~pt. 1~DONKEY TRACKS"
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from: The White Donkey Society
January
12, 2005
~TRAILS
of
INSPIRATION~
A FRIEND
http://www.riversongs.com/exriv/falls.html
FATHERâS LOVE LETTER
http://www.bittybitznpieces.com/FathersLoveLetter~.htm
~TRAILS of WISDOM~
"A
diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never
remembers her age." -- Robert Frost
"Temptation usually
comes in through a door that has
deliberately been left open." --
Unknown
I am happy and content because I think I am. --
Alain-Rene Lesage
Is prayer your
steering wheel or your spare tire?
--Corrie Ten
Boom
"I have had dreams and
I have had nightmares,
but I have conquered
my nightmares because of my
dreams."
-- Dr. Jonas
Salk
"Most of the important things in the world have
been
accompanied by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be
no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun
shines.
â Satchel Paige
~TRAILS of
KNOWLEDGE~
Spinal cords repaired
Russian surgeons
claim a world first after repairing broken spinal cords using stem cells taken
from the patient's nose. The Moscow team claim it is the first time anyone has been
able to treat such severe spinal injuries by reconnecting spinal cord neural
tissue. The first six operations have been a "phenomenal
success" they claim with all patients, who were thought paralysed for life, now
making their first steps.They are
expected to get back to normal life soon, the Moscow paper Trud reports. Until now it was believed that nerve cells of the
spinal cord could not regenerate or be replaced but Prof. Dr. Andrey
Brjuchowezki claims to have proved the opposite.He took the stem cells from the patients' nasal
mucous membranes, which is particularly suitable because of the many neural
endings it contains, the paper said. The cells were than artificially bred into neural
tissue stem cells, which were afterwards gradually injected with bio-gel into
the damaged areas, regenerating vertebra by vertebra. "No one in the world has done this before," said Dr
Brjuchowezki of the Nikolaj Blochin Scientific Oncology Centre in
Moscow --
Ananova:
Chamomile tea
- New evidence supports health benefits
For centuries, people
who've felt sick or stressed have tried drinking chamomile tea as a medicinal
cure-all. Now, researchers in England
have found new evidence that the popular herbal tea may actually help relieve a
wide range of health ailments, including colds and menstrual cramps.
Their
study is scheduled to appear in the Jan. 26 issue of the American Chemical
Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, one of the Society's
peer-reviewed journals. ACS is the world's largest scientific society.
âThis
is one of a growing number of studies that provide evidence that commonly used
natural products really do contain chemicals that may be of medicinal value,â
says study leader Elaine Holmes, Ph.D., a chemist with Imperial College London.
âThe healthcare industry is placing increasing emphasis on functional foods
including natural remedies, yet little work has been conducted on the long term
effects of such products on human biology.â
The herbal plant used in this
study was German chamomile (Matricaria recutita), also known as manzanilla,
whose flowers and leaves are brewed as a fragrant, flavorful tea. The study
involved fourteen volunteers (seven women and seven men) who each drank five
cups of the herbal tea daily for two consecutive weeks. Daily urine samples were
taken and tested throughout the study, both before and after drinking chamomile
tea.
The researchers found that drinking the tea was associated with a
significant increase in urinary levels of hippurate, a breakdown product of
certain plant-based compounds known as phenolics, some of which have been
associated with increased antibacterial activity. This could help explain why
the tea appears to boost the immune system and fight infections associated with
colds, according to the researchers.
Drinking the tea also was associated
with an increase in urinary levels of glycine, an amino acid that has been shown
to relieve muscle spasms. This may explain why the tea appears to be helpful in
relieving menstrual cramps in women, probably by relaxing the uterus, say the
researchers. Glycine also is known to act as a nerve relaxant, which may also
explain why the tea seems to act as a mild sedative, the scientists note.
Glycine supplements are sold in stores for that purpose, they add. Additional studies are
needed before a more definitive link between the tea and its alleged health
benefits can be established, they
emphasize.
--American Chemical
Society
~TRAILS of
HE-HAWS~
#1
A young couple was called to heaven before they could be married.
The disappointed groom took St. Peter aside and asked him if it was still
possible for them to be married. âIâm afraid youâll have to wait,â St. Peter
replied. âCheck back after five years, and if you still want to be married we
will talk about it.â Five years passed and the couple came back, repeating their
request. âSorry, you must wait another
five years,â St. Peter told them. Fortunately after the wait St. Peter said they
could be married. The wedding was beautiful and at first the couple was happy,
but then they realized they had made a mistake. They went to see St. Peter, this
time to ask for a divorce.âWhat?â St. Peter asked. âIt took us ten years to find
a minister in heaven, and now you want a
lawyer?â
#2
Two factory workers were talking. "I think I'll take some
time off from
work." said the man.
"How do you think you'll do that?" said his
workmate.
He proceeded to show him ... by climbing up to the rafters,
and
hanging upside down.
The boss walked in, saw the worker hanging from
the
ceiling, and asked him what on earth he was doing?
"I'm a light bulb,"
answered the guy.
"I think you need some time off," said the boss.
So, the
man jumped down and walked out of the factory.
His workmate began walking
out, too.
The boss asked him where did he think he was going?
He answered,
"Home, I can't work in the dark."
#3
There once was a blind man who decided to visit
Texas. When he arrived on the plane, he felt the seats
and said, "Wow, these seats are big!" The person next to him answered,
"Everything is big in Texas". When he finally arrived in
Texas, he decided to visit a restaurant. Upon arriving,
he ordered a drink and got a mug placed between his hands. He exclaimed, "Wow
these mugs are big!" The bartender replied, "Everything is big in
Texas."After a couple of drinks, the blind man asked the
bartender where the bathroom was located. The bartender replied, "Second door to
the right." The blind man headed
for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door.
Instead, he entered the third door, which lead to the swimming pool, and he fell
into the pool by accident. Scared to death, the blind man started shouting,
"Don't flush, don't
flush!"
#4
Two guys met in the middle of the desert. One was carrying a car door, the
other an umbrella. The one with the car door said to the guy with the umbrella,
"Why are you carrying that umbrella around, it isn't going to rain in the
desert?" To which the guy with the umbrella replies, "Yeah", but it keeps me out
of the sun! By the way, why are you carrying around that car door, you
don't even have a car to go with it"
The guy with the car door says, "Yeah, well at least if I get too hot
from the sun I can just roll down the window!"
~pt.2
cont.
