Archive for December, 2008
Oasis
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Wonderwall
Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow
Realised what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
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Backbeat the word is on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don’t believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now
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And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don’t know how
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Maybe
You’re gonna be the one who saves me?
And after all
You’re my wonderwall
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Diabetes in U.S. rising sharply
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The rate of diabetes in the USA has almost doubled in the past decade. This is according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP).
A spokesperson for the centre said there was now an epidemic in America. There were 9.1 new cases per 1,000 people between 2005 and 2007. This is an increase from 4.8 per 1,000 between 1995 and 1997.
Experts say that one of the biggest reasons for the rise in diabetes is the increasing levels of obesity. Americans are eating more fast food and getting less exercise.
This is a recipe for disaster and the exact conditions that lead to diabetes. The American Diabetes Association said 23.6 million American children and adults have diabetes. This is about eight per cent of the population.
Experts say the disease is becoming a silent killer. It is also causing a great strain on America’s health service. The only way for America to control the escalating levels of diabetes is through educating people about the dangers of the disease.
A CDCP spokeswoman, Karen Kirtland, told the Reuters news agency: “The hope and the message is that if people are kind of changing their lifestyles, doing the things that are good for them, then hopefully we can reverse the trend.”
Many other studies suggest Americans are not leading healthier lifestyles. A diabetes specialist warned the numbers of new cases would continue to rise sharply because Americans showed no signs of changing their eating and exercise habits.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0811/081102-diabetes.html
Manolo’s Business Trip Episode 4 Advanced
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Episode 4 - Accepting an Invitation – Manolo Discovers Himself
Meet Datzoide, an important character in Episode 4:
E-mail Accepting the Invitation to the Conference
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Dear Jock
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First I would like to express how delighted I was to receive your e mail, it brought back fond memories of the wonderful time we had here in Malaga last year. There is no need to thank me, it was a pleasure.
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Now it is my turn to thank you for your kind invitation to speak at your conference. I would consider it an honour to be able to present some of the fascinating developments we have made here in the Andalusian Public Health System in the field of eLearning.
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The date you propose would suit me very well as I have no other pressing engagements at that time.
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Obviously there is the matter of fees and expenses to discuss before we finally confirm matters. I will forward an estimate of my charges next week but don’t worry, they won’t be too exorbitant.
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I look forward to seeing you at the conference but I hope we will speak before then.
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Regards
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Manolo
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The world now eats (and dies) like Americans
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Dr. Dean Ornish: The world now eats (and dies) like Americans
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With all the legitimate concerns about AIDS and avian flu, and we’ll hear about that from the brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today, I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension- all of which are completely preventable for at least 95% of people, just by changing diet and lifestyle.
And what’s happening is that there’s a globalization of illness occurring, that people are starting to eat like us, and live like us, and die like us. And in one generation, for example, Asia’s gone from having one of the lowest rates of heart disease, and obesity, and diabetes, to one of the highest. And in Africa, cardiovascular disease equals the HIV and AIDS deaths in most countries.
So there’s a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practise preventive medicine on a global scale.
Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people, not only in this country, but also worldwide, than everything else combined and yet it’s completely preventable for almost everybody. It’s not only preventable, it’s actually reversible. And for the last almost 29 years,
We’ve been able to show that by simply changing diet and lifestyle, using these very high tech, expensive, state-of-the-art measures to prove how powerful these very simple and low tech and low cost interventions can be like. Quantitative arteriography, before and after a year, and cardiac PET scans
We showed a few months ago, we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle- and 70% regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of the tumor growth, compared to only 9% in the control group.
And in the MRI and MR spectroscopy here, the prostate tumor activity is shown in red, you can see it diminishing after a year.
Now there is an epidemic of obesity. Two thirds of adults and 15% of kids. What’s really concerning to me is that diabetes has increased 70% in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do. That’s pitiful, and it’s preventable.
Now these are not election returns, these are the people- the number of the people who are obese by state, beginning in ‘85, ‘86, ‘87- These are from the CDC website-
-’88, ‘89, ‘90, ‘91- you get a new category- ‘92, ‘93, ‘94, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘99, 2000, 2001- it gets worse. We’re kind of devolving:
Now what can we do about this? Well, you know, the diet that we’ve found that can reverse heart disease and cancer is an Asian diet.
But the people in Asia are starting to eat like we are, which is why they’re starting to get sick like we are.
So I’ve been working with a lot of the big food companies, they can make it fun, and sexy, and hip, and crunchy, and convenient to eat healthier foods, like- I chair the advisory boards to McDonald’s, and PepsiCo, and Conagra, and Safeway, and soon Del Monte- and they’re finding that it’s good business.
The salads that you see at McDonald’s came from the work, they’re going to have an Asian salad, at Pepsi, two thirds of their revenue growth came from their better foods.
And so if we can do that, then we can free up resources for buying drugs that you really do need for treating AIDS and HIV and malaria and for preventing avian flu. Thank you.
Candela
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
When Manolo met Candela, he fell in love, but he didn’t want to leave his wife. Candela also had a husband. Manolo proposed that he and Candela should lead a double life. Candela and Manolo were loose people. They liked open relationships. They met every Monday, because Monday was her day off.
Candela and Manolo had a son and a daughter (twins).
The children lived with Candela. Candela’s husband thought that they were the fruit of their love.
One day Candela’s husband began to suspect the relationship because the twins grew beards. Also, he thought that Candela was different in bed. He realized that the taxi used a lot of petrol on Mondays.
He decided he needed a woman or maybe a man. Then he thought his best idea was to go to a monastery. He needed to walk in the cloister and think about this. He knew the Pryor and he loved him. He fell in love. It was a spiritual love.
They made a plan to take revenge on Candela. They studied a way to make her confess. They put a gun to her head. But the gun was empty.
Candela ran away to Brazil with the children. She took on another personality with the federal bureau. The End
Carmelo
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Lola was born in Malaga. She lived there until her father was transferred to Granada when she was 20.
She was a receptionist and, while she was working, she studied to become a surgeon. She operated on herself in IAVANTE and she became Carmelo. Last year he opened his own aesthetic clinic.
In his free time, Carmelo works with children in a hospital, he is one of the many clown doctors who work in San Cecilio’s Hospital. Carmelo brings a smile to the faces of sick children!
Now, Carmelo is a real metrosexual. In his free time, he likes to go out and do exercise. He usually goes to the gymnasium five days a week. He also plays squash. He’s interested in cars, fashion and he’s a fanatic of technological gadgets.
Carmelo has been married 3 times. He has no children. Currently, he has a girlfriend. Her name is Inga. She’s from Norway and she works as a flight attendant.
Justin
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
While Manolo and Maria are shopping they see Justin coming towards them. Both Maria and Manolo become nervous.
Justin: Hello Maria, how are you?
Maria: Hello Justin, I’m happy to see you again.
Manolo: Again? By the way, hello.
Maria: Yes because … How are you Justin?, what are you doing here?
Justin: I’m fine. I’m recording my new single “I love you Maria”
Manolo: What did you say?
Justin: Ohh no!, it’s only the name of the song. My childhood pet was named Maria and I still remember her…
Manolo: Ohh I see.
Maria: ha ha ha.
Manuevil Demonuel
ET
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
ET’s only daughter, Maria, is married to Manolo. ET would prefer another profession for his son-in-law, that would earn more money, such as director of a private clinic or becoming an aesthetic surgeon.
Manolo asks ET for money to buy “Viagra” pills. Manolo tries to convince his father-in-law to give him the money for the sake of Maria’s happiness. ET wants the best for his daughter and although he thinks Manolo is a feather-brain, he gives him the money.
ET tells Maria that Manolo has asked him for money to buy “Viagra” pills and she gets upset. Maria starts sobbing and gets depressed. Maria tells her father she suspects that Manolo will use those pills with other women.
Maria decides to make Manolo suffer by changing the “Viagra” pills for laxatives. She enjoys imagining the situation.
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