Aspirin has been termed a wonder drug though asthmatics, people with severe kidney and liver diseases, bleeding disorders, under blood thinner medications are supposedly to be kept away from aspirin. Since its launch in 1900, the uses of aspirin are still being discovered. From the discovery that aspirin eases fever and pain from flu to the discovery that men under aspirin medication avoiding heart attacks to kids consuming aspirin to avoid Reyes' Syndrome to the proposal by FDA to use aspirin to treat heart attack and stroke and a low dose to prevent heart attack to the discovery that aspirin reduces the risk of dementia and some cancers. Yes, the Apollo astronauts had aspirin with them while landing on the moon.
Bayer launched the drug and continues researching on its uses and has managed sales of $2.4 billion in 2008, not to forget the scientists who won the Nobel in 1982 discovering how aspirin works.
Talking of medications, consuming medications on time is also a big problem with patients forgetting their regular doses. These patients can now embed a chip in their shoulder and be reminded, well, by the pills themselves, they too having tiny chips within. The shoulder chip would receive wireless signals from the pill chips. The pill chips are digestible. Not consuming medications at the right intervals bring down the benefits of the drug but the problems the chip consumption may bring about needs to be seen, well, anyway the doctor can feel relived that his patient is on a strict regime.
Clever marketing is taking a beating. Stock up those flavoured cigarettes if you stay in the US, they are going to go off the shelves very soon. It is believed kids and young adults are becoming regular users of cigarettes after having started off with smoking flavoured cigarettes. They could have chosen from chocolate, vanilla, clove and other flavourings. Like in the Harry Potter books, whether vomit and other flavours were included is not known. Every day, some studies have shown that 3,600 children and teenagers start smoking and 1,100 become daily smokers. It is not known if mommies used to encourage them since 17 year olds and younger used to believe that smoking flavoured cigarettes was safer. The tobacco scent has been cleverly masked with vanilla and what not, perhaps creating an impression of having a health smoke likewise consuming a flavoured health drink. :-) FDA is to have it banned very soon.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Muthathi - A lung space in the vicinity of Bangalore
Though Bangalore has become a lung space for the CO2 breathers, it is sad that they are being cut out from accessing. This is reference to the God-forbidden trees and plants! If not for these damned creation Earth would have been such a wonderful and lonely place. Check out the other planets and the galaxy in general and feel what lonely is all about.
Well, though Bangalore is strong in its quest to replicate Mars and Jupiter and what not, there are still places around it for the O2 users. The stupid greenery hits you the time you enter Kanakapura Road from the NICE road. It is sickening greens all round you. Why do we need all those trees? Yuck!!!
It's a good road right up to Kanakapura. Well have you seen flowing water within Bangalore, I mean a stream or a rivulet ... no, no ... not the drain ... well you see a river flowing in all its glory just when about to enter Kanakapura. Which river? God alone knows, it's a river alright. Could be Cauvery, could be Arkavati. Well I'm not here to give you all the right facts. No geographer me!
You can revisit the past ... like how things were when it was only mud roads and pathways and such when you enter Kanakapura. The government has been able to guard the past in a very protective and successful way. People really need to know life in the past and the value of good roads. Thank you government, if not for you we would not have known the importance of roads. Cheers! Keep up the good work. Keep roads inside Kanakapura as is! Curse be upon any administrator who wants to think of changing the past and wipe Kanakapura of its present glory. Let them rot!
Well once out of Kanakapura, the roads change for the better, strangely!
Ok you keep going ... all kinds of villages keep showing up now and then. You would see people idling around as you pass. Keep going ... yes ... keep going. Once you have gone a full length and a feeling of being lost seeps into you, start looking out for signboards and then they would start to show.
Take the left when it says Muthathi. It's one straight road there on.
Well I can not tell you much about what you get at Muthathi ... well ... I had another 10 kms to cover before Muthathi would reveal herself and then I glanced at my watch which indicated 15 minutes past 5 pm.
The surroundings appeared creepy, of course … there is this mountain looming above you … then there are those wild trees growing all over … like … like … buildings in Bangalore … as you see buildings all over … there are only trees here … it makes you nervous … seeing all those trees in one go … then … there were revelers ... there were cattle being herded back ... there was a pair of men in Khaki canes in hand ... no not the police ... forest guards perhaps ... there was a worn down Maruthi 800 with bottles and glasses arranged above it and all the doors thrown open with pot bellied jerks guarding each of the exit glasses of yellowish fluid in hand, pineapple juice perhaps :-)… there was a carrier-auto going towards Muthathi with a load of men in banian bundled together and who sat squatting playing some wicked game of cards or whatever it seemed ... well most of all visitors were on their return, not many were towards Muthathi ... indications that it may perhaps not a place to visit beyond nightfall!
To add to all the scrap ... there was no signal on my Airtel SIM. Forest range perhaps!!
Well I took a U-turn and that ends the Muthathi episode.
Moral of the story: Muthathi best visited during the afternoon.
Muthathi is were Cauvery and Arkavati meets. Its a sight to see! Well I would get to see it the next time I reach there on time!
Well ... on searching the net ... this travelogue gave me an insight into what I missed at Muthathi - http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/travelogues/63830-day-trip-muthathi.html
Well, though Bangalore is strong in its quest to replicate Mars and Jupiter and what not, there are still places around it for the O2 users. The stupid greenery hits you the time you enter Kanakapura Road from the NICE road. It is sickening greens all round you. Why do we need all those trees? Yuck!!!
It's a good road right up to Kanakapura. Well have you seen flowing water within Bangalore, I mean a stream or a rivulet ... no, no ... not the drain ... well you see a river flowing in all its glory just when about to enter Kanakapura. Which river? God alone knows, it's a river alright. Could be Cauvery, could be Arkavati. Well I'm not here to give you all the right facts. No geographer me!
You can revisit the past ... like how things were when it was only mud roads and pathways and such when you enter Kanakapura. The government has been able to guard the past in a very protective and successful way. People really need to know life in the past and the value of good roads. Thank you government, if not for you we would not have known the importance of roads. Cheers! Keep up the good work. Keep roads inside Kanakapura as is! Curse be upon any administrator who wants to think of changing the past and wipe Kanakapura of its present glory. Let them rot!
Well once out of Kanakapura, the roads change for the better, strangely!
Ok you keep going ... all kinds of villages keep showing up now and then. You would see people idling around as you pass. Keep going ... yes ... keep going. Once you have gone a full length and a feeling of being lost seeps into you, start looking out for signboards and then they would start to show.
Take the left when it says Muthathi. It's one straight road there on.
Well I can not tell you much about what you get at Muthathi ... well ... I had another 10 kms to cover before Muthathi would reveal herself and then I glanced at my watch which indicated 15 minutes past 5 pm.
The surroundings appeared creepy, of course … there is this mountain looming above you … then there are those wild trees growing all over … like … like … buildings in Bangalore … as you see buildings all over … there are only trees here … it makes you nervous … seeing all those trees in one go … then … there were revelers ... there were cattle being herded back ... there was a pair of men in Khaki canes in hand ... no not the police ... forest guards perhaps ... there was a worn down Maruthi 800 with bottles and glasses arranged above it and all the doors thrown open with pot bellied jerks guarding each of the exit glasses of yellowish fluid in hand, pineapple juice perhaps :-)… there was a carrier-auto going towards Muthathi with a load of men in banian bundled together and who sat squatting playing some wicked game of cards or whatever it seemed ... well most of all visitors were on their return, not many were towards Muthathi ... indications that it may perhaps not a place to visit beyond nightfall!
To add to all the scrap ... there was no signal on my Airtel SIM. Forest range perhaps!!
Well I took a U-turn and that ends the Muthathi episode.
Moral of the story: Muthathi best visited during the afternoon.
Muthathi is were Cauvery and Arkavati meets. Its a sight to see! Well I would get to see it the next time I reach there on time!
Well ... on searching the net ... this travelogue gave me an insight into what I missed at Muthathi - http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/travelogues/63830-day-trip-muthathi.html
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