(taken from the internet)
Intel will be releasing a win for visually impaired people, a newdevice called the Intel Reader. It allows visually impaired people totake a snapshot of a newspaper, book, or magazine and have it readback to them. It's estimated that in the US alone there are as many as55 million people who could make use of such a device. It comes athefty price though: the paperback-sized device costs $1,499. Thedevice contains a 5-megapixel camera and is powered by a Linux OCRsystem that converts text into spoken words. The device can hold up to2GB of data, which would equate to around 600 snapshots. In additionto reading text, the device can also play back audio books in a numberof supported formats such as MP3 and WAV. The Intel Reader is expectedto be released next Tuesday. The device won't be speedy: Intel says ittakes about 30 seconds to process each page of text... It took...about 30 minutes to scan in the pages of a 250-page book and then onehour to process them. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/11/10/intel-offers-an-e-reader-with-a-difference/tab/print/
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
know your eyes
(taken from the internet)
Know your Eyes
1.Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
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2.Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
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3.Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
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4.Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
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5.Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
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6.Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
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7.Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
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8.In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
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9.The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
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10.The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.
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11.The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!
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12.Eyes are your most precious sense... cares for them properly!
always thank God! because there are many person who are living with out sight! always be kind with everyone.
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Know your Eyes
1.Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
***********
2.Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
***********
3.Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
***********
4.Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
***********
5.Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
***********
6.Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
***********
7.Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
***********
8.In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
***********
9.The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
***********
10.The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.
***********
11.The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!
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12.Eyes are your most precious sense... cares for them properly!
always thank God! because there are many person who are living with out sight! always be kind with everyone.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
a lesson to learn
(taken from the internet)
One old man was sitting with his 25 years old son in the train.
Train is about to leave the station.
All passengers are settling down their seat.
As train started young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity.
He was sitting on the window side.
He went out one hand and feeling the passing air. He shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smile and admired son feelings.
Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listening all the conversation between father and son.
They were little awkward with the attitude of 25 years old man behaving like a small child.
Suddenly young man again shouted, "Papa see the pond and animals. Clouds are moving with train".
Couple was watching the young man in embarrassingly.
Now its start raining and some of water drops touches the young man's hand.
He filled with joy and he closed the eyes.
He shouted again," Papa it's raining, water is touching me, see papa".
Couple couldn't help themselves and ask the old man.
"Why don't you visit the Doctor and get treatment for your son."
Old man said, “Yes, We are coming from the hospital as Today only my son got his eye sight for first time in his life".
Moral: "Don’t draw conclusions until you know all the facts".
One old man was sitting with his 25 years old son in the train.
Train is about to leave the station.
All passengers are settling down their seat.
As train started young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity.
He was sitting on the window side.
He went out one hand and feeling the passing air. He shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smile and admired son feelings.
Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listening all the conversation between father and son.
They were little awkward with the attitude of 25 years old man behaving like a small child.
Suddenly young man again shouted, "Papa see the pond and animals. Clouds are moving with train".
Couple was watching the young man in embarrassingly.
Now its start raining and some of water drops touches the young man's hand.
He filled with joy and he closed the eyes.
He shouted again," Papa it's raining, water is touching me, see papa".
Couple couldn't help themselves and ask the old man.
"Why don't you visit the Doctor and get treatment for your son."
Old man said, “Yes, We are coming from the hospital as Today only my son got his eye sight for first time in his life".
Moral: "Don’t draw conclusions until you know all the facts".
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
always be calm
Why Do We Shout In Anger?
A saint asked his disciples, 'Why do we shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout for that.'
'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'
Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.
Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.'
Then the saint asked, 'What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, why? Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is very small...'
The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'
MORAL: When you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.
A saint asked his disciples, 'Why do we shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout for that.'
'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'
Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.
Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.'
Then the saint asked, 'What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, why? Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is very small...'
The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'
MORAL: When you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.
great tips
Five ways to de-stress at work
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress.
By Heart and Stroke Foundation
http://ca.lifestyle .yahoo.com/ health-fitness/ articles/ body-mind/ heartandstroke/ healthy_eating- five_ways_ to_de-stress_ at_work_/ 2
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress. If your life is full of stress, it can be difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle. Instead of being physically active to relieve stress, some people respond by overeating, eating unhealthy foods, consuming too much alcohol or smoking – reactions that can increase the risk of developing heart disease and stroke. Recent research from the American Journal of Epidemiology has found that people who already have a high body mass index (BMI) may experience additional weight gain if they report stress from personal relationships, work, life constraints or finances. But there are ways to cope in your workplace and at home to help you stay calm throughout your day.
Dr. Brian Baker, a Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher and specialist on the health effects of stress, says that job strain basically comes down to two definitions: either there are too many demands with too little control over your work or there is too much effort compared to the rewards you get back. With that in mind, he shares some of his top tips for making work as stress-free as possible.
Keep an open dialogue with your manager or employer. Dr. Baker says that it can be stressful if you have a bad relationship with your boss or don't feel comfortable voicing concerns. "When a supervisor is riding someone and giving that person a hard time, that employee can start to freeze up and get anxious at his or her workplace," he says. "But most employers want their employees to be happy. It leads to better productivity and a more positive workplace." He suggests trying to speak to the person above you to try to develop more flexibility in your job demands. "Assertiveness is a very important skill. Use a logical but firm approach and be polite. You can't offend the people in charge of you, but you can stay calm, ask for a slight adjustment in workload – just don't be aggressive."
Get support from co-workers. Whether you are asking for help with your workload or simply want someone to relax with at lunch time, co-workers may lend a hand to lessen your stress. "It helps to have a support network – especially if you find yourself sensitive to social stresses. This can be support from colleagues, supervisors or friends at the office," Dr. Baker says.
Make use of employee health programs. If your company partially or completely covers the cost of a counsellor or massage therapist in its benefits program, take advantage it. You may also want to check into your benefits plan or ask Human Resources if employee counselling programs for stress or debt management are available.
Talk to your spouse or friends outside the office to gain additional support. Gossiping about office politics is not helpful. Instead, discuss your problems with your best friend, family or spouse to avoid consequences. In fact, a study from Heart and Stroke Foundation researchers Dr. Sheldon Tobe and Dr. Baker has shown that supportive marriages are key. "We found that people who had a supportive spouse at home were more immune to the effects of job strain overall," Dr. Tobe says. In particular, they found that women are less likely to experience the blood-pressure- raising effects of a stressful job when their spouses were supportive. Other studies have found that men also benefit from the stress-reducing benefits of marriage, whether or not they rate it as a good marriage. Support of friends or family members can also reduce stress.
Look for the rewards in your work. When work is stressful, it can be challenging to see the positive. But Dr. Baker says it's really helpful if you can focus on the other benefits from your job besides a paycheque. "You need a balance between the effort you put into work and the rewards you get back," he says. So, look for ways that your work rewards you. Do you learn something new every day? Do you use it as a way to make new friends? Do you help people with the work you do? Take advantage of social situations at work and try to focus on the parts that make you happy.
In extreme cases of job strain, getting a new job may be the best solution, but in the meantime, Dr. Baker says, you still have to get the job done so you just need to find the ways that make your situation the best it can be. "Maybe you can get in early, leave early and avoid people who cause problems or you can try relaxation techniques like meditation. If you've been really bothered, talk to your doctor if the stress is becoming overwhelming. "
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress.
By Heart and Stroke Foundation
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress.
By Heart and Stroke Foundation
http://ca.lifestyle .yahoo.com/ health-fitness/ articles/ body-mind/ heartandstroke/ healthy_eating- five_ways_ to_de-stress_ at_work_/ 2
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress. If your life is full of stress, it can be difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle. Instead of being physically active to relieve stress, some people respond by overeating, eating unhealthy foods, consuming too much alcohol or smoking – reactions that can increase the risk of developing heart disease and stroke. Recent research from the American Journal of Epidemiology has found that people who already have a high body mass index (BMI) may experience additional weight gain if they report stress from personal relationships, work, life constraints or finances. But there are ways to cope in your workplace and at home to help you stay calm throughout your day.
Dr. Brian Baker, a Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher and specialist on the health effects of stress, says that job strain basically comes down to two definitions: either there are too many demands with too little control over your work or there is too much effort compared to the rewards you get back. With that in mind, he shares some of his top tips for making work as stress-free as possible.
Keep an open dialogue with your manager or employer. Dr. Baker says that it can be stressful if you have a bad relationship with your boss or don't feel comfortable voicing concerns. "When a supervisor is riding someone and giving that person a hard time, that employee can start to freeze up and get anxious at his or her workplace," he says. "But most employers want their employees to be happy. It leads to better productivity and a more positive workplace." He suggests trying to speak to the person above you to try to develop more flexibility in your job demands. "Assertiveness is a very important skill. Use a logical but firm approach and be polite. You can't offend the people in charge of you, but you can stay calm, ask for a slight adjustment in workload – just don't be aggressive."
Get support from co-workers. Whether you are asking for help with your workload or simply want someone to relax with at lunch time, co-workers may lend a hand to lessen your stress. "It helps to have a support network – especially if you find yourself sensitive to social stresses. This can be support from colleagues, supervisors or friends at the office," Dr. Baker says.
Make use of employee health programs. If your company partially or completely covers the cost of a counsellor or massage therapist in its benefits program, take advantage it. You may also want to check into your benefits plan or ask Human Resources if employee counselling programs for stress or debt management are available.
Talk to your spouse or friends outside the office to gain additional support. Gossiping about office politics is not helpful. Instead, discuss your problems with your best friend, family or spouse to avoid consequences. In fact, a study from Heart and Stroke Foundation researchers Dr. Sheldon Tobe and Dr. Baker has shown that supportive marriages are key. "We found that people who had a supportive spouse at home were more immune to the effects of job strain overall," Dr. Tobe says. In particular, they found that women are less likely to experience the blood-pressure- raising effects of a stressful job when their spouses were supportive. Other studies have found that men also benefit from the stress-reducing benefits of marriage, whether or not they rate it as a good marriage. Support of friends or family members can also reduce stress.
Look for the rewards in your work. When work is stressful, it can be challenging to see the positive. But Dr. Baker says it's really helpful if you can focus on the other benefits from your job besides a paycheque. "You need a balance between the effort you put into work and the rewards you get back," he says. So, look for ways that your work rewards you. Do you learn something new every day? Do you use it as a way to make new friends? Do you help people with the work you do? Take advantage of social situations at work and try to focus on the parts that make you happy.
In extreme cases of job strain, getting a new job may be the best solution, but in the meantime, Dr. Baker says, you still have to get the job done so you just need to find the ways that make your situation the best it can be. "Maybe you can get in early, leave early and avoid people who cause problems or you can try relaxation techniques like meditation. If you've been really bothered, talk to your doctor if the stress is becoming overwhelming. "
On top of the daily stresses of work, you may have been facing additional worries lately with the economic downturn. News of employee layoffs, salary and hiring freezes and increasing workloads might be piling on the stress.
By Heart and Stroke Foundation
Saturday, October 17, 2009
tips for parents
(received from email)
Media Management Tips
Parents have tough jobs. They must be cheerleaders and goalkeepers, fence builders and fence menders. Parents must do their best to keep their children safe, keep them well, open their minds … and remember to shut the back door. Managing children’s media diets – the content and its accessibility - is as important as making sure they eat healthy balanced meals. Leisure media time should be used as a snack, not a main course.
Following are ten simple Media Management Tips from Parents’ Choice:
1. The Right Time, The Right Place
Establish and follow ground rules about when and where small screen media – TV, DVDs, Software, Internet and Video Games - can be used. Schoolwork first, small screen media second. Make children’s bedrooms off limits to small screen media.
2. Make Play Dates With Children, Not Channels
TV should not serve as a child’s constant companion. Limit the daily dose of small screen time. For children under two, many experts and pediatricians say no screen time is acceptable. Unless a child is using the computer to research homework assignments, small screen media use should be limited to one - two hours per day.
3. Broadcast The Right Signals
Kids love to imitate. If your children see you spending hours as a couch potato or tethered to a laptop or PDA, the message will be “what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.” Limiting your leisure media time will send the right signals to your children: that rules and limits apply to the whole family.
4. Media Is Not A Condiment
Do not use television to season a meal. Turn it off while eating.
5. What’s OK for 8 isn’t OK for 4
Children’s media selections should be age appropriate. Use guidelines, ratings and independent reviews as a starting point. Use your judgment and your family’s values to determine what is right for your children. Consult Parents’ Choice Foundation’s website for children’s media recommendations.
6. Ratings Exist For A Reason
Just as food labeling made us more nutrition-conscious consumers, ratings help identify age appropriate “nutritional” media content. Learning what the TV, Movie and Video Game ratings mean, will make you a better dietician for your children’s media.
7.Watch What Your Children Watch
Show your children that you enjoy the shows they like to watch. Use media time to talk about what you’re watching and ask questions. Watch, laugh and learn together.
8. Make Media Matter
Whether watching a show about friendship or fish, take your children to the library to find a book that further explores the program’s themes or subjects.
9. Join in the Fun
If your children ask to play a video game, play age appropriate video games with them. If they are old enough to use the computer, visit Internet sites together. Show them where they’re allowed to go, not just where they’re not.
10. Use the Tools
Parental controls help. Use filters to block Internet sites, the V-Chip to block inappropriate television shows, and use the impressive technology of TiVo KidZone to find and select good television choices for children.
Media Management Tips
Parents have tough jobs. They must be cheerleaders and goalkeepers, fence builders and fence menders. Parents must do their best to keep their children safe, keep them well, open their minds … and remember to shut the back door. Managing children’s media diets – the content and its accessibility - is as important as making sure they eat healthy balanced meals. Leisure media time should be used as a snack, not a main course.
Following are ten simple Media Management Tips from Parents’ Choice:
1. The Right Time, The Right Place
Establish and follow ground rules about when and where small screen media – TV, DVDs, Software, Internet and Video Games - can be used. Schoolwork first, small screen media second. Make children’s bedrooms off limits to small screen media.
2. Make Play Dates With Children, Not Channels
TV should not serve as a child’s constant companion. Limit the daily dose of small screen time. For children under two, many experts and pediatricians say no screen time is acceptable. Unless a child is using the computer to research homework assignments, small screen media use should be limited to one - two hours per day.
3. Broadcast The Right Signals
Kids love to imitate. If your children see you spending hours as a couch potato or tethered to a laptop or PDA, the message will be “what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.” Limiting your leisure media time will send the right signals to your children: that rules and limits apply to the whole family.
4. Media Is Not A Condiment
Do not use television to season a meal. Turn it off while eating.
5. What’s OK for 8 isn’t OK for 4
Children’s media selections should be age appropriate. Use guidelines, ratings and independent reviews as a starting point. Use your judgment and your family’s values to determine what is right for your children. Consult Parents’ Choice Foundation’s website for children’s media recommendations.
6. Ratings Exist For A Reason
Just as food labeling made us more nutrition-conscious consumers, ratings help identify age appropriate “nutritional” media content. Learning what the TV, Movie and Video Game ratings mean, will make you a better dietician for your children’s media.
7.Watch What Your Children Watch
Show your children that you enjoy the shows they like to watch. Use media time to talk about what you’re watching and ask questions. Watch, laugh and learn together.
8. Make Media Matter
Whether watching a show about friendship or fish, take your children to the library to find a book that further explores the program’s themes or subjects.
9. Join in the Fun
If your children ask to play a video game, play age appropriate video games with them. If they are old enough to use the computer, visit Internet sites together. Show them where they’re allowed to go, not just where they’re not.
10. Use the Tools
Parental controls help. Use filters to block Internet sites, the V-Chip to block inappropriate television shows, and use the impressive technology of TiVo KidZone to find and select good television choices for children.
Monday, August 31, 2009
leading tips
Nobody has articulated the precepts of good governance better than Hazrat Ali (RA) in his historic treatise in the form of a letter to Malik Ashtar, governor of Egypt. It is worth paraphrasing selected portions from the letter:
‘Be it known to you, O Malik, that people speak well only of those who do good. It is they who furnish the proof of your actions. Hence the richest treasure you may covet must be the treasure of good deeds. Keep your desires under control and deny yourself that which you have been prohibited. Develop in your heart the feelings of love for your people and let it be the source of kindliness and blessing to them.’
‘Bear in mind that you are placed over them, even as I am placed over you. And then there is God even above him who has given you the position of a governor in order that you may look after those under you and to be sufficient unto them.’
‘Maintain justice in administration and impose it on your own self and seek the consent of the people, for the discontent of the masses sterilises the contentment of the privileged few and the discontent of the few loses itself in the contentment of the many.’
‘Remember, the privileged few will not rally around you in moments of difficulty: they will try to sidetrack justice, they will ask for more than what they deserve and will show no gratitude for favours done to them. They will feel restive in the face of trials and will offer no regret for their shortcomings. It is the common man who is the strength of the state and of religion. It is he who fights the enemy. So live in close contact with the masses and be mindful of their welfare.’
‘Do not take counsel of the one who is greedy, for he will instil greed in you and turn you into a tyrant. The worst of counsellors is he who has served as a counsellor to unjust rulers and shared their crimes. So never let men who have been companions of tyrants or shared their crimes be your counsellors.’
‘Keep near to you the upright and the God-fearing, and make clear to them that they are never to flatter you and never to give you credit for anything that you may not have done. For the tolerance of flattery and unhealthy praise stimulates pride in man and makes him arrogant.’
‘Do not treat the good and the bad alike. That will deter the good from doing good, and encourage the bad in their pursuits. Give credit where it is due.’
‘Select for your chief judge the one who is by far the best among the people, one who cannot be intimidated; one who does not turn back from the right path; one who is not self-centred and avaricious; one whom flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position.’
‘Never select men for responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that will lead to injustice and corruption. Select for higher posts men of experience, firm in faith and belonging to good families. Such men will not fall an easy prey to temptations.’
‘Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the prosperity of those who pay the revenue to the state, for it is on their prosperity that the prosperity of others depends; particularly the prosperity of the masses. Indeed, the state exists on its revenue.’
‘You should regard the proper upkeep of the land in cultivation for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited hardships on the cultivator and ruins the state. The rule of such a person does not long last.’
‘Adopt useful schemes for those engaged in trade and industry and help them with wise counsels. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this class, and inquire into their conditions. But bear in mind that a good many of them are intensely greedy. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a high price; and this is most harmful to the public.’
‘Beware! Fear God when dealing with the problems of the poor who have none to patronise, who are forlorn, indigent and helpless. Among them are some who do not question their lot in life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about begging. For God’s sake, safeguard their rights.’
‘Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in open conferences, and be conscious of the divine presence there. Never for any length of time keep yourself aloof from the people. The ruler is after all human, and he cannot form a correct view of anything which is out of sight.’
‘It is imperative on you to study carefully the principles which have inspired just and good rulers who have gone before you’.
‘Be it known to you, O Malik, that people speak well only of those who do good. It is they who furnish the proof of your actions. Hence the richest treasure you may covet must be the treasure of good deeds. Keep your desires under control and deny yourself that which you have been prohibited. Develop in your heart the feelings of love for your people and let it be the source of kindliness and blessing to them.’
‘Bear in mind that you are placed over them, even as I am placed over you. And then there is God even above him who has given you the position of a governor in order that you may look after those under you and to be sufficient unto them.’
‘Maintain justice in administration and impose it on your own self and seek the consent of the people, for the discontent of the masses sterilises the contentment of the privileged few and the discontent of the few loses itself in the contentment of the many.’
‘Remember, the privileged few will not rally around you in moments of difficulty: they will try to sidetrack justice, they will ask for more than what they deserve and will show no gratitude for favours done to them. They will feel restive in the face of trials and will offer no regret for their shortcomings. It is the common man who is the strength of the state and of religion. It is he who fights the enemy. So live in close contact with the masses and be mindful of their welfare.’
‘Do not take counsel of the one who is greedy, for he will instil greed in you and turn you into a tyrant. The worst of counsellors is he who has served as a counsellor to unjust rulers and shared their crimes. So never let men who have been companions of tyrants or shared their crimes be your counsellors.’
‘Keep near to you the upright and the God-fearing, and make clear to them that they are never to flatter you and never to give you credit for anything that you may not have done. For the tolerance of flattery and unhealthy praise stimulates pride in man and makes him arrogant.’
‘Do not treat the good and the bad alike. That will deter the good from doing good, and encourage the bad in their pursuits. Give credit where it is due.’
‘Select for your chief judge the one who is by far the best among the people, one who cannot be intimidated; one who does not turn back from the right path; one who is not self-centred and avaricious; one whom flattery cannot mislead or one who does not exult over his position.’
‘Never select men for responsible posts either out of any regard for personal connections or under any influence, for that will lead to injustice and corruption. Select for higher posts men of experience, firm in faith and belonging to good families. Such men will not fall an easy prey to temptations.’
‘Great care is to be exercised in revenue administration, to ensure the prosperity of those who pay the revenue to the state, for it is on their prosperity that the prosperity of others depends; particularly the prosperity of the masses. Indeed, the state exists on its revenue.’
‘You should regard the proper upkeep of the land in cultivation for revenue cannot be derived except by making the land productive. He who demands revenue without helping the cultivator to improve his land, inflicts unmerited hardships on the cultivator and ruins the state. The rule of such a person does not long last.’
‘Adopt useful schemes for those engaged in trade and industry and help them with wise counsels. Visit every part of the country and establish personal contact with this class, and inquire into their conditions. But bear in mind that a good many of them are intensely greedy. They hoard grain and try to sell it at a high price; and this is most harmful to the public.’
‘Beware! Fear God when dealing with the problems of the poor who have none to patronise, who are forlorn, indigent and helpless. Among them are some who do not question their lot in life and who, notwithstanding their misery, do not go about begging. For God’s sake, safeguard their rights.’
‘Meet the oppressed and the lowly periodically in open conferences, and be conscious of the divine presence there. Never for any length of time keep yourself aloof from the people. The ruler is after all human, and he cannot form a correct view of anything which is out of sight.’
‘It is imperative on you to study carefully the principles which have inspired just and good rulers who have gone before you’.
Monday, August 17, 2009
new Braille technology
Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles
Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh
automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif,
was inspired during a business trip to Washington, D.C., where a convention for people with
visual impairments was taking place.
Bar-Cohen came up with an idea to create a "living Braille," a digital, refreshable Braille device
using electroactive polymers, also known as artificial muscles. He wrote up a technology report
and included information in a related book that he published. His writings inspired other
scientists and engineers to create active displays using this technology, and prototypes are now
under development around the world.
"I hope that sometime in the future we will have Braille on an iPhone. It will be portable and
able to project a picture of a neighborhood popping up in front of you in the form of raised dots,"
said Bar-Cohen. "A digital Braille operated by artificial muscles could provide for rapid
information exchange, such as e-mail, text messaging and access to the web and other electronic
databases or archives."
According to the World Health Organization, about 314 million people are visually impaired
worldwide; 45 million of them are blind.
Recently, Bar-Cohen was contacted by the Center for Braille Innovation of the Boston-based
National Braille Press to reach out to the Electroactive Polymer community and take advantage
of his role in this field. The National Braille Press is a non-profit Braille printing and publishing
house that promotes the literacy of blind children through Braille.
Current Braille Display Technologies
The challenge for creating an active Braille display is in packing many small dots into a tiny
volume.
Unlike hardcopy Braille, a refreshable display requires the raising and lowering of a large number
of densely packed dots that allow a person to quickly read them. Currently, commercial active
Braille devices are limited to a single line of characters. A full page of Braille typically has 25
lines of up to 40 characters per line. Characters are represented by six or eight dots per cell,
arranged in two columns. To produce a page of refreshable Braille using electroactive polymers
requires individually activating and controlling thousands of raiseable dots.
Developing New Braille Technologies
Some of the leading-edge work in Braille technology was developed at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif.
Richard Heydt, a senior research engineer there who was involved in developing a prototype
says, "The electroactive polymer technology seems to be a natural fit for Braille and tactile
display applications."
The Braille display developed at SRI is based on activating a type of polymer consisting of a thin
sheet of acrylic that deforms in response to voltage applied across the film. The individual Braille
dots are defined by a pattern on this film, and each dot is independently activated to produce the
dot combinations for Braille letters and numbers.
In currently available active refreshable Braille displays, each dot is a pin driven by a small motor
or electromagnetic coil. In contrast, in the SRI display the actuators are defined regions on a
single sheet of film. Thus, while each dot is raised or lowered by its own applied voltage, there
are no motors, bulky actuators, or similar components. Since the system has far fewer discrete
components for a Braille dot array, it would be potentially much lower in cost.
"The contributions of the developers of electroactive materials to making a low-cost, active
Braille display would significantly improve the life of many people with visual impairments,
while advancing the field to benefit other applications" said Bar-Cohen.
Looking for the 'Holy Braille'
The Boston-based National Braille Press has recently established a Center for Braille Innovation.
They're looking for the "Holy Braille," a full-page electronic Braille display, at a low cost.
"We feel that the exciting field of electroactive polymer technology has matured to the point
where it can provide real solutions for Braille displays. We welcome and encourage anyone who
wants to take part in Braille innovation," said Noel H. Runyan, National Braille Press, Center for
Braille Innovation
In the spring of 2010, Bar-Cohen is including a special session on tactile displays at an SPIE
conference. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. Tactile displays will be
presented and possibly demonstrated at the conference. He hopes these baby steps may someday
lead to a full-page Braille system that will allow people to feel and "see" the universe beneath
their fingers.
JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
-end-
taken from internet
Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh
automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif,
was inspired during a business trip to Washington, D.C., where a convention for people with
visual impairments was taking place.
Bar-Cohen came up with an idea to create a "living Braille," a digital, refreshable Braille device
using electroactive polymers, also known as artificial muscles. He wrote up a technology report
and included information in a related book that he published. His writings inspired other
scientists and engineers to create active displays using this technology, and prototypes are now
under development around the world.
"I hope that sometime in the future we will have Braille on an iPhone. It will be portable and
able to project a picture of a neighborhood popping up in front of you in the form of raised dots,"
said Bar-Cohen. "A digital Braille operated by artificial muscles could provide for rapid
information exchange, such as e-mail, text messaging and access to the web and other electronic
databases or archives."
According to the World Health Organization, about 314 million people are visually impaired
worldwide; 45 million of them are blind.
Recently, Bar-Cohen was contacted by the Center for Braille Innovation of the Boston-based
National Braille Press to reach out to the Electroactive Polymer community and take advantage
of his role in this field. The National Braille Press is a non-profit Braille printing and publishing
house that promotes the literacy of blind children through Braille.
Current Braille Display Technologies
The challenge for creating an active Braille display is in packing many small dots into a tiny
volume.
Unlike hardcopy Braille, a refreshable display requires the raising and lowering of a large number
of densely packed dots that allow a person to quickly read them. Currently, commercial active
Braille devices are limited to a single line of characters. A full page of Braille typically has 25
lines of up to 40 characters per line. Characters are represented by six or eight dots per cell,
arranged in two columns. To produce a page of refreshable Braille using electroactive polymers
requires individually activating and controlling thousands of raiseable dots.
Developing New Braille Technologies
Some of the leading-edge work in Braille technology was developed at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif.
Richard Heydt, a senior research engineer there who was involved in developing a prototype
says, "The electroactive polymer technology seems to be a natural fit for Braille and tactile
display applications."
The Braille display developed at SRI is based on activating a type of polymer consisting of a thin
sheet of acrylic that deforms in response to voltage applied across the film. The individual Braille
dots are defined by a pattern on this film, and each dot is independently activated to produce the
dot combinations for Braille letters and numbers.
In currently available active refreshable Braille displays, each dot is a pin driven by a small motor
or electromagnetic coil. In contrast, in the SRI display the actuators are defined regions on a
single sheet of film. Thus, while each dot is raised or lowered by its own applied voltage, there
are no motors, bulky actuators, or similar components. Since the system has far fewer discrete
components for a Braille dot array, it would be potentially much lower in cost.
"The contributions of the developers of electroactive materials to making a low-cost, active
Braille display would significantly improve the life of many people with visual impairments,
while advancing the field to benefit other applications" said Bar-Cohen.
Looking for the 'Holy Braille'
The Boston-based National Braille Press has recently established a Center for Braille Innovation.
They're looking for the "Holy Braille," a full-page electronic Braille display, at a low cost.
"We feel that the exciting field of electroactive polymer technology has matured to the point
where it can provide real solutions for Braille displays. We welcome and encourage anyone who
wants to take part in Braille innovation," said Noel H. Runyan, National Braille Press, Center for
Braille Innovation
In the spring of 2010, Bar-Cohen is including a special session on tactile displays at an SPIE
conference. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. Tactile displays will be
presented and possibly demonstrated at the conference. He hopes these baby steps may someday
lead to a full-page Braille system that will allow people to feel and "see" the universe beneath
their fingers.
JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
-end-
taken from internet
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Conversation Starters
Practicing good parent-child communication is an excellent avenue for teaching social skills and communication skills, which young children will need more and more as they get older. Use these conversation starters to work with your child on active listening and communication.
Does your child copy your disciplinary style? Ask, “If your teddy bear makes a mess or tells a lie, how will you deal with it?”
I see you had a problem with your teacher today. Tell me what happened and let’s see if we can work together on a way to clear up the problem.
I think you made a great drawing. Tell me why you picked the colors that you did. How did you think to draw that?
I’d like you to play on a neighborhood team this summer. What kind of team would you like to play on?
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Is there someone you know whom you would almost always be willing to do what he or she says? Who is that person?
Let’s do something fun tomorrow. What do you think would be fun?
Let’s go for a walk around the neighborhood and see how many doors we can count. You can practice riding on your bike while I walk.
Let’s play copycat. You do everything I do. Later I’ll copy everything you do. What did I do that you had the most fun copying? Why? What else do I do that you do?
Let’s play with clay today. What do you like to make with clay?
Our church is having a picnic tomorrow night and the whole family is going. Can you be in charge of getting together things to play with, like flying discs or a baseball?
Tell me about a time you felt (happy, sad, afraid, angry) during the day today.
Tell me about one person you met or played with today.
Tell me about one thing that happened today.
Tell me one good thing that happened at school today.
Tonight, we’re going to have a family meeting to talk about taking care of the dog. Everyone will sign up for feeding and walking the dog during the week.
What are our family rules? Why do we need them?
What are some of the rules in Grandma’s (or another family member’s) house?
What do you like best to do with (a member of the family)? Why?
What do you want to be when you grow up? What makes you want to be that?
What is a rule?
What is your favorite thing to do?
What is your favorite thing to eat?
What makes you angry? What do you do when you’re angry?
What rules do you follow at school? Why?
What scares you? What do you do when you’re scared?
What should happen if you break a rule?
What three words would you use to tell another person about yourself? Why those three words?
What would you like to help me make for dinner tonight?
When do you feel bored? What do you do to stop being bored?
Which would you rather do—play ball or play cards? Why?
Who is your favorite character on TV or in a book? What makes them your favorite? Would you like to be like the character? What would you copy?
Who’s your favorite friend?
(taken from internet)
Practicing good parent-child communication is an excellent avenue for teaching social skills and communication skills, which young children will need more and more as they get older. Use these conversation starters to work with your child on active listening and communication.
Does your child copy your disciplinary style? Ask, “If your teddy bear makes a mess or tells a lie, how will you deal with it?”
I see you had a problem with your teacher today. Tell me what happened and let’s see if we can work together on a way to clear up the problem.
I think you made a great drawing. Tell me why you picked the colors that you did. How did you think to draw that?
I’d like you to play on a neighborhood team this summer. What kind of team would you like to play on?
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Is there someone you know whom you would almost always be willing to do what he or she says? Who is that person?
Let’s do something fun tomorrow. What do you think would be fun?
Let’s go for a walk around the neighborhood and see how many doors we can count. You can practice riding on your bike while I walk.
Let’s play copycat. You do everything I do. Later I’ll copy everything you do. What did I do that you had the most fun copying? Why? What else do I do that you do?
Let’s play with clay today. What do you like to make with clay?
Our church is having a picnic tomorrow night and the whole family is going. Can you be in charge of getting together things to play with, like flying discs or a baseball?
Tell me about a time you felt (happy, sad, afraid, angry) during the day today.
Tell me about one person you met or played with today.
Tell me about one thing that happened today.
Tell me one good thing that happened at school today.
Tonight, we’re going to have a family meeting to talk about taking care of the dog. Everyone will sign up for feeding and walking the dog during the week.
What are our family rules? Why do we need them?
What are some of the rules in Grandma’s (or another family member’s) house?
What do you like best to do with (a member of the family)? Why?
What do you want to be when you grow up? What makes you want to be that?
What is a rule?
What is your favorite thing to do?
What is your favorite thing to eat?
What makes you angry? What do you do when you’re angry?
What rules do you follow at school? Why?
What scares you? What do you do when you’re scared?
What should happen if you break a rule?
What three words would you use to tell another person about yourself? Why those three words?
What would you like to help me make for dinner tonight?
When do you feel bored? What do you do to stop being bored?
Which would you rather do—play ball or play cards? Why?
Who is your favorite character on TV or in a book? What makes them your favorite? Would you like to be like the character? What would you copy?
Who’s your favorite friend?
(taken from internet)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Brave young lady
the nation, lahore.
A blind girl from Multan has found a novel way to brighten her life - reporting cricket matches.
In an astounding tale of courage and determination, a Multan-based girl Sania Zaidi has traveled with the Pakistan team to Sri Lanka and is currently working as a reporter. In A BBC journalist said he was surprised to see Sri Lankan skipper Sangakkara addressing her by her name in the post-match press conference at Dambulla. Sania reports cricket matches with the help of her brother. She says she takes her notes most of her notes via TV commentary and her brother accompanies who also renders great help. A lecturer in Mass Communication department in Bahauddin Zakeriya University Multan, she says glaucoma is in her family. The disease is associated with blindness and one of her brother has also suffered from it. By the age of two, doctors had declared that she won't ever be able to see. Her father is a businessman and she has two brothers and one sister. One of her brother also lost his eye sight.. Despite the blindness, she participated in Physical Education practical examinations and was successful. She said she started taking interest in cricket when her father brought a model cricket pitch from Britain with players placed in different fielding positions. She liked the game so much that she started keen interest in matches, and finally decided to become a sports reporter. Sania added that she was a big fan of Sanath Jayasuriya and she had interviewed him as well. She had also interviewed Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Jonty Rhodes, Muttia Muralitharan and Mohammad Yousuf. She use a software 'Jose' in her laptop that reads out the text and after listening, she finetunes her work. She spires to report international cricket matches and Sri Lankan tour fulfilled one of her big dreams.
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky"
A blind girl from Multan has found a novel way to brighten her life - reporting cricket matches.
In an astounding tale of courage and determination, a Multan-based girl Sania Zaidi has traveled with the Pakistan team to Sri Lanka and is currently working as a reporter. In A BBC journalist said he was surprised to see Sri Lankan skipper Sangakkara addressing her by her name in the post-match press conference at Dambulla. Sania reports cricket matches with the help of her brother. She says she takes her notes most of her notes via TV commentary and her brother accompanies who also renders great help. A lecturer in Mass Communication department in Bahauddin Zakeriya University Multan, she says glaucoma is in her family. The disease is associated with blindness and one of her brother has also suffered from it. By the age of two, doctors had declared that she won't ever be able to see. Her father is a businessman and she has two brothers and one sister. One of her brother also lost his eye sight.. Despite the blindness, she participated in Physical Education practical examinations and was successful. She said she started taking interest in cricket when her father brought a model cricket pitch from Britain with players placed in different fielding positions. She liked the game so much that she started keen interest in matches, and finally decided to become a sports reporter. Sania added that she was a big fan of Sanath Jayasuriya and she had interviewed him as well. She had also interviewed Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Jonty Rhodes, Muttia Muralitharan and Mohammad Yousuf. She use a software 'Jose' in her laptop that reads out the text and after listening, she finetunes her work. She spires to report international cricket matches and Sri Lankan tour fulfilled one of her big dreams.
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky"
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
tips
The road to depression recovery
Recovering from depression requires action. But taking action when you’re depressed is hard. In fact, just thinking about the things you should do to feel better, like exercising or going out with friends, can be exhausting.
It’s the Catch-22 of depression recovery. The things that help the most are the things that are most difficult to do. But there’s a difference between difficult and impossible.
Start small and stay focused
The key to depression recovery is to start with a few small goals and slowly build from there. Draw upon whatever resources you have. You may not have much energy, but you probably have enough to take a short walk around the block or pick up the phone to call a loved one.
Take things day by day and reward yourself for each accomplishment. The steps may seem small, but if you make time for them each day, they’ll quickly add up. And for all the energy you put in to your depression recovery, you’ll get back much more in return.
Depression self-help tip 1: Cultivate supportive relationships
Getting the support you need plays a big role in lifting the fog of depression and keeping it away. On your own, it can be difficult to maintain perspective and sustain the effort required to beat depression. But the very nature of depression makes it difficult to reach out for help. However, isolation and loneliness make depression even worse, so maintaining your close relationships and social activities are important.
The thought of reaching out to even close family members and friends can seem overwhelming. You may feel ashamed, too exhausted to talk, or guilty for neglecting the relationship. Remind yourself that this is the depression talking. You loved ones care about you and want to help.
Turn to trusted friends and family members. Share what you’re going through with the people you love and trust. Ask for the help and support you need. You may have retreated from your most treasured relationships, but they can get you through this tough time.
Try to keep up with social activities even if you don’t feel like it. When you’re depressed, it feels more comfortable to retreat into your shell. But being around other people will make you feel less depressed.
Join a support group for depression. Being with others who are dealing with depression can go a long way in reducing your sense of isolation. You can also encourage each other, give and receive advice on how to cope, and share your experiences. To locate a depression support group in your area, use the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's Support Group Locator.
10 tips for reaching out and building relationships
Talk to one person about your feelings.
Help someone else by volunteering.
Have lunch or coffee with a friend.
Ask a loved one to check in with you regularly.
Accompany someone to the movies, a concert, or a small get-together.
Call or email an old friend.
Go for a walk with a workout buddy.
Schedule a weekly dinner date
Meet new people by taking a class or joining a club.
Confide in a counselor, therapist, or clergy member.
Depression self-help tip 2: Take care of yourself
In order to overcome depression, you have to nurture yourself. This includes making time for things you enjoy, asking for help from others, setting limits on what you’re able to do, adopting healthy habits, and scheduling fun activities into your day.
Do things you enjoy (or used to)
While you can’t force yourself to have fun or experience pleasure, you can choose to do things that you used to enjoy. Pick up a former hobby or a sport you used to like. Express yourself creatively through music, art, or writing. Go out with friends. Take a day trip to a museum, the mountains, or the ballpark.
Develop a wellness toolbox
Come up with a list of things that you can do for a quick mood boost. Include any strategies, activities, or skills that have helped in the past. The more “tools” for coping with depression, the better. Try and implement a few of these ideas each day, even if you’re feeling good.
Spend some time in nature.
List what you like about yourself.
Read a good book.
Watch a funny movie or TV show.
Take a long, hot bath.
Listen to music.
Take care of a few small tasks.
Play with a pet.
Write in your journal.
Do something spontaneous.
Push yourself to do things, even when you don’t feel like it. You might be surprised at how much better you feel once you’re out in the world. Even if your depression doesn’t lift immediately, you’ll gradually feel more upbeat and energetic as you make time for fun activities.
Adopt healthy lifestyle habits
Aim for 8 hours of sleep. Depression typically involves sleep problems. Whether you’re sleeping too little or too much, your mood suffers. Get on a better sleep schedule by learning healthy sleep habits.
Expose yourself to a little sunlight every day. Lack of sunlight can make depression worse. Make sure you’re getting enough. Take a short walk outdoors, have your coffee outside, enjoy an al fresco meal, people-watch on a park bench, or sit out in the garden.
Practice relaxation techniques. A daily relaxation practice can help relieve symptoms of depression, reduce stress, and boost feelings of joy and well-being. Try yoga, deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, or meditation.
Fight depression by managing stress
Not only does stress prolong and worsen depression, but it can also trigger it. In order to get over depression and stay well, it’s essential to learn how to minimize and cope with stress.
Identify your stressors. Figure out all the things in your life that are stressing you out. Examples include: work overload, unsupportive relationships, substance abuse, taking on too much, or health problems. Once you’ve identified your stressors, you can make a plan to avoid them or minimize their impact.
Go easy on yourself. Many depressed people are perfectionists, holding themselves to impossibly high standards and then beating themselves up when they fail to meet them. Battle this source of self-imposed stress by challenging your negative ways of thinking.
Plan ahead. If you know your stress triggers and limits, you will be able to identify and avoid many landmines. If you sense trouble ahead, protect yourself by dipping into your wellness toolbox and saying “no” to added responsibility.
Depression self-help tip 3: Get regular exercise
When you’re depressed, exercising may be the last thing you feel like doing. But exercise is a powerful tool for dealing with depression. In fact, studies show that regular exercise can be as effective as antidepressant medication at increasing energy levels and decreasing feelings of fatigue.
Scientists haven’t figured out exactly why exercise is such a potent antidepressant, but evidence suggests that physical activity increases mood-enhancing neurotransmitters in the brain, raises endorphins, reduces stress, and relieves muscle tension – all things that can have a positive effect on depression.
To get the most benefit, aim for 30 minutes of exercise per day. But you can start small. Short 10-minute bursts of activity can have a positive effect on your mood. Here are a few easy ways to get moving:
Take the stairs rather than the elevator
Park your car in the farthest spot in the lot
Take your dog for a walk
Pair up with an exercise partner
Walk while you’re talking on the phone
As a next step, try incorporating walks or some other enjoyable, easy form of exercise into your daily routine. The key is to pick an activity you enjoy, so you’re more likely to keep up with it.
Exercise as an Antidepressant
The following exercise tips offer a powerful prescription for boosting mood:
Exercise now…and again. A 10-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours. The key to sustaining mood benefits is to exercise regularly.
Choose activities that are moderately intense. Aerobic exercise undoubtedly has mental health benefits, but you don't need to sweat strenuously to see results.
Find exercises that are continuous and rhythmic (rather than intermittent). Walking, swimming, dancing, stationery biking, and yoga are good choices.
Add a mind-body element. Activities such as yoga and tai chi rest your mind and pump up your energy. You can also add a meditative element to walking or swimming by repeating a mantra (a word or phrase) as you move.
Start slowly, and don't overdo it. More isn't better. Athletes who over train find their moods drop rather than lift.
Adapted from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts
Recovering from depression requires action. But taking action when you’re depressed is hard. In fact, just thinking about the things you should do to feel better, like exercising or going out with friends, can be exhausting.
It’s the Catch-22 of depression recovery. The things that help the most are the things that are most difficult to do. But there’s a difference between difficult and impossible.
Start small and stay focused
The key to depression recovery is to start with a few small goals and slowly build from there. Draw upon whatever resources you have. You may not have much energy, but you probably have enough to take a short walk around the block or pick up the phone to call a loved one.
Take things day by day and reward yourself for each accomplishment. The steps may seem small, but if you make time for them each day, they’ll quickly add up. And for all the energy you put in to your depression recovery, you’ll get back much more in return.
Depression self-help tip 1: Cultivate supportive relationships
Getting the support you need plays a big role in lifting the fog of depression and keeping it away. On your own, it can be difficult to maintain perspective and sustain the effort required to beat depression. But the very nature of depression makes it difficult to reach out for help. However, isolation and loneliness make depression even worse, so maintaining your close relationships and social activities are important.
The thought of reaching out to even close family members and friends can seem overwhelming. You may feel ashamed, too exhausted to talk, or guilty for neglecting the relationship. Remind yourself that this is the depression talking. You loved ones care about you and want to help.
Turn to trusted friends and family members. Share what you’re going through with the people you love and trust. Ask for the help and support you need. You may have retreated from your most treasured relationships, but they can get you through this tough time.
Try to keep up with social activities even if you don’t feel like it. When you’re depressed, it feels more comfortable to retreat into your shell. But being around other people will make you feel less depressed.
Join a support group for depression. Being with others who are dealing with depression can go a long way in reducing your sense of isolation. You can also encourage each other, give and receive advice on how to cope, and share your experiences. To locate a depression support group in your area, use the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's Support Group Locator.
10 tips for reaching out and building relationships
Talk to one person about your feelings.
Help someone else by volunteering.
Have lunch or coffee with a friend.
Ask a loved one to check in with you regularly.
Accompany someone to the movies, a concert, or a small get-together.
Call or email an old friend.
Go for a walk with a workout buddy.
Schedule a weekly dinner date
Meet new people by taking a class or joining a club.
Confide in a counselor, therapist, or clergy member.
Depression self-help tip 2: Take care of yourself
In order to overcome depression, you have to nurture yourself. This includes making time for things you enjoy, asking for help from others, setting limits on what you’re able to do, adopting healthy habits, and scheduling fun activities into your day.
Do things you enjoy (or used to)
While you can’t force yourself to have fun or experience pleasure, you can choose to do things that you used to enjoy. Pick up a former hobby or a sport you used to like. Express yourself creatively through music, art, or writing. Go out with friends. Take a day trip to a museum, the mountains, or the ballpark.
Develop a wellness toolbox
Come up with a list of things that you can do for a quick mood boost. Include any strategies, activities, or skills that have helped in the past. The more “tools” for coping with depression, the better. Try and implement a few of these ideas each day, even if you’re feeling good.
Spend some time in nature.
List what you like about yourself.
Read a good book.
Watch a funny movie or TV show.
Take a long, hot bath.
Listen to music.
Take care of a few small tasks.
Play with a pet.
Write in your journal.
Do something spontaneous.
Push yourself to do things, even when you don’t feel like it. You might be surprised at how much better you feel once you’re out in the world. Even if your depression doesn’t lift immediately, you’ll gradually feel more upbeat and energetic as you make time for fun activities.
Adopt healthy lifestyle habits
Aim for 8 hours of sleep. Depression typically involves sleep problems. Whether you’re sleeping too little or too much, your mood suffers. Get on a better sleep schedule by learning healthy sleep habits.
Expose yourself to a little sunlight every day. Lack of sunlight can make depression worse. Make sure you’re getting enough. Take a short walk outdoors, have your coffee outside, enjoy an al fresco meal, people-watch on a park bench, or sit out in the garden.
Practice relaxation techniques. A daily relaxation practice can help relieve symptoms of depression, reduce stress, and boost feelings of joy and well-being. Try yoga, deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, or meditation.
Fight depression by managing stress
Not only does stress prolong and worsen depression, but it can also trigger it. In order to get over depression and stay well, it’s essential to learn how to minimize and cope with stress.
Identify your stressors. Figure out all the things in your life that are stressing you out. Examples include: work overload, unsupportive relationships, substance abuse, taking on too much, or health problems. Once you’ve identified your stressors, you can make a plan to avoid them or minimize their impact.
Go easy on yourself. Many depressed people are perfectionists, holding themselves to impossibly high standards and then beating themselves up when they fail to meet them. Battle this source of self-imposed stress by challenging your negative ways of thinking.
Plan ahead. If you know your stress triggers and limits, you will be able to identify and avoid many landmines. If you sense trouble ahead, protect yourself by dipping into your wellness toolbox and saying “no” to added responsibility.
Depression self-help tip 3: Get regular exercise
When you’re depressed, exercising may be the last thing you feel like doing. But exercise is a powerful tool for dealing with depression. In fact, studies show that regular exercise can be as effective as antidepressant medication at increasing energy levels and decreasing feelings of fatigue.
Scientists haven’t figured out exactly why exercise is such a potent antidepressant, but evidence suggests that physical activity increases mood-enhancing neurotransmitters in the brain, raises endorphins, reduces stress, and relieves muscle tension – all things that can have a positive effect on depression.
To get the most benefit, aim for 30 minutes of exercise per day. But you can start small. Short 10-minute bursts of activity can have a positive effect on your mood. Here are a few easy ways to get moving:
Take the stairs rather than the elevator
Park your car in the farthest spot in the lot
Take your dog for a walk
Pair up with an exercise partner
Walk while you’re talking on the phone
As a next step, try incorporating walks or some other enjoyable, easy form of exercise into your daily routine. The key is to pick an activity you enjoy, so you’re more likely to keep up with it.
Exercise as an Antidepressant
The following exercise tips offer a powerful prescription for boosting mood:
Exercise now…and again. A 10-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours. The key to sustaining mood benefits is to exercise regularly.
Choose activities that are moderately intense. Aerobic exercise undoubtedly has mental health benefits, but you don't need to sweat strenuously to see results.
Find exercises that are continuous and rhythmic (rather than intermittent). Walking, swimming, dancing, stationery biking, and yoga are good choices.
Add a mind-body element. Activities such as yoga and tai chi rest your mind and pump up your energy. You can also add a meditative element to walking or swimming by repeating a mantra (a word or phrase) as you move.
Start slowly, and don't overdo it. More isn't better. Athletes who over train find their moods drop rather than lift.
Adapted from Johns Hopkins Health Alerts
tips to cope with depression and anxiety
(taken from internet
Top Ten Tips to Cope With Depression and Anxiety
Feeling blue? Down in the Dumps? Anxious? Depression and Anxiety can be tough to take.
HERE'S HOW TO WIN OVER DEPRESSION&ANXIETY;:
1. Don't fight it; Acknowledge your emotion; allow yourself to feel your sadness . Fighting depression only strengthens it. As paradoxical as this seems, it works! You don't have to act on it; just feel what you feel–and then release it, like you do with catch-and-release fishing, or like you do when you're in an ocean wave. Like a wave, it will come and it will go.
2. Identify what other emotions you are also feeling. Do you also feel angry, scared; sad? What saddens you? Have you had some losses or disappoint-ments? It can help to Remember: in abnormal circumstances, abnormal feelings are normal.
3. Recognize what's happening in your life that is depressing. What events in your life are your emotions connected to? Does the intensity of your emotion match the events in your life? If not, what else could your emotions be about?
4. Does something need to be done about your difficult circumstances? Do what you CAN do; i.e. balance your checkbook, make a doctor's appointment, talk to your boss, call a plumber, apologize to your friend.
5. Let go of what CAN'T be done. Grieve the losses, forgive your mistakes,and forgive others' mistakes.
6. Don't wait until you feel good to treat yourself well. What would you do IF you felt good? DO IT NOW, even though you don't feel like it. Eat regular, healthy meals , call a friend, take a walk, clean your house, do your laundry, answer the phone, etc.
7. Express your emotions creatively. Play (or write) some music. Write an essay, story or a poem. Draw, paint, knit, carve, stitch, whittle–make something that demonstrates how you feel.
8, Turn your emotion into motion. Exercise, take a walk, ride a bike, go to the gym and work out, throw some ice cubes at a sidewalk, scrub your kitchen floor or bathroom; DO something physical, and do it often.
9. Give Thanks for what is going well in your life. Did you eat today? Do you have clothes? Do you have a roof over your head? Can you read? Did the sun come up today? Start with basics you are grateful for, and expand from there.
GET HELP: when none of these things work; when you do these things, and you still are sinking deep into depression; or when you try, but can't do what you know you could do,Get Help!
Please let me know which of these have been most helpful to you. Can I answer a question for you? I am happy to be of assistance.
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW
Top Ten Tips to Cope With Depression and Anxiety
Feeling blue? Down in the Dumps? Anxious? Depression and Anxiety can be tough to take.
HERE'S HOW TO WIN OVER DEPRESSION&ANXIETY;:
1. Don't fight it; Acknowledge your emotion; allow yourself to feel your sadness . Fighting depression only strengthens it. As paradoxical as this seems, it works! You don't have to act on it; just feel what you feel–and then release it, like you do with catch-and-release fishing, or like you do when you're in an ocean wave. Like a wave, it will come and it will go.
2. Identify what other emotions you are also feeling. Do you also feel angry, scared; sad? What saddens you? Have you had some losses or disappoint-ments? It can help to Remember: in abnormal circumstances, abnormal feelings are normal.
3. Recognize what's happening in your life that is depressing. What events in your life are your emotions connected to? Does the intensity of your emotion match the events in your life? If not, what else could your emotions be about?
4. Does something need to be done about your difficult circumstances? Do what you CAN do; i.e. balance your checkbook, make a doctor's appointment, talk to your boss, call a plumber, apologize to your friend.
5. Let go of what CAN'T be done. Grieve the losses, forgive your mistakes,and forgive others' mistakes.
6. Don't wait until you feel good to treat yourself well. What would you do IF you felt good? DO IT NOW, even though you don't feel like it. Eat regular, healthy meals , call a friend, take a walk, clean your house, do your laundry, answer the phone, etc.
7. Express your emotions creatively. Play (or write) some music. Write an essay, story or a poem. Draw, paint, knit, carve, stitch, whittle–make something that demonstrates how you feel.
8, Turn your emotion into motion. Exercise, take a walk, ride a bike, go to the gym and work out, throw some ice cubes at a sidewalk, scrub your kitchen floor or bathroom; DO something physical, and do it often.
9. Give Thanks for what is going well in your life. Did you eat today? Do you have clothes? Do you have a roof over your head? Can you read? Did the sun come up today? Start with basics you are grateful for, and expand from there.
GET HELP: when none of these things work; when you do these things, and you still are sinking deep into depression; or when you try, but can't do what you know you could do,Get Help!
Please let me know which of these have been most helpful to you. Can I answer a question for you? I am happy to be of assistance.
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW
Friday, August 7, 2009
Wonder drug
(taken from internet)
Could hot cocoa be the next "wonder drug" For high blood pressure? Harvard researchers praise stunningly simple discovery!
According to recent estimates, nearly 1-in-3 American adults has high blood pressure. But for the Kuna Indians living on a group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama , hypertension doesn't even exist. In fact, after age 60, the average blood pressure for Kuna Indian islanders is a perfect 110/70. Is it because they eat less salt? No. Kuna Indians eat as much, if not moresalt, than people in the U.S. Is it due to their genes? No. Kuna Indians who move away from the islands are just as likely to suffer from high blood pressure as anyone else! So what makes these folks practically "immune" to hypertension -- and lets them enjoy much lower death rates from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer? Harvard researchers were stunned to discover it's because they drink about 5 cups of cocoa each day. That's right, cocoa! Studies show the flavonols in cocoa stimulate your body's production ofnitric oxide -- boosting blood flow to your heart, brain, and other organs. In fact, one study found cocoa thins your blood just as well as low-dose aspirin! But that's not all. A Harvard Medical School professor claims cocoa can also treat blocked arteries, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, even impotence!
Painless cholesterol cure works in just 7 days -- and drives the "food police" crazy! Want to lower your cholesterol so fast it'll make your head spin? It's a breeze, just eat guacamole -- or any dish containing avocados! Most health experts and nutritionists will tell you this rich, delicious Mexican dish is BANNED from any cholesterol- watcher's menu. But not Dr. Steven Pratt. That's because new research shows eating avocados can lower your cholesterol even faster than drugs.... without the side effects!One study found after just 7 days on a diet including avocados, LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglyceride levels dropped by 22 percent. Meanwhile, HDL ("good") cholesterol shot up 11 percent -- something most cholesterol- lowering drugs won't do!
The cinnamon cure for high blood sugar
Sprinkle a little cinnamon on your toast, cereal, oatmeal, or sliced apples. It not only tastes good, it lowers your blood sugar!
In a recent study, people reduced their blood sugar levels by as much as 29 percent in just 40 days. That's with NO drugs, NO diet changes -- just plain old cinnamon! The fat that blasts away cancer You've been told cancer runs in families. You've been told what to eat and what NOT to eat -- including LESS fat. Yet Dr. Steven Pratt says there'sone fat you should eat MORE of. It's the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid, found in olive oil! It should come as no surprise. After all, olive oil is a staple of the Mediterranean diet. And people inSpain and Greece are far less likely to develop cancer than in the U.S. But what's really interesting is how olive oil not only prevents cancer, it blasts away cancer cells that already exist! So if you're even the slightest bit worried about cancer, this is oneSuperFood you don't want to be without! NEW prostate-protecting champ trumps tomatoes! Unless you've been asleep under a rock for the past decade, you've heard the news about tomatoes. They contain a potent antioxidant calledlycopene that's been proven to reduce the risk of certain cancers -- in particular, prostate cancer. A famous Harvard study back in 1995 found that out of 48,000 men surveyed, those who ate 10 or more servings of tomatoes a week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by more thanone-third. What's more, they lowered their risk of aggressive prostate tumors (the kind that are really tough to treat) byHALF! But before you reach for that slice of pizza or bottle of ketchup, listen up. What if I told you about a sweet, refreshing food Dr. Steven Pratt recommends that's even better for your prostate than tomatoes? This NEW prostate protecting champ is watermelon! Ounce for ounce, watermelon is even richer in lycopene than tomatoes. And since you probably eat more watermelon in one sitting than you do tomatoes, you don't have to gorge on it 10 times a week in order to slash your cancer risk! Just a few times a week should do it.
Knock out an ulcer with broccoli?! About 25 million Americans will suffer from a peptic ulcer at some point in their lives. To get rid of their ulcers, most will take an antibiotic likeamoxicillin. Pretty tame stuff, right? Wrong! Amoxicillin can bring with it unwanted side effects like fever, nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, headache, even a yucky condition called "hairy tongue"! And if you think that's bad, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the cost of treating an ulcer with antibiotics over an average 17-day period can run upward of $1,000!Fortunately, there's oneunconventional treatment with NO side effects Dr.. Pratt swears by. "Eat broccoli!" he says. Why?Broccoli contains a remarkably potent compound called sulforaphane, that kills off the H. pylori bacteria that cause most ulcers. Not only can it knock out an ulcer, eating one serving a day for a month might run you 20 bucks... a fraction of the cost of drugs.
Could hot cocoa be the next "wonder drug" For high blood pressure? Harvard researchers praise stunningly simple discovery!
According to recent estimates, nearly 1-in-3 American adults has high blood pressure. But for the Kuna Indians living on a group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama , hypertension doesn't even exist. In fact, after age 60, the average blood pressure for Kuna Indian islanders is a perfect 110/70. Is it because they eat less salt? No. Kuna Indians eat as much, if not moresalt, than people in the U.S. Is it due to their genes? No. Kuna Indians who move away from the islands are just as likely to suffer from high blood pressure as anyone else! So what makes these folks practically "immune" to hypertension -- and lets them enjoy much lower death rates from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer? Harvard researchers were stunned to discover it's because they drink about 5 cups of cocoa each day. That's right, cocoa! Studies show the flavonols in cocoa stimulate your body's production ofnitric oxide -- boosting blood flow to your heart, brain, and other organs. In fact, one study found cocoa thins your blood just as well as low-dose aspirin! But that's not all. A Harvard Medical School professor claims cocoa can also treat blocked arteries, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, even impotence!
Painless cholesterol cure works in just 7 days -- and drives the "food police" crazy! Want to lower your cholesterol so fast it'll make your head spin? It's a breeze, just eat guacamole -- or any dish containing avocados! Most health experts and nutritionists will tell you this rich, delicious Mexican dish is BANNED from any cholesterol- watcher's menu. But not Dr. Steven Pratt. That's because new research shows eating avocados can lower your cholesterol even faster than drugs.... without the side effects!One study found after just 7 days on a diet including avocados, LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglyceride levels dropped by 22 percent. Meanwhile, HDL ("good") cholesterol shot up 11 percent -- something most cholesterol- lowering drugs won't do!
The cinnamon cure for high blood sugar
Sprinkle a little cinnamon on your toast, cereal, oatmeal, or sliced apples. It not only tastes good, it lowers your blood sugar!
In a recent study, people reduced their blood sugar levels by as much as 29 percent in just 40 days. That's with NO drugs, NO diet changes -- just plain old cinnamon! The fat that blasts away cancer You've been told cancer runs in families. You've been told what to eat and what NOT to eat -- including LESS fat. Yet Dr. Steven Pratt says there'sone fat you should eat MORE of. It's the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid, found in olive oil! It should come as no surprise. After all, olive oil is a staple of the Mediterranean diet. And people inSpain and Greece are far less likely to develop cancer than in the U.S. But what's really interesting is how olive oil not only prevents cancer, it blasts away cancer cells that already exist! So if you're even the slightest bit worried about cancer, this is oneSuperFood you don't want to be without! NEW prostate-protecting champ trumps tomatoes! Unless you've been asleep under a rock for the past decade, you've heard the news about tomatoes. They contain a potent antioxidant calledlycopene that's been proven to reduce the risk of certain cancers -- in particular, prostate cancer. A famous Harvard study back in 1995 found that out of 48,000 men surveyed, those who ate 10 or more servings of tomatoes a week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by more thanone-third. What's more, they lowered their risk of aggressive prostate tumors (the kind that are really tough to treat) byHALF! But before you reach for that slice of pizza or bottle of ketchup, listen up. What if I told you about a sweet, refreshing food Dr. Steven Pratt recommends that's even better for your prostate than tomatoes? This NEW prostate protecting champ is watermelon! Ounce for ounce, watermelon is even richer in lycopene than tomatoes. And since you probably eat more watermelon in one sitting than you do tomatoes, you don't have to gorge on it 10 times a week in order to slash your cancer risk! Just a few times a week should do it.
Knock out an ulcer with broccoli?! About 25 million Americans will suffer from a peptic ulcer at some point in their lives. To get rid of their ulcers, most will take an antibiotic likeamoxicillin. Pretty tame stuff, right? Wrong! Amoxicillin can bring with it unwanted side effects like fever, nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, headache, even a yucky condition called "hairy tongue"! And if you think that's bad, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the cost of treating an ulcer with antibiotics over an average 17-day period can run upward of $1,000!Fortunately, there's oneunconventional treatment with NO side effects Dr.. Pratt swears by. "Eat broccoli!" he says. Why?Broccoli contains a remarkably potent compound called sulforaphane, that kills off the H. pylori bacteria that cause most ulcers. Not only can it knock out an ulcer, eating one serving a day for a month might run you 20 bucks... a fraction of the cost of drugs.
Eye drops may reverse Glaucoma
Eye drops 'may reverse glaucoma' A new type of medicated eye drop may be able to reverse symptoms of glaucoma, an Italian study has suggested. Glaucoma, the world's leading cause of blindness, is caused by pressure inside the eye - intraocular pressure - which damages cells in the optic nerve. The study of rats and human patients found drops containing a nerve growth factor may stop these cells dying, and actually improve vision. It is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is estimated that 77m people have glaucoma around the world. The build up of intraocular pressure can sometimes be controlled through other techniques. But once pressure has started to damage optic nerve cells, called retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), it has proved impossible to recover that lost function. And often people with glaucoma do not seek expert help until the condition is already relatively advanced. “ This research would seem to indicate both effectiveness and acceptability as to the means of drug delivery ” David Wright International Glaucoma Association The researchers, from the University of Rome, treated rats with symptoms of glaucoma with eye drops containing nerve growth factor. The animals who were given the eye drops showed decreased levels of RGC death compared with those who did not receive the treatment. The researchers went on to test the drops in three human patients whose intraocular pressure had started to be controlled, but who still showed signs ofprogressive deterioration in their vision. In two of the patients vision improved, while in the other it was stabilised. The improvements lasted up to 18 months after the eye drops were applied. Nerve growth factor appears to trigger chemical changes within cells that prevent them from dying in response to damage. It might also enable cells whose function had begun to be damaged to bounce back. And it might boost the capacity of healthy RGCs to form new connections within the optic nerve, to compensate for any damage that had already taken place. However, nerve growth factor cannot rescue RGCs that have already died - in common with brain tissue, the optic nerve cannot regenerate. Encouraging results Lead researcher Dr Stefano Bonini said: "Although neuroprotection in glaucoma has already been attempted with several compounds, this is the first timethat an improvement in visual function is observed in patients with advanced optic nerve damage." David Wright, chief executive of the International Glaucoma Association, warned against drawing firm conclusions from such a small study - but said theresults were encouraging. He said: "There have been many false dawns in the search for neuro-protective agents for the treatment of glaucoma and it is a feature of research on othercompounds that early promise does not always translate into clinical effectiveness when larger studies are undertaken. "However, this research would seem to indicate both effectiveness and acceptability as to the means of drug delivery. "If these early indications are carried through to wider trials and there are no other problems, then this has the potential to open a completely new methodof treating glaucoma and of preventing unnecessary visual loss in the future." Professor Peng Khaw is director of the National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute ofOphthalmology. He said many other substances had achieved good results in animals, only to fail in humans. However, he said, if the researchers could perfect an easy-to-use eye drop formulation that would represent a huge step forward. Story from BBC NEWS:
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Smart cane
'Smart cane' reads e-tags to help blindAP 5 August 2009, 12:28am IST DETROIT: A cane equipped with the technology that retailers use to tag merchandisecould help blind peopleavoid obstacles.An engineering professor at Central Michigan University has created a 'Smart Cane'to read electronic navigational tags installed between buildings to aid the blindin reaching their destinations more easily.During the spring term, Kumar Yelamarthi, the project leader, and five engineeringstudents tested the cane, which is equipped with Radio Frequency Identification technology,similar to what retailers put on products to keep them from being stolen.The students also created a vibrating glove to assist those who are both visuallyand hearing-impaired. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Smart-cane-reads-e-tags-to-help-blind/articleshow/4858002.cms
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
work progress
By Shazia Hasan.
2008-2009
Annual Progress Report
Jaws Section
Introduction
The Computer Section in Ida Rieu which existed since long was using key board memorizing and typing without ability to know if the matter is being correctly typed. This was extremely limited use and provided no practical use. The students found this very monotonous and did not show much interest in pursuing it.
Ida Rieu management decided to upgrade the computer section on the modern lines and in December 2001 launched software based PC training for the visually impaired.
In December 2001, a modest start was made by establishing JAWS based computer training programme with one PC. The Jaws software revolutionized the possibility of PC usage by the visually impaired persons and started attracting a number of students. The user is able to use most of prime features of PC like any sighted person, including internet, surfing, emailing, reading books, exchanging information etc.
As with the help of Jaws a blind person can work par with sighted persons or peep out from isolation, a blind person can get every kind of information by using internet and read ink print books by scanning them. A large group of blind persons who have received computer training from Ida Rieu’s jaws section are now working with mainstream like other sighted persons.
The Jaws Section grew from one PC to four PC and has successfully provided training in the use of computers to a large number of persons. Now we have 4 computers, internet facility and one Braille embosser in our jaws section. Many blind persons have been trained in the use of computers and have been employed with various corporations and Banks..
Some out standing achievements
With limited resources Ida Rieu’s Jaws section have the following achievements of which we are very proud. This is in addition to providing the jaws training program to the students as detailed below in the schedule.
Ten blind students have been trained for KESC who are working at par with sighted persons.
One fairy tale book has been prepared using Jaws and printed in Braille.
English language being a backbone for use of computers, a short English language course was arranged for blind students.
The students from jaws section are efficiently using the internet, exchanging emails and browsing.
Time table
Days
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
P1
Outsider girls
Out sider girls
Firstyear
Firstyear
Out sider girls
firstyear
P2
BA Part 1-g
Ba part 1-g
Ba part 1-g
Ba part 1-b
BA part 1-b
BA part 1-b
P3
Class six
Class six
Second year
Second year
Class six
Second year
P4
Class 9
Class 9
Class 10
Class 10class 9
class 10
P5
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
P6
Class 8
class 8
Class 8
Class 8
Class 8
Class 8
P7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Some out standing students who have been trained by the
Ida Rieu Jaws section
Mr. Amjad Sohail, came from Almaktoom special education school Islamabad, now he is computer teacher there.
Miss Saima. came from Almaktoom school for special education Islamabad.
Mrs. Shaista came from Almaktoom school Islamabad.
Tasneem Maqbool. Done MA in special education from KU. Now working in SCB.
Mr. Ali Azghar. Done MA in Urdu from KU. Currently teaching in National college.
Miss Humaira Aslam. Working in SCB..
Anum Ashraf. She lost her sight 2 years ago, was suffering from brain tumor. Now she is continuing her education.
Ms. Norriya lost her sight 8months ago was suffering from Brain tumor now she is continuing her education.
Mr. Ali Akhtar done BA from KU. Working in KESC.
Mr. Fawad Ahmad Memorising the Holy Quran.
Mr. Abdul Basit now running his shop.
Mr. Sulman Ahmed doing BA from KU.
Mr. Waqar. Teaching at Shaheed-e-Millat special education center.
Ms. Aaisha Aziz living active and socially involved life..
Mr. Shamim Nasir working as Music teacher at happy home school.
Mr. Nasir Hussain doing his business.
Ms. Ambreen Anwar working with GEO TV..
Mrs. Rizwana Tharia. House wife. Now she is living a better life. She is happy because with the help of computer she can read daily news paper.
Mrs. Farhana Lakhani. House wife. With the help of computer she has overcome her limitations. Now she is doing research with the help of internet.
Ms. Amina Abbas. Teaching in Islamia College.
Mr. Shahid Ansari. Done BA from Ida Rieu degree college. Working in KESC.
Mr. noman ahmad. Done MA from KU.
Ms. Anum Naqvi. Doing BA. computer technology has helped her in mixing with mainstream.
We are thankful to Allah for enabling us to assist our visually impaired brothers and sisters to blend in the social mainstream and become a useful member of the society
if anyone of you are interested in helping me in this mission, please contact me at s_hasan21@hotmail.com
2008-2009
Annual Progress Report
Jaws Section
Introduction
The Computer Section in Ida Rieu which existed since long was using key board memorizing and typing without ability to know if the matter is being correctly typed. This was extremely limited use and provided no practical use. The students found this very monotonous and did not show much interest in pursuing it.
Ida Rieu management decided to upgrade the computer section on the modern lines and in December 2001 launched software based PC training for the visually impaired.
In December 2001, a modest start was made by establishing JAWS based computer training programme with one PC. The Jaws software revolutionized the possibility of PC usage by the visually impaired persons and started attracting a number of students. The user is able to use most of prime features of PC like any sighted person, including internet, surfing, emailing, reading books, exchanging information etc.
As with the help of Jaws a blind person can work par with sighted persons or peep out from isolation, a blind person can get every kind of information by using internet and read ink print books by scanning them. A large group of blind persons who have received computer training from Ida Rieu’s jaws section are now working with mainstream like other sighted persons.
The Jaws Section grew from one PC to four PC and has successfully provided training in the use of computers to a large number of persons. Now we have 4 computers, internet facility and one Braille embosser in our jaws section. Many blind persons have been trained in the use of computers and have been employed with various corporations and Banks..
Some out standing achievements
With limited resources Ida Rieu’s Jaws section have the following achievements of which we are very proud. This is in addition to providing the jaws training program to the students as detailed below in the schedule.
Ten blind students have been trained for KESC who are working at par with sighted persons.
One fairy tale book has been prepared using Jaws and printed in Braille.
English language being a backbone for use of computers, a short English language course was arranged for blind students.
The students from jaws section are efficiently using the internet, exchanging emails and browsing.
Time table
Days
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
P1
Outsider girls
Out sider girls
Firstyear
Firstyear
Out sider girls
firstyear
P2
BA Part 1-g
Ba part 1-g
Ba part 1-g
Ba part 1-b
BA part 1-b
BA part 1-b
P3
Class six
Class six
Second year
Second year
Class six
Second year
P4
Class 9
Class 9
Class 10
Class 10class 9
class 10
P5
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
Out sider boys
P6
Class 8
class 8
Class 8
Class 8
Class 8
Class 8
P7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Class 7
Some out standing students who have been trained by the
Ida Rieu Jaws section
Mr. Amjad Sohail, came from Almaktoom special education school Islamabad, now he is computer teacher there.
Miss Saima. came from Almaktoom school for special education Islamabad.
Mrs. Shaista came from Almaktoom school Islamabad.
Tasneem Maqbool. Done MA in special education from KU. Now working in SCB.
Mr. Ali Azghar. Done MA in Urdu from KU. Currently teaching in National college.
Miss Humaira Aslam. Working in SCB..
Anum Ashraf. She lost her sight 2 years ago, was suffering from brain tumor. Now she is continuing her education.
Ms. Norriya lost her sight 8months ago was suffering from Brain tumor now she is continuing her education.
Mr. Ali Akhtar done BA from KU. Working in KESC.
Mr. Fawad Ahmad Memorising the Holy Quran.
Mr. Abdul Basit now running his shop.
Mr. Sulman Ahmed doing BA from KU.
Mr. Waqar. Teaching at Shaheed-e-Millat special education center.
Ms. Aaisha Aziz living active and socially involved life..
Mr. Shamim Nasir working as Music teacher at happy home school.
Mr. Nasir Hussain doing his business.
Ms. Ambreen Anwar working with GEO TV..
Mrs. Rizwana Tharia. House wife. Now she is living a better life. She is happy because with the help of computer she can read daily news paper.
Mrs. Farhana Lakhani. House wife. With the help of computer she has overcome her limitations. Now she is doing research with the help of internet.
Ms. Amina Abbas. Teaching in Islamia College.
Mr. Shahid Ansari. Done BA from Ida Rieu degree college. Working in KESC.
Mr. noman ahmad. Done MA from KU.
Ms. Anum Naqvi. Doing BA. computer technology has helped her in mixing with mainstream.
We are thankful to Allah for enabling us to assist our visually impaired brothers and sisters to blend in the social mainstream and become a useful member of the society
if anyone of you are interested in helping me in this mission, please contact me at s_hasan21@hotmail.com
Sunday, August 2, 2009
smellinng the roses
Smelling the Roses Relieves StressBy RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor on July 23, 2009 A novel technique to relieve stress is an age old naturopathic remedy. New research demonstrates the scent of lemon, mango, lavender, or other fragrant plants are beneficial for stress reduction.Scientists in Japan report the first scientific evidence that inhaling certain fragrances alters gene activity and blood chemistry in ways that can reduce stress levels. Their study appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication.In the new study, researchers sought to determine the physiological reason for why people have inhaled the scent of certain plants since ancient times to help reduce stress, fight inflammation and depression, and induce sleep. Aromatherapy, the use of fragrant plant oils to improve mood and health, has become a popular form of alternative medicine today. And linalool is one of the most widely used substances to soothe away emotional stress. Until now, however, linalool's exact effects on the body have been a deep mystery. The scientists exposed lab rats to stressful conditions while inhaling and not inhaling linalool. Linalool returned stress-elevated levels of neutrophils and lymphocytes - key parts of the immune system - to near-normal levels. Inhaling linalool also reduced the activity of more than 100 genes that go into overdrive in stressful situations. The findings could form the basis of new blood tests for identifying fragrances that can soothe stress, the researchers say. Source: American Chemical Society
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
amazing information
It Is Not the Eye That Sees
We provide this technical information about various forms of radiation simply to explain that they don't give rise to the effect known as "light." These radioactive particles strike, bounce, and give rise to physical and chemical effects that sometimes cause damage. Yet the effects they cause can never be referred to as light.
The only reason we describe some of these particles as "light rays" is that they're perceived by our eyes. Photons falling on our eyes' retinal layer are turned into electrical impulses by the receptor cells there. The optical nerves carry this electrical current to the visual center at the rear of the brain. This center interprets the current and gives rise to images..
When we investigate this system, we arrive at a most interesting conclusion: In fact, our eyes have no ability to "see" at all. The eye is merely an intermediate organ that converts photons into electrical signals. It has no ability to understand and interpret. It is not the eye which regards at the bright world all around us. No sensations of light or color are formed in the eye.
In order to better understand this concept, let's consider the technical definition of sight in slightly more detail.
In fact, our eyes have no property of "sight." The eye is merely an intermediary unit whose retina transforms the photons reaching it into electrical signals
We give the name of a color to photons at various frequencies of vibration. Depending on those photons' intensity of vibration, we refer to the visible effects they produce as red, blue or yellow. When all frequencies are combined together, the result is white. Snow appears white, because it reflects all the frequencies in sunlight, the combination of which produces white. Leaves are green, because they only reflect only those photons at a frequency that gives the sensation of green, while absorbing all the others. Glass is transparent, just like the air, because photons pass through them both and reach us encountering hardly any obstacles-such as clouds or flyspecks. A piece of black cloth reflects no color because it absorbs practically all the photons that strike it. In other words, no photons reach our eyes from it, and we perceive it as only a dark or black shape. A mirror copies an image because its smooth reflective surface absorbs almost none of the photons striking it, but bounces them back. They follow a parallel course to one another, undergoing almost no deformation.
In short, the concepts of "light," "white," "green" or "transparent" refer to perceptions in the brain, and are purely relative descriptions. The truth is that in the outside world there is no light or color. There are only forms of radiation which we perceive in that form. The interpretation belongs solely to us. Even if the arriving photons are turned into electrical signals and the visual center in the eye possesses the same properties, an error or structural difference which might occur in the eye will lead to the same object being perceived in very different ways. That is why color-blind people perceive and interpret certain colors differently from normal people.
In short, the photon movements which we interpret as light or color are nothing more than physical phenomena that transpire in the pitch blackness of the brain. Our bodies-including our eyes, and the whole material world that we perceive as a bright, three-dimensional vision that some people claim represents an absolute reality-all exist within that same darkness.
We provide this technical information about various forms of radiation simply to explain that they don't give rise to the effect known as "light." These radioactive particles strike, bounce, and give rise to physical and chemical effects that sometimes cause damage. Yet the effects they cause can never be referred to as light.
The only reason we describe some of these particles as "light rays" is that they're perceived by our eyes. Photons falling on our eyes' retinal layer are turned into electrical impulses by the receptor cells there. The optical nerves carry this electrical current to the visual center at the rear of the brain. This center interprets the current and gives rise to images..
When we investigate this system, we arrive at a most interesting conclusion: In fact, our eyes have no ability to "see" at all. The eye is merely an intermediate organ that converts photons into electrical signals. It has no ability to understand and interpret. It is not the eye which regards at the bright world all around us. No sensations of light or color are formed in the eye.
In order to better understand this concept, let's consider the technical definition of sight in slightly more detail.
In fact, our eyes have no property of "sight." The eye is merely an intermediary unit whose retina transforms the photons reaching it into electrical signals
We give the name of a color to photons at various frequencies of vibration. Depending on those photons' intensity of vibration, we refer to the visible effects they produce as red, blue or yellow. When all frequencies are combined together, the result is white. Snow appears white, because it reflects all the frequencies in sunlight, the combination of which produces white. Leaves are green, because they only reflect only those photons at a frequency that gives the sensation of green, while absorbing all the others. Glass is transparent, just like the air, because photons pass through them both and reach us encountering hardly any obstacles-such as clouds or flyspecks. A piece of black cloth reflects no color because it absorbs practically all the photons that strike it. In other words, no photons reach our eyes from it, and we perceive it as only a dark or black shape. A mirror copies an image because its smooth reflective surface absorbs almost none of the photons striking it, but bounces them back. They follow a parallel course to one another, undergoing almost no deformation.
In short, the concepts of "light," "white," "green" or "transparent" refer to perceptions in the brain, and are purely relative descriptions. The truth is that in the outside world there is no light or color. There are only forms of radiation which we perceive in that form. The interpretation belongs solely to us. Even if the arriving photons are turned into electrical signals and the visual center in the eye possesses the same properties, an error or structural difference which might occur in the eye will lead to the same object being perceived in very different ways. That is why color-blind people perceive and interpret certain colors differently from normal people.
In short, the photon movements which we interpret as light or color are nothing more than physical phenomena that transpire in the pitch blackness of the brain. Our bodies-including our eyes, and the whole material world that we perceive as a bright, three-dimensional vision that some people claim represents an absolute reality-all exist within that same darkness.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
seeing by the tongue
This technology has been in development for some time now and it appears it's about to be released. When you've read this you'll know as much as we do about it.Seeing with your tongue. By RON SEELY, 608-252-6131,rseely@madison.comRoger Behm lost his sight at 16, the victim of an inherited disease that destroyedhis retinas. Both of his eyes were surgically removed.Now 55, Behm has made himself at home in a sightless world. He started his own businessin Janesville selling devices that help the blind cope with day-to-day tasks. Heand his wife have raised five children and just adopted another child from Chinawho is also blind. He fishes, canoes, camps and scuba dives.But Behm can remember seeing. Which is why he couldn't believe it when, three yearsago, he slipped a device over his head, turned it on, and was once again able todiscern light and dark, shapes and shadows, letters and numbers, and even a rollinggolf ball."I could look down and and see the ball, white on black, and I could see myself swingingmy putter," Behm said. "And, of course, I missed. But I could reach down and pickup my ball, like any other sighted person."The device is called BrainPort and, though it seems like a gadget from Star Trek,it may be available commercially by the end of the year.It works by converting images from a video camera to electrical impulses that aretransmitted via the tongue to the brain of the blind person and turned again intoblack-and-white images that the user sees.It takes advantage of groundbreaking work by a UW-Madison scientist that showed thebrain will reprogram itself to accept and use different sensory signals - in thiscase touch instead of sight - to replace signals that can no longer be received dueto injury or disease.The device, which consists of a miniature camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses,a tongue sensor and a small control unit, was developed by Wicab of Middleton. Itbuilds on another of the company's devices that uses the same underlying ideas tohelp restore users' balance.The company is applying to the federal Food and Drug Administration to get approvalfor a marketable version of the vision device that could be available by the endof the year, Wicab CEO Robert Beckman said.Trying circumstances.Few have tested BrainPort under more trying circumstances than Erik Weihenmayer,the only blind man to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Weihenmayer, totally blindsince the age of 16, has used the device to help him hike in the woods, even ascendclimbing walls. But he has most appreciated it for letting him do such simple butrewarding tasks as playing tic-tac-toe with his daughter or reaching down to pethis dog."I have a climbing friend who didn't believe me when I told him about this," Weihenmayersaid. "So he put a Pepsi can on my table in my kitchen while I was out of the room.Then he called me back in and told me to grab it. I reached out and grabbed the Pepsican. He was blown away. He was speechless. He had tears in his eyes."I mean, it may not seem like a real big deal to people, but to be able to see yourcoffee cup ... ."Neither Behm nor Weihenmayer are paid consultants to Wicab, although the companypays some of their expenses.The late Paul Bach-y-Rita, a UW-Madison physician and specialist in rehabilitation,first came up with the ideas that inspired BrainPort in the 1960s. The technologywas patented by UW-Madison in 1998, and commercial development has been under wayfor more than 10 years.New ways to work.Bach-y-Rita's earliest thinking about the brain's ability to adapt to new ways ofreceiving and processing information - its "plasticity," as it is known now - waslikely sparked by the dramatic struggle of his father, Pedro, to recover from a devastatingstroke in the mid-1960s, Beckman said.Neurologists in those days believed brain damage could not be reversed. But Bach-y-Rita'sbrother, George, soon put their father to work doing chores such as sweeping theporch of the house. Forced to accomplish more and more difficult tasks, their fathereventually recovered completely and even went back to his job teaching.He died at the age of 73 of a heart attack while climbing in the mountains of Columbia.Remarkably, studies of Pedro's brain after his death showed massive damage to hisbrain from the stroke. Yet he recovered. Somehow, his brain had found new ways towork.At the UW-Madison, Bach-y-Rita focused his studies on sensory substitution, the ideathat the brain can learn how to use other senses to replace one that has been lostor damaged. He concentrated on the power of touch, studying what happens in the brainwhen visual cues come from the sensitive nerves of the skin, such as those on thefingertips.Perfect organ.Those studies buttressed others that showed the brain can indeed learn how to usenerve impulses, delivered through touch, to create images. Exactly what happens remainssomewhat of a mystery. But more recently, MRI images taken of the brain while itis working do show the visual cortex of the brain lighting up when receiving sensorydata retrieved through touch."The information does get to the area of the brain that is responsible for vision,"said Kurt Kaczmarek, a UW-Madison engineer and scientist who was involved in theearly work on BrainPort.The tongue is the perfect organ for the task, Beckman said, because it is moist andan excellent transmitter of electrical signals, and it has more tactile nerve endingsthan any other part of the body except for the lips.Though one can read the science over and over again, it still requires somewhat ofa leap of faith to grasp the idea of "seeing" through the tongue. Simply, the patternsof light picked up by the camera are converted by a tiny computer into electricalpulses across 100 stainless steel electrodes. Users say it feels similar to touchinga weak battery to your tongue, a bubbly or tingling sensation.The pulses are spatially encoded, meaning the person receiving those signals on thetongue can perceive depth, perspective, size and shape. That information is translatedby the brain into images - fuzzy images, because of the low resolution, but imagesnonetheless. Those who have used the device explain that they perceive the objectsin front of them, separate from their own bodies.A milestone of sorts.Weihenmayer recalled how when he first tried BrainPort, the researchers sat him downat a table, fitted him with the device, and then rolled a ball toward him."It's a hard thing to wrap your brain around," said Weihenmayer. "But when they rolleda white tennis ball toward me, I could feel the ball rolling. First I could feelthe ball starting at the back of my tongue and getting bigger and bigger, comingtoward me. And then I reached out and grabbed it."When he ascends a rock climbing wall with BrainPort, Weihenmayer said, he can seethe handholds, their differences in shape and the contrast in light between themand the background. What he sees, he explained, is largely shapes and light variations,sort of an out-of-focus image.Last month, Weihenmayer joined Beckman at the National Eye Institute's 40th anniversarycelebration to demonstrate BrainPort and some of its powers. It seemed a milestoneof sorts.But the man whose genius led to the creation of such a useful invention was not present.Bach-y-Rita died of cancer in November of 2006."He would have loved to have been there," said Beckman.Source URL:http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/451
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
for mothers of hearing impaired children
Children suffering from hearing impairment need early identification and intervention for proper rehabilitation, which can be done best by the mother by becoming a link between rehabilitation professionals and the child, an audiology expert said on Sunday.
“Hearing is prerequisite for a child’s speech language development. This could be severely hampered in the absence of hearing ability. Here mothers can play a very important role. Mother spends the most time with the child. Hence she can identify the handicap in the child and approach professionals like ENT specialist or pediatrician for help,” Reader and Head, Department of Audiology, Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Rajeev R Jalvi told Sakal Times.
The national institute is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, based in Mumbai. Jalvi was in the city to attend a programme on hearing disability organised by city-based NGO Cochlea Pune.
“As soon as the disability is detected, the child should be given a hearing aid. Then pictorial depiction of everyday activities and their physical imitation is the best way to teach the child. For example, regarding brushing teeth, mother should give a running commentary of the activity involving in the brushing activity explaining each action in detail and imitate it before the child. Then get the child repeat the process with her,” Jalvi said.
Similarly for animal or bird sounds, she should show pictures of the animal or bird or a film based on animals. Show the association between object and the sound by showing it and pronounce the sound, he said.
“It is the birthright of every child to get a hearing aid by six months of age. Parents should ensure that by the first birthday, the child is able to pronounce at least 10 to 15 words,” he said, adding the mother should also involve other family members in the rehabilitation process.
According to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) survey of disabled people in 2002, three million children were found hearing impaired between 0 to 4 years.
“This is a very high number. It signifies that society is not serious in finding a solution. There are 70 affected children born everyday in a district with 25 lakh population. There is 70 to 80 per cent delay in intervention due to lack of awareness and resources,” the expert said.
Source: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/04/27142828/Mothers-role-vital-for-hearin.html
“Hearing is prerequisite for a child’s speech language development. This could be severely hampered in the absence of hearing ability. Here mothers can play a very important role. Mother spends the most time with the child. Hence she can identify the handicap in the child and approach professionals like ENT specialist or pediatrician for help,” Reader and Head, Department of Audiology, Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Rajeev R Jalvi told Sakal Times.
The national institute is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, based in Mumbai. Jalvi was in the city to attend a programme on hearing disability organised by city-based NGO Cochlea Pune.
“As soon as the disability is detected, the child should be given a hearing aid. Then pictorial depiction of everyday activities and their physical imitation is the best way to teach the child. For example, regarding brushing teeth, mother should give a running commentary of the activity involving in the brushing activity explaining each action in detail and imitate it before the child. Then get the child repeat the process with her,” Jalvi said.
Similarly for animal or bird sounds, she should show pictures of the animal or bird or a film based on animals. Show the association between object and the sound by showing it and pronounce the sound, he said.
“It is the birthright of every child to get a hearing aid by six months of age. Parents should ensure that by the first birthday, the child is able to pronounce at least 10 to 15 words,” he said, adding the mother should also involve other family members in the rehabilitation process.
According to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) survey of disabled people in 2002, three million children were found hearing impaired between 0 to 4 years.
“This is a very high number. It signifies that society is not serious in finding a solution. There are 70 affected children born everyday in a district with 25 lakh population. There is 70 to 80 per cent delay in intervention due to lack of awareness and resources,” the expert said.
Source: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/04/27142828/Mothers-role-vital-for-hearin.html
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
what sugar causes
1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.
2.
Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium
and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and
magnesium.
3. Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of
adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and
crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise
in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease
in good cholesterol.
5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
6. Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach. 7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
8. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
9. Sugar can cause many
problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive
tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel
disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
10. Sugar can cause premature aging.
11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease
13. Sugar contributes to obesity.
14. Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.
15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
16. Sugar can cause gallstones.
17. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
19. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
22.
Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing
an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.
23. Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.
24. Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.
25. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
26.
High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products
(AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in
the body).
27. Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
28. Sugar causes food allergies.
29. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
30. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
31. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
32. Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
33. Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.
34. Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
35. Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.
36. Sugar can cause emphysema.
37. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.
38. Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.
39. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.
40. Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.
41. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.
42. Sugar can damage your pancreas.
43. Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.
44. Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.
45. Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.
46. Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.
47. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
48. Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
49. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.
50. Sugar can cause depression.
51. Sugar can increase your risk of gout.
52. Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
53. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.
54. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
55. Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.
56. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
57.
High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to substantial
decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a twofold
increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestation al-age (SGA) infant.
58. Sugar is an addictive substance.
59. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
60. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
61. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
62. Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.
63. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
64. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
65. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
66. Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.
67.
Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a
normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
68. I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.
69. Sugar increases your risk of polio.
70. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
71. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
72. In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.
73. Sugar may induce cell death.
74.
In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar
diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.
75. Sugar dehydrates newborns.
76. Sugar can cause gum disease.
If you buy honey or maple syrup, make sure it's 100% pure. The cheaper versions are often mixed with corn syrup.
Hippocrates once said “Give me a fever and I can cure the child”. By understanding that a simple fever is a symptom rather than a condition orillness in itself, you soon come to realise that it is an ally and notan enemy. Fevers are the first sign that your child’s immune symptom isfunctioning as it should. By increasing core body temperature, feversenable the immune system to swing into action, indicating the body’sdefences are fighting an infection and consequent temperaturefluctuat ions indicate how the body is coping. - Natural Parenting.
2.
Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium
and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and
magnesium.
3. Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of
adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and
crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise
in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease
in good cholesterol.
5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
6. Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach. 7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
8. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
9. Sugar can cause many
problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive
tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel
disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
10. Sugar can cause premature aging.
11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease
13. Sugar contributes to obesity.
14. Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.
15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
16. Sugar can cause gallstones.
17. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
19. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
22.
Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing
an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.
23. Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.
24. Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.
25. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
26.
High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products
(AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in
the body).
27. Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
28. Sugar causes food allergies.
29. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
30. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
31. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
32. Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
33. Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.
34. Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
35. Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.
36. Sugar can cause emphysema.
37. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.
38. Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.
39. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.
40. Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.
41. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.
42. Sugar can damage your pancreas.
43. Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.
44. Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.
45. Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.
46. Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.
47. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
48. Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
49. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.
50. Sugar can cause depression.
51. Sugar can increase your risk of gout.
52. Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
53. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.
54. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
55. Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.
56. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
57.
High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to substantial
decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a twofold
increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestation al-age (SGA) infant.
58. Sugar is an addictive substance.
59. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
60. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
61. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
62. Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.
63. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
64. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
65. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
66. Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.
67.
Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a
normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
68. I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.
69. Sugar increases your risk of polio.
70. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
71. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
72. In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.
73. Sugar may induce cell death.
74.
In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar
diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.
75. Sugar dehydrates newborns.
76. Sugar can cause gum disease.
If you buy honey or maple syrup, make sure it's 100% pure. The cheaper versions are often mixed with corn syrup.
Hippocrates once said “Give me a fever and I can cure the child”. By understanding that a simple fever is a symptom rather than a condition orillness in itself, you soon come to realise that it is an ally and notan enemy. Fevers are the first sign that your child’s immune symptom isfunctioning as it should. By increasing core body temperature, feversenable the immune system to swing into action, indicating the body’sdefences are fighting an infection and consequent temperaturefluctuat ions indicate how the body is coping. - Natural Parenting.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
FOR KIDS’ EYES ONLY
Ever wondered why:
Some children don’t answer when you talk to them.
Some children don’t talk at all, even though they are big and at school.
Some children talk only about dinosaurs or space.
Some children flap their hands or twirl around.
Some children play with string or other funny things.
Some children don’t go away even when you ask them to.
Some children walk round and round the playground all by themselves.
These children may have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
An Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) occurs when a baby’s brain develops a little differently before or just after the baby is born. The brain then processes or interprets information differently.
People who have an ASD have difficulty communicating and learning how to be friends with other people. They often want things to be the same and may need to do things in exactly the same way every time.
People who have an ASD also sense things differently from many other people. Loud noises, like the school bell, can hurt their ears and they may not like the way certain things feel. They may like to stare at leaves moving in the trees but hate the swirling lights at the school disco. They may only want to eat exactly the same things or they may not like the way some food smells.
Is everyone who has an ASD just the same?
No. People who have an ASD are different from each other just like you and your friends are different.
Some people who have an ASD can talk, but they usually expect you to say exactly what you mean, if you say “Jump to it!” when you mean “Hurry up,” the child who has an ASD will probably start jumping.
Other people, who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, use pictures or photographs to communicate with other people.
Some people who have an ASD can do their school work quickly, while other people find it difficult to learn to read and write. Some people who have an ASD want to be alone while others want to have friends, but don’t know how to make them.
There are different types of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which have different names; these include Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Can I catch Autism Spectrum Disorder?
No. You can’t catch an Autism Spectrum Disorder like you catch a cold or chickenpox. People are born with an ASD. As they grow older many people who have an ASD learn to do lots of things just like you.
Will ASD go away?
No. An ASD is something that people have all their lives. However, as they grow they learn more and more about the world. Many people who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder will have a job and live independently when they grow up, just like you will.
How can I help someone who has an ASD?
Be nice and don’t tease.
Ask them to join in your games.
Sometimes people who have an ASD like it when you talk to them.
Speak clearly and don’t use too many big words.
Say what you mean.
Tell the person to take a step back if they come too close.
Remind the person that we only need to say things once.
Warn the person if there is going to be a loud noise.
People who have an ASD usually like to play with a few friends, they may
not feel comfortable in a large group.
Explain the rules of the game just before you start to play.
Understand that sometimes the person who has an ASD may need time alone.
Remember it’s OK to be different!
We all are!!
FOR KIDS’ EYES ONLY
Ever wondered why:
Some children don’t answer when you talk to them.
Some children don’t talk at all, even though they are big and at school.
Some children talk only about dinosaurs or space.
Some children flap their hands or twirl around.
Some children play with string or other funny things.
Some children don’t go away even when you ask them to.
Some children walk round and round the playground all by themselves.
These children may have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
An Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) occurs when a baby’s brain develops a little differently before or just after the baby is born. The brain then processes or interprets information differently.
People who have an ASD have difficulty communicating and learning how to be friends with other people. They often want things to be the same and may need to do things in exactly the same way every time.
People who have an ASD also sense things differently from many other people. Loud noises, like the school bell, can hurt their ears and they may not like the way certain things feel. They may like to stare at leaves moving in the trees but hate the swirling lights at the school disco. They may only want to eat exactly the same things or they may not like the way some food smells.
Is everyone who has an ASD just the same?
No. People who have an ASD are different from each other just like you and your friends are different.
Some people who have an ASD can talk, but they usually expect you to say exactly what you mean, if you say “Jump to it!” when you mean “Hurry up,” the child who has an ASD will probably start jumping.
Other people, who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, use pictures or photographs to communicate with other people.
Some people who have an ASD can do their school work quickly, while other people find it difficult to learn to read and write. Some people who have an ASD want to be alone while others want to have friends, but don’t know how to make them.
There are different types of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which have different names; these include Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Can I catch Autism Spectrum Disorder?
No. You can’t catch an Autism Spectrum Disorder like you catch a cold or chickenpox. People are born with an ASD. As they grow older many people who have an ASD learn to do lots of things just like you.
Will ASD go away?
No. An ASD is something that people have all their lives. However, as they grow they learn more and more about the world. Many people who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder will have a job and live independently when they grow up, just like you will.
How can I help someone who has an ASD?
Be nice and don’t tease.
Ask them to join in your games.
Sometimes people who have an ASD like it when you talk to them.
Speak clearly and don’t use too many big words.
Say what you mean.
Tell the person to take a step back if they come too close.
Remind the person that we only need to say things once.
Warn the person if there is going to be a loud noise.
People who have an ASD usually like to play with a few friends, they may
not feel comfortable in a large group.
Explain the rules of the game just before you start to play.
Understand that sometimes the person who has an ASD may need time alone.
Remember it’s OK to be different!
We all are!!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
health is welth
Researchers shed light on new heart condition AnergiaWashington (IANS): Researchers are shedding new light on a syndrome affecting nearly 40 percent of older adults with heart failure: anergia.Anergia, or lack of energy, is a newly delineated, criterion-based geriatric syndrome that is often overlooked or dismissed by doctors and patients alike as simply a natural tiredness associated with "old age".Whether anergia is a result of heart failure or perhaps a potential underlying contributing factor is not entirely clear.However, one thing is certain, researchers say: Fatigue has been shown to have independent long-term prognostic implications in patients with heart failure.Mathew Maurer, associate professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre (CUMC), is the senior co-author of the study.As part of the nine-month prospective cohort study, heart failure patients were provided an actigraph - a device worn on the wrist like a watch that was used to assess physical activity, energy expenditures and sleep by measuring and recording limb movement.Participants were instructed to wear it continuously on their non-dominant wrist for the nine months of the study.At baseline and at every three months for a total of four visits, each subject underwent a targeted physical exam including measurement of heart failure severity and distance walked during a six-minute hall walk as well as other mediating factors, said a CUMC release.An earlier study by Dr. Maurer showed that anergia may stem from many conditions, including heart and kidney dysfunction, arthritis, lung disease, anaemia and depression.These findings were published in the March 2009 edition of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.
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