Poetry from Shamsiya Khudoynazarova Turumovna

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Shamsiya Khudoynazarova Turumovna

ITS NAME IS LIFE …

You falter,

Longing bears the weight of pain…

Yet Love—eternal—soothes the strain,

As solace knocks upon your door,

And joy leaves traces on your shore.

Its name is Life:

Victory waltzes

With sorrow and bliss in fleeting embraces.

Ruins of your heart, once lost in despair,

Find comfort in moments of hope laid bare…

Like a bird, you spread your wings,

Within, transformation sings.

You rise, embrace purity’s grace,

Unshaken—Freedom echoes in space!

As if all your dreams take flight,

Drifting like clouds so white,

Until Spring’s flowers kneel in delight,

Greeting you with colors bright…

Shamsiya Khudoynazarova Turumovna (February 15, 1973) was born in Uzbekistan. Studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Tashkent State University (1992-1998). She took first place in the competition of young republican poets (1999). Four collections of poems have been published in Uzbekistan: “Leaf of the Heart” (1998), “Roads to You” (1998), “The Sky in My Chest” (2007), “Lovely Melodies” (2013). She wrote poetry in more than ten genres. She translated some Russian and Turkish poets into Uzbek, as well as a book by YunusEmro. She lived as a political immigrant with her family for five years in Turkey.

Essay from Dr. Jernail Singh

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Dr. Jernail S. Anand

EVIL, CRIME AND VIOLENCE: HAS GOD FINALLY LOST THE BATTLE?

What keeps us holding on while watching a movie is not the even flow of events, but we always look for how and when things take a twist, a villain is introduced, and the film ends with a brutal fight in which the villain is killed and his empire decimated embodying the great ethical message that good always triumphs over evil. I have never seen a movie in which the protagonist is killed at the end, and evil is shown prospering. However, the movies of contemporary times sometimes come up with blended stories which present victims who turn villains and take on society or their tormentors. I am reminded of ‘Deewar’ in which a victimized child turns out to be a great mafia don. He was getting back on the society which had caused the death of his father, and brought the family to ruin.

When we look back at literature, and, in particular, drama, we wonder how comedy stands nowhere in comparison to the impact, the tragedy leaves on the mind of man. If we talk of lasting impact, it comes only from tragedy. Tragedy is nothing but violence which is given an aesthetic turn so that finally it evokes a wholesome response from the audience. ‘Oedipus’ ‘Macbeth’ ‘Julius Caesar’ ‘Hamlet’ are immortal works which have left a lasting impact on the mind of man, finally making them emerge as better human beings.

If we are shown a film in which people are living a happy life, after some time, we shall start feeling, why we are wasting time. What is there in it. So, that ‘what’ which we are looking for in a film is some villain, something going wrong, so that it leads to some ‘thrills’ and thrills are not possible until things take a twist, and go wrong. If we look back at Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, nobody will read it if Satan is dropped. Evil and violence are essential to make peace and poise, meaningful and worth craving for. When evil dies, we heave a sigh of unmixed relief. It is another thing this feeling of relief is different if we are watching a tragedy by Sophocles or Shakespeare. The students of literature know a tragedy effects catharsis by purging the feelings of pity and fear, thus restoring the mental balance of the audience.

Violence that we watch before our eyes on the road is different from the violence we watch in a film or even drama. Distance lends charm, even to a vile thing like a violent death. Actual violence evokes anger, and a feeling of revenge, while the reported violence makes us sit and reflect, and the servicing of our mind gets into operation.

Learning what is good may be a difficult lesson. But the instinct for the evil is quite intrinsic to mankind. Our nervous system reports faster to malignant impulses. Still, truth and untruth, and good and evil remain intertwined and in order to understand good, we have to have an instant understanding of what is evil and where good ends and evil begins. In this way, the study of evil is more important than the study of good, because when we study evil, we shall automatically understand, what is not evil, and all that is not evil is good.

Sometimes I wonder how we dislike the easy flow of life. What we call ‘illat’ in Punjabi is ‘mischief’ in English. Mischief is the sapling from which the tree of crime takes shape. Mischief in its infancy dons an aura of pleasantness, which we tend to enjoy. But it starts giving us headache when mischief takes the shape of mistakes, and when mistakes become a habit, they become the cause of cardiac arrest for the society: that is crime. A mistake can be corrected, and atoned for, but for a crime, one has suffer. The only reason why the perpetrator of a crime has to suffer is that he makes others suffer, and unless he himself suffers, the account cannot be squared.

How evil is interspersed in our being, we can judge it easily if we filter the ideas that enter and fleet from our mind for an hour. We shall soon come to realize how evil comes so naturally to man, while for doing good, we have to force ourselves into strict discipline, and even train our mind to think right thoughts. It is shocking and surprising too, that we need no training in doing evil, while we need gurus, scriptures, oracles, and pilgrimages to understand the idea of good.

The real surprise is we have a huge array of religions, and prophets, and their teachings, their sacrifices, and their shrines which dot the earth in millions. India has a great spiritual legacy [which country hasn’t have her own?] like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Bhagwad Gita is the greatest spiritual text for right living. So, is the Guru Granth Sahib which represents the Sikh Faith. If we go further into it, we shall see how people like Yogis, Nagas, Boddhis and Lamas are required to undergo rigorous training of body and mind, to keep their minds in trim. They wear a particular dress, and lead  rigorous lives, and they are told that they must keep muttering the name of God all the time.

I cannot imagine how great is the lure of evil and violence in our lives!  They always keep us on tenterhooks, always trying to destabilize us and cause our fall.  The paradox is startling. For evil, you need no training. You can do it very naturally. Rather, if you indulge in evil, you feel so natural and normal. But, if you are told to do good, you need the backing of religious rigour, and when you do it, it is not done, it is performed, like a duty. To be good is a duty. And, you know, a duty is a task assigned to us much against our will. How happily we perform our duties?

I don’t question why Eve fell to Satan’s insinuations. Even Adam could have fallen, had Satan tried his art at him. But, I think Satan knew our modern dictum which has been the subject of declamation contests. If you teach a man, you teach only one person. But if you teach a woman, you teach a whole family. Satan might have been thinking of devastating the entire tribe by poisoning Eve’s ears. The original tribe was endowed with Original Intelligence, in the form of Innocence [which does not, however, mean Ignorance]. Satan attacked it very cautiously. He proposed that they should get knowledge and know more and more about themselves and their existential conditions.  It was tempting for them. Evil’s greatest quality is that it tempts. Men fall because of greed. That is why, Lustus, the neo-mythical heir of Satan is shown as blessed by Greda, the goddess of Greed [neo-mythology]. In fact, when man is greedy, he can be  tempted which means he has said good bye to reason and sense. It is a perverted form of trance, in which reason is put in abeyance, and man does not know when he has glided into the glittering world of crime and violence.  Just as Truth has a physical dimension in Ethics, Evil has a physical manifestation in Violence. How we love it? Our world, our newspapers are full of news items relating to crime, killings, abductions, arson, accidents, heists and scams. They never upset us. That is the neo-normal. Rather what upsets us is the absence of a villain and violence from a piece of life, as much as in a film.

The Author

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, [the Seneca, Charter of Morava, Franz Kafka and Maxim Gorky award and Signs Peace Award Laureate, with an opus of 180 books, whose name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia]]  is a towering literary figure whose work embodies a rare fusion of creativity, intellect, and moral vision.

Poetry from Sara Hunt-Flores

Footprints in the Sand

I am lost between illusion and reality.

Footprints follow me in the cold sand.

No moon,

but I walk beneath a thousand stars.

Stars that light my path

as little fireflies pass by.

But none guide me home.

They scatter across the sky,

hinting at the wishes people keep close

to their hearts.

Which don’t always always come true.

Then dawn peaks over the mountains,

casting streaks of fire across the clouds.

Birds start singing.

Welcoming the sun.

I am no longer lost.

I see the night with its cold embrace

and its mirage.

I see the day with its clear sky

and its hustling trees.

Poetry from Sayani Mukherjee

Season

The rain has brought all seasons

Spring to summer and winter all

Its thrones

It’s the mahogany of poplar trees

The bright sun bathed tulips

I am in search for

The little girl plays it’s gypsy morning tone

the song of careful playfulness

I am in the search for seasons

Where rain has hide all its flowers

The pansies and blueberry toppings

Where summer has played it’s part

Of meandering love for happiness

And winter has killed it’s lonely maiden

But spring will come heralding

The rains and poplars and the bright sun rays.

Author Jacques Fleury featured at the Boston Public Library

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Haitian American Author Featured at the Boston Public Library’s Greater Roxbury Book Fair in Association with Savor the Square!

Ok, folks! Here are the photos from my highly anticipated (well at least by me!) Book Fair celebrating authors of color (BIPOC) and My book “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” was selected by the Boston Public Library to be featured for Haitian American Heritage Month along with Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library! I met so many talented authors, storytellers, motivational speakers, wonderfully quirky book lovers! I met the woman whose mother founded the Caribbean Carnival in Boston! And one author, who has a center named after her, will be inviting me to an academic symposium for activists and authors at Boston University! Did I forget to mention that…I SOLD OUT! But uh…hmmmm….I’m very humble about it of course…

Thank you ALL who showed Up and showed ouT! Merci beaucoup!😅💜

LInk to my page on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/…/Jacques…/author/B00JL4CZQS…

The Boston Public Library is featuring my (c’est moi Jacques Fleury) prose and poetry book:

“You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self””

for national Haitian American Heritage Month! I was selected among celebrity authors and books published by major publishers like HarperCollins who tout many New York Times

Best Sellers! A great honor as an indie author to be acknowledged by mainstream audiences and literary intelligentsia! Here are links below.

Hope you check out my books from the library, buy them at your local bookstores (if you’re in Massachusetts: The Grolier/Harvard Bookstore/Porter Square Books etc…) or on bookshop dot com (to support indie bookstores) or amazon or just STOP BY where I will have my own table with ALL four of my books for a book signing!

Springing from the Roxbury community’s deep connections to books and literacy, The Greater Roxbury Book Fair will spotlight 21 local and BIPOC authors and feature story time for children, panels, workshops, and local author and literary organization exhibitors, community vendors, food, music, and most of all: fun! There’s something for every reader—from kids to adults, comics readers to poetry aficionados—at the Greater Roxbury Book Fair.

Young middle aged Black man in a white collared shirt and blue patterned tie, sunglasses and a black vest, holding a copy of his book You Are Enough at an open air book fair.
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Jacques Fleury’s book You Are Enough: The Journey Towards Understanding Your Authentic Self

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and a literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self”  & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of  Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc…  He has been published in prestigious publications such as Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–

Essay from Bahora Mansurova

Periodontal disease

Student of Asia International University

msarvinoz996@gmail.com

There is review of the literature deals with an actual problem in dentistry which is modern methods of treatment of periodontal disease. Diagnosis and treatment of periodontal diseases are a modern problem of dentistry due to their high frequency and intensity of damage. Periodontal disease is the most complex nosological unit among periodontal diseases. The issue of the efficiency and having long-term results of treatment measures for this pathology remains important nowadays. Modern methods and means of treatment which are described here have a great importance for practical use in dental practice.

Key words: periodontal disease, PerioScan device, Vector, PRF-therapy.

В представленном обзоре литературы рассматривается актуальная проблема в стоматологии -современные методы лечения пародонтоза. Диагностика и лечение пародонтоза в связи с их высокой частотой и интенсивностью поражения являются современной проблемой стоматологии. Пародонтоз представляют собой наиболее сложную нозологическую единицу среди заболеваний пародонта. Вопрос об эффективности и долговременности результатов лечебных мероприятий данной патологии остается важным и на сегодняшний день. Описаны современные методы и средства лечения, знание которых имеет большое значение для их практического использования в стоматологической практике.

Ключевые слова: пародонтоз, аппарат PerioScan, Вектор, PRF-терапия.

INTRODUCTION:

Currently, one of the most pressing problems in dentistry is inflammatory periodontal diseases. Periodontitis is the most complex nosological entity among periodontal diseases. The development of periodontal diseases is unique to each patient, so treatment is primarily based on an individual approach to the patient. It should be comprehensive and include not only the elimination of gum disease symptoms, but also the normalization of periodontal tissues and the impact on the general condition of the patient.

LITERATURE REVIEW:

Of course, the means and methods that allow you to restore or improve the condition of the main sources of tissue metabolism are important. The following groups of drugs are prescribed for this:

■ antiseptics (Chlorhexidine 0.05% and 0.12%, Miramistin, etc.)

■ local injections of NSAIDs;

■ enzyme preparations (Trypsin, Chymotrypsin, etc.);

■ blood circulation improving agents (nicotinic, ascorbic acid, etc.);

■ vitamin preparations (vit. A, E, C, group B, etc.);

■ immunocorrective preparations (Imudon, Lizobact);

■ bacteriophages with mandatory introduction into the periodontal pocket under the supervision of a doctor, training in independent introduction into the pockets;

■ homeopathic preparations (usually mouthwashes Stomatofit, Chlorophyllin, etc.) [1-4]. Symptomatic therapy is aimed at eliminating and reducing individual symptoms of the disease that cause suffering to the patient:

painkillers (Nimesil, Nurofen, Nise, Ketorol, etc.);

■ preparations for relieving hypersensitivity of the necks and roots of the teeth (coating teeth with fluoride-containing preparations in 1 or several doses depending on the situation). Elimination of the bacterial component and occlusal loads:

■ removal of microbial plaque and prevention of its formation on the surface of teeth;

■ removal of mineralized deposits;

■ high-quality sanitation of carious defects with restoration of interdental contacts;

■ alignment of occlusal surfaces of teeth by selective grinding;

■ splinting of mobile teeth that are not capable of bearing the chewing load [5-9]. Alternative therapy (for example, homeopathy) is used in the treatment of periodontal diseases in cases where the use of traditional treatment methods is impossible due to allergies or severe concomitant diseases, as well as in the absence of sensitivity of microflora to drugs commonly used in periodontology [10,11].

Methods of administering medications in periodontology:

■ rinsing is one of the main methods of administering medications both for periodontal diseases and for diseases of the mucous membrane;

■ mouth baths;

■ applications to the pathological dental pocket Hyaludent No. 1,2,3, as well as to the mucous membrane adhesive paste Solcoseryl, adhesive ointment Asepta;

■ injections (homeopathic preparations Traumeel-S, Mucosa compositum submucosal; in severe cases, antimicrobial therapy is prescribed intramuscularly);

■ dressings (self-adhesive films “Diplen – Denta” with various medicinal inclusions can be used as an independent treatment, and used as a periodontal dressing to retain compositions of antiseptics, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs introduced into the pocket, on the marginal periodontal or mucous element in a higher concentration than in films, the area of ​​​​intervention during the treatment of periodontitis is usually covered with a periodontal dressing – Periodontal Pak, Soy Pak, Woco Pak, Sept Pak.);

■ physical methods (electrophoresis, phonophoresis, magnetophoresis);

■ traditional methods of administration – per os and intramuscularly (usually anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial drugs for severe and moderate degrees of the disease);

■ subgingival administration involves the use of “delivery” systems that provide a high concentration of drugs directly at the site of injury. These include: tetracycline and chlorhexidine threads, doxycycline polymers, Periochips, etc. [12-18].

Along with classical methods of treating periodontitis, non-surgical treatment is carried out using the Perioscan device [19].

PerioScan is an ultrasonic device that allows not only to remove deposits, but also to recognize them thanks to a unique feedback system.

PerioScan is an intelligent, highly sensitive, new-generation ultrasonic device in which the examination of the tooth surface is based on the analysis of ultrasound characteristics. When the instrument comes into contact with enamel, crown or filling material during the examination of the patient, the device not only analyzes the condition of the surface structures, but also detects the dental tissue itself or artificial tooth material. As a result of this analysis, PerioScan provides an objective assessment of the condition of the tooth surface, shows the presence of dental deposits and (if necessary) signals the need for treatment. Therefore, the uniqueness of the device is that it not only removes dental plaque, but also pre-recognizes it [20,21].

DISCUSSION:

Convenient color indication (green – clean surface, blue – presence of dental plaque) will allow patients to observe the process of professional oral hygiene.

The Vector device is used for ultrasonic cleaning of periodontal tissues (with periodontitis or periodontosis).

Gum retraction methods are carried out only on a healthy field. These include mechanical (displacement with threads), surgical (with the help of preparation) and chemical (introduction of special drugs) methods. The retraction procedure is the pulling of the gum to improve the quality of impressions during prosthetics [22].

Modern dentistry offers both traditional and new therapeutic methods for the treatment of oral diseases. PRF therapy (also known in various sources as plasma therapy, “plasmolifting” [23]) is successfully used for the treatment and prevention of periodontal phenomena. It, as a natural method of combating various diseases, appeared in 2004, when the positive effect of plasma on various organ systems was discovered.

This procedure, which has no analogues, is based on PRF therapy technology.

This technique, called Plasmodent in dentistry, is successfully used in our clinic for the treatment of atrophic and inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity, as well as for optimizing and accelerating the regeneration of bone tissue during implantation and bone grafting.

The goal of plasma lifting is to achieve not just the removal of the inflammatory process of periodontitis, but to start the process of natural restoration of the color, shape and structure of the gums, and prevent the loss of bone tissue.

Plasmolifting is performed in the form of an injection of plasma obtained from the patient’s blood – autoplasma, into the problem area.

Plasma is injected locally into the damaged gum tissue, the site of the implant installation or bone grafting during sinus lifting, extraction, in the area of ​​osteosynthesis or installed membrane in the soft tissues of the oral cavity and maxillofacial region in acute and chronic infectious and inflammatory processes [24].

RESULTS:

Thrombocyte plasma introduced into tissues, due to the growth factors it contains, causes capillary growth, normalizes hemodynamics, tissue respiration and metabolism. At the same time, the process of strengthening bone tissue, forming a collagen matrix and bone with the participation of bone morphogenetic collagen proteins, and activating local immunity occurs [25].

The components contained in plasma are absolutely natural for humans, they are not mutagens and cannot cause cancer, tumors and other negative reactions.

In dental practice, plasma therapy is considered completely safe, since plasma is isolated from the patient’s blood. No chemical additives are added to it. Therefore, the risk of developing allergic reactions is practically excluded. In addition, this is done absolutely painlessly: no anesthesia is required [26,27].

Plasma therapy can be used in combination with various therapeutic methods and drugs, including antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory drugs [28]. To obtain plasma, a small amount of blood (approximately 10 ml) is taken from the patient, the blood is processed in a centrifuge under special conditions to separate the plasma itself from other formed elements of the blood. The resulting platelet-rich plasma concentrate contains specific proteins, the so-called growth factors, which participate in the regeneration of all tissues of the body, attracting its own stem cells to the area of ​​damage and stimulating their division [29-35].

CONCLUSION:

Thus, the availability and knowledge of modern technologies, methods and means of treating periodontal diseases is important for their practical use in dental practice.

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Poetry from Dr. John Portelli

Older light skinned man with reading glasses and a white collared shirt with a blue floral pattern seated at a desk. Books, abstract paintings, and a lamp are behind him.


POPPIES

Poppies without borders

Unending scarlet

As in Gaza

Where children play

With the blood of the dead

……….

GAZA

the bundled snowy clouds emerged again

like the frigid death of an exile in Gaza

the sacks are overflowing with bones

the snow is light death is heavy 

…….

A SEA THAT ROARS

a drop in the universe like the granules of 

orange sand in Gaza, the horror of the 

mighty pretending to be at peace

it roars for the forsaken children

who watch the lonely robin left nibbling

at the corpses of their parents and siblings

they rot away, while Trump and Netanyahu

shake hands on their plan to cover

the horror with a Mediterranean resort.

they falsely promise glorious days for the orphans

who will never give up the vision of their 

great-grandparents nakbatised by British Zionists

this heartless plan of the President 

will never appease these starving children, 

who will never give up hope

they know that from death new life is born

let the sea roar!

……..

JOHN P. PORTELLI

John P. Portelli is a Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, originally from Malta, and author of 11 collections of poetry, two collections of short stories and a novel. His work in Maltese  has been translated into English, French, Italian, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Korean. While he migrated to Canada in 1977 and settled in Montreal, and later in Halifax and Toronto, now he lives between Toronto and Malta.