Today’s Women

The position of women in society has been changed from time to time. In Vedic period women were considered to be goddesses. No social or religious function was considered to be auspicious where a woman was not present. She was called Ardhangini by her husband. That’s why the name of women was always put before the name of men like Sita-Ram, Radhey- Shyam. In Muslims the position of women is always behind the men. Also, they do not take any concrete steps to improve the status of women. Our national leaders also started working for emancipation of women. But, with change in time and technology women have left man far behind in many fields like we have women legislators, doctors, ambassadors, teachers, and lawyers. With the help of education they rise and shine. Earlier they used to remain within the four walls of house now they have broken out four walls of house and stepped ahead in life.

 Now, a modern girl has begun to live his life in its own way. She is no longer a dumb cow and can compete with boys and even sphere of life. She has become ambitious and self confident. A girl born in a poor family can also fly and enjoy like her rich friends. Earlier, a woman had to depend upon her parents, husband and family for her small basic needs. Now, the education has raised their status and become self independent.

In the past women used to take Ghunghat in front of their in-laws and husband and touched the feet of their elder ones. With change in time now women used to go office and also respect their elders. They haven’t forgotten their rituals. The only change is that they have stepped up to the outside world.

The crimes against women have increased. The crime has much to do with the existing low status of women prevalent in our society. Violence is at another level that can be emotional, physical, mental, domestic and public. Though, many measures have been taken at education, economic and independence levels that have directly or indirectly helped in increasing crime against women. If we look back historically, the status of women was quite good but now they are treated like animals, often beaten up by husbands. Women were deprived from getting education and their activities were limited to household’s chores and reproduction. The range of crime against women includes very wide range like rape, domestic violence, child marriage, dowry issue and many more. The discrimination against girl child is biggest offence. In India women are treated like goddess but this discrimination made them neglected from society. Even sometimes pregnant women do not get a proper balanced diet which leads to infant mortality rate. The attitude towards women has not been changed much. They are treated as a burden and hence denied from education. Women are considered as weaker sex. That’s why all sorts of violence are perpetrated on them. They are becoming easy targets for every male. Our society has become violent today. This is due to lawlessness in our society. Increasingly violent men are to be blamed. They have become corrupt who can’t respect a woman.

The laws have to be implemented effectively and action should be taken against violators. Women themselves have to unite and spread peace among each other and education of men is also necessary to live with peace.

The Next World War Would Not Be – A Conventional War

Unlike all the wars and disputes we’ve seen in the past the upcoming war (if any) would never be the same we can guess this with the on-going pandemic of SARS COV Virus, this is just a tip of an iceberg and there’s a lot hidden from us. Major countries in the world are packed with numerous bio weapons. So much is undergoing research and these are much more deadly than the well-known nuclear weapons. That is why it called as a “war of the future” it would be “a bio-warfare” and something of definite catastrophes for all living beings on earth.

Biological warfare also known as germ warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons often known as “bio-weapons”, “biological threat agents”, or “bio-agents” are living organisms or replicating entities that is, viruses which are not universally considered alive. Entomological (insect) warfare is a subtype of bio-warfare.

Biological warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, chemical warfare and radiological warfare, which together with biological warfare make up CBRN, the military initialise for nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). None of these are considered conventional weapons, which are deployed primarily for their explosive, kinetic, or incendiary potential. Although this world has prepared these weapons but it isn’t yet ready to tackle its attack.

Biological weapons may be employed in various ways to gain a strategic or tactical advantage over the enemy, either by threats or by actual deployments. Like some chemical weapons, biological weapons may also be useful as area denial weapons. These agents may be lethal or non-lethal, and may be targeted against a single individual, a group of people, or even an entire population. They may be developed, acquired, stockpiled or deployed by nation states or by non-national groups. In the latter case, or if a nation-state uses it clandestinely, it may also be considered bio-terrorism.

More than 16 million people have been infected by the coronavirus COVID-19 world-wide with the death toll crossing 650,000, the virus which first emerged in China in December 2019 could be the start of World War 3 and the world would not even know. The analysis done by major Intelligences of the world indicates so.

The virus could have been made in China and this could be a part of its intentions to start a war against the world, if the war begins then it will be fought on the basis of biological weapons (germ-warfare). It will also use psychological warfare and attack economies of the world.

Even during the past century, more than 500 million people died of infectious diseases. Several tens of thousands of these deaths were due to the deliberate release of pathogens or toxins, mostly during attacks in the Second World War. Two international treaties outlawed biological weapons in 1925 and 1972, but they have largely failed to stop countries from conducting offensive weapons research and large-scale production of biological weapons. And as our knowledge of the biology of disease-causing agents—viruses, bacteria and toxins—increases, it is legitimate to fear that modified pathogens could constitute devastating agents for biological warfare.

India like every other nation need to dig more into these type of microorganisms and boost its virology science. Protection from these bioweapons could be only when we know them in advance. Knowing them into deep Nano science is the key to protective measures from them.

Knowledge Management and Talent Management

The talent management is more of giving due to importance to the star / high performing employees while knowledge management is more of sharing the work style and technologies.

What is talent management

The talent-management concept applies the 80/20 rule , meaning 20% of an organization’s top employees yield 80% of its positive results. This suggests that employers must treat A-level executives — those who drive and deliver superior results on a consistent basis — in an exceptional and individualized way. This occurs throughout an executive’s complete life with an organization: from his or her initial hire to development, evaluation, reward systems, retention and succession planning.

Talent management defined:

It is sometimes assumed that talent management is only concerned with key people the high flyers. But everyone in an organization has talent, and talent management processes should not be limited to the favoured few, although they are likely to focus most on those with scarce skills and high potential.

Talent management process

The key talent management processes are:

*developing the organization as an ’employer of choice’ a ‘great place to work’;

*using selection and recruitment procedures that ensure that good quality people are recruited who are likely to thrive in the organization and stay with it for a reasonable length of time (but not necessarily for life);

*designing jobs and developing roles which give people opportunities to apply and grow their skills and provide them with autonomy, interest and challenge;

*providing talented staff with opportunities for career development and growth;

*creating a working environment in which work processes and facilities enable rewarding (in the broadest sense) jobs and roles to be designed and developed;

*developing a positive psychological contract;

*developing the leadership qualities of line managers;

*recognizing those with talent by rewarding excellence, enterprise and achievement;

*succession planning ensuring that the organization has suitable people to fill vacancies arising from promotion, retirement or death;

*conducting talent audits which identify those with potential and those who might leave the organization.

what is knowledge management

Knowledge management is a business activity with two primary aspects:

Treating the knowledge component of business activity as an explicit concern of business reflected strategy, policy, and practice at all levels of the organisation. Making a direct connection between an organisation intellectual asset both explicit (recorded) and tacit (person-know-how) and positive business results.

In practice, knowledge management often encompasses identifying and maping intellectual assets within the organisation, making vast amounts of information accessible, sharing of best practices , and technology that enables all of the above including gruopware and intranet.

Knowledge management defined:

Knowledge management involves transforming knowledge resources by identifying relevant information and then disseminating it so that learning can take place.

Knowledge management is any process or practice of creating, acquiring, capturing, sharing and using knowledge, wherever it resides, to enhance learning and performance in organizations. It focuses on the development of firm specific knowledge and skills that are the result of organizational learning processes.

The contribution of HR to Knowledge management

HR can make an important contribution to knowledge management simply because knowledge is shared between people; it is not just a matter of capturing explicit knowledge through the use of information technology The role of HR is to ensure that the organization has the intellectual capital it needs. The resource based view of the firm emphasizes, that ‘distinctive human resource practices help to create unique competencies that differentiate products and services and, in turn, drive competitiveness’.

These are ways which HR can contribute:

The main ways in which HR can contribute to knowledge management are summarized below:

#Help to develop an open culture in which the values and norms emphasize the importance of sharing knowledge.

#Promote a climate of commitment and trust.

#Advise on resourcing policies and provide resourcing services which ensure that valued employees who can contribute to knowledge creation and sharing are attracted and retained.

#Advise on methods of motivating people to share knowledge and rewarding those who do so.

#Develop processes of organizational and individual learning which will generate and assist in disseminating knowledge.

#Help in the development of performance management processes which focus on the development and sharing of knowledge.

#In conjunction with IT, develop systems for capturing and, as far as possible, codifying explicit and tacit knowledge.

#Set up and organize workshops, conferences, seminars and symposia which enable knowledge to be shared on a person to person basis.

Section 28 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872: Confession made after removal of impression caused by inducement, threat or promise, relevant

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Section 28 deals with the confession made after removal of impression caused by inducement, threat or promise, relevant. It provides that if such a confession as is referred to in Section 24 is made after the impression caused by any such inducement, threat or promise has, in the opinion of the Court, been fully removed, it is relevant. In the case of Abdul Razak v. State of Maharashtra, it was held that confession made after removal of impression caused by inducement, threat or promise is relevant under Section 28 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

Section 28 provides that when at the time of confession, the impression created in the mind of the accused by threats etc. was no longer there, the confession would be relevant. In the context of the Bombay terror attack, a confession made in custody was nevertheless held to be voluntary as it was made months after the confessing accused had remained in custody and after many sessions of interrogation. Voluntariness of the confession was further becoming clear from the fact that the confession was made to set an example to others to follow him.

This section deals with the validity of confession which is made after the effect of inducement is already over. Once the mind is set free from the fear created by threats of evil or from the hope of advantage from confessing (e.g. by lapse the time), any confession made is likely to be free and voluntary and there can hardly be any objection as to its validity. Thus, a confession which is rendered irrelevant under Sec. 24 may become relevant under this section. Sec. 28 lays down the conditions under which a confession rendered irrelevant by Sec. 24 may become relevant.

A confession is admissible after the impression caused by inducement, etc., has been fully removed because it then becomes free and voluntary. The confession, as mentioned in this section, should be voluntary and received as a result of reflection and free determination, unaffected and non-induced by original threat or promise.

A confession obtained by the person in authority from an accused person exercising inducements or extending threats or promise of the kind mentioned in Sec. 24, is under our law irrelevant.

The principle, on which this exclusion of the above kind of confession is based is that an accused, more often under those circumstances may be led to falsely incriminating himself having the immediate object of freeing himself from the domineering influence of the person in authority in whose charge he was for the nonce.

Whether actually the inducement or threat or promise prompted an accused person to make a confession, is not a matter for close scrutiny it is enough if it appears that the confession was due to the inducement, threat or promise.

The casual connection between the improper influences and the confession is not meant to be of mathematical certainty for if it appears that the confession was engendered by such influences, then it will be excluded from consideration so the consideration. So the considerations which govern this matter are, whether inducements, threats or promises presided the making of a confession and whether they appear to have influenced and accused to make confession.

There is another aspect of this matter which is dealt with in Sec. 28. It is that an inducement, threat or promise once exercised, is not deemed to have a lasting impression or effect on the accused.

There is a scope of every possibility for the impression created in the minds of an accused, on account of inducement, threat or promises, to wane and make an accused a free agent to express his violation. While dealing with this kind of a question, a Judge or Magistrate has to decide beforehand, that the impression resulted from improper influence is fully removed.

The enquiry in this regard should be real and substantial and the proof that the impression was removed, should be stronger than for the matter of seeing whether a confession was evoked by an inducement, threat or promise.

Prof. Wigmore has the following passage regarding this subject; “the exclusion of a confession necessarily assume:-

1. That the inducement, if it operated at all, was likely to produce a false confession, and

2. That it did, in fact, operate upon the mind of the person.

The question arising under the first of these elements is that the nature of the inducement having been examined remains to notice those arising under the the existence and operation of the inducement.

Where an inducement sufficient to exclude any confession obtained by it, has been offered, the question often arises, whether a confession subsequent in time to the inducement was in fact influenced by it. “It must be remembered that no attempt was ever to be made to investigate the actual motive of the person confessing or the part played by the inducement among other motives. The whole theory of the inducement rests on the probable effect, not actual effect, upon the person. While that inducement is held out if a confession is made, no enquiry is ever made into the exact share or influence which the inducement had in evoking confession.

Nevertheless, though there is no enquiry into the actuality of the operation of inducement, and though it is assumed that if it was there, it operated, we may often have to inquire whether, in fact, it was there at all i.e., present to the mind of the person confessing.” There are two kinds of cases in which the question may be raised.

In the one kind, the enquiry is “Did the inducement, for the person in hand, ever come into existence at all?” In another kind, the enquiry is “Was the inducement, for the person in hand, brought to an end before the confession was made?

Sec. 28 serves as an exception to the rule contained in Sec. 24, and therefore its place should have been immediately after Sec. 24. But the arrangement in the Indian Evidence Act appears to be that all confessions made irrelevant under it, are placed in juxtaposition while all confessions which are relevant are embodied in the Act, in a serial order. This principle is contained in “Stephen’s Digest of the Law of Evidence”, Art22.

It is to the following effect: “A confession is deemed to be voluntary if it is shown to have been made after the complete removal of the impression produced by any inducement, threat or promise which would otherwise render it involuntary.” The impression may not linger for all times. So lapse of time may remove it. The result can be achieved by counter suggestions that the inducement or threats or promises are not going to benefit him, or by cautioning that a confession made by him will be used as evidence against him.

So if a court by Judicious exercised of its mind, in a position to hold that the impression caused by an inducement or threat or promise is fully removed, at the time of the making of a confession by an accused, then such confession can be admitted as evidence. It is of the first importance, regarding this matter, to see that no trace of the effect of inducement etc., is lingering in the mind of the accused.

What amounts to such total effacement of the impression and what circumstance can bring about such a result must necessarily be questions of fact and no cast-iron rules can be predicted for this purpose.

Thus a Magistrate merely telling the accused that he should not allow himself to be influenced by any inducement cannot be held to be sufficient to end the effects of an inducement. The section commences with the words “If such a confession as is referred to in Sec. 24 is made etc.”

What is the meaning of this expression? Is it necessary that the confession should have been actually made in pursuance of an inducement, threat or promise?

The word confession in this section is used in its accepted sense with the only qualification that it should be one made to a person in authority, after an inducement, threat or promise was extended and when those factors were present which have a tendency to create a particular impression in the mind of the accused over whom they were used. Even such a confession is rendered relevant by this section if it is made after the impression referred above is fully removed.

This section deals with the legality of confession which is made after the effect of inducement is already ended. Once the mind is set free from the apprehension created by threats of evil or from hopes of advantage from confessing any confession made is likely to be open and voluntary and there can barely be any doubt to its validity.

It is necessary that the effect of threats or inducements has been completely removed and to the pleasure of the court. All promises or threats should have been inhibited.

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The birth of ROMO

Till the time when everything was ‘normal’, there existed a phenomenon that was quite common and that which caused stress. Termed as ‘FOMO’, and acronym for ‘Fear of Missing Out’ which describes a perception that others are having a better life, experiencing better things and are having much more fun and you are leading just a regular life. This phenomenon has existed for many years, but with the advent and excessive use of social media, this phenomenon has gained too much importance. FOMO usually occurs when a bunch of your ‘social media’ friends post some photos of some event without you (usually displaying the positive aspect while hiding the negative aspect), you tend to measure your life on their scale and you consider your life to be very ‘normal’. You feel like you are missing out on all the fun. Over the years, FOMO has manifested itself due to ‘posts’ on Facebook and Instagram.

But wait, times have changed. COVID-19 has practically faded the phenomenon ‘FOMO’ which concurrently gave birth to ‘ROMO’, an acronym of ‘Reality of Missing Out.’ Not only this pandemic has paralysed the world, it has also erased the feelings of missing out on fun considering the fact that everyone is locked indoors. With ROMO, you know that it is not cool to go outdoors and have fun with friends while breaking the rules of isolation.

ROMO gives a feeling of despair while losing out to go on to even the simplest of things. Like going out for dinner to a nearby restaurant, missing out for an ice-cream treat at park, going out for grocery shopping or even simply just going out for a stroll. The usual feeling of ‘getting bored’ is now substituted by different conflicting feelings such as – ‘Will I die?’, ‘Will my parents be alive?’, ‘Will I ever be able to go out for a nice dinner?’, ‘Will I be able to enjoy life as before?’. Apparently, such questions keep on running across my or anyone’s mind.

Isolation and quarantine has practically crippled the entire world. Everything around us seems to be on hold – like we are waiting for some kind of a miracle to lift the veil of such darkness. Events like religious festivals, sports tournaments, summer parades at my school, convocation at my B-School, to name among a few, got cancelled. It is very heart wrenching to see that life is just pacing forward and we are actually missing our present and that is a very harsh reality. Family members waiting to receive their ‘chemotherapy’ sessions, pre-final year students waiting to get back to their college and grand-parents waiting to visit their children, and we all are waiting, running desperately to reach the end of the tunnel. Our present is fleeting like sand sifting through our fingers, waiting for everything to end.

It is rather funny to think that just a few months back, we all had the opportunity to make choices, deciding where to go and which options need to be thrown out of the window. But think about now. Do we actually have any opportunities to even think over?

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-26/covid-19-has-taken-us-from-fomo-to-romo

Death

What an unbelievable world it is,
How shortly they modify there ‘say’
By witnessing their multisided face,
Even My dead body was in shock ‘I must say’

They came to pay my body a ‘last visit’
But they ended up to converse about my peculiarities
Too soon, that too faded away
Even my dead was in shock ‘I must say’

“My wife is not moaning enough,”
“My Kid is into the phone,”
“How much balance I have left in the account,”
Their sobs disappeared and murmur took place
Even my dead body was in shock ‘I must say’

“Who will give me the shoulder,”
“Who will perform my rites,”
They were more eager to know about it,
It seemed it meant to them a lot.
My companion was crying, my little baby was almost unaware of
By seeing them paying adieu, I broke being a rock.

Love maintaining tonic: SORRY

The value of the word sorry in today’s context has become very cheap. A person commits a crime then very brazenly says sorry.

Here, the once powerful word has become very small in size because of non- realisation of its importance by the masses. Nowadays, a new trend of unapologetic behaviour is in vogue.

This act creates bitterness among the people scarred from the act of wrongdoer whereas a simple sorry can make a situation/day sonewhat better for the person wronged. But the people are finding this habit difficult to enact, this causing contempt and hatred for fellow citizens.

Here i would like to quote the sacred text which was authored by intellectual men for the upliftment of the entire mankind. “Forgiveness is a kind deed”. Forgiveness is not a sign of a weak person but is considered a virtue of a strong personality.

In the end, i would like to quote M.K Gandhi “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”

7 Online Business Anyone Can Start (No Scam No Investment)

Earning money has always been associated with and restricted to traditional ‘offline’ route. With the Internet taking over a large part of our lives, more people are looking to ways to earn money online to increase their financial inflows.

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However, you should be careful of the platform that you opt for. While there are numerous ways to earn money online, some of these might be fake, thus taking you for a ride. Also, do not expect to earn a huge amount quickly when using online avenues.

1- TEESPRING

Teespring is a free platform that lets you create and sell over 50 kinds of products with no upfront cost or risk. We handle everything, from printing to shipping to customer service. Teespring is for everyone—from entrepreneurs looking to start their own online business, to Creators wanting to offer awesome merch to their fans, to charities looking for a hassle-free way to raise funds, and everyone in between.

Use Teespring tools like stores, promotion codes, buyer messaging, and more to maximize your sales! We can even list your products within the most powerful global marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and more through Teespring’s Boosted Network.

How do I make money using Teespring?

You choose the selling price and profit for all of your products. When a product sells you get to keep the profit. For example, the base cost of a t-shirt is $10 and your selling price is $24; when you sell a shirt you will earn $14. Once the orders are processed your profit will be available for withdrawal in the Payouts section of your Teespring account. Don’t forget the more you sell the more profit you can earn per product per month.

2- Merch by Amazon

Basically, if you have 100 t-shirts in your account, you could expect to make about … This is a conservative estimate, about $150 a month. If you have 1,000 t-shirts in your account, you can expect to make maybe $1,500 a month. If you have 8,000 t-shirts in your account, you could expect to make about $12,000 a month.

Merch by Amazon is a very cool startup type program by Amazon. It is a pod program where you can sell tshirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in USA. Anyone can participate as long as you have payoneer. For Indians, there is a 15% tax on earnings. (No wonder taxation is theft as we have to pay tax on those earnings in India as well. But then IRS are a bunch of thieves)

3- REDBUBBLE

The designers earn royalties from the sale of their creations. They receive a percentage of the profit and the rest of the funds account for the fee paid to Redbubble and the manufacture of the merchandise. The site then handles the inventory and shipping transactions on your behalf.

The designers earn royalties from the sale of their creations. They receive a percentage of the profit and the rest of the funds account for the fee paid to Redbubble and the manufacture of the merchandise. The site then handles the inventory and shipping transactions on your behalf

4- UDEMY

One of the best features of selling classes on Udemy is the fact that it can become an excellent source of passive income. Once you create and post a course, it can earn you money for a long time without additional work. It just might take more work to market your course to potential students.

For example if a student purchases your course using an Instructor Coupon code, either from promotions to your own audience (e.g., your email list or YouTube subscribers) you can make 97% revenue share. Alternatively if the course is sold via an Affiliate, the split is 50% affiliate, 25% Instructor and 25% Udemy.

5- AFFILIATED MARKETING

Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest marketing practice which gains affiliates a commission in the case of sale based on the affiliate’s recommendation. It is one of the cheapest and easiest ways of marketing as you don’t need to create and sell a product. Just one thing you need to do is to enable a linked connection between buyer and seller and take your commission when the sale is made.

As you see, affiliate marketing is a passive income source. It is highly competitive it is true but still it may be so easy to make money online with affiliate marketing. To be successful, you need to learn what works and what doesn’t while promoting your products.

There are many affiliate marketing works. So, you need to be patient. You can feed your website with qualified content to get high ranking positions and raise awareness, attend affiliate marketing events, seminars or webinars and join a discussion forum or online communities to meet new people. All make a great contribution to develop you. Naturally after these contributions you will be more passionate to make money from affiliate programs. If you are patient enough you will make money with affiliate programs. 

6- YOUTUBE AFFILIATED MARKETING

You can make money on YouTube by doing affiliate marketing, which is including links to products you review and use in your videos that will track a purchase. If someone makes a purchase using your affiliate link, you receive a small commission for the sale.

Another thing about affiliate marketing is the payout percentages as well as how these people track your viewers who are clicking on these links. Every time someone clicks on one of your special tracking affiliate links, a little cookie is put onto that person’s computer to track what they purchase. The best part about the cookies is that if you link to a specific product, they don’t have to purchase that product. Anything they purchase on that website, you get commissions for. So they could click over with your affiliate link and that cookie and decide not to purchase that, but purchase a whole bunch of other things, and you get paid commission off it.

7- EBATES REFERRALS

You can still make money without a blog! In fact, you can make some major coin with the Rakuten Referral Program simply by inviting friends and family, using your social media networks to the fullest – including Pinterest – and even promoting in neighborhood groups and forums.

Have friends and family share your link. If you are saving for something special, and they feel like they can be a part of it, they will likely glady share the opportunity with their followers.

Of course, using the strategies above won’t hurt either. Pay special attention to numbers 3 through 5 and remember – have fun with it, but own it!

WHAT IS SINUS AND SINUSITIS?

The sinuses are a connected system of hollow cavities in the skull. The paranasal sinuses are located in your head near your nose and eyes. They are named after the bones that provide their structure.
The maxillary sinuses (The biggest sinus cavity is the maxillary cavity, and it is one of the cavities that most often becomes infected.), in the cheekbones.
The frontal sinuses, in the low-center of the forehead.
The ethmoid sinuses, between the eyes, at the nasal bridge.
The sphenoid sinuses, in bones behind the nasal cavity.

7 simple home remedies to get rid of your sinus

Sinus infections happen when fluid builds up in the air-filled pockets in the face (sinuses), which allows germs to grow. Viruses cause most sinus infections, but bacteria can cause some sinus infections too.The sinuses make thin mucus that drains out of the channels of the nose. This drainage helps keep the nose clean and free of bacteria. Normally filled with air, the sinuses can get blocked and filled with fluid. This is also called rhinosinusitis, with “rhino” meaning “nose”. The nasal tissue is almost always swollen if sinus tissue is inflamed.

Several factors can increase your risk of getting a sinus infection:

  • A previous cold
  • Seasonal allergies
  • Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
  • Structural problems within the sinuses (such as growths on the lining of the nose or sinuses, known as nasal polyps)
  • A weak immune system or taking drugs that weaken the immune system

For infants and young children, spending time in day cares, using pacifiers or drinking bottles while lying down could increase the chances of getting sinusitis.

For adults, smoking increases the risks for sinus infections. If you smoke, you should stop. Smoking is harmful to you and to the people around you.

Symptoms

Common symptoms of sinus infections include:

  • Runny nose
  • Stuffy nose
  • Facial pain or pressure
  • Headache
  • Mucus dripping down the throat (post-nasal drip)
  • Sore throat
  • Cough
  • Bad breath

There are different types of sinusitis:

  • Acute bacterial sinusitis: This term refers to a sudden onset of cold symptoms such as runny nose, stuffy nose, and facial pain that does not go away after 10 days, or symptoms that seem to improve but then return and are worse than the initial symptoms (termed “double sickening”). It responds well to antibiotics and decongestants.
  • Chronic sinusitis: This term refers to a condition defined by nasal congestion, drainage, facial pain/pressure, and decreased sense of smell for at least 12 weeks.
  • Subacute sinusitis: This term is used when the symptoms last four to twelve weeks.
  • Recurrent acute sinusitis: This term is used when the symptoms come back four or more times in one year and last less than two weeks each time.

How can I tell if I have a sinus infection, cold, or nasal allergy?

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a cold, allergies, and a sinus infection. The common cold typically builds, peaks, and slowly disappears. It lasts a few days to a week. A cold can transform into a sinus infection. Nasal allergy is inflammation of the nose due to irritating particles (dust, pollen, and dander). Symptoms of a nasal allergy can include sneezing, itchy nose and eyes, congestion, runny nose, and post nasal drip (mucus in the throat). Sinusitis and allergy symptoms can happen at the same time as a common cold.

If you are fighting off a cold and develop symptoms of a sinus infection or nasal allergy, see your healthcare provider. You will be asked to describe your symptoms and medical history.

The goals of treatment for sinusitis are to:

  • Improve drainage of mucus and reduce swelling in the sinuses.
  • Relieve pain and pressure.- take some pain killer
  • Clear up any infection.- by suitable antibiotics ( Augmentin would be better)
  • Prevent the formation of scar tissue, and avoid permanent damage to the tissues lining the nose and sinuses.

SOME HOME REMEDIES TO TREAT SINUSITIS:

  1. Use a humidifier.
  2. Breathe in steam vapors.
  3. Put a warm, wet towel on your face. It can take off some of the pressure.
  4. Try a nasal saline solution (Saline is salt water).
  5. Flush out your sinuses using bulb syringes or Neti pots.
  6. Drink lots of fluids but avoid alcohol .
  7. Eat immune-boosting foods
  8. Rest.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Today, 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 4.2 billion people lack safely managed sanitation services. Unsafe hygiene practices are widespread, compounding the effects on people’s health. The impact on child mortality rates is devastating with more than 297 000 children under five who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water.

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to improving standards of living for people. The improved standards made possible by WASH include, among others, better physical health, protection of the environment, better educational outcomes, convenience time savings, assurance of lives lived with dignity, and equal treatment for both men and women. Poor and vulnerable populations have lower access to improved WASH services and have poorer associated behaviors. Improved WASH is therefore central to reducing poverty, promoting equality, and supporting socioeconomic development. Drinking water and sanitation were targets in the Millennium

Water

A person without access to improved drinking water – for example from a protected borehole well or municipal piped supply for instance – is forced to rely on sources such as surface water, unprotected and possibly contaminated wells, or vendors selling water of unverifiable provenance and quality.

For many communities, water sources are usually far from their homes, and it typically falls to women and girls to spend much of their time and energy fetching water, a task which often exposes them to attack from men and even wild animals.

Sanitation

Without improved sanitation – a facility that safely separates human waste from human contact – people have no choice but to use inadequate communal latrines or to practice open defecation. For women and girls, finding a place to go to the toilet outside, often having to wait until the cover of darkness, can leave them vulnerable to abuse and sexual assault.

In the immediate environment, exposed faecal matter will be transferred back into people’s food and water resources, helping to spread serious diseases such as cholera. Beyond the community, the lack of effective waste disposal or sewerage systems can contaminate ecosystems and contribute to disease pandemics.

Hygiene

In some parts of the world there is little or no awareness of good hygiene practices and their role in reducing the spread of disease. However, it is often the case that even when people do have knowledge of good hygiene behavior, they lack the soap, safe water and washing facilities they need to make positive changes to protect themselves and their community.

Improved water supply and sanitation provide individuals with increased comfort, safety, dignity, status, and convenience, and also have broader effects on the living environment. The social welfare effects are difficult to quantify, given their subjective nature. Nevertheless, those benefits are consistently cited as among the most important for beneficiaries of water supply and sanitation and may be particularly relevant for women.

STOP BODY SHAMING

Are You Being Body Shamed? Here Is How You Can Deal With It!

Body shaming is the act of suggesting that someone’s body isn’t good enough, and that they should not be satisfied or comfortable with its current composition, proportions, or exposure to the gaze of others. It is rude and disrespectful behavior, and there is no body type that creates an exception that would make body shaming less rude or less disrespectful.

A person’s body is their own. It is none of your business. You are not their medical practitioner, and you are neither assisting nor improving the lives of anyone by boorishly sharing your opinions and “helpful” intentions. There is no person on the planet that is not keenly aware of the ways in which their body does not meet the current standard. There is not one person who needs you to point it out.

Body shaming includes:

Suggesting that slender people are too thin, their bosoms and backsides are inadequate, that they’re weak and not manly, that they’re unhealthy and that their eating or exercise habits must be disordered. Dismissing very slender people as stuck up, meek, cowardly, weak, pathetic, neurotic, or shrill because of the composition of their bodies.

Suggesting that fat people are too fat to deserve basic human dignity, that fatness is a result of a flaw of character or failure of self discipline and therefore deserving of derision and mockery.

Body shaming linked to more weight gain among children, suggests ...

Suggesting that a body is too old to be beautiful. That the signs of maturity and experience are unsightly and revolting, and should be covered or “fixed”. That people over a certain age should cover up, that a woman’s body is meaningless after menopause, that older adults should not reveal their bodies or sexuality.

Suggesting that short people are undesirable and therefore foolish to attempt to begin a romantic relationship with a potential partner of average or above-average height.

Suggesting that tall people should only wear or do certain things because of their height, and that tall women should avoid high heels or shorter partners.

Suggesting that bodies are not sufficiently gendered: that muscular bodies are not feminine enough, that willowy bodies aren’t masculine enough, and that bodies that do not clearly evoke a gender are an embarrassment to be fixed.

Suggesting that some bodies are to be hidden from view. Too fat, skinny, tall, short, unusual, scarred, tattooed, devoid of curves or of defined muscles, unusually or deeply pigmented, affected by physical or medical challenges…and that they should not choose clothing that allows their skin and form to be visible for what it is and to celebrate it.

Body shaming and popular media: the Selfie Culture- SheThePeople TV

Body shaming is all around us. Judging has become such an automatic response that people tend to do it without any prior thoughts. Some people try to find humor in degrading someone else’s body which is highly undesirable. The problem is not just limited to judging others but judging our own selves. Thinking about the parts of your body you could change or comparing them with the notion of “perfect body” our media has successfully created. It saddens me to witness the social media popularizing certain body types as beautiful. Today, almost all the teenagers are highly active on social medias. When platforms like Facebook and Instagram reinforce the ideal concepts of beauty, it distorts the thinking processes of the teenagers who in turn experience insecurity and face issues of low self-esteem later in life.

“The world is too big to have one sort of view to show beauty”. It’s time to break the mold if we want to stop body shaming in all forms. Motivate, encourage and support the differences. If each one of us start to accept our own body structures, nobody can make us feel bad about it.

FIVE WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF:

1. You can wear WHAT YOU want and whatever makes you feel confident whether it’s being fully covered from head to toe, naked or anywhere in between.However, its not that wear a bikini to go to a temple. Always be appropriate to the area and situation it’s but YOUR choice. And should always be your choice.

2. Don’t be insecure about any part of your body. Or trying covering it up because you think “it’s dirty”. It’s ain’t. Your body is royal. Your skin is precious. Every part of you is important. Dress how you please BUT don’t think “oh, I can’t wear a bikini because of my cellulite, or stretch marks, or butt acne, or belly rolls, or bra bulges, or not having the same skin tone or being hairy or whatever you feel you’re insecure about.”

3. No matter what has happened to you, your body is not shameful. You are is not a disgrace. You my loves, are a fucking warrior made of resilience.Having scars (sometimes you can’t see them) on your body for all the battles you’ve fought. Every scar has a story. You are admirable. Wear your skin with pride.

4. And you know what for most of us who have hated our bodies for so long it’s difficult to “love ourselves”.But accept who you are, what you are now AND ALWAYS work on getting stronger. You will find moments of self love and then you’ll be addicted to it, and you’ll know how to truly take care of yourself. It will happen.

5. No matter what you start taking HEALTHIER options for you to get better. Yes, accept yourself and love yourself but also take steps for you TO BE HEALTHY. For your to get better, to get stronger, to get healthier than you were before.

Body Shaming… – Tamlin- Lauren xo

Please choose kindness. Choose empathy. See the beauty in every body, and choose to spend your time bringing people and ideas together. We each have a staggering array of our own flaws on which to focus — let us not mock others for the state of their earthly form.

We often blame the society for what is happening around but we need to realize that it us who form the society. Thus, the first step is to fight our own thinking patterns to accept ourselves and then we need to make others aware of the same. Embrace who you are!

Indian culture and the positive changes.

Since ancient times India is known for diversity and prosperity in its Culture. It has one of the oldest civilization and culture in the world. Despite of such diversity Indian culture has the immense power to unite peoples together. There are fifteen national languages recognized by the Indian constitution and these are spoken in over 1600 dialects. With language changing across different parts of country, culture is also diverse. The Culture of India has played a vital role in its civilization.
Changing Values
We all know that Change is the law of nature. This law is governing almost everything in this universe and so as the Indian Culture. Over Centuries Indian Culture has influenced by a lot of changes and many of them has incorporated in this culture remaining the other features intact. These Changes are more or less like two faces of a coin. Some changes are beneficial for our society and culture, and some others are dangerous. In other words these changes have both Positive and Negative aspects. Changes In Indian Culture that are Positive for Indian Society
A few Centuries ago “Sati pratha” was abolished and “widow remarriage” was approved. These Changes were the major achievements of Indian Society. These changes have removed the traditions and methodologies which was a curse to all the women and humanity. These Changes were the major revolution in the Indian Society. From that time,changes have influenced a lot to the Indian Society. Now a days, there are many visible changes in our society.