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"DON`T LIVE WITHOUT A DREAM FOR IT IS WHERE SUCCESS BEGINS" (BRENDA A. YSAGUIRRE)

A THOUGHT TO GROW ON

HAPPY FATHER`S DAY TO ALL MY STUDENTS WHO ARE NOW DADS

A Thought For The Day

Leo Tolstoy said, It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

A Thought For The Day

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in Uncle Tom's Cabin that, No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I HAVE A DREAM by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

AS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MAKES HIS WAY TO THE CAPITOL FOR HIS INAUGURATION INTO OFFICE FOR A SECOND TERM WE CAN´T STOP TO THINK THAT THIS IS JUST THE RIGHT DAY FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. ITS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY AND THE DREAM HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN STORY! GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS THE PRESIDENT, BARAK OBAMA AND GOD BLESS OUR FIRST LADY AND THE TWO FIRST DAUGHTERS. HISTORY CONTINUES!

“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. “In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’ “But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. “But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. “We cannot walk alone. “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. “We cannot turn back. “There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: ‘For Whites Only.’ We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until ‘justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.’ “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. “And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. “I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. “I have a dream today! “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ‘interposition’ and ‘nullification’ -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. “I have a dream today! “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; ‘and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.’ “This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. “And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: ‘My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!’ And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. “And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”

LEARNING ABOUT OUR FLAWS

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.'

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'

'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water
them.'

'For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

IF YOU LET IT

The glory of the day
The power of the night
Add to the words I want to say,
And place all visions within sight.

We can ask ourselves time and again,
Will the wonders of life ever end?
Will we ever change our plans?
Will we be scared to take life by the hand?

Dreams can sometime cloud that one thought,
That helped us win every battle we ever fought.
But most times we travel with one goal,
And to it we strongly hold.

Life tells us things we need to do,
It tells us about people like me and you,
It takes us on a journey never forgotten,
Until finally we return home again.

So smile when you feel sad,
Control your words when you feel mad.
Because once done things can never be the same,
So the highest star must always be your aim.

For the power of the night
Can always offer you its´ light.
And the dawn of each new day,
Can guide everything you say,
IF YOU LET IT!


Brenda A.Ysaguirre
Copyright September 11th, 2011

GREGOR MENDEL

TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE 189TH BIRTHDAY OF THIS GREAT SCIENTIST. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW ABOUT HIM, I HAVE INSERTED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Gregor Mendel, who is known as the "father of modern genetics", was inspired by both his professors at the University of Olomouc (i.e. Friedrich Franz & Johann Karl Nestler) and his colleagues at the monastery (i.e. Franz Diebl) to study variation in plants, and he conducted his study in the monastery's two hectare experimental garden, which was originally planted by the abbot Napp in 1830. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants (i.e., Pisum sativum). This study showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant. His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.
Mendel did read his paper, Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden (Experiments on Plant Hybridization), at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brünn in Moravia in 1865. It was received favorably and generated reports in several local newspapers. When Mendel's paper was published in 1866 in Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins Brünn, it was seen as essentially about hybridization rather than inheritance and had little impact and was cited about three times over the next thirty-five years. (Notably, Charles Darwin was unaware of Mendel's paper, according to Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man.) His paper was criticized at the time, but is now considered a seminal work.

After Mendel completed his work with peas, he turned to experimenting with honeybees, in order to extend his work to animals. He produced a hybrid strain (so vicious they were destroyed), but failed to generate a clear picture of their heredity because of the difficulties in controlling mating behaviours of queen bees. He also described novel plant species, and these are denoted with the botanical author abbreviation "Mendel".
After he was elevated as abbot in 1868, his scientific work largely ended, as Mendel became consumed with his increased administrative responsibilities, especially a dispute with the civil government over their attempt to impose special taxes on religious institutions. At first Mendel's work was rejected, and it was not widely accepted until after he died. At that time most biologists held the idea of blending inheritance, and Charles Darwin's efforts to explain inheritance through a theory of pangenesis were unsuccessful. Mendel's ideas were rediscovered in the early twentieth century, and in the 1930s and 1940s the modern synthesis combined Mendelian genetics with Darwin's theory of natural selection.
Mendel died on January 6, 1884, at age 61, in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), from chronic nephritis. Czech composer Leoš Janáček played the organ at his funeral. After his death, the succeeding abbot burned all papers in Mendel's collection, to mark an end to the disputes over taxation.

HISTORICAL PROPHECIES on december 12, 2012 PART 2

What seems inevitable is that the December 21, 2012 is hosting an unusual event: the sun at winter solstice will be aligned at the ecuator of the Milky Way, an event that only happens every 26,000 years and that mankind will live for the first time in 2012. It is not clear that this event will have consequences on Earth. The pessimists believe that it could produce a shift of the poles, but, apart from speculations, the only thing proven is that the last time this alignment occurred Cro-Magnon man led to the Neanderthals.

Lo que parece inevitable es que el 21 de diciembre de 2012 tendrá lugar un hecho inusitado: el Sol en solsticio de invierno se alineará en el ecuador de la Vía Láctea, un acontecimiento que sólo ocurre cada 26,000 años y que la humanidad vivirá por primera vez en 2012. Aún se desconocen las consecuencias que este acontecimiento tendrá sobre la Tierra. Los más pesimistas creen que podría producir un desplazamiento de los polos, pero, al margen de elucubraciones, lo único demostrado es que la última vez que se produjo esta alineación el hombre de Cromagnon dio paso a los Neandertales.

Tsunami hits Japan

Across the Pacific, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in the island’s history and a tsunami that it unleashed in the aftershocks compounded the problems. The epicenter of the main quake was about two hundred and thirty miles northeast of Tokyo. At last count there were several hundred people confirmed dead but the actual death toll is expected to rise to as high as five thousand. The eight point nine magnitude earthquake, which was centered near the east coast of Japan, caused the formation of thirty foot walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfed entire towns, and dragged houses onto highways. Buildings collapsed by the score, and numerous fires were ignited, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced. In Belize, the gripping news has Japanese nationals worried about families back home, especially because communication with their loved ones has been lost. Meanwhile, an all-day event at the IT-Vet on Freetown road to observe Japan Day on Saturday, March nineteenth has taken on a whole new purpose. The cultural fest will now serve to not only expose Japanese culture and cuisine but also to raise funds for those affected.

GREETINGS FOR 2011 and A JOKE TO KEEP US HAPPY

I know I have been away for almost a year from this blog but had gotten into being on facebook and farmville to the point of no return. hehehehehe. But I will try to write my blogs again and hope you will come and read them from time to time.

Today I begin by sharing a joke I read with you.


Filling in for Saint Peter
A famous professor of surgery died and went to heaven. At the pearly gate he was asked by the gatekeeper: 'Have you ever committed a sin you truly regret?'

'Yes,' the professor answered. 'When I was a young candidate at the hospital of Saint Lucas, we played soccer against at team from the Community Hospital, and I scored a goal, which was off-side. But the referee did not see it so, and the goal won us the match. I regret that now.'

'Well,' said the gatekeeper. 'That is a very minor sin. You may enter.'

'Thank you very much, Saint Peter,' the professor answered.

'I am not Saint Peter,' said the gatekeeper. 'He is having his lunchbreak. I am Saint Lucas.'

INTERESTING FACTS YOU CAN LEARN FROM

Why were the Greeks fond of majoram?
Ancient Greeks wove marjoram into funeral wreaths and put them on the graves of loved ones. The wreaths served as prayers for the happiness of the deceased in a future life.


Why did Cal's fur piece purr?
President Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth U.S. president, liked cats and would often walk around the office with his yellow cat draped over his shoulders like a fur piece.


Why did Shirley need to remain sober?
When 7-year-old Shirley Temple's life was insured with Lloyd's, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.


Do you know what your drugs can do to you?
Per 1999 medical data, an alarming 2 million people are hospitalized and as many as 140,000 die each year from side effects or reactions to prescription drugs.

How much apple pie was served at Yale?
By the eighteenth century, apple pie had become so popular a dessert in America that Yale College served it every night at supper, and did so for more than a century.

How smart are women in our society??

"LA MUJER ES MAS INTELIGENTE, PRUEBA DE ELLO ES QUE NOS HIZO CREER JUSTAMENTE LO CONTRARIO" (ABEL DESESTRESS)

How many men do you see in my photograph? These are primary school teachers who were having a presentation in December of 2008. See, what I am aiming at is that more INTELLIGENT WOMAN are learning and teaching. More are getting smarter!!! hahaha. Like Harry Belafonte´s song THE WOMAN IS MUCH SMARTER!!! THAT´S RIGHT!!!

Sorry guys, WOMEN RULE!!

Assumptions in choosing a mate challenged

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (UPI) -- A Scottish study challenges longstanding expectations that men are promiscuous and women tend to be more particular when it comes to choosing a mate. Lead study author Dr. Gillian R. Brown of the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews said that in 1948, Angus J. Bateman's famous studies in fruit flies showed that males exhibit greater variance in mating success -- defined as the number of sexual partners -- and in reproductive success -- the number of offspring -- when compared to females. "The conventional view of promiscuous, undiscriminating males and coy, choosy females has also been applied to our own species," Brown said in a statement. To test one of Bateman's assumptions, Brown and colleagues collated data on the variance in male and female reproductive success in 18 human populations. While male reproductive success varied more than female reproductive success overall, huge variability was found between populations. For instance, in monogamous societies, variances in male and female reproductive success were very similar. The study, published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, said recent advances in evolutionary theory suggest that factors such as sex-biased mortality, sex-ratio, population density and variation in mate quality, are likely to impact mating behavior in humans.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International

BET YOU DIDN´T KNOW THIS...

Mosquitoes whine to attract mates

MEDWAY, England (UPI) -- Mosquitoes whine to attract a mate of the correct species, said scientists in Britain who study the maddening sound made by the insects. Scientists at the University of Greenwich, Medway, England, found male and female mosquitoes depend on "singing" in harmony to find each other, researcher Gabriella Gibson wrote in a recent issue of the journal Current Biology. The tones are produced, and varied, based on the frequency of their wings beating in flight. Mosquito species have a complex range of genetic diversity that enables them to adapt to myriad habitats, she said. For example, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito in Burkino Faso has seven species and several chromosomal forms, Gibson said. By varying their tones to attract the correct mate, mosquitoes are able to reproductively isolate themselves and maintain their genetic diversity while traveling in swarms that may contain several species, Gibson said. Copyright 2010 by United Press International