You know wat… Music is not just a entertainment, its a great form of therapy which has a positive effect to your body and mind. Music Therapy is one of the growing treatment in Medical Science. Research has shown that listening to strong, heavy beats can make your brain waves sharper and keeps u more alert whereas listening to a soft music keeps u in meditative state. Thus being in music therapy will enable your brain to shift at different speeds when needed…

With alterations in brainwaves comes changes in other bodily functions. Those governed by the autonomic nervous system, such as breathing and heart rate can also be altered by the changes music can bring. This can mean slower breathing, slower heart rate, and an activation of the relaxation response, among other things.

Music can also bring you positive state mind and keeps you out of depression and anxiety. Thus helps your mind in creative ways and being optimized. So tune to your favorite music now and be healthy…..

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The desert hosts an unexpected light show in the latest Insight Hybrid television commercial.

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China, that other Asian economic powerhouse, sharply reduced child malnutrition, and now just 7 percent of its children under 5 are underweight, a critical gauge of malnutrition. In India, …..

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Vivek, a malnourished boy, on a scale last November at 23 months old at a feeding center in Shivpuri. India runs the largest child feeding program, but experts say it is inadequately designed.

NEW DELHI — Small, sick, listless children have long been India’s scourge — “a national shame,” in the words of its prime minister, Manmohan Singh. But even after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy.

Malnutrition in India is worse than in many African nations, stunting the growth of children like this girl in Shivpuri, photographed in November 2008.

A malnourished 21-month-old boy named Satish and his mother, Leela, at the Shivpuri feeding center last November.

China, that other Asian economic powerhouse, sharply reduced child malnutrition, and now just 7 percent of its children under 5 are underweight, a critical gauge of malnutrition. In India, by contrast, despite robust growth and good government intentions, the comparable number is 42.5 percent. Malnutrition makes children more prone to illness and stunts physical and intellectual growth for a lifetime.

There are no simple explanations. Economists and public health experts say stubborn malnutrition rates point to a central failing in this democracy of the poor. Amartya Sen, the Nobel prize-winning economist, lamented that hunger was not enough of a political priority here. India’s public expenditure on health remains low, and in some places, financing for child nutrition programs remains unspent.

A malnourished 21-month-old boy named Satish and his mother, Leela, at the Shivpuri feeding center last November.

Yet several democracies have all but eradicated hunger. And ignoring the needs of the poor altogether does spell political peril in India, helping to topple parties in the last elections.

Others point to the efficiency of an authoritarian state like China. India’s sluggish and sometimes corrupt bureaucracy has only haltingly put in place relatively simple solutions — iodizing salt, for instance, or making sure all children are immunized against preventable diseases — to say nothing of its progress on the harder tasks, like changing what and how parents feed their children.

But as China itself has grown more prosperous, it has had its own struggles with health care, as the government safety net has shredded with its adoption of a more market-driven economy.

While India runs the largest child feeding program in the world, experts agree it is inadequately designed, and has made barely a dent in the ranks of sick children in the past 10 years.

The $1.3 billion Integrated Child Development Services program, India’s primary effort to combat malnutrition, finances a network of soup kitchens in urban slums and villages.

But most experts agree that providing adequate nutrition to pregnant women and children under 2 years old is crucial — and the Indian program has not homed in on them adequately. Nor has it succeeded in sufficiently changing child feeding and hygiene practices. Many women here remain in ill health and are ill fed; they are prone to giving birth to low-weight babies and tend not to be aware of how best to feed them.

A tour of Jahangirpuri, a slum in this richest of Indian cities, put the challenge on stark display. Shortly after daybreak, in a rented room along a narrow alley, an all-female crew prepared giant vats of savory rice and lentil porridge.

Purnima Menon, a public health researcher with the International Food Policy Research Institute, was relieved to see it was not just starch; there were even flecks of carrots thrown in. The porridge was loaded onto bicycle carts and ferried to nurseries that vet and help at-risk children and their mothers throughout the neighborhood.

So far, so good. Except that at one nursery — known in Hindi as an anganwadi — the teacher was a no-show. At another, there were no children; instead, a few adults sauntered up with their lunch pails. At a third, the nursery worker, Brij Bala, said that 13 children and 13 lactating mothers had already come to claim their servings, and that now she would have to fill the bowls of whoever came along, neighborhood aunties and all. “They say, ‘Give us some more,’ so we have to,” Ms. Bala confessed. “Otherwise, they will curse us.”

None of the centers had a working scale to weigh children and to identify the vulnerable ones, a crucial part of the nutrition program.

Most important from Ms. Menon’s point of view, the nurseries were largely missing the needs of those most at risk: children under 2, for whom the feeding centers offered a dry ration of flour and ground lentils, containing none of the micronutrients a vulnerable infant needs.

In a memorandum prepared in February, the Ministry of Women and Child Development acknowledged that while the program had yielded some gains in the past 30 years, “its impact on physical growth and development has been rather slow.” The report recommended fortifying food with micronutrients and educating parents on how to better feed their babies.

A World Food Program report last month noted that India remained home to more than a fourth of the world’s hungry, 230 million people in all. It also found anemia to be on the rise among rural women of childbearing age in eight states across India. Indian women are often the last to eat in their homes and often unlikely to eat well or rest during pregnancy. Ms. Menon’s institute, based in Washington, recently ranked India below two dozen sub-Saharan countries on its Global Hunger Index.

Childhood anemia, a barometer of poor nutrition in a lactating mother’s breast milk, is three times higher in India than in China, according to a 2007 research paper from the institute.

The latest Global Hunger Index described hunger in Madhya Pradesh, a destitute state in central India, as “extremely alarming,” ranking the state somewhere between Chad and Ethiopia.

More surprising, though, it found that “serious” rates of hunger persisted across Indian states that had posted enviable rates of economic growth in recent years, including Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Here in the capital, which has the highest per-capita income in the country, 42.2 percent of children under 5 are stunted, or too short for their age, and 26 percent are underweight. A few blocks from the Indian Parliament, tiny, ill-fed children turn somersaults for spare change at traffic signals.

Back in Jahangirpuri, a dead rat lay in the courtyard in front of Ms. Bala’s nursery. The narrow lanes were lined with scum from the drains. Malaria and respiratory illness, which can be crippling for weak, undernourished children, were rampant. Neighborhood shops carried small bags of potato chips and soda, evidence that its residents were far from destitute.

In another alley, Ms. Menon met a young mother named Jannu, a migrant from the northern town of Lucknow. Jannu said she found it difficult to produce enough milk for the baby in her arms, around 6 months old. His green, watery waste dripped down his mother’s arms. He often has diarrhea, Jannu said, casually rinsing her arm with a tumbler of water.

Ms. Menon could not help but notice how small Jannu was, like so many of Jahangirpuri’s mothers. At 5 feet 2 inches tall, Ms. Menon towered over them. Children who were roughly the same age as her own daughter were easily a foot shorter. Stunted children are so prevalent here, she observed, it makes malnutrition invisible.

“I see a system failing,” Ms. Menon said. “It is doing something, but it is not solving the problem.”

Hari Kumar contributed reporting.

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hey.. I didn’t say that a Designer is not an artist or an Artist is not a Designer.

Design is objective, while Art is subjective. Design is a branch of visual communication in which it is vital that the meaning being communicated is established in the way that was intended at the receiving end. If a designer creates an illustration for a product it will have multiple thoughts of him and clients. If it doesn’t interpret the idea it fails. If an artist makes a illustration and if it didn’t interpret the purpose or his or her imagination it can be still be an art. Its function is not open to analysis.

To be more defined Art just happens as an expression of an artist’s imagination and Design is an artistic expression that has a predestined idea.

Design often imposes working out the form or structure of something by creating plans. Making a Storyboard, What clients need? Color? Time? All this we need to think before step-up for a Design Work. Art is never planned. It is mostly the outburst of a mind in a particular situation and they concern with the creation of something stunning or noteworthy to expresses him or her.

A designer gets into a work with a blank mind with stuff like content, client requirements in mind whereas The designer’s responsibility is to foresee how the various aspects should come together as a whole thing and bring visual meaning, taste and technical skills to bear on the production of the job. To be more exact, the designer just arranges the mixture of elements.

An Artist gets in to blank canvas with imagination of the start to end. Their only spirit is to bring an output of the sense and stimulus.

Design is presented with the visual arrangement of useful and beneficial things whereas Art is presented with representations of things to wonder about and identify. Art and design seems related but nonetheless separate.

thx for reading…

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Play with Nature

Just an abstract work…Hope you like it..
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The Celestial Journey

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The first thing which comes to my mind is that, No one has the right to take a life. According to medical science there is no life as there is no baby but an embryo but there is the potential to become a human and therefore it has got life. They just don’t make any difference between an embryo and a baby and they can’t accept it as it will end up killing a human life no matter what. Doesn’t the unborn child have rights?

In many countries killing a pregnant wife, will be charged by two murders. But women can have abortion and walk out of the clinic with any problem in many places. Isn’t it a crime, yes of course! I am not blaming all women who get into it. Some women are pushed into that situation either physclogically or through force.

Another issue is that because of this abortion there is a huge problem of low birthrate. Many families around the world stick two children mostly one child due to financial status.

Below is a survey conducted by by the polling organizations of Peter Hart and Neil Newhouse. Sept. 6-8, 2008.

“Which comes closest to your view on abortion: abortion should always be legal; should be legal most of the time; should be made illegal except in cases of rape, incest and to save the mother’s life; or abortion should be made illegal without any exceptions?”

Always Legal : 25%

Legal Most of the Time : 24%

Illegal With a Few Exceptions : 37%

Illegal Without Exceptions : 10%

Unsure :  4%

In most cases such as rape, unprotected sex, adoption comes to the mind. Instead of abortion they can give the baby to the needy. There are many families that are not blessed of a child and they can get a opportunity to take care of one. The love and happiness of those families will be completely lost if a woman makes the decision to have an abortion. All discarded children in the world be worthy of to be raised in home where they will get love, something that their organic parents can’t provide.

Getting an abortion for any reason would be really worse. It is a way for people to escape from their responsibilities. What do u say…???

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Director: Scott Derrickson

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly

Rating : Average.

A movie with a good team, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly who are my favorites giving a normal movie like this is really disappointing. I am really great fan of Alien movies like Independence day, AVP, Deep Impact and Signs. Everyone will expect a alien movie to have lots and lots of devastations, explosions, but this is kind of different. Even you can’t take this movie as dramatic like Signs, as it lacks the sense of awe, fervor and relevancy to our present earth conditions about climatic change. But at some places you will be trilled with the sci-fi excellence like in the alien’s first expedition in the present day.

The movie begins with a mountaineer discovering that glassy sphere on the top of an icy mountain in Himalayas. The next scene shifts to the present day where scientists and military people are summoned for an urgent meeting after a strange thing had been found in the space to crash on the earth(as in all alien movies). After an unexplained shining sphere descending to central Park in New York, the whole world starts to panic. A cute micro-biologist (Jennifer Connelly) was sent to investigate the sphere, as army shot at the alien coming out of the sphere. But the alien survives and in stages it transforms into the human form with a name klaatu. While investigating, they come to know their aim is to warn the whole human being for the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. The movie, however, contain little action and a lot of talking about the something all of which concerned much with human’s intentions and behaviors.

Keanu Reeves was convincing as an alein. Jennifer Connelly was not believable as a mother or as a scientist Kathy Bates who plays the Government official who has authority in decision making played a lifeless role. The movie itself has lot of flaws with lot things unexplained.

This movie is all about big message for humanity but the message is poorly conveyed. I would say that a good movie is something you want to see again. But this is not that sort I won’t be even rent this movie dvd for watching again. Watch if you are a fan of Keanu Reeves don’t watch if you are a fan of Jennifer Connelly.

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