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Facebook is suppose to be good for the working memory while Twitter and Youtube may have opposite effects.

A large number of people today are known to spend most of their time on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. We are sure most of those reading this bit of information too are members on at least one of these sites. Ever wondered about the effects of these sites on the brain? If not, here’s some food for that socially ‘overdosed’ brain.

According to Dr. Tracy Alloway, a psychologist from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Facebook seems to enhance the intelligence. Twitter on the other hand appears to diminish it. Supposedly people who spend most of their time on Facebook improve a crucial element of their intelligence that seems to play a key role in success in life. While Twitter the psychologist claims apparently has the opposite effect on the brain.

The psychologist shares that playing video games and solving Sudoku seem to have similar effects on the brain as keeping abreast with Facebook. However Dr. Tracy elucidates that posting micro-blogs on Twitter, sending text messages and watching YouTube had chances of weakening the ‘working memory’. Supposedly working memory brings into picture the ability to memorize information while also putting it to use.

Having widely analyzed working memory, Dr Tracy is of the opinion that it is much more important to success and happiness as compared to IQ. Along with her team, the psychologist reveals to have designed a working memory training programme for slow-learning children at a school in Durham aged between 11 to 14 years.

The programme claims to have enhanced the performance of these children. The children were observed to have 10 point improvements in IQ, literacy and numeracy tests supposedly after eight weeks of ‘JungleMemory’ training. Apparently the children who had started off near the bottom of the class were now close to the top.

”It was a massive effect” said Dr Alloway. ”I’m not saying they’re good for your socialisation skills, but they do make you use your working memory.”

She adds, ”You’re keeping track of past actions and mapping the actions you’re going to take.”

The expert believes that video games that are based on planning and strategy like as those from the Total War series may also help in training working memory. Both, staying updated with friends on Facebook and playing Sudoku were found to benefit the working memory. On the contrary, the urge to instantly send texts, tweeting and watching YouTube were found to be unhealthy for the working memory.

”On Twitter you receive an endless stream of information, but it’s also very succinct” said Dr Alloway. ”You don’t have to process that information. ‘Your attention span is being reduced and you’re not engaging your brain and improving nerve connections”

The psychologist further reveals that there seems to be evidence associating TV viewing with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Also texting seemed to be linked with lower IQ scores.

At the beginning of the British Science Festival at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Dr. Tracy gave a talk on working memory.

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Punjabi -

Je mere ishq da koi imteeh hove,
Je mere hathaa wich tere bhaah hove..
Jad tak jeonda rawa, jeewa tere lai..
te jad mout aave, Bulaah te tera naa hove..

Translation -

Agar kabhi mere pyaar ka koi imtehaan hota hai,

Agar mere haathon mein tera haath hai,

Jab tak jiyun, tere liye jiyun,

Aur jab maut aayegi, mere hothon pe tere naam hoga

iWrite - In Hindi - "Tum"

Woh Pyaari Si Hassi Teri,
Woh Dilnasheen Baatein Teri..

Woh Kaajal Se Saji Aankhen Teri,
Woh Suljhe Hue Zulfein Teri..

Woh Madh-hosh Kar Dene Wala Ehsaas Tera,
Mujhko Mujh-hi Se Chura Le Gaya..

Mujhe Tera Deewana Bana Le Gaya,
Woh Khoobsurat Chehra Tera..

Woh Pyaar Bhare Shabdein Teri,
Woh Meethi Si Aawaz Teri..

Mera Dil Chura Le Gayi,
Woh Hanskar Mujhse Baatein Karna Tera,

Mere Seene Pe Apna Sir Rakh Kar So Jana Tera,
Mujhse Gale Lag Kar Mujhi Mein Kho Jana Tera..

Meri Baahon Mein Khud Ko Chupa Lena Tera,
Mujhe Tera Mohtaj Bana Gaya..

Ab Tu Hi Bata Ki Ismein Meri Kya Khata Thi,
Maine Toh Sirf Tujhse Dosti Ki Thi..

Dosti Ko Pyaar Mein Toh Tune Hi Badla Tha,
Apni In Dil Kash Adaon Se Hi Toh Tune Mera Dil Loota Tha.

iWrite - My Love To Keep

My Love To Keep..

Love in your eyes,
Love on your lips..
Love in your hands,
Love on your fingertips..

Love in your heart,
Love in my heart..
Nothing at all,
Can Tear Us Apart..

Love in Our Souls,
Love in Our Minds..
Love in Our Words,
Love is So Kind..

Love in Our Breath,
Love in Our Heart-Beat..
Love is the Best,
Your My Love to Keep..

iWrite - You & I

People see us walking down the street,
We're filled with so much love and care,
Like the moon that hangs in the sky at night,
They know our love will always be there

With one look at us together they see,
That this love we've built is just so strong,
Like the snow that falls within the cold,
They know, we've found where we belong

Every time I touch you, my heart fills up,
And every kiss we share is like the first,
You're like the endless bottle of love,
That always quenches my deepest thirst

We have this sacred bond of true love,
Like the red that sticks itself to a rose,
The love that we share is endless,
And I love that the whole world knows

iWrite - I Miss You

Why can't I speak when I have so much to tell?
Why can't I write when I have so much in my mind?
Why can't I sing when there's music in my heart?
Why can't I dance when there's rythm in the air?

Too many words left unspoken,
Too many things left undone..
Is this the pain of missing you?
Is this the reason behind it all?

Hear the agony of my heart,
Longing for you and for your touch..
Feeling your lips, feeling your face..
Missing your kisses and warm embrace.

Lame Yet Light Entertainment !

Kal jab mile thhe….
to dil mein hua ek sound.
Aur aaj mile to kehte hain…
your file not found!

Jo muddat se hota aaya hai,
woh repeat kar doonga…
Tu naa mili to apni zindagi
ctrl+alt+delete kar doonga…

Shayad mere friendship ko
taste karna bhool gaye…
Dil sey aisa cut kiya
ke paste karna bhool gaye…

Laakhon honge nigaah mein
kabhi mujhe bhi pick karo…
Mere friendship ke icon pe
kabhi to double-click karo…

Roz subha hum karte hain
py! ar se thumne good morning…
aur aise ghoor ke dekti ho
jaise 0 errors aur 5 warning…

Ghar se jab tum nikale
pehen ke reshmi gown..
Jaane kitne dilon ka
ho gaya Server down..

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Victim Andreina Varagona|26.11

I have pain that reminds me that i'm alive, but i'm not angry. I forgive Qasab totally because he does not know what he did. It is like Jesus Christ saying this to the misguided souls, after he was nailed on the cross. That is why I pray for Ajmal every day. If i look closely, all i can imagine is that he was taught something very different from me, and that he must have been made to believe that it was the most important thing to do. Although I don't agree wit it, I wish he understands what he did." -- Victim Andreina Varagona|26.11

Koi Deewana Kehta Hai - Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Koi deewana kehta hai, koi pagal samajhta hai
Magar dharti ki bechaini ko bas baadal samajhta hai
Main tujhse door kaisa hoon, tu mujhse door kaisi hai
Ye tera dil samajhta hai ya mera dil samajhta hai

Mohbbat ek ehsaason ki pawan si kahani hai
Kabhi Kabira deewana tha, kabhi meera deewani hai
Yahan sab log kehte hain meri aankhon main aasoon hain
Jo tu samjhe to moti hain, jo na samjhe to paani hain

Bahut bikhra bahut toota thapede seh nahin paaya
Hawaaon ke isharon par magar main beh nahin paaya
Adhoora ansuna hi reh gaya yun pyar ka kissa
Kabhi tum sun nahin paaye, kabhi main keh nahin paaya

Bhramar koi kumudni par machal baitha to hungama
Hamare dil main koi khwaab pal baitha to hungama
Abhi tak doob ke sunte sab kissa mohhabat ka
Main kisse ko haqeekat main badal baitha to hungama

And Because Love Battles -- Pablo Neruda

And because love battles
not only in its burning agricultures
but also in the mouth of men and women,
I will finish off by taking the path away
to those who between my chest and your fragrance
want to interpose their obscure plant.

About me, nothing worse
they will tell you, my love,
than what I told you.

I lived in the prairies
before I got to know you
and I did not wait love but I was
laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose.

What more can they tell you?
I am neither good nor bad but a man,
and they will then associate the danger
of my life, which you know
and which with your passion you shared.

And good, this danger
is danger of love, of complete love
for all life,
for all lives,
and if this love brings us
the death and the prisons,
I am sure that your big eyes,
as when I kiss them,
will then close with pride,
into double pride, love,
with your pride and my pride.

But to my ears they will come before
to wear down the tour
of the sweet and hard love which binds us,
and they will say: “The one
you love,
is not a woman for you,
Why do you love her? I think
you could find one more beautiful,
more serious, more deep,
more other, you understand me, look how she’s light,
and what a head she has,
and look at how she dresses,
and etcetera and etcetera”.

And I in these lines say:
Like this I want you, love,
love, Like this I love you,
as you dress
and how your hair lifts up
and how your mouth smiles,
light as the water
of the spring upon the pure stones,
Like this I love you, beloved.

To bread I do not ask to teach me
but only not to lack during every day of life.
I don’t know anything about light, from where
it comes nor where it goes,
I only want the light to light up,
I do not ask to the night
explanations,
I wait for it and it envelops me,
And so you, bread and light
And shadow are.

You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I expected you,
and Like this I need you,
Like this I love you,
and to those who want to hear tomorrow
that which I will not tell them, let them read it here,
and let them back off today because it is early
for these arguments.

Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.

Gayatri Mantra

॥ ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहिधियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
bhargo devasya dhīmahi
dhiyo yo naḥa prachodayāt

Literal Meaning

Aum = The sacred syllable Om
bhoor = The earth, Embodiment of vital spiritual energy(pran)/breath
bhuwah = Destroyer of sufferings
swaha = Embodiment of happiness/destroyer of miseries and symbol of bliss
tat = That (Supreme Being)
savitur = Bright like sun/Effulgent/Radiant/Creator
varenyam = Best choicest/Supreme/Excellent
bhargo = Destroyer of sins
devasya = Divine/Bestower of Divine Power
dheemahi = May imbibe/To adopt/To aquire
dhiyo = Intellect
yo = Who
naha = Our
prachodayat = May inspire/Inspire to Righteousness

Interpretation

Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life,
Remover of pain and sorrow,
The Bestower of happiness,
Oh! Creator of the Universe,
May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light,
May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

The sound waves that are created, when Gayatri Mantra is said, is of the shape of a ring. It rises up with great speed, through the medium of Ether and goes towards the Sun, and after touching the surface of the Sun, it returns back along with the powers of the Sun, like Heat, Light, Electrical and other powers which are very subtle. Thus the Mantra combined with all these powers of the Sun re-enters the subtle body of the "Practicer". The stronger the will-power and emotion attached with the Mantra, the stronger is the attraction of these powers of the Sun. If this Mantra is said with the full concentration of the Mind, it can make the impossible, possible.