A worthless cop in Florida still makes more than teachers in Michigan...
Occupation Annual mean wage in Michigan Secondary School Teachers Except Special and Career/Technical Education $62,050 Special Education Teachers Kindergarten and Elementary School $59,280 Special Education Teachers Middle School $62,120 Special Education Teachers Secondary School $65,100
Languages are good to know; because they help us communicate with people in thoughts they can understand, and broaden our understanding.
English and French were my first languages. I learned them both at the same time; and I learned Spanish pretty fluently beginning when I was 9 or 10.
It's been so long since I had anybody to talk to in French or Spanish; that I forgot most of them.
I can read Biblical Greek; but don't know anyone who I can talk to with it.
I took Japanese in school, hoping I'd meet a woman from the local Japanese school... I seem to have forgotten most of that.
I know a little Hawaiian... (and Tahitian: because the difference is usually just a "T" instead of a "K.") but, very few Hawaians speak fluent Hawaiian; so it's hard to find people to practice Hawaiian with; and I don't know any Tahitians...
I lived at a Filipino church for 18 years and learned a bit of Ilocano, which I haven't used for years...
These days, I'm just trying to remember the English I learned, and how to use it... which is why I'm posting here tonight.
We had a pretty strong earthquake in Hawaii in the 80's; and we could feel the lava sloshing around under our feet, kinda like jello slapping the ground under our feet...
I've been in worse earthquakes, and a lot of them; but, I only felt lava moving in the ground that one time.
You can text money to any phone in Africa; but the people I want to help don't own phones.
As for Africans being too primitive to organize beyond the individual level...
Africans are tribal by nature. It's not uncommon to see 10-12 black people all dressed alike in nice clothes, walking down the street.
It's white people that tend to organize on an individual level. You won't see 10-12 white people walking down the street, unless they're a baseball team, or in a uniform they get paid to wear...
My style of camping involves carrying the clothes on my back, a rain pancho and pancho liner blanket, a hammock, some salt and spices, a knife, and a few sources of fire.
I love camping in a tropical paradise, where I can find 100 mangos, get naked, and eat them in a stream, then pull 100 prawns out of the stream, put em on a grill, and eat them too.
I love camping where there's fresh spring water, wild figs, pigs, goats, coconuts, taro, breadfruit, bananas, etc., etc, and waterfalls to shower in.
To me, the perfect camping destination is a place where I can lay around in a hammock all year.
Hiking to a place where I'd need to pack a 4 season tent, food, water, fuel, oxygen tanks, plus 30 pounds of down clothing and bedding, and have to leave as soon as I get there...
What Is Breadfruit? One of the most important plants (known as “canoe plants”) brought to Hawai’i by the ancient voyaging Polynesians is the breadfruit tree. This beautiful tree played a major role in colonizing the Pacific and was a key staple food. For hundreds of years before western contact with Hawai’i this fruit tree, called ulu, was a large part of the cultural and spiritual life of ancient Hawaiians. Ancient Hawaiian breadfruit groves were so large that some were capable of sustaining around 75,000 people! These trees were also an important source of wood, craft materials and medicines. Today few of these trees remain in Hawai’i compared to ancient times.
BREADFRUIT TREE FACTS
Breadfruit trees are one of the highest yielding food plants known. A single tree can produce between 50 to 150 fruits per year (yield varies between wet and dry areas) and their round, oval or oblong fruits can weigh as much as 12 pounds!
Breadfruit trees can grow to a height of 85 ft and all parts of the tree yield a latex sap which is useful as a sealant such as for canoe caulking. It’s light sturdy timber was used for canoe outriggers and house construction.
The Many Uses Of Hawaiian Breadfruit Trees
This extremely versatile fruit can be prepared and eaten in all stages of development and maturity, ripe as a fruit or mature as a vegetable. Today mature fruits are used for most dishes due to the breadfruits potato-like texture.
Nutrition
Breadfruit is gluten free and packed with nutrients. It was one of several “super foods” in ancient times (along with taro & coconut) that enabled the Hawaiians to colonize the eight main Hawaiian islands with what may have been close to 1 million people!
Breadfruit is high in carbohydrates and a good source of antioxidants, calcium, carotenoids, copper, dietary fiber, energy, iron, magnesium, niacin, omega 3, omega 6, phosphorus, potassium, protein, thiamine, vitamin A and vitamin C. Breadfruit also contains some carotenoids and lutein which is not present in white rice or white potato. A ½ cup of breadfruit provides 25% of the RDA for fiber and 5 to 10% of the RDA for protein, magnesium and potassium. As the fruit ripens starches convert to sugars and the fruit softens to a custard like consistency. This sweet custard can be eaten raw.
Breadfruit Preparations & Recipes Think of breadfruit as a tropical potato. It tastes fantastic mashed, in salads, made into french fries and chips and in countless other dishes where you can use potato – except it’s more nutritious than potatoes!
According to the National Breadfruit Institute of Hawai’i there are many ways to prepare mature breadfruit: steamed, boiled, fried, baked, or cooked in traditional ways in a fire.
BREADFRUIT: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings - WebMD WebMD › ingredientmono-1471 › bread... Breadfruit is a tree. Breadfruit roots, leaves, and latex are used to make medicine. Breadfruit root and leaves are taken by mouth for arthritis, asthma, back pain, diabetes, fever, gout, high blood pressure, liver disease, and toothaches. Breadfruit latex is taken by mouth for diarrhea and stomach pain...
As one of the few people I know who's dedicated most of their land to preserving the natural Hawaiian ohia forest, I felt like it was important to be a Lorax, and speak for the trees.
Yeah, I've been seeing Ali posting here for years; and I agree with you.
It's just that Hawaii is being bulldozed so fast; and our forests are full of things that don't live anywhere rules on earth...
But so many people come here, and clear every tree off of their land!
One woman was telling us... "Some day you'll be able to stand here (miles from the water, the middle of the rain forest) and see the ocean."
That was her vision for the rain forest that I love.
There aren't many people who are devoted to saving our forests; and now the ohia trees are dying off...
I believe they're dying; because they're sad.
I've seen people leave a few ohia's on their land, and they fall over, without the root system of the other trees to help support them.
Our soil isn't as healthy without our ohia trees. Just like in the Amazon, the soil is shallow, and when they cut down the natural trees, the soil washes away.
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RE: Armed teachers
I was assaulted by my 5th grade teacher.She hit me in the head with a hardcover math book, then took me in the hall and bounced my head off of the wall till I was dizzy...
My crime?
She told me to pass out the books, and I was... when a bully tried to hit me; because he wanted to pass them out, I stayed away from him...
She couldn't catch him; so she dazed me...
She kept lying about it; and broke down crying when the truth came out.
They put me in a different class; but let her keep her job--
The thought of teachers like her having guns, scares me.