The will to accomplish the impossible as the possible

The young man pressed on into the mountains for days. The Kumgang Mountains in Korea have thousands of peaks and span a huge area of land. One day sitting down eating rice balls a ratty old woman stumbled out from the thick underbrush. She asked the young man for some of his rice balls and he gave her some. She asked him why he wondered so far into the mountains as few dare to come this deep into the brush. He told her that he had come to hunt the white tiger, she warned him to go home as it was too dangerous and that he would be better off to go home where it was safer. She remarked that those like her who live in these mountains do not know if they will live to see another day while the tiger lives. He told here that he had practiced for many years and has homed in his skill, acquired beyond the expectations of everyone and thus he would stay to hunt the tiger. The old women told him to shoot the tiger one must hit it in one shoot when one first sees it on the horizon, to miss or delay means death. Oddly enough the skill the young man had developed was apt for such a hunt, after all he could shoot a pin in a tree from a mile away and a ant off a hill without hitting the hill from three miles away, if anyone could kill the white tiger it was him. The old woman then left the boy who began to scan the horizon for the white tiger. So the impossible tasks accomplished led to the possibility of beating the tiger the old woman stated was fast and once it pounced its prey was dead. Aiming high helps make hard tasks easier once you have trained to accomplish the impossible as possible.

Peace till next week
Ciao

The hunter's son that could

Finally the boy mastered pig shooting ants off of hills without scratch the hill top. The old innkeeper then said :"With your skill now, surely you will avenge your father's death." She prepared a bag full of provisions like rice balls the hunters Son now obviously a young man thanked her and continued on his way. If one notices the elderly innkeeper points to something interesting. Though the young mans mother and innkeeper kept giving him impossible tasks, he was able to make the impossible possible. They set such high standards that once achieved they created someone greater than could ever be expected. The desire to overcome the obstacles with practise and effort led to an accomplishment that far exceeded anything imagined as possible
the moral thus far , aim high and do your best.

ants with targets on their backs

the boy finally after three years learned how to shoot the top leaf to the tree the old innkeeper had pointed out. However , accomplishing this task did not impress the innkeeper who said " Just because you can do that, it still doesn't mean you can out shoot your father. Why, your father used to set an ant on the side of a cliff and then, from a distance of three miles away, he would shoot that ant off without even scratching the surface of the cliff. No matter what a fine gunman you may be, certainly you can't match that." It took another three years to learn how to do the impossible task of shooting an ant three miles awaym without out scarring the hill the ant was situated on. The inn keepers tasks were as impossible as the boys mother. She wanted to save the boys life as she had seen many passer by die trying to hunt the white tiger.
Her inn was the last before entering the mountains where the white tiger lived.
If one notes the tiger has now lived past the average age of a real white tiger, yet the tiger in the tale is as young and ferocious as it was 30 years ago.
till next week

Inn of trick shooting

After getting permission from his mother the son set off for the Kumgang Mountains. At the foot hills to the mountain he found an inn run by an elderly women. He told her that he had come to hunt the white tiger that had taken the life of his father so many years ago. She told him that she remembered his father and that he was one of the greatest marks person gunner in the land. She turned to him and told him that his father could shoot the leaf off the top branch of a tree a distance from where they spoke. The woman said "If you can't do the same thing, how can you expect to defeat the White Tiger?"
The boy then tried to equal the feat the woman claimed his father was able to do. The boy turne4d his back to the tree and shot missing said leaf. He had asked the old innkeeper if he could stay around for the duration it would take to master this feat. She gave him permission.
Thus, he resigned himself to practice for three more years before he could accomplish this close to impossible feat. He had asked the old innkeeper if he could stay around for the duration it would take to master this feat. She gave him permission.

Why is the in keeper acting as his mother did?
Did she simply see too many hunters fall to the white tiger?

What does she represent?

update on gas prices

I just got off the phone with Enbridge gas distribution and listened to their blurb on gas prices.

Here in Ontario and it is similar around the country:
gas prices went up Jan 1, 2010 to 19.96 from 19.86 cents\ per cubic meter of gas.
the Ontario Energy board has approved this rate
One receives a 7.0494 cent reduction of the price based on a gas rebate
thus the cost is 12.9141 cents.
Whether you have a set contract for gas prices or not, Enbridge, or your contract provider, will charge you approximately 3 cents for transportation for each cubic meter of gas consumed. So you will pay about 16 to for example 33.2 plus 3 cents totaling 36.2 cents with a contract for gas prices.
the price increase is due to higher transportation costs moving gas alone pipe lines and so on to Ontario from the USA and western Canada.
Distribution decreases will amount to 18 cents worth of saving a year.
You can call enberigde or any distributor for a update on current gas prices.
All provinces offer rebates thus making gas prices cheaper.

Peace
that is the gas issue done.

Comments to gas contract post.plus a legal disclaimer

Here are the comments plus a legal disclaimer I posted concerning

Gas price scams exposed

by valpetridis @ 2010-03-13 – 14:41:11

* Morgan steinbrandt (Visitor)
* 2010-03-13 @ 16:57:53

Val,

I am an executive at Direct Energy and I would like it very much if you would remove this posting from your blog. Please consider this a warning, refusal to remove said entry will result in legal action.

Sincerely,

Morgan Steinbrandt

# valpetridis
# 2010-03-13 @ 23:25:21

Freedom of expression allows me to say what I believe to be true. The facts listed are true, as you will note concerning both the cost of the contracted sale of gas as well as the situation listed concerning the elderly people duped to believe you sold then a contract at market price. In fact, I also was contacted and was told the same thing from one of the sales people at your company and I quote" is this the actual market price?" " yes sir this is the actual market price.
I take it the truth concerning said contracts did not sit with you well, unfortunately I will not retract said statement and have proof concerning its reality.
Note look up your better business bureau record as well as look at all the complaints concerning this issue that have been forwarded to the energy council of Canada.
you will not bully people like a thug from speaking their mind concerning your contracts.
I can speak my mind concerning my beliefs on matters of business, thank you
its my constitutional right

* MHB (Visitor)
* 2010-03-14 @ 15:09:30
On the contrary Val. Freedom of expression allows you to say what IS true, not what you BELIEVE to be true but is in fact false.

What you are doing is libel; a statement or representation published without just cause and tending to expose another to public contempt.

We are very open and forthright about our fixed plan rates. It says clearly on our website, in the Natural Gas Plans section, "If you choose the 5-Year Natural Gas Fixed Plan, you agree to pay 33.8¢/m3 for the natural gas you use for the duration of your agreement term."

http://residential.directenergy.com/EN/Energy/Ontario/Pages/GAS/Natural-Gas-Plans.aspx

Yes, Enbridge charges a lower /mm3 rate, (18¢/m3, not 12¢/m3 as you wrote in your massively incorrect post) but Enbridge also charges other hidden fees including a monthly customer charge, gas supply charge, transportation charge, delivery charge, and gas cost adjustment charge.

https://portal-plumprod.cgc.enbridge.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=248&PageID=0&cached=true&mode=2&userID=2______##10##___0___##11##_________##0##___ We do not charge any such hidden fees. With us, what you see is what you get.

According to YOUR logic, YOU would probably say that a retailer who charges $1.15 (tax included) for a candy bar is a crook because another retailer down the street is charging only $1.00 plus 15% tax.

Even if our charges work out to slightly more than Enbridge's in the end, our customers value the upfront nature and piece of mind they get from knowing what they are being charged and being able to plan their finances accordingly.

Would you say that buying a Lexus is a scam because there are cars available from Toyota that cost less?

People are willing to pay for service and high quality. If they do not wish to do so, that is their choice.

You said that the facts in your post are true, yet the prices you listed, both for Direct Energy and Enbridge, are incorrect.

You also said you old people who have gotten so sick due to losing money that their lives were ruined and they ended up in the hospital. What disease did they contract? Pooritis?

If the facts that you present are true. Why do you never provide your readers with links to the references that you use to get the information? Because the facts you say are not true, that's why.

You talk about constitutional rights, but if you don't change your tune, I'm willing to bet that our company's team of crack constitutional lawyers will soon be providing you with an ACTUAL education as to what kind of behaviour is and is not constitutional.

Sincerely.

# valpetridis
# 2010-03-14 @ 21:36:19
Actually I have not said anything except a determined thought concerning events that I have experienced.

Since I was told by a sales person who represented his company that the contract price was actually the real market price and the definition fraud is the willful deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage, it is safe to say that this individual did commit Fraud while representing his company.

Since I know old people who fell for this fraud and then got sick due to money problems, I can say that it truly did make some ill.

I have not commuted liable as I have nothing against any executive or even the company beyond said contracts.
In fact I still rent hot water tanks from direct energy and will continue too.

I have spoken to Enbridge last week and they told me their price is been 12 cents till it is set Next month by the energy board of Canada.
If anyone desires to continue paying your contract price versus the lower enbridge or set distributing price based on market price they can.
I recommend they do not.

I realize a small post has caused quit a stir with you guys.
Is it because you fear people might chose not to spend their extra hard earned money on said contracts?
Do you fear people might realize they are losing money on a plan that is set with minimal risk to the contracting company for loss of funds.
Are you afraid this might cause people not to purchase said contracts.

I know said companies do get investigated a lot for such situations and it often leads to sales people getting fired, though many sales people lie to get the sale and get a commission.

I know you are trying to damage control by claiming enbridge adds costs to gas distribution in hopes that some people reading your post might not realize how much extra money they are spending and cancel their contract, however said costs are added to the cost paid for has based on said contracts and thus saying so is trying to hide the fact that said contracts gas is expensive.

I have spoken the truth and with virtue have tried saving poor people money, you have posted hoping to make yourselves look competitive.
this is proof that what was said is even more true.

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However I add this disclaimer:
in no way does what I have said reflect on any company as a whole or any individual within any company per say.

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However 33 cents versus 12 or even 18 cents is excessive and not worth paying.

you should start reading my blog from the oldest post Feb 2008 and find out what real virtue is and why I am always under surveillance from csis and other organizations part of an executive task force( ya they record my conversations on the phone as do I sometimes.
Labor day weekend 2008 I list all the details that caused this monitoring to begin.
you can confirm the monitoring by call 55 division Toronto.
Peace and God bless

in addition there are several illnesses that can occur if people are stressed from things like not being able to pay bills esp if they fear losing their homes.
I know if you have money it might be hard to imagine it:

Stress illness see http://www.stressillness.com/
http://www.sunsetvideo.org/stress-related-illnesses.html

See this site esp because the elderly woman suffered a stroke and herart problems due to freaking and stressing over not being able to pay her bills.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20020812/mental-stress-physical-illness

Aug. 12, 2002 -- Taking stress to heart could put your life at risk. New research shows women who report high levels of mental stress are twice as likely to die from stroke or heart disease than those with low stress levels. And stressed-out men may not fare much better.

Mental stress has already been shown to increase the risk of heart disease in white men. But until now, researchers say the effects of stress on women and on people in other ethnic groups have not been extensively studied.

Hiroyaso Iso, MD, of the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki-ken, Japan, gathered information from more than 73,000 Japanese men and women aged 40-79. Each of the study participants completed a lifestyle survey that included questions about perceived stress levels. The researchers monitored their health for about eight years.

Nearly 9,000 women and 7,000 men reported high mental stress. Researchers found that women in the high-stress group were more than twice as likely as those with low stress to suffer a stroke or develop heart disease. This held true even after accounting for other potential causes.

High-stress women were also more likely than their relaxed counterparts to report a history of high blood pressure or diabetes. The stressed-out women tended to be younger, more educated, and less physically active.

In addition, researchers say that these high-stress women were also more likely to be angry, be in a hurry, feel hopeless, and feel unfulfilled.

The study found the overall link between mental stress and cardiovascular disease in general to be stronger among women than men. But men who reported medium or high levels of mental stress were nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack.

Researchers say they aren't exactly sure why they found a stronger association between mental stress and heart disease among women, but there might be a great deal of fluctuation in life stress as well as variance in how people perceive stress. Men may have also been less inclined than women to admit having high mental stress.

Stress is thought to increase the risk of heart disease and stroke in a variety of ways, such as raising blood pressure and affecting how the blood flows and clots.

The findings are published in the Aug. 13 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Peace

a mothers confidence for her excelling son

The fable of the white tiger confirms that the mother of the boy knew each of the feats she had said her late dead husband had performed were lies. She had hoped as we already mentioned that her son would fail the tests she gave him and give up on the tiger or at least wait till the tiger aged or died on its own. However the boy had proven himself more capable than his father and thus the mother was impressed enough to let him go hunt the white tiger. Not only did the boy do everything his father did, but he was able to do feats greater than his father ever could, in fact better than any human ever had, like shooting the pin in a trunk from a mile away. Maybe just maybe the boy might be able to do other things no one else could do like kill the white tiger and return alive to his sweat mother. Trying to save her son the mother pushed him to actuate miraculous skills and become so good that even she was impressed enough to be confident enough to believe her son could do what others could not, mainly kill the tiger and return alive.

till next week.

Gas price scams exposed

It has come to my attention that many companies now offer Gas price scams that have ripped off millions of people. Direct energy and Right price are two such companies. Such companies offer you contracts, often for 5 years in which you lock your gas price at what they often fraudulently call " market price". Usually this shady practice sets the price at three times the amount one might pay using a direct company gas supplier, like Enbridge gas distribution, that has its prices set by the federal government and is regulated to allow the necessity of gas or other fuels to be used for heating and cooking. Other energy supplies are also contracted out in the same manner, such as oil and electricity. In the 15 to 20 years this scam has been used no such company has ever lost a dime as they price themselves at such a high rate that even a shortage crisis could not exceed the amount they charge you. They have made millions and have caused many people who have inefficient fuel consumptions to go bankrupt.
Direct energy offers you a price of 34 cents per cubic meter where the controlled price offered by enbridge gas distribution is 12 cents.
These thieves collect their blood money from poor suckers not aware that they were lied to and scammed.
I recommend anyone who has such a contract to break it or at least not renew it if the calculations concerning breaking such a contract exceeds the extra cost of the gas till the contract expires.
If you have such a contract or know someone who does sit down and do the calculations or recommend they do same.
For example if your gas bill on such a contract is $300 it would be $100 a month and would exceed in one year the approximate $1000 it takes to break such a contract.
They say such a contract makes you feel secure that prices will never exceed their price during said contract duration, but the extra loss of money makes life more insecure and realizing you were fleeced
makes one feel like a Pigeon ripped off by such crooks.

Spread the news and tell everyone you know paying energy supply costs such as oil and gas so we can finally put an end to such shady practices.
$200 can buy a lot so why should the regular folks not spend their hard earned money rather than making such companies, which fraudulently acquired such contracts from those less aware of the real nature of this scam, rich and fat for offering nothing but a fruad that the make sure they and only they profit from.
I know retired people who have gotten so sick due to losing money this way that their lives were ruined and they ended up in hospital because they became ill not being able to make ends meet while companies like direct energy rip them off and are happy that they made blood money on such poor people
disgusting.

Peace
I will post my next post on the white tiger fable later toda

Buying time to shoot aging felines

Would your mother rather be killed by you to prove you were either a great marksperson or gunner or not. If you succeed in not killing her and succeed in shooting the apple or basket off her head she can safely and confidently allow you to hunt the tiger that took her husbands. If you kill her you are neither ready to hunt the neither tiger nor will you do so while she is alive causing her the grief of losing another loved one.

The boy missed the jug of water on his mothers head and resolved to practice for another three years before trying to pass his mothers test again. This time he was able to shoot the handle on the water jug placed on his mothers head without causing a drop of water to be spill out. His mother then said "Actually son, your father was able to shoot the eye out of a needle from one mile away. Can you do this?"
The boy instructed his mother to put a needle in a tree truck and walking one mile from it he tried shooting the needle but missed. He once again resolved to practicing for three more years and not going after the tiger that now was aging and was over 20 plus tears. By the time the boy was 21 and he tried shooting the pin one more time, succeeding this time, the white tiger would have aged to the point of not being as agile as it was when the boys father lost his life to it, could this also be a reason the mother gave him hard tests that would take years to master and thus hopefully buy time for the tiger to age and be easier to kill or maybe be killed by someone else? Note: if the tiger is a group of people no amount of time would age their menace upon the people of the boy’s village.

Mothers risk to create a hero who returns

Our story begins as a narrative concerning a young boy from a village just south of the Kumgang Mountains in Korea. The village had been terrorised by a white tiger that lived in said mountains. the young boys father had been missing ever since he was a baby. His father was a great hunter and gunman and went to hunt the tiger but never returned. It was thought that said father was devoured by the tiger. Since said father was a gun man one can say the tail was told after the invention of the gun and since this happened in the orient during the feudal age the tale is no older than the 1200s.
Since being young the boy dreamed of killing the tiger that murdered his father and as soon as he could hold a gun and be allowed to use one he trained to become as proficient in shooting as was his father. at fifteen he said to his mother "Mother, I'm ready now to set out for the Kumgang Mountains to find the White Tiger and defeat him. Please, let me go." Tearful she said, "Even a famous marksman like your father was lost to the terrible White Tiger. Please, son, quit dreaming about such nonsense and stay safe here at home." the mother then replied "Very well, as you wish. But first let me ask you one thing. Your father used to have me stand with a water jug on my head. Then he would shoot off the handle of the water jug from one mile away without spilling any water. Can you do the same thing?" So eagerly he had his mother stand with water jug on her head to see if he could shoot it. After aiming carefully he shoot and missed. He gave up his idea of going after the tiger till he could succeed in shooting the jug off his mothers head as he realised he was not ready to face the tiger Why did the mother risk being shot? What key is she to the story, what does she represent?

I will analyze the fable of the white tiger and start a new myth next week. If there are any suggestions send me a comment, I will pick an epic if I can, something longer

White tigers and korean People

A new mythological journey begins: we will be examining upon request a myth called The White Tiger(Korea) that can be found at http://www.storiestogrowby.com/stories/white_tiger_body.html.

The story is as much a fable as it is a myth.
The character of myth is to illustrate truth in colorful metaphor that has hidden meaning,

What do we know about tigers, what do they symbolise?
Could the tiger like the lion Hercules slew be a metaphor for a group of people?
Do human's like imaging people as animals, fables often do to teach a lesson, myths to make legend and images out of the history they portray.
Could the white tiger of this tale be a people who hide in the mountains near the lead characters village near the Kumgang Mountains in Korea? if it were a tale just about a tiger does it change anything. Is there anything that might support the idea hat the white tiger is a metaphor describing a people based on character or something else like origin or group affiliation. Is the white tiger a group like the triads? Is it something else.
read it yourself and we will look at it tomorrow
Might take a week or two as it is short