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Melo Magic Photography
Here are our packages for the photo coverage only. For more information & samples pls visit www.melomagic.com.ph & www.melomagic.multiply.com. Feel free to call (02)217-7149, (02)407-4277,0915-184-7321,0917-835-3450. We will be gald to meet and discuss our services with you. Thank you.
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P 39,000
Unlimited digital shots
40 pages 8x10 digital storybook
One 16x20 framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
Two event photographers
With conceptual pre-nuptial shoot
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40 pages 10 x10 digital storybook
One 16x20 framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
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One 20x24
Framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
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One slideshow
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Outside Metro Manila
Out of town rate varies depending on the location.
OTHER SERVICES:
Audio Visual Presentation 1 P15,000
Basic non-llinear editing
Audio Visual Presentation 2 P25,000
Concept-based story
With scriptwriting
With voice-over
Non-Linear Editing
With advanced post production
COLLATERAL DESIGN
Invitation
Backdrop
Tarpaulin
Standee
Giveaways
Signature Frame
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We do not do designs for the church. We do tarpaulins, standee, photo gallery for the stage/reception venue. Good luck & enjoy your wedding preparations.
Thanks,
Caroline M. Saliendra
MAGIC PACKAGE 1
P 39,000
Unlimited digital shots
40 pages 8x10 digital storybook
One 16x20 framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
Two event photographers
With conceptual pre-nuptial shoot
MAGIC PACKAGE 2
P 45,000
Unlimited digital shots
40 pages 10 x10 digital storybook
One 16x20 framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
Two event photographers
One slideshow
With conceptual pre-nuptial shoot
MAGIC PACKAGE 3
P 65,000
Unlimited digital shots
40 pages 11x14 digital storybook
One 20x24
Framed digital portrait
One 8x10 signature album
Two event photographers
One slideshow
With conceptual pre-nuptial shoot
Outside Metro Manila
Out of town rate varies depending on the location.
OTHER SERVICES:
Audio Visual Presentation 1 P15,000
Basic non-llinear editing
Audio Visual Presentation 2 P25,000
Concept-based story
With scriptwriting
With voice-over
Non-Linear Editing
With advanced post production
COLLATERAL DESIGN
Invitation
Backdrop
Tarpaulin
Standee
Giveaways
Signature Frame
and many more!
We do not do designs for the church. We do tarpaulins, standee, photo gallery for the stage/reception venue. Good luck & enjoy your wedding preparations.
Thanks,
Caroline M. Saliendra
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History of the Pahiyas
Sovrce:
http://www.pahiyasfestival.com/home/history.html
History of the Pahiyas
Thursday, 23 April 2009 10:17
According to the oral and recorded history of Lucban, the Feast of Saint Isidore was first observed by the native Tagalogs who used to settle at the foot of Mt. Banahaw during the early Christianization of the natives of Lucban, Tayabas circa 1500. Then known as "MALUBAN" or "COLUMBAN", the whole community of Lucban conducted a simple celebration as a form of thanksgiving to the ANITOs for the good harvest of farm products such as palay, vegetables, fruits, and fish.
At harvest time, the farmers used to gather their harvests inside the chaplet ("tuklong"), where they used to converged and partake of a sumptuous meal. They drink "tuba" (natural wine) from the flower stalks of coconut, buri or cabo negro (kaong). The natives believed that by conducting this yearly merriment they are assured of another bountiful harvest for the following year.
When the first church was established in the present location, during the time of Captain LUKAS MARTIN (1630) under the supervision of Fr. Alfonso de San Miguel (1628), evangelization of the natives became more pronounced. The natives cooperated with the helped the parish priest. During harvest time, the natives bring their select farm-produce inside the new and much bigger church where the parish priest used to bless the harvest as a form of thanksgiving to the Lord. As a result, the following year, the farmers experienced another plentiful harvest, thus intensifying beliefs and devotion to Saint Isidore (1595) as the intercessor of God's blessing to them.
As the years pass by, changes in the manner of celebrating and ceremonies of the Saint Isidore Festival were effected because the Church has become inadequate to accommodate the burgeoning harvests. So that after due consultations with the parish priest, it was agreed upon that the farmers harvests be displayed tight at the door steps in front of the house, where the parish priest can easily bless them as he make a round of the houses in the community as the procession, carrying the images of Saint Isidore and Sta. Maria Toribia, and the townspeople, passes by. Not contented with this change, the townspeople went on to outdo each other door steps that made the procession more lively and colorful.
Kiping
Before the end of the 16 th century the Manila-Acapulco Trade, more popularly called, the "Galleon Trade" was at its peak between the Philippines and Mexico, where the Philippines had booming commercial trade with selected Latin-American and Asian nations. But because of fear of the Spanish government that money from these trades might go only to the said nations, instead of Spain alone, they promulgated and implemented a law known as the "DOCTRINE OF MERCANTILISM" whereby the Spanish government controlled the Galleon Trade and limited the Philippines to do business with China and Mexico . The only port of entry allowed for the Filipinos was Acapulco , Mexico . (Agoncillo & Guerrero, 1960).
In the year 1734, Captain Francisco de los Santos of Lucban, Tayabas boarded the Galleon bound for Acapulco, Mexico for an observation tour of home industries with commercial value. He tagged along with him Juan Suarez, a native of Lucban who has propensity in culinary arts and has a flair making finger foods of Lucban. While the two were in Acapulco , their fancy was caught by the production of "TACOS" or "TAQUITOS", (Barquillos-making). After several training, Mr. Suarez learned the basics of the trade.
That year, upon their return to the Philippines, and upon reaching Lucban, Tayabas, Mr. Juan Suarez lost no time and attempted to make the "tacos" and "taquitos" using local materials (rice galapong). Being naturally creative, he tried to improve the processes as well as the ingredients. Thus, instead of the tubal shape of tacos, Mang Juan experimented on the thin lateral shape of the tacos by using the leaves of banana (saba) cut into squares of 10" each. The ground rice mixed with water and atsuete as food coloring, is made to slide evenly and thinly over the squared banana leaves. Then each leaf steamed over a container of boiling water for several minutes. After which the cooked rice water on the leaf is laid to a mat to dry overnight. The following day the dried wafer is removed from the banana leaf, punctured in one corner and tied with a buntal fiber each, bundled together in groups of 25's and dried further.
The word "KIPING" was derived from the root word "KIPI" or "KINIPI" and "KINIKIPI", a local term which means “to dehydrate the extra water content out of the dough by putting heavy object on it”. The drained dough is then kneaded by putting the desired color and by adding enough water to make the dough semi-liquid. Once in this state, the semi-liquid form is poured in measured amount over the squared banana leaves, tilted a bit and made to spread thinly over the entire surface of the leaf. The process is repeated with every square patterned banana leaf. Then, each leaf with the semi-liquid ground rice is steamed on squared bamboo sticks over a boiling water in a covered pan, big enough to contain several leaves at a time for ten minutes. Then, the cooked kiping still sticking on the banana leaf is laid to a mat to dry overnight. The next day, the dried kiping is removed from the leaf, tied with buntal fiber on one corner, each bundled together, laid on a board and put a heavy object over it press the kiping flat. After six hours the heavy weight is removed and lo, the KIPING is made! The bundles of KIPING are hanged on a clothes line to dry finally.
In preparing the Pahiyas decoration, the KIPING of different attractive colors are so arranged as to create a beautiful, artistic design such as a giant flower with leaves, a chandelier in monochromatic or contrasting colors, in short chandeliers or drooping shape from above the windows down to almost touching the ground level at the façade of the house. Arranged creatively and artistically, such chandeliers of KIPING are a beautiful sight to behold. Much more so when these chandeliers are placed with green vegetables or dove-tail leaves or "tilob" used as background that make the design more colorful and astoundingly attractive. Because KIPING is made of rice, it can be eaten when properly prepared and cooked. It can be fried like a kropeck; can be roasted or can be sweetened with sugar and coconut milk to serve as a delicious dessert.
Modern Pahiyas
In May of 1963, the Art Club of Lucban, through its founder and president FERNANDO CADELIÑA NAÑAWA, organized a festival that includes a trade fair, cultural shows, various contests, parades and art exhibit to spice up the celebration of the San Isidro Festival. Dubbed as "the 1963 Lucban Arts for Commerce and Industry Festival", it aimed to boosts tourism in Lucban and to make known the celebration of San Isidro Festival which was the common term used during that time. Notable of which during the first grand celebration of the festival was the art exhibit where, for the first time, artists from Manila particularly the Art Association of the Philippines , brought their precious art works to Lucban for the art exhibit. It has never been duplicated since.
Photos and Souvenirs of the 1963 Lucban Arts for Commerce and Industry Festival
Another huge festival was organized by the same club in 1968. The Lucban Harvest Festival and Fair were the biggest celebration of the San Isidro Festival so far. Guest of Honor during the celebration that started on May 11 and lasted until May 15, 1968 was Executive Secretary Rafael M. Salas. Also in attendance were the Governor of Quezon Province, mayors and various government officials of the national, provincial and local government and offices. Other cooperating organizations include The Desert Club, The Lucban Jaycees, the Lucban Academy, Lucban Barrio Council, D’ Loopasae, Ltd, and D’ Uncle Club.
It was also Nañawa who coined and first used the word "PAHIYAS", derived from the local vernacular "PAYAS" meaning "decoration or to decorate". The "PAHIYAS" has since been used to describe the colorful festival of Lucban. Though there was no factual recorded history of its first used, it was during the middle part of the 1970s when the festival was known as the Pahiyas Festival.
The festival was originally known as San Isidro Festival. So when the words San Isidro was inadvertently dropped, the Catholic Church interceded and urged the local government of Lucban to include it, thus becoming the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival as its official title.
The Tradition
To make the San Isidro Pahiyas Festival more meaningful, the townsfolk decided, that instead of just putting the agricultural harvest in front of the door steps of every house along the procession route, the entire façade of the house was decorated for a much grater impact to the viewing public.
This strategy attracted more local and foreign tourists than ever before. This further elicited creativity of the townspeople in an effort to outdo each other in decorating the façade of their houses. There are those who decorate their home with commercial products such as hats, bags, mats, bolos, langgoniza, and other home industries products. To add more local color, there are those who used " ANOK" as part of the decorations.
The local government unit, in its desire to boost tourism in Lucban, has initiated a yearly contest in the most beautiful and relevant PAHIYAS in town. Big prizes are at stake, like a live carabao, cavans of rice or palay, refrigerator, colored TV, gas range, washing machine, cash money and more for the deserving décor winners. These served as incentives to the people to do their best in making their PAHIYAS the most deserving.
As practiced by Lucbanin, preparation for the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival starts weeks before May 15th every year. An Agro-Fair dubbed "TIYANGGE SA LUKBAN" is established at the public plaza. Displayed in this fair are agri-products such as ornamental plants, vegetables crops; including handicrafts and home-made delicacies and finger foods.
The celebrations, although outwardly festive in character, are essentially religious in nature. Highlight of the celebration is the procession held in the later of the afternoon during which the images of San Isidro and his wife, Sra. De la Cabal, carried around town.
The liveliest part of the tradition comes immediately after the procession. As soon as the end of the procession passes each house, men and children hurry to the houses to perform the “Kalas”, a spirited competition to bring down the decorations and romp away with them as they would with prizes while homeowners struggle against them. This part of the celebration is the day’s elegant finale, symbolic of the rejoicing and merriment that follows a big, abundant harvest.
* Scarecrow-like human being replica made out of rice straw, coco coir or saw-dust. ANOK gives in conversational form or casual comments about local or national issues, harvest, etc.
External Links:
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/105095_san-isidro-labrador-festival
http://www.pahiyasfestival.com/home/about-the-pahiyas.html
http://www.pahiyasfestival.com/home/history.html
History of the Pahiyas
Thursday, 23 April 2009 10:17
According to the oral and recorded history of Lucban, the Feast of Saint Isidore was first observed by the native Tagalogs who used to settle at the foot of Mt. Banahaw during the early Christianization of the natives of Lucban, Tayabas circa 1500. Then known as "MALUBAN" or "COLUMBAN", the whole community of Lucban conducted a simple celebration as a form of thanksgiving to the ANITOs for the good harvest of farm products such as palay, vegetables, fruits, and fish.
At harvest time, the farmers used to gather their harvests inside the chaplet ("tuklong"), where they used to converged and partake of a sumptuous meal. They drink "tuba" (natural wine) from the flower stalks of coconut, buri or cabo negro (kaong). The natives believed that by conducting this yearly merriment they are assured of another bountiful harvest for the following year.
When the first church was established in the present location, during the time of Captain LUKAS MARTIN (1630) under the supervision of Fr. Alfonso de San Miguel (1628), evangelization of the natives became more pronounced. The natives cooperated with the helped the parish priest. During harvest time, the natives bring their select farm-produce inside the new and much bigger church where the parish priest used to bless the harvest as a form of thanksgiving to the Lord. As a result, the following year, the farmers experienced another plentiful harvest, thus intensifying beliefs and devotion to Saint Isidore (1595) as the intercessor of God's blessing to them.
As the years pass by, changes in the manner of celebrating and ceremonies of the Saint Isidore Festival were effected because the Church has become inadequate to accommodate the burgeoning harvests. So that after due consultations with the parish priest, it was agreed upon that the farmers harvests be displayed tight at the door steps in front of the house, where the parish priest can easily bless them as he make a round of the houses in the community as the procession, carrying the images of Saint Isidore and Sta. Maria Toribia, and the townspeople, passes by. Not contented with this change, the townspeople went on to outdo each other door steps that made the procession more lively and colorful.
Kiping
Before the end of the 16 th century the Manila-Acapulco Trade, more popularly called, the "Galleon Trade" was at its peak between the Philippines and Mexico, where the Philippines had booming commercial trade with selected Latin-American and Asian nations. But because of fear of the Spanish government that money from these trades might go only to the said nations, instead of Spain alone, they promulgated and implemented a law known as the "DOCTRINE OF MERCANTILISM" whereby the Spanish government controlled the Galleon Trade and limited the Philippines to do business with China and Mexico . The only port of entry allowed for the Filipinos was Acapulco , Mexico . (Agoncillo & Guerrero, 1960).
In the year 1734, Captain Francisco de los Santos of Lucban, Tayabas boarded the Galleon bound for Acapulco, Mexico for an observation tour of home industries with commercial value. He tagged along with him Juan Suarez, a native of Lucban who has propensity in culinary arts and has a flair making finger foods of Lucban. While the two were in Acapulco , their fancy was caught by the production of "TACOS" or "TAQUITOS", (Barquillos-making). After several training, Mr. Suarez learned the basics of the trade.
That year, upon their return to the Philippines, and upon reaching Lucban, Tayabas, Mr. Juan Suarez lost no time and attempted to make the "tacos" and "taquitos" using local materials (rice galapong). Being naturally creative, he tried to improve the processes as well as the ingredients. Thus, instead of the tubal shape of tacos, Mang Juan experimented on the thin lateral shape of the tacos by using the leaves of banana (saba) cut into squares of 10" each. The ground rice mixed with water and atsuete as food coloring, is made to slide evenly and thinly over the squared banana leaves. Then each leaf steamed over a container of boiling water for several minutes. After which the cooked rice water on the leaf is laid to a mat to dry overnight. The following day the dried wafer is removed from the banana leaf, punctured in one corner and tied with a buntal fiber each, bundled together in groups of 25's and dried further.
The word "KIPING" was derived from the root word "KIPI" or "KINIPI" and "KINIKIPI", a local term which means “to dehydrate the extra water content out of the dough by putting heavy object on it”. The drained dough is then kneaded by putting the desired color and by adding enough water to make the dough semi-liquid. Once in this state, the semi-liquid form is poured in measured amount over the squared banana leaves, tilted a bit and made to spread thinly over the entire surface of the leaf. The process is repeated with every square patterned banana leaf. Then, each leaf with the semi-liquid ground rice is steamed on squared bamboo sticks over a boiling water in a covered pan, big enough to contain several leaves at a time for ten minutes. Then, the cooked kiping still sticking on the banana leaf is laid to a mat to dry overnight. The next day, the dried kiping is removed from the leaf, tied with buntal fiber on one corner, each bundled together, laid on a board and put a heavy object over it press the kiping flat. After six hours the heavy weight is removed and lo, the KIPING is made! The bundles of KIPING are hanged on a clothes line to dry finally.
In preparing the Pahiyas decoration, the KIPING of different attractive colors are so arranged as to create a beautiful, artistic design such as a giant flower with leaves, a chandelier in monochromatic or contrasting colors, in short chandeliers or drooping shape from above the windows down to almost touching the ground level at the façade of the house. Arranged creatively and artistically, such chandeliers of KIPING are a beautiful sight to behold. Much more so when these chandeliers are placed with green vegetables or dove-tail leaves or "tilob" used as background that make the design more colorful and astoundingly attractive. Because KIPING is made of rice, it can be eaten when properly prepared and cooked. It can be fried like a kropeck; can be roasted or can be sweetened with sugar and coconut milk to serve as a delicious dessert.
Modern Pahiyas
In May of 1963, the Art Club of Lucban, through its founder and president FERNANDO CADELIÑA NAÑAWA, organized a festival that includes a trade fair, cultural shows, various contests, parades and art exhibit to spice up the celebration of the San Isidro Festival. Dubbed as "the 1963 Lucban Arts for Commerce and Industry Festival", it aimed to boosts tourism in Lucban and to make known the celebration of San Isidro Festival which was the common term used during that time. Notable of which during the first grand celebration of the festival was the art exhibit where, for the first time, artists from Manila particularly the Art Association of the Philippines , brought their precious art works to Lucban for the art exhibit. It has never been duplicated since.
Photos and Souvenirs of the 1963 Lucban Arts for Commerce and Industry Festival
Another huge festival was organized by the same club in 1968. The Lucban Harvest Festival and Fair were the biggest celebration of the San Isidro Festival so far. Guest of Honor during the celebration that started on May 11 and lasted until May 15, 1968 was Executive Secretary Rafael M. Salas. Also in attendance were the Governor of Quezon Province, mayors and various government officials of the national, provincial and local government and offices. Other cooperating organizations include The Desert Club, The Lucban Jaycees, the Lucban Academy, Lucban Barrio Council, D’ Loopasae, Ltd, and D’ Uncle Club.
It was also Nañawa who coined and first used the word "PAHIYAS", derived from the local vernacular "PAYAS" meaning "decoration or to decorate". The "PAHIYAS" has since been used to describe the colorful festival of Lucban. Though there was no factual recorded history of its first used, it was during the middle part of the 1970s when the festival was known as the Pahiyas Festival.
The festival was originally known as San Isidro Festival. So when the words San Isidro was inadvertently dropped, the Catholic Church interceded and urged the local government of Lucban to include it, thus becoming the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival as its official title.
The Tradition
To make the San Isidro Pahiyas Festival more meaningful, the townsfolk decided, that instead of just putting the agricultural harvest in front of the door steps of every house along the procession route, the entire façade of the house was decorated for a much grater impact to the viewing public.
This strategy attracted more local and foreign tourists than ever before. This further elicited creativity of the townspeople in an effort to outdo each other in decorating the façade of their houses. There are those who decorate their home with commercial products such as hats, bags, mats, bolos, langgoniza, and other home industries products. To add more local color, there are those who used " ANOK" as part of the decorations.
The local government unit, in its desire to boost tourism in Lucban, has initiated a yearly contest in the most beautiful and relevant PAHIYAS in town. Big prizes are at stake, like a live carabao, cavans of rice or palay, refrigerator, colored TV, gas range, washing machine, cash money and more for the deserving décor winners. These served as incentives to the people to do their best in making their PAHIYAS the most deserving.
As practiced by Lucbanin, preparation for the Lucban San Isidro Pahiyas Festival starts weeks before May 15th every year. An Agro-Fair dubbed "TIYANGGE SA LUKBAN" is established at the public plaza. Displayed in this fair are agri-products such as ornamental plants, vegetables crops; including handicrafts and home-made delicacies and finger foods.
The celebrations, although outwardly festive in character, are essentially religious in nature. Highlight of the celebration is the procession held in the later of the afternoon during which the images of San Isidro and his wife, Sra. De la Cabal, carried around town.
The liveliest part of the tradition comes immediately after the procession. As soon as the end of the procession passes each house, men and children hurry to the houses to perform the “Kalas”, a spirited competition to bring down the decorations and romp away with them as they would with prizes while homeowners struggle against them. This part of the celebration is the day’s elegant finale, symbolic of the rejoicing and merriment that follows a big, abundant harvest.
* Scarecrow-like human being replica made out of rice straw, coco coir or saw-dust. ANOK gives in conversational form or casual comments about local or national issues, harvest, etc.
External Links:
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/105095_san-isidro-labrador-festival
http://www.pahiyasfestival.com/home/about-the-pahiyas.html
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Did Erap not vote for Binay?
Did Erap not vote for Binay?
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 05/10/2010 2:13 PM | Updated as of 05/10/2010 7:11 PM
MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) - Did former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada vote for his running mate, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay?
Allegations that Estrada didn't vote for Binay arose after video footages taken of his ballot indicated that he did not shade any oval in the vice-presidential rows.
Videos footages of his ballot have gone viral, with one such video claiming it was from ABS-CBN. (Click here for link to video.)
However, Estrada's spokesman Margaux Salcedo denied reports that the former president did not vote for a Binay.
Estrada voted at an elementary school in San Juan City in Metro Manila at high noon Monday.
Binay is running under his old party, PDP-Laban and has allied with the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino standard-bearer.
Estrada, wearing an orange checkered polo and a white jacket, shaded his ballot with his left hand in a polling precinct at the Pedro Cruz Elementary School.
The former president was surrounded by the media and employees.
Estrada said he always votes at high noon because he believes he's luckier if he votes while the sun is at its brightest.
Before voting, the former president went to Antipolo City in Rizal province to hear Mass. He also visited his parents’ graves at the San Juan Cemetery.
Estrada is seeking a comeback to Malacañang after his 6-year term was cut short following a military-backed people's revolt in 2001 known as Edsa Dos.
He was jailed for several years and convicted of plunder. He was pardoned and released in October 2007.
Estrada has urged his loyal supporters to bring him back to Malacañang so he can finish his pro-poor programs that were cut short after President Arroyo succeeded him. -- with a report from ANC
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Lack of sleep linked to early death
Lack of sleep linked to early death: study
LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.
Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.
"If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol," Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain's University of Warwick, told AFP.
The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found "unequivocal evidence of the direct link" between lack of sleep and premature death.
"We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms," Cappuccio said.
The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.
Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.
"Society pushes us to sleep less and less," Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.
Sleeping less than six hours is "more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work"
The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.
"Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong," said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.
Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.
LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.
Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.
"If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol," Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain's University of Warwick, told AFP.
The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found "unequivocal evidence of the direct link" between lack of sleep and premature death.
"We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms," Cappuccio said.
The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.
Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.
"Society pushes us to sleep less and less," Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.
Sleeping less than six hours is "more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work"
The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.
"Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong," said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.
Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Marriage
To those who are married, .. Not married .. and soon to be married, I hope you will be touched with this story... MARRIAGE When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce.. I raised the topic calmly. She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why? I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn't talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn't love her anymore. I just pitied her! With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now. The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again. In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn't want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage. This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that everyday for the month's duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request. I told Dew about my wife's divorce conditions.. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.. My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mummy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don't tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office. On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn't looked at this woman carefully for a long time.. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her. On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me. On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn't tell Dew about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger. She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily. Suddenly it hit me... she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head. Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it's time to carry mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day. But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn't noticed that our life lacked intimacy. I drove to office.... jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind...I walked upstairs. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore. She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead.. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Dew, I said, I won't divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn't value the details of our lives, not because we didn't love each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart. Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I'll carry you out every morning until death do us apart. That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead. The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse's friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage! If you don't share this, nothing will happen to you. If you do, you just might save a marriage. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
By: Joey Gabinete Acebron
By: Joey Gabinete Acebron
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