A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client who lost his house in Hurricane Katrina and wanted to rebuild.

He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to the parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the Lawyer three months to track down.

After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.

ACTUAL LETTER:

“Upon review of your letter adjoining your client’s loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin.”

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows.

ACTUAL LETTER

“Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application.

I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased,by the U.S., from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application.

For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S.ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain.

The land came into thepossession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Isabella.

The good queen, Isabella,being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus’ expedition.

Now the Pope, as I’m sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world.

Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana.. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God’s original claim to be satisfactory.

NOW, MAY WE HAVE OUR DAMN LOAN?”

He got the loan.

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After having failed his exam, a Student goes and confronts his lecturer about it.

Student: “Sir, do you really understand anything about the subject?”

Professor: “Surely I must. Otherwise I would not be a professor!”

Student: “Great, well then I would like to ask you a question. If you Can give me the correct answer, I will accept my mark as is and go. If You however do not know the answer, I want you give me an “A” for the Exam.

Professor: “Okay, it’s a deal. So what is the question?”

Student: “What is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and Neither logical nor legal?”

Even after some long and hard consideration, the professor cannot give The student an answer, and therefore changes his exam mark into an “A”, as agreed.

Afterwards, the professor calls on his best student and asks him the Same question.

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He immediately answers: “Sir, you are 63 years old and married to a 35 Year old woman, which is legal, but not logical.

Your wife has a 25 Year old lover, which is logical but not legal. The fact that you Have given your wife’s lover an “A”, although he really should have Failed, is neither legal nor logical.”

Are you hungry? Then learn to prepare “Lemon Grass Tom Yam Soup”                                

Source: Tom Yam with lemon grass 

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Credit for sharing: Anita & friends

Fresh Lemon Grass Drink Causes Apoptosis to Cancer Cells

(apoptosis) noun: a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal’s survival. In other words, cell commits suicide.

Fresh lemon grass fields in Israel become Mecca for cancer patients

By Allison Kaplan Sommer April 02, 2006

A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube.

Israeli researchers find way to make cancer cells self-destruct – Ben Gurion University

At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn’t understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass. It turned out that their doctors had sent them. ‘They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemon grass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments,’ Zabidov told ISRAEL21c. ‘And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass.’

It all began when researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev  discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. The research team was led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Prof. Yakov Weinstein, incumbent of the Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiatio n and Malignant Diseases, from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at BGU.

Citral is the key component that gives the lemony aroma and taste in several herbal plants such as lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), melissa (Melissa officinalis) and verbena (Verbena officinalis. )

According to Ofir, the study found that citral causes cancer cells to ‘commit suicide: using apoptosis, a mechanism called programmed cell death.’ A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt the cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube.

The BGU investigators checked the influence of the citral on cancerous cells by adding them to both cancerous cells and normal cells that were grown in a petri dish. The quantity added in the concentrate was equivalent to the amount contained in a cup of regular tea using one gram of lemon herbs in hot water. While the citral killed the cancerous cells, the normal cells remained unharmed.

The findings were published in the scientific journal Planta Medica, which highlights research on alternative and herbal remedies. Shortly afterwards, the discovery was featured in the popular Israeli press.

Why does it work? Nobody knows for certain, but the BGU scientists have a theory. ‘In each cell in our body, there is a genetic program which causes programmed cell death. When something goes wrong, the cells divide with no control and become cancer cells.. In normal cells, when the cell discovers that the control system is not operating correctly – for example, when it recognizes that a cell contains faulty genetic material following cell division – it triggers cell death,’ explains Weinstein. ‘This research may explain the medical benefit of these herbs.’

The success of their research led them to the conclusion that herbs containing citral may be consumed as a preventative measure against certain cancerous cells. As they learned of the BGU findings in the press, many physicians in Israel began to believe that while the research certainly needed to be explored further, in the = meantime it would be advisable for their patients, who were looking for any possible tool to fight their condition, to try to harness the cancer-destroying properties of citral.

That’s why Zabidov’s farm – the only major grower of fresh lemon grass in Israel – has become a pilgrimage destination for these patients. Luckily, they found themselves in sympathetic hands. Zabidov greets visitors with a large kettle of aromatic lemon grass tea, a plate of cookies, and a supportive attitude. ‘My father died of cancer, and my wife’s sister died young because of cancer,’ said Zabidov.. ‘So I understand what they are dealing with. And I may not know anything about medicine, but I’m a good listener. And so they tell me about their expensive painful treatments and what they’ve been through. I would never tell them to stop being treated, but it’s great that they are exploring alternatives and drinking the lemon grass tea as well.’

Zabidov knew from a young age that agriculture was his calling. At age 14, he enrolled in the Kfar Hayarok Agricultural high school. After his army service, he joined an idealistic group which headed south, in the Arava desert region, to found a new moshav (agricultural settlement) called Tsofar. ‘We were very successful; we raised fruits and vegetables, and,’ he notes with a smile, ‘We raised some very nice children.’

On a trip to Europe in the mid-80s, he began to become interested in herbs. Israel , at the time, was nothing like the trend-conscious cuisine-oriented country it is today, and the only spices being grown commercially were basics like parsley, dill, and coriander. Wandering in the Paris market, looking at the variety of herbs and spices, Zabidov realized that there was a great export potential in this niche. He brought samples back home with him, ‘which was technically illegal,’ he says with a guilty smile, to see how they would grow in his desert greenhouses. Soon, he was growing basil, oregano, tarragon, chives, sage, marjoram and melissa, and mint just to name a few.

His business began to outgrow his desert facilities, and so he decided to move north, settling in the moshav of Kfar Yedidya, an hour and a half north of Tel Aviv. He is now selling ’several hundred kilos’ of lemon grass per week, and has signed with a distributor to package and put it in health food stores. Zabidov has taken it upon himself to learn more about the properties of citral, and help his customers learn more, and has invited medical experts to his farm to give lectures about how the citral works and why.

He also felt a responsibility to know what to tell his customers about its use. ‘When I realized what was happening, I picked up the phone and called Dr. Weinstein at Ben-Gurion University , because these people were asking me exactly the best way to consume the citral. He said to put the loose grass in hot water, and drink about eight glasses each day.’

Zabidov is pleased by the findings, not simply because it means business for his farm, but because it might influence his own health. Even before the news of its benefits were demonstrated, he and his family had been drinking lemon grass in hot water for years, ‘just because it tastes good.’

7  Don’ts After A Meal

* Don’t smoke-Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).

* Don’t eat fruits immediately – Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1 hr before meal.

 * Don’t drink tea – Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.

* Don’t loosen your belt – Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked.

* Don’t bathe – Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

* Don’t walk about – People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

* Don’t sleep immediately – The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.

Source: Forrest Gump Movie Trailer

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsMqRaz2WY

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The day finally arrived.

Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven. He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself… However, the gates are closed, and Forrest approaches the gatekeeper.

St. Peter said, ‘Well, Forrest,it is certainly good to see you. We have heard a lot about you.. I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast, and we have been administering an entrance examination for everyone. The test is short, but you have to pass it before you can get into Heaven.’

Forrest responds, ‘It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir. But nobody ever told me about any entrance exam. I sure hope that the test ain’t too hard. Life was a big enough test as it was.’

St. Peter continued, ‘Yes, I know, Forrest, but the test is only three questions.

1) What two days of the week begin with the letter T?

2) How many seconds are there in a year?

3) What is God’s first name?’

Forrest leaves to think the questions over.

He returns the next day and sees St. Peter, who waves him up, and says, ‘Now that you have had a chance to think the questions over, tell me your answers’

Forrest replied, ‘Well, the first one — which two days in the week begins with the letter ‘T’?

Shucks, that one is easy…. That would be “Today and Tomorrow.”

The Saint’s eyes opened wide and he exclaimed, ‘Forrest, that is not what I was thinking, but you do have a point, and I guess I did not specify, so I will give you credit for that answer.. How about the next one?’ asked St.Peter.

‘How many seconds in a year? Now that one is harder,’ replied Forrest, but I thunk and thunk about that, and I guess the only answer can be twelve.’

Astounded, St. Peter said, ‘Twelve?

Twelve?……Forrest, how in Heaven’s name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?’

Forrest replied, ‘Shucks, there’s got to be twelve: January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd.. ‘

 ’Hold it,’ interrupts St. Peter. ‘I see where you are going with this, and I see your point, though that was not quite what I had in mind….but I will have to give you credit for that one, too.

Let us go on with the third and final question.

Can you tell me God’s first name’?

‘Sure,’ Forrest replied, ‘it’s Andy..’

 ’Andy?’ exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter. ‘Ok, I can understand how you came up with your answers to my first two questions, but just how in the world did you come up with the name Andy as the first name of God?’

‘Shucks, that was the easiest one of all,’ Forrest replied..’I learnt it from the song, ‘ANDY WALKS WITH ME, ANDY TALKS WITH ME, ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN..’

St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates, and said: ‘Run Forrest, run.’

Source: Forrest Gump Musical Theme – Alan Silvestri

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSx04WNt5yU&feature=related

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Give me a sense of humor, Lord.

Give me the ability to understand a clean joke,

To get some humor out of life,

And to pass it on to other folks.

Source: CNBC – $2000 Gold By End Of 2010 ?

YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1gsGf-Iekc&feature=related

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View of the Day: Stay with gold

By Andrew Garthwaite

Published: October 20 2009 17:27 | Last updated: October 20 2009 17:27

Gold could reach $1,200 a troy ounce over the next 12 months, according to Andrew Garthwaite, global equity strategist at Credit Suisse, who recommends that investors stay overweight in gold and gold equities.

“The most important driver of the gold price is the real Fed Funds rate,” says Mr Garthwaite. “If the inflation adjusted Fed Funds rate is below 2 per cent, the gold price tends to rise.”

Continue here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3c455ee-bd92-11de-9f6a-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

Source: Mercola

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPI7zdGdqo4&feature=related

Shocking new studies reveal:

‘Heart Healthy’ Diet Killing MILLIONS Every Year!

Research reveals that polyunsaturated vegetable oils, which the U.S. government pushes, are like ‘fertilizer’ for cancer tumors!

About

Dr. Blaylock is the 2004 recipient of the Integrity in Science Award granted by the Weston A. Price Foundation. He serves on the editorial staff of the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, official publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

By Russell Blaylock, M.D. (Neurosurgeon)

Dear Friend,

Everything you’ve been told about cholesterol and heart disease is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!

I know that sounds hard to believe, but it’s true!

Most people are convinced that heart disease and stroke result from a diet high in cholesterol and saturated fats. This notion is based on the flawed idea that cholesterol is the cause of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.

But the truth is, there is no direct cause-and-effect relationship between cholesterol levels and heart attack or stroke risk. And we’ve known this for decades!

When President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower had his first heart attack, his cholesterol level was 164 mg/dl — a level considered “perfect” by today’s standards.

What’s more, Ike had his cholesterol measured 10 times a year. He eliminated all saturated fats and ate supposed “heart-healthy” foods, such as corn oil. He did everything his cardiologists asked of him — and yet he suffered a number of new heart attacks and later died of heart disease.

What was true of Ike has been true of the general population as well. Americans have been eating a so-called “heart-healthy” diet for more than 40 years now, and yet we’ve seen no reduction in heart disease, stroke, or atherosclerosis. In fact, heart disease is worse today than it was 50 years ago!

The U.S. government’s dietary recommendations have killed more Americans than both world wars!

People find it difficult to believe that everything they have been told about cholesterol could be wrong. They especially have difficulty believing that their own doctors could be so wrong.

After all, these doctors went to medical school . . . and they use a lot of fancy medical jargon. That’s proof that they must know what they are talking about.

Well, my name is Dr. Russell Blaylock — and I went to medical school, too. I know all the jargon. In fact, I practiced neurosurgery for 24 years. And during most of my practice, I also believed what the medical establishment said about cholesterol — and I prescribed a lot of pharmaceutical drugs.

It wasn’t until I really began to examine the scientific evidence in greater detail that I discovered that I, like so many of my colleagues, was misled. I was merely parroting a lie that was not true.

I discovered not only that cholesterol is NOT a cause of heart disease and stroke . . . but also that the “heart-healthy” diet that has been pushed on Americans for four decades is behind the cancer epidemic we’ve seen.

In fact, the U.S. government’s dietary recommendations probably have killed more Americans than both world wars! That’s because the polyunsaturated vegetable oils that the government has been recommending are like powerful “fertilizers” for cancer tumors.

A recent report from the Framingham Heart Study, reported in the prestigious journal The Lancet, found that men with cholesterol below 190 mg/dl — considered “healthy” for their hearts — had TRIPLE the risk of developing colon cancer when compared to men with levels greater than 220 mg/dl.

As for the risk of heart attack from the higher cholesterol, there was NO DIFFERENCE between the men with levels at 180 mg/dl and those with cholesterol greater than 250 mg/dl.

The problem is, most doctors

don’t have time to keep up with

the latest scientific research!

Complete report: 

Read here: http://w3.newsmax.com/blaylock/44b.cfm?promo_code=8369-1

Source: How To Meditate

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Are there similarities below?

Source: Ukulele Orchestra Of GB – The Good The Bad & The Ugly

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q

Source: Ukulele Orchestra – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ba1e9GkI4c&feature=related

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About

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, using instruments bought with loose change, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.

A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. There are no drums, pianos, backing tracks or banjos, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery. Only an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and singing (and a bit of whistling). Audiences have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra. Going from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks, the Orchestra takes us on “a world tour with only hand luggage” and gives the listener “One Plucking Thing After Another”.

Using instruments small and large, in high and low registers, whether playing intricate melodies, simple tunes, or complex chords, and sitting in chamber group format dressed in formal evening wear, the Orchestra uses the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom as it reveals unsuspected musical insights. Both the beauty and vacuity of popular and highbrow music are highlighted, the pompous and the trivial, the moving and the amusing. Sometimes a foolish song can touch an audience more than high art; sometimes music which takes itself too seriously is revealed to be hilarious. You may never think about music in the same way once you’ve been exposed to the Ukes’ depraved musicology.

History

The Orchestra was formed in 1985 as a bit of fun, but the first gig was an instant sell-out, and they’ve been performing ever since. By 1988 they had released an LP, appeared on BBC TV, played at WOMAD and recorded a BBC Radio 1 session. The current ensemble has been playing together for over 20 years, and has become something of a national institution. The Orchestra has given thousands of sold-out concerts across the world, including Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, France, America, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.

Over the last 25 years, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has spawned hundreds of imitators, and you can now find Ukulele Groups in nearly every major city, indeed, the Orchestra are often blamed for the current Ukulele revival which is sweeping the globe. The Ukulele Orchestra’s music has been used in films, plays, and commercials, while film clips of the Orchestra’s live concerts and TV appearances on websites such as YouTube have been watched millions of times. Collaborators have included Madness, David Arnold, The British Film Institute, The Ministry of Sound, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) and The Kaiser Chiefs.

Source: http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx

Source: Alternative Wedding Cakes – Cupcake:  YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSh8sPK_GYU

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Blog yOur Mind says,

1 ) It was the genius of  Tim Berners – Lee (M.I.T) in CERN that created “www” where internet open the floodgate of informations around the world. 

A couple of months ago in US, he brought the issue of “Net Neutrality” – a Govt. and Mega Corporations subtle lobbying to stifle or control internet access. 

 Watch here:   http://all4one4all.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/tim-berners-lee-mit-father-of-the-world-wide-web/

2) As time goes by, various topics were incorporated into our blog. Will happy news bring  joy and happiness to our zoombie world?

3) Lately, *Wedding Bliss* through creative cupcakes caught my attention.

Being a glutton on food… we inherited diabetes. These days we just reduced our greed on  delicious and tempting dishes.

If food is not the passion of people (especially Chinese), then we have disappointed God for providing his creations/manna.

4) “Wedding Bliss” bring out Mom & Daughter’s  creativity, warmness and happiness to couples starting their journey to be one in body and soul.

A big day on committment to each other for newly wedded couples. Followed by little baby angels into Garden of Eden.  

New innovative ideas add colours to our life. An awakening to our soul. 

I wonder did “Adam and Eve” got married and held a Garden of Eden’s wedding reception??? Ever thought of it?

Visit Mom & Daughter Cakes: http://mndcakes.blogspot.com/

5) As years go by, we wished those on their “Wedding Bliss” will end with “Rainbow” in their sunset years.

In our previous posting, a touching email on love to old age has touched many people.

“Life Is Not About How To Survive The Storm, But How To Dance In The Rain” 

Read here: http://all4one4all.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/life-isnt-about-how-to-survive-the-storm-but-how-to-dance-in-the-rain/

 Do we still practice what Shrek do to Fiona or food and weight have detered this romantic gestures?

Cheers