21 noiembrie 2008

Cadou de CRACIUN ...

Iar se aproprie Craciunul :), si pe cand noi ne gandim ce cumparaturi sa facem, cum sa aranjam casa, cum sa ne gatim, ce prieteni sa invitam...


Dupa cum am vorbit cu multi dintre VOI... in luna decembrie ma astept sa ma ajutati sa strangem o parte din fondurile necesare... astfel deja exista lista cu cei care vor sa ajute, urmand ca in scurt timp sa incep sa va bat la usi...



Anul acesta m-am asociat cu Oana, one of my best friends si cu Donshoara YOLI . Am fost la doua centre, iar acesta a fost cel unde, fara sa ne vorbim, am stiut ca este "the one" pentru ajutor.




Locul este calduros, doamnele care au grija de ei au un suflet maaaaaare de tot, copiii sunt dulci, te iau totimpul in brate, iti zambesc. Majoritatea sunt institutionalizati, si nu cunosc oameni noi prea des.


Nevoile sunt mari. Am notat cateva din cele necesare, urmand sa completam lista zilele viitoare.

O sa facem o lista ca anul trecut (este un sistem care functioneaza foarte bine pentru ca va puteti implica voi insiva, nu numai sa contribuiti cu bani).


Cand am intrebat-o pe directoarea centrului ce si-ar dori pentru copiii, i s-au luminat ochii, s-a uitat in sus strangand din maini si cu toata bucuria a spus ca si-ar dori sa faca terapie prin muzica (un sistem de boxe in fiecare camera unde sa se auda aceeasi muzica - clasica, astfel potolind copiii si calmandu-i).


Copiii mai au nevoie de haine, ceva aparatura, scaune, jocuri speciale facute de dna psiholog, rechizite, pampersi, evident brad si ornamente. Asta imi amintesc pe moment. Marti o sa am lista completa.


Si sa va prezint pe cativa dintre ei:

El este Johnny. Trebuie sa fie preferatul fetelor (yoli & oana). Personal, Yoli il stie de acum cativa ani, de la un alt centru de langa Arcul de Triumf, unde a dat pachetele cu dulciuri si jucarii. Si l-a amintit instantaneu pentru ca i-a ramas drag de-atunci. Nu i-a venit sa creda ca il vade din nou. Si a crescut asa mult :P



Probabil cel mai grav caz mi s-a parut al acesti fatuce, care are mintea unui copil de 5 luni. Nu vorbeste, doar rade.


Cei doi baieti sunt super tari, sociabili, finuti, coerenti.

In total sunt 35 de locuri la Centrul de zi, dintre care acum 31 sunt ocupate.

Lista se va face (sa vad daca pot) cu numele poza fiecaruia, dezabilitatea si ceea ce au nevoie, si separat nevoile centrului. Astfel, veti putea alege pe cine doriti sa ajutati, ca sa fie totul cat mai personal.


Sincer va spun, nu am mai fost la nici un centru unde sa simt ca este atata nevoie de ajutor cum am simtit aici. (si pentru asta ii multumesc Oanei pentru ca a gasit centrul)


ok.. mai vorbim


website: www.sf-ana.ro


29 august 2008

America - The Newest Third World Nation





By the Earl of Stirling








The evil Bush administration has largely completed the process begun years ago of turning America, the most powerful and richest nation in history, into a Third World nation. I remember a lunch, about 21 years ago in Long Beach, California, with the president of an aerospace company, myself, and a senior foreign general. A comment by the general has always stayed with me. He said, “America is a very rich nation, it will take a lot to bring her down”. In the twenty some years after this, I am simply amazed at just how far one crooked president after another, with the assistance of our “bought and paid for” Congress has managed to take us.


Currently we have an economy that is being held together with bailing wire and glue until after the November election. Even CNBC’s Cramer, a capitalist if there ever was one, now says that the American stock market is so rigged that the average person needs to get out NOW (link to a video with him talking about this is http://www.breakthematrix.com/content/Cramer-States-the-Obvious-Markets-are-Rigged .



We have just seen the early stages of systemic problems in the American economy and the global economy with the fallout from the subprime mortgage problems. The real problem is that the “policemen” of the American economy, and to a lessor extent the entire global economy, have “been asleep” at their jobs; and this has not been an accident. Laws have been changed overturning the post-Great Depression rules designed to save the banking industry from itself.
We have had a massive host of new investment vehicles created over the last few years, and in many cases even the people pushing the vehicles do not understand how they work because they have been designed to be so complex as to confuse even the experts. We have $1.2 quadrillion invested in derivates, trillions in collateralized debt obligations and structured investment vehicles ~ and many of these new forms of financial paper are shady in the extreme.


The American economy, and with it the global economy, is being deliberately set up to collapse. One can look to the traditional sources of war, economic crisis, and revolution to find the cause behind the demise of America. The global international banking families fingerprints are all over the programmed fall of America. While they had their hands in the War of 1812, and the Civil War, blackmailed Wilson to get the US into the First World War, placed their puppet FDR in the White House to control (to their designs) the Great Depression and then to bate the Japanese to attack us to get American in the Second World War, the deliberate high treason committed on 9/11 by senior Bush/Cheney administration officials was a new low. We have now experienced almost seven years of wars based on this false flag operation and we are being led into yet another war with Iran (a nation with advanced biological strategic weapons of mass destruction that can kill a third of the world). Additionally the satanic US Vice-President is in Georgia preparing to push the Russians into the coming Third World War; a world war that with current 21st Century weapons will kill most of us.



We are currently witnessing the main stream news media’s massive coverage of the Democratic National Convention, with the follow-on coverage of the Republican National Convention in a couple of weeks. This coverage is designed to convince the American public that “their vote does count”, that the American political system is working for them. This BS/hype is falling on more and more ‘deaf ears’ as more people turn to the alternative internet news sources for the truth. Americans have not forgotten that two years ago they elected a Democratic Congress to end the war in Iraq but instead the Democratic controlled Congress actually increased the funding for the war and the troop levels.



Some thirty-five years ago, we legalized bribery in America by allowing PACs (political action committees). What had been done before under the table, suddenly became legal and this allowed money to elbow out whatever influence the public had in Congress. Unless you are making tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to your congress critter don’t expect him to really care about you or your interest. The average Congressman must raise $40,000 per day for every day that he/she spends in Washington. Not even the most beautiful hooker on earth can rake in that level of money but out Congressmen and Senators do, giving a whole new meaning to the term prostitution.



We have a medical/pharmaceutical industry that is more fraud and rip off than real medicine. Most expensive pharmaceuticals are designed to “treat you” rather than to “cure you” and in fact the treatment usually brings on additional serious health problems. No one can do anything about this as Big Pharma spends untold millions every year buying off Congress.
We have a giant agricultural industry whose genetically modified food is killing off the bees and without the bees, most of us will not have enough food to survive.



A sign of a Third World country is that its systems don’t work well because the government is for sale. When you can bribe anyone in the government to get what you want, regardless of the death and suffering that it causes to the population, that is a sign of very deep sickness in the nation. No society that allows a high level of organic corruption, of the outright buying of votes in its parliament or congress, will function well. That is why so many African and other Third World nations are failed states. This is happening more and more to America.
We are in a madman’s race to see what kills us first, corporate food and medical nightmares or the ever increasing march to global war by the neo-cons.



It breaks my heart to see the great American experiment in democracy fail and fail so horribly. The first Earl of Stirling (Sir William Alexander of Menstrie) was the founder of English-speaking Canada and was the owner of what became several American states and most of Canada. The last claimant (before me) to the Earldom was Major General Lord Stirling of the American Revolutionary Army. He was a key financier of George Washington; took over Washington’s command when he would take a rare leave of absence to return to Mt. Vernon; saved Washington’s army at the Battle of Long Island (which the Earls of Stirling use to own); and gave his fortune and his life to the American nation. On my watch (as Earl), I am seeing America destroyed.



Stirling


© Eldib

26 august 2008

Top Ten - Things To Do In Bucharest

Top Ten - Things To Do In Bucharest

As always in these cases it is a bit difficult to pinpoint and say: "This is number one thing to do in the city! If you missed that, you may as well go home"As such as we are talking about a large European capital which, we are sure, you have heard controversials about, well then... it means there is much to see. :)Without any more ado, here are the top things you might not want to miss while in Bucharest:

1. Visit the Palace of the Parliament (Romanians call it House of the People) and especially save time for the National Museum of Contemporary Art which is located in one of the building's sectors.

2. Keep this name in mind: Kiseleff. It is the name of the boulevard where you will find the top sightseeings: The Village Museum and the Romanian Peasant's Museum. And since you're here, take into consideration The Museum of Natural History Antipa. When you arrive in Piata Universitatii take your time to visit Palatul Sutu (Sutu Palace) - The Museum of Bucharest.

3. Take a long walk in a park, it's for free. :) We've got: Herastrau Park - the largest of all, in the northern part of the city; Carol Park - a kind of "museum" park with monuments, statues and fountains and Tineretului Park lies nearby - you'll find assimetrical and wild landscape, large fields to play football or baseball. Anyway, whatever you do make sure you take a few steps in Cismigiu Park - it lies in the center of the town and it is the oldest park in Bucharest.

4. Go shopping on Calea Victoriei.

5. Enjoy a Jazz evening in Art Jazz Club.

6. Visit both the Romanian Atheneum and the National Opera but not only on the outside. :) Buy tickets for a concert or classical performance.

7. Definitely save a day for the Royal Palace.

8. Have lunch at the oldest pub in town Caru' cu Bere on Lipscani Street - don't miss Plescoi Sausages (our traditional spicy mutton sausages) and the sweet-sour cabbage! They're awesome. Then visit the whole Historical Center including the ruins of the Voivodal Palace "Curtea Veche."

9. Take a long walk in the residential heighbourhood Cotroceni, eat a delicious hot apple-pie with nut icecream at Museum Restaurant and visit the Cotroceni Palace.

10. Optionally... discover how average Romanians live: travel by bus or tram, walk around the blocks of flats, go shopping in a local market, bargain (if you can) and compare prices, buy fresh fruits and veggies and make sure you enjoy every minute of this. :)


Copyright Metropotam

17 iulie 2008

My first LOVE dollar

Steve Pavlina (who is the man) wrote an article called “How To Earn Your First Love Dollar“. In it, he poses the question,




“If you really commit yourself to the idea, can you earn $1 from doing something you love?”




He then goes on to say,



“Very often people who are stuck in the pattern of doing work they dislike will shun simple opportunities to earn small amounts of money doing something they love.”


Hm. Stuck in a pattern of doing work I dislike? Check. Shun simple opportunities to earn small amounts of money doing something I love? Well…I don’t know about shun, but - no - I haven’t actually presented the opportunity. Um. Check, I guess.


I give myself plenty of opportunities to get paid for work I am pretty good at, but don’t care about. And because I don’t care, I never push for more. I don’t care if I do it again or not, and I simply move on to the next ‘opportunity’.



What do I love? What do I care about? I love writing; I love helping people; I love this blog.


Steve Pavlina, you have thrown down the gauntlet, and I will meet your challenge, sir! The goal? Make a dollar doing something I love. This is where you come in. If you enjoy the awesomeness of My Visual Arts Studio, please donate a lil’ somethin’ somethin’.


If 100 people would donate a penny, or 10 people donate a dime, if 4 people donate a quarter, or if 1 person donates a dollar - I will have met my goal…making a dollar doing something I love.








And since I would never leave my beloved readers high and dry, after I make my love dollar I will post a video of me dancing. That’s right. Me. Dancing. This way I get paid a dollar for doing two things I love! Because efficiency is awesome.


Even if you don’t donate, I think this would be amazing to try in your own life. A dollar. For doing something you love. Can’t be that hard…right? I would lovelovelove to know how you earned your ‘love dollar’. Please come back and share what is sure to be a pretty interesting story!

© PERSISTENT ILLUSION (but I liked it so much)

03 iulie 2008

Ghidul cocalarului: Ep 1 - Distractia cu masina in Bucuresti

In primul rand, fura-i cheile de la break lu tacto... Cel mai recomandat e sambata cand e la spirtz cu vecinii si joaca table sau atunci cand doarme...

In caz ca nu ai tata, sau ca nu ai break, du-te la nea Doru de la 3, ia-i si lui o sticla de Unirii si iti imprumuta el papucu de la "servici" ca de abia ti-ai luat carnet si "tre sa dai si tu bine la gagici".

Pentru cazul intai leaga bine "usa de la porbagaj" sa nu se deschida in timp ce iei gropi.
Pentru cazul doi ai grija cum dai jos din papuc "picamaru", castile muncitorilor, generatoru, tuburile de Oxigen, lada de Noroc Pils, si eternele cartoane... Nu de alta da nu ai vrea sa le pierzi prin oras sa te bata dupaia nea Doru.

Cheia in contact, socul tras... si ai pornit ca Aladin cu covoru fermecat de pe bloc miercurea cand e meci.

1. Mergi pe Calea Victoriei, opreste-te in fata la Muzica si uita-te la "lecedeurile" care se invart, dar imaginea ramane la fel.
2. Du-te in rond la Alba Iulia si fa drift... cand simtzi k aluneca spatele, trage frana de mana usor si dreapta de volan... incet incet o sa inveti.
3. Cand stai la stop in intersectie, ia pieptanu gasit pe scaunu pasagerului, rupe un picior (nu al tau, al pieptanului) coboara langa masina si regleaza jetul de la stergatoare maxim dreapta ca atunci cand vezi o gagica buna pe trotuar sa poti sa-i arati tu ca esti jmecher.
4. Du-te la Unirii sau la Muncii (esti la Alba Iulia...adica exact intre) gaseste cosurile de gunoi speciale pt masini si incearca sa tintesti gaura cu cutiile goale de Noroc din torpedo.
5. Fluiera la 2 pitzipoance
6. Agata-le, du-te la Eroilor... in sus spre Casa Armatei... fa la dreapta pe singura strada, cea mai neiluminata si retrasa...
7. Fa sex
8. E deja tarziu, intoarce-te acasa... Da-ti seama ca ai ramas fara benzina... Suna-l pe fracto care lucreaza pe Taxi sa vina sa-ti aduca o sticla de 2 litrii de benzina.
9. Da-ti seama ca esti super-tare!
10. Maine repetam figura.

02 iulie 2008

Moartea unui blogger

Toti suntem de acord ca traim in lumea hi-cinci, mai-speis, blog this, blog that... E ceva normal pentru ziua de azi, toti o luam ca atare, nu ne surpinde, nu ne sperie...


Insa unde e senzationalul din blogosfera? Am stat cateva minute si am contemplat asupra unui posibil eveniment...


Cum ar fi daca am avea de a face cu "MOARTEA UNUI BLOGGER" ?
O sa fiu un pic rautacios...dar hai sa facem un exercitiu de imaginatie:

Cum ar fi daca...sa zicem... intro dimineata calda de mai... un anume blogger (invidiat de copiii de 14 ani care au realizat ca poti sa faci mai multi bani daca pui 2 poze de pe hi5 cu tine si-l numesti blog, decat daca scoti un album de manele... ), nu-i dau numele... ... mergand in drumul sau spre whateverland, cu Panasonic-ul Toughbook CF-W7 la subrat... neatent la semafoarele lumii reale si hiperconcentrat la viitorul sau post, este CALCAT PE CAP de un volvo condus de mircea badea ...

Normal, unii ar da o mare petrecere...insa altii mai pupincuristi imi imaginez ca ar tine doliu pe blogurile lor...nu? :)) cum anume o sa intrebi? pey poate ca timp de 2 ore nu ar posta NIMENI nimic... UUUUUUUU cum ar fi asta!!! ce IMPACT mare ar avea...nu? ar deveni un loc de pelerinaj unde cei mai evlaviosi ar putea sa ia la bani marunti toate posturile...in cautarea adevarului...



Eternurile link-uri catre guru blogosferei s-ar tripla... rauri de "we will never forget"-uri ...ar curge pagini si pagini de cerneala digitala... Martirul nostru...

Dar oare ce s-ar intampla cu traficu?.... nu, nu cel din Bucuresti, cu asta nu o sa se intample niciodata nimic (desi poate ar decide cineva ca in locul culorii verde... sa apara fata lui mircea badea pe toate semafoarele, in eterna recuostiinta ) ce s-ar intampla cu traficul de pe blog??



Totusi un gand scary: Nepotii tai...si copii lor (care incearca sa-si "TRACE my Ancestry") gasesc blogul tau, pozele tale de pe flickr si myspace... Cum te simti acum...la gandul asta?


Incet incet ajungem la ziua cand aproape nici un content pus pe internet nu mai se sterge din cauza inactivitatii userului.


Revenind la exercitiul de imaginatie... te intrebi cine ar finanta aceste petreceri in cinstea evenimentului? Foarte simplu usbmania.ro, fungift.ro, eroticshop.ro si toata tarlaua...care s-ar alege in mod fabulos cu BANNERE GRATUITE 4 LIFE postate chiar pe piatra de mormant (fost blog).


In concluzie singurul lucru care ramane din "Moartea unui Blogger"... este o groapa digitala.
Cine stie poate imi voi deshide un nou business... Groparul digital!! Nu uita sa lasi avocatului tau useru si parola de la blog.

27 iunie 2008

New boundaries...

Se pare ca am infipt in sfarsit steagul castoresc FIX in inima BLOGSPOT-ului...


Hai sa vedem daca il doare... si mai mult HAI sa vedem si cine tipa !!!!


Inca un de teritoriu cucerit... the next challenge awaits... the next BIG thing is here (and YES ...it's ME)