Brain teaser 14 (solution)

There's no missing $1. The dilemma is merely in the way in which the problem is posed. Each man paid $9, making $27 - of this, the waiter got $2 and the manager $25!

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Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot" (lyrics)

One of my favourites ever:
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgBPMMJtIg

Lyrics:

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Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather

And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true?

Looking for a man with a focus and a temper

Who can open up a map and see between one and two

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Time to get it

Before you let it

Get to you

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Here he comes now

Stick to your guns

And let him through

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Everybody's coming from the winter vacation

Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you

You come running in on platform shoes

With Marshall stacks

To at least just give us a clue

Ah, here it comes

I know it's someone I knew

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Teenage riot in a public station

Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you

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You better look it

We're gonna shake it

Up to him

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He acts the hero

We paint a zero

On his hand

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We know it's down

We know it's bound too loose

Everybody's sound is round it

Everybody wants to be proud to choose

So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather

You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze

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It's time to go round

A one man showdown

Teach us how to fail

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We're off the streets now

And back on the road

On the riot trail

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Virtual Barbershop

Binaural recording is a method of recording audio which uses a special microphone arrangement intended for replay using headphones.

Get to know this technique and enjoy!!! It's really amazing!
Just click here:
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

and PLAY...
It will take only 5 minutes.
You'll need headphones!
If you close your eyes you'll feel as if you were there...

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Illusions 18

Are you a good observer?
If so, try to find a face among the beans!!!
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(Source: Worth1000.com, Furitsu)
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Super Furry Animals - "Juxtaposed" (lyrics)

A nice Welsh rock band:
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=3jw7u4f-Ujg
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Lyrics:

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It's easy when you know how

To get along without Biff! Bang! Pow!

And if I see that you're fed up,

I'll stop and give you a leg up.

Over priced unreal estate,

Surreal estate,

The highest price they've hit to date,

Creating new divides and tension.

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You've got to tolerate,

All those people that you hate,

I'm not in love with you,

But I won't hold that against you,

You've got to tolerate,

Some of those people that you hate,

I'm not in love with you,

But I won't hold that against you.

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This is a tale of 2 city/situations,

Mutual appreciation,

Away from narrow pre-conception,

Avoiding conflict hyper-tension,

Non-phobic word aerobic.

This was my domain,

Till someone stole my name.

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You've got to tolerate ...etc.

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Let's get juxtaposed, juxtaposed,

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Brain teaser 15

Think quickly and try to solve by head:

Two trains approach each other from opposite directions. One is travelling at 50 mph, the other at 70 mph. How far apart are they fifteen minutes before they meet?

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Peter Bjorn and John - "Up Against the Wall" (lyrics)

What a nice and creative band from Sweden!
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=sbWemy7dwUE

Lyrics:

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Guess I should have caught your call

But I just had to waste

The phone forget it all

Bones are trembling, hands are cold

You don't know how it feels

You've got me up against the wall

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Maybe we could make this work

But now you start to leave

Before it's getting worse

I don't know what you came here for

It's almost that I wish

We hadn't met at all

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You slap just like a wake-up call

The bruises on the face

Don't bother me at all

Bones are trembling, hands are cold

It's almost that I wish

You had me up against the wall

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Brain teaser 14

Three men are in a restaurant. The bill comes to $30, so each man gives a $10 note to the waiter.

The waiter takes the bill and delivers the payment to the manager - who decides that he's overcharged, so he gives the waiter $5 to take back to the men.

On the way back to the table, the waiter dishonestly pockets $2 of the $5 for himself, and give each man $1 back only.

That means that each man has paid $9 - making a total of $27. The waiter has $2, the men have paid $27... that comes to $29!

What has happened to the missing $1?!

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AIR - "Ce matin-là" (instrumental)

Belle chanson de ce groupe français fantastique:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJfEcIzAhU&feature=related

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5wvBcEHlQ (This video was shot in Stockholm, Sweden)

(A canção e o clip são a minha cara!)

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Stereolab - "Cybele's reverie" (lyrics)

Brilliant song from this British-French band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkaJ5z9QBZQ

Lyrics:

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matières sensuelles et sans suites

matières sensuelles et sans suites

l'enfance est plus sympathique

l'enfance apporte le magique

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que faire quand on a tout fait

tout lu, tout bu, tout mangé

tout donné en vrac et en détail

quand on a crié sur tous les toits

pleuré et ris dans les villes et en campagne

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l'enfance est plus authentique

le jardin au haut portique

les pierres, les arbres, les murs racontent

(la maison, la maison d'autrefois, la maison la maison d'avenir)

et le silence me pénétrera

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Illusions 17

This is a static image. It is not animated in any way but as your vision moves back and forth the center area seems to be moving toward the center (contracting) and the outer edges seem to be moving away (expanding) from the center.

If you fixate on a point in the center and don't move your eyes this anomalous motion will stop! Funny, isn't it?

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Portishead - "The Rip" (Lyrics)

Do you know Portishead from USA?
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJJSCFdVd0

Lyrics:

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As she walks in the room

Scented and tall

Hesitating once more

And as I take on myself

And the bitterness I felt

I realise that love flows

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Wild, white horses

They will take me away

And the tenderness I feel

Will send the dark underneath

Will I follow?

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Through the glory of life

I will scatter on the floor

Disappointed and sore

And in my thoughts I have bled

For the riddles I've been fed

Another lie moves over

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Wild, white horses

They will take me away

And the tenderness I feel

Will send the dark underneath

Will I follow?

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Wild, white horses

They will take me away

And the tenderness I feel

Will send the dark underneath

Will I follow?

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Immigration Québec

At last!!! I got to receive an invitation for the immigration interview... It will be in October! Wish me luck!

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Illusions 16

I could not resist to post this 1888 German postcard version of an old optical illusion.

What can you see: an old or a young lady?

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Immigration Canada

800 millions pour l'immigration

Au deuxième jour de sa visite en Colombie-Britannique, Stéphane Dion a choisi le cadre d'une réception avec la communauté chinoise pour présenter le programme de son parti en matière d'immigration.
Si les libéraux l'emportent, M. Dion commencera par annuler les amendements conservateurs qui, affirme-t-il, ont donné au ministère de l'Immigration des pouvoirs « arbitraires et discrétionnaires ».
« Je veux une procédure dans les règles. Un système qui donne à tous des chances égales », a-t-il déclaré.
Le chef libéral promet également d'investir 800 millions de dollars sur 4 ans afin de moderniser et de simplifier le système d'immigration. « L'argent ne peut pas résoudre tous les problèmes, je ne suis pas Jack Layton! Mais il en faut bien », a-t-il déclaré, brocardant le chef du NPD.

Des visas plus faciles à obtenir

Une première tranche de 400 millions servira à la réforme du système lui-même. Avec le programme Voie d'accès Canada, le Parti libéral veut accélérer les procédures de traitement des demandes d'immigration émises par les travailleurs temporaires, les étudiants internationaux et les aides familiaux.
Stéphane Dion souhaite aussi revoir le système de points afin de favoriser les métiers spécialisés. Il a, par ailleurs, annoncé deux autres programmes: Visa de bienvenue et Express pass.
Visa de bienvenue facilitera la venue des familles des citoyens et des résidents canadiens. Ce visa à entrées multiples, d'une durée de cinq ans et renouvelable, pourra être accordé aux ressortissants étrangers parrainés par un membre de leur famille. Express pass facilitera, quant à lui, la venue des gens d'affaires au pays.

Intégration linguistique et professionnelle

Une deuxième tranche de 200 millions sera consacrée à l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants sur le plan linguistique, avec Nouveau départ Canada. L'idée, a expliqué M. Dion, consiste à fournir aux immigrants les outils linguistiques « nécessaires à leur succès ».
Stéphane Dion a souligné que Nouveau départ Canada sera mis en oeuvre en partenariat avec les provinces afin qu'il n'y ait pas de redondance avec les programmes existants.
Il a précisé que son parti respectera, par exemple, le rôle du gouvernement du Québec pour ce qui est du français.
Une troisième tranche de 200 millions financera Passeport pour l'emploi, conçu pour favoriser l'intégration des immigrants sur le marché du travail à l'aide de stages, de services de mentorat et d'aide à l'emploi.
Il permettra aussi, a indiqué M. Dion, de faciliter la reconnaissance des diplômes des nouveaux arrivants et de leur permettre de compléter leur formation au Canada en suivant des cours. (Radio-Canada)

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The Thrills - "The Irish keep gatecrashing" (lyrics)

One of the best songs I've ever heard from this marvelous Irish indie band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcNRKkL1hec
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Lyrics:

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If I could learn to love you

Could you learn to love me

Lust will only get us so far now

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Lust, top 40 fame...

I can smell your catholic shame

But it goes on & on...

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The fashion police keep chasing

The Irish keep gate-crashing

Lust will only get us so far now

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I finally shed my puppy fat

No, kids, there's no encore tonight

But it goes on & on...

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Brain teaser 13 (solution)

Patricia's birthday is on December the 31st. and she pronounced the phrase on January the 1st.

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Brain teaser 12 (solution)

After 59 seconds.
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Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin - "Think I wanna die" (lyrics)

Very nice song from an American pop band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJ54VaOsuM

Lyrics:

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Think I wanna die if you don’t stay

drop dead in place you can forget it

Carry a torch for days,

I’m gonna let it burn

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I remember watching as you slowly loaded up the loom.

On repeat: Caravan and we danced around the room.

Once insecure about your scar but I think you got over it.

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Dreampt of marimbas made from the bones of our relatives,

who never live as long as we think that they oughta live.

You dreampt of sex with tigers

I tried to get my head around that one!

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Left in a disguise for the faraway

Traveled all alone through boring meadows

while I sat at home

wishing we could elope...

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Will you ever know what you do to me?

I’m on my broken knees, no end of sorrow.

Sorry if that’s twee but it’s tomorrow’s hope.

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CFA Level II

I got to succeed in the CFA Level I exam!!!
Back to the studies for the Level II...
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Bon Iver - "Re: Stacks" (lyrics)

I could not resist to one more song from Bon Iver, this time live from Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGb690x1J74&feature=related

Lyrics:

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This my excavation and today is kumran

Everything that happens is from now on

This is pouring rain

This is paralyzed

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I keep throwing it down two-hundred at a time

It's hard to find it when you knew it

When your money's gone

And you're drunk as hell

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On your back with your racks as the stacks as your load

In the back and the racks and the stacks are your load

In the back with your racks and you're un-stacking your load

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I've twisting to the sun I needed to replace

The fountain in the front yard is rusted out

All my love was down

In a frozen ground

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There's a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry legs are crossed

And he's dangling my keys he even fakes a toss

Whatever could it be

That has brought me to this loss?

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On your back with your racks as the stacks as your load

In the back and the racks and the stacks of your load

In the back with your racks and you're un-stacking your load

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This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization

It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away

Your love will be

Safe with me

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Rufus Wainwright - "Sans Souci" (lyrics)

Get to know this Canadian-American singer-songwriter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkzaJx1B0Q

Lyrics:

Who will be at Sanssouci tonight?

The boys that made me lose the blues tonight, and then my eyesight

All together, playing games of cards

Gambling the tiny shards of brass, once my heart

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Who will be at Sanssouci tonight?

I'm lookin' through the window from the garden

Waitin' for the call to my hotel room

I'm tired of writing elegies to boredom

I just want to be at Sanssouci tonight

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Who will be at Sanssouci tonight?

Surely not the one that loves me truly, only

He's probably down at the stables, there

Gently polishing my cabriolet, only

I don't care, I really want to go

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So I'm opening the door wide to the ballroom

Callin' up some dude from my hotel room

I'm tired of writing elegies in general

I just want to be at Sanssouci tonight

Tonight, tonight...

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The candles seem to all have been blown out

Cupid's wings have cobweb rings and no one's about

Could it be I came to the wrong place?

But I swear I saw them climb the stairs, that sweet mystery

Who will be at Sanssouci tonight?

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It's only when you're outside that you notice

Only from the window you can see them

Once the door is open, all will vanish

Ain't nobody at Sanssouci tonight

Tonight, tonight

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Bon Iver - "Flume" (lyrics)

Brilliant 2008 debut album from an American singer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62i9Sodwp5o

Lyrics:

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I am my mother's only one

It's enough

I wear my garment so it shows

Now you know

Only love is all maroon

Gluey feathers on a flume

Sky is womb and she's the moon

I am my mother on the wall, with us all

I move in water, shore to shore;

Nothing's more

Only love is all maroon

Lapping lakes like leary loons

Leaving rope burns

Reddish ruse

Only love is all maroon

Gluey feathers on a flume

Sky is womb and she's the moon

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Brain teaser 13

Patricia said: "The day before yesterday I was 10, but I will turn 13 in the next year." How is this possible?

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Brain teaser 12

A number of bacteria are placed in a glass. One second later each bacterium divides in two, the next second each of the resulting bacteria divides in two again, et cetera. After one minute the glass is full. When was the glass half-full?
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