Online Education

Large companies in Spain to recruit Erasmus

2011-12-04T23:15:00.000-08:00

Seventeen major companies join the program 'Recruiting Erasmus'.

Today 92% of those registered are Spanish, mainly with engineering.

Connecting companies, teachers and young people to work in the international arena.

Seventeen major companies operating in Spain have joined a program called Erasmus Recruiting , aimed at recruiting students with international profile of Spanish universities, which was created four years ago by the human resources consulting PeopleMatters.

The program brings together businesses, teachers and students the world able to work internationally. It is the only private program that has the support of 60 Spanish universities.

The program focuses on students who have lived an international experience , and currently has a database consisting of 20,000 students who have the "right profile" by participating companies.

In turn, the program distinguishes between four groups of participants : students who are beginning their experience outside, others who have returned after a year abroad (whether licensed or not), those who already have entered the labor market, and Finally, foreigners who come to Spain to study.

Most Spanish

Currently 92% of participants in Erasmus Recruiting is Spanish and the other 8% of the rest of Europe and Latin America mainly. Some multinational companies in the program have a "high interest" in these young people who can form in Spain and then work on other delegations of the company in the world.

For such studies include engineering (32%), Business Administration (26%), Information Sciences (8%), social sciences (7%), Humanities (6%), Law (6%) and Experimental Sciences (6%).

The companies participating in the program are: Abbott, Banesto, BBVA, CLH, Gas Natural Group, Heineken, Iberia, Ikea, Inditex, Janssen, Kellogg, Merck, Prosegur, Siemens, Tecnalia, USP Hospitals and Vodafone.

Creating a Fire type text in Photoshop

2011-12-04T02:15:00.000-08:00

How to create a text type Fire in Photoshop

Hi everyone in this first tutorial will teach you how to create a fire text in photoshop style, this program is very difficult but not impossible to use just enough enthusiasm to have a good to learn to create anything they can think in this program is very fun to be creating images , text or other creations we desire.

The first thing to do is go into photoshop Go to File-New and I see a window where we must enter the name of the file for example: fire type, below where it says 1200 pixels wide and we will give you 1024 pixels height. In Here you enter the width and height of my monitor if you need to enter your monitor. Then where it says we leave resolution of 72 pixels / inch is the most recommended because it will have a higher resolution when saving the document. In RGB mode to leave it as it is better visualize the image .

Well it's time to start with the fun, after having entered the data style start by the fire.

1: We leave the colored black as black as the front will highlight more clearly the working document.

2: Then we go to the text tool to enter text such as: TEXT TYPE FIRE, by clicking the Text tool will appear right next to a layer where the text will be named after you change the font, size and center the text. Then we click the text layer right and we will rasterize text. In case you did not have that option we're going to Menu-Rasterize layer context.

3: Then we are at the text layer and drag the layer to the icons below to duplicate the layer.

Then copy and hide the layer we put ourselves back into the original and press Ctrl + E to merge the text layer with the background.

4: After we go to Image-Rotate Canvas-90-ac . And the text will change to vertical

We will begin to give effect to the text we're going to Filter-Stylize-Wind , we see a window where the wind will tell you either to the left and give ok. And we see that start to change the text but the wind effect applied four times then we will go back to filter but in tests we have selected case we will see wind, the first in the list and apply it four times and remain as in the image .

4: After having applied the wind we'll go back to Filter-Blur-Gaussian and we see a window in this case we will give you 2 pixels. Then we will not go to Image-Rotate Canvas-90-ACD and see that we again put the text as it was.

We go to Filter-Blend , and opens a window where you choose Turbulence. In brush size we can enter a larger size from 50 to 60% to simulate the flames and to simulate melting points in flames we can enter a 36 or less to create a good effect.

Just as in the image.

5: Now you will let us colored Imagen-Ajustes-Tono/saturación box and select the color that is in the lower right. Then entered in tone and saturation to 40 100 and we will see that and we are creating the color you want and give OK.

6: Then we are at where we are working layer which is joined to the bottom and drag the icon down like we did with the text layer and duplicate the layer.

Then we are located in the copy layer and go to Imagen-Ajustes-Tono/saturación but now he only admitted to select colors and give tone -20 OK.

Then we go to the fusion of the layers and we superimpose

7: Then We will make visible the text copy layer by clicking on the eye and give you right click options fusion and opens a window and add a gradient overlay option we choose the gradient and see that we change the text, we give Gradient and click opens a window where we have many colors we are at the color palette foreground and we put a black and brown the other side a clear and we ok.Y where it says scale it run till the end to have a good contrast. As shown in the picture.

8: Now we go to Layers-Flatten Image and you will see that we unite all the layers.

After the image again drag the icon below and duplicate the layer.

Now create a reflection for our text more realistic fire.

We are located in the layer copy, but hide the original layer by clicking the eye, now if we put ourselves in the copy and go to the magic wand and select all the text and click on the keyboard the key Del and see what we removes all color and only selected text.

We go to the Select menu, deselect and We will make visible the original layer.

Now we go to Edit -Transform-free and we create a box around the text in the box we put ourselves in the middle and drag it down and we validate. We will see that we have already been created our reflection.

9: Finally we will remove a bit of reflection to get more realism to the text, now we are at a 300 brush and eliminate the reflection, lowered the opacity to 31 and we have our text ready and fire type.

10: Now we can only save the image for this we go to File-Save As window appears and we give it a name and give you the option Format JPEG and we save.

It opens another window, but we like this and give OK. And we have our image ready

Quality education for Medellin

2011-12-01T22:46:00.000-08:00

Network is strengthened for quality education for Medellin

Currently 35 educational institutions belonging to the Network of Educational Quality Management, coordinated and sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Medellin and Proantioquia. To join simply say "I love you!"

With this sentence, Myriam Montes Tamayo, Montessori school principal, who has been a leader of the Network, invites those public and private schools to be part of an interdisciplinary team of teachers, principals, teachers and principals, who for three 3 years work to generate proposals and strategies to strengthen the educational system of the city.

What is the purpose?

The policy explains it as a network in which "seeks to collect a series of experiences, products and analysis on key issues teachers do that help drive the process and quality of Medellin."

Who's up?

All official academic or private sector who wish to participate in City construction project.

How long does it take?

Three years of work.

What is the methodology of participation?

Once a school decides to become a member or Proantioquia should be addressed to the Secretary of Education and complete a registration form. Then, you define what you want to integrate node.

The network is divided into 3 nodes:

Systematization and Research Node, inside has 3 working groups. One is working routes education of students, one investigates the students' perception on teachers, and the third, he worked a research article that was done last year.

Training Node: seeks to identify the characteristics of good teachers and ask how they should be training policies for teachers in Medellin.

Node Disclosure: who is responsible for collecting the products of the other nodes and design strategies to socialize with the educational community.

The act of socialization experiences of the nodes of this year, held in the auditorium of Proantioquia attended Ana Lucia Hincapie, Deputy Secretary of Quality Education.

The official applauded clustering model has integrated education because the experiences of both official and private sector.

He stressed the methodological process of the nodes and the network capacity to manage knowledge and systematize it. He also suggested that the products and research are brought to the classroom by teachers to generate reflections from there.

He stressed that both the Ministry of Education as Proantioquia have been facilitators of this process of knowledge management, thus: "The applause is for you, master," concluded the Secretary.

Scientist creates a free website for learning languages

2011-12-01T22:45:00.000-08:00

The Guatemalan Luis von Ahn, a professor in the School of Computer Science Carmegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA) today launched a beta version of a free site for learning languages.

The new draft Von Ahn, who at 33 has been considered one of the 50 most influential people in the world of technology, is the web http://duolingo.com

The system assesses students by level and provides simple sentences to translate.

If the user does not know a word, the program reveals its meaning and hints for the student to remember the next time.

At the same time can see how they have translated the same sentence as other students from anywhere in the world and start learning the language dynamically. Once past a certain level, more complex sentences are introduced.

So far have begun with the Spanish and German, but later came the French, Italian and Chinese.

Von Ahn, a graduate in Computer Science in 2003 by Duke University (North Carolina) and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in 2005, was included in this year's top 10 New Faces of Ibero-American thought Foreign Policy magazine.

Its success lies in trying to develop programs using the human capacity to solve problems that computers are not yet able to solve.

It is especially known for Captcha and ReCaptcha program, a computer security application that uses distorted letters and numbers that the user has to type correctly in a section blank.

This application incorporates many websites to block automatically generated spam and network attacks, and that only humans are able to fill that space.

252000 students signed up to pay the PSU

2011-08-03T23:41:00.001-07:00

The figure is lower by 10 thousand students on the process 2010. Meanwhile, more than 170 000 were awarded the scholarship Junaeb.

252 000 568 was the total number of students enrolled to pay the University Selection Test , according to the Department of Evaluation, Measurement and Educational Record, Demre.

The figure is lower than in the same regular period in 2010: 10 000 841 registered less.

Of the total, 190 000 018 people belong to the promotion of the year and 62 000 550 to past promotions.

The promotion of the year, 170 000 986 will use the grant from the National Board of Student Aid and Scholarships, which enable them to take the test for free: 71 000 258 correspond to municipal schools, 99 000 640 to subsidized private schools and 18 000 332 individuals paid.

Request of students and teachers

2011-08-03T23:40:00.000-07:00

During the meeting held by secondary students and professors with the Minister of Education, presented the petition to the government must respond today.

Last week students and teachers met with Education Minister Felipe Bulnes, who delivered a petition together, including concerns of all sectors.

The minister promised to deliver a response to this document during the day today. Known then what are the main points of the request of students and teachers.

Constitutional Change

The state must guarantee a free education, Democratic and Quality organized and funded by the State at all levels. What is required is to appear explicitly in the Constitution that education is a fundamental right and public good.

School education

- Desmunicipalización education . It proposes creating a National System of Public Education under the Ministry of Education, with its own assets and responsible for the administration of public education.

- New funding system to ensure contributions basal to all establishments and not through budget support.

- The creation of a new law teaching career based on merit and experience, which considers stages of professional development.

- Regulation and control of the creation of new subsidized schools . It aims to stop the creation of these facilities until there is legal basis for regulating their existence.

- Free TNE , ensuring school transportation 365 days a year, especially for students regions.

- National Plan for reconstruction of facilities .

- own funding system for vocational education and polytechnic school level to ensure infrastructure in line with scientific and technical advances to make qualified and appropriate to the respective specialties.

- Democratization of school spaces for student participation , reformulating Decree No. 524 with respect to the Student Centers, strengthening the role of these and Secondary Student Federations legally recognized.

Contributions basal

That should benefit the public universities. Also requested an increase in direct fiscal (AFD) permanent and progressive universities in the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (Cruch).

New system of access to universities

In addition, it calls for a new national accreditation system for schools. Asked to ensure a more representative of the socioeconomic reality of the country in the enrollment of each institution, reducing the weight of the PSU in the admission process transparent and assess their relevance.

New System of Scholarships and Student Finance

Are asked to promote a comprehensive restructuring of the scholarship system to end the family debt.

Superintendent of Higher Education

Creating the superintendent shall have the power to oversee and enforce the law establishing the prohibition of profit in any institution of higher education.

Educational Rights of Indigenous Peoples

It asks among other things, increase the amount of the grant indigenous and intercultural create a state university.

Technical Training Centers and Institutes Professionals

New policies to improve technical training centers and professional institutes. If you order a state guarantee to ensure the education offered technical training centers and professional institutes in all regions, creating a national network of free technical education and quality.

universities reject government proposal

2011-08-03T23:39:00.000-07:00

While the Confederation of Students of Chile, CONFECH, was to formally answer whether approved or rejected the government proposal on Friday, federations and college have clear picture that points to a refusal to be "inadequate and not respond to the demands of petition ".

This is the case of the University of Concepción . Its president, William Petersen, told La Tercera that "we reject the government's proposal because it emanated from an ideological agreement of this political class and does not respond to, for example, how the state will guarantee education as a right and only deepens on indebtedness. "

A similar view is the president of the Student Federation of the U. Católica de Valparaíso , Nataly Espinoza, who said that "we did an analysis of the proposal of the minister and the students considered it a setback because it allows profit. We see no structural change, on the contrary, privatization further education and perpetuating the debt, "demanded the leader.

While for the vice president of Utem , Cesar Urbina, document delivery with 21 points progress towards democratization, "there are bright lights aimed at further privatizing."

"There is dissatisfaction with the Federation about that (points) are few specific regard to our demands. It's more of the same, do not specify the amounts, for example, "he said.

Discontent across the country. In the north, Arica, president of the Federation of U. Tarapacá , Macarena Godinez, told La Tercera that the document does not "guarantee to get free items or be an equitable system. No Psu rejected. We appreciate the initiative of the preparatory course but it's a band-aid solution, "he said. UTA students formally vote today in the afternoon.

A scenario that is repeated in the U. Playa Ancha that takes more than two months to take. "The first approaches are negative towards the government's proposal does not present anything poque back to what I already mentioned the former minister Lavin," said Anibal Olea.

In addition, during the course of the day the U. de Chile, U. Arturo Prat and Austral Bio Bio also decided to vote against the government proposal. With this scenario, add 11 campuses.

Good books from school to college

2011-05-05T22:46:00.001-07:00

How to make a young student who can read a future avid reader as a teenager? How to listen to and what kind of reading the guide?

How to help a child to love reading in the school year where he started to enjoy the deciphering of the texts and to feel the need to know in his close entourage, both at school and family to share this joy with those new he likes ...

Analyze needs
The youth edition has become a must for caring parents to their children's intellectual awakening of new readers. The covers of the books have an essential attraction for the child or preteen and layout has to seduce the one who flips. So much for the novels of contemporary authors as for the classic look updated, over 20% of young readers buy a book on the good looks of the cover, even more than with the advice of a friend, not to mention the parental influence that it plays only for 11% of this purchase ...

What readings for what age?
Two criteria to be first in order to determine if these books are suitable for mature young readers:

reading level required
substantive remark made by the books.
The ideal course of reading, in parallel with school life, aims to read books at this pivotal age and go upmarket to ensure a gradual, based on:

"The 1001 children's books need to be read to grow" at the initiative of Julia Eccleshare , Editions Flammarion, a voluminous document of course, but full of sound references
"An ideal library - That read 5 to 11 years?" Anne-Laure Blanc , at Mare editions, which helps to support an informed choice, living and participatory.
Reading aloud is recommended to give substance to the story and give birth as per click, in the child's appetite for reading, in the opinion of Danielle Sallenave who recently published "Why do you write novels" .

Found in two publications for school listed above, for example, books Roal Dahl, Anne Fine for humor and investigations as well as historical novels, in short, a wide, jubilant.

What appeals to a younger audience?
Read in these terms, tips and caring support, enable a discovery of flexible and spontaneous personal connection that develops between a reader and book.

Read must be a first experience of life, a preparation that involves live, reflect a transposition in the text, common emotions: those of love, rejoice, be afraid ... doubt.

Universal themes always occupy an important place: the fantastic especially chivalrous like Tolkien's work, but also romance, anticipation, science fiction. In the age group of tweens: Serge Brussolo , Pierre Bordage, for France.

Reflections of Practitioners
How to get out of Harry Potter and Twilight by refusing any fatalism, putting aside the two pillars and reading standards, popular among young readers today?

The classics of French literature in the short-Classics Collection Folio, the short novels of Francis Place , the new AméricainTruman Capote, a mix of short texts illustrious literary memory of French or foreign, with those of authors contemporaries, arouse the desire to read.

Jean-Phillipe-Arrou Vignod who has taught and written extensively for Gallimard, do not hesitate to advise students to ignore the first 80 pages of Father Goriot and long descriptions, which can discourage.

His own books, intended for a young audience, funny and profound, are designed to foster the development of an inner world in which every young student matures.

Writer and educator author who also is a teacher, has designed many book reports available on the site, Gallimard Jeunesse, which are valuable job aids, including addressing the children's novels are very popular as very useful , both teachers and parents curious to effectively guide student learning.

"Share the love of words, books and stories" and repeat the child, the adolescent (...) "Be curious! Everything. Fascinated up for the construction of the pyramids, the birth of stars The lives of men in Calcutta, Zanzibar, past history as the present age, as far as the nearest. thy neighbor as overseas ... Read, listen, look. Learn without prejudice, or exclusive laziness. Let nothing from the incredible profusion of human activities, do either indifferent. "

Puzzle of Energy Independence

2011-04-22T03:22:00.001-07:00

It is time to queries about our energy future. Oil and nuclear are the daily news, will they fizzle?

Globalization has gradually left its unmistakable imprint all sectors. Nations do more exuberant leeway and are faced with the relentless development of economic logic, fickle peoples' concerns, political instability and the weakening of global natural resources.

It is particularly located in the heart of the strategic sector that is the preeminent energy, mainly for oil and gas sectors, but also for renewable energy like wind and solar and nuclear energy naturally.

In this framework, defining a draft smart energy mix, combining welfare and sustainability, meeting economy and population, is an extremely delicate exercise requiring a quasi-divination.

Energy choices in a democracy
The French state, like most other governments, will have to pay it again, its primary energy mix is too dissonant, both to satisfy public opinion and to respect its international commitments. Only 5% of renewable energy, against 53% of fossil fuels (oil and gas) and 42% nuclear (78% of electricity production) can not in any way appropriate for a prosperous and healthy (source: INSEE ). So many questions to be addressed with accuracy and diplomacy, which has never been the preserve of French officials, who have predisposition to hear only the voice technocratic certainly useful, but terribly fallible. The recent example of the place of the moratorium on photovoltaic shows that public consultation, even if led by inspectors general well-meaning, remain paltry sham and infertile justified by the mere facade of propriety against professionals.

The future of nuclear energy
Of course, obliges news, nuclear power will be at the heart of the first questions. Should he or not to renew the existing fleet is a matter warranting serious discussion that the next presidential campaign might require, and if the answer should be affirmative, it would then determine how and how quickly achieve its development level in surrounding himself with all the appropriate safeguards. Finally, the thorny problem of processing and storage of radioactive waste should be treated with clarity and integrity.

The end of oil era
The oil and gas supplies, with their attendant difficulties growing faster output constraint of the era of fossil fuel use, must be serious-looking analysis to develop the tools of equilibrium between applied research and energy savings. Transport could well become a nightmare for decades, the conversion of parks not even started. Fortunately, the residential has received much more attention and technical regulations of the building are, in principle, the model for the industry.

The solar photovoltaic unwelcome, shark's prowl...
Issues explode into fireworks on renewable energy. The wind, which like nuclear is not unanimous, solar thermal and photovoltaic as geothermal sectors remain extremely marginal, despite the ups and downs of goodwill displayed followed by inexplicable turnovers justified by false arguments.

The questions around the energy mix expansion, diversification concerning both the singular involvement of lobbyists and energy companies in decision-making.

Desire Versus Need

2011-04-15T23:29:00.000-07:00

Desire vs. Need: the difference between man and animal

Philosophy: can we consider that the man would wish that when the animal would need?

Can we consider that man is the desire that the animal is in need? In other words, the desire is it's own rights?

Need and desire: two opposing concepts
If the need arises as a necessary outcome of nature, requirement of social life, under a constraint of instinct, desire, it seems to be a desire, an instinct, a feeling. In addition, while the need is innate, fundamental and permanent, the desire is characterized by its ephemeral nature, its superfluity. Born of a cultural conditioning, it is of the order of the acquis.

However, can we oppose need and desire to rigidly and final?

Man as animal is required
In the 1940s, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow made a pyramid of needs, with five main levels: physiological needs come after the security needs, then those belonging and socialization which follow esteem needs and finally those of personal accomplishment.

This pyramid shows a ranking of the most basic needs at least necessary. In fact, it is only when the imperatives of survival met that man will address its social condition and his emotional situation.

The animal feels, of course, also physiological needs, safety and emotional needs.

The man, an animal desire conditioned by society
Desire, which can be tangible, sensory or physical, is widely exploited by advertising that each of us has submitted several thousand times a day. The purpose of advertising is to keep us in a state of permanent anxiety and dissatisfaction, its ideal target is frustrated or neurotic, ill at ease and struggling to find its place in society. The good candidate will try to compensate for the sense of lack and inadequacy he feels by taking refuge in materialism exacerbated, presented as a panacea to their problems.

You may remember this commercial for a laundry aired in fall 2010 and showed a young woman who lost her beloved because his laundry had tarnished the little top that he loved. Fortunately, thanks to its new detergent, such blunder never happen again and the good housewife was finally able to keep her new man to her. The message here clearly anxiety - in addition to being stupid - playing on fear and trauma carrying potential of the target.

In modern society, there is a blurring between the concepts of desire and need
The modern Western man, conditioned by its environment, is no longer able to distinguish desires of its needs. The omnipresent advertising, materialism and consumerism as well as ambient mode extremely volatile, in our mind transforms desire into need. For proof, just consider the common phrase "I need" used to say "I want". It is obvious that when one says "I need an I-Pad, it does not imply that it is a vital necessity.

Where does the desire?
The desires of modern man seems underpinned by instincts. Thus, conformity is justified by the herd instinct, the need to find its place in the pack. Why this fear of being isolated? By simple survival instinct, perhaps ...

Uncertainties
The lack of communication between man and the animal should it lead us to decide conclusively that the animal anthropomorphic and does not desire? Do not we see a dog choose his food and his manifest desire to be cuddled?

Other distinctions most relevant?
However, the animal appears more logical than the man because he is not subject to this incredible hormonal disorder that is the feeling of love and also irrational impulses and anti-constructive passions. In fact, no animal collects logs as some of us hoard piles of beer caps that are struggling to make the bike every day with a wooden leg and foam teeth!

Professional social networks

2011-04-13T22:57:00.000-07:00

Dynamic, on the lookout for new, multilingual, etc.. Shape your online reputation by highlighting your skills through professional social networks.

Twitter, Facebook, MSN, etc.. Social networks are now integral parts of your life. In some "tweets" you get to know people around the world get back or simply connect with friends lost touch. But, you know networking? Like traditional social networks, professional social networks allow you to interact and share information on companies, industries and the trades. They are therefore a clever way to create and expand its address book. In addition, this sphere 2.0 Professional allows you to make a difference on the labor market. It increases, in fact, your visibility on the web while increasing your online reputation to help you land a job.

Build your virtual image
The canvas lists thousands of profiles. With you to play the card of the difference. Like a brand, highlight your personality, your qualities, your projects, etc.. The goal: to build a single virtual identity. A series of questions is needed to clearly define your goals and at the same time know you better. The image conveyed must be consistent with your personality and your values. Once done, then set the media on which you want to connect: blogs, business sites, social networks, articles, etc.. Choose your network, you can better target your future contacts.

List of professional sites:
viadeo.com is a general network.
linkedln.com is oriented towards international profiles.
xing.com is turned towards the German labor market.

Your profile, a real card
Your profile is a "window" of yourself. In a nutshell, recruiters identify your career, your ambitions and if you fit the position sought. A more detailed paper resume, he articulates from your past experiences a true professional project. This page also highlights your interests. Several essential points must be on your profile:

the position you now occupy,
your previous work experiences,
your skills,
your extra-professional activities: hobbies, ambitions, projects,
links to your projects, articles, blogs, website,
your actions: volunteering, charity work, etc..
Also, think carefully about the keywords used. Companies must be able to easily find on the web. In seconds, your profile will appear on Google pages corresponding to it. Example: product manager cosmetics, English, International.

Note, view profiles and invite members to see your page are two free transactions. However, apply to get in touch with members who are not part of your circle of friends, knowing the identity of individuals who visited your page, two things are paying.

Boost your online reputation
Dynamics, listening to others and reagent are the main qualities to highlight. Professional sites offer, in fact, the ability to provide advice to users and receive recommendations. Tools in hand, you glean contacts, participate in discussion groups on specific topics (hubs), maintain your relationships with other members, update your profile, etc.. These steps require time and patience without being paid in the end. Therefore, do not give other media job search. Only 2% of recruitments take place on social networks today.

Note, there is no need to register on multiple networks. Focus primarily on a network, which is consistent with your business goals.

Controlling the flow of information
Controlling the flow of information means to manage your contacts and your image.

Manage your contacts
Colleagues, suppliers, customers, etc.. your first "friends" are part of your entourage. Leading to another, their relations also become yours. You weave, and a network of increasingly broad. More than just contacts, they advise you, you share their tips and help you boost your career or find a new job. A real relationship of trust is therefore essential. The danger: let invade. To avoid this, you have the right to refuse contacts, appointments and even a job.

Manage your virtual image
Every word, critical or embarrassing picture posted on your personal page can play against you with recruiters and break at the same time, your e-reputation. They reach it, in fact, easily to your account. Often self-feed a page on major social networks. Moreover, nothing can be erased or hard on the net. The management of human resources collection, thereby, via the Internet a wealth of information about you without moving. So, beware of inconsistencies between the various information posted on the web and the ones you sent to the company. Only solution: lock access to certain pages of your "characters".

Marketing easy or difficult

2011-03-24T23:59:00.001-07:00

We all have choices in our life and I remember saying that a few years ago -. "Experiences should be difficult to learn" I remember the look I got from a person who had gone through a life experience that I and "knew" was being, for lack of a better word, a martyr. However, I was "everything is" at the time and created enough of me, that if something is worth learning, and well worth doing so, it must be difficult.

False ! When I started my business, marketing was difficult .

It was difficult because I was saying it was hard. Even that is hard to say, "I was not a seller. I just want to do the best I can do, and where are the potential customers for me." I was my own team of animators, " Marketing is not hard "a yy again. The fact is that nothing is difficult if you believe it. For many people who say that everything is difficult, and nothing is easy if you believe. Now, how to do something easy?

1. First - that he (or they) your partner and not give up the fight! Let me give a personal example. I remember when I first arrived with a new style of marketing approach, people did not understand, and of course, did not support it.

What I realized was that people really were doing a favor. I knew, deep inside me, and something that fueled the fire within me. I began to really appreciate your help negative almost to the point of asking more of ... but I did not. Because people became my allies, now I have a business to help others find their domestic market.

Task

Write an example of negative marketing and what you're struggling to turn it into something positive.

2. Keep it simple "The marketing is" simple "and let people know, what you do. How many times have you thought, I needed some big marketing plan designed to make successful connections? Of course, the next step after that is when you I thought I needed a plan developed with the tracks and marketing? To put it simply, think about what you enjoy doing.

I like to bring to entrepreneurs brainstorm , both in person and by teleconference. They really get a lot of potential customers. It is "simply" making a band together in a format that I like and as a facilitator, all participants know what they do because I talk about my business. Write what you enjoy doing and meet with potential customers.

Then create a format to benefit their business and introduce yourself.

3. Write from the heart - Tell a story of an experience . As articles on the internet or in print that is one of the best ways to get in front of people. Guess what I heard? "Nobody wants to read something of mine and I'm not a good writer." (So they say). My response to "Nobody wants to read something of mine is that I do not underestimate. So many of us take for granted our talents or even look at them as talents.

I bet if you searched. On the Internet is something for sale as a product or service you comes naturally and you can do better. If you think you're not a good writer, just tell a story and write from the heart. There is nothing better than that. Marketing can be very simple and basic if you let it be.

You can make it difficult, or it can be seen for what it is - other giving, what they do through a basic and simple method.

Public Education

2011-03-14T03:00:00.000-07:00

Public education is necessary for children. These schools are supported by taxes people.Public education is the education needed for children, as required by the laws of government - national, regional or local - and the financial support of civil aviation through taxes.

Public education is often provided basic education, K-12 education, primary and secondary education. Most of the time, public education is not always to post-secondary education, training or universities, colleges or technical institutes. ( Online Degrees )

Education System
Public education in the United States is usually controlled by individual states. These were, in turn, delegate the task of daily operations for school districts to work locally. Local elected school boards of direct public school districts and high schools, in accordance with the guidelines of the state government.

In other countries, the public education system is centralized at the national level, such as France, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Defined education
public education is often to groups of students in a class. "Public education is not the same as" public schools because public education can be done at home or in other places such as malls and offices.

"Public education is not similar to the" publicly funded education. "The government can finance education that may not necessarily be public education. Publicly funded education is in the form of grants in aid to private schools and voucher systems.

A public school can not rely on public funding as money donated by philanthropists. What makes public schools is the fact that it is owned by the public and private person / entity.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) said that public education in the November 23, 1900 speech: .. "Every time a school, you will have to build a prison What is gained by one side loses the other 's as the" feed a dog in the queue. It is not fatten the dog. "Schools, therefore, is a necessary tool to combat crime and violence.

Education Funding
No Child Left Behind gives the Department of Education the power to withhold state funds if a school district or have violated certain rules and not make efforts to comply. Federal funds, however, does not include a piece huge education funding.

Most funding for public education comes from state government and local property taxes. Several organizations made up primarily of teachers have been pushing for more funding and reforms in the allocation of tax money as some schools have limited funding compared to other schools in wealthier districts.

Public education offers students the opportunity to progress and a better future. It also translates into a more peaceful and orderly. Government, therefore, should provide funding for public schools a priority.

Science in Indian Education

2010-12-29T22:15:00.001-08:00

National Science Day is observed every year on 28th February to mark the novel discovery of Raman Effect by the great Indian Physicist Sir C.V.Raman on this day in 1928. Raman Effect is a phenomenon in spectroscopy discovered by him while working in the laboratory of the Indian Association for the cultivation of Science, Calcutta. After two years of this discovery, Sir C.V.Raman brought the first Nobel Award for the country in 1930. Since 1987 National Council for Science and Technology communication fixed 28th February as National Science Day. The basic objective for observing National Science Day is to spread the message of importance of Science and its application among the people. All the NSD activities are planned around a theme for the year. Some of the interesting themes were; for 2006: Nurture Nature for the future, 2007: More crop per drop.
The role science could play in the development of India was realized by the leadership of the country long before independence.In 1938, Pt. J.LNehru sent a message to Silver Jubilee Session of Indian Science Congress at Calcutta was, "It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and traditions". Nobel Laureate Sir C.V.Raman once remarked, "There is only one solution for India's economic problems and that is science and more science and still more science". Homi Bhabha in 1966 while addressing the International Council of Scientific Unions, in Bombay, remarked "What the developed countries have and the under-developed lack is modern science and an economy based on modern technology."

Pt. Nehru's dream was of modern prosperous India propelled by Science and Technology. Naturally school science education received special attention in the brave new world of Nehru's India, though not in systematic fashion. After independence major break through came in Indian Education System with the implementation of Kothari Commission's Report. Learning of science became compulsory both for boys and girls from class first to tenth. Previously learning science was an option for girls and boys used to begin it after class fifth. At present superior strength of school system is in the area of mathematics, physical and life sciences. Creativity and innovations are not too remote for Indian School Students. Every year hundreds of schools arrange/participate in science exhibitions of the objects created by school students in mega-cities. Some of the projects are prized at national and inter-national level. Some of our students participate in International Science Olympiads and win prizes.

But there is other side of the picture. In almost all the states and in the majority of the schools there is a trend of including more and more content overwhelmingly in the form of factual information in the syllabus. Laboratories in the schools have declined and even of demonstration once common are now confined to elite schools. Factual information that dominates the syllabi is not supported by any kind of activity. Students therefore have no option but to memorize the facts. Consequently maximum number of student's find science not only difficult but boring. Little effort is made to get to the roots of students difficulties. Teachers fail to develop in the students basic concepts which are built on the previous knowledge of students. Learning science for life is almost ignored. In each class, science is learnt to prepare for next higher class. As a result majority of students don't want to opt this subject beyond class tenth. Not long ago, a study conducted by National Council of Applied Economic and Research revealed that less than three percent of school students want to pursue a career in science. It is because that the current education system in schools lays emphasis on rate learning which apparently fails to kindle interest in Science.

Beyond the higher secondary stage, too little of the zeal for science finds its way into the University system. There are vast dragnets of engineering, technology, medicine and so forth, which draw the best scientific talent away. In 2003 a study conducted by "The National Institute of Science Technology and Development (NISTAD) revealed that between 1992-2003 both at plus two and college levels in Delhi, priority for science discipline as a whole was on decline. The data of college enrolment in sciences between 1990-91 and 1997-98 revealed that on an average about 48 percent of the students drifted out of B.Sc Course to join professional courses. These students were those who got admission after securing 80-90 percent marks at plus two levels. The choice of the National Talent search awardees also reflects this trend. In recent years, of the 750 awardees hardly 100 opted for science and only 15-20 percent pursue science to the post graduation level.

The B.Sc course for instance has failed because it is over regulated and standardized, so much so that a student has no say in selecting his subjects of study. We are in a situation where the system makes decisions for the students. Allotment of the subjects to the students is just like a 'ration card mentality'. It is rarely that students with obsession and passion for science enter the portal of colleges and universities that offer science courses which constitute "catchment area" for serious scientific work. Even those highly motivated who choose to remain in science and move into universities for post graduation and research are confronted with outdated curricula, disinterested teachers, un-inspiring teaching and poor infrastructure. In fact 88% of the students who opt for science are studying in affiliated colleges. Most of these colleges, flout the rules prescribed for teaching science by University Grants Commission. For their part, Universities have long abandon the accent on research and have merely become counters killing the enthusiasm even of the few motivated students.
The reasons for this mass exodus of brilliant young persons from science to professional courses aren't far to seek, One obvious explanation is that a career in science doesn't pay and those who still continue to be in science do so as a last resort. They are there, 'unmotivated' and 'un-interested'. To cap it all that is, the authoritarian attitude of Indian scientists in 'commanding positions' either at the universities or in national science laboratories have done much to drive away precious science talent. Indian research contributed a mere 2.16% of world's science and technology publications between 1993-2004. One of the factors that has marginalized Indian Science is the extremely meager support forthcoming from budgetary resources. Not even 1% of GDP goes to Science and allied research.

This year's Noble prize for chemistry has been given to Venktaraman Ramankrishna of Baroda, presently in Ohio University. Decades ago he failed to clear medical and engineering entrances conducted by IIT. He also appeared in the entrance test for reputed Christian medial college in vellore but was unsuccessful to get a seat. Now the evaluation methodology of entrance tests conducted is being reviewed and the role of coaching classes which teach 'tricks of the trade' to get through is also being sought out. After his post doctoral degree in science in eighties, Venktaraman Ramakrishnan applied for a job in about 50 Indian Universities but failed. There seems to be something wrong with our methods of selection of teachers in our universities.

At a public lecture at the Indian Institute of science campus, Bangalore, Venktarman was asked by a member of the audience if he had plans of returning to India. He said, "No". There are some rules essential for science to thrive. Apart from material infrastructure there needs to be an intellectual freedom, where there are no masters but only disciples. It must have people who are committed. Science is not a career or a profession but a way of life. Knowledge is built that way. Sometimes a discovery here and a proof there, shakes or even destroys the very edifice, no discouragement that the building again starts brick by brick. It is this situation which is exciting about science. This kind of set up may not be available for Venktaraman in India.

Valentine Day

2010-12-07T22:26:00.000-08:00

February 14 is Valentine’s day. The day make us think of lovers. Pink, pastels, flowers, candy are all special things for the special day.

    Roses are Red

    Violets are Blue

    Let me count the ways that I Love you.

February 14, 2009 is Valentine’s day. The first thing comes to our mind is Valentine’s for lovers. Two people in love, teenage love, husband and wife love and older love. The day make us think of lovers. Valentine does not have to be about two people in love but all the other people in our lives that deserve to be recognize as being special in our lives.

Valentine’s day is such a special time of the year. The excitement that Valentine’s day bring, should be felt all year long not just on one day. We use candy, flowers, jewelry and cards to say I love you instead of saying what can I do to make your day better. To forget 364 days of the year to say and do things to show our love ones we care but on one day go overboard with the gifts. We try to show someone that we love them on one day Valentine’s Day. We should just remember to say I love you everyday and give gifts any day to show our appreciation not only when it is a specific holiday. It don’t have to be an expensive gift a homemade gift, card, muffins or breakfast for a love one can mean so much. Poetry is a nice way to remind someone of caring, or understanding the feelings of another.

What are your plans for Valentine’s day, A special Dinner, Play, movie or just spending time with the special people in your life. Don’t forget your flowers, candy and cards or the special person in your life may think you don’t care. With the economy slow down, it may be fun to look to other alternative ideas. Coupons for a car wash, 1 week of cleaning services, and a special home cook meal. It is always fun making cards with the young ones and baking cupcakes to give to their love ones, it gives them pride to show that something they made with their hands means so much to their loves.

What ever you do have a lovely day and Love yourself.

Benefits of 3G Technology

2010-12-02T03:28:00.000-08:00

Like GPRS, 3G (third generation wireless technology) is a wireless communications service that lets you stay permanently connected to the Internet via mobile phone, handheld computer, the Tablet PC or laptop. 3G technology promises better quality and reliability, faster data transmission and higher bandwidth (which includes the ability to run multimedia applications). With data rates up to 384 Kbps, almost seven times faster than a standard telephone connection.This allows us to have video calls, as these calls are made with a direct Internet connection Telme offers this service for free.

3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation voice and data transmission via mobile phones. The technically correct definition is UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service. Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service)The services associated with the third generation provides the ability to transfer both voice and data (a telephone call or video call) and non-voice data (such as downloading programs, exchanging email, and instant messaging). Although this technology was aimed at mobile telephony, in recent years mobile operators offer exclusive access to the Internet using USB modem, without having to buy a mobile phone, so any computer can have Internet access. There are some ultraportable devices such as (netbooks), featuring the modem built into the computer, but require a SIM card (which they carry mobile phones) to use, so in this case it is necessary to be discharged with a phone number.

What are the benefits of 3G technology?
It says users of GPRS and 3G are "always connected", since these methods of connection have permanent access to the Internet. Through short text messages, field employees can communicate their progress and request assistance. Executives who are traveling can access corporate e-mail, just as can a salesperson, you can also consult the inventory. You can automate your home or office with GPRS and 3G devices to monitor their investments.

How 3G technology will change our lives
Below is the synopsis of how the introduction of 3G services by telecom operators will change our lives in response to our reader invite (below).

Having raced to the bottom in their voice tariffs and saddled with low average revenue per user, Indian carriers are seeing hope with the launch of 3G services.While MTNL and BSNL had a lead of almost two years they have failed to make the cut because of their lack of understanding of the desired device and content ecosystem.

Tata DOCOMO, Aircel, Reliance Communications and Airtel have launched their 3G services and it's expected they will heavily rely on smartphones, application stores and multimedia content to evince interest from the consumer.As already proved in western economies consumption of data has been the single biggest factor for change in the fortune of carriers.

As we start to talk about what this means and where this will lead to let's take a look what 3G means and how it will change the way you consume telecommunication services and products in India in the years to come.

3G networks are more efficient than 2G networks because of the wider frequency band that they operate in. This means higher bandwidth content such as music and video can be effortlessly streamed over the network. There are many competing technologies within 3G, however the most preferred across the globe is High Speed Packet Access (HSPA).

Airtel and Aircel have chosen HSPA while Tata DOCOMO and RCOM have selected an even more efficient version HSPA+ (Evolved HSPA) that promises even greater network speeds.HSPA+ is the same technology that T-mobile is rolling out as 4G in the US.HSPA gives a download speed of 14 Mbps (megabits per second) and an upload speed of 5.8 Mbps.HSPA+ gives a download speed of 56 Mbps and an upload speed of 22 Mbps and supports Internet Protocol (IP) architecture. In contrast 2G working on GSM/EDGE technology gives a measly data speed of 56 to 360 Kbps.

So for a country that loves to talk what difference does high speed Internet make?It does and that is where the whole ecosystem, demographics and the content ecosystem dovetail perfectly.A simple but startling comparison is a good place to start: In a population of 1.2 billion there are just around 40 million PCs neatly overshadowed by 600 million mobile phones.

In India where the fixed line network is scarce and inefficient 3G technology marks a huge connectivity leap and should be hailed as an enabling technology in bringing Internet connectivity to all.This means that a phone can be used to watch live TV, used as a virtual phone using a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service, do video-conferencing using Skype, use Facebook, Orkut or Twitter, listen to live music from Internet radio or a music service like Spotify, share photos, use as a tether to download books and play games.

This shift is also expected to give a boost to the fortunes of the application developer community in India, not a big one at the moment and more used to working on pre-historic Symbian platform that has been chugging along because of Ovi music.

The mobile app development market is a huge opportunity and if valuations of certain companies like Foursquare and Rovio are anything to go by it has the potential to create a new industry in India.

Few of the companies like Hungama Mobile, OnMobile and IMIMobile are moving out of their VAS legacy to embrace this new reality. Various indicators such as strong mobile advertising numbers from Inmobi, mobile marketing, huge VAS content consumption and several mobile banking and payment ventures are encouraging enough to indicate a latent mobile commerce appetite.

Other than the crucial infrastructure upgrade, carriers have been busy lining up content, smartphones, data plans along with a strong marketing exercise to educate customers. Here is a lowdown on the essential components in this ecosystem.

These are virtual stores through which consumers can download software applications for their mobile phones. Software applications could be anything from gaming, document manager to a train timetable application.

Some of the applications are free and supported through advertising; others carry a monthly subscription fee while few of them carry a one-time download fee.

Typically carriers have their own app stores however the experience from other markets tells that carriers do not provide a great experience.

Tata's is called 3G Life services, Aircel is busy promoting its Pocket Apps, Bharti has come out with App Central and RCom has been working behind the scenes with GetJar to launch its app store.

The biggest winners will be Samsung, Nokia and Apple who have an established App store and provide a quality that cannot be matched by carriers.However, there is a strong market for regional content and none of these providers has anything to vet that appetite.

Smartphones
Phones that support 2100 MHz frequency will work on 3G. Most of the smartpones built in the last two years should support 3G. However there are a few that support only GSM/EDGE frequencies.

So what are smartphones?
If you have in hand a phone with the processing power of a computer it's called a smartphone.HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy, iPhone 4 are few of the smartphones that boast of 1 GHz processing power along with a smart UI, HD playback and some cool features such as accelerometer, digital compass and GPS.Nokia N8 launched recently lags behind in its processing power and the UI.Naturally these phones also excite developers to develop applications that fully utilise the device capability otherwise risking disengagement with the consumer.This is the reason why device manufacturers and carriers are finicky about quality of mobile applications in order to maintain a higher quality of engagement with their consumers.

Advertising and marketing
Monetisation of content is the key to rewarding all participants in the ecosystem. Similar to Internet advertising, as mobile viewership will increase, brands and advertisers will start promoting themselves on mobile phones.The ad revenue generated goes directly to the app developer with the carrier and ad network retaining a cut. This is a big opportunity as most of the users prefer a free application or content and advertising is a primary medium to incentivise the developer.As shown in the developed markets mobile advertising has grown multi-fold in the last one year moving into sophisticated formats such as proximity advertising and instant promotions.

Data plans
After having done all the effort this is where the carrier expects a lift in its topline. At the moment most of the data plans have been tiered based on data consumption and future plans will evolve around usage patterns.For example, if a user spends most of the time on Facebook than an unlimited Facebook plan can be purchased.Similar plans would be available for Skype or heavy chat users.With a surge in traffic these kinds of plans will help carriers optimise traffic and better utilise existing assets.The possibilities are endless and we have just scratched the surface.

Online Bachelors Degrees

2010-10-21T00:07:00.000-07:00

Since reunification there was never such a large increase in college graduates as in 2009. More experts but not necessarily the means.

The bachelor's degrees at German universities gain in importance. About one in five graduate studies completed in 2009 with a BA examination from - ie a total of about 72,000 students. Two years earlier, accounted for only one in twelve final exam at the bachelor tests, in 2008 was about one in eight, as the Federal Statistical Office announced in Wiesbaden.

Overall, there were since reunification have never such a large increase in graduates as last year. 339 000 young people excluded from the examination in 2009 her studies. There are almost ten percent more than in 2008. As the statisticians in Wiesbaden said, this is the highest increase since 1993, were recovered in the first all-German higher education data.

This does not create more skilled workers for the labor market. As a reason for the increase in the number of graduates, the Federal Office who emphasized the Bologna reform with the introduction of Bachelor and Master degree programs based on it. Many students then put to a test, the Bachelor
Master exam and thus appear in the two respective annual statistics as a graduate.

Most university degrees are, however, continued after diploma or master's degree programs for a total around 106,000 in the previous audit year. 2009 put about 36,000 students from teaching qualifications, and more than 25,000 made their promotion and their nearly 21,000 master. Nearly 4700 graduates completed their studies with an art degree.

The bachelor degree programs are very popular, particularly among women: In 2009, there were about 37,000 more bachelor's degree than those who did their degree at a university. There are 30,000 women. Whereas men predominated university degrees. Two out of five examinations in the subject group Bachelor of Law, Economics and Social Sciences have been stored.

About one in five graduate studies (21 percent) completed the examination in 2009 (winter semester 2008/09 and summer 2009) with a BA from - around 72 000 Two years earlier, accounted for only one in twelve final exam at the bachelor tests, in 2008 was about one in eight, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Thursday in Wiesbaden.

Overall, there has never been since the reunification of such a large increase in graduates as last year. 339 000 young people completed their studies in the examination in 2009 - nearly ten percent more than in 2008. As the statisticians in Wiesbaden said, this is the highest increase since 1993, were recovered in the first all-German higher education data.

This does not create more skilled workers for the labor market. As a reason for the increase in the number of graduates, the Federal Office who emphasized the Bologna reform with the introduction of Bachelor and Master degree programs based on it. Many students put off by a bachelor exam then the final examination and thus appear in the statistics as a graduate of two years on.

Most university degrees are, however, continued after diploma or master's degrees - a total of around 106,000 in the last audit year. 2009 put about 36,000 students from teaching qualifications, and more than 25,000 made their promotion and their nearly 21,000 master. Nearly 4700 graduates completed their studies with an art degree.

The bachelor degree programs are very popular, particularly among women: In 2009, there were about 37,000 more bachelor's degree as a specialist university graduates (30,000). In men, the specialist diplomas predominated (43,000 to 35,000). Two out of five examinations in the subject group Bachelor of Law, Economics and Social Sciences have been stored.

All About Twitter

2010-09-13T01:59:00.001-07:00

While MySpace, Facebook and Orkut have already changed the way their users socialize, there is always demand for more. New technologies, simpler applications, ease of use have lead to innovations in the online world. Just when you thought you were accustomed to one social networking site, there's news: Tweeting in your PC.

Social networking sites and blogs are now the fourth most popular online activity and are growing in popularity twice as quickly as traditional online pursuits, such as email and searching. The Nielsen Online research found that 67 per cent of web users visit social networks and blogs, which now account for 10 percent of all time spent on the Internet, reports ctv.ca. The 'in' thing among social networking websites is Twitter.

Twitter - a free social networking and micro-blogging service - enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known all followers.

Jack Dorsey created Twitter in 2006 and its simplicity has made it a rage among Internet users. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" and the answers being under 140 characters can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

Twitter is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet". Unlike Orkut and Facebook where you have 'friends', Twitter allows you to follow people whom you want to see updates from. The idea behind other social sites is to connect people that already know one another while the idea behind Twitter is to allow you to connect people that you find interesting, but don't necessarily know. Both have their weighed pros and cons.

How do I get started?

On the www.twitter.com page find a link which reads, 'Get Started - Join'. All you have to do is to enter your full name and email address and choose a user name and a password. If you have accounts with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or MSN, you can use any of them to find friends who are already using this service. You are also offered a list of famous tweeters you can follow.

You can then start tweeting, by typing in the box on top of the page whatever you want to say. Although you're asked 'What are you doing?' you can post anything you want. Tweets can also be deleted. You can also reply to tweets of people you follow.

How do I follow?

When you create an account, you can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email. Once you've found your friends, follow them to start getting their updates. Following someone simply means receiving his/her Twitter updates. When you follow someone, every time he/she posts a new message, it will appear in your Twitter home page.

When you sign up for Twitter, you have the option of keeping your account public (the default account setting) or protecting the account to keep your updates private. Protected accounts receive a follow request every time someone wants to follow him/her and only approved followers are able to see the profile page.

While the UK Government has made it official to Tweet for its civil servants, Twitter has a long way to go in India. In the meantime, for all those who like to keep themselves updated and in the loop, Twitter's the way to get you there.

How to teach children

2010-09-03T03:10:00.001-07:00

The alphabet fun and easy to love the environment and teach our children respect for the world they are growing. From A to Z of tap water in gourds that become sponges and beautiful princesses carriages ...

A for water friend
Tap water in most of Italy, is healthy as or more than we buy. Just ask your place of residence or the company that controls the water, a detailed analysis of its components to go safe. If you think your water has a take taste, often depends on the pipes through which it passes. If the water in your area is safe, begin to drink it: saving money and plastic. Teach your children to take a shower, and not just the bath, and turn off the taps while brushing their teeth immediately after washing their hands, started using a reduced flow and do not overdo it with hot water for tea and herbal tea a baby just two cups warm!

B as a Bicycle
What a beautiful move in a bike! Teach your children the love for two wheels using it whenever you can. Before traveling with you, then, after simple rules, you can take them on bike paths in town or country. Zero gasoline, zero traffic, free views, wellness and fun, what more do you want?

C as environmentally friendly Dollhouse
How should a house really be green? Teach your children playing with them. You can build you a house made from recycled paper or wood, or come together in wonderful You're a Natural Dollhousethe dolls' house with solar panels, recycled materials, bins for recycling and all the mini-need to find - even as adults - as it should be a home test environment.

Differentiating D as waste
A blue plastic bag, a transparent organic waste, paper bags and cartons. The collection is a bit 'busy - schedules and instructions to follow - but really save the environment. It can turn into a nice game to play with your kids. For example you can name them, in turn, super-responsible for a waste category! will have to make sure all family members respect the right bag and you can tell, like a fairy tale, where they end up all waste. We do feel involved in the operation of recycling and will learn the value of each material.

How Eco snack bag
The ecological picnic basket? To accomplish here the tutorial with explanations. So to wrap cakes and biscuits will do less than paper and plastic that are so bad environment.

F Take a picnic as ecological
What's nicer than a picnic on the lawn? The important thing is behaving in an environmentally friendly way down, like Yogi Bear Ranger! As suggested by the website 100 Environment: use seasonal produce, organic if available, and zero km, buying directly from the farm foods to be consumed in the country, use biodegradable plates and cups, avoiding plastic, use the leftovers to produce the excellent fertilizer for household plants and flowers, choose foods instead of packaged bulk, "eliminating" the products with packaging (packaging) expensive and harmful.

G as ecological games
Fun with nature can be a breeze! Buy a good book on plants, trees or birds in your area and a walk Sunday to dedicate a search with your little explorers. You also guided the friendly recycling truck all over the internet or watch the cartoon that teaches ecology. During the winter days built with some games using the board, or draw using our designs (printed on recycled paper)

H as eco-friendly hotel
Environmentally sustainable tourism means respect for nature and culture that go to visit. Idea in more eco-friendly? Staying in hotels with his family, ecological, such as those suggested on VitaNaturale

I like pollute less
Accustom your children to use a little soap, a little bubble bath in bath salts, scented and colored instead of liquid, solid shampoo and little foam. Never throw the paper on the floor, do not throw objects out the window nor cigarette butts along the street. You must be the first good example for your budding environmentalists!

The machine as
How dirty laundry with the children in the house! Yet even when we try every day by washing their clothes is good to learn simple rules: use class appliances, load up the basket, prewashed to avoid high temperatures, use the washing machine at night when consumption is lower.

M as sea bathing
The sea moves and entertains your children but it is important to teach respect for this delicate ecosystem. A smart way? Follow the Decalogue for the Protection of the Sea, suggested by the website of the Ministry environment. The advice, simple and immediate, may seem trivial, but it is important that the behavior becomes more natural from the bag for waste with respect for animals and plants!

N as ecological Grandparents
Grandparents, unwittingly, are often the best educators in terms of environment. Accustomed to grow with few amenities, will be the first to suggest healthy snacks of bread and oil, games and stories instead of TV, laundry and walking instead of appliances and automobiles. Grandparents can be a real asset green, why not take advantage?

Or aware Garden
Cultivating a garden is one of the most enjoyable and constructive experience for a child. The important thing is to do so in full respect of nature. Planting a tree or grow fresh strawberries will be beautiful and healthy for nature by following the useful suggestions of Greenme.it, which explains, in ten little rules, like planting a beautiful garden without pesticides, recycling water and using only natural fertilizers!

P as ecological Diapers
Did you know that a disposable nappy takes 500 years to be disposed of? ecopannolini The cotton terry cloth, to wash and dry in the sun, the answer to this unnecessary waste. Smell of laundry, cost nothing and require only a little 'patience in cleaning. Ask at your local special kit - in some cities like Genoa initiatives have been launched - or are here all the information you need!

Q When is conceived as an eco-baby
Have you ever thought that the unbridled passion of love can be experienced in the sign of respect for the environment? Do not miss the fun on the Ten Commandments written by the Make Love ecological green warriors of Greenpeace!

R for Recycle
The collection is only one step of the beautiful art of recycling. Have you tried using plastic bottles with imagination - can become beautiful vases for flowers - and to accustom your children to notebooks of recycled paper? On Re-creazione.Libero.it packed with lots of ideas to create with straws, cups, plastic. Realize bookmarks, clothes and even Christmas decorations, all in style eco-friendly!

S as expenditure on tap
Giant distributors of products of good quality - detergent, milk, cereals and even candy for all tastes for breakfast for your children - can be found in almost every town and tell us a new way of shopping, respectful of nature, cheaper and practical. Also rid you of containers and packaging found on the Ecospheres retailers detergents on tap closest to your area, and here for those of milk on tap!

T as T-shirts to be reused
T-shirts that no longer use? Use old T-shirts and sweatshirts escaped the cabinet change, transforming into other animals, as suggested by Eco-Blog! Cut the labels and printouts designed to create beautiful bags or blankets and keep them in a closet. Will be the vintage of the upcoming arrival!

U as organic eggs and other healthy foods
Choose healthy food for your children. No GMOs, no vegetables grown with fertilizers, buy eggs from your farmer confidence. You must not seek to force the bio that is so fashionable, but rather choose healthy foods, eat less meat, less fat and teach your children the value of food that is not a reward or a punishment against the whims but a key for their lives.

V as holiday nature
An idea for the summer of your children? Try one of the many journeys of nature organized by WWF and Legambiente. Together with their peers in an environment rich in ecological ideas (from the parks of Tuscany to the sea adventures in Italian islands) your children will learn to live together, respect and love for the environment!

Z as the Cinderella pumpkin (you can do it better sponges and the TV!)
You know how many things you can do with a pumpkin? A delicious risotto, a big face for Halloween, cakes and pancakes, beauty creams, a natural sponge for the bathroom and even a carriage for a princess. Discover the beauty of simple things that surround us. And never forget the bedtime story. Which is the better the TV, no pollution, no noise and makes serene dreams of your children!

Marble Used in Taj Mahal Agra

2010-07-10T00:23:00.000-07:00

Taj Mahal was constructed using different materials but the mausoleum itself and parts of the other structures are largely made of marble. Marble of different kinds and colors were used but white marble was the primary marble of choice. This was what made the Taj Mahal unique. Earlier Mughal structures were primarily constructed using red sandstone but the Taj Mahal, under the direction of its creator Shah Jahan, was made primarily of white marble.

Construction of the Taj Mahal was done by over 20,000 workers recruited all over India. Sculptors, calligraphers, stonecutters, and other artisans were hired from other nations such as Syria and Persia. Specialists were hired to work specifically on the designs and decorations of the marble. Precious and semiprecious stones inlaid into the white marble were imported from China, Arabia, Tibet, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka.

The Taj Mahal Marble: The Makrana Marble, the translucent white marble of which the Taj Mahal is made, was brought primarily from Rajasthan, India, particularly in Makrana, a small town in Rajasthan where the marbles were and are still mined. Rajasthan accounts for the majority of marble production in the country until now. The Makrana marble is highly calcic and has several main sub-varieties.

These sub-varieties are:

• Kumhari

• Doongri

• Alberta

• Makrana White

The Taj Mahal contains several if not all of these Makrana Marble sub-varieties.

Changing Colors of the Taj Mahal: The white marble actually gives the Taj Mahal some sort of mystique as it absorbs and reflects different colors during different times of the day and night. At dawn it somewhat looks pink as it infuses itself with colors of the sun rising. In the later hours of the morning and at noon, it looks white as the sun shines on its white marble. At sunset, it turns reddish or orange as the light of the sun fades. At night, especially when the moon is full, the building seems to glow blue.
Parts and Areas of the Taj Mahal Made of Marble
• The Mausoleum – The entire structure of the mausoleum is made of white marble almost 76 meters in height. Its most spectacular feature, the onion-shaped dome, is white marble that’s 35 meters high. It sits on a 7 meter high cylindrical “drum” also made of white marble. Four white marble minarets each more than 40 meters tall stand at the corners of the mausoleum plinth.

• The calligraphy on the Great Gate or Pishtaq is made of jasper or black marble inlaid in white marble panels.
The Charbagh or Mughal garden has a raised marble water tank called al Hawd al-Kawthar at the center of the garden with a reflecting pool.

• The Darwaza or main gateway is built primarily of red sandstone and marble.

• The Masjid or Mosque is made from red sandstone but is decorated with colored marble inlays. It also has three onion-shaped, marble-coated domes and the chhatris or domed kiosks on the four corners of the mosque have a marble coated veneer. Its floor has outlines of 569 prayer rugs in black marble.

• The Jamat Khana or Guest House is virtually a twin of the Masjid or Mosque and also contains similar marble inlays and exterior marble decorations as the Mosque.

Decorations on the Taj Mahal Marble: The exterior as well as the interior of the Taj Mahal are lavishly decorated. Its exterior marble is decorated with paint, stucco, stone inlays, or carvings. Calligraphy, abstract forms, as well as vegetative motifs are also made as decorative elements. The interior contains much more decorations than the exterior. All the decorative elements found on the exterior can be found on the interior with the addition of precious as well as semiprecious gemstones on its surfaces.

Mitticool Refrigerator that runs without electricity

2010-06-16T02:52:00.000-07:00

Former President APJ Abdul Kalam called him a 'true scientist'. Mitticool, a clay refrigerator that works without electricity had turned the world's attention to its creator Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a craftsman based in Gujarat.Presenting the national award to Mansukhbhai in 2009, President Pratibha Patil appreciated his work and asked him for a Mitticool.

Scientists and journalists from across the world have visited his unit to see how he makes eco-friendly products at a low cost.

A school drop-out, he has achieved a feat that many in the world envy today. The simple and unassuming Mansukhbhai is not keen on money. His ambition is to make more low-cost and eco-friendly products for the masses.

"A good majority of Indians cannot buy a fridge as it is expensive. Besides this, electricity bills and maintenance cost is also high. Mitticool is an eco-friendly product which has no maintenance costs. It also retains the original taste of vegetables, says Mansukhbhai who has sold 1500 units so far.

"I failed in the tenth standard. But I was not disappointed as I knew that I was capable of making something new," says Mansukhbhai who holds a patent for Mitticool.People who considered him as incapable, now look up to him. They say, "you are the pride of our community!"He has been popularising earthen products since 1988. The only drawback for him is the lack of stores to sell them.The products are mostly available in Gujarat and in some stores in Mumbai and Pune only. Besides, the low-cost fridge, he has developed a water filter, non-stick tava and a pressure cooker all made of clay. And he has many more innovative ideas.

The beginning
Pottery has been the Prajapati family's traditional business. Mansukhbhai's family belonged to Morbi in Rajkot district.However, his father gave up the profession as it was not getting them any money. It was all hard work without much gain. He being the only son was sent to school on the hope that he would do well in academics and get a good life.

However, he disappointed them when he failed tenth standard. To make matters worse, he refused to take up construction work which his father had started doing. He was however forced to do all sorts of odd jobs. He even injured an eye working in a brick factory.

"I was fed up. I wanted to start my own factory. But there was no way I could do it without resources. I joined a tile factory. I worked there for sometime. This was a turning point for me," he says.

He found that tiles were manufactured at a fast pace with a machine which was quite expensive.However, Mansukhbhai knew he needed to think differently and make innovative products. He took a loan of Rs 30,000 and started a small factory.At the age of 18, he made a machine, which could make 600 tavas a day instead of 100 tavas they used to make manually. This gave him lot of confidence to explore and innovate.He got the idea to make a machine for about Rs 4,000, which could help him manufacture more tavas than was being done manually. His initiative to restart the pottery business was not taken positively. But he went ahead despite opposition.

"Now all my family members actively take part in the work. They are very happy with what I have achieved so far. I owe a lot to my family. I am happy that my elder son is doing an engineering course in ceramic engineering."

His only regret is that because of poor marketing his products are not reaching out to many people. He, however, makes it a point to parcel products to people who are willing to deposit money in his bank account.

The business
It was a great beginning. "I also made a clay mixing machine. Till then, clay used to be missed with the legs. This machine also reduced the workload and improved the efficiency."By 1995, he realised the need to build a water filter. The market had steel filters which were not very efficient. After months of research and hard work, he built a water filter.Luck favoured him too. "A person who had settled in Nairobi heard about my project and approached me for 500 units. I was excited. I sold it making Rs 100,000 on the first sale. It was a good start. The product I developed was sold in Nairobi even before it sold in India," he says. The water filters priced at Rs 350 to 400 are quite popular.

Later in 2005, he started the non-stick tava (pan) business. "My wife could not buy a non-stick tava as it was costly. So I thought many people would be facing the same problem.That's when I designed the non-stick tavas, priced between Rs 50-100." It took him an year to research and experiment -- testing the material for the non stick coating etc. The food grade test for the pan was done by Tata Chemicals in Mumbai.Mansukhbhai has sold more than 50,000 tavas. He had to make thousands of tavas before he made the perfect one.

He thanks the Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Network and professors at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the National Innovation Foundation, who extended their help in the form of grant and guidance for getting the patent, making the packing box and lab testing of products.

"When a foreign delegation came to meet me, we cooked food in clay vessels and served them in clay plates. They were very impressed and happy with our healthy approach."

In 2009, he made the clay pressure cooker. "It comes with a whistle too," he remarks. About 500 cookers have been sold so far.

The idea behind Mitticool
During the 2001 earthquake, all earthen pots were broken. Some people told me the poor people's refrigerators are broken. They referred to the 'matkas'(pots) as refrigerators.It struck me then that I must try to make a fridge for those who cannot afford to buy a fridge. The patent winning Mitticool has been the most challenging product for him. It needed a lot of experimenting. He started work on it in 2001, the product was finally ready by 2004.

It took him almost four years of hard labour and an investment of about Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million). An engineer who saw the fridge asked him to make 100 units. This was a great morale booster.He had to take a loan of about Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) for the Mitticool project. He is still repaying the debt.

It takes 10 people to make a fridge in one day. Made from clay, the refrigerator can store water, fruits, vegetables for 8 days and milk for one day.The upper part of the refrigerator stores water, while the bottom unit has space for fruits, vegetables and milk.At present, he sells the clay fridges at Rs 2,500, at his unit. Most of the sales outside Gujarat are done during exhibitions.

In Mumbai and Pune, some of his products are available. Every year he takes part at the international trade fair in New Delhi in a bid to popularise the products."I have also been getting lot of calls from the US. It is amazing to see so much interest from abroad," he says happily.

Mitticool was showcased at a conference organised by the Centre for India and Global Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK in May 2009. Bosch and Siemens Hausger te (BSH), Germany, has also showed interest in Mitticool.

About 20 units of Mitticool have been exported to the UK, Africa and Nairobi. He has now been invited to Africa to set up a unit there. "I have not committed anything but the most important thing is the soil. Gujarat has the best soil for pottery," he points out.

The recognition
Mansukhbhai had never imagined that his products would win him so many accolades.Nothing can be as rewarding as such compliments. Money is nothing compared to people's appreciation. "Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi knows me by my name. He has been very supportive and told me to approach him for any problem," he says.He says well-known activist and performer Mallika Sarabhai recently remarked that he should be made Gujarat's brand ambassador.

He also enjoyed doing a shooting for a programme which will be aired on Discovery Channel."A team from the Discovery Channel took me around India. I enjoyed the trip. It was a wonderful experience. I had never imagined that I would ever be able to fly in a plane," Mansukhbhai says.The media has been very supportive. It feels great to see my products on television channels, newspapers etc.He also enjoyed doing a shooting for a programme which will be aired on Discovery Channel.

"A team from the Discovery Channel took me around India. I enjoyed the trip. It was a wonderful experience. I had never imagined that I would ever be able to fly in a plane," Mansukhbhai says.

The media has been very supportive. It feels great to see my products on television channels, newspapers etc.

His goal
Mansukhbhai wants every Indian to have access to his products. There is very little awareness about the products though I try to participate in 2-3 exhibitions every year."I wish I could strike a deal with a retail store like Big Bazaar to get better visibility. I am sure if more people use our products, it will create more awareness about such low-cost products that are a healthy and cost effective alternative in the long run."

Advice to entrepreneurs
His advice to budding entrepreneurs is: Never think about failures. Never give up.Put your heart and soul into what you want to do. Always follow the right path and have patience. Keep working hard.

What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims

2010-05-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims.... a every Indian should know
A. The Tata Gesture
One of the examplary work done by Mr Ratan Tata during the aftermath of the heinous terrorist attack in Mumbai and the Taj Mahal Hotel which is owned by the tatas is as under:-

Ratan Tata is the chairman of Indian Hotels who own the Taj Mahal Hotel Mumbai, which was the target of the terrorists last year .

Hotel President a 5 star property also belongs to Indian Hotels.

The following is really touching.

What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims.... Don't miss!!!!!!
SALUTE TO SHRI RATAN TATA
A. The Tata Gesture

1. All category of employees including those who had completed even 1 day as casuals were treated on duty during the time the hotel was closed.

2. Relief and assistance to all those who were injured and killed

3. The relief and assistance was extended to all those who died at the railway station, surroundings including the “Pav- Bha ji” vendor and the pan shop owners.

4. During the time the hotel was closed, the salaries were sent by money order.

5. A psychiatric cell was established in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences to counsel those who needed such help.

6. The thoughts and anxieties going on people’s mind was constantly tracked and where needed psychological help provided.

7. Employee outreach centers were opened where all help, food, water, sanitation, first aid and counseling was provided. 1600 employees were covered by this facility.

8. Every employee was assigned to one mentor and it was that person’s responsibility to act as a “single window” clearance for any help that the person required.

9. Ratan Tata personally visited the families of all the 80 employees who in some manner – either through injury or getting killed – were affected.

10. The dependents of the employees were flown from outside Mumbai to Mumbai and taken care off in terms of ensuring mental assurance and peace. They were all accommodated in Hotel President for 3 weeks.

11. Ratan Tata himself asked the families and dependents – as to what they wanted him to do.

12. In a record time of 20 days, a new trust was created by the Tatas for the purpose of relief of employees.

13. Whats unique is that even the other people, the railway employees, the police staff, the pedestrians who had nothing to do with Tatas were covered by compensation. Each one of them was provided subsistence allowance of Rs. 10K per month for all these people for 6 months.

14. A 4 year old granddaughter of a vendor got 4 bullets in her and only one was removed in the Government hospital. She was taken to Bombay hospital and several lacs were spent by the Tatas on her to fully recover her.

15. New hand carts were provided to several vendors who lost their carts.

16. Tata will take responsibility of life education of 46 children of the victims of the terror.

17. This was the most trying period in the life of the organisation. Senior managers including Ratan Tata were visiting funeral to funeral over the 3 days that were most horrible.

18. The settlement for every deceased member ranged from Rs. 36 to 85 lacs [One lakh rupees translates to approx 2200 US $ ] in addition to the following benefits:

a. Full last salary for life for the family and dependents;

b. Complete responsibility of education of children and dependents – anywhere in the world.

c. Full Medical facility for the whole family and dependents for rest of their life.

d. All loans and advances were waived off – irrespective of the amount.

e. Counselor for life for each person

B. Epilogue

1. How was such passion created among the employees? How and why did they behave the way they did?

2. The organisation is clear that it is not something that someone can take credit for. It is not some training and development that created such behaviour. If someone suggests that – everyone laughs

3. It has to do with the DNA of the organisation, with the way Tata culture exists and above all with the situation that prevailed that time. The organisation has always been telling that customers and guests are #1 priority

4. The hotel business was started by Jamshedji Tata when he was insulted in one of the British hotels and not allowed to stay there.

5. He created several institutions which later became icons of progress, culture and modernity. IISc is one such institute. He was told by the rulers that time that he can acquire land for IISc to the extent he could fence the same. He could afford fencing only 400 acres.

6. When the HR function hesitatingly made a very rich proposal to Ratan – he said – do you think we are doing enough?

7. The whole approach was that the organisation would spend several hundred crore in re-building the property – why not spend equally on the employees who gave their life?

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Water on the moon

2010-03-11T02:24:00.000-08:00

Water on the moon, once again it has found evidence - clear and definite than before. India's first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan -1 left in NASA's Moon's North Pole present one radar around the ice-filled 40 Kretr (pits) have identified. NASA says that after this search for the moon Saintiston has become even more interesting. The search for information about the NASA Jiofijikl Research Letters journal has been published.

Why important: without water life can not. So it is believed that while water will be there as will stir some life. Moon's shot was a drought and Ujdha. If there would mean we should get Maikrobs Universe Earth, life is not limited. We are not alone.

What's New Search: Chandrayaan -1 present in one of 11 NASA lightweight equipment Mini - SAR (synthetic aperture radar), 15 kilometers from the North Pole on 2 of 40 pits Daymitr discovered. This is less than 10 kg of Radar. Mini - the portion of the moon in SAR has identified these ponds, there would not sunlight. The dark area is very cold. It is believed that water ice than there is fluid in large quantities.

Water - with ice Kretr: Kretron inside and outside surface is highly Ubrkhabr. Because the sharp pointed rocks around Kretr, but the North Pole is rough these Kretr inside, not outside. The reason is substance present in these ponds. NASA considered this unknown substance is water ice. According to NASA it will be deep snow only a few meters above it looks Khurdurapan. It is guessed that the moon 600 million metric tonnes of water ice may exist. Some ice may have been found in the soil of the moon, who could not catch the radar.

Earlier evidence of water: Mini - twice before SAR has found evidence of water on the moon. NASA Moon as the Moon Polar Minrolji Mapr areas identified was the presence of water Molikyuls. It also Mapr Mini - with the Chandrayaan -1 mission SAR has been sent. Before Mapr NASA satellite sensing satellite or Lunr Kretr Objrvesn and the steam Elcros the water Vepr was detected.

Rest is Best

2010-03-04T02:38:00.001-08:00

There is no end to monotony. The human mind is always on the lookout for renewal. Spend three years in a job, and only a few of us are not starting to feel nervous. But how do you manage to keep your mind and soul as fresh as ever, if the bid is the hour of patience and do not comply lose hope? Here's how to continue.

Take an aimless stroll
Exercise and walking - as most doctors will tell you - is to go always good for your health, but an aimless can make a difference to your state of mind. It gives you the space to think your own thoughts aimlessly without planning your time. But do not do this too often, or rather, not pencil in your diary. As Dr. Sandeep Vohra, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Apollo Hospital, says: "Monotony is because we just get bored. If you plan on hiking, you can get bored with them as well. Keep therefore the change from one activity to another."

Going out with friends
Social contacts can be a mood lifter. All it takes several rounds of conversation and laughter to awaken. If you have spent much time alone, you could bleak. When people listen and get involved to change your mood.

Yoga, exercise, wellness
Dr. Rachana Singh, lifestyle management expert, said exercise helps break monotony by positive liberating your hormones. "I would suggest that you can actively exercise three times a week, actively and passively three times a week. Deep breathing for 15 minutes a day will work wonders - it helps to solve the mind-body balance and help you relax," she says .

Dr. Nikhil Raheja, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, stresses the importance of yoga, exercise, relaxation and self-hypnosis. "It is easy to learn and can work wonders," he says. "A good massage at a spa or pedicure can also renew you," he adds.

Go shopping
Dr. Raheja says that a large shopping can be stress buster. "They do not always have to buy something big, just little things for the house can feel comfortable. Shifting things around, experimenting with colors, patterns, and a couple of changes is always refreshing," he says.

Browse pounds
Browsing in a bookstore or library, you can calm. What is more, if there is a place with a good collection, there's the added joy of discovering new songs and ideas to revive your soul again. Not in the books? Try to find a music shop, read in DVDs or wander through a hobby store.

Pamper yourself
Eat, drink, do things that you love. Discover desire and pleasure - and when you are back in the real world, you will feel refreshed.

Television, if you do not often that treat, re-read an old favorite, get a little comfort, food, or best of all, sit back and listen to music. According to Dr. Raheja, music as a stress-buster and resources for renewal.

Try some adventure
Adventure mean many things. To learn from something new or go rafting or learning a new art - it is a challenge and there are showers. Something new opens up the mind, as you stretch your limits.

Dr. Singh believes it is a good idea to indulge in a hobby. "One or three times a week is a good idea," she adds. "Listening to music, identifying their interests - this can be really positive," she says.

Play
According to Dr. Vohra, may exercise computers or digital games for the mind. "These will help in a certain way and the people, was designed with boredom," he says. Indoor games, all to relieve anxiety and stress.

"Or go bowling, visiting amusement parks," says Dr. Raheja. "Puzzle solving, like crosswords and Sudoku are also mentally demanding."

Take advantage of a weekend
Leaving, a new beach or desert, or a resort - with family or friends or alone - can not only been a buster, but also in new, exciting experiences bring.

Spend time with your loved ones
With people you are comfortable with - or the ones you love - can be reassuring and remember the good things in life.

Statistical analysis of the data suggest that depression associated with spikes in cortisol levels linked to boys and girls after the stress tests, but higher cortisol responses to stress with obesity in girls.

Path of selfishness

2010-02-21T22:14:00.000-08:00

Selfishness is the basis of all immoral and corrupt practices that is prevalent in our society. Our worldly desires make us self centered and to fulfill them we focus on self interest and in the process we acquire selfishness. Main cause of selfishness is that we only think about our own interests and comforts. Selfishness starts getting into the background when we think about others , their problems and what we can do to mitigate them. Selfishness is the biggest impurity in us which does not permit us to look beyond our own self. Once we are rooted in selfishness we move away from truth and at the same time show very little respect for others and their opinions. Swami Vivekananda had once remarked that what is selfish is immoral and that which is unselfish is moral, People are selfish due to wrong understanding that if their desires are met they can be happy for ever. They fail to realize that the main end of life is not the pursuit of material happiness. It is in the pursuit of eternal happiness which has nothing to do with material happiness. It is obtained by looking inwards to realize our spiritual destiny. World is tempting and eye catching which gives instant joy to a worldly man who shall be ever busy in fulfilling his desire by activating selfishness. Mahabharta says that desires can never be satiated by gratification of desires. The more they are enjoyed the more they grow as fire by the pouring into it of butter.

Man Performs three types of actions which can be put under three heads- selfish actions, unselfish actions and self less actions. Selfish actions are those which are based on your needs and also on your greeds. These actions are performed to cater for selfish desires. Unselfish actions are those which may be based on selfish desires but there is some sort of unselfish goal like how can I contribute towards betterment of society. Then there are selfless actions which re not propelled by any desires but man considers his duty to work for the up lift of his surroundings or environment. For a selfless man every thing other than he himself in environment not only the trees, rivers or plants around him but also all living being around him. Selfless action are basically duty driven actions where man consider it as his duty to act for others and even goes out of the way to help others particularity those who are in need. Selfless work is the highest type of work and selfless people are assets to society. They are those who set example to the ordinary people. Selfless person does not expect any rewards for his actions.

The Gita defines Yoga as skill in action or efficiency in actions. Skillful actions are those where our personal interest in the work is not there and we put in our hundred percent in the task given to us. It is man's, Selfishness which results in inefficiency in work. There is corruption. There is poverty, there is crime, violence and backwardness in society, all these are caused by inefficiency in work. Efficient work is that where there is sincerity in work where there is commitment, where there is transparency and where there is rightful attitude behind the works we undertake during our day to day living.
Way out of selfishness : Selflessness in life, Selfishness in death, says Swami Vivakananda, When we act as per sense of duty we are not victim of play of our nature. To wake up to the world of spirit we have to fight selfishness. Man's aim of life is not eating for himself or working on his personal needs. Man lives in a community which can run only on exchange of commodities and service. Gita asks you to work in a spirit of Yagya or Yajna. It says all works bind excepts those which are done in a spirit of Yajna. This can be activated when you get yourself out of action by fixing your mind in higher ideal. Higher ideal unlocks your potential. Then your mind moves away from the idea of putting your mind on the results of action. Gita admonishes those who are selfish and says that those who cook for their own sake and do not share with other are thieves. It is very appropriately said that he will never go to heaven who is content to go alone. This brings us to a very noble idea that we should share with others which is the hall mark of Indian culture. We have to bring about a change in our attitude towards, Life. We have to change from the attitude of hoarding to the attitude of sharing. Share your knowledge with others and it would increase many fold.

Giving is important to root out selfishness. Give preference to giving rather than taking from others. Joy of giving is sixteen times more than the joy of taking from others. To root out selfishness one should involve oneself with charitable acts. Another way to get out of selfishness is to replace self interest by social interest. You should undertake social work with a sense of responsibility and with a conviction to change the society for its betterment. Make selfless service to other as the basic aim of your social work. The answer to the questions why should I serve others is very simple. Man benefits himself by doing good to others. When man establishes himself in benevolence, his selfish thoughts decline and he moves onto the path of enlightenment. He acquires wisdom which is higher than Intellectuality. A wise person is always selfless whereas an intellectual can be selfish. And finally when you inject duty idea into your life. You shall ever remain selfless because life is duty and at the same time life is beauty. One thing is common in all great people of the world. They were selfless workers. Selflessness come from cessation of desires. Desires means feeling of deficiency whereas desirelessness is feeling of completion. Desires are not to be suppressed but controlled with inner blossoming. You may draw enjoyment when associated with beautiful things but never develop attachment or craving for them.