HOW TO HIDE YOUR PASSWORD

... no one can see your password
or whatever you are typing ...

... no one can see whatever you're typing
or which website you're surfing ...

... and the ultimate is ...

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"a laugh a day drives your worries away!"

DON'T STOP LEARNING

"I was not literate in computers at all,"
the sprightly nonagenarian said. "I was
completely self-taught as far as that
was concerned."

Learning is a continuing process, and it proves to be true for a 91-year old man, who received a law degree and finishing the six-year course more than a year ahead of schedule because he said, "time is of the essence." Learning how to use the internet was his biggest challenge in completing the degree.

True learning is a lifelong process of experience and exploration, and anytime we return to a classroom or any kind to learn something new, we are continuing our education. It helps us to become more knowledgeable, more aware, and able to help others by the information and experience we acquire through this learning process.

If you stop learning, you will travel one of the quickest paths to career obsolescence that you can find. When you stop learning, you stop growing both personally and professionally. We need to retool our knowledge base not once in a while, but on a continuous basis.

Learning is a whole life career, and absolutely not limited to in school.

THE DRUNKEN MONKEYS

Strange News

Baboons are a common sight in the western region of Saudi Arabia, but what about drunken baboons?

A troop of monkeys went ape wild on a mountaintop near this village in the south, causing police to investigate. It turns out our simian friends happened upon a stash of distilled libations, and that's when the party started. They managed to get into those bottles with the magic of opposable thumbs. Authorities believe smugglers from the south hid the stash, though perhaps only the monkeys know for sure who the culprits really were.

Monkeys like beer, too!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - NO SMOKING PLEASE!

"To quit smoking is the easiest
thing I ever did, I ought to know
because I've done it a thousand
times."



Mark Twain

MYTH - FACT - FILTERED/UNFILTERED

Myth

Filtered cigarettes are less
dangerous than unfiltered ones.


Fact

The opposite would be the case: people who prefer filtered cigarettes are in danger of dying two to almost four years earlier than smokers of filterless cigarettes. Filters prevent the dilution of the smoke by oxygen so that the bloodstream builds up higher levels of carbon monoxide, in the form of carboxyhemoglobin. One of the effects is greater damage to the cardiovascular system, with the danger of strokes and heart attacks. Approximately 50 percent of deaths studied resulted from heart attacks and about 20 percent from cancer.

WOMEN DRIVERS AWARD 2009

My buddy, Yusuf, insisted that I should post this one --

* * * Presenting * * *


The Top Ten Contestants
for the Women Drivers Award 2009


10th Place Goes To

9th Place Goes To

8th Place Goes To

7th Place Goes To

6th Place Goes To

5th Place Goes To

4th Place Goes To

3rd Place Goes To

The Silver Medal Winner

Her helmet is being worn backwards

... and finally, here is our


2009 Women Drivers Award


*** Gold Medal Winner ***

Wow!!! How the heck???

Ohhh.... never mind....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!


This concludes the
2009 Women Drivers Awards Ceremony

Thank you to all contestants for
giving us all a reason to laugh and smile!!!

THE BULL ACROBATS

No one has ever explained the Minoan art depicting the bull acrobats of ancient Crete. If we can believe this art, an acrobat would face a charging bull, grasp its horns, and do a somersault over its back to the ground.

The problem is that the feat appears to be impossible. No daredevil has been reckless enough to attempt it, at least not in our time.

GREEN WORLD - THE MYSTERIOUS FLOWER

It is sometimes called the "corpse flower" for its stomach-churning scent, or the "giant panda of the plant world" for its rarity. It has no stems or leaves and grows endoparasatically within the woody stems of its host. vine. It is a massive fleshy orb designed by nature to attract insects by mimicking the color and stench of rotting meat.

The bizarre bloom, which is now under threat from deforestation and harvesting for traditional medicine, is named after the famed British colonialist, the founder of the British colony of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles. He stumbled across one in Sumatra in 1818, with his friend, Dr. Joseph Arnold, after whom the largest of the species, is named.



The plant grows only on a specific jungle vine in parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. It emerges as a small lump on the vine, and over about nine months, swells into a cabbage-like bud, which opens to reveal a massive five-petalled flower sometimes measuring more than a meter cross.

The bloom, colored a mottled red, pink or orange depending on the species is visible for just a few days, before turning black and rotting away. Not all varieties of Rafflesia have the distinctive stench, and even among those that do, the open bud has to be caught just at the right time.



Scientists agree on 24 as the total number of species, three of which are already extinct. The best known of these species is Rafflesia Arnoldii, which has the distinction of the being the world's largest individual flower and a magnificent bloom of the plant kingdom, reaching a diameter of about three feet.

Many thanks to the innovative Malaysian scheme, indigenous tribes who once gathered Rafflesia buds by the sackload are being trained as custodians of the rare flowers, and to act as guides for ecotourists.

FUN WITH NUMBERS

123456787654321

is

11,111,111

multiplied by itself.

MOZART'S FAMOUS QUOTATION

"As death, when we come to consider it closely,
is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the
last few years such close relations with this best and truest
friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying
to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank
my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of
learning that death is the key which unlocks
the door to our true happiness."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

PAGES FROM THE PAST - MOZART

Today marks the 218th death anniversary
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

But did you know that the man who gave the world wonderful music to last forever died penniless, and only one person walked with his coffin from the church to the cemetery for its burial in an unmarked pauper's grave? His interment was a disgrace to all of Vienna. Thrown in a ditch with several other people, not even a bad inscription marked its location

Mozart come closest of all musicians to being the universal composer. During his short life time (he died at 35), he wrote operas and symphonies, chamber music and church music, solo and concert works for virtually every instrument--plus mechanical clocks and musical glasses.

Rossini once said, "Mozart is not the greatest, he is the only musician in the world." And to quote Schubert, "O Mozart, immortal Mozart! How many and what countless images of a brighter, better world hast though stamped on our souls."

MAKING FRIENDS

Friendship is like a tree.
It takes time to grow and mature.

Oftentimes, we hear people say, "it's not easy for me to make friends." Even though we may enjoy and need to be alone now and then, we are basically social animals who need the company and cooperation of others. We need to make friends, to like and be liked, and to form loving relationships with at least a few people who are in some ways special to us. Maintaining the relationship is even harder. It requires more than similarity in nature and tastes.


We all have our flaws and imperfections, but as two people get to know more of each other, these shortcomings will not affect the relationship. Instead, they help strengthen the bond of friendship.


To understand the relationships that people form, it is important to realize that we are not focusing on individual behavior. Instead, we keep meaning to understand behavior between pairs of human beings and the reasons people like and love those they do.

LOVE IS THE PRODUCT OF LEARNING

Love is so meaningful, yet so very difficult to define!

Is there an acceptable definition of love? Many poems have been written, many songs have been sung, many words have been uttered, many hearts have been broken, and truly tragedies abound all because of love. Unfortunately, no such definition exists because it is extremely general concept encompassing many kinds of interpersonal relationships.

The love that a parent feels for a child is not the love felt by brothers and sisters for each other or for their parents; nor is it he same as that experienced by husband and wife. In quite another way, we love ourselves. In still another sense, we "fall in love" with someone with whom we had no previous relationship, perhaps "at first sight." We speak of "spiritual love" and "sexual love." We "love" certain kinds of food. The term is used so often and in so many contexts that it has almost ceased to have meaning.

A psychologist has the following definition of love: "Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we love," and "when the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists."

Whatever the definition, many will agree that the ability to love, to care for others, and to engage in mature sexual behavior is a product of learning.

TRIVIA - SEMITIC ALPHABETS

Did you know that all the world's
main alphabets have developed from
an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago
in the Middle East and known as
the North Semitic Alphabet.




The Semites

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER

December is the twelfth and final month
of the Gregorian calendar and the first month
of winter. It derives it's name from the Latin word
decem, meaning ten, as December was the tenth
month of the oldest Roman calendar. The
Latin name is derived from Decima, the
middle Goddess of the Three Fates
who personifies the present.