Serenity Quest

Ladies and Gentlemen, you will now find me at http://tishabest.blogspot.com

Thanks

Magnificent writer!

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth."


“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”


“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”


“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”


- George Eliot English Victorian Novelist (Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880

Published in LifeScript HEALTH NEWS BYTE
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

While smoking is never a healthy habit, a new study finds that women may be more sensitive to the effects of nicotine than men. Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco report that female patients in a recent study showed a faster rate of nicotine absorption than men. Perhaps most intriguingly, nicotine absorption rates were fastest among women who were taking oral contraceptives. Researchers called for further study, but hypothesized that hormones such as estrogen may play a role in the body's metabolism of nicotine. The study also suggested that nicotine remains in the body longer in men than women.


Interesting study. Nasty habit anyway and I will stop smoking tomorrow!

You've probably heard about this by now but since it seems to be a nasty trend I think we all should do something about it, don't you think?! First, what am I going on about:

Bloggers' fury as India blocks sites
Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi
Wednesday July 19, 2006
The Guardian

Indian censors have blocked access to a number of popular blogging sites on grounds of national security, causing outrage to thousands of bloggers.

The directive from the department of telecommunications (DoT) came days after the Mumbai blasts, and was aimed at shutting 17 blogs which carried material from religious and political extremists. But service providers were forced to cut all major sites, including the popular Geocities, Typepad and Google's Blogspot. Since then cyberspace has been filled with angry emails from bloggers in India who have attacked the government's "ham-handed, delinquent" move.