រូបភាពដកស្រង់ពីរបាយការណ៍ “ខ្សែស្រលាយអ្នកលួចជាតិ” របស់អង្គការ Global Witness ចេញផ្សាយឆ្នាំ២០០៧
The Secret of Beauty, Longevity and Health…
December 1, 2009 at 12:39 PM (Highlight)
FROM ANONYMOUS SOURCE…
EATING FRUIT
It’s long but very informative. We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s important to know how and when to eat.
What is the correct way of eating fruits?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.
Let’s say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.
In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil….
So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining — every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc — actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!
Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.
There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice – drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don’t even drink juice that has been heated up. Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.
But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances
the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.
STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
ORANGE : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene — the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C and Potassium.
GUAVA and PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content.. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.
DRINKING COLD WATER AFTER A MEAL = CANCER!
Can u believe this?? For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this ’sludge’ reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A SERIOUS NOTE ABOUT HEART ATTACKS — HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE’: (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)
Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware The more we know the better chance we could survive.
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
December 1, 2009 at 1:20 AM (Highlight, Self Development)
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at Standford University’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
The speech is absolutely inspiring that we should take as an advice!!! If you want to get deeper meaning, you can refer to the transcript of his speech below.
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Physics of the Impossible
November 26, 2009 at 1:36 AM (Book Reviews, Sciences)
One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, Dr. Michio Kaku–a renowned theoretical physicist, bestselling author, futurist, and popularizer of science–explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future.
He uses the world of science fiction to explore the fundamentals and limits of the laws of physics as we know them today. He ranks the impossible technologies by category–Class I, II, and III–depending on when they might be achieved, within the next century, millennia, or perhaps never.
CLASS I impossiblities includes force fields, invisibility, phasers and death stars, teleportation, telepathy, psychokinesis, robots, extraterrestrials and UFOs, starships, and antimatter and anti-universe. CLASS II impossiblities includes time travel and parallel universes. CLASS III impossiblities includes perpetual motion machines and precognition.
The link below is his lecture at WGBH and Museum of Science in Boston. It is a summary of his texbook. So enjoy yourself and impress yourself with his exploration!!!
Physics of the Impossible Lecture at WGBH and Museum of Science, Boston.
“Situation Analysis of Youth in Cambodia”
November 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM (Highlight)
The Kingdom of Cambodia is an overwhelmingly youthful nation. Two out of every three people are aged below 25 and more than 30 percent are aged between 10-24 years; giving Cambodia one of the biggest youth populations in Southeast Asia. Such an abundance of young people brings with it both enormous possibilities as well as complex development challenges.
Cambodian young people are a dynamic and promising economic, social and cultural force. Young people offer new perspectives, new ideas and a willingness to build a brighter future.
But their daily struggles to survive, to complete basic education, to maintain good health, to fi nd a decent job, to support their families, to live free from physical and mental harm and to participate fully in society are real and urgent.
Today’s young people are facing a unique array of hurdles. Cambodia is undergoing rapid economic growth and with it, tremendous social change. The country is also recovering from three decades of civil war and isolation which has left an indelible mark on the fabric of Cambodian society. The generational divide between young and old is vast and young people are often feared or misunderstood.
Yet the challenges which young people face are daunting. 300,000 job seekers leave school each year, and there are simply not enough jobs for them. Migration for economic and educational opportunities is transforming the composition of village life and sending more and more young people into urban centres, exposing them to new risks and vulnerabilities. High-risk behaviour, most especially among marginalized and vulnerable youth, is exposing young people to sexual reproductive health risks, HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence and drug abuse.
Following traditional values, the voices of youth are rarely considered or incorporated into development planning, even though young people constitute a third of the workforce and will continue to be the drivers of growth now and into the future. Active steps should be taken now to encourage young people’s participation in decision-making at all levels.
This Situation Analysis of Youth is the first time that all available data on youth has been compiled and evaluated. It is regarded as a first step to assist policy makers, non-governmental organizations and youth themselves to develop a wide-ranging and inclusive National Youth Policy which will address the specific needs of young people in the areas of health, education, participation, employment and well-being and can guide further investment and interventions.
Positive trends in primary enrollment and an overall improvement in health and education indicators demonstrate that with investment and a pro-youth approach, the situation for Cambodia’s young people can be improved. Young people are Cambodia’s greatest resource for the future. They require our assistance and our support to nourish and guide them successfully into adulthood.
REFERENCE: Message from Mr. Douglas Broderick, Resident Coordinator of United Nations in Cambodia, in Foreward section of the report Situation Analysis of Youth in Cambodia prepared by the United Nations in Cambodia
Motivate Yourself
November 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM (Self Development)
Here are SEVEN simple steps to motivate yourself to improve your own performance.
1. Mix with Positive People
Spend your time associating with positive people who are winners or successful in their chosen fields. People with a negative mindset love to see others fail or falter when faced with a challenge. You will learn negative thoughts and behaviours from negative people and positive thoughts and behaviours from positive people. Positive people exude positive energy and a can-do attitude.
2. Erase a Negative Mindset
A negative mindset will guarantee you a negative result every time. Focus on the positive and erase negative thoughts and behaviors from your personality. It is highly unlikely that you will complete any project or challenge if you have a negative mindset. Be wary of poeple who say, “We can’t do that here, this is the way we have always done it here”. Be positive, focus on a plan of action and implement the plan.
3. Develop Clear Goals
If you set clear goals, you will become more motivated. Goals challenge and test your ability to achieve and create success by that achievement. Make sure your golas are challenging enough and still reallistically achievable.
4. Write Your Goals Down
There is an old saying that 3% of the population control the wealth and 3% of the population write their golas down! Committing your goals to paper is a very powerful motivator because it helps you to focus on what you are striving to achieve. Read your goals at least three times a day, carry them around with you on ac ared in your pocket and refer to them often to remind yourself what you are working towards.
5. Make a Goal Plan
If you have taken the trouble to commit your golas to paper, the next step is to develop a plan to make the goals happen. Work out what steps you will need to take and when you will need to take them. Write this plan down aslo so that you can measure your progress along the way.
6. Network Your Goals
Share your goals with those you trust–perhaps your peers, supervisors or subordinates– or better still, hire a business coach. Make sure you involve people who may be directly affected by the outcome of the gaol or who will contribute to its success. Making a commitment to a business coach will make your resolve to complete the goals even firmer.
7. Celebrate Your Success
It is important to record your progress. As you reach milestones or the final goal, celebrate your efforts. Celebrations and rewards for effort make the work seem worthwhile and energise you to achieve more. Achieving your goals will guarantee your ongoing motivation!
Now that you have read the seven simple steps, the rest is up to you. Remember though that you may not be able to do this alone. Hiring the services of an experienced business coach can make the difference between intention and execution. A good coach will hold you to account and keep you on track to achieve success.
REFERENCE: Article by Lindsay Adams, Straits Times Recruit, 23 November 2009
Medicine in the Year 2060
November 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM (Sciences)
Can you imagine having a map of your genes on a CD? How about a hologram of your doctor that appears right in your own home? Sound impossible? Well, get ready to take a journey into the future of medicine…
Critical Thinking
June 2, 2009 at 11:49 PM (Highlight)
Critical thinking is the careful, deliberate determination of whether we should accept, reject, or suspend judgment about the truth of a claim or a recommendation to act in a certain way. It involves being a reflective, persistent questioner, wanting to know why you should believe or do something and carefuly investigating and evatluating the reasons given.
Critical thinkers are curious about their world; they do not accept things at face value. They explore the reasons why things area s they are or why perople think that things are a particular way. Because they have reasoned and reflected carefully, critical thinkers ultimately have better grounds than most people for deciding what to believe and how to act reasonably.
In a sense, critical thinkers are skeptics. They analyze and criticize; they constantly question why, looking for grounds and evidence behind claims that are made. They tend to doubt, question, and suspend judgment, to postpone affirming statements to be true or taking action. But critical thinkers need not become complete skeptics, that is, people who cannot believe anything. They need not wait indefinitely to make a decision until all the information is in, for they realize that we never have all the information. Hence, critical thinking has practical end–to act reasonably.
Good critical thinking does not just happen; carefully considered theory lies behind acquisition of these abilities. Critical thinking skills can be grouped around six-stage structure of educational objectives:
- Knowledge: Acquiring facts or discovering information, whether specific data, methods, patterns, or ideas.
- Comprehension: Understanding the material read, heard, or seen. You make the new information your own by relating it to what you already know.
- Application: Applying what you understand to given situations. It involves such a number of tasks as apply, illustrate, give an example, prepare, predict, demonstrate, dramatize,…
- Analysis: Breaking what you read or hear into its component parts in order to make clear how the ideas are ordered, related, or connected to other ideas. By seeing the organization and structure of the communication, you can discern the relationships between the ideas and perhaps the basis for the positions taken.
- Synthesis: The ability of putting together the parts you analyzed with other information to create something original.
- Evaluation: Critically evaluating what you understand and have analyzed or created.
Be critical…!!!
(Adapted from “Introduction to Critical Thinking” by Bruce R. Reichenbach, copyright 2001 by McGraw-Hill)
Intelligence
May 31, 2009 at 10:12 PM (Highlight)
Image taken from Maximum Quest Group
Intelligence may be narrowly defined as the capacity to acquire knowledge and understanding (in short, the capacity to learn and understand), and use it in different novel situations. It is this ability, or capacity, which enables the individual to deal with real situations and profit intellectually from sensory experience.
The theory of multiple intelligence (MI) advocates that the traditional view of a single general intelligence is too narrow and that humans have multiple intelligences. Howard Garder, a professor of education at Harvard University and originator of this theory, identifies seven different types of intelligence:
1. Verbal/Lingistic, e.g. lexical skills, formal speech, verbal debate, creative writing.
2. Body/Kinesthetic (movement), e.g. body language, physical gestures, creative dance, physical exercise, drama.
3. Musical/Rhythmic, e.g. music performance, singing, musical composition, rhythmic patterns.
4. Logic/Mathematic, e.g. numerical aptitude, problem solving, deciphering codes, abstract symbols and formulae.
5. Visual/Spatial, e.g. patterns and designs, painting, drawing, active imagination, sculture, colour schemes.
6. Interpersonal (relationship with others), e.g. person-to-person communication, empathy practices, group projects, collaboration skills, receiving and giving feedback.
7. Intrapersonal (self-understanding and insight), e.g. thinking strategies, emotional processing, knowing yourself, higher order reasoning, focusing/concentration.
In addition to the above seven basic types of intelligence can be added creativity (referred to as ‘the eighth intelligence’) and memory (referred to as the ninth intelligence).
Hence, take some times to identify what are the intelligences you possess by now. Then, you may think of mastering the rest which you do not possess yet. Being multiple-intelligent may be advantageous, anyway!
(Extracted from “The Complete Book of Intelligence Tests” by Philip Carter, Copyright 2005, John Wiley & Sons)
