Policing is not Educating...

Educating does not mean Policing...

I am always thankful that I at long last retired from the classroom teaching...
All through my teaching career in higher education, in middle education or  in lower education I was not left alone to teach the way I wanted to teach...

• The admin persistently, incessantly, tirelessly demanded conformism... both from teachers and of course, from students...                                                                                                     The students must and should learn how to conform to the norms of society, they insisted...The corollary of this demand is that we have to suppress the spontaneity and creativity of students and make they abide by the official dogma and societal norms... In the teacher workroom (preparation room - math office or whatever...) I always complained that the bureaucratic expectation have surpassed those of the Soviet Union...That Stalin would have been very happy witnessing how far Canada and U.S. have ossified the bureaucratic rule...                                                                                                                                              The bureaucratic expectation were grating every single cell in my body...I always wanted to rebel...I vented my frustration in the classroom at times, but then those students you had a grudge against me run to the admin and ratted...                                                                          
  
                                                                                                            
• Over and over I was in trouble and but that is a price that I was willing to pay...                       There was this incident...                                                                                                                 A bright young lady had overstretched herself...She was in every committee that you may imagine...and because of that her marks were average... I told her to be more selective...She went to her parents and complained about my suggestion....The parents informed the vice-principal....The VP contacted me...In her office we chatted....After all,by that time they new where I was coming from...The parents visited me too...They told me they want their daughter to have an all rounded experience and it is not up to me to give her directions..."You just teach your math...", they emphasized...                                                     After that incident, I did not even teach the math to her...I let her be...and have her all rounded experience...They did not need me and I did not need the headache...                         When I was retiring she visited me and told; "I will miss you...You are a good teacher...But we had our differences..."                                                                                                               I love Kafka, I admire George Orwell...Both hated the bureaucracy...I hate it too...

• The teachers always insisted that they know it all...They refused any suggestions coming from others about their teaching style or a friendly observation...The moment I made a suggestion...one of the teachers began..."Why you are crucifying me...?" Of course they are good people, but they lach the vision for the future...At least most of them....

Double talk...|War is peace...Freedom is slavery...

• Students are just after their marks....Knowledge does not even enter into the equation... They are at school to have good time...and good marks...Of course they are good kids...I loved them...But they lacked the enthusiasm to research and experiment and find out for themselves.... In my blog post for yesterday, I wrote about Abhishek...He wrote about himself...I posted it...He amended the post...We had fun...I am sure you, the reader, appreciated our fun...But he is in a very small minority...of enthusiasts who are after knowledge and learning...Of course marks will follow their excellent effort... Pursuing just marks is counter productive and anti-educational....

Look at the classrooms below...

Wonderful and imaginative design...You may change the setting according to the need of the day...The four walls are eliminated and no one will be claustrophobic... 

Indeed it is visionary...

WHAT’S THE CONCEPT?

An elementary school featuring green energy, movable walls and an open floor plan that incorporates science and math theories into the very foundation of the building

WHY IS IT COOL?

It bucks the traditional model of closed-door classrooms and operates on the theory that the whole school is a learning lab.

When the setting is visionary...It will help the kids to be more open...When the kids are more open, they will challenge their teachers...The teachers will be on their toes and provide answers...

An Example....

Every morning I had the opportunity to listen to stimulating discussions on CBC radio....While driving for an hour, I listened to  economic and social and political news and analysis...When an item interested me...I noted that down in my mind and discussed it in my MATH class...to open up critical thinking...After all, I firmly believe that most of my students will not need the higher math, but will benefit from critical thinking...Some will be engineers, granted....Some will be accountants, understood, but most will pursue occupations with minimal math and much, too much critical thinking...As a teacher, as a math teacher, it is my duty to open the kids up to reasoning and logical deductions...and opening them up to critical inferences...
Most will forget the math...Most will not even need the math...But ALL will need critical thinking...
And,
Critical thinking abhors conformism...
When I read yesterday's post...before posting it on the blog... Abhishek was admitting that he "does not believe in God"... I was happy and surprised .... He was bold and straight forward...and I respected him more...
He had the temerity to cross the line and proclaim his belief...I inwardly said..."ALL THE POWER TO YOU...Abbe" 

           Abbe...If you can do it...ACT on it...

....And the Monkey says...Question Everything....

It is daring and it is good...Breaks the mold and defeats the bureaucratic conformism of the majority...
He wants to think...and he wants to soar...and as a teacher, I will help him acquire the wings...that's what teachers do...even if they will be in trouble and reprimanded for that...

Today while browsing the news I came across the "mysterious Woman in Black"...it caught my imagination...and If I was driving to school, i would have challenged the kids and their imagination with this item...31 July 2014 Last updated at 00:30 BST

Some locals have called her a ghost, others have called her a prophet, but regardless of her true identity, a mysterious woman shrouded in black has left Americans spellbound as she travels by foot across the country.

This "woman in black," as she has been named on social media, has walked more than 1,000 miles, acquiring a loyal social media following.

One Facebook page has accumulated nearly 60,000 followers.

So who is the real "woman in black" and why is she walking from Alabama to Virginia?

I do not know why she is walking...No body knows...
I do not know what the reason behind her walk is... No one knows as yet...
But she is ACTING according to her inner urge and independent of her peers and oblivious to "what people will say..."
Some think she is a saint...Some think she has mental problems...Some think she has issues...But, SHE DOES NOT GIVE A F...to what people think...
She is ACTING and smashing the bureaucratic mold...
That's what I wanted the kids to learn...

The mysterious woman in black walking across the US

She is walking and does not give a F...What people think...She is acting according to her inner needs...

She has walked miles and miles...and people are wondering..."Is she a saint?"..."Has she lost it all?"..."Is she on drugs?"....But I admire her audacious ACT...She is doing what she needs to do...

Abhiskek declared that he does not believe in God...

The "Woman in black" is walking....She is ACTING according to her inner needs...


The admin is asking for conformism...

Admin...Bureaucrats KNOW IT ALL...

The teachers are lacking the vision...

Where is the teacher...Where is the VISION... and HOW DO ALL THIS WORK...?

...And now the all important question...What YOU Are Up To...? What Will YOU Do...?

After all, YOU do not have to be part of the faceless crowd....

We Can Learn from the Kids too...

We Can learn New and GOOD Ways from the Street Rascals too...

I love languages and it has been my hobby to explore and learn more about word origins and word history... Etymology has always fascinated me...So, when I was studying English literature in the university...I registered to several language courses... 

Beautiful adventure...into the realm of history and projections for the future...

Two factual concepts have remained with me...

• language is a breathing and living entity and it evolves in time...and space too...             Yesterday I visited an older teacher...and while discussing they mentioned the world villa...Actually he said: "now the old village is transformed and row upon row of villas have been built..." I did not dare to digress, he was in talking mood and i have too much respect for him, and ask do you know how the world villa originated...or better evolved...?                 The word "villa" has evolved from "villain" and it originally denoted the abode where the "villain" resided...                                                                                                                       The "villain" was the highwayman who robbed and kidnapped people on the highways...So people banished them from the cities and they lived on the outskirts of cities (suburbs...?) and since they had the money, albeit from robberies and kidnappings..., they had specious and luxurious villas...                                                                                                                   So originally "villa" was the abode of bad people...But now it ie the dwelling of the rich and famous... It has shed its original bad connotation and sensitized into the modern day positive image of the "villa"...
• Now let me digress, it just occurred to me that  may be the evolution of the word "villa" is an intentional one and ties the "villains" of the past, the highwayman, to the "villains" of the present day - the rich and the famous...                                                                                 It is ironic and funny... Once I complete this blog post I will research this connection...That will be my entertainment of the day...That will keep my brain agitated and alive... Great...!
• The second factual concept is that the slang which is developed on campuses and in street corners evolve and get absorbed into the main stream and eventually become another form of English idiomatic structure... An easy and trite example will be the word "cool"...             It originated in street corners and then evolved into the mainstream... Also the greeting "hey"...replaced the old fashioned "Good Day..." And modern classics like Cather in the Rye elevated the spoken slang into respectable literature...

Why this lengthy introduction...?

1. Education...After all my blog has that intrinsic value to educate and crumble the four walls of the structured classroom and open up the Global Village for me...That's my reward for retiring from four-walled-education system...

2. I want to draw attention to the "fist-pump"... My students always got a kick whenever I went along with their playfulness and greeted them with a "fist-bump"- props... 
Indeed it was fun and developed a closer and more intimate understanding between the kids and myself...also it told them that they may trust me and that I will help...
So besides the new words in our language, we can introduce new ways in our customs and way of living...
We should not always condemn the ways and means and the talk of the street smarts... Pay attention to them...Most probably we can learn good and healthy ways from them too...
Do not dismiss the funny ways of the street...have a second look and think...

Sweaty palms, vice-like grips or the insufferable limp hand may be the least of your hand-shaking worries.

And now I am hoping that this fist-bump -props- will go mainstream and be adopted by all...and be the respectable way of greeting...

Dr. Dave Whitworth and PhD student Sara Mela

The doctor says it is healthier than hand shakes or high fives...

It is good photo op....Good politics...

At his first inauguration students installed a screen and brought their lap top and we followed the pomp and circumstances and speeches all they...

I never realized that he is more interested in photo ops than solving world problems... 

He just grins while Ukraine and Gaza are burning....

After all, he compounded the injustice and all the wars that Bush had initiated...

        

                             It is fun ..............and it has a tie too...looks respectable...

....And few-line history and few terms for fist-bump

A fist bump (also called dap, pound, fist pound, brofist, donsafe, spudding, fo' knucks, box, Bust, pound dogg, props, Bones, respect knuckles, bumping the rock …

Fist bumping first appeared in America in the 1940s, as biker gangs were becoming popular in southwestern areas of the United States. Motorcyclists sitting next to each other at traffic lights would be unable to perform a proper handshake, due to riding stance, so a quick bump of closed fists was an easier way to greet a fellow rider at a stop.

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When I was still a classroom teacher it annoyed me when a student pretended a fake smile…On the other hand, I was genuinely happy when a student was indeed happy and smiled from the heart…Like my friend “Visionary Determination.”

Faking a smile just made the student look "stupid" and phony... and most of the time the female students faked a smile...I am not sure why, but the boys were more genuine and spontaneous...

When the  smile is phoney and it will demean you and attempt to demean me..too..

Is he laughing at us... or may be just barely tolerating our follies...? Enjoy his smile...and decide for yourself...

                       Is he mocking....?                               ....Or may be not...!

I am not sure where the Hollywood actors stand... But I think that he is just acting...

In the classroom the fake smile and the grin... always irritated me...I wanted the smack the smirk out of the face of the student...But then...They are allowed their stupid grin...but I am not allowed to smack them...

It is the law...

Is he annoying or entertaining....?

Whichever the case he is making money by his ways and means...

I am sure some "funny" students have attempted to imitated this geek...but imitated just the face and of course ignored the brain...

When I am writing this, there are so many faces with phony smiles in front of me...

The male students are brutes most of the time...and resort to physical violence....

The female students are gossipy and smirk faced clowns ... and stab the teachers behind their back...They run to their moms...to the admin and rat...and Ratting looks nicer if you exaggerate and make things up...

Oh...How happy am I to be liberated from the classroom walls... I was so happy that I even left some of my personal items there...I just wanted to leave...I just had enough of the gossipy female and pretentious male students ...and the teachers who just stuck to the book and have no imagination... and the admin who just refuses to rise up to the challenge and wallow in their policing ways...instead of educating the kids...

Big Brother in Action Again...

Big Brother in Action...
Read the news items below...Look at the funny photos of the famous and not-so famous bums...
I never appreciated this fashion...But I tolerated it...
When I was a classroom teacher...I said to the kids...
"Your pants are falling down..." They got confused ...but did not care...and I did not stop and wait...It was just a passing remark...not a confrontation or "imposing" the laws... After all I was not a policeman...
or,
"Pull up your pants, man..." and walked away... I did not wait and follow the skin of the law...It wasn't up to me...and I let the kids in the classroom know...
Whenever they announced on the PA that I had to impose a fashion by-law...I told the kids...
" I am a teacher, and not a policeman..." I even extended these logical reasoning to "cheating"...on a test...I talked to the kids in private and encouraged them to study more so as they will not put themselves in such a predicament...After all it is analogous to not working and attempting to survive on BNE's...it is not socially accepted behaviour and will lead to trouble...
But,
The Big Brothers...attempt everything...Since they have the power, but not the brain...
Arthur Miller's The Crucible has made a profound effect on me...What a wonderful play... (There is a very good version on DVDs...watch it...)
I definitely do not appreciate the spectacle...be it from Bieber or a street urchin...But I will never side will Fashion Police or Though Surveillance and Thought Police...
I genuinely dislike ALL types of Big Brothers...They think they know it all...and of course the corollary of that premise is that...we, the rest, are misguided and do not know enough...
So Big Brothers need to impose laws so as they will SAVE US FROM OUR "EVIL" SELVES...
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I think they are just pretentious and pompous...full of themselves... ass ( play add your choice of word here...)

(CNN) -- A Florida town has banned people -- let's face it, young people -- from wearing saggy pants.

A councilwoman for Ocala pushed for passage of the law, but the town's Mayor Kent Guinn may ultimately veto the fashion police.

If the law goes into effect, it's unclear what measuring tools the Ocala Police Department would use to determine whether citizens' pants are within the 2-inch legal limit of a theoretical waistline. It's even more unclear how they will determine where the waistline actually lies on an individual.

We can not do much if they want to expose themselves...

The Terrebonne Parish council voted 8-1 in favor of an ordinance to outlaw the pants and fine anyone 50 dollars for a first offense and $100 for the second.

Well, his brain is in his pants...And he knows how to market it...

He is earning millions...isn't he...?

It is stupid...But when you have millions even your bum looks like a brain...

The city council of Pikeville, TN  recently made a bold fashion statement, unanimously voting to ban saggy pants.  Anyone whose pants fall three inches or more below the top of their hips could be fined up to $50.

Poor kids...They have confused brains with bums...

Both words start with a "b" and it is very difficult to distinguish one from the other...

Big Brother and I...

Few years ago I had two students Pavel and Michael...Difficult kids...Lazy too...But they were in the graduating class...Somehow they were pushed up to that level...Not because of their maturity and knowledge, but because of their height and age...

We had good relationship... After all,

• I expected good things from them...and they expected good marks from me...
• I expected maturity and self respect from them...and they expected "fatherhood" from me...

Once I asked Pavel, "Were you not the kid that refused to hand in his baseball cap to me...and run away daring me to chase you...?"

"Sounds like me...," he replied...

I made his realize that I remember...I made him appreciate the fact that I want better things from him...

He realized it...He appreciated it...He thanked me for it...and the next day he wrote a good test...He got 77%....Wonderfully unprecedented...

He was happy...I was happier...for him...

Few days later both Pavel and Michael did not attend class...After two days they showed up again...They were an inseparable pair...I have no clue what their personal relationship was...and I

asked Michael, "where were you the last couple of days...?" He smiled ...looked at Pavel and both smiled...I knew they are up to something...I waited ... for an answer, patiently...I was not going to repeat the question... Finally Michael said, " Sir, we went to Queen's park...Where the provincial government is...We were at the 'World Free Cannabis Day'..." and Pavel took a small bag about the size of a quarter from his pocket and mischievously asked: "Sir, do you want it...?"

I pretended that I did not hear and I did not see it...Well Pavel thrived on challenging the system and mocking the Big Brother...and I was not going to give his childish fancy any satisfaction...I guess he would have darted put the moment I asked for the "coin"...like once he did for his baseball cap...
I pretended that I did not hear him and I did not see the "coin"... After all, I am not sure whether he was teasing or pretending...and I was not in the mood to be a policeman...I wanted to reach out to them and I wanted them to graduate...
I was an educator and i wanted to educate...and challenge their imagination...
I wanted them to learn to think independently and above all to mature up...

 

Marijuana Plant...and Pavel asked: "Sir, do you want it...?"

But some other kids had seen the entire incident too...

I was called to the Principal's Office and was reprimanded....because I did not report to the admin the incident.... The principal did not ask if what the students ratted was true or not...He just rebuked me for being a teacher and not a policeman...

I did not argue with him....He knew where I stand on the issue...He just reminded me of my duties so as to cover his ass in case the students ratted to higher authority...or the rumours went up the ladder...

After few "cannabis incidents" Michael was suspended and he barely graduated....

Pavel and Michael both attended university...They visited me in their first year...But then I do not know what happened to them... 

I think my way of relating to the kids was the right way...

I think the principal and the admin erred...

I think the rats should be scolded...instead of being patted at the back...

We have to teach kids to develop good and solid character...and ratting should not be part of it...

Mother and daughter...

"She said 'Mama' for the first time..."

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....And a News Item ...About a mother and a daughter...and Big Brother and Medical marijuana...

(CNN) -- Doctors in Macon, Georgia, told Janea Cox that her daughter, Haleigh, might not live another three months.

That was the middle of March, when Haleigh's brain was being short-circuited by hundreds of seizures a day, overrunning the array of five potent drugs meant to control them. Worse, the drugs were damaging Haleigh's organs.

"She was maxed out," Cox said. "She'd quit breathing several times a day, and the doctors blamed it on the seizure medications."

Cox had heard that a form of medical marijuana might help, but it wasn't available in central Georgia. So a week after hearing the ominous diagnosis, she and Haleigh packed up and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, Haleigh began a regimen of cannabis oil: four times a day and once at night.

By summer, she was down to just a handful of seizures a day. In less than three months, doctors were able to wean her off Depakote, a powerful medication that had been damaging her liver.

Haleigh had never been able to walk or talk. But freed from seizures in Colorado, "She said 'Mama' for the first time," Cox said. "She's playing with puzzles; she's walking. She's almost being a normal child."

Despite all the good news, Cox is living in limbo. Her husband, a paramedic, couldn't afford to leave his job and pension; he still lives and works in Forsyth, Georgia. The family is relying on charity to keep their Colorado apartment for the next few months; beyond that, the future is uncertain.

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It is a good news story...But Big Brother should abandon I know it all approach ...and listen to the people...

May be principals in the schools should be more educators than policemen...

May be "teachers" and admin should find more ways to listen to the kids and their problems...

May be we should educate the kids to think for themselves and not just follow orders and trend the line...
May be those who rat should be punished...
May be those in trouble should be helped...

....and,

I am certain that suspension is another form of evading ones responsibility...

Suspensions do not educate...

Expulsions dump the kid on someone else's lap...

So...

Those who suspend the kids from education...and those who expel kids from educational institution...should be arrested and their educators licences should be revoked...

A Fable for ALL TIMES .... The Magic tree,,,,

Let's Celebrate a fable 
I love it because I just brought all together and now I see the bigger picture...
I have told the students to think for themselves...They have rebelled.... Some even went home and complained to their parents...The parents confronted me..."You do not teach properly, that's why my son got a low mark..." Some went to the principal....complained about my accent...and instead of the principal dismissing them with an appropriate lesson on tolerance and diversity, he leaned on me and transferred the student to another section...So went to their vice-principals and the VPs told me that I am lazy...I told the VPs that I arrive to school earlier than all the teachers and definitely earlier than the VPs...I arrived at school between 6:30 - 7:00 and left the school between 4:00 - 5:00 on most days...But since I was fed up of peevish students and  quixotic VPs, I did not argue with them and let it be...They even dared to demonstrate to me how to teach ... and show-off educational methods...
But now enough of them...Let's celebrate the fable...

You may stop here and say...It's what the Bible says...After all, indeed that's what happens under the apple tree...So take things at their face value and go to your everyday chatter and accusations and gossip...

Or 
You may stop and think...Believe it or not THINKING IS FREE...That is what I wanted the students to do...Some of them appreciated it...Most of them were angry and frustrated...So invented legends like "his accent," "his looks...""his way of explaining..." or "not explaining things..." or simply "He is very hard and demanding..." and run to their parents in order to hide under their skirt or in their pants....
In schools it is the accepted premise..."students-parents are always correct..." and "blame the teacher..." and "never accept responsibility..." and Ps and VPs will protect you...

When you think...When you "try and err"...You will arrive at your "eureka" moment and learn from your errors and be a scientist like Newton and the rest...
I always wanted the students to learn through experimentation and "trial and error"...                     I asked them over and over again..."what famous scientists do...?" 
I answered my question too...
"The famous scientist wakes up in the morning...washes her face...dresses up...heads to the lab...and plays with mice...and experiments...and experiments again..." At the end of the day he returns home stretches his legs and says..."Oh...I am so tired..."
But what he achieved...? He worked on a cure for AIDS or cancer or...and She will do the same again tomorrow and the day after and the day after that...for years to come...till he or she arrives at the "eureka" moments for AIDS or cancer...
If they give up after 5 minutes...then what will happen...?  
NOTHING...ZERO....VACUUM
I emphasized: "When you are a student....You 'try and err', but when you are the famous scientist...they say you 'experimented all day...' even they reward you for your research....
I had it on my classroom wall in big letters: TRIAL and ERROR = RESEARCH....But teachers have disagreed with it and Ps and VPs have told me to write few verses from the Bible instead of ?nonsense" and of course most students have complained to their mom and dad and Ps and VPs and the gossip has evolved till ALL believed the myth...
Blessed are the blind minded people...Because they will inherit the wars and the hunger and the misery of the Global Village...

Enjoy The Beauty and Spread the Magic....

In spring, the trees blossom in shades of pink, crimson and white, and in summer, they bear a range of stone fruit.

Incredible 'magical' trees that bear 40 different varieties of fruit have been popping up all over US, the Daily Mail reports.
These trees - which can simultaneously produce different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries - look ordinary throughout most of the year. But in spring, they bloom into a stunning patchwork of colors, with each tree featuring its own unique selection of stone fruit.

They are the work of Syracuse University sculptor and artist Sam Van Aken who created the trees in an attempt to make people reconsider how food can be produced. The project began in 2008 when Mr Van Aken discovered that a New York state orchard, which held varieties of stone fruit 200-years-old, was to be abandoned.
In hopes of saving it, the artist bought the orchard, and soon after started experimenting with something known as 'chip grafting.' The process involves taking a sliver off a tree, including the bud, and
inserting that into a cut in the working tree. The foreign tree part is then taped and left to heal over the winter. Mr
Van Aken explained that most stone-fruits are easily compatible. What he came up with is 'The Tree of 40 Fruit', which is in fact, not one tree, but a series of hybridised fruit plants. 'So rather than having one variety that produces more than you know what to do with, it provides good amounts of each of the 40 varieties.

I love the colours...I love the Play-Doh...a simple and very easy way to experiment and to create...What a wonderful thing that an ingenious and observant and visionary teacher brought to her students...

A very simple thing to just observe...The wall paper cleaner...Safe and non-toxic...Like newton's apple tree...

                                                                                   The original Play-Doh....The original idea...

The Play-Doh is a good thing to play with...it is a good trial and error method...to create and give wings to your imagination...

Here is what happens when you imagine and think and think again...

A BillBoard That acts like 1,200 trees...

Can a billboard save the Earth?

Peru’s University of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) has transformed the advertising behemoths into sources of clean air and water for the local community. 

Students and staff from UTEC have partnered with a local advertising company, FCB Mayo, to create an air-purifying billboard using existing technology cleverly placed inside the highway sign. The billboard sucks air into a water tank, which balances internal heat and traps particles, allowing clean air to flow out the other side. Best of all, the billboard can be placed near construction zones to alleviate pollution.

• I wish leaders notice this...

• I wish this will transform the billboards on the highways and the byways...and the ads on our streets...

...And Why you should care?

Because advertising is already an integral part of our cities. We might as well make it work for us.

Peru’s University of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) believes that engineers can change the world. As proof, it has transformed billboards — fixtures so commonplace that most of us barely notice them — into sources of clean air and water for the local community.

The newest billboard cleans roughly

70,000 cubic meters

of air per day, equivalent to

1,200 trees.

These efforts are welcome in the capital, Lima, a city that’s both on the rise and on the edge. Located in a coastal desert, Lima struggles with 98-percent humidity but receives just a third of an inch of precipitation each year, causing extreme water shortages. Some 1.2 million poor Limeños are forced to buy punitively expensive water from private, unregulated trucks, and they’re paying about 20 times what wealthier residents with better infrastructure pay for running water.

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A MOSQUITO-REPELLENT NEWSPAPER IN SRI LANKA

A core objective of journalism is to spread information for the benefit of society — a goal that is increasingly carried out online these days. But sometimes an old-fashioned print newspaper is still the most powerful engine for public good — in highly unexpected ways. Earlier this year, advertising powerhouse LEO BURNETT in Sri Lanka partnered with the Sinhala-language newspaper MAWBIMA in a campaign to fight deadly dengue fever. Together they created what could be the world’s first  MOSQUITO-REPELLENT NEWSPAPER...
May be...
Next time you complain when the ink from your Sunday paper gets on your fingers, imagine the potential of that ink to save lives — and perhaps you’ll be less bugged. 
And even,
May be start to THINK and TRY and ERR and...may be arrive at your EUREKA moment and besides enjoying the apple the old fashioned way...YOU WILL THINK OF NEW WAYS...to enjoy...May be mix with salad...may be use to demonstrate the evil power of a bullet that kills...

Be careful...aim it right...aim at the apple...Do not kill people...

...And then think ...[ WE AGREED THAT IT IS FREE...] 
   An apple a day...will keep the doctor away...and you will THINK MORE....