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My Dragon's Lair Sharing is the reason for my being...

Altered and added new content 10-4-07 Important 5-4-07 No longer Child safe because of the links inside sites included here. Adult Humor is posted here. Template errors still. E shows wrong, and Netscape shows mostly correct. Activly learning HTML to correct and improve. Be it fun or serious I hope you enjoy and take away with you what I find to share. LI

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Croc Hunter's 'Sixth Sense' About Death

CANBERRA (Oct. 29) - Quirky crocodile hunter Steve Irwin had a sixth sense that he would die young, his American-born wife Terri said on Monday.
More than a year after the Khaki-clad naturalist died from a stingray's barb that pierced his heart, Terri Irwin told Australian television she had always tried to deflect her 44-year old husband's darker moments. A Risky Path
The Sacramento Bee / ZUMA Press

Did Steve Irwin know he was going to die young? His widow, Terri, says her 'Crocodile Hunter' husband was "open and honest" about his chances of dying while engaging in his life's work.

"He wasn't morbid about it, or awful about it, he was open and earnest about it. We've got to accomplish everything we can," she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television's Enough Rope series. "Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very, I don't know if 'eerie' is the word, but remarkable, certainly."
Terri Irwin is writing a book about her life with her husband and said she had always tried to joke about Steve's premonition that he would die before he reached 40.
"I think that's an interesting angle, the risks that he took," she said in the interview broadcast on Monday.
"I would analyze that through our whole married life, and I have to tell you, I very infrequently worried about Steve with wildlife because he was that good.
"For him, the risks really in my mind were more the places he would travel, the modes of transportation, political unrest, disease risk, these sorts of things where he was filming."
She said Irwin became more aware of the risks he took with animals after having his first child Bindi, who now aims to carry on her father's wildlife legacy.
"He wanted to be here for the kids, and yet he always had that feeling something was going to happen early on," Terri said.
"He was such a frightening force of nature here on Earth. I'm sure he's out on his way to sink some Japanese whaling ships right now."

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posted by LadyIrene @ 10/30/2007 12:09:00 PM 0 comments

Death Strikes 'Meerkat Manor' Again

Mozart, the troubled daughter of Flower, the late matriarch of the Whiskers clan on the popular Animal Planet series 'Meerkat Manor,' died at the end of Friday's episode; it was the second death to shake fans of the show's lovable but hard-luck stars in a month.
'Meerkat Manor' fans were saddened on Oct. 26 to learn of the demise of Mozart, who appeared to have fallen victim to a jackal.Mozart, the troubled daughter of Flower, the late matriarch of the Whiskers clan on the popular Animal Planet series 'Meerkat Manor,' died at the end of Friday's episode; it was the second death to shake fans of the show's lovable but hard-luck stars in a month. Photo Gallery: Mourning a Meerkat
Chad Henning, Animal Planet

'Meerkat Manor' fans were saddened on Oct. 26 to learn of the demise of Mozart, who appeared to have fallen victim to a jackal.
After Flower's death -- from a snake bite -- in the Sept. 28 episode, fans flooded the Internet with tributes in poem, picture and song. Early this week, as news of Mozart's demise leaked out, similar tributes began to crop up online.For the uninitiated, 'Meerkat Manor' traces the lives of the members of several colonies of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa as they procreate, fight for territory and scarce resources and race around looking as cute as all get-out. The Whiskers clan is part of a 13-year study that was originated by Cambridge University and has been followed on camera by producers from Animal Planet for the last three years.To the dismay of the show's more fervent fans, the life span of a Kalahari meerkat turns out to be not much different from that of the average soap opera villain. Despite calls from some fans after the death of Flowers for the repeal of the Darwinian laws of the desert, the producers have no such refinements in mind.
But they did learn something from the uproar created after the first season, when Shakespeare, a lovable scamp of a meerkat, disappeared and was presumed to have died. The producers place radio collars on each family's dominant female, the better to track the families' movements, but because Shakespeare, a male, simply went missing, there was no visual evidence of his demise. When Flower succumbed to snakebite, the radio collar let producers track her movements closely and provide viewers with visible closure.With Mozart, the cause of death was uncertain -- it was likely that she fell prey one night to a passing jackal, the show's narrator intones -- but viewers are shown her lifeless body, if from a tasteful distance. Although one meerkat looks much like another, the producers mark each animal with a strategically placed spot of hair dye to tell them apart.All is not lost, however. Fans of the show are likely to see more of Flower, and perhaps Mozart, in a feature film, 'Queen of the Kalahari,' tentatively scheduled for release next year. Copyright © 2007 The New York Times Company Chad Henning, Animal Planet LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 Another tragedy has befallen the meerkats.

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posted by LadyIrene @ 10/30/2007 11:40:00 AM 0 comments

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Looking for brain teasers found animal torture.

Read out loud the text inside the triangle below. EyeTestT.gif
More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush,"
If this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see
that the word THE is repeated twice!
Sorry, look again.
Next, let's play with some words.
What do you see?
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In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very physiological too, because it visualize the concept that good can't exist without evil
(or the absence of good is evil ).
Now, what do you see?
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You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. Look again! Can you see why this painting is called an optical illusion?
What do you see here?
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This one is quite tricky!
The word TEACH reflects as LEARN.
Last one.
What do you see?
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You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......
when you look through ME
you will see YOU!
Test Your Brain


ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every " F " in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.
The brain cannot process "OF".




Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/ae77.htm

Three is normal, four is quite rare.

Send this to your friends.
It will drive them crazy.!
And keep them occupied
For several minutes..!








More Brain Stuff . . . From Cambridge University .

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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mni d, aoc cdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

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you can raed tihs psas it on !!



Psas Ti ON !
[Could not delete all of FW line]




Homo sapiens, a member of the order Primates with highly evolved mental capabilities.
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Homo sapiens, a member of the order Primates with highly evolved mental capabilities."
You might think these brain tests are cool and benign. As I was looking for more I found this from Wikipedia. Caution. Do not go to links if you cannot handle reading and seeing what 'human beings' do to other primates.
If you want to read what else we do as the more evolved creature, which is cold blooded calculated torture, read the experiments on Cambridge University Primates. And the varience of the licence does not account that these are violations against living breathing feeling creatures, that laugh and cry like you and I, even if you don't understand what they say and think. And I know there are those of you who think that animal testing gets Human Beings better health and longer lives. For the sacrifice of others do you appreciate or thank them?
EU Votes to end testing. More links from a blog. June 2007: European MPs of all parties rushed to support a new Written Declaration this week, calling for an end to the use of Great Apes and wild-caught primates in research. Click here to read ‘The Primate Nations’ Report
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Legal Status: See also: Non-human primate experiments and International trade in primates

Monkeys imported for experimentation in a crate. Credit: BUAV
Monkeys imported for experimentation in a crate. Credit: BUAV

Humans are recognized as persons and protected in law by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights[8] and by all governments, though to varying degrees. Non-human primates are not classified as persons. The status of non-human primates has generated much debate, particularly through the Great Ape Project [9] which argues for the personhood of the non-human members of the family Hominidae. In 1995 Ignaas Spruit, director of Leiden (Netherlands) based Pro-Primates organization, went farther, as he proposed that some rights should be recognized to all non-human primates.[10] In the same way, the American anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton, enlarging the sense of the famous quote by Terence, used to say "Primas sum: primatum nil a me alienum puto", that is to say: “I am a primate; nothing about primates is outside of my bailiwick”[11].

Animal testing - Thousands of primates are used every year around the world in scientific experiments because of their psychological and physiological similarity to humans. Chimpanzees, baboons, marmosets, macaques, and green monkeys are most commonly used in these experiments. In the European Union, around 10,000 were used in 2004, with 4,652 experiments conducted on 3,115 non-human primates in the UK alone in 2005.[12] As of 2004, 3,100 non-human primates were living in captivity in the United States, in zoos, circuses, and laboratories, 1,280 of them being used in experiments.[9] European campaign groups such as the BUAV are seeking a ban on all primate use in experiments as part of the European Union's current review of existing law on animal experimentation.

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posted by LadyIrene @ 10/27/2007 10:13:00 AM 0 comments

Monday, October 22, 2007

Marie faints

Foxnews article Washington Post article

I was watching the show waiting for the Bachelor. And she was breathing heavy. My impression right away was that she hyperventalated. And she said that too in other words. When she forgets to breath she does do that. Faint. And she was very apologetic which I did not see the need to be.
Marie Osmond (ABC/CRAIG SJODIN) Marie Osmond collapses 48-year-old Marie Osmond collapses during the taping of Monday's "Dancing With the Stars." Details, 'Dancing' cursed?, Osmond's bio, Search for info on Marie Osmond, Marie Osmond Faints On 'Dancing With The Stars'
Video Mere minutes ago, millions of east-coasted Dancing with the Stars fans watched as Marie Osmond fainted during judge Len Goodman's appraisal of her samba, a dance apparently so physically draining that it was impossible for Osmond to stay conscious long enough to signal the show's producers to cut away from a coming swoon in time to avoid unnecessarily upsetting America. But don't worry: we're told the Dancing crew returned after the impromptu break to let everyone know she's fine. ABC

Marie Osmond > Home www.marieosmond.com
Official site of singer and actress Marie Osmond. Includes pictures, music, news, fanclub, tour and TV schedules, and her line of dolls. "Magic of Christmas" CD available Oct.

Dancing With the Stars NEXT EPISODE TUNE IN NOW Episode 505 Mon Oct 22 11/10c
Floyd Mayweather has been Knocked out of the competition! The remaining eight couples take on Latin night and try to samba or rumba onthe next round. Photos Judges, Host, Episodes

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posted by LadyIrene @ 10/22/2007 11:09:00 PM 0 comments

Don't repeat history. I see a pattern here.

Oct 22, 2007 Michael Gambon as Professor Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' Rethinking 'Harry Potter'

Now that J.K. Rowling has revealed Dumbledore is gay, the books are under scrutiny. Debating the text, More on 'Potter' gay revelation, Find out more about Dumbledore
... "Jo Rowling calling any Harry Potter character gay would make wonderful strides in tolerance toward homosexuality," Melissa Anelli, webmaster of the fan site, told The Associated Press. "By dubbing someone so respected, so talented and so kind, as someone who just happens to be also homosexual, she's reinforcing the idea that a person's gayness is not something of which they should be ashamed."...
... "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said Friday of Dumbledore's feelings about Grindelwald, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."... More sfcronicle
Do you remember this? People who object to our being free to express ourselves to others can do powerful things in the real world, not make believe and not a joking matter.

Unexplained Mysteries :: Strong reaction to Harry Potter ban proposal
Strong reaction to Harry Potter ban proposal. Posted on Thursday, 5 October, 2006 6:23 Comments: 57. www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=79846

A Gwinnett County mother’s push to get Harry Potter books banned from elementary school bookshelves has made it to the state board of education. Laura Mallory is the mother of three who's fighting against those books. Tuesday morning she pleaded her case to a hearing officer who will make a recommendation to the state board. Among her arguments is a central theme that the books promote witchcraft and evil, but people who know about real life witchcraft, or Wiccanism, say the witches in the Potter books have nothing to do with reality and a lot more to do with getting children to enjoy reading. At Inner Space and the Hoot Owl Attic bookstore in Sandy Springs you can find anything you want to know about the mystical world. “We have books on Wicca, Paganism, mystical Christianity,” the clerk said. And in back they put many of these words into action. They teach and they practice. People like Marcia Gaither. She used to practice Wiccanism, or witchcraft, now she's teaching a class on it. “Do what you will but harm none in the process -- I guess you could say the Wiccan equivalent of the golden rule,” said Gaither. She says the controversy about Harry Potter is absurd. “No one tried to take ‘The Wizard of Oz’ away, you didn't see them taking ‘Bewitched’ off the air when it was on; ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch.’ All of these things are fantasy and nothing in any of these are even remotely close to what Wiccans practice,” Gaither said. She says the real magic the books worked in her life is with her children and teaching them to love to read. “My daughter doesn't hate reading, but my son did -- and this is one thing that helped us get over the hump,” Gaither said. “And he doesn't follow the same path I follow. It didn't draw him into witchcraft or anything. ”In the classes, they teach about witchcraft and wizardry. They even teach spells, but the spells they talk about don't turn anyone into a frog. It's more like spells for a good job, a raise, or inner peace. They compare them to a type of prayer.
View: Full Article Source: 11 Alive
Laura Mallory is not a Harry Potter fan, and she isn't giving up the fight to have the popular character taken out of elementary school. She says the series may encourage reading, but it also encourages witchcraft and evil.
She made her argument before a state school board hearing examiner on Tuesday.
“Witchcraft is being mainstreamed to our kids today but people are not aware of it. They think these books are fantasies but Wicca is a real recognized religion,” Mallory said.
She finds the series so disturbing she says she’s never completely read one of the books by popular author J.K. Rowling. And she told the hearing officer she doesn't want her three children exposed to Harry Potter at the school library.
“They are my most precious thing in the whole wide world to me and I don’t want them indoctrinated into a religion whose practices are evil,” said Mallory.
Gwinnett County Schools attorney Victoria Sweeny says that under Mallory’s reasoning school bookshelves could become virtually empty.
“Obviously there are witches in ‘Macbeth,’ sprites in ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream,’ witches in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’ - the list goes on and on,” she said.
Sweeny says she believes Harry Potter promotes reading and good values.
“The major themes are good versus evil, overcoming adversity, loyalty, friendship and courage,” she said.
The hearing was attended mostly by Harry Potter fans, including Scott Bremer, a student at Grady High School in Atlanta.
“I think its a really excellent series,” Bremer said. “I started reading them in second grade. It really did introduce me to reading in a positive way, and I think these books have only a positive influence.”
Like the Harry Potter series, this story doesn't yet have an ending. The hearing officer will make a recommendation to the state school board. The board is expected to make a decision in December. Source 11alive
Official Harry Potter Web Site For the Order of the Phoenix.

If people start scrutinizing books we could repeat history. And remember the burning times ... of books? No more! Leave well enough alone including the make believe world that makes so many of us happy. There are more things to worry about and obsess over than what a woman writes or talks that is meant to give us pleasure and diversion. Unless you are one of those "Dungeons & Dragon" people who go out and commit real acts outside of the game? Who is your leader. Gosh guys. Let her say what she likes and I will continue to buy the books and movies that come from her work! Remember our 1st Amendment. See here. Modern Details. Freedom of Speech & Religion. And now it is we are fighting for Freedom to love and do with our bodies as we like as our hearts dictate. Not as some politician or moral code committee desires us to be. I think we see the results of that are not positive. It will fuel hostility toward other cultures and people. Of that I cannot agree! Be nice. Love all things real and imagined. For Hate is a terrible thing. A mind is a terrible thing to waste if it has to worry about restrictions of what is accepted or not.
Found this site. If schools are not teaching our children to read, and books outside of these institutions can do the job, this is a good thing. As I put that J.K. Rowling's books had increased the statistics for children who read. Site News With Views. by Joel Turtel.
On a personal note I was over 75% deaf till I was 30. I was not educated in our Public schools. When I did go into a 1st grade with Mrs. Qunz (sp?) For all the things I don't remember I remember her name even if not how to spell it. I didn't hear her and I was dragged out of the classroom by the ear and beaten on the knuckles with a ruler. Another time I went I was given the floor to sit on without books to use and they said I would not be there long enough to give me a chair or books. I am self educated. By sheer will I will learn something! And our children are not being served any better though I thought there were more resources and advocacy for them half a century later. Maybe these children need to do what I do! Go to the library. Go online and be curious for knowledge as they want to be! If they crave to be more than what they will be relogated to not having an education, they can take their own destiny into their own hands. Who says I have to struggle to make life I want by a below poverty salary? Read and all things are possible! Understanding what we read is important too!

In a happier time! The Yule Ball. Photo of Krum More Photos A trailer made for HP that is really well done! Enjoy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer From: thehallowz Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer 03:58 Added 2 months ago has 36,033 views.

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posted by LadyIrene @ 10/22/2007 10:53:00 PM 0 comments

AMNY Subway Tracker (NY Blog)

Stay up to speed on NYC subway, bus, MTA and other transit issues
On alert. New York City Transit is now alerting straphangers when their line will be disrupted during the week. A new service will send e-mails about scheduled service disruptions and delays
Scary streets Oct. 17. Every so often, the quiet and neurotic worst fears of pedestrians are realized. To wit: Today's incident at the Bank of America tower. Here's a sampling of other troubling cases:

May 18, 2007 — A steam pipe from the former Deutsche Bank building fell through the roof of the firehouse next door, injuring two firefighters.

May 18, 2007 — A woman falls 10 feet through a sidewalk grate and into a transformer vault in Midtown.

July 14, 2005 — An old Gristede's supermarket under demolition at Broadway and 100th Street collapses. The rubble traps five people and injures four.

January 9, 1998 — Bricks fall four stories from construction scaffolding in Brooklyn, critically injuring a 16-year-old girl. This was one of many incidents involving falling masonry that year, including four separate incidents during a 24-hour period — one in which two entire walls crumbled from a building on 42nd St. ~ Kristen V. Brown ~Posted by Rolando Pujol on October 17, 2007 3:23 PM . The agency already sent e-mails about weekend disruptions. [NY1]

A step in the right direction? att75.jpg (via DOT) The answer of which way to go is at the feet of some lucky and observant straphangers.
Decals of compasses on the sidewalk outside four midtown subway stations around the Grand Central area will greet train riders for the next week, pointing them in the right direction.
The city transportation department, Grand Central Partnership and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are experimenting with the sidewalk decals to see if subway riders want a permanent compass outside stations.
“If we admit it ourselves, we’ve come out of a subway station and thought, ‘Am I on Madison Avenue?’ ” said Fred Cerullo, president of Grand Central Partnership, a business improvement district.
The compass, a slip-resistant canvass and vinyl prototype, points out the four directions as well as which streets correspond with each direction. For now, New Yorkers can check out the compasses at
-150 East 42nd Street (south side of East 42nd St between Lexington Ave and Third Ave)-Entrance to 42nd Street/Grand Central station
-The Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd Street (west side of Lexington Ave between East 42nd St and East 43rd St)-Entrance to 42nd Street/Grand Central station
- 570 Lexington Avenue (south side of East 51st St between Lexington Ave and Park Ave)-Entrance to 51st Street/Lexington Avenue station
- 509 Madison Avenue (south side of East 53rd St between Madison Ave and Park Ave)-Entrance to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station

Continue reading "A step in the right direction?" » by Marlene Naanes on Oct 16 7:26 PM

Cell phone subway service probe The city council will convene a hearing on cell phone service in the subways Thursday. Council members Gail Brewer and John Liu will "review the capabilities and limitations of the system." The MTA already approved a pilot program of six cell and wifi accessible stations that will eventually expand to all stations. Brewer said she wants to probe whether service on the 277 platforms enhances security. She also wants to know what text services, if any, may be paired with cell phone and wifi service, offering customers a line into the MTA or a way to communicate with each other. MTA officials are looking into a text message alert service for Transit customers. The service was one recommendation from the flood report that probed the MTA's response to August's transit crippling floods. Transit officials will be at the hearing to take questions from the council's transportation and technology committees. ~ by Marlene Naanes on Oct 9 6:36 PM

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(via flickr's gak) ~ Escalator steps in the Bowling Green subway station collapsed, injuring a woman and upsetting another straphanger yesterday, Transit officials said.
The woman was “slightly” injured, a New York City Transit spokesman said, and she asked for medical treatment. It was unclear how she was injured and what her injuries were.
EMS took her to New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital. Another person was “very upset” but not injured, a spokeswoman said. The stairs gave way at 9:20 a.m., at the end of the morning rush.
Transit workers cordoned off the escalator, which runs from the No. 4 and 5 station mezzanine to street level on Broadway. Elevator and escalator workers are investigating why the stairs collapsed.
The police department said that two steps somehow became off-track and when they reached the end of the escalator, they threw two people off. Transit officials would not confirm that account. Marlene Naanes ~ by Rolando Pujol on Aug 28

Check it outage 105811892_77bc870f2f_m.jpg (via flickr's metrocake) ~If you need to know if a subway elevator or escalator is out before you head out, you'll be able to see outages on the MTA's Web site beginning tomorrow. The plan to do this was announced long ago and promised to be close to real time. The updates will progress to 24/7 in the coming months. For now, the Web site will be the on-line version of the Elevator and Escalator Hotline, which disability advocacy groups have claimed is unreliable and only updated four times a day. ~ Marlene Naanes ~ by Rolando Pujol on July 31 12:11 PM

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