HOME TIPS

To help stop a column of ants advancing to your doorstep, first sprinkle boric acid or borax powder along the trails. Then pour the powders near the entrances and exits of your house, but don't allow tiny children or pets to come in contact with these powders.

When You Travel put a business card with your home or cell phone number inside your checked luggage, in case it's lost. Stick address labels on your cell phones, computers, music players and cameras.

If Your Credit Card is Stolen, call the credit card company immediately to report this. Then contact your local police to file a report. Make and keep copies of it because you will have to prove this fact to merchants and creditors. Notify the credit reporting companies to have them put an extended fraud alert on your accounts.

To get dried-on hair spray off glass, porcelain, glass or fiberglass shower stalls, pour rubbing alcohol on a clean terry or micro fiber cloth and wipe well. You may have to repeat this.

Intelligent quotes

Ultimate perfection does not include any action or good conduct, but only knowledge.
-Maimonides,

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active-memoried, and persistently experimental. Leo Stein

The branches' length depends on the trees' roots, and right speech on the man's sense.
-Ibn Gabirol,

The man who regards life...as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
-Albert Einstein,

Spend your money on good books, and you'll find its equivalent in gold of intelligence.
-Immanuel

My friend is he who will tell me my fault in private.
-Ibn Gabirol,

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
-Maimonides,

In the winter the earth is pregnant. It bears within itself a great secret. In the summer, the secret is disclosed.
-Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles.
-Kaminer, Baraitot de Rabbi Yitzhak

Do everything. One thing may turn out right.
-Humphrey Bogart

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
-Julian of Norwich

A man may have never entered a church or a mosque, not performed any ceremony; but if he realizes God within himself, and is thereby lifted above the vanities of the world, that man is a holy man, a saint, call him what you will...
-Vivekananda

Respect happiness. Respect happy people. Make happiness the goal of your life.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing, and body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?
-Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Use a half-smile to radiate well-being to yourself and to people around you. Establish contact with others in a warm, kind, and friendly way.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself.
-Rumi

Give thanks throughout the day. Be thankful for every blessing you receive. Say "thank you" with grace.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Cultivate your own spirit. Do not look for something outside yourself.
-Barbara Ann Kipfer

The conscious mind is the editor, and the unconscious mind is the writer.
-David Mamet

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-Erin Majors

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
-Ethiopian proverb

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
-Doug Larson

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-Kahlil Gibran

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
-Grace Murray Hopper

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.-Jack Penn

The uses of pepper

By the middle ages, pepper had assumed great importance and was used to season food and as a preservative in curing meats. Together with other spices, it helped overcome the odours of bad food.

Healing power and curative properties

Black pepper is a stimulant, pungent, aromatic and digestive tonic. Black pepper is useful in relieving flatulence.

Digestive disorders

Pepper has a stimulating effect on the digestive organs and produces an increased flow of saliva and gastric juices. It is an appetiser and a good home remedy for digestive disorders. Powdered black pepper, thoroughly mixed with malted jaggery, may be taken in the treatment of such conditions. Alternatively, a quarter teaspoon of pepper powder mixed in thin buttermilk can be taken during indigestion or heaviness in the stomach. For better results, an equal part of cumin powder may also be added to the buttermilk.

Common cold

Pepper is beneficial in the treatment of cold and fever. Six pepper seeds finely ground and mixed in a glass of warm water along with 6 pieces of batasha – a variety of sugar candy, can be taken for a few nights for good results. In case of acute coryza or cold in the head, 20 grams pepper powder boiled in milk with a pinch of turmeric powder can be had once daily for 3 days.

Amnesia

A pinch of finely ground pepper mixed with honey taken twice a day is effective in amnesia or dullness of intellect.
Coughs
Pepper is an effective remedy for coughs caused due to throat irritation. Three peppers sucked with a pinch of caraway seeds and a crystal of common salt provides relief.

Impotency

Eating 6 peppers with 4 almonds once daily with milk, is a nerve tonic and acts as an aphrodisiac especially in an impotent person.

Muscular pains

As an external application, pepper dilates the superficial vessels and acts as a counter-irritant. A tablespoon of pepper powder fried in sesame oil until it is charred can be applied beneficially as an analgesic liniment for mylagia and rheumatic pains.

Teeth disorders

Pepper powder and common salt mixture is an excellent dentifrice. Its daily use prevents foul breath, bleeding from the gums, painful gums, toothache and cures the increased sensitiveness of the teeth. A pinch of pepper powder mixed with clove oil can be put in the caries to alleviate toothache.

FACTS OF LIFE! -

1. Life is sexually transmitted.

2. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.

3. It’s not the pace of life that concerns me, it’s the sudden stop at the end. 4. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

5. It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere.

6. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.

7. If God wanted us to touch our toes, he would have put them on our knees.

8. Never knock on Death’s door; ring the doorbell and run (he hates that). 9. If you’re living on the edge, make sure you wear your seat belt.

10. The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it’s open.

11. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

12. An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

13. A closed mouth gathers no feet.

14. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

15. It’s not hard to meet expenses... they’re everywhere.

16. Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better attorney.

PROFESSIONAL RIVALRY

Two physicians boarded a flight out of Seattle. One sat in the window seat, the other sat in the middle seat. Just before takeoff, an attorney got on and took the aisle seat next to the two physicians. The attorney kicked off his shoes, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the physician in the window seat said, "I think I’ll get up and get a coke."
"No problem," said the attorney, "I’ll get it for you."
While he was gone, one of the physicians picked up the attorney’s shoe and put a thumbtack in it. When he returned with the coke, the other physician said, "That looks good, I think I’ll have one too."
Again, the attorney obligingly went to fetch it and while he was gone, the other physician picked up the other shoe and put a tack in it. The attorney returned and they all sat back and enjoyed the flight.
As the plane was landing, the attorney slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.
"How long must this go on?" he asked. "This fighting between our professions? This hatred? This animosity? This putting tacks in shoes and spitting in cokes?"

CHURCH BLOOPERS

1) The outreach committee has enlisted 25 visitors to make calls on people who are not afflicted with any church.
2) Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
3) Evening massage - 6 p.m.
4) The Pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.
5) The audience is asked to remain seated until the end of the recession.
6) Low Self-Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 to 8:30 p.m. Please use the back door.
7) Ushers will eat latecomers.
8) The third verse of Blessed Assurance will be sung without musical accomplishment
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9) For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
10) The Rev. Merriwether spoke briefly, much to the delight of the audience.
11) The pastor will preach his farewell message, after which the choir will sing, "Break Forth Into Joy."
12) During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit.
13) Next Sunday Mrs. Vinson will be soloist for the morning service. The pastor will then speak on "It’s a Terrible Experience."
14) Due to the Rector’s illness, Wednesday’s healing services will be discontinued until further notice. Source: Internet

UNFAIR TO LAWYERS

Q: Why won’t sharks attack lawyers?
A: Professional courtesy.

Q: When lawyers die, why are they buried in a hole 24 feet deep?
A: Because deep down, they are all nice guys!

Q: Have you heard about the lawyers’ word processor?
A: No matter what font you select, everything come out in fine print.

Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
A: An offer you can’t understand.

Q: What would happen if you lock a cannibal in a room full of lawyers?
A: He would starve to death.

Q: Did you hear about the terrorist that hijacked a 747 full of lawyers?
A: He threatened to release one every hour if his demands weren’t met.

Q: What is the difference between a lawyer and a herd of buffalo?
A: The lawyer charges more.

Q: Did you hear about the new microwave lawyer?
A: You spend eight minutes in his office and get billed as if you’d been there eight hours.

Jury: Twelve men and women trying to decide

which party has the best lawyer.

Husbands Faults

Wives have many faults. Husbands have only 2: everything they say and everything they do.

Husband: "This coffee isn’t fit for a pig!"
Wife: "No problem. I’ll get you some that is."

You really have to feel sorry for husbands.
They were given a brain and reproductive machinery but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Gone are the days when honor was king
We treasure money and power above everything.
WE have spilled the blood of wisdom and the blood of truth
now we turn and hand this chaos to our precious youth.

Steven McKinley Underhill

ATROCITIES ON JEWS
TRUE HISTORICAL EVENTS

1096 The First Crusade is launched, with a slaughter of Jews in Rhineland
1190 Jews are massacred in England
1233 The Inquisition offers Jews a choice: convert to Christianity or die
1290 Jews are expelled from England
1348 Jews are burned in Switzerland for "causing" the Black Death
1394 Jews are expelled from France
1492 Jews are expelled from Spain
1648 The institution of the Jewish ghetto begins in Venice
1881 Pogroms against Jews are launched in Russia
1938 Krystallnacht. By morning, synagogues are burning all over Nazi Germany.
1939-1945 Six million Jews die in Europe, including 1 and 1/2 million children - Source: Internet

Golden Rules in life

DO: Treat others the way you want to be treated
• Respect the dignity, privacy and freedom of all individuals
• Value and honor all people, no matter what they can do for you or to you
• Respect others’property — take good care of property you are allowed to use and don’t take or use property without permission
• Respect the autonomy of others — tell them what they should know to make good choices about their own lives


DON’T: Use or manipulate others • Abuse, demean, or mistreat anyone
Tolerance and Acceptance
DO: Judge others on their character, abilities, and conduct without regard to race, religion, gender, where they live, how they dress, or the amount of money they have
• Be tolerant, respectful, and accepting of those who are different from you • Listen to others and try to understand their points of view
Nonviolence
D0: Resolve disagreements, respond to insults, and deal with anger peacefully and without violence
DON’T: Use threats or physical force to get what you want or to express anger

Courtesy
DO: Use good manners
• Be courteous, polite and civil to everyone
DON’T: Use put-downs, insults, yelling, or ridicule to embarrass or hurt another

A forester and a lawyer

A forester and a lawyer were in car accident and showed up at the pearly gates together. St. Peter greets them at the pearly gates and takes them to the homes where they will spend all of eternity.
They get into St. Peter’s holy vehicle and head on down a gold road, which turns into a platinum road, which turns onto an even grander road paved with diamonds, to a huge mansion where St. Peter turns to the lawyer and says, here is your home for the rest of eternity, enjoy! And if there is anything you need, just let me know.
Then St. Peter took the forester to his home, back down the diamond studded boulevard, down the platinum highway, down the street of gold, down an avenue of silver, along a stone alley and down an unpaved footpath to a shack. St Peter says "Here you go" and goes to leave when the forester says "Waitaminute!, how come the lawyer gets the big mansion and I get this shack?"
St. Peter says: "Well, Foresters are a dime a dozen here, we have never had a lawyer before." Courtesy: Internet

Do you know:

Around two million children under the age of five die each year from acute respiratory infections, the top killer of young children.
Air pollution - whether indoors from fuel consumption or tobacco smoke or outdoors from traffic and industrial pollution, is a serious risk factor for respiratory disease, a major contributor to ill-health among children around the world
Air pollution is a major environment-related health threat to children and a risk factor for both acute and chronic respiratory disease as well as other diseases. Around 2 million children under five die every year from acute respiratory infections. Many are aggravated by environmental hazards.
Indoor air pollution is a major factor associated with acute respiratory infections in both rural and urban areas of developing countries. A pollutant released indoors is often more dangerous to a child’s lungs than a pollutant released outdoors.
Strategies to combat these threats are often inexpensive. Yet they can reap great benefits for the children who live, play and grow in those settings
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Protecting children from smoking and from second-hand tobacco smoke reduces the risk of respiratory disorders and other ill-health effects later in life.
To create healthy environments for children: make public places smoke free in your community.

20 Quick Tips to Help You Quit Smoking

By Fred H. Kelley

1. Believe in yourself. Believe that you can quit. Think about some of the most difficult things you have done in your lifeand realize that you have the guts and determination to quit smoking. It’s up to you.
2. After reading this list, sit down and write your ownlist,
customized to your personality and way of doing things. Create your own plan for quitting.
3. Write down why you want to quit (the benefits of quitting): live longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell better, find a mate more easily, etc. You know what’s bad about smoking and you know what you’ll get by quitting. Put it on paper and read it daily.
4. Ask your family and friends to support your decision to quit. Ask them to be completely supportive and non-judgmental. Let them know ahead of time that you will probably be irritable and even irrational while you withdraw from your smoking habit.
5. Set a quit date. Decide what day you will extinguish your cigarettes forever. Write it down. Plan for it. Prepare your mind for the "first day of the rest of your life". You might even hold a small ceremony when you smoke you last cigarette, or on the morning of the quit date.
6. Talk with your doctor about quitting. Support and guidance from a physician is a proven way to better your chances to quit.
7. Begin an exercise program. Exercise is simply incompatible with smoking. Exercise relieves stress and helps your body recover from years of damage from cigarettes. If necessary, start slow, with a short walk once or twice per day. Build up to 30 to 40 minutes of rigorous activity, 3 or 4 times per week. Consult your physician before beginning any exercise program.
8. Do some deep breathing each day for 3 to 5 minutes. Breathe in through your nose very slowly, hold the breath for a few seconds, and exhale very slowly through your mouth. Try doing your breathing with your eyes closed and go to step 9.
9. Visualize your way to becoming a non-smoker. While doing your deep breathing in step 8, you can close your eyes and begin to imagine yourself as a non-smoker. See yourself enjoying your exercise in step 7. See yourself turning down a cigarette that someone offers you. See yourself throwing all your cigarettes away, and winning a gold medal for doing so. Develop your own
creative visualizations. Visualization works.
10. Cut back on cigarettes gradually (if you cut back gradually, be sure to set a quit date on which you WILL quit). Ways to cut back gradually include: plan how many cigarettes you will smoke each day until your quit date, making the number you smoke smaller each day; buy only one pack at a time; change brands so you don’t enjoy smoking as much; give your cigarettes to someone
else, so that you have to ask for them each time you want to smoke.
11. Quit smoking "cold turkey". Many smokers find that the only way they can truly quit once and for all is to just quit abruptly without trying to slowly taper off. Find the method that works best for you: gradually quittingor cold turkey. If one way doesn’t work do the other.
12. Find another smoker who is trying to quit, and help each other with positive words and by lending an ear when quitting becomes difficult. Visit this Bulletin Board and this Chat Room to find a "quit buddy."
13. Have your teeth cleaned. Enjoy the way your teeth look and feel and plan to keep them that way.
14. After you quit, plan to celebrate the milestones in your journey to becoming a non-smoker. After two weeks of being smoke-free, see a movie. After a month, go to a fancy restaurant (be sure to sit in the non-smoking section). After three months, go for a long weekend to a favorite get-away. After six months, buy yourself something frivolous. After a year, have a party for yourself. Invite your family and friends to your "birthday" party and celebrate your new chance at a long, healthy life.
15. Drink lots of water. Water is good for you anyway, and most people don’t get enough. It will help flush the nicotine and other chemicals out of your body, plus it can help reduce cravings by fulfilling the "oral desires" that you may have.
16. Learn what triggers your desire for a cigarette, such as stress, the end of a meal, arrival at work, entering a bar, etc. Avoid these triggers or if that’s impossible, plan alternative ways to deal with the triggers.
17. Find something to hold in your hand and mouth, to replace cigarettes. Consider drinking straws or you might try an
artificial cigarette called E-Z Quit found here:http://www.quitsmoking.com/ezquit.htm
18. Write yourself an inspirational song or poem about quitting, cigarettes, and what it means to you to quit. Read it daily.
19. Keep a picture of your family or someone very important to you with you at all times. On a piece of paper, write the words "I’m quitting
for myself and for you (or "them")". Tape your written message to the picture. Whenever you have the urge to
smoke, look at the picture and read the message.
20. Whenever you have a craving for a cigarette, instead of lighting up, write down your feelings or whatever is on your
mind. Keep this "journal" with you at all times.
Good luck in your efforts to quit smoking. It’s worth it!


** Article © Copyright Fred H. Kelley of QuitSmoking.com. Visit their web site at http://www.quitsmoking.com for great information and products designed to help smokers quit. Be sure to sign up for their FREE, twice-monthly email newsletter, which provides informative articles on how to quit, and stay quit, plus stories from other smokers.Just mailto:startsub@quitsmoking.com

KNOW THIS OF SOME GREAT MEN AND EVENTS

· Hans Christian Andersen was born in 1805
· William Wordsworth was born in 1770
· Pablo Picasso died in 1973.
· The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated in 1866
·· The U.S. Civil War began in 1861
· President · Abraham Lincoln delivered his last public speech in 1865
· Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President) died in 1845
· Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin completed the first manned space flight in 1961
· Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President) was shot in 1865 and died the following morning
· Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452
· The Titanic sank in 1912 taking with it 1513 of the 2224 passengers
· The first solo flight around the world by a woman was completed when Jerrie Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio in 1964.
· Charles Darwin died in 1882
· William Shakespeare died in 1616
· Albert Einstein died in 1955
· The Spanish-American War began in 1898 when Spain declared war against the U.S.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882

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The Canadian city of Ottawa suggests you take these steps to skid-proof your bathroo as slippery tubs and water-splashed bathroom floors are common reasons for senior spills

· Make sure the bathtub plug is easy to reach and to use.
· Use a rubber mat every time you take a bath or shower.
· Make sure anti-slip decals on the bottom of the bathtub are no more than two inches apart.
· Install at least two grab bars in the tub area.
· Check that portable grab bars don’t move when used for climbing out of the tub.
· Use a rug with a rubber backing outside the tub.

FOOT-CARE

- DoS

1. WALK! This is the best form of exercise for your feet.
2. Wear properly fitting, protective footwear even in your own home.
3. Use ice (cold) to treat an injury. This treatment produces a numbing effect and prevents swelling and pain.
4. Seek medical attention at the first sign of an injury or infection in the foot or ankle. Treatments require an investment of time and sometimes include surgery - the foot isn’t just a beauty concern.
5. Consult a podiatric physician regularly. There are 300 different foot ailments, none of which should be neglected.

- Don’ts -

1. Take life lying down. Regardless of your physical condition, walking is beneficial
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2. Go barefoot. This increases the risk of injury and infection and provides no support for either the foot or ankle.
3. Use heat or hot water to treat a foot or ankle injury. Heat promotes blood flow, causing increased swelling.
4. Wear heeled shoes that exceed two inches for extended periods of time - this is an open invitation for foot problems such as metatarsalgia (pain in the ball of the foot).
5. Wear athletic shoes for sports other than the ones for which they were intended - one style does not fit all! Don’t wear any sports shoe beyond its useful life.
6. Ignore foot pain. Contrary to popular belief, foot pain is not normal!

We have religion, God has none.Your God is my God and everybody’s God. You cannot identify God with a religion. Let self-seeking God brokers do that job. But isolate them as untouchables and a curse to humanity.

Mathew Thomas

THINK

Given the conditions we live in, given the environmnt we see around us, given the opportunities we are denied through class distinctions, given the exploitations we are subjected to, given the character of our leaders, given the denial of life supporting nature gifts through complacent administrative machinery, given the shortage of all we need for minimum comfort, given the steep rising cost of living, given the corruption pervading in the society, given the advent of absurd diseases in scores, given the violence and terrorism we see every day, given the depleting natural resources, given the frightening climatic variations and changes, it is sin to cause a SECOND BIRTH. One who defies basic commonsense built in him is not just a one day April Fool, but an eternal fool

~ Mathew Thomas

We’re worn into grooves by time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we’ve been second rate or champions.
by Frank B. Gilberth


"Because in life there comes a time When one must fight, and one must climb,When one must rise and take a stand,Or leave their butt prints in the sand." (unknown source)

What They Say About Fools...

· But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. — 1 Cor 1:27
· However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
· [Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. — Thomas Reed
· He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks. — François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
· The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer
· Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. — Elizabeth Gaskell
· Looking foolish does the spirit good. — John Updike
· Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain
· A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
· A fool must now and then be right by chance. — Cowper
· It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Stevenson
· The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. — Mark Twain
Who Is Not a Fool?" ["Qui non stultus?"]
—Horace (65-8 B.C.), Satires, 2.3.158
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.(see it in Indian Political cotext and wide shining publicity - The Sales Digest)
—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (3.1.39-40)
We have all seen how an appropriate and well-timed joke can sometimes influence even grim tyrants. . . . The most violent tyrants put up with their clowns and fools, though these often made them the butt of open insults.
~Desiderius Erasmus

Learn from these 'QUOTES'

"A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems."
Unknown

"Wherever you go - there you are"
Confucius

"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
Jules Renard

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanted to be important."
T. S. Eliot

"When we talk nonsense with enough conviction, we can begin to make it seem legitimate."
Unknown

"A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing."
Andy Williams

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
Confucius

"The definition of an accountant: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand."
Unknown

"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong."
H. L. Mencken

"The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
Unknown

"A man always has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason"
J. P. Morgan

"Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away."
Confucius

"One of the best reducing exercises is walking, especially right past the refrigerator."
Unknown

"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."
Unknown

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
Samuel Goldwyn

"Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The reason history repeats itself is that most people weren't listening the first time."
Unknown

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
Eric Hoffer

"The biggest thing college prepares the young people for is the knowledge of how to be broke"
Unknown

"What this country needs is a car that can go no faster then its driver can think"
Unknown

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is always surprised when others believe him."
Charles de Gaulle

"Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine...."
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with college education."
Mark Twain

"An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame."
Unknown

"I am now at the age where I have got to prove that I am just as good as I never was"
Rex Harrison

"The one who complains the loudest is generally he who contributes the least."
Unknown

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Jean Cocteau

"Adult education is something that will continue as long as kids have homework."
Unknown

"A father is a man who carries family photos where his money used to be."
Unknown

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
Fred Astaire

"Some people's opinions are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set."
Unknown

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
Lily Tomlin

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
Robert Benchley

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
Ralph Waldo

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them"
Harry S Truman

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G. K. Chesterton

"If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me"
Doug Boyd

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Elvis Presley

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."
Jane Wagner

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
Samuel Johnson

"The rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength."
Eric Hoffer

"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short."
Shelley Winters

"To get your children's attention, sit in an easy chair and look comfortable."
Unknown

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
Nikita Khrushchev

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
Georges Duhamel

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
Robert Benchley

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."
Chinese Proverb

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
Howard Scott

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
Clare Booth Luce

"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
Dinah Shore

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
Robert Service

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
Pablo Picasso

"What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it." Unknown

THESE ARE FACTS - BUT WE

ARE BLIND TO IT

1 of 5 girls will be sexually molested before her 18th birthday.
1 of 6 boys will be sexually molested before his 18th birthday.
1 of 5 children has been propositioned for sex over the Internet.
2 of 3 sexual abuses are perpetrated against teenagers or younger children.
90% of sexual assaults are committed against someone the perpetrator knows.
The median age for male molestation victims under 18 is 9.8 years old.
The median age for female molestation victims under 18 is 9.6 years old.
There are new 400,000 victims of sexual assault every year.
There are over 550,000 registered sex offenders in the US.
There are over 100,000 sex offenders that fail to register in the US.
76% of serial rapists claim they were molested as children. Over 40% of male juvenile delinquents were molested as children

Based on U S Statistics- Things are not that different in India too

Ten Common Myths and
Ten Surprising 'HEARING'

Facts

1. Myth: Only a few people are truly hearing-impaired and chances are, neither I nor those close to me are affected.

Fact: The odds are that you or someone close to you has some degree of hearing impairment. In fact, it has been estimated that 20 million Americans suffer from some form of hearing-impairment.

2. Myth: If I had a hearing impairment, I certainly would know about it.

Fact: Not necessarily. Often an impairment develops slowly and subtly. Our own built-in defenses may make it difficult for us to determine whether we do or don’t. A simple hearing test would determine if an impairment exists.

3. Myth: Will hearing aids restore my hearing to normal?

Fact: Hearing aids are designed to aid a person’s hearing. Hearing aids cannot restore human hearing nor can they retard the progression of nerve deafness. They are only part of hearing rehabilitation and may need to be supplemented by auditory training.

4. Myth: Will my hearing aids help in the presence of distracting background noise?

Fact: Understanding, especially in a noisy environ­ment, will vary depending on each individual’s hearingloss. Overall benefit may depend on proper fit, frequency of use, auditory rehabilitation, the severity of hearing loss, and on the accuracy of the patient evaluation.

5. Myth: When someone is hearing impaired, that just means that sounds are not loud enough.

Fact: That’s just part of it, Perhaps that person may have trouble hearing in crowds or in group conversations. Perhaps they hear but don’t always understand what’s being said. Words may seem to be mumbled or words just run together. These are but a few of the symptoms.

6. Myth: Hearing aids are large and unsightly. Most people therefore don't want to wear them.

Fact: Most people aren’t aware of the latest technological advances that have been made in hearing aids. For many, “in-the-ear” hearing aids exist and these aids are amazingly small and discreet. They’re so technically advanced that they’ve made most old-fashioned hearing aids obsolete.

7. Myth: Wearing a hearing aid is a sign you're getting old.

Fact: Although hearing impairments are common in older adults, many middle age and younger people are affected as well. There are many determining factors beyond just age. Remember, a hearing loss is more noticeable than a hearing aid.

8. Myth: I’ve heard that my type of hearing loss can’t be helped.

Fact: In most cases, nerve deafness can be helped through amplification. Now there is hope for those who have been told they couldn’t be helped.

9. Myth: It's too expensive to get a really good hearing aid.

Fact: The very best hearing aids available are well within the reach of most people. Any way you look at it, a hearing aid could be the best investment you can make.

10. Myth: Hearing tests are expensive and inconvenient.

Fact: Not so. Talk to me for details.

The effect of a hearing impairment is subtle, yet devastating. Some are not even aware of it. Tragically, only a fraction of those do something about it.

Normal sound perception is a vitally important factor in our lives. Yet, all too often it’s taken for granted. Our listening environment is shaped by a sound in a complex ever-present background, much of which is beneath our awareness.

On a subconscious level, these sounds provide us with a true sense of participation and security in the world. Overtly, there are signals of danger and those that help us to communicate.

While millions in the world are hearing impaired, most people are burdened with miscon­ceptions about their hearing and about what hearing aids can do to help.

Myths are passed around and prevent people from getting the facts.

Courtesy: Blue Bell Hearing Aid Center, Inc.