Good One

Be careful what you choose….
hear that line before……´Looks can be deceiving´

One day while walking down the street a highly successful Human Resources Manager was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself.

"Welcome to Heaven," said St. Peter. "Before you get settled in though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we've never once had a Human Resources Manager make it this far and we're not really sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," said the woman.

"Well, I'd like to, but I have higher orders. What we're going to do is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in."

"Actually, I think I've made up my mind, I prefer to stay in Heaven", said the woman

"Sorry, we have rules..."

And with that St. Peter put the executive in an elevator and it went down-down-down to hell.

The doors opened and she found herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all her friends - fellow executives that she had worked with and they were well dressed in evening gowns and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster dinner.

She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kind of cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was having such a good time that before she knew it, it was time to leave. Everybody shook her hand and waved goodbye as she got on the elevator.

The elevator went up-up-up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates and found St. Peter waiting for her.

"Now it's time to spend a day in heaven," he said. So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the harp and singing. She had great time and before she knew it her 24 hours were up and St. Peter came and got her.

"So, you've spent a day in hell and you've spent a day in heaven. Now you must choose your eternity,"

The woman paused for a second and then replied, "Well, I never thought I'd say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell."

So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down-down-down back to Hell.

When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks.

The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her.

"I don't understand," stammered the woman, "yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable."

The Devil looked at her smiled and told...
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"Yesterday we were recruiting you, today you're an Employee"

WINTER IS ON ITS WAY

*Winter Is On It's Way*

If Prediction Are True

Our Skies Will Not Alway Be Blue

As Jack Frost Hides Behind The Hollows

Wintertime Is Just Around The Corner.

Tis Time To Dig Out Your Toboggans

Would Be A Good Idea To Don Your

Gloves, A dvisement Would Have It , My

Friend Bundle Up For Old Man Winter's Blast.

The Frost Is On The Pumpkin

Cornstalks Are Bare To The Bone

The Leaves Are Leaving The Trees

H iding F rom Winter's Chill .

Keep The Home Fires Burning

Put The Candles In The Windows

Cover The Holes In The Attic

Cause It's Time For Winter, Again.

Pull Out The Bird Feeders From Hiding

For The Critters Need All Our Attention

Close The Barn Door For The Horese

They Are Safe - God Care For His Own

By N orma Lee Liles.

Origin of Names of Great Companies

Mercedes:
This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Adobe:
This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers:
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobbs.He was three month slate for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. Its short for San Francisco.

Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.

Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard :
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) :
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or'Padmasana' . Kapor used to be a teacher of transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturin g radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym forStanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Apache:
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon.. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server --thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache):A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.

Tomcat:
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.

C:
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).

C++:
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'newC'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

GNU:
A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.

Java:
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

LG:
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

Linux:
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free+ freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) .

Mozilla:
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) .The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it wasre-christened Netscape Navigator.

Red Hat:
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP:
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applicatio ns/Projects' group of IBM.

SCO (UNIX):
From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.

UNIX:
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, KenThompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled underMULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

Xerox:
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (asit was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.

Yahoo!:
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels' . It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

3M:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.

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Beware of Aspartame-Sweet Poison

> SWEET POISON
>
> In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick.
> She had stomach spasms and she
> was having a hard time getting around.
> Walking was a major chore. It took everything
> she had just to get out of bed; she was in so
> much pain.
>
> By March 2002, she had undergone several
> tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24
> various prescription medications.
>
> The doctors could not determine what was
> wrong with her. She was in so much pain,
> and so sick, she just knew she was dying.
> She put her house, bank accounts, life
> insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's
> name, and made sure that her younger
> children were to be taken care of.
>
> She also wanted her last hooray, so she
> planned a trip to Florida (basically in a
> wheelchair) for March 22nd.
>
> On March 19, I called her to ask how her
> most recent tests went, and she said they
> didn't find anything on the test, but they
> believe she had MS (Multiple Sclerosis).
>
> I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed
> to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet
> soda? She told me that she did. As a matter
> of fact, she was getting ready to crack one
> open that moment.
>
> I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking
> the diet soda!
>
>
> I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer,
> had sent.
>
> My sister called me within 32 hours after our
> phone conversation and told me she had
> stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could
> walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said
> she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better.
> She told me she was going to her doctor with
> this article and would call me when she got
> home.
>
> Well, she called me, and said her doctor was
> amazed! He is going to call all of his MS
> patients to find out if they consumed artificial
> sweeteners of any kind.
>
> In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the
> Aspartame in the diet soda.....and literally
> dying a slow and miserable death.
>
> When she got to Florida March 22, all she
> had to take was one pill, and that was a pill
> for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on
> her way to a complete recovery. And she is
> walking! No wheelchair! This article saved
> her life.
>
> If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label;
> DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
>
> I have spent several days lecturing at the
> WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
> on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'NutraSweet,
> '
> 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'
>
> In the keynote address by the EPA, it was
> announced that in the United States in 2001
> there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis
> and systemic lupus. It was difficult to
> determine exactly what toxin was causing
> this to be rampant.
>
> I stood up and said that I was there to lecture
> on exactly that subject..
>
> I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous:
> When the temperature of this sweetener
> exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in
> ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and
> then to formic acid, which in turn causes
> metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison
> found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol
> toxicity mimics, among other conditions,
> multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
>
> Many people were be being diagnosed in
> error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a
> death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
>
> Systemic lupus has become almost as
> rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially
> with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
> The victim usually does not know that the
> Aspartame is the culprit.
>
> He or she continues its use; irritating the
> lupus to such a degree that it may become
> a life-threatening condition. We have seen
> patients with systemic lupus become
> asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
>
> In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple
> Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear.
> We've seen many cases where vision loss
> returned and hearing loss improved
> markedly.
>
> This also applies to cases of trinities and
> firma.
>
> During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using
> ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful,
> etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia
> symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains,
> numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo,
> dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain,
> unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks,
> slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory
> loss you probably have ASPARTAME
> poisoning!'
>
> People were jumping up during the lecture
> saying, 'I have some of these symptoms.
> Is it reversible?'
>
> Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and
> be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many
> products are fortified with it! This is a serious
> problem.
> Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that
> so many people seem to be symptomatic for
> MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a
> nurse stated that six of her friends, who
> were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been
> diagnosed with MS..
>
> This is beyond coincidence!
>
> Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a
> chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt)
> and ASPARTAME containing product
> that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.
> It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
>
> These products also contain formaldehyde,
> which stores in the fat cells, particularly in
> the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an
> absolute toxin and is used primarily to
> preserve 'tissue specimens.'
>
> Many products we use every day contain
> this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store
> it IN our body!
>
> Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that
> once free of the 'diet products' and with no
> significant increase in exercise; his
> patients lost an average of 19 pounds over
> a trial
> period.
>
> Aspartame is especially dangerous for
> diabetics. We found that some physicians,
> who believed that they had a patient with
> retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused
> by Aspartame.
>
> The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out
> of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute
> memory loss due to the fact that aspartic
> acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC
> when taken without the other amino acids
> necessary for a good balance.
>
> Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.
> Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame
> passes the blood/brain barrier and it then
> deteriorates the neurons of the brain;
> causing various levels of brain damage,
> seizures, depression, manic depression,
> panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and
> rage.
>
> Consumption of Aspartame causes these
> same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.
>
> Documentation and observation also
> reveal that thousands of children
> diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had
> complete turn arounds in their behavior
> when these chemicals have been removed
> from their diet.
>
> So called 'behavior modification prescription
> drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer
> needed. Truth be told, they were never
> NEEDED in the first place!
>
> Most of these children were being 'poisoned'
> on a daily basis with the very foods that were
> 'better for them than sugar.'
>
> It is also suspected that the Aspartame in
> thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet
> Pepsi consumed by men and women
> fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially
> to blame for the well-known Gulf War
> Syndrome..
>
> Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth
> defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at
> the time of conception and during early
> pregnancy.
>
> Children are especially at risk for
> neurological disorders and should NEVER
> be given artificial sweeteners. There are
> many different case histories to relate of
> children suffering grand mal seizures and
> other neurological disturbances talking
> about a plague of neurological diseases
> directly caused by the use of this deadly
> poison.'
>
> Herein lies the problem:
>
> There were Congressional Hearings when
> Aspartame was included 100 different
> products and strong objection was made
> concerning its use.
>
> Since this initial hearing, there have
> been two subsequent hearings, and still
> nothing has been done. The drug and
> chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
>
> Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame
> has EXPIRED!
>
> There are now over 5,000 products on the
> market that contain this deadly chemical
> and there will be thousands more introduced.
> Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame
> pie.' I assure you that MONSANTO,
> the creator of Aspartame, knows how
> deadly it is.
>
> And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds,
> among others, the American Diabetes
> Association, the American Dietetic
> Association and the Conference of the
> American College of Physicians?
>
> This has been recently exposed in the
> New York Times.
>
> These [organizations] cannot criticize any
> additives or convey their link to MONSANTO
> because they take money from the food
> industry and are required to endorse their
> products.
>
> Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and
> presented a bill that would require label
> warnings on products containing
> Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant
> women, children and infants. The bill
> would also institute independent studies
> on the known dangers and the problems
> existing in the general population
> regarding seizures, changes in brain
> chemistry, neurological changes and
> behavioral symptoms.
> The bill was killed.
>
> It is known that the powerful drug and
> chemical lobbies are responsible for this,
> letting loose the hounds of disease and
> death on an unsuspecting and uninformed
> public. Well, you're Informed now!
>
> YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
> Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and
> friends.
> They have a right to know too.
>

Choose differently today

Choose differently today

"It is always your next move."

-- Napoleon Hill

The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experience for ourselves. We can choose to pay attention, breathe more deeply, laugh, rest, play, appreciate, do something different - the possibilities are endless.

Whenever you remember, TAKE YOURSELF OFF AUTO-PILOT and really examine your situation. Take charge and make a choice that will enrich your experience. At the end of the day, reflect on what happened and how you felt when you chose a new line of thought, feeling or action.

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end."

-- Joseph Fort Newton

"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you."

-- Tin Cup (the movie)

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

-- Neil Peart

Check what your name means!

What ur name means....... .. check it out !!

Instructions : What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.

Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU. (It's TRUE) &(Is'nt it GREAT !!)

If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.
For Example : MARK

M - Success comes easily to you.
A - You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
R - You are a social butterfly.
K - You like to try new things.


A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting newpeople.
C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.
D = You have trouble trusting people.
E =You are a very exciting person.
F = Everyone loves you.
G = You have exce! llent ways of viewing people.
H =You are not judgmental.
I =You are always smiling and making others smile.
J =Jealously
K =You like to try new things.
L = Love is something you deeply believe in.
M = Success comes easily to you...
N = You like to work, but you always want a break.
O = You are very open-minded.
P =You are very friendly and understanding.
Q = You are a hypocrite.
R =You are a social butterfly.
S = You are very broad-minded.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
U = You feel like you have to equal up to people's standards.
V = You have a very good physique and looks.
W = You like your privacy.
X = You never let people tell you w! hat to do.
Y = You cause a lot of trouble.
Z = You're always fighting with someone.

CHECK WHAT YOUR NAME MEANS!