It´s been a funny old day today. It started with a grey sky then proceeded to bit of drizzle. As I am writing this blog it is now quite sunny. Let´s get that forecast…….
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We have a big event running in the Benidorm Palace and Benidorm Circu. It´s the heats today and yesterday and then it is the finals next week of Benidorm´s Got Talent. Big names involved include Euroweekl and Telitec plus the Palace and various nother sponsors. Michelle and Steven from Euroweekly joined me on my show and described the talent we have here in Benidorm as áwesome´. Let´s see what I´ve been sent overnight.
Employee Reference
At times I was asked to provide references for former employees by companies considering hiring them.
On one firm’s form was the question: “Was this person a steady worker?”
Since the guy was a well-known do-nothing, I entered, “Not just steady, but motionless” in the space provided.
Speeding
A young man was caught going almost double the speed limit through a small town. As the police officer walked up to the car, he said to the young man, “I’ve been waiting for you
all day.”
The young man replied, “Don’t worry! I got here as fast as I could!”
He got off with a verbal warning. This is a true story.
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The rebel doctor has the following to say about mobile phones……Maybe it is worth reading this and realising how many children are keen to have a mobile phone……
Big tumor risk for cell users
Are you near a window? Open it up, make sure no one is below… and toss your cell phone out.
There… now it’s finally a safe distance from your body. Otherwise, you may as well dial “M” for “Murder,” because your cell phone is killing you. These dangerous devices are AGAIN being linked to brain tumors, according to a 10-year investigation by the World Health Organization. Six of the eight studies examined by the WHO found a link to tumors among regular cell phone users, with one finding that they boost the risk by 39 percent.
I know the research has been inconsistent over the years – but pay attention, because a multi-billion-dollar industry is trying to cloud the issue with a series of low-quality studies.
One recent analysis of multiple studies initially found no risk. But once the researchers focused on eight studies that met high research standards, they found that cell phone users have an increased tumor risk of between 10 percent and 30 percent over those who never or rarely used them. Other studies have linked cell phones to everything from these tumors to reproductive problems to heart irregularities to hearing loss.
You can’t ignore the facts any longer: Ditch your cell phones for good – and for goodness sake, keep these deadly gadgets away from your kids.
Cell-phone free forever,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
Whilst he´s here, let´s get his thoughts on exercise and weight control.
Exercise is unrelated to weight loss
It’s always fun watching the mainstream media hem, haw, backtrack and make excuses whenever it’s forced to admit that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss.
Take a recent New York Times article, which to my shock actually reported on the latest studies saying that treadmill torture won’t help you lose weight. But surprise, surprise…By the end of that article, they were still busy inventing bizarre new reasons to drown yourself in sweat.
I guess they don’t want to lose revenue from all those gym ads.
A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine followed 58 obese people who exercised for 12 weeks but didn’t chang the eating habits that got them in the study in the first place.
The average fatty lost 7 pounds… but many lost just half that.
Practically speaking, they may as well have lost nothing at all. There’s really no difference between someone who weighs 303 pounds and someone who weights 310 pounds. If they had simply tried sticking to a sensible diet free of sugar and other carbs, they’d have lost some real weight by week 12 – without ever breaking a sweat.
Now that the fat cat’s out of the gym bag, the fitness barons are scrambling to come up with new bogus reasons for you to risk your life and wallet in their overpriced and dangerous dungeons.
My favorite is “an acute exercise-induced increase in positive mood.”
I’ll tell you what puts me in a positive mood: Not exercising. And if you walk by the gym and see all those miserable, grimacing hamsters stumbling on treadmills and rolling off exercise balls, I don’t think “positive mood” is the first phrase that’ll come to mind.
Another of these supposed benefits is “increased aerobic capacity.” In other words, exercise makes you better able to do more exercise.
Still one more – they claim that once you lose the weight WITHOUT hitting the gym, exercise can help keep it off.
Trust me on this one – if you can lose weight through diet alone, you can keep it off through diet alone.
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Word of the Day
el alimento ah-lee-men’-toh (noun)
food, nourishment, nutritional value
EXAMPLES
No tiene alimento ninguno. – I has no nutritional value.
La lectura es un alimento para el espíritu. – Reading is food for the soul.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for el alimento.
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Ian in Villamar sent the following
Old Motor!
The marriage of an 80 year old man and a 20 year old woman was the talk of the town. After being married a year, the couple went to the hospital for the birth of their first child.
The attending nurse came out of the delivery room to congratulate the old gentleman and said, ‘This is amazing. How do you do it at your age?’
The old man grinned and said, ‘You got to keep the old motor running.
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The following year, the couple returned to the hospital for the birth of their second child. The same nurse was attending the delivery and again went out to congratulate the old gentleman.
She said, ‘Sir, you are something else. How do you manage it?’ The old man grinned and said, ‘You gotta keep the old motor running..’
A year later, the couple returned to the hospital for the birth of their third child.
The same nurse was there for this birth also and, after the delivery, she once again approached the old gentleman, smiled, and said, ‘Well, you surely are something else! How do you do it?’
The old man replied, ‘It’s like I’ve told you before, you gotta keep the old motor running.’ The nurse, still smiling, patted him on the back and said: ‘Well, I guess it’s time to change the oil. This one’s not white!’
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