Busting stress

Next time when you are trying to de-stress yourself by playing computer games or lazing on the beanbag and watching TV, just pause to think whether there is any better way to bust your stress.

Irrespective of age, children and adults suffer from stress, identified as one of the primary causes fuelling impatience.

The more stressed out you are, the more impatient your reactions are to situations that can complicate matters further.

People do try out various avenues such as games, browsing, chatting, social networking, movies and eating out which are usually non- invigorating and non-relaxing indoor activities.

To help people to de-stress in tune with the nature, Topkids has launched eco-adventure sports – a special initiative for awareness and appreciation of nature. Nature is and has always been the greatest stress buster. An early morning walk in the park is more enjoyable and energizing than sweating out on treadmills and workout sessions in one of those swanky gyms.

Dr. Dheep, founder CMD of Topkids says: “we want to receive the spirit of adventure in children through nature walks, bird watching, hiking, camping in tents, map-reading, jungle survival skills and trekking.” The most adventurous children and also adults will be given training in rock climbing, rappelling by trained professionals.

Canoing rafting, kayaking, parasailing and para-gliding will also be taught to people who have interest in these exhilarating sports. Mountaineering and trekking in the Himalayas is in the pipeline for the benefit of children and adults who wish to explore and experience snow and ice.

It also offers many adventure sport and eco-awareness packages for school and college children, corporate groups and for the public. Each group will comprise of 30 to 70 members and the number of activities will depend on the choice of the members – be it a half-day, full day or two day programmes.

The longer treks and special activities will be arranged depending on the weather and seasonal conditions.

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To excel in sports, be a good human being first

Olympian Charles Borromeo never knew athletics would fetch stardom till he entered the portals of St. Xavier’s College in Ahmedabad.

He had been a footballer till then, excelling as a left forward. In fact, the performance of Charles in football at various competitions earned him a seat under sports quota.

Athletics coach at the college Subash Patel was quick to spot his agility and endurance. Then came the turning point in Charles’ sports career.

Two years of rigorous training saw him as a serious contender in 800 m at the all-India inter University athletics meet, and a winner of bronze medal in the same event at the 1979 open nationals.

Confidence swelled then on. “I started putting in a lot of hard work. Mr. Patel lent great support. He not only fine-turned my strengths, but also worked on eliminating my weaknesses. His role was very crucial in shaping me as a competitive athlete,” recalls the Arjuna awardee.

Borromeo’s moment of glory came in the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games, when he won 800 metres gold in record time.

“Being the Asian champion was an unbelievable feeling. Days like those are very special.”

Dream accomplished:

He also accomplished his dream of making it to the Olympics when he represented the country at the 1984 Los Angeles games. “That’s the dream of any athlete. I am one among the sportspersons in the country to achieve the Olympian tag,” says Borromeo, who won silver medal at the 1985 Asian Track &Field event and gold medal in the South Asian Federation (SAF) games the same year. He was conferred the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian award, in 1984.

Hailing from a lower-middle class family in Devakottai in Sivaganga district, Borromeo studied at De Britto School, which has produced a good number of international athletes including Asian Gold medalist R.Gnana Sekaran.

“Football was the most popular sport in our town and a lot of tournaments used to take place. That was one of the major reasons for developing interest in the game. Also, one gets instant recognition among the local fans when he nets a lot of goals,” he smiles.

Soon after graduation, Borromeo joined Tata Steel at Jamshedpur. Working as a Sports Manager, he loves spending time interacting with the youngsters and sharing his experience with them.

But why didn’t he take up coaching after hanging up his boots? “I was interested in character building of sportspersons. At the Tata Academy, I urge the youngsters to be good human beings in the first place. Character matters more and I feel a sports person should be exceptional both on and off the field,” says Borromeo, who has been recently nominated by the Athletics Federation of India as a member of the monitoring committee for long, middle-distance and walking events for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

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Solar eclipse won’t speak Games

A total eclipse of the sun a week before the Beijing Olympics will spook the superstitious but Chinese authorities have no reason to fear for the games, astrologers and feng shui experts say.

The phenomenon was once seen by China’s emperors as a portent of disaster, and astrologers predict some turbulence this time too, probably on the stock market and may be even on the streets.

However, any trouble will not be powerful enough, they say, to disrupt the world’s largest international sporting event or unduly worry China’s rulers.

Ms Mak Ling-ling, one of the most renowned feng shui and astrology experts in Hong Kong and author of many books, said the eclipse might bring small-scale political turbulence and problems to the transport and communication networks in Beijing during the Games.

“Protests and chaos on the street are very likely but they but they will not do any permanent harm to the Chinese authorities,” she told.

China may play down any association between the eclipse and the Olympics to avoid being mocked for being superstitious- but Ms Mak said it had a longtime practice of consulting feng shui experts when selecting athletes.

“The national teams give me the date and time of birth of the athletes and ask me to calculate and identify the ones with a strong will and a real chance of winning international games,” she said.

“No Olympics teams have consulted me about the eclipse but I believe if the authorities are really worried about it, they would seek help and do something discreetly without letting outsiders know.”

A total solar eclipse is caused when the moon blots out the sun by passing directly between it and the earth, and has traditionally been associated with misfortune.

The latest eclipse is set to traverse half the earth over the course of two hours in August 1. The path of the moon’s umbral shadow, some 10,200 kilometres (6,375 miles) long, will begin in Canada and extend across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia and Mongolia, before ending in northern China. But it will not cross Beijing.

It will make its final stop at sunset in Xi’an, capital of China’s Shaanxi province and site of the famed terracotta army.

“In ancient times, Chinese people believed that a celestial dragonA or dog was devouring the sun during an eclipse,” said peter So, another top feng shui master in Hong Kong. “The belief gave rise to their practice of banging drums and pots to frighten away the animal,” she added.

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Online games

Online games are games that can be played on the computer network. There are various quality games that you can play right in your browser for enjoyment. The online games can download and play on any time. The games can be included on the internet are car racing games, simulation games, arcade games, bike racing games, action games, skill games, misc games, rpg games, dress up games, board games, shooting games, card games, multiplayer games, video games, download games, puzzle games, sport games, strategy games, web games, kid games and much more. They are really very amazing and interesting to the players.

Usually children and teenagers are attracted by internet games. Most of the games are available in the internet are completely free of cost. Many websites are ready to update new games every day and be attracted by the users. There are also games for kids and mom too. The games are also easy to play and can be followed by anyone with neat instructions. So the online games are set on fire among the society all over the world.

There are thousands of games websites that are offered by the internet. The games are all help to relief from worries and travel to the different world. But at the same time one should addict to any online games. That could spoil your brain and life. So the parents should concentrate on their kids over the internet games. To play any online games, you need not any special practice; it is just to read and play. The technology has been also improved lot over the online games. It can be included from simple text games to most advanced games.

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Fire

Fire is so familiar; it is both friend and foe, slave and master. Fire is a natural force, yet it was used by humanity’s ancestors many hundreds of thousands of years ago. Later, humans developed the ability to artificially generate fire. The control and use of fire has been a major factor in the development of the human race. The control of fire for warmth allowed humans to migrate into cold climates and build diverse and successful civilizations. Fire for cooling greatly increased the number of foods and improved their taste, ease of digestion, nutrition, sanitation, and preservation. Fire has long been used to drive game out of hiding during hunting and to scare away predatory animals during the night. Fire aided agriculture by clearing the land of brush and creating fertilizer with its ashy residue. With the help of fire, humans have been able to expand farmland and pasture against both climatic and vegetational gradients.

The possibilities of fire have stimulated creative thinking, which in turn has spurred human development. One invention has followed another. The use of fire to harden materials led to pottery, cookware, weapons, and more. The ability of produce ever-higher temperatures led to the smelting and use of metals. The use of fire provided the benefits of sterilization, which advanced public health. Fire controlled inside machinery supplies the energy that underlies our civilization. The heat from the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas is converted into the electrical and mechanical energy that powers our industries, the lighting and heating of our homes, and our ability to travel quickly to any point in the world. As a rough estimate of the benefits of fire, through it, each American today has available for her or his personal use the energy equivalent of owning 100 slaves in the past.

The destructive use of fire shifted from trying to control wild animals to trying to dominate other humans. Fire passed from the individual torch to a method of destroying whole cities. For example, troy was so obliterated by fire that its very site remained unknown to the world for nearly 3,000 years.

Another destructive use of fire has been to deny enemies their prize. For example, on 12 September 1812, Napoleon and the French army reached the hills outside of Moscow and looked down on its green, blue, and gold domes. Upon entering the great city, the French found it to be largely deserted with fires burning throughout. For six days, the fires raged until 90 percent of the city was incinerated. The Russians chose to destroy their own heritage rather than let it aid their French conquerors. Denied the support of a conquered populaces, Napoleon began his disastrous retreat from Russia during winter’s harsh conditions. Napoleon won the military battles but lost the war.

New destructive uses of fire were conceived with time and technological innovation. In the twentieth century,” fire” was packaged into bombs that could be dropped from airplanes. During World War II, entire cities were ignited as thousands of tons of bombs created massive firestorms, killing tens of thousands of people in such cities as Hamburg and Dresden.

Fire has always been an important part of the natural world. For example, about 1,800 thunderstorms are in action around the Earth each hour, and their lightning bolts start many fires. Humans have brought fire from the natural world into the cultural world, expanding its role. We control fire for our benefit, but we pay the price when this control is lost. In the United States today, the abundant strikes of lightning start less than 15 percent of all fires. Humans are the main source of fire ignition in the United States, as well as throughout the world.

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Children of conflict

While society expects kids to be in school or helping their households in the fields or kitchen when not playing and enjoying days of fun and laughter, millions of children around the world get caught in a life of violence and bloodshed. Sadly these are the children who have been abducted, purchased, and evenhanded over by their own families, to participate in armed conflicts.

Even though history abounds with instances of children donning fatigues and fighting battles, it is only in recent times that the world is witnessing the disturbing trend on such a large brazen scale. Today children participate in conflicts both as victims and perpetrators. These are the children who have been robbed of a childhood, deprived of schooling, games, and other patterns of normal social behavior generally observed and expected.

The fate of such children who front-end the impact of global conflict makes for grim reality and a foreboding future.UNICEF chronicles these happenings in report after report.

Worst of crimes:

Responding to the recent spate of deaths of children in suicide carbombings, Ann Veneman, UNICEF, strongly deplored the actions of those who target innocent children, “The perpetrators of these attacks against innocent and unwitting children are shameful and wrong, and nothing can justify these acts. The killing of children cuts at the very heart of a society, and is the worst of crimes.”

It is estimated that some 10 million of the word’s children suffer severe long-lasting psychological trauma as a result of war experiences.

According to medical experts, one of the greatest challenges facing war-ravaged nations is rehabilitating children who see their families destroyed before their very eyes, and reintegrating them into a less harsh if peaceful society.

The psychological fallout is not confined to child combatants, according to aid workers, the impact of war on youngsters is sometimes difficult to assess. Traumatized children frequently go into a deep state of withdrawal and depression. Many ex-child soldiers find it difficult to reintegrate into society.

It is not just the physical and mental/emotional well-being that is at risk. Experts are trying to make it possible for children raised on a diet of conflict and bloodshed to develop into psychologically healthy adults, so they are capable of ending the cycles of hatred that spread bloodshed across the globe and across generations.

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