Of Controversies: Right and Wrong.

Here we are in 21st Century. We have gone through and learned from
history. There are laws defining what is right and also what is wrong.
Clearly some wrongs have been done in certain circumstances and been
found to be good. There are evidences of these all over the world all
through out history. There have been a lot violencies of angry people
convinced that a wrong they are fighting for is good. There have also
been a lot of violencies of people fighting for themselves against a
wrong being done on them by some people who either do the wrong
thinking that it is good or do the wrong selfishly. What's to do?

I was going through my life I found that there was a time I knew a
right and a wrong. I found that I was able to speak much about the
right I knew than a wrong I knew. If I had a way out on the wrong, I
would be able to avoid it. But in my mind this wrong could be done for
there is no other way. It became a necessity. With time I saw there
were other better ways it could have been done. I began to regret. But
I understood the mind of a lawyer who would be found bending the law
to meet his end. The Art of War encourages to capitalise on the other
person's weaknesses. While it solves my problem, I have done wrong to
my collegue if the problem I solve for myself did harm to him and he
was the innocent one. My responsibility was to still not do the wrong
against him.

A person meaning to do right, would not do wrong unless he is
convinced that what he is doing is right. A person who has done wrong
might have done wrong knowing what he was doing was wrong but
convinced himself he had a necessary reason; he might have done the
wrong not knowing; or might have known he was doing wrong and he meant
to do it any way. Of these people would forgive the first two after
having understood their situation. A person defending himself is doing
so to save himself. It might be from punishment that is to follow for
the wrong he has done with him still thinking he is innocent, or with
him having understood that he was wrong and so ask forgiveness, or
because he knew he was wrong in the first place and has been caught to
as long as he can survive. In many cases the one asking forgiveness,
would get lighter punishment than the one who is admant in
selfrightoousness. The last would use any of the two ways in which the
former would react to gain sympathy to avoid punishment.

Here is world so learned in the psychology of man. Education awards
high marks for applying the learned ideas well. And in a way it has
taught us it is good to apply classroom ideas even though they might
have bad effects on other human beings. Marketing, Business
Administration, Maximising profit, Good business ideas.

First Merchant Bank has given loans to farmers to give back after the
tobacco sales. I can see many farmers crying foul in the end. A good
business idea, capitalizing on the farmers weakness. They advise well
as though you will have no problem but how painful when they tell you
in the face the things you did not know and even tell you: This is
business my friend as if it is good to do the "business" they have on
me.

Responsibility, do not do this. Don't capitalize on other people's
weaknesses and do them wrong.

Politicians world over have used these controversies here and there to
find their way up in politics. Many people have found themselves in
conflicts over and over again after have be infuriated by a political
agenda. The media is in the same situation. People react to what they
hear and they would believe somebody a bad person because a fellow
politician has said so. It is always too late when they come back to
their senses and understand the said bad person and really too late to
make amends.

The Democratic government as it has been put forward with its
mechanisms much of which really treats human beings at animal level(as
though human beings can't understand and make better decisions) has
brought much of the problems. While democracy might have been
understood in the way it is presented, the reality of the practice
might be very far from the way it is presented.

The birth of the United States talks about people coming together from
all over to a new land with a purpose to leave behind the problems
they have left at home. They found the law of God as the best to
follow in establishing a government and based the constitution of the
word of God the Bible. Is it possible to follow somebody's laws
without really following him?

This government encouraged fairness at all levels as the Bible defines
it. According to its characteristics this government seems to have
been closer in its ways to the greek government which was called
democracy. We then named this new found government democracy. So many
studied the greek government and forgot the foundations of this new
government. Some of the ways of the greek government had flaws which
could be the reason why it failed and was once again replaced by one
man led government.

This new government which was found to be fair was presented and
understood to be based on the greek foundations. So others
implementing similar governments to this new found government
implement it basing on a wrong foundation. Can these other governments
stand?

America still stands strong. Its principles are the same embedded in
the peoples hearts for they understand what they have but have not
explanation how they had it. Basing on the similarities of its ways to
the previous government, they think that's what they have. But because
its not, they do not have the problems other governments have.

The law of God teaches love at all cost. Love your neighbour as
yourself. If you loved your neibour you would not steal their wife or
car or anything theirs you would do no harm on them. If you love your
woman you wouldn't rape her. Or cheat on her. You wouldn't want to do
to them what would hurt you. The book of Romans has put in a better
way what I want to say from Romans 12 verse 9 to Romans 13 about a
man's relationship to neighbours, and government. Read more discover
yourself much more the treasures in the word that you would appriciate
and find helpful.

Do we leave out the creator of this perfect law? Science has required
proof of His existance. God has proved his existance in many ways for
those who have accepted him. Does he not seek and you will find? Does
he not say He has put us in the lands or situations we leave so that
we might seek him and find him? He challenges you to seek him and you
will find him. The Bible defines faith in Hebrews Chapter 11. Faith is
the substance of things hoped for. Faith is the evidence of things
unseen. If there was no substance of those things it would be mere
hope. But there is substance. If there was no evidence of thing not
seen there would be no faith.

Does Science want proof that not all of its ways are based on
evidence? For a student to believe a teacher of the things he has not
understood he believes they are true on the trust that the teacher
knows more than he himself. How many mathematical proofs even today
are based on how so and so proved them? For the first voyager to go
out to sea and around the world which has become the evidence that the
world is round and not flat it had to take a step of faith(courage
based on the evidence he has which many don't have). Its only when he
had gone round the world did many believe the truth that all the
people(now called great scientists) said about the word being round
and not flat. The church was among those who did not believe but they
were many more who didn't outside the church and included scientists.
The thing is if a there is a truth. It will be found out however one
tries to bend it and it does not depend on an individual opinion for
even if the church can not know all truths but as much God has
revealed.

This law though very perfect God admits bitterly nobody understands.
They have all sinned. All of them. Paul says in Romans I try to do
good but I end up doing wrong. So without God we fail to live by this
perfect law.
God has provided His Son and The Holy Spirit to teach us His ways.
Those that seek him they find Him.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Just A Thought

Before we implement the rest of ideologies the west holds. The west is changing so many of its ways. The Banking Sector, the Health Sector etc. After objectively looking at their own problems. Malawi like many new democracies are borrowing wholesale western ideologies. And most of these ideologies are really attractive to greed. But in the end they destroy the ordinary Malawians who are really the Nation.

A few days ago people demostrated against the Banks. It is important to remember that people did not have issues with Banks before the
change from Kamuzu's Government. Money was not a worry for Malawians. Malawians had a life and could afford luxury. Not a spoilt kind of
luxury but enough for happiness. The law defines a corporation as a person. In the end the corporation is treated with preference over
real human beings. And real people become slaves of corporation.

We might have interprated the great depression in the 30s US as a way of getting rich quick to the status the US is. But in my opinion,
while great prosperity followed the great depression, we don't have to simulate this depression on our land to get it rich for the seeds of what followed after the depression are still reaping their fruits on the land.

A simulated life created from human ideologies sooner or later will have so many loopwholes that require patching up. One might create an economy. But it might take everything in life to sustain it. Is life meant to sustain an economy or an economy to sustain life.

There was a time Malawi Government did not require donors. But we sold away our sources of income and let somebody else feed us. And we
wonder when they can deny us help for not a supporting a wrong in the name of homosexuality. We are still fighting prostitution, by the way.

There have been decisions made in the past on what to educate the students. That is create a work force to feel the need of the industry. Strimline the education system train workers. After creating
so many workers the market becomes flooded. For those who have been trained fewer trades, survival is hard. It is difficult as well for
the trained to come out and stand on their own. In the end we are filling up holes that have little outlet. No wonder we will end up with unemployment in vast amounts. I am glad Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika has provided facility for the youth to start businesses and required
training. I would love further first degrees be less specialised as possible. This creates a wider understanding for students and helps them overcome life problems better.

There is a health sector that is being destroyed by the western ideologies. It is good to have good health services. They do come with a price. And little by little we are changing a health sector from how it used to be caring for all people to caring for only the rich as is the situation in America which Obama is trying to sort out. Before we
can say, its expensive to care for all, we should ask how did we manage in the previous 30 years.

I think the drug shortage problem started with decentralisation of the drug distribution. The Central Medical Stores has been responsible for all the drug ordering and distribution. When they decentralised the
distribution system ie making the Central Medical Stores act as drug wholesale and each health center given a budgeted amount to purchase its
own drugs. Now here is where it I think it went wrong: with the late budgets approvals in parlament, the health centers had to go on their daily business and ordered without the money inorder to pay back when the budget is passed. So debts accumulated and began to be intepreted as mismanagement of funds(not ruling it out though). And so drugs stopped
flowing.
Here is what resulted:patients began to receive less care. And with the civil service after the government lost its source of income began to receive less and less compasation and became demotivated, even lesser care came to patients from clinicians. Insurance Corporation took advantage. Working with companies to insure its employees health.
While the health services are cheap for companies than individuals it is no problem for companies to insure its employees (by the way, the
better the position the better the care) the unemployed receive less and less care. Then it becomes a trend and a better option for health providers to work with companies than individuals. But who are suffering? The whole nation Malawi of which it is said that 58% are receiving less than K10,000 and around 1% it seems can afford the bills and its only because they are employed. And of these very few are trained enough to establish their own business without corrupt means given the conditions in banks and heavy taxation on the middle class. So Obama saw all these problems that there are major gaps in the population of the United States which are unreached. That's the path
we have been following. A stop and 180 degrees turn back would be helpful indeed.

To build the Malawi he built, Kamuzu wanted it to sustain itself without external support. He looked at all means so that his people
might have Food, Good Health, Shelter and Clothing. Four fundumental priorities of which money is secondary.

He built an economy so strong that at one time we exchange one USDollar to 1MwK. Except for fear of political persecution of which I believe Kamuzu himself is to so many ways might have been very innocent, Malawian People were happy.

While we require checks on absolute power, we don't have to change our culture, economy and way of life for they are nothing to do with democracy.

I think there are ways to solve the drug problem. Forget the decentralisation let the money problem be taken care of by the Central Medical Store's as it has always been. Private Clinics are the one's that buy. And Private clinics here shall mean those that charge for their drugs and treatment. The other health centers, concentrate for the accounting of their drug usage and distribution. This information is vital on predicting what the Central Medical Stores orders. With this setup, little by little patients will start opting for unpaid health centers so private clinics will see less and less the need to buy in bulk the medicine and so stop buying from the health centers corruptly. There might be facilities in place to allow health centers to sell to private clinics and provided its not starving its patients and every transction is accounted for both on the side of the private clinic and on the health center. For the private clinic to declare its source and the said source to confirm.

While this seems wasteful at a quick glance, at national level the expenditure on drugs is the same on a fixed/predictable/known population of Malawi. If it is rationalization, it is better for the Central Medical Store to control the distribution other than money control the distribution. Where do the Money to buy drugs come from? It is the same money that was supposed to be distributed that is now centralised. Better if th money changes a few hands and goes straight to buy the needed medicine than for it to circle around and come back the medicine.

Learning from the fuel shortage solution, while people had fear of its not going to be available tomorrow they would buy so much and keep at home. While the media spoke everyday about this shortage, the people's fear was kept fanned. With people buying more than they needed there was always less and less fuel to be distributed to more and more who came late to buy their share. It isn't really fuel shortage then; for the Government might be stretching its arms to sort this out already. So, let the media stay silent or atleast give assurance. Each person should buy at most a tank full which he will stay with a few days and others would be able to buy their share in this time and the government would have a predictable amount of fuel to import basing on a full tank of an average car for so many cars and so it should be easy to normalise the problem. It worked.

This same principal/concept should work in other areas where distribution is distabilised for fear of tomorrow's lack.

Operation Bwezani: Celtel - Zain - Airtel

Its not long ago we(the Celtel Subscribers) were rebranded into Zain.
We still haven't forgotten the mix up yet and Zain is bought and we
the Customers of Zain are to be rebranded again to AirTel?

While business commentetors have had only good words for this move,
this seems to be very clear and vivid: Buy a company, Squeeze as much
as they can get from it. Put it in trouble resell it Cheap. Pure
business the reseller makes profit(good for him), the buyer(good for
him) what about us(the customers?)

I, a customer, I like Celtel. I used to boast Celtel has the best
services. Zain came it had its own style. To maximise profit, they
change customer care into marketing team. I wonder how we can be this
blind(CAMA?). Technically legally they would justify themselves about
the move since they have an automated menu but its the story in local
folk tales where a hare taking care of the lions children eats all the
meat and smears some blood on the mouths of the little lions and the
mother lion thinks that everything ok till she sees some malnutrition.
Despite the automated menu available, the menu itself hasn't been
accessible for so long.

Here is a situation: companies can make business decisions. And can
indeed exploit its customers. What laws do we Malawians have to
self-guard the consumers? Mmh CAMA? And what laws concerning how
international companies like Zain Operate? We might be running out of
forex but the problem may not be too far(we have opened door to
foreign servises which are expensive). Yes(Minister of Finance) we are
an importing nation that is why we have more imports than exports. The
proper decision is not just to sit and watch, but turn ourselves into
self servicing for a start and then start exporting. We produce raw
materials in bulk and buy the processed products. If the west bought
and processed our products and sold them back to us, should we wonder
why we are not developing?

We the customers, though not highly regarded, also needs stability of
the services we buy. The services providers changing ownership just
like that is really inconsiderate for us consumers. We have preference
also. We should not be taken for grunted. I believe there are or
should be laws which say a company should operate for so long before
being resold. What would stop me from buying a company squeeze a lot
from it, resell it to my brother to rebrand it. My brother squeezes a
lot from it resell it to me to rebrand it(marketing brilliant! so many
promotions and bonuses to the marketer). But what about us consumers?
What of the laws for international companies? Isn't the west
capitalistic? Does it not fight for democracy? Does it not push for
liberalising the economies of us little nations? How many of its
"democratic" ways are to find business for themselves? Yes laws, while
laws are bendable eg. Even in football it is said two yellow cards
before a red one. The coach encourages cripple the stricker and then
we will substitute you. Everybody says good decision for the coach. I
would love to punch and cripple the aggressor even if I am give a red
card by the "law". Laws can be used on an ignorant to exploit them.

I like Mugabe's decision today and would love to boot these foreign
investors like Zain (or is Celtel? or AirTel?) out. It wears a name
like a suit. What do we call it? It has no name, really.

Consumer Association of Malawi(CAMA) you should be able to find a lot
of business for almost every company is in the business of exploiting
its consumers. Its time you got to work.

Aside:
I understand Arsenals problem: it does not give a coach pleasure to
put his own kids in a hostile environment where laws of football don't
even protect. What's with the cup if someone loses a life over it. If
it were war defending one self, I would say fight to the death. But
its play and some people try to put violence in it.

--
Sent from my mobile device

Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Of Professionalism and Favours

I thought over my problems with my previous employers and I got it.

When you employ someone with the attitude you are doing him a favour(ie nobody wants him so let me take him to help him), you become blind to some of his good qualities and to his real needs. Everyday he tries harder to deliver his very best but it does not get appreciated for the empoyers expectation is that the guy can't do a good job anyway. The guy sees all this. In his patience hoping things would get better he stays. But the patience can't stay forever.(God is not going to be patient forever, should a man be?) When the guy speaks his mind the employer thinks of him as ungrateful for he expects the guy not to speak his mind after all that he has already done for the guy.

 

He is human, he has needs, he notices injustices. Sometimes he speaks the truth he has always kept to himself in respect of the employer, the employer interpretes this as arrogance(he has never spoken like this before he must have gone real bad). He doesn't get helped anyway. He leaves the place with anger and frustration. This is not good for his CV as well. But whats a man to do? He would burst if he kept all his pain inside. How would the employers know his needs if he kept it all inside?

 

I seem to have been employed by people who were either blind to my good qualities because their employing me was doing me a favour or they saw my good qualities but were bent on abusing or taking advantage of my voicelessness. I really have hurt.

 

I would love to be treated on merit and not favours as well.

From The Heart of A Missionary

In the University House at Livingstonia University, there is a cloth depicting a hundred years of achievements by Livingstonia Mission. These includes:

-The Gorodi Road (might have been derived from gold road - basing on the golden glass along the long winding road).

- The first Electric generator which used to provide electricity for the mission(Now defunct I am told - I am yet to visit the place).

- Own clean water supply (still working)
The place quite and beautiful. While going up the Gorodi Road you get rewarded with beautiful views at each bend that you forget its danger. It really requires an experienced drive to go up it.

 

What caught my eye with interest on this cloth of achievements was Livingstone's Motto. It says "Beyond Borders I Will Try". It has been printed on some livingstonia synod cloths though shortened to "I will try". The interest comes in the light of the rungle that has been there with Livingstonia Synod establishing prayer houses in Nkhoma Synod's Region. While they have been alot of criticism, I myself thought against it, not that its bad but sister synods should not quarrel over this issue, it is really a reflection of what the missionary Dr David Livingstone had at heart in crossing borders to preach the word of God.

 

Nkhoma synod might not have been wrong to cross borders nor may have Livingstonia Synod. Nkhoma after its flock who have difficulties understanding the language in the north. While most malawians understand Chichewa not all malawians understand Tumbuka.

 

Livingstonia synod also after its flock who always have had difficulties being accepted in Nkhoma synod's prayer houses.

Yes, yes borders and regions, is it not worth learning what other people are doing? I would love after being a Nkhoma Synod service near me to once in while have a feel of worship as at home where I have grown up. Maybe Nkhoma synod can also learn from other regions.

 

Jesus said, Leave them be. Those who not against us are for us.

Paul also talked about it saying: some preach the word out of malicious motives, but to the Glory of God people of God are still not hindered from coming into the Kingdom of God. For nobody can come to God if God has not called them nor can they be stopped when God decides.

Equitable Presidential Election

The introduction of the quota system and the choice of chairmanship to
AU of our president gives us two inspiring ideas about that could
remove the regionalism and bring unity to our land. Equitable
Presidential Elections.

We could emulate what's done at AU regional level and put limits like
quota. I believe if I remember my history correctly the greek from
whom we have borrowed the idea of democracy, used to do something
similar. Meet together and decide which city leads them. The Olympic
games I think are bollowed from something like this.

We could do our study and really tailor make a democratic system that
suits our land culture and heritage.

Like they do on weddings in competing to bless the bride and the
groom, it should be a shame of the district or region if they have
failed to lead the nation. Each leader can still maintain the two
consecutive terms if he fails one term, then he loses the tenure of
leadership to another region. If a region has lead impressively they
get a trophy as their leader being put on monuments of the good
leaders of Malawi. In this way, leadeship is no longer a war but a
game. The whole nation celebrates together as one like, in a wedding,
blessing their land and people.

At region level, they get turns after one leader. In this way, each
leader strives to do good for his region and not put his region to
shame. Instead of pleasing a few political figures around him.

A region loses tenure of leadership before the end of its proper time
two terms if its leader is found to be lacking. The time of tenure for
each region is two consecutive terms. That is also the time of tenure
of a person as leader for a life time.
These laws if set it should be hard for someone coming in as leader to
change but rather refine upon agreed national decision.

In this way we would all celebrate together as a nation chosing its
leader as in a wedding. And also put to check power hungry and bad
leadership. Which are problems democracy is trying to solve.

--
Sent from my mobile device

Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Before and After Noah: Suppose

Children are more confident and joyful than adults. They have less
knowledge of good and evil. All they know, in their innocence, is
good.
In keeping busy one forgets the worries they have and may live long.

Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, they
died. Right from day one, they hid in fear their lives were full of
pain having known the existance of evil. To keep their minds off the
evil they knew, God had to keep them busy and cultivated the ground.
But the knowledge was too vast. Both of good and of evil.

The Bible talks about Nephilims which were giant beings; interbreeds
of heavenly and human beings. Greek history talks about these as well.
These interbreeds might include animals in a time with much knowledge
lawlessness out of pride was also prevelant that much of nature was
destroyed. Dinasours would exist. There is a verse in genesis among
the geneologies about the world being divided after somebodies birth.
In some versions this division sounds like tribal(at babel) in some it
sounds like division of the land partion of Gondwanaland. Shapes of
continents also confirming in the scientific community.

The destruction of nature must have angered God so much that to
preserve his creation, he destroyed the whole earth with flood. Two by
two, male and female, he preserved animals not yet destroyed by the
interbreeds. He preserved humanity through Noah. At this period, even
from the very beginning, clothes were available as was at the
beginning with Adam and Eve evident from Noah being drunk and being
found naked. Which means even before the flood, civilisation existed.

After the flood the few that survived retained the knowledge from the
previous civilisation. As the population grew, so many groups of
people spread out to different places this might explain why knowledge
and civilisation in History must have started around the Middle East.
But as they spread out much knowledge was being lost while in the
Middle east the concentration of knowledge prevailed. This explains
why some tribes were seen to be primitive.

I was watching a TV documentary on some sea shelled animals in the
Himalayas explaining that it was once under water. This could have
happened during this time. Which means Noah's Ark might have perched
in the Himalayas coinciding with the early settlements of humanity
around the Middle East.

I see through out this time God was at work ridding evil and cleansing
the destroyed nature. In separating the land into several continents
to isolate different beings of nature the farthest being America
beyond which Galapagos Island was found which has a concentration of
what seem to the survivors of some ancient dinosauric era. This
isolation in cleansing for it seems selective coincides with natural
selection as in science.

Even in recent history the world was still in isolation until the
journeys of discovery.

Even the knowledge of God through history has its origin around the
middle east and Paul explains to the Athenians they had sparse
knowledge of God. The God they thought unknown is the God of Israel
and He is the one that created Heavens and the Earth. It is this God
who openned doors for all humans to know him through the journeys of
discovery which always contained missionaries and traders with them.

In the spread of humanity in history, people have always worshipped.
Including american indians who worshipped the sun in a thought of a
God who lives in Heaven. Whom they once knew but not clearly for
knowledge of him was passed generation to generation some knowledge
being lost along the timeline.

While the knowledge of God was kept fresh in Israel, His knowledge was
disappearing among those who had spread out. In spreading Christianity
to other areas of civilisation, God also kept fresh in these
concentrations His knowledge to spreads further to other civilised
areas.

This article has touch on several scientific and historical
observation of the events that occured in history connecting with
those in the Bible.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Here is a DANGEROUS Item: The Broken Atom

The current model of an Atom is of something ball like. The nucleus has a proton and an electron revolves around.

We were discussing science and religion the other day on facebook. That science is as good as the current knowledge the world has at a particular time in history. Unless more is revealed to it, the world
has no further knowledge. In the times of Galelio, Newton and the others, some knowledge was revealed among us about the reality of the natural sorroundings. Because God created everyone of us, it easy for him to reveal a certain knowledge set to anyone he choses. For instance, he did not reveal Jesus to the jews until an appointed time for the gentiles to know him first. There are stories of protestants, heretics, renegade christians and then there is science denying
religion all because the activities that occured within these ages.

It had been always known that the earth is flat. That was the scientific fact the world knew and there were proofs. When the Galelios knew more
theoretically even before it was proven with tangible evidence, the world regarded them as lunartics/heretics/renegade and prosecuted some
for denying the scientific evidence so prevalent even within the church.

(Funny thing is that the same desire for discovery of the concrete evidence that the earth is round, saw missionaries reaching all over
and it is in fact missionaries who discovered more than scientists. Their knowledge of the places also brought slave traders, of coarse.Lest we forget. More like: after Babel the devil had been limited in
his destruction. When the appointed time came, God wanted to spread His
knowledge world over and opened doors to it's unity. But evil found its way again. So it is with Globalisation. While good spreads so fast so does evil.)

It was very clear in our discussion on facebook how an atom could be something made out nothing. Take an atom as a representation of what is tangible in the eye. Looking at the masses of different matter, different quantities can be sub divided into smaller atomic quantities of which for same masses of the substance, there seem to be a fixed number of these atomic quantities. The average of the number was taken and this is called the Avogadro constant. This number is now used to
interpolate between the macro and the micro level of a substance. This is why mathematical calculations in chemistry tally with reality
because the interpolation is good.

Take atoms of oxygen put in a baloon. For the same quantity if heat up, the baloon expands. If cooled down the baloon contracts. But the number of atoms is fixed. What keeps the balloon ball-like is the movement of the atoms.

Why does radio active material have to be contained in special material without which they corrode everything they came in contact with? I could explain it in the model of a balloon. And this baloon at
atominc level. I believe(after having visualised but not had concrete proof) that there are hiearchies of substance even at atomic level
which are somethings made out of nothings: the protons/electrons/neutrons also more of like balloons of nothing or of somethings which has no substance in them. More
of like harnessing the wind or holding the wind in one's hand.

The protons/electrons/neutrons are, at atomic level, held in an envelop like(is it a field?) Which when broken, the contents spill out with some force. These in collission with other substances around, form dents. And the dents become holes which collapse within. This could explain the corrosion(why substances are eaten away), I think.

In this way, breaking the envelops of these sub-atomic elements becomes a dangerous thing in that different substances behave differently. For tin, it is known that in contact with the atmosphere
it reacts with some gases and forms a coat around itself and the corrosion is arrested. For tin like substances, it might be safer. With the collider recently built some substances might be broken without having been properly studied to contain their activity.

On the other hand the idea of a substance present at creation(Bing-Bang as they call it), somehow makes me think. Nobody likes to be in a
cage. Creation is in bondage because of the fall of adam. But here is the ultimate freedom all matter would have when the time comes.

To do a mass prison break of so many substances so jailed without destroying anything, one has to plan in detail and put containments in place otherwise risk destroy everything. To plan every detail it should really take a long time. Creation was done in six days. But this has taken thousands of years(or is its implementation?). There will be a trumpet, and our bodies shall transform. The old earth shall disappear and a new one shall come in it's place. That's the ultimate freedom for all creation. The
rapture. More like an inversion of matter which is currently in bondage.

At the moment creation growns, like in birth pangs, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed. The reveletion of the children of God brings salvation to creation with it.

There are many who have overcome the faithlessness of science and understood that the earth was created by God. If science had faith, it would have hope that the problems it sees have solutions for there is someone who was there even before the problem occured. As it is difficult to build a boat in the middle of the ocean but on land, it
is difficult for a human being to solve problems of the earth than He who is not of the earth. For He created the world, he knows the detail of each problem and the best solution to it. He reveals these things to His people.

Knowledge is good. Proverbs advises seek it. In seeking it, many have found him who is truth. They have learned about
the creator of the things they study. Many rejoice in discovery. Others are hopeless in the things they discover for they find no solution to them. For they see the evidence of a creator and they deny it. In denial of his existance they are deprived of a hope they would have to overcome the fear of the possible.

Take heart though. There is nothing impossible with God. So Jesus says about the rich young man. He must have seen the man having been helped to
salvation when he said this. If He changes Paul a persecutor of the church, who can He not change?

Those who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

The Blessing of The Older and The Younger

They were born twins. The father when the kids were born had nothing
to take care of them. He blessed them in pain and said, the young
shall bless the old and the old shall bless the young. They always
moved in twos. One top the other just nearby down low. In my mind was
like hanna and hlekwase for I saw them seated as such. He released
them and said if you my children suffer don't blame the father. Be
kind to each other, there are two guys I know who take care of each
this way. Dave and Chisomo. I don't understand why. The father was a
bird the kids were birds, what kind of birds live this way? I saw a
bird once they were supposed to fly over a house. One seemed to have
been trapped within the compound. The other was looking out a way to
get the other out. They had no jurisdiction to fly over but who owns
the airspace anyway?
The father had to repeat the blessing twice for he had mixed up the
words on the second time the words came out right: the blessing of the
older and the younger. For the yound to bless the old and the old to
bless the young. Such a blessing of Jacob on Joseph's Kids ephreim and
manasse. A criss-cross of a blessing he himself received from his
father and mother. The father who had blessed Jacob meaning to bless
Esau. Esau who had grown up not wanting to be a slave of the younger.
That he overworked himself so many times to avoid this. It came to an
extent of selling it for food for he had now become tired. I wonder.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

An Equitable Idea for Implementing the Equitable Qouta System

They could use a greed algorithm: Start from Chitipa select best ten in Chitipa the Karonga, etc by the time they reach Mwanza I bet a person with 6 points in Nsanje won't find a place at the university. If it starts from Nsanje the government is really in big trouble considering the history. A round-robin algorithm seems optimal: at each level select at least one student from each district. If a district does not have a six point student it waits for its highest. The reasoning is: its not possible to have a district with the highiest without 6 credits(36points). This is using the pegion hole principle on thirty districts. And this round-robin algorithm harts increment for those districts which have already satisfied this to allow for others which haven't until each has 10 students. The harting is in the event that the required number of selected students is nearing 36points and other districts still have less. It is safe to hart it 36 for using the pegion hole principle, it is very probable to find well over than 10 students with 36 points.



The students district description shall not mean the ancestral district but the district of the school from which the student is selected. For accountability's sake, a school name and points of the students be broadcast as always has been the case. If a students points have or school name has been misrepresented there should be proper mechanisms for queries and follow ups.



I wonder if this hasn't been the case. I wonder why they could not think this already if it hasn't been the case.

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

On IE6

There has been a discussion on a mailing list I am part of about letting IE6 (internet explorer version 6) go.

Most computers especially Windows XP come with this version pre-installed. For non-technical people, this is no problem at all. But to developers it is. A web developer spends so much time to make sure his website looks the same in all web browsers. If there are 5 browsers, that is supposed to be 5 times the work he is supposed to do. Other browsers have move on to create standard compliant browsers. Even Microsoft wants to move on. This is why they have updates IE7 and IE8. Which are now standard complient. Even though the work of programmers is still a little tough looking at differences in rendering engines, it much better than the pain IE6 causes.

Updates are available but IE6 is still around what's wrong. When IE7 was coming on there was a requirement for a genuine OS to run it. This put out most of the users from upgrading. For countries like Malawi, IT professional would really find it difficult to get their own copy of OS(Is there one available? I am looking for one with unlimited installations that would be cheaper for me). The OEM versions required activation by phone which is a little expensive for me and most of IT professionals and technicians who do most of the maintainance in our companies. This really drove back IT people to opt for cracked versions of the operating system which could lock up with IE7 update. So what's the need for an update if it takes a way what you can at least use to get the job done? You only want to check mail, do some spreadsheets write documents and occassional presentations and print. For a user, the update is useless. But who gets hurt?

The developer has developed a very good website to impress his customers. He has tested on most browsers it works but has forgotten that most bosses are still using IE6. And they test it, it is broken all over. Sometimes it is not really his problem. Maybe he has used a reputable web development frameworks which make work easier but all developers are now tired of having to work for IE6 as well for it is a pain. Even reputable frameworks have decided to move on without IE6. It becomes a problem still for the user of the framework for he is now the one losing the moneys for a good work he has done with so much effort.

How do we resolve this? It is supposed to be a collective work at different levels from Microsoft itself to the Windows User to the Framework developers the developers and technicians. As long as OEM still have glitches installing, as long as there are no OS with unlimited licences, as long as they don't follow standards, problems of piracy, breakdowns like IE still remain. They got billions already its time they became a little peaceful with their customers. Generousity is also good. Not all technicians are aware of the recovery partition some wipe it clean with a pirated version. How do technicians operate when most available software are restricted to one or at most 3 installations? This includes anti-viruses.

With OS issue resolved the work of the system administrator is easier. He can now update to newer software versions without glitches. Then the Web developers is happy.

Microsoft can help developers by providing a mechanism to prompt the user to update. Macromedia had flash player, adobe has acrobat reader, microsoft has silverlight, it can also have IE6 update. Though dialup users would still be at a disadvantage. (And yes, there still exist something called dial-up and it becomes very convinient than broadband at times)

In most cases, the system administrator has problems convincing management to buy an OS, and other software. Looking at the expense and the available usable, it is seen as a luxury for the management. Because the management is always busy, it becomes difficult for the sys admin to convince them. So because the sys admin also has a job to keep he also goes for the available usable. He could buy a personal genuine but what's then need when he can use it for only one computer and its useless. He would rather crack himself one and save himself some bread and milk for his family at home. The boss doesn't care why should he? He would have trouble explaining to his wife what he has done with his salary if he bought a genuine antivirus for the company. What the heck!

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

All Sorts of Thoughts Considering

I thought for a while about todays loss. In my confidence, I spoke.
Its only a holiday. At the thought of a company boss giving this
holiday to his employees. I felt him think: are we going to eat
football? The question of eating caught me. I had thought of not
eating but I decided to go on and eat today. For I asked in my heart
without rain are we going to eat? So today I ate and did not go on
praying. For rain meant my unhappiness for the nation but now I should
eat for maybe indeed God will keep His anger and they might be no food
tomorrow.

Support is the only thing that was missing in our players which for
some reason there seem to be no Malawian in Angola. One loss can bring
so much defeat without external confidence which Malawians did not
have. I will speak on the labour laws which the companies manupulate
to favour only themselves.

In 2008, I almost lost my job because on 1st October 2008 fulfilled
the first year together with her. The only woman who has been kind and
has been by my side always and especially in times everybody
disregarded me. When I remembered the pain I have experienced seeking
love I cried and this woman comforted me it was a day of rejoicing not
crying again. When I was left out to a conference trip unjustly in the
pain and distress I would not have managed to do my thesis. This woman
turned my eyes to look at what I have. Am I being unrealistic? For how
long can one stand on one foot? At this moment, the bestest friend
inflicted the worst pain. I feel like I am in big sin today against
her having prioritised the nation.

My company required me to be at office on a holiday which happened to
be special to me: if the company feels justified to fire me for not
working on a holiday, I would rather not work for anybody. For a whole
month I was not paid over this issue. I had been patient but I felt
the same patience would block my access to heaven, for if it works
only one side(the labour laws favouring the company more than the
employee) it becomes a burden on the employee and becomes bitterness
on the employee. Even if they loved their job, the don't do a good job
anymore. Who wants to do a good thing for a slave driver? They would
rather have him died so they could be free. Chilembwe, a man of God,
our Hero.

I will speak for the sake of Malawi. How do they distroy these
countries with good economies? I am looking at Zimbabwe, Malawi,
China, Iraq, Nigeria, etc. For Malawi, they said, they want a little
freedom, freedom they did give but it was also freedom to do bad then
they said, lets now dig up the evil they have done, a lot of
corruption they did find. A little good idea here and there they are
now the wise, the wise become the caretaker, the caretake gives
handouts(they even give handouts for people to sin as well - how can
God create a homosexial and punish them for being a homosexial? God
did not create homosexials. God created them Male and Female in His
own image. He also saw that it was not good for man to be alone
created woman for him. Because they did not listen to Him he gave them
over to the pervese mind they wanted: some became homosexial in their
perversion ena anatong'ola nawo maso).

In thankfulness to the caretaker people enslave themselves. When time
comes, the caretaker thinks in his heart I will pull of the plug and
all these people will do what I want them to do.

We have a hunger looming over Malawi. Its not all parts of the nation
having this problem. His excellency might have plans to share our
harvest with others outside Malawi but this time each country should
cultivate their own crop the only thing to share is ideas not food.
For indeed the slave driver is pulling of his trigger evident from the
problems funding the budget. I would love it if Malawi does not depend
on subsidies for this is another kind of slavely. If we don't have
money for fertilizer we have at least manure which is absolutely free
and a much better solution than fertilizer. Where is ARET where is
ACHIKUMBE magazines? Where are all those model farmers we have always
seen along the M1?
We eat cooked maize cobs roasted maize cobs throughout the year this
too is food that can be preserved to fill up the coffers that might
have been depleated.

The education we spent so much on, would have helped so much and
without limit if we encouraged each other; If the employee were given
good conditions in doing the job they love, the job done would have
benefited every other malawian even those not working. In denying the
employees holidays, we create unhappy employees. Unhappy employees do
the worst job than employees on leave. I believe 15 days leave a year
is not enough. I love google they give their employees one day off a
week to do their personal work. And this is apart from saturday and
sunday which are naturally holidays.

I will now educate the ministry of education textbook ideas on plannig
an education for the country: simple architecture, history, statistics
to plan on educating a nation.

Planning a school: how many students do we need on this school? x
students. How many teachers? Suppose student teacher ratio is a:b. We
need (x/a)b teachers. Plan a school to hold x students, hostels to
accomodate x students. Build houses to accommodate (x/a)b teachers. To
refine the plan: let's dig up our previous experiences to come up with
x. Is a:b really an optimal ratio? History answers most of those
questions from the trends. Statistics comes in to quantify historical
trends for proper planning. This by the study of the population growth
of areas in which to build schools.

How about the headmaster? He is like a father taking care of his
teachers: he has y teachers but he needs z more. Finds good
accomodation for his teachers and his students, of course. Are the
extra z teachers I need going to find good accomodation? If there is
non, he could arrange some to be rented of course. The community love
him for he helps their children get education. A teacher hunting on
her own will take the whole year hunting without finding one. A
headmaster can easily mobilise a community he so much knows by this
time and will find hundreds of houses available of all kind just for
one teacher to chose from. For the teacher is also a precious
commodity to the community. Seeking on her she doesn't find the house
for they do not know her as the respectable person she is. But if the
headmaster they know introduces are they will protect her day and
night every footsteps she takes. She is that precious.

Zain sends a text message now the game is gone and no internet
connection when the game was on. I had to use twitter to support my
team when I could have used facebook. The sms gives me link for me to
follow soccer results. An insult of sort considering?

Malawi played well and the players have really done the very best they
can. They needed support. Support from us who always they win but
insult them when lose. With the weight of nation on their shoulders,
the fear of torment of the insult for losing, the fear that their
first win might have been false indication of their improvement, the
fear of Mali's performance with Angola, the beginning of the game, the
confirmation of their fears, the lack of external support to build on.

Its time for supporters to play their part of the game for players
have. Football is not only players its also supporters.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Pessions and Salaries

I have just spoken to a relative worrying about the father not working anymore. He used to work what was know as Shire Bus Lines before liquidation but has grown up with it. A good driver/mechanic whom if there had been no privatisation would have been enjoying his pession(though too little for todays financial needs) but would suffice than nothing in old age.

How can these people really be helped? Expect from their children?

To rotate the circle here is a situation I think so much overlooked. A father like him educates a child to get to college and get a job. He expects to rest(retire; not work through the life he has been alive) after that. When the child gets a job he is expected to help the Father who is living on a small pession. But his wages are calculated to suffice only for him. The pession of the Father as well to suffice only for him as an individual. The father has a wife and afew other dependants and relatives at the village. The young graduate has young brothers and a father to take care of. How do we break even?

Now for the father whose company was privatised before any of his children could qualify for university, the situation is worse. He has no pension and no child educated enough to get a break-even salary and support him.

Restructuring: a stastical survey that gives a distribution which is skewed towards the upper quartile for the rich and skewed towards the lower quartile for the poor is bad as bad can be. A normal distribution is required. In restructuring for a salary of a malawian employee the extended family show also be considered other than the household itself. The pension should also consider this. No wonder you find no employee happy with their wages in the civil service.

The law: it seems the law has put fixed amounts in most charges, fines, wages, etc. These things with changing economies deprecate and become useless. Is it possible to put something representative which changes with the changing (is it, inflation rates)? Discount Houses and Banks must have worked these out. It now remains with lawyers to work these out I guess. They don't even have to work alone. We have economists who can help.

Remember also those not receiving pensions from privatised companies.

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

Of Flag Changes and Meanings

I am chatting with my niece Cathy. Its new year's day seems like we are
the only people who have no where to go. I am going through the
newspaper looking for a vacancy and she has past me the paper and
somehow sees this advert to change the flag. She complains they want to
change the flag! I don't like it I will have to be memorizing again what
colors the flag has.
I thought flags have meanings to its people colors and logos, mission statements, determine the turn people takes. Do we know
the meaning of the new flag? Or How many people have knowlegde of the
meaning of our flag. Many will just says we have black if for the black
people red is for the blood.(Some would put their own meanings of course
because even white people have red blood) there are native white people
in Malawi who have chosen Malawi as their home.
I looked at the flag and thought about words Kamuzu used to say always
talking to the people of Malawi(Kwacha! Ufulu! Mtendere!) I see the sun
against a black background dawn, alright. Why ufulu? Why Mtendere? How
much blood was shed for us to get the enlightment against the oppression
of the white? How much blood to fight for our freedom from the
oppression? Lest we forget now that we are living in peace. People
prosper with a peaceful mind.
Of what meaning is the new flag to the values of the Malawian People? If
stated, we compare and chose what we want to value. In troubled times
memories like these of Kwacha! Ufulu! Mtendere! even in the age of
enlightment, wisdom and knowledge in the absense of rememberance of what
has brought here falling back the dark ages is very easy. Though times
are different some enlightment have been there and some blood as well.
Will the sunset some day? I do believe there are the same processes of
Kwacha Ufulu and Mtendere that we are going through though the natures
of fight of freedom from which blood is still shed are different.

Kansale kokoma kunsinde kowawa pakati komanso kunsonga. So many people
are willing to start at the beginning of the enlightment. Not many go on
when the fight begins. Not many survive to eat the fruits. The born
frees like me would never know the pain if the message of the precious
freedom faught for is lost. Blood really is kuwawa kwa pakati. Green is
really kukoma kwa ufulu so painfully faught for. But it all begins with
enlightment of the ways by which people in pain having endured for long
could be set free.

Even the age of democracy have had its kansale kokoma kunside, kansale
kowawa pakati, kansale kokomanso kunsinde. I would rather the message of
the flag not daluted.

If a leader leads the people to God, God blesses a nation. Tiyende
pamodzi ndi mtima umodzi. Tiyende pamoza na mtima umo. I like the song.

In Unity: The leader says, we are all Malawians. The preacher says we
are all children of God created by God. An individual you and me say, we
are next door neighbours.

On Quota Governement Scholarship

From what I have heard and understood of the Quota scholarship the government wants to introduce. The problem and fear and confusion come from the use of the word Quota and its history and what it means to the people to implement it.

There has been a marginalization of the people of the Northern region. It happened that in the past, teachers of the north were send home. This was a wrong thing to do but God worked it out for them and turned things around such that with the overflow of teachers people of the north students in the north had better student teacher ratio and students of the north passed better than those in the center and south. And based on merit they qualified better and than those from the center and south. And this is the qualification that gave them higher positions in almost all government departments and companies. And it is this same awareness of the importance of education that inspired the younger generations of the people of the north to work harder and qualify still more while the center and the south are still not aware yet of its importance.

It is true that there is an obvious imbalance in the work places where people of the north are in larger numbers than those in the south and center. Someone was saying in his company there all people of the north in big positions and the only person for the south is a technician. For somebody who has less understanding about how this got to be, would conclude that there has been favoritism. But the truth is when looking at application letters and shortlisting people rarely look at names. The may look at other factors like good behavior and other qualities up to working relationship with other employees. But really do they look at names. It might be there comes a tie in all these and then the question would arise whom do I support? or it might be who do I relate better with? One of the north or my fellow southerner. It would be a question of “with the marginalization I have experienced if something bad crops up who would support me?” For a fellow northerner would come to your aid being in the same shoes as you in terms of marginalization than a southerner who would even set you up just to put you down.

But how do we overcome this imbalance? The government suggests of the quota system. It is not a good solution. And based on history I do not want it. For though its intentions may be good, but the use of the word quota would incite fear in those who have been affected by it in the past. It would bring the tribalism it brought in the past for the implementers.
But there is still an imbalance (for some reason I could think God remembered the people of the south and central by choosing a leader and all other positions from the north to protect them). The President might still want some solutions to resolve these if no better solution is found he might still want to implement this and now politically or forcefully which we would not want.

Suppose we are in his shoes. How would we resolve this? How does God give rain to both his people and his enemies? For the success of the people of the north bring so much fear in the people of the south and central that they might destroy each other just out of fear. Barring the people of the north to give some room for the people of the south and central again is unjust to the people of the north such that with their small population they would be further marginalized to an extent that it would be difficult for them to live in this country of their own. It is good for the president/government not to take part in this. But the people themselves to find a solution to this. Somebody said:

Don’t ask what the Government can do for you but what you can do for the government

But if the people can’t find a solution the leader has to. But again his solution might not be the best and he needs input from us he has said this many times.

My Suggestion: Think up a better solution

In some countries people get scholarships for college not only for academic success but also success in other things such as sports, music and all sorts of other talents. Like the situation of William Kamkwamba an inventor and the Gabriel Kondesi an entrepreneur. William Kamkwamba is not the only inventor in Malawi nor is Gabriel Kondesi the only entrepreneur. Its a search of these talents that we need to support and improve so that even those who are not successful in class would also find recognition in the society. So for instant William Kamkwamba Scholarship for those who are innovative and talented as him. And Esau Kanyenda Scholarship for those who are good in sports and Gabriel Kondesi Fund. For those who have not been good enough for a university education and have found something to do in life and might still want to do college.

My mum even though she did not have a chance to finish her secondary education to support her sick aunt, finished her secondary through correspondence says she would love to go and do university and graduate with distinction.

My sister who failed qualify for university because she did not have credit in English found a chance to do a degree in accountancy in Kenya in 3 years and she is currently working. But chances of getting a scholarship in the private sector is too tough. These too need support not from the government only but also from the people and the private sector regardless of whether they would work on the same company or not.

My brother wanted to do medicine all along so did my brother’s son. He had hopes that even though he had been selected in a degree course he did not want, he would still find a chance to go to medicine and pursue his dream career. But due to difference in academic calendars and the changes that occurred in his year, he was not selected at second year as it always had been, he was not selected after completion of his degree; for he had to complete his teaching practicals or forfeit his degree. And even though he has tried to explain his case, and even asked to reapply and he has been denied chance of pursuing a career of his choice. He too seeks to pursue the career of his choice but scholarships are had to get based on academic merit. He is good at volleyball though. Several times he has qualified for training for international games and the issues of transportation cost and passport have been limiting factors. Funded He would certainly do his career choice.

My brother’s son out of de-motivation that my brother has failed to go to College of Medicine, has lost hope of completing his education for there seems to be no university in Malawi where he can qualify to be a doctor in Malawi. He had 11 points like me on MSCE. He was taken into Bachelor of Science Education. He was also accepted to do pre-medicals but the fee was too high. He opted to continue with Bachelor of Education with a hope to qualify for medicine. He is good at acrobatics and applied for the Military Medicine Scholarship recently advertised but they probably gave priority to the those already in the military. If more of these could introduced he has greater chance of pursuing his career choice.

I managed to do my first choice course Bachelor of Science and I believe would have managed to do my second choice course Engineering if I had put it first choice. I would have loved to engineering instead. My dad would have loved me to do medicine which I thought is not an easy career for me. Bachelor of Science offered me chances to go with medicine God willing, or Computer Science which I thought I could stand. In my wants of wants I would have loved to do music (Bachelor of Arts) but it seemed and felt like a luxury to do so when others fail to qualify for better things they would have loved to do and not based on merit for that matter but imposition. I managed to learn somethings here and their anyway.
I managed to get a job fulfilling both my dream and my fathers dream at baobabhealth trust which I lost trying to save my relationship, complete my master's degree, save the job and find my faith before God for my complete healing. I managed to finish my degree. There is hope that the job loss was not in vain. There is hope for my relationship. I have found faith before God. And I have healed. But my girlfriend is not happy for she too would love to do her choice career.

My girlfriend did Bachelor of Education not of her own choice but because that was only the chance she had to do university education. Her choice career is Social Sciences and it seems wrong to get her into marriage at this time for she would love to pursue it as a masters degree. She is the pride of her family. But would she do it well with a guilty conscious of having left someone she loved? A little failure would de-motivate so much than otherwise to achieve her goals. I could support her being at work but distance does so much harm to a relationship. The hurt after of being left after so much of this support is so heart breaking and I don’t think I couldn’t manage to live on with it at this moment. I would love to go with her to let her pursue the career of her choice. I seem to be lucky academically, I has been easier for me and I would probably get a scholarship to take her with me and for the chances of her doing education there are higher. But I would love her to think of me apart from the help I could give her. For I would love her to love me in the absence of this help which I think she does, but she has more pressing issues. She could find support on her own for being good in sports. She too has qualified to play in international university games for being good at hockey. But the distance does harm to a relationship and would I stand the temptations alone in this period?

There are other situations and more I could explained, to point out others who could qualify not based on merit but other good qualities.

Conclusion:
We would not expect other nations to support those who fail to qualify on academic merit and so, more the need for introducing such scholarships in our own country which would give a chance and hope for others to do university education. Others are de-motivated to try for the mere thought that nobody in the family has managed to go to university.

We need to search for talents other than academic which can be promoted as it is done in other nations. This too is merit. Double scholarships for couples is also a good idea. For based on academic merit or other talents discussed above, one could qualify but not their partner. Factors of distance, trust and temptation in today’s world with HIV/AIDS around, to lose a loving trusted partner for the sake of education is not my choice of career. For in the end too much education without a life is worse than no education at all but with a house, a family and some food. One does education to find a better life for him, his wife and his children and then his immediate family who have not been fortunate to have a better life. If he does not achieve these, what is the purpose of living or a higher education?

This too might be a solution to some issues brought up in the marriage act: where the allowable marriage age is 18years old for someone to marry but for those who are younger, they should not be less than 16years old and should seek parental consent.

Many fail to continue and opt to get married at the hopelessness of achieving the academic requirements and failure to let these get married acceptably gives another hopelessness which fails them to abstain and be faithful to their partners even way before they complete their education. This is worse than what we are trying to achieve in the end. Parental consent would be the parents in acceptance to help these through problems they can’t stand on their own not being very mature(this includes physical maturity) and it would also be encouraging them to see a future they do not see right now so they could be a little more patient to get married later and even help them accomplish this future. In this way they build a happy future for their children them.

So if academic merit is a limiting factor to university education and there is a need for those in south or central to have exposure to university education. There are all these other things that could qualify one to university education. It might be supporting one person in a village for a good thing he has done(a model farm, a model business, an innovative idea, a model relationship, etc) to go to the university. This could be a source of motivation to other students in that village for hope of a university education. This would also avoid so much tribalism. It would be much better if it was done, not by government, but the people from these regions themselves. And better still for someone from the north to help in the south and from the south to help in the north and forget this tribalism issue.

In the end we are all strangers in this land called Malawi, history says. And each tribe came on their own to settle in different parts of this nation. We chose to unite together to be Malawi. Do we break up now for a thing we are trying to do to bring better unity and fairness?

If there are more and better ideas that would still unite. Let us bring them up still. Even in the heat of so much debate, confusion and fear, forget tribalism and mere no but give solutions. We might have found a president whose ear is willing to listen but surrounded by people who still might have a yes bwana mentally who have not realized yet that this president would listen. For if we continue with the yes bwana thing this president would shut his ear and cease to listen to our ideas and do his own even if they might not be better. For no one head can carry a roof of a house.

Some personal notes:
Reminds of my father: He managed to build a school for the people at our home village and supported to build a church in his prosperity. Even in his last days when we were not so fortunate he helped and pushed, I believe, to build a school and a church near our place of residence. For when we grew up our school was further away from home and so the church. Most of times we would not manage to go to Sunday school every Sunday and so most of us found a chance of being baptized when we got to secondary school. And this he did not by going to parliament but his seeing own peoples needs and doing what he can to help. The little he did is the fruit we now have of a school and church at our home village and even near our place of residence in Mabuchi. He did not do it alone. But the statement in the church says “Tiwuke Tizenge”(Let us start building) Nehemiah 2:17,18. I assume he was the one who said it for my grandfather said a similar statement in starting the work of translating the Tumbuka Bible.

This too, I try to do given a chance, to give some hope, some encouragement, some enlightenment, empowerment where possible and sometimes a first step. Might not do to it better or the best way but its my attempt with hope I might achieve this. Sometimes it feels like I have done nothing and go through so much discouragement until I wake up to find that I managed to achieve what I wanted though not in a way I expected. Sometimes better sometimes a little less. Sometimes it seems worse in the end I learned that God still works out and he makes things work as I expected. This is the same spirit in which the people managed to build the wall of Jerusalem as recorded in Nehemiah. Some built on the part of the wall connected to their houses, some built the whole wall, some stood watch. Some built with weapons in their hands. Every one of these contributed and the overall outcome was they achieved their common goal to build the wall for people to start returning home to Jerusalem. No one was reproached in the little they did.

Because I have spoken of my personal issues and it is said “ask and you shall receive” I also ask: “While others thou art helping do not pass me(and my girl and possibly my family) by”. It might be found that we too might be found worth of these scholarships. It might please you just to help us anyway for we have asked.

Credit to Chisomo Kacheche my brother-in-marriage. Who helped point out mistakes here and there.

Global Warming: Reloaded

On 9th December 2007 I wrote an article about Global Warming and our
solutions. It is difficult indeed to come to balance all things in
nature.
I now have reason to believe that global warming is not only due to
green house gases. A bareground heats up much more than the a covered
ground. A question could be asked of the increase in temperatures is
there also a decrease in temperatures? This could confirm the fact
about the bare ground since it would also cools down more. As a result
of the quick heat up atmospheric temperature would also rise quickly
keeping a highier maximum temperature than previously observed.
In these recent years, I think we have depleted much vegetation
building our settlements. This too could be checked to compare
vegetation cover in the times when we had lower maximum temperatures
with the current vegetation cover of the earth.
The photosynthes solution to be delivered the natural way by
replanting vegetation would correct the global warming in two ways.
Providing the rains to cleanup the polluted skys and provide
vegetation cover to isolate the earth from high heat ups.

Communication Breakdowns

People go through distressing times. Because of what they have gone
through, their reaction changes their behaviour and some exhibit
psychiatric symptoms. That is symptoms that mentally ill people would
have. Some forms of treatment would delay the recovery of such
temporary situations.

I will speak - John 3:16

For all the things that God has taken me through I will praise Him.
For even in this day and night and my loved ones are safe in His arms
who created the earth and the heavens for He alone is. For God is
love. And His love endures forever.

Bangwe Saga: Scientific Proof and Application of the Law

Scientific Proof:
Ways of science are formalized ways of all sorts strategies we apply in everyday life.This has been done for the sake of achieving common goals and bringing in a better understanding in sharing of scientific findings.

Aren't we men? Aren't these way been extracted from our own ways so that the best/better ways learned from different situations have been put together formalized into scientific language and ways.

Bangwe - Experiment By Observation:
A Chicken is thrown in a river an accident happens. Another chicken is thrown an accident happens. No chicken no accident. It might have been this way for a long time and so people start to question for they have been observing these things. There is a relationship between throwing of chickens and the accidents that happen.

Further action:
They go to the police for so that the issue be investigated. The Police without looking at the facts reply we can't help you for this seems to be like witch craft and we don't have any provisions in our law(lacking scientific proof - what is science anyway? finding out the truth about something - the definition I have grown up with). The fact that they too have observed from whatever they have heard they conclude it is something to do with witchcraft this is more scientific evidence where they are now a control of the experiment being an independent observation based on the facts given. But they do not know any law to apply so they can't help.

Starting Point:
The actions are evidently breaching peace and inciting fear in this community. The fear is incited by these people coming now and then to drop chickens and lemons and maybe other things. And accidents have been happening on this place. We could have said they are disposing dead chickens. But then why lemons as well? And why so many different persons? Why on this same spot which happen to be a place where so many accidents are happening? Would we expect these people of Bangwe not to fear? Appeasing whatever causes these accidents so that the accidents stop happening? They should come out in the open then if they can't deal with it to do away with it so that in the public there might be somebody to help. Otherwise it might be that the act of throwing dead chickens themselves is causing accidents.

Comes a Mozambican who seemingly knows nothing about what's happening. His child is sick. He goes to this person asks for help(prayers?). This prayerful person says go throw lemons in the river your child will be healed. Mmmh! Suppose, and it seems to be true, when lemons are thrown in the river an accident must happen so that someone dies and this persons life or whatever, results in the other person getting well. Suppose these Siku people loved their child so much and were told they would get their son back to life if they throw a chicken on this place. So lemons for healing, chicken for rising from death. seems plausible.

Further Investigation:
Find the source. Where do these people who throw dead chickens come from? For they seem to have the same message common with them. Supposed they are questioned why they do these things. Suppose they tell who is sending them. Look out Police, catch every person who has thrown a chicken, or something in this place. Question them why they do this. Then this person could be then tried for murder for all the accidents that have happened. In the least, case breach of peace and inciting fear in this community. It might be that with this lookout these people may fear and stop sending people to throw chicken and lemons and other things and accidents might then stop happening. So either way a good thing has happened.


Scientific Conclusion(mine):
There is evidently a direct relationship between the throwing of chickens and accidents happening and someone getting better or rising from death. however process by which all this is happening has not been explained in physical terms yet. It seems quanta-physical for it is quantifiable.

I will speak - John 3:16

For all the things that God has taken me through I will praise Him.
For even in this day and night and my loved ones are safe in His arms
who created the earth and the heavens for He alone is. For God is
love. And His love endures forever.

--
Sent from my mobile device

Kondwani C. Hara
c: +265.99.9477737

Criticism: Whats the Best Way?

The problem I have is a generalized statement without basis. This is what I look at. It attracts me so much. I tend to look it the other way round I see a lot of things that probably might not have been seen. In my thesis my professor might have wanted me to do something simple but there were many statements in the abstract that i was given the made me want to find out more about them. In the end, I ended up proving the conjecture wrong. In addition it made start looking at all things "trivial". It now becomes a problem as I seem to criticise for the sake of criticism.
The generalised statement seemed to be the basis of most of all research concerning the security of the McEliece cryptosystem. That is a code is unlike this then it is secure. What if in one way or another all codes are unlike this statement? Then in the end all codes are insecure. But maybe there is more to security than just looking at this statement and feeling secure. Maybe security is not even affected by this statement at all. Or we might look at degree of security.
Suppose we might have been doing this:looking at specialties of degree of security then with the generalised statement superposed it distorts and changes the direction of a raw cryptographer like me for I might be told this is all there is and I follow that. I will build on that; others will come and will build on that; depending on my level of qualification and popularity it will be difficult for a lay student, even at degree level, who has better truth than what I have built on despite my qualification, to get his truth accepted.
I am attractive to general statement without basis. I ask for basis of the statements. Suppose I bash bash bash and give solution does it help? All these other people have also bashed and given their solutions. I noticed that when I just bashed. People were moving in the right direction finding even better solution than I had thought of. The moment I suggested a solution it all went wrong. Should I bash and give solutions? Should I bash highlighting all the problems there and and live it to the bashed to find solutions? Help me God. For if even criticism does not solve problems show me a way.

On that day!

Oh what a wonderful, wonderful day
A Day I shall never forget,
After I wonder in darkness away
Jesus my savior I met
Oh what a tender compassionate friend,
He met the needs of my heart,
Shadow dispelling, with joy I am telling
He made all the darkness depart.

Heavens came down and glory, He fills my soul,
fills my soul,
When at the cross my savior made me whole, made me whole
My sins are washed away,
and my night was turned to day
Heavens came down and glory, he fills my soul.

Their Victory

"They overcame by the word of their testimony and the blood of the lamb."
It might be at the beginning they failed due to the fear of doing
wrong and losing their salvation. But their testimony of what God is
and what God has done for them must have encouraged them to step out
of the boat and walk on the water. Their only trust was God will help
them through as he had done in the previous experiences.
In the fear of doing wrong they did nothing when this fear was taken
away they did so many marvelous things that the gates of hell could
not hold them their break through was so mighty.
In the past whenever they wanted to do something great the devil made
them fear you will sin don't do it. So they stayed in their "cacoon"
sp.
What shall seperate us from the Love of God? Is it sin? For while we
were yet sinners Jesus died for us. His blood had already paid for all
our sins once and for all.
This is the blood of the lamb with which they overcame with. For when
their fear of sin was taken away they played like Man U does and they
did not find themselves in sin for their fruits were the fruits of
rightiousness and it was impossible for them to bear bad fruits. It is
just impossible. Their victory was mighty indeed for they were really
good.

God's Love for the World

John 3:16:
For God so loved the World that He gave his only begotten Son that
whosoever shall believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life.

Here is the Context:
1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we
know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these
signs that You do unless God is with him."
3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can
he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be
born again.' 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound
of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is
everyone who is born of the Spirit."
9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"
10 Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel,
and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We
speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not
receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do
not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13
No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that
is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal
life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not
believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name
of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation,
that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing
evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds
should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light,
that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

Who is eligible to believe in Him? The world.
Is any supposed to be left behind? People have chosen not to believe
for they might not have understood this gift of God. For non is
supposed to perish. Non. For this gift is for all the world. If you a
person of the world Jesus says "come all you who are weary and heavy
laden I will give you rest. " "For my load is light. "
Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. When Peter walked on the
water and was sinking he cried out to Jesus, "Jesus! Save me!" Jesus
having marvelled at the courage that Peter had, smiled and came to his
help as a dad watching his child learning to walk. "Peter, where is
you faith?" Peter walked back to boat with the Master rejoicing he had
walked on water. All the other disciples marvelled and said "wow!".
For Peter it was an unforgettable memory that taught him about this
strange man called Jesus of Nazareth the "son of a carpenter". It was
easier for to believe "You are son of God".

Operation Bwezani: Banks - Reloaded

Further observation to the problems with Banking Sector might have
beeb due to misunderstanding between the Bank's Software requirements
on the part of the programmer. For there might have been no one in the
banks to know so much about Banking laws for Malawi to check these
things. And there is no ICT policy it seems in the laws of Malawi but
I adherance to the constution is a starting point. Again I think there
seem no checks if the Banks still adhere to the Banking act.
So I then further propose that there be frequent checks(audits) and
sometimes surprice ones to check the Banks adherence to the Banking
Act and also that the Software they use does force the banks to break
such laws. This should also apply to other cases of injustice I have
observed which I wish to bring to light and suggest a solution.

Typos

What so ever mistakes I make in my posts I blame the computer which
was supposed to be infallible intelligent and accurate. For what came
from my mind had no mistake until I wrote it with this computer. If I
had remained with my pen and not lose my typo detecting skills to
microsoft word I would have possibly retained some of my typo
detecting skills. Some I do not see because of my limited screen for
if it had been on paper I would have flipped quickly and found it. It
is hard to correct typos on limited screen for some passeges are
similar and I end up correcting on the wrong places destroying what
might have better farther. I relearn but slowly to do without spell
check.

Truth, Right and Light

How do I be what I do not know?
There are two truth and lie, right and wrong, light and dark. One
tries to kill, steal, and destroy the other gives himself and dies for
what the other tries to kill, steal and destroy.
Love identifies these. 1 Corinthians 13.

Test Driven Cryptography

In agile software development process, there strategies of
development. Test Driven, Feature Driven, Behaviour Driven Development
processes. Yeah yeah so many ways of development in the end what will
be important will be understanding these and scenarios in which to
apply each. I could write a test and write a code that satisfies the
test but even tests can be wrongly written anyway? How do I write a
test if I do not know what to test? Suppose I write my code the best
way I know how test it the best I know how and write a test to keep
what I have already implemented in check. I think that's better for
me. The I would write code -> test manually -> put the check test. I
think this will stand crash testing better than write test -> write
code -> run test. For if the test is semantically wrong the I do not
know until I have written so much code and now I am crash testing.
While I was writing my thesis I was face with this task to test so
many codes with bigger numbers and the speed was getting slower as the
numbers were getting bigger. I tested several implementation of the
algorithm to generate my require Goppa codes. One was very short one
line. One was very long. One the one that had been used all along but
some improvements. In the end I resolved to remain with the improved
one. For the very should was very memory intensive such that bigger
numbers it was getting even longer. The longer one was very cpu
intensive. The improved one was cpu intensive but faster. The
development of a fast algorithm is slow. I agreed. If one already
knows this algorithm then why not just use it? For it will take longer
to redevelop it.
A programmer tries to find algorithms that improve the runtime.
Cryptographers seem to try to find algorithms to increase runtime.
That's quite a fix, isn't it? For cryptosystems are implemented by a
programmers and I am both. Does increasing cryptosystem stay secure by
using bigger numbers? Suppose there is an algorithm that breaks it in
one step and not depending on the size of the key for that matter?
Quite a fix. Most cryptosystems have been tested their strength based
on the wrost-case runtime. That is, the worst case as seen by the
programmer. For the cryptographer the best case is the programmers
worst case and the worst case is the programmers best case. Quite a
fix.
How do we measure the strength of a cryptosystem? Is it the biggest
running time? Why do we need to hide any way? It seems the best
security so far is adherence to truth, right and light. For whatever
we hide will be found one way or another. If whatever I hide has been
found and it is found not to be bad or discriminating. I am safer
still.

Operation Bwezani: Banks

I would ask when was the Banking Act revised in Malawi? I would
recommend it be revised again so that both banks and their customers
benefit from each other. For banks keep our money which no deniable
they invest. The benefit we get from the is much much less compared to
the interest they get when we borrow from them.
Interesting: I lend the bank K10,000 for two months. My interest isn't
much with interest 4% per annum. I need some money 5 days before
agreed pay back time. If I cancel the agreement I forfeit my interest
and lose much more. There is a provision for a loan against my fixed
deposit at 27% per annum. Interest is chargeable from a minimum of one
month. According to terms of agreement I am supposed to payback the
amount i borrow plus interest. I do not sign until I understand the
terms of agreement which must not change within the period of my loan
as i am explained to by the one helping me. Even though the bank has
included it in the terms. (If the bank reserves the right to change
its terms there is so much room for its deliberate violating the terms
and self-guarding itself by this clause even to the disadvantage of
the client). In my understanding if I payback before one month then I
don't pay with interest. Alternatevely the interest is supposed to be
calculated depending on the days until my payback. That aside, the
terms of agreement indicate that I will be expected to payback the
amount I borrow plus interest thereof which also indicated in the
official section of the agreement form. I payback on the day I
promised to do so but I payback the amount, interest plus an
undisclosed processing fee which I did not know about. Which if I had
known I would have opted to cancel the fixed deposit instead of
getting a loan.
Due to charges dedacted on my account which i do not know about the
changes of which i am not notified even though the bank has my
contacts I thought it is expensive to keep such an account. I look at
other banks and I find a better one much better though this NBS Bank
prides itself to be better than all others. Nop, there are better
banks. I want to close my account for then i would just accumulate
dedactions from an account which I am not using anymore. It would take
me paying a charge of K1,000 to close right away or I have to give 1
month notice not to pay or I have to go to my branch. I said what? On
openning I have to pay on closing I have to pay again? Only me pay!
Pay! Pay! Amounts which I do not know about? Should i spend so much
travelling just to close an account with only K361.15. What kind of
Bank is this that refuses so much that it requires one month notice to
close an account which belongs to me. I asked do I have control over
my account. Did I sign to these terms? He tries to bluff me saying
since you openned it at college during promotion the term of
agreements might have been skipped. So I ask for the current forms for
openning an account. And there not even a single term of agreement but
just certifying that the information I am giving is correct. I ask him
as i have asked before if there any written document concerning the
fees they say they can't disclose to clients. And now talk about
Transperancy! Mmh, NBS Bank, How do I know such fees are being
manufactered? For it hurts to find unexpected amounts being deducted
without ones knowledge.
Revise the Banking Act which might have been made to self-guard the
interests of the rich marginalising the poor so that the people are
protected from being exploited by the banks. This people must not
lack.

Ha ha! Wakoleka Conficker!

Today 16th July 2009 from around 12.00pm to 04.00pm I feel proud to report I have busted Conficker! And done so manually in the process I have learned how I can build a knowledge base of for a virus cleaner/detector/remover. Now to get started. Will have to explain it now or later.

Creating the Vision

We sat down on the floor like little children in our new office. We the people of Baobab Health. It is our thing we are building it together. Every was in it. Everyone took part.
Tay, what can I say.
If I am to work in this place for 10 years what would I like to do. I thought about so many stuff that have hurt me. All the frustrations I have had in my life all the stuff I have seen done in mediocre way which I thought we could do better but wasn't able to do myself. I have never had a chance to say this out. I thought I might as well say it now. It might be that this will be my chance that these problems will now be completely solved. And I might find my joy. For if I don't say it they way I would love it how will I be happy working here? Will I keep on critisizing things I don't give a solution for? So I said it all my dreams, my vision and how I would love it to be. It was emotional and its effects stayed on till now.