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20 Handy Tips for Using Lemons

The lemon is a citrus with a great aroma, that blends wonderfully with food and drink, but also has many other uses, thanks to its antibacterial effect. The lemon is rich in vitamin C. It is considered a strong anti-oxidant and contains 5% acid, which makes him a very useful tool. 

So we know it's useful, but do we know how to utilize this potential? For that reason, we have collected 20 of the best things to do with a lemon, besides cooking with it!

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1. Ant Repellant - Pour some lemon juice around any infested areas to keep them at bay!

2. Air freshener - An equal amount of water and lemon juice, placed in an air freshener, will supply your house with a nice fresh scent.

3. A clean tub - An equal amount of water and lemon juice can also be a very effective cleaning supply against mildew and fungus accumulating on the sides of your tub and/or shower.

4. Disinfectant - A small amount of lemon juice can be a great companion to vinegar as a cleaning supply and can help neutralize the strong smell of the vinegar. It will also greats fortify the disinfection.

5. Microwave - Heat up a bowl of water and lemon wedges in the microwave for 30-60 seconds. Next, clean the microwave. Those previously hard to remove stains will now be easily removed and the 'food smell' will be neutralized.

6. Refrigerator - Storing half a lemon in the fridge will help prevent unpleasant odors. 

7. Cleaning Chrome / Brass / Copper - Mix lemon juice with drinking soda and dip a clean hand towel in it. Wipe down the surfaces thoroughly and then rinse well and wipe down with dry paper to get them to look like new!

8. Bathroom - Mix 1/2 a cup of borax powder with a glass of lemon to clean the toilet perfectly and leave it smelling clean and fresh.

9. Faucets and sinks - Use half a lemon to remove limescale build up on your sinks and faucets. Rinse well and redo as required.

 

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10. To make your laundry whiter, add a 1/2 cup of lemon juice for the washing duration of the machine and hang up the clothes to dry. A teaspoon of lemon juice in the machine during the wash cycle will give your fabric a fresher smell.

11. Dishes - To remove fat substances on tools, add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the dish soap.

12. Drainage - A mixture of hot lemon juice and drinking soda can improve your drainage and help unclog it.

13. Trash can - If you throw a few lemon peels in the trash, it will help to neutralize the bad odors coming from the rest of the food stuffs.

14. Cutting Board - Rub half a lemon on a wooden cutting board, leave it like that for the night and wash it the next day. The lemon juice will help kill bacteria accumulating on the board, and will, of course, neutralize any bad odors.

15. Glass and Mirrors - 4 table spoons of lemon juice mixed with 2 liters of water will make for an effective mixture to clean windows, mirrors and glass surfaces.

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16. Furniture - 2 parts of olive or cooking oil, add one part of lemon juice to make a wonderful solution for polishing furniture.

17. Hair brightening - To brighten your hair, pour some lemon juice on it and sit for an hour in the sun.

18. Hair softening - Lemon juice mixed with a glass of warm water can be used as a great hair mask. Soak your hair in the liquid for a few minutes and then rinse thoroughly. If you have a sensitive scalp, however, this may not be the solution for you.

 

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19. Cuts, stings, and skin irritation - dribble a small amount of lemon juice on small cuts, and although it will probably sting a bit, it should help stop the bleeding and disinfect the wound. In addition, applying lemon juice to stings should alleviate the feeling of discomfort and itchiness. 

20. Removing bad smell from hands - If you were handling something odorous like fish or onions, washing your hands in lemon juice is a great way to get rid of those odors without drying or damaging your skin. 



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[www.keralites.net] ​9 Stretches to Deal with Joint Pains,,,.

 





    
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9 Stretches to Deal with Joint Pains

One of the most common health issues in seniors is joint pains and aches. With every movement, you can feel the stress on your joints, but just like a rusty hinge, joints can be "lubricated" too. Since we're not made of metal, our lubrication is done through stretches and exercising. This article will provide you with an array of information about joint pains and the exercises that help ease them.

Joint Stretches

What are Joints?

Joints are the places where our bones connect. They provide physical support and provide our body with a range of motions. Any damage to the joints, from force-related to infection-related, may hinder our ability to move, and is often accompanied by pain. Joint pains are quite common; with about a third of the population suffer from one form of it or another. The most common pains are in the knees, shoulders, and the thighs. The older we get, the more likely it is that we'll suffer from joint pains.

What are Joint Pains?

Joint pains can be weak or strong, and can be acute - lasting from one to two weeks, or chronic – lasting for several months. Whether it's a strong pain or a weak one, it lowers our quality of life and must be treated. Treatment can be done by taking medication, through alternative medicine, or by performing simple, daily exercises.

By exercising the muscles around the joints, you can strengthen them, thus improving your control over those joints. This will also help reduce joint-related pains.

Knee Pains

As mentioned before, knee pains are the most common of all joint pains. They become noticeable when going up a flight of stairs, which is when the pressure on the knee is quadrupled. In severe joint pains, even walking becomes a painful experience.

Pillow Squeeze

This exercise will help you strengthen your inner thighs and improve the support to the knees.

  • Lie on your back, with your knees bent.
  • Put a pillow between your knees.
  • Squeeze the pillow with both knees for 5 seconds and release.
  • Perform two sets of ten repetitions.
  • If the exercise is too difficult, start by doing it while sitting on a chair.
Joint Stretches
Pillow Squeeze

From Sitting to Standing

This exercise will help you when transitioning between sitting and standing, making it easier to straighten your knees.

  • Place two pillows on a chair and sit on them. Maintain an upright posture with both feet flat on the floor.
  • Use your leg muscles to slowly and smoothly stand up.
  • Slowly sit back down.
  • Pay attention that your knees do not move forward and pass your toe line.
  • Try doing this with your hands crossed against your chest and when they're hanging at your sides.
  • If the exercise is too difficult, add a pillow or two, or use a chair with armrests to use as leverage.

 

Joint Stretches
From Sitting to Standing

Thigh Joint Pains

The largest joint in the human body, the thigh joint supports most of the body weight and is a key component in maintaining one's balance. Since these joints are critical for walking, any pain there can debilitate a person. Chronic pains in this region become more common with age.

Bridge Exercise

A simple exercise you can perform every morning, which loosens the thigh joint. This makes it easier to move these joints throughout the day.

  • Lay down on the floor with your back down and your legs bent. Your feet must be pressed against the floor.
  • Lift your pelvis by pushing with your ankles. Keep your stomach muscles hard and your knees in line with your ankles. Your body should be a straight line from your shoulders to your feet.
  • Stay in this position for 3-5 seconds, and then lower your pelvis back to the floor slowly.
  • Repeat ten times.
Joint Stretches
Bridge Exercise

Classic Leg Lift

If you have pain on one side, lay down on the opposite side. This can be done on the carpet or on a yoga mat.

  • Raise the sore leg 6 inches (15cm) from the floor. Hold it in the air for 2-3 seconds
  • Slowly lower your leg back down to the floor.
  • Perform 10 repetitions. If possible, do the same for the other leg, but if you're in too much pain – stop.
Joint Stretches
Classic Leg Lift

Shoulder Joint Pains

Another common joint pain is shoulder pain, which is most common in people who perform repetitive movements with their shoulders, of those who spend long hours at a desk, or in front of a computer.

Shoulder Stretches

You will need a fitness elastic band for this exercise. This type of exercise is a great way to strengthen your shoulder muscles, as well as improve their elasticity and range of motion.

  • Secure the band to an object at waist-height.
  • Grasp the band and stand with your back to the securing object. Take a step so that the band is stretched a little.
  • Keep your arm straight and lift it upwards until it is parallel to the floor. Pay attention not to lift your shoulder.
  • Keep your arm in that position for a second, and then slowly lower it back to the starting position.
  • Perform 15 repetitions.

It's recommended to perform this exercise in different variation and to different directions, as shown in the images below.

Joint Stretches
 
Joint Stretches
Shoulder Stretches

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Wrist Pains

Wrist pains can be the result of inflammations or repetitive actions such as typing on a computer, or even using kitchen utensils. These pains can appear as weakness in the palm, making it difficult to perform everyday tasks, like opening a jar.

Fist Stretch

Do these exercises whenever your palm feels weak, sore, or stiff.

  • Open your palm and stretch your fingers outwards.
  • Close your fists and stay in this position for a few seconds.
  • Straighten and stretch your fingers again.
  • Perform several repetitions a few times a day.
Joint Stretches
Fist Stretch

Finger Stretch

  • Reach out with your right hand, palm facing down.
  • Use your other hand to slowly pull the 4 fingers in that hand back.
  • Try and provide resistance with your other hand. Make sure to stop if you reach a point where it hurts.
  • Perform 10 repetitions for each hand.

Elbow Pains

The elbow plays a vital role in the arm's movement. Repetitive motions that can lead to pain in the elbow could be playing tennis, washing windows, or even working with a screwdriver. These stretches should be performed 3 times a day, assuming they don't hurt, or add to existing pain.

Stretch and Straighten

  • Stand straight with your arms to the side of your body.
  • Bend your hands towards your chest, so that only the forearm moves.
  • Perform 10-20 repetitions. Stop if it starts hurting.
Joint Stretches
Stretch & Straighten

Forearm Twist

  • Keep your hands tight against your body.
  • Bend your forearms and keep them in a 90-degree angle.
  • Twist your wrists to face up, then down again.
  • Perform 10-20 repetitions for each hand. Stop if it starts hurting.

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[www.keralites.net] Re: [aryayouthgroup] THE CHILLING STORES INSIDE CHINA'S MUSLIM INTERNMENT CAMPS

 

For your information China first turned on the majority religion - Buddhism - and almost destroyed it not only in china but also in Tibet. Then came Islam, Christianity and other religions. As a result of this China has the minimum of religion in society and zero religion in politics. So if Chinese policies were to be adopted in India guess who would be guillotined first! In such a scenario the Modis and the Yogis and Mullahs and Bishops would have been exterminated and India would have been a far better place to live in without any religion.

On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 20:23, sanjeev kulkarni jeevkulkarni@yahoo.com [aryayouthgroup] <aryayouthgroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

These are not chilling stories. They are heartwarming as it
shows not all the people and nations in the world are stupid.
China knows how to deal with Islam..

Sanjeev

On Saturday, 21 December, 2019, 04:06:12 pm IST, 'K.. C. Garg' kcg831@yahoo.com [aryayouthgroup] <aryayouthgroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

Chinese rulers are wise and patriot people.
Their system of government allows them to act according to the need of the country.
They are doing the right thing for their country and the community.

 

On Saturday, December 21, 2019, 06:38:19 AM GMT+5:30, Mohan Natarajan mohannatarajan2001@yahoo.co.in [aryayouthgroup] <aryayouthgroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

DEAR SIR

       WILL THE COMMIES AND SICKULARISTS PROTEST AGAINST CHINA?

        what will happen if india follows china?
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ALL THE QUISLINGS IN INDIA MUST READ THIS TWICE

MOHAM 


The chilling stories from inside China's Muslim internment camps

More than a million have been detained with the official aim of eradicating 'the virus in their thinking'

uighur muslim

Harald Maass

December 11, 2019

11:20 PM

Vegetable-seller Kairat Samarkhan didn't know why he had been summoned to the police station. 'I had to empty my pockets and hand over my belt and laces. Then they started to ask questions,' he says. After days of interrogation, during which he was hardly allowed to sleep, officers pulled a sack over his head and drove him to a camp near the city of Altai. Samarkhan, a Muslim Kazakh, told me about his experience in the camp: 'Every day, we had to renounce the Muslim faith and confirm that we respect the laws of China. Before every meal, we chorused: "Long live Xi Jinping!"'

In the past two years China has — almost unnoticed by others — built the largest network of internment camps in the world. There are more than 1,000 in the western region of Xinjiang in which roughly a million Muslims have been detained with the official aim of eradicating 'the virus in their thinking'. The Chinese government claims that the camps aren't cruel, simply educational, but Samarkhan was tortured and eventually tried to kill himself. 'I ran against the wall with my head. Again and again. I did not want to live any more.' He was then taken to a hospital and eventually released, whereupon he fled to Kazakhstan.

It's impossible to visit an actual camp unless you're part of a state-sanctioned press visit, but I recently managed to travel undercover to Xinjiang and witnessed — even outside the camps — a police and surveillance state that seems like a hi-tech version of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Every street and alley, even in the smallest villages, is monitored by surveillance cameras, many equipped with facial recognition technology. Department stores, restaurants and most other public buildings are protected by security guards carrying large clubs. There are newly built police stations every few hundred yards. In some cities, armored military vehicles patrol the streets and the buildings are fortified with barbed wire and tank traps. Nearly all of the mosques that I visited during my journey had been closed and nobody dared to pray any more.

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For the Uighur and Kazakh people, daily life has become a routine of police controls and security checks. Along the highways, at the entrances of cities and everywhere in the streets are checkpoints. Only the Muslims are checked. Many have to install a surveillance app called 'Jingwang' ('clean web') on their phones, which monitors all communication. To fill up at a petrol station people have to register with their ID card and facial recognition. When they do, this data, along with information from surveillance cameras, shopping behavior and health documents, is collected and processed and any suspicious activity is flagged. Let's say the algorithm found that one family uses more water than their neighbors: this could indicate having unregistered guests at home, so an automatic message is sent to the police. The suspects are often simply sent to a camp.

I interviewed more than a dozen families of detained Muslims as well as former camp inmates who told me chilling details. Since China has prevented uncensored videos and pictures from inside the camps leaking abroad, their testimonies are the strongest proof of what's happening. Many showed me photos of detained loved ones. Others were understandably reluctant to make their names public. I did hear about the case of Dolkun Tursun, a member of the Chinese Communist party and former government employee in the city of Gulja. 'They took him away in the middle of the night,' said his wife Gülnur Beikut. Tursun was held for more than a year in a camp for the crime of having the messaging service WhatsApp on his phone. For months the family had no information about his whereabouts..

The clothing merchant Erbolat Savut spent half a year in a camp accused of 'buying too much petrol'. Even after their release most inmates are kept under a kind of confinement in their home with strict controls, and during our last correspondence a relative said Savut was still under house arrest.

Several people I talked to had been detained after it was found they'd been talking to relatives abroad. One elderly man, a retired imam called Bolat Razdykham, was taken away to a camp directly from hospital, where he was recovering from a cancer operation. When relatives abroad made his case public, authorities in Xinjiang intimidated the local family. They warned them to be silent, said the daughter, Liza Bolat.

Anyone with a relative or friend interned is right to be afraid of what the authorities will do. Kairat Samarkhan said that even the slightest sign of disobedience, or just a sloppily made bed, would lead to punishment. Some inmates had their hands and feet in shackles for many days. Others were forced to stay for hours in painful positions.

'Once, I threw my blanket in anger,' said Samarkhan. Two guards took him away. 'They brought me to a room with iron hinges attached to one wall. After three hours I was in so much pain that I just screamed.' He never dared to disobey again.

Two caches of the Chinese government's internal documents, which leaked last month, confirm the testimony of former inmates like Samarkhan. The papers include a detailed 'telegram' or order given by the government on how the camps had to be built and run, including where to put fences and walls. Round-the-clock video surveillance systems 'with no blind spots' should monitor inmates, the documents demand. Doors must be locked twice to 'prevent escapes' under all circumstances. The documents show that the Chinese government was also concerned about public opinion abroad. The camps are 'highly sensitive', one paper says. 'It is necessary to strengthen the staff's awareness of staying secret, serious political discipline and secrecy discipline.'

China defends its policy in Xinjiang as part of a fight against terrorism. For many years, sporadic riots and attacks have been unsettling the region. In 2009, mass protests and a violent uprising broke out in the regional capital of Urumqi that were brutally crushed by China's military. Nearly 200 people died. In 2013 and 2014 there were violent attacks in Beijing and Kunming (Yunnan province) that China attributed to Uighur terrorists. According to Beijing, Uighurs have been trained by terrorist groups and fighting alongside the Islamic State. 'There is no doubt that the current peace and stability in Xinjiang is partly due to the high intensity of regulations,' writes the official newspaper Global Times.

It's not clear though that China's justification makes much sense. Independent experts doubt Beijing's claims about a massive terrorist threat. They see the riots as a result of the growing desperation of Uighurs and a reaction to China's harsh policies in the region. For decades, China has curtailed the rights of Uighurs and other minorities, restricting the use of Uighur language in schools, denying women the right to wear veils and men to have long beards. Parents are even forbidden to give their children traditional Muslim names. 'The aim is to eradicate the culture and traditions of Uighurs,' says Adrian Zenz from the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany, a leading expert on Xinjiang. 'It is a cultural genocide.'

For obvious reasons, China is trying hard to prevent information from flowing out of Xinjiang.. The whole region, an area of deserts and mountains more than six times the size of the UK and home to 11 million Uighurs, 1.6 million ethnic Kazakhs and other ethnic groups, is practically sealed off. All the more reason to keep trying to break that seal. Those leaked documents show that Xi ordered local authorities to use the 'organs of dictatorship' to control the Muslim population. 'We must… show absolutely no mercy,' he said.

This crackdown on a religious minority is unparalleled even in the history of communist China, and it's happening in plain sight.

This article was originally published in The Spectator's UK magazine. Subscribe to the US edition here.








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[www.keralites.net] Apple CEO Tim Cook to help 130 million girls get safe & quality education, let’s praise him! .

 


Apple CEO Tim Cook to help 130 million girls get safe & quality education, let's praise him!

Apple CEO Tim Cook had recently visited San Jose State University in California and one of the dignitaries alongside Nobel laureate Malala Yosafzai and Mary Papazian, the president of SJSU to discuss education and the virtual importance of giving quality education to girls across the world.

At the event, Apple CEO added: "We've tried to focus on teaching coding skills to everyone. Everyone should learn to code before they graduate."

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Apple last year became one of the top contributors to the Malala Fund (founded by Malala Yousafzai herself) that works hard to educate girls across the globe (including India) for free for 12 years.

full article in the link below 
https://www.theyouth.in/2019/12/21/apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-help-130-million-girls-get-safe-quality-education-lets-praise-him/

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