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Forum Games / Re: Random Facts About Yourself: by Attention(f): 4:25pm On Oct 18, 2007
My smile is wonderful
Forum Games / Re: Ask A Question, Get A Wrong Answer! by Attention(f): 9:33am On Oct 18, 2007
Sleep is only for children, adults go to club.

What can i do to make you happy?
Forum Games / Re: Can You Answer A Question With A Question? by Attention(f): 9:22am On Oct 18, 2007
How dare you talk to me like that, are my your mate?
Forum Games / Re: When I Meet A Nairalander by Attention(f): 9:16am On Oct 18, 2007
I will exchange phone numbers with her.
Forum Games / Re: Let's Use Smileys Only! by Attention(f): 3:32pm On Oct 17, 2007
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Forum Games / Re: Words Of Advise by Attention(f): 3:18pm On Oct 17, 2007
Let contentment be your watchword in life's issues.
Forum Games / Re: Storyline: Add A Paragraph To Tell A Story by Attention(f): 3:14pm On Oct 17, 2007
The giant had long hairy face with whiskers like that of a cat and eyes shining as bright as ever. The giant moved closed to him, Oh he wished it was all a dream but suddenly a thought came accross his mind to enchant brave songs his father had thought him to sing when facing difficult situations like the one he had at the moment.
Forum Games / Re: Form Words: By Adding An Alphabet Only by Attention(f): 2:55pm On Oct 17, 2007
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Forum Games / Re: The Game Starts With The Last Word by Attention(f): 2:51pm On Oct 17, 2007
Machines make work easier.
Family / Re: The True Qualities For Which To Chose A Spouse. by Attention(f): 12:18pm On Oct 16, 2007
God fearing, Hardworking, Intelligent, Compatibility and Love.

Outside these ones i mentioned, also please be sure you are contented with him/her as your best choice if placed side by side with anyother man or lady as the case maybe else you would be regretting your choice and wishing you'd have an opportunity to make a change.

Best of luck!
Family / Re: I Caught My Wife Cheating: What Do I Do? by Attention(f): 11:00am On Oct 16, 2007
When the offence is on the woman's side, it seems heavy. How about women that catch their husbands cheating, what should they do?

@ Poster.
Find out why she's cheating on you and fill the vacuum, its either money, love or your not being able to satisfy her in your role as a man.
Family / Re: How Did U Tell Ur Parents You Were Getting Married? by Attention(f): 10:42am On Oct 16, 2007
I told them:

Somebody would be coming to our house this evening, please look at him very well and access him if you want, when he leaves, i would tell you the purpose of his visit.

He came and left, I told them: He wants to marry me and I love him.
Jokes Etc / Re: A Letter To Make A Sentence. by Attention(f): 5:05pm On Oct 15, 2007
papa peter patara pawpaw panye papa paul
Career / Duties Of A Business Development Executive by Attention(f): 12:37pm On Oct 15, 2007
Please what are the duties of a business development executive in a construction company and how to go about it?
Fashion / Re: Your Best Physical Or Body Feature... by Attention(f): 3:36pm On Oct 10, 2007
I've got good height, shape and firm bust
Food / Re: What's Your Favorite Breakfast? by Attention(f): 1:13pm On Oct 08, 2007
Ripe fried plantain, custard and milk is just ok for me.
Family / How To Say No by Attention(f): 11:47am On Oct 08, 2007
READ THIS ON THE NET - MAYBE YOU'D LEARN FROM IT TOO.

One of the biggest tests of confidence there is in life is to learn to say 'no' over non-trivial matters.

It is easy to be popular and answer 'yes' in the relevant situation but being able to say no is a true test of individual confidence. Is it one that you would pass?

Well, the best way to say no is with a smile. Why? Because that can take a lot of heat out and defuse a potentially tricky situation.

It is hard to get annoyed or hate someone who is smiling at us, if it is an issue of that level of contention.

So, always smile pleasantly when delivering that word.
Family / Re: Managing Your In-laws by Attention(f): 11:34am On Oct 08, 2007
Managing in-laws start from the first day. Be freindly but firm. So that they know you cannot be tossed about anyhow and before they approach you on an issue, they can be sure that you would only accept your best options.

It also has to do with the two people involved. They must know that their families are secondary to them and should show mutual respect to each other.
The value you have for yourselves would determine how your in-laws take you.

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Fashion / Re: Best Way To Achieve The Beyoncé Style Eyebrow Shape by Attention(f): 10:47am On Oct 08, 2007
This tread is quite interesting as i read through Desiree's lashes to Skidoc. I also noticed that everyone then became careful and very polite with their responses to Desiree. Really a nice one!

On the eyebrow, you deserve the best!
Fashion / Re: Remedy For Itchy Scalp by Attention(f): 11:38am On Oct 05, 2007
Wash hair with your urine, it works.
Nairaland / General / What Makes One A Big Girl by Attention(f): 11:26am On Oct 05, 2007
Please i need to know what makes one a big girl. Money, age, maturity, carriage or what?
Food / Shredded Beef Sauce Preparation by Attention(f): 11:32am On Oct 04, 2007
A friend taught me this, maybe you'd love it too

shredded beef sauce
ingredients

beef - to be shredded
dark soy sauce
curry
thyme
knorr cubes
salt
poppter
onions - blended
green pepper - sliced into cubes
groundnut oil

Recipe
season and boil meat
fry onion with little oil
add blended pepper
add dark soy sauce, allow to boil together
add beef ( shredded
taste for sweetness
add maggi (knorr)
add salt
then add green pepper
turn off the fire

serve with white rice
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Females Still Looking For A Job Or Need Additional Income? Check This Out! by Attention(f): 1:54pm On Sep 19, 2007
Everything said in seminars are downloaded from the internet. So all i need do is just type the question anyhow, it takes me to the site where I get further details.
Health / Re: Can U Drink Ur Urine? by Attention(f): 2:53pm On Sep 18, 2007
Veracious,

I came across this article and i think it would summarise the urine stuff, though lenghty, but it would help you understand the importance of the urine therapy.


As medical researchers have discovered:
"Urine is the main component of the amniotic fluid that bathes the human fetus.
"Normally the baby 'breathes' this urine-filled amniotic fluid into its lungs. If the urinary tract is blocked, the fetus does not produce the fluid, and, without it, the lungs do not develop."
(G. Kolata, "Surgery on Fetuses Reveals They Heal Without Scars", The New York Times, Medical Section, 16 August 1988)

This is a fact that probably none of you without a medical background know, but the reality is that urine is absolutely vital to your body's functioning, and the internal and external applications of urine have proven medical ramifications far beyond anything that we, the general public, can imagine.
What amazes people most when they first hear about the medical use of urine is that they've never heard of it before. To the vast majority of mankind, urine is nothing more than a somewhat repugnant 'waste' that the body has to excrete in order to function.
But as you'll discover, urine is not a waste product of the body but, rather, an extraordinarily valuable physiological substance that has been shown throughout the history of medical science right up until today to have profound medical uses that most of us know absolutely nothing about.

One of the first things we need to clear up is the common perception of urine. Urine is not what you think it is. As a matter of fact, you probably have no idea what urine is or how your body makes it.
In reality, urine is not, as most of us believe, the excess water from food and liquids that goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body. I know that we generally think of urine in just this way: you eat and drink, the intestines 'wring' out the good stuff in the food, and the urine is the leftover, dirty, waste water that your body doesn't want, so it should never, ever be reintroduced into the body in any form-right? Wrong.

No matter how popular a conception, this commonly shared scenario may be, it just isn't true. Urine is not made in your intestines. Urine is made in and by your kidneys. So what does this mean, and why should it change the way you feel about urine?
In layman's language, this is how and why urine is made in the body. When you eat, the food you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines into extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into the bloodstream.
The blood circulates throughout your body, carrying these food molecules and other nutrients along with critical immune-defence and regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all manufactured at different locations in the body. The blood continually distributes its load of life-sustaining elements throughout the body, nourishing every cell and protecting the body from disease.
As it flows through the body, this nutrient-filled blood passes through the liver where toxins are removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid waste. Eventually, this purified, 'cleaned' blood makes its way to the kidneys.
When the blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules, called nephron, through which the blood is literally 'squeezed' at high pressure. This filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.
These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then re-absorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and is then excreted from the body.
So, you say, the body's gotten rid of this stuff for a reason-so why would we want to use it again? And here's the catch. The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced. The kidneys do not filter out important elements in the blood because those elements in themselves are toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply because the body did not need that particular concentration of that element at the time it was excreted.

And medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when they are reintroduced into the body they boost the body's immune defences and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does.
As medical research has revealed:
"One of the most important functions of the kidney is to excrete material and substances for which the body has no immediate need, "
(A. H. Free, and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

For instance, the kidneys filter out water and sodium from the blood into the urine. These are both vital life-sustaining elements without which your body cannot function. But both elements could be lethal if there were too much water or sodium in your blood.
Now what about potassium, calcium and magnesium? These are familiar nutrients that we ingest in our food and vitamin pills every day, but they're also in your urine. These nutritional elements are extremely valuable substances to the body, certainly not toxic, and yet the kidney excretes these elements into the urine. Why? Because it's taking out the excess amounts of potassium, calcium, etc. that are not needed by your body at the time they are filtered out. Actually, it is this regulating process of the kidneys and the excretion of urine that allows us to eat and drink more than our bodies need at any one time.
"The principal function of the kidney is not excretion, but regulation, The kidney obviously conserves what we need, but, even more, permits us the freedom of excess. That is, it allows us to take in more than we need of many necessities-water and salt, for example-and excrete exactly what is not required."
(Dr Stewart Cameron [Professor of Renal Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London], Kidney Disease: The Facts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1986)

But this isn't the end of the story. Scientists have discovered that urine, because it is actually extracted from our blood, contains small amounts of almost all of the life-sustaining nutrients, proteins, hormones, antibodies and immunising agents that our blood contains.
"Urine can be regarded as one of the most complex of all body fluids. It contains practically all of the constituents found in the blood."
(A. H. Free and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

Many medical researchers, unlike most of us, know that far from being a dirty body-waste, fresh, normal urine is actually sterile and is an extraordinary combination of some of the most vital and medically important substances known to man. Now this fact may be unknown to the vast majority of the public today, it is nothing new to modern medicine.

To us, the public, urine seems like an undesirable waste product of the body, but to the medical research community and the drug industry it's been considered to be liquid gold. Don't believe it? Read this:
"Utica, Michigan - Realising it is flushing potential profits down the drain, an enterprising young company has come up with a way to trap medically powerful proteins from urine. Enzymes of America has designed a special filter that collects important urine proteins, and these filters have been installed in all of the men's urinals in the 10,000 portable outhouses owned by the Porta-John company, a subsidiary of Enzymes of America.
"Urine is known to contain minute amounts of proteins made by the body, including medically important ones such as growth hormone and insulin. There is a $500-million-a-year market for these kinds of urine ingredients.
"This summer, Enzymes of America plans to market its first major urine product called urokinase, an enzyme that dissolves blood clots and is used to treat victims of heart attacks. The company has contracts to supply the urine enzyme to Sandoz, Merrell Dow and other major pharmaceutical companies. Ironically, this enterprise evolved from Porta-John's attempt to get rid of urine proteins-a major source of odour in portable toilets.
"When the president of Porta-John began consulting with scientists about a urine filtration system, one told him he was sitting on a gold mine.
"The idea of recycling urine is not new, however. 'We thought about this,' says 26 Whitcome of Amgen, a Los Angeles biotechnology firm, 'but realised we'd need thousands and thousands of litres of urine.'
"Porta-John and Enzymes of America solved that problem. The 14 million gallons flowing annually into Porta-John's privies contain about four-and-a-half pounds of urokinase alone. That's enough to unclog 260,000 coronary arteries."
("Now Urine Business", Hippocrates magazine, May/June 1988)

But urokinase isn't the only drug derived from urine that, unknown to us, has been a financial boon to the pharmaceutical industry.
In August of 1993, Forbes magazine printed an article about Fabio Bertarelli who owns the world's largest fertility drug-producing company, the Ares-Serono Group, based in Geneva, whose most important product is the drug Pergonal which increases the chances of conception. Guess what Pergonal is made from?
"To make Pergonal, Ares-Serono collects urine samples from 110,000 postmenopausal women volunteers in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina. From 26 collection centres, the urine is sent to Rome where Ares-Serono technicians then isolate the ovulation-enhancing hormone."
(N. Munk, "The Child is the Father of the Man", Forbes Magazine, 16 August 1993)

Ares-Serono earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and people pay up to $1,400 per month for this urine extract.

Obviously, most of us are operating under a gross misconception when we wrinkle our nose at the thought of using urine in medicine.
Urea, the principal organic solid in urine, has long been considered to be a 'waste product' of the body. It's even been considered to be dangerous or poisonous, but this, too, is completely untrue.
Like any other substance in the body, too much urea can be harmful, but urea in and of itself is enormously valuable and indispensable to body functioning. Not only does urea provide invaluable nitrogen to the body, but research has shown that urea actually aids in the synthesis of protein, or, in other words, it helps our bodies use protein more efficiently. Urea has also been proven to be an extraordinary antibacterial and antiviral agent and is one of the best natural diuretics ever discovered.
Urea was discovered and isolated as long ago as 1773 and is currently marketed in a variety of different drug forms.
These are a few more examples of commercial medical applications of urine and urea in use today:


Ureaphil: diuretic made from urea
Urofollitropin: urine-extract fertility drug
Ureacin: urea cream for skin problems
Amino-Cerv: urea cream used for cervical treatments
Premarin: urine-extract oestrogen supplement
Panafil: urea/papain ointment for skin ulcers, burns and infected wounds
Another urine-related product ingredient is carbamide. Carbamide is the chemical name for synthesised urea. Where do you find carbamide? In places you'd never thought of, such as in products like Murine Ear Drops and Murine Ear Wax Removal System which contain carbamide peroxide, a combination of synthetic urea and hydrogen peroxide.

Medical researchers have also proven that urea is one of the best and only medically proven, effective skin moisturisers in the world. In many years of laboratory studies, researchers discovered that, unlike just about all other types of oil-based moisturisers that simply sit on the top layers of the skin and do nothing to improve water retention within skin cells (which gives skin its elasticity and wrinkle-free appearance), urea actually increases the water-binding capacity of the skin by opening skin layers for hydrogen bonding, which then attracts moisture to dry skin cells.
This is a remarkable fact considering that women spend billions of dollars a year on outrageously expensive skin moisturisers whose ingredients, even in tightly controlled double-blind comparison tests, don't even come close to hydrating dry skin as well as simple, inexpensive urea.
So, as surprising as it seems, urine and urea do have an amazing, voluminous history in both traditional and modern medicine.

An article, titled "Autouro- therapy", published in the New York State Journal of Medicine (vol. 80, no. 7, June 1980), written by Dr John R. Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, points out the general misconceptions regarding urine and its medical use:
"Autouropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the world and it continues to flourish today, There is, unknown to most of us, a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous advantages of this modality,
"Urine is only a derivative of the blood, If the blood should not be considered 'unclean', then the urine also should not be so considered. Normally excreted, urine is a fluid of tremendous variations of composition,
", Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, of course, but urinary constituents are valuable to human metabolism, "
Look up urea in a medical dictionary. In Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary, urea is defined not as a useless body waste but as a systemic diuretic and topical skin treatment. It's also prescribed to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and eyes.

Uric acid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an undesirable waste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric acid has recently been found to have tremendous health-promotion and medical implications.
Medical researchers at the University of California at Berkeley reported in 1982 that they have discovered that:
"Uric acid could be a defence against cancer and ageing.
"It also destroys body-damaging chemicals, called free radicals, that are present in food, water and air and are considered to be a cause of cancer and breakdowns in immune function.
"Uric acid could be one of the things that enables human beings to live so much longer than other mammals."
(O. Davies, "Youthful Uric Acid", Omni magazine, October 1982)

Urine is a critically important body fluid that has fascinated medical science throughout the centuries. Medical scientists study urine with tremendous intent because, unlike the public, they know that it contains innumerable vital body nutrients and thousands of natural elements that control and regulate every function of the body.
So, whether we know it or not, urine does have an extremely important and undisputed place in medicine-and not just as a diagnostic tool or as an ingredient of various synthetic drugs.

Your first reaction once you've read the convincing research demonstrating urine's often startling medical uses may be a willingness to use it as long as it's altered enough to make it unrecognisable. Many people might consider a synthetic or chemically altered form of urine-such as urokinase, the blood clot dissolver-as preferable to using it as a natural medicine.
But, there are many reasons for using urine in its natural form rather than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is the fact that there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine, and never will be, owing to the tremendous complexity and uniqueness of each person's urine constituents.

Just as nature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there are also no two urine samples in the world that contain exactly the same components. Your own urine contains elements that are specific to your body alone and are medicinally valuable ingredients tailor-made to your own health disorders.
How can that be? It is because your urine contains hundreds of elements that are manufactured by your body to deal with your personal, specific health conditions. Your body is constantly producing a huge variety of antibodies, hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control your body's functions and combat diseases that you may or may not know you have.
Modern research and clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in your individual urine reflect your individual body functions, and, when re-utilised, act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer agents, hormone balancers, allergy relievers, etc. (Talk about the perfect preventive care treatment!)

Many doctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important to use our own natural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic drug forms of urine don't contain all of these individualised elements that address our personal, individual health needs.
Another reason that many doctors have emphasised the use of the natural form of urine is that it does not produce side-effects whereas synthetic drugs and therapies all produce side-effects, many of which are extremely dangerous.
As an example, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used to dissolve dangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal bleeding as a side-effect; but natural urine itself, which contains measurable amounts of urokinase, has been used medicinally even in extremely large quantities without causing side-effects.

If you're not familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk of chemical drug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of The Physician's Desk Reference for Non-prescription Drugs (Medical Economics Data Productions Co., Inc., 1993, 14th ed.). This is the doctor's guide to every prescription and over-the-counter drug on the market, and every one of them is accompanied by a long list of ominous and frightening potential side-effects.

On the other hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical studies on the use of natural urine and simple urea in medicine, extraordinary results have been obtained, but no toxic or dangerous side-effects to the user have ever been observed or reported by either researchers or patients using the therapy.
As we've learned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of urine, has been synthesised and medically used with excellent results and with no side-effects. But again, research has shown that whole urine can cure many disorders that urea cannot, because urine contains thousands of therapeutic agents such as important natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones that urea alone does not contain.

Urine therapy not only has dozens of successful research trials supporting it, but also thousands of success stories from people all over the world. As many people today have discovered, conventional medicine held no answers for either their chronic or acute illnesses and health disorders-but urine therapy did.
Health / Re: Pain During Menstrual Period by Attention(f): 2:39pm On Sep 18, 2007
Funyin,

Always be personal about your questions, it attracts faster responses!
As regards the MP, please take less of sugary food at close dates and maybe try pain relieves like feldene. If so severe, see a doctor as it may be due to a medical condition.
Jokes Etc / Re: Four-letter Words. by Attention(f): 10:31am On Sep 15, 2007
Maybe the girl na ajebutter, i know she would prefer 5 letter words like:
Biggs, money, sleep, relax, maids, video, films,
Jokes Etc / Re: What Is Your Best Commercial Advert ? by Attention(f): 10:21am On Sep 15, 2007
The Bank PHB Waka Pass advert
Jokes Etc / Re: Wrong Address by Attention(f): 10:10am On Sep 15, 2007
Funny one!

But anything death scares me.
Jokes Etc / Re: No Be Her Fault by Attention(f): 10:06am On Sep 15, 2007
Funny one!

Kaykerry, your own na to read and make odd comments. I never read joke wey you post before.
Health / Re: What causes delay in conception? by Attention(f): 3:45pm On Sep 05, 2007
Hi Brown eyes,

Whats your address, i'd love to write you more personal mails as it regards the suggestions you raised.
Family / Re: How To Make A Marriage Spicy? by Attention(f): 2:10pm On Sep 05, 2007
it would be nice to say things that make marriages spicey in response to the question and not make a fun of the whole thing.

I think its all about thinking of how you can make the other person happier each day, rendering a little more help and changing certain responses for the better examples, appreciating the other person, better sexual response, trying a different kind of meal, do some things you never did before, make memorable impact on your love, give surprises like sending a love pack to him using a postmaster, just think of them.
Family / Re: Couples Competition by Attention(f): 1:58pm On Sep 05, 2007
Well, expect questions like

best food,
size of shoes, - here they asked my husband what kind of shoes i love, he said hilly shoes and he was very correct
best colour,
what your or your husband does first when they return from work
who is you or your wives closest friend,
they may also ask what you or your wives response would be given a certain situation - e.g in my own case for example they asked if my husband did not return from work till about a certain time and his phone was not available, what would be my next option
also the date you first met

let me know more about the competition as in if its social or religious, then we can fine tune more questions, mine was religious, so other questions may not suite

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