Self improvement and motivation-The Best Self improvement tip
In the mundane world it is the failure that is ready to engulf you. But if you surrender to it you are sure to get baffled in the long run. Failure may come in your way but you have to be ready to combat it, face it in the way it is to be faced. Again it is not the everlasting fact that you are sure to fail all the time. The day is sure to come when the deity of ultimate success is sure to crown you. All you need are self-improvement and motivation. If you are not motivated how you can be the ultimate winner.
You need to be smart and cool. You have to accept the failure. You must keep it in mind that no one succeeds in the very initial phase. It is the hard toil and his perseverance that make him successful in the long run. You are to be ready to face the situation that you never have expected. But if you have to face such a horrid situation would you lag behind? No all you have to do is to march ahead so long the faint beam of hope is not located in the horizon.
All you need in this crucial phase is the self-improvement and motivation urge that comes from within your soul.
All you have to do is to struggle hard without expecting what result is awaiting you. It is easy to say but it is very hard to accept failure after failure in a continuous manner. But what would you do? If you do not learn to accept failure you are sure to be a victim of depression and depression would suck your vitality in a slow manner in a gradual process.
Now how can you improve yourself? Is it very easy to do so? Actually when you are in a desperate spree are trying hard to coin energy what would be the outcome? I am here offering some self-improvement tips that would be of good help to you when you are hiding your face in the veil of desperation.
I am here offering you some self-improvement tips that may make you motivated all the way.
1. You can maintain a diary. You write down there how you have tackled the problems that came on your way.
2. Now follow well how you started and how you reached your dream destination.
3. Always mix with those people who dwell on positive thinking. Only the positive, motivated people can lead you to the road of eternal pleasure.
4. Never stop your journey all on a sudden. If you are thwarted on the ways never lose your heart. It is your internal spirit that is to boost you all the while.
5. Never step back from your goal. Stick to your dreams in a hearty manner. The harder your clutch to your dream the faster you are going to have it in your wallet.
In this video I talk about how to ?better yourself?. how to become a better person and achieve better things. How minor setbacks arent an excuse to quit. I talk about my own personal issues with dealing with people and having survived abuse and how it effects me.
Tags: Best, Improvement, motivationThe, Self
Source: http://www.onlineterapia.org/?p=884
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BEIRUT (AP) ? Government forces stormed a rebel-held town outside Damascus Tuesday after days of fierce fighting, killing dozens of people including at least 23 fighters, according to activist groups and a rebel spokesman.
In Aleppo, a Japanese TV reporter was killed Monday while covering the fighting in Syria's largest city. She was the first foreign journalist to die in the city since clashes between rebels and regime forces erupted there almost a month ago.
In neighboring Lebanon, where the civil war in Syria has been spilling across the border, security officials said clashes between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad have left two dead and as many as 45 wounded in some of the most serious fighting in Lebanon in several months. The army said the injured include nine Lebanese soldiers.
Damascus and its suburbs have witnessed a dramatic spike in fighting over the past month. And regime forces were further stretched when a major battle for control of the northern city of Aleppo erupted around the end of July. Before that, the fighting had been concentrated outside the big cities during the 17-month-old uprising.
It has proved difficult for Assad's forces to quell the rebel challenge in the big cities, a sign that the regime's grip on power over the country is loosening.
The Local Coordination Committees activist group and a rebel spokesman said regime troops entered the opposition-held town of Moadamiyeh at dawn from four points, raiding homes in search of anti-Assad fighters. The rebel spokesman, who asked to be identified by his first name only, Ahmed, said three men in their late 20s and early 30s were shot dead execution style in the town soon after its fell to regime forces.
He also said 23 fighters from the Free Syrian Army rebel group were killed when government forces stormed the town at dawn.
Later, activists said dozens of bodies were found dumped in a building's shelter in the town. The LCC said they appear to have been killed execution style. But Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it was not clear whether they were people who had been killed in the shelling, or whether they had been shot dead.
The reports could not be independently verified.
Moadamiyeh, west of the capital Damascus, had been under siege for more than two weeks. Its capture followed days of intense fighting and shelling by government troops.
Japan's Foreign Ministry confirmed overnight that veteran Japanese war correspondent Mika Yamamoto was killed in Aleppo. She worked for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that specializes in conflict zone coverage.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Masaru Sato said the 45-year-old was hit by gunfire while she and a colleague were traveling with rebels from the Free Syrian Army, who are fighting to topple the Assad regime.
Yamamoto had covered the war in Afghanistan after 2001 and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq from Baghdad as a special correspondent for NTV, according to the Japan Press website.
She was the fifth foreign journalist to be killed in Syria since the start of the war, the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said. A sixth journalist died from a severe asthma attack during an undercover reporting trip.
Two other journalists were said to have been captured by Syrian government forces in Aleppo, including Al-Hurra TV correspondent Bashar Fahmi and his cameraman Cuneyt Unal.
A statement from Springfield, Virginia-based Al-Hurra said the company has not been able to reach either man since they entered Syria on Monday morning.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency overseeing the independence of U.S. international broadcasters, called on the Syrian government to ensure the journalists' safety.
"Syria has become the most dangerous place in the world for both local and international journalists," said Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
In northern Syria, an activist who goes by the name Abu al-Hassan said warplanes and helicopters attacked a number of towns and villages north of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing two civilians, including a young boy, and damaging homes. Several people were wounded.
After strafing a number of villages overnight, government fighter jets dropped two bombs on a residential part of the village of Marea, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Abu al-Hassan said via Skype.
Amateur videos posted online showed a huge gray cloud of smoke rising over the village and a crater in a road that was strewn with rubble and two houses whose ceilings had collapsed. Residents were searching through the rubble for survivors and carrying the wounded to pickup trucks. A second video showed a number of people, including a small boy, with serious injuries.
The videos could not be independently verified.
Marea is a relatively quiet farming village in the Aleppo countryside that was not known for being a hub of rebel activity, although one rebel group runs a prison in one of the village's schools.
"Since the strike, all I can hear outside are cars coming and going," Abu al-Hassan said. "Actually, most of them are going."
In Lebanon, officials said fighting broke out Monday night between supporters and opponents of Assad in the northern city of Tripoli and it continued into Tuesday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The mostly Sunni city also saw gun battles in May, when fighting over Syria killed eight people. The latest clashes are between gunmen from the Sunni neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and the next door district of Bab Tabbaneh, which is mostly populated by followers of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Assad is a member of Syria's Alawite minority, while rebels fighting his regime are predominantly Sunnis.
The streets around the two districts were sealed off by roadblocks to keep people away from the line of snipers' fire, but life went on normally in the rest of the city despite the occasional sound of gunfire.
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Associated Press writers Ben Hubbard in Gaziantep, Turkey, and Bassem Mroue, in Tripoli, Lebanon, contributed to this report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People undergoing bypass surgery to improve blood flow to the heart are more likely to suffer a stroke afterward than those who have a stent inserted instead, according to a new look at past evidence.
Researchers collected data from 19 studies that included almost 11,000 patients with blocked arteries who were randomly chosen to have bypass surgery or to get a stent, used to prop open unhealthy blood vessels.
Taken together, that data showed patients in the bypass group were three times more likely to have a stroke while recovering from their heart procedure.
Bypass surgery is more invasive than inserting a stent: it involves grafting a healthy blood vessel around a blocked one, so blood "bypasses" the unhealthy vessel. For a stent procedure, a small mesh tube is inserted into the blood vessel. Certain stents also release drugs to keep clots from forming.
"There are some patients with coronary artery disease where clearly angioplasty (inserting a stent) is the best, least invasive way to go," said Dr. Gregg Stone from Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who worked on the study.
"And there are other patients where that (damage) is just so extensive where clearly surgery is the way to go," he said.
But in at least half of heart patients, Stone told Reuters Health, both bypass surgery and inserting a stent are valid options - and in those cases, stroke risk could be an important factor to consider.
"That knowledge could impact whether a patient or physician would prefer one versus the other," Stone said.
"When you talk to most patients, many patients would rather die than have a stroke."
Close to 800,000 Americans have a stroke every year, according to the American Heart Association.
The 19 studies included in the new analysis typically involved patients in their 60s, on average, most of who were men.
One month after the heart procedures, 12 out of every 1,000 bypass patients had suffered a stroke, compared to three to four out of every 1,000 who had a stent inserted.
That means 155 heart patients would have to get a stent instead of bypass surgery to prevent one stroke, Stone and his colleagues reported this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
At one year - as far out as they tracked patients - there were still more total strokes in the bypass group than the stent group.
Stone and the other researchers couldn't account for the possible effects of traditional risk factors for stroke, such as diabetes. They also didn't have data on how many people in the studies ended up dying from their strokes.
Still, Stone said changes in blood pressure during bypass and a clamp that's used on the vessels around the heart could both increase the chance of blood to the brain being blocked.
In general, he said, there's "so much more manipulation of the heart" during a bypass procedure.
Stone and one of his co-authors reported consulting and other financial relationships with companies that produce stents, including Medtronic and Boston Scientific.
The highest risk of stroke after a bypass is really in the first day or two after the procedure, according to Dr. Farzan Filsoufi, a heart surgeon at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York who didn't participate in the new research.
After that, he told Reuters Health, whether patients have a stroke has more to do with their other risk factors than which procedure they had.
Filsoufi added that upgrades in technology have helped researchers lower the risk of stroke during and right after bypass surgery in recent years.
It's still a higher risk than inserting a stent, he said, but patients who opt for a stent are more likely to end up needing the surgery repeated.
"That's basically the trade-off," Filsoufi said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/ORC49f Journal of the American College of Cardiology, online August 20, 2012.
Imaging study sheds new light on alcohol-related birth defectsPublic release date: 22-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina Health Care
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. A collaborative research effort by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Duke University, and University College of London in the UK, sheds new light on alcohol-related birth defects.
The project, led by Kathleen K. Sulik, PhD, a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC, could help enhance how doctors diagnose birth defects caused by alcohol exposure in the womb. The findings also illustrate how the precise timing of that exposure could determine the specific kinds of defects.
"We now know that maternal alcohol use is the leading known and preventable cause of birth defects and mental disability in the United States," Sulik said. "Alcohol's effects can cause a range of cognitive, developmental and behavioral problems that typically become evident during childhood, and last a lifetime."
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is at the severe end of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). First described in 1972, FAS is recognized by a specific pattern of facial features: small eyelid openings, a smooth ridge on the upper lip (absence of a central groove, or philtrum), and a thin upper lip border.
In its full-blown state, FAS affects roughly 1 in 750 live births in the U.S. And while clinicians typically look for those classical facial features in making a diagnosis, within the broader classification of FASD "adverse outcomes vary considerably and most individuals don't exhibit the facial characteristics that currently define FAS," said the study's lead author Robert J. Lipinski, PhD, a postdoctoral scientist in Sulik's lab. "This study could expand the base of diagnostic criteria used by clinicians who suspect problems caused by maternal alcohol use."
In their animal-based studies, the Sulik lab team has collaborated with co-author G. Allan Johnson, PhD and his group at Duke University's Center for In Vivo Microscopy. Johnson, professor of radiology and physics, has developed new imaging tools with spatial resolution up to a million times higher than clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These include small bore tools suitable for imaging fetal mice that are only 15 mm long.
To quantify facial shape from MRI data, the study team turned to co-author Peter Hammond, a professor of computational biology at UCL's Institute of Child Health, in London. Hammond invented powerful new techniques for 3D shape analysis that have already proven successful in objectively defining facial shape changes in humans.
In the study, described in the August 22, 2012 issue of the online journal PLOS ONE, Lipinski and Sulik treated one group of mice with alcohol on their seventh day of pregnancy, a time corresponding to the third week of pregnancy in humans. A second group of mice was treated just 36 hours later, approximating the fourth week of human pregnancy. The amount of alcohol given was large, "high doses that most women wouldn't achieve unless they were alcoholic and had a tolerance for alcohol," Sulik said.
Near the end of pregnancy, the fetuses were then imaged at Duke University. These 3D data sets showed individual brain regions, as well as accurate and detailed facial surfaces, from which Hammond and research assistant and co-author Michael Suttie performed shape analyses.
The team found that the earlier alcohol exposure time elicited the classic FAS facial features, including characteristic abnormalities of the upper lip and eyes. What they observed in fetuses exposed just 36 hours later, however, was a surprise. These mice exhibited unique and in some cases opposing facial patterns, such as shortened upper lip, a present philtrum, and the brain, instead of appearing too narrow in the front, appeared wide.
"Overall, the results of our studies show that alcohol can cause more than one pattern of birth defects, and that the type and extent of brain abnormalitieswhich are the most devastating manifestation of prenatal alcohol exposurein some cases may be predicted by specific facial features," Sulik said. "And, importantly, alcohol can cause tremendously devastating and permanent damage at a time in development when most women don't recognize that they're pregnant."
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Co-authors include Shonagh O'Leary-Moore, Jacob J. Ament, Stephen J. Pecevich, Scott E. Parnell, Elizabeth A. Godin, Joshua L. Everson, Deborah B. Dehart, and Hunter T. Holloway of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies; Francois Budin, Ipek Oguz, Martin A. Styner of the UNC department of psychiatry; and Yi Jiang of the Duke University Center for In Vivo Microscopy.
The project was supported by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and was conducted in conjunction with the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD).
Citation:
Lipinski RJ, Hammond P, O'Leary-Moore SK, Ament JJ, Pecevich SJ, et al. (2012) Ethanol-Induced Face-Brain Dysmorphology Patterns Are Correlative and Exposure-Stage Dependent. PLoS ONE 7(8): e43067. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043067
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers AA011605 and AA017124. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Imaging study sheds new light on alcohol-related birth defectsPublic release date: 22-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina Health Care
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. A collaborative research effort by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Duke University, and University College of London in the UK, sheds new light on alcohol-related birth defects.
The project, led by Kathleen K. Sulik, PhD, a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC, could help enhance how doctors diagnose birth defects caused by alcohol exposure in the womb. The findings also illustrate how the precise timing of that exposure could determine the specific kinds of defects.
"We now know that maternal alcohol use is the leading known and preventable cause of birth defects and mental disability in the United States," Sulik said. "Alcohol's effects can cause a range of cognitive, developmental and behavioral problems that typically become evident during childhood, and last a lifetime."
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is at the severe end of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). First described in 1972, FAS is recognized by a specific pattern of facial features: small eyelid openings, a smooth ridge on the upper lip (absence of a central groove, or philtrum), and a thin upper lip border.
In its full-blown state, FAS affects roughly 1 in 750 live births in the U.S. And while clinicians typically look for those classical facial features in making a diagnosis, within the broader classification of FASD "adverse outcomes vary considerably and most individuals don't exhibit the facial characteristics that currently define FAS," said the study's lead author Robert J. Lipinski, PhD, a postdoctoral scientist in Sulik's lab. "This study could expand the base of diagnostic criteria used by clinicians who suspect problems caused by maternal alcohol use."
In their animal-based studies, the Sulik lab team has collaborated with co-author G. Allan Johnson, PhD and his group at Duke University's Center for In Vivo Microscopy. Johnson, professor of radiology and physics, has developed new imaging tools with spatial resolution up to a million times higher than clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These include small bore tools suitable for imaging fetal mice that are only 15 mm long.
To quantify facial shape from MRI data, the study team turned to co-author Peter Hammond, a professor of computational biology at UCL's Institute of Child Health, in London. Hammond invented powerful new techniques for 3D shape analysis that have already proven successful in objectively defining facial shape changes in humans.
In the study, described in the August 22, 2012 issue of the online journal PLOS ONE, Lipinski and Sulik treated one group of mice with alcohol on their seventh day of pregnancy, a time corresponding to the third week of pregnancy in humans. A second group of mice was treated just 36 hours later, approximating the fourth week of human pregnancy. The amount of alcohol given was large, "high doses that most women wouldn't achieve unless they were alcoholic and had a tolerance for alcohol," Sulik said.
Near the end of pregnancy, the fetuses were then imaged at Duke University. These 3D data sets showed individual brain regions, as well as accurate and detailed facial surfaces, from which Hammond and research assistant and co-author Michael Suttie performed shape analyses.
The team found that the earlier alcohol exposure time elicited the classic FAS facial features, including characteristic abnormalities of the upper lip and eyes. What they observed in fetuses exposed just 36 hours later, however, was a surprise. These mice exhibited unique and in some cases opposing facial patterns, such as shortened upper lip, a present philtrum, and the brain, instead of appearing too narrow in the front, appeared wide.
"Overall, the results of our studies show that alcohol can cause more than one pattern of birth defects, and that the type and extent of brain abnormalitieswhich are the most devastating manifestation of prenatal alcohol exposurein some cases may be predicted by specific facial features," Sulik said. "And, importantly, alcohol can cause tremendously devastating and permanent damage at a time in development when most women don't recognize that they're pregnant."
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Co-authors include Shonagh O'Leary-Moore, Jacob J. Ament, Stephen J. Pecevich, Scott E. Parnell, Elizabeth A. Godin, Joshua L. Everson, Deborah B. Dehart, and Hunter T. Holloway of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies; Francois Budin, Ipek Oguz, Martin A. Styner of the UNC department of psychiatry; and Yi Jiang of the Duke University Center for In Vivo Microscopy.
The project was supported by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and was conducted in conjunction with the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD).
Citation:
Lipinski RJ, Hammond P, O'Leary-Moore SK, Ament JJ, Pecevich SJ, et al. (2012) Ethanol-Induced Face-Brain Dysmorphology Patterns Are Correlative and Exposure-Stage Dependent. PLoS ONE 7(8): e43067. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043067
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers AA011605 and AA017124. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Nearly half of doctors have at least one sign of burnout, and they are also more likely to be burned out from their work than people in other professions, according to a new study.
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that 45.8 percent of doctors have experienced at least one symptom of burnout. Their findings are based on a survey of 7,288 doctors, and 3,442 non-doctor working adults in the U.S., and are published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
Specifically, 37.9 percent of doctors report being extremely emotionally exhausted and 29.4 percent report having "high depersonalization." Depersonalization occurs when you feel like your real life is a dream, and you're just watching yourself as you go through your daily actions, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Plus, burnout signs were experienced by 37.9 percent of doctors in the study, compared with 27.8 percent of other working adults in the U.S., the researchers found. More doctors considered their work-life balance to be unsatisfactory than other working adults -- 37.9 percent, compared with 27.8 percent.
Generally, researchers found that people possessing an M.D. or D.O. -- the two medical degrees -- were more likely to experience burnout than people with other college degrees.
Researchers also found that burnout is more common in some specialties than others. For example, doctors working in dermatology, pathology, preventive medicine and pediatrics had lower burnout rates than those working in the "front line of care access" -- neurology, family medicine, emergency medicine and general internal medicine.
This is hardly the first study to examine rates of burnout among physicians. A recent study of 2,000 doctors by Physician Wellness Services and Cejka Search showed that nearly 87 percent of doctors experience stress and burnout on a daily basis, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons reported.
The doctors reported in that survey that their symptoms of burnout manifested in having an unsatisfactory work-life balance, problems at home, lowered job satisfaction and productivity, moodiness, and health-related problems like lack of sleep and depression, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
All these findings paint a bleak picture on physician burnout -- so what's a doctor to do? Well, mindfulness meditation could help.
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found in 2009 that mindfulness meditation decreased burnout symptoms and improved feelings of well-being in doctors who underwent weekly sessions of the practice.
"It provided a framework and vocabulary to remain in the moment and diminish the proximate and remote experiences that might interfere with the therapeutic relationship, while stimulating awareness of the experiences that reinforced it," Dr. John K. Chamberlain, M.D., who was one of the doctors who participated in the mindfulness meditation study, said in a statement.
Canadians who need a handset capable of withstanding the frantic hustle of life can now avail themselves of Motorola's Defy Pro. The "lifeproof" smartphone should be able to withstand water, dust and hockey sticks, with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard working together in perfect harmony. While it's not yet online at Rogers, the chaps at MobileSyrup found units available in store -- setting you back $275 outright or from as low as a few pennies on the right contract.
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