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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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What do we call the study of reptiles and amphibians?
What kind of pets have lived in the White House?
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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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What's the difference between a frog and a toad?
Frogs and toads are similar, and frequently confused, but
there are some differences between them. "True frogs" are
creatures with smooth or slimy skin, bulging eyes, and long
and strong legs with webbed hind feet. Frogs tend to prefer
moist environments and they like to lay their eggs in
clusters. Toads, on the other hand, have warty, dry skin,
stubby bodies with short hind legs, and like to lay eggs in
long chains. They also tend to have parotid, or poison,
glands behind their eyes and to spend more time on land.
What do we call a group of frogs?
A group of frogs is an ARMY of frogs. A group of toads is a
KNOT of toads.
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1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. Here's To Think On . . . with Ken Darby
Know When To Use Alternatives!
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
Could Your Blood Pressure Be Too Low?
A Plea For Some Common Sense: Some Sanity
PART 7 of 12
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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!
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Here's To Think On . . . with Ken Darby
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Know When To Use Alternatives!
With the average cost for a Nursing Home per day reaching
$188.00, there is a better way when we get old and feeble.
I have ascertained that I can get a nice room at the Holiday
Inn for around $65.00...that leaves $123.00 a day for food
(room service), laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.
They have a swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge,
washer, dryer, etc. Most have free toothpaste and razors,
and all have free shampoo and soap.
Super 8 is somewhat more economical and they have a
free breakfast, though you usually have to walk next door
for lunch and dinner. There may be a bit of a wait to get that
first floor room, but that's OK, it takes months to get into
decent nursing homes.
There is the Senior Bus, the Handicap bus (if you fake a
decent limp), a Church bus or van, cabs, and even a
regular bus. For a change of lunch take the Airport Bus
and eat at one of the fast food cafe's there.
The Inn has security, and if someone sees you drop over,
they will call an ambulance. And should you break a hip,
the American Way is to Sue. What more can you ask for?
As a bonus, they all have AARP and other Senior discounts.
So: When I reach the Golden age, help me keep my grin.
Just check me into the nearest Holiday Inn!
While this might be a cute alternative to a nursing home,
and I'm sure, with a little aggressive research this might
make sense, the story does point out there are times when
selecting an alternative is a good idea.
However, I caution you to think clearly on the alternatives
you select and why. But most importantly I caution you to
think hard on where you would select them.
Let's discuss that a bit. If you have decided you want a
certain income level, and have made that your goal, I
recommend no alternative be entertained, ever, until you
have attained that goal. However, if you see an alternative
job, or education, or business opportunity that proves you
can get to that level, then it might be considered as an
alternate route.
If, though, you have decided you are going to take a certain
product or service and accomplish a certain goal, then
you have selected a route from which you will consider
no alternative.
Where you might sell this product or service, though, is
another matter. You may run across thousands of different
ways to sell it, price it, deliver it, tell your public about it. I
hope you do, for the more you search out the alternatives
here then the sooner you will reach your goal.
The point is there are some goals in life that will bear no
alternative thinking. You must commit and tolerate no
thinking to the contrary.
Yet, the steps you use to accomplish that goal may vary
and present you with a host of alternatives each of which
is worthy of your attention.
Too many confuse the goal with the means. Be clear
about that.
Know When To Use Alternatives!
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Ones thoughts have a way of producing the conditions
purveyed thereby.
---- Ken Darby
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
Could Your Blood Pressure Be Too Low?
A Plea For Some Common Sense: Some Sanity
PART 7 of 12
Unfortunately, from what I hear a lot, not all medical
practitioners welcome this enlightened state of their
patients. I could tell you story after story of doctors who
dismiss their patients. So as always, I urge you to be most
diplomatic when you present any Internet information to your
doctor. But please don’t let it stop you from researching
worthy help for your body. Before I go any further, I want
to be clear about the terms “health” and “wellness”. In our
North American culture, we tend to see our health needing to
be repaired. And we see wellness as something holistic,
suspicious, and to be avoided at all costs. So traditional
drugs win out, time and time again. Health should be health
and illness should be illness.
Please recognize that drugs are always chemicals. Your
purpose for going to seek medical help is to change the
state of your being. And that is what doctors are trained to
do. They offer or prescribe drugs and offer and perform
surgery. And that is all about repair and chemicals to
create a change: the one you are seeking. But please
understand that what you might be seeking in help for your
headache can also have a overall body affect. When you take
something like a headache pill, you will be changing the
entire make up of your body. Those are called ”side
effects”. And we see them as maybe not happening at all, or
having negligible effects. But that is often not the case.
I sit in a very interesting and privileged position as
people contact us. I hear about all the drugs they are on. I
can see the overall results and ask about these side
effects. (And now that I am bringing this to your attention,
I hope you will do the same.) What is most interesting is
the use of drugs. Having been a nurse for many years, I can
see how doctors use the recognized side effects of one drug
as the primary reason for using it in another situation. And
blood pressure medications are a good example. I’ll use
“our” Meniere’s friends. The main course of treatment
includes a diuretic, something to quell the dizziness and
vertigo, and often an antihistamine. A low salt diet is also
prescribed. The purpose of the diuretic is to draw off
fluid. But it is also used in the treatment of high blood
pressure. If you follow this, you will soon see that taking
this “antihypertensive drug” and NOT having high blood
pressure, could now lead to possible problems, like a
(unwanted) reduced blood pressure? But let’s look at the
blood pressure. In the “ALLHAT” study:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nhlbi-01.htm ) they
mention multiple drug groups. These are all vying for space
and actions in your body. Could these drugs be not as
effective as hoped, all the while be causing their own
problems?
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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.
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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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The world is a busy place today.
About 4500 people have been removed from their homes and
taken to safety in Java. Mt. Merapi, a volcano on Java is
threatening to erupt. The buildup is now throwing ash and
rock over a wide radius. No one knows how big this eruption
will be but Merapi is thought to be one of the most fearsome
in the "Pacific Ring Of Fire". It has killed 60 people in
1994 and over 1300 in 1930. We'll wait and watch.
Well, they say a haughty spirit goes before a fall. Saddam
Hussein is beligerantly refusing to enter a plea in yet
another phase of his trial. He is whining that "this is no
way to treat a president". How ignorant can one be. Does he
think he can add one day to his life by being even more
stupid than he has already shown?
The U.S. is renewing it's diplomatic links with Libya. It
seems Gaddafi has renounced weapons of mass destruction and
terrorism and held the line for a while. Everybody seems to
think this renewed relationship is great.
As also in the U.S. it seems the Florida alligators have
become hungry for humans. Warm weather has increased their
appetite and there have been two alligator related human
deaths in the last couple weeks.
Speaking of death, there is a problem in India. In one
province in India the people are taking the importance of
having boy babies to new extremes. If a woman is found to
have a female baby, through ultra sound testing, she can
have it aborted. This practice has apparently been going on
for some time, to the point where there are fewer and fewer
women in India. Boy babies are okay because boys take over
the family as they grow up, and in India that means the boys
support the seniors. Boy babies mean wealth. Girl babies are
a liability. According to one report, 10 million female
foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past 20
years. That will certainly change if they find they do not
have enough women to have their boy babies, right? This
practice is another ignorant practice coming out of
religious beliefs. People do let themselves get all hung up
on religion don't they?
Well, it seems the U.S. is erecting it's own iron curtain.
It is erecting high security fencing all along the Mexican
border. Security is tightened and Bush is going to call out
the National Guard to patrol the entire border. American
industry loves to have the Mexican worker because he is
willing to work for much less than an American worker, so
this war against illegal immigration is as much inside the
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy." –-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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HA! HA! HA!
1. Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead
raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm
sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger."
2. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to
Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed
behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The
second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two
weevils.
3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when
they lit a fire in the craft, it sank proving once again
that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too.
4. A three legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West.
He slides up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the
man who shot my paw."
5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain
during a root canal? He wanted to transcend dental
medication.
6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and
were standing in the lobby discussing their recent
tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came
out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?"
they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't
stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
7. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One
of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Amal." The
other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years
later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother.
Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she
wishes she also had a picture of Amal. Her husband
responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen
Amal."
8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so
they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since
everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival
florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He
asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He
went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him.
So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest
and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close.
Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd
be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did
so, thereby proving that: Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent
florist friars.
9. We all know who Gandhi was, right? He was a spiritual
man who fasted regularly. Some may not realize that
fasting, when practiced regularly and for extended periods,
leads not only to weight loss, but can also cause bad
breath. No matter, his interests were higher. This great
leader hardly ever wore shoes. One might say he was . . .
a super-calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.
10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten
different puns to friends, in the hope that at least one of
the puns would make them laugh.
Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
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