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Speak English

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:47:15 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

A billion people speak English worldwide, making it the third-largest language, behind Chinese and Spanish. But how well do we understand its idiosyncrasies?

Tags: english, language, humor, humour

10 commendments of Marriage

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:25:33 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: ha ha

Clip Source: masalajokes.blogspot.com

Marriages are made in heaven. But so are thunder and lightning

If you want your wife to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say; talk in your sleep

Marriage is grand -- and divorce is at least 100 grand

Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.

In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.

In the third year, they both speak and the neighbours listen

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: Either the car is new or the wife is

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you say. After marriage, he will fall asleep before you finish

Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook.

But the law allows only one wife

Marriage and love are purely matter of chemistry

That is why wives treat husbands like toxic wast

Tags: funny, marriage

Royalty free, public doman, thousands of photos...

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:24:10 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: you can use them for any purpose you want, including publishing them, selling them...just the point!

Clip Source: pdphoto.org

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Tags: free domain, photos, royalty free, pictures, free to use, free of cost.

10 Things You dont Know about You

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:38:49 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: good to kno..

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Your Stomach Secretes Corrosive Acid

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Body Position Affects Your Memory

Can't remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Bones Break (Down) to Balance Minerals

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Much of a Meal is Food For Thought

Though it makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body's oxygen and calories

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Thousands of Eggs Unused by Ovaries

The average adolescent girl has 34,000 underdeveloped egg follicles, although only 350 or so mature during her life

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Puberty Reshapes Brain Structure, Makes for Missed Curfews

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Cell Hairs Move Mucus

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

The World Laughs with You

Hearing a laugh actually stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Your Skin Has Four Colors

Near-surface blood vessels add a blush of red

yellow pigment also tints the canvas

sepia-toned melanin, created in response to ultraviolet rays, appears black in large amounts

All skin, without coloring, would appear creamy white

Tags: science, facts

Northern Lights

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:23:19 GMT

clipped by: robertsurfdude6
clipper's remarks: colorful

Clip Source: www.iww.is

Tags: wow

18 ways to improve your body language

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:25:50 GMT

clipped by: bakanootaku
clipper's remarks: Go to the website for more information. 'tis hard to be concise.

Clip Source: www.positivityblog.com

1. Don’t cross your arms or legs –

2. Have eye contact, but don’t stare

3. Don’t be afraid to take up some space

4. Relax your shoulders

5. Nod when they are talking

6. Don’t slouch, sit up straight

7. Lean, but not too much –

8. Smile and laugh

9. Don’t touch your face

10. Keep you head up.

11. Slow down a bit

12. Don’t fidget

13. Use your hands more confidently

14. Lower your drink

15. Realise where you spine ends

16. Don’t stand too close

17. Mirror

18. Keep a good attitude

Tags: body language

happy baby elephant

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:18:34 GMT

clipped by: idreamofginny

Clip Source: youneed2see.com

Tags: animals

Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:16:17 GMT

clipped by: joaaron2468

Clip Source: www.jpost.com

Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack

Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.

The dramatic clarifications, compiled by epigrapher Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem in a paper titled "Cracks in the Foundation: How the Lost Tomb of Jesus story is losing its scholarly support," come two months after the screening of The Lost Tomb of Christ that attracted widespread public interest, despite the concomitant scholarly ridicule.

Tags: war, religion, politics, news, internet, education

Exxon Mobil Secretly Funds Efforts to Deny Global Warming

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:57:20 GMT

clipped by: redhead328

Clip Source: blog.aflcio.org

Exxon Mobil Secretly Funds Efforts to Deny Global Warming

by Tula Connell, Jan 5, 2007

Tags: exxon, corporate greed, global warming, cover up

Haryana's sex ratio changes drastically

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:39:57 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: This is excellent news...
'Successive state governments have taken various measures. Besides coming down heavily on private clinics doing sex determination tests that was attributed to the rising incidents of female foeticide, the state administration announced monetary incentives to parents giving birth to girl child, free education and government help in the form of cash at the time of their marriage.'

Clip Source: www.gulfnews.com

The skewed sex-ratio in Haryana has changed drastically with girls outnumbering boys in many parts of the state now.

A state government survey has thrown up the heartening news that stringent implementation of various laws and better awareness has helped increase the number of girl child during the past five years.

The 2001 census had put Haryana on the alert as it had emerged as one of the states with the worst sex ratio with 861 females for 1,000 males.

The situation had become so bad that people in many villages, particularly in Jat-community-dominated areas, had started looking for brides for their eligible youngsters from tribal areas of Jharkhand and Orissa.

The situation has changed even in urban areas of the state with girl child outnumbering boys in several towns

Tags: girls, population, ratio, improvement, india, culture, government, inequality, haryana, law

The problem with doctor report cards

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:19:26 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: This is from an exchange between Jerome Groopman and Darshak Sanghavi, discussing Groopman's well-known recent book How Doctors Think. Sanghavi suggested that doctors be graded based on well-measured outcomes so patients can make a well-informed choice when they pick their doctors. Here Groopman points out the problem with this.

This is especially interesting for me, because public schools face a very similar dilemma with accountability. How can we hold doctors and educators accountable in a way that is fair, accurate, and avoids gaming the system?

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Several years ago, I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about prostate cancer treatment. I looked at "outcomes data"—data demonstrating how patients do after a surgery. What I discovered was that certain doctors could "game" the outcome, the way clever students know how to game the SATs. Several surgeons cherry-picked their cases so that their outcomes looked far superior than those of colleagues who operated on sicker patients.

Marketing tactics have come to shape these report cards, and game-playing surgeons claim that the rates of complications suffered by their patients (complications such as impotence and incontinence) are very low, so they "should be" the ones to wield the scalpel. These doctors avoid patients with diabetes or heart disease or vascular problems, stacking the deck in their favor.

Tags: medicine, free-market, accountability

36 million die of starvation every year!!!

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:25:49 GMT

clipped by: duvelic
clipper's remarks: Can you stay unconcerned about this fact!?

Clip Source: www.righttofood.org

The right to food means that Governments must not take actions that result in increasing levels of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. It also means that Governments must protect people from the actions of others that might violate the right to food. Governments must also, to the maximum of available resources, invest in eradicating hunger. The right to food is not about charity, but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in dignity.

«In a world overflowing with riches, it is a outrageous scandal that more than 826 million people suffer hunger and malnutrition and that every year over 36 million die of starvation and related causes . We must take urgent action now.»

Jean Ziegler, April 2001, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food ----

Tags: starvation, world, plenty, after, day, week, month, year, tragic

The calamity of Asia's lost women

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:10:44 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The calamity of Asia's lost women

The killing of baby girls has led to a surplus of disaffected men who are a threat to stability

In the middle of the 19th century, an area the size of Germany located between Beijing and Shanghai in central China was run for more than 15 years by the Nian rebels, a 50,000-strong network of bandit groups who lived by pillage and rape. The inability of the Imperial armies to quell the rebellion for so long was a sign of the system's vulnerability that would eventually lead to its collapse.

the Nian bandits were men without women, long understood in China as the principal stimulus to their rebellion and cause of their violence.

the killing of infant girls to conserve food for more economically valuable boys in response to famine had been particularly terrible.

Earlier this year, an official Chinese report projected that by 2020, one in 10 men between 20 and 45 would be unable to find a wife.

28 million surplus Chinese men and 31 million surplus Indian men.

Tags: society, health, politics

Calming Foods

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:00:37 GMT

clipped by: LindaTee

Clip Source: health.ivillage.com

Carbohydrates are for calming. That's because of their effect on brain chemistry, not blood sugar. Calm people can have high blood sugar levels, and even sound-asleep folks can have high blood sugar. What induces that sense of calm from carbohydrates is their ability to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin, the one responsible for a relaxed, calm feeling. Eat complex carbs for longer lasting effects.

Here's a list of some of the best calming carbs:

Whole-wheat pasta topped with tomato sauce
Oatmeal
Popcorn
Bagels
Tortillas
Rice cakes
Dry cereal with no milk
Lollipops

Vitamin B6 is needed to help manufacture serotonin. Eating foods high in B6 will ensure that you have the tools for calming foods to do their work. These foods are high in B6 and carbohydrates:

Bananas
Sweet potatoes
Potatoes
Raisins
Whole-grain cereal

Calcium was found to reduce irritability and nervousness in women with premenstrual symptoms who took a supplement. Less nervousness means more calm. Although its effect is not immediate as that of eating high-carb foods, taken regularly it can help. Take 1,200 mg spread out over the day, preferably in three doses. Calcium is best absorbed in small amounts.

Tags: carbohydrates, b6, calming foods, health, food

The 130 World's Healthiest Foods

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:32:22 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: www.whfoods.com

130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

Vegetables Fish & Seafood

Fruits

Low Fat Dairy

Beans & Legumes

Poultry & Lean Meats

Nuts & Seeds

Grains

Spices & Herbs

Natural Sweeteners

Other

Tags: food, health