The game of life

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them -- work, family, health, friends, and spirit -- and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls -- family, health, friends, and spirit -- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life."
- Attributed to Brian Dyson, former CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, in a commencement speech delivered at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 6, 1996.
(Photo: Mr. Hayata)

RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time

Professor Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

The Colonoscopy Song - Peter Yarrow

Peter Yarrow, of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, is most famous for co-writing "Puff, the Magic Dragon."

But Yarrow sang quite a different tune on "The Early Show" Tuesday: the world premiere of his "Colonoscopy Song."

“People are uncomfortable talking about colonoscopies,” said Yarrow, 71, who wrote and recorded the song for CBS Cares after doctors discovered a potentially cancerous polyp during his own procedure.

Lyrics of "The Colonoscopy Song":

When I had my colonoscopy, I had a question on my mind
Do we all look the same when the doctor sees us from behind?
Then I had the answer, I felt like such a fool
Cause the doctor smiled and said to me, "Your colon's really cool."

 My colon's really cool, what a nice surprise
 He sees a lot of colons, but my colon took the prize.

 Then he added something that was even more divine
 "We found a polyp hiding, Peter, but we caught it just in time
 We found a polyp hiding, don't mean to sound so crass
 But the polyp was discovered by a camera up ..."

 My mother and my father spoke to me that very day
 They said, "My son, it seems you've won the polyp prize, hooray, hooray, hooray!"

            Now the camera that they used is not like the ones on movie lots
            It's a camera that is tiny and it takes into your shots
            It's a camera that is groovy; It can twist and turn and bend
            To film your colon story and ensure a happy end.
            
            So listen to me closely for this not a lie
            Colon cancer can be beaten, if you are not camera shy
            Call you doctor swiftly, no ifs or other buts
            Schedule your colonoscopy, I know you've got the guts.

            My colon's really cool, what a nice surprise
            My doctor sees a lot of colons but mine took the prize
            Mine took the prize, my friends, mine took the prize
            My colon's really groovy, so my colon took first prize.

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Flowers for Mothers

Beautiful, inspiring, funny quotes about mothers and motherhood. Share your favorite quotes here.

* Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. 

- Meryl Streep

* When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. 

- Sophia Loren

* Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. 

- T. DeWitt Talmage 

* If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  

- Milton Berle

* There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr.

* A sweater is a garment worn by a child when the mother feels chilly.  

- Barbara Johnson 

* If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. 

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

* A mother forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. 

- Robert Brault

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5 ways to avoid road accidents

Road mishaps are the no. 1 cause of injuries in the Philippines, according to health statistics from August to December 2009. It's not hard to believe, considering how chaotic and clogged our thoroughfares are.

The Department of Health urged motorists and pedestrians to be more careful on the road as it presented injury-related statistics in the last quarter of 2009. The records showed that road accidents (27.7 percent or 1,802 cases) were the leading cause behind 6,503 reported injuries in 65 hospitals across the country from August to December last year.

Here’s where most of the accidents occurred:
o Road – 41.1%
o Home – 16.7%
o Unspecified places – 33.8%

Other notable DoH facts on accidents from August to December 2009:
• Main cause: Road collisions involving motorcycle, tricycle and bicycle riders, and pedestrians. (Other leading non-road causes of injuries: mauling incidents, injuries from sharp objects, bites, burns, chemical substances, hanging and strangulation, and drowning.)

• Months of highest occurrence: December because the holiday season where travels and parties were common, and October, when the entire Luzon was hit by a series of calamities.

• Time of occurrence: Most of these incidents happened in December 2009, from 8 a.m. to 7:59 p.m.

• Gender injuries: 71.3% males, the rest females

• Nationalities of victims: 99.5 percent Filipinos, 0.5 percent, foreigners.

• Age group of victims: 60% in the 15-44 year-old bracket; 7.3% children below 5; and 2.8% elderly.

5 road safety reminders from Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral:

1. Drive within speed limits.
2. Avoid driving under the influence of alcohol or while using a cell phone.
3. Use seat belts and child restraints inside vehicles.
4. Wear helmets for motorcycle riders.
5. Obey traffic rules at all times.

(Photo: FreePhotosBank.com)

Putting orgasm to the test

How do you study female orgasm? Well, you put the subject inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and track the brain changes that take place as she reaches climax. This is just what scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey are doing. In "Rutgers Lab Studies Female Orgasm Through Brain Imaging," a reporter who decided to "donate an orgasm to science" recounts her experience and relates her interview with Barry Komisaruk, the Rutgers neuroscientist who leads the study on "which areas of the brain — the body’s sexiest organ — are activated by arousal." Click on the title above to read the article. (Photo: Photobucket.com)

Who's got the craziest celebrity diet?

What's the secret to celebs' killer bodies? Find out what kinds of diets and detoxes celebrities from Beyonce to Simon Cowell to Kathy Griffin swear by and rate how healthy--or dangerous--they are. (Photo: FreePhotosBank.com)