Znanje - Nemanje

U istrazivanju Geographic Society (USA) na uzorku od 300 mladih Amerikanaca izmedju 18 i 24 godine, dobijeni su porazavajuci rezultati o njihovom geografskom znanju:
- 11% nije znalo obiljeziti podrucje na kojemu se nalaze SAD,
- 29% nije znalo pronaci Pacific ocean, - jedan od sedam nije znao na karti pronaci Irak,
- 35% zna da se ostrvo Marquesas iz emisije Survivor nalazi u Juznom Pacifiku
- 30% zna na karti pokazati gdje se nalazi New Jersey
- pri lociraju 10 bilo kojih drzava SAD-a, vecina (85%) je znala tacno locirati samo Californiju i Texas. Njih 51% znalo je pronaci New York.
- Na karti svijeta Amerikanci su uspjeli pronaci samo 7 od 16 trazenih drzava.
- 81 % ispitanika zna da je Bliski istok najveci svjetski proizvodjac nafte ali 24% njih zna na karti pronaci Saudijsku Arabiju.
-55% Amerikanaca znaju da je Sunce zvijezda, ali je 20% ubjedjenja da se Sunce okrece oko Zemlje.

Etta James

Ah, those names

*Convicted of murder in a home invasion, Mr. Andrew S. "Junebug" Warrior (the "S" stands for Sweetie)
*Discouraged by school officials from attending a Catholic school because of his name, the 5-year-old Max Hell (Melbourne, Australia)
*Arrested for stealing three rolls of toilet paper from a courthouse, Ms. Suzanne Marie Butts (Marshalltown, Iowa)
*Leading a fight in the Kenai Peninsula Borough (Alaska) Assembly to defeat a term-limit rule, Assemblyman Gary Superman

It's about time

Identity fraud is a crime in Canada, but gathering and trafficking identity information (credit card, banking and other personal data for the purposes of using it deceptively) generally is NOT. Finally, the government plans to criminalize identity theft to give police the ability to stop such activity before any fraud has actually been carried out.

National Day of Action

Anti-war demonstrators marched in a dozen U.S. cities on Saturday to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and a cut-off of funding by Congress. The National Day of Action, sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, attracted protesters in cities from Boston and New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Senate's vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Leslie Kielsen, a local UPAJ organizer, said the "half a trillion" dollars spent on the war was money that could have been used for education, housing and to feed the hungry. The demonstrators, who included labor unions activists, also spoke out on issues including nuclear weapons and what some see as the increasing likelihood of U.S. military intervention in Iran over its escalating nuclear program.
"This is across-the-country sentiment about ending the occupation, redirecting funds for needs in this country, our attempt to get Congress to stand up and have its prerogative to cut funding, to take charge. That's our hope."
Dum spiro spero...

Best Instrumentals

And the winner is....Booker T & the MG's
Just mentioning rock offers associations with loud singers, but some of rock`s cult bands have fantastic instrumentals which say it all – just with the help of their instruments, without a single word. The Rolling Stone magazine has formed a list of 25 favourite instrumentals, with the help of their readers.
In the very top are Pink Floyd, masters of instrumentals. When instrumentals are in question, Pink Floyd top the charts with One of These Days, taken from the 1971 Meddle album. The only line is: 'One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces'. The song`s trademark are two bass lines, played by Waters and Gilmour. The only line in the song was spoken by Nick Mason and having in mind BBC Radio 2 host at the time, Jimmy Young as Pink Floyd members were not fans of his.
Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick also found itself among the most famous instrumentals. The song was taken from the 1969 Led Zeppelin II album and was created by only three Zeppelin members – John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Page often listened to Bonham`s improvisations in the studio, recorded and edited them. It was allegedly called Moby Dick because Bonham`s son suggested his dad did a song as large as Moby.
In order for master of the industrial sound Trent Reznor not to be omitted, fans made an effort to enlist Just Like You Imagined from 1999. Mike Garson played the piano, who is famous for collaborating with David Bowie and the Smashing Pumpkins. The odd song was appenerly liked by many and it became the unofficial soundtrack to this year`s smash hit film “300”.
All instrumental performances from the list have their stories, while they are good concert breaks for fans, if nothing else, when you can get a beer and it is good material for the record label to complete singles.

Watch for this one!

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron), Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar), Babel (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu), The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)...) said he is not tempted to work in Hollywood, despite receiving many invitations. "The closest I got to Hollywood was a movie I did in Tijuana. And it is really close, about three hours,". He said when he selects a project he thinks about the industry it represents. Bernal is working mostly with Latin American directors. In the latest movie, Past (Hector Babenco), he plays a father whose son is kidnapped (set in Buenos Aires, which Gael considers his second home). His directorial debut, Deficit, depicts the clash of different social classes in Mexico. Bernal is now working on Blindness, with a Brazilian director, Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) inspired by a Jose Saramago novel about a blindness epidemic that results in the collapse of society.

Big Sugar

Church Bulletins

*The Fasting and Prayer Conference includes meals.
*The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water."
*The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
*Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
*Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
*Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
*Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not come this way again," giving obvious pleasure to many in the congregation.
*Next Thursday there will be try outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
*Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
*A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
*At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
*Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
*Scouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
*Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
*The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
*Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
*The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
*This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
*The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
*Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
*Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
*The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
*Pastor Updyke unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday with the slogan: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours”.

Enigma

God's Will Be Done...

*Hindu government cracked down on the rustling of "sacred" cattle by issuing ID cards with photos of individual cows, to help guards at the Bangladesh border halt the illegal trade.
*In Atlanta, televangelist Thomas Weeks was arrested for allegedly beating up and threatening to kill his estranged wife, televangelist Juanita Bynum, in a hotel parking lot before a bellman rescued her. (Weeks blamed Satan for the incident.)
*Pastor Walter Steen pleaded guilty in Detroit to tax fraud and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. He had started the God Will Provide Tax Service in 2005, but prosecutors said 1,573 out of the 1,578 returns he prepared for clients claimed tax refunds.

How it all started

Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called "pygg". When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as "pygg banks." When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.
Q: Why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?
A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave..
Q: Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
A: In the Middle ages people unable to read or write signed documents using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document, The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.
Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called "passing the buck"?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would "pass the buck" to the next player.
Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.
Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be "in the limelight"?
A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, performers on stage "in the limelight" were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.
Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday"as their call for help?
A: This comes from the French word m'aidez -meaning "help me" -- and is pronounced "mayday,"
Q: Why is someone who is feeling great "on cloud nine"?
A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares..
Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called "love"?
A: In France , where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on scoreboard looked like an egg and was called "l'oeuf," which is French for "egg." When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it "love."

Good thing future is in our hands...right?

Najveca tajna na svijetu

Smijacu se svijetu.
Nijedno zivo bice ne moze da se smije osim covjeka. Drvece moze da krvari kad je ranjeno, i zivotinje placu od bola ili gladi, ali ja imam dar smijanja i mogu da ga koristim kad god zazelim. Ubuduce cu njegovati obicaj smijanja. Smijacu se i probava ce mi biti bolja; smijacu se i olaksacu sebi teret; smijacu se i zivot ce mi se produziti, jer je to tajna dugog zivota koju ja sada posjedujem.
Smijacu se svijetu.
Najvise od svega, smijacu se sebi, jer je covek najsmjesniji kad sebe uzima suvise ozbiljno. Nikada necu upasti u tu klopku uma. Jer iako sam ja najvece cudo prirode, zar nisam ipak samo obicno zrnce koje bacaju vjetrovi vremena? Da li ja stvarno znam odakle dolazim i kuda idem? Nece li moja briga za ovaj dan izgledati budalasta za deset godina? Zasto bih dozvolio da me danas uznemiravaju sitni dogadjaji? Sta moze da se do zalaska sunca desi sto ne bi izgledalo beznacajno po rijeci vijekova?
Smijacu se svijetu.
A kako da se smijem kad se suocim sa covjekom ili djelom koje me toliko vrijedja da mi tjera suze na oci ili mami psovke? Vjezbacu sebe da izgovaram cetiri rijeci sve dok one ne postanu navika tako jaka da ce se one javljati u mom umu kada god dobro raspolozenje prijeti da me napusti. Ove rijeci, prenosene od davnina, nosice me kroz svaku nevolju i odrzati mi zivot u ravnotezi. Ove cetiri rijeci jesu: "I to ce proci."
Smijacu se svijetu.
Sve zemaljske stvari ce proci. Kad mi srce oteza od patnje, tjesicu se da ce i to proci; kada sam ushicen uspjehom, upozoricu sebe da ce i to proci. Kad me davi neimastina, reci cu sebi da ce i to proci; kada me optereti bogatstvo, reci cu sebi da ce i to proci. Da, zacijelo, gde je onaj sto je
gradio piramide? Zar nije i on pokopan u njenom kamenju? Nece li i piramida jednog dana isto biti zakopana ispod pijeska? Ako sve stvari prolaze, zasto bih se ja brinuo za danasnji dan?
Smijacu se svijetu.
Obojicu ovaj dan smijehom, uramicu ovu noc pjesmom. Nikada necu raditi da bih bio srecan. Bolje da budem suvise zaposlen da bih imao vremena za tugu. Uzivacu danasnju srecu danas. To nije zrno da se drzi u kutiji. To nije vino da se cuva u flasi. Ona se ne moze sacuvati za sutra. Ona se mora sijati i ubrati istog dana, i ja cu to raditi, od danas pa nadalje.
Smijacu se svijetu.
Mojim smijehom sve ce stvari biti smanjene na svoju pravu velicinu. Smijacu se svojim neuspjesima i oni ce nestati u oblacima novih snova. Smijacu se svojim uspjesima i oni ce se skupiti do njihove tacne vrijednosti. Smijacu se zlu i ono ce umrijeti neoprobano. Smijacu se dobroti i ona ce uspijevati u izobilju. Svaki dan bice trijumf samo ako moji osmijesi izmame osmijehe od drugih, a ja to radim iz sebicnosti, jer oni na koje se mrstim jesu oni koji ne kupuju moju robu.
Smijacu se svijetu.
Od sada cu liti samo suze od znoja, jer suze od zalosti ili kajanja, ili razocarenja nemaju vrijednost na trzistu, dok svaki osmijeh moze da se zamijeni za zlato i svaka ljubazna rijec, izgovorena iz mog srca, moze da sagradi dvorac. Nikada necu dozvoliti sebi da postanem tako nestrpljiv, toliko mudar, toliko dostojanstven, toliko mocan, pa da zaboravim kako da se smijem sebi i svom svijetu. U ovome cu uvijek ostati kao dijete, jer jedino mi je kao djetetu data sposobnost da gledam navise u nekoga. Nikada necu prerasti svoj krevet.
Smijacu se svijetu.
I sve dok mogu da se smijem necu biti siromasan. Ovo je, dakle, jedan od najvecih poklona prirode, ja ga necu traciti. Samo smijehom i srecom mogu postati istinski uspijesan. Samo uz smijeh i srecu mogu da uzivam plodove svoga rada. Da nije tako, bolje bi bilo ne uspjeti, jer je sreca vino koje pojacava ukus jelu. Da bih uzivao u uspjehu moram imati srecu, a smijeh ce
biti djevojka koja me sluzi.
Bicu srecan.
Bicu uspijesan.

Og Mandino

Pearl Jam

Animal news

*Ada Barak's spa in the northern Israeli town of Talmey El'Azar features a "snake massage" for the equivalent of $70, for which six king snakes or milk snakes slither over the client's body (a therapy said not to be stress-increasing, but stress-reducing, according to a January Reuters dispatch).
*Veterinarians in Tallahassee, Fla., were enthralled in January when a duck, "killed" by a hunter and placed in his freezer for two days, suddenly sprang to life and was rushed into surgery at Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary to repair its leg and wing. Then, on the operating table, the duck (named "Perky" by that time) once again flat-lined, only to spring back to life a second time.
*American researchers in West Africa believe they've found the first instance of an animal (other than humans) building a multi-step weapon, after observing wild chimpanzees grab sticks from 1 to 4 feet long, sharpen the ends with their teeth, and murderously jab them into deep tree hollows where delicious bush babies may be nesting. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team even reported observing the chimps tasting the tips after the stabs, to ascertain whether they had actually located a prey. (One of the researchers said the ferocity of the jabbing reminded her of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho.")

Spirit

El Greco

Athens is hosting Exhibition El Greco and His Workshop.Museum visitors will be able to see 45 oil paintings of the great master of 17th ct Spanish art. Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) works and woks of his students, son Manuel Theotocopouli, Luis Tristan and other unsigned works attributed to his workshop will be presented.

LEGENDE BH & EX-YU SPORTA, Part 17

Malo i one ruznije strane posredno (ili ne) vezano za nas sport:
*U pedesetim - otmica Milosa Milutinovica (Partizan)
*U sezdesetim - otmica Stevana Ostojica (Zveda)-with a little help from UDBA
*U devedesetim - u Banjaluci je u kafiću ranjen olimpijski šampion u boksu (LA 1984) Ante Josipović, koji je napustio Banjaluku tokom rata u B&H, a kada je došao u obilazak prijatelja umalo nije skupo platio.
*Otmica Stefana Živojinovića, sina Lepe Brene i Bobe Živojinovića završila se, naizgled, happy-endom: osmogodišnji Stefan vraćen je roditeljima koji su platili 2.5 miliona maraka, i sutradan spakovali stvari i otišli za Ameriku zauvijek.
*Haris Brkić je prvi sportista sa prostora cijele bivše Yu koji je ubijen od početka raspada nekada zajedničke države. Otac Idriz i majka Rada napustili su Sarajevo 1992 zeleci da njihov sin nastavi kosarkasku karijeru. Haris je dogurao i do kapitena Partizana,a i do reprezentacije, da bi ga ispred Pionira ubili nepoznati pocinioci...
*Ne-politicki su stradali Matija Ljubek (ubio ga je zet zbog svadje u porodici); Rok Petrovic (udavio se kod Korcule); Drazen Petrovic, Dragan Mance (saobracajne nesrece)...

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