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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available.
Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in
the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you
won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished
it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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Was Esther Pauline Friedman the first woman to write under
the "Ann Landers" name?
Is it true that "Ann Landers" was the twin sister of "Dear
Abby" and they shared almost the same name?
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What does the name "Punxsutawney" mean?
The name "Punxsutawney" comes from the Indian name for the
location "ponksad-uteney," which means "the town of the
sandflies." Lovely.
What was Ann Landers' real name?
The woman who became famous writing an advice column under
the name "Ann Landers" was born Esther Pauline Friedman.
Friends called her "Eppie." Her married name was Lederer.
Before her death in June 2002, Ann Landers' column was one
of the most widely syndicated columns in the world. Ann
Landers dispensed advice on everything from AIDS to
xenophobia.
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There are a lot of ways to become a failure,
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:
1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. COVER STORY . . .
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TIPS AND TIDBITS . . .
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN with Karin Henderson
Health Question About
Fibromyalgia & Arthritis
PART 4 of 5
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
Deeper Into The Morass We Go - Willingly!
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
8. CONTACT INFO
9. THE LAST LINE - - - - -
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you're finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
The name for insect poop is frass.
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COVER STORY . . .
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TIPS AND TIDBITS . . .
Chinese army 'harvesting body parts'
From correspondents in Ottawa
February 01, 2007 08:27am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
CHINA'S military is harvesting organs from unwilling live
prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for
transplants on a large scale - including to foreign
recipients- according to a study.
The report's authors - Canada's former secretary of state
for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights
lawyer David Matas - implicated dozens of hospitals and
jails throughout China in July, after a two-month
investigation.
Chinese officials denied those allegations.
Mr Matas and Mr Kilgour's second report, released
today, includes interviews with organ recipients in 30
countries and Canadian hospital staff who cared for more
than 100 patients who had undergone suspicious transplant
surgeries in China.
"The involvement of the People's Liberation Army in these
transplants is widespread,'' Mr Kilgour said at a press
conference.
Like many civilian hospitals in rural China, military
hospitals turned to selling organs to make up for government
funding cuts in the 1980s, the report said.
But military personnel could operate with much more secrecy,
it said.
"Recipients often tell us that even when they receive
transplants at civilian hospitals, those conducting the
operation are military personnel,'' the report said.
Hospitals in Canada's biggest cities - Vancouver, Calgary
and Toronto - confirmed "a substantial number'' of Canadians
had travelled to China for dubious organ transplants, Mr
Kilgour said.
"We're in the three digits, up over 100 (from Canada each
year), and the trend is accelerating,'' Mr Matas said.
To curb what they called a "disgusting form of evil", the
pair asked pharmaceutical firms to stop selling organ
anti-rejection drugs to China.
They also asked countries to post travel advisories warning
about China's alleged organ harvest, asked states to cease
offering follow-up care for patients who had dubious organ
transplants in China and asked foreign doctors to cut ties
with their Chinese counterparts suspected of such practices.
The authors said states should enact legislation to ban
citizens from traveling to China for organ transplants from
unwilling donors, although they admitted that such cases
would be difficult to prosecute.
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The mind offers many elusive thoughts. When you are
on the path it is important you keep your mind sharp to
become aware of truths that will come when least expected.
---- Ken Darby
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - - with Karin Henderson
Health Question About
Fibromyalgia & Arthritis
PART 4 of 5
HEALTH QUESTION: Hi there, I have a question. I had an x-ray
confirming I have "degenerative lippings" in my neck. Is this
Osteoarthritis? I am 32, what can I expect to happen in the
future as I age?
(1) Will this cripple me?
(2) I also have fibromyalgia.... which is painful, but at least it isn't
degenerative!
(3) Any help you can offer in answering my questions is greatly
appreciated... as I have searched a bunch of different websites,
but none actually specify what "degenerative" lippings are.
(4) Since I have had the Fibromyalgia in my upper back, I have the
degenerative lippings, I have had constant "bloatedness"
(5) I now have a sluggish bowel, occasional swelling of my
leg calves, eyes sore & swollen, jaw aches, inflamation in
my shoulders, neck & upper back. I never sleep well, wake
sore and unrefreshed. I feel like I am 90
(6)! Thanks so much for you're time.
Our reader also doesn't mention anything about medications.
Physicians typically place these types of patients on a
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug for pain, medication for
sleep, perhaps a muscle relaxant and anti-depressant. What is
even more disconcerting is the frequency with which these
patients are being treated with narcotic pain medication. Now,
they not only have a horrible disease but are also vulnerable to
becoming addicted to their narcotic pain medication. Our reader
didn't say if they were prescribed any of this kind of
medication. You, as the present reader, MUST consider the side
effects, interactions, and long-term effects of all drugs.
(5)Abdominal bloating is a condition in which the abdomen feels
full and tight -- usually caused by excessive intestinal gas.
This could be a result of the intestinal involvement or the
medications.
Drugs/medications are chemicals and are not normally produced by
your body. They will have an effect...the desired one as well as
an undesired one.
So the degeneration aspect is pretty clear. Our environment,
lifestyle, and diet factors seem to be continually eroding our
health. One of the most significant findings through research has been
the value of antioxidants in "neutralizing the negative effect
of free radicals" in the human body. Free radicals are believed
to be the cause of many degenerative diseases through oxidative
stress activity. And this seems to be evolving from a variety of
factors including pollution, high-fat diets, exercise, and
smoking.
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca
Health Information Newsletter.
http://www.prescotts-inc.com
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
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Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.
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Deeper Into The Morass We Go - Willingly!
(Morass - a morass of paperwork confusion, chaos, muddle,
tangle, entanglement, imbroglio, jumble, clutter;
informal logjam.)
Can you imagine? In this 21st century we have people in
captivity, according to the whims of man, who are having
bodily organs taken from them. These people are killed, of
course, although nothing says they aren’t made to watch
before they die.
The organs are then taken to hospitals where those with
money pay for the organ and it is transplanted.
This kind of thing happens because those with money will
pay. Those who want the money will do the job of getting the
organs in any way they can. All in all it is a filthy
business.
What kind of people are these who would do this kind of
thing? I could see it back in 3000 BC but we are supposed to
have educated ourselves, come up with new laws and generally
conduct ourselves with higher spiritual values today than in
3000 BC.
Is it any wonder men and women in our country are prepared
to lie, to withhold truth, mislead the public all for the
sake of a dollar? According to the cover story today we are
sinking even further into the morass than I have given
credit for.
A warning to you. In the next few years you will see more
and more of this moral decay. You will see all sorts of
atrocities happen, all sorts of lies being told, all sorts
of things happening for money and not one realistic move to
stopping the of putting greenhouse gasses into the
atmosphere.
The word is money. It has been, is now and ever shall be,
time without end. Unfortunately that is the attitude of the
church as well.
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
U-boat: Why doe we call the German submarine a "U-boat"?
Because the German name for a "submarine" is unterseeboot -
and so, the "U" stands for "undersea".
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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with
its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its
melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." -- Percival
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HA! HA! HA!
On the Other Side
A blonde and a brunette are on opposite sides of a river.
The brunette wants to get across.
She yells across to the blonde, "Hey, how do I get to the
other side?"
The blonde shakes her head and yells back - "People like you
really piss me off. You ARE on the other side!"
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THE LAST LINE - - - - -
"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."
-– Bob Richards
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REMEMBER! - IF YOU SEE IT IN thePEBBLE - IT IS SO!
Persistence is fun, when you enjoy what you are doing.
It is a joy, when you know the objective will be attained.
---- Ken Darby
