STARS ARE BRIGHT by ARIANNA PHILIP

STARS ARE BRIGHT

Bright, bright, brighter than light

You see me all through the night

But not just me

I have some other pals to make it 

bright enough so you can see

That's right we are little stars

We are so bright you can see us from far away

Shining bright but not in the day!

All rights reserved:  Arianna Philip

(Arianna Philip, the young brilliant poetess who had debuted in

Kindle last year continue  to mesmerise our readers.  She is not 

only a poetess but also a prolific and superb short story writer.

She is the daughter of Anisha Kurian-Philip and granddaughter

of George Kurian, whose novel Over the Hills and Down the Valleys

had made its mark in English literature!

Arianna Philip --- the young outstanding poetess of the decade!

WORLD OF WISDOM (Forwarded by Thomas Philip)

Why art thou troubled because
things do not succeed with thee
according to thy desire? Who
is there who hath all things
according to his will?
Neither I , nor thou, nor any man upon earth.
                      -Thomas A Kempis


You pray in your distress and
in your need; would that you might
pray also in the fullness of your joy.
                     -Kahlil Gibram


Kindness is the mightiest force in the world.
                     -Anonymous


The Serenity Prayer is excellent medicine for discontentment.
                      -Anonymous


God's help is always available,
all we have to do is to make room for Him to
take part in our lives and keep ourselves ready to accept
His guidance.
                      -Anonymous


I pray for the progress that is possible when  I am
completely honest with myself.
On that foundation I can build a good life.
                     -Anonymous

KERALA DIARY# IMPORTANT PLACE:# KOTTAYAM BY AJU CHACKO KOTTAYAM,,KERALA

New World is happy to announce that we are delighted to start 'Kerala Diary' in which Mr.Aju Chacko,a very talented writer will write about Kottayam,a unique place in Kerala state in South India where the formal English education was started by Western missionaries.We are also happy to publish Mr.Aju Chacko's profile for our readers and we hope to get more articles from this talented writer in the future.Those who want to contribute to 'Kerala Diary',you are welcome.Please send the literary feature to

kurian14@hotmail.com

New World Editorial Board

PROFILE

Aju V Chacko is a post graduate in computer applications & is currently working as SAP ERP Administrator in MRF Ltd., Kottayam. He is an expert in SAP & was actively involved in implementation of the ERP systems in MRF. He is also an active member of the Y’s Men’s Club & Travancore Management Association. He is a voracious reader especially in subjects like Cognitive neurology, sociocultural evolution & local History, on which several of his articles has been published. His other hobbies include trekking, exploring the forests of Kerala & learning about Ayurveda. He lives near Kottayam town.


KOTTAYAM – A UNIQUE PLACE

               PART-I

KOTTAYAM is a land of unique characteristics. Bordered by the lofty Western Ghats on the east and the Vembanad Lake and paddy fields of Kuttanand on the west, it is the only district in Kerala that neither shares a border with neighboring states nor with Arabian Sea. The city of Kottayam is called "Akshara Nagari" considering it's contribution to print media and literature. It is also called the land of LATEX, LETTERS, LAKES & LEGENDS. Kottayam can claim many firsts to it’s credit

LAND OF LETTERS

1] Kottayam municipality is the first town in India to have achieved 100% literacy (in 1989), in 1991 kottayam district achieved 100% literacy
2] English education started first time in south India at old seminary, Kottayam as early as 1813
3] The first college in the Kerala State (CMS College) was also started at Kottayam in 1840. Vidyasamgraham, a publication of CMS College, is the first College Magazine in the State and was started in 1864.
4] The first English high school in Kerala was started by the missionaries of Church Mission Society (CMS), at Kottayam in 1821.
5] Baker Memorial Girls High School in Kottayam, founded by Amalia Dorothea Baker, is the oldest girls' schools in Kerala.
6] The first printing press in Kerala was established (CMS Press) here in 1821 by Rev.Benjamin Baily.
7] Maiden printed English & Malayalam Dictionaries were published from Kottayam in 1846 & 1865 respectively.
8] The first travelogue in Malayalam, Varthamana Pusthakam (1778), written by Parammekkal Thoma Kathanar was published from Kottayam
9] The first autobiography in Malayalam by Vaikom Pachu Moothathu was published from Kottayam in 1870.
10] The first Malayalam Bible was also published from Kottayam.
11] The first and only Cooperative Society of writers, authors and publishers (SPCS), for publishing books and periodicals was set up in 1945 at Kottayam.
12] Deepika, the first daily newspaper in Malayalam & published from Kottayam, Started in 1887.
13] Kottayam is the home town of a vast number of books and periodicals and 70% of books in Kerala are being published from here. Popular publishing houses like Malayala Manorama publications, D.C.books, Labour India Publications Ltd, Mangalam Publications, Deepika, V Publishers, Vidhyarthimitram, Avanthi publications, National book stall (S.P.C.S).

Next:Part- II
LAND OF LEGENDS
(Republished)

BEAUTIFUL AND STRONG TREE: PICTURE BY BROTHERSFT

POSITIVE OUTLOOK# FORWARDED BY SHEILA CHANDRAN

TIPS FOR KEEPING YOUR OUTLOOK POSITIVE

1. Think, speak and feel positively about yourself, others & situations.
2. Always visualize yourself and your life the way you want it.
3. Set goads but remember your need goals not for what they get you but what they make you.
4. Don't place limits on yourself by saying " I can't".
5. "Let Go" in order to avoid hurting yourself and others
6. Discipline your mind and intellect. As you decide what you put in there, you determine what you get back.
7. See problems as opportunities to learn.
8. Tackle problems one at a time then they are not so stressful.
9. Take out time for yourself as a necessity and not as an option.
10. Surround yourself with good people - people who support you in your efforts to change.
11. Have an attitude of gratitude. This will ensure that your attention is non what you get and not what you don't.
12. Realize the importance of every moment and make the best use of it.
(by Sheila Chandran on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:13pm)

DETACHMENT FROM WORLDLINESS KEEPS ONE CLOSER TO GOD: REFLECTIONS BY MARIA CASSIA

DETACHMENT FROM WORLDLINESS

Too much preoccupation with the world estrange one to God.
Without moderation, one does things with intense ardor and that
is tantamount to idolatry.  For example, when one is preoccupied
with too much food, it is simply gluttony---one of the seven deadly
sins.

On the other hand, if one is too much preoccupied with admiration
for oneself and of neglect of other's needs---that's vanity, another deadly sin.
If one lacks the virtue of humility and just pride over himself---that's
pride!  That pride led to the Fall when the Evil likes to be a god.

We will notice that all of the sins stems from preoccupation with worldly things.
Obsession with the worldly is incompatible with a focus on the kingdom
of God.  For when one is preoccupied with the works of the flesh, one
loses sight of God and of his goodness, love and mercy.

The key to everything is moderation!  It does not mean that we will not relax
or wind oneself once in a while.  It becomes a sin when it is done excessively,
for it becomes a little 'god'---idol.

Even at the Wedding at Cana in the gospel of John, Jesus changed water into
wine.  The Lord did not prohibit the drinking of wine in festive occasions as
a wedding.  Wine is a symbol used in the Mass.  But if a person gurgles wine
in excess, it becomes a sin for it estrange oneself from beholding the beauty
of God.  Then, the person's god is now Bacchus, the god of wine.

The Lord did not prohibit one from taking care of oneself, "anoint one's head
with oil or balm."  But if one has vanity---excessive preoccupation with one's
appearance, it becomes a grave sin because this vanity become's one's god.

The bottom line is:  Never have an idol, one that occupies your mind and heart
more than God.  For God is a jealous God---does not like to have a rival in your
heart.  Love God above all things ---living or non-living!

Refrain from idolatry!  Live and let others live.  Spread the Word.  Bind oneself
to Jesus---the Son of God (The Way, The Truth and The Life).  There is no other way,
for God said so in His Word.  Why will we not believe?  One can believe other
men, why not God---one's Creator.  For without God, one's existence is not valid,
never, for our existence is only from God's goodness.

Maria Cassia

BELLINGRATH GARDENS, MOBILE,AL:: FORWARDED BY SR. ELSIE BABY

We will meet again, my friend, a hundred years from today;Far away from where we lived and where we used to play.We will know each other's eyes and wonder where we met;A hundred years apart will not make us forget.Yes, we will meet, I'm sure of that, but let's not wait til then,Let's take a walk beneath the oaks and share this world again.-- Ron Atchison

NATURE UNSEEN BY MP JOY,NUCLUB

                      It is simply beautiful!!

TRIVIA WORLD # 16

Questions:


1. Who is the famous conqueror who said, "I came, I saw,
I conquered"?
2. In a Greek epic, who is the king who wage a war to regain
the woman who has a beauty that launched a thousand
ships?
3. Which three sports make up the triathlon?
4. Who is the mother of the great king of Christendom,
Constantine?
5. A pheasant is an insect, amphibian, bird or reptile?
6. Why does carbon monoxide poisoning cause difficulty
in breathing and generally death?
7. What is the rectangular cloth worn by Polynesians?
8. What is the name of that sea in between Egypt and Saudi
Arabia?
9. In what year did Rommel launched an offensive towards
El Alamein to move troops to Suez Canal (1940, 1942 or
1941)?
10. The study of insects is called ________.

Answers:
1
. Julius Cesar
2. King Menelaus
3. Cycling, running and swimming
4. Helena
5. bird
6. The carbon monoxide binds with hemoglobin
7. lava-lava
8. Red Sea
9. 1942
10. entomology

DO YOU FEAR DEATH? BY ABRAHAM GEORGE

Virtually every religion and society has embraced the notion that human beings continue to exist or will exist again after death. Many people doubt the existence of an after life altogether. What about you ?
Human life is very fragile. Experts have classified death anxiety into various categories. The fear of pain, the fear of the unknown, the fear of losing the loved ones and the fear of the negative consequence s of that one's death may have on survivors. Religious beliefs, not withstanding the idea that death is the absolute end of life scares many people. What is the condition of a human before coming to life. Where were you before you were conceived. You did not exist. It is that simple. In that sense, it is logical to conclude when we die our consciousness returning to exactly the same state it was before when we were alive.
Most people avoid discussing their own death. At the same time the death of a stranger may appear to be normal aspect of life, still when it comes to the death of a loved one or to our own death., there is nothing normal about it. Human have an inborn deep rooted desire to live. We want to keep living indefinitely. That may be one major difference between human and animals. Various religions have different teaching about life, death and life after death. What is your belief? Do you fear death?
By ABRAHAM G

THAT TIME OF YEAR: POEM --- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE#FORWARDED BY CYNTHIA ABEGAIL

THAT TIME OF YEAR

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on ashes of his youth lie...
Thus thou perceivest, which makes thy love
more strong, To love that well which thou must
leave ere long.
William Shakespeare
(Sonnet LXXIII)

HEALTHWORLD NEWS FROM BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY

(The following is a new development and it is very important.)

A New Way to Profile Immune Cells in Blood

Thu, 03/06/2014 - 3:06pm

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A new technique distinguishes cell types in blood by looking at signature degrees of methylation in DNA. Yellow represents no methylation, blue full methylation. (Source: Kelsey lab/Brown University)When a person becomes sick or is exposed to an unwelcome substance, the body mobilizes specific proportions of different immune cells in the blood. Methods of discovering and detecting those profiles are therefore useful both clinically and in research. In a new paper in the journal Genome Biology, a team of scientists describes a new and uniquely advantageous way to detect them.
All the current means of counting immune cells in a blood sample require whole cells, said Karl Kelsey, professor of epidemiology at Brown and corresponding author, but the new system relies on something far less ephemeral: DNA. Its use of hardy strands of genetic material allows it to handle even archived samples where cells have lost their physical integrity.
All of a person’s immune cells—in fact, nearly all of their cells—have exactly the same DNA, but what makes a kidney cell different from a brain cell or a T-cell distinct from a B-cell are chemical alterations known as epigenetic marks. Those cause a cell’s genes to be expressed in the particular way that makes them different. One type of those alterations is methylation, and every kind of cell has its own methylation signature.
“Once you understand the unique and really immutable signature that directs the differentiation of the cell, then you can use that and you don’t need the cell anymore,” Kelsey said.
So the new test detects those methylation signatures in a blood sample and, with the help of sophisticated algorithms, counts up how many cells of each type are in the sample. In the experiments reported in the paper, Kelsey, lead author William Accomando, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues counted up the following major immune cell types, or leukocytes: T-cells, B-cells, NK cells, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils, and neutrophils.
Based on their tests using fresh human blood samples from more than 80 donors, they report that their technique’s accuracy performed at par in a direct comparison with three “gold standard” methods: “manual five-part differential,” “CBC with automated five-part differential,” and “fluorescence activated cell sorting.”
In further experiments they showed that their technique works to detect the mixtures of immune cells associated with known diseases and that the technique works with blood exposed to storage conditions such as freezing and the addition of anticoagulants.
Moreover, in their experiments the team showed that to distinguish among and count those various immune cell types, they only needed to measure a few dozen methylation marks in the DNA. What’s sufficient to constitute a signature, in other words, can be quite short.
The main ingredients of the method, Kelsey said, are libraries of methylation signatures of cells. Kelsey’s lab determined the ones needed for this study, but big new epigenetics research consortia in Europe and the United States are poised to produce many more, greatly expanding the versatility of the proprietary method to cover more immune cells and other cell types as well.
In addition to the algorithms and the libraries, the test also requires some hardware, such as commercially available methylation microarrays.
The method has proven feasible enough that many other epidemiology research labs are already using it, Kelsey said. Brown University has also applied for a patent on the technique. He said it has the potential to be cheaper and faster than current techniques, although he didn’t measure that in the paper.
The researchers have made their microarray data available on NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus.
Source: Brown University

Topics

• Epigenetics

THE STEM CELL:BY GEORGE KURIAN

A Health Revolution Ahead ?
With the advancement of stem cells and Nanotechnology, there may be a lot of advancements in the health field. What we are unable to cure today may be so simple tomorrow. Remember about so many diseases we were witnessing in the past which devoured many lives in the 1940s and 1950s but with the advent of new findings and discoveries we are able to conquer many of those diseases and they are no longer a threat.
Now with stem cell many diseases will be cured and with nanotechnology we may be able to treat , cure and even prevent many diseases and help to advance the longevity of the human beings, we hope.
Our President, Mr. Obama is going to lift the ban on the stem cell research funding and let us see some highlights of the importance of Stem Cell research:
"Seeing The Future"
"Some areas where researchers say stem cells of various types may one day prove of value, although all the research is in very early stages:
* California-based Geron Corp. will start the world's first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells this summer, a project aimed at patients who recently suffered a spinal cord injury that left their legs paralyzed. Study participants will be given a single injection within two weeks of the injury, to see if the treatment helps repair damaged nerves.
Stem cells helped psralyzed rodents move again in several ways including regrow destroyed nerve cells in the spinal cord and successfully restoring myelin,a nerve fiber insulation that helps maintain the electrical conduction required to move.
*Scientists are working to create insulin producing cells for diabetics, and cells that could produce the brain chemical needed by parkinson's disease patients.
*Last year researchers used human embryonic stem cells to create cells that act- in lab tests-like natural red cells, offering the potential to one day ramp up the blood supply.
* Embryonic stem cells aren't the only type. Studies also are under way using adult stem cells, harvested from patients own blood or bone marrow, and one using cells derived from the placenta.
Reprogramming of the adult stem cells by Dr.Hanna of Weizmann's Institute has become a breakthrough.
* Researchers are also learning to take ordinary cells and reprogram them to act like stem cells." Quoted from ASSOCIATED PRESS/The Star Ledger Newspaper 3/7/2009 written by Ben Feller and Lauran Neeragard

FIVE RULES TO BE HAPPY FORWARDED BY JEROME HINOG AND NESTOR YANA

1. Free your heart from hatred. Forgive.
2. Free your mind from worries. Most never happens.
3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less from people, but more from GOD.

GIFT,NOT A CYMBAL: POEM BY CYNTHIA ABEGAIL

GIFT, NOT A CYMBAL

I may speak of languages of the ancient,
I may proclaim mysteries of near Orient
I may speak tounges of praises as angels
If my heart is barren of love as dungeon...


I may comprehend books of great Aquinas
I may write like Augustine or one of Sienna,
I may prophesy like Ezekiel, Micah or Isaiah
If I am empty of love, I boil down to nothing!


You may have the faith that can roll the ocean,
You may have the hope that endure and shine
You may paint like the genius of Sistine chapel,
If cruelty is a seal and a mark of heart so mean...


We may have the wild endurance, accomplished,
We may have speech as eloquent, likes of Cicero
We may have the beauty that launch many ships
If we don't love God and others, no heart but lips!


Love is kind, polite not brash; patient till the end,
Love is not arrogant nor selfish; ills never remain
Love is not envious nor jealous; with gentleness
It is a gift, not banging cymbal, - hymn so blessed!

All rights reserved: Cynthia Abegail Bernardo
(Another beautiful literary gem from our Cynthia