Friday, December 28, 2007

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
William Shakespeare

Sunday, December 09, 2007

What is Rotary?
Rotary International is a global network of service volunteers. It is the world's largest service organisation for business and professional people, with some 1,210,905 members operating in 168 countries world-wide.

Rotarians — men and women alike — volunteer their efforts to improve the quality of life in their own communities and beyond their communities' borders. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are non-political, non-religious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. Club membership represents a cross-section of local business and professional leaders.

Rotarians initiate community projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as violence, drug abuse, youth, AIDS, hunger, the environment, and illiteracy. Rotary clubs are autonomous and determine service projects based on local needs.

Mission
The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community and throughout the world. Rotarians build goodwill and peace, provide humanitarian service, and encourage high ethical standards in all vocations. The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self."

The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the
worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an
opportunity to serve society;

THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and
community life;

FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a
world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.


The Four Way Test
"Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"

One of the most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics in the world is the Rotary Four-Way Test. It was created by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932 when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Pregnant women's behaviours

"Nesting instinct" : It is an acute impulse that often begins around the 5th month, most females in the animal kingdom experience similar behaviours just as you see birds making their nests, mothers-to-be do exactly the same thing.

This instinct guides mothers-to-be toward creating a comfortable space that counteracts the chaos of the outside world by an urging desire to prepare a nest in their home for the new baby.
As the due date draws closer, women start to tie up loose ends of old projects, organize their world, seek and destroy dust and mold, cleaning and decorating, organizing closets reorganizing anything within arms reach, cleaning cupboards or washing walls, throwing away good sheets and towels because a strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in home.

Creating a clean, orderly, beautiful, peaceful space is not only a biological imperative, but a spiritual imperative as well; it is a humorous aspect of pregnancy, and experience to laugh about in the future. Enjoy it.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

More about Love

There is only one happiness in life,to love and be loved.
George Sand –
"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside."
Margaret Walker
"Where love is, no room is too small."
Talmud
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Mark Twain
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
Karen Sunde
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
Erich Fromm
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Elizabeth Browning
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Zora Neale Hurston

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Ten Love quotes

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it."
- Robert Mitchum

“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”
- Woody Allen

“You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world”.
- David Levesque


Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.”
- Crystal Middlemas

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end."
- Anonymous

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Mark Twain

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
- unknown

Saturday, February 03, 2007

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Umbilical cord encircled around the fetal neck



Fetal neck is a fairly common place for the umbilical cord to be found, parents often worry that the umbilical cord will result in undesirable outcomes for the baby, but even though, it is a very scary condition with a very small chance of possible undesirable outcomes, in the majority of cases this condition is seldom a problem and most babies do just fine.
The incidence umbilical cords encircled around the fetus, neck ranges from 21% in one loop to 0.2% in three loops
The umbilical cord is long, usually around 55 centimeters abnormal extremes of cord length range from apparently no cord (achordia) to lengths of up to 300 cm.
A long umbilical cord gets wrapped around the baby frequently and often unwraps just as frequently. The likelihood of a problem is no higher than normal. The chance of damaging the baby is very small. Although there is some disagreement; most studies have found no relationship of nuchal cords with serious neonatal problems. Fortunately, nuchal cords are an uncommon cause of fetal death
Many babies are born with the cord wrapped around the neck, though there is always a chance of tight severe compression, usually is so loose that constriction is a seldom and pretty easy to slip the cord over the baby’s head and go on to have a safe delivery. If the cord is tight and disallows any manipulation, it will be double clamp and cut between clamps to free the cord. Very few cases will need a caesarean section in labour due to a tight cord leading to distress in the baby.
There is nothing that can be done to prevent cord encircled around the baby’s neck,, if you can, try not to worry about it, as the likelihood of a problem is no higher than normal.






Ultrasound diagnosis of encircled umbilical cord
wrapped around the fetal neck
The baby's neck is shown in the longitudinal and transversal section, a portion of the umbilical cord was seen as a double circular band surrounding the fetal nuchal surface, formed by a series of collared lines with spiral course creating a ultrasonic pattern of “barber's pole”.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Trichomoniasis

One of the most common health problems among women and frequent reason to visit the doctor is a vaginal infection; these infections frequently produce a inflammatory disorder characterized by vaginal flow, irritation and / or itch whit small red sores inside the vagina or on the cervix. The most common causes are bacterial infection, trichomoniasis and candidiasis.
TRICHOMONIASIS:
Trichomoniasis is caused by a unicellular parasite, a protozoo so called Trichomonas Vaginalis.
It is principally an infection of the urogenital tract that can be passed from one person to another. It is a sexually transmitted disease (STD); it is usually diagnosed by the microscopic examination of the vaginal flow and in some cases detected by the cytology test also called Papanicolaou test.
SYMPTOMS:
Many women do not have any symptoms, but if they do have, these usually appear 5 to 28 days after exposure.
The principal symptoms in woman are:
Vaginal discharge: A dense vaginal often foamy flow of green - yellow or grey colour
Strong odor : Badly vaginal smell
Itching : Irritation and itch happens in the genital zone
Also: Discomfort during sexual act, ardor on having urinated and in some rare occasions pain in the low abdomen

In men, appears a thin secretion of whitish colour of the penis and pain or difficulty on having urinated; though it is good to stand out, that the majority of infected men, do not experience any symptom
TREATMENT:
Trichomoniasis can usually be cured with taking a drug named metronidazole or with a related drug, tinidazole. it is also treated with topical medicines that are less effective but help to ease the symptoms.
If you have any symptoms of vaginal infection stop having sex.
While being treated for trichomoniasis, sexual relationship should be avoided until the patient and the sex partner complete treatment and have no symptoms. Talk with your sex partner about having treatment at the same time
PREVENTION:
Abstinence or not having vaginal, oral, or anal sex is the best way to prevent trichomoniasis or any STD
Every time you have vaginal, anal, or oral sex, protect yourself with a condom.
Don’t share towels or underwear; the trichomoniasis can be contracted through contact with damp or moist objects that have the parasite on them.

If at this moment you have vaginal discharge, irritation, itching, bad or strong vaginal smells, contact your doctor right away. It’s up to you.

Friday, January 12, 2007

PAP TEST

Invention of Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou (1883-1962), an American of Greek birth, the father of cytopathology.

The Papanikolaou test or Papanicolaou test (also called Pap smear, Pap test, cervical smear, or smear test) is a medical screening method for detecting premalignant and malignant processes at the lower part of the uterus the cervix to determine the presence of cervical cancer. The Pap test can show abnormal cervical cells.

As part of your routine health care, a Pap tests is the best thing you can do to prevent cervical cancer. - It can save your life - The Pap smear is done by gently touching a cotton swab on the cervix and then wiping the swab on a slide which is treated and examined under a microscope.

Negative Pap smear means that your results are normal.
Positive Pap smear means that your results aren't normal. It usually does not mean you have cancer.
Abnormal Pap test results usually do not mean you have cancer. Most often there is a small problem with the cervix as inflammation caused by an infection; If that happens, your doctor may want to do another Pap smear or may want you to have a colposcopy to have a better look at your cervix to take a sample of tissue - a biopsy-.

The chance of curing cervical cancer is very high if it caught early. It is generally recommended that sexually active females seek Pap smear testing annually,
I am sure that your family doctor will be glad to give you more information on this subject, talk to him.
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