Now an Online Game to improve Mental Health of the Youth

A youth welfare group has come up with a new way to improve the mental health of young people: an online video game. Called “Reach Out Central”, this online role-playing game has been promoted by the Inspire Foundation. In this game players can “test-drive life and play it when and how you want to”.

Helping and befriending the computer-controlled characters that inhabit the online world is essential, and the Inspire Foundation hopes skills developed in the game and choices made there about friends, partying, work and life in general will transfer to the real world.

The foundation’s director of programs, Jonathan Nicholas, said that young people aged 16-25 would be targeted, as they were the most vulnerable.

He also said a major focus was to develop a cool, fun game that looked good and was engaging. Engagement was difficult to achieve by simply forcing booklets of information at young people.

Mark Rosser, senior program manager for youth at national depression initiative beyondblue, said one in five young people suffered from depression each year and he was concerned that fewer than 40 per cent of them actually went on to seek help.

Nicholas believes Inspire’s use of an engaging game to deliver mental health information online is a winning strategy. He said much of Reach Out Central’s content was based on an education program used in schools.

“Rather than being a static game it’s probably best to think about Reach Out Central as an online soapie game - we’ll continue to add in and write new storylines,” he said.

The Sony Foundation stumped up the $500,000 needed to develop the game, but it is also supported by beyondblue, NSW Health, Teen Spirit Foundation and The Golden Stave Foundation.

Source : healthyjockey.com

India to have maximum Cardiac cases in the world by 2010

The Institute of Preventive Cardiology (IPC) foundation has associated itself with Emami Foundation to start a Centre on Preventive and Non-invasive Cardiac Care in the city and the Vishwa Jagriti Mission Trust would support the Foundation in this project.

Addressing a press conference, cardiologist Dr Pratiksha Reeg Deb said, “Young India is falling prey to heart-related ailments and is on the verge of an epidemic, which will be much greater that the tsunami,” and added, “We need to awaken the Indian citizens to that they can start the prevention programme before it is too late.”

“Heart disease is a disease of ignorance. Prevention is the only vaccination to heart attack,” is the only piece of advice Dr Deb has to offer to the heart patients.

According to her, due to faulty lifestyle like improper eating habits and patterns, lack of exercise, addictions like alcohol, tobacco, smoking, the risks of problems like diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and heart ailments are looking up in today’s young generation.

Dr Deb said,”By 2010,India will have the maximum number of cardiac cases in the world and by 2015, 60 per cent of the cardiac deaths in the world.” “About six crore Indian adults are suffering from Coronary Artery Diseases while another 18 crore more face the same risk,” she informed.

Responding to a question, Dr Deb stated that this Preventive and Non-surgical Cardiac Clinic would first examine the financial status of a patient and then decide to offer free treatment to them.

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Namun demikian, jika Anda ingin berbagi content yang telah Anda buat di ponsel Anda dan juga berbagi banyak data lagi, SAMSUNG L760 masih menjadi pilihan yang cerdas.

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Kamera: 2 megapixel

Ukuran: Medium slider 100x47x15mm / 93 gram

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Sumber : KapanLagi.com

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Cyveillance,Inc. report chronicles a continued rise in malware distribution and phishing attacks.

U.S.-based Web sites hosting malware are responsible for the majority of malware distributed on the Internet, according to a report by security company Cyveillance,Inc. Click here to see the report (PDF).

The company's "Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report" found that Web surfers visiting sites based in the United States are more at risk from malware attacks and online identity theft than visitors to sites based in other countries, with more than 63 percent of malware distributed to visitors via tainted U.S.-based Web sites.
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In addition, 25 percent of malware-hosting sites, where the actual binary malware files are hosted and served up, are based in the United States. China leads the way with 34 percent of malware-hosting sites, the report found.

"We believe that this is simply a case of following the money," said Todd Bransford, vice president of marketing at Cyveillance, based in Arlington, Va. "The criminals want access to the computers of U.S. citizens so they can eventually tap into their financial resources. Therefore, they distribute malware on sites visited by U.S consumers."

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"Obviously, a drop site hosted in the United States can be accessed from anywhere in the world, so the high percentage of U.S.-based drop sites may be more a factor of the simplicity and level of automation afforded by U.S. service providers to criminals … with a stolen credit card number," he said.

The report includes data collected and analyzed between April 1 and June 30, 2007, based on information collected from more than 200 million unique domain name servers and 150 million unique Web sites. Some 2 million URLs were found to be distributing malware.

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"Conservatively, it is fair to estimate that malware attacks via the Web doubled in Q2 compared to Q1," Bransford said. "Given that more than 60 percent of these sites were hosted in the United States, it seems fair to assume that the malware threat to U.S. citizens on the Web is up 100 percent."

The Cyveillance report also recorded a 20 percent increase in the aggregate quantity of brands targeted, indicating that phishers continue to change targets. Since 2005, over 1,400 companies have been attacked, the report concluded.