Archive for the ‘The Best Stuff’ Category

Dad, thanks for teaching me to try new things . . .

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Stacey rides a tribute to her father, who died 24 days before this show. This beautiful performance shows horse and rider sharing complete mutual feeling and understanding.

Fly-fishing for breast cancer survivors

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Casting for Recovery is physical therapy for women after breast removal surgery. Fly-fishing requires the same range of motions traditional therapy offers to strengthen and develop muscles in the upper arm and body. CFR operates in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

More info at Casting for Recovery.

Which wolf will win?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Which Wolf Will Win?

A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them, “In every life there is a terrible fight - a fight between two wolves.

“One wolf is evil: he is fear, anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, and deceit.

“The other is good: joy, serenity, humility, confidence, generosity, truth, gentleness, and compassion.”

A child asked, “Grandfather, which wolf will win?”

The elder looked him in the eye. “The one you feed.”

Tallest man meets shortest? man

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Two Mongolian men meet and shake hands. Bao Xishun at 7 foot 9 inches and He Pingping, who stands tall at 2 foot 4 [73 centimeters]. Mr. Bao recently married a woman whose head reaches the height of his elbow; Mr. He’s father says his son was the size of a man’s palm at birth. The UK’s Daily Mail tells more.

What gas costs today at service stations near you

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Now you can check the price of gas daily at over 90,000 service stations.

. . . prices are provided by OPIS. OPIS is the only comprehensive source of U.S. wholesale and retail petroleum prices, tracking more than 90,000 daily retail gasoline prices, and 70,000 rack and spot prices for heating oil, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, LP-Gas, residual fuel, natural gas and ethanol. More than 100 billion gallons of fuel are purchased annually based on an OPIS Price Index.”

Get free phone conferencing! Free, as in no money.

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Free phone conferencing is well, free. So obviously the telcos would like to take it away from you.

The reason you are still paying huge sums of money for phone conferencing is because you didn’t know you could have this service for free. Go to freephoneconference.com, and you will be free phone conferencing in the few minutes it takes to set up your account.

The free phone conferencing service is available any time you want. UNLESS, that is, you’re a customer of AT&T/Cingular, Sprint or Qwest. Why is that?

These companies block calls to numbers used for the free service and are lobbying for laws which will cut you off from ever having free conferencing service. Phone companies sell their own branded conferencing services. Free service eats into their sales, so they want to cut you from accessing it. Then you’ll have to pay them more money.

It’s been scientifically proven that telcos love possessing your money as much, or more, as you do!

You can save Free Phone Conferencing!

Fight back to save free phone conferencing so it will be yours to use when you need it.

  1. First of all, freeconference.com will give you alternate numbers which aren’t blocked by your telco. Call their customer service department for those numbers.
  2. Refer to the freeconference.com FAQ for more information.
  3. Write to the FCC and the attorney general’s office of your state. Individualized letters are more effective than form letters. “Include special points about free phone conferencing, and the continuation of it, which are of specific interest to you.”

Use this sample letter as a guideline

I object to the recent actions by AT&T/Cingular, Qwest, and Sprint to block calls to selected conference call providers and rural telephone companies. I do not believe they are operating within the law, the public interest or the terms of my existing telephone contract with them. I demand the right to:

  1. access all legal long distance numbers from my land line or cell phone
  2. use the conference calling service of my choice from my land line or cell phone
  3. choose and have access to legitimate, publicly available services via my land line or cell phone

My business will be severely impacted if I do not have access to conferencing services that are free with the normal cost of a long distance call (which already compensates these carriers for my call). I cannot/refuse to pay the exorbitant rates charged for conferencing services by large conference service providers such as AT&T.

Please take immediate action to stop this attack on my speech, my wallet and my right to use the provider of my choice.