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An old man, a boy & a donkey

Wed, 16 May 2007 20:25:17 GMT

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An old man, a boy & a donkey were going to town. The boy rode on the donkey & the old man walked. As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame the old man was walking & the boy was riding.

The man & boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.

Later, they passed some people that remarked, "What a shame, he makes that little boy walk."

They then decided they both would walk! Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent donkey to ride. So, they both rode the donkey.

Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying how awful to put such a load on a poor donkey.

The boy & man said they were probably right, so they decide to carry the donkey. As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the animal & he fell into the river and drowned.

The moral of the story?

If you try to please everyone, you might as well...

Kiss your ass goodbye!

Tags: humor

Amazing products on sale at eBay!!

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:11:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wonder what you can't buy on the net!!

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Tags: funny

8 Ways to Help Accept Change !!!

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:22:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.123oye.com

Resistance may appear as anger or unwillingness to try the new experience that we are called into.

Each of us, to some degree, resists change.

Overcome resistance by:

1) Admitting that you are powerless over controlling the changes imposed upon you.

2) Identifying the things that you can control and take action accordingly.

3) Believing that through introspection and support of others you can restore yourself to a sense of sanity about the situation and events.

4) Seeking to understand the origin of your fears, anger, and resentment about the changes being faced.

5) Developing consciously plans to overcome the causes of resistance and build upon your strengths.

6) Looking for the positive benefits of embracing the change as opposed to dwelling on the negative implications.

7) Realizing that the change is likely to (or has already) occur(ed) whether or not you embrace it.

8) Considering

how you dealt with this specific event or experience and seek ways to learn from it

Tags: change

Tips for Combating Depression and Anxiety

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:17:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wichita-counseling.com

Depression and anxiety affect more than 20 million adults every year. With depression symptoms ranging from mild to severe, more people are seeking help for the treatment of depression and anxiety than ever before. Treatment options for depression and anxiety include prescription medication, hormone therapy, psychotherapy, and a variety of other specialized therapies.

Since each case is unique, there is no “one-size-fits-all” cure for these sometimes debilitating mental disorders. But when natural remedies are used in conjunction with other types of treatment, treatment success rates can soar!

Banish Negative Thoughts

negativity makes depression and anxiety worse

Avoid Associating with Negative People

Sharing your life with people who are negative only strengthens your own negative feelings.

Journal Your Way to Relaxation

Take a few minutes each day to write in a journal

Tap Into the Power of Affirmations

Affirmations are uplifting statements that you say out loud

Tags: depression, anxiety

Troubling phrases in our language

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:08:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailyom.com

There are many troubling phrases in our language that we use without considering their full meaning simply because they have been accepted into common knowledge. Even as our ideals progress, our language maintains some phrases from our past that no longer serve us, for example: Boys don't cry; good child; boys will be boys; problem child; illegitimate child; and many more.

It is challenging to examine our habits in terms of the words we use to express ourselves, but it is also exciting. Language is an area where we can exercise our free will, creating positive change in the world around us by simply choosing carefully the words we use. It may seem like a small thing, but our words have a rippling effect, like a stone thrown in a pond. People naturally pick up on the way other people speak, consciously or unconsciously changing the way they speak in response

You may already have some ideas about phrases you'd like to transition out of your language

Tags: phrases, language

Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:00:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ncr-iran.org

By JAMES GLANZ (New York Times)
Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report.

Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the discrepancy was valued at $5 million to $15 million daily.

The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry.

The report also covered alternative explanations for the billions of dollars worth of discrepancies, including the possibility that Iraq has been consistently overstating its oil production.

Tags: oil

Couple who had sex on a plane plead guilty.

Tue, 15 May 2007 10:56:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bermudasun.bm

A couple who had sex on a plane and then became so abusive to the air crew that the pilot had to divert to Bermuda, plead guilty to the charges of affray and drunkenness in a U.K. court today.

Trevor Augustus Blake, 44 and Nicola Fitzgerald, 27, from Luton, Bedfordshire, were on a British Airways flight from London to Jamaica in December 2005 when staff had to restrain them.

The couple later told the News of the World newspaper that they had sex twice in the aircraft's toilets.

Fitzgerald was quoted as saying: "We felt like we were being very naughty, but we made a point of being quiet."

In court today, prosecutor Danny Robinson said: "The genesis of this difficulty on the plane arose over the pair being refused drinks.

"Some small bottles of wine had been given to both defendants. However the air crew declined to give further drinks because Mr. Blake became rather loud."

Staff restrained Blake, which upset his girlfriend and she had to be restrained, too.

Tags: sex, plane

India shies away from sex education

Tue, 15 May 2007 10:52:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailytimes.com.pk

Ignorance about sex is widespread in the land of the Kama Sutra, where explicit sex acts are celebrated in ancient temple architecture. But at home, mothers hesitate to talk to daughters about something as simple as menstruation

MOVES to bring sex out of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates, and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.

It’s an emotive issue pitting modernists against conservatives in a country with the world’s highest number of HIV cases at about 5.7 million, a figure that experts say may balloon to over 20 million by 2010. Biology teacher Thelma Seqeira infuriates conservatives in India every time she tells her students about masturbation, condoms and homosexuality.

Seqeira is doing exactly what India’s federal government wants the country’s 29 states and seven federally administered regions to do - fight the exponential spread of HIV/AIDS with information on safe sex.

Tags: india, sex, education

WORLD'S FIRST FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY

Tue, 15 May 2007 10:30:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.eink.com

Tokyo, Japan - October 19, 2005 - E Ink Corporation in USA, the leading supplier of electronic paper display technology, today announced that LG.Philips LCD (NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220), one of the world's leading innovators of thin-film transistor liquid crystal (TFT-LCD) technology, and E Ink have built a 10.1" flexible electronic paper display. The display will be shown at the FPD International trade show in Japan, attended by over 60,000 visitors each year.

Less than 300 microns thick, the paper-white display is as thin and flexible as construction paper. With a 10.1" diagonal, the prototype achieves SVGA (600x800) resolution at 100 pixels per inch and has a 10:1 contrast ratio with 4 levels of grayscale.

E Ink® Imaging Film is a novel display material that looks like printed ink on paper and has been designed for use in paper-like electronic displays. Like paper, the material can be flexed and rolled.

Tags: electronic paper display

Top 25 Geekiest Free Fonts

Tue, 15 May 2007 02:24:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rewardprograms.org

Top 25 Geekiest Free Fonts (And Where You Can Get Them)

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Gmail Users are Younger, Richer, Good in Bed

Sat, 12 May 2007 12:53:40 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the latest stats show that Gmail users skew younger and richer than those on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

However, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are still much bigger by comparison, says Hitwise: Yahoo had 13x the market share, and Hotmail had 6x the marketshare of Gmail.

The good news, if you’re a Gmail user, is that you may be part of the elite: while Yahoo and Hotmail users are decidedly average, Gmail users tend to be young, have a high income, and be early adopters of technology. 54% of users are between 18 and 34, while 18% have an average annual household income between $100,000 and $149,999 (compared to 15% for Hotmail and 13% for Yahoo Mail). Another stat, probably related to the young age of GMail users: they’re more likely to be Facebook users than those on the other services.

As for performance in the bedroom - well, we kinda lied. In fact, the stats show that solitary Gmail users are far more likely to Google themselves.

Tags: gmail, yahoo

People in the 50s live today as young people did 50 years ago

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:16:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.helptheaged.org.uk

The first ever report to compare the lifestyles of today's over 50s with their counterparts in 1957 reveals many are enjoying double the retirement period and living a lifestyle that more closely resembles that of a 25 year old in 1957.

Time spent shopping, socialising and playing sport have replaced that spent on domestic duties 50 years ago, with the over 50s today splashing-out the equivalent of six-times more on holidays and travel than those of the same age in the 1950s.

Although much has changed in the past 50 years across all age groups, the research has revealed that it is life after 50 that has experienced the greatest demographic and social shifts. The report, complied on behalf of intune - a new financial services company created to help people make the most of their finances in later life - challenges the stereotypical image often associated with those over 50.

Topline report findings include:

Travel

Leisure

Recreation

Tags: 50, life

Top 6 Healthiest Nuts

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:14:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sixwise.com

1. Walnuts

It's a great source of the healthy omega-3 essential fatty acids, which have been found to protect the heart, promote better cognitive function, and provide anti-inflammatory benefits for asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema and psoriasis.

2. Almonds

Just a quarter cup of almonds contains nearly 25 percent of your needed daily value of the important nutrient magnesium, plus is rich in potassium, manganese, copper, the antioxidants vitamin E and selenium, and calcium.

3. Cashews

lower in fat than most nuts, and 65 percent of this fat is unsaturated fatty acids.

4. Pecans

excellent source of over 19 vitamins and minerals including vitamins E and A, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, potassium, manganese, several B vitamins and zinc.

5. Brazil Nuts

These nuts are extremely nutrient-rich and contain protein, copper, niacin, magnesium, fiber, vitamin E and selenium.

6. Macadamia Nuts

high in protein, fiber, healthy monounsaturated fats, potassium and magnesium

Tags: health, nuts

Fractal Art

Tue, 01 May 2007 11:20:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nice pictures. Science and Art hand to hand

Clip Source: website.lineone.net

Clip Source: mathworld.wolfram.com

A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure at all scales, but the same "type" of structures must appear on all scales. A plot of the quantity on a log-log graph versus scale then gives a straight line, whose slope is said to be the fractal dimension. The prototypical example for a fractal is the length of a coastline measured with different length rulers. The shorter the ruler, the longer the length measured, a paradox known as the coastline paradox.

Tags: fractal, art

Freedom Quotes

Tue, 01 May 2007 10:53:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wisdomquotes.com

Benjamin Franklin:

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

C. Wright Mills:

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Clarence Darrow:

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Dorothy Thompson:

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Edward R. Murrow:

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Eleanor Holmes Norton:

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Tags: freedom, quotes