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This blog is public blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-74914977376136575102015-07-06T17:36:00.002-07:002015-07-06T17:36:54.952-07:00Over 1,000 People Get Sick After Mud Run Was Contaminated In Poop<h1 class="yt watch-title-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; display: table-cell; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 1250px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-28820986605566997482014-04-25T22:20:00.003-07:002014-04-25T22:20:36.664-07:00PARAPROSDOKIANS<div id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44558" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;">
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He will drag you down to his </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44541" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44540" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">level and beat you with experience.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44538" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44537" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">my list.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44535" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44534" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">appear bright until you hear them speak.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44567" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44566" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">public.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">…</span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44532" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44531" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44570" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44569" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">putting it in a fruit salad.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44529" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44528" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">then proceed to tell you why it isn't.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44526" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44525" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">many is research.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></i>10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44573" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44572" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44523" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44522" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">paychecks.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44517" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44516" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44520" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44519" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44513" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44512" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">of a successful man is usually another woman.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">parachute to skydive twice.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">to live with.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">down so they can't get away.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first then call </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44590" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.859999656677246px;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1398489099601_44589" style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;">whatever you hit.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" />25. 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background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">My daughter and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $10 note.<br />Our total was $9.25, so I also handed her another</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">25c.<br />She said, 'You gave me too much money.'<br />I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar coin back.'<br />She said excuse me, went to get the manager, who came out and</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">asked me to please</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">repeat my request.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />I did so, and he handed me back the 25c, and said 'We're sorry sir,</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">but we don’t do that kind of thing</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">here.'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change.</span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></i><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Do not confuse or upset<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>the people at Macca's!</span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></u></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 18pt;">IDIOT SIGHTING:</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">We had to have the electric</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">garage door repaired.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.<br />He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'Nooo, it's not. Four is larger than two.'</span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></i><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We haven't used that repairman since. Happened in Ipswich, Qld<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>– the “Smart State”.</span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></u></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 18pt;">IDIOT SIGHTING:</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">I live in a semi rural area.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />We recently had a new neighbour call the local council office to request the removal of the WOMBAT CROSSING sign on our road.<br />The reason: 'Too many wombats are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'</span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></i><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Story from Healesville, Victoria.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 18pt;">IDIOT SIGHTING:</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">My daughter went to a Mexican takeaway and ordered a taco.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'<br />He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.</span></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13pt;">From Bankstown , Sydney .....</span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i></b><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></u><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 18pt;">IDIOT SIGHTING:</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">I was at Brisbane</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, “Has anyone put anything in your luggage without your knowledge?</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;">”</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;"><br />To which I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">replied</span>, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'<br />He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'Sir, that's why we ask!'</span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13pt;">This reported from Elizabeth SA.</span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i></b><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></u><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 18pt;">IDIOT SIGHTING:</span></u></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">The pedestrian signals on intersections beep when it's safe to cross the road.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine.<br />I asked if she knew what the beeper was for.</span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 13pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: olive; font-size: 13pt;">She said no.<br />I explained that it signals blind people when the light is green.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Appalled, she responded, 'What on earth are blind people doing driving?!'</span></b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></i><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13pt;">She is a government employee in Adelaide GPO.</span></i></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; 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6 Powerful Truths to Start Telling Yourself</h2>
<em>by <a href="http://www.theunlost.com/" modo="true" target="_blank" title="The Unlost">Therese Schwenkler</a></em></blockquote>
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<em>“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better
to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”<br />―Marilyn
Monroe</em></div>
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YOU, my friend, are undeniably, unquestionably, extraordinarily amazing and
powerful!<br />
Have you forgotten this already?<br />
In case you’re stuck in a moment of temporary confusion, allow me to remind
you of some truths you need to start telling yourself more often…<br />
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1. “I do not have to settle.”</h3>
Oh, how I love your fierceness, your undying drive, the sheer wildcat
intensity with which you slink through the jungle like a creature of passion – a
passion that lights you up and that rises from the center of your calmest,
deepest, most grounded self.<br />
I so love it how you refuse to settle – for less than your best, for less
than you deserve, for less than what it is you were made to be and to have and
to do.<br />
You won’t settle for the work that makes you a living, without also balancing
in a life that’s worth living. You won’t settle for <span id="more-656"></span><a href="http://www.theunlost.com/relationships/ladies-would-you-turn-down-the-perfect-man/" target="_blank">the man or woman who keeps you warm at night</a>, but who can’t
see his or her way into the depths of your soul or the breadth of your heart.
You won’t settle for giving less than everything to your work, to your play, to
your loves, to your life.<br />
In fact, if there’s one thing you will settle into in this lifetime, it’s the
belief that the greatest risk is never to risk at all. And oh, how you’re
willing to dare greatly – for passion, for connection, for the adventure of
being alive.<br />
I absolutely love it, you powerful, non-settling soul, you!<br />
<h3>
2. “I have great reasons to trust myself and the universe.”</h3>
You’ve come a far way – from listening to the expectations and the outer
shoutings of the crowds, to learning to listen to your own inner compass and
your own inner voice.<br />
You know now that the first person to check in with, always, is your deepest,
truest self, and she has never let you down. She knows when to say, “Yes
please” and when to say “Heck no!”, when to lean in and when to let go. She
knows when to strike hard, when to back off, and when to slow down and
breathe.<br />
In every instant, she knows exactly what you need and exactly what to do.<br />
And you’ve learned to trust her.<br />
But you’ve learned to trust others too. You know in whom to place your trust
and how to let others in fully, deeply… completely. You’ve learned it can be
safe to open and let yourself be seen and heard and loved for the magnificent
person you are.<br />
Lastly, you’ve learned to trust in this crazy nest-of-a-universe that holds
you and to fully rest in its inevitable care. <a href="http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/06/23/4-reasons-to-hold-on-a-little-longer/" title="4 Reasons to Hold On a Little Longer">Storms
will come in this lifetime</a>, you know, but with time the rain and the rage
and the shaking wind will subside into tranquility, and even the hardest of
winters will soften into spring.<br />
With everything inside you, without a fragment of doubt, you know this to be
true.<br />
Yes, I love the way that you’ve learned to trust – wholeheartedly, fiercely,
deeply – in yourself, in others, and in the universe that holds you.<br />
<h3>
3. “My weirdness is one of my greatest strengths.”</h3>
That’s right; you got it: You are powerful because you’re such an unrivalled
weirdo.<br />
I love all those weird little things about you – the way you snort when you
laugh, the way you rock those glasses with style, and how you shake it out on
the dance floor like no one else is judging you.<br />
I love the way you show up in the world: unapologetically, eccentric-ly,
wholly yourself, because who you are is the one and only YOU.<br />
I love your individuality. Please say you’ll never stop showing the world
who YOU are.<br />
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4. “I can continue to let my struggles open me, and not close me.”</h3>
On the days you were betrayed – not once, not twice, but again and again and
again – you still vowed to keep your heart open anyway.<br />
You were mistreated, but you learned to love others anyway.<br />
Life sucked sometimes, but you didn’t let it suck the life out of you.<br />
Instead of closing, you opened.<br />
Instead of hardening, you softened.<br />
And when life hit you hard, you chose not to die, but to <a href="http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/09/28/9-rules-for-turning-endings-into-new-beginnings/" title="9 Rules for Turning Endings into New Beginnings">let
yourself be born again</a>.<br />
You’ve chosen love over hate, compassion over indifference, and
transformation over ruin. You are blossoming more and more every day, and I
couldn’t be more proud of you.<br />
<h3>
5. “I am still here learning and trying, even after all my failures.”</h3>
The truly beautiful thing about you is the way you never let your failures
get you down – at least, not for long.<br />
Remember that time you fell face down in the mud?<br />
You came back stronger than before. You remembered that, as the proverb
goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” and that, as Epictetus would say, “No great
thing is created suddenly.”<br />
You let your “failures” carve out your person like the insides of a canyon
wall, creating something majestic and wondrous and breathtakingly beautiful.
Instead of succumbing, you let them forge you into a person of strength and of
character, humility and grace.<br />
You aren’t one to be stopped – oh no, not you. You may have had failures in
one sense of the word, but in another sense, you’ve always won. You’ve won
because you failed to give up and you failed to give in. You kept rowing,
reinventing, learning from your defeats and pushing harder each time. Your
ability to persevere astounds me, and you do it with grace every time.<br />
You, my friend, are stronger than you know.<br />
<h3>
6. “I am powerful simply because I am ALIVE right now.”</h3>
You, <a href="http://www.theunlost.com/life-in-general/dearest-sweet-honey-child-do-you-know-that-youre-never-alone/" modo="false" target="_blank">Sweet Honey Child</a>, are worthy and valuable and
mighty beyond measure simply because you were born into this world – simply
because you breathe – simply because you are right here, right now.<br />
You were IT from the very instant you were born into this weird,
unfathomable, joyful and painful experience called “life”: Worthy. Valuable.
Magnificent. Infinitely loved.<br />
You were IT at your highest. You were IT at your lowest. You still are IT.
You are simply, purely, unquestionably, unconditionally, <a href="http://www.theunlost.com/life-in-general/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-all-day-aka-the-sexy-pirate-story/" modo="false" target="_blank">a ridiculously powerful human being</a>.<br />
It doesn’t matter who you are to others or whether you believe this to be
true. It doesn’t matter what you look like, where you live, or what you’ve done
in the past. It doesn’t matter what anybody else tells you (or what you tell
yourself, for that matter). Look me in the eyes, Wonder Woman/Superman. You
are the song in my heart, the whisper on my lips. The reason life has
meaning.<br />
<br />
You are IT!<br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California .</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">People ask me, What is the purpose of life? </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">And I respond: </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems: </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">That's why we're called human beings, not human doings. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Painful moments, TRUST GOD. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Every moment, THANK GOD.. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">If you do not pass it on, nothing will happen. But it will just be nice to pass it on to a friend....just like I have done. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.22em;">HE ARRIVED THIS MORNING, WE HAD PRAYER; SPENT SOME TIME JUST TALKING, AND HE HELD ME FOR AWHILE BECAUSE I WAS HAVING A BAD MORNING.. THEN, HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO YOUR PLACE.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"></span></div>
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Despite constant dangers, Afghan women’s poetry continues
to flourish. One outlet for women’s poetry is Mirman Baheer,
Afghanistan’s largest literary society for women. Mirman Baheer operates
in Kabul with over 100 members. Its members are generally educated and
employed; they are professors, parliamentarians, journalists and
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Approximately 300 of Miram Baheer’s members live in the
outlying provinces — Khost, Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Kunduz, Kandahar,
Herat and Farah — where the group functions in secret. Many who cannot
safely travel to meet together listen to radio programs broadcast by
Mirman Baheer and the Afghan Women’s Writing Project.</div>
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“We recruit only through word-of-mouth and delete any
content that might be used to identify our writers,” says Richelle
McClain, director of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project.</div>
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The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) was founded in
2009. Today, 160 Afghan women across five provinces are enrolled in
AWWP’s workshops, including a new workshop for teenagers and a Dari
writing program. While security is an omnipresent concern, dwindling
financial support is one of their greatest challenges. “We just lost 75
percent of our funding because of the U.S. withdrawal,” says McClain.</div>
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In addition to radio broadcasts and writing programs, the AWWP
collects oral stories from illiterate Afghan women, which are edited and
published on the organization’s blog.<br />
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Before the 2014 elections in Afghanistan, the AWWP plans to
partner with IFES Afghanistan (International Foundation for Electoral
Systems) to promote political writings by local women through digital,
print, and radio networks. They will also run special broadcasts
featuring interviews with female candidates and programs about how
election results will impact Afghan citizens.</div>
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For many rural women in Afghanistan, these secret networks
and the poetry broadcasts are their only form of education. U.N.
investigations revealed that only 12 percent of Afghan women are
literate.</div>
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But, thanks to volunteer translators and journalists,
contemporary Afghan women’s poetry can now reach global audiences. For
example, the June 2013 issue of Poetry magazine was dedicated to landays
– vitriolic, two-line verses traditionally recited by Afghan women at
the river, the well, or private gatherings.</div>
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This collection came from years of investigative reporting
by journalist Eliza Griswold. She journeyed to Afghanistan with
photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy. On July 30, 2013 the Pulitzer
Center will host “I Am the Beggar of the World,” a presentation of
Griswald and Murphy’s work at the Culture Project in New York City.</div>
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A free exhibit at the Poetry Foundation Gallery in Chicago,
Shame Every Rose: Images of Afghanistan, features many of these landays
and images. The exhibit is open to the public through August.</div>
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“Sharing this poetry could endanger the poets’ lives,” says
Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine. “Still, they gave these poems
willingly.”</div>
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The tradition of landays provides some level of anonymity
for women because they are collective. They are recited and shared
rather than attributed to a single poet. Even so, in modern Afghanistan,
poetry can be dangerous. Over the past year, several young Afghan poets
were killed by their male relatives. A young Mirman Baheer member who
called herself Rahila Muska burned herself to death in protest after her
brothers found her writing poetry and brutally attacked her. Her real
name was Zarmina. She often recited this landay over the phone to
members of Miram Baheer:</div>
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<em>“You sold me to an old man, Father.</em></div>
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<em>May God destroy your home, I was your daughter.”</em></div>
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Landays derive their power from shrewd layers of tension
between the poet’s inner and outer world. They can explore rage,
sarcasm, irony, loss, separation and desire. Many of the poems are
humorous, filled with bawdy sexual imagery.</div>
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Whatever the subject, a landay lilts from word to word in a
short lullaby with scathing, layered meaning. These poems come from a
long legacy of Afghan women’s literature.</div>
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“The Afghan woman poet predates the American or European
female poet,” says Zohra Saed, an Afghan-American poet living in New
York City. “Consider the poet queen Rabia Balkhi.” Legend has it this
11th century Afghan used her last drop of blood to write poems.</div>
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“Afghan women’s poetry is unique because it must respond to
create change,” says Saed. “Within our communities and also to change
outside perceptions. It is the poetry of witness, of trauma, of memory
and of struggle to be seen as individuals.”</div>
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Saed recounted the time she edited a collection of
literature by Afghan writers around the world. Before it was finished,
an American radio station published a CD of the collection without her
permission. They listed her as the editor and printed a photograph of an
impoverished child on the cover.</div>
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“When people are interested in Afghan women’s poetry, it is
presented as poetry by the same women the world has imagined rescuing
over the past 20 years,” Saed says.</div>
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She took legal action to recall the copyrighted anthology,
then focused it exclusively on Afghan-American writers. “There were also
women poets who were not part of the war,” she says. “Writers raised
abroad, their aesthetics and poetic voice is very different.”</div>
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Today, Afghan literature is fragmented by linguistic,
cultural and geographic divides. Some of the world’s most prominent
Afghan writers live outside their fatherland and write in English. Many
female writers in Afghanistan come from the urban elite, often educated
in western universities. Poems by women in rural Afghanistan are rarely
published. Groups like the Afghan Women’s Writing Project and the Poetry
Foundation are working to bridge this divide.</div>
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“Poetry is not only for the classroom and elite art
circles,” says Share, editor of Poetry magazine. “Poetry is an essential
part of life, the only way these women can share their experiences.
These poems are electrifying and relevant.” He hopes readers will
realize that, even in the digital age, poetry can wield tangible power.</div>
<em>Photos Courtesy of The Poetry Foundation (top, second, and last)
and The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (Workshop photos by Cheney Orr,
Blue Burqa by Heidi Levine).</em><br />
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</span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_1950" style="font-size: medium;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_1949" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2048" style="color: #330000;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2047" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2046">Proud
to be born a Chinese. Each and every race has their own Pride and so
long as they do not infringe into others' right, I don't see any problem
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them taking their own PRIDE, wonder why the Malaysian politicians are
so taboo about this?</b><br /><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3343">Why do Chinese people work so hard to succeed in life? Here is the plain truth.<br /> </b></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_1948" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3345"><span style="color: #000099;">#1.</span><span style="color: #330000;"> There are over </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3344" style="color: #000099;">1 billion</span><span style="color: #330000;"> of us on this earth. We are like photostat copies of each other. You get rid of one,</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 5 magically appears (like ballot boxes). Yes, it is scary, especially for us.</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <b>We acknowledge that we are replaceable, thus we are not particularly 'special'</b></span><b>.</b> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2045" style="color: #330000;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2044">If
you think you are smart, there are a few thousand more people smarter
than you. If you think you are strong, there are a few thousand people
stronger than
you.<br /> </b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2043"><span style="color: #000099;">#2.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2042" style="color: #330000;"> We have been crawling all over this earth for far more centuries than most civilizations. </span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Our DNA is designed for survival.</b></span> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_1947" style="color: #330000;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_1946">We
are like cockroaches. Put us anywhere on earth and we will make a
colony and thrive. We survive on anything around us and make the best
of it. </b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Some keep migrating but others will stay and multiply.<br />
</b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3335"><u><br /></u><span style="color: #000099;">#3.</span> NOBODY cares if we succeed as individuals or not. But</b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>our families take pride in knowing we have succeeded.</b></span> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>Yes, some will fail.</b></span> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3334" style="color: #cc0000;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3333">We take nothing for granted</b></span>. <span style="color: #330000;"><b>We don't expect privileges to fall on our laps. No
one owes us anything.</b></span><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#4.</b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3332"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3331" style="color: #330000;"> We know we have nothing to lose if we try to succeed. Thus,</span></b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>we have no fear trying</b></span><b><u>.</u></b> <span style="color: #330000;"><b>That is why Chinese are addicted to gambling</b></span>. <span style="color: red;"><b>We thrive on taking risks. All or nothing.<br />
</b></span><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#5.</b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3329"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3330" style="color: #330000;"> From
young we are taught to count every cent. What we take for granted like
money management, I have found out recently, is not something other
cultures practice at home with their children. It surprised me. But
truth is not all societies or cultures teach their young this set of
skills because it is rude to them. Yes, most of us can count because we
are forced to and the logic of money is pounded into us from the
beginning of time (when mama tells us how
much she has spent on our milk and diapers)<br /> </span><span style="color: #000099;">#6.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3328" style="color: #330000;"> We acknowledge life cycles. We accept that wealth in a family stays for three generations (urban myth?). Thus,</span> <span style="color: red;">every 4th generation</span></b></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">will have to work from scratch.</span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3321" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3327"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3326" style="color: #330000;">I.e.
first generation earns the money from scratch, second generation spends
the money on education, third generation gets spoiled and wastes all
the inheritance. Then we are back to square one. Some families hang on
to their wealth a little longer than most.<br />
</span></b><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#7.</b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3325"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3324" style="color: #330000;"> It
is our culture to push our next generation to do better than the last.
Be smarter. Be stronger.
Be faster. Be more righteous. Be more pious. Be more innovative. Be
more creative. Be richer. Be everything that you can be in this
lifetime. Be KIASU.</span></b><br /><span style="color: #000099;"><b>#8.</b></span> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3323" style="color: #cc0000;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3322">Our society judges us by our achievements</b>...</span> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3320" style="color: #330000;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3319">and
we have no choice but to do something worthwhile because Chinese New
Year comes around every year and Chinese relatives have no qualms about
asking you straight in your face - how much are you making? When was
your last promotion? How big is your office? What car do you drive?
Where do you stay? You have boyfriend? You have girlfriend? When are you
getting married? When are you having children? When is the next child?
When you getting a boy? Got maid yet? Does your company send you
overseas? etc etc etc. It NEVER ENDS... so,</b></span> <span style="color: red;"><b>we can't stop chasing the illusive train - we are
damned to a materialistic society</b></span>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>If you are not Chinese, consider yourself lucky!</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b>#9.</b></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2128" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2127"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2129" style="color: #330000;"> We
have been taught from young - if you have two hands, two feet, two
eyes, and a mouth, what are you doing with it? People with no hands can
do better than you (and the OKU artists do put us to shame)<br />
</span><span style="color: #000099;">#10.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2126" style="color: #330000;"> Ironically,
the Chinese also believe in giving back to save their wretched
materialistic souls. Balance is needed. The more their children succeed
in life, the more our parents will give back to society (not for profit)
as gratitude for the good fortune bestowed on their children.
Yes. That is true. And that is why our society progresses forward in
all conditions.</span></b></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3318" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3317"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3316" style="color: #330000;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3315" style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3314" style="font-size: 24pt;">Nobody pities us.</span></span></span></b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2154" style="font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2153" style="color: #330000;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2152" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2151" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2150" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">We accept that.<br />
</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3313" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3312" style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3311" style="font-size: 24pt;">No one owes us</span></span></span></span></b><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2142" style="color: #330000; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2149" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <b>anything.</b></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2148" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2147"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2146" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"> We know that.<br />
</span></b></span></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2141"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3293" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3292" style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3291" style="font-size: 24pt;">There are too many of</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2145" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2144" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2143" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">us for charity to reach all of us. We acknowledge that.<br />
</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3296" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3295" style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3294" style="font-size: 24pt;">But that does not stop us</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2140" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2139" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2138" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">from making a better life. This lifetime.<br />
</span></span></span></b></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2137" style="font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2136" style="font-size: medium;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2135" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red;">Opportunity</span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3310" style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3309" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">is as we make of it.<br />
</span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2134" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2133" style="color: #330000;">So,
pardon us if we feel obliged to make a better place for ourselves in
this country we call home. It is in our DNA to progress forward for a
more comfortable life.<br />
<br />But if history were to be our teacher, look around this globe.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3308" style="color: red;">Every country has a Chinatown</span></span></span></span></b><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2125" style="font-size: medium;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3299" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3298" style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3297" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;">(seriously) but how many government/countries are 'taken' over by the Chinese people.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2124" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2123" style="color: #330000;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2122" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_2121">Don't
be afraid of us overwhelming your majority, we are not looking to
conquer. If we have moved away from China and Chinese governed
countries, we are NOT looking for another country to administer. Our
representatives are only there to look after our collective welfare.
They are duty bound. We prefer to blend in and enjoy the fruits of our
labor. We enjoy the company of like minded people of all races. After
all, we are only passing through a small period in the history of
time... so, use our skills and we can all progress forward together.<br />
</b></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3303" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3302" style="color: #000099;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3301" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377677744184_3300">Chan-Lui Lee, Ph.D.<br />Honorary Life Member & Past President, AFS<br />
Melbourne,
Australia</b></span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-66744470242158483002013-08-17T18:55:00.001-07:002013-08-17T18:55:54.699-07:00Negative Ions Created by Waterfalls Purify the Air, Create High Energy and Enhance Your Mood. <span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Negative Ions Created by Waterfalls Purify the Air,<br />
Create High Energy and Enhance Your Mood.
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">
The atmosphere we breathe normally is full of positive and negative
ions. Air conditioning, lack of ventilation, and long dry spells remove
negative ions, which
usually serve to latch onto airborne dirt particles and wrestle them to
the floor, rendering the air purer. Roughly one-third of the population
seems to be
particularly sensitive to negative-ion depletion. The proportion of
negative ions is highest around moving water: storms, oceans, rivers and
waterfalls. It’s no
wonder that we feel so energized at the beach. The best ratios of
negative to positive ions are associated with waterfalls and the time
before, during and after
storms. The worst are found in a windowless room and closed moving
vehicles. Air purifiers typically work by emitting negative ions, which
purify the air in a
room by attaching to impurities and sinking them. Water fountains act
the same way but are more appealing to the eye and can add to the décor
in your room.
Having an indoor water fountain can be also beneficial to people with
allergies or asthma. An extra bonus of having a water fountain in a
room is that it will
help control the humidity in a room.
<br />
<br />
High concentration of negative ions are essential for high energy and
positive moods (Thayer, 1995)(1). In fact, Marian Diamond, a professor
of neuroanatomy at
the University of California, Berkeley, has found that levels of
negative ions are inversely related to levels of serotonin in the brain.
<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Source: The Owners Manual for the Brain, Everyday Applications From Mind-Brain Research
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">
In another study, male and female subjects participated in two studies
designed to investigate the impact of negative air ions on cognitive
performance. In the
first experiment, they worked on three different tasks (proofreading,
memory span, word finding) In the presence of low, moderate, or high
concentration of such
ions. Results indicated that among men, performance on two of these
tasks (proofreading and memory span) was enhanced by moderate but not by
high concentrations
of ions. In the second experiment, undertaken to extend the generality
for these initial results, male and female subjects performed two
additional tasks (letter
copying, decision making) in the presence of low, moderate, or high
concentrations of ions. Output on the letter copying task increased
significantly as ion levels
rose among both sexes. With respect to decision making, the tendency of
male participants to select initially preferred alternative was
significantly enhanced by
moderate concentrations of negative ions. Together, the findings of
these studies suggest that negative air ions can indeed exert
appreciative effects on cognitive
performance.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology, Feb 1987 Title: Effects of
negative ions on cognitive performance. Author: Robert A. Baron
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</span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-13348626851124248072013-08-17T18:53:00.003-07:002013-08-17T18:53:56.768-07:00SICK mind<span class="answerbag_vibrant">It is an evolution of the quote, "If a
cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a
sign?" Albert Einstein was the one who said it. To have a clean desk is
to imply that you are not doing much with it, that you have a desk not
to use it but simply because you feel you need one.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Albert Einstein</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> "The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogren and stupidity." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harlan Ellison</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Winston Churchill</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epictetus</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> "Wit is educated insolence." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aristotle</span></span><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
<br /><a href="http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2163106#ixzz2cHUp91Fw" style="color: #003399;"></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions
with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their
first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always
been derided as fools and madmen." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Aldous Huxley </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
<em>“Pain makes man think.<br />
Thinking makes him wise,<br />
And wisdom opens heaven’s doors to him.”</em><br />
Proverb<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-86182469746223666122013-08-06T20:34:00.001-07:002013-08-06T20:34:03.115-07:00Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013<h4>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2013-130106/">Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013</a></h4>
Continuing a long-standing New Year’s tradition, today we present an
up-to-date list of the world’s most-visited BitTorrent sites. At the
start of 2013 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors,
followed by KickassTorrents and Torrentz. Household names BTJunkie and
Demonoid have dropped off the list as both sites are no longer online.<br />
Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013? <br />
Traditionally BitTorrent users are very loyal, which is reflected in
the top 10 where most sites have had a consistent listing for more than
half a decade. This year there are a few movers and shakers, as well as
several newcomers. <br />
The most notable absentees this year are <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/btjunkie-shuts-down-for-good-120206/">BTJunkie</a> and <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/tag/demonoid-down/">Demonoid</a>.
Both sites have been featured in the top 10 since 2006, but went
offline in 2012. BTJunkie permanently quit early last year and
Demonoid’s future is also uncertain after it disappeared during the
summer. <br />
The first newcomer in tenth place is H33t, which has been growing
steadily in recent years. The second newcomer is TorrentReactor, one of
the oldest torrent sites around that makes its comeback after not making
the list last year. <br />
Then there is also a group of notable sites that didn’t make the cut, but deserve a mention. <a href="http://yify-torrents.com/">YIFY-torrents.com</a>
for example, which launched late 2011 and has grown exponentially
since. Also worth mentioning are the Pirate Bay proxies, including <a href="http://pirateproxy.net/">Pirateproxy.net</a>, which in itself almost deserves a spot in the top 10.<br />
Below is the full list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the
start of the new year. Only public and English language sites are
included. The list is based on various traffic reports and we display
the Alexa and U.S. Compete rank for each. In addition, we include last
year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites.<br />
Did we miss anything? Feel free to join the discussion below. <br />
<h4>
1. <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/">The Pirate Bay</a></h4>
To many people The Pirate Bay is the equivalent to BitTorrent. The
site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding, despite the various
legal troubles and new blockades in the UK and the Netherlands. The
Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a month.<br />
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<h5>
Alexa Rank: 74 / Compete Rank: 398 / Last year #1 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
2. <a href="http://kat.ph/">KickassTorrents</a></h4>
KickassTorrents was founded in 2009 and has moved up in our top 10
year after year. Responding to increasing worries over domain seizures,
the site <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-moves-to-kat-ph-110422/">moved</a> from its kickasstorrents.com domain to kat.ph in 2012. This year the site continued to grow, despite being blocked <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/italian-court-orders-all-isps-to-block-kickasstorrents-120524/">by Italian Internet providers</a>.<br />
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<h5>
Alexa Rank: 116 / Compete Rank: 719 / Last year #3 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
3. <a href="http://www.torrentz.eu/">Torrentz</a> </h4>
Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for many
years. Unlike the other sites featured in the list Torrentz does not
host any torrent files, it merely redirects visitors to other places on
the web. The site uses several domain names with the .eu being the most
popular.<br />
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<h5>
Alexa Rank: 166 / Compete Rank: 882 / Last year #2 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
4. <a href="http://isohunt.com/">IsoHunt</a></h4>
Two years ago isoHunt became the first search engine forced to implement a <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-continues-legal-fight-to-thwart-mpaa-censorship-101221/">keyword filter</a>
provided by the MPAA. Despite this setback, isoHunt continues to be
listed among the world’s top torrent sites. isoHunt is currently trying
to get rid of the filter through the Appeals Court.<br />
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<h5>
Alexa Rank: 213 / Compete Rank: 1,935 / Last year #4 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
5. <a href="http://extratorrent.com/">ExtraTorrent</a></h4>
ExtraTorrent continues to gain more traffic and has moved up again in
the top 10, now being the 5th most visited torrent site. This success
didn’t go unnoticed to rightsholders groups such as the <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-should-filter-proactively-121114/">RIAA</a> and <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-megaupload-shutdown-was-massive-success-121205/">MPAA</a> who have called out ExtraTorrent as one of the top pirate sites recently.<br />
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<h5>
Alexa Rank: 279 / Compete Rank: 1,973 / Last year #6 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
6. <a href="http://1337x.org/">1337x</a></h4>
1337x focuses more on the community aspect than some competitors. The
site’s owners say they started 1337x to “fill an apparent void where it
seemed there was a lack of quality conscience ad free torrent sites
with public trackers.” The site moved up from spot 10 last year to 6th
in 2013.<br />
<div align="right">
<h5>
Alexa Rank: 1,031 / Compete Rank: 9,228 / Last year #10 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
7. <a href="http://eztv.it/">EZTV</a></h4>
Unlike the other sites in the top 10, TV-torrent distribution group
EZTV is a niche site specializing in TV content only. It was one of the
newcomers last year despite being around for more than 7 years, and is
relatively popular among Australians. Because of its focus on TV-content
EZTV’s traffic varies in line with the TV-seasons. <br />
<div align="right">
<h5>
Alexa Rank: 1,128 / Compete Rank: 16,622 / Last year #8 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
8. <a href="http://bitsnoop.com/">Bitsnoop</a></h4>
BitSnoop is one of the largest BitTorrent indexes, claiming to index a
massive 19,091,736 torrent files at the time of writing. The site’s
traffic continues to grow steadily, as do the <a href="http://bitsnoop.com/info/dmca_stats.html">DMCA notices</a> that it receives. <br />
<div align="right">
<h5>
Alexa Rank: 1,159 / Compete Rank: 5,648 / Last year #9 </h5>
</div>
<h4>
9. <a href="http://torrentreactor.net/">TorrentReactor</a> </h4>
TorrentReactor is back in the top 10 after dropping off last year. A few months ago the site was blocked by a <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/italian-court-orders-nationwide-block-of-torrentreactor-and-torrents-net-121204/">court order</a> in Italy, but the site nonetheless continues to gain visitors.<br />
<div align="right">
<h5>
Alexa Rank: 1,314 / Compete Rank: 4,530 / Last year #NA </h5>
</div>
<h4>
10. <a href="http://h33t.com/">H33t</a></h4>
H33T has been around for many years and has built a dedicated user base, mostly in Europe and Asia. Despite the <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/music-labels-prepare-to-block-major-bittorrent-sites-120704/">wishes</a> of the music industry, the site isn’t yet blocked by any court orders. The site made the news a few months ago when its owner <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/should-websites-charge-a-fee-to-process-copyright-takedowns-120528/">took a stand</a> against the avalanche of copyright takedown requests.<br />
<div align="right">
<h5>
Alexa Rank: 1,403 / Compete Rank: 6,234 / Last year #NA </h5>
</div>
<em>Disclaimer: Yes, we know that Alexa isn’t perfect and that
Compete has plenty of flaws, but combined both do a pretty good job at
comparing sites that operate in a similar niche.</em><br />
<br />
<em> http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2013-130106/</em><br />
<h4>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809230564894854072.post-24300732316498827722013-08-01T19:27:00.001-07:002013-08-01T19:27:32.560-07:00Cute Kids Can Sleep Anywhere!<div align="center">
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India is a place of many contrasts – as the cliche goes. It has a booming modern economy with a particular strength in IT, as well as ancient bustling markets which looked exactly the same five hundred years ago – minus the cellphones and DVDs.<br /><br />Some Indians, fiercely embracing exactly the same modernity that those in the West take for granted, resent that their country is still known for its sacred cows and its bizarre rituals. Stereotypes can be difficult to swallow. But they shouldn’t resent this list: it reflects only one small and fascinating shade of the enormous, incredible, multi-faceted country that is India.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">10.</span> Fire-Walking</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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People from South India ‘celebrate’ the Theemithi festival by walking barefoot across a pit filled with burning <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">hot</span> firewood, or sometimes glowing charcoal. The fire walking is done in honour of the Hindu goddess Draupati Amman – so rather than hurrying across the pit, the devotees have to sdo it slowly, as though it’s a walk in the park.<br /><br />The ritual begins when the head priest traverses the pit with a pot on his head, filled with sacred water. He is then followed by other men, who seek to prove their piety by withstanding the pain. Participants suffer from burns on their feet – and sometimes worse injuries, on the all-too-common occasions when they fall into the burning pit.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The thookam festival sees the backs of devoted Hindus pierced by sharp hooks; the men are then lifted off the ground onto a scaffold using ropes. Sometimes, children are even tied to the hands of the participants. Originating from southern parts of India, the festival has now been banned by the Indian Government after continued pressure from human rights organizations.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">08.</span> Bull Fighting</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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Unlike its Spanish counterpart, Indian bull-fighting, or Jallikattu, is done without the help of any rope or weapons. Thankfully, the bull’s life is also spared afterwards, bovines being famously sacred in India. Celebrated during Pongal (harvest thanksgiving), this is one of the most dangerous sports played in India. Youth, ardent for some desperate glory, usually strive either to tame the bull or at least to hang on to the bull for a reward – usually money.<br /><br />More than a hundred people have been killed in southern India over the past two decades. A case against Jallikattu is ongoing in the Supreme Court of India, which is considering an outright ban on the sport. The bulls are force-fed alcohol; their eyes are sprinkled with chili powder, and their testicles are pinched in an effort to infuriate them.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">07.</span> Self-flagellation</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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Muharram is the first month in the Islamic Calendar, and this was the month which marks the anniversary of the Battle of Karbala, when Imam Hussein ibn Ali was killed, followed by 72 warriors who were killed over the next ten days. Shi’a Muslims in India, and also other countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, mourn this event by flogging their naked bodies with a bunch of chains known as ‘Matam’. Sometimes, these Matams also contain razor blades or knives.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">06.</span> Widow-burning</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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Practiced extensively in the 17th century, Sati was a ritual whereby a widow – voluntarily or involuntarily – would lie down next to her dead husband before being burned alive along with the corpse. The widows who were caught trying to escape this fate, despite the intense social pressure to self-immolate, would be tied to the burning structure, or their limbs would be broken in order to prevent more attempts to flee. Sometimes, they would even be pushed back with bamboo sticks into the burning funeral pyre. Even though it was banned by the British colonial government in 1859, it was still practiced in some parts of India. It is still banned under the current Indian government, with harsh penalties for those few who still insist on forcing innocent women to their deaths.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Every year in the month of December, more than a hundred babies are tossed from a temple roof into a crowd below. They plummet 200 feet, to where a group of men stand waiting with a cloth meant to catch them. The reason? Married couples – looking to be blessed with, perhaps ironically, more babies – take part in this event. It is also said to bring good health and luck to the family. The Indian government is looking to set a ban on the jaw-dropping ritual, which takes place in the southern state of Karnataka.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Enter certain temples in Karnataka, and you’ll be ordered to stop, drop and roll. Supplicants roll their bodies over scraps of food discarded by Brahmins – the highest, priestly caste in India. The act of rolling is practiced by all of the castes lower than Brahmin, and is said to cure skin disease.<br /><br />Made snana has been in practice for over 500 years, but it is now on the verge of being banned. Though restrictions in certain temples had been put up in recent years, these restricitions were lifted after protests from devout Hindus. Members of the Indian government have therefore decided to educate, rather than impose their will upon the people. Good luck to them.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">03.</span> Chicken-shredding Exorcisms</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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In Hinduism, exorcisms are carried out by various means, according to the traditions of different regions. One of these methods involves the slaughter of a white chicken: the bloody parts are strewn around the house by the Pandit or priest, who is usually in charge of performing the exorcism. The possessed person in question is then addressed as a demon, or by the name of a dead relative who may have become a demon within them. These demons, or spirits, are said to be afraid of white chickens. In some cases, the demon is reported to have screamed ‘I go! I go!’ through the possessed body, before apparently leaving. Supposedly, this is followed by the immediate revival of the exorcised person, who appears to wake from something like a trance, with no memory of the events or of the chicken.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">02.</span> Tongue Piercing</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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Not studs, but long and sharp needles are used to puncture the tongue. The needles – usually made from wood or steel – can be so long that the tongue is forced to stick out of the mouth permanently, unable to retract. The piercing is common a number of religious festivals. In some regions, young boys and sometimes girls take part in the ritual piercing. The ones who are going to pierce their tongues wear a garland around their necks for a day before the ceremony. The piercing ceremony is usually followed by dancing and merrymaking. These practices are also seen in countries other than India, in southern parts of Asia.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">01.</span> Female Infanticide</b><u></u><u></u></div>
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This social evil exists not only in India, but also in many other parts of the world whose populations see male children as more desirable than female children. Preference for a male child can be so extreme that female infants might be killed, or set afloat in the river. Illegitimate girls, especially, were vulnerable to murder prompted by shame: only if a man agreed to marry the mother-to-be could the child often be saved – but this hardly ever happened. Infanticide was banned in the 19th century.<u></u><u></u></div>
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