Survive Cervical Cancer!!!

Cancer that forms in tissues of the cervix (the organ connecting the uterus and vagina). It is usually a slow-growing cancer that may not have symptoms but can be found with regular Pap tests (a procedure in which cells are scraped from the cervix and looked at under a microscope). Cervical cancer is almost always caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
The cervix is the opening of the uterus connected to the upper vagina. It is known as the neck of the uterus. The lower end of the cervix has an opening called the external os, and before childbirth it is about 5mm in diameter. It dilates to 10cm during labour  to allow for childbirth and never regains its former shape, changing to a slit approximately 7mm long.  Normally the cervix is pink in colour but turns bluish in pregnancy because of an increased blood supply.The cancer cells may be present in the cervix for 4-10 years before becoming invasive, affecting the deeper tissues and giving rise to symptoms. Even when the cancer is invasive , there is an 80% chance of successful cure. Once it spreads through the pelvis to the vagina, uterus, bladder or rectum, it is much more difficult to cure.

Cervical Cancer Symptoms

    * Abnormal bleeding. Women with cervical cancer may experience abnormal vaginal bleeding. This can be heavy or light bleeding during the month.

    * Unusual heavy discharge. An increased vaginal discharge is also a symptom of cervical cancer. It may be foul smelling, watery, thick, or contain mucus. It varies from woman to woman. It is important to report any unusual vaginal discharge to your doctor.

    * Pelvic pain. Pelvic pain that is not related to the normal menstrual cycle can be a cervical cancer symptom. Many women describe them ranging from a dull ache to sharp pains that can last hours. It can be mild or severe.

    * Pain during urination. Bladder pain or pain during urination can be a symptom of advanced cervical cancer. This cervical cancer symptom usually occurs when cancer has spread to the bladder.

    * Bleeding between regular menstrual periods, after sexual intercourse, douching, or pelvic exam. Bleeding after sexual intercourse, douching, or pelvic exam can be cervical cancer symptoms. This is due to the irritation of the cervix during these activities. While a healthy cervix may have a very small amount of bleeding, many conditions may cause bleeding after activities like sex.



The way by which this cancer is growing in our country is alarming. We need to keep a vigil and stay careful as to it does not happen to the people around us as well as to ourselves.
A lot has been done for its cure everywhere around the world.
Here are some facts and figures -

MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, launched the world's only vaccine, Gardasil, in India recently to prevent fatal onslaught of cervical cancer.

India has the highest number of cervical cancer in the world, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a part of the World Health Organisation (WHO). It affects only women, mostly in late 40s or early 50s, through human contact. Every year, around 74, 000 patients die in the country out of 1,32,000 women diagnosed with this deadly disease.

"Across the world, around 2,80,000 women die of this disease every year and 27% of these deaths occur in India alone," said Anjana Narain, director (vaccine) of MSD. The virus called Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which infects mostly women, causes the disease. This virus gets transmitted through sexual contact and even preventive measures like contraceptives cannot prevent it from entering a woman's body, said Partho Basu, head of the department of gynaecological oncology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute.

"From infection, the virus takes 15-20 years to develop and attack as cervical cancer in a woman's body, so the preventive vaccine should be administered from the age of 9-26 years, so by the time a girl reaches her late 40s she is safeguarded," Basu added.

Gardasil(vaccine for Cervical) is available in more than 100 countries(including India) now. "It was introduced by Merck & Co Inc in 2006 first in the US and since then, 36 million doses have been administered to women living across 108 countries," said Narain. A one-time dose given thrice in a span of a year, the vaccine should be administered between the age of 9 and 26 years, with per dose coming at a price of Rs 2,800. This type of cancer takes more life than any other form in the world, she added.

for more details: heres da link

Creative Assignment #1

Digital Scrapbooking
Creative assignment

Seems like you’ve stopped scrapbooking these days? Surely you are missing the fun of tagging people there along with the little sticker’s that are there of all the cartoon’s and barbie’s. Here’s a solution to get grip of those days again. And this time you can have a digital scrapbook that does not wear out no matter what, and stays with you all life through. What better could be a way of tagging and scrapping in your college days!

Its digital scrapbooking that I’m bragging about !!

This is one way to capture and preserve memories these days. In this, You use a graphics  or photo editing program to design your pages.
The most commonly used programs are Adobe Photoshop (PS), Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE), Jasc Paint Shop Pro (PSP), Microsoft Digital Image Pro (DIP) or Ulead Photo Impact (PI). It is also possible to use other programs such as FotoFusion, but does not have the same capabilities as the other programs.



You might be thinking who will take up all this pain?? But ironically, it would just lesson it all up.

Lets see how ->

Photo Enhancement:  since we all are seemingly born with obsession about our photo’s and keep clicking for our sake , photos can be uploaded from your digital camera right into your computer. Or, you can scan your photos & edit them in your photo editing program. With the programs that are out these days, you can apply various techniques, filters, add text or even create collages with your photos.  You can change a colour photo to black & white, leave it black & white but only have a spot of colour for added interest, create a sepia photo, or add designs & artistic photo edges to your photos.

Printing Options:  A huge plus for digital scrapbooking is the ability  to print out layouts multiple times to put in various albums.  No longer do we need to duplicate the entire page for each album, we can just print out multiples.  And the printing options are amazing.  Once you have the page complete, you can either upload it to an online picture printing source, such as 2Ps Pictures or you can print them at home.

Undo:  How many times have you made a scrapbooking mistake & either had to throw something out or tear it apart?  Well, in Digital Scrapbooking, if you ever make a mistake or place something you don’t like, there is the trusty ‘undo’ button.

Specialization – we can also specialize our digital scrapbook and mark the pictures by adding text to them.

Lets go and tag our friends then by making a scrapbook of our own!!

English Assignment #1

Unperturbed and undone


With thoughts floating around

I sit touched on the ground

I have a million things to do

I’m bounded , I know , I’m sound



There were words left said

And words you need to know

Words that sailed through

And words that drowned before I let them go



There were musings of my own

I always have them close

I abide by their certain ways

They breach rules often , more then I know



Then there were actions

That kindled and moved souls

Caressed my hunger of thoughts

And caused some more to follow



With heights that I attain

Even while settled low

I could engrave emotions

Minding all within, and all those meant to throw



I have around me

People , sage and devils ,therein

Its actions that checked the moves

And moves that lead me to know



I chase things I wanted

And get rid of those that chase me

For all they do is cage a person

Let me go, I am not your own



I thought I would write my mind

But there is one thing that I know

There are still a myriad facets left

Unperturbed and undone

They forever plan to remain so !

Hindi Assignment #1

एक बूँद

ज्यों निकल कर बादलों की गोद से।
थी अभी एक बूँद कुछ आगे बढ़ी।।
सोचने फिर फिर यही जी में लगी।
आह क्यों घर छोड़कर मैं यों बढ़ी।।

दैव मेरे भाग्य में क्या है बढ़ा।
में बचूँगी या मिलूँगी धूल में।।
या जलूँगी गिर अंगारे पर किसी।
चू पडूँगी या कमल के फूल में।।

बह गयी उस काल एक ऐसी हवा।
वह समुन्दर ओर आई अनमनी।।
एक सुन्दर सीप का मुँह था खुला।
वह उसी में जा पड़ी मोती बनी।।

लोग यों ही है झिझकते, सोचते।
जबकि उनको छोड़ना पड़ता है घर।।
किन्तु घर का छोड़ना अक्सर उन्हें।
बूँद लौं कुछ और ही देता है कर।।

-अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय ‘हरिऔध

Photography Assignment #1

Photo essay- do u see what i see...

It makes me speak a thousand words

Yet I’m rendered out without words

When I capture the entire story

It makes me believe in magic of sight

And that which so easily gathers my world

These certainly could be the words of a photographer , the one who captures his world with pictures. Not just mere pictures, the one that makes the camera speak and the frames play loud! In simple words --- “ A Photo Essay “ . It is the photographer’s way to show the entire story rather than one image. The collection of images spins a story that speaks for itself. Generally, there are about 5 to 15 , sometimes narrating themselves with captions, and sometimes not. Though there are no hard and fast rules for it to take shape, yet there are some common ways to do –

1.      1. Time sequence – the pictures are in chronological order, as if stills from a movie. This kind of photo essay can be used to depict an story where there is a link of time, capturing places, spaces, people and their moods, you name it, and its in frames!

Time sequence photo essays can also be expanded to cover longer amounts of time in less compact areas. It could be used to capture police chases to life, from birth till death.

2.    2.   Location – people are known for the spaces they live in and all  of them have a story of their own.  Locations can be compact such as a school or garden, or vast such as a country. This kind of a photo essay need not be chronological, but it explores the place and its impacts. Much like a tour of that area.

3.    3.  Idea – an idea might not change your life, but can zoom and focus to make a photo essay. Be it an emotion or the dreary work, the photo’s will say it all. Because the ideas are so diverse in nature and can seldom be summed up , it’s preferred to have a common thread of ideas while working upon the photo essay. There can be a colour scheme or a symbol used too. These also can be used to depict flow of actions.

4.      4.Event essays – catering to anything and everything left we have this another category capturing events such as a marriage or a birth. They might not be time bound but are sure to elaborate upon an event, and no worries if you missed that one,its all there in that essay!!



There are moments of lifetime , those are forever stuck in our memories but often are faced again, and what could be another way of capturing moments, the ones that were near, and dear. So pick on your cam and get clicking , and remember, the essay says it all!!

Heres the lead for u to follow : http://www.thephotoessay.com/

Marketing Assignment #1

Viral marketing!!
With the viral season up in the town, we have a marketing term also gripping hold of the trend. And this time no sneezing and coughing coz all this marketing brings is money honey !
The words that hit these days are viral marketing and viral advertising.
These  refer to marketing techniques that use developed  social networks to augment  brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as high product sales) through a viral process, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.
Word of mouth is a reference to the passing of information from person to person. Originally the term referred specifically to oral communication (literally words from the mouth), but now includes any type of human communication, such as face to face, telephone, email, and text messaging. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advertisement games, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages.
The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create Viral Messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being taken by another competitor.
The way the world is changing, and adopting ways the viruses work !!
For plethora of reasons this is now the road to advancement and a way to accomplish goals. And this virus refuses to be cured!! At no cost it’s leaving.
Lets hope this time getting down with this virus helps you to recover your pockets in an innovative way.

Technical Assignment #1

Google Wave

The unbeatable Google has come up with yet another present for the masses. Google announces –“a personal communication and collaboration tool” pronounced-Google Wave. Waves as described by Google is "equal parts conversation and document". It is the new Internet communications platform wrapping up e-mail, instant messaging , wikis and social networking in to one box. Waves works like any other messaging or emailing system without needing to store the responses in the user’s inbox for context. In this the complete threads of multimedia messages called blips is stored on a central server. Any participant of a wave can reply anywhere within the message, edit any part of the wave (i.e message document), and add participants at any point in the process.

Google plans to release most of the source code as open source, allowing the public to develop its features through extensions as it wants the Wave protocol to replace the e-mail protocol. Waves are alive, all action on waves are visible in real time, letter by letter. Thus, it can function not only as e-mails and threaded conversations but also as an instant messaging service when many participants are online at the same time. Collaborative documents can be easily created by editing a wave at any location by the participants. Waves can link very easily to another wave. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.Being an open protocol, anyone can use it to build a custom Wave system and become a wave provider. A key feature of the protocol is that waves are stored on the service provider's servers instead of being sent between users. Waves are federated; copies of waves and wavelets are distributed by the wave provider of the originating user to the providers of all other participants in a particular wave or wavelet so all participants have immediate access to up-to-date content. The originating wave server is responsible for hosting, processing, and concurrency control of waves. Google Wave was launched to nearly 1,00,000 users on September 30,2009. It is still in active development and is expected to remain in development until later in 2009.

Besides this that could be gathered from Wikipedia there is a developer preview and overview videos available on YouTube.

All said and done if you like me cant resist trying it out, the best thing to do is to request for an invitation on the following link and keep your fingers crossed…

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

Happy Waving!!! :)

Art Assignment #1

                                    The wall project

No its not another article on what lay behind the wall street breakdown and the consequences , its about another upbeat from the usual chores, done to foster creativity in their city as well as inspire others.

A full on art job, the people into this project are a bunch of enthusiasts, who wanted to paint the good old boring compound wall. There is no dearth of creativity in our country and they exemplify it with full regards. Set in an old East village of Bandra, with the talented all over the place in that village.

They have coloured in hue more than 60 pieces all over amchi Mumbai and are rearing to go!!

It was all done with a good cause to enrich and enliven people’s life by adding these elements of hue to their walls, giving them another reason to smile, another reason which would make their spaces alive  .  unknown of how the mass would react , initially people came out with weird looks speculating on what is being done, but then later on they all joined in vogue and vigour to help them accomplish the task of wall art !!

The old, the kids, the people who were tired of touching the monotony of lives everyday, planned to shift to colours as a respite. What more do you think can fill ones life ??

Its sole aim is to make people aware of the spaces that they are attached to, the ones that connects them, makes their world closed and confined,ones that click and surround, to generate the way in which creativity can be generated and people can enrich their lives.

As they say “ The wall project in its own way tries to start a conversation, with no political or religious attachments. “ the city is the canvas.......its a movement for all to take a forefront and come uo with what you want , implement it , get close to art, get known to your spaces !! and live them again!!

Journalism Assignment #1

         Mumbai, interrupted....again

“Again...what does she mean by again? Mumbai was interrupted in 2008. This is 2009 dear. WAKE UP.” Loads of you would have this very thought in your mind as you read the title. But I am not disillusioned and I have certainly not lost my sense of time. Tune in to any news channel on the TV and you will know what I am talking about. The same images that were flashing on 26/11/2008 would be flashing ‘again’. Taj will burn ‘again’, CST would be wounded by Kasab’s A.K 47 ‘again’, the sound of screams, gunshots, and the view of dead bodies will make you shiver ‘again’, the political parties would blame each other ‘again’, the intelligence would be questioned ‘again’ in short you will have the repeat telecast of those fateful 64 hours again.
But my question is “Do we need it again?  ” Is reliving the past with ‘exclusive footage’ correct. A year back this attack affected every Indian in some way or the other. We realised the futility of life. How a birthday, wedding anniversary or business dinner in posh hotel could turn into your last. How you could be shot while trying to catch your train back home. We realised that we were not safe anywhere. We lost trust in police, intelligence, army...in short we lost trust in the system which governs us. Not just the Mumbaiakars...deep down most of us were affected and it took time for things to get back to normal, or I should add that it took hell lot of time for Mumbai to rise again this time. But it did rise and this is what it is important.
Replaying the same tapes again, showcasing the same images again, holding the same discussions again will recreate the same fear. Nobody likes sad recaps because the same pain resurfaces. I know for people who lost their loved ones in this attack this day brings back tears but there is no benefit of putting all this up on LIVE TV. Because by doing this they are not decreasing their suffering in any way but on the other hand they indirectly make millions of other viewers afraid, restless and sad again. This kind of ‘journalism’ recreates panic. Life is all about moving forward. So rather than bringing back painful memories media should focus on what has changed. Are we any better off than last year?  Has the government done something to strengthen our security? Grieving families do not need media footage. What they need most is silent milieu, not just for remembering what they lost but also for figuring out how to move forward. Thrusting a mic on woman’s face who lost her husband to this carnage a year back and asking how she is feeling is what I call downright insensitive. You cannot even imagine her pain.  Reliving those moments is not important, what’s important is to ask that why it happened in first place. Let’s look forward not backwards. Discussions should be held not about what happened but why it happened and what is being done to not let it happen again. I think this would be the best TRIBUTE for the ones who lost.

Assignment Kalamzine

Assignments we have managed to escape till now, but what if some day assignments no longer cause doom days n sleepless nights, what of they are a treat to hear, or more correctly said, to read over !!

Here we have the enginium’s genie fulfill your wish. As you know your wish is our command, we bring you assignments from all over the world, to get hold of things yet unexplored, eye-openers and eye-catchers!!

All here, is what you want !!

Oouchh!! Campus #2

And yet there was another stunning phenomenon to add to the odds of this semester ... swine flu saga at MITS !!

The campus already counts high on whatever it takes to call it a wild an weary place , stretching across its area, that we had swine flu to join in too.

It was a normal Thursday afternoon going at its desired and expected pace that we have people suddenly entering the classes clad in masks over their faces and dreading something that would come up soon. During the classes (of course) they had all the time in the world to discuss the cause of why they had added this element to their attire ( and for those who did not know lets brief you with some activities that happened ).

There had been a medical team on the campus two or three days before examining every person which had the same symptoms as of those having swine flu ( cold , cough , fever , and everything that makes you wish you were at home ) . All of them were examined and Thursday was the day reportedly when their reports were due (big time ) . So here they were , accounting for 21 positive swine flu cases in the entire campus , 18 being from school girls and 3 from FET . Before such intricate details could spread its wings and encircle the campus , our FET’ians were ready to face everything that could come up their way.

So the news was all over the place , with inquisitiveness about whether this ordeal will turn into delaying of the semester exams or holidays or just going on with the normal flow. Speculations supported all the stated options though. Nothing was clear in sight , with different reports coming from all over the places , more the people , more variations to news . Finally came a news which said that notices have been put up in the inside hostels concerning the college off till 30th of November , starting from that moment itself and with no news of the semester examinations (that was to come a day after ) . And what follows was the hustle bustle. To add on , there were news channels to cover the story all around the campus, interviewing girls. With some people packing their bags to rush to their homes and catch the latest bus to jaipur, to some clouding at Ambika travels to book tickets of the following hours, to some at Photostat shops getting notes Photostat.

The swine flu saga became the talk of the town ( oops village ) . About people infected, the count , the numbers, the symptoms, consequences and what not . Suddenly numbers became the prediction of ones chances of survival against these odds. But the odds were faint, as, for the boarders , passes were granted without faxes and the day scholars started moving out soon , and now the entire campus is empty , and abandoned .

Vouching in hopefully for no more ouches this semester .

And so am I leaving, not to ever return !

OUCH CAMPUS HEADLINES ME....MODY institute se ....miss swine flu !!

Oouchh!! placement

29^th October :  Exams over. But before you could plan what movie to watch or start talking on phone to your...ummm....a bomb drops on your head...that the rumour is possibly true and Accenture is coming for placements in November. So, you lose your sleep and interest in movie.    (phone thing is unavoidable)tension is back in your head. Apti...documents...technical...strengths...GD....or it might not come and it is still a rumour.

30^th October:  your worst fears are confirmed. Yup...you have your first company coming and your preparation can be rated on the negative scale. You feel  like banging your head on the wall. This can’t be happening, you were told about 8^th sem placements.

31^st October :  Official notice is out. You start gathering the resources , let us c...r s aggarwal... mark sheets, certificates and start deciding about the area of interest, supposedly to be your area of expertise(is there any???? Ur mind asks this dumb question). The fact started to sink in.

1^st and 2^nd November:  Everyone’s started preparing. You see people huddled together in groups of 2 or 3 discussing what might come up. Dinner discussions have changed from movies to current affairs...people started talking about India-china, jinaah, commonwealth games...

3^rd November: placements POSTPONED. I mean you get classes postponed, labs postponed but placements...??? The supposed relief does not come. You are neither happy nor sad. Somewhere you had accepted the fact that yes 9^th is going to be THE DAY and this cancellation well felt bad....

Come share your views with about this placement nightmare. Are you :) or :(...