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from: The White Donkey Society November 3, 2004 ~TRAILS of INSPIRATION~ Words of Wisdom http://godslittleacre.net/wordsofwisdom/index.html Climb http://thundercloud.net/acpressions/climb.htm Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. --Unknown If you're going through hell, keep going. "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world --Unknown "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. --Orison Swett Marden
~TRAILS of KNOWLEDGE~ Tea Aids Memory A cup of tea can improve the memory and help prevent Alzheimer's disease. According to scientists black and green brews fight enzymes that destroy chemical messengers in the brain. Green tea went a step further by battling a building block in proteins common in sufferers. Its effect lasted a week, black tea's a single day. Now the Newcastle University team hope to develop a medicinal tea reports The Sun. They said: "It's exciting as tea is popular and inexpensive without side effects."--Ananova Brain Pacemaker
Implantable electroshock therapy eases depression. Popular Science, By William Speed Weed For two decades, Jill spent one month a year in the hospital trying not to kill herself. Her severe depression was immune to medication and even electroshock therapy. But a silver dollar-size pulse generator implanted in her chest three years ago seems to have helped. Electrodes from the device wind around the vagus nerve in Jillâs neck and zap it with two milliamps of current for 30 seconds every five minutes. Unlike traditional electroshock therapy, this approach, called vagus nerve stimulation, or VNS, is targeted at just one part of the brain and uses a very low voltage. The VNS implant, made by Cyberonics in Houston, is already approved for the treatment of epilepsy and could receive FDA clearance for depression this summer. Neurologists are still struggling to understand what causes depression, says Jillâs doctor and VNS researcher Mark George of the Medical University of South Carolina. The new therapy is revealing fresh insights. Like a thick coaxial cable, the vagus nerve carries signals from the heart, lungs and stomach to the mood centers of the brain. Although the connection between our organs and emotions is poorly understood, George speculates that depressed patients have weakly regulated signals coming from their hearts and guts. The VNS electrodes âreregulate those signals,â he explains, and at least in the 30 percent of patients like Jill who respond to treatment, the depression goes away. What about side effects? While patients canât feel the implant, some say that their voice changes or that they get short of breath when the electrodes are firing. Most agree, however, that VNS therapy is far more tolerable than the insomnia, weight gain and sexual dysfunction associated with common depression medications. ~TRAILS of HE-HAWS~ #1 A new bride was visiting her parents with her new husband, a Navy frogman, when he drew her aside and said. "I don't think your mother likes me." #2 A man said to his wife one day, "I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. " The wife responded, "Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!" #3 (Some of Rodney Dangerfield's classic one-liners)
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