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~TRAILS of INSPIRATION~ Beautiful Day http://www.riversongs.com/flas1/beautiful.html God Are You Real http://www.angelrays.com/Cards/moon/God/areyoureal.html Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead were there is no path and leave a trail." -â Ralph Waldo Emerson One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster; one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." -â Bernard Edmonds Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese proverb About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover âI have no doubt that the world stands because of the prayers of Christians.â â Aristides of Giant ant colony found in Australia A giant ant colony stretching more than 60 miles has been discovered under the Australian city of Melbourne.The ants, imported from Argentina, are ranked among the world's 100 worst animal invaders.Experts fear the invasion poses a threat to biodiversity in the area.The ants live in much smaller groups in their homeland but have merged colonies in Australia to create one massive super colony.Elissa Suhr, from Monash University, Melbourne, said the introduced pest's natural aggression kept numbers under control in its native country."In --------------------------- ------------------------ Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims, new research has revealed. The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke, brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent. Neurologist James Grotta and colleagues from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School have also now demonstrated the safety of caffeinol in a small pilot study in patients who suffered ischaemic strokes, when the artery to the brain becomes blocked and cuts off the blood supply.Martin Brown, an expert in stroke medicine at University College London, told New Scientist: "It's a very exciting approach but we will have to wait and see how further clinical trials go. It's encouraging they've managed to produce the same levels in humans." Drugs that work in animals often fail because humans cannot tolerate the required doses. The researchers are unclear how caffeinol protects the brain after stroke, but the rat experiments showed that neither caffeine nor alcohol offered protection alone. In fact, alcohol alone actually caused more damage. Brown says alcohol is known to widen blood vessels, which might help. Caffeine can also act on blood vessel when treating migraines. Brown speculates that the combination might interfere with the harmful biochemical reactions triggered in cells by stroke. The idea of mixing alcohol and caffeine was "serendipitous", Grotta told HealthScoutNews. Grotta's colleague Roger Strong was aware of the association between moderate use of alcohol and reduced stroke damage, "so we started fooling around with combinations of it with other things." The team will now assess the effectiveness of the drug in a larger group of patients. Caffeinol will also be combined with a "thermo-cooling" method - which cools the brain of stroke patients to reduce brain damage. Furthermore, caffeinol can be safely given to patients taking clot-busting drugs to ease the flow of blood to the brain, say the researchers. However, they ruefully note that having a cup of Irish coffee every day to prevent stroke ~TRAILS of HE-HAWS~ There once was this deacon and this preacher, and they had been friends for a long time. One day the deacon got sick and was put in the hospital, so the preacher decided to go and see his old friend. When he walked into the hospital room, the preacher noticed all the hoses and medical equipment attached to the deacon. The preacher walked over and kneeled by the bed and asked, ''How ya doing?'' The deacon motioned at a pad and pen on the nightstand. ''You want that?'' the preacher asked him, and the deacon nodded his head yes. So the preacher handed his friend the pad and pen and the deacon began to write. All of a sudden the deacon died. At his funeral, the preacher was asked to deliver the service. ''He was a good man and I'll never forget him,'' the preacher said, ''I was with him when he died and as a matter of fact I have his last thought in my coat pocket here.'' The preacher reaches into his pocket and pulls out the paper. ''Please, get up! You're kneeling on my oxygen hose!'' #2 A little boy watched, fascinated, as his mother gently rubbed cold cream on her face. "Why are you rubbing cold cream on you face, mommy?" he asked. #3 A man was speeding down the highway, feeling secure in a gaggle of cars all traveling at the same speed. However, as they passed a speed trap, he got nailed with an infrared speed detector and was pulled over. #4 A little girl and a little boy were at day-care one day. The |
