he has directed,written, acted 8. Has won numerous awards, including people's choice award 9. Has brought the plight of the Myanmar people suffering over the last 60 years to the Silver screen in 2008 10.He is currently working on an action film with Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Eric Roberts that is set to be released April 2010 11. Is Happily Married, and has 3 girls and 2 boys 12. Has written a book: On Losing Weight, and building Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream 13. Brought action to the forefront, a Pioneer in making action films there best. 14. Oil paints in his spare time and considers Leonardo Da Vinci his personal hero 15. Ranked in "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list 16. Has his own television reality series on Espn 17. Is a business man and dabbles in all sorts of things from water to restaurants to casino's just to name a few 18. His fan base is huge and loved by millions. He's a very caring person, and has his own website for his fans . 19. Is often misunderstood. Very intelligent, and funny 20. He got his first big break in ROCKY and even has a statue in Philedelphia in his honor of the character he portrayed Good luck let see how many of you can guess the right answer. I put the easiest question last wanting you all to think first and know more about the person and his gifts and achievements
Celebrities - 1 Answers
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Sylvester Stallone.






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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Why are there not adequate warning systems in place for cyclones

Why are there not adequate warning systems in place for cyclones?
I just finished reading the story of the cyclone that hit Myanmar and they are predicting almost 10,000 deaths. Why do they not have adequate warning systems in place so people make seek shelter or higher ground. This coming from someone who lives in Tornado Alley in America and is well aware of the destructive powers of a storm. Yes, we choose to live here, because we love it. But we accept the fact that tornados will strike, and we have warning systems in place because they are expected. In the smaller Pacific Asian countries, aren't cyclones and such expected? Why don't they have capabilities? I'm really trying to understand. I'm not being hateful, I just don't understand. I'm trying to learn. Please let me know why these people aren't warned. To JonChicago: A tornado is a small thing? Have you ever experienced a tornado? Have you seen the devastation and destruction they leave behind? Look up Greensburg, Kansas and tell me that a tornado is a small thing.
Current Events - 9 Answers
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Poverty & lack of infrastructure, perhaps.
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It's Myanmar, not the USA. They don't all have 6 TVs in their houses and cell phones for everyone. They're lucky if they have a house and enough to eat.
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The wind blowing 60 MPH is a pretty good warning system.
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it costs money and some of the Asian Pacific countries don't have it. Its like the tsunami in 2004 the killed tens of thousands. they didn't have a warning system either. also the majority of these people don't have tvs, phones, radios, etc.
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To have an uninterupted warning system in place it would have to be planned out & a system of warning would have to be aggreed upon by local residents. That is the strength of any community. Even in Ancient China & feudal Japan there were warning systems that locals utilized to reduce deaths. But their governments had controll over their respective countries. Education was a tradition there, following traditions and respecting elders wasn't just a nice suggestion everyone took to, they were enforcable edicts of behavior. In America things are not as structured but I still have the ability to tell my neighbor that I saw a funel cloud forming & that There was a stilness in the air then a change in wind direction. I (being female) even have the authority, right & obligation to call my local radio station or sherrifs office & report what I saw so that it can be verified and alarms can be sounded, TV & radio signals can be interupted with the information that I (or someone like me) gave the heads up on. In short there is very little communication & much less trust in a war torn country. Any systems they might put in place would crumble because of lack of strong infastructure. They are not having community meetings that go over the details of making life smoother. They are busy surviving week to week. I am sorry this happened but they have been distracted preparing for military emergencies not cataclismic ones. It is a true tragedy. To the fellow who believes that everyone in America has 6 TV's & cell phones: You can buy a prepaid cell phone here for $40 one time fee (two years ago) for the phone & pay $25 to get 100 minutes (had to refill it three months ago). Its cheeper than a land line & we only use it for emergencies. I live on a dirt road. My neighbors are 1/4 mile apart. We have two TV's I got them both at pawn shops one for $50 the other for $99, two years apart. We use them for video games or movies picked out from net flicks $18 per month. We do not get satalyte or cable as we cannot afford it. My husband is a teacher. And I go to the second hand store to get shoes or pants when they can nolonger be patched or repaired (by me). What type of retard would believe that there is an entire country that lives in financial splendor?
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There are adequate warning systems in place, such as............ http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/tracy/advanced/Met/Warning.html http://www.imd.ernet.in/services/cyclone/Cyclone-warning.htm The fact that governments fail to protect their citizens is another matter, life is cheap in these countries, sad but true. That said, look what happened with hurricane Katrina.
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A cyclone is a tropical storm that occurs in the Indian Ocean, much like a hurricane in the Atlantic ocean. It is not a small thing as are tornado's. Myanmar is not even wired for electricity to power a system.
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there are, but most people in poor countries don't watch the weather channel.
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There are warning systems. But little communications and no where for the people to go. They walk and ride bicycles. Even when warned, the people do not or can not escape because there is no where to go.







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Saturday, July 7, 2012

How can we eliminate hunger deaths in Africa

How can we eliminate hunger deaths in Africa?
Majority of the world's poor live in Asia and Africa. In Asia where they have thriving economy,we can at least say India,China and Myanmar can uplift their poor in the coming decade... This is not the case in African countries like Rwanda and Zimbabwe where civil wars and corruption have caused hunger deaths. Are the capitalist countries like England doing anything to save the people from starvation? How many of us ever felt sorry when we see a malnourished child from Zimbabwe that the trillions wasted in wars and SUVs could have been used better? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/US-SUV-ban-may-light-up-lives/articleshow/4714141.cms This article states that any attempt by the poor nations to increase the consumption of resources will release greenhouse gases to an unimaginable level. So are the generation of poor doomed to discomfort and misery? I had complained a lot about the Government when I was unemployed. But how many of us ever felt any guilt when we know for sure there are millions who starve and never complain? To some rude folks down here, remember that most of us cannot tolerate a day without electricity let alone food.
Other - Politics & Government - 14 Answers
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go tell china to feed them
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Why should they exactly?? people die its life, why should we step in when we already have enough problems. Maybe they should sort their own countries out! and we wont be able to save every person, look how many organisations theyre are and its not really proving to help isnt it. like oxfam world vision red cross etc
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I think the world needs to pitch in. Send resources and pipes to bring water from the ocean to sprinkle vegetation for food. Let em grow it and pass it around. Of course that's an animal in itself because where there's food and water there will be wars since to them it'd be their most valuable resource. Some militia would want to control it.
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Send them all your money.
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england alone cannot solve the problem. when the corrupt govts of africa choose to kill their own people, it takes global cooperation to end it. unfortunately, many countries cannot afford the fiscal commitment it would take to drive out the corrupt govts in africa.
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Africa is one of the richest continents on the planet. Diamonds, gold oil, natural gas......... What problems could they possibly have that they didn't create? It's their problem.
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Wait...are you telling us America should go in and stop civil war in Africa? And have you ever seen Africa? It's hard to grow stuff. You can't magically make food appear. The civil wars are for their own countries to stop. People say America should stop policing the world, so I say, let them duke it out in Africa if they don't want us interfering. Saddam Hussein caused tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of deaths and people complain that America is being a big bully going in and overthrowing him. So why should Africa be any different? And if people hate America being the world police, why should England start it up?
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Many nations and organizations are providing the right type of services to help the people of these nations provide for themselves rather than risk destroying their economy by sending them actual food products that they already can provide for themselves. If you send them corn and their main crops are corn, you have just destroyed their economy even more and made them dependent on your support. Any organization be it a government or a nonprofit should be working with the nations to develop a plan of independence through limited physical assistance and provide equipment and training. This is the only way to insure continued benefit.
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First we should eliminate hunger in America for 10 straight years. Once we've done that, we should teach the world how to do it.
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Do they farm there?How about a program that sends them farm machinery?Or farm animals.I saw a program were business women were helping people in Afghanistan start small businesses.Would something like that work here.
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Can't. They simply have more demand than exists supply. Additionally, more often than not those in power in their nations would simply steal and use or sell on the black market any relief supplies distributed. If it were possible I say greenhouse gasses be damned, global warming is nothing more than a democratic political ploy anyway, completely ignoring the facts that the mean global temperature has been holding steady for several years and that several nations who had formerly supported the global warming theory have recently recanted.
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Their local farmers can't compete with free food. So stop sending them food and send contraception and farming equipment.
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For 45 years I heard people talk about starving children in Africa. The more food we send, the more children they produce. Nature says" the strong will survive, the weak shall die". We should do nothing, we cause the problem by helping. They need to learn to be self reliant. If we do anything, it should be to educate them how to provide for their own.
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Sure. Why not? Look in the real world. Decode this lyrics " You'll see " "Reality" "Walk away" "My little runaway" How? With unruly behaviour, self prides, self rudeness, self image of standing idol, self discrimination as people of different races of self racism, self lack of knowledge and total loss of IQ with non-existence rights of original descendants? With the dead Mummy with two stiff hands stretching out creaking and rattling with whiff of rotten stench of flesh still sticking to empty skeleton of skull and bones with two empty eye sockets eerily shrieking and wailing in ghostly kitchen's dialect with ghostly and deadly words with hear-say from the Book of the Dead from the graveyards of different ghostly ancestor's culture and custom who was an Arab as their grandfather when they were tribes of different community ? Wonder why they kick the butts of their own grandfather who taught them the " Do-re-mi" and swap it for the Arab grandfather? With the universal gifts of life from Book of the Living in one new universal language and one speech in living words with the fishing line, hooks and sinkers vital for their own survival in the real world in time? Luke 21.30-36 Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49 Luke 9.25,55-56,60 Luke 8.5-8,10-17 Luke 4.4 Genesis 11.1,3-9 Luke 3.7-9 Exodus 1.5 Revelation 22.13-17 Exodus 20.1-7 Luke 24.44-45,47-48 Exodus 20,.12 Exodus 20.1-18 Matt 22.17-21,32 What do you think?







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Sunday, July 1, 2012

I wish to become a buddhist monk ( theravada ) Where can I go

I wish to become a buddhist monk ( theravada ) Where can I go ?
The only place that is still almost authentic ( Myanmar ) but i may get kill or imprisoned there these days (2007). I cant do this here in america it will never work , im thinking of becoming a hermit monk and live alone in the woods. I must renounce to this world (monk) It means i cant work ( job , earning money ) I cannot cook for myself , i cant have money (possesions) or buy stuff and so on , that is why i cant do it in america But if I have no other choice i will buy or cook lol
Religion & Spirituality - 7 Answers
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Go study in Lhasa, Tibet. Or is that a different form of Buddhism?
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Sri Lanka I guess, check out the Franciscans first though.
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Go to Thailand or Tibet.
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you could search in www.dhamma.org or www.buddhanet.net
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Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu, Sri Lanka is the home country of Theravada (today's Pali canon was recorded in Sri Lanka). You may want to talk to Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi of Bodhi Monastery in NJ, USA. He is an American Buddhist monk of Theravada tradition who is ordained in Sri Lanka. Here is the website about him and the monastery: http://www.bodhimonastery.net/monastery/teachers/bhikkhubodhi.html May you realize Nirvana soonest!
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There are two places to ordain as a Theravada Bhikkhu in America. One is Abhayagiri Forest Monestary, and the other is the Bhavana Society. You can also ordain in Europe and Australia. Then, of course, there are the traditional SE Asian countries of Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma. Check out the ordination resources over at e-sangha: http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=43938 You may also want to talk to some of the monks there, who can answer whatever questions you have. http://www.e-sangha.com
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Sadhu !3x. Australia would be a good place.Ajahn Brahmavamso is a great Theravada monk. http://www.bswa.org






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