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Clipmarks | Live ClipsMuslims dont hate the USAclipped by: masburyclippers remarks: More worried that Americans hate them The Muslims I know are more resigned than angry. Many are convinced that the West is making war on Islam, but after decades of American support for dictators in their part of the world, and centuries of having their religion misunderstood, they don?t expect much. Far from hating America, my friends are more likely to worry that Americans hate them. They see how Muslims are portrayed in our media. We see angry men burning flags, raising rifles in the air, throwing rocks and blowing things up. In Morocco they refute this with warmth and candor, and exaggerated shows of hospitality. Yet they worry about us. Is America really a democracy? Are we morally lazy? How we can accept what has been done in our name? They wonder how could we have invaded a nation that was no threat to us. Why haven?t we challenged our leaders? Are we really that spoiled? Are we so concerned with our own comfort, that we tune out what is happening just because it is far away?  zum Artikel...
Jesus Camp going a little too far (praising Bush)??clipped by: paleblueclippers remarks: This is just sick!!!  Tags: religious zum Artikel...Pakistan at Heart of US Oil Crisisclipped by: abailartGeneral Musharraf has declared martial law in Pakistan. Chuck Prince is being pressed to resign as chief executive of Citigroup, the world?s largest bank, apparently because of losses on sub-prime mortgages. The oil price has risen to $96 a barrel; the gold price has risen above $800 an ounce. That is the world in a nutshell, an international crisis, a credit crisis, an energy crisis and a dollar crisis. Pakistan remains an important, pivotal country. It is an essential bastion of the American position in the Middle East. Without Pakistan as an ally, it is hard to see how the US could maintain its position in Afghanistan. it would be a disaster if the United States lost a position of influence with the Arab oil-producing countries. Trouble in Pakistan means trouble for the oil market. same pressures that have threatened Musharraf?s position have undermined Chuck Prince?s position in Citigroup. We are not in a local Pakistan crisis, but in a global crisis that happens to include Pakistan. zum Artikel...Stunning Images of Wildlife in East Africaclipped by: katuraclippers remarks: Beautiful & peaceful... Nick Brandt                   zum Artikel...Permanent mega-bases in Iraqclipped by: masburyclippers remarks: Looks like somebodys planning on staying a long time the base now houses 30,000 American troops as well as perhaps another 10,000 private contractors. It has well-fortified Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Subway fast-food outlets, two PXs that are as big as K-Marts, and actual sidewalks "The base is one giant construction project, with new roads, sidewalks, and structures going up across this 16-square-mile fortress in the center of Iraq, all with an eye toward the next few decades... At the base, the sounds of construction and the hum of generators seem to follow visitors everywhere. Seen from the sky at night, the base resembles Las Vegas: While the surrounding Iraqi villages get about 10 hours of electricity a day, the lights never go out at Balad Air Base." Staggering billions, for instance, have gone into those state-of-the-art mega-bases in Iraq No matter what anyone was saying in Washington at any moment, they spoke of permanence, yet the Iraq debate in the mainstream these last years has taken place almost without serious mention of them Tags: war on terror, iraq zum Artikel...Hilliary as presidentclipped by: ezmum12clippers remarks: Hilliary as president  Tags: hilliary as president zum Artikel...A feast for the eyes..clipped by: OmegaAlanclippers remarks: Not only beautiful but clever to.        Tags: bodyart zum Artikel...Terror in Pakistanclipped by: davboz In fact the ill-advised emergency measures announced by General Musharraf on Saturday are entirely designed to save himself the long-term implications for democracy in the nuclear-armed nation and security in the volatile region it straddles will are troubling to say theleast rampant Islamic militants owing allegiance to al-Qaida and the Taliban who are now spreading their campaign of suicide bomb blasts far beyond the confines of the remote parts of the North-West Frontier Province and regularly hitting major targets in cities such as Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi and, most recently, in Sarghoda Musharrafs behaviour has emboldened the militants who are gaining ground precisely because of the unpopularity of General Musharraf bin Laden believes it is ripe for takeover, and this has to be seen in the context of Pakistans possession of nuclear weapons until the country has a democratically elected government, no amount of draconian lawmaking will save it from the catastrophe it confronts zum Artikel...AI Consciousness possible? Computer Speech Better than Oursclipped by: constantskepticclippers remarks: I wonder how soon before our computers talk to us daily... Computer voice text to speech has been with us for quite sometime now, but chances are pretty good that computer generated voice will soon be able to match the sound and quality of humans. It all sounds great until you think about how it could be used. Being able to replicate and imitate any voice, anyone calling you over the phone could be pretending to be someone you know; your spouse, your children, your banker and so on. Currently artificial intelligence / pattern recognition software is becoming capable of telling the difference between a pear and an apple. Imagine the year when the consciousness module is plugged in and turned on (2030~2040?). Lets hope we?ve first enabled the ethical subroutines. Do you believe AI consciousness is even possible?  zum Artikel...Chevy Volt - 40 Mile Commute Using No GAS!clipped by: constantskepticclippers remarks: plug it in... or use the E-Flex Propulsion System, sounds like Back to the Future Seventy-eight percent of commuters drive 40 miles or less to and from work.(1) If we could change the technology behind these daily drives, imagine how much gasoline and money we could save while helping reduce emissions. It might be possible with a vehicle capable of running on electricity, E85, biodiesel and gasoline fuels. Introducing a new kind of electric vehicle ? Concept Chevy Volt. It?s unlike any previous EV (electric vehicle), thanks to its innovative rechargeable electric drive system and range-extending power source. It can be configured to run on electricity, gasoline, E85 or biodiesel. So you have at least a couple of options for the most efficient drive ? all made possible by GM?s innovative E-Flex Propulsion System. Features You Can Use zum Artikel...Twin Girl with Eight Limbs to Have Surgeryclipped by: Bluephoenix4Twin Girl with Eight Limbs to Have Surgery An Indian girl born with four arms and four legs is to undergo a 40-hour operation tomorrow as doctors try to give her a chance at a normal life. Lakshmi Tatma is a two-year-old girl named after the Hindu goddess of wealth who has four arms. She was believed to have been "sent from God" when she was born to a poor rural family in the Indian state of Bihar. Without the operation at the Narayana Health City, on the outskirts of Bangalore, Lakshmis parents were told their daughter was unlikely to survive beyond early adolescence. zum Artikel...
Wiggles Personalized Music for Kidsclipped by: einradclippers remarks: Kids CD that feature the Wiggles with Childs name actually in the songs and narratives. Neat Birthday or Holiday gift This "Wiggley" CD features 19 tracks, including nine great Wiggle song and 10 stories ,where the Wiggles, Captain Feathersword, and Dorothy the Dinosaur talk directly to your child. In total, your childs name is can be heard about 40 times throughout this CD.  zum Artikel...What a REAR. To Die for.clipped by: righthandzum Artikel...Mean Automakers Dash Hope for Flying Carsclipped by: Barry_1066clippers remarks: Big Bummer -- so who is making the flying cars? zum Artikel...Flying Cars exist! -- what happed to Ford, GM, and Toyota?clipped by: Barry_1066clippers remarks: Humm well flying cars exist. Sitting amidst a sea of cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic on an endless expressway, have you ever daydreamed about your car taking off and flying over the road? Imagine if you could just flip a switch and unshackle yourself from the asphalt!  In the last century, airplanes and mass-produced cars have changed the way we live. Cars, which became affordable for the general population, have allowed us to move farther away from cities, and planes have cut travel time to faraway destinations considerably. At the beginning of a new century, we may see the realization of a century-old dream -- the merging of cars and planes into roadable aircraft, or flying cars. Youve probably heard promises about flying cars before, and the technology to make them safe and easy to fly may finally be here. zum Artikel...How Twitter Can Drastically Improve Your Lifeclipped by: bignosemousieclippers remarks: Which of you Clippers Twitter? How has Twitter changed you? When I was first introduced to Twitter, I thought it was sort of silly ? just a knock-off of Facebook status updates. Initially, I was only Twittering with one offline friend, and when he moved on to Pownce, I abandoned my Twitter account until I read that Guy Kawasaki was going to give Twitter a try. Out of sheer curiosity, I went back to Twitter, and the benefits keep pouring in. Thanks to Twitter, I got: ?to avoid a car accident. I mentioned that my tires were squealing every time I turned a corner. Despite my lead foot, that still seemed strange. Several helpful Twitterers pointed out that my alignment was probably off, and they were right. ?lots of great new friends. i didn?t understand how at first, but Twitter is really a strong networking tool. Not only does it make Internet gods like Chris Brogan and Guy Kawasaki more human and accessible, but every day I get to participate in a new example of the power of numbers ? zum Artikel...Supernovas for Lonely Starsclipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: I like interpreting astronomy in terms of relationship advice. For instance this one means: Two people together can sometimes be much more destructive than they are alone. Especially if they are middle-aged burn-outs! Colliding Dead Stars Set Off Massive SupernovaTwo small but dense burned-out stars appear to have spiraled into each other and exploded, according to a new study. The blast offers some of the strongest evidence yet for a theoretical model for supernovas created by white dwarfs?the hot cores left behind when stars similar to our sun die. The finding could also have implications for studies of dark energy, a mysterious force thought to make up more than 70 percent of the universe. Most white dwarf supernovas are believed to occur when the tiny dead stars siphon so much material from a larger, nearby star that they trigger a massive fusion reaction and explode. The same explosion could also occur, however, if two white dwarfs merged, said Malcolm Hicken, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Current models classify supernovas as either Type I or Type II, the major difference being that only Type II blasts show evidence of hydrogen. zum Artikel...Postcards for World Peace Blogclipped by: constantskepticclippers remarks: what an original idea! zum Artikel...could be worseclipped by: Twilyght Zoneclippers remarks: you could be stuck with the 2 I had Kids, cant live with em and ya cant leave em lying bloody by the side of the road, guess ya better take good care of them instead.  Tags: kids zum Artikel...AQ Grooming Children for U.K. Terror Attacksclipped by: pkronfieldclippers remarks: What I think is interesting, (and pathetic) is the liberals still classify this ongoing war on islamofascim as "crime". The URL for this article is in the "crime" category. The liberals worldwide remain in a state of denial that there is a world war on. Al-Qaida is deliberately "grooming" children and young people to carry out terror attacks in Britain, the head of MI5 warned today. In his first public speech since becoming director-general in April, Jonathan Evans said the security service was facing "the most immediate and acute peacetime threat" in its 98-year history. Addressing a Society of Editors Conference in Manchester, he said the number of individuals in Britain identified by MI5 as having links with terrorism had risen from 1,600 last year to at least 2,000. Mr Evans warned they were part of a "deliberate campaign" being waged against Britain by al-Qaida - which was extending its tentacles across the Middle East and Africa. "Terrorist attacks we have seen against the UK are not simply random plots by disparate and fragmented groups," he said. "The majority of these attacks, successful or otherwise, have taken place because al-Qaida has a clear determination to mount terrorist attacks against the United Kingdom. Tags: war on terror, loony left zum Artikel...The Day Nobody Was Killed In Iraqclipped by: pkronfieldclippers remarks: This is really good news! And of course it is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media. Our mainstream liberal propaganda machines want us to keep thinking we are in a quagmire, the army is broken, hope is lost, and its all Bushs fault. Hello.... we are winning this war!!! Thanks to our resolute President and our magnificent armed forces.
IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around with the wine and canapes. It even appears, fleetingly, to be fact. "The day nobody died from violence in Iraq" is a date that has been much anticipated in the White House - where US President George W. Bush is desperate to hail the success of his surge of 30,000 troops this year. But no one can quite say when this event occurred. "It was some time this week, wasnt it?" says a senior military source. "Or maybe last week." Another diplomatic official confidently asserted that there were "at least two such days this month". When, exactly? "Not sure," he replied. Such vagueness may be concealing a truly significant transformation on the ground in Iraq. There have certainly been several days in the past month when no US or British soldiers were killed. Tags: war on tereror, iraq zum Artikel...Rice Faces Subpoena in Espionage Caseclipped by: raven714WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than a dozen other current and former intelligence officials must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in an espionage case. Ellis left open the possibility that the Bush administration may challenge the subpoenas on the grounds they would reveal privileged information. But the judge said his ruling Friday "may trump a valid governmental privilege." If so, that could force the government to decide whether to allow the testimony or drop the case. Neither the State Department nor the Justice Department had an immediate comment. Among those subpoenaed in the case were: former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; and Marc Grossman, former undersecretary of state for political affairs. zum Artikel...Alzheimers linked to cold soresclipped by: BobbyDelrayEvidence is building that the cold sore virus may be linked to Alzheimers disease, an expert says. In lab tests, Manchester University found brains infected with the herpes simplex virus, HSV-1, saw a rise in a protein linked to Alzheimers. Scientists believe the discovery could pave the way for a vaccine that may help prevent the brain disorder, New Scientist magazine reported. The researchers infected cultures of human brain cells with the virus and found a "dramatic" increase in levels of the beta amyloid protein - the building blocks of deposits, or plaques, which form in the brains of people with Alzheimers. Previous research has established that HSV-1 is found in the brains of up to 70% of people with Alzheimers. University of Rochester Medical Center it was more likely to cause a problem in people who carry a mutant version of a specific gene called ApoE4 the team stained brain slices taken from dead Alzheimers patients and found DNA from HSV-1 attached to the plaques. zum Artikel...King Tuts real faceclipped by: cjnbbg  A photo released by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the National Geographic Society on May 10, 2005 shows a model of King Tutankhamun made by a French team based on facial reconstructions from CT scans of King Tutankhamuns mummy. Teams of forensic artists and scientists built models of the boy pharaohs face based on some 1,700 high-resolution photos from CT scans of his mummy to reveal what he looked like the day he died nearly 3,300 years ago. The linen wrapped mummy of King Tut was put on public display for the first time on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007, 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaohs golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxors famed Valley of the Kings. (AP Photo/Supreme Council of Antiquities and the National Geographic Society, HO) Recommend THIS PHOTOADD SLIDESHOW TO MY YAHOO! OR RSS READERzum Artikel...Dont Rule Out The Torture Techniqueclipped by: debbyskiThe top legal adviser within the US state department, who counsels the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, on international law, has declined to rule out the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding even if it were applied by foreign intelligence services on US citizens. John Bellinger refused to denounce the technique, which has been condemned by human rights groups as a form of torture, during a debate on the Bush administrations stance on international law held by Guardian America, the Guardians US website. He said he would not include or exclude any technique without first considering whether it violated the convention on torture. The procedure is banned by the US military, but has been used in an unknown number of interrogations of terrorist suspects by the CIA. Reports have suggested the CIA outlawed the method last year, but the Bush administration has yet to confirm this. zum Artikel...What About Fred Thompsonclipped by: saharaclippers remarks: Well, who REALLY knows where this guy stands? He has been rather stealth.  TV actor Fred Thompson is pitching himself as a solid conservative, family focused, political outsider. Thats fine, except that hes a long-time lobbyist, former spy for Richard Nixon and a divorced playboy with 24-year-younger wife. Oh yeah, he doesnt go to church unless hes visiting his mom, and he married his first wife only after getting her pregnant. "Oh, shit! That kid? Hes dumb as hell." -- Richard Nixon, on Watergate tapes, after being told Fred Thompson was hired as Republican counsel "Hes not very smart. But hes friendly." -- Richard Nixon, on Watergate tapes "I dont attend [church] regularly..." -- Fred Thompson zum Artikel...Best networking adviceclipped by: bignosemousieclippers remarks: Writing actual letters and cards is a dying art. People love to get personal things in the mail (not just bills and catalogs). The best networking advice I?ve ever received was from my high school college advisor. He said: ?Always send Christmas cards.? Given how infrequently we receive anything that?s not a bill in the mail these days, holiday cards are really memorable. The younger you are, the less likely your same-age peers are to send cards, making you stand out even more. Holiday cards are also the perfect excuse to catch up with old acquaintances, teachers, co-workers, etc. and make sure they have your latest contact information and basic demographics. ALWAYS write a personal message inside the card, and make it equally about you and about the recipient. End your card with a question and an invitation for them to contact you. It?s never too early to start writing those cards ? break the task up by writing a set number per week between now and mid-December. Tags: networking, life hack zum Artikel...900 Billion Dollars in Credit Card Debt?clipped by: constantskepticclippers remarks: I say everyone not pay their credit cards... the banks will go under and create mass chaos... like fight club sort of.... This past summers subprime meltdown involved about $900 billion in now-suspect securitized debt, reckless lending, and consumers who buckled under the weight of loans they couldnt afford. Now another link in the consumer debt chain - credit cards - is starting to show signs of strain. And the fear that the $915 billion in U.S. credit card debt (an uncannily similar figure) may blow up has major financial institutions like Citigroup, American Express, and Bank of America strapping on their Kevlar vests. Last month, as banks reported their worst quarterly results since 2001, concerns about rising credit card delinquencies began to make their way onto earnings announcements alongside mentions of subprime woes. First Citigroup, reporting a 57% decline in earnings, cited higher consumer credit costs and said it would put aside $2.24 billion in loan-loss reserves to cover future defaults. zum Artikel...Learn How to say WTF in ...clipped by: Bluephoenix4WTFTranslations
zum Artikel...Asleep At The Power Plantclipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: Guards asleep at nuclear power plants. Wow. Doesnt that just make you feel SO safe?  ...that hasnt affected the companys ability to get hundreds of millions of your tax dollars to protect some of the most sensitive government sites in the nation. Asleep At The Power PlantMany of the nations nuclear plants are guarded by specially-trained forces from Wackenhut security. Theyre manning the front lines in the war on terror. But video obtained exclusively by CBS News shows a look at what some have been doing on the job, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. Theyve been sleeping. Inside the so-called "ready room" at Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania, the guards hardly seem ready to intercept an adversary. Attkisson spoke to a guard about what he?d seen. How many people did one personally witness sleeping on the job? ?I?d say about 20,? he said. The two guards shown in video as being sound asleep, were they armed? ?Absolutely,? a guard said. workers routinely slept on duty - not just in the "ready room," but in the bulletproof watch towers, too. ?Yeah, it?s the culture there to do it,? he said. Wackenhut, which heads up security at 29 nuclear plants, wouldnt agree to an interview. zum Artikel...Mac Trojan - Its Finally Happenedclipped by: zizzyclippers remarks: Unlike many Windows-based attacks, the Trojan doesnt exploit a hole in Apples software, and it cant install itself. Instead, it relies on social engineering, tricking users into downloading the codec, and requiring that they type in the administrator password to install it. On Halloween, professional online criminals were found using Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apples OS X operating system  The Trojan comes disguised as a video-decoding plug-in that users are told they must install to watch free porn clips the Mac Trojan was found on a set of pornography sites, where attackers dangled free movies that supposedly required users to install a special Quicktime codec to view. The codec, however, is fake. Instead of unlocking a skin flick, it installs what Intego dubbed the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan horse on the users compute Once installed, the Trojan hijacks the systems domain-name service. Internet-connected applications use DNS to translate the domain part of an URL, such as www.Wired.com, into the numeric IP address of a server. The software could also intercept intended visits to sites such as banks, eBay and PayPal and redirect them to fake websites that harvest users logins and passwords zum Artikel...The story of Aribeth de Tylmarandeclipped by: Aribethclippers remarks: Neverwinter Nights is a computer role playing game that is based on third edition Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms rules.Lady Aribeth is one of the most attractive characters of RPGs ever.This is,of course,just the beggining of her story.As the campaign continues she faces many difficulties and eventually has a tragic fate.Needless to say,the username Aribeth is very popular among the female rpg lovers like me and whenever I try to create an account I usually find that is already taken.But in clipmarks I was lucky!  Aribeth was a young elven girl living in a small community. Her village was raided by orcs and goblins including Aribeth?s parents survived by hiding became very vengeful after this  ran into the wilderness and scoured the mountains in search of revenge hunted the orcs down with her bow and sword until she met her match outnumbered the orcs left her for dead Aribeth awoke in a monastery of Tempus, God of Battles. The monks knew not who had brought her there; they found her at their doorstep and cared for her wounds. It turned out that she had seen Tyr, the patron of paladins and knights. Tyr appeared in her dreams many times, asking Aribeth to stop her vengeful ways and become a knight in his service. Aribeth agreed trained as a squire until she was knighted became one of the greatest knights in all the Realms She found employment in the city of Neverwinter as a member of their council. She rose through the ranks and became the advisor to Lord Nasher Alagondar, ruler of Neverwinter.  zum Artikel...Europe child porn probe nets 92clipped by: Yommie An investigation into a Europe-wide child pornography network has led to 92 arrests across eight countries, prosecutors say. The network made videos of children being abused and sold them to 2,500 customers in 19 countries, says the European police force, Europol. The films were mainly produced in Ukraine, Belgium and the Netherlands, and most of the victims were Ukrainian. More than 40 of the arrests were made in Britain, European prosecutors say. Police have seized thousands of computers, videos and photographs in their investigation - code named Operation Koala. Tags: porn zum Artikel...Right to Arm Bears T-Shirtclipped by: gnuway Woot! Shawn in AZ bought one my Right to Arm Bears T-Shirts via Arm Bears Ash Grey T-Shirt > Right To Arm Bears > RetroRanger - Vintage T-Shirts Are New Again! | CafePress zum Artikel...End Hillary Magnetclipped by: gnuway Understated political geekiness at its finest...thanks to karen in Wisconsin who bought one of my End Hillary magnets on Cafepress. via End Hillary Rectangle Magnet > End Hillary | CafePress zum Artikel...Webkinz Sherbet Bunny - Mispelled on eBayclipped by: gnuwayclippers remarks: simple mispelled word like sherbet could mean somebody get a steal on this htf Webkinz zum Artikel...World Sunlight mapclipped by: hitchhiker08clippers remarks: Amazing stuff! World Sunlight MapWatch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earths patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery.Tags: sunlightmap zum Artikel...Wiki MemberMediaServices.comclipped by: camydenMember Media Services - Professional Affordable Site Building. Need a website fast? Member Media Services can create a customized scalable site to fit your needs at an affordable price. What is Member Media Services? [edit] What Do we Offer?Free Business Consultation--We visit with you about your business and what functionality you want your site to have. We find out what functions, and requirements you have and will make sure that you have all of the tools that you need to promote your business to the max. We spent several years running our own membership sites, and know what it takes to have a great functioning site. Tags: website design zum Artikel...Clever Advertisingclipped by: righthandTags: images zum Artikel...Oh I am sooooo gonna miss this site :( Waaaah!!!clipped by: Antaraclippers remarks: I am weeping  It was an AWESOME site, lolPoor guy! The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest, the anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said today. zum Artikel...Dot Records T-Shirtclipped by: gnuway WooHoo! Sold a couple shirts to Geoff in Nashville...a Dot Records ringer T-Shirt and an OKeh Records Long Sleeve T. The Dot especially, is going to get noticed in Nashville. Thanks Geoff! via Dot Records Ringer T > Dot Records > RetroRanger - Vintage T-Shirts Are New Again! | CafePress Tags: dot records, t-shirt zum Artikel...A woman named Rose!clipped by: mugofcoffeeclippers remarks: endearing! read the full stroy! Im eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "Im here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..." There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. Youve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and dont even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesnt take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually dont have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets." zum Artikel...Rachel Weisz, Julie Andrews and Roger Federer step into Disney fairytaleclipped by: smokyeye Disney and famous photographer Annie Leibovitz have sprinkled their magic on a second set of celebrities to appear in the Disney?s Year of a Million Dreams campaign. British actress Rachel Weisz was captured as Snow White, along with Julie Andrews as Blue Fairy of ?Pinocchio? and Abigail Breslin as Fira. Tennis superstar Roger Federer was photographed as King Arthur. They join previous subjects Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyoncé as Alice in Wonderland and David Beckham as the Prince from Sleeping Beauty. Leibovitz says that the actors ?take these parts very seriously. They all come in having watched the movie and are prepared.? By the end of the shoots, she finds, ?they have such a good time playing a role that they don?t want to take the clothes off. They want to walk around for a little while.? zum Artikel...Booze Battle at Mo. Baptist Conventionclipped by: Satchamoclippers remarks: This is a followup of my clip "Beer and the Bible" from 01/30/2007. Older pastors vs. younger pastors Booze battle rips further at fabric of the Missouri Baptist Convention These days, if youre talking about the Missouri Baptist Convention, youre talking about booze. And that was the case at the groups annual meeting this week in Osage Beach. And, in the last year, some convention leaders have rejected a group of younger church pastors who have a view of alcohol use that contradicts the traditional Southern Baptist position of total abstinence. "I understand that the Bible does not say, never says, Thou shalt not drink," said Tolliver. "It is also true to say that the Bible does not specifically refer to drinking as a sin. However, ? the only Christian position in this 21st century Show-Me state environment that we live in is total abstinence!" zum Artikel...hear tunes to tv showsosclipped by: boozichclippers remarks: Wow! listen to the early flintstones and my past caught up!  Welcome to TelevisionTunes.com! Here you will find tonnes of TV theme music and songs from yesterday and today. Browse our huge archive of 2,771 theme songs using the index above or below. All of the theme music is in MP3 format. If you cant find a theme song, contact me and Ill try to get it for you. zum Artikel...The best dollar I had ever spent!clipped by: mugofcoffeeclippers remarks: I cannot describe the look on his face when I gave him just the three little things (that cost exactly $1.00) that I had gotten him. Then, without a stutter in the world, he loudly said, "Thank You so much" then just kept repeating thank you, thank you. He gave me a big hug before going off to class. I know I was teared up, just watching someone appreciate something that much. As he walked off, he was showing his new "stuff" to another of the kids walking to class. I have to say that I have never spent one dollar that would mean so much to me. I am a resource officer at a school district. Last year I met one little boy in particular to whom my heart just went out to. He would talk to me every single day, and always seemed to have a smile on his face. He has a problem with stuttering extremely bad when he tries to talk. Its really hard sometimes to understand what he is saying, although he loves to tell you big tales! Well, this morning, I was talking to a couple teachers who were running the school store. He stopped by and said hello to all of us. They told me after he left that he stops every day they are there and asks them if they will be there the next day. But of course, he never has the money to be able to buy anything. I decided I would get him a little something just as a surprise. So, I picked out a pencil, a little grip thing, and a small notebook. The kids were all out at recess, so when he came back in, we pulled him to the side. zum Artikel...Left-handers think more quicklyclipped by: rj3sp Left-handers think more quickly Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers. Connections between the left and right hand sides or hemispheres of the brain are faster in left-handed people, a study in Neuropsychology shows. Tags: left-handers, neuropsychology zum Artikel...The largest single heist in Japanese historyclipped by: alanocuclippers remarks: one man - no injuries - 294,307,500 yen On Dec. 10, 1968, a uniformed man pulled over a bank car in Tokyo. He explained that police had received a warning that dynamite had been planted in the vehicle, which was transporting bonuses for local Toshiba employees. The four passengers got out and watched as the officer crawled underneath. After a moment he rolled out, shouting that the car was about to explode. When the passengers ran, he got in and drove off. Thus one man stole 294,307,500 yen in broad daylight, working alone and without harming anyone. It remains the largest single heist in Japanese history. The thief was never caught. zum Artikel...The Haunting Artistic Genius of Martin Ramirezclipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: The second article is well worth reading in its entirety to see how Ramirez destabilizes our expectations and categorizations. He is a hauntingly phantasmagoria artist. He is visually accessible yet emotionally elusive. We can see the beauty in the world of his art, but it is mysterious. His art seems to have the melancholy peacefulness and yet haunting menace of De Chirico. The fact that a full 1/3rd of his oeuvre, representing his late style and artistic evolution have just recently been discovered is a staggering windfall.  A cache of Martín Ramírez works is discoveredWhat Anderson saw were Ramírezs unmistakable subjects - horses and caballeros, trains, tunnels, ships, Madonnas - and the grand, repetitive lines that were his trademark. And what she found when she got to Dunievitzs house in Auburn was a cache of some 140 of the drawings, all from the last three years of Ramírezs life, many of them dated and most in great shape, despite lying in a garage for almost two decades.  Ramírez, who created the roughly 300 drawings that make up his known work between 1948 and 1963 while confined to a mental hospital in Northern California, is simply one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He belongs to the group of accessible, irresistible genius draftsmen that includes Paul Klee, Saul Steinberg and Charles Schulz. Whatever ideas about art you hold dear, expect them to be healthily destabilized here.     zum Artikel...The 5 Best and Worst Science Based Movies of All Timeclipped by: Mohirclippers remarks: the rest of the list, and more details in the site, Enjoy The 5 Best and Worst Science Based Movies of All TimeThe Best (Golden Eagles) 1 Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997). Set in the not-too-distant future, without overt preaching or much scientific exposition, Gattaca uses the youthful dreams of Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) to tell an affectingly human story about the consequences of putting too much faith into DNA, genetic destiny, and stereotypes. 2 Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927). ?Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl? could be the tagline for this stunningly realized early futuristic film, as scientist C. A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) replaces the woman he loved with an erotic female robot. But Metropolis goes much deeper than it sounds, with audacious future projections of technology and its impact on society. 3 A tie! The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951) 4 A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001). 5 Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997). The Worst (Golden TURKEYs) 1 The Core (Jon Amiel, 2003) zum Artikel...Genetically Engineered Mighty Mouse Can Run 6 Kilometers Without Stoppingclipped by: MohirGenetically Engineered Mighty Mouse Can Run 6 Kilometers Without StoppingCase Western Reserve University researchers have bred a line of "mighty mice" (PEPCK-Cmus mice) that have the capability of running five to six kilometers at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill for up to six hours before stopping. "They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees; they utilize mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid," said Richard W. Hanson, the Leonard and Jean Skeggs Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve and the senior author of a journal article on this research. These genetically engineered mice also eat 60 percent more than controls, but remain fitter, trimmer and live and breed longer than wild mice in a control group. Some female PEPCK-Cmus mice have had offspring at 2.5 years of age, an amazing feat considering most mice do not reproduce after they are one year old. zum Artikel...???????clipped by: lovechance zum Artikel...GAY CURSE, RABIN, Sharon, Olmert all CURSEDclipped by: righthand From blessing to curse The kabbalistic pulsa denura curse entered the parlance of the broad Israeli public in October 1995, after the airing of a film depicting its being cast against Rabin. One month later Rabin was assassinated invented and used to political ends by officials within Israels ultra-Orthodox Sharon Olmert, have been subjected to the decree of pulsa denura the organizers of the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem 10 sages who gather at midnight, following a three-day fast. As they blow on a shofar, they extinguish black candles The process of invoking the pulsa denura carries the danger of transforming it into a blessing, or even worse; of causing the curse to be turned back onto themselves to question its origins, and its place within Judaism in its current form is not of Jewish origins. 1950s, when members of Jerusalems tiny anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect cast the curse on a burial society undertaker political tool, which the extreme right later adopted for its own purposes," Zohar zum Artikel...mmm.... Appetizing!clipped by: Fast T friend              Tags: food zum Artikel...bad fishclipped by: mrscaryIcthyoid AlienPosted by Ross Rosenberg Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean like no other, as it does not just live in its host but actually replaces part of it. First it attaches itself at the base of the tongue of the chosen fish, with the claws on its front three pairs of legs, and begins to extract blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies and dies, at which time the parasite attaches to the muscles of the tongue stub replacing the tongue with its own body. The fish is able to use the parasite as a fully functional tongue and the parasite survives on food particles, relieving the stress on the host?s appropriated circulatory system. Tags: bad fish zum Artikel...Cute gingerbread housesclipped by: Viiltajaclippers remarks: Its Christmas soon kids  I love gingerbread houses. Gotta try to do something though Im pretty sure Im not this good.        zum Artikel...Advocates sue to enforce pesticide orderclipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: Pesticides that kill salmon in minute quantities. Most will wash down to the ocean. but many wont break down.  Salmon advocates filed a lawsuit Monday to force the Bush administration to obey a 5-year-old court order requiring it to make permanent rules to keep agricultural pesticides from killing salmon. Filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, the lawsuit asks a judge to order NOAA Fisheries, the agency in charge of protecting salmon, to formally consult with the Environmental Protection Agency over the use of 37 pesticides. Several are commonly found in rivers around the country and can kill salmon at minute concentrations. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour had ordered the formal consultations in 2002 and imposed temporary restrictions that barred crop-dusting next to salmon streams and required home and garden stores to post warnings for consumers. "Apparently what it takes to get this administration to do its job under (the Endangered Species Act) is to have someone there enforcing the law every step of the way," said Joshua Osborne-Klein, an attorney for Earthjustice zum Artikel...Common gene determines if breast is bestclipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: The gene is involved in the processing of fatty acids, and is found in 90% of people. Breastfeeding is best for your childs brain as long as a variation of a common gene is present in the baby, researchers say.  Breastfed children with a variant of the FADS2 gene, which is involved in processing fatty acids, score up to seven points higher in IQ tests than bottle-fed children. But for those children without the variant gene, breastfeeding makes no difference to their intelligence levels. According to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the variant of the FADS2 gene is found in 90% of people. Lead author Professor Terrie Moffitt, of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, says the seven-point difference in IQ "corresponds to a moderate effect size that is associated with many important life outcomes". And she rules out other factors behind the IQ difference saying the effect of the variant FADS2 gene is the same regardless of differences in birth weight, social class and mothers IQ. zum Artikel...Fake or Photo - Can you spot the imposter?clipped by: alanocuclippers remarks: 10 images - Real or Fake? The answers are given at the end. The Challenge Take a look at the ten images below. Some of them are photographs of real objects or scenes, others are created by computer graphics (CG) artists. Test your ability to tell which among the array of images are real, and which are CG.          
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The CG images were created with Maya® software and the Maya® software renderer. zum Artikel...Buenos Aires gets tango monumentclipped by: Charolastra They say it is the first time any city or country has honoured a style of music in this way. The 3.5m (11ft 5in) high steel statue was driven down one of the main streets of Buenos Aires, from the workshop to the site where it will be erected. The obvious question is: How come it has taken until now? zum Artikel...Basic Anti Pishingclipped by: tommykimclippers remarks: referential.you may find it important. Tags: pishing zum Artikel...Second Coup in Pakistan; But Hes the U.S.s SOBclipped by: pickinjavaclippers remarks: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt reportedly once said "He may be an SOB, but hes our SOB." Remember, though, that Saddam, Osama, Mobutu, Savimbi and many others were U.S. SOBs as well. Play with fire; get burnt. Musharraf cited two primary reasons for his crackdown: the ?war against terror? and judicial interference in political affairs. The first excuse is patently absurd. The militants, after all, are hardly likely to be intimidated by Musharraf?s power-grab. Judicial activism is a different matter, and in more ways than one it makes sense to construe Musharraf?s action as, essentially, a coup against the Supreme Court. It is certainly no coincidence that a seven-judge bench of the court decreed the general?s move illegal as soon as it became public. Chaudhry earned the government?s ire when he began entertaining petitions from relatives of Pakistanis shouldn?t, however, expect much assistance from the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy. Chances are that, barring token rhetoric, the zum Artikel...CAT ATTACK - picsclipped by: righthand Cat: Alan  Cat: Angel  Cat: Alan  11/05 Cat: Rusty  11/05 11/05  11/05: 11/05: 11/05 Cat: Leroy  Cat: Quidjibo That gorilla is up to no good.  Cat: Quidjibo  Cat: Rufus  Cat: Crookshanks  11 Cat: Dejah  Cat: Ekko  11/ 1 halloween outfit.  Cat: Jake  11 11Tags: photos zum Artikel...I Used To Believe>>Sex>>Periodsclipped by: kelsey254clippers remarks: Uber funny. Back then pad samples from Always used to be sent out in the mail. When I was 11 years old, I got a hold of the pad samples and brought them to my older sister saying, "Look we got free slippers in the mail." I remember sitting on my bed, reading a magazine, when I saw a tampon ad. I sat there for the longest time trying to figure out where it went. Because the ad said odor absorbing, I thought it went on your armpit. That was just one theory. When I first got my period, I didnt know how to use a tampon. I thought that you just had to squeeze it and it would just shoot up inside you. I wasted ALOT of my friends tampons trying to work that out. When i was in 4th grade we had a talk in class about puberty and we had a movie we had to watch about it well...they accidently switched the movies and the guys got the girl one and we got the guy one it didnt take to long to figure it out but well the guys were realy imature about it zum Artikel...I Used To Believe >>Sex>>Periodsclipped by: kelsey254clippers remarks: Uber funny and very amusing. Once when I was little, I found some feminine panty liners in my moms bathroom. I thought they were big fuzzy stickers, so I took some and put them all over my notebook to make it look pretty. My mom was horrified when she saw my notebook and made me pull them all off. I didnt know why she didnt think it was pretty like I did. One day, I had my friend from school over. We were about 7, I think. We were playing dolls in my room when out of the blue, she asked me: "Have you had your period yet?" Being the somewhat bodily uneducated child that I was, I said "Whats that?" She answered "I think its where girls bleed every once in a while." The conversation went as following: Me: "Oh, Ive never heard of that." Her: "Me neither. I just heard about it today." Me: "Maybe not every girl has one." Her: "Yeah, I think youre right." We went on playing. I know better know. XD zum Artikel...I Used To Belive>>Sex>>Periodsclipped by: kelsey254In 1st grade I found a pad in our bathroom and, very confused, asked my mom what it was. She sat me down for the long, detailed "your body and puberty" talk, in which she told me all about what would happen on my "special day". zum Artikel...connexionsclipped by: j000hanclippers remarks: In order to counter any socalled doomscenario (be the main ingredients of it ( commets, nukes or what have you), god created among other things clipmarks. It certainly is not the nukes being the problem, but so called conventional weapons, that make a contribution to the current payload (weight) on humanity. who can be held to be accountable for that.? freemasons are behind all this? Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone ? from children to college students to professionals ? organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. PhilosophyTags: science zum Artikel...Sad Sad Satire: Stephen Colbert & Fred Thompsonclipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: Stephen Colbert is a master of pointed satire, but its easy to lose track of the central point in all his showmanship. Lest we forget, there IS a TV personality seriously running for president, who announced his candidacy on a comedy talk show on the same network that carried his own program. By running his fiercely ignorant, populist, right-wing TV persona in the race Colbert satires the right wing preference for an unqualified everyman, and suspicion of education, experience and intelligence. Look at their criticisms of not just Gore or Kerry, but also Dukakis, Mondale, Carter, McGovern, all the way back to Adlai Stevenson! What makes this satire so sad is that there is just such a person actually running! Apparently, Democrats know running a TV personality is a joke, Republicans take it seriously. Since it?s hard to take Mr. Colbert?s campaign seriously ? he has said he is willing to consider Larry Craig as a running mate ? it?s a little hard to take the complaints seriously. But the thing is, they?re right in a way. If a television personality who is not a comedian were to run for President, it could be a serious candidacy (and we can think of a few we?d be seriously worried about), using the exposure given to him by his television network to campaign and win votes. Choosing ?The Tonight Show With Jay Leno? to declare ?I?m running for president of the United States,? The talk-show setting in Los Angeles allowed Mr. Thompson to capitalize on his pop-cultural appeal as an actor and simultaneously reinforce his contention that he is a Washington outsider zum Artikel...House Democrats push Bush on Subpoenasclipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: The White House said executive privilege meant those who were charged with withholding documents from a congressional hearing-Contempt of Congress, were immune from prosecution. Of course they were only the messengers.  House Democrats threatened Monday to hold President Bushs key confidants in contempt of Congress unless they comply with subpoenas for information on the Justice Departments purge of federal prosecutors last winter. The White House shrugged off the ultimatum, saying the information is off-limits under executive privilege and that the aides in question -- White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former presidential counselor Harriet Miers -- are immune from prosecution. Congressional Democrats nonetheless submitted their 102-page report, and a Republican rebuttal, to the House clerk on Monday afternoon. The report accused Miers of contempt for failing to appear and testify as subpoenaed. She and Bolten were charged with failing to produce documents on whether the prosecutors were fired at the White Houses behest. Also in the sights of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.: Karl Rove, the architect of Bushs rise to the White House zum Artikel...Torture & Enemies of the Stateclipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: Of course we only might torture terrorists who are enemies of the state. After all, were doing this to protect America, right? But the VERY important question is: who is an enemy of the state? How do you know you arent one? In China, in the name of protecting the state, they are torturing and imprisoning environmental activists like Wu Lihong, and journalists and anyone else who doesnt jump on board the "Harmonious Society," "One World One Dream." Especially people who embarrass the government. And how do you know that wont happen to us? Let me illustrate the slippery slope in three steps: 1. We torture terrorists 2. Because of extreme groups like Earth First, "Eco-terrorism" becomes a major concern for Bush in his third term.  3. Moderate environmental groups are conflated with the radical ones, meaning everyone who ever signed a Green Peace petition or wears a hemp "head covering" is a suspect terrorist. If you condone Guantanamo, remember this: you might be next. A court in Wuxi, in eastern Jiangsu Province, upheld the conviction of Wu Lihong, who became well known around China for seeking to prevent chemical companies from dumping untreated waste in Lake Tai, Chinas third-largest freshwater lake. The ruling was made Friday, his wife and his lawyer said Monday. Wu, his lawyer and many of his colleagues in the areas environmental movement said that the charges of blackmail and fraud had been concocted by local officials to put him behind bars after his protests against their collusion with chemical companies attracted widespread media attention. Wu said during his first trial in August that the police tortured him until he confessed, but judges decided that his confession remained valid. Tags: torture, environmentalism zum Artikel...Mahatma Gandhi & his shoes!clipped by: mugofcoffeeAs Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoes lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use." zum Artikel...Nobody can stop you Bush, can any one?clipped by: mugofcoffeeclippers remarks: BUSH VOWS HELP FOR TURKEY AGAINST KURDISH REBELS... Bush has committed countering the militants... ...and then, what is the measuring scale of the militancy and that of the SAINT LIKE BUSH? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, facing Turkish threats of a military strike against Kurdish rebels in Iraq, told Turkeys leader on Monday that he was committed to countering the militants and offered to share intelligence with Ankara. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who met Bush at the White House, has made clear he wants concrete action from Washington to combat the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has been launching attacks on Turkey from Iraqi soil. The PKK is a terrorist organization. Theyre an enemy of Turkey, theyre an enemy of Iraq and theyre an enemy of the United States," Bush told reporters after their talks zum Artikel...Go Ahead,Rationalize.MonkeysDo It,Too.clipped by: wendy6552
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- Symposium on the new philosophical practices, ?Practice, training and research in the school context: Perspectives?, UNESCO Headquarters, 14 November 2007
- Symposium on ?Stories of human rights thought?, UNESCO Headquarters, 15 November 2007
- Symposium on ?Thinking with Franz Fanon today?, UNESCO Headquarters, 30 November and 1 December 2007
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zum Artikel...Romney Hits the Bible Belt
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As Mitt Romney scours the South for endorsements from evangelical leaders, he is getting some unusual advice on how to explain his Mormon faith: Dont try to be one of us.
``I told him, you cannot equate Mormonism with Christianity; you cannot say, `I am a Christian just like you, said Representative Bob Inglis of South Carolina, which is scheduled to hold the first primary among the Southern states. ``If he does that, every Baptist preacher in the South is going to have to go to the pulpit on Sunday and explain the differences.
zum Artikel...Music To My Ears
clipped by: libertyslegacyPaul Raises More Than $3.5 Million
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $3.5 million in 20 hours.
Paul, the Texas congressman with a Libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundraising territory with a surge of Web-based giving tied to the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day.
Pauls total deposed Mitt Romney as the single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field. When it comes to sums amassed in one day, Paul now ranks only behind Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, who raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30, and Barack Obama.
Paul advocates limited government and low taxes like other Republicans, but he stands alone as the only GOP presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq war. He also has opposed Bush administration security measures that he says encroach on civil liberties.
zum Artikel...Fluoride: good for teeth, bad for brain
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zum Artikel...Columbus launch puts space law to the test
clipped by: wildcatclippers remarks: It is also not clear what legal nationality a child born on the Moon would have.
zum Artikel...A Madame Does Laundry
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PAHRUMP, Nev. ? Sex is the commodity that Heidi Fleiss says she knows best, but for now she is settling for fabric softener.
From her market research at the nearby Nugget casino, Ms. Fleiss gleaned that she should offer competitive pricing and invest in washing machines that offer such efficient extraction of water that drying times are lessened. ?People told me that water softener is imperative,? she said.
Ms. Fleiss also tried to make Dirty Laundry, which opened last summer, a more pleasant place to wash clothes than the average laundry, eschewing plastic tables chained to hard-backed chairs for wooden tables, ceiling tiles that resemble those found in fancy hotel lobbies and the casino-themed walls. ?If you?re doing laundry,? she said, ?you can have a little fantasy. ?Hey I?m going to win a $20 million jackpot.??
But as profitable as Ms. Fleiss says her clothes-washing business has become, she still longs to open her provisionally named Stud Farm ? if she can get a license.
zum Artikel...PIROLETTES
clipped by: rj3spPIROLETTES
Vis-age N. the face or appearance of a person.
At Turn Your Head, we fill the space between two opposing profiles of your face. By spinning that space into a three dimensional ?visage? that follows the outlined silhouettes of your two profiles, we create the "Pirolette".
Place the ?Pirolette? to your face and it will match your profile. Locate it near a wall and the shadow of the "Pirolette? will be your silhouette.
Your profile captured forever in an object of art. An optical illusion of shadow and light, each one unique because it?s you!
zum Artikel...Not just a Farm Bill, its a food bill
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If the eaters and all the other ?people on the outside? make themselves heard, we just might end up with something that looks less like a farm bill and more like the food bill a poorly fed America so badly needs.Call your Senator!
zum Artikel...Irish Aid to Mexico Five Times Greater than US Aid
clipped by: abailartclippers remarks: There is something I dont understand about the US response to their neighbours disaster. What is it I am missing?
The slip followed heavy rain which has caused severe flooding in Chiapas and in the neighbouring state of Tabasco.
Foreign aid is beginning to arrive in the region but big difficulties remain in distributing the aid.
The floods that hit last week are some of the worst in Mexicos history.
As many as half a million people have seen their homes damaged or destroyed, and at least 20,000 people remain trapped in their homes.
The Mexican military has rescued almost 40,000 people in the two states.
zum Artikel...Award Winning Cartoons (pics)
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zum Artikel...Radiohead Could Really Piss Off the Music Industry Machine
clipped by: CharolastraRadiohead blew us away with the ?donated? sales revenue from its last album ?In Rainbows.? The band offered the music for free, and let fans choose how much they?d pay, almost as a tip for the album. What comScore found was that 62% of global users chose not to pay for the album at all.
What?s equally as interesting is the fact that international fans were less likely to pay than US fans. You?d have to do a fairly extensive study to figure out why this may be the case, considering variables such as the native country of the band, the amount of disposable income per capita in various countries around the world, the musical preferences of countries? citizens, the prevalence of P2P networks as legal options in other countries, etc. So there?s really not much to say in regards to these stats for Radiohead?s album at this particular point.
zum Artikel...The Filing Cabinet Skyscraper
clipped by: hiltonfanfrom a distance you could be fooled into thinking this is a thin skyscraper, until you get close enough to realise there are handles on one side and only enough interior space to accomodate ?little people?.
officially the largest filing cabinet in the world, this 65 ft tall office monster actually serves a purpose, of sorts. inside it is a dismantled mg sports car, the parts organised, labelled and filed in the drawers, heaviest to lightest.
it stood in napa valley, california and was created by ?artist? sam yates in 2000. i?ve no idea whether it still stands.
zum Artikel...Sea Urchin Eggs Plus Marijuana equal amazing new drug
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Chem Lab: Sea Urchin Eggs Plus Marijuana Equal Amazing New Drugs
Chemists have created a collection of molecules that may have effects superior to marijuana. They are hybrids of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in weed, and anandamide, the euphoria-causing chemical found in sea urchin eggs.
Researchers intend to use the hybrids as tools to better understand the endocannabinoid system, which partially controls pleasure and pain signals.
Anandamide starts working faster than its marijuana-derived counterpart, but it is more quickly destroyed by the body. A fusion of the two chemicals may last longer while maintaining an equal or stronger effect.
Toward the end of the study, they gave the best experimental chemicals to mice. Small amounts of the most potent molecule prevented them from pulling their tails away from a hot surface. That test, called a tail-flick assay, showed that the new drug is a rather powerful painkiller.
zum Artikel...Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips
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Here?s some tips and tricks to help you make your writing more effective:
- Read out loud
zum Artikel...Picking Up On Failed War On Terror
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zum Artikel...Suffering, Evil, the existence of God?
clipped by: Antaraclippers remarks: More on the supposed flip flop of anthony flew--The Bart Erhman book looks really interesting!
Bart D. Ehrman is a professor of religious studies and his book is titled ?God?s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question ? Why We Suffer.? A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Ehrman trained to be a scholar of New Testament Studies and a minister. Born-again as a teenager, devoted to the scriptures (he memorized entire books of the New Testament), strenuously devout, he nevertheless lost his faith because, he reports, ?I could no longer reconcile the claims of faith with the fact of life . . . I came to the point where I simply could not believe that there is a good and kindly disposed Ruler who is in charge.? ?The problem of suffering,? he recalls, ?became for me the problem of faith.?
zum Artikel...New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam
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zum Artikel...My Space. Press Enter TWICE for full effect
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zum Artikel...Disgusting Treatment of Wounded UK Soldiers
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zum Artikel...A Top Sicilian Mafia Boss Is Held, Italy Says
clipped by: CharolastraMILAN, Nov. 5 ? One of the most powerful bosses in the Sicilian Mafia was arrested Monday, according to the Italian authorities.
The man identified as the Mafia boss, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, was arrested and his son Sandro and two other people were detained during a raid on an isolated villa outside of Palermo, the police said.
The four, all of whom are on Italy?s 30 most-wanted list, were holding a meeting when their hide-out was surrounded by some three dozen police officers, according to the Palermo police chief, Giuseppe Caruso. The four gave themselves up after officers fired warning shots in the air.
Mr. Lo Piccolo, 65, has been on the run since he was convicted of murder in 1983. According to Mr. Caruso, he took over the top Mafia post after the arrest in April 2006 of the so-called boss of all bosses at the time, Bernardo Provenzano.
zum Artikel...Bling Bling Gadgets
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zum Artikel...The Coolest Gadget Ever
clipped by: rj3spApples iPod is the coolest gadget ever
Its official: Apples iPod is the greatest gadget ever, according to Digital Life readers.
The diminutive MP3 player scooped the prize at Stuff magazines Cool List Awards 2007, held in London last week.
1 ? Apple iPhone
Apple?s iPhone took top place in Stuff?s Cool List 2007. The mobile to end all mobiles pipped all the other top-name entries to earn the planet?s biggest gadget accolade.
The touchscreen device redefined how humans interact with their phones as well as offering almost every feature no self-respecting mobile should be without. How could we resist?
zum Artikel...Fans anger at Apple iPhone
clipped by: mickfinnThe UK launch of the Apple iPhone is in danger of being overshadowed by a backlash against its manufacturers.
Previously-devoted followers of Apple are turning against the brand, with a growing chorus of consumers complaining that the company has become greedy and ruthless.
At the heart of their grievances is the companys "closed system", which prevents third parties adding their software to Apple products.
The much-hyped iPhone goes on sale in Britain at 6:02pm on Friday, but any fanfare surrounding the launch could be tainted by spiralling complaints.
American software developer Wil Shipley has claimed some fans feel the company has turned against them.
"We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money," he said in comments on his blog, Call Me Fishmeal.
Industry experts have also predicted the gadget will not be as popular as hoped in Britain.
zum Artikel...Climate change: Rising tides
clipped by: mickfinnBritain will spend billions to defend against rising tides over the coming decades, but experts are sharply divided as to how far and fast the waters will rise, reveals Roger Highfield
An apocalyptic vision of a deluged Britain is one of the most potent, chilling and seductive images to emerge from the debate about climate change.
The power of such pictures helps account for the success of Al Gore?s Oscar-winning environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth; its warnings over rising sea levels helped win the former US Vice-President a Nobel Prize.
A Doomsday scenario, such as our map of Britain after a 60m rise in sea levels (inset), is highly unlikely - it would involve the bulk of the planet?s ice melting. But a rise of just a metre or more would wipe out the Norfolk Broads and the Wash, boosting the risk of devastating storm surges.
zum Artikel...Mafia boss of bosses caught
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zum Artikel...Niger Delta - Oil Companies And Integrity in Stakeholding
clipped by: pickinjavaclippers remarks: Petroleum is not the curse. Its the greedy and powerful exploiters of petroleum that are the problem.
The current Niger Delta challenge, as we have noted, came about, largely because of the secrecy, hypocrisy, deceit and economic exclusivity that have characterised the business of oil exploitation in the region, masterminded by profit-crazy companies, a few privileged persons and veteran government power players. Oil, therefore, is not a curse to Nigeria, it is rather the case that some Nigerians cursed the country through obscene abuse of their cheap wealth, made mainly from oil.
zum Artikel...Shell ready for tough defence of oil deals in Nigeria
clipped by: pickinjavaABUJA ? Royal Dutch Shell is preparing for tough talks with Nigeria in a review of multi-billion dollar offshore oil contracts, a top executive told said yesterday.
?I will always be resistant if government is taking away things from me, because it is my business to get a protection for the risk that has been taken and for the investor to get some rewards.?
zum Artikel...MDs balance Super X-Ray Pros and cons
clipped by: pokketsclippers remarks: Described as giving an almost surgical views, it also supplies a big dose of radiation. It is considered an accurate way of determining the type of treatment for people with signs of heart disease, but the advantages must be weighed against the amount of radiation exposure. Medicare and Private health insurance companies are still debating whether treatment will be covered.
A type of "super X-ray" showed promise in its first big test as a potentially cheaper, faster and painless way to find out whether certain people with signs of heart disease actually have it and need treatment. The scans might eliminate the need for some of the 1.3 million cardiac catheterizations done each year in the United States to check for clogged arteries, said Dr. Julie Miller of Johns Hopkins University
This new CT scan technology came on the market two years ago and is already used by many hospitals. Because it uses 64 detectors to produce and combine images, the scans are called "64-slice CT." The images are so detailed that one doctor described them as an almost surgical view.
zum Artikel...Brought To You By Corporate America
clipped by: debbyskizum Artikel...megamouth shark
clipped by: monajitclippers remarks: The megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is an extremely rare and unusual species of deepwater shark. Discovered in 1976, only a few have ever been seen, with 39 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2007 and three recordings on film.
zum Artikel...Man arrested after a bizarre series of events
clipped by: Patty2007MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man was arrested on Thursday after a bizarre series of events that included him crashing his car, getting shot by a homeowner, breaking a restaurant window and stripping to his underwear.
Police said it all started when the man crashed his car into a pole and started banging on the door of a nearby house. After he kicked in a window, when homeowner Leroy Bruce shot him.
Bruce said the man ran off and left his pants and other clothing behind. The bleeding suspect fled to a McDonald?s and threw a rock through the front window.
Witness Lisa Fuqua told WMC-TV that the man was easy for police to identify and that he ?had to be on some high-powered something.?
The suspect, who wasn?t identified, was taken to the Regional Medical Center. Police said they?ll charge him when he?s released.
Officers said when they found the man at the restaurant, he had stripped to his shirt and undershorts.
zum Artikel...The search for Jesus
clipped by: pigboomA drunk stumbles upon a baptismal service on Sunday afternoon down by the river.
He proceeds to walk down into the water and stand next to the preacher. The minister turns and notices the old drunk and says, "Mister, are you ready to find Jesus?"
The drunk looks back and says, "Yes, Preacher, I sure am."
The minister then dunks the fellow under the water and pulls him right back up. "Have you found Jesus?" the preacher asked.
"Nooo, I didnt!" said the drunk.
The preacher then dunks him under for quite a bit longer, brings him up and says, "Now, brother, have you found Jesus?"
"Noooo, I have not, Reverend."
The preacher in disgust holds the man under for at least 30 seconds this time, brings him out of the water and says in a harsh tone, "My God, man, have you found Jesus yet?"
The old drunk wipes his eyes and says to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?"
zum Artikel...Mandatory Health Insurance for Florida College Students
clipped by: JoeyGallo667clippers remarks: This coverage will benefit all of those dumb college kids who drink too much and hurt themselves
zum Artikel...How To Watch "Removed" YouTube Videos
clipped by: DarrenTooCoolclippers remarks: UnDeleteTube lets you watch videos from YouTube that have been removed. Like user-posted SNL or 30 Rock Clips.
Plug in the ID # of the deleted video (found in the URL) and YouTube may still have the video on their servers.
| Removed videos from Youtube are not immediately deleted from their servers so if you are fast you may be able to watch and download them using UndeleTube. |
zum Artikel...Pope Genitalia
clipped by: Monkfishyclippers remarks: Further history on the "testicle test" for the papacy.
If this is true, how and why did this curious custom come about?
This information from The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould Davis (Penguin 1971) provides an answer:
?Joan, a handsome young English girl made her way to Athens disguised as a monk... armed with a degree in philosophy, she came to Rome where Pope Leo IV made her a cardinal. Upon Leo?s death in 853 Joan was elected Pope by her fellow cardinals.
The Catholic Encyclopaedia goes on to say, ?she served as Pope for two years, four months and eight days, when she was discovered to be a woman and stoned to death (she gave birth during a papal procession)?...
zum Artikel...Ron Paul, long shot no more (USA Daily)
clipped by: ZachReynoldsclippers remarks: Great, unbiased article.
zum Artikel...Guess Who
clipped by: ottotakano22. Which ones are male twins?
3. Which ones are the female twins?
4. How many women are in the group?
zum Artikel...Lion cub
clipped by: Jaycer17clippers remarks: And heres teh "awww" for the day...
zum Artikel...Evangelicals not so political now.
clipped by: clipmaureen The Evangelical Crackup
The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war. Immanuel has stood for Southern Baptist traditionalism for more than half a century. Until recently, its pastor, Terry Fox, was the Jerry Falwell of the Sunflower State ? the public face of the conservative Christian political movement in a place where that made him a very big deal.
With flushed red cheeks and a pudgy, dimpled chin, Fox roared down from Immanuel?s pulpit about the wickedness of abortion, evolution and homosexuality. He mobilized hundreds of Kansas pastors to push through a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, helping to unseat a handful of legislators in the process.
zum Artikel...Is There Punishment In Capital Punishment?
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clipped by: wildcatzum Artikel...Sign of the Times #001 - Jay Leno Quote
clipped by: Jorjorclippers remarks: More confirmation on who really runs the country. Welcome to the C.S.A. - Corporate States of America.
zum Artikel...Gay? Who Cares?
clipped by: debbyskiclippers remarks: "For some of the pioneers from the edgy, embattled, ecstatic "good old days," this may be bittersweet. "But isnt that what everyone wanted 20 years ago?" Gates asks. "Just to be treated like everyone else?"
zum Artikel...Levitating In Mid Air
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zum Artikel...Of Bin Laden, Musharraf and the War on Terror
clipped by: ratilfarclippers remarks: Now this is very interesting....
zum Artikel...jehovahs rules = no mother for twins
clipped by: boozichclippers remarks: this really,really hurts me
Mum dies upholding Jehovahs Witness blood oath
A WOMAN died within hours of giving birth to twins because, as a Jehovahs Witness, she was not allowed to accept a blood transfusion.
Emma Gough, 22, suffered severe blood loss after giving birth to a boy and a girl at the Royal Hospital in Shrewsbury, in the West Midlands of England, 10 days ago.
But the family refused to do so.
"We cant believe that she died after childbirth in this day and age, with all the technology there is.
"What makes it even more sad is Emma had time to hold and start to bond with her twins before the complications set in."
zum Artikel...Heavenly salesman
clipped by: Rashid Malikclippers remarks: Maybe Angels are employed as Gods tech support engineers.
To which he replied, "Lady, Im in sales, not tech support."
zum Artikel...Student got free education due to loan error
clipped by: hiltonfanzum Artikel...The woman I would marry
clipped by: Rashid Malikclippers remarks: Who wouldnt want a wife like that?
Johnny: "Oh its okay, if she is crazy"
zum Artikel...Photos of exotic frogs
clipped by: hiltonfanclippers remarks: The site is Russian, but photos explain themselves.
zum Artikel...1960s Polaroid Pictures of Signs
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1960s Polaroid Pictures of Signs
zum Artikel...People and animals in the most bizarre situations - Photos
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zum Artikel...Bug Labs BugModules
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A New York-based startup is readying a modular, open source hardware/software system resembling a set of electronic Legos. Bug Labs claims device developers can build "anything" using "Bug," which comprises an ARM11-powered base and various modular add-ons. 
First swarm of BugModules (left to right): LCD, motion detector, camera, and GPS
(Click each image to enlarge)
zum Artikel...Largest extrasolar planetary system discovered
clipped by: MohirLargest extrasolar planetary system discovered
A fifth planet has been discovered around a nearby star, making it the largest planetary system known outside our own. The planet appears to be a gas giant like Saturn, but scientists say any large moons it may have could potentially host life, since the planet lies in the "habitable" zone around its star, where liquid water can exist.
The planet was discovered around a star called 55 Cancri that is about 41 light years away from Earth and is slightly cooler and dimmer than our own Sun.
The 55 Cancri system was already known to include four other planets, including three giant planets that orbit the star closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. The fourth is four times as massive as Jupiter and orbits at about Jupiters distance from the Sun.
All of those planets were discovered by the way their gravity tugs on the parent star, a technique called the radial-velocity method.
zum Artikel...3 guys partying down
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zum Artikel...Part 1-Ten tips to protect your identity while online shopping
clipped by: caissie_tabzum Artikel...Some Cool Hand Art
clipped by: anthonyoclippers remarks: This is interesting.
zum Artikel...Worldmapper
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Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. | |
There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above or click on a thumbnail image below to view a map. |
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zum Artikel...Catholic League Overboard in Criticism?
clipped by: AtlLiberalclippers remarks: The clip is a short excerpt from the interview. It addresses a point that we see over and over again these days from the Religious Right. Their primary focus is to make their form of Christianity a State religion. Luckily, the Constitution as prevented this from happening. To be fair, a majority of these folks probably want this to happen because they are genuinely troubled for what, to them, appears to be a moral collapse in the US. They think that a return to an imagined past is the answer to restore their world back to equilibrium. These simplistic desires are often the fuel that powers many of these unfounded protests. Reasoning and logic have no effect on this close minded thinking.
Pullman not promoting atheism in ?Golden Compass?
zum Artikel...Island emerges in Indonesian volcano crater
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"The island was visually captured by our CCTV (closed-circuit television) on Sunday, with smoke now pluming up to one kilometre (half a mile) from it," volcanologist Saut Simatupang told AFP.
He estimated that the 100-metre (-yard) long island loomed 20 metres above the surface of the crater lake. The temperature of the lake has soared so high it has broken measuring instruments, he said.
"We still cannot determine whether (the island) is new product or old lava from the 1990 eruption that had solidified at the bottom of the crater lake," more or less acting as a cork, he said.
It appeared to have been pushed up Saturday night, when volcanologists mistakenly thought an eruption was occurring so they abandoned their posts.
zum Artikel...Most ridiculous British laws
clipped by: caissie_tab1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (seven percent)
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (six percent)
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)
6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policemans helmet (four percent)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen (3.5 percent)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (three percent)
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (two percent)
zum Artikel...Lottery winners from Hell
clipped by: caissie_tabA couple from Hell won a £55,000 lottery jackpot - on Halloween.
John and Sue Wilson live in Hell, a town 45 miles west of Detroit, Michigan, reports the Press & Argus.
zum Artikel...Bush finally tops Nixon....In Unpopularity
clipped by: BobbyRutanclippers remarks: Youre in good company W.
Right-wing rationalization
zum Artikel...A Nuclear Armed Hotbed of Terrorism Disintegrating?
clipped by: Gul Aghazum Artikel...Catholic University Honors Rumi
clipped by: Gul Aghazum Artikel...Parable of Truth
clipped by: MetisCougarclippers remarks: This has nothing to do with sex, but with life. Open you mind and you will see it.
Cougar
zum Artikel...Draculas Mentor
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zum Artikel...Crazy Inventions
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100 watt light bulb not included
mosquito bite scratcher
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