27 Dec, 2019, Bengaluru: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa reviewed and discussed the detailed Cauvery Calling implementation plan with Sadhguru, Founder, Isha Foundation. Senior government officials were also present. Senior government officials of the state and Cauvery Calling teams are in the final stages of firming up the Cauvery revitalization plan through agroforestry initiatives in 35,000 square kilometres in 10 districts and 54 rural talukas of Cauvery basin in the state which will positively impact lives of over 24 lakh farmers. Besides awareness of the benefits of agroforestry in the state, a detailed sapling production and distribution program has been chalked out between Government of Karnataka and Cauvery Calling teams. Chief Minister and Sadhguru also discussed ways to make agroforestry an integral part of agricultural practice in the state, particularly in the Cauvery basin.
63 Year RAMESH BABU a Retired Metallurgical Scientist (Ph.D. from IISc., Bangalore in 1985). As a hobby he have been setting world records, recognized by various Books of Records.
Very recently, he has broken the current Guinness World Record in Most Skips in 30 Sec., Using the Longest Rope of 10m (33 Ft) and set my 71st World Record, by achieving 32 skips in 30 seconds, which is 6 more than the current Guinness record shared by 2 Japanese in 2018. It may be of interest to note that earlier he had also set a WR in Fastest Skipping in 1 Min.(270), WR in Fastest Single Leg Skipping in 30 Seconds(88) and also WR in Fastest 100m Skip Running (16.38sec).
Having recently mastered the technique of handling 33 Ft long skipping rope which is 4 times longer than the normal skipping ropes, He continued my interest, conceived new record ideas, and today he has set two more World Records in 1 Hr., in the related area namely : WR73 : Skipping Using the Worlds Longest Skipping Rope ever used, measuring 46 feet 4 ½ inches (14.14 meter) ( Achieved 18 Skips in 30 Seconds ) WR74: 100m Skip Running Using The Worlds Longest Skipping Rope Ever Used, Measuring 35 ½ feet (10.82 meter) ( Achieved 100m skip running in just 22.10 Sec )
WR73 is very tricky as the rope length of 464.5 is nearly 6 times the normal skipping rope length, and it requires very special skills to manage and maneuver the skipping rope rotation without getting entangled. This demands a very strenuous and physically quite challenging extraordinary power to pull the rope, particularly considering my present age of 63 Years. However, He had systematically experimented with nearly 15 various skipping rope materials. Undeterred by a series of failures, with dogged efforts, ultimately he struggled hard to discover and master the technique of successfully skipping using the 46 Ft length rope. His personal best performance during the video recorded practice session was 17 Skips in 30 Seconds. He is Happy to have improved this today by one more skip, after struggling hard with few trials.
WR74 involved not only managing to skip using 35 ½ Ft rope, but to simultaneously run faster as well. This skip running is entirely different from the conventional rope skip running in which he already have a World Record ( 100 m skip run in 16.38 sec), because with each skip, the rope tip touches the ground nearly 16 feet ahead. For this record, not only did he experiment with rope materials, but the terrain as well. Finally, He learnt to successfully skip run using 35 ½ Ft length rope on the tarred road of my residential locality, Tatanagar. His personal best performance during the video recorded practice session was 100m skip run in 24 seconds. But today, He put in his best efforts and confidently improved the performance to cloak just 22.10 seconds !
Interestingly, the rope material that he had successfully used for his WR71, did not work neither for his present WR73 nor WR74 !
The experimental success did not come easy. He went through a very rigorous 6 weeks physical training of almost 5 Hrs a day, which comprised of 2 ½ Hr. skipping practice, 1 ½ Hr. Yoga, ½ Hr Cycling and ½ Hr. walking.
The record skipping ropes used for setting the 2 World Records were self made, using commercially available electric cable ropes (4mm diameter round grey coloured rope for WR73 and 5mm flat white rope of 3 mm thickness for WR74) and 2 handles made of ½ CPVC Pipes each of 2 ½ Ft length. The space between the rope and the pipe handles were tightly stuffed with glassy paper to firmly hold the long rope in position during the rope rotation. The total weight of the record skipping ropes prepared as above were 540g and 525g for the WR73 & WR74 respectively. Even though He is an alumnus of IISc., He was denied permission to practice on the wooden court at IISc, by the Asst Registrar, in-charge of IISc Gymkhana. Also, permission was denied to practice on the BBMPs wooden court of the indoor basket ball stadium of Malleswaram by the former Olympian (Mr. Dilip) who is at the helm of affairs. Sadly, this is the encouragement record holders get in India. But with strong determination to achieve, He practiced on the accessible hard cement basket ball court of a nearby school. However, the last 10 days of practice was done on the twin wooden badminton courts of Chairmans club, with kind permission by its owner Mr. CHETAN, the BMP Corporator of Kodigehalli ward.
WORLD RECORD VENUE, DATE & TIME :
WR73 : Wooden Shuttle Badminton Court, Chairmans Club
Kodigehalli Main Road, Opp. Medstar Hospital, Sahakaranagar, Bangalore 560092
On Monday, 23 December, 2019, commencing at 9 A.M.
WR74 : Tatanagar 5th Main Road, Near Brahmins Kitchen, Kodigehalli, Bangalore 560092
On Monday, 23 December, 2019, at 10 A.M.
The records were officially set following the standard norms set by the Books of Records for such feats, and were witnessed by the general public. Digital display stop watch and a mechanical counter were used for accurate timing and counting. The entire record feat was professionally video photographed by independent cameras from different angles.
The Authenticating Officials were : Mr. B. N. REDDY, Dip. Civil Engg World Record Holder in Frisbee Rallies, CEO, Caden Surveying Co. Ltd., Bangalore, Mr. K.R. NARAYAN, B.A., B.P.Ed., Physical Education Teacher & Trainer, St. Philomena School, Dodda Bommasandra, Bangalore and Mr. B. ASHOK KUMAR, B.A., Graphic & Printing Consultant, Bangalore, who has been the Log-Book Official for more than 15 World Records.
The complete set of authentication documents together with video proof will be sent to the various Books of Records, for official recognition, after a press conference to be held shortly.
” Narayana Nethralaya has already committed annually Rs 5 crore for the healthcare of the underprivileged ”
Bengaluru: Narayana Nethralaya, pioneers of eye care in Karnataka, has embarked on a mission to set up a state-of-the-art rehabilitation centre for children, who are suffering from various ‘untreatable’ eye diseases, such as, retinal dystrophies and developmental anomalies.
The centre is the first-of-its-kind from in Karnataka and efforts are on to involve like- minded stakeholders in realising the project.
Speaking about the initiative, Dr. K. Bhujang Shetty, Chairman &t Managing Director, Narayana Nethralaya, said, “We perform hundreds of surgeries at our hospital every day to give sight to children and adults suffering from treatable eye diseases. However, there are thousands of children suffering from the so-called ‘untreatable’ eye diseases and they need special care. We have been successful in not only improving the visual function in a majority of such cases but also improve their quality of life through our integrated rehabilitation approach. We are hopeful to expand this facility to a stand-alone rehabilitation center which will exclusively cater to the needs of such children.”
There are about 300,000 children suffering from eye diseases that need this integrated rehabilitation in India. Most of them are visually impaired because of cortical vision impairment, retinal dystrophies and various developmental anomalies. These children need visual rehabilitation, which is the process of improving functional ability despite visual loss.
“Under our Buds to Blossoms initiative we have been providing vision “Under our rehabilitation, physiotherapy, speech and occupational therapy, mobility and cognitive therapy along with psychological and neurology support all under one roof. Owing to the increased demand, we hope to expand this service to an exclusive rehabilitation center” added Dr. Anand S Vinekar, Program Director & Pediatric Retinal Surgeon, Narayana Nethralaya.
Narayana Nethralaya is in the process of raising funds to develop a rehabilitation centre for such children. It has launched an initiative “Soul Senses’ to raise funds through musical charity events. The inaugural edition of this event will be scheduled on December 27th At Sheraton and the ‘artists’ are all ophthalmologists from the institute. NN has already committed annually Rs 5 crore for the healthcare of the underprivileged.
The aim is complete the rehabilitation centre by 2021; the total project cost is estimated recurrent cost of Rs 1 crore annually. The rehabilitation centre will be spread across 5000 sqft and will be set up close to the parent institution.
ಕಾನೂನು ಬಾಹಿರವಾಗಿ ಟೆಕ್ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ಉದ್ದಿಮೆ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಚಿಕ್ಕಪೇಟೆ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರೆ ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿನ ಸುಮಾರು 1500 ರಿಂದ 2000 ಸಾವಿರ ಸೇಟು ಅಥವಾ ಮಾರ್ವಾಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಿಂದ ಗಡಿಪಾರು ಮಾಡುವಂತೆ ಆಗ್ರಹಿಸಿ ರಾಜ್ಯಸರ್ಕಾರದ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಹೋರಾಟ
ನಮ್ಮ ಗಾರ್ಮೆಂಟ್ಸ್ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯ ಯವುದೇ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಅಥವಾ ಜನಾಂಗದ ಮೇಲೆ ಆರೋಪ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೂ ಜಾತಿನಿಂದನೆ , ಕೋಮುಗಲಭೆ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ , ಕಾನೂನುಬದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಪರವಾನಗಿ ಪಡೆದ , ಜಿ . ಎಸ್ . ಟಿ ಮತ್ತು ಐಟಿ ತೆರಿಗೆ ಪಾವತಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸೇಟು ಅಥವಾ ಮಾರ್ವಾಡಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಹೋರಾಟ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ , ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಾತ್ ಮಾಫಿಯಾ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕೆಲವು ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹೋರಾಟ , ಅದು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ವಿರುದ್ದ .
ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರಿಗೆ ವಿಶೇಷ ಮನವಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಯಾವುದೇ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಅಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಟ್ಟೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಲೇಬಲ್ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಖರೀದಿಸಿದ ಬಟ್ಟೆಗೆ ಜಿ . ಎಸ್ . ಟಿ ಬಿಲ್ ನೀಡದಿದ್ದರೆ ದಯಮಾಡಿ ಖರೀದಿಸಬೇಡಿ , ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಗಾರ್ಮೆಂಟ್ಗಳು ಉಳಿಯಬೇಕು ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಜನಗಳಿಗೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಸಿಗಬೇಕು ಎಂಬುದೇ ನಮ್ಮ ಹೋರಾಟದ ಮೂಲ ಉದ್ದೇಶ , ಕಾನೂನುಬಾಹಿರವಾಗಿ ಟೆಕ್ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಯಾವುದೇ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಅಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಖರೀದಿಸಬೇಡಿ , ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಗಾರ್ಮೆಂಟ್ಸ್ಗಳು ಉತ್ಪಾದಿಸಿದ ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಬಟ್ಟೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ ನೀಡಿ.
For the first time, scientists have been able to observe people developing Type 2 diabetes – and confirmed that fat over-spills from the liver into the pancreas, triggering the chronic condition.
Bengaluru: The research, led by Professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University, UK, is published today in the academic journal, Cell Metabolism.
The study involved a group of people from Tyneside who previously had Type-2 diabetes but had lost weight and successfully reversed the condition as part of the DiRECT trial, which was funded by Diabetes UK and led by Professors Roy Taylor and Mike Lean (Glasgow University).
The majority remained non-diabetic for the rest of the two year study, however, a small group went on to re-gain the weight and re-developed Type 2 diabetes.
Professor Roy Taylor, from the Newcastle University Institute of Translational and Clinical Research, explained what the advanced scanning techniques and blood monitoring revealed.
He said: “We saw that when a person accumulates too much fat, which should be stored under the skin, then it has to go elsewhere in the body. The amount that can be stored under the skin varies from person to person, indicating a ‘personal fat threshold’ above which fat can cause mischief.
“When fat cannot be safely stored under the skin, it is then stored inside the liver, and over-spills to the rest of the body including the pancreas. This ‘clogs up’ the pancreas, switching off the genes which direct how insulin should effectively be produced, and this causes Type 2 diabetes.”
This research by Professor Taylor confirms his Twin Cycle Hypothesis – that Type 2 diabetes is caused by excess fat actually within both the liver and pancreas, and especially that this process is reversible.
Body of Research: This latest paper builds on previous Newcastle studies supported by Diabetes UK showing exactly why Type 2 diabetes can be reversed back to normal glucose control. Those studies led to the large DiRECT trial which showed that Primary Care staff can achieve remission of Type 2 diabetes by using a low calorie diet with support to maintain the weight loss.
A quarter of participants achieved a staggering 15 kg or more weight loss, and of these, almost nine out of 10 people put their Type 2 diabetes into remission. After two years, more than one third of the group had been free of diabetes and off all diabetes medication for at least two years.
In 2020, this approach to management of short duration Type 2 diabetes is to be piloted in the NHS in up to 5,000 people across England, and a similar programme is being rolled out in Scotland.
Professor Taylor adds: “This means we can now see Type 2 diabetes as a simple condition where the individual has accumulated more fat than they can cope with.
“Importantly this means that through diet and persistence, patients are able to lose the fat and potentially reverse their diabetes. The sooner this is done after diagnosis, the more likely it is that remission can be achieved.”
The team are continuing work to establish what may affect an individual’s personal threshold and are supporting the roll out of the NHS Initiatives in both England and Scotland. ‘Life Without Diabetes – The definitive guide to understanding and reversing your Type 2 diabetes’ by Professor Roy Taylor will be published by Short Books on 26th December 2019.
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