I'm...TIRED!

"Technical" Humor

My Sweet Lord--Celebrate George Harrison

Close your eyes and open your hearts...Eric Clapton, George Harrison Jr., Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, and Billy Preston. Great concert, great memories...!!!

Best Pictures

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Ireland

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L'OPERA DE PARIS - NABUCO

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Chito & Pocho -An amazing story

IF you thought the legend of the horse whisperer was impressive, here's an animal tale with even more bite.

Rather than trying to tame wild stallions, fearless Costa Rican fisherman Chito prefers a playful wrestle in the water with his best pal Pocho - a deadly 17ft crocodile.

The 52-year-old daredevil draws gasps of amazement from onlookers by wading chest-deep into the water, then whistling for his 980lb buddy - and giving him an affectionate hug.

Crazy Chito says: "Pocho is my best friend. This is a very dangerous routine but we have a good relationship. He will look me in the eye and not attack me.

"It is too dangerous for anyone else to come in the water. It is only ever the two of us."

Chito made friends with the croc after finding him with a gunshot wound on the banks of the Central American state's Parismina river 20 years ago.

He had been shot in the left eye by a cattle farmer and was close to death. But Chito enlisted the help of several pals to load the massive reptile into his boat.

He says: "When I found Pocho in the river he was dying, so I brought him into my house.

"He was very skinny, weighing only around 150lb I gave him chicken and fish and medicine for six months to help him recover.

"I stayed by Pocho's side while he was ill, sleeping next to him at night. I just wanted him to feel that somebody loved him, that not all humans are bad.

"It meant a lot of sacrifice. I had to be there every day. I love all animals - especially ones that have suffered."

It took years before Chito felt that Pocho had bonded with him enough to get closer to the animal.
He says: "After a decade I started to work with him. At first it was slow, slow. I played with him a bit, slowly doing more.

"Then I found out that when I called his name he would come over to me." At one point during his recovery, Chito left the croc in a lake near his house. But as he turned to walk away, to his amazement Pocho got out of the water and began to follow him home.

Chito recalls: "That convinced me the crocodile could be tame." But when he first fearlessly waded into the water with the giant reptile his family was so horrified they couldn't bear to watch. So instead, he took to splashing around with Pocho when they were asleep.

Four years ago Chito showed some of his tricks to friends, including getting the animal to close his eyes on command, and they convinced him to go public with a show.

Now he swims and plays with Pocho as well as feeding him at the lake near his home in the lowland tropical town of Sarapiqui .

The odd couple have now become a major tourist attraction, with several tour operators, including Crocodile Adventures, taking visitors on touring cruises to see the pair.

But he only charges a few dollars to watch the breathtaking crocodile show, claiming he does not want to cash in on Pocho.
He says: "He's my friend, I don't want to treat him like a slave or exploit him.

"I am happy because I rescued him and he is happy with me because he has everything he needs."

Piano Stairs--Fun Theory

They believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. They call it The fun theory.

Jeff Foxsworthy on "Living In Canada"

Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has
to say about Canadians:

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from
September through May,
You may live in Canada .

If someone in a Home Depot store
Offers you assistance and they don't work there,
You may live in Canada .

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
You may live in Canada .

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation
With someone who dialed a wrong number,
You may live in Canada .

If 'Vacation' means going anywhere
South of Detroit for the weekend,
You may live in Canada .

If you measure distance in hours,
You may live in Canada .

If you know several people
Who have hit a deer more than once,
You may live in Canada .

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C'
In the same day and back again,
You may live in Canada .

If you can drive 90 km/hr through 2 feet of snow
During a raging blizzard without flinching,
You may live in Canada .

If you install security lights on your house and garage,
But leave both unlocked,
You may live in Canada .

If you carry jumper cables in your car
And your wife knows how to use them,
You may live in Canada .

If you design your kid's Halloween costume
To fit over a snowsuit,
You may live in Canada .

If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km &
You're going 95 and everybody is passing you,
You may live in Canada .

If driving is better in the winter
Because the potholes are filled with snow,
You may live in Canada .

If you know all 4 seasons:
Almost winter, winter, still winter,
and road construction,
You may live in Canada .

(this is my favourite, because how true)


If you have more miles
On your snow blower than your car,
You may live in Canada .

If you find -2 degrees 'a little chilly',
You may live in Canada .

If you actually understand these jokes,
and forward them to all
your friends,

you definitely are Canadian and proud to be.

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Home Security!

If you have a cat and a dog you are safe!

5 minute university

Father Guido Sarducci teaches what an average college graduate knows after five years from graduation in five minutes.

Mommy Dog & Her Piglet

Pictures to make you go...hmm?

Printer Ink Secret

Watch this video before you throw your ink cartridge away.

Sunset at the North Pole

A scene you will probably never get to see?
This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point.

You also see the sun below the moon. An amazing photo and not easily duplicated.

Fastest Dress Changes

Magic show getting sophisticated‏

Best Pool Shot

by a white chicken

In praise of laziness

Talking cat

The Amazing Cucumber

This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems. 1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc. 2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours. 3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance. 4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area. 5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!! 6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!! 7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation. 8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water. 9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone! 10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams. 11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath. 12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean. 13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

Listening

How do I listen to others?

As if everyone were my Master

Speaking to me His

Cherished last words.

— Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,

abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

— George Elliot

You give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material.

— Robert A. Johnson

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

— Publilius Syrus

First Century BC, Maxim 914

Effective listeners remember that "words have no meaning - people have meaning." The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudes differ, we often misinterpret each other’s messages while under the illusion that a common understanding has been achieved.

— Larry Barker

The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

— George Bernard Shaw

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

— Ambrose Bierce

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

— M. Scott Peck

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

— Peter Senge

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

— Carl Rogers

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

— Diane Sawyer

ABC Television Anchor

Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable—and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities.

— Peter Nulty

National Business Hall of Fame Fortune Magazine

Many 'active listening' seminars are, in actuality, little more than a shallow theatrical exercise in appearing like you're paying attention to another person. The requirements: Lean forward, make eye contact, nod, grunt, or murmur to demonstrate you're awake and paying attention, and paraphrase something back every 30 seconds or so. As one executive I know wryly observed, many inhabitants of the local zoo could be trained to go through these motions, minus the paraphrasing.

— Robert K. Cooper

Executive EQ

You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen—not just money, but respect.

— Harvey Mackay

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

— Ralph Nichols

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

— Turkish Proverb

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

— Carl Roger

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

— Dick Cavett

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

— Michael P. Nichols

The Lost Art of Listening

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be understood, as to understand.

— St Francis of Assisi

Loving oneself

Loving oneself is no easy matter just because it means loving all of oneself, including the shadow where one is inferior and socially so unacceptable. The care one gives this humiliating part is also the cure.

— James Hillman

Monkey magic show

Rumi quote

A strange passion is moving in my head.

My heart has become a bird

Which searches everywhere in the sky.

Every part of me goes in different directions.

Is it really so

That the one I love is everywhere?

~ Rumi

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Still point

Anything you do

has a still point.

When you are in that

still point,

you can perform

maximally.

~ Joseph Campbell

Kissing Test

Talking dogs

An amazing bear

A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net.

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Midieval tech support

Helpdesk support from the Middle Ages for the latest office technology.

The voca people

The Voca People is a new international vocal theater performance combining vocal sounds and an acapella singing with the art of modern beat-box.

http://lidorproductions.com/vocapeople/

Artistic Director: Lior Kalfo

Music Director: Shai Fishman

Producers: Revital & Lior Kalfo.

Performers: Eyal Cohen, Oded Goldstein, Liraz Rahmin, Adi Cesare, Adi Kozlovsky, Naama Levi, Boaz Ben David, Inon Ben David
Video Photographer: Shlomi Albo,

Video editing: Peleg Netanel,

Light design: Roy Milo

Eckhart Tolle on love

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Web Site Story (Musical)

Pomp and Circumstance--Disney

A clip from Disney's "Fantasia 2000" where Donald Duck stars in the musical piece "Pomp and Circumstance" for the story of Noah's Ark.


This is one of the greatest Disney moments: detail on animation, characters, music, simple but clever humor and touching...

Anti Burglar System--Great idea!

What to take to bed with you - not a joke.
Pretty neat idea. Never thought of it before.

Put your car keys beside your bed at night

Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your Dr's office, the check-out girl at the market, everyone you come across to put their car keys beside their beds at night.

If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator.

Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it.

It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage.

If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot.. The alarm can work the same way there.

This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Byron Katie on love

“I’m very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.”

~ Byron Katie

Women in Art

by Philip Scott Johnson

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Nominated as Most Creative Video
2nd Annual YouTube Awards

Quote from Albert Einstein

"A human being is part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something seperated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness.

This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living things and all of nature."

~ Albert Einstein

A Different Kind of Thai Massage

HavaNagila

Our Home Planet Earth

What a amazing 'home' we are in!

Drunk

Great Photos

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Awesome Sand Art

Springboard Acrobat

They were with The Moscow State Circus in UK for 2 seasons and with Blackpool Tower Show at Xmas 2008 -2009. Brilliant performance!

Sultan of Brunei (King Of Luxury)

3 children are born every second in this world;

10 mobile phones sold on the international level;

auto manufacturers produce a car every 4.5 seconds on average;

and on the level of the human mind = brain cells send 200 directives each second to perform the various functions of physical and mental health.

The world spends 37 million euros for arms on the international level in one second

And the Sultan of Brunei's wealth increases by 90 euros every second!

No envy please!

This means around 5400 euros per minute, 324000 euros each hour, 7776000 euros a day

Implies about 54432000 euros a week (that's 54 million and 432000 thousand euros)

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah... President of the richest country in the world. Popular, lavish, uses gold in everything

Was born literally eating with spoons made of gold

Clothes worn embroidered with gold and silver

These are some pictures of his palace...

The largest and most luxurious palace in the world...

Consists of 1788 rooms with some furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted 257 bath inlaid with gold and silver and a garage to accommodate 110 cars. The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished at not less than 150,000 thousand euros. This requires the visitor to spend 24 hours just to inspect each room for 30 seconds

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Wikipedia says he has

531 Mercedes-Benzes

367 Ferraris

362 Bentleys

185 BMWs

177 Jaguars

160 Porsches

130 Rolls-Royces

And 20 Lamborghinis

Bringing the total number of his cars to 1,932

Black Bear Quintuplets

Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007, in northern New Hampshire, a black bear sow gave birth to five healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4 cubs, but was, and is, very extraordinary.

I learned of them shortly after they emerged from their den and set myself a goal of photographing all five cubs with their mom - no matter how much time and effort was involved. I knew the trail they followed on a fairly regular basis, usually

shortly before dark. After spending nearly four hours a day, seven days a week, for more than six weeks, I had that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and photographed them. I used the equivalent of a very fast film speed on my digital camera. The print is properly focused and well exposed, with all six bears posing as if they were in a studio for a family portrait.

I stayed in touch with other people who saw the bears during the summer and into the fall hunting season. All six bears continued to thrive. As time for hibernation approached, I found still more folks who had seen them, and everything remained OK. I stayed away

from the bears as I was concerned that they might become habituated to me, or to people in general, and treat them as "approachable" friends. This could easily become dangerous for both man and animal.

After Halloween, I received no further reports and could only hope the bears survived until they hibernated.

This spring, just before the snow disappeared, all six bears came out o

f their den and wandered all over the same familiar territory they trekked in the spring of 2007.

I saw them before mid-April and dreamed nightly of taking another family portrait, a highly improbable second once-in-a-lifetime photograph.

On 25 April 2008, I achieved my dream.

When something as magical as this happens between man and animal, Native Americans say,

"We have walked together in the shadow of a rainbow."

And so it is with humility and great pleasure that I share these exhilarati photos with you. Do pass them on.

Photographer: Tom Sears

Glacier

This is an every-four-year event that has gone on for centuries.

Absolutely amazing! This clip is of the spectacular South American glacier, The Perito Moreno Glacier, which breaks up every four years like clock work, give or take a week.

There are photographers from the four corners of the earth that come to southern Argentina and literally camp out at the glacier site in order to get the actual breakup on film.

The individual who filmed this did a marvelous job. This is something your children and grandchildren should surely see!

Creative Solutions

These can be especially practical in the current economy

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Honeybunch

Lyrics:- You’re my Honeybunch, Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You’re my Sweetie Pie
You’re my Cuppycake, Gumdrop
Snoogums-Boogums, You’re the Apple of my Eye
And I love you so and I want you to know
That I’ll always be right here
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear

“I wrote this song about all of the sweet names my mom and dad called me when I was little and all of the sweet names that I call my daughter Amy.I entitled it “You’re My Honeybunch” and gave it to her as a Valentine’s day present.” - Judianna Castle

Water drops - delicate & powerful

Mexican Painter Octavio Ocampo

New Car Technology

Cute Animal Pics

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Workout with a buddy

Bach's Air on the G String

Performs by Sarah Chang

Sonata for Two Pianos in D major

The Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448 is a piano work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1781, at the age of 25. The sonata was composed for a performance he gave with fellow pianist Josephine von Aurnhammer. This is one of his only formal compositions for Two Pianos exclusively.

This sonata was also used in the scientific study that tested the theory of the title "Mozart Effect" suggesting that classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music.

Here is a exceptional performance of the 1st movement by Piano Duo Gerwig & González Christine Gerwig - Germany & Efraín González - Mexico

How did they build these?

Can't Respond to Emails Today

I can't respond to any emails today, something has crashed on my computer

SCROLL DOWN...

and the mouse is missing.

World Stats Clock

Get up-to-the-second updates here on many interesting global stats including population, global warming and health issues. It's pretty cool. Check it out!

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks2.htm

Music and the Brain

Music benefits your brain and makes you smarter.

Einstein was one of the greatest geniuses in the world. However, when he was young he did extremely poorly in school. His teachers suggested that his parents take him out of school because he was too stupid to learn and get him an easy manual labor job as soon as they could.

His mother did not think that her son was stupid. Instead, she bought him a violin which he loved and soon excelled in playing. Music was the key that helped young Einstein become one of the smartest men who has ever lived.

Einstein himself said that the reason he was so smart was because he played the violin. The music of Mozart and Bach was his favorite. One of his friends, G.J. Withrow, said that Einstein figured out his problems and equations by improvising on the violin.

Trained classical male musicians have larger cerebellum than men who don't play a musical instrument, as reported by Dr. Gotffried Schlaug of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Top ten of Everything 2008