You should know about DRUGS…

These days, drugs can be found everywhere, and it may seem like everyone's doing them. Lots of people are tempted by the excitement or escape that drugs seem to offer.

But learning the facts about drugs can help you see the risks of chasing this excitement or escape. Here's what you need to know.

Thanks to medical and drug research, there are thousands of drugs that help people. Antibiotics and vaccines have revolutionized the treatment of infections. Medicines can lower blood pressure, treat diabetes, and reduce the body's rejection of new organs. Medicines can cure, slow, or prevent disease, helping us to lead healthier and happier lives. But there are also lots of illegal, harmful drugs that people take to help them feel good or have a good time.

 

How do drugs work? Drugs are chemicals or substances that change the way our bodies work. When you put them into your body (often by swallowing, inhaling, or injecting them), drugs find their way into your bloodstream and are transported to parts of your body, such as your brain. In the brain, drugs may either intensify or dull your senses, alter your sense of alertness, and sometimes decrease physical pain.

A drug may be helpful or harmful. The effects of drugs can vary depending upon the kind of drug taken, how much is taken, how often it is used, how quickly it gets to the brain, and what other drugs, food, or substances are taken at the same time. Effects can also vary based on the differences in body size, shape, and chemistry.

Although substances can feel good at first, they can ultimately do a lot of harm to the body and brain. Drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, taking illegal drugs, and sniffing glue can all cause serious damage to the human body. Some drugs severely impair a person's ability to make healthy choices and decisions. Teens who drink, for example, are more likely to get involved in dangerous situations, such as driving under the influence or having unprotected sex.

 

For new generation, stay away from illegal DRUGS. It’s killing your self please think smartly  and talk to your own self WHAT I’VE DONE…. It’s NOTHING and UNWISELY.

Effects of Global Warming...

Global Warming Wrecks All the Fun

                              The first three items on the list pertain to wine. The wines that we know may not exist as warm temperatures cause grapes to develop their sugar too quickly, while grapes that thrive in cool climates will lose their flavor in warmer weather. The spruce bark beetle's population is usually controlled by cold temperatures but is now thriving, killing off spruce and pine trees. The list also states that many ski slopes are closing early due to warm temperatures while more ski slopes using fake snow are opening up.

Global Warming Kills the Animals

2.                              The list begins this second section by stating that the World Conservation Union claims that a minimum of 40 percent of species are threatened by global warming. According to National Geographic, the polar bears are dying off, through cannibalism, scarcity of food and drowning. The gray whales are unable to recover from the endangered species status they are under, due to warmer temperatures killing off their food supply. In Australia, warm temperatures are killing off eucalyptus trees, which koala bears feed off of.

Global Warming Kills the Planet

3.                              According to Reuters and ENS, ice shelves in Antarctica and Canada are collapsing due to warm winds. Citing the Associated Press, the list goes on to talk about Glacier National Park where the number of glaciers has dropped from 150 to just 26 since 1850. Oceans will become more acidic as the oceans absorb greater amounts of CO2 and mixes with seawater to turn into a weak Carbonic Acid. The Great Barrier Reef could disappear as warmer acidic oceans bleach the coral at the reef.

Global Warming Makes Us Sicker

4.                              The list begins by citing the World Health Organization which estimates that 150,000 people a year are killed due to issues related to climate change. Additionally, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases the amount of allergens, resulting in greater amounts of asthma attacks. The list also cites the World Health Organization, stating that climate change has resulted in greater cases of malaria in Europe, South America and Africa.

Global Warming Threatens Our National Security

5.                              The list states several instances where global warming has contributed to conflict such as in Darfur and the war in Somalia in the 1990s. The New York Times is cited due to a report written by retired generals and admirals linking global warming to border tensions as people try to migrate. Another report by the British government is cited suggesting that global warming could cause a global depression.

 

Victims of WAR-Iraq

Millions of Iraqis, indeed the vast majority of the population regarded the Ba'athist regime as one of the most brutal and evil dictatorships in the world. The dream of seeing the back of it for decades while the US, UK and a number of other western countries provided it with unlimited military, economic and political support in return for lucrative commercial and financial gains. Now, the country and its people facing times much worse than they ever were, even in those dark days.

There has been a total and complete collapse of a modern society, which once boasted one of the most advanced healthcare, education and industrial systems throughout the developing world, and which saw the total eradication of illiteracy and the rate of infant mortality reduced to levels better than even those of Spain and Italy. It produced dozens of scientists from all walks of life every single year. This is an indictment of the western values that George Bush and Tony Blair continuously flaunt going to war over.

Politicians and scientists will disagree as to whether the number of Iraqis killed since March 2003 amount to 75,000 or 750,000. Take your pick as to whom you find more credible; but it destructs any moral argument, its may have to propose that things have gone relatively well since "only" 75,000 people have been killed over the course of four years. The prime minister will argue, of course - having done so already on a number of occasions - that more would have been killed had Saddam Hussein remained in power. It is possible that such a number would have been killed at the hands of the Ba'athist regime. All indulge in hypothetical arguments since they serve of political interests so well. However, what is beyond hypothetical is that our actions have actually, certainly and undeniably killed, directly or otherwise, any number between 75,000 and 750,000 civilians over the past 48 months. To attempt to justify, draw parallels or compare figures that relate to human lives is a desecration of the very notions of human rights, freedom and democracy that their claim to hold and fight for.

And what of those that have seen their lives obliterated? What of the children who can no longer venture outside their front doors, never mind go to school? The academics who can no longer study or produce works of science; the women who constantly fear rape, abduction or the loss of a loved one; the sick who cannot find treatment; the detained, abused and tortured on mere suspicion or for being at the wrong place at the wrong time; the afraid, the traumatised, the terrorised, the injured, wounded and the disabled? What of the nation which never in its modern existence came to see its citizens according to their sect, ethnicity, religion, or nationalistic orientations, yet now finds that not only its political system and constitution - parachuted in all the way from Uncle Sam's back yard - but their entire social and civil structures divided along lines that were, until March 2003, invisible (indeed, non-existent)?

If anyone is still counting, the victims of the war in Iraq are all the Iraqis. All 25 million of them, apart from the handful who made political or financial gains out of the destruction of a country, the division of a nation and the mass-scale embezzlement. More than $350bln of Iraq's riches has been siphoned, either through ghost contracts, corruption on a massive scale or the unmonitored selling-off of Iraq's oil on the cheap to middle-men who then see to it that affluent countries, such as the UK, continue to get their fill at an affordable price.

The politicians have a lot to answer for. History will hold them to account and will see to it that their respective legacies are tainted with the faces, shredded limbs and blood of those who endured the ramifications of their decisions, votes and statements made from the luxury of high offices in London, Washington and elsewhere. But before that happens, the people of free and democratic nations, must. Otherwise, too will have sold out on humanity and become complicit in one of the crimes of modern history.

Child Abuse on Children

Children suffering abuse develop a range of maladaptive, anti-social and self-destructive behaviors and thoughts by trying to cope with the abuse - by trying to understand the situation and why the abuse is happening.

Think of it like this: a person is robbed and beaten while walking down the street at night. In trying to deal with the situation, the person thinks, "I shouldn't have walked down that street," or "I shouldn't have been there at that time of night," or "I should have walked with more confidence," or "I shouldn't have made eye contact," or "I should have given in quicker," or "I should have fought back," or any number of other ideas. The point is the person feels a sense of control over the situation if they can blame themselves or something they did for the attack. Instead of the world being a dangerous place where violence occurs at random, the world becomes a safe place within certain behavioral parameters.

Children experience the same kinds of thoughts when they suffer abuse, except they are much more immature and often make much less sense because the violence is occuring in their own family, and nothing makes sense in that situation. And the abuse suffered by children occurs much more frequently. If the adult in the above example is attacked and mugged every week despite changing their behavior each time, it won't be long before the person starts coming up with bizarre explanations for the violence and becomes afraid to leave the house entirely. If the person has a chance to talk with the attacker after every attack (like in cartoons where the rabbit asks the fox "why did you attack me?" and the fox comes up with a different silly reason each time or like in child abuse where the victim and the perpetrator interact constantly) the person will be sent through a psychological maze of smoke and mirrors leading to any number of bizarre ideas about how to avoid the attack next week. By coming up with ideas about what they did to cause the abuse and what they can do differently to avoid the abuse, children also develop a range of maladaptive behaviors which can become pathological problems.

In addition to distorting children's thoughts, abuse also forces children into a position of having to "hide the family secret". This prevents children from having real relationships and has life-long effects. And because our ability to form healthy social relationships is learned, abused children are deprived of many skills necessary to navigate the social world. Their entire concept of a relationship is distorted. This leads to problematic relationships in life and even on the job.

Another disturbing aspect of abuse is the experiential restraint it puts on children. If a child fears doing anything new because of the chance that it will lead to a violent attack or because an abusive parent keeps extremely tight control over them, the child will lose his or her sense of curiosity and wonder at the world and will stop trying new things and exercising his or her mind. That child will never achieve his or her intellectual potential.

Another aspect of abuse which cannot be ignored is the physical stress it puts on a child. Multiple exposures to violence and trauma cause what's known as autonomic and endocrine hyperarousal. Basically it means the victim gets stressed out. When a person experiences this hyperarousal over and over again, there are permanent physiological changes. These changes can be seen as over-reactions to stimuli, as in being easily startled especially by things that remind the victim of the original event; generally being emotionally numb; craving high-risk, stimulating, or dangerous experiences or self-injury; difficulties in attention and concentration; cardiovascular problems; and immune suppression which leads to a higher risk for colds and more severe illnesses. 

There is a long list of outcomes for children experiencing abuse. They range from mild, almost unnoticeable personality effects to full-blown breakdowns in healthy functioning. The point is that abuse increases a child's risk of developing a number of health and psychological problems.

US soldier charged with murders

A US soldier has been charged with five counts of murder a day after five fellow soldiers were shot dead at a military counselling clinic in Iraq.

Sgt John Russell was also charged with one count of aggravated assault, spokesman Maj Gen David Perkins said.

Sgt Russell, serving with the 54th Engineering Battalion based in Germany, was taken into custody after the shooting in Camp Liberty, Baghdad.

One Navy doctor, an Army doctor and three enlisted personnel were killed.

The clinic provides troops with help for personal issues or combat stress.

Weapon confiscated

Maj Gen Perkins said Sgt Russell had been referred to the clinic by his superiors, and that his weapon had been taken away about a week before the incident.

Details of the shooting are still unclear.

"We have many different accounts into exactly what happened," Maj Gen Perkins said.

Sgt Russell was "probably" on his third tour of duty in Iraq, but was due to return home soon, officials said.

An inquiry is under way into whether there are sufficient mental health facilities in Iraq for troops.

Almost one in five US soldiers deployed in Iraq suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to the US military's Battlemind website.

Incidents of US troops shooting fellow soldiers are rare.

The last such reported incident took place on 14 September 2008, when Sergeant Joseph Bozicevich allegedly shot dead two of his superior officers. This case is still being investigated.

Monday's shooting was the deadliest single incident involving US forces since 10 April, when five soldiers were killed by a truck bomb in the northern city of Mosul.

 

Info by BBC News

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

It's always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself.

Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL to the picture is (the actual photo, not the page on which the photo resides), and then delete it. Come back a month later and see if the link works. Chances are: It will.

Facebook isn't alone here. Researchers at Cambridge University (so you know this is legit, people!) have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don't immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed. In general, photo-centric websites like Flickr were found to be better at quickly removing deleted photos upon request.

Why do "deleted" photos stick around so long? The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites: While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services like Facebook rely on what are called content delivery networks to manage data and distribution. It's a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service simultaneously. (Yahoo! Tech is served by dozens of servers, for example.) But because changes aren't reflected across the CDN immediately, ghost copies of files tend to linger for days or weeks.

In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused, which is usually "after a short period of time." Though obviously that time can vary considerably.

Of course, once a photo escapes from the walled garden of a social network like Facebook, the chances of deleting it permanently fall even further. Google's caching system is remarkably efficient at archiving copies of web content, long after it's removed from the web. Anyone who's ever used Google Image Search can likely tell you a story about clicking on a thumbnail image, only to find that the image has been deleted from the website in question yet the thumbnail remains on Google for months. And then there are services like the Wayback Machine, which copy entire websites for posterity, archiving data and pictures forever.

The lesson: Those drunken party photos you don't want people to see? Simply don't upload them to the web, ever, because trying to delete them after you sober up is a tough proposition.