Quoted.
Chaos is the score upon which reality is
written.
Henry
Miller
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the
height of enjoyment.
Novalis
Matrimony; the
high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich
Heine
Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Once the realization is accepted that even
between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful
living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between
them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
Everyone chases after happiness, not
noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt
Brecht
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of
long woes.
Christoph
Martin Wieland
I hold this to be the highest task for a
bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
We are more closely connected to the
invisible than to the visible.
Novalis
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Humour
A marriage
made in heaven
One rainy Sunday afternoon,
a young couple were on their way to their Church to get married. On the way there, their car lost
control and slammed into a telephone pole
– .
The couple
soon found themselves standing in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates,
welcoming them to Heaven. The young woman asks Peter if they could get married
in Heaven, since their time on Earth was cut short. He replies that he’ll get
back with them on that request.
A month later, St. Peter finds them and announces that they can – in fact –
get arried in Heaven. To his suprise, the woman asks “Just wondering, if things
don’t work out will we be able to get a
divorce?”
With a stern look in his eye, Peter blurts out “Look lady, it took me a
month to find a preacher up here… you really think I’m gonna find a lawyer?”
Poem
Sonnet 2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tattered weed of small worth held.
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer, "This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,"
Proving his beauty by succession thine.
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
News
THE LUNAR EFFECT
Scientists found people increase the size of
their meals during a full moon
Tuesday October 27,2009
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TIM BRADY discovers the experts are divided over whether the
moon influences our bodies
For centuries there has been a widespread belief that
the moon exerts a powerful effect on human health and behaviour. The strongest
evidence of this is found in the word lunatic, a term derived from lunar and
originally used to describe a form of insanity thought to be brought on by
phases of the moon.
Today, few medical experts believe that a person’s physical or mental health
can be affected by something nearly 250,000 miles away. Yet studies continue to
appear that confirm it has a mysterious and often completely inexplicable
influence on the body.
In some quarters, the phenomenon is dubbed the “ Transylvania
effect”. The most recent example highlighted a possible link between the full
moon and sudden deaths among patients with severe epilepsy.
A study released last year found that on nights when there is a full moon,
there is a rise in the number of patients seeking treatment for stroke symptoms
but who turn out to be completely healthy. Numerous scientific explanations
have been put forward.
Researchers were studying a possible link between the moon
and childbirth
One theory is that the moon’s gravitational pull upsets the balance of fluid in
the body’s cells, in much the same way as it causes the seas to rise. Another
is that this pull somehow alters the body’s glands and organs.
Some experts believe the moon’s influence on human behaviour, particularly
sleep, dates back to the days when it was an important source of light.
Exposure to its brightness at night time may affect certain hormones normally
regulated by our circadian rhythm, the body’s internal clock. Or it may simply
be that because people stayed up late into the night, they became sleep
deprived and this was enough to trigger mania or seizures in those already
susceptible.
Sleep expert Professor Jim
Horne from Loughborough
University , says there
has been “robust” research highlighting the effect the moon can have on sleep
patterns. “This may simply be due to exposure to light, or it could be that
humans are programmed to respond to tidal changes in much the same way as
marine animals.”
Dr Cosmo Hallstrom, spokesman for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, says that
despite a lack of convincing evidence, ancient
beliefs persist about a connection between lunar cycles and mental health.
“I cannot think of any plausible mechanism that would explain how it would
happen,” he says. “There may be lots of statistics showing that admissions
increase on nights when there is a full moon. However, that doesn’t mean it
causes them.”
According to one British investigation, the number of patients visiting GPs
soars in the days following a full moon. Researchers at Leeds University
found many had complaints of anxiety and depression. In the early Eighties,
researchers discovered more crimes are committed when there is a full moon than
at any other time.
So how is the moon most likely to affect your health?
“FAKE” STROKES
In 2008 British researchers found a link between the lunar cycle and what
doctors call “medically unexplained stroke symptoms”. This is where patients
develop complaints such as headaches, numbness and co-ordination problems but
turn out to have nothing physically wrong.
The mystery condition is thought to account for nearly two per cent of hospital
admissions for stroke. A team at the University of Glasgow Medical School
analysed admissions to the city’s Western Infirmary Stroke Unit between January
1993 and September 2006.
Of more than 7,200 patients, 129 were found to have fake symptoms. When they
checked the calendar, they found they peaked on the nights when there was a
full moon. The findings support the idea that mystery stroke cases may be due
to psychiatric rather than medical problems.
CHILDBIRTH
Experts at Urbino University in Italy examined more than 1,200
births over three years and found a higher number of babies born in the two
days after a full moon, especially with women who already had two or more
children. Indian scientists have claimed babies conceived when a woman is
ovulating during a full moon are more likely to be boys.
SEIZURES
A recent study published in the journal Epilepsy and Behaviour highlighted a
disturbing link between sudden deaths in epilepsy patients and the full moon.
Scientists at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analysed the incidence of
sudden unexpected death in epilepsy over an eight year period. They found 70
per cent occurred when there was a full moon.
The findings, however, are contradicted by other studies which show no link
with the lunar cycle.
ANIMAL BITES
Animals are thought to be affected by lunar changes, often showing more
aggression. Doctors at Bradford Royal Infirmary studied 1,600 victims of animal
bites over a two-year period and found a significant increase on days when
there was a full moon.
A separate US
study also found admissions to emergency veterinary centres peaked on nights
when there was a full moon. Researchers studied nearly 12,000 dogs and cats
treated over an 11-year period and found there was a “significant increase” in
emergencies when there was a full moon.
CARDIAC ARREST
Lunar cycles can be good for your health, too. A major US study in 2003 showed
a drop of 6.5 per cent in cardiac arrests during the new moon. This is the
period when the moon is in the same direction as the sun and so cannot be seen
at night from Earth.
The reason may be that fewer people go out when there is no moonlight, reducing
the risk from life threatening activities.
STRESS
UK
research suggests women may be more prone to daily stress linked with lunar
patterns than men. A team at University College London looked at calls to a
stress helpline over a four-year period and matched them up with phases of the
moon.
The results showed a steep rise in calls from women when there was a new moon
but little change in those from men.
BLADDER PROBLEMS
In 2005, doctors at the Royal
Liverpool Hospital
found the number of people admitted to hospital with bladder problems peaked
after a full moon.
Most had urinary retention, meaning they couldn’t urinate properly. Researchers
confessed they had no idea why the lunar cycle might have this powerful effect.
EATING HABITS
Psychologists at Georgia State University
in Atlanta , USA , monitored dietary intake among
700 adults in a study carried out in the mid-Nineties.
They found meal sizes increased by eight per cent when there was a full moon.
However, our thirst for alcohol is more likely to drop, as volunteers in the
study drank 26 per cent less during the lunar phase.
THYROID PROBLEMS
The thyroid gland, just under the Adam’s apple, produces hormones to regulate
the speed the body’s cells work.
University of Vienna researchers found requests for
appointments at thyroid clinics surge after a full moon. They analysed more
than 11,000 requests for appointments in 2003 and found the number of patients
wanting to see a doctor for a check-up peaked three days after the lunar phase.
GOUT
The condition is normally blamed on rich food and too much alcohol, causing a
build up of uric acid in the blood and tissues.
However, a team of researchers from Slovakia ’s
Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine
analysed 126 gout attacks and found more episodes during a new moon and a full
moon than the rest of the month.
STOMACH BLEEDS
There seems no logical reason why a full moon should have any effect on
gastrointestinal bleeding, a problem usually caused by peptic ulcers.
Yet when Spanish researchers examined treatment data they found a steep rise in
the number of men needing medical help on days when the moon was in full view.
FULL MOON DATES FOR 2009:
November 2
December 2
December 31
NEW MOON DATES:
November 16
December 16
A LUNAR LESSON:
● Full moon – when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun.
This makes it fully visible to the naked eye.
● New moon – when the moon is in the same direction as the sun and so cannot be
seen at night from Earth.
● It takes 27 days, seven hours, 43 minutes and 11.6 seconds for the moon to go
all the way round the Earth.
● The moon is roughly 4.5 billion years old.
● It would take 130 days by car to get to the moon – or 1.5 seconds at the
speed of light.
● The moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles.
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