Friday, April 30, 2010

Putting On Lipstick

A principal of a small middle school had a problem with a few of the older girls starting to use lipstick. When applying it in the bathroom they would then press their lips to the mirror and leave lip prints.

Before it got out of hand he thought of a way to stop it. He gathered all the girls together that wore lipstick and told them he wanted to meet with them in the ladies room at 2pm.

They gathered at 2pm and found the principal and the school custodian waiting for them. The principal explained that it was becoming a problem for the custodian to clean the mirror every night. He said he felt the ladies did not fully understand just how much of a problem it was and he wanted them to witness just how hard it was to clean.

The custodian then demonstrated. He took a long brush on a handle out of a box. He then dipped the brush in the nearest toilet, moved to the mirror and proceeded to remove the lipstick.

That was the last day the girls pressed their lips on the mirror.

Thanks to ManageTrainLearn

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Lost Diamonds Vs Collecting Stones

People who truly love us may not always express their feelings to us but are well aware that we want them always and at times even when we ignore them, they bear the pain in their silent tears only because they know that without them, our heart breaks.

Lets never avoid a person who loves us, likes us, cares for us and misses us. Because one day we will wake up and realize that we have lost a diamond while we are collecting stones.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ways To Boost Your Productivity At Work

Ask for An Office

A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that people who work in cubicles have higher levels of stress hormones than those who work in offices with doors. More important to your bottom-line boss: Open offices increase morale and efficiency.
 
Use An L-Shaped Desk
 
Designate one side for right-now work, the other for later-on work. The L shape prevents you from being distracted by other projects right in front of you and saves time in sorting things out.
 
Bring a Tennis Ball to the Office
 
When reading, squeeze the ball in your right hand. This stimulates the left side of your brain, which processes words. If it's blueprints or instructions with diagrams, switch to your left hand. Stimulating the brain's right side helps with visualizing and spatial relationships.
 
Arrive 45 Minutes Early and Stay 15 Late
 
Use the 45 to knock one big thing off your daily agenda, and the 15 to plan out tomorrow. You'll undergo your own productivity boost by tapping into your best morning energy and end the day with a burst of organization.
 
Sweat Through Lunch
 
Men are more productive when they exercise. Those who exercise at any intensity for 2 hours a week (just 17 minutes a day), are 61 percent less likely to feel stressed. While working out will boost any bad mood, it has the biggest benefit when it's done outside.
 
Waste Your Coworkers' Time
 
Take 15 minutes a day to talk about the ball game, ask about their kids, make plans for lunch. People with friends at work are better communicators (which is good for productivity, good for the boss, and good for your career).
 
Thanks to Men's Health

25 Reasons To Drink Green Tea

Green tea has increasingly become a very popular drink worldwide because of its immensely powerful health benefits.  It is extraordinarily amazing what green tea can do for your health. And if you're not drinking 3 to 4 cups of green tea today, you're definitely NOT doing your health a big favor.
 
Here Are The 25 Reasons Why You Should Start Drinking Green Tea Right Now:
 
1. Green Tea and Cancer
Green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer.
 
2. Green Tea and Heart Disease
 
Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.
 
3. Green Tea and Anti-Aging
 
Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals. What this means it helps y! ou fight against aging and promotes longevity.
 
4. Green Tea and Weight Loss
 
Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year.
 
5. Green Tea and Skin
 
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.
 
6. Green Tea and Arthritis
 
Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rh! eumatoid arthritis. Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.
 
7. Green Tea and Bones
 
The very key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea. It helps keep your bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.
 
8. Green Tea and Cholesterol
 
Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol level.
 
9. Green Tea and Obesity
 
Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you'll be obese.
 
10. Green Tea and Diabetes
 
Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.
 
11. Green Tea and Alzheimer's
 
Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there's no cure for Alzheimer's, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.
 
12. Green Tea and Parkinson's
 
Antioxidant! s in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson's. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson's.
 
13. Green Tea and Liver Disease
 
Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.
 
14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure
 
Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.
 
15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning
 
Catechin found in green tea can kill ba! cteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.
 
16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar
 
Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.
 
17. Green Tea and Immunity
 
Polyphenols and flavenoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.
 
18. Green Tea and Cold and Flu
 
Green tea prevents you from getting a cold or flu. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.
 
19. Green Te! a and Asthma
 
Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.
 
20. Green Tea and Ear Infection
 
Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.
 
21. Green Tea and Herpes
 
Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.
 
22. Green Tea and Tooth Decay
 
Green tea destroys bacteria and viru! ses that cause many dental diseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.
 
23. Green Tea and Stress
 
L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.
 
24. Green Tea and Allergies
 
EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.
 
25. Green Tea and HIV
 
Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that green tea ! can help stop the HIV virus from spreading.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Conservative Party Vs Labor Party (UK)

I asked my friend's little daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up.

She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day.

Both her parents, Labor supporters, were standing there, so I asked her,"If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all those poor people on benefits." Her parents beamed, and said, "Welcome to the Labor Party!"

"That's a worthy goal!" I told her, and continued, "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house,mow the lawn, pull weeds, sweep my drive and I'll pay you £25. Then I'll take you over to that homeless chap who hangs out in front of the store. You can give him the £25 to use toward food."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless man come over and do the work himself and you can just pay him the £25?"

I smiled and said, "Welcome to the Conservative Party."

Her parents still aren't speaking to me.

Natural Cure for Diabetes

DR. TONY ALMEIDA ( Bombay Kidney Specialty expert ) made the extensive experiments with perseverance and patience and discovered a successful treatment for diabetes. Now a days a lot of people, old men & women in particular suffer a lot due to Diabetes.

Ingredients:

1 - Wheat Flour 100 gm

2 - Gum (Of Tree) (Gondh) 100 gm

3 - Barley 100 gm

4 - Black Seeds (Kalunji) 100 gm

Method of Preparation:- Put all the above ingredients in 5 cups of water. Boil it for 10 minutes and put off the fire. Allow it to cool down by itself. When it has become cold, filter out the seeds and preserve the water in a glass jug or bottle.

How To Use It?
Take one small cup of this water every day early morning when your stomach is empty. Continue this for 7 days. Next week repeat the same but on alternate days. With these 2 weeks of treatment you will wonder to see that you have become normal and can eat normal food without problem.
 
Thanks to Prof. Moiz Hussain

Discover the 90/10 Principle

It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations).

What is this principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us.

We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic.

We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.

How? ……….By your reaction.

You cannot control a red light. but you can control your reaction. Don't let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.

Let's use an example.

You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened.

What happens next will be determined by how you react.

You curse.

You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus.

Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit.

After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home.

When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter.

Why? …. Because of how you reacted in the morning.

Why did you have a bad day?

A) Did the coffee cause it?

B) Did your daughter cause it?

C) Did the policeman cause it?

D) Did you cause it?

The answer is "D".

You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.

Here is what could have and should have happened.

Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, "Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time". Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.

Notice the difference?

Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different.

Why?

Because of how you REACTED.

You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.

Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, don't be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You don't have to let the negative comment affect you!

React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.

How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off) Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Do you try and bump them?

WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive?

Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about it.

You are told you lost your job.

Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job.

The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take outpour frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on.

Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger. Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse.

Now you know the 90-10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it. The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle. The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 principle.

It CAN change your life!!!

Enjoy….

Author: Stephen Covey

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture Is Unsatisfying

Why material purchases are unsatisfying and what to do about it.

Buying stuff can be disappointing. After swallowing the hype, checking out the options and trolling for bargains, finally you've got it; your brand new whatever-it-is.

Before long, though, the excitement fades. Your whatever-it-is isn't so great any more. They've brought out a newer model with more features and anyway you've seen it cheaper elsewhere. It's happened to all of us.

Psychological research tells us that this disappointment is particularly pronounced when people buy things like mp3 players or watches, compared with experiences like vacations or concert tickets (see: experiences beat possessions).

In a new series of studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Carter and Gilovich (2010) explore six reasons that material purchases are less satisfying than experiential purchases, and what we can do about it.

1. Objects Are Easy To Compare Unfavorably

In their first study participants recalled past experiential and material purchases costing at least $50 and were asked to rate their satisfaction with them. People were consistently more satisfied with their experiential purchases compared with their material purchases.

The reason is that experiential purchases are difficult to compare. The band you went to see on that wet Tuesday after work on the spur of the moment is likely to be literally incomparable. On the other hand mp3 players are much easier to compare: one has more memory while another looks prettier.

When it's easy to compare two things, like salaries, dissatisfaction isn't far away because there's always someone who earns more than you or, in this case, has a better mp3 player than you. And if they don't have it now, they will in six months because that's the nature of consumer culture.

2. A 'Maximizing Strategy Leaves Us Less Satisfied

There's a crucial difference in the way we make decisions about material and experiential purchases, as revealed by the second study.

When people choose material purchases they tend to use a strategy psychologists call 'maximizing. This means comparing all possible options. But because we live in a world of endless choices, maximizing takes a long time and is hard work; so people often end up irritated and unsatisfied even when they chose the best possible option.

However, when people choose experiential purchases they tend to use a strategy psychologists call 'satisfying. This means setting a minimum standard for a purchase then choosing the first option that fits the bill. Studies show that this leads to greater satisfaction with purchases and people are relatively untroubled by the existence of slightly better options.

Although maximizing seems the better strategy, paradoxically it leaves people less satisfied than settling (sorry 'satisfying, ugh).

3. Material Purchases More Likely To Be Re-Evaluated

Imagine you buy a new electronic gadget costing $1,000. After you've bought it, do you ever go back to look at the other options, just in case? Would that change if it was a vacation you'd bought instead at the same price?

When researchers simulated the situation they found that, having bought a gadget participants were more likely to continue investigating the alternatives than if they'd bought a vacation, despite not being explicitly asked to do so.

We automatically re-evaluate material purchases after we've made them. In comparison decisions about experiential purchases, once made, are not revisited and so we have less opportunity for disappointment.

4. The New Option Effect

It's always the way: right after you buy it they bring out a new, improved model, or introduce better options.

When Carter and Gilovich simulated this situation in the lab, participants reported that the new option effect was more disturbing when buying a watch, a pair of jeans or a laptop than when buying a holiday, movie ticket or fancy dining experience.

Once again experiential beat material purchases.

5. The Reduced Price Effect and 6. A Cheaper Rival

Like the introduction of new options, retailers also have a habit of dropping the price right after you buy something. Worse, the next day you spot it cheaper somewhere else.

Carter and Gilovich found that people were more troubled about the reduced price of laptops and watches than they were about cheaper holidays or meals out.

Similarly participants reported being jealous of rivals who'd paid less for material purchases at another retailer, but weren't so jealous when it came to experiential purchases.

Think Experiential

This all begs the question of how we can be more satisfied with material purchases, other than simply trying to avoid all the above.

Carter and Gilovich wondered if it comes down to how we view our purchases. Take music for example. Buying music can be viewed as both an experiential and a material purchase; it's an object (even if digital), and it's the experience of listening to the music: where you are, how it makes you feel and what you're doing at the time.

Perhaps thinking experientially can help us avoid disappointment?

In their last experiment the researchers encouraged half their participants to think of music as a material purchase and the other half as an experiential purchase. They were then told the price had been reduced. Sure enough participants who were thinking in experiential terms were less bothered by missing out on a bargain and therefore likely to be more satisfied with their purchase.

This experiment suggests that thinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook, even your laptop in terms of all the happy hours spent reading your favorite blog.

By thinking experientially we can make more of what we already have and ward off the invidious comparisons that can make the treadmill of consumer culture so unsatisfying.

Thanks to PsyBlog

Friday, April 9, 2010

To Save Your Marriage, Don't Put the Kids First

Modern parenting seems to involve always putting the kids first. But a new book warns this could be harming your children and causing marital problems. Instead, to save your marriage, shift your focus to your relationship, the experts say.

All moms and dads want their kids to be happy -- but many couples are going too far by letting everything revolve around their children.

Family coach and Episcopal minister David Code believes parents have to put their relationship first -- to have the best chance of avoiding breakups and problem children. David warns focusing all your attention on your kids rather than your partner, is the equivalent of an affair, and just as damaging to a marriage.

In his new book, To Raise Happy Kids, Put Your Marriage First (Crossroad Publishing), he warns trying to be best friends with your kids could lead to problems.

If a relationship is going through a rocky patch, a parent may try to fill the void by becoming too emotionally attached to their child, rather than addressing the real problems before it's too late.

David said: "We are trying too hard to give kids everything, and show them everything and spend all our time with them. This can mess with a child's process of gaining independence.

"We must regain a balance between tending our marriage and nurturing our children.

"When our marriages meet our intimacy needs, we can stop marrying our children. This frees up our kids to build their own identity, learn self-reliance and become happy, independent adults."

Many parents believe the more attention they give their kids, the better they'll turn out. But many of us may be overfocusing on our kids to escape an unfulfilling marriage. As spouses grow more distant in their marriage, they project their distress and needs on to their children. How we hurt our marriages When we over-react to our spouses, we trigger our instinctive fight or flight response which includes arguing, criticizing, blaming and distancing.

Each time you catch yourself blaming your loved one, ask yourself if you're viewing the situation correctly and what is making you anxious.

Look to your past family relationships. Research the way you interacted with siblings and parents to learn where some of your flaws came from and how to improve them.

Tips for Happy Families and Love Lives

Share the high and low points of the day with your spouse to share intimacy.

Make a weekly appointment for sex with your partner as hormones such as oxytocin and vasopressin help you bond.

To Raise Happy Kids, Put Your Marriage First, by David Code (Crossroad Publishing) is available from amazon.com

Source: YellowBrix, Daily Record; Glasgow (UK)

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Zardari Education Background (2 Articles)

Zardari Education Background - A Mystery

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- There appears to be some mystery as to where the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party went to school in London.

British officials are having trouble finding the school Asif Ali Zardari is said to have received his graduation or equivalent qualification. The PPP says it was the London School of Economics and Business. But, no one seems to know for sure where that is, Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper, reports.

In a written response to questions about London School of Economics and Business, an Edubase official told Dawn, "I have been unable to find evidence of this institution."

Pakistan officials in 2002 established a rule that a candidate for Parliament must have a certain level of college education.

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Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

www.upi.com / Published: March. 21, 2008 at 1:21 PM
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Zardari a London Graduate: PPP???

LAHORE: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is a graduate from London, said PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar. "He (Mr Zardari) is a graduate from the London School of Economics and Business Studies. You can check it on our party's website," said Mr Babar, responding to a question from Daily Times regarding an article in the New York Times which shed some doubt over Mr Zardari's B Ed degree.

A report published in the New York Times by Jane Perlez on Tuesday says, "In the early 1970s, Mr Zardari went to London." It says that while there, he "attended the London School of Business Studies and received a Bachelor of Education degree. His official biography says he attended a commercial college called Pedinton School. But a search of tertiary educational institutions in London showed no such school, and associates said he did not finish his studies."

Perlez goes on to write, "The question of whether Mr Zardari has a university degree" is relevant "because President [Pervez] Musharraf introduced a law in 2002 that made it compulsory for parliamentary candidates to hold a degree in order to qualify for electoral office." She wrote, referring to "expectations among his political colleagues and in the Pakistani news media that Mr Zardari will run for parliament so that he can then assume the post of prime minister".

However, the article also states that when asked about his degree, Mr Zardari said, "I do have a degree. That is not an issue." According to Perlez, "He said he attended the London School of Business Studies 'much before I was married. I think it's a B Ed degree. I haven't really looked at it,' he said."

www.dailytimes.com.pk / Daily Times Monitor / Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Interesting Info Regarding MS O/S & MS Words

1. You can't create a folder named "con".
Try it! 

2. Write the following text into notepad:

"bush hid the facts" save the file and re-open and see the magic

3. Open Microsoft word and type =rand(200, 99)
and press enter and see the magic About this 3rd fact, the whole Microsoft team, even Bill Gate itself does not know why this happened..

What the New Lingo Means Part I

"CAREER-MINDED": Female applicants must be childless (and remain that way).
"NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE": We've filled the job; our call for resumes is just a legal formality.

"SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE": You'll need it to replace three people whom just left.

"PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A MUST": You're walking into a company in perpetual chaos.

"REQUIRES TEAM LEADERSHIP SKILLS": You'll have the responsibilities of a manager, without the pay or respect.

"GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS": Management communicates, you listen, figure out what they want and do it.
 
Thanks to ManageTrainLearn

How Am I Doing?

A young sales representative took time out during her coffee break to make a call from a public phone booth.

She rang a number and asked to speak to the Sales Director. "Could you tell me if the position you advertised some time ago is still vacant?" she asked. There was a pause. "Oh, it's gone. Pardon? You hired someone three months ago and they're doing fine. OK. Sorry to have bothered you. Goodbye."

A caller at the next phone booth couldn't help overhearing and offered her sympathy to the young woman. "Never mind, dear. I'm sure you'll get something soon, " she said. "Oh, no, " said the young lady. "That was my own company I was ringing. I just wanted to know how I was doing."

Moral: Don't Leave People Wondering How They're Doing; Tell Them.
 
Thanks to ManageTrainLearn

Friday, April 2, 2010

Multivitamins May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that multivitamin use may increase the risk of breast cancer in women. This finding comes from a 10-year study which followed over 35,000 women between the ages of 49 and 83. Those women who reported taking multivitamins at the start of the trial were found to be 19% more likely than non-users to develop breast cancer, even after taking into account of factors such as age, family history of breast cancer, weight, fruit and vegetable intake, and exercise, smoking and drinking habits. As to why this is the case we do not yet know. But certainly more studies are needed to clarify the finding. So, in the mean time, keep in mind that nutrition doesn't just comes from a pill. If you eat a balanced diet with a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and proteins you'll get all the vitamins and minerals you need.
 
Thanks to Kosmix Corporation /  RightHealth  / Daily Dose

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Growing Good Corn

James Bender, in his book "How to Talk Well", relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.

The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "don't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn."

Moral: We can only really win, when we help others win as well.

Thanks to ManageTrainLearn