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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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தாலி அறுத்தான் சந்தை ,,,,,! ஆடை அணிய கூடாது என்றது ஒரு சட்டம்.
ஆம்,
நமக்கு தெரியுமோ என்னவோ, நம்பூதிரிகள் யார் என்று? மலையாளம் மொழியை தாய்மொழியாக கொண்ட பிராமணர்கள். ( ஆதிசங்கரர் இந்த இனத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் தான்).
இந்த விதிப்படி அவர்கள் சாதி வரிசையை உருவாக்கினார்கள்.
உயர்ந்த சாதி இந்துக்களின் முன்பு தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட பெண்கள் மார்பகங்களை மறைக்ககூடாது .
இந்த வரிசையில் நாடார், முக்குவர், புலையர் போன்ற பதினெட்டுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட சாதிகள் இந்த விதிக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டனர். இதில் நாடார் இனத்தவர் சீர்திருத்த கிருத்தவ மதத்தில் இணைந்து சார்ல்சு மீட் என்ற பாதிரியாரின் அறிவுரைப்படி, பெண்கள் தங்களின் மார்பகங்களை மறைத்தது மட்டும் அல்லாது அதற்கு மேல் சேலையும் அணிய ஆரம்பித்தனர்.
Friday, April 17, 2015
How Structure Arose in the Primordial Soup
About 4 billion years ago, molecules began to make copies of themselves, an event that marked the beginning of life on Earth. A few hundred million years later, primitive organisms began to split into the different branches that make up the tree of life. In between those two seminal events, some of the greatest innovations in existence emerged: the cell, the genetic code and an energy system to fuel it all. All three of these are essential to life as we know it, yet scientists know disappointingly little about how any of these remarkable biological innovations came about.
Primordial soup" hypothesis
No new notable research or theory on the subject appeared until 1924, when Alexander Oparin reasoned that atmospheric oxygen prevents the synthesis of certain organic compounds that are necessary building blocks for the evolution of life. In his book The Origin of Life, Oparin proposed that the "spontaneous generation of life" that had been attacked by Louis Pasteur did in fact occur once, but was now impossible because the conditions found on the early Earth had changed, and preexisting organisms would immediately consume any spontaneously generated organism. Oparin argued that a "primeval soup" of organic molecules could be created in an oxygenless atmosphere through the action of sunlight. These would combine in ever more complex ways until they formed coacervate droplets. These droplets would "grow" by fusion with other droplets, and "reproduce" through fission into daughter droplets, and so have a primitive metabolism in which factors that promote "cell integrity" survive, and those that do not become extinct. Many modern theories of the origin of life still take Oparin's ideas as
a starting point.
Robert Shapiro has summarized the "primordial soup" theory of Oparin and Haldane in its "mature form" as follows:
1.The early Earth had a chemically reducing atmosphere.
2.This atmosphere, exposed to energy in various forms, produced simple organic compounds ("monomers").
3.These compounds accumulated in a "soup" that may have concentrated at various locations (shorelines, oceanic vents etc.).
4. By further transformation, more complex organic polymers – and ultimately life – developed in the soup.
Around the same time, J. B. S. Haldane suggested that the Earth's prebiotic oceans—different from their modern counterparts—would have formed a "hot dilute soup" in which organic compounds could have formed. J.D. Bernal, a pioneer in x-ray crystallography, called this idea biopoiesis or biopoesis, the process of living matter evolving from self-replicating but nonliving molecules, and proposed that biopoiesis passes through a number of intermediate stages.
One of the most important pieces of experimental support for the "soup" theory came in 1952. Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, performed an experiment that demonstrated how organic molecules could have spontaneously formed from inorganic precursors, under conditions like those posited by the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis. The now-famous "Miller–Urey experiment" used a highly reduced mixture of gases—methane, ammonia and hydrogen—to form basic organic monomers, such as amino acids.[63] This provided direct experimental support for the second point of the "soup" theory, and it is around the remaining two points of the theory that much of the debate now centers. In the Miller–Urey experiment, a mixture of water, hydrogen, methane, and ammonia was cycled through an apparatus that delivered electrical sparks to the mixture. After one week, it was found that about 10% to 15% of the carbon in the system was now in the form of a racemic mixture of organic compounds, including amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins.
Bernal shows that based upon this and subsequent work there is no difficulty in principle in forming most of the molecules we recognise as the basic molecules of life from their inorganic precursors. The underlying hypothesis held by Oparin, Haldane, Bernal, Miller and Urey, for instance, was that multiple conditions on the primeval Earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized the same set of complex organic compounds from such simple precursors. A 2011 reanalysis of the saved vials containing the original extracts that resulted from the Miller and Urey experiments, using current and more advanced analytical equipment and technology, has uncovered more biochemicals than originally discovered in the 1950s. One of the more important findings was 23 amino acids, far more than the five originally found.However Bernal said that "it is not enough to explain the formation of such molecules, what is necessary" he says "..is a physical-chemical explanation of the origins of these molecules that suggests the presence of suitable sources and sinks for free energy.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Hindu Temple and the Structure of Human Body: Comparison
2. East Direction ruled by Indra (Load of Solar) - influences long life
3. South east Direction ruled by Agneya or Agni (Load of Fire) (Energy Generating) influences comfort, peace, prosperity and progeny.
4. South Direction ruled by Yama (Lord of Death or Lord of Death / Damage) yields nothing but mourning, depression and pain. If this direction used properly safeguards from envy of others and cast of all evils.
5.West Direction ruled by Varuna (Load of Water / Lord of Rain) (Neptune) influences reputation, fame, prosperity and success.
6. South west Direction ruled by Nairitya - Deity Lord (Demon) Nairitya influences Protection, strength and stability
7. North west Direction ruled by Vayu or Vayavya (Load of Wind) influences peace
8. North (Kuber) - Deity Lord Kuber or Lord of Wealth (Finance) and keeper of riches influences good strength, better business sufficient in flow of money, education, industrial growth etc.
9. Center ruled by Lord Brahma (Creator of Universe)
Chakras are vital energy points (Kundalini energy) in the human anatomy, i.e. breath channels, or nadis, and the winds (vayus), that are centres of life force (prana), or vital energy. They include: 1. Muladhara, 2. Swadhisthana, 3. Manipura or manipuraka, 4. Anahata, Anahata-puri, or padma-sundara, 5. Vishuddha or Vishuddhi, 6. Ajna and 7. Sahasrara.
Ardha Mandapam Hridayasthanam Kuchisthanam Mandapomahan
Medhrasthaneshu Dwajasthambam Praakaram Janjuangeecha
Gopuram Paadayosketha Paadasya Angula Pokthaha
Gopuram Sthupasthatha Yevam Devaalayam angamuchyathe"
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
One teenage girl is using film to fight child sex trafficking
International Boulevard: A Documentary is a 2014 short documentary made by Oakland students Rebecca Dharmapalan and Zoe Yi. It focuses on the problem of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in Oakland, California, particularly around International Boulevard. It runs for about 7 minutes.
Key points
- Directors: Rebecca Dharmapalan and Zoe Yi.
- Year: 2014.
- Subject: Child sex trafficking and exploitation in Oakland.
- Approach: The filmmakers combine interviews with people involved in understanding the problem, including law-enforcement and community perspectives.
- Purpose: Rather than presenting exploitation as an abstract social problem, the film connects it to a specific urban environment and asks why vulnerable young people become exposed to exploitation.
- Recognition: The documentary won the Judges' Choice Grand Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival, competing against hundreds of submissions. It also received recognition at several other film festivals.
One particularly interesting aspect is that Rebecca Dharmapalan was herself an Oakland youth activist. Her work around the documentary developed into broader advocacy concerning commercially sexually exploited children, including work through the Oakland Youth Commission.
There is also a different documentary titled Surviving International Boulevard (2016), directed by Sian Taylor Gowan. It is longer and examines the same broad social issue through the experiences of two Oakland women.
International Boulevard: A Documentary is particularly interesting not only as a film about exploitation, but as an example of young people using documentary filmmaking as a form of social intervention. The filmmakers, Rebecca Dharmapalan and Zoe Yi, made it while students at Oakland School for the Arts; the film subsequently received major recognition, including the Judges’ Choice Grand Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival.
1. The central idea
The documentary takes a large, seemingly distant social problem and brings it into a specific neighbourhood.
Its fundamental question is essentially:
How can something so serious be happening in our own community while ordinary people remain unaware of it?
The choice of International Boulevard in Oakland is therefore important. The street becomes more than a location—it becomes a symbol of a social problem that exists in plain sight.
Rebecca later explained that conversations with classmates and her own awareness of young people affected by trafficking motivated her to make the film.
2. Why the title is powerful
International Boulevard is an ordinary geographical name, but the documentary transforms it into a metaphor.
There is an important contrast:
A normal urban street
↓
Everyday people going about their lives
↓
A hidden social reality
↓
Children being exploited
This contrast creates much of the documentary's emotional power.
The filmmaker does not need to construct an imaginary world. The real street is the setting, and the reality occurring there becomes the story.
That is an excellent documentary principle:
Find the extraordinary inside an ordinary place.
3. Documentary structure
Although the film is very short—contemporary descriptions identify it as approximately five minutes—it attempts to accomplish several things very efficiently.
A useful way of understanding its structure is:
A. Establish the place
The audience first encounters the physical environment.
This answers:
Where is this happening?
B. Introduce the problem
The documentary then establishes that the location is connected with the exploitation of young people.
This answers:
What is happening here?
C. Bring in authoritative voices
Interviews with people working on the front lines give the film credibility. Contemporary festival commentary specifically praised the filmmakers' use of experts and interviews with people on the front lines.
This answers:
How do we know this is real and significant?
D. Move from statistics to human reality
The film does not treat the subject merely as a statistic.
The underlying message is that behind every statistic is a young human being.
E. End with a call to awareness
The documentary ultimately asks the audience not simply to watch but to recognise a problem within their own community.
4. The most important filmmaking technique: juxtaposition
One of the strongest techniques available to a social documentary filmmaker is juxtaposition.
For example:
ordinary street imagery
+
serious testimony
creates a disturbing contradiction.
The viewer sees a familiar urban environment while hearing about something that most people would not expect to associate with that environment.
This produces an important psychological effect:
“If this is happening here, where else are we failing to see it?”
That is considerably more effective than simply showing statistics on a screen.
5. Use of interviews
The interviews serve several functions.
Credibility
Experts and people directly involved with the problem provide authority.
Explanation
They help the audience understand a complicated social phenomenon quickly.
Emotional distance
Interestingly, interviews can also prevent the documentary from becoming excessively sensational.
Instead of recreating events dramatically, the filmmakers allow people to explain the reality.
This is especially important when dealing with vulnerable young people.
The film's festival judges specifically praised the use of interviews with people on the front lines.
6. The role of the filmmakers
This is perhaps the most fascinating dimension of International Boulevard.
The filmmakers were not established professional journalists. They were young students responding to a problem in their own community.
Rebecca subsequently described her approach in terms of being a “change-maker” rather than simply a filmmaker.
That changes the meaning of the documentary.
It is not simply:
Filmmaker → audience
It becomes:
Young citizen → community → public awareness → social action
The camera therefore becomes a civic instrument.
7. Documentary ethics
This film also raises an important question:
How should a filmmaker represent vulnerable people?
A documentary about exploitation can easily become voyeuristic.
There is a danger of:
- turning suffering into entertainment;
- presenting victims only as helpless;
- concentrating on shocking material;
- allowing the audience to become spectators rather than participants.
The more ethical approach is to concentrate on:
causes → systems → responsibility → prevention → dignity → action
rather than simply displaying suffering.
This is particularly important when the subjects are children.
8. What the film does NOT do
Because the documentary is extremely short, it cannot provide a comprehensive examination of the problem.
It does not have enough time to fully explore:
- poverty and inequality;
- family circumstances;
- education;
- policing;
- the legal system;
- demand;
- online exploitation;
- rehabilitation;
- survivor perspectives;
- long-term prevention.
This is not necessarily a weakness.
It demonstrates an important principle of short documentary filmmaking:
A short documentary does not have to explain everything. It has to make the audience want to understand more.
9. The emotional strategy
The documentary's emotional trajectory can be understood as:
Familiarity → Discovery → Shock → Reflection → Responsibility
The viewer begins with an ordinary place.
Then the hidden reality is revealed.
The audience experiences discomfort.
Then comes the larger question:
“What responsibility do we have toward vulnerable people in our own community?”
That is a much stronger ending than simply saying:
“This is a terrible problem.”
Thirteen Disorders Caused by Lack of Water
வீட்டிலிருந்த படியே சிறுநீரக கல்லை குணமாக்கும் வீட்டு வைத்தியம்!
வீட்டு வைத்தியம்
வெள்ளரிப்பிஞ்சு, நீராகாரம் சிறுநீரக பிரச்னைகளுக்கு அருமருந்து. பரங்கிக்காய் சிறுநீர் பெருக்கி. அதை அடிக்கடி உணவில் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ளலாம். புதினாக் கீரையை தொடர்ச்சியாக சாப்பிட்டு வந்தால் சிறுநீரகங்கள் பலப்படும்.
When criminal law meets neuroscience
Their mission includes examining the multiple effects of modern neuroscience on criminal law, designing and conducting neuroscientific research, and trying to make neuroscience accessible and beneficial to America’s courtrooms.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Serotonin controls fat metabolism!
Central serotonin (5-HT) is an anorexigenic neurotransmitter in the brain. However, accumulating evidence suggests peripheral 5-HT may affect organismal energy homeostasis.
Authors in Nature Communications show 5-HT regulates white and brown adipose tissue function.
Under high-fat diet (HFD) condition, the inhibition of 5-HT synthesis by various means reduced body weight gain, improved glucose tolerance, increased thermogenic activity in brown adipose tissue (BAT) and decreased lipogenesis in white adipose tissue (WAT).
Authors also show that 5-HT inhibited thermogenesis through (serotonin receptor) Htr3 in BAT and increased lipogenesis through Htr2a in WAT.
These data suggest important roles for adipocyte-derived 5-HT in controlling energy homeostasis.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Why I Refuse to be Silent
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Why You Should Walk, Not Run, Your Way To Fat Loss
2 – Too much cardio exercises increase the production of a stress hormone called cortisol, which leads to bigger food cravings because your body wants to overcompensate for the burned calories. So, you end up consuming more calories than you have burned.
**Cardiovascular exercises can have negative impact on the thyroid function. In order to have a properly functioning metabolism, the thyroid produces a hormone called T4, which then is converted to T3 to help the metabolism. But, by creating too much cortisol in your body, the thyroid is unable to produce T4 and you end up with dysfunctional metabolism, decreased ability to burn fat and loss of energy.
3 – It is believed that running has a low impact, plus the further you run the more you bang your feet into the ground. If you are overweight this can be bad for your knees and other joints
Summary: Cardio can cause the reduction of the muscle mass, less efficient metabolism, hormonal imbalance, which can lead to more weight, and it can have a negative impact on your knees if you are overweight.
Walking on the other hand can be a much healthier and more balanced alternative, even though it doesn’t provide the same amount of calorie burning effects as running. By walking you decrease the amounts of cortisol, which is much better on longer term. Walking makes you more sensitive to insulin, which then enables better calorie burning from other exercises and it doesn’t create cravings and unmanageable hunger. It also produces serotonin and dopamine which make you feel motivated and happier and lead to overall wellness.
So, walk as much as possible! Take 30 to 60 minutes walk at least three days a week, and increase this up to six days. Choose walking instead of cardio, and do other activities that relieve stress to the body. But, if you want a firm and good looking body, do some weekly metabolic resistance exercises for 20 or 30 minutes. Couple this with a well-though diet and you won’t have to run ever again.
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