I started believing that the intolerance we Muslims keep in mingling with the world culture is become the culprit in interfering with Islam in shaking hand with the other cultures of the world, we have to look back to the Spanish Convivencia, the system which made the Islamic Spain a wonderful country which made the world to respect.
La Convivencia is a term used to describe a postulated situat...ion in Spanish history when Jews, Muslims, and Catholics in Spain lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms. It lasted from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 until 1492, concurrent with the Reconquista ("Reconquest"). The phrase often refers to the interplay of cultural ideas between the three groups, and ideas of religious tolerance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Convivencia
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
ShareEmail8 Questions to Ask Your Aging Parent
We spend so much of our lives with our parents and yet most of it is devoted to routine and commonplace things.
But we rarely discuss the profound.
Time is short and unfortunately we are all getting older. There may never be a better time than now to have a meaningful conversation with your parent or parents.
You sometimes hear people say that they regret missed opportunities while their parents were alive and that there were things they wish they had spoken about. Make sure that you seize the chance while you can.
Here are some good questions to ask your parent or parents:
1. Can you tell me a story about your parents or grandparents?
Family history is much more than a family tree and a photo album. It is also a collection of stories which become your family folklore. Be sure to have some stories about your ancestors that you can pass on to your descendants.
2. Can you tell me a story about when you were a child?
Stories about their adventures, hopes, fears and relationships with friends and parents can be fascinating and revealing. Why not record them on video?
3. Can you tell me a story about me as a child?
Your parents will remember funny or embarrassing things about you as a little child. These will be handy when one day your child asks you question 2 above.
4. What is the one piece of advice you would like to share with me?
Your parents have a lifetime of experience and there are still things that you can learn from them. They may share something philosophical, funny or silly. Whatever it is it can pass into the family sayings and mythology.
5. What thing in your life made you the happiest or the proudest?
Let’s talk about the good things in their lives; their achievements, joys and moments of pride. You may yourself feature there.
6. What is your biggest regret? What would you have done differently?
Perhaps this is a sad area that you would rather not explore but sometimes the answer can be revealing and explain things about your parents that you did not realise or understand.
7. What event had the biggest impact on you?
Perhaps it was something to do with a war or a disaster. What was it that made a big impression? See if you can learn exactly how they felt and reacted at the time. It might put something you had only ever read about into the personal context of your parent.
8. What plans should we make for the future?
Many people feel uncomfortable talking about future plans that include what happens after their parents pass. But these are important issues and it is better to broach them. Where will they live if they can no longer manage where they are? Is there a will? What do they want to do with the heirlooms? What sort of funeral would they want?
The next time your see your aging parents don’t just talk about minor domestic matters. Try raising some of the big questions above and then listen carefully to their answers. You may be surprised at what you learn.
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But we rarely discuss the profound.
Time is short and unfortunately we are all getting older. There may never be a better time than now to have a meaningful conversation with your parent or parents.
You sometimes hear people say that they regret missed opportunities while their parents were alive and that there were things they wish they had spoken about. Make sure that you seize the chance while you can.
Here are some good questions to ask your parent or parents:
1. Can you tell me a story about your parents or grandparents?
Family history is much more than a family tree and a photo album. It is also a collection of stories which become your family folklore. Be sure to have some stories about your ancestors that you can pass on to your descendants.
2. Can you tell me a story about when you were a child?
Stories about their adventures, hopes, fears and relationships with friends and parents can be fascinating and revealing. Why not record them on video?
3. Can you tell me a story about me as a child?
Your parents will remember funny or embarrassing things about you as a little child. These will be handy when one day your child asks you question 2 above.
4. What is the one piece of advice you would like to share with me?
Your parents have a lifetime of experience and there are still things that you can learn from them. They may share something philosophical, funny or silly. Whatever it is it can pass into the family sayings and mythology.
5. What thing in your life made you the happiest or the proudest?
Let’s talk about the good things in their lives; their achievements, joys and moments of pride. You may yourself feature there.
6. What is your biggest regret? What would you have done differently?
Perhaps this is a sad area that you would rather not explore but sometimes the answer can be revealing and explain things about your parents that you did not realise or understand.
7. What event had the biggest impact on you?
Perhaps it was something to do with a war or a disaster. What was it that made a big impression? See if you can learn exactly how they felt and reacted at the time. It might put something you had only ever read about into the personal context of your parent.
8. What plans should we make for the future?
Many people feel uncomfortable talking about future plans that include what happens after their parents pass. But these are important issues and it is better to broach them. Where will they live if they can no longer manage where they are? Is there a will? What do they want to do with the heirlooms? What sort of funeral would they want?
The next time your see your aging parents don’t just talk about minor domestic matters. Try raising some of the big questions above and then listen carefully to their answers. You may be surprised at what you learn.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
How to Improve a Teenager's Self-Esteem
As a parent, you must be aware of the impact you have on your teenager's sense of self-worth. Your words and actions help build or tear down your teen's self-esteem. Self-esteem issues affect teenager's from all walks of life whether they be healthy or ill, rich or poor or come from an a single-parent or two-parent home. During those moments, it will be up to you to step in and coax your child to improve her self-esteem
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
How to Recognize Radiation Sickness
Radiation sickness, medically known as acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and often called radiation poisoning or radiation toxicity, is a collection of symptoms that occur after exposure to a large amount of ionizing radiation over a short period of time.[1][2] Radiation sickness is generally associated with acute exposure and has a characteristic set of symptoms that appear in an orderly fashion.[3]Read on to understand more about radiation sickness. Link
Monday, January 31, 2011
A Quicker Way to Identify Skin Cancer
A new device that a doctor holds right over a mole uses laser light to determine if it's melanoma.
Detecting melanoma—the most lethal form of skin cancer—still relies on dermatologists eyeballing moles and deciding which ones warrant a biopsy. A new handheld device developed by scientists at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) and licensed to Verisante Technology could provide instant information about the molecular makeup of moles.
The device, called the Verisante Aura, is held above a mole, and uses Raman spectroscopy, a technique that distinguishes molecules using their vibrational states, to scan for those whose relative concentrations are characteristic of melanoma. The device returns a verdict within seconds. Following a successful small clinical trial, Verisante is now analyzing the results of another trial with 1,000 moles. The company plans to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canada Health later this year.
For patients whose melanoma isn't caught early, the life expectancy is less than a year. And rates of the disease are skyrocketing: the current estimate is that one in 58 Americans will get melanoma in their lifetime, up from one in 1,500 in 1935.
Work on the new device began in 2000, when dermatologists at BCCA were studying whether certain skin diseases could be identified by their unique spectral characteristics. In Raman spectroscopy, laser light changes the vibrational state of the bonds within molecules, which in turn causes a shift in the light that is reflected back to a sensor. The magnitude and direction of that shift reveal what molecules are in the sample, and at what concentration.
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Detecting melanoma—the most lethal form of skin cancer—still relies on dermatologists eyeballing moles and deciding which ones warrant a biopsy. A new handheld device developed by scientists at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) and licensed to Verisante Technology could provide instant information about the molecular makeup of moles.
The device, called the Verisante Aura, is held above a mole, and uses Raman spectroscopy, a technique that distinguishes molecules using their vibrational states, to scan for those whose relative concentrations are characteristic of melanoma. The device returns a verdict within seconds. Following a successful small clinical trial, Verisante is now analyzing the results of another trial with 1,000 moles. The company plans to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canada Health later this year.
For patients whose melanoma isn't caught early, the life expectancy is less than a year. And rates of the disease are skyrocketing: the current estimate is that one in 58 Americans will get melanoma in their lifetime, up from one in 1,500 in 1935.
Work on the new device began in 2000, when dermatologists at BCCA were studying whether certain skin diseases could be identified by their unique spectral characteristics. In Raman spectroscopy, laser light changes the vibrational state of the bonds within molecules, which in turn causes a shift in the light that is reflected back to a sensor. The magnitude and direction of that shift reveal what molecules are in the sample, and at what concentration.
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How to Improve Communication
As the Internet advanced, a host of efficient new communication tools became available. Social networking sites are considered "new technology" because of their widespread popularity in a relatively short span of time. These sites are used to connect users with their friends and family, favorite companies, musicians, alumni networks or any such individual or group. As networks such as Facebook and Twitter grow, businesses and governments are increasingly using them to improve communication with clients. For example, according to Ozmosis, Inc.'s 2009 study, "Health Alerts & Lessons Learned from H1N1," 255 hospitals had a presence on Facebook and Twitter to better communicate with patients and the general public.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Science Breakthroughs that 2011 May Bring
From discovering the so-called God particle and confirming the existence of an Earth-like exoplanet to understanding more about the brain and even defining a fourth domain of life, the science possibilities for 2011 are awe-inspiring.
Here's a look at some of what may come to bear in the coming year
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Here's a look at some of what may come to bear in the coming year
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