ORANGE!!

The Magical Properties of Orange

The color orange is a projective color, as all art and creative activity is for the enjoyment and pleasure of others.

Orange gemstones are much rarer than the other colors.

The color orange stands for creativeness.

In India, orange stands for the second energy chakra.

The orange stone has a portion of the power of red stones, but is more a creative subtle fire. They are used to promote creative illumination. They are related to your personal creative powers.

Wearing one of these orange stones will enhance your ability to tap in and direct your creative powers.

All orange stones are rare and hard to come by. There are more top quality artists in the world than orange gemstones (real gemstones, not synthetic).

Some orange gemstones are: orange sapphire, orange garnet, orange quartz, orange tourmaline, orange amber, and orange calcite.

ORANGE COLOR PSYCHOLOGY

Orange is the color of autumn, spice form and design. In bright tones, orange is jovial, cheerful and playful. Deepened, it becomes exotic and exciting. If orange is your choice, you have abundant energy with an eye for structure and organization. Your social nature finds you surrounded by family and friends.

Orange brings joy to our workday and strengthens our appetite for life! Orange is the best emotional stimulant. Great colour to bring you back to life on a dull, cloudy day. It also helps depression. It connects us to our senses and helps to remove inhibitions and makes us independent and social. Personality Traits: Enthusiastic, happy, sociable, energetic, sporty, self-assured, and constructive.

Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.

Orange has very high visibility, so you can use it to catch attention and highlight the most important elements of your design. Orange is very effective for promoting food products and toys.

Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust.
Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.

Orange Trivia:

July 12th is set aside by Protestants in Northern Ireland to celebrate Orange Day, a commemoration of William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The Orangemen were members of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion and control in Ireland.
Orangeries were formerly common to the formal gardens of great estates.
Oranges and lemons is a children's singing game in which the players take sides according to their answer to the question, "which will you have, oranges or lemons?"
The orange blossom is the floral emblem of Florida.
No word in the English language rhymes with "orange."
U.S. War Plan Orange-3 was a contingency plan for a war in which the U.S. faced Japan as its sole enemy. The plan was one of the "color" war plans for projected conflicts in which the U.S. engaged a single enemy at one time. The plan originated in the early 1900s and underwent numerous revisions, with War Plan Orange-3 completed in 1938. It was based on the premise of a Japanese surprise attack and envisioned a primarily naval war. Elements of the Orange Plans were incorporated in the later Rainbow war plans.

The Color Orange

Colors make the world delightful. It’s hard to imagine a life without blue skies, green plants, and the sometimes fiery, sometimes muted, highlights we see in the world.

Colors also affect our psyche; they create an emotional response. Too many gray days breed discontent, prisons are being painted in pastels of various colors to control moods, and businesses use different colors to make people hungry, content, excited, or calm.

Color also can affect our health, especially if you consider that, in the plant world, coloring is achieved through carotenoids, which not only supply us with something pleasant to look at, but also healthful properties.

Orange

Orange is the color of carrots, yams, cantaloupes, butternut squash, and pumpkin. In the natural and healthful world, you would say that orange represents beta carotene. Beta carotene gets its name from carrots, but green leafy vegetables like spinach also contain beta carotene. The orange is masked by the green of chlorophyll. What does the color orange do for us healthwise?

The cancer connection

Nature, the International Journal of Cancer, and the Lancet. In late 1981, the New York Times featured an article about the risk of lung cancer and how beta carotene reduced this risk.

Official recognition came in 1982, when the National Academy of Sciences’ report, Diet and Cancer, gave the academic and medical "seal of approval" to the link between beta carotene and vitamin A and reduced risk of cancer. Since then, there has been reconfirmation of this link.

In a study reported in the July 1996 issue of Carcinogenesis, the effect of beta carotene and selenium on pancreatic carcinogenesis in rats was investigated. The researchers noted that both beta carotene and selenium might have had chemopreventive effects, especially when added to diets during the late promotion phase of the carcinogenic process.

A 1998 study in Pancreas on pancreatic carcinogenesis showed similar results. In this study, the effects of alpha carotene, beta carotene, palm carotene, and green tea polyphenols (GTP) on the progression stage of pancreatic carcinogenesis were studied in Syrian hamsters. Inhibitory effects were noted for beta carotene and palm carotene (which includes beta carotene). GTP also showed inhibitory effects.

In 1997, Harvard Medical School released research that indicates that beta carotene can sharply reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men with low beta carotene blood levels. (Cancer Weekly Plus, June 9, 1997). In this research, the diets, lifestyles, and health of more than 22,000 male doctors were observed. Half of the doctors were given 50 mg (80,000 IU) of beta carotene every other day. The findings indicate that physicians with low levels of beta carotene were one-third more likely to develop prostate cancer. The doctors who supplemented with beta carotene were 36 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than those who ate few beta carotene-rich fruits and vegetables and did not take beta carotene supplements.

An article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (August 1997) notes that epidemiological studies reveal that people with high intakes of beta carotene or high blood concentrations of this nutrient have a reduced risk of various diseases, including cancer and heart disease. The authors note that this is a credible hypothesis, because

1) increased consumption of beta carotene is strongly associated with reduced risk of cancer;

2) beta carotene is a dietary antioxidant and antioxidants inhibit early stages of carcinogenesis; and

3) beta carotene reduces cancer in experimental animal models.

Why the link?

The link between beta carotene and cancer prevention may be found in beta carotene’s effect on the immune system.

Michelle Santos, et al., writing in the November 1996 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, notes that beta carotene may increase the activity of natural killer (NK) cells. NK cell activity has been postulated to be an immunologic link between beta carotene and cancer prevention. The article states that, "Our results show that long-term beta carotene supplementation enhances NK cell activity in elderly men, which may be beneficial for viral and tumoral surveillance." This has been reconfirmed in a more recent study by Santos (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; July 1998).

Another reason for beta carotene’s effect on cancer may be due to its influence on the gap-junctional communication between cells.

Gap-junctional communication is a way that cells communicate; it is the exchange of small molecules and ions between neighboring cells. All cells within a tissue, with the exception of circulating blood cells and smooth muscle cells, are connected to one another by gap junctions. These communication channels allow the transmission of important cellular messages and play an important part in maintaining a normal cellular environment.

Some scientists believe that beta carotene, and other carotenoids, achieve cancer protection by improving the communication which takes place in these gap junctions. This improved communication may help cells being transformed into cancer cells revert back to being normal.

Most specifically, beta carotene apparently stimulates a molecule that helps the immune system target and destroy cancer cells. It increases the number of receptors on white blood cells for a molecule known as major histocompatibility complex II (MHC II).

MHC II is integral in helping monocytes, a type of white blood cell, direct killer T cells to cancerous cells (Cancer Weekly Plus, Jan. 6, 1997). In other words, beta carotene is integral in directing the immune system to kill cancer cells.

Kiev's new orange order
By Stephen Mulvey
BBC News, Kiev

Driving into town from Kiev airport, it is only when you climb up the steep wooded bank of the River Dnieper, that you realise something is different.

As the cobbled road curls past the multiple golden domes of an ancient Kiev monastery the city's new orange livery comes into view against the white of the snow.

Ukraine's Independence Square has the air of a natural theatre
Orange cars and orange crowds are on the move to or from the permanent demonstration in the city's main square in support of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.

People are wearing orange ribbons, scarves, hats, armbands - some are even wearing orange plastic sheeting turned into shawls or tunics - and carrying orange flags.

Long before you reach the square the road is full of these orange people, who periodically break into chants of "Yush-chen-ko! Yush-chen-ko!"

The remaining cars, squeezing between the crowds, follow the three-note rhythm on their horns.

Euphoria

The sight of the square itself, and the surging sensation of people power, is overwhelming. I was in Kiev when it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and there was nothing like it then.

The square is a vast area, with slopes on two sides, which turn it into a kind of natural theatre, and it is full of politically charged men, women and children.

At the centre is a stage with a giant television screen and powerful amplifiers sending echoes bouncing off the surrounding buildings.

Yanukovych's supporters made their mark in Kiev at a rally on Friday
There is a huge sense of euphoria. On Saturday, the parliamentary debate was being broadcast live as MPs passed a vote of no confidence in the Central Electoral Commission and called for a new election.

The crowd periodically erupted into roars and cheers - or whistling when it heard something it did not like.

One man, who had driven 500km (300 miles) from the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the west of the country to join the demonstration, said the news from parliament meant his mission had been accomplished.

He had made the journey in order to give moral support to his candidate and to protest against a "falsified" election - and now, just as he had hoped, there was to be a new vote.

In the elated atmosphere of the square, it was almost possible to believe it.

But in fact the parliament's decision carries only symbolic weight - like the demonstration of people power itself.

Sad group

It puts moral pressure on the authorities who have already declared Mr Yushchenko's rival, Viktor Yanukovych, the winner.

It could also influence the thinking of the judges of the Supreme Court, who begin considering allegations of election fraud on Monday.

Since the Yanukovych supporters are almost invisible in Kiev, it would be easy to draw the conclusion that they do not exist

But it has no automatic consequences.

At first sight in Kiev there are no supporters of Mr Yanukovych. There was one small and rather sad group of people bearing his blue and white flags on Saturday afternoon, just above the square.

Orange Yushchenko supporters were engaging them in argument. Others drowned out their small loudspeaker with chants.

I found another small group of Yanukovych faithful outside the railway station, where they had held a large rally the previous day.

Even here they were outnumbered. They looked tired and crestfallen and complained of having been mobbed by up to 20 argumentative Yushchenko people at once.

But they admitted that no-one had shown aggression.

Since the Yanukovych supporters are almost invisible in Kiev, it would be easy to draw the conclusion that they do not exist.

But even the exit polls that first raised the hopes of the Yushchenko camp that he would be declared winner, suggested that Mr Yanukovych had the support of more than 40% of the country's voters.

Somewhere out there, there is a blue Ukraine as well as an orange one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4048921.stm

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ORANGE COLOR PSYCHOLOGY

The Color Orange

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The cancer connection

Why the link?

Kiev's new orange order By Stephen Mulvey BBC News, Kiev

Kiev's new orange order
By Stephen Mulvey
BBC News, Kiev