Wisdom

Good morning everyone, a wise person once gave me what I consider, two very important pieces of information. He said, when you pray ask for protection and if you pray just for yourself, your prayers will go nowhere. For a lifetime now I have paid attention to his words. So everyday I ask for the protection of myself, my family, friends, and students, I ask that the peacekeepers of our world keep our planet safe and for those having hard times; that they may find Solace in their faith in Jesus Christ. I am happy to pass this on to you. Good morning.



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Dear Educators and To Busy To Pay Attention Parents:

Has anyone expressed a concern as to the “Reading Comprehension Tests “  being  given to our children in grades 3 – 7?  I became aware of the concern when my daughter read to me a story my grandson had to read as part of a reading comprehension test. The story was titled, “Sunday Blues”. I found it odd how negative the story became as she read it to me. Then, my daughter read to me the questions my grandson was required to answer as part of his understanding of what he just read. The multiple choices answers became even more negative than the story.  With each story read to me by my daughter over the course of a couple of days the stories became even more negative. My grandson was getting low scores from his teacher on his test and was told he did not understand what he was reading. My grandson is and always has been a straight “A” student.  I started to hear the concern in my daughter’s voice as we spoke each morning. This all came to a head when my granddaughter, also a straight “A’ student all of her life, (13 years old) received a 50% on a reading comprehension test.  Story line …mother sick, young child taking care of younger children, father works in Light House that gets hit by a tsunami  and now no one knows if he is died.  The multiple choice questions even worse.   I will jump right to the heart of this open letter.  It is my feeling that this is an attempt to attack the minds of our young to adapt a liberal passive mind set.  I see this as part of our governments continued efforts to weaken us from within and a very poor attempt to disguise it all under the premises of teaching empathy, passion and mercy.  I see this as only an attack on our young and I know, if you as a parent, learned of some one that was trying to hurt your child physically now or in the future, you would not just stand by and watch.  I have all intentions of sending this letter to the Florida State Senate, Change.org , etc. Our children and grandchildren are experiencing subliminal attacks daily by negative reading material. I watched the Common Core Video and witness teachers being fed tactics, instead of real ideas, on how to come together and teach. Teachers asked to describe and give a word that would represent a title for an obvious Common Core protocol and when they got it right, the Common Core officiator would say “see how that makes sense”.  When they got it wrong, that’s okay, you’re on the same wavelength as the creators of the Common Core Program. This is unacceptable by any standard.

  

Martial Arts Master Ron Tramontano

3 New Virtual Websites for Competing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-uaM5AAtIM Compete in our Open Monthly Tournament. That’s right; you can now compete each month with competitors from around the world. Whether you are an Extreme Martial Artist or Traditional, each month holds a different Martial Arts Subject Matter for you. Example, the month of July, for Extreme Martial Artist will be “Musical Forms” and for our Traditional friends, it's Self Defense. You can register today for any month you choose. When that month arrives, your video will stream along with all the other videos of competitors that have registered that month. All videos will be rated using our sliding scale star system. Videos receiving the most star points will be deemed the winners of that months competition. Only competitors that have entered into that months tournament may rate other competitor videos. www.virtualmaopen.com

The Martial Arts Network has been around a very long time. We love the Martial Arts and would like to take you back to a time in our very beginning through pages of our then Guestbook. Many of these famous martial artists are no longer with us. When you come across someone you knew or an Instructor you have trained with, please give mention to them in our new Forum. http://tman.com/archive-mai n.htm Thank you Master Ron Tramontano

Seal Team 1, Wow! the best of the best. For many people in America and around the world this is the flash that produces the thoughts and pictures in the minds of all of us as those words are spoken, and rightly so. They are the best, at what they choose to do. A team of men and women so finely tuned that a comparison can only produce one and only one thought and that is of the finest of Swiss Time Pieces. So finely created that its workings are without question as to pre session and accrues. Seal Teams train and execute missions much like this watch. Never missing a beat. A question arises however, Seal Team member, outside of his or her team, what do they aspires to? As an individual they are successful men and women that have acquired skills. Ask yourself this question. What is the difference between Ability and Skill? Ability is what we are born with and is given to us by God. Skill is what we have acquired through training and experience. What is experience? Trial and error...mostly error, bad chooses we hopefully learn from. There has never been nor will there ever be a Seal Team member or Team born with “ability only” that can do what Seal Team 1 has accomplished. Be dropped into Pakistan and take out Osama Bin Ladin. Individual Seal Team member training, and teamwork, are only but two of a three part quest for the making of a Seal Team 1 capable unit. The third part, is experience, and that is a killer. The Seals, of Seal Team 1 have had to do a mission or missions like this before to acquire the experience to qualify for the first team. If you were a member of any of the other teams and failed, there is a good chance you’re dead. If you’re in Entrepreneurial World you’re probably broke, out of business and would like to be dead. Okay, you have passed the test and by trail and error you have been found worthy of your new position. SEAL Team 1... STOP! I forgot to tell you one more thing you have to know.

Seal Team 1, Wow! the best of the best. For many people in America and around the world this is the flash that produces the thoughts and pictures in the minds of all of us as those words are spoken, and rightly so. They are the best, at what they choose to do. A team of men and women so finely tuned that a comparison can only produce one and only one thought and that is of the finest of Swiss Time Pieces. So finely created that its workings are without question as to pre session and accrues. Seal Teams train and execute missions much like this watch. Never missing a beat. A question arises however, Seal Team member, outside of his or her team, what do they aspires to? As an individual they are successful men and women that have acquired skills. Ask yourself this question. What is the difference between Ability and Skill? Ability is what we are born with and is given to us by God. Skill is what we have acquired through training and experience. What is experience? Trial and error...mostly error, bad chooses we hopefully learn from. There has never been nor will there ever be a Seal Team member or Team born with “ability only” that can do what Seal Team 1 has accomplished. Be dropped into Pakistan and take out Osama Bin Ladin. Individual Seal Team member training, and teamwork, are only but two of a three part quest for the making of a Seal Team 1 capable unit. The third part, is experience, and that is a killer. The Seals, of Seal Team 1 have had to do a mission or missions like this before to acquire the experience to qualify for the first team. If you were a member of any of the other teams and failed, there is a good chance you’re dead. If you’re in Entrepreneurial World you’re probably broke, out of business and would like to be dead. Okay, you have passed the test and by trail and error you have been found worthy of your new position. SEAL Team 1... STOP! I forgot to tell you one more thing you have to know.

Do you remember that Swiss Time Piece we where talking about? The one that can run one hundred years without missing a beat. Why do you think it can do that? I will tell you why. Because it knows it’s a Swiss Time Piece and it has Purpose, Integrity and Honor, made by a team of people with the same values. I see it this way. While the sum of the parts are enclosed in that solid gold watch case it will do its job and never let its team members that are also enclosed in that solid gold case down. For many of us that solid gold case may be an office or a basket ball court or a football field. For a Seal Team 1 member it’s the world stage. We can never forget the reasons we do the things we do. That’s what gets us home at the end of the day. When you walk through that door and hold the people you love in your arms, does it really matter how you got there? Or just that you’re there. At night, lie that solid gold watch on your night stands, and get into bed. Slide up to your world and hold them in your arm as you smile knowing the world your world is safer and better then it was yesterday.

No Death Sentence/Life W/O Parole on circumstantial evidence

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Case in point, Casey Anthony, you do not try to give a person a death sentence, or life in prison “Without Parole” only on circumstantial evidence. Justification for this kind of sentencing can only be made with hard factual evidence. Governor, Senators and Speaker, every day we read in the newspapers someone is getting out of prison because of new DNA evidence being found, or a new DNA test has been invented. Well, where is the balance for people who have been convicted on circumstantial evidence? When no physical evidence exist in a case it becomes impossible to prove your innocence. Today, it would seem one rule covers all events that fall into a specific category...such as crimes that fall under "capital felony". It needs to be changed by people who refuse to give the rule of law to another RULE... instead of giving it to a thinking person. Legislation I would like you to consider. I would ask that legislation be crafted that would not allow a person convicted on circumstantial evidence to receive a life term without parole. Please make this retroactive for all persons now being held in Florida jails. Have all persons that fall into this category go in front of a parole board for a review. If they have served an amount of time the board feels is just, and they have not been getting in any trouble while incarcerated, what would be the harm in giving them their life back? It would also save Florida some money and relieve the overcrowding in our prisons. Ron Tramontano

Is actress Angelina Jolie a martial arts aficionado?

Is actress Angelina Jolie a martial arts aficionado? Not sure. But she sure did have something quite smart to say recently about the martial arts and how they can help normally aggressive boys. "A lot of people who study martial arts know that if you have children who have any kind of aggression one of the best things to do is certainly not to ignore it, but to actually put that child into a martial arts class so they understand their own body, to learn discipline., to learn their own strength and then to harness it," Jolie told EW. "My boys wrestle all the time," she adds. "They're two boys, but they've been in martial arts classes for a while together and now they bow to each other, they know when to hit the mat [i.e. when they want to quit], they know when to stop wrestling. They have respect. But they're boys -- without that they're going to want to wrestle, to try things and test themselves. It's a primal thing. But to keep it in an organized way where it shows respect and discipline is fantastic." Get Your Child Started ...