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waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa............
waaaaaaaaaa......
i hv to finish a lot of things within these few days~~
monday got test~~
lab report........really busy a~~
miss my home~~my family~~
homesick ya...sob sob~~
next week can go back lo^^
very happy eh^^
can play & chat with my sisters~~
FBing now~~
chatting with my secondary classmates^^
later have to study again~~
T_T
anyway,must gambateh ya!!!
funny video !! ^^
haha !! keep laughing after watching it !!
those who are stressed up, have a look and it may help u much ^^
and by the way, thanks sky for sharing this =)
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.
'After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,' the ecologist added. 'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu added. 'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,' he explained.
'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.' 
Every prenatal child experiences the sonic environment of his or her mother:outside voices, traffic, television, radio, and CDs. The sounds generated by this outside stimuli pass through the abdominal wall, which lowers the volume by about 35 decibels and muffles the sounds. For the baby, it is much like listening to sounds underwater. Even though the baby is exposed to these sounds, they pass by him as white noise because they are too complex and the baby has no frame of reference for them as sounds.
Listening to music is a pleasurable experience, and certain types of classical music can have a calming effect on a pregnant mother. Since the prenatal baby can sense a mother’s mood, the mother’s emotional state can have a corresponding calming affect on the baby. However, music is not ‘basic’ enough to be the most effective prenatal curriculum.
The most dominant sound heard by the baby is the mother’s pulsing heartbeat at 95 decibels. This sounds to the baby as loud as a rock band concert would sound to you. This heartbeat occurs naturally at about 1 beat per second. The baby’s heartbeat is approximately 2 beats per second. As the baby develops and hears these two sounds repeatedly, they become imprinted in the baby’s cognitive architecture. They become the permanent foundation upon which all learning will be built.
The most effective prenatal education curriculum is one that utilizes the main element of the baby’s frame of reference, namely, the heartbeat. Research has shown that introducing a heartbeat sound at a lower decibel level (like the simple rhythms of BabyPlus at 65 decibels) encourages the prenatal baby to begin to differentiate between the two sounds.
The next progression is to slowly increase the rate of the sound used in the curriculum. Following this, the curriculum can introduce a slight tonal change. All changes in the prenatal curriculum must be very slight to give the prenatal baby the means of discriminating between these similar sounds. In this pattern of staged progression, the baby begins to learn. Such sounds must be very simple and repetitive, something which neither speech nor music can accomplish as effectively. That is why nursery rhymes, tunes, reading aloud, and classical music are simply too complex during this early stage of development.
Parents and researchers alike have observed and measured the benefits associated with the BabyPlus Prenatal Education curriculum. Babies that have enjoyed this prenatal curriculum are born more relaxed and alert.
Typically, their eyes and hands are open at birth. These infants are more responsive and interactive and are visibly ready to absorb and appreciate their environment. Parents report that these babies nurse more readily and self-soothe more easily.
Parents also report that, if their care giving skills are consistent, the regular
sleep/wake cycle of their baby becomes quite consistent at an early age in the infant’s life. There is also documented scientific evidence that the immune system of an infant who sleeps well and sleeps regularly is actually stronger. Additionally, an obvious side benefit of a well-rested baby is a well-rested parent!
Babies that have benefited from prenatal learning are reported to reach early
childhood milestones, such as the ability to point to body parts on command,walk and talk, etc. ahead of their peers. Utilizing such milestone assays as the Clinical and Linguistic Auditory Milestone Scale (CLAMS test) and the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (school readiness test), these children have shown an increased attention span and measurably improved school readiness.
What is Prenatal Learning?
Every mother knows that her child’s physical development begins during the crucial
prenatal months. Taking a prenatal vitamin to enrich a child’s nutritional environment is the standard-of-care for providing an optimal environment during a child’s earliest physical development.
It is widely accepted that a child’s learning ability begins during those very same prenatal months. Educators, scientists, criminologists and physicians alike have long ago acknowledged the vital importance of a healthy and enriched prenatal environment as it pertains to the long term development and learning ability of a child. An age-appropriate prenatal curriculum strengthens a child’s ability to learn during the developmental period when the advantages will be most significant for the child.
In the prenatal months, the brain is at its most receptive stage of learning. The prenatal baby’s hearing is fully developed by the 18th week of pregnancy.Independent studies have demonstrated that, for the duration of the pregnancy, the baby can actually compare and contrast simple sounds. By encouraging this simple ‘auditory exercise’ during this crucial period, these studies have demonstrated that the child may realize significant long-term developmental benefits. Dr. Mark Pitzer, Ph.D. writes, “Research suggests that a child’s intellectual development is influenced equally by their inherited genetic blueprint and the early immediate environment.” This crucial early environment is not just the “0 to 3” years of age that we hear so much about, but actually the “prenatal to 3” years of age.
An expectant mother’s uterus is not a ‘soundproof booth’. The developing child can certainly hear many of the sounds and noises in his or her mother’s external environment. However, these sounds are fairly fleeting. The one true and consistent sound presented to the child naturally during those months is the mother’s heartbeat. For the duration of pregnancy, this is the natural language heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a natural, simple, and repetitive sound. Therefore, in order to truly communicate with and encourage early comparative learning during the prenatal months, sounds similar to the mother’s heartbeat are the most developmentally appropriate.
A friend whose father works for the government health inspection passed on his info.
Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc.
They found sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit.
Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure.But they couldn't find the problem.
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts!
Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent..
As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of the store,
vertically standing and as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots,cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed??
Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favorite sugar cane juice.
Are you drinking the right tea?
1. People who use their 'brain' to work or students who study hard day and night.
--- Should drink more Chrysanthemum Tea.
2. People who need a lot of body energy to work or those people who exercise a lot everyday.
--- Should drink Wu Loong Tea.
3. People who travel on a bike or work in dirty and polluted places.
--- Should drink Green Tea.
4. For people who like to sit down all day long and not do anything, even exercising
--- Must drink Green Tea and Flower Tea.
5. People who smoke and drink a lot of alcoholic drinks.
--- Should drink more Green Tea.
6. Carnivore ( i.e. people who must eat meat at least once a day, or feel sickly)
--- Try to drink some Wu Loong Tea.
7. People who go to the washroom too often or not often enough.
--- Should drink more Honey Tea
8. People with high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
--- Wu Loong Tea, Green Tea.
9. Those who work with computers everyday.
--- Need to drink a Lot of Tea (any tea will do).
Whenever you are working with the computer, you should make some tea, drink it when you are free.
Drinking Tea is healthy, it can protect and prevent the harmful Ultraviolet light from harming us (when using computer).
Furthermore, it can also relief us when we are tired and help make our body feel fresh again.
A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and cover as much land area as he likes, then the Emperor would give him the area of land he has covered.
Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as possible. Came to a point when he had covered a substantial area and he was exhausted and was dying. Then he asked himself, "Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself."
The above story is similar with the journey of our Life. We push very hard everyday to make more money, to gain power and recognition. We neglect our health, time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding beauty and the hobbies we love..
One day when we look back, we will realize that we don't really need that much, but then we cannot turn back time for what we have missed.
Life is not about making money, acquiring power or recognition .. Life is definitely not about work! Work is only necessary to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life. Life is a balance of Work, Family and Personal time.. You have to decide how you want to balance your Life.. Define your priorities, realize what you are able to compromise but always let some of your decisions be based on your instincts. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of Life, the whole aim of human existence.
So, take it easy, do what you want to do and appreciate nature. Life is fragile, Life is short. Do not take Life for granted. Live a balanced lifestyle and enjoy Life!
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny
1. Hot Dogs
Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
2. Processed meats and Bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.
3. Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble.. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.
4. French fries
Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .
5. Chips, crackers, and cookies
All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.
Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3 . Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil.
As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.
We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2 . Overeating=2 0
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6 . Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells..
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
For more information, http://www.slideshare.net/targetseo/10-biggest-brain-damaging-habits-16566
Recently this past week, Nicole Dishuk (age 31...newly graduated student with a doctoral degree about to start her new career as a Doctor...) was flown into a nearby hospital, because she passed out.
They found a blood clot in her neck, and immediately took her by helicopter to the ER to operate. By the time they removed the right half of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain; the clot had spread to her brain causing severe damage.
Since last Wednesday night, she was battling... they induced her into a coma to stop the blood flow, they operated 3 times... Finally, they said there was nothing left that they could do... they found multiple clots in the left side of her brain... the swelling wouldn't stop, and she was on life support...
She died at 4:30 yesterday. She leaves behind a husband, a 2yr old Brandon and a 4yr old Justin... The CAUSE of DEATH - they found was a birth control she was taking that allows you to only have your period
3 times a year... They said it interrupts life's menstrual cycle, and although it is FDA approved... shouldn't be - So to the women, I ask you to boycott this product & deal with your period once a month – so you can live the rest of the months that your life has in store for you.
Since the beginning of Eden Foundation, the research regarding the nutritional value of different foods has been the responsibility of Peter Sahlin at the Lund University in Sweden. He has now received a grant from SAREC (the Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries) to do research on fermentation as a method of food processing, specifically regarding aspects of nutrition, food safety and food security.
Fermented food is food that is prepared involving a step where micro-organisms (or enzymes) alter the properties of the food, e.g., yoghurt or bread. The purpose of fermenting food is often to get a better taste or texture, but one important reason is that it keeps better when fermented. All the different types of cultured milk have evolved from the fact that fresh milk rapidly deteriorates, and a controlled fermentation with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) gives the food a longer shelf life.
There is a growing attention from the research community on the fermentation of cereal products. Examples are koko (ogi of Nigeria, akasa of Ghana), a sour cereal porridge, and tuo zaafi, a thick sorghum or millet porridge which is a staple food in African savanna areas. New products are also being developed in this area.
Research has shown that fermentation can inhibit pathogenic bacteria that otherwise could cause e.g., diarrhoea (one out of ten children in developing countries dies due to dehydration caused by diarrhoea). Toxins and anti-nutritive factors can also be reduced, and the nutritive value can be ameliorated.
The research of Peter Sahlin in Lund is aimed at developing recommendations for the use of fermentation as a household technique, in collaboration with the Food Safety Unit of WHO in Geneva, which has defined "the study of the safety of fermentation as a technique for preparation/storage of food, including infant food" as a needed research area.
For for information, http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/fermentedfoods.htm
happy 21st birthday !! mei mei =)
Everyone looks so happy ^^Ecological Sanitation
Every year more than three million people die from water-related diseases, caused by lack of access to safe drinking water by more than one billion people and by lack of safe sanitation by nearly two billion people.The sewer system that is being promoted as the answer to poor sanitation in urgan areas is based on the assumption of unlimited water resources and it is bases on the situation of western european cities in 19th century. Civil engineers were allowed by vast economic growth in the industrial centres to ignore the natural cycles of rural life and natural environments.
In other regions of the world and nowadays even in the countries that do have sewerage it appears that the sewer system is not a feasible or optimal solution. The main reasons are that construction and maintenance costs go far beyond the financial means of most communities and that water shortage does not allow for proper functioning of the sewer system. If a sewerage network exists in a South country, it primarily serves the rich. Large volume of drinking water are used to flush, large volumes of grey and black water require treatment.
Costs which can only be afforded by a miniorty of affluent people. And it takes a large claim of the governments expenditure and the country’s fresh water resources too. More and more people start to realise that sewerage causes structural loss of natural resources and nutrients and does not serve the nations population.
Benefits of ecological sanitation
For people in water scarce countries the benefits of ecological sanitation are obvious. Individuals save water, the sanitation conditions will improve, high construction costs can be avoided. On a national and communal level, authorities realise the potential of water conservation, ground water protection, employment creation, increase food security and the reduction of wastewater management costs a ll benefits that can come by introducing ecological sanitation.
It has been proven that ecological sanitation and more precise that a urine diversion system has many advantages for individual households. The question that now has to be addressed is whether EcoSan can be the solution for an entire community. In other words, will urine diversion systems if applied on a communal scale and supported by a municipality become(even more) attractive to more individuals.
Communal ecological sanitation
WASTE wants to explore, develop and demonstrate the advantages of communal ecological
sanitation in order to meet the global need to develop sustainable and affordable sanitation,
in order towards:
Demand reduction for freshwater through water conservation and reuse
Efficient use of resources (waste nutrients) in urban agriculture and landscaping
Decrease of wastewater flows through prevention of wastewater production
Influencing consumer demand by presenting people with an option for sustainable and economic efficient
environmental sanitation
Integration of the use of ecological sanitation into municipal policy
Development of guidelines for ecological sanitation
The last two decades international water & sanitation experts and organisations have raised the question whether conventional centralised sewage management is the answer to the increasing sanitation problems and natural resource protection related to urbanisation.
Increasing numbers of people in the field have acknowledged that the focus for the years to come needs to be on waste prevention and reuse. In the light of high infrastructure costs per capita, water scarcity, decrease of valuable land space and population growth in urban areas and increasing uncontrolled wastewater flows WASTE questions the sustainability of centralised sewer network solutions and wants to contr ibute development of decentralised sanitation approaches.
At this moment, many ecological sanitation options are available world wide developed by scientists and artisans - from simple self-made toilets to sophisticated systems with electronic sensors and regulators.All these sanitation options are based on similar principles at the waste management hierarchy
mentioned in the ISWM policy paper:
Separate ‘waste’ at source
Avoiding freshwater use for transportation of the ‘waste’
Decentralised services provision (collection, recycling and storage)
Allow reuse of ‘waste’ as fertiliser and soil conditioner
Ecological sanitation will not only significantly reduce or even eliminate environmental pollution related to human excreta management; in the end it is cheaper than centralised sanitation. Large investments in sewer networks and wastewater plants can be avoided.
At the same time, this decentralised approach to waste management will enhance
opportunities for micro and small enterprises (MSE) in the water and sanitation sector.
WASTE wants to find the answer to the question, whether EcoSan can be a solution for entire communities and neighbourhoods if it is adopted and supported with sufficient inputs.Together with our partners, WASTE wants to study and demonstrate the application(s) of EcoSan systems on a communal scale with the aim to develop sustainable and affordable sanitation systems that are based on waste prevention, efficient resource management and promotion of markets for recycled resources even further.
