World Vision Malaysia is looking for volunteers for ONE Life Revolution exhibit that will be coming to Penang, Gurney Plaza Aug 12-14.
There are 2 shifts, 9am-4pm / 3pm-10pm (as least 15 ppl per shift).
They don't have to come everyday if they cant, just choose a shift for any days they can.
Youths would be great but open to anyone.
Please help me spread the word.
Those interested, please write to kerk_ching_wui@wvi.org or call 03-7880 6414 by 31 July.
Volunteers training will be conducted on Aug 2 in Penang.
Warm Regards,
Joanne Tay
Promotion & Communications
World Vision Malaysia
Office Address: 106 & 108 Ground Floor, Block A, Kelana Centre Point, Jalan SS 7/19, Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel : +603-78806414 Fax : +603-78806424
Website: www.worldvision.com.my
Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness;
Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
Link to this program:
http://www.worldvision.com.my/onelife/
http://blog.worldvision.com.my/
ONE Life Revolution needs volunteers in Penang, Aug 12-14
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9 Crucial Tips
Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It may save your life or a loved one's life.
Because of recent abductions
in daylight hours, refresh yourself
of these things to do
in an emergency situation...
This is for you,
and for you to share
with your wife,
your children,
everyone you know.
After reading these 9 crucial tips,
forward them to someone you care about.
It never hurts to be careful
in this crazy world we live in.
1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do :
The elbow is the strongest point
on your body.
If you are close enough to use it, do!
2. Learned this from a tourist guide
in New Orleans
If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse,
DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM.
Toss it away from you....
chances are that he is more interested
in your wallet and/or purse than you,
and he will go for the wallet/purse.
RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car,
kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole
and start waving like crazy.
The driver won't see you, but everybody else will.
This has saved lives.
4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars
after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit
(doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc.
DON'T DO THIS!)
The predator will be watching you, and this
is the perfect opportunity for him to get in
on the passenger side, put a gun to your head,
and tell you where to go.
AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR ,
LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.
If someone
is in the car
with a gun
to your head
DO NOT DRIVE OFF,
repeat:
DO NOT DRIVE OFF!
Instead gun the engine
and speed into anything, wrecking the car.
Your Air Bag will save you.
If the person is in the back seat
they will get the worst of it .
As soon as the car crashes
bail out and run.
It is better than having them find your body
in a remote location.
5. A few notes about getting
into your car in a parking lot,
or parking garage:
A.) Be aware:
look around you,
look into your car,
at the passenger side floor ,
and in the back seat
B.) If you are parked next to a big van,
enter your car from the passenger door.
Most serial killers attack their victims
by pulling them into their vans while the women
are attempting to get into their cars.
C.) Look at the car
parked on the driver's side of your vehicle,
and the passenger side.. If a male is sitting alone
in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back
into the mall, or work, and get a
guard/policeman to walk you back out.
IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS take the elevator
instead of the stairs.
(Stairwells are horrible places to be alone
and the perfect crime spot.
This is especially true at NIGHT!)
7. If the predator has a gun
and you are not under his control,
ALWAYS RUN!
The predator will only hit you (a running target)
4 in 100 times; And even then,
it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ.
RUN, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern!
8. As women, we are always trying
to be sympathetic:
STOP
It may get you raped, or killed.
Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking,
well educated man, who ALWAYS played
on the sympathies of unsuspecting women.
He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often
asked 'for help' into his vehicle or with his vehicle,
which is when he abducted
his next victim.
9. Another Safety Point:
Someone just told me that her friend heard
a crying baby on her porch the night before last,
and she called the police because it was late
and she thought it was weird. The police told her
'Whatever you do, DO NOT
open the door.'
The lady then said that it sounded like the baby
had crawled near a window, and she was worried
that it would crawl to the street and get run over.
The policeman said, 'We already have a unit on the way,
whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.'
He told her that they think a serial killer
has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax
women out of their homes thinking that someone
dropped off a baby He said they have not verified it,
but have had several calls by women saying that
they hear baby's cries outside their doors
when they're home alone at night.
Please pass this on and DO NOT open the door
for a crying baby ----
This e-mail should be taken seriously because
the Crying Baby theory was mentioned on
America 's Most Wanted this past Saturday when they profiled
the serial killer in Louisiana
I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know.
It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle.
I was going to send this to the ladies only,
but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc.,
you may want to pass it onto them, as well.
Send this to any woman you know that may need
Driving Tips on Fuel Saving
By modifying some of your driving habits, you can increase your fuel efficiency and use less gas, bringing the cost down.
Driving Tip 1: Eliminate The Junk in Your Trunk
No matter what kind of car you drive, eliminating weight can go a long way toward increasing your car's fuel efficiency. So just by cleaning up your act, you can start on the road to saving.
Driving Tip 2: Inflated Tires
Proper tire maintenance is an often overlooked way to increase your fuel economy. The easiest way to use your tires to save money is to make sure they're properly inflated. Tires that are under inflated negatively affect fuel efficiency. Properly inflated tires have less contact with the road, which means they encounter less friction, so the engine doesn't have to work as hard to move the car.
Driving Tip 3: Limit Your Need for Speed
One of the best ways to improve your fuel economy is to change the way you drive. Speeding, accelerating and braking hard can deplete efficiency by 33 percent. So remember to drive steady, smoothly, not too fast and furious.
Driving Tip 4: Alternative Fuel?
You may install NGV kits or the OxyHydrogen Generator.
Driving Tip 5: Time to trade in for a more efficient car?
If you're really serious about driving greener, you can get a more fuel-efficient car. Like switching from a large SUV to a smaller car.
Driving Tip 6: Car Pooling
If you really want to cut down on your fuel usage, car pooling is a great way to do it. When two or more people buddy up and ride together, the number of cars on the road drops and gas is saved. It's that simple.
Car pooling isn't just a good way to drive green and break up a lonely commute; it's a good way to save a lot of money. By alternating driving days with another driver, you'll cut your gas costs by half. And by not driving your car as much, you'll save on routine maintenance. Driving only half as much will also slow the rate you put miles on your car, helping its resale value.
So how much can you save? With the simple driving tips we've compiled here, you could increase your fuel economy and savings.
Way to live healthy to 100 - 312 Meridian Exercise
Eighty-four-year-old Zhu Zongxiang has the vigor and vitality of man half his age. In a few old and shabby rooms situated near a group of ancient buildings in Beijing, the old doctor has stubbornly persisted in learning more about the meridians of acupuncture for more than 30 years. He often said he was a traitor to Western medicine.
Since the 1950s, he had been teaching physiology, a basic medical subject, in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. However, a decision in 1973 changed his life.
That year, he was inspired by Premier Zhou Enlai's appeal to Chinese medical experts to make clear the theory of acupuncture. Zhou's call for action followed US President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
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Zhu Zongxiang (right) talks with a practioner of 312 meridian exercises.
Zhu joined the acupuncture meridian research group of the Institute of Biophysics under Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Meridian points were discovered in China 2,500 years ago. In Huang Di Nei Jing (The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor), one of the most important ancient medical classics, the meridians were recorded to have the function of "promoting circulation of Xueqi (Blood and Qi) and balancing yin and yang" and "determining life and death and treating hundred diseases."
The meridians were discovered to be a general controlling system for the human body and had the function of preventing diseases and promoting health and longevity. Today, TCM doctors still insert acupuncture needles into the acupoints along the meridians to treat diseases.
However, the existence of the meridians has always been questioned by Western medicine.
To justify the theory, doctor Zhu and his colleagues had spent more than 10 years to experiment with modern methods to demonstrate its biophysical existence.
In the 1980s, the researchers successfully showed the 14 meridians in human body through biophysical methods, which are surprisingly identical to that recorded in ancient classical meridian graph.
For visitors suspicious towards his research, doctor Zhu would proudly demonstrate his two proof tests to them.
He used a mallet to tap different areas on the elbow until the patient heard a loud sound measured through a device similar to the stethoscope. Zhu then marked a red spot at that point.
A line of the red spots determined by the same method is actually showing the position of a meridian, according to Zhu.
He would then place two electrodes of a current meter on the line and stimulation of the current could be felt. When one electrode was placed off the line, one would feel nothing. It showed that the meridian line had the lowest electric impedance, according to Zhu.
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The red meridian lines pictured above connect to the major organs of the body. Acupuncture and massage on strategic points along the meridian zones can improve health.
Even after Zhu published his breakthrough findings, the scientific world still did not change their skeptical attitude. And the debate on meridians is ongoing and interpretations of the phenomenon vary among scientists.
In ancient times, meridians was a philosophical concept invented by ancient Chinese doctors to summarize the general functions of the human body, according to Wu Gencheng, director of Institute of Acupuncture Research, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. The institute had been researching acupuncture for decades.
"We believe that the meridians' functions are closely related with the nerves, but it is impossible in modern science to find the material equivalent to the meridians described in the ancient time. It is hard to imagine a new passage way in the human body," said Wu.
In a further blow to Zhu's efforts, the Institute stopped funding their research.
Zhu did not give up and established Beijing Yanhuang Meridian Center to design the meridian based exercise to promote people's health and longevity. Zhu calls it the "3-1-2" method.
According to Zhu, 3 refers to massaging three acupoints of hegu on the hand neiguan on the wrist and zusanli on the knee.
1 refers to abdominal breathing, actually a form of simplified qigong (breathing exercise), through which Zhu believed could exercise the meridians in the abdomen area being closely related with chronic diseases.
2 refers to the physical exercise of both legs. Zhu believed the most simple and effective exercise is squatting down and standing up.
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Of the 312 meridian exercises, the number of 3 refers to massaging three acupoints of hegu on the hand (left) neiguan on the wrist (center) and zusanli on the knee (right).
"Physical exercise will involve the excitation of all the meridians spreading in the whole body," he explained.
In fact, in Zhu's views, the health benefits of all kinds of physical exercise are actually coming from the enhancement of the meridians in the process.
Daily exercises for 25 minutes will keep people young and vigorous, prevent and treat many senile and difficult diseases and relieve some common diseases, Zhu claims.
During the past 17 years, Zhu had formally trained more than 10,000 people, mostly elderly people. "Though the popularization of the exercise is slow, I obtain valuable proof information from them that the exercise is effective for health promotion," he said.
Zhang Yawen, 74, was a typical beneficiary of 312 exercises. She was a college professor and had long been inflicted by hypertension and arthritis, which often made her sleepless at night.
She claimed her health improved a lot after she followed 312 exercises for a few months. Now she has the confidence to live to 100.
Zhu conducted a study among more than 8,000 people attending his training class, 95 percent of whom suffered from chronic diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, asthma, diabetes and arthritis. Most have seen major improvements after four weeks' practice.
Though Zhu had a strong wish to spread his exercise to a larger population, he still depends on opening workshops and distributing study materials to spread the word.
Please go to the below site to watch the demonstration:
3 1 2 Meridian Training Method
is through three points of massage (Hegu, Neiguan, and Zusanli),
an abdominal breathing and
consisting mainly of two legs squat exercises.
http://312exercise.blogspot.com/2008/06/312-exercise-introduction.html
Watermelon: The new Viagra ?
"Watermelon may not be as organ-specific as Viagra, but it's a great way to relax blood vessels without any drug side effects."
There are more citrulline (about 60%) is found in watermelon rind than in the flesh.
Citrulline is found in all colors of watermelon and is highest in the yellow-fleshed types.
Link of this post: http://news4malaysian.blogspot.com/2008/07/watermelon-new-viagra.html
