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To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/18/2005 10:38:14 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217688

in fact not the brightest in china. Ahhh! Brightness alone is insufficient... as you know... In the process of deciding the next 4 years of my daughter's life... high school.... oh my God.... !!! It never gets easier... just different... good work if you can get it :O) regards K

To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/19/2005 8:43:15 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 217688

These guys say they can get 7 more gallons from a barrel of sour crude then anyone else! SUF biz.yahoo.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/19/2005 1:47:12 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217688

Hi TJ - that's great to hear - hope you let the young man and his parents know about his positive initiative....there are many disincentives for observation & initiative from organized school systems, playgroups, laws, etc. Don't panic about Coconut's future. There will be MANY ways to win....manhy of them with little competition. More on thie later. No talk of buying gold ? really ? Maybe on the quiet ?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/21/2005 3:38:21 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217688

Well, the good thing about gold is that it's hard to spend. Which forces you to save it, instead of blowing it on consumption of frivolities and luxuries. Speaking of which -- last night I called an old friend in New Orleans whose house was flooded during Hurricane Katrina. I happen to know that he has had some gold stashed away for a very long time, although I have no idea how much or where, and don't want to know. We hadn't spoken since the hurricane, for one reason and another. One of the things he mentioned is that he has now stashed away several cases of MREs ("Meals Ready to Eat")(produced for the US military). This was pretty much what was available for weeks in New Orleans because the grocery stores were closed, and besides they were all looted. Same with the restaurants. And no electricity for refrigerators and microwaves, no gas for the stoves. If you were hungry, it was MREs or nothing. Straight out of the package. The gold didn't come in handy, but then, the MREs were free. Courtesy of Uncle Sam aka Uncle Sugar, who giveth and who taketh away. I have no idea how long MREs last. Years, that I do know, but not how many. I wonder how many governments are in the habit of handing out cases of MREs to hungry civilians? My impression is that China is not one. But maybe someday, who knows? I'd like to understand generosity and altruism better than I do. I understand greed. I understand selfishness. I know kindness when I see it, and I am kind myself, from time to time, even to total strangers. The child who went and got the backpack -- as you say, that's a special characteristic. He is a good person. Born that way? Raised that way? I wish I knew. But, at any rate, someone with perception and compassion. When my father came to visit for Thanksgiving, his wife's son seemed like a very kind person, even though he is a young boy, only 14. Much kinder than my father. Although, in fairness to my father, he once pulled a stranger from a burning car. If everybody was kind and altrustic, gold would be worthless. I don't mean to generalize to all money. Money is a way of keeping score. We all need and use money. But we don't need or use gold, except possibly in an extreme emergency. All gold could possibly do is get people to do things for you that they otherwise wouldn't do. I think economists would call it price differentiation. If someone has limited resources of time and ability to perform work, you wave gold at them and they put you to the top of the list, at least that's the theory, no?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/23/2005 4:05:47 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217688

"just had their students spend one night on the street in paper boxes, without their usual cellphone, bodyguards, and chauffeurs in toll" I am going to give this idea to Mr. Pierson superintendent of International School of Curitiba :-)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (2743)	12/23/2005 4:27:26 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217688

the nature of competition our kids will be facing from north of hong kong? We are here in Brazil praying for them to get more money to buy more beef, more chickens and more orange juice! Then immediately after -in the wealth growing scale- comes 1.3 billion Hindis and we will sell even more food to them. With biodiesel and ethanol being sold to Japanese, Europeans and Americans we can say we have no real competition. We shold stop worrying about industry here and concentrate in the agribusiness. "the solution set, as usual, can only be a package of goodies: robust genes, good upbringing, appropriately rigorous schools, tutors, international travel, camps, interesting extra-curricular (piano, sport, community service), and unusual experiences" I agre and we have been supporting my Experiment in doing all that. Bad in Math -as her father is- she's being tutored by the Kumon method. As extra-curricular activities she has tried a lot already: horse riding, soccer, swimming, painting, golf, bowling and now tennis Ballet, gynastics, tap dancing, violin and this year Spanish.