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Best E-mails of the Week 12/08/02
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.
A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil -- he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,
resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
And the other is good -- he is joy, peace, love , hope, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
This same fight is going on inside you -- and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a
minute and then asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
So when you wake up, say "Good morning Lord!" not "Good Lord! morning."
At Thanksgiving at Tom and Ann's in Virginia we talked about the Mock Apple Pie
mom made for us all last month. I couldn't believe there were no apples in it!
Here is the recipe from the Kraft Food web site.
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Here is a letter Raf is sending to Poland, translated for us using the Polish alphabet characters:
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Środa, 27 listopada, 2002
Droga Elu, Piotrze, Marto i Iwono, Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Ciągle jestem w szkole hotelarskiej i zdobywam dużo pożytecznej wiedzy. Lubię te zajęcia i jestem zadowolony z warunków mojego stypendium. Podczas pierwszego trymestru pracowałem w hotelu niedaleko mojej szkoły. Zajmowałem się różnymi rzeczami, byłem recepcjonistą, kelnerem, kucharzem i takie doświadczenie powinno mi się później przydać. U nas aktualnie pada śnieg i mamy go już jakieś 6 cali. W Polsce pewne też pada i jest równie zimno. Moja dziewczyna, Christina, właśnie pojechała do domu na Święto Dziękczynienia. Ona lubi swoją szkołę i radzi sobie w niej całkiem dobrze. Ja za kilka dni wracam na dwa tygodnie do swojej szkoły, a później znowu jadę do domu na Boże Narodzenie. Dziękuję za zdjęcia, które przysłałaś. Dzieci wyglądają na nich przeuroczo. Mam nadzieję, że wszyscy macie się dobrze i że Piotr zdobędzie w końcu ten samochód i nie będzie musiał jeździć rowerem w zimie. Jeszcze raz życzę Wam Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Pozdrawiam serdecznie, Rafael
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Signs of the Times (not edited for content)
(and, like this Best Emails web site, a little bit Over The Top and Edgy)
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dah18/america/
Political news
>The Democratic National Committee is currently polling Americans through
>the Internet to determine the electibility of Hillary Clinton for the
>presidency of the United States in 2004. If you would like to show your
>support for Hillary and encourage her to run for President of the United
>States in 2004 please click the link below.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kinho/youare.swf
And the reason Noah saved the woodpecker?
Trivia corner:
1) Who knows where the Captain Marvel word SHAZAM comes from? This is what
he said each time he turned into Captain Marvel. The winner of this radio contest to describe this
word won front row tickets to a concert featuring my favorite artist now - singer Avril Lavigne.
2) Here is a picture of the statue "The Thinker" at Columbia University. Was this used for the
old TV show Dobie Gillis featuring Maynard G. Crebbs (the G stands for Walter, and played by
Bob Denver who later played Gilligan)? Is this show ever on TV anymore?
(Mom and Dad gave me a smaller statue as a graduation gift a quarter century ago.)
I was there Friday to help judge the engineering student presentations of new motorcycle designs.
They are not all posted yet, but see other graphics projects from their computer lab at
the E1102 gallery at Gateway Lab: http://poblano.cc.columbia.edu/gallery/. (When I took a post grad
course there in 1982 about how you could use computers to generate engineering drawings,
none of us dreamed we'd all be doing it in now on our home based PC's!)
After the motorcycle presentations I attended another meeting, and then cocktails and dinner.
I chatted with Leslie Robertson, who designed the world trade center's twin towers. He and I discussed
the floor trusses and the mechanical equipment room below the south tower crash floors without trusses.
(I feel the Nova TV series video describing the failure sequence is nonsense.)
The Port Authority's chief engineer was also there, but I spared him from my theories :)
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motorcycle design presentations for possible publication in the alumni
magazine: The
Columbia engineering students presented their innovative designs for
motorcycles of the future at the Botwinick Gateway Lab on December 5, 6 and
9, 2002. They were graded according to established planning, design, project
organization and marketing criteria. As one of the judges, I stated at the
break that if these young gentlemen and ladies dressed in business suits are
only 18 and 19 year old freshmen, I can't imagine the presentations they
will give as seniors! What great communicators they were! Fellow judge vice
dean Morton Friedman agreed.
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Remember that doing the assigned reading in college is like trying to drink from a fire hose.
For those of us with more time who want to read for five minutes each day, try
Speaking of talented college students, congrats Raf for making the Dean's list this past term. Well done!
See you at Christmas son.
Piotrze
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