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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE PETS, THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
FOR THOSE THAT DON’T, IT IS A TRUE STORY.
The following was found posted very low on a refrigerator door.
Dear Dogs and Cats:
The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food.
The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Racing me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t help because I fall faster than you can run.
I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. However, do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other, stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out on the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.
For the last time, there is no secret exit from the Bathroom! If, by some miracle, I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge in an attempt to open the dDoor. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years, canine/feline attendance is not required.
The proper order for kissing is: Kiss me first, then go smell the other dog or cat’s butt. I cannot stress this enough.
Finally, in fairness, Dear pets, I have posted the Following message on the front door:
TO ALL NON-PET OWNERS WHO VISIT AND LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR PETS:
(1) They live here. You don’t.
(2) If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it ‘fur’-niture..
(3) I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
(4) To you, they are animals. To me, they are adopted sons/daughters who are short, hairy, walk on all fours and don’t speak clearly.
Remember, dogs and cats are better than kids because they:
(1) eat less,
(2) don’t ask for money all the time,
(3) are easier to train,
(4) normally come when called,
(5) never ask to drive the car,
(6) don’t smoke or drink,
(7) don’t want to wear your clothes,
(8) don’t have to buy the latest fashions,
(9) don’t need a gazillion dollars for college
AND!
(10) if they get pregnant, you can sell their children….
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 I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday, and on advice I wish to say the following :
Please accept with no obligation , implied or implicit , my best wishes for an environmentally conscious , socially responsible ,low stress , non addictive , gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2011 , but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great ( not to imply that Australia is necessarily greater than any other country ) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee .
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms :
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her / him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. The wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher .
Best Regards ( without prejudice )
Name withheld ( Privacy Act ).
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Source: NaturalNews
Mention the word “astrology” and skeptics go into an epileptic fit. The idea that someone’s personality could be imprinted at birth according to the position of the sun, moon and planets has long been derided as “quackery” by the so-called “scientific” community which resists any notion based on holistic connections between individuals and the cosmos.
According to the conventional view, your genes and your parenting determine your personality, and the position of planet Earth at the time of your birth has nothing to do with it.
Then again, conventional scientists don’t believe the position of the moon has anything to do with life on Earth, either. They dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known for ages — that planting seeds or transplanting living plants in harmony with the moon cycles results in higher crop yields. Even the seeds inside humans are strongly influenced by the moon, as menstruation cycles and moon cycles are closely synchronized (28 days, roughly).
Researchers demonstrate scientific principle of astrology
Skeptics must be further bewildered by the new research published in Nature Neuroscience and conducted at Vanderbilt University which unintentionally provides scientific support for the fundamental principle of astrology — namely, that the position of the planets at your time of birth influences your personality.
In this study, not only did the birth month impact personality; it also resulted in measurable functional changes in the brain.
This study, conducted on mice, showed that mice born in the winter showed a “consistent slowing” of their daytime activity. They were also more susceptible to symptoms that we might call “Seasonal Affective Disorder.”
The study was carried out by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two additional undergraduate students, none of whom believe in astrology, apparently. They do, of course, believe in science, which is why all their study findings have been draped in the language of science even though the findings are essentially supporting principles of astrology.
“What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal’s behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains,” said Ciarleglio. This is one of the core principles of astrology: That the position of the planets at the time of your birth (which might be called the “season” of your birth) can actually result in changes in your brain physiology which impact lifelong behavior.
Once again, such an idea sounds preposterous to the scientifically trained, unless of course they discover it for themselves, at which point it’s all suddenly very “scientific.” Instead of calling it “astrology,” they’re now referring to it as “seasonal biology.”
How to discredit real science
It all reminds me of the discovery of cold fusion in 1989 by Fleishmann and Pons, who were widely ridiculed by the arrogant hot fusion researchers who tried to destroy the credibility (and careers) of cold fusion researchers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025925_c…). After the very idea of “cold fusion” was attacked and demolished by these arrogant scientists, it soon returned under a new name: Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
LENR has now been verified as true by none other than the U.S. Navy — along with hundreds of other researchers around the world (see link above). And yet, even today, the conventional scientific community still insists cold fusion doesn’t exist and cold fusion researchers are frauds.
Just as there is a solid scientific basis for LENR, there is a scientific basis for astrology, too. The relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun naturally alter light exposure, temperature, gravitational pull and other conditions that may be sensed by living organisms. To believe in astrology, all that’s really required is to grasp the basic concepts of the interrelationships between all living things. Does the position of the sun or moon influence life on Earth? Of course it does: Life as we know it wouldn’t even exist without the moon tugging on Earth and preventing its rotational axis from shifting around to the point where radical changes in seasonal temperatures would make life far more challenging. (The moon, in other words, is one of the key “stabilizers” of life on planet Earth because it tends to stabilize the seasons and keep the Earth on a steady rotational plane.)
None of this, of course, means that the position of Saturn today is going to make you win the lottery or find a new love. That’s the tabloid version of astrology, not real astrology.
Don’t confuse tabloid astrology with real astrology
Even astronomy has its tabloid versions, too, which are entirely non-scientific. For example, every model of our solar system that I’ve ever seen is a wildly inaccurate tabloid version of reality, with planet sizes ridiculously exaggerated and planet distances not depicted to scale. These silly, non-scientific solar system models imprint a kind of solar system mythology into the minds of schoolchildren and even school teachers. Virtually no one outside the communities of astrophysics and astronomy has any real grasp of the enormity of not merely our solar system, but of our galaxy and the space between neighboring galaxies.
To show a giant sun the size of a basketball, with a depiction of the Earth as a marble-sized planet three inches away is the astronomical equivalent of a gimmicky horoscope claiming you’re going to win the lottery today because you were born under the sign of Pisces. Both are fictions. And both are an insult to real science.
In fact, even the whole idea that an “electron” is a piece of physical matter, made up of other “particles” is an insult to real science. The sobering truth of the matter is that “particle physics” doesn’t have much to do with actual particles at all. It’s all about energies that might, on occasion, vibrate in just the right way so that they momentarily appear to take on the illusion of a particle as measured by our observers — observers who inevitably alter the outcome of the entire experiment, by the way, once again proving the interrelated nature of things in our universe, including observer and experiment.
The horoscope predictions in the Sunday paper — as well as much of the hilarious mythology found in the modern description of an atom — are both simplified, comic-book versions of a larger truth — the truth that we live in a holistic universe where every bit of physical matter, every bit of energy and every conscious mind impacts the rest of the universe in subtle ways. There is no such thing as an individual who is isolated from the cosmos, because we are of the cosmos and we exist as the physical manifestations of energies that, for our lifetimes, are momentarily organized as beings.
We are made of star stuff, says Carl Sagan. He he’s right: We are not only made of star stuff, we are influenced by that stuff, too. And finally, modern science is beginning to catch up to this greater truth that astrologers have known since the dawn of human existence on our tiny planet.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030698_astrology_scientific_basis.html#ixzz17×5X5p5Z
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Wonderful stuff happens when people all over the world work together.
http://www.vimeo.com/2539741
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Posted by: Glenn Bolton in Personal Devt, tags: Bruce Lipton, Caroline Myss, Conversations, Dr Eric Pearl, Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr John Demartini, Gregg Braden, Howard Martin, Ian Gawler, Kim Fraser, Neale Donald Walsch, Robyn, Robyn Walker, Sacha Molitorisz, Sonia Choquette, Video, Walker
Robyn Walker is one of those rare people who can bring out the best in others. She has dedicated her life to challenging the established ways of thinking and helping others develop themselves. Her process is to interview great thinkers, philsophers and sriitual leaders and get them to “spill the beans” on her Aurora TV program (Australia) called Conversations with Robyn.
Guests have so far included Neale Donald Walsch, Caroline Myss, Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Bruce Lipton, Kim Fraser, Dr John Demartini, Dr Eric Pearl, Sacha Molitorisz, Ian Gawler, Howard Martin and Dr Joe Dispenza.
Robyn’s 4.5 min Showreel
She can be seen on Aurora TV a few times a week. Most of her programs are also now on YouTube.
Robyn on Oprah?
From Robyn
I have taken the liberty of emailing you a link to the four and a half minute showreel of “Conversations with Robyn” I have put up on Youtube. This is for the specific outcome of it being brought to Oprah’s attention, given her new network “OWN” (Oprah Winfrey Network) commences in January next year and she is looking for content.
You may be aware that Oprah had a competition running recently, with the winner receiving their own show on her network. As it was only open to US citizens I was unable to submit an entry.
I awoke two weeks ago with the idea to put this showreel up on Youtube, addressing it to her. So I would love for you to click on, have a look, and forward it to your email list if it feels right to, as the more people that view it and pass it forward, the greater the chance of it finding its way to her.
The guests on it include Neale Donald Walsch, Caroline Myss, Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Bruce Lipton, Kim Fraser, Dr John Demartini, Dr Eric Pearl, Sacha Molitorisz, Ian Gawler, Howard Martin and Dr Joe Dispenza.
So happy viewing and a heart felt thank you for being part of the shows next quantum leap.
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The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.
The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all
Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.
See also: http://storyofbottledwater.org
And, for all you fact checkers out there, http://storyofstuff.org/pdfs/StoryOfB…
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Posted by: Glenn Bolton in Environment, Humour, Opinion, tags: Carbon Credits, Carbon Tax, climate change, Election, Julia Gillard, Policy, Pollution, TV Advertisement
“If the winner of the election were to be decided by the ads, we’d be ruled by GetUp” (Karl Quinn, Entertainment Editor, The Age).1 Have you seen our latest election ad on climate change?
Dear Glenn,
In 2007 Australia held what was widely called “the world’s first climate change election.” We all know what happened – the Australian people demonstrated a powerful community consensus on taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.
That’s why it is so surprising that what Labor announced yesterday involved no emissions trading scheme for at least 3 years, no promise to turn back rising pollution in the next 3 years and no price on pollution. Even the pledge to rid the country of dirty coal power depends on carbon capture and storage technology that may not exist for 20 or 30 years, if ever.
But Julia Gillard did say that she’s open to delivering more on climate change and with Tony Abbott’s climate policy in shambles we must take this opportunity to convince her to deliver more to reduce carbon pollution.
We’re running out of time to solve climate change and reduce our rising carbon pollution – and we can’t settle for policies that don’t even veer close to the kind of strong action the science demands. Now is the time to step up our climate change ad campaign:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/StopRisingPollution
We know that going to an election simply with yesterday’s weak climate announcement would be untenable. That’s why just minutes ago Julia Gillard announced another part of her plan: an incentive scheme to get old dirty cars off the road. We know the Government will be announcing their policy in stages, gauging the public reaction every step of the way.
This gives us an opportunity. These next 4 weeks offer us the most important moment we have to influence the climate policies of the major parties. We know they never listen to us, the people, as intently as they do during an election campaign.
A credible climate policy must include a price on carbon, real renewable energy investments and a nation building energy efficiency program. These are the most effective and efficient ways to drive back rising levels of pollution. The Coalition have ruled out a real response to climate change. The Labor party is still holding back. The Greens are keen, but they can’t make policy without the government of the day onside.
The word out of Canberra is that our popular climate ad has started to make an impact on the public and politicians. You can show Labor what a credible climate policy looks like by donating to get this ad on the air:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/StopRisingPollution
There is still time for Labor to take a serious climate policy to the election–one that stops the rise of carbon pollution in the next 3 years.
In these last few weeks before the election, let’s show them what climate leadership looks like.
Thank you for your commitment,
The GetUp Team
PS – After Kevin Rudd delayed action on climate change, his approval ratings plummeted and he lost the prime ministership. Julia Gillard has a chance to chart a new course–keep this ad on the air to show her the way.
1 Karl Quinn (in online video clip), ‘Slogans, promises, furphies and sins: election gamesmanship in full spin’, The Age, 22 July 2010.
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 “absolutely incredible” (practitioner)
<< Source: Margaret Shepley
I just received the report of my HemaView Live Blood Test that I did on 13 July 2010 by DH-Natural Medicine Clinic in Sydney, Australia.
On the following pages (in the link to the report) you can see before and after photos and the analysis by the qualified health practitioner.
A couple of sample photos and quick summaries are shown below.
Please take into consideration that I am 72 years old.
I did not tell her (the practitioner) anything about the product that I wanted to test before we started.
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Live Blood Analysis – BEFORE (normal)
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Live Blood Analysis – AFTER (2 mins later)
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The BEFORE Test
The before test was performed as per normal procedure to gain a confirmation of a “baseline” or “control” state.
She reviewed the test and found a number of problems…
My red blood cells had formed long chains (rouleaux) and there were signs of inflammation.
I have had Osteoarthritis for years so I was sure there would be plenty of inflammation in my system. Candida infestation and acidity were also noted.
A large aggregation of platelets was present as well as protoplasts.
The AFTER Test
I sprayed 4 sprays of 360 Mist under my tongue.
We waited 2 minutes… and took another blood sample for analysis.
She just said WOW and called her husband in from the shop to show him what happened in two minutes.
She could not find large platelet aggregation or large protoplasts after the 360 MIST test. The platelet aggregation was small.
She was not sure if the spray would reduce the platelet aggregation even though there were only small ones in the after test.
She did say it would be a good idea to repeat the test after using 360 Mist for a while to look for any longer term improvements.
Conclusion
When I left she said “absolutely incredible” and she is going to have a look at the 360 Mist product info.
Please review the before and after photos and analysis on the next few pages. If you know anything about live blood then your decision should be obvious.
Download the Full 4 Page Report
Margaret Shepley
Tel: +61 2 9534 6468 – Email: mshepley@tpg.com.au
PS: To receive more information on this product or how to obtain 360 Mist (ZorbMax) please contact the person who shared this information with you.
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Sent: Friday, 2 July 2010 4:25 PM
Subject: My products have arrived!!
I was scurrying out of the house today to catch a bus into the city and realised the postie had already been…. and left me a package with my products. Yippee!!
As I sat at the bus stop I ripped the package open and gave myself the
obligatory 4 sprays. Before my bus had arrived at Roma Street, a 10 minute
trip, I could feel my cerebellum really buzzing…
Within another 20 minutes I was aware that my ‘brain fog’ had lifted and I felt
more alert. I also became aware as I walked around the city that I was taking
deeper breaths and my chest seemed to expand. I was diagnosed with asthma when
I first moved to Brisbane about 5 years ago and this cold weather we are now
experiencing exacerbates it. Although I have never had real problems breathing
I didnt realise until this afternoon how little air I was really able to take
in. I can definitely breathe more freely and deeply this afternoon, and my
sinuses are clearer.
Can’t wait to see what else is going to happen as the days progress.
I also have some PM. I have had restless and disturbed sleep for years – it
will be interesting to see how I go tonight.
Rondo
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From: Greg Degenhardt
Sent: Saturday, 3 July 2010 4:50 PM
Subject: What I have noticed so far about the effects of Zorbmax on my body
I am not the best guinea pig when it comes to testing new products as I also
take my essential oils and other supplements that have a balancing effect on my
nervous system and red blood cells etc.
So here goes:
For the past 2 days I have taken the ZorbMax as directed 4 sprays under the
tongue 3 times a day
What I have noticed is that for the past 2 mornings I have woken up more
refreshed and that I seem to become more alert after spraying ZorbMax in my
mouth and the spray may have opened up my lungs more effectively when I went
for a run today.
For instance about 12pm last night I was bit tired and was not going to watch
the 2nd 1/2 of the soccer between Brazil & the Netherlands so I sprayed ZorbMax
into my mouth and after a short while I felt more alert so I watched the end
of the game and went to bed about 2am and had a restful sleep and woke up
refreshed the next morning …prior to this I have been waking up feeling
sluggish lately due to late nights working and then watching a bit of soccer or
tennis.
Also I have just started training for the City to Surf run in about 5 weeks
time. So my body is a bit out of shape aerobically and I am carrying a few
extra kilo’s due to going off the bandwagon with my nutrition and through lack
of exercise. So my body, sinus’s & lungs are a bit congested…so the possible
effect on my lungs is of interest. (I had a glass of water before and after my
run then sprayed the ZorbMax in my mouth before and after the run to assist my
body during the run and with recovery afterwards.)
One thing I would mention is to make sure you drink water regularly throughout
the day to help the ZorbMax work to its optimum. i.e. you need water to help
keep the body hydrated so that in can absorb nutrition, oxygen and get rid of
waste on a cellular level.
I am also looking forward to getting my LiveFit product next week..(which also
contains ZorbMax) that should help shift the extra kilo’s by race day.
The ERA pack I ordered included the full range 360 of products. So I will keep
you posted about my progress with the products as they arrive and I begin using
them.
Greg
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From: Night White Swan
Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:19 AM
Hi,
Franny is having a great result. She’s been taking it for a few days.
She’s had pneumonia and ongoing chest congestion and intense pain and it has
cleared up in 48 hours of being on the product! (360 Mist)
Good – some encouragement! I certainly needed it.
Hope it helps,
Swan
PS: Just talked to one of Franny’s friends who said the pain in Franny’s chest had decreased 50-75% and she had increased energy.
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