Wishing you enough ...

Anyone who complains to me today of having eaten too much yesterday ...

I will smile and listen, sympathetic : )

Just remember:

If you are in that condition today ...

You had enough. You have enough.

You chose to eat more than enough.

Not everyone in this world has enough ...

Happy Thanksgiving

it is us

I visited them to say Happy Thanksgiving to all, but did not ...

Following several threads there I was saddened at what I read.

So I thought, well, I will leave a greeting and a comment or two ...
... but my spirit darkened thinking of what I must write to them.

Then I quietly closed the door and went to share festivities with others.

In thankfulness I will share with them what I share with you here now:

" And now it is us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago.
They say to be alive; to come into creation and to live upon
the earth at this time is a great honor.

In the cycle of time, from the beginning to the end, this time
we are in now will change the purification of all things.
They say this is the hardest time to live, but it is also the
greatest honor to be alive and see this. "

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=38

wasting time ...

How often do we have a chance to help someone, yet let it slip away ?

A young man called to me at CSC, wanting to know if he would be "wasting his time" to wait, since there were so many people ahead of him in line ...

It was already on my mind that it seemed a lot of people waited until the last hour this week, but there must have been a reason they could not arrive earlier.

The man seemed to relax some when I assured him we would not run out of food.

Later, when his order was packed, he wanted someone to deliver it to his home. I offered to do that as I often do, but then he wanted to ride along - something I would allow except that I already had food to deliver to others, leaving no room for a passenger.

He made his disappointment clear enough, saying that he had ridden his bicycle to CSC, so I suggested that he ride home and I would meet him there.

At that point he said he had an appointment in town but could not get to it in time if he had to ride home first, then back ...

I began to back away then because it was clear to me that he expected an increasing amount from someone else - anyone else I suppose.

Something more I need to learn from this exchange I am thinking now, but not seeing it yet. Right now I am only seeing a missed opportunity to help another human being ...

someone will get caught ...

The latest outbreak of virus laden e-mails is the heaviest I have seen for months.

Messages warning "you have been caught visiting illegal websites" are made to appear sent from fbi.gov or even CIA

Other messages warn that your e-mail account is being reviewed for spamming complaints, or that an e-mail you sent cannot be delivered.

A "problem with your account" or unauthorized access to your account - any sort of message intended to get you to panic.

Almost every one of those messages has an attachment.

Opening that message will put your computer system at risk of infection

Delete those messages immediately.

American Ingenuity

Common complaint now is transfer of American jobs "offshore" ...

What seems to escape - even defy - our imagination, is the rate at which new industries are created in the United States.

I still remember old loggers "elevated" to sawyers trying to wrap a weary head around "computerized saws" in the mills.

Some just would not learn a relatively easy process. The word "computer" seemed enough to baffle some : )

Lately I keep seeing "cord blood" until I had to see what it is ...
another new industry:

google "cord blood"

A Recipe For Life

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things-- your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter, like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else---the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Praying and asking God to help. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled.

"I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Biorhythm

If you think watching your biorythm is silly, that is okay : ) Biorhythm is not something I obsess over, neither something I ignore.

For me, knowing about my biorythm is like knowing there is a "normal" temperature for my body. I must maintain a certain body temperature to survive. If my body gets too cold, or too hot, there is danger for me. For the most part I need not do anything except be aware of my surroundings - dress warmer when it is cold, not over-exert when it is too hot outside.

Bioryhthm charts measure Emotional, Intellectual and Physical cycles (and "secondary" cycles). Those cycles are not equal - their spans are different.

Usually checking your chart will show that you are maybe high in one cycle, low in another, and could be in middle of a third - no particular order. In each of those three areas, your cycle regularly runs from high to low and then back up again. Sometimes you are more emotional, sometimes more intellectual.

Once in a great while - and what you need to watch for - is that your E I and P will all converge - either high or low. It happens rarely. I do not see those points as necessarily dangerous, but they are days when you should be more aware.

In other words, when all 3 cycles converge at low point, as is happening with a friend today - emotions drained, physical low, and maybe not thinking too clearly - one is more vulnerable to accident or illness. Again, not something to obsess about, but prudent to be aware, maybe slow down for a couple days, take it easy, get plenty of rest, observe your body's workings more closely ...

Easy for us to think that when all 3 cycles converge at peak we might feel like we are "on top of the world" and that is a good feeling. Again, I would be a little cautious though, because in my view, that may be a day in which a person takes chances otherwise avoided. Not accident prone but too "cocky" overconfident maybe ... could lead to accidental injury.

A fun site to check your biorhythm is http://www.care2.com/biorhythms/

google "biorhythm" for more sites including http://www.facade.com/biorhythm/

Star Anise

" a Chinese spice hitherto associated with the pleasures of aperitifs has suddenly assumed key medical significance "


http://english.people.com.cn/200511/01/eng20051101_218166.html

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=255412&area=/insight/insight__international/

http://www.ellinghuysen.com/news/articles/24207.shtml

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/81508.asp

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Privacy for Sale

I always prefer you read an article and make up your own mind without influence from me or anyone else, but just a question here ...

If our "fears" generate processes which invade our privacy to a point it becomes unwieldy - so inconvenient we seek ways around that "invasion of privacy" which gives incentive to commerce to sell us a service to maintain our privacy, is it not as easy, or easier, for criminals - even terrorists - to purchase the same products ? When the crooks can pay to hide their activities, defeating costly government efforts to monitor and track our movements, then is the expense of government monitoring worth the cost ?
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Privacy for Sale

How to buy online anonymity.
By Adam L. Penenberg
Posted Tuesday,SLATE Nov. 1, 2005, at 1:34 PM ET

"When you surf the Internet, you leave footprints everywhere you go. Google conceivably knows every term you've searched for and every e-mail you've sent and received. Cookies greet you when you return to a site and track your movements when you stay within its pages or visit affiliated sites. Your ISP knows who you are and where you live or work whenever you get online.

This tracking continues far from your computer. The hundreds of publicly and privately owned surveillance cameras within a 10-block radius of my office capture my image when I buy a falafel or read a book in Washington Square Park. If you talk on a cell phone or send text messages from your PDA, your provider knows where you are. The same goes for when you pay for socks with a credit card or get cash from an ATM.

As the battle to provide ads better-targeted to online consumers intensifies, our information becomes more valuable to online marketers and publishers. Web surfers also fear that identity thieves are on the prowl for their personal data. The government is a potential bogeyman, too: As fears over terrorism intensify, the feds may find your personal data irresistible. In 2003, Congress scuttled the Total Information Awareness program, which would have enabled the Pentagon to mine millions of public and private records to search for indications of terrorist activity. But that doesn't mean the effort to combine databases has stalled—it's just been redirected.

So, how can we protect ourselves? We're going to have to pay for it. In the same way we fork over a few extra bucks a month for caller ID block and an unlisted phone number, we'll pay for anonymity in other areas. Privacy has become a commodity. The more our personal information gets out there, and the more valuable it becomes, the more incentive there will be for companies to shield it on our behalf. "
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Read entire article: http://www.slate.com/id/2129114/

Related in Slate
Last year, Paul Boutin wrote about the silly privacy fears that surrounded Google's Gmail. In 2002, Dan Simon explained how e-mail security works.

Adam L. Penenberg is an assistant professor at New York University and assistant director of the business and economic reporting program in the school's department of journalism. You can e-mail him at penenberg@....

What are you thinking ... ?

Yesterday I posted "Audit your own phone bill ..."

There is a clear purpose in posting that message. Bank statements and utility bills are rife with abuse. Why ? Because most people do not read them ...

If you look at them carefully, you will find niggling little charges - oftentimes charges for no service that was EVER provided to you - not to mention odd little amounts for various taxes.

Most people just write a check and "pay the bill" ... without thinking about what is on the page. If you knew the amount collected every year for such "billing mistakes" including taxes and for services never delivered to anyone, your remark would be "less than polite" ...

Something for you to think about and watch for then. Auditing those bills is a service some people provide - same as auditing shipper's bills for mistakes.
. . . . . . .

Yesterday's post entry made different people think in different ways. It was not a comment on the British or any government - not necessarily : ) Some readers in other places I posted that same message made comment on the media reacting or spinning ... on whether there is a truly organized Al Qaeda at work, and it prompted other thoughts.

Sometimes we get so caught up in all the confusion of the day that what might seem obvious to us as thinking people is not seen at all.

For instance, it is hard for me to think that any government would really ignore a situation like that - knowingly. Could happen, but you know what ? I think if there is a "bad guy" you are going to pay someone to track and monitor anyway, the expense would be no greater - not to mention it would put lives at risk - to just "accidentally" leave an expensive toy for someone to find ... and use. Let them "track themself" for you. Why not ? You know who is receiving - and reading - the bill for that "lost" phone, right ?

Who is looking at the numbers called, where the calls were made ...

Think about it ...