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Spectacular Photography

Sun, 11 May 2008 04:55:09 GMT

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Baby Car Logos

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:33:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.autounleashed.com

Baby car logos advertising campaign for Minichamps

We’ve seen some great advertising campaigns in the auto industry and we’ve presented you, in the past, some of those. Now here’s another one, from Brazil, which is really awesome and I bet your first reaction will be “Awww, that’s so cute!”.

The prints, which show “baby versions” of some popular brand logos, like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati or Jaguar were created by Brazilian ad agency Dentsu for Minichamps, a die-cast miniature model producer. And we must say they’re pretty funny, especially the Jaguar kitten, the Ferrari horsey or the Lamborghini calf.

Check out the rest of the images after the jump.

Photo Gallery: Baby Car Logos Advertising Campaign

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Happy Mother's Day!

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:44:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.appleseeds.org

A Mother’s Love

A mother’s love is something
That no one can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
And of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
And enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
Or take that love away…

It is patient and forgiving
When all others are forsaking.
And it never fails or falters
Even though the heart is breaking…

It believes beyond believing
When the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
Of the rarest, brightest gems…

It is far beyond defining.
It defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
Like the mysteries of Creation…

A many splendored miracle
Man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God’s tender guiding hand.

Clip Source: www.appleseeds.org

Brilliant answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions!!

Why did God make mothers?

She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

Magic plus super powers, and a lot of stirring.

Tags: mothers, family, reverence, love, appleseeds

Endangered parrots born in captivity reproduce in wild

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:59:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.

The ZooAve Center for the Rescue of Endangered Species has released 100 of the birds into the wild in the past decade. But biologists didn't spot offspring until last year,

Since then, they have recorded 22 chicks born in the wild, and four more scarlet macaw couples have laid eggs

The parrots once occupied all of Costa Rica. But hunting and poaching dramatically cut their population, and they are now found only in two national parks along the coast.

The parrots, which live up to 80 years, can start reproducing at age 7.

Many parrots in the breeding program were confiscated by environmental authorities or turned in by their former owners. Some can't leave the sanctuary because they don't know how to survive in the wild.

"Many don't even know how to feed themselves," Fournier said.

Tags: animals, birds, nature

Photos of the Earth and Moon - From Other Worlds

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:16:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.universetoday.com

We're familiar with the close-up images of Earth captured by orbital satellites and astronauts on the International Space Station. But here are a few pictures of the Earth and Moon captured at a distance, while passing around the Moon, or orbiting distant Saturn. In the words of Carl Sagan, "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Since Sagan commented on Voyager 1's image of Earth, several more pics of the Earth and Moon have been captured that really put our tiny spot in the Universe into perspective

Voyager 1 - the Pale Blue Dot

This image, captured by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990, is the one Sagan was talking about

Cassini - the Earth from Saturn

a tiny blue-white dot.

there's Earth, seen from a distance of 1.4 billion km

Mars Express - the Earth and Moon from Mars

Opportunity Rover - the Earth from the Surface of Mars

Holocaust Memorial Train Ends Journey at Auschwitz

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:59:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dw-world.de

A memorial train featuring an exhibition on the thousands of children deported and murdered by the Nazis during World War II completed its journey near the former Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland.

Some 200 people marched on Thursday from the railway station in Oswiecim, where the train arrived, to a platform at the nearby Auschwitz camp, where more than 1.1 million people, including one million European Jews, were killed there between 1941-45.

The train's arrival at Auschwitz coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on May 8, 1945.

Symbolic journey

Organizers said that more than 225,000 people viewed the exhibition during its six-month voyage.

Detailing the fate of Jewish children and teenagers deported by the Nazis between October 1940 to December 1944, the "Memorial Train" focuses on the biographies of

Court backs artist over naked goddess

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:03:04 GMT

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Criminal charges levelled against India's leading living artist for an allegedly obscene depiction of a Hindu goddess have been quashed in a ruling that says religious extremism risks pushing the country into a "pre-Renaissance era".

Maqbool Fida Husain, 92, a Muslim who has been dubbed "the Picasso of India", was served with seven private criminal complaints by Hindu groups for the painting Bharat Mata (Mother India), a work representing the nation as a nude woman. The Delhi High Court judged that the picture, for which Mr Husain has apologised, carried no religious content and could not be construed as offensive.

Akhil Sibal, Mr Husain's lawyer, told The Times that the ruling was an important step, "ensuring artistic freedoms are not made victims at the hands of extremists".

Tags: goddess, art, artist, hindu, muslim, religion, legal

"Can't" is a state of mind

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:05:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very inspiring father-son team. I got a little teary-eyed after the article.

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Rick Hoyt cannot walk

he climbs mountains

tears through finish lines at triathlons

speeds through marathons

treks thousands of miles

Rick Hoyt cannot talk

Since birth, cerebral palsy has robbed him of the ability to control the majority of his muscles and limbs, including his vocal chords

his father, Dick Hoyt, has pushed, pulled and carried Rick, a quadriplegic, across more than 900 finish lines

six Ironman competitions

66 marathons

26 Boston Marathons

45-day consecutive bike ride across the country

When Dick runs, he pushes Rick in his wheelchair. When Dick cycles, he pulls Rick in a seat-pod attached to the front of his bicycle. When Dick swims, he hauls Rick behind him in a dinghy. When Dick mountain climbs he carries his son, who weighs about 115 pounds, on his back.

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at age 67, Dick continues to race weekly with Rick

"I keep training and competing because (Rick) gets so much happiness out of it, and I get happiness just seeing him happy," Dick said.

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"can't" is just a state of mind

Tags: family, father, son, hoyt, sports, health, cerebral palsy, marathon, ironman, inspiration

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:51:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers for assignments to write entries for the free online encyclopedia.

"The vast majority of Wikipedia entries aren't very good," said Beasley-Murray, but said the site aims to be academically sound.

To reach its goal of academic standards, said Wikipedia's web site, it set up an assessment scale on its English-language site. The best encyclopedia entries are ranked as "Featured Articles," and run each day on the home page at http://www.wikipedia.com.

Of more than 10 million articles in 253 languages, only about 2,000 have reached "Featured Article" status, it said.

In May, three entries created by nine students in the course became the first student works to reach Wikipedia's top rank.

Tags: wikipedia, web

Tiger Temple

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:17:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When ex-Deputy Manager of the RSPCA Stubbington Ark, Karen Earp, read about the Tiger Temple in a magazine, she wanted to know more.

Research on the internet showed that the temple not only takes in orphaned cubs found by villagers or rescued from poachers at border control, it has now become a conservation project with a breeding programme. Several cubs have been born at the temple and there are plans for future generations to be returned to the wild - although donations are needed to fund this project.

However, the research also revealed allegations that the tigers are drugged, have teeth and claws removed, are vegetarian and spend all of their time in cages that are too small. (Before you continue reading, you should know that all of these allegations proved to be completely unfounded and are obviously uninformed. Teeth and claws not removed and firmly in evidence, not vegetarian, caged some of the time in large spotless cages and absolutely NOT drugged.)

Clip Source: www.tigertemple.co.uk

We thought we would start our site by putting up some of our favourite photographs.

There are several hundred to go through, so this page may change.

As a visitor to the temple you will be able to pat the tigers and have your photo taken with them.

A lucky few may have their photo taken with a tiger�s head in their lap.

We were so lucky to be able to get many of our photographs because we were working with the tigers and living on temple grounds.

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Confessions

Sat, 10 May 2008 07:55:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, that is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."

They go to church and the father alerts the priest, and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.

The boy says, "Dark in here."

The priest says, "Don't start that shit again"

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A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Unbeknownst to her, her 9-year-old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.

Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball."
Man: "That's nice."
Boy: "Want to buy it?"
Man: "No, thanks."
Boy: "My dad's outside."
Man: "OK, how much?"

Boy: "$250."

In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom's lover are in the closet together.

Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes, it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball glove."
Man: "How much?"
Boy: "$750."

Man: "Fine."

A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove. Let's go outside and toss the baseball."

The boy says, "I can't. I sold them."

The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"

The son says, "$1,000."

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Rational Recovery - No "Higher Power" necessary

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:18:04 GMT

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Clip Source: substance-abuse-recovery.suite101.com

1. Admit you have a problem. You do not have to admit to being powerless over alcohol. You do have to admit that you have a problem and that you want to change

2. Determine your allies as soon as you make the decision to quit. Who is in your life that will support you in your decision? Surround yourself with the people in your life that will assist you in your decision to quit

3. Make a commitment. Don't be afraid to imagine yourself sober for the rest of your life. It is true that you take one day at a time

You also need to have emotional acceptance that it is a good thing that you will not ever be drinking again

4. Avoid the labels. It is not necessary to announce to everyone that you are an alcoholic, or a recovering alcoholic. Share your victories with your allies

Know that you do not have a disease, and you are not sick-

it's o.k. to simply say, "no thank you

Avoid situations that will lead to being pressured for a drink

Spend time with your allies

Be gentle with yourself

Mother-in-law's tongue

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:29:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.null-hypothesis.co.uk

DUMBCANE or MOTHER-IN-LAW'S TONGUE

Dieffenbachia picta

The leaves contain barbed, double-pointed, needle-like crystals of calcium oxalate which get shot into the soft mouth tissues of anything unfortunate enough to try eating it. The plants house these sharp crystals within specialised cells called idioblasts which act like microscopic blow darts when broken.

Dumbcane: can deploy chemical weapons within a fraction of a second.
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To make matters worse, the oxalate crystals have grooves running down their sides which channel an enzyme similar to those found in scorpion and snake venoms deep into the wounds

All this causes a severe burning sensation, paralysis of the mouth (hence the plant's common names) and the occasional hideously painful death.

Despite its rather warlike defences, dumbcane is a popular houseplant