Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Things to know about Aspartame

I was introduced to an artificial sweetener by my mother. She used it as substitute to sugar in fear of acquiring diabetes. The branded product was aspartame. My mother have been intaking it for years. After some years, she acquired an unusual disease. She got lumps on her stomach. After some months, she got lumps all over her body. This is not to blame the product she's been taking. But I guess there's really something on the product. After some months, she died. I have read this article after some months. to make it clear, I'm not putting the blame to the product on my mother's death. I just want to share what I have read about the product.

ASPARTAME CRISIS POSED TO WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
From the INTERNET, 8/17/00 [quoting]
by Betty Martini



I have spent several days lecturing at the World Environmental Conference on Aspartame -marketed as “NutraSweet”, “Equal”, and “Spoonful”.
In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained was there to lecture on exactly that subject. [I bet that was a very embarrassing moment for the EPA speaker.]

When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in Aspartame coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire mimics multiple sclerosis; thus, people were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.
In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially for Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12-ounce cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by Aspartame, the victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use, aggravating the lupus to such a degree that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

When we get people off the Aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we cannot reverse this disease. On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when, in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus.
During a lecture, I said: “If you are using Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss, you probably have Aspartame Disease!”

People were jumping up during the lecture saying: “I’ve got this. Is it reversible?” It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture, attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding Aspartame! He continued by saying that the son of one of the industry leaders could no longer walk, due in part to product usage! We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself and said: “Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?”

During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke drinkers, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence.

Here is the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was originally included as a sweetener in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!

At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the Aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of drugs as cyanide and arsenic -DEADLY POISONS! Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems.
Aspartame changes the brain’s chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. This drug also causes birth defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record said: “It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT.” Dr. Roberts stated that, when he got patients off Aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person.

The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is caused by the Aspartame. The Aspartame keeps the blood-sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died.

People were telling us, at the Conference of the American College of physicians, that they had relatives who switched from Saccharin to an Aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma.
Their physicians could not get the bloodsugar levels under control.
Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss, and eventually coma and death. Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past the blood-brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said: “The ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled EXCITOTOXINS: The Taste That Kills (Health Press 1-800-643- 2665). Dr. H. J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on Aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled Defense Against Alzheimer’s Disease (1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how Aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer’s Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will be writing a position paper with some case histories and will post it on the Internet.

According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians: “We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly poison.” Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when Aspartame was first marketed. He said: “My diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss.” At the Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know all this.

They had wondered why seizures were rampant. (The phenylalanine in Aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage, and violence.) Just before the Conference, I received a fax from Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this poison because they are experiencing so many problems in their country. This “poison” is now available in 90+ countries worldwide!

Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at the Conference from different nations who have pledged their help. We ask that you help too. Print this article out and warn everyone you know. Take anything that contains Aspartame back to the store. Take the “NO ASPARTAME TEST” and send us your case history. I assure you that Monsanto, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
They fund the American Medical Association, American Dietetic Association Congress, and the Conference of the American College of Physicians. The New York Times, November 15, 1996, ran an article on how the American Dietetic Association takes money from the food industry to endorse their products. Therefore, they cannot criticize any additives or tell about their link to Monsanto.

How bad is this? We told a mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The child was having Grand Mal seizures every day. The mother called her physician, who called the ADA, who told the doctor not to take the child off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince the mother that the Aspartame is causing the seizures. Every time we get someone off of Aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault it is, and what we are up against.

There are 92 documented symptoms of Aspartame, from coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological, because the Aspartame destroys the nervous system. Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is behind some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health problems. The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of Aspartame products.
Several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the Desert Storm troops. (Remember heat can liberate the methanol from the Aspartame at 86 degrees F.) Diet drinks sat in the 120-degree F Arabian Sun for weeks at a time on pallets. The servicemen and women drank them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical to Aspartame poisoning. Dr. Roberts says consuming Aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth defects.”

According to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician and Professor of Genetics at Emory University, in his testimony before Congress, the phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta, causing mental retardation. (In the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors; phenylalanine breaks down into DXP, a brain tumor agent.) When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on Aspartame, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said: “When they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of Aspartame in them.”

Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, which helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics, has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years, the FDA had outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to Monsanto. If it says “SUGAR FREE” on the label—DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all infants, pregnant mothers, and children of the dangers of Aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms). It was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.
Since the Conference of the American College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of several world leaders.

Again, please help us, too. There are a lot of people out there who must be warned; please let them know this information. — Betty Martini, 770-242-2599. [End quoting]
Sorry to have to give you all of this “bad” news, but we here at The SPECTRUM are trying to help you to stay healthy despite so many sneaky avenues to try to incapacitate you. The so-called “elite” are pushing their depopulation plan forward as fast as they dare to do without too many of us WAKING UP!

Article Source
The Spectrum. Vol. 2 No. 4 published Sept. 5, 2000, pp. 6-7 by Spectrum Newspaper, Inc., 9101 West Sahara Ave., PMB158, Las Vegas, NV 89117.
Email: thespectrum@tminet.com



Friday, December 7, 2007

Be Like an Ant

In times of financial struggle, the Bible teaches us
to follow the example of a tiny insect.
By Al Jandl and Van Crouch
Reprinted from "The Storehouse Principle" with
permission from CrossStaff Publishers.

Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise.
--Proverbs 6:6

By what principles do ants live? Proverbs 6:7-8 tells
us ants have "no captain, overseer or ruler," yet they
gather their food during the harvest and it lasts them
until the next summer. Ants produce and gather,
preparing for the future, storing up against the
winter or calamity. The ant is not just thinking about
today, she's preparing for tomorrow.

Do you remember the old fable about the ant and the
grasshopper? The ant works hard all year long to store
up for the winter, while the grasshopper plays and
gathers nothing. When winter hits and the snows fall,
the grasshopper begins to starve and must go to the
ants to beg in order to survive. Meanwhile, the ants
are warm, safe, and secure--and they have plenty to
help the grasshopper out in his need.

Notice again, God said to go to the ant--not the
grasshopper.

In order for the ant to gather and prepare for the
future, she must have a storehouse. We believe God is
teaching us that if we are wise like the ant, we will
have a storehouse for the "winter" seasons of life.
Then, as springtime begins, the ant is still living
off her storehouse, but she also begins again to
immediately gather to rebuild and strengthen her
storehouse for the next winter. The ant never stops
working on her storehouse, and always has more than
enough.

For us, "winter" could mean a number of different
things. It could mean an unexpected change in our
careers, an accident, an economic slump, or any number
of "emergencies" or "storms" that come into our lives.
Some of these may even be good things, or seasons that
we can plan for, like our children going to college,
buying a new home or car, starting our own businesses,
or even retiring. Ants don’t' live in denial,
consuming all they have today, for today, and
believing that "winter" will never come; grasshoppers,
however, do.

Even if an ant can only put one grain at a time into
her storehouses, she still does it. Her storehouses
are also in a large network of underground tunnels
(she is diversified so that if one is destroyed by a
storm, the others will still be intact); and her
storehouses have different purposes (some are to take
care of the young, others to make it through the
winter, others set aside provisions in case winter is
longer than expected, etc.). Ants work hard to take
care of themselves and their colony and don't expect
anyone else to take care of them.

Indeed, there is a great deal we can learn from seeing
what ants do with their surpluses and how diligently
they manage them and work to make sure they have more
than enough.

There has been a great deal of debate and criticism in
the church in recent years on the subject of Bible
prosperity. It is true that some have misappropriated
true prosperity for selfish purposes, but that doesn't
change the fact that God wants to bless His children.
Some people have become so upset about the subject
that they say, "I don't believe in prosperity, and I
don't like to hear about prosperity." But, prosperity
in and of itself is not evil any more than money
is--it is the attitude of our hearts and what we do
with our prosperity that matter. If we prosper and it
only makes us more greedy and selfish, then, yes,
prosperity will not be a blessing for us; but, if we
use our prosperity to secure the future of our
families and to help others, then it will be a tool in
our hands for good.

How many times do we see a need in the life of a son
or daughter or relative, or perhaps a friend or
coworker, and wish that we could help meet that need?
All around us there are people who need help to have
food and the basic necessities of life. If we have a
storehouse, we are in position to offer assistance to
those in need. Without a storehouse, we miss
opportunities to bless others.

Like the grasshopper, if we do not have a storehouse,
we are subconsciously planning for somebody else to
take care of us. When we do not have a storehouse, we
are constantly focused on our own needs rather than on
the needs of others. Look again at Proverbs 6:7: the
ant "having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides
her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in
the harvest."

Now, please don't misunderstand what is being said
here. No man or woman is an island. God did not create
us to be completely independent of other people. At
times, we all need counseling. At times, we all need
help. We need mentoring. We depend on other people for
all kinds of things. Ants work in a community helping
each other--we should do the same and realize that
sometimes the burdens we face can take several of us
to handle. But, if we're not careful, we can make
ourselves so dependent on others that we expect them
to be responsible for us instead of taking
responsibility for ourselves. The ant accepts
responsibility for meeting her own needs. The Bible
says she is busy gathering and storing up food so that
she can take care of herself.

Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming about
someone paying all your bills and doing all your work?
"Take care of me, honey." "Take care of me,
government." "Take care of me, Social Security." "Take
care of me, boss." With that kind of thinking, we'll
slide into a mindset of irresponsibility.

The Bible does not say that somebody is going to ride
into our life like a knight on a white horse and
rescue us from our financial problems. We can't expect
anybody else to just walk up to us and hand us a
million dollars!

We shouldn't expect anybody to make our mortgage
payments for us. We shouldn't expect anybody to make
our car payments for us. It's not right to believe
that another human being is obligated to get us out of
debt. Yet, many of us live our lives hoping that
someone else will take care of us, or believing an
inheritance from parents will someday, miraculously,
"make us rich."

Consider the ant. She waits for no one. The ant just
gets up in the morning and stretches her six legs and
hits the road. She says by her actions, "I am not a
victim. Life may throw some curves at me, but I'm
bigger than the curves of life. Life has given me
obstacles, but I will go around them. I will go over
them. I will go through them, if necessary. I'm going
to get there, bless God. I'm going to make it. I am
not going to sit here waiting for someone else to
solve my problems. I am going to do whatever I can
today--even if it is only a little."

Some of us may have lost everything. We may not have a
dime to our name. Perhaps we have filed bankruptcy or
filed for welfare. Perhaps your home burned to the
ground or you lost your job. Well, don't be a
victim--go look at the ant. That may be where we are
living today, but that's not where we will be
tomorrow.

Wherever you are, your situation is not hopeless.
Wherever you are today or whatever has happened to you
in the past, start preparing for tomorrow. Look at
what you have--whether it is time, talent, or treasure
or any combination of these--and start building
storehouses for your future. Build a spiritual
storehouse, a natural storehouse, and a mental
storehouse. Build storehouses for yourself and for
your children, and for others. Determine to have
reserves in every area of your life, so that whatever
tries to knowck you down will never knock you out.

If an ant can do it, surely God's children can do it
as well. If a tiny insect can have determination, we
can have determination. If a miniscule insect can be
brave, we can be brave. And if the ant can be strong,
we can be strong. If the ant can be wise enough to
have a storehouse, then we should consider her ways
and be just as wise. If we do, then who knows what
great things God may do in our futures!

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Who is this?

Do you know who is the person spoken of in these prophecies?

His pre-existence - Gen. 1:26
Born of the seed of a woman - Gen 3:15
Of the seed of Abraham - Gen 12:3
From the tribe of Judah - Gen 49:10
Heir to the throne of David - Isaiah 9:6-7
Born in Bethlehem - Micah 5:2
At the appointed time - Dan 9:25
Born of a virgin - Isaiah 7:14
Declared to be the Son of God - Psa 2:7
Would be a prophet - Deut 18:15
Rejected by his own - Isaiah 53:3
He entered Jerusalem as a king riding on an ass - Zec 9:9
Sold for 30 pieces of silver - Zec 11:12
Accused by false witnesses - Psa 35:11
Silent to accusations - Isaiah 53:7
Spat upon and smitten - Isaiah 50:6
Hated without cause - Psa 35:19
The sacrificial lamb - Isa 53:5
Crucified with criminals - Isa 53:12
Pierced through hands, feet and side - Zec 12:10
Given vinegaart and gall - Psa 69:21
Soldiers gambled for hiis coat - Psa 22:18
No bones broken - Psa 34:20
Buried with the rich - Isa 53:9
Resurrected from the dead - Psa 16:10-11, 49:15
Ascended to the right hand of God - Psa 68:18
His coming glory - Malachi 3:2-3

All of the above have been fulfilled.
The ONLY person... past, present or future... who fulfilled all these prophecies is Jesus.


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Sunday, December 2, 2007

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Saturday, December 1, 2007

Tongue twisters...

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

Tongue twisters are fun. Tongue twisters improve the way we pronounce words correctly without losing its meaning. Here's a tip: Inhale before each start of each one.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits

Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.

A big black bug bit a big black bear,
made the big black bear bleed blood.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.

"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."

A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.

A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw!

Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar -
That boar will bore the bear no more.

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.

Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw!

I can think of six thin things and of six thick things too.

I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.

Cheap ship trip.

I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

Fat frogs flying past fast.

I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.

Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
"Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?"

The boot black bought the black boot back.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Moose noshing much mush.

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fist against the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts.

My dame hath a lame tame crane,
My dame hath a crane that is lame.

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.

What noise annoys a noisy oyster? A noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster.

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.

Six sticky sucker sticks.

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu
choose the shoes he chews?

Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

Six sharp smart sharks.

What a shame such a shapely sash
should such shabby stitches show.

Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.

What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.

Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan!

Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins.

I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

Brad's big black bath brush broke.

Chop shops stock chops.

Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes
as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.

Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch
slickly snared six sickly silky snakes.

Susan shineth shoes and socks;
socks and shoes shines Susan.
She ceased shining shoes and socks,
for shoes and socks shock Susan.

Truly rural. Truly rural. Truly rural...

Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.

A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.

The seething seas ceaseth
and twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us.

If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

Two Truckee truckers truculently truckling
to have truck to truck two trucks of truck.

Plague-bearing prairie dogs.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.

Give me the gift of a grip top sock:
a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.

While we were walking, we were watching window washers
wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Freshly fried fresh flesh.

Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.

The crow flew over the river
with a lump of raw liver.

Are our oars oak?

A bloke's back bike brake block broke.

A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place
where a plaice is pleased to be placed.

I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau,
he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.

Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.

Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fist against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.

Give Mr. Snipa's wife's knife a swipe.

Chop shops stock chops.

Whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade,
he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

A lusty lady loved a lawyer
and longed to lure him from his laboratory.

You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.

She stood on the balcony
inexplicably mimicing him hiccupping,
and amicably welcoming him home.

Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.

On mules we find two legs behind
and two we find before.
We stand behind before we find
what those behind be for.

What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?

One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.

Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle. Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle...

Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.

Pick a partner and practice passing,
for if you pass proficiently,
perhaps you'll play professionally.

Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar--
That boar will bore the bear no more.

A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear
when Washington's washer woman went west?

Freshly-fried flying fish.

The sawingest saw I ever saw saw
was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas.

Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!

Strange strategic statistics.

Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker

Ned Nott was shot
and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott
than Nott.
Some say Nott
was not shot.
But Shott says
he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott
was not shot,
or
Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott,
Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot,
not Nott.
However,
the shot Shott shot shot not Shott --
but Nott.

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.

There was a young fisher named Fischer
Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in;
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.

That bloke's back bike brake-block broke.

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.

Susan shineth shoes and socks;
Socks and shoes shines Susan.
She ceases shining shoes and socks,
For shoes and socks shock Susan.

Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.

Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him home.

Suddenly swerving, seven small swans
Swam silently southward,
Seeing six swift sailboats
Sailing sedately seaward.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.

The ocher ogre ogled the poker.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor
With a lock!

Six sharp smart sharks.

The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.

Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum, swan!

Some shun sunshine. Some shun sunshine...

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

Thank the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side.

A truly rural frugal ruler's mural.

Irish wristwatch.

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.

Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades,
blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly.

Tragedy strategy.

They have left the thrift shop, and lost both their theater tickets and the
volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.


You can also visit the following links for more tongue twisters:
Link 1 - Indexed tongue twisters from A to Z
Link 2 - International tongue twisters in different languages
Link 3 - A database of tongue twisters

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

God will make a way

What's the story behind this song:



Late at night in a remote part of the Texas panhandle, Don Moen's wife, his sister and sister's husband were traveling with their four children. They never saw the approaching truck, and its driver never saw them. The children were thrown from the van.

In the terrible darkness, the parents followed the sounds of crying to their wounded children. But Craig Phelp's 9-year-old son wasn't crying. His neck was broken upon impact, and he was dead.

Craig, a doctor, quickly tried to revive his son. But God's voice cut through the chaos: Jeremy is with Me, God seemed to say. You deal with those who are living. It took 45 excruciating minutes for the ambulance to arrive at this desolate little patch of wilderness.

The next day, on his way to the funeral by plane, Dom Moen opened his Bible. Was it merely a chance that directed his eyes to Isaiah 43:19? I think not. "I will even make a road in the wilderness," Don read, "and rivers in the desert." A song immediately welled up within him, as if fully formed. It was one of those moments when divine inspiration overpowers an artist.

After the mournful service, Don embraced the bereaved parents; their tears mingled with his own. He managed to tell them that God had provided a song especially for them. And with a lump on his throat, he somehow sang:

God will make a way when there seems to be no way,
He works in way we cannot see.
He will make a way for me.
He will be my guide, hold me closely to His side,
With love and strenth for each new day,
He will make a way, He will make a way.

By a road in the wilderness He'll lead me,
And rivers in the desert will I see;
Heaven and earth will fade,
But His Word will still remain,
He will do something new today.


Today, that little song has made its way around the world. It offers the comfort of the Lord in every corner of the globe, simply because God's grieving children made a way to woship in the worst of life's wilderness. They could have fixed their eyes on the wreckage of a wilderness road, but they saw instead the invisible road-the one God always provides toward hope and deliverance. The Phelpses and the Moens knew that at the end of that road, a laughing nine-year-old waits to welcome them.

-David Jeremiah. My Heart's Desire.
Source: Linsay Terry, "A Song Written for One Family," The Communicator, December 2001.

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Heart of worship

Matt redman, a worship leader in England, tells how his pastor taught his church the real meaning of worship. To show that worship is more than music, he banned all singing in their services for a period of time while they learned to worship in other ways. By the end of that time, Matt had written the classic song "Heart of Worship":



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Biblical view on work

Many people ask how to be prosperous while seminars and even religious groups teach it. Being prosperous in not wrong. God would not have created it if He doesn't want us to be prosperous.... Also, we don't have to poor to live a holy and pleasing life to God.



Work is a command from God

God commands all able-bodied persons to work. Exodus 20:9 says, "Six days you shall labor and do all your work; and on the seventh day you shall rest." All have to work and those who does not sins. Some people work through others' hands. They tend to work with their mouth alone by commanding others to work for them. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 says, "Make it your ambition to work with your hands." Godly people are working people.



Ephesians 4:28 says, "He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands." This verse pertains not only to the conventional stealing we know. We are stealing if we get something others have worked for. There are families where only one person works while other members of the family just stay at their home and spends money. They should only be excused if they are still young, disabled or are very old already enough to work right?



"You will never be prosperous unless you work."


Why work?



God commends it. In proverbs 31:13, God praises a working woman. In our homes, a worked-out hand of a woman is a trophy. What can a smooth-skinned hand of a woman be proud of if she does not know how to work. Husband and children recommence a mother with working hands. "Her children arise and call her blessed." We should work because God commends it.



God exemplified it. In the beginning, God worked. Genesis 2:2 says, "By the seventh day God has finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." God rested also because He worked. Godly men of God also exemplified work. Imagine the work of Noah in building the ark to accommodate the land animals and the birds. David created thousands of musical instruments for the temple to be played by 4,000 full-time musicians during his time. The glory of God comes down on earth for true worship coming from a true heart. One time out of industry, the apostle Paul spoke a sermon even during night time.



Work is God's way and provision to prosperity. God have chosen work as our way to prosperity. Anyone who works has the right to eat. Some people pretend to work in order to eat. Even children are meant to work in order to eat. They help in household chores like cleaning the house, cooking, and taking care of the younger siblings. Just imagine a tired parent coming home from work will always still clean the house and cook for dinner. Those who know how to ask for allowance should also know how to work. Parents give to their children because of love. The children should know this that they may also show their love to their parent by giving helping hands when inside the house. The more their parents do not ask them to work, the more they should volunteer in doing household chores.



Work Earns profit. Proverbs 14:23 says, "All hard work brings profit." We should not be ashamed to sell something'' to gain profit. We work for the profit in the first place. For our friends who have their own business, we usually ask for discounts and free stuffs. If we are their friends, we should be the one to understand the situation that they are working for profit and yet we ask stuff with discount and things for free. Sometimes we even tease them for their job. We should be the ones to encourage them more and support them for their industry.



People in the world are not meant to be poor. Many just have lifestyle designed for poverty. Psalms 128:2 says, "You will eat the fruit of your labor."



Hard-working people earn even good sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12 says, "The sleep of a laborer is sweet." If you find it hard to get asleep (except for the insomniacs), take time to think if you just lack of work.



God blessed work
God blesses those who work through His justice and through His favor or His pleasure. God's justice makes sure that workers are blessed. God created the natural laws and phenomena. He created formulas that if you started something and continued in doing it, you'll get the product. Work gives reward and even rewards. Proverbs 24:12 says, "Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?" if you want God to pay you, then do some work. His justice will see to it that you get rewarded.



God also blesses us through His favor/pleasure. Satan reacted to God's favor to Job when he said in Job 1:10, "Have you put a hedge around him and his household and everything that he has? You have blessed the works of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land."



If there's such as God's favor, there's also God's withholding of a blessing. In short is a curse. There are works that God despises. Ecclesiastes 5:6 says, "Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, 'My vow was a mistake.'" Turning back promises is despised by God and "Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?"



Favor is up to God. It is not his duty. We prosper or not depending on God's favor and we are not to blame God if His favor is not with our work. We should check ourselves instead. We affect God's favor by the things we do. We may make Him angry through words we say. We won't prosper if He will not allow it. God doesn't destroy our work. Removing His protection already makes our work to be destroyed. Everything in this planet leads to destruction because of our sin. Because of our fallen nature, we tend to be greedy, have murderous intentions and have selfish attitudes. All things are meant to be destroyed because of sin.



Can we override destruction? Only God can provide a protective fence around us. His protection is the only thing we need. God doesn't have to destroy us. All he have to do is remove His protection and we are destroyed automatically. Try not washing yourself for a day or two and describe your smell afterwards. All are meant to decay. We are just slowing down the process by doing something. Our destruction is natural and we need God's protection to be exempted with the natural process severed by sin.



In spite of our sins, God is so gracious to give us things that we enjoy. We are children of disobedience but God still give things we enjoy. God have all the authority to allow things to happen and it is He who exempts us from the consequences of sin.



Other people prosper while some do not and God or any other people are not to be blamed about such. We should check ourselves instead for unpleasant words we say or things on pour mind that displeases God. We are accountable for every word we say. There's power in words as God created things with His words. God indwells us and has created us in His own image that there's also power in our words.



Words we say usually come back to us that we should guard our tongue. It's better to bless people that blessing may also come to us. For every work we speak we should ask ourselves if it could happen to us. Just look at Satan, all his lies are just coming back to him.



Ethics of Work



Focused. Godly works are concentrated. Ecclesiastes 8:9 says, "I applied my mind to everything done under the sun." Solomon focused by applying his mind. You will not catch any if you run after two ducks.



Steadfast. Don't leave your work because of impatience. Psalm 104:2 says, "Then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening." On the average, we are to work 8 hours a day, 8 hours to sleep and have 8 hours for ourselves. A godly work is steadfast; it is done until evening.



Righteous. Work is not blessed until done with righteousness; no cheating, no lies and no tricks. Proverbs 10:16 says, "The wages of the righteous bring them life, but the income of the wicked brings them punishment." We should not envy those who cheat. They will pay for any amount cheated. Will you envy a cheater whose income was just spent for his son's surgery and was filled with worries and sadness? Earning the exact pay and being exempted from big expenses is already a blessing. "The wages of the righteous brings them life." Not only to the biological life but the meaning of our life. Doing the rigth thing should satisfy us already. Food can be bought but not appetite. Beds can be bought but not sleep. There are many gifts from God that cannot be bought by money.



Honest. Proverbs 13:11 says, "Dishonest money dwindles away but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow." Money from dishonesty is gone easily and does not prosper. Though little (not because of small profit and slow business), an honest work prospers.



Industrious. We really have to be industrious. Proverbs 14:23 says, "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads to poverty." Words without work will bring you to poverty. Work is a great channel of blessing. Hard work is one great way to prosperity. Our energies should not be spent in lifting barbells and in working out. We don't have to go to gym if we really are working. There's also no need to watch for your weight and diet if you work hard. God designed us not only to work mentally but physically also.



One great way to be prosperous is to work hard. Let the Holy Spirit finish the other things not mentioned. We should confess to God the times when we lack work.



We can glorify God through work. We are familiar with worship through dancing, singing, studying His word but we can also worship God through working with the abilities He has given us.



Source: Siksik, Liglig, at Umaapaw: Work, Invest, Save, Give, Atbp. By Eduardo Mendoza Lapiz. Mandaluyong: OMF Literature, 1999.


Translated from Siksik, Liglig, at Umaapaw: Work, Invest, Save, Give, Atbp. By Eduardo Mendoza Lapiz. Mandaluyong: OMF Literature, 1999.

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Extremities



Do you know that:

- The largest ever gold-bearing nugget was found in 1872 at a mine in New South Wales. It yielded 187 lb. of gold.

- The largest plants in the world are the Big Tress (Sequoia gigantea) and redwood trees of California. These trees are believed to live as long as 6000 years. These trees are also the world’s largest living organism.

- The world’s smallest flower and the world’s smallest flowering plant is the Brazilian duckweed called mofia. The whole plant can be less than 1/16 in. across.

- Rafflesia arnodii is produces the world’s largest flower. The lower can measure more than 3 ft. across, is ¾ in. in thickness and can weigh as much as 15 lb.

- The plant with the most repulsive smell is the tropical giant arum lily.

- The largest insect known to the world is the Goliath beetle. It measures 4 in. across and 5.8 in. in length

- The world’s largest animal is the blue whale. It can weigh more than 100 tons. This animal needs 4 tons of food per day.

- The largest organism without a backbone is the Atlantic giant dquid. It can weigh 2 tons and can grow to 55 ft. long.

- The largest mammal is the African bush elephant. Its average weight is 5.6 tons.

- The smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew of Northern Europe which is rarely longer than 1½ from nose to tail.

- The largest bird is the flightless North African ostrich which can weigh up to 345 lb. And can grow up to 9 ft. tall.

- The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird of Cuba. It is 2 in. long and has a 1.1 wingspan.

- The fastest creature is the spine-tailed swift. Records say that it can fly in excess of 200 mph.

- The largest of all the spiders is the South American bird-eating spider. It has a leg span of 10 in and has a 3½ in. body length.



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50 ways to Tell Your Child, “I Love You”

- By Joe White

When your child is participating in an athletic event or musical performance, be there watching.
Help your son or daughter learn a new skill such as riding a bike, making a cake, or fixing a flat tire.
Leave an “I love you” note in your child’s school lunch box.
Read an entire chapter together from your child’s favorite book.
Find a new way to trust your child by granting a new area of responsibility that he or she would both enjoy and benefit from.
After your teen aged son or daughter comes in from a date, have popcorn together.
Go out in the snow together and throw snowballs at a target (even a few at each other).
Listen to your child – with all your attention.
Help your child wash his or her bike (or tricycle).
Snuggle in bed together as you tell a goodnight story.
Have a water-pistol fight (let your kids drench you).
Make up a secret code language and write messages to one another.
Say, “I am proud of you.”
Prepare your child’s favorite dinner menu twice in a week.
Make up and tell stories with your kids as the heroes.
Bring home your child’s favorite candy bar.
Take an evening walk together.
Have a pillow fight some night at bedtime.
Play games together (e.g. Old maid, Concentration, Candyland, Sorry, Pictionary).
The bible’s love chapter says that love “is kind” (1 Cor. 13:4). Think of a special way you can show kindness to your child today.
Take nature hikes together and collect leaves, acorns, rocks, mosses, sticks, or whatever.
Spend a special time praying together for others – for the leaders and teacher in your church, for government officials, for any missionaries your child knows, for neighbors, for friends, for family members.
Keep a scrapbook of your child’s awards, newspaper clippings, photos, and so on. Get it out often and look at it together.
Invite your son’s or daughter’s friends to your home to spend the night.
Build a “faith growth chart” on which you list prayers and answers in one column and memorized bible verses in another. See your child’s faith grow!
Make popcorn, curl up together on the couch, and watch your son’s or daughter’s favorite video for the 20th time.
After a scolding, tell your child, “did you know I love you even when you’re naughty?” Then give him or her a hug.
Build and fly kites together.
Show your child a special card or picture he or she has given you that you’ve kept for a long time.
Give your child your full attention when he or she tells you what happened at school today, and provide a thoughtful response.
Compliment your child’s attempt to keep a tidy room.
Show your child one of his or her baby pictures and tell why it’s one of your favorites.
Show your daughter fix her hair in a special way.
Take a winter’s afternoon off and do a puzzle together.
Take your child out to breakfast (just the two of you) before school.
Before a big event in your child’s life – a birthday, a competition, a big test at school – decorate his or her room with crepe paper and posters.
Allow your child to plan the day for your family.
Go on a bike ride together around the neighborhood.
Take your child out for bowling or miniature gold, and go out for dinner afterward.
Display (on the refrigerator or in another prominent spot) the artwork or other creations your child made at school, Sunday school, and so on.
Ask for your child’s opinion on a big family decision.
Cook breakfast together on a Saturday morning.
Tell your spouse how proud you are of your child or something he or she did, and let him or her overhear your remarks.
As you notice your child making or doing something creative, call other family members to come and see.
Give your child a hug when he or she is feeling down.
Make sack lunches for you and your child, and enjoy them together at a local park.
Plant flowers or vegetable seeds with your child. As you together see the plants sprout and grow, tell about your child’s growth – physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually.
Talk with your child about what you believe about god.
Tell openly with your child about your most significant convictions, and ask fir his or her opinions in response.
In a relaxed moment together, talk about favorite memories. (Even younger children enjoy this – their “past” may be short in years, but relative to their ages it seems just as long as ours.) Talk about favorite gifts, favorite toys, favorite surprises.

This list is excerpted from Faith Training by Jo White. Published by Focus on the Family. (c) 1994 Joe White

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Things to know about colds

Cold is a viral infection of our upper air passages. It causes inflammation of the mucous membranes lining of the nose and throat. We recover from it once we are immunes. You won’t catch cold if you can be immune to the over 200 cold viruses. That’s why children are the ones who usually infected which may occur 10 times a year. Coughing and sneezing is the easiest way for the cold virus to be spread.

Here are the symptoms:

  • Sore throat (can be accompanied by a hoarse voice)
  • Blocked or runny nose
  • Sneezing
  • Watery eyes
  • Headache
  • Cough
  • Body aches
  • Mild fever
  • Chills
  • Malaise (uneasiness or discomfort feeling)

The infection may cause:

  • Inflammation on our air passages
  • Inflammation of the voice box (larynx)
  • Inflammation of the middle ear
  • Sinusitis
  • Inflammation of the windpipe (trachea)
  • Secondary bacterial infection
  • Aggravation of existing respiratory disorders like asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic ear infections, etc.
  • Reactivation of the virus that causes cold sores

What we can do is

  • Rest and stop doing exercise
  • Drink plenty of fluids especially hot drinks
  • Inhale steam to loosen nasal congestion and ease expulsion of mucus
  • Stop smoking
  • Take decongestant medicines or use nose drops/sprays (not to be done more than a few days)
  • Blow nose frequently blocking one nostril at a time (to keep nasal secretions from being forced to sinuses and the middle ear that may cause infection)
  • Consult a doctor if the cold remains or worsens for more than 10 days that the doctor can check why symptoms have worsen and perform proper treatment of complications

To prevent catching cold, avoid crowded places. You’ll easily catch the cold virus there. also, keep yourself healthy by having a balanced diet and regular boy exercise.

Source: Health Guide Philippines

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Why employees leave organizations

written by Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss ....Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

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Snails help to save lives

The common garden snail lays about 30 eggs in a year. Each egg is the size of a pinhead and each one is a potential lifesaver.

The snail’s egg is cheap. It is readily available and is a stable source of a chemical used to determine blood groups. Normally, this chemical is extracted from human blood. It takes the blood from five donors to provide as much as is contained in a single snail’s egg. The contents of the egg are extracted and dissolved in a saline solution

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Make Money Online

Is it possible to make money online?

Definitely. This may sound new to you but it is possible. Aside from searching, the Internet is now used for business transactions. Many companies bring their products to their customers through the web and they give cash for the advertisements of their products. One way of advertising on the web is by placing ads on others’ web pages. You can be the one who can have the ads placed on your web pages. Take note, this doesn’t mean that you should have your own website to have a nice looking web page. You don’t even have to know html coding to have your own web page written. Webmasters have done the coding for you. All you have to do is sign up or free. Nowadays, you can also earn money by being a freelance writer to write about a field from a wide range of topics.


What companies can I join in to make money online?


Many websites pay you for participating on their company. How? By helping their website expand through posting your comments on their discussions or by starting a new discussion. They give also pay you for referring your friends to the company. Once your friends signed up, you can earn a percent of their total money. Like myLot.com and xomba.com, you are paid for every information you share on their website. Signing up is free and you can participate with them anytime of the day. Once you’re a member, you can learn many things from other members and you can earn money if you share the things you know. You can also post questions to start a discussion and other members may answer it in just a few seconds.


There are other ways to earn money online aside from the ones above. Other sites like bux.to and adverbux.com give ads to be viewed for a few seconds or games to be played depending on what you want and they will pay you for each view or games played.


If you wan to write on things you know and want to write about it, try freelancewritingcenter.com. You can start doing papers pegged at $4/page (at least) once your application is granted. You don’t have to be a college graduate to apply because what the company needs are your skills and a little of your time depending on your schedule.


Going back to advertisements, you may have seen web pages with banners containing the phrase “ads by google.” The owner of the web page is paid by google if people click those advertisements. You can get paid if you want. Take note: You don’t need to have your own website to accommodate the advertisements. You can create your own blog for free at blogger.com and you can put those ads on your blog. To have the advertisements put on your blog, you have to sign up to google adsense for free and have it activated so you can start putting the ads.


How do I get paid?

All of the websites mentioned above pay you through your PayPal account. You can open a Paypal account for free now if you don’t have one. PayPal is very popular. It is used to receive and transfer money through the web. You receive the money to your PayPal account if you’ve earned the minimum amount ($5, $10 or $100) agreed with the company you are affiliated with. Things mentioned above just gave some of the incentives you can get. Now you can check out the website links above to know more about the companies.


There are other similar companies to the ones above where you can earn money from the web. Just search for “freelance writing”, “writing job”, “pay per click”, etc. on search engines. This one’s for sure, you can signing up is for free at the ones mentioned above.


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