Stealth-Like Rays

Stealth-Like Rays

Steve and Irwin circled slowly .......

Rugby Education

This from Ruggaworld - should help all the lads explain to the missus why you are so busy on a Sat arvie :)

"There are many ways you can educate the uneducated on how rugby and rugby positions work and their function, but this is by far the best one I read.

Peter Fitzsimmons (ex-Wallaby) sums it up best, try and guess what he played…

* Front Row - Without a doubt the manliest men on the pitch. Large, often hairy, beer swilling carnivores that can and will smash anything in their path. Revelling in the violence inherent in the scrum, they are rarely considered “nice” people, and in fact to some they aren’t even considered humans at all. Front rowers tolerate this attitude far and wide because they recognize their role at the top of the food chain and are used to suffering the fools that surround them.

Accused by some of simply being dumb, I prefer to think of this group as “open to unconventional ways of thinking.”

* Locks - Slightly below the front row on the food chain. As with front row players it is inadvisable to put an appendage you wish to keep near this group’s maw when they are in the feeding mode. This group of large, often foul smelling brutes is also more than willing to relish the finer points of stomping on a fallen opponent’s body and will gleefully recount the tale ad infinitum.

While they tend to take the tag “Powerhouse of the Scrum” a little too seriously, they can be useful if inured with the proper hatred of their fellow man. While members of this proud fraternity like to think of themselves as “open to unconventional ways of thinking” ? they are usually just dumb.

* Back Row - These are fine fit fellows who, like a bunch of hermaphrodites, are confused as to what their role in life should be. While they know they are undeniably linked to the forwards, there are those among them who long for the perfect hair and long flowing gowns that come with being a back.

Some relish the forward role and will do anything to win the ball and there are others within this group that will break the prime directive of the forward and do anything to prance foolishly with the ball. Generally, these guys are not all bad, but I, personally, have to wonder about any forward who brings a hairbrush and a change of clothes to a game.

* Scrum Half - Some like to think of this back as an honorary forward. I myself tend to think of the No. 9 as half a fag. While the toughest back almost always fills this position, this idea is almost laughable - kind of like the hottest fat chick. The scrum half’s presence is tolerated by the forwards because they know that he will spin the ball to the rest of the girls in the back line who will inevitably knock the ball on and allow them the pleasure of another scrum.

The No. 9 can take pride in the fact that he is the lowest numbered back and that as such he can be considered almost worth while.

* Fly Half - Primary role is the leader of the backs ? a dubious honour at best. Main responsibilities as far as I can tell is ability to throw the ball over people’s heads and to provide something soft for opposing back rowers to land on. Expected to direct the prancing of the rest of the backline - the fly half, like any good Broadway choreographer, is usually gay. While some may argue that these girls must be protected, I find it hard to support anyone whose foot touches a rugby ball on purpose.

* Centres - Usually come in two varieties - hard charger or flitting fairy. The hard charger is the one to acquire, as he will announce his presence in a game with the authority rarely found above No. 8. The flitting fairy is regrettably more common and will usually attempt to avoid contact at all costs.

The flitting fairy is also only one good smack away from bursting into tears and leaving the pitch to cry on the shoulder of his inevitable girlfriend. Both types will have extensive collections of hair care products in their kit bags and will be among the best dressed at the post-game festivities.

* Back 3 - While some people refer to this group as 2 wingers and a fullback, I swear to God I can’t make out any difference between them. They are all homos if you ask me. How these three guys can play 90 minutes of RUGBY and stay clean and sweat free is beyond me. I know for a fact that their jerseys sometimes go back in the bag cleaner than when they came out.

These ladies are fond of sayings like “Speed Kills” and “Wheels Win”, how cute. Well, I have a saying too - it’s “You’re a homo!! These guys will be easy to spot after the game because they are the finely coifed, sweater wearin’, wine sippin’, sweet talkin’ homos in the corner avoiding the beer swilling curs at the bar. On the whole, I really don’t mind this group because in the end, they sure are pretty to look at."

Posted by PissAnt @ 10:00 am October 24, 2006

"Quotable quotes"

Just a list of chirps:

• I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. (Mitch Hedberg)

• ... its just better to be :) ... #bbc

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

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Tapping the genius behind ADHD

Here's how to tap into the genius behind ADD and ADHD symptoms and unleash the gifted problem solving abilities that come with this condition ...

ADD/ADHD Secret #3:
It has been said that people with ADD/ADHD have, on average, 20% higher IQs than the rest of the population. This is due largely to the amazing problem solving capacity of people with ADD or ADHD wired brains.

Most IQ tests are designed to prefer lateral thinking ability over linear thinking because it is a greater sign of high intelligence. Albert Einstein was primarily a lateral thinker, as was Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Lateral thinking is a problem solving approach where you attempt many different angles in order to find a solution. You think "outside the box" and you discover many new ways of framing problems rather than staying stuck.
People who are highly capable lateral thinkers are great solution finders; inventors, entrepreneurs, pioneers, explorers and artists. Their temperaments tend to be creative, energetic, impulsive and "distractible" because those are the qualities that facilitate great lateral thinking ability. Leonardo Da Vinci epitomized this kind of temperament, so that is why we call people with this temperament, "DaVinci types".

Most people with ADD and ADHD have the DaVinci type temperament and thus excel at lateral thinking ability. Lateral thinking is most effective in certain environments - generally situations where there is little or no established procedure for success - situations where the solution must be discovered as opposed to merely regurgitated.

Most entrepreneurs, inventors and pioneers find themselves in circumstances where strong lateral problem solving ability is a greater asset than any formula one might have memorized. Lateral thinking is creative and difficult to teach anyone who doesn't already have a penchant for it. It is the opposite of linear thinking, which is the kind of thinking encouraged and graded for in most public school systems.

If someone is a DaVinci type (most people with ADD/ADHD are) then they already are natural lateral thinkers. MENSA riddles can be used to further develop and hone this gift. MENSA riddles offer the following therapeutic benefits to someone with ADD/ADHD:

1) Difficult, sometimes baffling, genius caliber MENSA riddles are often compelling enough to capture the attention of someone with AD/HD and evoke their hyper-focus.

2) Good MENSA riddles have satisfying and elegant solutions, which are in and of themselves reward enough for the mental effort required to crack them.

3) MENSA riddles are a great mental workout – similar in effect to physical exercise – because they calm and focus the ADD or ADHD mind by releasing pent up energy.

4) MENSA riddles build self-esteem with each subsequent victory and show the AD/HD-er how brilliant they really are.

5) The mental effort required to do MENSA riddles effectively exercises the DaVinci type mind, making one smarter and smarter. (I have seen IQs boosted by about 35% simply by doing a handful of MENSA riddles every day for a few weeks.)

6) The solution finding ability that doing MENSA riddles develops in your mind makes solving other day-to-day life problems surprisingly easier

ADHD & Procrastination .... interesting

"Here's why people with ADD and ADHD procrastinate - how to understand it and how to work with it.

Procrastination is a primary trouble for AD/HD-ers. We can see how this trouble plagued Leonardo Da Vinci. He barely finished anything he began. However, when he did actually finish something, it was a masterpiece.

"I have wasted my hours."
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

People with ADD and ADHD have a keen sense of intuition and the states of their minds are extreme. They are prone to experiencing periods of tormenting confusion followed by moments of great clarity. When the clarity comes in it brings with it bursts of creative genius and a spontaneous awareness of exquisite solutions to problems that previously seemed insurmountable.

The Problem:
Since ADHD-ers have repeatedly experienced these unexpected moments of clarity with the accompanying spontaneous insights of pure genius, they grow to anticipate them; at least unconsciously. These moments render useless all that they were struggling to do with one fell swoop of inspiration that turns the whole problem on its head. These insights reveal short-cuts and offer questions that no one ever thought to ask.

AD/HD-ers subconsciously realize that they could struggle for hours searching for something only to discover it's been in their back pocket the whole time. But it is only the spontaneous insight that reveals this impossibly easy solution, and when that insight will come no one knows. So instead of beating their heads up against the wall, people with ADD and ADHD learn to procrastinate.

They could spend weeks on a project, pursuing a particular approach only to discover in one momentary flash of insight that all that they had done could have been completely transcended in a single move. If they had just looked at the project from this new perspective, right in the beginning, they could have done the project better and done it in days instead of weeks.

"Why bother starting the project in the first place? Why not just wait till the inspiration shows up and save the strain and effort?" the inner mind of the AD/HD-er unconsciously reasons. "Why not just relax and enjoy yourself with other distractions while you wait for that moment of clarity to come?"

The Solution:
What most procrastinators are missing is that this initial struggle is the key to the great revelations. Without the struggle, the mind has no impetus to provide a revelation!

So if you have ADD or ADHD, at sometime during the completion of your project, you will likely be struck with an amazing insight into the nature of your project that completely topples all of your previous concepts and plans for it. You will want to start your project from scratch in this better, completely new way. Realizing this, at least subconsciously, you used to think something along the lines of "Why bother beginning now, then anyway? Why not just wait for that spectacular insight and then begin. Won't that save me a great deal of struggle?" The answer is "no!"

The only way you get to have that amazing insight, that paradigm shift of thought, that out of the box solution is to engage in your project - encounter the frustrating complexities of your current approach to achieving its goals.

Only through this struggle will your limited mind grow tired and yield to your unlimited genius level mind to spontaneously take over and offer the reward, the solution to your struggle."

Garret LoPorto
CEO, Media for Your Mind, Inc.
Author of The DaVinci Method

Mud Island humour

All Black Haka

Haka video on youtube
The Boks are the only side that have beaten the AB's in the last two years ..... twice!

Branson & ADHD

Richard Branson
ADD/ADHD Rebel Billionaire; Founder & CEO of the multi-billion dollar Virgin empire, is ADHD and Dyslexic, but he found a way to make his ADD/ADHD work for him. He could have struggled all his life trying to "fit in" by suppressing his ADHD. Instead he "broke-out" into fame, fortune & wild success, because he embraced the hidden genius behind his ADD/ADHD.

Foot Thongs

Foot Thongs,
originally uploaded by zpalffy.

This is never gonna fly at Camps Bay .... hmmm, where do you think this was taken?

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CRM at its finest .... question, does anyone actually care a jot for service anymore?

Athletes - Rachel Wacholder

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Originally uploaded by volleyshots.

Gotta admire the conditioning! And a lot of other things too ... commitment, dedication, sand, sun ... :)

"What is her superpower?"

She prowls the empty streets at night, waiting ....... nice :) The confident set of the shoulders & the bag :lol:

Empowerment priorities SA style

bwahahaha - cool veranda ....

What, you may ask, is ADHD?

as early as very recently I had absolutely no idea ...... all however is not lost as I have discovered that Churchill, amongst other luminaries suffered a similar malaise :)

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (sometimes referred to as ADD) is thought to be a neurological disorder, always present from childhood, which manifests itself with symptoms such as hyperactivity, forgetfulness, poor impulse control, and distractibility.^[2] In neurological pathology, ADHD is currently considered to be a chronic syndrome for which no medical cure is available. Both children and adults may present with ADHD, which is believed to affect between 3-5% of the population.^[3]

Much controversy surrounds the diagnosis of ADHD, such as over whether or not the diagnosis denotes a disability in its traditional sense, or simply describes a neurological property of an individual. There is also a sizable minority of clinicians who believe that the condition is not biological, but psychological in origin. Those who believe that ADHD is a traditional disability or disorder often debate over how it should be treated, if at all. According to a majority of medical research in the United States, as well as other countries, ADHD is today generally regarded to be a non-curable neurological disorder for which, however, a wide range of effective treatments are available. Methods of treatment usually involve some combination of medication, psychotherapy, and other techniques. Some patients are able to control their symptoms over time, even without the use of medication. Other individuals who meet the diagnostic criteria of ADHD do not consider themselves to be handicapped by the disorder and therefore may remain undiagnosed or, after a positive diagnosis, untreated.

ADHD is most commonly diagnosed in children and, over the past decade, has been increasingly diagnosed in adults. It is believed that around 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD retain the disorder as adults.^[4]

So .... there you have it .... phew, thank you for Wiki :)

PET scans measure brain activity. The image on the left illustrates areas of activity in the brain of a person without ADHD while doing an assigned task. The image on the right illustrates the areas of activity of the brain of someone with ADHD when given that same task.^[1]

Mission accomplished

Been meaning to get blogging for ages but just never seemed to get around to it! Well here it is .... may Baden's World have a long and illustrious presence in the ether :)