This girl is unbelievable!

“If you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.” – Linda Henley, American consultant and motivational speaker

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth, American baseball player

If you don’t say “wow” while watching the above video, you may want to check your pulse.

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”  -Abraham Lincoln

In life it is important to remember we need to focus on who we are and not who are aren’t.  We should focus on what our passion is so we can flourish and not be something different than what our heart tells us to be.  Whether it is kids, dogs, or people in general, I think that is very important.

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I’ve been trying out Google Chrome on Linux and Windows for the past few weeks now that extensions are available.  I like Chrome, it is very snappy and the number of available extensions are growing quickly.  I still plan on sticking with Firefox because it is open source and is something that just feels more familiar to me.  What are you using these days for your primary browser and why?

This is a great story about a 32 year old man named David from Phoenix, AZ who weighed 650 pounds. David had no friends or job and wouldn’t go outside except at night so he wouldn’t be seen because people would laugh and stare at him. The only thing that made him happy was food and soda. His life consisted of eating, sleeping, and watching television.

He contacted his local news agency for help and a week later a personal trainer named Chris Powell contacted him. The trainer put him on an exercise regiment and diet and in 26 months he lost 401 pounds. Chris didn’t make a drastic change to David’s daily life and didn’t just handle the matter physiologically but also psychologically. David’s diet and exercise consisted of high and low days where he could reward himself every other day.

David has had three operations to remove excess skin and according to him may need one or two more. The two have become friends and are roommates. Upon agreeing to help David Chris said he would help him lose weight if he agreed to pay it forward by helping others to do the same. TLC is airing the documentary tomorrow (7/12) they created titled The 650-Pound Virgin at 8pm. The documentary description on the website is: “Four years ago David Smith weighed 650lbs, he was eating himself to death and doctors said he wouldn’t hit 30. Now having lost over 400lbs he’s fit, healthy and hoping to make up for those lost years by finding himself a girlfriend for the first time!” Very inspirational and it is amazing what you can do when you truly put your mind to something.

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the product of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

- Albert Einstein

This doesn’t look real but I guess it is???  If so this guy has some totally awesome but totally useless skills…

If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

• The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific
• 51 would be male, 49 would be female
• 82 would be non-white; 18 white
• 67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 67 would be unable to read
• 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
• 33 would be without access to a safe water supply
• 39 would lack access to improved sanitation
• 24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
• 7 people would have access to the Internet
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would have HIV
• 2 would be near birth; 1 near death would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens

Source: http://www.familycare.org/

The BBC is reporting that Wolfram Alpha could be “as important as Google” when launched later this month.  Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. “The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.”

•  ”Whoever guards his mouth, and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.”  (Proverbs Chapter 21 Verse 23)  
• This bit of verse by an unknown writer says it well:  “The boneless tongue, so small and weak, can crush and kill,” declared the Greek.  
• The Persian proverb wisely saith, “A lengthy tongue, an early death.”  
• Sometimes it takes this form instead:  “Don’t let your tongue cut off your head.”  
• While Arab sages this impart:  “The tongue’s great storehouse is the heart.”  
• From Hebrew wit, the Maxim’s sprung:  Though feet should slip, don’t let the tongue.”  
• A verse from Scripture crowns the whole:  “Who keeps the tongue doth keep his/her soul.”  

The other is Good.

I don’t know why I didn’t already know this but I wanted to share with the world how to synchronize your iPhone with Google Calendar and Google Contacts via MS Exchange.  If all of this is Greek to you, it basically means you can synch your Google services wirelessly via your cell service so updates you make via phone or web site are synchronized wherever you are in the world without having to connect your phone to your computer.  In testing it out I found it updated my data within a few seconds.  Google has written some easy to follow instructions so check it out!

This is a story about a dog who was born on Christmas Eve, 2002.  He was born with 3 legs – 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which needed to be amputated.  He of course could not walk when he was born.  Even his mother did not want him.  He was rejected and scorned.

His first owner also did not think that he could survive.  Therefore , he was thinking of putting him to sleep.  At this time , his present owner Jude Stringfellow came into his life and wanted to take care of him.   She was determined to teach and train this dog to walk by  him self.  She thought , all we need is a little faith.  Therefore she named him ‘Faith.’

In the beginning , she put Faith on a surf board to let him feel the movements of the water.  Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and to reward  him for standing up and jumping around.  Even the other dogs at home helped to encourage him to walk.  Amazingly , after only 6 months , like a  miracle , Faith learned to balance on his 2 hind legs and jumped to move  forward.  After further training in the snow , he can now walk like a  human being.

Faith loves to walk around now.   No matter where he goes , he just  attracts all the people around him.  He is now becoming famous on the  international scene.  He has appeared in various newspapers and TV  shows.  There is even one book entitled ‘With a little faith’  being published about him.   He was even considered to appear in one of  Harry Potter movies.

His present owner Jude Stringfellow has given up her teaching job and plans to take him around the world to preach, ‘that even without a perfect body,  one can have a perfect soul.’

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In life there are always undesirable things.  Perhaps a person who feels things are not going as well as they could will feel better if they change their point of view and see things from  another perspective.  Perhaps this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone.   Perhaps everyone can appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day that follows.  Life is the continual demonstration of the power of thinking positive and having faith.  Believe in yourself.  Never lose faith.

1. We will do our best not to go to sleep while we are still angry with each other.  We will work hard to achieve peace before shutting our eyes.
2. We will not add a burden to our relationship by living beyond our means.  It only creates chronic discomfort and triggers an argument.
3. We will try hard to respect each other’s different way of being in the world.  We will allow that there is not just one way of doing something.
4. We will each take responsibility for our own contributions to the problem we have, rather than point a finger at our partner.
5. We will remember to celebrate our strengths as a couple.  These are easy to forget when we are locked in conflict.
6. We will agree that violence can never be a part of our relationship.
7. We will accept each other as wonderful, flawed human beings with limits.
8. We will expand our support system so that our relationship does not carry the entire burden when we are under stress.
9. We will each take the risk of reaching beyond old, familiar ways of relating and discover a new mutually-rewarding way of experiencing the love that brought us together.
10. We will become skilled in the art of forgiving each other.
11. We will listen respectfully to each other.  We need not agree, but we do need to be heard – and to hear.
12. We will commit ourselves to maintaining a healthy partnership knowing that it takes work to create a rewarding life together.