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skipper wrote a new post, Bits from home 4 months ago
Mariner’s philologist friend and he have a special dictionary of stressed or highly truncated words that are intriguing. His friend’s latest contribution is ‘supwier’. Usually, mariner gives the reader time to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, He is a sick man not fit to represent me 4 months ago
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid in the United States.
The cancellations began in mid-May, when over 100 orders of 2% milk bound for 31 states were halted.
The records show 4,304 canceled […]
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I would also point out that the “Trump Bibles” are missing the 11th through the 27th amendments from its version of the US Constitution. I guess he found the amendments regarding slavery’s abolishment and removal from office for mental incapacitation cumbersome.
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skipper wrote a new post, Education in an AI world 4 months ago
Walton Family Foundation and Gallup’s latest Teaching for Tomorrow report finds that while most teachers engage in professional development, the most beneficial opportunities — like peer collaboration — are oft […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Local Press 4 months, 1 week ago
Really LOCAL press. That is, press coverage if it were about YOUR life. Some examples to set the pace: first, mariner traveled a lot in his career; second is the never ending discounting of women’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Age Shift 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Anyone who studies ancient history of any kind runs into a phenomenon called an Age. Ages are slow – really slow. Depending on which field of history one is studying, for example Earth science, Ages can last as […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where the West began 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mariner’s normal inclination is to see the world through the eye of a sociologist. The core of sociology is the study of results from human social patterns and aspects of culture associated with everyday […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Wow! A real religion debate 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Salvation versus Grace. Both are defended by the Bible – Grace especially by Father Brown on PBS when he’s hearing confession from a murderer. The idea of Grace traces back to Cyrus The Great, King of Persia from […]
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skipper commented on the post, Judgment Day 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Judgment Day 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Everyone talks about the day when Jesus will return to gather his deserving flock. Most of today’s Christians have a ‘good deed’ savings account to make sure they will be included. But mariner has a sugge […]
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It is true that we in the pews do not always represent the best of Jesus’s teaching. However, that is a very high bar. Who among us can achieve Christian perfection? I, for one, am counting on grace!
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Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Tuvalu 4 months, 4 weeks ago
A fascinating report in the AOL news strip gives an insight into the future of nationalism. Within this century, the Island nation of Tuvalu (9 coral atolls in the Pacific) is about to go under the ocean and […]
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skipper commented on the post, The deep side of knots 5 months ago
Wow! You are a knot expert. Does it take a lot of knots to fly an airplane – rope knots, not door knots.
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skipper wrote a new post, The deep side of knots 5 months ago
As mariner is wont to do, he fills empty time exploring the world of abstruse subjects. If one wants to get lost in a giant maze with no exit, check out quantum mechanics; or perhaps the process by which ions […]
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Unless you’re sailing a tall ship there isn’t much that can’t be done with a slipknot, bowline, two (or 3 or 4) half hitches, or a bunch of overhand knots jammed together. Bonus points for sheepshanks and Turks’-heads I guess. Splicing and ropemaking are for people who get paid to do it.
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Wow! You are a knot expert. Does it take a lot of knots to fly an airplane – rope knots, not door knots.
Thanks for responding.
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skipper wrote a new post, Jobs threatened by AI 5 months ago
On the CBS website, mariner found a detailed analysis of what types of jobs may be most threatened by automation. An easy way to understand the impact is to consider how the Internet has changed the reader’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The new job market 5 months ago
There seems to be increasing news coverage about the job market, especially when comparing past, present and future markets as presented by government figures. The presumption from the White House is that the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A genuine news 'capsule' 5 months ago
Greetings readers, noting a change in weather patterns in the Midwest. In this morning’s email, mariner found an unusually brief but profound news wrap up from the Associated Press:
“In the news today: The […]
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skipper wrote a new post, We need a culture map 5 months, 1 week ago
Every generation has its own lifestyles, a combination of habits, behavioral perceptions and historical benchmarks. For example, how many of us use pen and paper to write long letters? How many of us realize how […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Handle it, handle it 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Does the reader remember the TV show Carter Country (aired in the 1970s)? One of the characters was a chubby character named Mayor Burnside who managed all his duties by saying “Handle it, handle it” . Well, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Ode to Nature 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner is pleased that in addition to his three alter egos, he has a wife who is the world’s best poet but doesn’t make any money because she refuses to publish her excellent works. Nevertheless, she is willing […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A legitimate view of the future with AI 5 months, 3 weeks ago
It is true that the planet is in a stage of re-creation. And, to use a metaphor, you can’t drive a car the way you drive a horse. How do you drive AI?
In mariner’s most urgent voice, he recommends to readers […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The lost sheep of Christianity 5 months, 3 weeks ago
As many know, Christianity is having a tough time in the new century. 80% of the problem began when Alexander made Christianity a function of government during his reign as Emperor of Rome. This political […]
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