Friday 3 June 2011

Death is one luxury u can't escape from. It will eventually come some day. So my question is Why are people afraid to die? u can't stay in this world forever. This life is a journey, it's only a matter of time "little time" it will all be over. All the stress, all the riches, everything will end. When a man dies his world has ended believe that because it is the Truth... So be prepared. 

Monday 30 May 2011

Life's journey..difficult.Every day is a struggle trying to stay on course.trying to do whatz right....
locked up in your own imagination, wishing for what to come..at which most takes..try to keep faith.
God give us the strength to carry on.. be with us in all we do, not to loose track of what we do..   

Monday 23 May 2011

The Revelation

The war on Earth. The horror. The book of Revelation explains very well how the world will END. look at the crisis, the killing, the misunderstanding everywhere, i mean everywhere all over the world
The war in Libya...

The war in Afghanistan


War In Iraq

Egypt

Not to talk of Yeman,Tunisia, others.
Even  Nigeria

Everywhere in the world..
Revelation 6.3
when tha lamb opend the second seal, i heard the second living creature say,"come out" then another horse came out. it was firey red. And the rider was given the power to take away the peace from the earth, so that people would slaugther one another. He was also given a big sword.

Look people it is happening. Many more are still to come.
God's people must learn to endure. they must also obey his commends and have faith in Jesus.
if ur sleeping then u must wake up. Open ur eyes, SEE.
May God Help Us.

Thursday 19 May 2011

Marijuana

Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC for short.

How is Marijuana Abused?

Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (joint) or in a pipe. It is also smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with a mixture of marijuana and tobacco. This mode of delivery combines marijuana's active ingredients with nicotine and other harmful chemicals. Marijuana can also be mixed in food or brewed as a tea. As a more concentrated, resinous form, it is called hashish; and as a sticky black liquid, hash oil.* Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor.

How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?

Scientists have learned a great deal about how THC acts in the brain to produce its many effects. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to the brain and other organs throughout the body.
THC acts upon specific sites in the brain, called cannabinoid receptors, kicking off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the "high" that users experience when they smoke marijuana. Some brain areas have many cannabinoid receptors; others have few or none. The highest density of cannabinoid receptors are found in parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thinking, concentrating, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement.1
Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that, in chronic users, marijuana's adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.2 As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time.
Research into the effects of long-term cannabis use on the structure of the brain has yielded inconsistent results. It may be that the effects are too subtle for reliable detection by current techniques. A similar challenge arises in studies of the effects of chronic marijuana use on brain function. Brain imaging studies in chronic users tend to show some consistent alterations, but their connection to impaired cognitive functioning is far from clear. This uncertainty may stem from confounding factors such as other drug use, residual drug effects, or withdrawal symptoms in long-term chronic users.

Addictive Potential

Long-term marijuana abuse can lead to addiction; that is, compulsive drug seeking and abuse despite the known harmful effects upon functioning in the context of family, school, work, and recreational activities. Estimates from research suggest that about 9 percent of users become addicted to marijuana; this number increases among those who start young (to about 17 percent) and among daily users (25-50 percent).
Long-term marijuana abusers trying to quit report withdrawal symptoms including: irritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety, and drug craving, all of which can make it difficult to remain abstinent. These symptoms begin within about 1 day following abstinence, peak at 2-3 days, and subside within 1 or 2 weeks following drug cessation.3

Marijuana and Mental Health

A number of studies have shown an association between chronic marijuana use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Some of these studies have shown age at first use to be an important risk factor, where early use is a marker of increased vulnerability to later problems. However, at this time, it is not clear whether marijuana use causes mental problems, exacerbates them, or reflects an attempt to self-medicate symptoms already in existence.
Chronic marijuana use, especially in a very young person, may also be a marker of risk for mental illnesses - including addiction - stemming from genetic or environmental vulnerabilities, such as early exposure to stress or violence. Currently, the strongest evidence links marijuana use and schizophrenia and/or related disorders.4 High doses of marijuana can produce an acute psychotic reaction; in addition, use of the drug may trigger the onset or relapse of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals.

What Other Adverse Effect Does Marijuana Have on Health?

Effects on the Heart
Marijuana increases heart rate by 20-100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug.5 This may be due to increased heart rate as well as the effects of marijuana on heart rhythms, causing palpitations and arrhythmias. This risk may be greater in aging populations or in those with cardiac vulnerabilities.
Effects on the Lungs
Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer;6 however, a recent case-controlled study found no positive associations between marijuana use and lung, upper respiratory, or upper digestive tract cancers.7 Thus, the link between marijuana smoking and these cancers remains unsubstantiated at this time.
Nonetheless, marijuana smokers can have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, and a heightened risk of lung infections. A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers.8 Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.
Effects on Daily Life
Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person's existing problems worse. In one study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement, including physical and mental health, cognitive abilities, social life, and career status.9 Several studies associate workers' marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover.

What Treatment Options Exist?

Behavioral interventions, including cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational incentives (i.e., providing vouchers for goods or services to patients who remain abstinent) have shown efficacy in treating marijuana dependence. Although no medications are currently available, recent discoveries about the workings of the cannabinoid system offer promise for the development of medications to ease withdrawal, block the intoxicating effects of marijuana, and prevent relapse.
The latest treatment data indicate that in 2008 marijuana accounted for 17 percent of admissions (322,000) to treatment facilities in the United States, second only to opiates among illicit substances. Marijuana admissions were primarily male (74 percent), White (49 percent), and young (30 percent were in the 12-17 age range). Those in treatment for primary marijuana abuse had begun use at an early age: 56 percent by age 14.**

Is Marijuana Medicine?

The potential medicinal properties of marijuana have been the subject of substantive research and heated debate. Scientists have confirmed that the cannabis plant contains active ingredients with therapeutic potential for relieving pain, controlling nausea, stimulating appetite, and decreasing ocular pressure. Cannabinoid-based medications include synthetic compounds, such as dronabinol (Marinol®) and nabilone (Cesamet®), which are FDA approved, and a new, chemically pure mixture of plant-derived THC and cannabidiol called Sativex®, formulated as a mouth spray and approved in Canada and parts of Europe for the relief of cancer-associated pain and spasticity and neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis.
Scientists continue to investigate the medicinal properties of THC and other cannabinoids to better evaluate and harness their ability to help patients suffering from a broad range of conditions, while avoiding the adverse effects of smoked marijuana.

How Widespread is Marijuana Abuse?

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)***
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2009, 16.7 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, an increase over the rates reported in all years between 2002 and 2008. There was also a significant increase among youth aged 12-17, with current use up from 6.7 percent in 2008 to 7.3 percent in 2009, although this rate is lower than what was reported in 2002 (8.2 percent). Past-month use also increased among those 18-25, from 16.5 percent in 2008 to 18.1 percent in 2009.
Monitoring the Future Survey****
Results from the 2009 Monitoring the Future survey show, as in the past few years, a stall in the decline of marijuana use that began in the late 1990s among our Nation's youth. In 2009, 11.8 percent of 8th-graders, 26.7 percent of 10th-graders, and 32.8 percent of 12th-graders reported past-year use. In addition, perceived risk of marijuana use declined among 8th- and 10th-graders, and disapproval of marijuana use declined among 10th-graders. This is a concern because changes in attitudes and beliefs often drive changes in drug use.


Recent Trends
Marijuana Use by Students - 2009 Monitoring the Future Survey

  8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade
Lifetime 15.7% 32.3% 42.0%
Past Year 11.8 26.7 32.8
Past Month 6.5 15.9 20.6
Daily 1.0 2.8 5.2

Past Trends
Percentage of 8th-Graders Who Have Used Marijuana:

  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Lifetime 19.9% 23.1% 22.6% 22.2% 22.0% 20.3%  20.4%
Past Year 15.8 18.3 17.7 16.9 16.5 15.6 15.4
Past Month 9.1 11.3 10.2 9.7 9.7 9.1 9.2
Daily 0.8 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.4 1.3 1.3

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Lifetime 19.2% 17.5% 16.3% 16.5% 15.7% 14.2% 14.6%
Past Year 14.6 12.8 11.8 12.2 11.7 10.3 10.9
Past Month 8.3 7.5 6.4 6.6 6.5 5.7 5.8
Daily 1.2 1.0 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.8 0.9


Percentage of 10th-Graders Who Have Used Marijuana:

  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Lifetime 34.1% 39.8% 42.3% 39.6%  40.9% 40.3% 40.1%
Past Year 28.7 33.6 34.8 31.1  32.1 32.2 32.7
Past Month 17.2 20.4 20.5 18.7 19.4 19.7 19.8
Daily 2.8 3.5 3.7 3.6  3.8 3.8 4.5

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Lifetime 38.7% 36.4% 35.1% 34.1% 31.8% 31.0% 29.9%
Past Year 30.3 28.2 27.5 26.6 25.2 24.6 23.9
Past Month 17.8 17.0 15.9 15.2 14.2 14.2 13.8
Daily 3.9 3.6 3.2 3.1 2.8 2.8 2.7


Percentage of 12th-Graders Who Have Used Marijuana

  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Lifetime 41.7% 44.9% 49.6% 49.1% 49.7% 48.8% 49.0%
Past Year 34.7 35.8 38.5 37.5 37.8 36.5 37.0
Past Month 21.2 21.9 23.7 22.8 23.1 21.6 22.4
Daily 4.6 4.9 5.8 5.6 6.0 6.0 5.8

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Lifetime 47.8% 46.1% 45.7% 44.8% 42.3% 41.8% 42.6%
Past Year 36.2 34.9 34.3 33.6 31.5 31.7 32.4
Past Month 21.5 21.2 19.9 19.8 18.3 18.8 19.4
Daily 6.0 6.0 5.6 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.4

“Lifetime” refers to use at least once during a respondent’s lifetime. “Past year” refers to use at least once during the year preceding an individual’s response to the survey. “Past month” refers to use at least once during the 30 days preceding an individual’s response to the survey.

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When i watch the news.....i ask myself "whats going on in the world" there is unrest every where. People die every day at a rapid rate, terror has taken over. Is this the world coming to an end?

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Libya

OSAMA:The Real story behind dead of Osama

President of the United States, Barack Obama, finally confessedabout his feelings during naval special team raided a house inAbbottabad to find Osama bin Laden. "That is the (time) 40minutes the longest in my life," Barack Obama said in a television interview.

At the White House Situation Room while play was in progress, the President said that when the attack began, he believes there is a risk the possibility of failure.

"Chances are still 55:45. I mean, we can not say for sure that BinLaden was there," he said.

In the hours before the surgery, the thought Black Hawk Down,1993 disaster mission in Somalia where 19 American soldierswere killed, and Jimmy Carter who tried to free the Iranianhostages in 1980, dancing in her mind.

Biting my nails she said, "That was the longest 40 minutes of my life, with the exception of when Sash (his daughter) got meningitis."

In an interview with CBS he also demanded the Pakistani government in investigating whether anyone involved in the networkto support Osama bin Laden. This is his first statement about thepossibility of Pakistani involvement in terrorism. He said that BinLaden would have "a sort of support network" in the country of Pakistan.



After his dead
Former mother-in-law of Osama Bin Laden died suddenly on theday of mourning after the death of ex-law heard it from close family members. Nabiha Ossman, who lives in Syria, in his 70s andreportedly in good health previously.

"Hearing the death of Osama bin Laden last week, she fainted andwas taken to hospital but never regained consciousness and diedon Saturday morning," said a member of his family in the DailyMail.

Nabiha is the mother of Bin Laden's first wife, Najwa GhanemIbrahim. He held a festive wedding in 1974 when Osama was 17 years old and about 15-year-old Najwa.Najwa, who was a first cousin of al-Qaeda leader, gave birth to 11children. They divorced before the attacks of 11 September 2001,and returned to Syria. During his life, Osama had been married tofive women. His last wife, Amal al hard, married after he divorcedwith Najwa.



Story of amar al sadah(osama wife)


Amal al-Sadah is still lying in a hospital in Islamabad due to gunshot wounds while protecting her husband, Osama bin Laden. The woman who is now 27-year-old had been due to celebrate 10 years of marriage to Al-Qaeda's leadership. He was married at the age of 18, but some versions mention 17 years.
Watch Channel International News says her marriage to bin Laden were prepared by a prominent leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen named Sheikh Mohammed Rashed Saeed Ismail. Ismail, who his brother is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, reportedly said in 2008 that the Charity is one of his students.
"I am a matchmaker (marriage) Osama with his wife, Amal al hard, which is one of my students," he was reported to the Yemen Post.
Ismali focus on Charity, which comes from a town in southwestern Yemen. According to the Sunday Times report last year, the Charity is the daughter of a civil servant. "Coming from a simple family of Yemen, he could live with the hard life in the caves of the mountains and become someone who is very nimble," he said.
When Ismail said it would set her up with bin Laden, he did not mind. Even when told Osama age older even than his father. "He does not mind, and truly believe that being a dutiful wife and obedient to her husband would drive her to a place in heaven," Ismail said, as quoted by The Times.
Task of convincing parents that Bin Laden Charity is a suitable groom who also run Ismail. He told parents that Bin Laden Charity is looking for a wife and choose their child. He says of bin Laden to the parents of Charity that, "He is famous and known for his humility, attention, religion, conviction, generosity and kindness. It would be a good husband for your child."
Teenage girls, who are very religious Ismail called it, was taken out of Yemen and taken to Pakistan. He stayed several days at a guest house in Karachi before being taken to Quetta and from there to Kandahar in Afghanistan where bin Laden was placed 11 years ago. Osama was 43 years old when he married her.
Wedding ceremony performed by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, chief financial officer of Al-Qaeda. Among them, he is better known as Sheikh Saeed al-Masri, said the Times report.
Amal Ismail told a brief explanation of life after she married Bin Laden. He said that Laden had left the property and wealth for the jihad and that he sometimes lived in caves, in order to save his life.
The report said that bin Laden gave a dowry of 5,000 dollars for a family wedding. Marriage is not attended by the Charity itself, according to Sunni tradition.



His father was reportedly very proud when his daughter married by Osama bin Laden. Since the marriages that occurred in 2000,Amal al hard always accompanied wherever Osama go.

Bin Laden did not leave the room where he was shot during thelast five years. Amal, do the same. He told investigators Pakistan,they have lived in the complex since 2005.

Bin Laden had sent him back to Yemen for his own safety. But somehow he came back despite being under surveillance.

"Charity honor and obey her husband who was older than his ownfather," writes MSNBC. "Although he had to undergo hard lifehiding in dark caves, he did not care and really follow and respecther husband."

Pakistan says that Al hard to be sent back to Yemen after herecovers. This step will prevent the U.S. from the beginning to interrogate him about the existence of bin Laden in Pakistan. The news circulated, Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) does not want details ofthe relationship between Pakistan and Al Qaeda broke out of his mouth.



Amal al hard coming from Yemen. A Yemeni official said his fatherreceived cash of U.S. $ 5,000, such as the Arab custom, after her marriage. He also said "proud" to do so, according to the report.

At first, Amal grew as a teenager like most girls her age. Only, heis very interested in extremist Islamic ideology, writes AP.

That's why, he mengagguk when dipinang bin Laden. Charity is actually the fifth wife, because her husband had just divorced one of the four previous wives. not clear whether Osama divorce one of the four previous wives in order to marry her, or because of other reasons.

After marriage, he reportedly became the beloved wife of binLaden. "He's young enough to not feel jealous of other wives andare very obedient," wrote the Daily Mail.

They can easily communicate with each other because they both use the same dialect of Arabic - Saudi Arabia is bin Laden's home country. After the attacks of 11 September 2001, he had returnedto Yemen. But on their own, she followed her husband back intohiding....



Osama:END OF LIFE


It was at 01.00 when the U.S. Navy SEALs one after surging into the house of Osama bin Laden's hideout. After disabling the guards one by one, they climbed to the third floor of the house.
Soon after the doors opened, they saw the fugitive terrorist in the world's number one center with a young woman, later known named Amal al hard, his last wife. Seeing the danger threatening her husband, she ran to protect her husband. He was shot in the leg.
A moment later, Dorr Dorr .. .. bullets through the head and chest Osama. He was shot in front of him, and girls are the result of her marriage with Al-Qaeda's leadership.
Who Amal al hard, few people know. Daily Mail newspaper which was published in England called, he was the beloved wife of bin Laden. His real name is known from a passport found in raid coincided husband.
Based on information collected in the Daily Mail, Charity was only 18 when married to bin Laden in Afghanistan, a year before the attacks of 11 September 2001. Her marriage was initially touted political nuances: to unite Afghanistan's terrorist network with the Middle East.
However, some indication that the media dismissed. Osama reportedly did love Charity. The man who was then the U.S. began to be hunted even recited a poem on the wedding day and fired automatic rifles to express joy, CNN reported.
Amal has three children from that marriage. Her first child, a woman, go watch his father's death.

In this past week, Muslims protesting the United States whodispose of Osama bin Laden's corpse into the sea and not buriedin the ground. President of the United States, Barack Obama, has denied that Osama burial at sea that violates the rules of Islam.

In an interview with 60 Minutes, Obama answered criticism of the procedures to burial at sea Osama. ''Frankly, we are more concerned about these things than Osama bin Laden when hekilled 3,000 people. He did not notice how they are treated anddestroyed. But, it is something that makes us different. And, I thinkwe handle it (burial Osama) fairly,''Obama said.

Obama called the decision to bury Osama in the Sea was a jointdecision. In fact, the decision has been decided before Osamaconfirmed killed. ''It was a joint decision. We think it's important tothink first how we would dispose of his body when he died in thecomplex,''he said.

Not only that. Obama also admitted that he had consulted withMuslim jurists about the legality of burying the corpse of Osama inthe sea.

''I think that what we are trying to do is to consult with experts inIslamic law to find the right thing and respect his body,''Obamasaid.