KILLER HOUSE PLANT!

received this email from a friend...





Dear all,

Please read below. The message is true. I almost lost my daughter who put a piece of the leaf of this plant in her mouth and her tongue swelled to the point of suffocation. This is one plant but there are others with the same characteristics of coloring. Those are also poisonous and we should get rid of them. Please watch out for our children. As we all leave our children home in the hands of the helpers, we should give them a safe environment where they can play.

"This plant that we have in our homes and offices is extremely dangerous!

This plant is common in Kenya , Rwanda, Uganda in plant nurseries, many offices and homes. It is a deadly poison, mainly for the children. It can kill a kid in less than a minute and an adult in 15 minutes. It should be uprooted from gardens and taken out of offices. If touched, one should never touch ones eyes; it can cause partial or permanent blindness. Please alert your buddies.

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Get public transport information on the go!

http://lifestyle.www.ns.sg/content/ns/mailer/E100507_mytransport/mailer.html

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Predict and win an attractive Ettusais gift bag of goodies

Predict and win an attractive Ettusais gift bag of goodies!

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What kind of sleeper are you?

Ever wondered what your sleeping position says about the kind of person you are? A survey of 1,000 British reveals that the six most common sleeping patterns are indicative of personality types.






Foetus position - A whopping 41% of participants sleep in this curled-up manner. Women are twice as likely to rest like this and it is listed as the most common position. These sleepers are said to have a tough exterior but are still sensitive and may appear to be shy but warm up quickly.

Log position – If you sleep on your side with both arms down, you are a social, easy-going person who is trusting, sometimes to the point of being gullible. The study showed 15% of people sleep like a log.

Yearner position - A close third is the side-lying position with both arms out in front of the body, with 13% of partipants sleeping like this. Yearners are noted to be open-minded and still cynical, suspicious, and stubborn about sticking to decisions once they are made.

Soldier position - These sleepers lie on their backs with arms down and kept close to the body. This 8% study is said to be reserved, quiet, without fuss, and hold themselves and others to a high standard. Soldier sleepers have a higher likelihood for snoring due to the flat-back position, which may not cause them to wake up often but may result in a less restful night’s sleep.

Freefall position - Those people who lie on their bellies with arms under or wrapped around a pillow with head turned to the side, make up 7% of the population studied. Freefallers are brash, outgoing, and are very uncomfortable with criticism.

Starfish position - Sleepers who lie on their backs with arms up near their head or the pillow account for 5% of participants. These people are good listeners, helpful, and are uncomfortable being the center of attention. People who sleep in starfish position are more likely to snore and to suffer from a poor night’s sleep more often.

Original article here: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/what-does-your-sleep-position-reveal-about-your-personality-1338293/

Reading through the list created a lively debate between me and my loved ones. And I must add, the personality descriptions are also pretty spot-on!

So, what kind of sleeper are you?


source: http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/05/03/what-kind-of-sleeper-are-you/

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11-hour days are bad for the heart

People working 10 or 11 hours a day are more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks, than those clocking off after seven hours, researchers said on Tuesday.

The finding, from an 11-year study of 6,000 British civil servants, does not provide definitive proof that long hours cause coronary heart disease but it does show a clear link, which experts said may be due to stress.

In all, there were 369 cases of death due to heart disease, non-fatal heart attacks and angina among the London-based study group -- and the risk of having an adverse event was 60 percent higher for those who worked three to four hours overtime.

Working an extra one to two hours beyond a normal seven-hour day was not associated with increased risk.

"It seems there might a threshold, so it is not so bad if you work another hour or so more than usual," said Dr Marianna Virtanen, an epidemiologist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University College London.

The higher incidence of heart problems among those working overtime was independent of a range of other risk factors including smoking, being overweight or having high cholesterol.

But Virtanen said it was possible the lifestyle of people working long hours deteriorated over time, for example as a result of poor diet or increased alcohol consumption.

More fundamentally, long hours may be associated with work-related stress, which interferes with metabolic processes, as well as "sickness presenteeism," whereby employees continue working when they are ill.

Virtanen and colleagues published their findings in the European Heart Journal.

Commenting on the study, Gordon McInnes, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Glasgow's Western Infirmary, said the findings could have widespread implications for doctors assessing patients' heart risks.

"If the effect is truly causal, the importance is much greater than commonly recognized. Overtime-induced work stress might contribute to a substantial proportion of cardiovascular disease," he said.


source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20100511/tbs-business-us-heart-overtime-7318940.html

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Future MRT/LRT Tracks

not sure if it's true...


Attached is the map for our future MRT/LRT tracks which may be of interest to you. There are new lines, such as Thomson Line, Eastern Region Line, Holland Line, CCK Line, Tampines Line, Johore Line, North Shore Line, Seletar Line etc etc ........

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Black in the White House - virus

received this from my web hosting vendor... do read and be careful...





URGENT!!! PLEASE CIRCULATE to your friends, family and contacts.
>
> In the coming days, DO NOT open any message with an attachment called:
> Black in the White House, regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus
> that opens an Olympics torch that burns the whole hard disk C of your
> computer. This virus comes from a known person who you have in your list.
>
> Directions: You should send this message to all of your contacts. It is
> better to receive this e-mail 25 times than to receive the virus and open
> it. If you receive a message called Black in the White House even if sent
> by a friend, do not open, and shut down your machine immediately. It is
> the worst virus announced by CNN. This new virus has been discovered
> recently it has been classified by Microsoft as the virus most destructive
> ever.
>
>
> This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee. There is no
> repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero
> Sector of the hard disk, where vital information function is stored.

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