12/29/2014
day before yesterday at stoneridge mall exchanging uniqlo coat for father and going to macy via pink victoria secret and pink shop about to get thanh and la^m formerly from university of michigan ann arbor some christmas gift red ho^`ng turtle neck or black/blue drooping/draping foldover neck but we went home instead … long haired jesus dudes and japanese people and india indian people and seniors on wheelchairs and baby on strollers and tattooed camouflagged-wearing people on wheelchairs and black people on wheelchairs … : pink j j sakurai atomic text become iphone ios and windows and linux and android computer operating systems …
let the “average” undisturbed [“eternal”] eigen-state be | n > and this would correspond to the actual code of a software subroutine or a software object … to create say a “window” on the computer screen … or would correspond to vishnu [maintaining to last an eternity]…
there would correspond to this eigen-state “lowering” and “raising” operators
a- | n > = | n – 1 >
a+ | n > = | n + 1 >
which would correspond to shiva [si? va? ~ curse ~ chu: c.f. machu pichu] or brahma respectively or to the subroutine code or the object method code respectively that, say, undraws/masks/hides/offscreens or draws/unmasks/shows/onscreens respectively [generally, “renders/updates/refreshes -1” or “renders/updates/refreshes +1” where “renders” is courtesy of all the cooking show on pbs public and regular television] the window on the screen …
the actual window on the screen itself in contrast to the actual subroutine/object-method code that draws the window on screen might correspond to something thus,
or or
where | A > = a1 | application program world > + a2 | monitor screen world > + a3 | human world > + … and | B > = b1 | application program world > + b2 | monitor screen world > + b3 | human world > + … … etc. …
[which might/would represent “maskings” or “crossings” or “moire patterns” or “expectation values” between different worlds e.g. code world, computer monitor screen world, application program world, internet world, human world, etc.]
where the “expectation value” signifies an “observable” signifies a “masking” [or an “average” of “unobservables”; vice versa, “unobservables” are sort of an “average”/”expectation” of “observables” being “dual”/”duality” transforms such as fourier transforms] or a “crossing” or a “moire patterning” as with the pendulum waves of “un-observables” … which “un-observables” are “eternal”, neither uncreated nor created …: the “code” world is different/distinct from and therefore “unobservable” from the visible computer monitor screen world or human computer user world and vice versa the visible computer monitor screen world or human computer user world is “unobservable” from the “code” world … and everything is [neither uncreated nor created; is “conserved”] “eternal” in their own world …
from previous note “12.13.2014 details” …:
“The Buddha teaches that all conformations are transient, that all conformations are subject to sorrow, that all conformations are lacking a self. How then can there be Nirvana, a state of eternal bliss?”‘
And the Blessed One, this connection, on that occasion, breathed forth this solemn utterance: “There is, O monks, a state where there is neither earth, nor water, nor heat, nor air; neither infinity of space nor infinity of consciousness, nor nothingness, nor perception nor non-perception; neither this world nor that world, neither sun nor moon. It is the uncreate. That O monks, I term neither coming nor going nor standing; neither death nor birth. It is without stability [sic: ?instability?], without change; it is the eternal which never originates and never passes away. There is the end of sorrow.
“It is hard to realize the essential, the truth is not easily perceived; desire is mastered by him who knows, and to him who sees aright all things are naught. There is, O monks, an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. Were there not, O monks, this unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, there would be no escape from the world of the born, originated, created, formed. Since, O monks, there is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated and unformed, therefore is there an escape from the born, originated, created, formed.”
from http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg27.htm
in previous notes it is suggested that this nibbana formless crutchless thing is sort of a mathematical “average” [note “nyquist revisited”: “average” ~ “mathematical limit”] of real things that might or might not coincide with a real thing [for example, the “average” of 1 and 2 and 3 is (1 + 2 + 3) / 3 = 2 so that “2” is the “average” that happens to coincide with one of the “2” that goes in the sum to find the “average” … in this case mathematical “limit” of some series/sequence happens to exist …
] … in other notes the uncreated is refered to as the zero-footprint path …
anyway, the Noble Truths say that (1) suffering exists such as Ecclesiastes or Book of Job sufferings (2) wellness exists such as Ecclesiastes conclusion that despite vanities of vanities there is a God who expects goodness or Book of Job God from the cloud reprimanding Job’s friend for wrong “expectations” and remunerating Job for right “expectations”: in other words, the pain/suffering/wrong-expectation is there to steer one toward pleasure/wellness/right-expectation … one is continuously steered via “some are born into it; some earn/learn/achieve/love/will/dream/wish/pray/aim/steer for it; some have it thrust upon” toward “it”, toward the “right” “expectation” … the pain/suffering is like a “wall” whose hardness steers one away from the “wall” … and one learns by trial and error first hand or by pass-down second-hand knowledge from others if one believes in such knowledge where the “walls” are or what the “right” “expectation” is … thus it might or might not convince you the reader [
told dave lowe simon garfunkel song says people would rather blindly obey/observe traffic light signals which become their “God”– red means stop yellow means slow down green means go — than obey/observe or at least try their best to observe, even if the Noble Truth means they might fall short of, the ten commandments, the “God” of Moses … for example because they don’t believe that words used in jest might very well be true somewhere in time somewhere in the space-time continuum … c.f. kathy matea song what never happens was never meant to be at that juncture in space-time because it fails to fulfill “muo^n loa`i ddu+o+.c bi`nh thu+o+`ng so^’ng la^u; everyone live well and long” at that juncture of space-time…
I know, I know you must follow the sun
Wherever it leads
But remember
If you should fall short of your desires
Remember life holds for you one guarantee
You’ll always have me
And if you should miss my lovin
One of these old days
If you should ever miss the arms
That used to hold you so close, or the lips
That used to touch you so tenderly
Just remember what I told you
The day I set you free
Ain’t no mountain high enough
Ain’t no valley low enough
Ain’t no river wild enough
To keep me from you
from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dianaross/aintnomountainhighenough.html
]
“in their heart” is the same as “in the spirit of their heart”
BUDDHIST PARABLES
TRANSLATED
FROM THE ORIGINAL PALI
BY
EUGENE WATSON BURLINGAME
FELLOW OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND~SdENCES
LECTURER IN PALI (1917-19X8) AT YALE UNIVERSITY
Nhạc cảnh Chum Vàng cũng giống như nhạc cảnh Thằng Bờm, là một chuyện cổ tích bình dân do tôi phóng tác.
…Có một đôi vợ chồng nghèo, làm nghề nông, suốt đời vất vả, lam lũ. Một hôm, chồng ra ruộng khoai (hay ruộng lúa), đang (cầy sâu hay) cuốc bẫm thì đào được một cái chum. Mở nắp chum ra, thấy chum đựng đầy vàng bạc châu báu. Người chồng bèn đậy nắp chum lại rồi để chum bên bờ ruộng. Về nhà khoe vợ là mình đào được cái chum vàng. Vợ hỏi :
— Của trời cho, sao không khiêng chum vàng về ? Để đó, người ta khiêng đi còn gì ?
Chồng đáp :
— Nếu thật sự là của trời cho, thì tự nhiên chum vàng sẽ về nhà, chẳng đứa nào lấy được !
Đang lúc vợ chồng trò chuyện thì có hai thằng kẻ trộm ngồi rình ở ngoài cửa (hay dưới gầm giường), chúng nó nghe hết cả. Hai thằng chạy ra bờ ruộng thì quả nhiên thấy cái chum nằm đó. Chúng vội vàng khiêng cái chum về nhà và khi mở nắp chum ra thì chẳng thấy vàng bạc đâu cả, chỉ thấy trong chum toàn là rắn, rết ! Chúng sợ quá đem chum giấu ở một nơi.
Sáng hôm sau, người chồng ra ruộng thì thấy mất cái chum. Khi về nhà, vợ hỏi :
— Chum đâu ?
Chồng đáp :
— Trời lấy lại chum vàng rồi !
Hai kẻ trộm lại đã ngồi rình và nghe nói vậy, chúng bực quá, chạy đi khiêng cái chum đặt lại chỗ cũ, cho vợ chồng này sẽ bị rắn cắn.
Hôm sau, chồng ra ruộng lại thấy cái chum, về nhà khoe vợ :
— Trời cho lại cái chum vàng rồi.
Vợ bảo :
–Thế sao không khiêng về ?
Chồng đáp :
— Trời đã cho lại cái chum thì chum sẽ về nhà mình cho mà xem.
Hai thằng kẻ trộm lại cũng ngồi rình và nghe nói vậy, chúng tức quá chạy đi khiêng cái chum đặt ngay trước sân nhà, cho vợ chồng này chết vì rắn cắn. Sáng hôm sau, vừa mở cửa ra sân thấy cái chum vàng nằm chình ình ngay đó, chồng bảo vợ :
— Thấy chưa ? Ta nói có sai đâu ? Trời đã cho thì tự nhiên cái chum vàng sẽ bò về tận nhà mình !
Grasp the Scriptures aright.
Maj jhima i. 133-134.
“Grasped wrongly,” said the Buddha on a certain occasion, “the Scrip-
tures conduce to hurt and harm.”
It is precisely as if a man, wanting a water-snake, hunting a
water-snake, searching for a water-snake, were to see a big water-
snake and were to grasp it by the body or by the tail, and that
water-snake were to turn on him and were to bite him on the hand
or on the arm or on some other major or minor member of the
body, and as a result of this he were to incur death or mortal pain.
And why .” Because he wrongly grasped the water-snake.
“Precisely so,” said the Buddha, “the Scriptures, wrongly grasped,
conduce to hurt and harm.”
“On the other hand,” said the Buddha, “the Scriptures, rightly
grasped, conduce to weal and welfare.”
It is precisely as if a man, wanting a water-snake, hunting a
water-snake, searching for a water-snake, were to see a big water-
snake, and with a goat’s foot, with a stick, were to hold it down,
were to hold it down firmly; and with the goat’s foot, with the
186 Behold the Fruit of Faith! [Chap. X.
stick, holding it down, holding it down firmly, were to grasp it by
the neck, were to grasp it firmly ; — no matter how much that water-
snake were to wrap its coils about that man’s hand or arm or
other major or minor member of his body, nevertheless, as a re-
sult of that man’s firm grasp, he would incur neither death nor
mortal pain. And why.” Because he rightly grasped the water-
snake.
“Precisely so,” said the Buddha, “the Scriptures, rightly grasped,
conduce to weal and welfare.”
thought dao and to^nan are both man and sun why he asked what to^nan bakes for christmas like a woman … sugar gingerbread … sweet ~ ngo.t where ngo. ~ high noon …: see da tra(‘ng vo^~ bi` ba.ch below …
when you are told that the “spirit” [c.f previous notes “ghosts”, “specs”, “spies”] or the “right” “expectation” [or the “end result”] of everything is “muo^n loa`i ddu+o+.c bi`nh thu+o+`ng so^’ng la^u [hoa`i hoa`i ma~i ma~i vi~nh vie^~n]; everyone live well and long [neither uncreated nor created; eternally]” and, even if the Noble Truth means one might fail, unconsciously or consciously, … jehovah witness harangueing with their various well-known pictorial portraits/illustration of paradise on earth … parable 61 “the snake” in eugene watson burlinggame’s collection of buddhist parable seems the very exact truye^.n co^? nu+o+’c nam “ca’i chum va`ng” … one ought to live or to express–not the happenings recorded in the bible–but the “spirit” of the bible which is “eternal existence” for everyone which is “you’re ok/well; i’m ok/well” which is “muo^n loa`i ddu+o+.c bi`nh thu+o+`ng so^’ng la^u [hoa`i hoa`i ma~i ma~i vi~nh vie^~n]; everyone live well and long [neither uncreated nor created; eternally]” …
we took thanh and la^m [chrismas present: uniqlo gray sweater medium and gavotte crepe from ye^’n] and anh anh [christmas present: uniqlo gray sweater small] to blossom vegan restaurant in pleasanton on the way father telephoned and said the heater broke down and he will be without heat for the night other than the electrical personal/space heaters …
frida nose snot picker and chi. phu+o+ng resemblance were our servers …
vegetarian bo` kho^ would remind to^nan of spending money for it on dda’nh dda’o or money win at dda’nh dda’o on it at tru+o+`ng tra^`n hu+ng dda.o in dda` la.t shortly before become a refugee heading to the united states in 1975 …
yesterday:
http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?pid=dmtA_0u9p5oK&partner=cbs_dreamteam&gen=1 Napoleon Bone-apart … see moses and the egyptian and napoleon below: Dr. Chris is called out to help a pet pig that won’t stop digging up the garden! Then, a paralyzed guinea pig is rushed in after an unfortunate accident on a trampoline, and Napoleon the tiny pug is brought into the pet hospital after a terrible fight with his owner’s six-year-old mastiff! from
also on tv before we left for san jose was a veterinarian, dr chris brown from australia, who makes housecalls … in particular to see first a pig with a broken nose ring then second a guinea pig that was dragging its hind legs causing suspicion of spinal cord problems … dahlia still could not crawl could not sit though she could scooter about with her leg in her baby walker …
an impressive kim nhung resemblance guest as all-white japanese with empty vacuous black eye at one of the table with very young dude … happy … tru+o+ng [ba’c vu~ ga’i name is tru+o+ng it would seem from presents sent from hai ba’c] and ivonne and aidan and nga came with che` and giant minnie mouse for dahlia in santa claus red all we were against the wall opposite her … kim nhung … with the tv monitor behind her showing taylor swift …
Văn học & Nhân văn >
Thơ ca
Tiếp theo
.
Một vế câu đối của Hồ xuân Hương : “Da trắng vỗ bì bạch” vẫn chưa có nhân tài nào đối được. Ai sẽ là người dươ?
Một vế câu đối của cố thi sỹ Hồ xuân Hương ” Da trắng vỗ bì bạch” hàng thế kỷ nay vẫn chưa có ai đối chuẩn, ai sẽ là nhân tài đối lại thật chuẩn ? Mời cả nhà .
Hwashen đã trả lời 3 năm trước
bi` ~ da, ba.ch ~ tra(‘ng so that “da tra(‘ng vo^~ bi` ba.ch” is
“da tra(‘ng la` da tra(‘ng”
which is sort of the same as bible’s “I am that/who I am” which is to the equivalent of the muslim q’uran “There’s no Allah/God but God/Allah”
da tra(‘ng might be ba’nh cuo^’n from phi khanh fast food …
… the neighboring restaurant of phi khanh has become a o^’c du+`a restaurant suggesting brainy instead of sexy as before … young teenager at onset of puberty walking on street “I don’t know myself my new puberty thing self that is …” … co’ con chim non no’ ho’t mo^.t mi`nh va` dda`n chim xa bay ve^` chung ho’t … for dahlia to mumm mumm her milk … on sunday and previous day dahlia kept throwing up several times could very well getting skinny that way …
Before I get too deep
… to^n an teeth broke two small pieces today in addition to the one piece that got broken over hamburger [to^nan was quick to blame bone bits in the hamburger not realizing that it was this own tooth] at detroit airport before we left there for california … to^nan left rong bie^?n restaurant by himself for grand century mall by himself … he tried the water fountain instead of che` ba ma`u and stopped getting dishwashing detergent from the houseware store there … also 1/1/2014 commercial on tv for something that was supposed to build/support teeth enamel … also clean dahlia die^~m and die^~m thi bathroom from mold with softscrube … calcium carbonate basically …
… 12/30/2014 sbtn bao chau dieu quyen reports egypt bans new movie exodus gods and kings
21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. All that night the LORD pushed back the sea with a strong east wind and turned the sea into dry ground. The water divided, 22and the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground. The water stood like a wall on their right and on their left. 23The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and cavalry followed them into the sea. 24Just before dawn, the LORD looked down from the column of fire and smoke and threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. 25He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they could hardly move. Then the Egyptians shouted, “Let’s get out of here! The LORD is fighting for Israel! He’s against us!”
26Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the water will flow back over the Egyptians, their chariots, and their cavalry.” 27Moses stretched his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the water returned to its usual place. The Egyptians tried to escape, but the LORD swept them into the sea. 28The water flowed back and covered Pharaoh’s entire army, as well as the chariots and the cavalry that had followed Israel into the sea. Not one of them survived. 29Meanwhile, the Israelites had gone through the sea on dry ground while the water stood like a wall on their right and on their left.
sbtn bi`nh lua^.n gia dda.i du+o+ng reports on vietnamese communist meeting with chinese communist … our rong bie^?n restaurant meeting …
21 Then Moshe stretched out his yad over the yam; and Hashem caused the yam to go back by a strong east wind all that night, so that the yam was made dry land, and the mayim were divided. 22 And the Bnei Yisroel then went into the middle of the yam upon the yabashah (dry land); and the mayim were a chomah (wall) unto them on their right, and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the yam, even kol sus Pharaoh, his chariots, and his parash. 24 So it came to pass, that when came the watch of the boker, Hashem looked down on the machaneh Mitzrayim through the ammud eish (pillar of fire) and of the anan, and caused confusion over the machaneh Mitzrayim, 25 And turned awry their chariot wheels, that they drove them with difficulty; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the presence of Yisroel; because Hashem fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And Hashem said unto Moshe, Stretch out thine yad over the yam, that the mayim may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their parash. 27 And Moshe stretched forth his yad over the yam, and the yam rushed back to its place as dawn of the boker appeared; and the Egyptians tried to flee away from meeting it; but Hashem swept the Egyptians into the middle of the yam. 28 And the mayim rushed back, and covered the chariots, and the parashim, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the yam after them; there remained as survivors not so much as one of them. 29 But the Bnei Yisroel walked upon yabashah through the yam; and the mayim were a chomah unto them on their right, and on their left.
\Tidal range
In general tide ranges between 0.6 m (2.0 ft) in the north, near the mouth of the Gulf of Suez and 0.9 m (3.0 ft) in the south near the Gulf of Aden but it fluctuates between 0.20 m (0.66 ft) and 0.30 m (0.98 ft) away from the nodal point. The central Red Sea (Jeddah area) is therefore almost tideless, and as such the annual water level changes are more significant. Because of the small tidal range the water during high tide inundates the coastal sabkhas as a thin sheet of water up to a few hundred metres rather than inundating the sabkhas through a network of channels. However, south of Jeddah in the Shoiaba area the water from the lagoon may cover the adjoining sabkhas as far as 3 km (2 mi) whereas, north of Jeddah in the Al-kharrar area the sabkhas are covered by a thin sheet of water as far as 2 km (1.2 mi). The prevailing north and northeastern winds influence the movement of water in the coastal inlets to the adjacent sabkhas, especially during storms. Winter mean sea level is 0.5 m (1.6 ft) higher than in summer. Tidal velocities passing through constrictions caused by reefs, sand bars and low islands commonly exceed 1–2 m/s (3–6.5 ft/s). Coral reefs in the Red Sea are near Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
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Biblical accounts of the Red Sea’s parting are hydrologically plausible, suggest computer simulations of sustained winds in a coastal lagoon where the Nile met the Mediterranean 3,000 years ago.
Under steady 60-mph winds, “the ocean model produces an area of exposed mud flats where the river mouth opens into the lake,” wrote National Center for Atmospheric Research oceanographers Carl Drews and Weiqing Han in an August 30 Public Library of Science One study. “These mud flats represent the area of crossing, and the crossing party would observe water to their left and right.”
In the Book of Exodus, Moses is described as leading Israelite slaves in flight from Egypt, arriving at the Red Sea’s shores just ahead of pursuing armies. At that point, “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.”
Han and Drews, who hosts a website dedicated to the compatibility of science and Christian faith, don’t consider the Exodus narrative to be literally true, but rather “an interesting and ancient story of uncertain origin.” Others have been similarly intrigued, suggesting that a rare phenomenon called wind setdown could have created dry passage across the Red Sea’s narrow northern tip. A wind setdown is essentially the flip side of a storm surge; when strong, steady winds cause water to rise dramatically in some areas, it necessarily drops in others.
1/1/2014 on the day when san francisco television news reported jim harbough has just landed in ann arbor michigan, the wind was very strong … and subsided immediately soon after … the news weather reporter said “sunshine [but] the wind [was what was causing the cold, so bundle up when you head out to the streets] … very cold …” … : by february around te^’t chinese new year in michigan one could taste spring with the sunshine but the momentum of the cold air mass is such that the cold air lingers until april to beginning of may …
In 1879, theologian Samuel Bartlett proposed a setdown location at a shallow inlet near of Suez, used by Arabs to cross the Red Sea at low tide. More recently, Russian researchers Naum Voltzinger and Alexei Androsov calculated that a 74-mph wind could have exposed an underwater reef near what is now the Suez Canal.
In the new study, Han and Drews determined that the depressions in the reef would have stayed underwater. They propose a different location, 75 miles north of the reef and just south of the Mediterranean, in what is now known as the Kedua Gap. The area is now dry, but historical reconstructions suggest an ancient branch of the Nile once flowed into a lagoon there.
After using satellite measurements and archaeological records to create a model of local hydrogeography, the researchers ran simulations that found 12 hours of 60-mph easterly winds would have exposed a dry passage, 2 miles long and 3 miles wide, out of Egypt.
When the winds stopped blowing, the waters would surge back, appearing in the researchers’ words “as an advancing wall of churning water” — or, per Exodus, “the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.”
“If a crossing actually took place here, any debris field of military artifacts should be found to the north of the gap,” wrote Han and Drews.
Video: Tim Scheitlin and Ryan McVeigh, NCAR. Image: Nicolas Poussin, The Crossing of the Red Sea./Wikimedia Commons.
magnum pi treading water … and obama in following note “fixing a wall” … Home From the Sea
Episode Screen Caps Episode Number: 64
Season Number: 4.1
Air Date: 9/29/1983
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario
Recurring Characters
Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley)
Guest Stars
Robert Pine (Lt. Thomas Sullivan Magnum III, 1950), Susan Blanchard (Katherine Magnum, 1950), R.J. Williams (Magnum, 1950), Constance Forslund (Sandy), Geoff Heise (Goffrey Bonner)
Episode Brief
Magnum’s tradition of spending the Fourth of July alone at sea turns to a life-and-death battle when his surf ski capsizes from a reckless boater and a strong current takes him further and further from land. Forced to tread water for hours in shark-infested waters, Thomas uses his memories of his mom and dad to keep himself alive while Higgins, T.C., and Rick begin a frantic search for him.
1 This episode is sometimes referred to by fans as the “Treading Water” episode, as Magnum is literally treading water in the ocean for virtually the entire episode. This is one of the few episodes that does not feature any villians, or bad guys.
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12/30/2014 pbs art showcase playing movie red violin and joshua bell romance of the violin … ann power …: moses returning to canaan the land of his abraham/joseph ancestors from egypt via the red sea … jim harbaugh “returning” or rather coming to ann arbor michigan …
Mickey Mouse Will Pay For Jim Harbaugh’s $48 Million Michigan Contract
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Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh is about to take the same position at the University of Michigan. ESPN reported yesterday that Harbaugh will sign a record six-year contract with the Wolverines worth at least $48 million.
Expect the usual outcry from those who think that is too much to spend on a football coach. But the reality is that football is a big moneymaker for Michigan that funds academics and other sports that do not make money. And don’t think for a second that Harbaugh won’t have the funds to sign high-priced assistants or to continue to spend more on scholarships than any team in the country.
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Image credit: Grant Halverson/Getty Images
The Big Ten Conference’s television deals are coming up for renewal soon, which means Michigan will soon have a lot more money to invest in its football program.
The Big Ten has its own national cable network and also has television contracts with Walt Disney's DIS -0.34% ABC/ESPN, BTN, CBS CBS -0.3% and Fox . Disney, which has first-tier rights, is paying $1 billion for 10 years through the 2016-17 season. The Big 10 Network (51% owned by Fox and 49% owned by the conference), which has second-tier rights, is paying $2.8 billion through 2031-32 (excluding profit distributions). Fox is paying $145 million over six seasons for the Football Championship Game through 2016. And CBS is ponying up $72 million over six years for select basketball telecasts. The math works out to a per-year average of $248 million.
But the deals with Mickey Mouse and CBS, signed soon before television rights fees for sports took off, are cheap by today’s standards.
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from http://www.wired.com/2010/09/red-sea-parting/
BUDDHIST PARABLES
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FROM THE ORIGINAL PALI
BY
EUGENE WATSON BURLINGAME
FELLOW OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND~SdENCES
LECTURER IN PALI (1917-19X8) AT YALE UNIVERSITY
WALKING ON THE WATER
Behold the fruit of faith!
Jataka 190: ii. 111-113.
A. Story of the Present.
Behold the fruit of faith! This parable was related by the Teacher
while he was in residence at Jetavana monastery with reference to a
certain lay disciple possessed of faith.
This Noble Disciple, we are told, possessed of faith and serenity
of mind, set out one day for Jetavana monastery. At eventide he
reached the bank of the river Aciravati, after the boatman had
beached his boat and gone to hear the preaching of the Doctrine.
Not seeing a boat, he had recourse to the Practice of Medita-
tion, concentrated his thoughts on the Buddha, attained the
Ecstasy of Joy, and descended into the river. His feet did not
sink in the water. He walked along as though he were walking on
the surface of the land until he came to mid-stream. Then he saw
waves. Then the Ecstasy of Joy, the result of the concentration
of his thoughts on the Buddha, became weak. Then his feet began
to sink. But he concentrated his thoughts anew on the Buddha,
strengthened the Ecstasy of Joy, walked on the surface of the
water as before, entered Jetavana monastery, bowed to the
Teacher, and sat down on one side.
The Teacher exchanged greetings with him, and asked: “Lay
disciple, I trust that as you came hither, you came hither without
weariness.” “Reverend Sir, I had recourse to the Practice of Medi-
tation, concentrated my thoughts on the Buddha, attained the
Par. 62.] Walking on Water 187
Ecstasy of Joy, obtained support on the surface of the water, and
came hither as though I were treading the earth.”
Said the Teacher: “But, lay disciple, you are not the only one
who has obtained support by meditating on the Merits of the
Buddha. In former times also, lay disciples who were shipwrecked
in mid-ocean meditated on the Merits of the Buddha, and thus
obtained support.”
Essay
How Did Moses Part the Red Sea?
The science of tides may have saved the Israelites from the Egyptians
Moses had lived nearby and knew where caravans crossed the Red Sea at low tide. Pictured, a scene from ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ ENLARGE
Moses had lived nearby and knew where caravans crossed the Red Sea at low tide. Pictured, a scene from ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ 20th Century Fox
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By
Bruce Parker
Dec. 5, 2014 9:37 a.m. ET
640 COMMENTS
Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” which opens in movie theaters across the country Dec. 12, will include, of course, the most famous of all biblical miracles: the parting of the Red Sea. But its depiction will look quite different from the one in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 classic “The Ten Commandments.” In the earlier movie, Charlton Heston as Moses parted the sea into two huge walls of water, between which the children of Israel crossed on a temporarily dry seabed to the opposite shore. Pharaoh’s army of chariots chased after them only to be drowned when Moses signaled for the waters to return.
Mr. Scott has said that his new version of the story will have a more realistic and natural explanation of what happened and won’t rely on Moses to bring forth God’s miraculous intervention. He has decided to have the waters “part” as the result of a tsunami caused by an earthquake. Before a tsunami strikes, coastal waters often recede, leaving the seabed dry before the giant wave arrives.
But there are problems with this version of the story, too. The period during which coastal waters draw back before a tsunami usually lasts only 10 or 20 minutes, too little time to get all the children of Israel across the temporarily dry seabed. Also, there would have been no way for Moses to know that the earthquake and tsunami were going to happen, unless God told him. That’s fine, but then the story would retain some element of the miraculous.
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There is a much better natural explanation for how a temporary path across the Red Sea could have been revealed. It involves the tide, a natural phenomenon that would have fit nicely into a well-thought-out plan by Moses, because Moses would have been able to predict when it would happen.
In certain places in the world, the tide can leave the sea bottom dry for hours and then come roaring back. In fact, in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte and a small group of soldiers on horseback were crossing the Gulf of Suez, the northern end of the Red Sea, roughly where Moses and the Israelites are said to have crossed. On a mile-long expanse of dry sea bottom exposed at low water, the tide suddenly rushed in, almost drowning them.
In the biblical account, the children of Israel were camped on the western shore of the Gulf of Suez when the dust clouds raised by Pharaoh’s chariots were seen in the distance. The Israelites were now trapped between Pharaoh’s army and the Red Sea. The dust clouds, however, were probably an important sign for Moses; they would have let him calculate how soon Pharaoh’s army would arrive at the coast.
Moses had lived in the nearby wilderness in his early years, and he knew where caravans crossed the Red Sea at low tide. He knew the night sky and the ancient methods of predicting the tide, based on where the moon was overhead and how full it was. Pharaoh and his advisers, by contrast, lived along the Nile River, which is connected to the almost tideless Mediterranean Sea. They probably had little knowledge of the tides of the Red Sea and how dangerous they could be.
Knowing when low tide would occur, how long the sea bottom would remain dry and when the waters would rush back in, Moses could plan the Israelites’ escape. Choosing a full moon for their flight would have given them a larger tidal range—that is, the low tide would have been much lower and the sea bottom would have stayed dry longer, giving the Israelites more time to cross. The high tide also would have been higher and thus better for submerging Pharaoh’s pursuing army.
In ‘The Ten Commandments,’ Charlton Heston as Moses parted the sea into two huge walls of water, between which the children of Israel crossed on a temporarily dry seabed to the opposite shore. ENLARGE
In ‘The Ten Commandments,’ Charlton Heston as Moses parted the sea into two huge walls of water, between which the children of Israel crossed on a temporarily dry seabed to the opposite shore. Everett Collection
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Timing would have been crucial. The last of the Israelites had to cross the dry sea bottom just before the tide returned, enticing Pharaoh’s army of chariots onto the exposed sea bottom, where they would drown as the returning tidal waters overwhelmed them. If the chariots were expected to arrive before the tide came back in, Moses might have planned some type of delaying tactic. If the chariots were expected to arrive after the tide came back in, he could have gotten the Israelites across and then, at the next low tide, sent a few of his best people back onto the temporarily dry sea bed to entice Pharaoh’s chariots to chase them.
The Bible mentions a strong east wind that blew all night and pushed back the waters. Ocean physics tells us that wind blowing over a shallow waterway pushes back more water than a wind blowing over a deep waterway. If a wind did by chance fortuitously blow before the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, it would have had more effect at low tide than at any other time, uncovering even more sea bottom.
Such a wind would surely have been assigned to divine intervention, and over the centuries, as the story of the Exodus was retold, that aspect would have overshadowed Moses’ careful planning to take advantage of the low tide. But Moses couldn’t have predicted the suddenly beneficial wind, so he couldn’t have based his plan on it. His timing had to be based on a tide prediction.
When Napoleon and his forces almost drowned in 1798 at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez, the water typically rose 5 or 6 feet at high tide (and up to 9 or 10 feet with the wind blowing in the right direction). But there is evidence that the sea level was higher in Moses’ time. As a result, the Gulf of Suez would have extended farther north and had a larger tidal range. If that was indeed the case, the real story of the Israelites’ crossing wouldn’t have needed much exaggeration to include walls of water crashing down on the pursuing Egyptians.
One more piece of evidence is worth citing. As it turns out, my suggestion that Moses could have planned to cross the Red Sea at low tide isn’t entirely new. The ancient author Eusebius of Caesarea (263–339 A.D.) cites two versions of the story of the crossing of the Red Sea as related by the Hellenistic historian Artapanus (80–40 B.C.). One version, told by the people of Heliopolis, is similar to the account in the Bible. But in the second version, told by the people of Memphis, “Moses, being acquainted with the country, waited for the ebb and took the people across the sea when dry.”
If the tide was indeed involved in Moses’ “parting” of the Red Sea, it has to qualify as the most dramatic and consequential tide prediction in history.
—Dr. Parker is the former chief scientist of NOAA’s National Ocean Service and is currently a visiting professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the author of “The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters.”
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What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or
Oh, I’m not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
biblical “i am who/that i am” [version of “mind own business: have eyes/ears/mouth but as though see/hear/say no evil”] is the same as “muo^n loa`i ddu+o+.c bi`nh thu+o+`ng so^’ng la^u; everyone live well and long” … and this seems to pacified the restaurant crowd …
Da trắng = việt ngữ , vỗ = động từ , bì bạch = hán việt for da tra(‘ng đối lại là :
Trời xanh màu thiên thanh
Trời xanh = việt ngữ, đối với da trắng,
màu = tính từ, đối với vỗ = động từ,
Thiên thanh = hán việt, đối với bì bạch.
Chúc cả nhà vui vẻ.
Xếp hạng & bình luận của người hỏi
5 trên 5Kungsak thấy phân tích của bạn chuẩn, ngắn gọn, dễ hiểu, câu đối cũng vần, và có đối cả về ngữ pháp: chữ vỗ (động từ) đối với màu (tính từ).
Chúc bạn vui tươi, cả nhà vui vẻ nhé !
Dang đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Đây là một lối chơi chữ:
Chữ “bì bạch” theo tiếng Việt là tĩnh từ kép chỉ tượng thanh, nghĩa là âm thanh (tí tách, lạch bạch, đì đùng, v.v); còn nói theo chiết tự Hán ngữ thì không ai dùng. Vì thế cái khó ở đây là phải đối âm, nghĩa, luật bằng trắc, chủ từ, động từ và tính từ tượng thanh.
Bì = da; bạch = trắng kèm theo động từ Vỗ (vỗ nghe bì bạch). Như vậy phải đối thế nào cho chuẩn (có tính từ âm thanh bằng Hán ngữ cho đúng với chủ từ bằng Việt ngữ) để có một câu cho trọn nghĩa?
Mình cũng có một câu họa: GẤU VÀNG ĂN HÙNG HOÀNG nhưng vẫn chưa chuẩn (hùng=gấu, hoàng= vàng) nhưng “hùng hoàng” không phải là tĩnh từ âm thanh mà là một danh từ chỉ tên một vị thuốc đứng làm tĩnh từ. Tiếng kêu của con gấu không phải là âm thanh này.
Một ý kiến mọn cùng đóng góp.
HÀN BĂNG TÂM
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đại đã trả lời 3 tháng trước
nghêu ngao mò sò hến
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Thanh Đạt đã trả lời 4 tháng trước
Tôi xin đối lại vế đối: Lòng đen mưu tâm thâm
hoặc : Đất đen nắn địa ô
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Heaven Warrior đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Da trắng vỗ bì bạch…………………vỗ tay
Bì bạch vỗ hòn son………………đặp muỗi
Hòn son động bạch bì……………kết quả…….giọt máu động trên tay .????
chúc vui,
sphere…………….thương các Bạn nhiều ! God Bless !
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Già Thuận Bợm. đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Bợm đồng ý với bạn Dang, ở đây ta nên để ý đến từ “Vỗ”, như một động từ tạo âm thanh, nên mới nghe tiếng “Bì bạch”, như vậy câu đối sẽ hiểu nôm na là “Tiếng nước vỗ vào da trắng (Tạo nên âm thanh) nghe bì bạch, bì bạch. Khó là ở chỗ đó. Trước đây cũng nghe câu:”Rừng sâu mưa lâm thâm”, “Suốt đỏ khoan thông hồng” hay “Trời xanh màu thiên thanh”…nhưng chưa câu nào chuẩn cả.
Bợm.
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Giang Sơn đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Da trắng vỗ bỉ bạch
Mao Ô sổ lông đem
Levanm 45
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Người ta giải từ xưa rồi, nhưng những người khoái đố không nhớ câu đối lại :
1 – Nhà vàng ngồi đường hoàng
2 – Trời xanh gọi thiên thanh
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Yuu Sei đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Thật ra thì “da trắng” không đồng nghĩa với “bì bạch”. Là do trong tiếng Hán thì tiếng chính đứng sau, ví dụ như “bạch mã” nghĩa là “ngựa trắng”. Vì thế “da trắng” phải là “bạch bì” chứ không phải “bì bạch”.
Bạn đây đố cả nhà. Mà “đố” khác với “hỏi” ở chỗ “đố” là người đó biết câu trả lời. Thế thì dám chắc bạn có đáp án rồi nhỉ ?? Tôi thử đối chơi nhé:
Con thầy săn sư tử
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Một vế câu đối của Hồ xuân Hương : “Da trắng vỗ bì bạch” vẫn chưa có nhân tài nào đối được. Ai sẽ là người dươ?
Đăng nhập để thêm câu trả lời của bạn
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Pham van Giang đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Kẻ phàm phu này có gì vô tình xin các sư phụ , sư thúc và sư huynh sư tỷ tha thứ .
Chó ta là cẩu nội .
Tôi xin mọi người đừng nghĩ tôi nhạo báng . tôi tôn trọng bà chúa thơ nôm này ngang hàng với bác học Lê Quý Đôn !
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phu đã trả lời 3 năm trước
Lông đen trải dầu hắc…
Hehe, như vậy có được hông.
from https://vn.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111107050425AAnlVmH
Thật ra câu này theo dân gian là của Đòan thị Điểm…
Thị Điểm đang tắm.Trạng Quỳnh đòi vào xem.. Thị Điểm ra vế đôí trên Thách rằng đối được sẽ cho vô . Trạng tịt ngòi..
..nay đã nhiều người đối được rồi…
Ví dụ ” Rừng sâu mưa lâm thâm”
” Nhà vàng ngồi đường hoàng.”
Nhưng các vế trên không hợp tình hợp cảnh….
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Nhưng với vế đối sau đây.. Nếu lúc đó Quỳnh mà có thì nhất định Thị Điểm sẽ phải mở cửa..cho vào
Ra đối…..DA TRẮNG VỖ BÌ BẠCH ( Da= Bì+Trắng= Bạch)
Đối là… TÓC XANH THẤY PHÁT THƯƠNG (Tóc = Phát +Xanh = Thương.)
Câu này hợp cả tình cả cảnh…!!Da trắng -đối với Tóc xanh
Và ý nói Đã nhìn thấy tóc nàng Rất thương nàng,,, cớ gì không cho vào,,!
we then went to deliver christmas present to tha?o and gary and sophia anh thu+ and tha’i though they weren’t home so we deliver it to babysitter … then we headed to phi khanh restaurant … on the way we encounter a puberty year young man who was crotching himself looking at his imaginatively “wet” sex as though he doesn’t yet know what to do with it … recall woman with mirror at her crotch on bench at target store in other notes … and they have just replaced the sexy restaurant neighbor of phi khanh with o^’c du+`a restaurant where o^’c ~ o’c ~ brainy …
the natural roof tile weather pattern can make one dizzy viewing it … makes it easy to “have eyes/ears/mouth but as though see/hear/say no evil: i am who/that i am; you are who/that you are: muo^n loa`i ddu+o+.c bi`nh thu+o+`ng so^’ng la^u; everyone live well and long” …
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