Alan Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
Alan Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh: "
Alan Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
Genre: Children's / Humor | 2007 | MP3 | 192 kbps | 248 MB | Read by: Cora McDonald | ISBN10: 0307706125
One of the funniest books in the world is read by the marvelous Cora McDonald.
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The Risk Factor Part 2: The Gift of Nothingness
The Risk Factor Part 2: The Gift of Nothingness: "
Human nature is curious in that it has the ability to perpetuate in each of us the will to build up or tear down. Every individual has at one point in his or her life felt that twinge of negative energy flow through them for no other reason perhaps than feeling left out or left behind. Some people choose to dwell on this stream of consciousness which is the beginning of the emotional evolutionary cycle that many today know as “Haterism”. I prefer to call it for what I believe it truly to be: Distraction.
My question to the public at large is this: why do we tend to give so much energy to a display of emotion from an individual or set of individuals that 1) Have no power to stop our individual causes, 2) Have a perspective on your efforts at progress that is so irrational that attempting to reason with them is very much akin to having a go at breaking through a brick wall with your head and 3) Have nothing in common with what you are setting in motion, don’t believe in it, don’t believe in you and only have the emotional and intellectual capacity to associate a vision within the confines of the flesh and blood that was given the vision to carry out. They lack the ability to see that the vision is always bigger than the man or woman to which it was entrusted.
Because of this, you may find that as you walk your path, individuals will start to see you as “competition”. Your efforts and hard work once displayed will offend many. But this number pales in comparison to the individuals who will be enhanced and touched by the birth of the dream placed in you. A dream you didn’t manufacture or inject. For who has the power to impregnate ones self? So it is for the ones who need the encouragement that you go through the labor pains. It is for them that you endure the ridicule with grace, style and determination.
See, the key is this: when executing an offensive, we must stay focused on the objective, or goal, of the mission. This is what keeps us balanced. So when that negative look or ill comment comes from left field, you think of the objective and ask yourself, “Will my responding to this from an emotional and reactionary place going to advance the cause or is it a waste of time?”
Time.
Time is an invaluable commodity. And a very unique one. Time is the one commodity that we can possess but never own. It is an element we can seize but never capture. It is the treasure by which we derive our experiences, maturity and fullness of life yet, we can never know its true depth. Time is limitless, infinite while we of the human construct are with boundaries in so many respects. So at the very best all we can do is maximize the time given us. It is the responsible thing to do. And part of this process is consciously recognizing what is worth the investment of your time and what is not.
I declare here clearly my strong belief that addressing directly or passive-aggressively those you believe, perceive or flat out know are out to tear you down is in fact a waste of time. Did I always believe this? NO. But I had a very recent awakening and experience of my own that showed me that reacting to a situation out of emotion and wrath can be fatal to a vision. Even when you believe you are right. But that’s a slightly different situation than the perspective I write from here. So another post for another … time.
Understand that what we stand on is the integrity within us, not the opinions of others. At the time your vision manifests, remember all those times you stayed up working through the night. Remember how you laid it all on the line when no one else would. Remember all the disappointments, heartache and broken promises. Remember the psychological warfare you had to endure, how you had to hunker down in the trenches of your mind and tell yourself to not give up even as seemingly impossible circumstances bombed the very foundation of everything you believed in. Remember the losses you took and how you had to claw your way out of the hole all on your own. Remember how afraid you were when you weren’t sure if everything was going to work out. And how destitute you knew you would be if they didn’t. Remember how you faced those fears alone. And if by chance you were fortunate enough to have someone walk with you through those fears, remember them as well. Remember your story. Hold your head high and move forward. I can say with certainty that if you do this, everything you need to complete your mission will come to you.
So yes, if you endure, people will see the fruits of your adversity and many will despise you for it, criticize every single move you make and think you undeserving or arrogant when they don’t know you’ve bled your soul dry ten times over to climb the mountain upon which you now, or will ultimately stand. Strangely, they will view you as competing with them when all you are doing is what you have been doing for as long as you can remember: Walking toward your dreams.
Invest no time or emotion in such pits. Simply move forward. And not to prove anything to anyone. We move forward because we believe in what we were called upon to do. Period. Any energy we expend on the irrational and uninformed emotion displayed toward our goal is equally as nonsensical as the ones who lash out at us from their emptiness. So how do we respond to such distractions? What should our reaction be? Nothingness. Not anger, not rage, vengeance or wrath. Not sorrow, apology, anxiety, false humility or retreat. Nothingness. Simply give them this gift and watch them grow. Nothingness …
Until Then,
ALH
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Please Do Not Disturb
Please Do Not Disturb: "
'Do Not Disturb' sign from the Hotel Astor.
Found in 'Not Now But Now' by M.F.K. Fisher. Published by The Viking Press, 1947.
The Brothers Grimm - Fairy stories (unabridged)
The Brothers Grimm - Fairy stories (unabridged): "
The Brothers Grimm - Fairy stories (unabridged)
Audiobook | Read by Anna Massey | ISBN: N/A | English | Runtime: 6h30 | MP3/64Kbps | 177.90 MB
The author
The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 - December 16, 1859), were German academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's law). They are among the best known story tellers of novellas from Europe, allowing the widespread knowledge of such tales as Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and The Frog Prince.
The reader
Anna Raymond Massey, CBE (born 11 August, 1937) is an English actress born in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her late brother, Daniel Massey, was also an actor. She is the niece of Vincent Massey, a Governor General of Canada.
Massey was on stage as a teenager and made her film debut in 1958. In 1960, she played a potential murder victim in Michael Powell's cult thriller Peeping Tom. She played the role of the cockney barmaid Babs in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). She appeared with her brother Daniel playing deadly siblings in the 1973 horror film The Vault of Horror.
Massey continued to make occasional film and stage appearances, but has worked more frequently in television, in dramas such as The Pallisers (1974), the 1978 adaptation of Rebecca (in which she starred along with her ex-husband, Jeremy Brett), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978), The Cherry Orchard (1980), and Anna Karenina (1985). She had roles in the British sitcoms The Darling Buds of May (1991) and The Robinsons (2005). She has also appeared in a number of mysteries and thrillers on British television, including episodes of Inspector Morse, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, Midsomer Murders, Strange, and Lewis. She is the narrator of This Sceptred Isle on BBC Radio. She also played the part of Josephine Daunt in Daunt and Dervish on BBC radio.
In 1986, Massey was awarded the British Academy TV Award for Best Actress for her role in Hotel Du Lac.
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Theatre [by W. Somerset Maugham ]
Theatre [by W. Somerset Maugham ]: "
Theatre
Audiobook | W. Somerset Maugham | English | 2004 | ISBN:037572463X | MP3 128 Kbps | 466 MB
A story of the 'dangerous age' in a theatrical star, whose marriage has worn thin, and who finds excitement in skirting a treacherous edge of emotional involvement, more or less accidentally thrust upon her. First rate tale, but lacks the brilliance of such a performance as Cakes and Ale. Maugham can be counted on for masterly craftsmanship; he knows his theatre; and this is his first full-length novel some time. Maugham has a faculty for getting under the skin of his characters and revealing their very human foibles. It's thoroughly good reading, and popular in theme and background, so should prove a quick seller and renter.
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O. Henry - Ten Best Stories
O. Henry - Ten Best Stories: "
O. Henry - Ten Best Stories
Audiobook | Elitael | English | 2006 | MP3 192 Kbps | 585 MB
The 10 short stories in this marvelous collection were chosen by series editor Furman in consultation with jurors Kevin Brockmeier, Francine Prose, and Colm Toibin. The stories range in style from the gritty noir of David Means' 'Sault Ste. Marie' to the mesmerizing mythmaking of Louise Erdrich's 'The Plague of Doves,' while the settings include a village perched on top of an enormous whale (David Lawrence Morse's 'Conceived') as well as a swank suite at the Plaza Hotel (Xu Xi's 'Famine'). The three most powerful stories seem to have in common the ability to immerse readers in a character's sudden, searing moment of self-knowledge and the way that insight impacts the course of a life. In Edward P. Jones' elegiac, masterful 'Old Boys, Old Girls,' a hard-bitten con comes to see that redemption is within his reach. Deborah Eisenberg delicately deconstructs a young girl's attraction to an abusive man in the haunting 'Windows.' And, finally, the storied Alice Munro, in 'Passion,' conveys the complex inner world of a teenager who discovers she values risk over security.
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The Risk Factor Part 1: Welcome to the Edge
The Risk Factor Part 1: Welcome to the Edge: "
Yet, on the Edge, we remain. We stand continually and defiantly on the precipice of what seems to be self-destruction and annihilation. We continue to roll the proverbial dice and take those chances and it seems to many around us that we have lost every drop of our mental faculties.
But they do not know the Edge. They do not know the Edge because contrary to popular belief, no one walks to the Edge, the Edge finds you and beckons to you with a seduction that resonates within you so strongly and irresistibly simply because it is the echo of your own consciousness. The Edge is a reflection of the future state of your soul. Strong, fearless and sure. For now, you sum it up in one word: Crazy.
So one day your life is “normal”: nine to five, husband or wife, white picket fence and 2.5 kids. Everything is neat and in order. Then it happens. POW! The Awakening hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. You find yourself scrambling to make sense of why you feel so utterly compelled to forsake your orderly, by-the-numbers existence and run toward a goal you cannot see, to take a shot at a target that, on a conscious level, you believe you do not have the ability to hit on your best day. Even so, you move out …
And to make things worse, you find yourself telling anyone who will listen that “it” will work. That you just know it will. You’re not even entirely clear on what the totality of what “it” is. And when asked the inevitable (and logical), “But how do you know it will work?” All you can do is shrug your shoulders and say, “I know it will work.”
So you make the decision, almost involuntarily it seems, to pack your bag of hopes, dreams and freshly awakened passions and hit the road. Some cheer you on, albeit from a distance, others seeth quietly in hope for your downfall. The latter, I believe, is the result of their self-loathing at not having the courage to answer the call. Yes, everyone at some point in their lives is kissed by destiny’s fire. Some choose to extinguish the flame and play it “safe”. Others choose to be consumed and ultimately transformed by the fire. Obviously, in this text, we address with the latter of the two choices.
At this stage, it will be easy to become hopeful and discouraged all at once. Hopeful at the new doors that are opening as a result of your hard work and discouraged at the individuals who seem to look down at your efforts or even attempt to block them. This is a rule I live by and it may help you too: Stay loyal to your vision and your vision will take care of you and itself. Simply put, be diligent and consistent in all that you do. Work from a place of passion, sincerity and integrity and even in the most fearful of circumstances (for there will be many) stand your ground. You must believe. Even when friends laugh at you. Even when family discounts you. If you don’t believe in what is upon you to do then it will never come to pass. Simply because no one, no matter what they communicate, cares about your vision, dreams and mission like you do. And guess what? They’re not supposed to. What was given to you is your responsibility. So again, mind your responsibilities and opportunity will come. Through all the pain, hurt and betrayal, the opportunities will come. Opportunity cannot resist the truth of sincere passion. Others may attempt to call your efforts something else but the foundationless assertion can only last so long. Be encouraged and look for part 2 coming soon!
All the Best
ALH
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From The Library of Paul Bunyan
From The Library of Paul Bunyan: "Or Norm Abrams, if you like. This one comes from a FB reader who is a librarian.
...just this week I experienced the horror of the 6' circular saw blade bookmark inside 'Inside Every Woman'
John the librarian also sends along this beauty, which I find fascinating:
Digital Art Tutorials-Beginning Coloring
Digital Art Tutorials-Beginning Coloring: "
Digital Art Tutorials-Beginning Coloring
Watch step by step as world renowned Photoshop artist, Brian Haberlin, takes you the bascis of computer coloring. Recommended for those that are just starting out coloring.
Tutorial by: Brian Haberlin
Program: Adobe Photoshop
Approx. Length: 1 hr 30 min
File size: 200mb (.rar)
Additional Included Files:
Line Art File to follow Tutorial
Layered PSD (Photoshop file) File to Inspect
Adobe PDF Manual detailing:
* Hardware
* Software
* Scanning
* Color Setup
* Flatting
* And More...
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Mario Puzo - "The Godfather". (English audio-book)
Mario Puzo - "The Godfather". (English audio-book): "
Mario Puzo - 'The Godfather'. (English audio-book)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio | ISBN-10: 1596002433 | 2004 | English | MP3 (192 kb/s) | 506 Mb
Thanks to Francis Coppola's brilliant film adaptation, this story has achieved cult status with millions of fans, who continue to read it. In addition to its larger size, this incarnation offers a new introduction and afterword. How could you refuse?
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Stephen King 'Lisey's Story'
Stephen King 'Lisey's Story': "
Stephen King 'Lisey's Story'
Audiobook | Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN: 0743556003 | 2006 | English | MP3 192 Kbps | 1210 MB
King's latest bid for literary respectability is read by acclaimed actress Winningham, best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in Georgia. Winningham glazes King's novel in multiple coats of Southern honey, her voice shimmering with an old-fashioned glow for the tale of Lisey Landon, wife of acclaimed novelist Scott Landon, and her effort to discover the source of her husband's inspiration after his death.
Winningham is a good fit for King in a less terror-filled mood, capturing the book's blend of the sentimental and the comic. The narrative is ushered in and out by the strains of Ryan Adams's 'When the Stars Go Blue,' and King reads his own afterword, where he details the sources of his own inspiration, carefully distancing himself and his loved ones from the characters in his book while making it clear that, like Scott Landon, he must dive deep into his subconscious and into the pool of literary history, to find inspiration.
The Lady with a Dog by : Anton Chekhov
The Lady with a Dog by : Anton Chekhov: "
The Lady with a Dog by : Anton Chekhov
Audiobook | ISBN-10: 0140447873 | 2006 | English | MP3 (64 kb/s) | 30.5 Mb
This well-known short story tells of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker, Dmitry Gurov and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta, Anna Von Diederitz. The couple spend much time together but since Anna is married and lives far away, Gurov has obstacles to overcome in formalizing this relationship.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People - AUDIO BOOK
How to Win Friends and Influence People - AUDIO BOOK: "
How to Win Friends and Influence People - AUDIO BOOK
Dale Carnegie (Author), Andrew Macmillian (Narrator) How to Win Friends and Influence People - AUDIO BOOK Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN 0671579592 | Unabridged edition (December 1, 1999) | mp3 | 64 Kbps | (22.6 + 23.3 + 21.6 + 25.2 + 10.7 +12.6 + 27.1 + 25.9) MB Book Description: This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to \"the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.\" He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and \"arousing in the other person an eager want.\" You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, \"let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers,\" and \"talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.\" Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU! For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn:
* THREE FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE * THE SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU * THE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING * THE NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT AROUSING RESENTMENT
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