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Peace and Brave “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we
belong to each other.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: The value that forges families, businesses and different nations. Courage is a universal value that teaches us to stand up for what is worth, to master our fears and overcome adversity. Without courage in difficult times our lives could drift, however the inner strength driven by conscience, can take us further than we could imagine. Being brave is not easy. Sometimes, courage means facing the consequences of our actions, products from our mistakes. Like the child who admits to his parents that it was he who broke the neighbor's window, the employee who recognizes not doing his job as he should, the parent who agrees to their children should have spent more time with them.
Life itself is not simple and can sometimes be surprisingly hard: The death of a loved one, illness, ruin a business are examples of extremely difficult times. Courage is the difference between sink or keep walking.
A state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict and the freedom from fear of violence is called peace. Commonly understood
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as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.
In international relations, peacetime is not only the absence of war or violent conflict, but also the presence of positive and respectful cultural and economic relationships.
Peace is the priceless characteristic of any society. If we think deeply, we cannot but come to the conclusion that peace is the ultimate of life. It is a combination of positive feelings of happiness, calmness, contentedness, love, compassion and harmony with nature, with the absence of negative ones like pain, conflict, hostility and imbalance with nature. We may attain this peace when the inner self and the outer environment are in balance and harmony. One who experiences peace would depict a
healthy physical and mental state, which needs nourishment from inside and outside, i.e. spiritual and material needs.
The word Salam or the phrase Salam in Malaysia is greetings that depict peace unto others. Indeed the word Islam too has its roots in a word that means peace. “Assalamu’alaikum” which means ‘peace unto you’ is also said to be the greetings of the people of the Paradise.
The cost of absence of peace can be huge. For example, to prevent just housebreaking we install burglar alarms, keep dogs, pay for security guards, keep lights on when we go for vacations etc. But even in the worst moment, we need to get calm and obtain peace.
Technology
In addition to the standard artificial limb for
everyday use, many amputees or congenital
patients have special limbs and devices to aid
in the participation of sports and recreational
activities.
Within science fiction, and, more recently,
within the scientific community, there has
been consideration given to using advanced
prostheses to replace healthy body parts with
artificial mechanisms and systems to improve
function. The morality and desirability of such
technologies are being debated. Body parts
such as legs, arms, hands, feet, and others can
be replaced.
The first experiment with a healthy individual
appears to have been that by the British
scientist Kevin Warwick. In early 2008, Oscar
Pistorius, the "Blade Runner" of South Africa,
was briefly ruled ineligible to compete in the
2008 Summer Olympics because his Cheetah
Flex-foot prosthetic limbs developed by
biomedical engineer Van Phillips and
manufactured by Ossur were said to give him
an unfair advantage over runners who had
ankles. Pistorius did not qualify for the South
African team for the 2008 Olympics, but went
on to sweep the 2008 Summer Paralympics,
and has been ruled eligible to qualify for any
future able-bodied sporting events.
The Paralympic Games is the world's second
largest major international multi-sport event,
involving athletes with a range of physical and
intellectual disabilities, including mobility
disabilities, amputations, blindness, and
cerebral palsy.
Types of Artificial Limb
There are four main types of artificial limbs.
The type of prosthesis depends on what part of
the limb is missing.
Transtibial prosthesis: is an artificial
limb that replaces a leg missing below the
knee. Transtibial amputees are usually able
to regain normal movement more readily
than someone with a transfemoral
amputation, due in large part to retaining
the knee, which allows for easier
movement.
Transfemoral prosthesis: is an
artificial limb that replaces a leg missing
above the knee. Transfemoral amputees
can have a very difficult time regaining
normal movement. In general, a
transfemoral amputee must use
approximately 80% more energy to walk
than a person with two whole legs.
Transradial prosthesis: is an artificial
limb that replaces an arm missing below
the elbow. Two main types of prosthetics
are available. Cable operated limbs work
by attaching a
harness and cable around the opposite
shoulder of the damaged arm.
Transhumeral prosthesis: is an
artificial limb that replaces an arm missing
above the elbow. Transhumeral amputees
experience some of the same problems as
transfemoral amputees, due to the similar
complexities associated with the
movement of the elbow.
In recent years, new plastics and other
materials, such as carbon fiber, have allowed
artificial limbs to be stronger and lighter.
Additional materials have allowed artificial
limbs to look much more realistic, which is
important to transradial and transhumeral
amputees because they are more likely to have
the artificial limb exposed
Beauty and womanhood go
hand in hand. The mental and
the physical well-being of a
woman are very well reflected
in a healthy looking radiant
skin. Your skin is not just a
reflection of external factors
but also of various internal
factors. A healthy diet and
active lifestyle is a must to
ensure that you are beautiful,
inside out. It is very important
to keep yourself hydrated
during winters. So drink lots of
water, eat lots of fruit and fresh
vegetables and avoid alcohol,
tea, coffee, soda and other
caffeine rich drinks as they
tend to dehydrate the body.
Rather, you’d be way better off
and healthier if you do opt for
soups which are nutritious as
well as ones that can keep you
warm.
Many of us, irrespective of our
hectic schedules do ensure that
they eat healthy and follow a
strict fitness regime. But
amidst this, many of us often
tend to neglect a very
important part of our body- our
nails. Gorgeous looking nails
would not just boost the inner
confidence in you but also
make you feel pampered. Cold
weather dehydrates your nails
and cuticles, leaving them
prone to breaking, chapping
and discoloration. The best way
to keep nails in top shape is by
maintaining a meticulous nail
care routine, especially during
the cold season.
HEALTH TIPS
1. Eat healthy: What we eat directly
reflects on our nails. Our nails are
composed of calcium and other
minerals. So, it is very essential to
replenish them, which you can do so by
an adequate supply of calcium, vitamin
A, phosphorous, zinc, folic acid, silica,
vitamin C. That is a long list that’ll do a
food technologist proud, isn’t it? Let’s
deconstruct that to something we can
relate to, shall we? Here we go. Drink
plenty of milk and also make sure you
eat plenty of milk products like cheese,
yogurt etc. Eggs, green leafy vegetables
such as spinach, parsley, coriander,
broccoli, apricots, carrots, and almonds
are also very good supplements to your
diet. Drink lots of water as it will not just
prevent wrinkles on your skin but also
avoid your nails from getting brittle.
Also look out for discoloration of nails or
developing ridges, because they are
indication of vitamin deficiency.
Deficiency of Vitamin B12 leads to
dryness and darkening of nails.
2. Personal hygiene: Clean nails are
not just necessary to look good but also
necessary to ensure your well-
being. Our nails can carry lots of
disease causing bacteria and germs.
Winters, especially, make our nails
more porous and susceptible to
fungus. Trim your nails regularly. But
do not file your nails immediately after
bath because they tend to break. Avoid
back and forth motion while filing your
nails and make sure you stick to one
direction. Resort to nail buffing as it
augments blood circulation, stimulating
nail growth and voila you have strong
and shiny nails. When you wash hands,
make sure you massage soap near your
nails and cuticles. Rinse and moisture
them well .You could also use a soft
brush to clean them. Dead skin around
the nails could be removed using a
pumice stone. Do not keep exposing
your nails to extreme temperatures,
very hot water or direct heat and cold.
They lead to brittle nails.
Don’t bite your nails.
Use of lukewarm water to wash your
hands is recommended. A monthly
manicure by professional is must but
make sure they use clean and
sterilized equipment. Use gloves
while gardening, washing clothes,
utensils and cutting vegetables.
3. Keep them well moisturized:
Apply moisturizer while watching TV,
before going to bed and after
washing your hands. Massaging hot
oil once a week could give you
smooth and soft fingers and nails.
Vitamin E oil is very good for nails
and so is castor oil. You could also
use petroleum jelly to massage your
beautiful nails. Massaging nail serum
could also stimulate circulation and
help your nails grow faster as during
winters your nails tend to grow slow.
4. Avoid harsh chemicals as they
make your nails brittle and
damage them very badly. Use a
base coat before applying paint. Use
non acetone nail polish remover to
prevent your nails from being fragile,
better stick to acetate containing nail
polish removers. Vibrant colors like
crimson red, neon blue, deep pink,
deep burnt rust, grey is the new
black, electric green are the hot
trends seen at runway currently.
Apply vinegar on your nail to last the
polish longer. Base coat is very
essential as it prevents staining of
the nail color on tour actual nails
when you apply polish.
IOWA CITY — His convention speech
was only hours old when President
Obama, confronted by a weak new jobs
report, found himself Friday having to
use precious time on the campaign trail
to account for the country’s continued
anemic economic recovery.
As he has been forced to month after month,
the president responded by shifting the blame
to Congressional Republicans, calling on
lawmakers to pass the jobs bill he proposed
last year and that has been languishing since.
“Today we learned that after losing around
800,000 jobs a month when I took office,
businesses added private-sector jobs for the
30th month in a row,” Mr. Obama told a
campaign rally in Portsmouth, N.H. He did
not mention the actual number of new jobs
reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
earlier in the morning, which was a figure
lower than expected.
“But that’s not good enough,” Mr. Obama
said. “We know it’s not good enough.”
The president called on Congress to commit
to extending middle-class tax cuts. “If
Republicans are serious about getting rid of
joblessness, they can create one million new
jobs if Congress passes the jobs plan I sent
them,” he said.
Mr. Obama is on a post-convention
campaign trip through crucial swing states,
starting in New Hampshire on Friday
morning before heading to Iowa City and
then ending in St. Petersburg, Fla. There he
will begin a bus tour over the weekend
through Florida, a perennial battleground.
He was joined by his full ticket: The first
lady, Michelle Obama (who the president
called “amazing” at the convention), Vice
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife,
Jill Biden.
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential
nominee, wasted no time in jumping on the
jobs report Friday. On his way to a campaign
stop near Sioux City, Iowa, Mr. Romney told
reporters that the latest employment report
was a fresh reminder that Mr. Obama’s
leadership has left Americans with little more
than broken promises and empty hope.
“There’s almost nothing the president
has done in the past three and a half,
four years that gives the American
people confidence that he knows what
he’s doing when it comes to jobs and
the economy,” Mr. Romney said,
adding that the president’s speech
Thursday to the Democratic National
Convention contained even more
promises that will go unfulfilled.
“What is he going to do to get this
economy going?” Mr. Romney said.
“All he said last night was the same as
what he said four years ago, which by
the way; he made a lot of promises four
years ago. Can you think of any of
those promises that were met? I mean,
he was going to create jobs. We
haven’t. Lower unemployment? He
hasn’t. Rising take home pay? It’s gone
down.”
His appearance in Iowa came as the
Romney campaign was ramping up
activity on another front. It announced
on Friday a major advertising campaign
in eight swing states. The commercials
– 15 in all – are specifically tailored to
resonate with voters in each of those
states.
In Florida, for example, people will see
commercials about falling real estate
values and high foreclosure rates. In
Colorado, where the military and
defense contracting is a large employer,
people will hear how the president’s
budget cuts could cost 20,000 military
jobs there.
And here in Iowa, they will hear how
“excessive government regulations are
crushing small businesses and family
farms.”
The president, meanwhile, got in some
licks of his own. During his speech, Mr.
Obama tried out a new attack line
against the Republican push for tax
cuts, deriding the Republicans as
running to tax cuts as the solution for
every problem.
On Friday morning, as is his wont when
he finds a line he likes, Mr. Obama was
ready to expand. Mr. Romney and his
running mate, Representative Paul D.
Ryan, Mr. Obama said, view tax cuts as
a miracle cure. “Tax cuts to help you
lose a few pounds! Tax cuts to help
improve your love life!” Then, he
grinned.
FOUR PLANES hijacked, ONE CRASHED IN THE
PENTAGON, ONE IN Pennsylvania, TWO DESTROYED THE
WORLD TRADE CENTER
On September 11, 2001, at 8:45
a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning,
an American Airlines Boeing 767
loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet
fuel crashed into the north tower
of the World Trade Center in New
York City. The impact left a
gaping, burning hole near the 80th
floor of the 110-story skyscraper,
instantly killing hundreds of people
and trapping hundreds more in
higher floors.
Then, 18 minutes after the first
plane hit, a second Boeing 767–
United Airlines Flight 175–appeared
out of the sky, turned sharply
toward the World Trade Center
and sliced into the south tower
near the 60th floor. The collision
caused a massive explosion that
showered burning debris over
surrounding buildings and the
streets below.
The attackers were Islamic
terrorists from Saudi Arabia and
several other Arab nations.
Reportedly financed by Saudi
fugitive Osama bin Laden's al-
THE DAY THAT PEOPLE WON’T FORGET
Qaeda terrorist organization, they
were allegedly acting in retaliation
for America's support of Israel, its
involvement in the Persian Gulf War
and its continued military presence
in the Middle East.
The 19 terrorists easily smuggled
box-cutters and knives through
security at three East Coast
airports and boarded four flights
bound for California, chosen
because the planes were loaded
with fuel for the long
transcontinental journey. Soon
after takeoff, the terrorists
commandeered the four planes
and took the controls,
transforming ordinary commuter
jets into guided missiles.
As millions watched the events
unfolding in New York, American
Airlines Flight 77 circled over
downtown Washington, D.C., and
slammed into the west side of the
Pentagon military headquarters at
9:45 a.m. Jet fuel from the Boeing
757 caused a devastating inferno
that led to the structural collapse
of a portion of the giant concrete
building. All told, 125 military
personnel and civilians were killed
in the Pentagon, along with all 64
people aboard the airliner.
Less than 15 minutes after the
terrorists struck the nerve center of
the U.S. military, the horror in New
York took a catastrophic turn for
the worse when the south tower of
the World Trade Center collapsed
in a massive cloud of dust and
smoke.
The structural steel of the
skyscraper, built to withstand winds
in excess of 200 miles per hour and
a large conventional fire, could
not withstand the tremendous heat
generated by the burning jet fuel.
At 10:30 a.m., the other Trade
Center tower collapsed.
Close to 3,000 people died in the
World Trade Center and its vicinity,
including a staggering 343
firefighters and paramedics, 23
New York City police officers and
37 Port Authority police officers
who were struggling to complete
an evacuation of the buildings and
save the office workers trapped
on higher floors.
Meanwhile, a fourth California-
bound plane–United Flight 93–was
hijacked about 40 minutes after
leaving Newark International
Airport in New Jersey.
Knowing that the aircraft was not
returning to an airport as the
hijackers claimed, a group of
passengers and flight attendants
planned an insurrection. The
passengers fought the four
hijackers and are suspected to
have attacked the cockpit with a
fire extinguisher. The plane then
flipped over and sped toward the
ground at upwards of 500 miles
per hour, crashing in a rural field in
western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m.
All 45 people aboard were killed.
Its intended target is not known.
At 7 p.m., President George W.
Bush, who had spent the day being
shuttled around the country
because of security concerns,
returned to the White House. At 9
p.m., he delivered a televised
address from the Oval Office,
declaring, "Terrorist attacks can
shake the foundations of our
biggest buildings, but they cannot
touch the foundation of America.
These acts shatter steel, but they
cannot dent the steel of American
resolve." In a reference to the
eventual U.S. military response he
declared, "We will make no
distinction between the terrorists
who committed these acts and
those who harbor them." Operation
Enduring Freedom, the American-led
international effort to oust the Taliban
regime in Afghanistan and destroy
Osama bin Laden's terrorist network
based there, began on October 7.
MEMORIAL “9/11” ATTACK
Under the influence of the
American Revolution, the
American people dream of freedom
from colonial rule. The Creoles of
Central claimed independence to
escape the control of the indigo
trade exercised by the metropolis.
In 1811, there were popular
uprisings in San Salvador, San
Pedro Grande, Santiago Nonualco,
Usulután, Chalatenango and
elsewhere. The heroes and Delgado
Arce, unable to control the
rebellious people, accepted the
repression applied by the colonial
authorities.
On 24 January 1814, Pedro Pablo
Castillo, second mayor of San
Salvador, leads a popular
uprising. Repression reached
independence all mayors, who were
imprisoned, and the heroes
themselves, Arce, Celis and Juan
Manuel Rodriguez, nor this time
supported a popular uprising that
had no control. They were released
to swear allegiance to the King of
Spain, and Pedro Pablo Castillo
was hanged.
The independence of Central
America was proclaimed in
Guatemala on September 15,
1821. Like in many other parts, to
one or other side of the Atlantic, the
freedom and the people got the
wealthy enjoyed. At the time of
independence, the founding
fathers were their owners.
After independence, Creoles and
mestizos were divided into two
groups, liberals and conservatives,
pushing the natives of any
discussion on power.
On November 22 of 1824, was
promulgated the Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Central
America in an attempt to keep the
joint region. The first president of
the Federation was the
Salvadorian Manuel José Arce, who
failed to convince liberals and
conservatives of the desirability of
the unity of the region.
The leader of American unity was,
however, the Honduran Francisco
Morazan, who was twice elected
President of the Federation, in
1830 and 1835. He made the first
liberal reform throughout Central:
granted religious freedom, enacted
the law of divorce, the convents
became in model prisons and
barracks, encouraged and
democratized education and
abolished tithes and first fruits to
the Church taxing the people.
However, the Federal Republic,
consisting of fifty states, each of
which is independently reserving
the legislative, executive and
judicial, was actually a
partnership in which the local
oligarchies reserved the
government of their respective
provinces.
The Constitution, moreover
absolutely prepared by minority
groups, guaranteed power-sharing
between regional chiefs with the
firm intention to ensure the
maneuverability needed to control
at will the territory as their own
interests.
These private interests lacked,
however, the depth of national
importance or indispensable to last
long.
In 1838 began to show the
breakdown of the system as a
result of tensions between its
components, tensions that
eventually led to civil war.
President Morazán, appointed in
1830, did his best to keep the
union, first as Federal President
and later as President of El
Salvador, until his execution in
1842, but his efforts were fruitless.
Federative idea, however, did not
die at all and still appears in the
speeches of many politicians,
feeding ideas and the Central
American Common Market.
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