SLOW DANCE.

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Gallege De Silva	23:08 (6 hours ago)

Please forward to your friends.

Thanks

Please take time to read this. This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to see how many people get her poem. It is quite the poem Please pass it  on.   This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital . It was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM. SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask, “How are you?” Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next hundred chores running through your head? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast. Time is short The music won't last. Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say,'Hi' You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.. When you run so fast to get somewhere, You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over. ------------ -------- FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT. Dear All: PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know - even to those you don't know! It is the request of a special girl, who will soon leave this world due to cancer. This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, the American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send it to 5 or 6. It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST. 10464

Short IQ test to rule out Alzheimer's.

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Piyusha Atapattu	11:28 PM (5 hours ago)
I just realised I do not have Alzheimers!!! How about you?   Interesting Subject:    Strain your brain to get rid of Alzheimer's. Just for fun. Don't feel bad as long as you are rated in the top 50%  of the population. Congratulations if you scored more than 100. https://memorado.com/iqtest?r=130

Documentary reveals moment Edward Snowden is told of a SECOND NSA leak.

Citizenfour, by filmmaker Laura Poitras - one of two people Edward Snowden first trusted with his stolen government documents - reveals a second leak giving out secrets from within in NSA.

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12 October 2014

And who gave you this 24-carat pure gold medal worth $10,000, sir?

 The King of Sweden! American Nobel Prize winner stopped and questioned by the TSA over prize 

Brian Schmidt, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011, was not prepared for the questions at airport security when he took it to show his grandmother in Nebraska.

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12 October 2014

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Angela Wijetunga	20:54 (8 hours ago)
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Thanks Philip and Nana,

It is sad but true that we all have to go one day when our time on earth is ended. I have lost a wonderful husband, I am now trying to pick up the pieces and go on with life, our daughters and grand children do make life worth living. The number of messages from our batch mates makes one feel the closeness of our friends even though we have not met for years but the bonding during those hard years in Med School still holds on. A big Thank You to all those who sent me messages , sorry I have not been able to send them individual messages, but they have been greatly appreciated.

Angela Wijetunga

1960 medical batch Colombo <1960batch@gmail.com>	06:13 (18 minutes ago)
to Angela

Hello Angela, Thanks for the email. I will post it on our Batch Blog.

Here is some music I am sending you to get over your bereavement. Hope it helps.

Please click on the web-link below with your speakers on. The story of the lyrics is appended below.

http://youtu.be/cRWu3C2Im04

Story of the hymn

Words: San­ford F. Ben­nett, 1868. Music: Jo­seph P. Web­ster (MI­DI, score).

Mr. Webster, like ma­ny mu­si­cians, was of an ex­ceed­ing­ly ner­vous and sen­si­tive na­ture, and sub­ject to per­i­ods of de­press­ion, in which he looked up­on the dark side of all things in life. I had learned his pe­cul­i­ar­i­ties so well that on meet­ing him I could tell at a glance if he was mel­an­cho­ly, and had found that I could rouse him up by giv­ing him a new song to work on.

He came in­to my place of bus­i­ness [in Elk­horn, Wis­con­sin], walked down to the stove, and turned his back on me without speak­ing. I was at my desk. Turn­ing to him, I said, “Webs­ter, what is the mat­ter now?” “It’s no mat­ter,” he re­plied, “it will be all right by and by.” The idea of the hymn came me like a flash of sun­light, and I re­plied, “The Sweet By and By! Why would not that make a good hymn?” “May­be it would,” he said in­dif­fer­ent­ly. Turn­ing to my desk I penned the words of the hymn as fast as I could write. I hand­ed the words to Web­ster. As he read his eyes kin­dled, and stepp­ing to the desk he be­gan writ­ing the notes. Tak­ing his vi­o­lin, he played the mel­o­dy and then jot­ted down the notes of the cho­rus. It was not over thir­ty min­utes from the time I took my pen to write the words be­fore two friends with Web­ster and myself were sing­ing the hymn.

Sanford Fill­more Ben­nett (1836-1898)

This song was sung in the Acad­emy Award win­ning mo­vie Ser­geant York (1941).

The 1907 Spanish Latter-day Saint hymnal contained a similar song, set to the same tune and titled "Hay un mundo feliz más allá", that was copied with permission from the American Tract Society's Himnos evangélicos.^{[3][4]  [7 …} It was titled "Despedida" until the 1992 hymnal, which changed the title to match the first line of the song, "Placentero nos es trabajar".^[6][8]

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There’s a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there.

Refrain

In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.

We shall sing on that beautiful shore
The melodious songs of the blessed;
And our spirits shall sorrow no more,
Not a sigh for the blessing of rest.

Refrain

To our bountiful Father above,
We will offer our tribute of praise
For the glorious gift of His love
And the blessings that hallow our days.

Refrain

Philip G V

Emirates airline chief doubts Flight MH370 disappeared by accident.

Airline executive Sir Tim Clark believes someone took control of Flight MH370 and disabled the aircraft's tracking technology before flying it to an unknown location.

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11 October 2014

Lynch mob use butcher's meat cleaver to castrate rapist they caught.

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11 October 2014