Gratitude!

“Gratitude is a powerful tool. If you will allow yourself to feel grateful, your processing and programming can work immeasurably better. … As you feel grateful for what you have, you start having more things about which to feel that gratitude.”   Lazaris

If a great teacher stands behind every man and woman, then a parent stands behind all of them. The selflessness of parents is truly amazing. Everyone of us owe them our knowledge, our experiences, and – literally – our lives.   I think I feel grateful for most things in my life and I do try to tell people when I believe they need to be thanked. I´m grateful for this Sunday´s fixtures:Everton v Liverpool, Arsenal v Chelsea and Barcelona v Real Madrid. Let´s have a quick check on the weather forecast!

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
22° C | 8° C	21° C | 9° C	20° C | 5° C	22° C | 5° C	17° C | 6° C

This is not too bad.

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There´s hope for us all as Spain appoints an 81 year old!

Who says that broadcasting is a young person´s game? Certainly not in Spain where the new head of public broadcaster RTVE is a youthful 81-year-old.

Spain´s  Parliament has chosen Alberto Oliart (81) as the national public broadcaster Corporación RTVE´s new president. Alberto Oliart is the country´s former Defence Secretary.

The new president was chosen with a majority of two thirds of the votes formally needed but at the same time without the support of the minority parliamentary groups.

Alberto Oilart replaces Luis Fernández who resigned of his post several weeks ago.

RTVE faces some major challenges next year, not least cutting expenditure and also coping with a new rule which forbids RTVE´s two major channels (La 1 and La 2) to broadcast any kind of advertising except for self-promotions of its own programmes.

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Here is a very serious internet warning…..

At PC Tools, we want all our users to be aware of the latest threats so they can take steps to protect themselves.

PC Tools’ Malware Research Center has discovered another online Twilight scam, promising viewers they can watch the “New Moon” movie for free. Here’s what really happens:

Fans are baited with the text websites, chat rooms and blogs that read: “Watch New Moon Full Movie.” Concurrently, comment posts are filled with related keywords to attract more search engines.

Search results for the movie then link users to stolen images from the movie itself, convincing the fan that the movie is only one click away.

When they click on the “movie player” they are told to install a “streamviewer”.

The streamviewer, however, installs malware on the user’s computer.

This is of course part of a larger trend, where cybercriminals use the popularity of current affairs, world events and even movie premieres to attract people who seek free or pirated content.

Our advice is to see films in the cinema. Sure the popcorn is over-priced, but it’s still cheaper than having your bank details taken from your PC and your account drained of funds.

Regards,
The PC Tools Team
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THE TIMES–Letter of the Year

An elderly lady actually wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in The Times and this newspaper thanks him most sincerely.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I
endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three
‘nanoseconds’ must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and
the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of
course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement
which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years. You are to be
commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for
debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused
to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has
caused me to rethink my errant financial ways.

I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and
letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal,
overcharging, re-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become.
From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a fl esh-and-blood
person. My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no
longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed
personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must
nominate.

Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person
to open such an envelope.

Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your
chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in
order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me,
there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her
medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory
details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and
liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she
must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than
28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses
required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service.
As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press
buttons as follows:

1– To make an appointment to see me.
2– To query a missing payment.
3– To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4– To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5– To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6– To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7– To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer
is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date to
the Authorized Contact.)
8– To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 8
9– To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put
on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While
this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play
for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an
establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.

Your Humble Client

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Addendum from The Editor:

IMPORTANT to REMEMBER that this letter was written by a lady who is a 98
year old woman; DOESN’T SHE MAKE YOU PROUD!!!?

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Word of the Day

El cobre koh’-breh  (noun)

copper

EXAMPLES

El cobre es un metal rojizo que se encuentra en la tierra. – Copper is a reddish metal that you can find in the ground.

Se necesita hilo de cobre con doble capa de protección para hacer eso. – You need double insulated copper wire to do that.

IDIOMS

mostrar el cobre – to show one’s true colors

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I received a missive this morning urging gratitude……

Whatever you focus on grows, so when you appreciate someone, see their value and beauty and feel grateful for it, those qualities will expand and grow in your life.

When you focus on everything in your life you have to feel grateful for, and all the wonderful things, experiences and people you appreciate, the universe hands you more of the same. It’s a fantastic abundance expanding experience.

You might like to keep a gratitude journal and write down at the end of each day 10 things you feel grateful for over the last 24 hours to assist you in experiencing more of this wondrous, generative, heart-opening energy of gratitude!

I am very lucky and I am very grateful for being lucky. Okay, so I get a bit of bad luck now and again. This happens to everyone. I have my health and a very good family and a lot of very good friends. I´d like to win the lottery but even this is a bit unfair. I did win the lottery last week. Anne and I share our 8 euro winnings down on the front at Poniente having a lovely cup of coffee and a chat. What could be nicer than looking out on the Med and Benidorm island on a warm Autumnal day? What would I write as 10 things today has brought me?

1. My health

2. My wife

3. My cat

4. My computer

5. My Guitar

6. A nice place to live

7. A nice lady who helped me in the bank.

8. No time to gawp at the television

9. My friend Mike completed his house sale

10. Our visitors arrived safely

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I don´t feel too much gratitude for Yahoo´s so-called improvements over the past few weeks. Has anyone else experienced a number of inconveniences, especially with the mail? I find the line dropping out on quite a regular basis and the mail not being available for several attempts. Is it just me or are others finding the same problems?

I have a question for any computer nerds who might be reading. I have a Spanish computer. The keyboard is Spanish. Every now and then my question mark moves to the bottom of the keyboard where the dash lives. The dash moves to the question mark. I cannot find an answer for this. It´s an inconvenience rather than a problem!

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According to several reports, at least 48 people were killed and a lot more injured in flash floods yesterday, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Wild ‘rivers’ rolling through city streets have flooded hundreds of homes and shops, as approximately 70 millimeters of rain poured over them in less than two hours. This amount of rain accounts for almost 75 percent of the Kingdom’s annual average rainfall.

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