MooPig On-Line Education Department :: World of Opportunity

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Published on Aug 1, 2012
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them. Bio:
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Caught in Boothbay Harbor

Boothbay Harbor
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 22, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture, Oil on Canvas, by Patrick Darnell]

Giant Lobster Dropped Off At Maine Aquarium - Portland News Story - WMTW Portland:

WEST BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine -- The Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor says it has received a giant lobster weighing 27 pounds.
Aquarium officials said the lobster was brought in on Monday by a member of the Maine Marine Patrol.
They believe a shrimp dragger accidentally caught the lobster. Aquarium officials are still trying to figure out the exact details.
The lobster is the largest one ever brought to the aquarium.

Read more: http://www.wmtw.com/news/30516567/detail.html#ixzz1nAPkDDz5

'via Blog this'

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http://moopigpaint.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html
http://www.wmtw.com/r/30516567/detail.html

One Tentacle alone does not a Squid make :: PART TWO

This is an unexpected continuation of that blog post from Sunday, February 22, 2009 :: "One Tentacle alone does not a Squid make"
by Pat Darnell  |  June 19, 2011  |  Bryan TX  |  [LINK]

A Quick Review:

EXCERPTS |  " ... Either by rational accident or by irrational accidents while someone is reading the phone book, I think maybe every sort of civilization has had its way with the American Continents, and all of those constituents have screwed up miserably.

" ...Truth is that we are afraid of sea monsters. If we find a giant squid, we want to cut off all but one of its tentacles. Because each group coming here is like a squid with one tentacle: it has been a weak argument for survival. What does that mean? the groups who are here are cut off from their homes, cultures, and siblings. Families follow traditions that they just plain fantasize is something they do in their old country's. Fact is that no second generation American has any idea what their parents' hell is all about. Mexican, Italian, Blacks, Polish, Ukrainian, Swedes, all have the same rates of cultural obsolescence and replicate fade, once the children hurry as far away, from their home towns, as possible.

" ... Someone has made discovery of a theory that Chinese landed on the west coast of North America 71 or so years before Columbus hit ground on the Eastern seaboard. A large "barge-like" Chinese ship built and perfected back then blew off course and "maybe landed on not specified, archaeologists are now trying to dig up Chinese ship-building wood they think is buried in sand dunes. (P.D.) ... "

It is now June 2011 and here is the UPDATE: It's All or Nothing according to "Feng Shui" !!!
Retrieved from email  |  Source Unknown

The Year 2011, is the year of Feng Shui and Luck, which I wish for you all.



The month of July this year has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This combination arrives only once every 623 years. The Chinese call this phenomenon “The Sacs of money” .



If you pass on this message, Chinese tradition says you will receive money in 5 days. And according to Feng Shui, those who do not pass on this message will have financial problems for the rest of the year.



This year is a bit special. We will have 4 unusual dates:

1/1/11, 11/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/11/11

...and that is not all.



Take the last two digits of the year of your birth and the age you will have or have this year, add them, and the sum for everyone is 111 !

Ex: 63 + 48 = 111



This year is the Year of Money and Wealth. The month of October will have 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays ! This combination arrives only once every 823 years ! These years are called the years of Gain.



The proverb says that if you pass on this message to 8 good friends you will discover money in the next 4 days ! And the rule of Feng Shui also says that if you do not you will receive nothing !



This is all very mysterious - but perhaps it is worth the try !!









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http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-tentacle-does-not-squid-make.html

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We Pause this Blog for an Ultimate Parody: "It's the Castaway Economy"

It's not ham, its not the cabinet, not the oil and not Osama
No, not those...
Not bacon, cheese, hot dogs... not green eggs and ham
not T-shirts or chewing gum
or bands on the run...
Nothing about twelve stepping sober addicts...
not about ALANON;
It has to do with GDP
and poorly conceived
foundation for financial sham
so keep an eye out
for Greenspan and O'bam

by Pat Darnell





“This is unquestionably the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s”
Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
By bsetser
So writes Martin Wolf. And despite some signs of hope this morning, he is certainly right.

The IMF’s latest global forecast leaves no doubt on this point. The IMF should be commended for dropping its usually measured language when circumstances, unfortunately, call for candid, vigorous prose. The IMF’s note for the G-20:

“The prolonged financial crisis has battered global activity beyond what was previously anticipated. Global GDP is estimated to have fallen by an unprecedented 5% in the fourth quarter (annualized), led by the advanced economies, which contracted by 7%. GDP declined by around 6% in both the United States and Europe, while it plummeted at a post-war record of 13% in Japan. Growth also plunged across a broad swath of emerging economies … against this backdrop, global activity is expected to contract in 2009 for the first time in 60 years.” (emphasis added)

Both the IMF and World Bank are now forecasting an outright fall in global output in 2009, with a larger contraction than previously forecast in the advanced economies and sharply lower expected growth in the emerging world. I am not sure that even Nouriel Roubini was forecasting an outright fall in global output a year ago. Anything below 2% is generally considered a global recession.
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Suggested Reading:

The Castaway
by William Cowper
[Retrieved HERE]

Obscurest night involved the sky,
The Atlantic billows roared,
When such a destined wretch as I,
Washed headlong from on board,
Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
His floating home for ever left.

No braver chief could Albion boast
Than he with whom he went,
Nor ever ship left Albion's coast,
With warmer wishes sent.
He loved them both, but both in vain,
Nor him beheld, nor her again.

Not long beneath the whelming brine,
Expert to swim, he lay;
Nor soon he felt his strength decline,
Or courage die away;
But waged with death a lasting strife,
Supported by despair of life.

He shouted: nor his friends had failed
To check the vessel's course,
But so the furious blast prevailed,
That, pitiless perforce,
They left their outcast mate behind,
And scudded still before the wind.

Some succour yet they could afford;
And, such as storms allow,
The cask, the coop, the floated cord,
Delayed not to bestow.
But he (they knew) nor ship, nor shore,
Whate'er they gave, should visit more.

Nor, cruel as it seemed, could he
Their haste himself condemn,
Aware that flight, in such a sea,
Alone could rescue them;
Yet bitter felt it still to die
Deserted, and his friends so nigh.

He long survives, who lives an hour
In ocean, self-upheld;
And so long he, with unspent power,
His destiny repelled;
And ever, as the minutes flew,
Entreated help, or cried - Adieu!

At length, his transient respite past,
His comrades, who before
Had heard his voice in every blast,
Could catch the sound no more.
For then, by toil subdued, he drank
The stifling wave, and then he sank.

No poet wept him: but the page
Of narrative sincere,
That tells his name, his worth, his age,
Is wet with Anson's tear.
And tears by bards or heroes shed
Alike immortalize the dead.

I therefore purpose not, or dream,
Descanting on his fate,
To give the melancholy theme
A more enduring date:
But misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.

No voice divine the storm allayed,
No light propitious shone;
When, snatched from all effectual aid,
We perished, each alone:
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.


William Cowper | Classic Poems
[ The Castaway ] [ Epitaph on a Hare ] [ Light shining out of darkness ] [ The Poplar-Field ]

One Tentacle alone does not a Squid make

News Bulletin:
Chinese may have landed on West Coast 70 years before Columbus waded ashore in the East...

PHOTO: Crowning Cow; Hidden Pig

HHuhn~hn!? *[sound like Scooby Doo uttering disbelief]

...Is that therefore 1492 minus 71 years, comes to plus or minus a few Brown Water Rats and Yellow Fire Geese, and Blackened Water Buffalo, 1421?

2009 Year of the Ox -- or, Brown Cow
by Pat Darnell

Our Pacific Rim neighbors' year begins on 1/26/2009, it is the first Day of the Year of the Ox. Last year was the year of the Rat, up until 1/25/2009. MooPig "Bean Counter Department" officially goes on record today saying: "It's tunnel vision that makes us all crazy, nevertheless."

Our 2009 is year 4706 in China's calendar and time zone. Some times Ox is referred to Brown Cow. It is not complicated to count days, and moon cycles as the Chinese do. What is improbable and complicated is to try to understand what Chinese do with this information, turning everything into anamorphic incarnate personified beings. For instance this is description of last year by Chinese standard:

2008 was a very special year. Earthquake, Flood, Cyclone, Tornado, Fire, Oil, War, Housing problems, Global Financial Crisis have happened in 2008. ... see articles "Predictable Roller Coaster Life in 2008 Brown Rat Year."

The Year 2009 (Brown Cow) is the 4706th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China).

The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4706th year on February 4th, 2009. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Brown Cow is the 26th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4705 = (60 *78) + 26, therefore this Brown Cow Year is the 4706th Chinese Year.

Did you get all that? Wood Fire Earth Metal Water... Chinese days and such are combination of these elemental functionaries, animated with animal traits.... so that it was:

2008 Male Brown Rat. Brown is Earth and Rat is Water. Basically, It's favorable for Lucky Element Earth or Water people.
But, we have to pay attention that Rat will turn into Earth when it meets Cow... [on January 25, 2009?]

...and repeated by for thousands of years throughout Chinese generations. Chinese attach their lives, routines and inexplicable occurrences to the passing of days as a Norwegian Brown Rat looking for someone's abode to invade, or as an Ox -- Brown Cow in its daily adventure of Herding, Grazing, Mating, Wallowing?

Hey, don't we do some of that too in USA today?

Okay that's all great, truly authentic. But one might approach this in several ways.

• One important way, we could try to memorize all the little Chinese pictographs, and complicate this until it is mind boggling.
• Or, two, we can realize that Chinese are people like us, and they go through daily tribulations, trials, successions just as do we. Chinese can be blown off course, just like any Saxon, or Italian...

I choose reason Two; Why?
Calendars are math. Rudimentary numbers help in many ways, true. So let me repeat a "thing" I heard the other day.

Someone has made discovery of a theory that Chinese landed on the west coast of North America 71 or so years before Columbus hit ground on the Eastern seaboard. A large "barge-like" Chinese ship built and perfected back then blew off course and "maybe landed on not specified, archaeologists are now trying to dig up Chinese ship-building wood they think is buried in sand dunes.

Artifacts will prove the earlier landing of China on North America?

HHUH~N!? *[sound like Scooby Doo uttering disbelief]

Sure it will. why not?Is that therefore 1492 minus 71 years, comes to plus or minus a few Brown Water Rats and Yellow Fire Geese, and Blackened Water Buffalo, 1421?

Do you know what early unwitting Chinese barge sailors probably found? Me neither. But I suppose the ship's Coxswain turned to the Bos'un and whispered something like: "Now we have the Japanese surrounded..."

What it amounts to for this writer is that if I believe what I heard in grammar school about Europeans settling and making a national government so we can have National Holidays and indoor Ice Hockey. Now I think then I will believe Chinese landed on the West coast and developed animal deity worshiping tribes. I believe!

Either by rational accident or by irrational accidents while someone is reading the phone book, I think maybe every sort of civilization has had its way with the American Continents, and all of those constituents have screwed up miserably.

I think sailing ships have crash landed here from every country, planet and garden, including Siam. Siamese did so in the year of the Water Goose Siam.... '52

Spainiards followed the Queen's money over here, performed genocide on indigenous tribes, and created the Mexican race; half Spaniard, half Indian.

Flooding waves of Granada-ians come to New Spain and then from Mexico ever northward.

Truth is that we are afraid of sea monsters. If we find a giant squid, we want to cut off all but one of its tentacles. Because each group coming here is like a squid with one tentacle: it has been a weak argument for survival. What does that mean? the groups who are here are cut off from their homes, cultures, and siblings. Families follow traditions that they just plain fantasize is something they do in their old country's. Fact is that no second generation American has any idea what their parents' hell is all about. Mexican, Italian, Blacks, Polish, Ukrainian, Swedes, all have the same rates of cultural obsolescence and replicate fade, once the children hurry as far away, from their home towns, as possible.

Viewing civilization with tunnel vision is the root problem.

It is fashionable, Genome mapping will turn out to be our most important tool to oust our biggest competition, and make a One World Blah-blah.

I predict in this year of the Brown Cow -- headed by Bill Clinton, all the biggest discoveries will be used to move our squid with one tentacle into the first family of world government.

Welcome! MooPig greets you in our special Year 2009 of the Tentacly Challenged Squid, hungry fellow who would eat the 4706 Brown Cow if it could get its tentacle on him. You 'll see as we move on through... the haze.

And don't miss -- Special Olympics trials "Squid meets Brown Cow" at the Nest... Beijing, 2009.

Epilogue:
Now that you have read to this point. You say: "What was that all about?"

I am trying to explain why One World government, money and taxes will never work out. That's all. Each group consumes the other... that is life.

Hey, America, We failed yet again to put a Woman in the White House!

I still don't get it about Race, Gender or Sexual Orientation. Nothing ever gets done, it remains a bunch of rhetoric... one year later:

[SOURCE]
October 4, 2007 Feminist Symposium: “The F Word” Angela Oh @ 3:59 pm

The F Word is an all-day symposium being held Friday, October 26 at the Alexander Library Teleconference Room. Registration is required, free and open to all disciplines.

Feminism in the visual arts remains as fiercely contested today as it was thirty-five years ago. Despite recent backlash against feminist concerns and even an atmosphere of anti-feminism among younger scholars, in terms of both artistic representation and criticism, feminism remains highly relevant. The legacy of 2nd generation feminism has been explored in several recent art historical conferences. This symposium seeks to extend this investigation by examining how feminism currently informs a broad range of discourse within the visual arts. We hope to create a view of feminism that acknowledges society’s systematic exclusion of minorities as well as women. This perspective will dispel stereotypical portrayals of feminists while also examining feminism’s relationship to institutional critique, queer theory, and issues of race, class, and gender. These issues are distilled in the subjects of body, space, and performance, which are the three panels that comprise our symposium. We aim both to reaffirm and re-appraise the state of feminism today and its direction for the future. Our title invokes the boat-rocking, bold attitudes of our 2nd generation feminist forbearers, whose spirit informs and inspires this process of new discovery. (PDarnell. 7 Nov 2008; Retrieved HERE; for critical review)