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brainyskeeta's Homepage http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:17 EST Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:17 EST Zorpia.com Blog Pics http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1912231 Pics 4 Blogs   <embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FBrainySkeeta%2Falbumid%2F5125802682399402161%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> Photography & Art http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1912231 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:11 EST SWEETS http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1912230 SWEETS 4 U   <embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FBrainySkeeta%2Falbumid%2F5318189503555546929%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> Food & Drinks http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1912230 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:58 EST Mother's Day http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1903239 <center>A Sonnet for My Incomparable Mother</center>    <center>I often contemplate my childhood, Mom. I am a mother now, and so I know Hard work is mixed together with the fun; You learned that when you raised me long ago.</center>    <center>I think of all the things you gave to me: Sacrifice, devotion, love and tears, Your heart, your mind, your energy and soul-- All these you spent on me throughout the years.</center>    <center>You loved me with a never-failing love You gave me strength and sweet security, And then you did the hardest thing of all: You let me separate and set me free.</center>    <center>Every day, I try my best to be A mother like the mom you were to me.</center>    <center>By Joanna Fuchs</center>   Live http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1903239 Sat, 09 May 2009 14:02 EST Security At Beijing Olympics http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1826852   (Reuters) - China, which says it has already cracked domestic terror plots targeting the <a title="Full coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/sports/2008olympics">Olympics</a>, has taken sweeping steps to secure the Games against protests or attacks. Here are some facts about security at the Games which open on Friday. SCREENING VISITORS, LOCALS -- Visa rules have tightened. Travelers must now show a return air ticket and a hotel booking before buying a visa. -- Hong Kong, host of equestrian events, has created a watchlist of unwelcome activists and brought in new visa restrictions. -- Interpol is to give Beijing airport and other major border entry points access to its database of more than 14 million lost or stolen travel documents. -- Many Beijing dissidents and their families are being held under house arrest. Petitioners who have come to the capital to present complaints have often been detained, they said. SECURITY CAPABILITIES -- A 100,000-strong security force, including the elite Snow Wolf Commando Unit, is on alert. -- 300,000 surveillance cameras watch the city. -- Since May, the team of People's Liberation Army (PLA) engineers in charge of Games security checks and emergency rescues has run daily drills on finding and defusing explosives and rescuing and evacuating people from damaged buildings. -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog has trained Chinese security personnel in how to respond to radiological attacks -- such as a "dirty bomb" -- in which radioactive material is released. OLYMPIC VENUES -- At least two surface-to-air missile launchers were set up in late June south of the Bird's Nest National Stadium. -- Authorities pledged to revamp public emergency shelters by the venues last October, saying 20 to 30 new shelters, with room for 1.5 million to 2 million people, were needed every year. -- Gas stations within 300 meters of Olympic venues and all Games-designated gas stations must install video surveillance equipment and "explosion-prevention devices". -- Unmanned spy planes will fly over the east coast city of Qingdao, host of sailing events. BEIJING CITY -- Random identity card and passport checks have increased. -- On Friday, Tiananmen Square was closed and surrounding streets cleared of people, many of them Chinese tourists. -- Security checks are in place on public transport, with spot checks on bottled drinks, and x-ray machines and sniffer dogs deployed in subway stations to check luggage. -- Liquids, matches and lighters have been banned in hand luggage on domestic flights since officials said crew foiled an attempted airline bombing in restive Xinjiang province in March. -- Fireworks have been banned from the Chinese capital for three months from July 1; and some bars and restaurants close to <a title="Full coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/sports/2008olympics">Olympics</a> venues have been told to shut down. Kites and homing pigeons have been banned from seven districts to clear airspace. -- To prevent food safety problems or sabotage, inspectors will be posted in factories making food for the <a title="Full coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/sports/2008olympics">Olympics</a>. RESTIVE REGIONS -- With authorities keen to present China as a harmonious nation, rights groups say restive western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang have seen controls tightened. -- Deadly riots in Tibet in March, and in southwest Weng'an county, Guizhou, in late June, have highlighted social strains and prompted a new stability drive. -- Local officials have been ordered to defuse petition campaigns by discontented citizens to prevent "mass incidents" such as riots and demonstrations. Sources: Reuters, Chinese media (Writing by Gillian Murdoch, Beijing Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by Nick Macfie)  8-8-8 Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1826852 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:28 EST Never Quit http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1820582 <a href="http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q285/BrainySkeeta/?action=view&current=033.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q285/BrainySkeeta/033.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1820582 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:22 EST Classic Love Songs http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1813687 <div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility:visible; margin-right: auto; width:450px;"><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" style="width:435px; visibility:visible; height:270px;" allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://www.myplaylist.org/mc/mp3player-othersite.swf?config=http://www.myplaylist.org/mc/config/config_blue.xml&mywidth=435&myheight=270&playlist_url=http://www.myplaylist.org/loadplaylist.php?playlist=14072922" menu="false" quality="high" width="435" height="270" name="mp3player" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" border="0"/> <a href=http://www.myplaylist.org><img src=http://www.myplaylist.org/mc/images/create_blue.jpg border=0></a><a href=http://www.myplaylist.org/standalone/14072922 target=_blank><img src=http://www.myplaylist.org/mc/images/launch_blue.jpg border=0></a><a href=http://www.myplaylist.org/download/14072922><img src=http://www.myplaylist.org/mc/images/get_blue.jpg border=0></a> </div> Music http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1813687 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:02 EST Remember... http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1807010 <a href="http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o42/lsclafa1/?action=view&current=casket04a.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o42/lsclafa1/casket04a.jpg" border="0" alt="Memorial day"></a> Religion & Ethics http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1807010 Sun, 25 May 2008 09:12 EST This Too Shall Pass ... http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1795859 If I can endure for this minute Whatever is happening to me, No matter how heavy my heart is Or how dark the moment may be ... <img height="57" alt="Sun" src="http://www.pennyparker2.com/image90.jpg" width="65" /> If I can remain calm and quiet With all the world crashing about me, Secure in the knowledge God loves me When everyone else seems to doubt me ... <img height="57" alt="Sun" src="http://www.pennyparker2.com/image90.jpg" width="65" /> If I can but keep on believing What I know in my heart to be true, That darkness will fade with the morning And that "this will pass away, too!" ... <img height="57" alt="Sun" src="http://www.pennyparker2.com/image90.jpg" width="65" /> Then nothing in life can defeat me For as long as this knowledge remains I can suffer whatever is happening For I know God will break all the chains That are binding me tight in "the darkness" And trying to fill me with fear ... For there is "no night without dawning" And I know that "my morning" is near.  <center>~ Helen Steiner Rice ~ </center> <center><a href="http://www.pennyparker2.com/notice.html"><img height="65" alt="Permission" src="http://www.pennyparker2.com/passaway2.gif" width="93" border="0" /></a> </center> Religion & Ethics http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1795859 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:47 EST Bob Marley's Mom Dies http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1792381   KINGSTON, Jamaica - Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman said Wednesday. She was 81. Booker died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural causes, spokesman Jerome Hamilton said. Booker, a Jamaica native, was 18 when she married Norval Marley, a British man 32 years her senior. Their son brought Jamaican reggae music to international prominence, becoming its international image. Bob Marley died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 36. "Mrs. Booker was the matriarch of a movement so powerful that the mystical qualities of the Marley musical legacy remain strong and potent," Jamaica Information Minister Olivia Grange said. After Norval Marley died in 1955, Booker married an American man and settled in Delaware. She wrote two biographies of her famous son and recorded two albums, "Awake Zion!" and "Smilin' Island of Song." "She was a star in her own right," Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in a statement. "Her life was one of hardship, struggle and eventual fulfillment, and through it all, she exuded hope, strength and confidence." Everyone in St. Ann's parish knew Booker as "Mama B," said Harry Shivnani, a family friend and general manager of Bob Marley's mausoleum. "She loved cooking," Shivnani said. "Mama would make you the best pudding ever." Robert Lalah, a columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner, interviewed Booker in February while she celebrated her son's birthday. "She was a typical Jamaican grandmother," he said. "She was very warm, very friendly." Booker is survived by two children and several grandchildren, including Ziggy Marley, who won four Grammys with the Melody Makers, a band that included brother Stephen and sisters Sharon and Cedella. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Music http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1792381 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:10 EST 'BROKEN HEARTS BLUES' http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784438 <object width="300" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/pl/WIFZurfQyx/"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://media.imeem.com/pl/WIFZurfQyx/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="340" wmode="transparent"></embed></object> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784438 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:20 EST Teddy Love Song ~ TKO http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784437 <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3HPAgiVdILo&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3HPAgiVdILo&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784437 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:18 EST "An Oldie But Goodie" http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784435 <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYpmB2dPlq4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYpmB2dPlq4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784435 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:15 EST My Favorite Movies http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784433 <embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://widget.flixster.com/static/widget/widget.swf?getRev=http://widget.flixster.com/servlet/publishrate/userId:575796063;listId:-1&bkgd=106ab6&fgd=ffffff" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#d5e8fb" width="200" height="165" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/> <img src="http://www.flixster.com/servlet/embed/widget/575796063.jpg" width="1" height="1" /><div style="width: 200px"><div style="float: left"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/servlet/embed/widget/link/575796063">Are we movie compatible?</a></div><div style="float: right"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/user/brainyskeeta">My Flixster profile</a></div></div> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1784433 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:13 EST CLASSIC CARS http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1781078 <div><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://widget-82.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=lt&il=1&channel=144115188091691906&site=widget-82.slide.com" style="width:426px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:426px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=ph&id=144115188091691906&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-82.slide.com/p1/144115188091691906/lt_t016_v000_s0ph_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=ph&id=144115188091691906&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-82.slide.com/p2/144115188091691906/lt_t016_v000_s0ph_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1781078 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:05 EST AFRICA http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1781077 <div><embed allowNetWorking="internal" AllowScriptAccess="sameDomain" src="http://widget-50.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=lt&il=1&channel=144115188091691088&site=widget-50.slide.com" style="width:426px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:426px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=ph&id=144115188091691088&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-50.slide.com/p1/144115188091691088/lt_t016_v000_s0ph_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=ph&id=144115188091691088&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-50.slide.com/p2/144115188091691088/lt_t016_v000_s0ph_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div> Personal http://www.zorpia.com/brainyskeeta/journal/1781077 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:03 EST