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डेंगू

जिस तरह से अस्पतालों का हाल बेहाल है और डेगू से मौते हो रही है कारण जगह का न होना है इस लिए  अस्पताल में भर्ती होने से पहले अपना पलंग खुद लेकर जाए तो भर्ती हो जाएगी और ईलाज सम्भव हो जाएगा !!!

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रोगी होने के बाद इलाज कराना मजबूरी हो जाता है, लेकिन रोगी न हो इसके लिए सावधानी जरूरी है। बीमारी को पैर पसारने न दिए जाएं साथ ही सुरक्षा के जितने हो सकें उपाय करें। संक्रामक बीमारियों के रोगाणु संपर्क में आने पर हमला करते हैं। रोग प्रतिरोधक प्रणाली को इतना मजबूत कर लें कि रोगाणुओं का हमला भी बेकार चला जाए। स्वाइन फ्लू, डेंगू और मलेरिया ऐसी ही बीमारियां हैं, जो संक्रमण से फैलती हैं। स्वाइन फ्लू किसी भी संक्रमित मरीज की खांसी के साथ निकली बूंदों के संपर्क में आने से फैलता है।

डेंगू मादा एडीस इजीप्ट मच्छर के काटने से फैलता है। इसी तरह मलेरिया भी मच्छर के काटने से फैलता है। इस मौसम में मलेरिया होने की आशंका अधिक रहती है। ND डेंगू के लक्षण अचानक तेज बुखार, शरीर के रेशेस, बदन दर्द, सिर दर्द, मांसपेशियों व जोड़ों में जबरदस्त दर्द प्रारंभिक लक्षण हैं। एक अन्य प्रकार के डेंगू, जिसको हेमरेजीक डेंगू कहा गया है, में रक्तस्राव के लक्षण व बेहोशी के लक्षण प्रतीत होते हैं। श्वास में रुकावट भी उत्पन्न होती है।

ऐसे मरीज को तुरंत किसी अच्छे अस्पताल में, जहां आईसीयू सुविधा हो, ले जाना चाहिए, क्योंकि उसमें प्लेटीलेट कोशिकाओं (रक्त में एक प्रकार की कोशिकाएं, जो खून के शरीर में बहाव को रोकती है) की कमी हो जाती है। इन वायरसजनित बीमारियों का जलवायु परिवर्तन से गहन रिश्ता है अतः मौसम अनुसार खुद-ब-खुद भी बीमारी का फैलना रुक जाता है। यह बीमारी ब्राजील जैसे देश में सर्वाधिक होती है, जहां तापमान पर्यावरण में अधिक रहता है।

भारत में प्राकृतिक रूप से कई प्रकार के वायरस फैल नहीं पाते हैं। बचाव के तरीके रोगग्रसित मरीज का तुरंत उपचार शुरू करें व तेज बुखार की स्थिति में पेरासिटामाल की गोली दें। एस्प्रिन या डायक्लोफेनिक जैसी अन्य दर्द निवारक दवाई न लें। खुली हवा में मरीज को रहने दें व पर्याप्त मात्रा में भोजन-पानी दें जिससे मरीज को कमजोरी न लगे। फ्लू एक तरह से हवा में फैलता है अतः मरीज से 10 फुट की दूरी बनाए रखें तो फैलने का खतरा कम रहता है। जहां बीमारी अधिक मात्रा में हो, वहां फेस मॉस्क पहनना चाहिए। घर के आसपास मच्छरनाशक दवाइयां छिड़काएं। ND एडिस मच्छर दिन में काटते हैं, अतः शरीर को पूर्ण रूप से ढंकें। पानी के फव्वारों को हफ्ते में एक दिन सुखा दें। घर के आसपास छत पर पानी एकत्रित न होने दें। घर का कचरा सुनिश्चित जगह पर डालें, जो कि ढंका हो। कचरा आंगन के बाहर न फेंककर नष्ट करें। पानी की टंकियों को कवर करके रखें व नियमित सफाई करें। इस तरह थोड़ी-सी सावधानी से स्वस्थ रहा जा सकता है। webdunia.com

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Love and accept your body. You’re beautiful as you are.

We’re all given constant messages from advertisements and the media that we’re not good enough as we are, that we need to fix or change something about ourselves. But that’s just done to create insecurity so companies can sell products and services, and also sometimes by society to keep some people in power. It’s not based on actual beauty.

You don’t need to change anything; you are beautiful as you are. Truly! Soul shines out of people’s eyes and faces–true beauty–and that’s what draws me to someone. I also see beauty in each of us. If you look at people with an artist’s eye, as well as a compassionate or soul eye, you’ll see the beauty, too. I hope you can look at yourself that way and realize you’re beautiful just as you are.

This can be a hard time of year for many people, so I thought I’d post more positive messages for people again–selfies along with the messages, so people can see the person (and author) behind the message. I think it helps make it more personal and real.

I will try to post photos most days of December for you all. Let me know if you like this idea.

And if you like this post, if it speaks to you, I hope you’ll share it with others.

Reach out to the people who love you. The people you love. They want to hear from you. Whether you’re in a good space or going through a hard time, your friends and others you love want to be there for you and with you. Don’t be afraid to reach out and let them know what’s going on. Think about it in reverse: do you want to hear when someone you love has something happy or something painful going on in their life? Of course you do! So, they do, too.

Keep reaching out to the people who care about you. It’s especially important when you’re going through a hard time. If you can, don’t let yourself get isolated. Keep those connections strong. Because human connection, those bonds we make, help us want to be alive and celebrate life.

This can be a hard time of year for many people, so I thought I’d post more positive messages for people again–selfies along with the messages, so people can see the person (and author) behind the message. I think it helps make it more personal and real.

I will try to post photos most days of December for you all. Let me know if you like this idea.

And if you like this post, if it speaks to you, I hope you’ll share it with others.

Allow yourself to take in the good things people say about you–and know they are true.

If you’re a survivor of abuse or if you had critical parents, you may struggle with believing in the good in you, and you may dismiss compliments or positive things others say about you. I do. But when people say good things about you, they mean it, and it’s important to allow the good things in, to really appreciate all the good you do.

One thing that may help you with this is to repeat to yourself the good things other people have said to you. Or write them out (or ask the person to), and then read them over again.

This can be a hard time of year for many people, so I thought I’d post more positive messages for people again–selfies along with the messages, so people can see the person (and author) behind the message. I think it helps make it more personal and real.

I will try to post photos most days of December for you all. Let me know if you like this idea.

And if you like this post, if it speaks to you, I hope you’ll share it with others.

If you’re having a hard time, remember: it *will* get better. It usually doesn’t feel like it when you’re having a hard time, especially if you’re in crisis, or really triggered or scared or in deep pain, but you will move through it, and things will get lighter, easier, and better again. So if you’re having a rough time, try to find ways to keep breathing through it, and try to hold on to knowing that it WILL get better. You just have to get through the rough period.

It can help to use positive distraction–to read a good book, watch a movie, talk with a friend, go for a walk and notice the beauty around you. It can help to talk to a friend, loved one, or therapist and be heard. Hugs and safe touch can also help. So does getting out the emotion in safe ways–writing, drawing, dancing, screaming into a pillow, going for a run. It can help to read (and re-read) positive messages from people you care about, and to think about good times you’ve had. And remember that there are always crisis lines if you need them–through phone, email, and text, such as RAINN.

Sometimes you can change/lighten your mood and help you feel good again by using these techniques, and sometimes it may just help you through. I hope you use these, and any other safe ways that don’t hurt you.

Please keep yourself safe, treat yourself gently, and keep holding on to the belief that things will get better–because they will.

If you need to, please read my posts Reasons Not To Hurt Yourself

This can be a hard time of year for many people, so I thought I’d post more positive messages for people again–selfies along with the messages, so people can see the person (and author) behind the message. I think it helps make it more personal and real.

I will try to post photos most days of December for you all. Let me know if you like this idea.

And if you like this post, if it speaks to you, I hope you’ll share it with others.

Weird Update:

Ok so some of you may call me a freak. But yesterday I blogged about seeing a spider weaving a web. Today, I found a black widow spider and this is the symbolism for a black widow spider

"If spider has come into your life, ask yourself something important questions. Are you not weaving your dreams and imaginings into reality? Are you not using your creative opportunities? Are you feeling closed in or stuck as if in a web? Do you need to write? Are you inspired to write or draw and not following through? Remember that spider is the keeper of knowledge of the primordial alphabet. Spider can teach how to use the written language with power and creativity so that your words weave a web around those who read them."

Don't you think this is weird? Things like this always happen to me!

Sunny Sunday


My blogger buddies, Suzanne Young and Robin Mellom are determined to spread good cheer through the writing hemisphere. (and I know we could all use that right now!;)


They will be doing Project Perk on Mondays and are asking other to follow along. I told them since I do Marketing Mondays, I would preempt their special day with Sunny Sunday.

This week - Pat your self on the back!


We, as writers need to pat ourselves on the back from time to time for choosing our passion and following our hearts. In addition, we keep trying and trying in the face of adversary and overwhelming odds because we know writing fills our souls and spirits.

Here's to all the things You - as a writer - are doing right. Be sure to recognize them!

• Reading blogs
• Writing your hearts out
• Connecting with other writers
• Encouraging others
• Fearlessly subbing (sending out submissions) and keeping your projects out there in the publishing world.
• Looking past rejections and rejections and rejections!
• Working hard day after day even though you may not have a book to show for it yet. BTW - print out your manuscript - you do have a book to show for it - it is just in the "infant" stage. :)
• Your hard hours of researching - whether it be agents, books, publishers, ideas, or connections.
• For seeking and accepting criticism. Its hard and the fact we seek it shows how strong we all are.
• For giving up financial comforts.
• Most of all - being true to your spirit and following your dreams.

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That's our goal. After months (years) of complaining about everything under the sun, my husband and I are trying to give up the habit. We saw a story on CBS Sunday Morning about "A Complaint Free World" and decided that this was our last hope. In case you're not familiar with the concept:

Our words are powerful indicators of our thoughts, and our thoughts create our lives. When we complain, we draw to us negative things because we put out negative energy. Therefore, one of the most important things we do is to learn not to complain.

And, in order to remind ourselves not to complain (for a small, tax-deductible fee), we were sent purple bracelets to wear. Apparently, you're supposed to put it on one wrist or the other. If (when) you find yourself complaining about ANYTHING, you must remove the bracelet and put it on the opposite wrist. The objective is to wear it on one wrist exclusively for 21 straight days.

Now, please tell me how this is possible in a world of never-ending war and astronomical gas prices?!

(Oh. Hang on a minute while I switch wrists)

...Politics being thrown at you 24/7??

(Sorry. Gotta change)

And, HAVE YOU BOUGHT A GALLON OF MILK LATELY??

(Excuse me, again)

Not to mention the fact that there are three houses in foreclosure in our neighborhood and several more with rusty, faded For Sale signs.

(Uh-oh. Wonder how strong these bracelets are? Hope they can handle lots of stretching)

Well, you get the idea. Here's the link to the website, if you dare. Bwwahahahah...

A Complaint Free World

P.S. We also bought bracelets for our kids and friends!

Magabala Books, based in Broome, Western Australia, is an Australian indigenous publishing house. They’re committed to using aboriginal illustrators for their growing list of children’s books, but aboriginal illustrators are as few and far between as towns in that part of the country. So manager Suzie Hazlehurst put together a proposal to train and mentor promising talent. With funding from Writing WA and artsource, Suzie invited artists and likely future artists recommended by the local art centers in the Kimberley region to participate. She brought illustrator Ann James from Melbourne’s Books Illustrated to teach two 4-day intensive courses, one in Broome and one in Perth, with about a dozen participants each.

“Ann did a great job teaching both established artists and people with no experience in art mediums,” Suzie says. “Illustration requires specific skills. Artists have to know how to work with publishers, writers, and designers. They need to understand layout and collaborate on deciding which parts of a story need more detail.” Three workshop participants submitted exciting sample illustrations, she reports, and are now being mentored for particular titles.

Furthermore, Magabala is mentoring a young Adelaide writer on his graphic novel, which will also be the first graphic novel Magabala has published. The publishing manager is overseeing editorial guidance and a Melbourne designer with much graphic novel experience is offering design input. The target publishing date is late 2008 for this 3-way collaboration.

Magabala’s star is rising. The company, started in 1984, became an Independent Aboriginal Corporation in 1990. A recent move into the old Visitors’ Center in Broome, across the street from the new Visitors’ Center, has increased visibility and growth. A bush garden is in the works, as are gift products to be developed from the “artistic collateral” of their books. “Broome gets 300,000 visitors a year,” Suzie muses, “and if only a tenth of them bought one of our books…”

Wondering what the word Magabala means? Check it out here. For more about Australian indigenous book publishing, visit PaperTigers here. And here’s a PaperTigers review of one of Magabala’s most endearing titles, My Home in Kakadu. Who knows how much this one book has done to increase respect for the indigenous cultures of Australia?

Books Illustrated in Melbourne launched Elise Hurst’s 50th book in 11 years, The Night Garden, with a champagne party and an exhibit of illustrations from the book. A big crowd showed up! Before reading the book to a thrilled and energetically participating audience, Elise explained that two years ago she had only the germ of an idea–a garden “where everything happens, with each picture extraordinary.” A publisher was interested, but, big surprise, wanted a story. It’s an “escape artist” story, Elise discovered, of looking out on a magical garden in the middle of the night. She remembers falling asleep herself at the window as a child, dreamily gazing out the window into a possible magical garden she herself has now escaped into through her young character, Sally.

Elise’s husband, Peter, talked about the hard work of getting the text and the illustrations right. Discussing two particular pages, he explained that “in 40 words, with illustrations, Elise first got across the idea that Sally is adventurous and feels the magic, but her cat, Strange, is reluctant. Then Elise transitions into the mystical world outside, ‘to the edge of here and there.’ The garden is like an opera set, and the whole garden appears on the end papers.”

PaperTigers recognized Elise’s work some time ago with a gallery feature, and Elise remembered us when I introduced myself. I’m looking forward to writing about more about the vibrant community of illustrators, publishers, and writers that I’ve met through Ann Haddon and Ann James of Books Illustrated. Thanks for a great launch party!

When I visited Ann James, illustrator of Ready Set Skip!, at Books Illustrated, she mentioned that there’s an Australia-wide shortage of book illustrators. To help address the problem, she’s recently taught two workshops on book illustration for aboriginal artists, sponsored by Magabala Books.

Becoming a children’s book illustrator isn’t always a direct path. Ann started out as an art teacher. Gaye Chapman, illustrator of Breakfast with Buddha, had been a graphic designer and professional painter for many years when her first children’s book, Heart of the Tiger, came out in 2004. Sally Rippin, illustrator of Becoming Buddha, started out writing and illustrating picture books, first published in 1996. Her novel, Chenxi and the Foreigner, begun while she was studying Chinese painting in China years earlier, was published in 2002, and an adult version is now in process. Sally teaches writing for children at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where Ann is now studying with an eye to writing children’s books in addition to illustrating them.

Ann James and her partner, Ann Haddon, long-time promotors of children’s book illustration as an art genre, also produced Making Pictures: Techniques for Illustrating Children’s Books. They have had an exhibition space for children’s book art at their studio/bookshop for years and have recently begun organizing traveling exhibitions of children’s book illustrations on multiple continents.

While these illustrious illustrators illustrate books, their stories illustrate the many paths that can lead to a career in children’s book illustration.

The Pacific Rim Down Under is home to a vibrant community of children’s book enthusiasts, authors and illustrators. Unpacking first at the PaperTigers website, here’s a list of reading lists, with links of course, on Oz. Then peruse this annotated list of non-fiction books and book series about Oz for children, with links to other lists of Australia-related picture books, animal books, and fantasy books. The Children’s Book Council of Australia has links to award-winning children’s books by and about Australians. The University of Canberra’s Lu Rees archives of children’s literature has great resources as well. The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators of Australia links to members’ sites.

Now that we’ve done the flyover, we’ll be zooming in periodically for close-up snapshots of Oz for Kids; stay tuned.