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1. 1\2 cup oil
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- 1 1\2 tsp. chilli powder
- 1\4 tsp. turmeric
- 1 1\2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. coriander powder
- 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 3 tbsp. yogurt, whisked
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice
- 3 tbsp. ginger, cut into matchstick
- 1 tsp. chatt masala
- 1 tsp. garam masala
- 3 tbsp. fresh coriander leaves. chopped
- 2-4 green chillies, thinly sliced
1. Heat oil in a
heavy based saucepan over medium heat.
Add the onions and sauté until soft,
about 2 minutes.
2. Add ginger and garlic, sauté
about 2 minutes. Stirring
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to the bottom of the pan).
3. Add chicken and fry until the water from chicken is
evaporated, about 5 minutes.
4. Add chili powder, turmeric,
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Fry 1 minute, then add tomatoes and Stirring
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Daily nuts may help boost health
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Adding nuts to a healthy diet may help
release people from a dangerous combination
of health problems.
Up to 25% of people in the UK are thought to
have "metabolic syndrome", which includes
obesity and high blood pressure, cholesterol
and blood sugar.
A Mediterranean diet of vegetables, fruit
and fish plus daily nuts boosted health in
more than one in eight at-risk volunteers, a
Spanish study found.
The research was published in the Archives
of Internal Medicine journal.
Disease risk
The healthy properties of certain kinds of
nuts, eaten in moderation, has been noted
before. However, the researchers from the
University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain,
tested more than 1,200 volunteers with
metabolic syndrome to see if adding nuts
could boost existing healthy diets.
People with metabolic syndrome are at
greatly increased risk of cardiovascular
disease.
The group was split into thirds, the first
of which were just given advice on low-fat
eating.
The next third got quarterly teaching on the
Mediterranean diet, which as well as eating
plenty of vegetables, cereal crops and
fruit, also means cutting down on dairy
produce and red meat. They were each given a
litre of olive oil a week to supplement
this.
The final third got the same teaching, but
they were given a 30g bag of mixed nuts
every day.
None was told they had to restrict their
calorie intake.
After a year, the volunteers were reassessed
to see whether their health had improved.
Approximately 2% of the group who were told
about low-fat diets had improved to the
extent that they were no longer classed as
having metabolic syndrome.
Among those following a Mediterranean diet
including olive oil, the figure rose to
6.7%. Finally, 13.7% of those eating their
daily bag of nuts as well as the
Mediterranean diet had improved.
Even though none of the participants weight
had dropped significantly over the year,
waist circumferences had diminished in the
nut-eating group, and cholesterol and blood
pressure levels had dropped.
Salt concerns
The researchers said that the nuts may have
been helping to cut the amount of chronic
inflammation linked to their weight.
Dr Jordi Salas-Salvado, the lead author,
said: "The results of the study show that a
non-energy restricted traditional
Mediterranean diet enriched with nuts, which
is high in fat, high in unsaturated fat and
palatable, is a useful tool in managing
metabolic syndrome."
However, a spokesman for the British
Dietetic Association warned that the
findings did not give people licence to eat
large quantities of nuts in the hope this
would improve their health. "You can't just
sit on the sofa this Christmas and eat nuts
- you should be making sure that if you add
this many calories to you diet, you should
take them out somewhere else if possible.
"And this probably only refers to tree nuts,
such as hazelnuts and almonds, rather than
peanuts, which aren't actually a nut at all.
"People should also be careful not eat too
may salted nuts, as that certainly is no
good for your blood pressure."
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 MAYA
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DID YOU KNOW
Ancient Maya had amazing technical skills; they erect highly
decorated ceremonial architecture sites, including
impressive temples, ball courts, pyramids, palaces, and
observatories; such architectural skills are believed to
have been built without the use of wheels and metal tools.
Yet, the perfect harmony of their architectural achievements
leaves even the most skillful scientists of today wondering
how this ancient people arrived to such highly refine
knowledge and understanding of our galaxy and the Universe.
Why their cities and temples are rooted in their
Cosmo-vision and how they managed to produce such incredible
perfection in their architecture and mathematical
achievements.
By the way this civilization existed
from 1800BC !!
The Maya are a people of southern Mexico and northern
Central America with some 3,000 years of rich history. The
Maya were part of the Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian cultures.
Contrary to popular myth, the Maya people never
"disappeared"; millions still live in the region, many of
them still speak one of the Maya family of languages. This
article will mostly concern itself with their civilization
before the conquest by Spain.
Archaelogical evidence shows the Maya started to build
ceremonial architecture some 3000 years ago. There is some
disagreement as to the borders and difference between the
early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican
civilization, the Olmec culture. The Olmec and early Maya
seem to have influenced each other. The earliest monuments
consist of simple burial mounds, the precursors to pyramids
erected in later times. Eventually, the Olmec culture faded
after spreading their influence into the Yucatan peninsula,
present-day Guatemala, and other regions. The Maya developed
the famed cities of Tikal, Palenque, Copán and Kalakmul, as
well as Dos Pilas, Uaxactun, Altun Ha, and many other sites
in the area. They developed an agriculturally intensive,
city-centered empire consisting of numerous independent
city-states. The most notable monuments are the pyramids
they built in their religious centers and the accompanying
palaces of their rulers. Other important archaeological
remains include the carved stone slabs usually called
stelae (the Maya called them Tetun, or
"Tree-stones"), which depict ruler along with heiroglyphic
texts describing their genealogy, war victories, and other
accomplishments.
Art and architecture Many consider Maya art and
architecture of their Classic Era (c. 200 to 900 a.d.)
to be the most sophisticated and beautiful of the ancient
New World. The carvings and stucco reliefs at Palenque and
the statuary of Copan are especially fine, showing a grace
and accurate observation of the human form that reminded
early archaeologists of Classical civilization of the Old
World, hence the name bestowed on this era. We have only
hints of the advanced painting of the classic Maya, mostly
what has survived on funerary pottery, and a building at
Bonampak where the ancient murals survived by fortunate
accident. With the decipherment of the Maya script it was
discovered that the Maya were one of the few civilizations
where artists attached their name to their work.
Writing system The Maya writing system (often called
hieroglyphics from a vague superficial resemblance to
the Egyptian writing, to which it is not related) was a
combination of phonetic symbols and ideograms. It is the
only writing system of the Pre-Columbian New World that can
completely represent spoken language to the same degree as
the written language of the old world. The decipherment of
the Maya writings has been a long laborous process. Bits of
it were first deciphered in the late 19th and early 20th
century (mostly the parts having to do with numbers, the
calendar, and astronomy), but major breakthroughs came
starting in the 1960s and 1970s and accelerated rapidly
thereafter, so that now the majority of Maya texts can be
read nearly completely in their original languages.
Unfortunately zealous Spanish priests shortly after the
conquest ordered the burning of all the Maya books. While
many stone inscriptions survive (mostly from cities already
abandoned when the Spanish arrived), only 3 books and a few
pages of a fourth survive from the ancient libraries.
Rectangular lumps of plaster and paint chips are a frequent
discovery in Maya archaeology; they are the tantalzing
remains of what had been books after all the organic
material has decayed. Mathematics The
Maya (or their Olmec predesessors) independently developed
the concept of zero (indeed, they seem to have been
using the concept centuries before the Old World), and used
a base 20 numbering system (see Mayan numerals).
Inscriptions show them on occasion working with sums up to
the hundreds of millions. They produced extremely accurate
astronomical observations; their charts of the movements of
the moon and planets are equal or superior to any other
civilization working from naked eye observation. The Maya
calculation of the length of the solar year was somewhat
superior to the Gregorian Calendar.
Decline of the Maya In
the 8th and 9th centuries AD Classic Maya culture went into
decline, with most of the cities of the central lowlands
abandoned. Warfare, ecological depletion of croplands, and
drought or some combination of those factors are usually
suggested as reasons for the decline. There is
archaeological evidence of warfare, famine, and revolt
against the elite at various central lowlands sites.
The Maya cities of the northern lowlands in Yucatan
continued to flourish for centuries more; some of the
important sites in this era were Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Etzna,
and Coba. After the decline of the ruling dynasties of
Chichen and Uxmal, Mayapan ruled all of Yucatan until a
revolt in 1450; the area then devolved to city states until
the Spanish Conquest.
Post-Classic Mayan states also continued to thrive in the
southern highlands. One of the Maya kingdoms in this area,
the Quiche, is responsible for the best-known Mayan work of
historiography and mythology, the Popol Vuh.
The Spanish started their conquest of the Maya lands in the
1520s. Some Maya states offered long fierce resistance; the
last Maya city state was not subdued by Spanish authorities
until 1697.
The Spanish American Colonies were largely cut off from the
outside world, and the ruins of the great ancient cities
were little known except to locals. In 1839 however,
American traveller, John Lloyd Stephens, hearing reports of
lost ruins in the jungle, visited Copan, Palenque, and other
sites with English architect & draftsman Frederick
Catherwood. Their illustrated accounts of the ruins sparked
strong interest in the region and the people, and they have
once again regained their position as a vital link in
Mesoamerican heritage.
Much of the contemporary rural population of Guatemala and
Belize is Maya by descent and primary language; a Maya
culture still exists in rural Mexico. Credit
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Assalam-O-Alaikum
Eid ul Azha is just about ten day ahead. The spirit of
‘sacrifice’ is the crux of this Eid.
Back in our school days, when I was in class three, one of
our class fellow’s father suffered great loss in his
business and their financial status became meek. We heard
that her parents were thinking to pull her out of school
because they could no longer afford to buy her books,
stationary and pay the school dues. The time of the year
coincided with Eid ul Azha. As our class teacher explained
us about the true meaning of this Eid, she emphasized on the
spirit of sacrifice and the importance of giving. At the end
of the lecture, she asked if any one of us has any thing to
help our distressed class fellow. And to this appeal all the
pupils of the class participated. Next day, every one had
something to contribute…may it be a book, a copy or simply a
pencil. We, the students, told our teacher that each of us
is ready to give in half of our monthly pocket money if that
could make for the school dues of our friend. The teacher
told about our spirit to our principal who readily excused
the fee of our fellow… and like this our class fellow who
was about to quit studies was able to continue. In two years
time, their family’s financial status got better and her
parents were them able to afford her studies. Today, she is
a doctor.
The reason for sharing the above incident is to tell you how
much importance our tiny little acts of generosity mean for
humanity. We often assume that money exists for our own
benefit, rather than for others. We know that possessions
are for sharing, yet when it comes to our own affairs, we
act as if possessions are for keeping. There are just so
many reasons to give. Allah Almighty has made us among the
blessed ones. Why shall we not thank Him, by extending a
part of it to those who are not as fortunate? To give is not
to throw money away, but rather to invest it for an
overwhelming return because Allah has promised high rewards
for those who give in charity. When we give, it shall not
feel like a burden but a pleasure because a true believer
lives and gives with an eternal perspective. We all know
that the life of this world is temporary and life Hereafter
is for ever. We shall be unconcerned with how much we own in
this life because our focus shall be on the eternal life to
come.
Just give a thought to this quote, “Getting what you want is
not nearly as important as giving what you have.” It is not
that only rich can give. It is not what we take up, but what
we give up, that makes us rich. Each of us has something to
contribute… it is not the material wealth that only one can
offer to other, but a kind gesture, a soft word, a shoulder
to cry upon, and so on… for after all it is more blessed to
give than to receive.
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