What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear
Oh what priviledge to carry, everything to God in prayer,
Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer....
Thank you so much for your prayers, they helped right away.
The same day that our car broke down, after desperate prayer
(we really need a car!) Michel´s sister brought him to
his music class. There he saw on his teacher´s car a sign: "For Sale"
just the day before his teacher had put it on.
We got the car today (we had to borrow some money,
but it is a good car in good condition) and we are absolutely amazed!
So thanx again for your prayers.
" When we pray, things happen and things will be different."
Let´s also pray for all those poor peopl ein the cold in Monglia and other places, and the
traumatised ppl from Haiti, all the ppl in orphanages and prisons,
hospitals, refugee camps and old folk home etc., all those in need.
Our prayers can help!
Thanx again.
Much love, Manuela
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Monday, 8 February 2010
100 things most of us don´t know....
100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. 109 random things you should know..
1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
3 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
29
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
58
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
59
“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua—-anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
1. 100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
1. 109 random things you should know..
1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
3 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
4
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
6
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
8
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
11
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
12
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
13
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
14
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
15
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
16
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
17
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
18
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
20
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
21
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
22
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
23
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
24
The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
25
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
26
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
28
Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
29
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
30
In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
31
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
32
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
34
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
35
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
36
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
37
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
38
There are more chickens than people in the world.
39
It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
40
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
41
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
42
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
43
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
46
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
47
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
48
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
49
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
50
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
51
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
52
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
54
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
55
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
56
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
57
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
58
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
59
“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
60
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
61
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.
62
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
63
China has more English speakers than the United States.
64
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
65
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
67
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
69
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
70
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua—-anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
71
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
72
Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
73
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
76
Coca-Cola was originally green.
77
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
78
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
79
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
80
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
81
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
82
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
83
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
85
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
86
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
87
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
88
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
89
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
90
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
91
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
92
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
93
Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
95
A snail can sleep for three years.
96
All polar bears are left handed.
97
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
98
Butterflies taste with their feet.
99
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
100
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
101
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
102
Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
103
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
104
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
105
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
106
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
107
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
108
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
109
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
1. 100 Real Facts (Strange but true)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips. ( for more info. check http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/)
11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
14. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [Really?]
19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [tsk tsk]
20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37. There are more chickens than people in the world.
38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
49. A snail can sleep for three years.
50. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded.
54. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “Go hang yourself.”
56. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed eople do.
59. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
61. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a french kiss.
73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74. Coca-Cola was originally green.
75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
80. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. [??]
81. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [someone would probably try to do this after reading. haha]
82. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. [haha]
94. All polar bears are left handed.
95. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96. Butterflies taste with their feet.
97. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
98. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
100. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. [you gaoota love the man!]
Friday, 5 February 2010
Sooner or later you find when you keep seekeing
Why I've turned to God at 70, by Ringo Starr
By Ben Todd, Daily Mail, 03rd February 2010
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things. The drummer says he has found God—after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s. But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life. Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. 'I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.'
In his latest interview Starr—a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco—also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July. He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. … I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life.'
By Ben Todd, Daily Mail, 03rd February 2010
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things. The drummer says he has found God—after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s. But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life. Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. 'I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.'
In his latest interview Starr—a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco—also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July. He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. … I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life.'
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Nature....
Elephants attack in Orissa exactly after one year of persecutions
Fr. Sunil De Silva, Archdiocese of Colombo, 09.12.2009
In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa. A 22 year old nun was burnt to death when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, another nun was gang raped in Kandhamal, mobs attacked churches, torched vehicles, houses of Christians were destroyed, and Fr. Thomas Chellen, director of the pastoral center that was destroyed with a bomb, had a narrow escape after a Hindu mob nearly set him on fire. The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured and homeless after their houses were reduced to ashes.
Recently a strange and dramatic event took place in Orissa, which has many people talking and wondering. In recent months, herds of wild elephants have begun to storm villages that are home to some of the worst persecutors of Christians during the troubles. In one village, where in August a year ago the Christians had to run for their lives while their homes were being destroyed by rioters, a herd of elephants emerged from the surrounding jungle exactly one year later, at the same time of the day of the attack.
These elephants first attacked a rock crusher machine owned by a key leader of the persecution movement. They then went on to destroy his house and farms.
Hundreds of villagers have been forced to take shelter in camps in the Indian state of Orissa after repeated attacks by a herd of elephants. Seven people have been killed and several others injured in attacks by a herd of 12-13 elephants over the past few weeks in Kandhamal district. Over 2,500 people living in 45 villages have been affected by the attacks, district chief Krishen Kumar said.
It is, however, unclear why this herd of elephants migrated from the Lakheri sanctuary in a neighbouring district. He said the herd had travelled some 300km into Kandhamal, and even entered a town in the district. Wildlife officials were camping at the site of the attacks and trying to find out why the elephants had come out of their sanctuary.
The villagers say elephants attack their areas in herds, causing heavy destruction. Gaining momentum, they rampaged through other non-Christian homes, demolishing gardens and singling out the home of persecutors, leaving Christian homes untouched.
These strange attacks have spread, and according to a report, the elephants have already destroyed more than 700 houses in 30 villages, and killed five people. Nobody in this area has seen or even imagined the unique appearance of a herd of wild elephants such as this.
The elephants are not ordinary elephants; they appear to be on a mission. Typically, smaller elephants enter a village first, appearing to survey the community. They then rejoin the larger herd, and larger elephant soon follow and get the job done.
The ministry partner in India stated "We think that it might have something to do with the avenging the blood of martyrs. In fact the fear of God has fallen on the local people, who have labeled these elephants "Christian elephants."
With little help coming from the administration, the villagers have taken to road blockades. "The elephants have destroyed crops and selected houses." But officials too express helplessness.
Fr. Sunil De Silva, Archdiocese of Colombo, 09.12.2009
In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa. A 22 year old nun was burnt to death when angry mobs burnt down an orphanage in Khuntpali village in Barhgarh district, another nun was gang raped in Kandhamal, mobs attacked churches, torched vehicles, houses of Christians were destroyed, and Fr. Thomas Chellen, director of the pastoral center that was destroyed with a bomb, had a narrow escape after a Hindu mob nearly set him on fire. The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured and homeless after their houses were reduced to ashes.
Recently a strange and dramatic event took place in Orissa, which has many people talking and wondering. In recent months, herds of wild elephants have begun to storm villages that are home to some of the worst persecutors of Christians during the troubles. In one village, where in August a year ago the Christians had to run for their lives while their homes were being destroyed by rioters, a herd of elephants emerged from the surrounding jungle exactly one year later, at the same time of the day of the attack.
These elephants first attacked a rock crusher machine owned by a key leader of the persecution movement. They then went on to destroy his house and farms.
Hundreds of villagers have been forced to take shelter in camps in the Indian state of Orissa after repeated attacks by a herd of elephants. Seven people have been killed and several others injured in attacks by a herd of 12-13 elephants over the past few weeks in Kandhamal district. Over 2,500 people living in 45 villages have been affected by the attacks, district chief Krishen Kumar said.
It is, however, unclear why this herd of elephants migrated from the Lakheri sanctuary in a neighbouring district. He said the herd had travelled some 300km into Kandhamal, and even entered a town in the district. Wildlife officials were camping at the site of the attacks and trying to find out why the elephants had come out of their sanctuary.
The villagers say elephants attack their areas in herds, causing heavy destruction. Gaining momentum, they rampaged through other non-Christian homes, demolishing gardens and singling out the home of persecutors, leaving Christian homes untouched.
These strange attacks have spread, and according to a report, the elephants have already destroyed more than 700 houses in 30 villages, and killed five people. Nobody in this area has seen or even imagined the unique appearance of a herd of wild elephants such as this.
The elephants are not ordinary elephants; they appear to be on a mission. Typically, smaller elephants enter a village first, appearing to survey the community. They then rejoin the larger herd, and larger elephant soon follow and get the job done.
The ministry partner in India stated "We think that it might have something to do with the avenging the blood of martyrs. In fact the fear of God has fallen on the local people, who have labeled these elephants "Christian elephants."
With little help coming from the administration, the villagers have taken to road blockades. "The elephants have destroyed crops and selected houses." But officials too express helplessness.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
What will be next? And an amazing cat....
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."—C.S. Lewis
Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
Bill Christensen, technovelgy.com, Jan 29, 2010
Israeli company, WeCU Technologies is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger—without the subject's knowledge. WeCU Technologies (pronounced "we see you") is creating a system that would essentially turn the public spaces in airports into vast screening grounds:
"The system ... projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.
"The logic is that people can't help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn't help but respond.
"The reaction could be a darting of the eyes, an increased heartbeat, a nervous twitch or faster breathing, he said. The WeCU system would use humans to do some of the observing but would rely mostly on hidden cameras or covert biometric sensors that can detect a slight rise in body temperature and heart rate," as reported in Raw Story.
Science fiction writers have been playing with the idea of mind-reading machines for a long time. For example, you may recall the Veridicator from H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Little Fuzzy:
"There was a bright conical helmet on his head, and electrodes had been clamped to various portions of his anatomy. On the wall behind him was a circular screen which ought to have been a calm turquoise blue, but which was flickering from dark blue through violet to mauve. That was simple nervous tension and guilt and anger at the humiliation of being subjected to veridicated interrogation. "
More recently, the Farscape science fiction series introduced the Aurora Chair, which was designed to extract information more efficiently than conventional interrogation methods. "The chair" is employed throughout the Peacekeeper military is believed one of the most effective means of gaining information from unwilling subjects. The chair can painfully sort through its subject's memories, pushing farther and harder depending on the setting. It is designed to sort through and uncover the mind's "layers".
Hopefully, the TSA won't start sponsoring research into Aurora Chair technology...
Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat
By Ray Henry, AP, Jan 31, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.
Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, "Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat." (Hyperion, $23.99) The feline's bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar's real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life's most uncomfortable topic: death.
"People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass," Dosa said. "He was there when they couldn't be."
Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia. It's usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.
He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.
The nursing home adopted Oscar, a medium-haired cat with a gray-and-brown back and white belly, in 2005 because its staff thinks pets make the Steere House a home. They play with visiting children and prove a welcome distraction for patients and doctors alike.
After a year, the staff noticed that Oscar would spend his days pacing from room to room. He sniffed and looked at the patients but rarely spent much time with anyone—except when they had just hours to live.
He's accurate enough that the staff—including Dosa—know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence. If kept outside the room of a dying patient, he'll scratch at doors and walls, trying to get in.
Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill.
Oscar wouldn't stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken.
Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days. But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.
Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
Bill Christensen, technovelgy.com, Jan 29, 2010
Israeli company, WeCU Technologies is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger—without the subject's knowledge. WeCU Technologies (pronounced "we see you") is creating a system that would essentially turn the public spaces in airports into vast screening grounds:
"The system ... projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.
"The logic is that people can't help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn't help but respond.
"The reaction could be a darting of the eyes, an increased heartbeat, a nervous twitch or faster breathing, he said. The WeCU system would use humans to do some of the observing but would rely mostly on hidden cameras or covert biometric sensors that can detect a slight rise in body temperature and heart rate," as reported in Raw Story.
Science fiction writers have been playing with the idea of mind-reading machines for a long time. For example, you may recall the Veridicator from H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Little Fuzzy:
"There was a bright conical helmet on his head, and electrodes had been clamped to various portions of his anatomy. On the wall behind him was a circular screen which ought to have been a calm turquoise blue, but which was flickering from dark blue through violet to mauve. That was simple nervous tension and guilt and anger at the humiliation of being subjected to veridicated interrogation. "
More recently, the Farscape science fiction series introduced the Aurora Chair, which was designed to extract information more efficiently than conventional interrogation methods. "The chair" is employed throughout the Peacekeeper military is believed one of the most effective means of gaining information from unwilling subjects. The chair can painfully sort through its subject's memories, pushing farther and harder depending on the setting. It is designed to sort through and uncover the mind's "layers".
Hopefully, the TSA won't start sponsoring research into Aurora Chair technology...
Book profiles furry angel of death: Oscar the cat
By Ray Henry, AP, Jan 31, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.
Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, "Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat." (Hyperion, $23.99) The feline's bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar's real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life's most uncomfortable topic: death.
"People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass," Dosa said. "He was there when they couldn't be."
Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia. It's usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.
He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.
The nursing home adopted Oscar, a medium-haired cat with a gray-and-brown back and white belly, in 2005 because its staff thinks pets make the Steere House a home. They play with visiting children and prove a welcome distraction for patients and doctors alike.
After a year, the staff noticed that Oscar would spend his days pacing from room to room. He sniffed and looked at the patients but rarely spent much time with anyone—except when they had just hours to live.
He's accurate enough that the staff—including Dosa—know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence. If kept outside the room of a dying patient, he'll scratch at doors and walls, trying to get in.
Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill.
Oscar wouldn't stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken.
Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days. But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Another good news!
"A World without cancer" by G. Edward Griffin
is possible!
If you know someone who has cancer, please tell them to look at these sites, which have helped many to get proper healing, without all the bad side effects
http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/breuss.asp
http://curezone.com/foods/laetrile.asp
http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/
http://www.healthfreedom.info/Cancer%20Essiac.htm
As Meryl Streep said in: "First do no harm"
A lot of information and hope is withhelp from us...
So to make a wise decision about our life, body and future, let´s inform ourselves....
There is hope, and there is help available.
And prayer and faith helps a lot!
Please let us know if you or someone you know needs prayer.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich,
played by Julia Roberts, a true story,
have you seen this movie?
We just saw it and are very impressed and encouraged by it.
It is worth watching and shows what one person
with determination and love for others can do,
even if she has a lot against her...
A real miracle, a David against Goliath story,
played very well by Julia Roberts and others.
Please see also the commentaries and
comments by the real Erin Brockovich.
Have a good week,
Manuela
played by Julia Roberts, a true story,
have you seen this movie?
We just saw it and are very impressed and encouraged by it.
It is worth watching and shows what one person
with determination and love for others can do,
even if she has a lot against her...
A real miracle, a David against Goliath story,
played very well by Julia Roberts and others.
Please see also the commentaries and
comments by the real Erin Brockovich.
Have a good week,
Manuela
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