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  10. Posted

    There is a kid inside everyone of us, its no shame.

    I liked the idea cause people are becoming selfish and greedy, and they don't bother thinking about others let alone helping them. Pay it forward is a great idea, it will work if you just try.

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    One night this week I watched this movie "Pay it forward" and I was amazed by the idea of the movie and googled it and found that the movie was based on a story by Catherine Ryan Hyde, an American novelist.

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    Pay It Forward” is a book written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, but it's also an idea. It's an action plan within a work of fiction. But does it have to be fiction? We're hoping not. In fact, since the book was released in January of 2000, a real-life social movement has emerged, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. What began as a work of fiction has already become much more.

     

    Reuben St. Clair, the teacher and protagonist in the book “Pay It Forward,” starts a movement with this voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION. Trevor, the 12-year-old hero of “Pay It Forward,” thinks of quite an idea. He describes it to his mother and teacher this way: "You see, I do something real good for three people. And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each. So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven." He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. "Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one. Then two hundred forty-three. Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?"

     

    So I would pay it forward from now on and see how it will go smile.gif

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    A project reporting in the British Journal of General Practice today shows that the Somali population in Bristol is at risk of vitamin D deficiency.

    The report is the result of a localised study conducted in Bristol's inner-city by the University of the West of England in partnership with the former Bristol North PCT and four GP practices in the area.

     

    We get most of our vitamin D through sunlight acting on our skin, and only a little comes from the food we eat.

    Lack of vitamin D can cause rickets and chronic musculoskeletal pain. If deficiency is diagnosed as the main cause of this problem it is easily remedied through treatment with vitamin D, and it can be prevented by giving supplements.

     

     

    Dr Julie Mytton, from UWE explains, "Certain groups of patients are at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency due to older age, pregnancy, restricted diet, having dark skin or reduced exposure to sunlight. We have long known that the Asian community is at risk of vitamin D deficiency but with changing patterns of immigration to the UK we are now finding that other population groups are also at risk. In 2004 GP's from four neighbouring practices in north Bristol identified increasing numbers of patients presenting with chronic musculoskeletal symptoms. The practices are spread across a deprived area of the city housing the majority of the growing Somali community in Bristol.

     

    Two hundred and ninety nine patients with vitamin D deficiency were found to have been diagnosed at the four practices between January 2003 and September 2005. Of the 206 patients who had their ethnic group recorded the vast majority ( 88% ) were Black African, and 74% of these were known to have come from Somalia. Only 7% came from Asian countries, and even fewer from Caucasian or other ethnic groups.

     

    "The reasons for the deficiency are various and include risk factors such as length of time since the patient left their country of ethnic origin, family history, wearing clothes that fully cover the skin and eating a restricted diet. As many Somali women wear clothes that fully cover their skin they are not absorbing sufficient sunlight to produce the vitamin. Now that we have identified the risk in this population we are trying to raise awareness in the community to help prevent deficiency by encouraging those at risk to take vitamin supplements, and trying to treat those who have already become deficient. This is particularly important for women who are thinking of having children, as any baby born to a woman who is deficient, is highly likely to be deficient as well."

     

    Source: Media Newswire, July 02, 2007

     

    http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2007/july/somalis_in_bristol_uk_at_risk_from_vitamin_d_deficiency.aspx

  19. Posted

    Did you had to post this and remind me that am a forigner whereever I go redface.gif

     

    Me, am torn between three cultures and if I had to choose between them I wont pick any. We're Somali family live in England but use Arabic as the main form of communication :D

     

    aint that confusing

  25. Posted

    nothing comes next to a Bollywood movie these days. I only go to the cinema to watch indian movies, they are more entertaining than the pathetic American movies.

    KOL HO Na Ho left me in tears.

    Khabi Kushi Khabi Gham made me fall in love with indian movies.

    Khabi Alvida Na Kehna, the story was great, Sharukhan the married man falls in LOVE with another married lady,what a story!!

    Salam ishq, a funny romantic movie.

    Dor was a great story.

    Life in Metro, the songs in the movie were amazing.

    Umaro Jaan, you wouldn't stop admiring the beauty of Aishwari Rai.

     

    and the list goes on....