Python makes Anaconda looks a stunted animal.

Python makes Anaconda looks a stunted animal

 

Python is big, long and makes Anaconda looks stunted animal.

It is Linux based and it can be used for gaming.

Its object oriented platform makes Microsoft VB a non entity in programming, if not games.

 

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What is Python?

Executive Summary

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance. Python supports modules and packages, which encourages program modularity and code reuse. The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are available in source or binary form without charge for all major platforms, and can be freely distributed.

Often, programmers fall in love with Python because of the increased productivity it provides. Since there is no compilation step, the edit-test-debug cycle is incredibly fast. Debugging Python programs is easy: a bug or bad input will never cause a segmentation fault. Instead, when the interpreter discovers an error, it raises an exception. When the program doesn't catch the exception, the interpreter prints a stack trace. A source level debugger allows inspection of local and global variables, evaluation of arbitrary expressions, setting breakpoints, stepping through the code a line at a time, and so on. The debugger is written in Python itself, testifying to Python's introspective power. On the other hand, often the quickest way to debug a program is to add a few print statements to the source: the fast edit-test-debug cycle makes this simple approach very effective.

Comparing Python to Other Languages

Disclaimer: This essay was written sometime in 1997.

It shows its age. It is retained here merely as a historical artifact. --Guido van Rossum

Python is often compared to other interpreted languages such as Java, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, or Smalltalk. Comparisons to C++, Common Lisp and Scheme can also be enlightening. In this section I will briefly compare Python to each of these languages. These comparisons concentrate on language issues only. In practice, the choice of a programming language is often dictated by other real-world constraints such as cost, availability, training, and prior investment, or even emotional attachment. Since these aspects are highly variable, it seems a waste of time to consider them much for this comparison.

Java

Python programs are generally expected to run slower than Java programs, but they also take much less time to develop. Python programs are typically 3-5 times shorter than equivalent Java programs. This difference can be attributed to Python's built-in high-level data types and its dynamic typing. For example, a Python programmer wastes no time declaring the types of arguments or variables, and Python's powerful polymorphic list and dictionary types, for which rich syntactic support is built straight into the language, find a use in almost every Python program. Because of the run-time typing, Python's run time must work harder than Java's. For example, when evaluating the expression a+b, it must first inspect the objects a and b to find out their type, which is not known at compile time. It then invokes the appropriate addition operation, which may be an overloaded user-defined method. Java, on the other hand, can perform an efficient integer or floating point addition, but requires variable declarations for a and b, and does not allow overloading of the + operator for instances of user-defined classes.

For these reasons, Python is much better suited as a "glue" language, while Java is better characterized as a low-level implementation language. In fact, the two together make an excellent combination. Components can be developed in Java and combined to form applications in Python; Python can also be used to prototype components until their design can be "hardened" in a Java implementation. To support this type of development, a Python implementation written in Java is under development, which allows calling Python code from Java and vice versa. In this implementation, Python source code is translated to Java bytecode (with help from a run-time library to support Python's dynamic semantics).

Javascript

Python's "object-based" subset is roughly equivalent to JavaScript. Like JavaScript (and unlike Java), Python supports a programming style that uses simple functions and variables without engaging in class definitions. However, for JavaScript, that's all there is. Python, on the other hand, supports writing much larger programs and better code reuse through a true object-oriented programming style, where classes and inheritance play an important role.

Perl

Python and Perl come from a similar background (Unix scripting, which both have long outgrown), and sport many similar features, but have a different philosophy. Perl emphasizes support for common application-oriented tasks, e.g. by having built-in regular expressions, file scanning and report generating features. Python emphasizes support for common programming methodologies such as data structure design and object-oriented programming, and encourages programmers to write readable (and thus maintainable) code by providing an elegant but not overly cryptic notation. As a consequence, Python comes close to Perl but rarely beats it in its original application domain; however Python has an applicability well beyond Perl's niche.

Tcl

Like Python, Tcl is usable as an application extension language, as well as a stand-alone programming language. However, Tcl, which traditionally stores all data as strings, is weak on data structures, and executes typical code much slower than Python. Tcl also lacks features needed for writing large programs, such as modular namespaces. Thus, while a "typical" large application using Tcl usually contains Tcl extensions written in C or C++ that are specific to that application, an equivalent Python application can often be written in "pure Python". Of course, pure Python development is much quicker than having to write and debug a C or C++ component. It has been said that Tcl's one redeeming quality is the Tk toolkit. Python has adopted an interface to Tk as its standard GUI component library.

Tcl 8.0 addresses the speed issuse by providing a bytecode compiler with limited data type support, and adds namespaces. However, it is still a much more cumbersome programming language.

Smalltalk

Perhaps the biggest difference between Python and Smalltalk is Python's more "mainstream" syntax, which gives it a leg up on programmer training. Like Smalltalk, Python has dynamic typing and binding, and everything in Python is an object. However, Python distinguishes built-in object types from user-defined classes, and currently doesn't allow inheritance from built-in types. Smalltalk's standard library of collection data types is more refined, while Python's library has more facilities for dealing with Internet and WWW realities such as email, HTML and FTP.

Python has a different philosophy regarding the development environment and distribution of code. Where Smalltalk traditionally has a monolithic "system image" which comprises both the environment and the user's program, Python stores both standard modules and user modules in individual files which can easily be rearranged or distributed outside the system. One consequence is that there is more than one option for attaching a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a Python program, since the GUI is not built into the system.

C++

Almost everything said for Java also applies for C++, just more so: where Python code is typically 3-5 times shorter than equivalent Java code, it is often 5-10 times shorter than equivalent C++ code! Anecdotal evidence suggests that one Python programmer can finish in two months what two C++ programmers can't complete in a year. Python shines as a glue language, used to combine components written in C++.

Common Lisp and Scheme

These languages are close to Python in their dynamic semantics, but so different in their approach to syntax that a comparison becomes almost a religious argument: is Lisp's lack of syntax an advantage or a disadvantage? It should be noted that Python has introspective capabilities similar to those of Lisp, and Python programs can construct and execute program fragments on the fly. Usually, real-world properties are decisive: Common Lisp is big (in every sense), and the Scheme world is fragmented between many incompatible versions, where Python has a single, free, compact implementation.

Quotes about Python

Python is used successfully in thousands of real-world business applications around the world, including many large and mission critical systems. Here are some quotes from happy Python users:

YouTube.com

"Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com.

Industrial Light & Magic

"Python plays a key role in our production pipeline. Without it a project the size of Star Wars: Episode II would have been very difficult to pull off. From crowd rendering to batch processing to compositing, Python binds all things together," said Tommy Burnette, Senior Technical Director, Industrial Light & Magic.

"Python is everywhere at ILM. It's used to extend the capabilities of our applications, as well as providing the glue between them. Every CG image we create has involved Python somewhere in the process," said Philip Peterson, Principal Engineer, Research & Development, Industrial Light & Magic.

Google

"Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc.

Journyx

"Journyx technology, from the source code of our software to the code that maintains our Web site and ASP sites, is entirely based on Python. It increases our speed of development and keeps us several steps ahead of competitors while remaining easy to read and use. It's as high level of a language as you can have without running into functionality problems. I estimate that Python makes our coders 10 times more productive than Java programmers, and 100 times more than C programmers." -- Curt Finch, CEO, Journyx

IronPort

"IronPort email gateway appliances are used by the largest corporations and ISPs in the world," said Mark Peek, Sr. Director of Engineering at IronPort Systems. "Python is a critical ingredient in this high performance system. IronPort's suite of products contains over a million lines of Python. The PSF is an invaluable resource that helps keep Python on the cutting edge."

EVE Online

"Python enabled us to create EVE Online, a massive multiplayer game, in record time. The EVE Online server cluster runs over 50,000 simultaneous players in a shared space simulation, most of which is created in Python. The flexibilities of Python have enabled us to quickly improve the game experience based on player feedback" said Hilmar Veigar Petursson of CCP Games.

HomeGain

"HomeGain maintains its commitment to continual improvement through rapid turnaround of new features and enhancements. Python supports this short time-to-market philosophy with concise, clear syntax and a powerful standard library. New development proceeds rapidly, and maintenance of existing code is straightforward and fast," said Geoff Gerrietts, Software Engineer, HomeGain.com.

Thawte Consulting

"Python makes us extremely productive, and makes maintaining a large and rapidly evolving codebase relatively simple," said Mark Shuttleworth.

University of Maryland

"I have the students learn Python in our undergraduate and graduate Semantic Web courses. Why? Because basically there's nothing else with the flexibility and as many web libraries," said Prof. James A. Hendler.

EZTrip.com

"The travel industry is made up of a myriad supplier data feeds all of which are proprietary in some way and are constantly changing. Python repeatedly has allowed us to access, build and test our in-house communications with hundreds of travel suppliers around the world in a matter of days rather then the months it would have taken using other languages. Since adopting Python 2 years ago, Python has provided us with a measurable productivity gain that allows us to stay competitive in the online travel space," said Michael Engelhart, CTO of EZTrip.com.

RealEstateAgent.com

"Python in conjunction with PHP has repeatedly allowed us to develop fast and proficient applications that permit Real Estate Agent .com to operate with minimal resources. Python is a critical part of our dynamically growing cluster directory of real estate agents." said Gadi Hus, Webmaster, Volico Web Consulting

Firaxis Games

"Like XML, scripting was extremely useful as both a mod tool and an internal development tool. If you don't have any need to expose code and algorithms in a simple and safe way to others, you can argue that providing a scripting language is not worth the effort. However, if you do have that need, as we did, scripting is a no brainer, and it makes complete sense to use a powerful, documented, cross-platform standard such as Python." -- Mustafa Thamer of Firaxis Games, talking about Civilization IV. Quoted on page 18 of the August 2005 Game Developer Magazine.

"Python, like many good technologies, soon spreads virally throughout your development team and finds its way into all sorts of applications and tools. In other words, Python begins to feel like a big hammer and coding tasks look like nails." -- Mustafa Thamer of Firaxis Games, talking about Civilization IV. Quoted on page 18 of the August 2005 Game Developer Magazine.

"We chose to use python because we wanted a well-supported scripting language that could extend our core code. Indeed, we wrote much more code in python than we were expecting, including all in-game screens and the main interface. It was a huge win for the project because writing code in a language with garbage collection simply goes faster than writing code in C++. The fact that users will be able to easily mod the interface is a nice plus as well. The downside of python was that it significantly increased our build times, mostly from linking with Boost."

-- Soren Johnson, lead designer, Civilization IV. Quoted in a Slashdot interview.

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Please correct the document.

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The owner of this repository is a non-native English speaker.
There may be unnatural sentences.
Please correct the README page.

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(also consider scraping previous NYTimes letters: https://www.shunn.net/bee/?past=1 )

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Beautiful Android Applications

Beautiful Android Applications

I have been testing Android applications and found pleasing launchers that include Microsoft like Square and Linpus (If I remember right Linpus was an old Linux distribution / developer that was in my old dysfunctional laptop).

Try them at leisure and they are pleasing and eye catching.

In addition circular panels give more room to the tiny workspace of a cellphone BUT the typefaces I use lead to lot of mistakes and I come to my rescue package, the Google Blog Spot for error corrections.

Thank YOU all.

Besides, I practice French and play Bridge on my phone barring data reloads.

There is lot to do other than looking at Coronavirus statistics and boring Gota Antics on TV.

I do not watch CNN, BBC and Fox News.

Looking after the rooftop garden is more enduring but pleasing flowers appear from nowhere.

I think plant can sense better than humans.

Reality and Creativity

Reality and Creativity

Mass paranoia due to Coranavirus has prevented me from engaging in search for reality, not life in general but the Universe as a whole.

 

Here are my findings summarily dismissed.

In medical world 40% is unknown and 40% is known and the balance 20% need active research and refining and fine tuning.





The scientific world fare much worse only 5% is known and 95% is unknown including the black holes, dark matter, dark forces and expanding universe.





In religions, the expectations are the same with no deliverances or coming home of gods or saints but deadly conflicts all over. However, the deadly virus has shown the impotence of all gods. The rebirth concept still baffles me not known which galaxy I will be born.

I do not want to be born in Ceylon under military dictatorship by a single family. It defies all the political sociology I learned from Carl Marx to Engel to Professor De Bono.





In philosophy, the outside the box thinking will be a non entity since, the philosophers are hiding their heads in sand like Camels or Otuwas or Goats.





Escaping from all the dogmas and renunciation of all the implausible entities is currently impossible.



We are still zero level civilization with raging conflicts in all the fields.

My expectation of seeing a level one civilized being from an outer galaxy will be only a dream.

But I have a strange sense that they have visited us in the past and the cellphone, I finger these ideas is a refurbished intergalactic cellphone our scientists stole from aliens and it took over 70 years to figure out its internals and the infrastructure to deliver it with little cost.

MobiTel and Dialog are ripping their customers and that is why I went to Hutch and Lanka Bell.

See you in another galaxy in full alien attire free of communication gadgets and wanting to hide from humans in total conflict and disarray.


 

Single Meal

American Pie

Comparing an average American’s eating habits with ours is a

revelation by itself.

An American eats a cow / bull every ten years.

In every American there are at least 5 cows in him / her by the time

s/he is fifty.

If he has not got mad cow disease or Alzheimer’s disease what s/he

eats in the rest of his life is any American doctor’s guess.

He eats a pig every three years.

He eats at least 50 chickens and one turkey a year.

Some Americans of course eat much more than that.

My worry is every cow/bull s/he eats, at least an equivalent of 8Kg

of fodder is needed to support its life to obtain 1Kg

of meat.

If an American stops eating 1Kg of beef s/he is saving about 8Kg of

grain for a poor soul in Africa or Bangladesh.

Out of the tons of grain produced more than half (this ratio has gone

up with the increase of Chinese Middle Class population) is spent on

animal feeds and some American cows are better fed than African

kids.

Only to be sacrificed as human food.

The current Pope should give due consideration to these facts and

he should give a hearing to this fiasco and if the grain saved by

saving the poor cows / or bulls is multiplied by the factor of eight by

1000 (well the fed cow’s weight) there is an excess grain in this

world to feed everybody.

Equally FAO should take this into cognizant.

Looking by some of Ceylonese who lavish on food I cannot say there

is any difference to American mentality, here in Ceylon

(especially who visit here to take a break from the winter).

Coming back to a single meal, if an American or Western guy

sacrifices a single meal a week, like our Buddhist monks who live on

a single meal a day, we would be able to feed some hungry children

in Africa and Asia without any problem or NGOs.

WHO also should take this fact to their cognizant.

I don’t believe in what our agriculture minister who says, that food

prices have gone up because of biofuels.

The production of biofuels has being going on for over 25 years.

One should realize that the ancient man and his closest friend the

dog survived on a single meal in spite of their aggressive hunting

skills.

Eat less is my recipe!

Three rice meals a day is two much (unless one is in heavy manual

labour).

I lost my weight only after stopped eating rice.

I was like a pig when I was eating meat including pork!

Dhana and SingleMeal

June 9, 2011 by asokaplus

Single most important principle in Buddhist Practice is its Dhana,

the giving away ones possessions, without expecting anything in

return.

This is something of an antithesis to modern world, where, self,

image and one’s possessions are dear and belonging.

How it is practiced by Buddhist monks is discussed here briefly to

make a novice monk adopt to modern trends in a demanding world.

A Buddhist monk ought to be light in baggage and belongings.

A monk could have only two cloths (Chivara), one for wearing and

another for change.

How it should be made is also under strict and elaborate

instructions.

The eating habits are also under strict code of practice. I would

discuss that in detail here. When it comes to eating, if one ignores

the morning meal, which is very light indeed, a monk has to survive

on a single meal, and that has to be taken in the early evening not

late as is modern day practice.

You may wonder why I took some interest in this

This examination is scientific in nature and if you need satire read

American Pie.

There are many reasons, and I would jot down only a few.

If a monk in the west practices this according to the strict code, it is

a severe test for them, adopting this regime in the winter months.

Equally, I have seen some monks who try to adhere to the regime

regimentally and religiously have ended up sick and malnourished.

If one becomes a Buddhist monk in adult life who had enjoyed

somewhat a liberal life, changing to a single meal is a severe

restriction on their diurnal habits.

One’s hormonal status, glycogen storage and status of the acid

secretion in the stomach are habituated by ones daily routine (life

style).

Changing this having become a monk should be done on a staggered

basis giving time for the body to adjust.

Additionally, many of them do not have an understating of what is a

balance diet.

What I stated above is obvious, but over years, I have seen many

Buddhist monks suffering from food related diseases, especially

diabetes mellitus.

This is something not welcome and unexpected for my own

consumption. I have no intention of going into how one becomes a

diabetic but for me somebody on a single meal getting diabetes

mellitus was something of an enigma.

In this scenario, having thought a bit about it, I put the blame

squarely on the layman.

Hope one is not amazed by this statement.

I would go into this briefly.

The upper and the higher middle class

families are the ones who get quota for the Dhana for the residential

monks in the city.

Their, idea of a meal is a lavish one.

Many of them are also diabetic because of their over indulgence.

The offer of Dhana is not done on a regular basis.

So on the day all the sugary, starchy, heavy but nutritionally unbalanced is offered. These Dhana days also happen to fall on weekends and holidays. The monk has nochoice. They consume a diet heavy in carbohydrates which stimulate their pancreas to the limits on weekends and practically having an

austerely meal rest of the week.

My theory of this up and down (erratic) stimulation of the insulin status, make them prone to diabetes in middle age.

This may be aggravated by lack of exercise and having sugary

drinks (tea) to counteract the late evening hypoglycemia.

It is the duty of the layman to look after their welfare on a regular

basis instead of lavish feast once a month.

Medical education is in its prime stage now especially on nutrition,

the doctor should advise the upper middle class families what is a

balance single diet for a monk who are practically at the mercy of

the rich laymen who impart their inherent diseases to the clergy.

I would give some advice later regarding what to be offered and

what ought not to be but for now let me digress a little.

I wanted to test myself whether I can survive on a single diet.

(For the record, I have not taken a single rice meal over 12 years

and it is my health secret!)

I am more than convinced that it is possible and healthy.

But it takes time and it cannot be practiced overnight.

Prehistoric Man

Prehistoric Time -15,000 to 30, 000 ago

Having proved it to myself, I delved into man’s prehistoric period and how man survived in adverse climatic conditions and food scarcities.

Hunter gather never had three meals a day.

At best he had only a single square meal never three meals.

He mainly survived on big games in a community life style. He was

omnivorous and supplemented his diet with fruits and nuts. They

probably did not suffer from diabetes mellitus and his teeth were

strong, the enamel was thin but the dentin was thick, hardly had

caries. In times of food shortages and diseases there were signs of

enamel deficiency and bone diseases. These changes are recorded in

prehistoric fossils which date back to 15,000 to 30,000 years. Until

such time he became nomadic man milk was in short supply. Only

milk supply was maternal. The average woman was thin, and she

only had children once in four years or so. (It is now believed that

when a woman is thin -prehistoric women had to work hard, almost

equaling man’s efforts-like modern day women athletes the ovulation

does not occur. Additionally, prolong breast feeding without weaning

suppresses ovulation).

The man probably was sturdier and taller but comparatively thinner

since he had to work hard in hunting exercises. He probably lived a

shorter life than a woman (45 years), probably 35 years or so died

not of modern day diseases but by injuries sustained in hunting.

As far prehistoric man is concerned a single diet existence is not a

fantasy but a fact.

Paleolithic Period- 5000 to 13 000 years

Why man became an agricultural man is a mystery but available

evidence suggests dramatic changes in climate at the end of the ice

age and population expansion. With the emergence of the nomadic

life and mans entry into agricultural endeavours, he entered into a

sedentary life style.

However, he never gave up game and hunting until such time he

domesticated adequate livestock.

I would like to figure out that he was never a pure vegetarian.

The Asian wolf became associated with man around 13,000 years

ago probably scavenging around man’s domain. The dogs and wolf

can live on a single diet perhaps even longer and with the loss of

mammoths and huge games, wolf also found living difficult but

drifted with the man for game. His eating pattern, scavenging to

begin with which our present day dogs inherit and illustrate by

scavenging city dumps, is a reminder that even this period the man

existed (present day practice of feeding a single meal to a pedigree

dog which I don’t agree with) on a single main diet.

Even though, the agricultural practices were extensive, failure of

crops were common phenomena, the demise of Maya Dynasty was a

true example of catastrophe in history. In spite of extensive

agriculture, food was not plenty and the food preparation from

harvest to meal was labour extensive and man continued to

supplement meal on animal and animal sacrifices. In this period

population expanded probably because women becoming

comparatively fatter and fertile (it is interesting to note that when a

woman is too fat, like present day, fertility drops) and their body

composition was ideal for reproduction. But with success there was

impending catastrophe too. Famines were common due to

reduction of crops, failure of rains or floods.

The man became shorter and less sturdy due to sedentary life.

We may be able to surmise that even in this period man ate a

variable diet, characteristically a single meal which was

supplemented by animal, fish, shells, fruits and nuts.

How and when man discovered use of salt and spices is open to

question probably towards the latter stage of Paleolithic time.

Contemporary History from 5000 years to 2500.

During this period man was eating mixed diet containing milk (animal), sugar, salt, spices and animal and fish products. In spite of agriculture man

never ceased to consume animal food, in fact it became a major

constitute, judging by the tribal and religious practices from 5000 to

2000 years.

This is probably the period where single supper or a single meal changed to multiple meals especially in the upper classes but slaves and lower classes subsisted on an average single large meal.

The longevity and average health increased proportionately to

double the prehistoric period.

Most of the sages and philosophers except hedonists lived an austere

life while recommending the same to the masses.

2500 and the emergence of the Vegetarian Life

Even though some Jainers advocated vegetarian life, it was with the emergence of the Buddhists way of life in India that preceded the current wave of vegetarian (purported to be healthy) food fads.

Neither, Ten Commandments, the Jesus Christ’s Sayings nor Muslim Koran

abhors sacrifices of animals.

The vegetarian life is comparatively new one probably only 2500

years old in the history of mankind and that is why, there are so

many misconceptions.

Unlike monkeys, baboons and gorillas who are mostly vegetarians, from which man originated in an evolutionary point of view, the man had always been a carnivorous mammal.

2500 years is a small time in evolutionary time scale, a healthy

dialogue on vegetarian diet is mandatory in the present context.

Our intestine and teeth bear different relationships to tree dwelling

mammals, some are morphological in nature (genetic) and some are

based on the diet (environmental) we eat.

That is the view I hold, an opinion not substantiated.

As far as the growth and development of children are concerned my view is that single diet is not adequate.

That is my entry point to discuss another point of view.

Can a young novice monk who has not gone through puberty be

sustained on single diet?

This is a question I find it difficult to answer even thought I have stated my gut feeling above. This is another reason I defer on ordaining young underage monks (there are other reasons stated elsewhere) apart from psychological maturity to go on an austere life as prescribed by Vinaya.

Parents should have a critical say in these issues.

They should not plunge a young one into priesthood early in their tender years.

What should an average Dhana (Single Meal) should contain?

The physiological effect and the calorie intake of an average meal should

last 18 hours.That is the time when the glycogens storage starts to become

depleted. The diet should not have high sugary (desert) components that

stimulate surge of insulin and late dumping syndrome due to insulin

surge at the time of the meal. The vegetarian diet has no problem since the fiber makes the release of dietary sugar gradual.

The best desert for the monks is not ice cream but fruits.

Out of the fruits, the best is bananas which releases its sugars

slowly without upsetting insulin surges and maintaining a stable blood sugar. Milk and curd are preferred, since they give a supply of fat for starving intervals.

Missing ingredient is nuts, not only they contain short fatty acids which supply nutrition for starving intervals and also healthy vitamins.

I would encourage the young monks to go liberal on fruits and

nuts.

A supply of nuts (not aggalas and jaggery and sweets), fruits, papaw, banana and proper breakfast cereal containing millet (Kurrakkan) should be the breakfast for our monks.

Somebody should invest and develop a proper breakfast cereal for our kids (which can be used by young monks in their growing years) instead of foreign breakfast cereals. For the monks in the West a Buddhist dietitian with knowledge in Vinaya practice should investigate how their mid day Dhana

should be constituted.

My belief is many of them are having an inappropriate diet for

winter conditions. I hope a good breakfast cereal will emerge from

the West for the monks on a meagre diet.

My prescription for priesthood is entirely different. When I see young monks in the TV giving emotional speeches rather than mature sermons, I become sometimes terrified.

Even my twilight years, I sometimes reserve my judgment or giving

advices on certain issues. Never over the telephone, only, when I can

have an eye to eye contact with the person concerned where I, can

have an immediate assessment of the person’s psychological makeup

and the reactions.

One can do more damage by volunteering advice not appropriate. My advice goes as this. Let the young one follows a simple observational life. In other words learn to observe in a simple scientific and logical fashion.

Teach them science in simple terms as we tend to understand them from facts to fiction. Children learn fiction better in the early years and they should be

allowed to mature into scientific and factual way. They have the philosophical views embedded in their brains. Encourage them as much as possible.

This is why they always asks mommy why?

Encourage the philosophical views at an early age, even though we do not have ready made answers always.

Then only they should be allowed to think of a religion or religions in their life. If we are to stop, young from being taken into terrorist or religious cadres, that is the only way out left. That is the very thing we are not doing at present and ignoring. We are slowly encouraging and allowing young militants being made out of innocent minds because of our failure in commonsense education. Most of the religious and militant groups know this very well, the best currency to propagate their rigid views is the young mind.

 

This is to say Thank You, Lanka Bell

I have switched to Lanka Bell and Hutch for my data communication and blog activity.
Both MobiTel and Dialog are not good in data work and communication.
That was the reason for my switch.
One need at least 3 G suport of hardware preferably 4 G.
We may never get 5 G in Ceylon due to the Government's massive debt to China for unnecessary infrastructure development which only a very few will utilize.
This is a King Kong country!

It should be "Dhammo Bavathu Dammiko" not raja

Every day, I wake up to a cassette recital of distorted Dhamma by cassette broadcast, while monks are partaking the early morning breakfast.
I now know that I wake up because of the early mornings hypoglycaemia and a toffee or a few biscuits put me back to my dream state.
Today luckily due to the rain, I did not hear the recital and I woke up to my cellphone alarm.
This piece is after a nice cup of tea.
Tea invigorates you more than the irritating  Dhamma recital by the cassette.
Now the Buddha is called Dhamma Raja due to.enormous volumes of Dhamma, he preached.
He also warns knowing 1000 stanzas makes you no better but knowing one with true understanding is an achievement.
The raja here has a different connotation and meaning.
It does relate to a real king or someone who tries to become a king by force of attraction to a political party.

 
What these guys in saffron cloths do is to make his dream a reality, not an illusion in the sense of Dhamma.
This piece is for course correction, not by force but by true understanding of what is left of Dhamma without distortion.
The Dhamma Pada  is the corner stone for learning Dhamma.
Be mindful of both the Dhamma and the guys preaching it by cassettes.

Ars-E MITE to Kadia, Kura and Dimia "Dammo Bavathu Dammiko"

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Ars-E MITE to Kadia, Kura and Dimia

"Dammo Bavathu Dammiko"

ART- MITE pronounced as Ars-E by the salesman in Ceylon.
The product is probably Chinese and it is not printed on the can of spray.


I was annoyed by a guy in TV with full European attire, suit with a tie, talking about graphite and granite or titanium.
I am afraid, he was a guy brought up by affluent parents and never touched soil or played with sand at the beach or Korn Pittu in the backyard.

These guys becoming professors is alien to me and in my full retirement and with no restriction by any institution of might, I should bring them down to earth.

I have done this to Carlo (not to ridicule him but to protect his image he carefully built over the ages, the freedom to think creatively and forcefully, who was surreptitiously used by guys wearing saffron cloths to utter nonsense).

Below is a brief description of ants which my (I do not blame her) wife tries to exterminate and me exploiting them, putting them to good use to clean up the rooftop garden.

We built our house on an anthill (there was no land left in the surroundings) where a giant cobra snake lived and its descendants come probably two miles away from a temple nearby to sunbathe and drink water annually.

I touched its trunk at the tail end inadvertently trying to reach the mail that come, not too often now.

He or she just slipped away meaning no harm to me.

The Dimias have vanished with felling of all the jack trees by followers of Ma Ra Regime.

I thought Kadias have gone leaving only Kuras.

Having sprayed ARS-e mite at places where mites were coming out with the rainy season giving them some soft soil and foothold.

Mind you, they have destroyed a few of my books (really my father in law’s) mainly Buddhist scriptures, I have never read.

My discovery of ARS-e Mite followed that and I donated all my Dhamma books to a friend who taught me ABC of Buddhism in right perspective.

So me loving ants is not related Buddhism but to the contribution they make to our ecological system and their Queen not the King lives over hundred years not like our Ra Jas who are living on artificial aids with distorted Pirith Cassettes played by misguided monks saying “Raja Bavathu Dammiko”.

I believe Buddha never uttered them.

It should be read as “Dhammo Bavathu Dammiko” (my rendering of Pali which was Buddha’s dialect in his time) which the Buddha predicted would wane over the next 5000 years.

We are actually in the midst of vanishing Dhamma and advancing political rhetoric of self acclaimed Ra Jas.

Reproduction with English edited

Ants are social insects that can be found in all terrestrial ecosystems. They are also very common in all human settlements, as well as in the forest floor.
Well over 6000 species of ants are found on investigation and are described in literature.
With new species to be discovered in future research.

Sri Lanka is home to 229 species of ants that are classified to 66 genera and 12 subfamilies.

There are 102 endemic species in Ceylon, with 49 degree of endemism. One endemic genus Aneuretus is also included to this list of classification.

The following a list according to the Ants of Sri Lanka by Prof. R.K. Sriyani Diaz's  (2014) ? Book or Literature not stated ? comprehensive edition by Biodiversity Secretariat of the Ministry of Environmental and Renewable Energy of Ceylon (little coordination with ants and energy unless ants produce biofuel on their death cycle).

 

Using Your Cellphone as an Efficient Productive Package

Using Your Cellphone as an Efficient Productive Package 

Yes, your cellphone is a little computer that can be used as your workhorse, if you care to organize it, effectively.

 If you use it as a Gossip Engine you are missing my point. 

 One need not have to pay money for daily gossip. 

Let that be done by the politicians and mass media conglomerates with vested interests.

 Keeping touch with your family is one thing but fiddling with this radioactive machine nearer than 55cms is not good for your daily health and also for people who have electronic gadgets implanted in them.

So be considerate to your fellow beings in public transport and public places.

The cellphone is a private piece, essentially, an extension of your self or precisely your mouth and your ear.

 So treat it as such.

Now coming to using it as a productive computer one has to get rid of the voice piece, in the first instance.

The best way one can do that is to have two cellphones.

 One for critical messaging and contact and the other for productivity, even in your retirement.

In my case, the third one for testing Android applications.

 Having an email address is number one and many of my friends at my age do not know how to use an email effectively in Ceylon.

 That speaks of the standard of computer literacy in Ceylon.

 They have more than one cellphone, too.

 What a waste.

 The second is service provider/s and both leading providers, MobiTel and Dialog provide painfully shoddy service at a high cost.

 I have gone to HUTCH which provides an excellent service.

 So chose the provider who gives you the best service.

 The third is one should have a minimum of two SIMs, one for voice and the other for data.

Mind you they give 5 for one ID Card.

This ID card business is for the secret service to track you down your social life and liabilities that include your bank manager.

 The fourth is saving money on my computer and laptop which consume a lot of electricity to send an email.

 SMS from your cellphone is faster with video conference capability.

 One need not jack in a USB camera to your computer.

 The cellphone has made the computer obsolete.

The fifth point is managing the utilities you have and add a few for your needs.

In my case, the number of typefaces and Grammerly is my favourite.

The list can go up to 10.

I downloaded over 200 packages and deleted almost half just now having tested them briefly, including writer packages.

For my short blog pieces, the cellphone is adequate and this piece is to thank Google's blog site for having me there for over two decades.

 I am winding down my public profile and going strictly private and I do not want the military to be on my back, even though, I worked in consort with them in the past, at critical times of this country.

I love my privacy and military taking over civilian work in times of peace is an ominous sign and the harbinger of putative danger non-existent.

 In this country, a perfectly legitimate thing can be used for bad things.

 Unfortunately, we in this country are electronic vultures.

Look at the social media sites one-sided stories, often with political messaging and absolutely vulgar language.

 

Meant to be originally for the contact of office guys and girls and lately loved ones (after Coronavirus epidemic) BUT it can be taken over by a stupid guy in uniform.

Look at Belarus. 

Our women won't come out but they will support their excess, except a few.