General Stuff

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"Work like you *
*don't need the money, sing like no one is listening, love like you've
never
been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching." *

*"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments
that take our breath away" *

*"The risk takers might not live long, but the cautious never live at
all"*

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*Cab Ride *

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*Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living.*

* *
*When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except*
*for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these*
*circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a*
*minute, then drive away.*

* *
*But, I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on*
*taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation
smelled of*
*danger, I always went to the door. This passenger might be someone
who*
*needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself.*

* *
*So I walked to the door and knocked. "Just a minute", answered a
frail,
elderly*
*voice.*

* *
*I could hear something being dragged across the floor.*

* *
*After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 80's stood*
*before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a
veil*
*pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie.*

* *
*By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if
no*
*one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with*
*sheets.*

* *
*There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the*
*counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and*
*glassware.*

* *
*"Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took the*
*suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.*

* *
*She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept*
*thanking me for my kindness.*

* *
*"It's nothing", I told her. "I just try to treat my passengers the*
*way I would want my mother treated".*

* *
*"Oh, you're such a good boy", she said.*

* *
*When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, then asked,*
*"Could you drive through downtown?"*

* *

* *

* *

* *

* *
* "It's not the shortest way," I answered quickly.*
* "Oh, I don't mind," she said. "I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a
hospice".*

* *
*I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening,
continued,*
*"The doctor says I don't have very long."*

* *
*I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. "What route would you*
*like me to take?" I asked.*

* *
*For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the*
*building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.*

* *
*We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had*
*lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a
furniture*
*warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as
a
girl.*

* *
*Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or*
*corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.*

* *
*As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly
said,*
*"I'm tired. Let's go now."*

* *
*We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low*
*building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that
passed*
*under a portico.*

* *
*Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were*
*solicitous and intent, watching her every move.They must have been
expecting*
*her.*

* *
*I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The
woman*
*was already seated in a wheelchair.*

* *
*"How much do I owe you?" she asked, reaching into her purse.*

* *
*"Nothing," I said.*

* *
*"You have to make a living," she answered.*

* *
*"There are other passengers," I responded.*

* *
*Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me*
*tightly. "You gave an old woman a little moment of joy," she said.*
*"Thank you."*

* *
*I squeezed her hand, then walked into the dim morning light.*

* *
*Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a*
*life.*

* *
*I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly*
*lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk.*

* *
*What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was*
*impatient to end his shift?*

* *
*What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then
driven
away?*

* *
*On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more*
*important in my life. We're conditioned to think that our lives*
*revolve around great moments.*

* *
*But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what*
*others may consider a small one.*

* *
*PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU*
*SAID,*

* *
*~BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL~*

* *

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Sayings We'd Like To See On Those Office Inspiration Posters*

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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, *
*they did it by killing all those who opposed them. *

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If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos ... *
*then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of
the
situation.*

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Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done.
Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.*
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. *

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Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity *
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A person who smiles in the face of adversity... probably has a
scapegoat.*
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Plagiarism saves time.*

*If at first you don't succeed, try management.*
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.*

*TEAMWORK... means never having to take all the blame yourself.*
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.*

*Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.*
*
We waste time, so you don't have to.*

*Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!*
*
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent
slacker.*

*A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.*
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When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break. *

*INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.*
*
Succeed in spite of management.*

*Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.*

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Laws Which Newton Forgot to Define


LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

LAW OF TELEPHONE: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.



LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.



LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!



LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.



THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.



LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

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Weight

Big muscles don't come from light loads.

They come from carrying a lot of weight.

Weight can build you up or bend you over.

It depends on how you use it

...and how you see it.

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You Alone

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are
perfect.

There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it.

There is someone who would miss you if you were gone.

There is a place that you alone can fill."

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Handbags

Have you ever noticed gals who sit their handbags on public toilet floors -
then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens
a lot!

It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress.
Sometimes "what you don't know 'will' hurt you"!

Read on...

Mum got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags
down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always
said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.

Smart Mum!!!

It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know
what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside?
Shauna Lake put handbags to the test - for bacteria - with surprising
results. You may think twice about where you put your handbag.

Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the
floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but
did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?

"I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a
lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, and in toilets."

"I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts, on the floor of the toilet
while changing a nappy," says another woman "and of course in my home which
should be clean."

We decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of bacteria. We learned
how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out
to test the average woman's handbag.

Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom
of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top
of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.

Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their
handbags were at least a little bit dirty. It turns out handbags are so
surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags
tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of
bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can
cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the
handbags could make people very sick.

In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and
that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the handbags,"
says Amy . Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth
handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.

People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with
one exception. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs
had one of the worst contaminations of all.

"Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy .

So the moral of this story - your handbag won't kill you, but it does have
the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat.

Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on
your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.

Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair
of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your
coununtertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag
on the countertops" - your handbag has gone where individuals before you
have sneezed, coughed, s pat , urinated, emptied bowels, etc!

Do you really want to bring that home with you? The microbiologists at
Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help.

Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bott om of leather
handbags.

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Lower Blood Pressure in 3 Hours with Home-made Juice

Drop Blood Pressure in 3 Hours, with 250 ML of This All-Natural Juice! Could This Be A Miracle Food?

Shocking new research shows that the most commonly used drugs for lowering blood pressure actually raise it. That’s right: the drugs that most hypertension patients count on are actually putting them in harm’s way.

And in an ironic twist of fate, another brand new study confirms that one simple, natural remedy can drastically lower your blood pressure in just three hours.

Best Meds Elevate Blood Pressure
Research shows that the most commonly prescribed drugs for hypertension are making the problem worse. The study – published recently in the American Journal of Hypertension – followed the progress of 945 patients over 17 years.
The patients were given one of two antihypertensive drugs. One was a calcium channel blocker that lowers blood volume. The other was a beta blocker, or ACE inhibitor. These are often called “R” drugs, which lower levels of renin. Renin is an enzyme secreted by the kidneys and plays a key role in maintaining blood pressure.
The study showed that the drugs spiked blood pressure. The highest spikes were found in patients with low renin levels who were taking the R drugs.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University say doctors are too quick to use a one-drug-treats-all option. They suggest that they need to be careful when choosing treatments for their patients.
“Every clinician knows that there’s a variation in response to antihypertensive treatment,” says study author Michael Alderman, MD. Dr. Alderman is the former president of the American Society of Hypertension. “Some patients will have an elevation in blood pressure.”
Until now, this has been blamed on patients not taking their drugs. Other times doctors put it down to random events.
“But this data shows that it’s not a random event,” he says. “It’s due to a mismatch between the patients’ renin status and the drug.”

Root Remedy Offers Hope
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say one in three Americans over the age of 20 have hypertension. And over 40 million people wind up in hospital each year with it.
According to the American Heart Association, it increases the risk for:
· Heart attack
· Angina
· Stroke
· Kidney failure
· Peripheral artery disease
And while doctors are prescribing drugs that make the problem worse, one simple root can make it better. A brand new UK study – published in the American Heart

Association journal Hypertension – says beetroot juice significantly lowers high blood pressure.

The study was conducted by the famous Queen Mary’s William Harvey Research Institute and headed up by Professor Amrita Ahluwalia. It’s the same institute that discovered that aspirin prevents heart attacks and strokes!
Researchers gave beetroot juice to healthy volunteers. They compared their blood pressure responses and the biochemical changes in their circulation.
And what they found was very good news indeed for people with hypertension. Not only does beetroot juice lower blood pressure… it does it quickly.
Professor Ahluwalia found that patients lowered their blood pressure within three hours of drinking their daily dose! And the effects last for 24 hours.
And the best thing is that the root works best for those who need it most.
Researchers found that “the higher the blood pressure, the greater the decrease.”
That’s good news for a lot of people. Just like the US, one in three adults in the UK suffer from hypertension. And the Blood Pressure Association says over 30 percent of sufferers don’t even know they have it. That’s too bad: it results in over 350 “preventable” strokes or heart attacks every day.

Researchers also tested a second group of patients with daily nitrate tablets. They too were able to lower their blood pressure. It’s possible that the high nitrate content in beetroot is one of the reasons why it’s so effective in lowering blood pressure. And why the research group believe it’s about to become the “next super food.”

“Beeting” Out the Competition
Beetroot is rich in antioxidants. It contains iron, boron, and folic acid. It also contains betanene, which is why it has such a violent color. Betanene is a super antioxidant: it’s more potent than polyphenols. Polyphenols are believed to be reason that diets rich in leafy vegetables lower blood pressure.
Research member Professor Ben Benjamin says that beetroot absorbs and stores super high levels of nitrate. These are found in soil and our bodies use them in its battle against blood pressure.
“When nitrate is present in saliva, bacteria on the tongue converts it into nitrite,” he says. “When the nitrite is swallowed, it’s converted into nitric oxide.”
And that is a chemical produced by our blood vessels to help them relax and lower blood pressure. “Increasing the levels of nitrate with beetroot juice increases this effect,” he says.
The study also found beetroot juice works like aspirin. It prevents blood clots and protects the lining of blood vessels.

True Stories of Success
“Currently, treatment for high blood pressure involves a cocktail of aspirin, statins, beta blockers, and angiotensin converting enzyme [ACE] inhibitors,” says Professor Benjamin. “People don’t like taking all the tablets. They don’t feel well and the treatment is lifelong.”
But he says beetroot is a healthy and safe alternative to all that.
And people are already putting it to the test. Sixty-year-old David Kelsall, from Stoke-on-Trent, England, was amazed by the results. “I discovered my blood pressure was high when my doctor was testing for something else,” he says. “It was not life-threatening but I was anxious to do something about it.”
He was considering drugs when he read the reports about beetroot juice.
“I drank three bottles of it a week,” he says. “Less than four weeks [later], my blood pressure had already leveled out. Now, a few months later, it is under control and normal. I am still drinking the juice, and I’m going to continue doing so. It may not help everyone, but it’s helped me.”

Getting Beetroot into Your Diet
Beetroot has a medium glycemic index score of 64… but this doesn’t need to be a problem. That’s because you only need to have a very small amount of beetroot juice to lower your blood pressure.

“We found that only a small amount of juice is needed – just 250ml – to have this effect,” says Professor Ahluwalia.
Dr. Al Sears says beetroot is better at beating blood pressure problems than any drug. Here is one simple recipe that he suggests for getting it into your diet.

To make this recipe simply take:
· two raw organic carrots;
· three organic celery sticks;
· one-half of an organic cucumber;
· one organic beetroot (also known simply as a beet).
Chop each of the vegetables up.
Drop ‘em in your juicer.
Blend and drink.

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A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell.

He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it
to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last
nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls.

He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.

"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."

"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of
his neck, "these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good
deal of money."

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into
his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held
it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that
enough to take a look?"

"Sure," said the farmer. And with that he let out a whistle,
"Here, Dolly!" he called.

Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by
four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face
against the chain link fence.

His eyes danced with delight.

As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed
something else stirring inside the doghouse.

Slowly another little ball appeared; this one noticeably
smaller.

Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the
little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to
catch up.

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt.

The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said,
"Son, you don't want that puppy.
He will never be able to run and play with you like these other
dogs would."

With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached
down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers.

In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of
his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe.

Looking back up at the farmer, he said,

"You see sir, I don't run too well myself,
and he will need someone who understands."

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Mom Did You See It?

Barbara was driving her six-year-old son, Benjamin, to his piano
lesson. They were late, and Barbara was beginning to think she
should have cancelled it. There was always so much to do, and
Barbara, a night-duty nurse at the local hospital, had recently
worked extra shifts. She was tired. The sleet storm and icy
roads added to her tension. Maybe she should turn the car around.

"Mom!" Ben cried, "Look!"

Just ahead a car had lost control on a patch of ice.
As Barbara tapped the brakes, the other car spun wildly,
rolled over, then crashed sideways into a telephone pole.

Barbara pulled over, skidded to a stop and threw open her door.
Thank goodness she was a nurse, she might be able to help these
unfortunate passengers.

Then she paused. What about Ben? She couldn't take him with
her; little boys shouldn't see scenes like the one she anticipated.

But was it safe to leave him alone? What if their car was hit
from behind? For a brief moment Barbara considered going on her
way. Someone else was sure to come along. No!
"Ben, honey, promise me you'll stay in the car!"

"I will, Mommy," he said as she ran, slipping and sliding,
toward the crash site.

It was worse than she'd feared. Two girls of high school age
were in the car. One, the blonde on the passenger side, was
dead, killed on impact. The driver, however was still breathing.

She was unconscious and pinned in the wreckage.
Barbara quickly applied pressure to the wound in the teenager's
head while her practiced eye catalogued the other injuries.
A broken leg, maybe two, along with probable internal bleeding.
But if help came soon, the girl would live.

A trucker had pulled up and was calling for help on his cellular
phone. Soon Barbara heard the ambulance sirens. A few moments
later she surrendered her lonely post to rescue workers.

"Good job," one said as he examined the driver's wounds,
"You probably saved her life, ma'am." Perhaps. But as Barbara
walked back to her car a feeling of sadness overwhelmed her,
especially for the family of the girl who had died.

Their lives would never be the same. Oh God, why do such things
have to happen? Slowly Barbara opened her car door.

What should she tell Benjamin?
He was staring at the crash site, his blue eyes huge.

"Mom," he whispered, "did you see it?"

"See what, Honey?" she asked.

"The angel, Mom! He came down from the sky while you were
running to the car. And he opened the door, and he took that
girl out."

Barbara's eyes filled with tears. "Which door, Ben?"

"The passenger side. He took the girl's hand, and they floated
up to heaven together."

"What about the driver?"

Ben shrugged. "I didn't see anyone else."

Later Barbara was able to meet the families of the victims.
They expressed their gratitude for the help she had provided.
Barbara was able to give them something more — Ben's vision.

There was no way he could have known by ordinary means who was
in the car or what had happened to either of the passengers.
Nor could the passenger door have been opened. Barbara had seen
it's tangle of immovable steel herself. Yet Ben's account
brought consolation to a grieving family. Their daughter was
safe in heaven, and they would see her again.

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Durian is a little known fruit from Asia that has an extremely pungent smell and an amazingly sweet taste. The smell of the durian fruit is so bad that many hotels in the areas where durian grows will not allow their guests to have the fruit in their rooms. But those who brave the smell are quickly won over by its beautiful taste and amazing health benefits.

Unlike most fruits the durian is left to fall from the tree as this is a sign that it is ripe to eat. People in the local villages of South East Asia, where the durian is most common, call it "The King of Fruits," and they will clear the floor under the trees near to harvest time and then camp near them for up to two months just to make sure they get the fruit at its peak. This is a truly exceptional and healing fruit.

Health Benefits of Durian.

Traditionally the durian fruit was seen as a powerful aphrodisiac, while women would eat the ashes from burnt durian skins to help them recover after child birth. But concoctions made from the leaves of the durian tree were also used to help reduce swelling and cure skin disease. More recently nutritionists have claimed that the durian fruit can help lower cholesterol and cleanse the blood as well as cure jaundice and alleviate fevers.

Experts even say that you can rid yourself of yeast infections such as thrush through eating the durian fruit. This is because of the durian's high iron content that helps the white blood cells in our body make specific chemicals that kill off the infection.

The durian is also packed with amino acids as well as Vitamins B, C and E and many people are even comparing the sweet custard like centre of the durian fruit to the goji berry for its high levels of anti oxidants. These anti oxidants help slow down the destruction of cells from free radicals such as pollution and smoking; in doing so, they decrease the effects of aging on the skin giving you a younger more refreshed look.

Among the amino acids found inside the durian is tryptophan. Tryptophan is essential for making and maintaining serotonin levels in the body. Serotonin is the hormone in the body that regulates our happiness. People with low serotonin levels tend to have short tempers, are often moody and suffer from depression. This means that not only will eating the durian fruit help keep your body running smoothly but it will also increase your general happiness and wellbeing.

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Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on "Start"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

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Written by a doctor who suffers from cancer and he uses alternative
rather than conventional medicine that involves chemo etc.

Good to share with family and friends.

Subject: Cancer treatment is about making money!! ... provoking thoughts?

I posted this article, which may have some provoking thoughts:

The below is absolutely 100% true and as a doctor I have been telling
people this for 15 years now. No one wants to listen. Folks need to
wake up. Cancer treatment is about making money. It is a 120 billion
dollar a year industry in the United States alone and estimated to be
a 600 billion dollar a year industry worldwide.

A successful cancer case according to the American Cancer Society and
the American College of Oncology and Hematology means that the person
survives for 5 years. Both the American Cancer Society and the
American College of Oncology and Hematology admit that a person is
likely to survive cancer for 7 to 10 years even if they do absolutely
NOTHING. Of course, only the doctors get those magazines - not you,
the cancer patient.

Alternative medicine's track record of curing cancer is 10 times
higher than that of conventional medicine. Note that I say CURE.

Remember another thing. A TUMOR is just a symptom. It is not the cause
of cancer.

Science is cause and effect. Remove the cause and the effect disappears.

I am in my third battle with cancer right now. I have not done any
chemotherapy or radiation or surgery for any of my bouts with cancer.
I survived leukemia, I survived Non Hodgkins Lymphoma and now I have
Glioblastoma which is supposedly an incurable form of brain cancer. I
was given two months to live 5 months ago.

I have been using Chinese herbs, high doses of vitamin C, acupuncture,
chiropractic, homeopathy and nutritional changes. Yes, at first it got
worse. It had metastasized to my lymph nodes, my lungs and my bones.
As of this week, I am happy to say that there is no evidence now of
any cancer in my lymph system or my bones. I had 6 tumors in my lungs,
now there are only two. The tumors in my brain have shrunken
tremendously. I never did any of their chemo, radiation or surgery.

Here is a very interesting statistic that you can only have access to
by being a doctor. Every year more than 1,000 doctors oncologists
(cancer doctors) are diagnosed with cancer. Less than 10% of them
choose to do the treatment that they have been giving to their
patients. Sort of like the fact that less than 25% of all
pediatricians vaccinate their own children because of the fact that
the risk of sudden death or serious side effects from the vaccination
is higher than the risk of catching the disease one is being
vaccinated for. This is not bullshit people - it is truth.

Medicine is about money, not about your health and the system traps
people, especially the elderly, disabled and poor into a deadly
treatment regime that puts them in an early grave. Meanwhile, all the
jet set billionaires are flying off to Europe and paying big bucks for
alternative treatments and getting cured.

Does alternative medicine work all the time? No. Of course not.
Nothing works all the time. But there is a reason for that. You don't
die until it's your time to die. Nothing can make you live longer than
that time.

However quality of life comes into play. Those cancer patients who use
alternative therapiesfor their cancer, yet still die from the illness,
suffer a much higher quality of life. They die able to spend time with
their families and even recognize their family members. They don't
become emaciated like those who do chemotherapy or radiation do and
rarely is a person who goes under the treatment of chemotherapy able
to recognize anyone for the last few days of their lives. Their bodies
become ravaged to the point that you can't even recognize them either.
They suffer at a much much higher rate and they have one let down
after another as doctors tell them, ahhh - it's looking good, only to
tell them on the next visit it's looking worse, you need more chemo
and radiation.

What is criminal about this is that YOUR DOCTORS KNOW THIS SHIT.

I took an oath as a physician. I have always followed it. That has
certainly not made me successful financially as a doctor because I
have consistently refused to go along with conventional medicine's
bullshit.

Read the below carefully. It may indeed make a difference in your life.


Rick Cantrell, PhD, MD, PsyD



AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER,
JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer
cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tellcancer patients
that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable
size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and
forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer itindicates the person has
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing
diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day
and by including supplements will strengthen the immune
system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells
in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can
cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars
and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often
reduce tumor size. Howeverprolonged use of
chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor
destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either
compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb
to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation cancause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.
Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other
sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:-

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are
made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural
substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses , but only in
very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make
it white in color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea
salt.

B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting
off milk and substituting withunsweetened soy milk cancer
cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other
meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into
an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked
food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live
enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw
vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer
fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap
water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic
buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more
enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and
allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,
EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy
cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known
to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior
be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put
the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to
have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy
life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, anddeep breathing help to
get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen
therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer
cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its
newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially
breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our
bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this
releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto,
Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to
explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they
are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the
microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods
that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and
plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells
of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware,
Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same
results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners,
instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container
and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what
is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware,
etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants
moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one
of the reasons.

Please share this with your whole email list ....

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is
just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the
microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins
to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.
Cover food with a paper towel instead.

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Durian is a little known fruit from Asia that has an extremely pungent smell and an amazingly sweet taste. The smell of the durian fruit is so bad that many hotels in the areas where durian grows will not allow their guests to have the fruit in their rooms. But those who brave the smell are quickly won over by its beautiful taste and amazing health benefits.

Unlike most fruits the durian is left to fall from the tree as this is a sign that it is ripe to eat. People in the local villages of South East Asia, where the durian is most common, call it "The King of Fruits," and they will clear the floor under the trees near to harvest time and then camp near them for up to two months just to make sure they get the fruit at its peak. This is a truly exceptional and healing fruit.

Health Benefits of Durian.

Traditionally the durian fruit was seen as a powerful aphrodisiac, while women would eat the ashes from burnt durian skins to help them recover after child birth. But concoctions made from the leaves of the durian tree were also used to help reduce swelling and cure skin disease. More recently nutritionists have claimed that the durian fruit can help lower cholesterol and cleanse the blood as well as cure jaundice and alleviate fevers.

Experts even say that you can rid yourself of yeast infections such as thrush through eating the durian fruit. This is because of the durian's high iron content that helps the white blood cells in our body make specific chemicals that kill off the infection.

The durian is also packed with amino acids as well as Vitamins B, C and E and many people are even comparing the sweet custard like centre of the durian fruit to the goji berry for its high levels of anti oxidants. These anti oxidants help slow down the destruction of cells from free radicals such as pollution and smoking; in doing so, they decrease the effects of aging on the skin giving you a younger more refreshed look.

Among the amino acids found inside the durian is tryptophan. Tryptophan is essential for making and maintaining serotonin levels in the body. Serotonin is the hormone in the body that regulates our happiness. People with low serotonin levels tend to have short tempers, are often moody and suffer from depression. This means that not only will eating the durian fruit help keep your body running smoothly but it will also increase your general happiness and wellbeing.

Fever can eat durian? As for happiness, more durian, more heaty and more days MC

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Worried About Christmas Food

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and
the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they
eat between the New Year and Christmas.

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Different Kinds of Diamonds


Many years ago, when my children were quite small, I was brought
to the realization that we don't always recognize our real
riches.

One morning, as my neighbor was visiting me with her children
and my children were running around doing what kids do, there
was a handy man putting a new floor in my kitchen.

He was very friendly and was talking to my friend and I while he
was banging away at the floor. He happened to notice the
diamond ring on my friend's hand and complimented her on it.
It was really quite beautiful.

At that point, I glanced down at my hand and I felt kind of bad
because I only had a wedding ring and no engagement ring. I
just kind of blurted out to the gentlemen that I didn't own a
diamond.

He looked at me and said, "Oh, yes you do. I see your three
children playing right now. Believe me when I tell you that
those are your diamonds."

Well, I learned something that day.

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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey
bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move

forward."

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There are things that we never want to let go of, people and experiences to which we want to keep holding tight, but sometimes we have to let go before we can see if we have anything worth holding on to. Letting go gives us a new
perspective. It allows us to see the beginning of a new and better life.

May you always be willing to let go of that which no longer serves so you can get a better grasp on those things that do.

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the
way things turn out."

~ Art Linkletter, American author and entertainer

How life comes at you today is determined by your past. How you
take it is determined by your present.

How you send it forth determines your future. Send it forth with joy.

May you always be willing to make the best out of life so that life
will allow the best to shine in you.
Kate Nowak

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See It Through


When you're up against a trouble,
Meet it squarely, face to face;
Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
Plant your feet and take a brace.

When it's vain to try to dodge it,
Do the best that you can do;
You may fail, but you may conquer,
See it through!

Black may be the clouds about you
And your future may seem grim,
But don't let your nerve desert you;
Keep yourself in fighting trim.

If the worst is bound to happen,
Spite of all that you can do,
Running from it will not save you,
See it through!

Even hope may seem but futile,
When with troubles you're beset,
But remember you are facing
Just what other men have met.

You may fail, but fall still fighting;
Don't give up, whate'er you do;
Eyes front, head high to the finish.

See it through!


~Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)~