Oh, that Van Der Linden!

Rick van der Linden passed away in 2006. The Netherlands most leading keyboard player, source of inspiration to many was no more.Because of his fabulous technique; because of his fabulous knowledge of Bach’s music; because of his pioneering work of making classical music more accessible to a younger generation, during the late sixties, beginning of the seventies by combining it with Rock and Jazz. Reviled by the classical musicians later admired… Adored by many starting and more advanced pop keyboard players… Through him this occupation had become interesting… Rick, himself inspired by giants such as Keith Emerson, led the band Ekseption to great heights. Friends of Rick’s spontaneously played his music during his memorial service, unrehearsed, unprepared. Seldom shall the music of van der Linden be played with such love and passion. "AN EKSEPTIONAL TRIBUTE BAND” was erected with two original Ekseption members. The sounds of this legendary band are heard again. Not only will material of Ekseption be heard but also solo pieces of Rick.
Van der Linden lives on!

Aphrodite's Child

Do it yourself...or not!

Mike Harstad of Jamestown, Calif., attempting to eliminate a wasps' nest with a can of Pledge and a cigarette lighter, ultimately burned down his mobile home and contents and destroyed an outbuilding, a truck, a boat and a trailer.
A Whitehall, Pa., man, William Sekol, 82, attempting to destroy a yellow jackets' nest beneath a storm sewer grate in his front yard, put a dried tree over the grate, doused it with gasoline, and lit it (supposedly to suffocate the yellow jackets underneath). However, some gasoline ran into the sewer, where its fumes combusted. In the resulting explosion, Sekol's mustache and eyebrows were singed.

Blanka - European Queen in Sports

Blanka Vlasic, a Croatian high jumper is the winner of the “Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year”. She surely deserved this award because she lost only one out of 19 competitions. She jumped over 207 cm in Stockholm and she won the world league title in Osaka. In history, only the world record holder Stefka Kostadinova managed to jump higher than Blanka, and considering the young girl’s performance of this year, even this could change. The audience loves her because of the contagious enthusiasm she carries with herself on the competition, dancing after every jump.

Fela Kuti & Ian Anderson

World is taking yet another turn

*Oral-B's Triumph SmartGuide toothbrush, available in the United Kingdom for the equivalent of about $280, uses navigation technology to transmit the exact location of the toothbrush to a base unit so that the user can see which areas in his mouth the brush might have missed. The wireless LCD mouth display can be mounted on a mirror or held in the free hand.(!!!!!)
*The adolescent offspring of some well-to-do parents are serious art collectors, and their interest appears not to be motivated solely by parents' strategies to shield income from the tax collector. Ms. Dakota King, 9, for example, owns 40 pieces and specializes in animals and "happy colors." Ms. Shammiel Fleischer-Amoros, 10, who admitted, "I'm really scared, but Daddy told me I have to negotiate," succeeded in getting $200 knocked off of a $3,200 sculpture she really wanted. An 11-year-old last year "waved a paddle" to win a $352,000 Jeff Koons sculpture...
*Pentagon investigators discovered that a small South Carolina company fraudulently collected $20.5 million in shipping costs, including one invoice of $999,798 for sending two washers (cost: 19 cents each) to a base in Texas. According to Bloomberg News, the Defense Department was said to have a policy of automatically and unquestioningly paying shipping bills labeled "priority."

Robbie Williams

Call me...hmm

A Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands, Martinus Muskens, suggested that Christians start referring to God as "Allah" as a way of relieving world tensions. "Allah is a very beautiful word . ... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem."

A priest in Rome said Muskens' intentions were good, "but his theology needs a little fine-tuning." Muskens said he spent eight years in Indonesia, where Catholic priests used "Allah" during Mass...

Neobjasnjivi Fenomeni Uma

Povezanost tijela i uma
Medicina je tek nedavno započela sa istraživanjima koja pokušavaju doznati do koje mjere um utiče na tijelo i obratno. Placebo efekat ilustruje tu povezanost. Do njega dolazi kad osoba koja ima zdravstvene probleme nakon konzumacije lažnog lijeka ili nekakvog rituala izlječenja zbilja osjeti tjelesno poboljšanje. Kod ispitivanja placebo efekta, naucnici su pacijentima davali lažne tablete (npr. tabletice šećera), koje farmakološki nemaju nikakvog uticaja na zdravlje. Ipak, pacijenti zbog sugestije osjete poboljšanje. Suprotna je pojava nocebo efekt, kod kojeg je pacijent uvjeren da mu se zbog lijekova stanje pogoršava.

Iskustva blizu smrti

Ljudi koji su se našli blizu smrti često pričaju o neobičnim iskustvima do kojih ih je dovelo takvo iskustvo. Prolazak kroz tunel na čijem je kraju svjetlost, neobični glasovi, muzika, susret sa bližnjima ili Bogom. Naucnici tvrde da se takva iskustva najčešće događaju kad je mozak mrtav, ne funkcionise, ali ipak proizvodi ovakva neobjašnjiva iskustva...

Paranormalne moći

Većina ljudi vjeruje u ''paranormalno''. Jedno istraživanje u Velikoj Britaniji je pokazalo da je 43% ispitanika uvjereno kako mogu čitati tuđe misli ili da to drugi mogu činiti njima, vjeruju kako mogu sanjati događaje iz budućnosti i slično. Medjutim, mnoga istraživanja ljudi koji tvrde da imaju paranormalne moći su pokazala da ti ljudi nemaju nikakve moći. Misterija ostaje...

Deja Vu

Ili 'nešto već viđeno' se jos zove paramnesia, a označava iskustvo osjećaja da smo novu situaciju već iskusili. Ljudi najčešće opisuju ovaj pojam kao ''prisjećanje budućnosti''.Nekoliko je studija pokazalo da čak 70% ljudi tvrdi kako je barem jednom u životu iskusilo 'prisjećanje budućnosti'. U laboratorijskim istraživanjima naucnicima je veoma teško bilo izazvati deja vu efekt, ali su ga uspjeli postići hipnozom.

Intuicija, šeto čulo

Kada doživimo nešto za što smo znali/osjetili da će se dogoditi. Većina ljudi jako često može predvidjeti događaj 6-7 sekundi prije nego što se on dogodi. Takodje žene puno češće imaju razvijeno 'šesto čulo' od muškaraca. Naucnici vjeruju kako ljudi puno više informacija prikupljaju nesvjesno nego svjesno, te tako ponekad imaju utisak da su 'osjetili' što će se dogoditi, a zapravo im je ta informacija bila prenesena s nesvjesnog na svjesni nivo...

Nightwish (made in Finland)

Haiku of Modern Times

*A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
*Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
*First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
*To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy.
*Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
*The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
*Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Nazareth

Civilization in Decline

Sweden's couple in Kinda Municipality had just been denied generous welfare benefits because they object to the government's work requirements. The husband wanted the payments even though, he wrote, "Conventional work is out of the question for me, both in terms of my conscience and on an intellectual level, as it seems objectionable with regard to both my personal well-being and the well-being of society as a whole. Emotionally, too, (conventional work) creates unbearable pain and dejection."
As a 27-year-old woman laid dying from a stab wound incurred at a Wichita, Kansas, convenience store, at least five customers stepped over her to enter the store, including one who stopped to photograph her on a cell phone camera.
NHL player Derek Boogaard, an "enforcer" known for his willingness to brawl, opened the Derek and Aaron Boogaard Fighting Camp in Regina, Saskatchewan, to train teenage hockey players in that highly essential skill.

UFO, the band

Mis-Translations

*Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notice.
*The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
*Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
*In a Belgrade hotel elevator: "To more the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
*Please leave your values at the front desk.
*Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
*The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
*You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
*You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
*Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
*Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
*Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
*Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
*Drop your trousers here for best results.
*Dresses for street walking.
*Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
*It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.
*Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
*Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
*Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
*Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.
*Would you like to ride on your own ass?
*It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
*Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
*We take your bags and send them in all directions.
*If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
*Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
*Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
*Specialist in women and other diseases.
*The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
*Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best in the long run.
*Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.
*When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
*- English well talking.- Here speeching American.

Pacific Gas & Electric

Mujo rjesava krizaljku

Vrsta metala (4 slova): PLEH

Dio pribora za jelo (3 slova): ZUB

Zensko dijete (3 slova): ONA

Najmanji trocifreni broj (3 slova): 000

Mjera za tezinu (4 slova): UTEG

Inicijali pjesnika Jesenjina (2 slova): PJ

Morski greben (2 slova): MG

Sestrin muz (5 slova): SAFET

Zlato (2 slova): ZL

Biblijska lijenost (3 slova): POP

Mjera za dragocjenost (5 slova): NOVAC

Dragi kamen (4 slova): MILI

Zajednica zene i muskarca (4 slova): STAN

Kokosji proizvod (4 slova): JUHA

Neizlijeciva bolest (3 slova): KAP

Najzdravije pice (4 slova): PIVO

Telefonski poziv (3 slova): ZVR

Grad u Italiji (3 slova): TRS

Vrsta zivotinje s kucicom (3 slova): PAS

Nije gladan (3 slova): JEO

Vidi sliku (5 slova): JESAM

Svecano odjelo (4 slova): CRNO

Hladno oruzje (3 slova): TOP

Muzjak vrane (6 slova): VRANAC

Kisik (1 slovo): K

Stanovnik Tirane (7 slova): TIRANIN

Dozivljaj pri spavanju (3 slova): SEX

Dio kupaonice (4 slova): VODA

Deep Thoughts*)

*If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.
*If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
*Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?
*As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
*Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.

*When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.

*I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

*) by Jack Handey

No More Former Yugoslav Republic...

On September 20, 2007 Canada had recognized Republic of Macedonia by its constitutional name. Macedonians started immigrating to Canada over a century ago and have helped build Canadian society in all spheres of life - social, economic, and political. Today, around 200,000 Macedonians live in Canada.
Macedonia is also the name of Greece's northern province, birthplace of Alexander the Great, and Athens objects to the use of the name as a "sign of territorial ambitions"...

Iggy

Last night Iggy Pop received the Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vodafone Live Music Awards (UK). The 60-year-old punk rocker, whose career has spanned five decades, was chosen by a panel of music experts for his electric live performances and iconic anthems. He has been dubbed the 'godfather of punk', is famed for his wild onstage antics, which include stage diving, cutting himself with brokenbottles, vomiting and exposing his appendage.
I love his voice in Cry for Love...