Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Vitamin B12 and Stress Relief

Dinner Topics for Thursday
Dr. Brownstein here declares the benefits of vitamin B12, but if you just take the one vitamin without getting the entire B complex, it can cause an imbalance, perhaps causing more problems than it cures. I know from personal experience that the entire B complex promotes energy, provides stress relief, helps prevent memory loss, and just promotes overall well-being. I use the Now brand vitamin B100 1 or 2 times a day.  Click the link at the bottom of this post for huge discounts and continued savings on this wonderful vitamin and other nutritional needs. ~C.A.Davidson


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Monday, February 27, 2012

Current TV and Children's Books


Dinner Topics for Tuesday
Small screen, big problems
Researchers at the University of Bristol in England discovered that kids who spent more than two hours a day in front of a TV were 61% more likely to have increased psychological effects than kids who spent less time, even if they’re physically active. 
Children with more than two hours in front of the computer were 59% more likely to have those deleterious effects.
Psychological consequences included things such as emotional troubles, attention problems, difficulties with social interaction and behavior issues.
Even if the children engaged in “moderate or vigorous physical activity” for an hour or more each day, they were still more likely to suffer from these effects, although the numbers were somewhat lower (54% for TV watchers, 48% for computer watchers). 
The results were published online by Pediatrics in October 2010.
         www.lifesitenews.com, 10/19/2010

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Catholic Charity: Forced Closure


Charity forced to cease ministry
After 90 years of providing foster care for children, Catholic Charities of Illinois has been forced to cease services. 
The problem began with passage of the Illinois civil unions law for same-gender pairs, which led the state to force Christian foster care and adoption organizations to consider homosexual couples. 
Since such a state demand ran afoul of basic Christian doctrine, Catholic Charities filed suit, only to discover that Illinois officials had already begun transferring the children out. 
According to Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, which represented the charity, the state had also cut off funds to the charity, meaning it could not even pay its staff.  
Catholic Charities was forced to drop the lawsuit because, even if it had won, there would be no ministry left to save.
www.onenewsnow.com, 11/16/11 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Socialism and Health Care

There are actually two messages here. The first is very
interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:

U.S. 65%

England 46%

Canada 42%


Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:

U.S. 93%

England 15%

Canada 43%


Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

U.S. 90%

England 15%

Canada 43%


Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

U.S. 77%

England 40%

Canada 43%


Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

U.S. 71

England 14

Canada 18


Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":

U.S. 12%

England 2%

Canada 6%


And now for the last statistic:


National Health Insurance?

U.S. NO

England YES

Canada YES

Check this last set of statistics!!

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.
You know what the private business sector is, a real-life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.


T. Roosevelt...................... 38%

Taft.................................. 40%

Wilson ............................ 52%

Harding............................. 49%

Coolidge............................ 48%

Hoover.............................. 42%

F. Roosevelt....................... 50%

Truman............................. 50%

Eisenhower........................ 57%

Kennedy............................ 30%

Johnson............................. 47%

Nixon................................ 53%

Ford.................................. 42%

Carter................................ 32%

Reagan.............................. 56%

GH Bush........................... 51%

Clinton ............................ 39%

GW Bush.......................... 55%

Obama.................................8%


This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!

That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?

How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has
never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment line.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Stress Relief and Classical Music for the Soul


George Friederich Handel: Classical Music for the Soul

Dinner Topics for Thursday

From Wikipedia
Handel’s music was well-known to composers including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

To Beethoven he was “the master of us all… the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb”.[61] Beethoven emphasized above all the simplicity and popular appeal of Handel’s music when he said, “Go to him to learn how to achieve great effects, by such simple means”.

George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Händel; pronounced [ˈhÉ›ndÉ™l]) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, and concertos. Handel was born in Germany in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. He received critical musical training in Italy before settling in London and becoming a naturalised British subject.[1] His works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks. He was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition. Handel’s music was well-known to composers including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Early Years

Handel was born in Halle to Georg and Dorothea (née Taust) Händel in 1685,[2]. His father, Georg Händel, 63 when his son was born, was an eminent barber-surgeon who served as surgeon to the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.[3] According to Handel’s first biographer, John Mainwaring, he “had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbade him to meddle with any musical instrument but Handel found means to get a little clavichord privately convey’d to a room at the top of the house. To this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep“.[4] At an early age Handel became a skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.[5]Handel and his father traveled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel’s half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian,[6] who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I.[7] According to legend, the young Handel’s playing on the church organ attracted the Duke’s attention. Handel convinced his father to allow lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of the Lutheran Marienkirche. Handel learned about harmony and contemporary styles, analysed sheet music scores, learned to work fugue subjects, and to copy music. Sometimes he replaced his teacher as organist.[8] In 1698 Handel played for Frederick I of Prussia and met Giovanni Battista Bononcini in Berlin. In 1701 Georg Philipp Telemann went to Halle to listen to the important young man.

Legacy

After his death, Handel’s Italian operas fell into obscurity, except for selections such as the aria from Serse, “Ombra mai fù“. Throughout the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, particularly in the Anglophone countries, his reputation rested primarily on his English oratorios, which were customarily performed by enormous choruses of amateur singers on solemn occasions.

Since the 1960s, with the revival of interest in baroque music, original instrument playing styles, and the prevalence of countertenors who could more accurately replicate castrato roles, interest has revived in Handel’s Italian operas, and many have been recorded and performed. Since the Early Music Revival the fifty operas he wrote have been performed in opera houses and concert halls.

Recent decades have revived his secular cantatas and what one might call ‘secular oratorios’ or ‘concert operas’. Of the former, Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1739) (set to texts by John Dryden) and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (1713) are noteworthy. For his secular oratorios, Handel turned to classical mythology for subjects, producing such works as Acis and Galatea (1719), Hercules (1745) and Semele (1744). These works have a close kinship with the sacred oratorios, particularly in the vocal writing for the English-language texts. They also share the lyrical and dramatic qualities of Handel’s Italian operas. As such, they are sometimes performed onstage by small chamber ensembles. With the rediscovery of his theatrical works, Handel, in addition to his renown as instrumentalist, orchestral writer, and melodist, is now perceived as being one of opera’s great musical dramatists.

Handel’s works were edited by Samuel Arnold (40 vols., London, 1787–1797), and by Friedrich Chrysander, for the German Händel-Gesellschaft (100 vols., Leipzig, 1858–1902).

Handel adopted the spelling “George Frideric Handel” on his naturalisation as a British subject, and this spelling is generally used in English-speaking countries. The original form of his name, Georg Friedrich Händel, is generally used in Germany and elsewhere, but he is known as “Haendel” in France. Another composer with a similar name, Handl, was a Slovene and is more commonly known as Jacobus Gallus.

Musician’s musician

Continued