Have you guys heard of them. I am listening to them at the moment they are a South African band. They sound a bit like Nickelback. I am very impressed and it perfect chill out music.

http://www.powerzone.co.za/scripts/power...band=10575

WELL, seeing as i am moving jobs and the whole stress of the redundancy - i have used a BIG WADDDD of the package (gulp, i hope to still get, fingers crossed !) and have booked a long weekend for rick and i to NYC ! staying at the 5 star Waldorf !

i have been before but if anyone has anything experiences or tips that they feel strongly about seeing / not seeing/ nmot doing/ going to etc
please be so kind as to let me know THANKS


we leave next friday !!!

has come back to Radio 4. I'm busy listening to it right now via the Net.



Enjoy Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Finally decided to splash out and have bought CD Trustee Pro to catalogue the CD collection. I will, when I have finished loading between 600 & 700 CD's finally know what I have in terms of albums, artists right down to tracks. With about 50 odd Cd loaded the track list already exceeds 11 printed pages.... I think I will land up with over 7000 tracks in the list and it grows monthly.

An old man, probably some ninety plus years, sat feebly on the park bench. He didn't move, just sat with his head down staring at his hands. When I sat down beside him he didn't acknowledge my presence and the longer I sat I wondered if he was OK. Finally, not really wanting to disturb him, but wanting to check on him at the same time, I asked him if he was OK.

He raised his head and looked at me and smiled. "Yes, I'm fine, thank you for asking.", he said in a clear strong voice.

"I didn't mean to disturb you sir, but you were just sitting here
staring at your hands and I wanted to make sure you were OK.", I explained to him.

"Have you ever looked at your hands?", he asked. "I mean really looked your hands?", he added.

I slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. I turned them over, palms up and then palms down. No, I guess I had never really looked at my hands as I tried to figure out the point he was making.

Then he smiled and related this story:

Stop and think for a moment about the hands you have, how they have served you well throughout your years. These hands, though wrinkled, shriveled and weak have been the tools I have used all my life to reach out and grab and embrace life. They braced and caught my fall when as a toddler I crashed upon the floor. They put food in my mouth and clothes on my back. As a
child my mother taught me to fold them in prayer. They tied my shoes and pulled on my boots. They dried the tears of my children and caressed the love of my life. They held my rifle and wiped my tears when I went off to war. They have been dirty, scraped and raw, swollen and bent. They were uneasy and clumsy when I tried to hold my newborn son.

Decorated with my wedding band they showed the world that I was married and loved someone! special. They wrote the letters home and trembled and shook when I buried my parents and spouse and walked my daughter down the aisle. Yet, they were strong and sure when I dug my buddy out of a fox-hole and lifted a plow off of my best friends foot. They have held children, consoled neighbors, and shook in fists of anger when I didn't
understand. They have covered my face, combed my hair, and washed and cleansed the rest of my body. They have been sticky, wet, bent, broken, dried and raw.

And to this day, when not much of anything else of me works real well, these hands hold me up, lay me down, and again continue to fold in prayer. These hands are the mark of where I've been and the ruggedness of my life.

No doubt I will never look at my hands the same again. I never saw the old man again after I left the park that day, but I will never forget him and the words he spoke. When my hands are hurt or sore or when I stroke the face of my children and my wife I think of the man in the park.

Found this online, what do you think?

Positive Energy:
The Missing Piece to Overeating and Why Diets Fail


(Excerpted from Positive Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love by Judith Orloff, MD. Harmony Books, April, 2004)

As a psychiatrist and intuitive, I know that there is more to overeating and obesity that meets the eye. One big reason that many diets fail is that traditional weight loss programs donÂ’t factor in how we process subtle energy, what Chinese medicine terms life force or chi. Subtle energy penetrates and surround the body. Sensitive people who I call intuitive empaths unknowingly overeat in response to being overwhelmed by negative vibes. Empaths not only can sense energy around them, they absorb it into their bodies. If this is you, Positive Energy will teach you to center and protect yourself when the impulse to overeat hits.

HereÂ’s the energetic premise of obesity: When empaths are thin they have less padding, are more vulnerable to soaking up negative vibes. For instance, early twentieth century faith healers were renowned for being grossly obese to avoid absorbing their patientÂ’s symptoms-a common trap IÂ’ve seen modern-day healers also unconsciously fall into; food is a convenient grounding device. Similarly, many of my patients pack on pounds to protect against overwhelming vibes, massive or minute. Energy is at the root of an empathÂ’s hunger. Whether your sensitivity to negative vibes is minimal or intense, for a diet to succeed itÂ’s important to develop alternative coping strategies other than overeating. In my book I will show you how to cope with negative vibes without abusing food. Whether accosted by an angry colleague or global threat, apply them immediately. Stick to those that work best for you.

8 Emergency Intervention to Halt Energetic Eating

When the impulse to overeat hits:

Identify an Addictive Craving from a True Need
Addictive craving, a symptom of nutritional abuse, is a frequent response to energetic overload. Bottomline, you eat certain foods like a drug addict; this leads to obesity. Cravings feel intense: whenever you keep lusting after sweets and carbs especially, be suspicious. (IÂ’ve yet to see someone binge on brussel sprouts!) For instance, chocolate turns from simple pleasure to crutch when you gorge on it, use it to self-medicate stress, or to get a sugar high--also if you experience mood-swings, sugar hang-overs, canÂ’t control your intake, or it makes you sick. With cravings, you eat to relieve stress, not to build energy. Try to identify addictive foods, and limit them.

A true nutritional need lacks such sturm and drang: thereÂ’s no lusting or lunging for food to guard against negative energies. A true need comes from a centered place, has nothing to do with soothing our emotions (comfort foods) or obsession.. Feeling healthily nurtured from food never involves moodswings--sedation or elation--rather an even feeling of satisfaction. A true need lets you enjoy your meal, optimizes energy, and doesnÂ’t lead to obesity.
Quickly pinpoint energetic stressors that trigger addictive cravings.
Immediately ask yourself: Have I been exposed to bad vibes? A loud- mouth neighbor. An ordeal to pass through airport security. A siege of overbearing phone messages from your mother. Don’t write off the “smaller” incidents which notoriously send empaths motoring to the refrigerator. Avoid panic. Methodically pinpoint cause and effect. You don’t have to be victimized by negative energy. The trick is to clear it as soon as possible once you’ve been slimed.
Breathe Negative Vibes Out of Your System.
Take a five minute break for damage control. Slowly inhale and exhale. As youÂ’ve learned, breath activates positive energy; it also releases negative vibes. Notice if they get stuck in a specific part of your body. For instance, negative vibes go straight to my gut; I feel irradiated by a toxic stun gun. Identify your vulnerable points. Then practice this visualization: Just as your lungs take in oxygen and expel toxic carbon dioxide, youÂ’re going to breathe in light and clarity, breathe out stress. Breathe in vitality. Breathe out fear.
I also visualize negative vibes exiting through the spaces between the vertebrae in my lower back. You can try this too. Breathing out toxic vibes is a proactive cleansing process. YouÂ’re in charge of the flow. Allow well-being to permeate every inch of you. Repeat this exercise until youÂ’re free of negative residue.
Pray to Release the Addictive Craving
If youÂ’re gripped by a craving, go into praying-mode. For a few quiet moments breath slowly. Bring your awareness to your heart, and aim for self-compassion. The craving may feel impossible to handle, but thatÂ’s okay. In this calm state ask your higher power lift it from you. No mental nudging needed. If you surrender your ego-involvement, this simple heartfelt request works like a charm. What youÂ’re doing is calling on a cosmically influential positive energy to supplant a material-world negative drive.
Take a bath or shower
A speedy way to dissolve negative vibes is to immerse yourself in water. My tub is my refuge after a busy day: it washes away everything from bus exhaust to long hours of air travel, to personal unpleasantness. While you relax water works on you. It has alchemical cleansing properties which will purify your physical body and energy field.
Burn sage
Just because vibes are invisible doesnÂ’t mean you donÂ’t eat over them. Try burning sage to counteract negative energy someone deposits in your office or home--a strategy that has kept pounds off my patients with a lot of people-contact in their space. Vibes accumulate, can cause stress if not eradicated. You may not realize that left-over subtle energies trigger addictive eating patterns, but these vibes subliminally wear at you. Sage has been used by ancients cross-culturally to purify locations. Burn it, and the desire to eat over lurking negative vibes will wane.
Visualize a Protective Shield Around You
Visualize white light surrounding every inch of you from head to toe so that negative energy cannot penetrate this shield and deplete your energy.
Eat with Attunement
Develop a diet that satisfies your energetic needs. IÂ’d like energy to motivate why you eat, more important than taste or any dietary dogma--a priority to impart to children. Whatever you put in you mouth, run by your energy meter; see what truly nourishes or depletes. Even foods youÂ’ve shunned become more attractive when your experience their energy lift.
Food is no place to be passive. The interventions offered in Positive Energy will allow you to an active stance in eating healthily. You donÂ’t have to let poisonous energy lodge itself in you. To stay on top of your eating, do a daily check-in. Stay alert for cravings prompted by negative vibes. Watch your responses. I promise, your eating habits will change.

Judith Orloff MD is a board certified psychiatrist, a practicing intuitive, and author of Positive Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love (Harmony Books.) She is also author of the bestsellers Guide to Intuitive Healing and Second Sight. She's an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, has a private practice in Los Angeles, and is an international workshop leader on the interrelationship of medicine, intuition, and spirituality. Her work has been featured on CNN, PBS, A@E and NPR. Dr. Orloff's website is http://www.drjudithorloff.com.

If I set my internet connections to "dial a connection when Lan is not available" then XP permanently thinks it is disconnected from our work network and keeps wanting to dial out, but if I set the connection to "never dial" then the stupid OS won't dial when I am really disconnected from our network - any ideas as to how to fix this: eg by forcing the PC to connect by dial-up when I require it, but otherwise never to try to dial out?

Any help would be appreciated, ta.

I was watching the video of this song from the 80's and was struck by an overwhelming urge to finally find out what the lyrics to this song were.
Looked it up on the internet and was surprised at how simple the lyrics are (the video was even worse)
Who remembers what a hit it was?

My husband was heavy into Scripture Union at school, and he remembers it being accused of being Satanic! :haha:

Well she is certainly churning them out.

I have just finished, Night-time Is My Time !

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The definition of an owl had always pleased him: "I am the owl," he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, "and night-time is my time." Jean Sheridan, a prominent historian, returns to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honoured along with six other members of her class. There is, however, something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group, Alison Kenall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, died just a few days before, drowned in her pool during an early morning swim. She is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. At the award dinner, Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is the "Owl," a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked or humiliated him, with Jean his final intended victim.

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I enjoyed it and find it different from her previous books. Basically a 20 year high school reunion brings together a whole host of characters, and of course a killer who goes by the name Owl. Slowly over years he has killed off a group pf popular girls who all were friends and who used to make fun of him. The whole story revolves around the two who are left. This book does fall short a little near the end, but at the same time it does have some suspense in it and kept me interested. :read:

Does anyone have a recipe for Samoosa pastry???

Pretty please

Jillibeans made us a Bunny Chow last nite at home, and it was sooooo Good, now I am sommer lus for some Samoosas too!!!