Discover the Power of Positive Thinking

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Posted on 22nd December 2008 by Chaz in Archive

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I am a glass-is-half-full kind of person. I don’t let the rain spoil my long runs, nor do I let bad news send me to bed sulking. I used to think it was just my personality, but now I know that perhaps it’s my self-protective nature, too.

Turns out, people with positive emotions are 34 percent less likely to become ill when exposed to a virus and report fewer symptoms when they do succumb, research published in Psychosomatic Medicine notes. Feeling happy releases hormones and proteins that bolster the body’s immune reaction to infection.

Being optimistic can also help you save money, according to a study from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The reason: Debbie downers assume they can’t control the future, so why stash cash?

I know adopting a cheerful frame of mind doesn’t always come easily, and I’m not suggesting you adopt a perennially Pollyanna perspective. But considering the plus side of things will keep you happier and healthier. Try these sunny-side-up strategies:

• Be proactive: Rather than blame yourself for a problem or feel pity, do something about it. Burned the lasagna? Toss it and order sushi, and tell yourself it’s healthier anyway.

• See the light: Suffered a setback at work? Ask yourself what you learned from the experience and what new opportunities may arise because of it. Then see this forced freedom as a chance to reinvent yourself.

• Start a journal: Jotting down things you’re grateful for can help you feel happier about your life. Do it right before bed each night so you go to sleep with a smile on your face.

• Leap over tripwires: If you face an obstacle, remind yourself that it’s simply a difficult moment that you can, and will, overcome. Remember you will learn from your mistakes. A study from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville suggests that when you think specifically about a recent flub and how it made you feel, you’re likely to do a better job the next time.

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Lucy Danziger

Now to cheer you up, i’ve got the funniest jokes rated by people on the internet:

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes woke Watson up and said: “Watson, look up at the stars and tell me, what do you see?”

Watson replied: “I see millions and millions of stars.”

Holmes said: “And what do you deduce from that?”

Watson replied: “Well, if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it’s quite likely there are some planets like earth out there. And if there are a few planets like earth out there, there might also be life.”

And Holmes said: “Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent.” LOL!

And here’s a mathematical joke and if you’ve gotten the chance to read my previous post “Arecibo message” then you would understand this joke!

There are only 10 types of people in the world —
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.  LMAO!

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Ernest Hemingway

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Posted on 16th December 2008 by Ehsan Talebniya in Archive

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imagesh.jpgErnest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

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Hemingway – himself a great sportsman – liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters – tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

This autobiography/biography was first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

The selected bibliography is shown in the source link.

Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961.

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html

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The Arecibo message

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Posted on 15th December 2008 by Bamshad (Bob) Lotfabadi in Archive

The Arecibo message was beamed via frequency modulated radio waves into space at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974.[1] It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 some 25,000 light years away because M13 was a large and close collection of stars that was available in the sky at the time and place of the ceremony.[2] The message consisted of 1679 binary digits, approximately 210 bytes, transmitted at a frequency of 2380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency by 10 Hz, with a power of 1000kW.[1] The cardinality was chosen because it is a semiprime[3] (the product of two prime numbers), to be arranged rectangularly as 73 rows by 23 columns. The alternate arrangement, 23 rows by 73 columns, produces jumbled nonsense. The message forms the image shown on the right, or its inverse,[3] when translated into graphics characters and spaces. The entire transmission lasted 1679 seconds and was not repeated.[4]

Dr. Frank Drake, then at Cornell University and creator of the famous Drake equation, wrote the message, with help from Carl Sagan, among others.[1] The message consists of 7 parts that encode the following[3]:

  1. the numbers one (1) through ten (10)
  2. the atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
  3. the formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA
  4. the number of nucleotides in DNA, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA
  5. a graphic figure of a human, the dimension (physical height) of an average man, and the human population of Earth
  6. a graphic of Earth’s solar system
  7. a graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and the dimension (the physical diameter) of the transmitting antenna dish

Because it will take 25,000 years for the message to reach its intended destination of stars (and an additional 25,000 years for any reply), the Arecibo message was more a demonstration of human technological achievement than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials. In fact, the stars that the message was aimed at will no longer be there when it arrives.[1] According to the Cornell News press release of Nov. 12, 1999, the real purpose of the message was not to make contact, but to demonstrate the capabilities of newly installed equipment.[1]Arecibo Message

Numbers:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  9  10
———————-
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 00 00 00
0 1 1 0 0 1 1 00 00 10
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 01 11 01
X X X X X X X X  X  X <-least-significant-digit marker

The numbers from 1 to 10 appear in binary format (the bottom row marks the beginning of each number).

Even knowing binary, the encoding of the numbers may not be immediately obvious due to the way they have been written. To read the first seven digits, ignore the bottom row, and read them as three binary digits from top to bottom, with the top digit being the most significant.

The readings for 8, 9 and 10 are a little different, as they have been given an additional column next to the first (to the right in the image). This is probably intended to show that numbers too large to fit in a column can be written in several contiguous ones, where the contiguous columns do not have the base marker.

DNA elements:

H C N O P
1 6 7 8 15
———-
0 0 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1
0 1 1 0 1
1 0 1 0 1
X X X X X

The numbers 1, 6, 7, 8 and 15 appear. These are the atomic numbers of hydrogen (H), carbon (C), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), and phosphorus (P), the components of DNA.

The numbers 8 and 15 are written in a logical extension of binary encoding, rather than with the contiguous-columns method shown in the message’s number figures at the top:

Nucleotides:

Deoxyribose Adenine Thymine Deoxyribose (C5OH7) (C5H4N5) (C5H5N2O2) (C5OH7)
Phosphate Phosphate (PO4) (PO4)
Deoxyribose Cytosine Guanine Deoxyribose (C5OH7) (C4H4N3O) (C5H4N5O) (C5OH7)
Phosphate Phosphate (PO4) (PO4)The nucleotides are described as sequences of the five atoms that appear on the preceding line. Each sequence represents the molecular formula of the nucleotide as incorporated into DNA (as opposed to the free form of the nucleotide).

For example, deoxyribose (C5OH7 in DNA, C5O4H10 when free), the nucleotide in the top left in the image, is read as:

11000 10000 11010 XXXXX ----- 75010 i.e. 7 atoms of hydrogen, 5 atoms of carbon, 0 atoms of nitrogen, 1 atom of oxygen, and 0 atoms of phosphorus.




Double helix:


11 11 11 11 11 01 11 11 01 11 01 11 10 11 11 01 X


1111111111110111 1111101101011110 (binary) = 4,294,441,822 (decimal)


DNA double helix (the vertical bar represents the number of nucleotides, but the value depicted is around 4.3 billion when in fact there are about 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome).

X011011          111111 X0111    110111          111011          111111          110000

1110 (binary) = 14 (decimal)


000011 111111 110111 111011 111111 110110 (binary) = 4,292,853,750 (decimal)


The element in the center represents a human. The element on the left (in the image) indicates the average height of a person: 1764 mm. This corresponds to the horizontally written binary 14 multiplied by the wavelength of the message (126 mm). The element on the right depicts the size of human population in 1974, around 4.3 billion. In this case, the number is oriented horizontally rather than vertically, with the least-significant-digit marker to the upper left in the image.

Planets:

Earth Sun Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet, but was still considered a planet at the time the message was written.)

The Earth is the third planet from the Sun - its graphic is shifted up to identify it as the planet from which the signal was sent. The human figure is shown "standing on" the Earth graphic.

In addition to showing position, the graphic provides a general, not-to-scale size reference of each planet and the Sun.

Telescope:

bottom two rows:      100101 <--- 111110X --->


100101 111110 (binary) = 2,430 (decimal)The last part represents the Arecibo radio telescope with its diameter (2430 multiplied by the wavelength gives 306.18 m). In this case, the number is oriented horizontally, with the least-significant-digit marker to the lower right in the image.

Message as binary string:

0000001010101000000000000101000001010000000100100010001000100101100101010 1010101010100100100000000000000000000000000000000000001100000000000000000 0011010000000000000000000110100000000000000000010101000000000000000000111 1100000000000000000000000000000000110000111000110000110001000000000000011 0010000110100011000110000110101111101111101111101111100000000000000000000 0000001000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000011 1111000000000000011111000000000000000000000001100001100001110001100010000 0001000000000100001101000011000111001101011111011111011111011111000000000 0000000000000000010000001100000000010000000000011000000000000000100000110 0000000001111110000011000000111110000000000110000000000000100000000100000 0001000001000000110000000100000001100001100000010000000000110001000011000 0000000000001100110000000000000110001000011000000000110000110000001000000 0100000010000000010000010000000110000000010001000000001100000000100010000 0000010000000100000100000001000000010000000100000000000011000000000110000 0000110000000001000111010110000000000010000000100000000000000100000111110 0000000000010000101110100101101100000010011100100111111101110000111000001 1011100000000010100000111011001000000101000001111110010000001010000011000 0001000001101100000000000000000000000000000000000111000001000000000000001 1101010001010101010100111000000000101010100000000000000001010000000000000 0111110000000000000000111111111000000000000111000000011100000000011000000 0000011000000011010000000001011000001100110000000110011000010001010000010 1000100001000100100010010001000000001000101000100000000000010000100001000 0000000001000000000100000000000000100101000000000001111001111101001111000


or


00000010101010000000000 00101000001010000000100 10001000100010010110010 10101010101010100100100 00000000000000000000000 00000000000011000000000 00000000001101000000000 00000000001101000000000 00000000010101000000000 00000000011111000000000 00000000000000000000000 11000011100011000011000 10000000000000110010000 11010001100011000011010 11111011111011111011111 00000000000000000000000 00010000000000000000010 00000000000000000000000 00001000000000000000001 11111000000000000011111 00000000000000000000000 11000011000011100011000 10000000100000000010000 11010000110001110011010 11111011111011111011111 00000000000000000000000 00010000001100000000010 00000000001100000000000 00001000001100000000001 11111000001100000011111 00000000001100000000000 00100000000100000000100 00010000001100000001000 00001100001100000010000 00000011000100001100000 00000000001100110000000 00000011000100001100000 00001100001100000010000 00010000001000000001000 00100000001100000000100 01000000001100000000100 01000000000100000001000 00100000001000000010000 00010000000000001100000 00001100000000110000000 00100011101011000000000 00100000001000000000000 00100000111110000000000 00100001011101001011011 00000010011100100111111 10111000011100000110111 00000000010100000111011 00100000010100000111111 00100000010100000110000 00100000110110000000000 00000000000000000000000 00111000001000000000000 00111010100010101010101 00111000000000101010100 00000000000000101000000 00000000111110000000000 00000011111111100000000 00001110000000111000000 00011000000000001100000 00110100000000010110000 01100110000000110011000 01000101000001010001000 01000100100010010001000 00000100010100010000000 00000100001000010000000 00000100000000010000000 00000001001010000000000 01111001111101001111000






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My Favorite Success Quotes!

	
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Posted on 12th December 2008 by Chaz  in Archive

	
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“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does


on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”




Sloan Wilson




“In order to succeed, your desire for success must be greater than your


willingness to accept failure.” Bill Cosby


“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks


others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley


“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”




Dale Carnegie




 




“Success is far more likely to choose the dedicated and hard-working good


guy rather than to the self aggrandizing clown who never stop exaggerating


and telling untruths.” Lew Nason


“The nine out of ten guy!”




“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a


success!” Irving Berlin


“Success seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”




Bill Gates




“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might


as well take a nap.” Arthur D. Farr


“Failure is success if we learn from it.”




Malcolm S. Forbes




“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”




Winston Churchill




“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the


surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie


“Success is that old ABC, ability, breaks, and courage.”




Joseph A. “Big Joe” Clark




“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it


is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” Harold MacMillan


“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”




Phil Calandra




“Success often results by combining show business techniques with selling


techniques!” Jim McCarty




 




“Success often seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have


let go.” Loren Dunton


“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”




William A. “Bill” Kelly




“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come


drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication,


depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”




Joseph Heller




“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of


opportunity.” Ayn Rand


“Success attainment in anything is most often accomplished by working in


the following order. First is discipline or habits. Second is energy or drive.


Third is intelligence or knowledge. Fourth is talent or skill. Courage and


luck are often influencing factors.”




Forrest Wallace Cato




“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure!”




Jerry L. Reiter




“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”




Elbert Hubbard




“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger,


but it won’t taste good.” Rubin Ruez


“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”




Jeff Eshun




“Success is what you make of it.” Dr. Joan Berry




 




“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”




George S. Patton




“Success comes to those who demand that it come.”




William R. Lindsey




“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit


on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot


from a winning touchdown.” Ross Perot


“Success arrives for those who pay the price.”




Richard Villers




“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”




Oscar Wilde




“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached


in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”




Booker T. Washington




“Success is where you find it.” Will Nason


“The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and


the higher the fences get.” Steve Allen


“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on


earth, like he male spider that is killed by the female the moment he has


succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal


in front and not behind. Geroge Bernard Shaw


“Action is the foundation key to all success.”




Pablo Picasso




 




“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing


how to get along with people.” Theodore Roosevelt


“Success is dependent on effort!” Sophocles


“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that


you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard


work and a certain sense of purpose.”




Margaret Thatcher




“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”




Lilly Tomlin




“Eighty percent of success is showing-up.”




Allen W. “Big Al” Altmann




“If at first you don’t succeed, try it like your mother told you.”




Ed P. Morrow




“Some people dream of success… while other wake up and work hard for


it.” Charles “Tremendous” Jones


“Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.”




Donald A. Miller




“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”


Christopher Morley


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پیام های تایید طلبی در مدرسه و دانشگاه

	
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Posted on 5th December 2008 by Bamshad (Bob) Lotfabadi  in Archive

	

	

		
وقتی خانه را ترک کرده و به مدرسه می روید، وارد موسسه ای می شوید که آشکارا به منظور تعلیم افکار و رفتار تایید خواهانه بنا شده است. برای هر کاری اجازه بگیر. هرگز به رای خود اعتماد نکن. برای رفتن به توالت ار آموزگار اجازه بگیر. در صندلی مخصوص خودت بنشین. از جای خود بلند نشو و گرنه تنبیه می شوی. همه چیز باید از جانب شخص دیگری کنترل شود . بجای اینکه به شما یاد بدهند که فکر کنید، به شما می آموزند که راساً و مستقلاً فکر نکنید. ..امشب فصل اول و دوم را بخوانید. اینطور نقاشی کنید. این صفحه را بخوانید [،این تمرینات را حل کنید]. شما می آموزید که اطاعت کنید و هر جا تردیدی در نحوه اطاعت بود از آموزگار بپرسید . اگر آموزگار خود یا خدای نخواسته مدیر مدرسه را به خشم آورید احساس تقصیر و گناه می کنید. کارنامه شما به این منظور برای والدین تهیه می شد که نشان دهد شما تا چه اندازه موفق به جلب تایید شده اید….هر دانش آموزی که نشانه ای از شخصیت مستقل بروز دهد فورا سر جایش نشانده خواهد شد. شاگردانی که استقلال رای دارند یا بخودشان علاقمندند و برای احساس تقصیر و نگرانی آمادگی ندارند ، قاعدة دردسر آفرین خوانده می شوند.مدارس راه برخورد با کودکانی را که استقلال فکری دارند نمی دانند . در بیشتر مدارس تایید خواهی راه موفقیت است. ضرب المثل های [" پاچه خوار و "خـ..." و "خر خون"] نشانه های این امر هستند. چنین رسوم و قواعدی وجود داشته و رعایت می شوند. اگر شما نظر تحسین اولیای مدرسه را جلب کنید ، طبق دستورات آنها رفتار کرده و برنامه ای را که در برابرتان قرار می دهند مطالعه کنید ، البته موفق خواهید شد ولی در ضمن نیاز وافر به جلب تایید دیگران هم در وجود شما پرورش داده می شود ، زیرا اتکاء به خود در تمام مراحل این برنامه منع می گردد.هنگامی که شاگرد به دوره دوم مدرسه وارد می شوند  معمولا درس تایید خواهی را یاد گرفته است و وقتی راهنمایش از او سوال می کند که خیال دارد در دبیرستان چه مواردی را برگزیند، جواب می دهد نمی دانم ، شما بگویید من چه احتیاجاتی دارم. انتخاب دروس دبیرستان[ و واحد های دانشگاهی] برای او مشکل است و اگر دیگران بجای او تصمیم بگیرند خیلی آسوده تر خواهد بود [ من شاهد این بوده و هستم که در گروه خودمان تقربیا همین گونه است و تاسف برانگیزتر از آن در گروه های دیگر مثل انگلیسی که برگه ی انتخاب واحد به صورت جدولی از پیش نگاشته شده و کپی شده در دسترس دانشجویان قرار می گیرد و دانشجو اختیار چندانی برای انتخاب واحد های درسی ندارد] . ذهن او در اثر تکرار و تداوم ، چنین خو گرفته که در کلاس درس مطالبی را که به او می آموزند مورد سئوال قرار ندهند؛هر مطلبی را به روش مقتضی بنویسد، انشاء را نه براساس رای و عقیده خودش بلکه برپایه ی گفته ها و نوشته ها و کتاب ها بنویسد و آنها را جایگزین آراء خود کند ،اگر این شیوه ها را یاد نگیرد با نمرات کم و عدم تایید مدرسه مجازات و سر به راه می شود.[ متاسفانه ارزش بخشیدن به نمره نه تنها به نظام آموزشی بلکه به ساختار جامعه نیز برمی گردد که خواستار مدرک و نمرات عالی برای استخدام و کار است و این وسیله که نمی تواند معیاری برای ارزیابی دقیق یادگیری باشد، ملعبه ای در دست بعضی از اساتید نیز گشته؛ در همین گروه خودمان اساتیدی هستند که نمره را در ابتدا پایین می دهند تا از آنها خواهش کنی و حقارت بخرج دهی و آنها لطف کنند و نمره را کمی بالاتر بدهند]. دانش آموز به هنگام فارغ التحصیل شدن هر گونه تصمیم گیری را برای خود مشکل می یابد، زیرا طی دوازده سال متوالی به او گفته شده چگونه و به چه چیز هایی فکر کند. در این سالها  او رژیم بی خدشه ” همیشه همه چیز را با آموزگار مطرح کن ” بار آورده اند. پس طبعا در روز فارغ التحصیلی قادر نیست استقلال فکری داشته باشد . ناگزیر درصدد کسب تایید دیگران برمي آید و دایم تایید دیگران را با موفقیت واقعی و شادکامی طبیعی برابر می پندارد.در دانشکده نیز تلقینات مشابه ادامه می یابد . در هر ترم این مقاله ها را بنویس ، … این بخش ها را مطالعه کن . خودت را تطبیق بده . استادان را از خود خوشنود و راضی ساز، موفق خواهی شد.[ بعضی از اساتید تنها افه ی با جنبه بودن و انتقاد پذیر بودن را به خود می گیرند و با کوچکترین انتقاد اشک در چشمهایشان حلقه می زند و به انحاء مختلف سعی می کنند از خجالت دانشجو درآیند !!؟]. عاقبت زمانی می رسد که دانشجو وارد سمیناری می شود و  استاد می گوید : ” در این ترم می توانی موضوع مورد علاقه ی خود را دنبال کنی [ این اتفاق در ایران معمولا در دوره کارشناسی ارشد رخ می دهد که دانشجو باید موضوع پایان نامه خود را انتخاب کند]، من در انتخاب موضوع و پیگیری آن کمکت می کنم …”وحشت آغاز می گردد . ” چه چیزی باید بنویسم ؟” چه موقع باید حاضر شود ؟”و …و اینها نمونه آدم تایید طلب است و او محصول نهایی دستگاهی است که تایید طلبی را لازمه بقا می داند و در این دستگاه فرد از فکر مستقل و آزاد وحشت دارد و برآوردن توقعات سایرین برایش آسانتر و ایمنتر است.  (more…)

		

	

    



	






	
World Aids Day

	
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Posted on 1st December 2008 by Chaz  in Archive

	
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According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.


Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.


Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.


What can I do to support World AIDS Day?


There are a number of things you can do to support World AIDS Day. We suggest:


    

  1. Play our AIDS game
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  2. Raise money for AVERT
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  3. Join our campaign
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  4. Wear a red ribbon and raise awareness
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1. Play our AIDS game




Think you know your stuff for World AIDS Day? Are you sure?


The AVERT AIDS Challenge is a great way to test your knowledge of HIV and AIDS. To succeed you’ll need skill, quick thinking and a good grasp of the facts. The more you play, the more you will learn. You can then use this knowledge to educate your friends and family.


If you’re lucky, you might even make it onto the list of top scores. Why not send the link to some friends and compete to see who can do best?


Play the AVERT AIDS Challenge on AVERT.org or play and install the game as a MySpace app.


The avert.org website is packed with resources for learning about HIV and AIDS. As starting points, try our sections on HIV transmission, statistics and AIDS around the world.


We also have a World AIDS Day quiz.


2. Raise money for AVERT


Assessing the circumstances of an AIDS orphan in rural KwaZulu NatalAssessing the needs of an AIDS orphan in South Africa


AVERT has community based projects in the parts of the world most severely affected by HIV and AIDS. Many of the people affected by HIV/AIDS in these areas are also dealing with other challenges such as extreme poverty, stigma and lack of healthcare. Our work tackles a range of issues such as education, treatment and care. The projects also aim to help the children orphaned or otherwise affected by HIV and AIDS.


There are LOADS of different ways you can support our projects by fundraising for AVERT. Here are just a few ideas:


    

  • Sponsored events – Walking, running, sponsored silence, reading or, if you fancy something more high octane, how about a sky dive or a bungee jump?
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  • Organise an event – Jumble sale, cake sale, coffee morning, football tournament, concert, poetry night or dance.
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  • Other ideas – Kick a bad habit (e.g. smoking), give up something you love for a month (e.g. TV, chocolate or alcohol!), shave your head, organise a car wash, pub quiz, or auction of people’s time and skills.
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These are just a few suggestions but you can let your imagination run wild to think of other ideas!


To read more information on raising money for AVERT, find sponsorship forms or make a donation, please go to our fundraising page.


3. Join our campaign


This year at AVERT we are continuing our Stop AIDS in Children campaign, calling for urgent action in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).


Currently only a minority of pregnant women living with HIV in the developing world are provided with drugs to prevent the virus being transmitted to their babies. As a result, nearly half a million children become infected with HIV every year.


The Stop AIDS in Children campaign is calling on governments and international agencies to urgently improve PMTCT coverage worldwide.


Watch the video to learn more about the campaign.


4. Wear a red ribbon and raise awareness


A red AIDS awareness ribbon


The red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness that is worn by people all year round and particularly around World AIDS Day to demonstrate care and concern about HIV and AIDS, and to remind others of the need for their support and commitment.


The red ribbon started as a “grass roots” effort; as a result there is no one official AIDS ribbon manufacturer, and many people make their own. It’s easily done – just use some ordinary red ribbon and a safety pin!


If you want to take your awareness raising a step further then try finding a local event to take part in. Around the world there are hundreds of activities taking place to mark World AIDS Day, including candlelight vigils, art shows, marches and religious services. If you can’t find anything in your area then why not organise an event yourself?


To learn more about what is happening around the world, or to list any events that you may be holding locally this World AIDS Day, please visit the WAC’s


Source:www.avert.org/worldaid.htm


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