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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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What exactly is a "docu-drama"?
What bird migrates from the Arctic to the Antarctic each
year?
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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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Why did "555" ever get put aside for fake TV phone numbers
anyway?
Simple. So television viewers wouldn't be dialing REAL
telephone numbers and harassing people whose numbers just
happened to be "used" in a television show.
What are Nielsen ratings?
Nielsen ratings are based on the television viewing habits
of a small sample of 1200 homes nationwide. People
participating in the Nielsen ratings sample have an
electronic device attached to their television which keeps
track of when the TV is turned on and which channel is being
watched. .
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:
1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2 Title Article
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Around The Net
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
Some Thoughts About Soy
PART 4 of 5
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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TITLE ARTICLE . . .
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Around The Net
Arab Majority May Not Stay Forever Silent
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
July 17, 2006
Yes, world, there is a silent Arab majority that believes
that seventh-century Islam is not fit for 21st-century
challenges. That women do not have to look like walking
black tents. That men do not have to wear beards and robes,
act like lunatics, and run around blowing themselves up in
order to enjoy 72 virgins in paradise. And that secular
laws, not Islamic Shariah, should rule our day-to-day lives.
And yes, we, the silent Arab majority, do not believe that
writers, secular or otherwise, should be killed or banned
for expressing their views. Or that the rest of our creative
elite - from moviemakers to playwrights, actors, painters,
sculptors, and fashion models - should be vetted by
Neanderthal Muslim imams who have never read a book in their
dim, miserable lives.
Nor do we believe that little men with head wraps and
disheveled beards can run amok in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,
Iran, and Iraq making decisions on our behalf, dragging us
to war whenever they please, confiscating our rights to be
adults, and flogging us for not praying five times a day or
even for not believing in God.
More important, we are not silent any longer.
Rarely have I seen such an uprising, indeed an intifada,
against those little turbaned, bearded men across the Muslim
landscape as the one that took place last week. The leader
of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, received a resounding
"no" to pulling 350 million Arabs into a war with Israel on
his clerical coattails.
The collective "nyet" was spoken by presidents, emirs, and
kings at the highest level of government in Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, and at the Arab
League's meeting of 22 foreign ministers in Cairo on
Saturday. But it was even louder from pundits and ordinary
people.
Perhaps the most remarkable and unexpected reaction came
from Saudi Arabia, whose foreign minister, Prince Saud
Al-Faisal, said bluntly and publicly that Hezbollah's
decision to cross the Lebanese border, attack Israel, and
kidnap its soldiers has left the Shiite group on its own to
face Israel. The unspoken message here was, "We hope they
blow you away."
The Arab League put it succinctly in its final communique in
Cairo, declaring that "behavior undertaken by some groups
[read: Hezbollah and Hamas] in apparent safeguarding of Arab
interests does in fact harm those interests, allowing Israel
and other parties from outside the Arab world [read: Iran]
to wreck havoc with the security and safety of all Arab
countries."
As for Hezbollah and its few supporters, who have pushed for
an emergency Arab summit meeting, the response could not
have been a bigger slap in the face. Take a listen:
* Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of Al-Arabiya,
possibly the most influential Arab opinion-maker today, was
categorical yesterday: "We have lost most of our causes and
the largest portions of our lands following fiery speeches
and empty promises of struggle coupled with hallucinating,
drug-induced political fantasies." As for joining Hezbollah
in its quest, his answer was basically, "you broke it, you
own it."
* Tariq Alhomayed, editor in chief of the Arab daily Asharq
al-Awsat, stuck the dagger in deeper: "Mr. Nasrallah
bombastically announced he consulted no one when he decided
to attack Israel, nor did he measure Lebanon's need for
security, prosperity, and the safety of its people. He said
he needs no one's help but God's to fight the fight." Mr.
Alhomayed's punch line was, in so many words: Go with God,
Sheik Nasrallah, but count the rest of us out.
Several other Arab pundits, not necessarily coordinating
their commentary, noted that today Sheik Nasrallah has been
reduced to Osama bin Laden status, a fugitive from Israeli
justice, sending out his tapes from unknown locations to,
invariably, Al-Jazeera, the prime purveyor of Mr. bin
Laden's communications.
All in all, it seems that when Israel decided to go to war
against the priestly mafia of Hamas and Hezbollah, it opened
a whole new chapter in the Greater Middle East discourse.
And Israel is finding, to its surprise, that a vast,
not-so-silent majority of Arabs agrees that enough is
enough. To be sure, beneath the hostility toward Sheik
Nasrallah in Sunni Muslim states lies the deep and bitter
heritage of a 14-century Sunni-Shiite divide, propelled to
greater heights now by fears of an ascendant Shiite "arc of
menace" rising out of Iran and peddled in the Sunni world by
Syria.
The sooner this is settled the better.
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Calm, patient, persistent effort will win the day.
---- Ken Darby
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
Some Thoughts About Soy
PART 4 of 5
First soy bulletin: Soy protein reduces breast cancer risk
in women A meta-analysis of 14 studies relating to soy
consumption and breast cancer in women around the world was
published in the April volume of The International Journal
of Cancer Prevention. Soy intake was assessed in one of the
three ways, soyfoods (as a group of foods or a specific type
of soyfoods, e.g. bean curd), soy protein, or soy
isoflavones.
The analysis of studies on soy intake and breast cancer
indicated that eating soy protein on a regular basis may
reduce a woman's chance of developing breast cancer by up to
22 percent. Seven of the 14 publications provided data on
breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Among postmenopausal
women, regular soy intake decreased the risk of breast
cancer by 36 percent. In addition, soy consumption by
adolescents may be related to a lower risk of developing
breast cancer later in life. The results of these analyses
show that regular consumption of soyfoods is associated with
a lower risk of breast cancer in women.
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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
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
-----------------------DISCLAIMER
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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What do you know? There actually are some with common sense
out there.
The title article today contains information I find almost
startling. Some wise Arabs have actually seen that picking a
fight with Israel has always ended in the Arab losing many
lives and much property.
Some have seen that the purported leaders of the movement
against Israel and against the west are only illiterate,
small men who rely on religious rhetoric to galvanize the
masses, or enough of them to continue this insane struggle
that history well shows will never be won.
The only way for the Arab people in the Middle East to enjoy
peace and prosperity is to lay down their arms and embark on
a path of peace and enterprise with Israel and the west.
Fortunately, and I think surprisingly, a meeting of Arab
leaders from most Arab countries seem to collectively agree
the leaders of these movements against Israel bring only
war, death and destruction upon their people. The Arab world
will not back them.
Maybe there is some sanity left in this world after all.
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
Because it hasn't been done before, doesn't mean it
can't be done. Those who are afraid to make a mistake
will never make a significant achievement.
Ted Hood
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"And a good morning to you, Wing Commander," replied the
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There are two aspects to achievement--reaching your
goal and getting safely back home again. One is
incomplete without the other!
Edmund Hillary
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---- Ken Darby
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