Betty White a tribute to Morgan Freeman and great pictures and the staircase vs the escalator

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Be Awed Into Humility

Attaining humility is a byproduct of our awareness of the awesome power of our immortal Creator. We are finite in the presence of the Infinite. We are extremely limited when compared to the One who is unlimited. We are miniscule when compared to the immense size of His total creation of which we are aware of only a tiny fraction. And what we are aware of is mind-boggling in its complexity, grandeur, and size. Humility is what any intelligent, thinking human will have to experience with even a partial awareness of what has already been revealed to us.

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Staircase vs. Escalator - THIS IS BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!!  
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> > >>> THE STAIRCASE VS. THE ESCALATOR - BRILLIANT!!!
> > >>> Watch what a group of engineers did, using fun to get people to use a
> > >>> long staircase with a moving escalator right next to it...
> > >>> Originally, no one took the stairs, almost 97% of the people took the
> > >>> escalator...
> > >>> Notice how engineers changed how people reacted to climbing a long
> > >>> stair case as their first choice .... 66% more people then took the
> > >>> stairs
> > >> .....
> > >>> What great exercise !!....
> > >>> Click below and enjoy.
> > >>> Trust those fun-loving SWEDES!!!
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Betty White Tribute to Morgan Freeman

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101 year old woman driving an 81 year old car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHwwwJ83oWo

 

The world's highest chained carousel, located in Vienna , at a height of 117 meters.





Thor's Well a/k/a "the gates of the dungeon" on Cape Perpetua, Oregon. At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape








Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park - NewZealand









Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar .

Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.





Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid









Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.









Balloons in Cappadocia .









Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).






And this is the view down









These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino, Poland. The cause of the curvature is unknown









The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe






Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.







In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.









In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou . The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.









Day and night. The monument in Kaunas , Lithuania




An unusual tunnel in California 's Sequoia National Park






This statue, created by Bruno Catalano, is located in France









Family photo









The longest traffic jam in the world recorded in China . Its length is 260 kilometers







Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.









Marcus Levine - slaughtering an artist in the literal sense. He creates his paintings by nailing a white wooden panel.. At his latest series of paintings exhibited in a gallery in London , Marcus has spent more than 50 000 pieces of iron.








In the city of Buford (USA) lives just one person. He works as a janitor and as a mayor.









Autumn camouflage









Haus Rizzi - Germany .









Lena Pillars. Russia , the Lena River .









Banpo Bridge in Seoul , South Korea









Favelas of Brazil . The boundary between wealth and poverty.









Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean . Isle of Lamu.









Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago .






From the outside it looks like









View of the sunset from inside the wave.







This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China . This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.


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In northwestern Montana , USA . The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it's very deep.









Airport in the Maldives is located on an artificial island in the middle of the Indian Ocean









Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet!

Not everyone will have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!









Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010









Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai )








Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city









The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany.









Morning Glory - kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia









Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world








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Be Your True Self

Rabbi Yisrael Salanter said, "On Judgment Day, I will not be afraid of the question why I was not great like Moses. The question I need to keep in mind is why I was not everything that Yisrael Salanter could have been!"

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                        AMAZING EYE TEST
                                             Motion Induced Blindness

This is frightening! It works exactly like it says, and is one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU. From a former Naval Aviator. This is a great illustration of what we were taught about scanning outside the cockpit when I went through training back in the '50s. We were told to scan the horizon for a short distance, stop momentarily, and repeat the process. I can remember being told why this was the most effective technique to locate other aircraft. It was emphasized (repeatedly) to NOT fix your gaze for more than a couple of seconds on any single object. The instructors, some of whom were WWII veterans with years of experience, instructed us to continually "keep our eyes moving and our head on a swivel" because this was the best way to survive, not only in combat, but from peacetime hazards (like a midair collision) as well. We basically had to take the advice on faith (until we could experience for ourselves) because the technology to demonstrate it didn't exist at that time. Click on the link below for a demonstration .... http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html

 

Amazing photography. If you never knew what goes on in your flower garden when you aren't paying; attention.  Watch this - some of the finest photography you will ever see; Be sure to press the F11 key for best viewing; This is beautiful.......be sure and watch closely (around 2 min 40 sec) and; check out the baby bat under its mama wing; Unreal. And the hummingbird doing rolls chasing a bug is neat!!!; 

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1. Himalayan Monal 2. Formosan Magpie  3. Flamecrest  4. Golden Pheasant   5. Green Jay 6. Kingfisher  7. Lady Amherst's Pheasant  8. Bleeding Heart Pigeons  9. Nicobar Pigeon  10. Quetzal 11. Winson's Bird Of Paradise  12. No Idea What Bird This Is, But It's Totally Rad  13. Peacock  14. Sup, Polish Chicken                            =

 

 

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1934 and video secrets of Jerusalem and Romney to Visit Israel

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Channel Your Curiosity

There are two varieties of curiosity: positive and negative. Work to overcome your curiosity to find out negative gossip about other people. At the same time, work to increase your intellectual and spiritual curiosity to gain more wisdom for living.

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The story of Ruth and Human compassion

Firstly and perhaps most importantly is the value that Judaism places upon compassion and help to the widow, the orphan, the stranger – the disadvantaged in our society. The great future of the Jewish people, even of all Western civilization, is founded on acts of compassion – Ruth to Naomi, Naomi to Ruth, and Boaz to Ruth. There are no great intellectual or theological discussions related to us in the book of Ruth. It is deceptively simple in its shining message that we are to be nice to each other.   We are here to help others and such help oftentimes comes not in grandiose social welfare programs or numerous organizations but rather in small personal acts of kindness and sensitivity towards others.` The Davidic dynasty is created by giving a tired, poor and strange woman a rather meager lunch and some comforting words.   The book of Ruth purposely details for us the "menu" that Boaz offered Ruth for her midday meal in order to emphasize to us that true human kindness rests in the small things in life and the everyday accommodations to others that sustain us in an otherwise difficult world.   The attitude towards the stranger amongst us is also one of the highlights of the book of Ruth. Human beings are very territorial and xenophobic. We look askance at strangers, at those who are not like us physically and temperamentally. In our schools the "different" child is rarely if ever accommodated. Bullying and violence are condoned if not even sometimes encouraged.   The Jewish people over the ages have been victimized simply for being different. No amount of Nobel prizes won can erase the fact that we are different and the refusal of most of human society to tolerate differences within the human race inevitability leads to outrage and atrocities.   The gleaners and the harvesters and their supervisors all looked askance at Ruth – the different one – as she bent down to take the fallen grain. They identified her to Boaz and to themselves as, that "Moabite" person. It was not only meant as a term of description but rather as one of derision as well. The different person always bears the stigma of being different.   The Bible warned us thirty six times to be careful to treat the stranger, the convert, the different one, fairly and with justice and compassion. We are taught that "the world is constructed and built upon compassion towards others." The book of Ruth perhaps more than any other book in the canon of the Bible illustrates this value in a most emphatic fashion.  

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Special

Video: The Secrets Under the Old City of Jerusalem

The JewishPress.com staff went under the City of David with Doron Speilman of the
City of David Museum - to areas not open to the general public.

We were astounded by what we saw and learned.

Join us on this 45 minute exploration of the hidden secrets under the
City of David, the Old City, and the Kotel itself.

Interesting 2 hr 12 min movie.....  Many implications. On the Earth thriving



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Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney will visit Israel during the presidential campaign.

A campaign official on Monday confirmed a New York Times report that the all-but-certain Republican presidential candidate will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and other top officials later this summer.

The Times quoted Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Netanyahu, as saying that Romney is a "strong friend of Israel and we'll be happy to meet with him."

Romney has said that his first foreign visit as president would be to Israel. Barack Obama visited Israel as a candidate in 2008, but has not visited as president.

The former Massachusetts governor has faulted Obama for not making more clear to Iran that it could face military consequences if it does not stand down from its suspected nuclear program and for calling on Israel to negotiate based on the 1967 lines.

Obama's support among Jewish voters remains in the low 60s, about 15 percentage points ahead of the general population, but below the sky-high approval ratings at the outset of his presidency. Pollsters attribute the drop mostly to the economy, which dogs Obama among the general population as well.

Obama's  campaign has been emphasizing the closeness of the U.S.-Israel military relationship, noting that in October, Israel and the United States will stage the largest-ever joint anti-missile exercise.

Subject: FW: 1934

1934 was only 4 years after I was born in 1930………  My mother's family was part of the great "Okie Migration" from Oklahoma to California during the height of the depression, a few years prior to this, living from hand to mouth, day in and day out.  Life is hard when you're down and out, but the strong survived and many prospered later.  A miracle..........  Study these photos, I think there's a good chance we might see similar conditions again.       Photography/history fans will enjoy these photos...                                              Seventy five years ago takes us to 1934, during the height of the great depression.  However this first photo appears to have been taken in 1937 as there is a 37 Ford included.  The rest could be from 34.                                             AND WE THINK WE'VE GOT IT BAD   Forward this.  Makes complaining about no cell service, high gasoline prices, not enough cable channels, et al, seems a bit ludicrous.

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Never let fear of embarrassment prevent you from doing good deeds. Think of a good deed you did even though it was difficult due to possible embarrassment.
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Fantastic!  Maybe this is a first step towards developments more closely akin to the flight of birds.

However, I am not endorsing that you send them any money.


  Subject: Flying machine

Martin Jetpack

A pious man who had reached the age of 105 suddenly stopped going to synagogue. Alarmed by the old fellow's absence after so many years of faithful attendance, the Rabbi went to see him.

He found him in excellent health, so the Rabbi asked, "How come after all these years we don't see you at shul anymore?"

The old man looked around and lowered his voice.

"I'll tell you, Rabbi," he whispered. "When I got to be 90, I expected God to take me any day. But then I got to be 95, then 100, then 105... So I figured that God is very busy and must've forgotten about me, and so I don't want to remind Him!"

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Prayers for the 4th of July and why study the oral law of Judaism (called the Talmud)

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The World is a Constant Gift

The bible  viewpoint is that the Almighty constantly creates the entire world and everything in it for each individual. This concept has the potential to give a person immense pleasure. Think about it for a moment. The Almighty -- Creator and Sustainer of the universe -- is constantly creating for you the sun, the moon, and all the other worldly phenomena. He is constantly bestowing upon you life, and every single second He supplies you with your needs.

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Prayers for the fourth of July by individuals from US History
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Validity of Oral Law:

I am getting interested in Judaism – reading the Bible, and trying to practice its many laws. But I am having a hard time accepting the Talmud and all its laws. Isn't it enough just to do what's written in the Bible?

The  Rabbi Replies:

Thank you for writing. This issue has bothered people throughout the ages, and in fact there have  been many break-away Jewish groups over thousands of years (Karites, Sadducees, and even the Christians) did so over this very point.

But it is a huge mistake.

Many of the mitzvahs which form the foundation of Jewish life are scarcely mentioned in the Written Torah – and with no explanation of their details. What's more, violating one of the precepts may even carry a penalty of death! Were it not for the Oral Torah, we would be left clueless as to how to observe these mitzvahs.

Let's look at one example: The mitzvah of Tefillin.

What are Tefillin! Are they Totafot? Are they Frontlets? Are they Phylacteries?

What color are they? What size? Shape? What about the straps? How many compartments? What parchments go inside? How should they be worn? Who should wear them? When?

What does the bible  say?

"And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, "It is because of that which God did for me when I left Egypt." And it shall be for you a sign on your hand, and a reminder between your eyes – so that God's Torah may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand God brought you out of Egypt..." (Exodus 13:8-9,16)

As Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan describes in his book, "Tefillin" (NCSY 1973):

"There is no description of Tefillin (in the Torah), nor any hints as to how they must be made. The Torah merely outlines their contents and tells us nothing more. It is most important to realize that God gave us the Torah in two parts. There is the Written Torah, which we keep in the ark. However, there is also the Unwritten or Oral Torah, consisting of the oral tradition handed down from Sinai. The Torah was not meant to be a mere book, lying on the shelf. It was meant to be part of the everyday life of the entire people. As such, it could only be transmitted by word of mouth. The Oral Torah was handed down from teacher to disciple for almost 1,500 years, until the harsh Roman persecutions finally threatened to extinguish it completely.

Finally, some 1,700 years ago, it was written down to form the Talmud. The Talmud itself cites Tefillin as a prime example of a case where the full description of the commandment is found only in the Oral Torah. If you think about it, you will realize that it was not necessary to write a description of Tefillin in the Torah. One need simply look at an older pair. Tefillin were worn by virtually every adult male throughout Jewish history, and they themselves provided as permanent a record as any book."

My advice is to find a rabbi who can study with you some sections of Talmud, to get you familiar with its value and see how it interfaces with the written Bible. This will unquestionably help clarify the Jewish methods of observance.

An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain.. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice..'

  

1. Pray
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day un rushed.
4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health. 
 

  

5. Delegate tasks to capable others.
6. Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.)
8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places. 
 

  

9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together.
10. Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns . If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety . If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it..
12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards for ordinary purchases. 
 

  

13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buried in the garden, extra stamps, etc.
14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble. 
15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday. 
 

  

16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line.
17. Get enough rest
18. Eat right.
19 Get organized so everything has its place. 
 

  

20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality of life.
21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.
22. Every day, find time to be alone.
23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray.
24. Make friends with Godly people. 
 

  

25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand.
26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often a good 'Thank you Lord .'
27. Laugh.
28. Laugh some more!
29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all.
30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can). 
 

  

31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most).
32. Sit on your ego
33 Talk less; listen more.
34. Slow down.
35.. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe..
36 Every night before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that you've never been grateful for before.. GOD HAS A WAYOF TURNING THINGS AROUND FOR YOU. 
 

'If God is for us, who can be against us?'

(Romans8:31)








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Mapping since 1994

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This story appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times in 1994 when I was first launching the Tutor/Mentor Connection. It's one of many stories that have been written since then. See an archive on the Tutor/Mentor Institute web site.

Here's a couple of places where the mapping strategies have been described.

Story of Tutor/Mentor Connection – MapTogether

Social Edge Maps and What's Possible, June-July 2009

Many of the media stories were the result of the conferences I've hosted every six months since 1994. The next is November 4 and will be held at the Metcalfe Federal Building. I hope you can attend and I hope you or others will write about this so we can create new stories and new interest and investment in this strategy.

Maps and What's Possible

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A couple of years ago the Social Edge forum hosted a discussion titled "Maps and What's Possible" featuring the Tutor/Mentor Connection's uses of maps. That's not the first time our use of maps have received attention.
This is the front page of a 1999 story in the URISA Newsletter (see pdf).

In 2004 our use of maps was nominated for a Global Innovation Award, as described in this pdf.

In 1995 our strategy was described as a "Master plan for saving youth" in this Chicago Tribune article.

Our mapping strategy is outlined in this wiki and I'm looking for partners, volunteers, investors and benefactors to help us develop this strategy so it can be applied in big cities all over the world, as well as in other social benefit sectors.

Can you help us find these resources?