tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18823268788370609902024-03-14T13:27:33.491+08:00All about babies and kidscornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-2672757631912212782011-08-11T23:10:00.001+08:002011-08-12T06:21:38.107+08:00WW - Delicious Summer food<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lhC6XrSoXgA/TkRVUceQtbI/AAAAAAAAAu0/YXXGJUfQAH4/s1600/73347_447644176606_590861606_5813235_2253409_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lhC6XrSoXgA/TkRVUceQtbI/AAAAAAAAAu0/YXXGJUfQAH4/s320/73347_447644176606_590861606_5813235_2253409_n.jpg" border="0" alt="Delicious summer food raspberry cookies - Geniess den Sommer mit Himbeer-Torteletts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639726443103565234" /></a>
<br />cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-40261727523387004422011-08-09T23:54:00.001+08:002011-08-10T07:09:50.118+08:00Birthday cake 2011Mom-in-law made this year again one of her famous fruit birthday cakes (berry cake, mainly strawberry, yummy!).<div>We celebrated together with the couple whose wife is coming from Taiwan(they live in our town, too) and with whom i can talk Chinese and celebrate a few of our Chinese festivals in Germany.</div><div>Her husband did play a few birthday songs for us on his accordion for our amusement and Timmy always likes to dance to his songs.</div><div>
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<br /></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-84413019772491421632011-08-08T23:45:00.001+08:002011-08-09T06:43:33.313+08:00MM - Los del Rio - MacarenaAnd when you don't do the Macarena dance while watching and listening to the song, you should start learning the few easy moves :-) One of my favorites during my late school life, even when boys didn't admit it.
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<br /><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sN62PAKoBfE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-62754220204915437492011-08-07T23:24:00.001+08:002011-08-08T06:00:45.673+08:00Funny animals undercover as piggy banks!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tTTjEtMI0t4/Tj8INC2D8-I/AAAAAAAAAuk/L52fc3rMnfk/s1600/288446_10150258323531607_590861606_7959899_5326828_o.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tTTjEtMI0t4/Tj8INC2D8-I/AAAAAAAAAuk/L52fc3rMnfk/s320/288446_10150258323531607_590861606_7959899_5326828_o.jpg" border="0" alt="funny piggy banks made from wood and coconuts, coin bank, money box" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638234278686094306" /></a><br />As we walked through the culture festival on Saturday our eyes and especially the hands of our son Tim caught the following funny animals who have been on sale by a DIY-artist. They are all made from wood and the main core, the piggy bank or coin box, is an empty coconut.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=92c647d8-7b16-4c35-9034-d5ec65b28174" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /></a></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-62450283992226288762011-08-06T23:41:00.000+08:002011-08-07T07:38:03.629+08:00The amazing human tree picture!We went today again to our yearly culture festival (called "Kulturufer") which gets celebrated in Friedrichshafen at the Lake of Constanze. There you can listen and watch to all kind of musicians, artists, bands and clowns. But today there was a lady acting as a human tree and not only for half an hour (much sunshine and quite hot while body fully covered with clothes).<div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vwoafU5c1T8/Tj3PH5QICZI/AAAAAAAAAuc/pyYw5-i19dA/s1600/288587_10150258312306607_590861606_7959783_1395050_o.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vwoafU5c1T8/Tj3PH5QICZI/AAAAAAAAAuc/pyYw5-i19dA/s320/288587_10150258312306607_590861606_7959783_1395050_o.jpg" border="0" alt="Kulturufer Friedrichshafen 2011 Human tree artist" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637890043072219538" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>We saw her at the beginning of our tour around 4:45 pm, when we left around 7:15 pm she still stood there and greeted everyone who donated some money in her basket with flying kisses.</div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-7158270091674230652011-08-04T23:31:00.002+08:002011-08-05T05:47:34.257+08:00Comment to wish my darling a Happy Birthday!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xgGVgnFvcFY/TjsS_7T1pXI/AAAAAAAAAuU/GjfUzVShYjU/s1600/72418_447414876606_590861606_5810328_3407820_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xgGVgnFvcFY/TjsS_7T1pXI/AAAAAAAAAuU/GjfUzVShYjU/s320/72418_447414876606_590861606_5810328_3407820_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637120248046265714" /></a><br /><span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: left;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bday2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; display: block; float:left; clear: left;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Bday2.jpg/300px-Bday2.jpg" alt="Happy Birthday!" style="font-size:0.8em;border:none;" width="300" height="240" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; clear: both; float: left; width: 300px; ">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bday2.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Today is again the day when my darling can celebrate her birthday!<div><br /><div>Timmy and your husband wish you a life full of love, laughter, happiness, health, joy and success.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have a great time with your friends in your holidays!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Hope you don't mind to surprise her by commenting and wishing her a Happy Birthday, too!</b></div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=9fc031e3-7888-4ded-9fda-03aede589a17" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /></a></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-39396541169509641482011-08-03T23:05:00.001+08:002011-08-04T05:03:31.977+08:00WW: My first handmade Guitar!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k5fhpmejgPc/Tjm3HSyTZoI/AAAAAAAAAuM/KW30vxmXPMg/s1600/278503_10150240553256607_590861606_7765932_6545220_o.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k5fhpmejgPc/Tjm3HSyTZoI/AAAAAAAAAuM/KW30vxmXPMg/s320/278503_10150240553256607_590861606_7765932_6545220_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636737744560678530" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-91611794625314241642011-08-01T23:38:00.002+08:002011-08-02T05:49:25.074+08:00MM - Yvonne Catterfeld - Believe in ME<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: left;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catterfeld.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; display: block; float:left; clear: left;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Catterfeld.JPG" alt="Yvonne Catterfeld" style="font-size:0.8em;border:none;" width="138" height="145" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; clear: both; float: left; width: 138px; ">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catterfeld.JPG">Wikipedia</a></span></span>After listening to so many Songs of Yvonne Catterfeld in the last 8 years, i like to share with you my favorite. It's called 'Glaub an mich' which means 'Believe in me' in english. As Youtube in Germany has to obey to copyright protection, I found a substitute video of a very sweet your singer who sings it nearly as good as Yvonne Catterfeld :)<div><br /></div><div><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CpaRLGclKjo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=8a2c2a4f-d20e-4b69-b275-13cf27135b95" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /></a></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-8161616746063112322011-03-08T23:54:00.000+08:002011-03-09T02:57:07.677+08:00Video: First words of baby Timmy - very cute!<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P-BbcLpI0VU?rel=0" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-74616144766378655572011-02-13T23:54:00.000+08:002011-02-14T08:12:30.950+08:00Happy Valentine's Day with a Special from FailBlog!Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day with your loved ones! May the love never end!<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vi1C3Tk_yZg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-62102508025222882422011-02-12T23:55:00.001+08:002011-02-13T02:57:06.450+08:00Video: The Baby who says NO to everything!Baby Charlotte is a very cute and special baby :) And today she answers every question with just one word, even when she is asked if she wants to own 1 Million Dollars!<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GV7Fq6Xyi9Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div><br /></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-49648618058230713492011-02-11T23:58:00.000+08:002011-02-12T08:14:22.465+08:00Chinese New Year Decoration 2011 - The minimalistic way!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a4eRus2QdEc/TVXPkrcrhdI/AAAAAAAAAuA/fg8Bogy3QVs/s1600/Chinese_New_Year_Decoration_2011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a4eRus2QdEc/TVXPkrcrhdI/AAAAAAAAAuA/fg8Bogy3QVs/s320/Chinese_New_Year_Decoration_2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572588342986114514" /></a>On 3rd of February 2011 the Chinese New Year started with a new zodiac - The rabbit! All what you need for decorating your home for the 2011 Chinese New Year (CNY) are the following items:<div><ul><li>Mandarins</li><li>pink flowers</li><li>red or violet decorations on the table</li><li>and many rabbits ;)</li></ul></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-11729192978848357742011-02-09T23:58:00.001+08:002011-02-10T06:43:20.558+08:00WW - DIY Craft - Felt Owl<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TVMXPhFgnaI/AAAAAAAAAt4/190i7i7yNBA/s1600/DIY_felt_owl.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TVMXPhFgnaI/AAAAAAAAAt4/190i7i7yNBA/s320/DIY_felt_owl.jpg" border="0" alt="DIY Craft Felt Owl Filz Eule selbstgemacht" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571822719334391202" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-81702120772415792222011-02-02T23:25:00.000+08:002011-02-03T06:17:30.249+08:00Christmas: Tim and his Activity Cube - Wordless Wednesday -<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TUnXlrybMMI/AAAAAAAAAtw/bNdCY4YK0nI/s1600/Tim_christmas_Activity_cube.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TUnXlrybMMI/AAAAAAAAAtw/bNdCY4YK0nI/s320/Tim_christmas_Activity_cube.jpg" border="0" alt="Christmas present: Tim and his Activity Cube - Wordless Wednesday" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569219456629682370" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-87712048417411217462011-01-31T23:19:00.002+08:002011-02-01T07:35:53.869+08:00Music Monday - Chinese New Year SongThis is one of the most viewed Chinese New Year Songs of 2011 ( CNY 2011). A quite beautiful song which brings us the feeling that a Happy New Year will start soon.<div>Hope you enjoy the song and for everyone who doesn't know when we Chinese start our New Year in 2011 - it's on 3rd February 2011 - the year of the Rabbit.</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OQlButQctf8" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size:1em;margin:1em 0 0 0;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.gadling.com/2011/01/27/foods-of-chinese-new-year-hong-kong-style/">Foods of Chinese New Year, Hong Kong-style</a> (gadling.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sunflowerdiva.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/chinese-new-year-year-of-the-rabbit/">Chinese New Year: Year of the Rabbit</a> (sunflowerdiva.wordpress.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.dailymuscle.com/2011/02/01/this-chinese-new-year-do-this-and-stay-in-better-shape/">This Chinese New Year, do this and stay in better shape</a> (dailymuscle.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://adriansjournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/chinese-new-year-food-recipes-kok-chais_22.html">Chinese New Year Food Recipes - Kok Chais</a> (adriansjournal.blogspot.com)</li></ul></div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=f24a12a3-e22d-4283-ba7f-cc0d6fa9073b" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-30258617244119234062011-01-28T22:09:00.002+08:002011-01-29T10:19:06.992+08:00My first german Christmas Present!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TUN3O786XbI/AAAAAAAAAtU/4BHWum9e1vM/s1600/Tim_christmas_xylophone.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TUN3O786XbI/AAAAAAAAAtU/4BHWum9e1vM/s320/Tim_christmas_xylophone.jpg" border="0" alt="Christmas presents in Germany - Xylophone" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567424662855114162" /></a>Christmas time came five weeks ago the first time for our Tim. And as it's tradition in Germany there have to be a lot of presents for kids. So this was one of the presents which Timmy got on 24th December 2010 - the little Tikes Caterpillar xylophone (to be continued soon).cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-35336968282044588512010-09-22T23:59:00.001+08:002010-09-23T18:44:49.515+08:00WW: New Life in Germany - Timmy is playing on the terrace<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TJsvdSNTAgI/AAAAAAAAAtI/h0QAXAyb9pQ/s1600/Timmy_playing_on_Terrace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TJsvdSNTAgI/AAAAAAAAAtI/h0QAXAyb9pQ/s400/Timmy_playing_on_Terrace.jpg" border="0" alt="WW: New Life in Germany - Timmy is playing on the terrace" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520057948422996482" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-43276980780091565552010-08-14T05:07:00.002+08:002010-08-14T05:20:27.283+08:00MM: Jackie Evancho - America's Got TalentA new super star was born in the US show Amercia's Got Talent. Simply watch the video of 10 year young Jackie Evancho and be amazed by her fantastic voice!!<div><br /></div><div><object width="580" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xPITHzdUUDk?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xPITHzdUUDk?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-14384347724065994982010-08-13T23:54:00.003+08:002010-08-14T19:02:40.584+08:00WW: One lazy lizard :)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TGZ3xstqr8I/AAAAAAAAArk/ExXO_SNYU1Y/s1600/P1020447.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TGZ3xstqr8I/AAAAAAAAArk/ExXO_SNYU1Y/s320/P1020447.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505219290207006658" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-53828953203733438012010-07-28T23:59:00.000+08:002010-07-29T17:18:47.495+08:00WW: New Life in Germany - In our Garden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TFFHQ5HZbbI/AAAAAAAAArM/E-AW1KVEoQQ/s1600/New_Life_germany_in_the_garden.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TFFHQ5HZbbI/AAAAAAAAArM/E-AW1KVEoQQ/s320/New_Life_germany_in_the_garden.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499254975531412914" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-15482953918986863082010-07-26T23:59:00.000+08:002010-07-27T06:41:55.563+08:00MM: Hansi Hinterseer - So ein schöner TagIsn't he a sexy sunny boy ;-) <b>Hansi Hinterseer</b> was a former ski champion after he stopped his skiing career, he changed his profession and started to sing full-time.<br />This song is called in englisch -<b>Such a beautiful day</b>-.<br /><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDewSAt76cw&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDewSAt76cw&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-32883900230906130932010-07-21T23:59:00.001+08:002010-07-22T17:34:13.832+08:00WW: My new dress<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TEgQBCI59mI/AAAAAAAAArE/Ul0flDja8jE/s1600/my-new-dress.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m78EKrtotm8/TEgQBCI59mI/AAAAAAAAArE/Ul0flDja8jE/s320/my-new-dress.jpg" border="0" alt="Baby's new dress - trouser and shirt in our garden" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496660955145827938" /></a>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-88057991408968240382010-07-19T16:21:00.003+08:002010-07-19T16:55:43.019+08:00MM: Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark - UnitedOne of my favorite songs from the 90's. Prince Ital Joe featuring Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg, the famous actor, he even was the Calvin Klein underwear man in 1991!) with their song "United". They sing about a better understanding with all races.<br /><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uSpR4ml8j44&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uSpR4ml8j44&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-52375043298025517052010-07-17T13:31:00.001+08:002010-07-17T13:31:00.158+08:00Science: What babies know about numbers? Part II<h2>A strong case for “baby number sense”</h2>Were the babies really responding to the change in numerosity? It certainly seems so.<p>Babies reacted similarly when presented with pairs of small numbers (2 vs 3) and distant, large numbers (4 vs 12).</p><p>And researchers controlled for several, non-numerical variables that could have influenced babies—like the total surface area of the objects, the average area devoted to each object, the total <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminance" title="Luminance" rel="wikipedia">luminance</a> of each image, and the total area occupied by each group of objects.</p><p>So babies weren’t simply attending to the continuous extent of “stuff” in each image.</p><p>In fact, other experiments suggest that babies pay <i>more</i> attention to change in number than they do to changes in continuous extent or surface area (Cordes and Brannon 2008).</p><p>Nor is it all “in the eye.” If babies’ feats of numerical discrimination were confined to visible objects, we might suspect that the ability is <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_specificity" title="Domain specificity" rel="wikipedia">domain specific</a>—a specialization of the visual system rather than a more general conceptual ability. But babies aren’t one-trick ponies. In addition to distinguishing visual arrays, babies can also detect differences in the number of sounds and in the number of actions (Lipton and Spelke 2003; Wood and Spelke 2005).</p><p>Babies can even understand ordinality—the idea that numbers can be arranged in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude" title="Order of magnitude" rel="wikipedia">order of magnitude</a>. When 11-month old babies were presented with sequences of numerosities, they could discriminate between sequences that increased and sequences that decreased (Brannon 2002).</p><p>Of course, this doesn’t mean that babies can distinguish any two numbers. There are limits. For instance:</p><p></p><ul><li>Six-month old babies have a hard time distinguishing two quantities if the ratio between them is less than 2:1. In other words, they can handle 8 vs. 16, but fail to distinguish 8 vs. 12 (Xu and Arriaga 2007; Lipton and Spelke 2003)<br /><br /></li><li>Nine- and 10-month olds can make finer distinctions (8 vs. 12). But even these older babies don’t seem to discriminate between 8 and 10 (Xu and Arriaga 2004; Lipton and Spelke 2003)<br /><br /></li><li>Babies don’t distinguish between increasing and decreasing sequences of numbers until the approach the end of their first year. When Elizabeth Brannon tested 9-month old babies, they failed the test (Brannon 2002)</li></ul>Nevertheless, the results are pretty impressive. When babies look at a set of objects, they don’t just see a “bunch.” Babies have an approximate sense of number.<p></p><fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://holykaw.alltop.com/babies-can-count-before-they-communicate">Babies can 'count' before they communicate</a> (holykaw.alltop.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/05/10/this-week-in-film-babies">This Week in Film: Babies</a> (slog.thestranger.com)</li></ul></fieldset> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=4c843c6b-cd94-4176-97cb-9dea5cec9b38" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right"></a><font class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></font></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882326878837060990.post-24037945558292612242010-07-10T23:59:00.002+08:002010-07-11T18:31:31.496+08:00Science: What babies know about numbers?<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; float: left; display: block; width: 310px; "><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Infant_looking_at_shiny_object.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Infant_looking_at_shiny_object.jpg/300px-Infant_looking_at_shiny_object.jpg" alt="Shiny and colored objects usually attract Infa..." style="border:none;display:block" width="300" height="400" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Infant_looking_at_shiny_object.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></p>New experimental research reveals a fascinating new world of baby <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition" title="Cognition" rel="wikipedia">cognition</a>, one in which babies can<div><ul><li>recognize the approximate difference between two numbers</li><li>keep precise track of small numbers, and</li><li>do simple subtraction and addition problems.</li></ul><p></p><p>Moreover, when babies perform these feats <b>they activate the same parts of the brain that are associated with mathematical thinking in adults.</b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></b></p><b><h2>What babies know about numerosity</h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Psychologists define “numerosity” as the number of things in a set.</span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Although we can get a precise measure of numerosity by counting, it’s possible to appreciate numerosity in a more approximate way.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For instance, if I ask you to glance in a crowded elevator and estimate how many people are there, you can probably make a pretty good guess.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Glance inside two elevators, and you’ll also be pretty good at guessing which one has more people in it.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">All without counting.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It turns out that adult humans aren’t the only creatures who can pull this off. A variety of non-verbal creatures—including monkeys, rats, and human infants—can detect the approximate difference in magnitude between two sets (Dehaene 1999).</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Show them two displays—one featuring 8 items and the other only 4 items—and they will respond differently depending on what they see.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And the difference is observable in the brain.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">When </span>3-month old infants<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> were shown a series of displays depicting different quantities of objects, the electrical activity of their brains changed in response (Izard et al 2008).</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For example, babies were presented with a continuous stream of images, each depicting 4 objects. From image to image, the objects were arranged differently. But the total number of objects remained the same.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Infants subjected to this program showed signs of boredom.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">But their brain activity (as measured by event-related potentials, or ERPs) would perk up if they were next presented with an image showing 8 objects.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What’s more, the part of the brain that was activated was the same region that lights up when adults process information about numbers (Izard et al 2008).</span></p><p></p></b><b></b><p></p></div><fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?_feed&id=27436&url=http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/%257Er/sciencedaily/%257E3/qMb2B-z4d9M/100615141751.htm">Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts</a> (socialpsychology.org)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/834401--the-life-of-the-brain-beginnings">The Life of the Brain: Beginnings</a> (thestar.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5544953/dont-worry-this-baby-is-just-learning">Don't Worry, This Baby Is Just Learning [Neurology]</a> (gizmodo.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/node/40810">Bringing Up Baby</a> (psychologytoday.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://socyberty.com/education/reading-to-newborn-babies-the-benefits/">Reading to Newborn Babies: The Benefits</a> (socyberty.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/m-gbi062210.php">Growing brain is particularly flexible</a> (eurekalert.org)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blisstree.com/live/will-your-baby-make-your-husband-grow-new-brain-cells/">Will Your Baby Make Your Husband Grow New Brain Cells?</a> (blisstree.com)</li></ul></fieldset> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top:10px;height:15px"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=ccddb414-a39c-4c10-a7b2-184ddbb1bc4c" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" style="border:none;float:right" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>cornymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03882774092714294260noreply@blogger.com0