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MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas is a good time for us to look beyond ourselves… what we really want for those closest to us and those who most need help. Christmas is more than simply the celebration of the birth of a baby. The story of Jesus Christ takes us beyond the glitter and the tinsel and the lights to something much deeper. As we witness countless re-enactments of the nativity this season, try to look beyond the scene…realize that the Saviour who was born is God’s gift of hope; the hope of peace and goodwill, of beauty and love. Look beyond what you see, however bleak it might seem, and discover signs of goodness and beauty, of hope, of joy despite whatever is happening in our world today. Christmas is a time for looking beyond what our eyes can see; to look at the present crisis and see the stories of kindness and compassion that carry with them the hope of life beyond the darkness; to look at the violence and see the efforts made to change these patterns and see in them signals of ...

We just had our department’s Christmas party last Friday and the company’s, last Saturday. It was fun. I had the chance to embarrass myself again by dancing in front of people, but it was all in the spirit and, of course, the reward. My group won first place! The not-so-happy part of the merrymaking was the announcement that the company can only afford half-month worth of salary as Christmas bonus this year. Well, not as expected, but, at least, there is something. Why the optimism? A lot of companies are cancelling Christmas parties this year because of the ongoing economic slowdown. So, I’m thankful that we still had a Christmas party. Moreover, at least we still have a job. Plenty of people don't this Christmas. 

by Francis Kong. Business Matters. Philippine Star This is an old story but worth repeating. There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today?” So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. ”H-M-M,” she said, “I think I’ll part my hair down the middle today?” So she did and she had a grand day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head. “Well,” she said, ”today I’m going to wear my hair in a pony tail.” So she did and she had a fun, fun day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn’t a single hair on her head. ”YEA!” she exclaimed, “I don’t have to fix my hair today!”Attitude is everything. I remember respected businessman Andrew Liuson tell this story...

This is a form of haemophilia caused by deficiency of Christmas’ factor. It is a disturbance of coagulation that may easily be confused with classical heamophilia, with which it is clinically almost identical. Factor IX was discovered in 1952 in a young patient with hemophilia B named Stephen Christmas (1947-1993). His deficiency was described by Dr. Rosemary Biggs and Professor R.G. MacFarlane in Oxford, UK. The factor is hence called Christmas Factor or Christmas Eve Factor. Christmas lived in Canada, and campaigned for blood transfusion safety until succumbing to transfusion-related AIDS at age 46. An alternative name for the factor is plasma thromboplastin component . Incidence: 1/40,000 (15-20% of haemophilias). The condition is transmitted as a sex-linked recessive trait through female carriers. Prevalent in males.