The Most Powerful Tool for Analyzing your Website Data

Many website owners often wonder what their visitors would be doing once they arrive at their websites or blogs. Do they read an article or do they click on any links, navigation tabs, categories or ads? Would it not be great if the website owners could see how exactly the traffic is behaving when they visit the sites? It is not just a possibility today but a necessity and there are tools that are available to analyze the data on the website along with the behavior of the visitors. One of the most important among such tools is a website heatmap. Clickmaps Creators There are many companies who create a heatmap and clickmaps for your websites and blogs. One such company is https://www.seevolution.com/website-heatmaps. Clickmaps will track the clicks and will give results that highlight exactly where a website is excelling or falling apart in attracting the click-throughs. A heatmap can be easy to find using Google Analytics. A blog can be provided with a plugin to have access to this information. Clickmaps and Color Sliders Clickmaps use cell sizes and colors so that complex information can be displayed in a smart way. A heatmap is one of the most powerful tools for data analysis that are available for business. It is a feature that helps the website owners to visualize a presentation of multiple rows of information in a style that assigns different colors and sizes to the cells; each cell represents a row. A color slider at the bottom of the heatmap allows the user to spot all the highs and the lows quite easily. This would not be possible on a conventional bar chart to have such data represented. The result will be a clutter and it would not be practical. On a heatmap, you can have a cell assigned to each representation. The Clickmaps will be able to sort the data out by the size of the cells. Why are the Web Pages losing Searchers? Many businesses today are using clickmaps to test out new ideas on how to evolve effective landing pages. The big question is, “Why are the web pages losing searchers?” Is it because of the content which is poor and not engaging enough? The answer may be lying in a blend of certain variables that have to be potentially tested. You can begin with Clickmaps. They are a sure fire way of understanding where the website visitors or viewers are paying attention to. It allows the website owners to find out what their visitors tend to look at initially. The website owners can then try and rearrange their web pages in such a way that the most crucial content is displayed at the right places. Giving sufficient Time for a Website Heatmap to be Effective The data that is localized through a website heatmap can become useful for a web developer who will be in a position to modify the locations of where the check buttons can be placed. When you subscribe to a service provider, you will have to be clear about the number of web pages that you would like to get tracked to get the website heatmap process started. Once the data is entered, codes will be given to be inserted into the web pages so that user experience information can be gathered and preserved by the website and viewed through the heat maps. Enough time has to be provided for the tools to collect vital information. Accumulation of data for a period of three months is reasonable to make sure you have a fair idea of what is happening on your web pages before you think in terms of modifying them for achieving positive results.

The First Molecular Biologist of the World

THE FIRST MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST OF THE WORLD - THE GREATEST OF ALL PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS OF ALL ERAS (IMAM ALI IBN E ABI TALIB as). “And at the very heart of life on earth - the proteins that control cell chemistry and the nucleic acid (DNA) that carry hereditary instructions - we find these molecules to be identical in all the plants and animals. An oak tree and I (Carl Sagan) are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor.” Cosmos:Carl Sagan,page 24. The above paragraph is taken form the best selling science book ‘Cosmos’ by a great science man and atheist: Carl Sagan, Director of Viking mission to mars at NASA. The main point of the above paragraph is that all living things are the same with respect to their fundamental ingredients. All the living things, from virus to human beings, have chromosomes for storing genetic information, the chromosomes are made of DNA just as a cloth or your shirt is made of fine continuous thread. And Carl Sagan’s conclusion on this phenomenon (similarity of all living things) is that it proves the common ancestry of all the living things. Now coming to another paragraph, but not from Carl Sagan's book, but from Nahjul Balagha, the paragraph is as follows, “If you tread on the path of your thinking and reach it's extremity it will not lead you anywhere except that the originator of the ant is the same as he who is the originator of the date palm, because everything has same delicacy and detail and every living being has little difference.” Nahjul Balagha: sermon.183, page 305. A thousand year old copy of Nahjul Balagha is still available at the library of Mosul, Iraq. The main point of the above paragraph of Imam Ali (a.s) is same as that of Carl Sagan's; that there is very little difference between-living-things. On analysis of the above mentioned paragraphs, it appears as if Carl Sagan and Imam Ali (a.s) are contemporaries, but everyone knows that Imam Ali (a.s) lived 1400 years before Carl Sagan. It is amazing that a man living in 700 AD in Arabia, the land of sand, ignorance, wars and scarce water should know that living things are made of the same stuff, and that there is very less difference between them. But amazingly Imam Ali (a.s) establishes a very different conclusion from the similarity among living things; that they have the same creator. Carl Sagan, a hardcore atheist and Imam Ali (a.s), a hardcore believer in God, as expected amazingly, reached the opposite conclusions about the same phenomenon (similarity of living things). A believer can accept both the conclusions and still have his faith intact, but if an atheist accepts Imam Ali’s (a.s) conclusion then he has to loose his atheism. DNA was discovered in 1950, and we know that all living things from virus, bacteria, and plants to human beings are made of DNA. So it is very correct to say that living things have little difference among them. At this stage the saying of the PROPHET (Pbuh) of Islam: ''I am the city of knowledge and Ali (a.s) is It’s gate, is realized in its greatness. ALL THE PRAISES ARE DUE TO ALLAH.

A cricketer who has left his stamp on the game

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born in Bombay on 24th April 1973. He began his cricket career at Sharadashram Vidyamandir High School in Bombay under the coaching of Ramakant Achrekar. When he was 15 years and 232 days old, Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten century in his debut first class match for Bombay against Gujarat on 11th December 1988, making him the youngest player to score a century on first class debut. He made his international debut for India, playing his first test match at 16 years 205 days, making him the third youngest player in the history of cricket to make a debut behind Hasan Raza (14 years 227 days) and Mushtaq Mohammad (15 years 124 days). He got his debut test century in England, making him then as the second youngest cricketer in history at 17 years 107 days behind Mushtaq Mohammad of Pakistan who made his century against India in 1961 at Delhi when he was 17 years 78 days old. Mohammad Ashraful of Bangladesh went on to become the youngest test centurion against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 2001 when he was 17 years 61 days old. Sachin Tendulkar, today, holds most if not all of the records that a batsman could endeavour to break. He has the highest number of appearances in test cricket as well as one day internationals. He has the highest number of test centuries (51), highest number of one day centuries (48), highest number of runs scored ever in tests (14692), highest number of runs scored ever in one day internationals (18111) and the highest individual score in one day internationals (200 not out). As far as Indian cricket representation goes, Sachin Tendulkar has contributed the greatest.

The Flying Sikh who has become a living Legend in India

Milkha Singh was born on 17th October 1935 in Lyallpur which has now become Faisalabad in Pakistan. He was not even twelve years old when his parents were killed right in front of his own eyes during the partition riots in Pakistan. He was heartbroken and escaped, literally running for his life, crossing the border by hanging on to the under carriage of a train that was bound for Delhi. The train was packed with refugees that were escaping to India. Once he reached Delhi, he turned to the army for his bread and butter. The Services were responsible for giving him a life support system. His Commanding Officer saw his potential as an athlete and encouraged him to take up athletics on a full time basis. The Services nurtured his dream. He had a dream and an obsession for running in track events that dominated Asian athletics to such an extent that he was respected in Manila and Tokyo during his important years on the track as a `Flying Sikh’. It is because of his determination that he showed in these early years that made the sport of athletics as his salvation and turned him into a living legend of Indian sport. During his career, he represented India in two Asian Games, two Commonwealth Games and three Olympics. He came into the limelight at the National Games in Patiala in 1956. Then he went on in the subsequent years to set a record in the 200 metres as well as the 400 metres races at Cuttack. Milkha Singh made his Olympic debut at Melbourne in 1956. It was an uneventful participation for him as he did not make a mark in any event but learnt much from the advice of an American Charles Jenkins who won the 400 metres event there. This turned out to be the turning point in Milkha Singh’s career. He trained so violently at times that he would end up vomiting blood. In the 1958 Asiad at Tokyo, he beat Pakistan’s Abdul Khan in the 200 metres race and also won the 400 metres race that became his favourite event in the future. He became a celebrity in the Asian sporting circle. In the same year at the Commonwealth Games at Cardiff that were known as the Empire Games then, he won the 400 metres race in 46.6 seconds beating the South African, Malcolm Spence. He peaked well for the Rome Olympics in 1960. He qualified for the finals. Everyone was expecting him to get a medal but the final round was tough with the best qualifiers from the world and he was pipped at the post by the same South African Malcolm Spence by a fraction of 0.01 second to come fourth even though he finished at a record 45.7 seconds from Indian standards. An Olympic medal eluded him. He went on to win the 400 metre events gold at Manila and Jakarta in the later years. Throughout India’s entire sporting history, there was not a single person who could dominate in athletics on an international level. India does not have much of a tradition in the field of sports like men’s track and field events. It is very hard to swallow the fact that a nation of over a billion people could not create heroes in track and field events in the Olympics. Yet, Milkha Singh was that first lone athlete to reach an Olympics final and almost picked up a bronze medal for India in Rome. His track record speaks highly of him. He has won 77 of the 80 races he ran during his career. After Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, he is perhaps the greatest sportsman for India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1958. He has become Director of Sports in the Punjab Government. His son, Jeev Milkha Singh, has kept his father’s head high by becoming the first Indian golfer to become a member of the European Tour.

Peptic Ulcer Drugs Classification Therapeutic Utility

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) occurs with a break in the lining of the stomach, first part of the small intestine or occasionally the lower oesophagus. Common causes include the bacteria, Helicobacter Pylori and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Classification of PUD 1. Esophagus 2. Stomach 3.Ulcers 4.Duodenum 5.Mucosa 6.Submucosa 7.Muscle Differential Diagnosis • Gastritis • Stomach cancer • Pancreatitis • Hepatic congestion • Cholecystitis • Inferior myocardial infarction Classify the drugs used in treatment of peptic ulcer For the treatment of peptic ulcers, the main objective of pharmacotherapy is to eradicate Helicobacter Pylori infection and to reduce morbidity. This is to prevent complications in patients with peptic ulcers. Acid suppression is the general pharmacologic principle of medical management when treating acute bleeding from peptic ulcers by using Histamine II receptor antagonists (H2RAs) and Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs). Both these classes are available in oral and intravenous preparations. Discontinuation of NSAIDs is necessary if it is clinically possible. For those patients who have to continue with their NASAIDs, the maintenance of PPI is always recommended so that recurrences are prevented even after the eradication of Helicobacter Pylori. Explain their mechanism of action and their therapeutic utility The recommended primary therapy for treatment of peptic ulcers and helicobacter pylori infection is the proton pump inhibitor (PPI). It is combined with antacids and an anesthetic like viscous lidocaine or an antispasmodic may also be used as a symptomatic therapy. If the helicobacter pylori eradication is not achieved despite repeat treatment, then anti-secretory therapy is recommended. The patients are possibly suffering with the Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome as a secondary cause of duodenal ulcer. This is a disorder in which severe peptic ulceration is found due to edema or hyperplasia of islet of pancrease that secrete gastrin resulting in hyperchlorhydria. Classification of PPIs:- • Omeprazole (Prilosec) – It decreases gastric acid secretion by inhibiting the parietal cell H+/K+ ATP pump. It will decrease the incidence of NSAID-induced peptic ulcers and it can be used to help prevent peptic ulcers in long term NSAID users at high risk. Omeprazole and Domperidone Omeprazole and Domperidone contain a proton pump inhibitor and anti-dopaminergic agent, prescribed for ulcers, indigestion and acid stomach. Same trade names. • Lansoprazole (Prevacid) – It decreases gastric acid secretion by inhibiting the parietal cell H+/K+ ATP pump. It is given with clarithromycin and amoxicillin or metronidazole if the patient is allergic to penicillin. • Rabeprazole (Aciphex) – It decreases gastric acid by inhibiting the parietal cell H+/K+ ATP pump. It is used for a short term treatment of two months and elief of symptomatic erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease. If patients are not healed in this time, then an additional treatment of two months is prescribed. • Esomeprazole (Nexium) – This is an S-isomer of Omeprazole. It inhibits gastric acid secretion by inhibiting the H+/K+-ATPase enzyme system at the secretory surface of gastric parietal cells. It is used in severe cases. • Pantoprazole (Protonix)- It suppresses gastric acid secretion by inhibiting H+/K+ ATPase enzyme system at the secretory surface of the gastric parietal cells. Pantoprazole Pantoprazole is a proton-pump inhibitor, prescribed for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD), ulcers, Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, and erosive oesophagitis. It decreases the amount of acid made in the stomach. Trade Names - Pandom | Acidwel | Azpan - DM | Histamine II Blocker Treatment Classification:- • Cimetidine (Tagamet) – It can be used as primary therapy to heal peptic ulcers that are not associated with helicobacter pylori infection. The duration of treatment is two months. • Famotidine (Pepcid) – This inhibits histamine at H2 receptor of gastric parietal cells effectively resulting in reduced gastric acid secretion, gastric volume and hydrogen ion concentrations. Famotidine is a histamine (H2-receptor antagonist), prescribed for ulcer. Trade Names - Famoflam (20 mg) | Acidosh (20 mg) | Blocacid (20 mg) | • • Nizatidine (Axid) – This inhibits histamine at H2 receptor of gastric parietal cells resulting in reduced gastric acid secretion, gastric volume and hydrogen ion concentrations. • Ranitidine (Zantac) – This inhibits histamine stimulation of the H2 receptor in gastric parietal cells and reduces gastric acid secretion, gastric volume and hydrogen ion concentrations. Ranitidine and famotidine, which are both H2 receptor antagonists, provide relief of peptic ulcers, heartburn and indigestion. They decrease the amount of acid in the stomach helping with healing of ulcers. When Helicobacter Pylori infection is present, the most effective treatments are combinations of two antibiotics (e.g. clarithromycin, amoxicillin, tetracycline, metronidazole) and a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI), sometimes together with a bismuth compound. This is acid reducing medication. Ranitidine is an antacid, anti-reflux agent and anti-ulcerant, prescribed for peptic ulcer. Trade Names - Giran | Intac | Acispas | Ani -Spa Younger patients with ulcer-like symptoms are often treated with antacids or H2 antagonists before endoscopy is undertaken. People who are taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) may also be prescribed a prostaglandin analogue (misoprostol) in order to help prevent peptic ulcers. Classification of Drugs for Peptic Ulcers Aluminum Hydroxide and Magnesium Hydroxide Aluminum Hydroxide and Magnesium Hydroxide contains antacids, prescribed for preventing ulcers, heartburn relief, acid indigestion and stomach upsets. Aluminum Hydroxide and Magnesium Hydroxide neutralizes acid in the stomach. Trade Names - Aludrox | Dizicum | Glycopyrrolate Glycopyrrolate is a muscarinic anticholinergic agent, prescribed for peptic ulcer in combination with other medicines and also used in anesthesia as preoperative medication. It reduces acid and saliva secretions. Trade Names - Camolate (0.2 mg) | Glyco P (0.2 mg) | Vagolate (0.2 mg) | Lafutidine Lafutidine is an antacid, prescribed for ulcer. Trade Names - Laciloc (10mg) | Lafaxid (10mg) | Lafutax (10 mg) | Mepenzolate Mepenzolate is an anti-muscarinic agent, prescribed for the treatment of peptic ulcer combined with other medication. It decreases acid secretion in the stomach and control intestinal spasms. Trade Names – A Kare and Mifenac. Misoprostol Misoprostol is a synthetic prostaglandin; prescribed for ulcer, labor induction, induced abortion, miscarriage, postpartum hemorrhage (blood loss during birth) and other gynecological uses. Trade Names – Misonac and Safeguard Oxyphenonium Oxyphenonium is an anti-muscarinic agent, prescribed for peptic ulcer and it prevents muscle spasm in the gastrointestinal tract. Trade Names - Alupromate D | Oxyphenonium Bromide | Ulpane | Pirenzepine Pirenzepine is an antacid, prescribed for peptic ulcer. Trade Name – Same. Propantheline Propantheline is an anti-muscarinic agent, prescribed for peptic ulcer, and urinary incontinence. Trade Names - Pepler | Probanthine | Sere Banthine | Ulsedin |

Link Building Service Tools are vital for attracting Traffic

To make your online business successful, you need to build up traffic to your website. The presence of your website is needed to be high up on the Google page ranks. The objective of link building service is to help your website reach that place. Good link building requires skills. It involves unique creative thinking that uses a logical approach with good communication skills. A link builder has to be a good art director, networker, marketer and an analyst. The online visibility of a website is the ultimate objective of an internet marketer. The backlink popularity of a website is strengthened by using the correct search engine optimization techniques. Link building service is the pulse of search engine optimization. If you are in a position to build smart links to your website from related sites or blogs, you will be able to grab the potential customers and attract them to your website across the web. The best link building service finds efficient one way links to your website from many external sites or blogs. Successful internet marketers depend on the services of professional SEO companies to get backlinks of high quality to their website. Using a backlink has become very important to the search engine optimization end. Website backlinks have become like building blocks to effective SEO. A back link gives indication of how important and popular your website has become. There are several link building service tools to help your website in becoming important and popular. They are • Ontolo - Ontolo is a complex tool but it is effective if you know how to use it to your advantage. If you give search phrases that are extremely specific, it is useful for link prospecting. It is highly suitable for large corporate companies or SEO agencies. It can be customized to allow workflow management from end-to-end. • BuzzStream - This tool will help you in creating your own database of link building sites. You can use these sites to get in touch with the owners of the site. The great feature about BuzzStream is the `bookmarklet’. It is a button that you can add to the toolbar of your browser. It will allow you to add any site that you are visiting with just a few clicks. It will automatically find the name, email address and the social media profile of the site that you have added. You can categorize the sites with tags. • OpenSiteExplorer - This tool gives you the option of analyzing your competition and understanding what your competition is doing to increase the page rankings. A list of metrics is given to you with website backlinks, their anchor text and their domain authority. The information about each competitor site can be opened on a spreadsheet. • Raven - The suite of tools provided by Raven covers analysis on-page and even allows social media monitoring. The scope of the options available is vast as it integrates with many external services like BaseCamp for link prospecting and monitoring. • Citation Labs – It is quite time consuming to find quality sites as a link builder that are going to be relevant to you. You can just choose the link you are looking for and enter some key phrases. The software will generate a report with all relevant sites to the terms you sought. The main purpose of a quality back link is to attract visitors to your website. You cannot just depend on your website to draw in people without any pointers to your web pages. Therefore, it is recommended that you seek out an effective and professional SEO company that uses the right SEO methods to get backlinks and improve the ranking of your website.

The Bitter Truth about Fructose and how it endangers Health

A study that was done few years ago at the University of California in Davis has pointed out that new fat cells can build round your vital organs with a high fructose diet. It can take people into the early stages of diabetes and heart disease in just a matter of ten weeks whereas this was not the case with a high glucose diet. The study also revealed that a heavy fructose diet can contribute to obesity and insulin resistance. It is also responsible for hypertension, liver disease, cancer and arthritis. Fructose metabolises differently in your body than glucose would as per Dr. Mercola who talks about how glucose would not damage your metabolism in his own website, `Mercola.Com’. Dr. Mercola goes on to explain that glucose was meant to give you energy so that your body could run efficiently. He says that every cell in your body and “in fact, every living thing on the Earth- uses glucose for energy.” There is bad news for the corn industry giants as the high fructose corn syrup has been confirmed to alter the human metabolism as per Dr. Richard Johnson, author of the `Fat Switch’. Dr. Johnson mentions that if you receive your fructose from a source like only fruits and vegetables, you would probably be consuming about fifteen grams a day. But, if you take in one sweetened drink, it will give you about seventy three grams there itself. The fructose is mixed in with fiber, minerals and vitamins along with enzymes in natural fruits and vegetables. It will also give you the beneficial phytonutrients. There will not be a negative impact on your metabolism. Dr. Johnson says that fructose is not a damaging thing by itself. It is the dosage that makes it dangerous. The entire role of metabolising fructose is done by your liver. When people are taking in fructose in heavy doses, they will be facing negative effects on their liver. The study done at the University of California in Davis has also shown that almost fifty five per cent of sweeteners that are used in the food and beverage manufacturing industry are made out of corn syrup. The study asserts that the main source of calories in the American diet is the soda in the form of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup). This shift from sucrose to corn syrup started taking place in the nineteen seventies by the major food and beverage manufacturers. They found out that HFCS was cheaper to use. It was also twenty per cent sweeter than the refined table sugar. This switch has completely altered the average North American diet. The most unfortunate thing for the diabetics is that the low-fat diet foods are often found to be the highest in fructose. The fiber is also removed from these foods when they are processed. The nutritive value then becomes next to nothing. Dr. Robert Lustigi, Professor in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California in San Francisco suggests that it is better for the diabetics to shift immediately to the stevia herb as a sweetener. He also recommends strongly the use of raw honey in moderate doses. To read and understand further on the impact of fructose on your metabolism, you may visit the link as given below.

Anbar Bibi Mausoleum

In the Zangiota village of the Tashkent region, about fifteen kilometers away from the main city, close by to the Zangiota Mausoleum lies the Anbar Bibi Mausoleum. It is also known as `Kambarana’. Anbar Bibi was the wife of the great Sufi Saint Sheikh Ai Khodja ibn Mansur who is also buried nearby in the northeast. His mausoleum is also a famous tourist destination for all people visiting Tashkent. The Zangiota Mausoleum and the Anbar Bibi Mausoleum were built by Amir Temur Lang in 1397. Anbar Bibi is the saint woman of Zangiota village who is patronized by all women, particularly mothers. This Mausoleum has become a popular pilgrimage destination for women from all parts of Central Asia. The mausoleum is the burial vault of Anbar Bibi, her mother who was called `Ulug Pashi’ and Sheikh Ai Khodja ibn Mansur’s mother who was called `Bakirgani’. Anbar Bibi and her mother Ulug Pashi assisted all women of the village in resolving matters of social and religious concerns and settling disputes. Before he died, Zangiota (Sheikh Ai Khodja ibn Mansur) requested that all pilgrims, whether they were male or female, visit the graves of his wife and his mother in law. Today, on Fridays and holidays, the Zangiota village draws hundreds of people from Uzbekistan and even remote regions of Central Asia. Anbar Bibi’s Mausoleum is situated southwest of the Zangiota Mausoleum. There are three headstones in one chamber. The building is crosswise and is covered by double sphere conical cupolas on the arch canvases. The walls were made with burnt bricks. There is a big garden and beyond the main entrance is a hall of prayer.

America is successfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the world

China alone holds some $895 billion of US treasury bonds. All the countries in the world have to keep US dollars for the simple reason that almost all international trade including the oil trade is conducted in USD currency. The US stopped making things like cars, ballpoint pens and TV sets years ago. It didn't have to make anything. Other countries made all the things that America needed and America bought everything from these other countries. So the only thing that America actually had to produce was US dollars or US treasury bonds. Whenever America has felt it was running out of cash as happened in the wake of the subprime crisis, when the Obama government authorised the pumping in of almost a trillion dollars into the economy to avert a total meltdown, all it had to do was print more money. Then it could go on throwing away money like it's nothing but bits of paper because that's exactly what it is: bits of paper, more and more of which can be printed up, as and when need arises. The so-called almighty Dollar is not backed by anything of real value. It is not backed by gold. It is not backed by any tangible goods that America produces and sells to the rest of the world because America doesn't make any such goods. There is only one thing that imparts value to the dollar: universal gullibility. America has successfully pulled the wool over the world's eyes. The international community has been conned into paying to keep the US in the high-spending style to which it has become accustomed. The more America spends and the more dollars it prints, the more the world laps up those dollars. The euro was supposed to be a counterbalance to the dollar monopoly. Unfortunately, fiscal indiscipline in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal, has eroded confidence in the Euro. International investors are busily buying dollars and US bonds as a hedge against economic uncertainty. That's not like a drowning man clutching at a straw; it's like a drowning man clutching at an electrified wire to save himself. Maybe it's time for the world's two fastest growing economies, China and India, jointly to come up with a viable alternative to the dollar.

The Gentle Tiger on the Badminton Court

Prakash Padukone was born on 10th June 1955 in Bangalore. He comes from the Konkani speaking community of Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins. He learnt badminton from his father, Ramesh Padukone who was the Secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association for many years. The first official badminton event where Prakash Padukone participated was the Karnataka State Junior Championship in 1962. He was only seven years of age then. He lost in the very first round. But at the age of nine, he won the State Junior Championship in 1964. At the age of fifteen in1970, he won the National Junior Badminton title. At the age of sixteen in 1971, he won both the Junior National and the Senior National Championship titles. He continued to win at the Senior National badminton level for the next nine years. In 1971, he was included into the team for the Thomas Cup Championship in the Indian International Badminton group. Prakash Padukone’s first international win came about in 1978. Earlier in 1974, he had won a Bronze Medal at the Teheran Asian Games. He also went on to win the Swedish Open and the Danish Open Championships in 1980. He spent much of his international career in Copenhagen and developed a close alliance with Morten Frost, a European badminton player. Prakash Padukone achieved his career peak when he won the All England badminton Championship in 1981 where he defeated Lim Swie King of Indonesia who was defending his title. He is the first badminton player of India to win this prestigious championship. This win also earned Prakash Padukone the number one ranking in the world. He has been the only Indian to reach that position till date and his name is taken along with the greatest badminton players in the world. In 1981, he achieved greater heights by also winning the World Cup Title as well as the Alba Championship at Kuala Lumpur. He was the first Indian to win a World Cup Badminton title. He won the Dutch Open and the Hong Kong Open Championships in 1983. He won a Bronze Medal at the World Badminton Championship that was held at Copenhagen. He retired in 1991 and became the Chairman of the Badminton Association of India and also served as the coach of the Indian National Badminton Team from 1993 to 1996. He is one of the finest and popular Indian badminton players. He has won many international badminton championships and has made the country proud. He has been generally considered as the best badminton player India has got. Prakash Padukone runs a Badminton Academy where he coaches under privileged children as a part of his Academy profile. Along with Geet Sethi, Prakash Padukone has started the Olympic Gold Quest which is an organisation that tries to promote sports in India. He lives in Bangalore with his wife, Ujjala and two daughters, Anishka who is trying to become an international golfer and Deepika who is already a celebrity model and an actress. There is an official biography of Prakash Padukone written by Dev Sukumar called `Touch Play’. He is also popularly known as the `Gentle Tiger’ on the badminton court.

The Fibonacci Forex Strategy

Fibonacci forex strategy uses the Fibonacci retracements to help the traders note the extent to which the foreign currency rate may go up to, before it starts to fall. Leonardo Pisoni (Fibonacci) was probably the greatest European mathematician of the Middle Ages who learned the arithmetic systems of all the merchants visiting Pisa in Italy. He realized the advantages of the Hindu-Arabic system over all others. The Hindu mathematicians and the Arabs got him started and he became the pioneer of the positional system we use today based on ten digits with its decimal point. He started a sequence series with 0 and 1 and the third number being the sum of the previous two numbers. This was known as the Fibonacci progression sequence. People, down the centuries, have begun to acknowledge the importance of the Fibonacci sequence and drawing parallels to nature’s way of the numbering system which can be applied to the growth of all things on earth including cells, plants, rabbits or pure number progressions in the forex strategy in the trading market. These numbers and the patterns have their use in forex strategy and trading techniques, especially in the technical analysis. The numbers are used to show how the value of a currency pair pulls back a few percentages before there is a reversal on the trend of the currency price movement. Starting from 0.001, the mean or golden ratio is achieved at 0.382:0.500:0.618. These ratios are used in the technical analysis of the forex strategy. These numbers are as pointers to where and when the market will move. They will help the traders to identify the points at which the market advances and those at which it may reverse. When the prices move up, the numbers act as a defence resistance and when the Fibonacci ratio gets broken, it acts as a support and can get tested again. The traders get acquainted with the support and resistance patterns through a Fibonacci analysis which helps them to decide on the market entry and exit points. The elementary rule of this forex strategy is that regardless of which currency pair is being traded, a point will be reached when the prices will retrace back to their old positions. It helps in a big way to predict the currency trends and establish the turning points in the forex market much before they actually occur. The two main levels in which the Fibonacci ratios are used in a forex strategy are at the retracement levels and the extension levels. The retracement levels can be used for both resistance and support. Using a graph chart, a trend line is drawn between the high and low levels and the vertical distance of the line is divided by the three main ratios of 0.382:0.500:0.618. The extension levels are used as profit taking levels. On the graph chart, the line is drawn between the points of a major swing low to a major swing high that has been recently noted. The trader is able to mathematically plot out the direction of the currency price movement in the market with this forex strategy and will be able to determine whether it is going to be an uptrend or a downtrend.

Benefits of Juicing

Most people do not eat their daily amount of required vegetables and fruits on an average. Juicing benefits improve their health and make them prepared to avoid common illnesses and disorders. A juicer is our best friend when we want to start a healthy life. Juicing is easy and it helps us get all the natural nutrients and vitamins in one glass. Juicing will bring back energy we never knew we had. Among the best health juicing benefits are increased mental focus and an overall feeling of wellness. With the current fast paced life styles, it is important to get those daily required amounts of vegetables and fruits. We do not need to turn to caffeine drinks or bottled juices from the supermarket to remain awake and attentive throughout the workday. Juicing will help regularize the brain function while regulating the hormonal levels and even promoting our emotional well being. Juicing reaches instantly into our bloodstream, taking the nutrition directly to where it is needed. The juicing benefits are plenty: • Detoxification of body • Lowering of bad cholesterol levels • Improving the cardio-vascular system and heart health with lowering of blood pressure and better blood circulation • Regulation of body weight • Helps fight arthritis and strengthens the bones, joints and muscles • No constipation • Better skin and hair quality through riboflavin (B2) and anti-aging • Better Vision • More energy and stamina • Better Immune System in fighting diseases like cancer Detoxification Benefits Juicing is a wonderful way of detoxifying with juices to cleanse the body and become healthier. Healing and cell renewal is encouraged by juicing from vegetables and fruits. The toxins are expelled while providing our body with the needed ingredients when we detox with juices. Juicing is wonderful as it breaks the wall of the plant cells, causing the nutrients and the water content to spill out. The bulk is removed from the plant, leaving behind the plant nutrients that are easy for the body to use and process as the fiber cells are mainly separated from the watery and softer cells. The juicing benefits of detoxification are great because our body can use the plant’s nutrients to remain healthy and resist diseases exactly in the same way that the plant did before us. Nutritional Benefits Juicing fresh fruits and vegetables gives us nutritional benefits that are way beyond eating frozen, canned or even fresh fruits themselves. The longer vitamins and minerals are exposed to light, oxygen and other environmental factors, the less effective they become to our body. Fibers are great for our digestive system as they help in reducing weight while they retain the minerals and the vitamins our body requires. Juicing helps separate most of the fibers from the produce and gives us more nutrition on per ounce basis. Anti-inflammatory Benefits When people are looking for remedies to their arthritis problems, juicing benefits are the answer. Some vegetables and fruits are known for their anti-inflammatory qualities. For example, apple and cucumber both contain silica that is essential for healthy bones ad connective tissues. Turmeric also has anti-inflammatory properties. Other vegetables and fruits that have anti-inflammatory properties are ginger, celery and pineapple. Spinach and asparagus boost the riboflavin that is good for the bones and the roots of the hair. All these ingredients could well be blended in a juicer to derive the juicing benefits. Anti - aging Benefits If we are searching for a natural way of keeping our reverberant glow and energy intact, we will be happy to note that the anti-aging effects is definitely one of the marked health juicing benefits. It is a very good habit to develop of getting healthy and staying healthy. Juicing is the best possible way to make this happen.

Adopting a Holistic Approach for a Healthy Life

“Holistic living is a dedication to a lifestyle of balance and health” as per Dr. Linda Mundorff in her book `Take Control: A Guide to Holistic Living’. She is a traditional naturopath who believes that holistic living involves making time for your family and getting along with others. Adopting a holistic approach for a healthy life requires you to give importance to relaxation and spirituality. You need a commitment to a healthy diet, as per Dr. Linda Mundorff, to stay active throughout the day. She points out that there are several methods to go about this holistically. Dr. Maya Paul, writing for Helpguide.Org says, “Think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small manageable steps rather than one big drastic change to set you up for success. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think.” Dr. Paul is a Health & Spirit Coach. She suggests three steps: • Simplify – Think about your diet in terms of color and freshness rather than being too much concerned about counting calories and checking portion sizes. • Start Slow – Make slow changes to your eating habits. It is not realistic to make your diet a healthy one overnight. Changing everything all of a sudden will have a negative impact and you may start hating your new eating scheme. • Whatever change you decide will matter – You do not need to be perfect and get rid of foods that you like or enjoy to get to a healthy diet. The ultimate objective is to feel good and get more energy and not to get bogged down or make your life miserable by making strict or difficult choices. The healthy food choices that you make should count and you can be happy with them. Alena Bowers, writing for Live Strong Magazine, says “Certain basics of nutrition must be met daily to eat a healthy diet.” The Help Guide website has suggested that you start to simplify your eating habits as earlier suggested by Dr. Maya Paul. Alena Bowers is also the author of `Alter this’. She is an educator and yoga instructor. She recommends that you start to implement healthier ways to eat on a gradual basis. You can start by serving smaller portions on your plate. You can chew slowly and be conscious of what you are eating rather than concentrating on the television or other people talking when you are eating food. Prema Scott Key writes in her book, “The Journey to Radiant Health”, that there are many holistic exercise methods to be tried. They are Yoga, Tai Chi and the Eastern Martial Arts as they incorporate the mind, body and the spirit. `Yoga’ actually means `Union’ in Sanskrit. The idea is to let you feel the unity within. Prema Key writes that “you can experience more endurance and enjoyment in life by becoming disciplined in holistic living”. Healthy eating is not just about a nutritional philosophy or depriving yourself of the foods you like. It is about beginning to feel good and have more energy to stabilize your mood and keep your body as well as mind healthy. To read more on adopting a holistic approach for a healthier life, you may go through these articles listed below.

Best Treatment for Oily Skin

You may feel that you are not finding a decent solution to remove the greasy look from your forehead and chin when you have oily skin. This is a condition that is often inherited from previous generations in a family. During the teen years, changes in hormone levels could cause skin to turn oily and result in acne outbreak. The best treatments for oily skin can be found at home. Cleaning your face in the morning and at night with a cleanser is probably the single most effective way to manage oily skin. You can use a gentle cleanser as harsh soaps can stimulate the skin to generate more oil. Like cleansers, toners that contain salicylic acid are most effective for oily skin. Oily skin can result from several factors. Genetics and family history can affect the make-up of the skin. Others may have a glandular condition that causes excessive generation of sebum by the sebaceous glands resulting in greasy skin. People in the past have adopted these treatments for oily skin:  Washing the face at least thrice a day.  Tomatoes have been used for their astringent and cooling properties. As tomatoes are rich in Vitamin A and C, they are helpful for reducing acne and getting rid of excessive oil from the skin. There are many anti-oxidants in tomatoes for them to be a popular treatment for oily skin. You have to cut the tomatoes in halves and rub those halves on the affected portions of your skin.  You have to apply make-up at least ten minutes after washing your face and not before because it will not allow the cosmetics to go down through the pores of the skin to create more blackheads and acne. Oily skin can be treated at home. These are the steps you have to take towards treatment for oily skin:  Keep your skin clean – The skin looks dirtier when it is oily. It is important for you to keep the skin clean by washing it at least thrice a day. The glycerine variety of soaps is effective like Pears.  Try Aloe Vera – Aloe Vera gels absorb oil and clear out pores. Dab the gel on to your face at least thrice a day after washing and then let it dry. Keep the gel in the refrigerator for the cooling effect.  Wipe with Astringents – Wiping the oily portions of your face with acetone or alcohol spirits can help in degreasing your skin.  Paper Facial Tissues – They can help soak up excess oil very fast. There are oil absorbing tissues that you can buy at the cosmetics stores.  Almond Honey Scrub – You can mix a small quantity of ground almonds with honey and gently massage or scrub the paste on to your skin with a hot washcloth and rinse thoroughly.  Use water-based cosmetics – If you cannot live without make-up or foundations, you can choose water-based products over the oil-based types and you can select spot concealers than coating your entire face. Try to use gel blushers or powders instead of cream foundations for oily skin. Blotting paper could be a great option for removing excess oil from your skin and the paper does not dry out your skin. These papers are lightly powdered for oily skin to reduce the shine further. Applying masks and clays to the skin also helps draw out oils and cleanses the pores. But excessive use can dry out the skin. They have to be applied only on the problem areas and that too, not frequently. You have to remember that there is no way to completely prevent oily skin. You can watch your diet too. A reduction of fish and iodized salt in your diet is recommended for oily skin treatment.

Maithili

Maithili is a language of India that is spoken mainly in Bihar. There are forty five million people speaking this language in the Eastern State of Bihar and in the Terai region of Nepal. Maithili is a member of the East Indian group of Indo-Aryan languages. It has been given official status in India and is used as a medium of education and also as an official government language. It is the sixteenth most spoken language in India and the fortieth most spoken language in the world. As it is part of the language family of the Indo-Aryan group, Maithili is linked with all the people living in the eastern regions of India. Numerous speakers of Maithili are there in Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra. It is the second state language of Nepal. Expert linguists have separated this language from Hindi which belongs to the same Indo-Aryan family. Few scholars claim it to be a dialect of both Bengali and Hindi languages. A census report taken out recently has categorised Maithili as a source of origin for the Hindi language. In 2003, Maithili was accorded the status of an independent language through its addition in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It was declared as an official language. This step was taken historically so that the language could be used widely in the areas of academics and all other official functions. It took some time for the language to be granted an official status as people always thought Maithili to closely resemble Hindi. In the earlier days, Maithili had been the language most widely spoken by the people of high castes like Brahmins. Today, a Maithili Academy has been set up to train people regardless of the castes or classes. Now, Maithili has its speakers among all the classes and castes. It is a common scene when you find usage of the Maithili language in households and city halls. Maithili had become a language of the masses. It has spread through magazines and television programs. It has gained so much popularity that it is now being used in the academic curriculum of universities. Maithili linguistics is being taught at the Patna University and also Mithila University in Darbhanga. Dictionary and grammar books have been introduced in schools too. History Maithili language has a rich history behind it. The term has been taken from the word `Mithila’ which is a famous state in the ancient period of India. It was the name of the ancient kingdom of Raja Janaka, father of Sita. It also happens to be one of the names of Sita, Lord Rama’s wife. The history of Maithili literature is more than a thousand years old whereas that of Hindi literature has a history of barely two hundred years since Bhartendu Harishchandra. In his book `Alphabetum Brahmanicum’, an Italian scholar, Amaduzzi, has mentioned Maithili language around 1770 AD. The modern period of Maithili began with the advent of the Maithili Theatre by Shri Kaushal Kumar Das in 1982. Literature Maithili has quite an illustrious history of its literature. A well known poet is Vidyapati. It is because of his efforts that Maithili has achieved its status from its modest origins. His poems had a major influence on the Maharaja of Darbhanga who did a lot to bring it to the status of an official language and made it comprehensive to the masses. The earliest work in Maithili is `Varna Ratnakar’ by Jyotirishwer Thakur around 1225 AD. The language got literary prominence in the medieval period when Maithili scholars like Chandeshwar, Vachaspati and Shankar wrote many works in the language. The famous scholar Vidyapati wrote many famous songs in the Maithili language in Nepal in the Bhakti form of poetry. Vidyapati was an eminent literary figure in Maithili. He is responsible for elevating the status of Maithili language from a common people’s language to one used for official work in Bihar. He managed to replace Sanskrit with Maithili. Many writers started writing in Maithili on the subjects of humour and satire. Dr. Hari Mohan Jha brought about important changes in the ancient Mithila culture. His renowned work, ‘Khatar Kaka Ke Tarang’ is regarded as a major work in the modern Maithili literature. After Maithili was accepted by the Sahitya Academy, many writers have won literary awards almost every year. Many scholars opine that Siddhacharyas formed a prototype of Maithili during the ninth century when they composed `Charyapada’. Since then, the language has progressed and many works have been found. Prototype forms and words are also found in `Prakrit Paingalam’ and other Sanskrit works written by scholars of Mithila who were under the influence of the native people. In the fourteenth century, Kavi Shekhar Jyotireshwar Thakur used a form of Prototype Maithili and this is one of the oldest prose works in any of the languages of North Eastern India. Vidyapati also used the language in his dramas, `Kirtilata’ and `Kirtipataka’. He also composed many poems describing the love of Radha and Krishna in his `Padavali’ that is written in the Maithili style of the medieval ages. He also influenced Nepali, Oriya and Manipuri literature during the medieval period. His influence has been seen right up to the modern period in the Shyam Sangeet of Rabindranath Tagore. Maithili has also survived from the courts of the kings of Nepal during the Malla period. Several dramas and anthologies of lyrical poems in Maithili come from this period in Nepal. Ankiya Natak’s dialogue and songs were composed in Maithili during the period of Shankardev and Madhavdev in Assam. In the modern days, several writers have produced literary writings in genres like poetry, plays, dramas, critical reviews and epics representing the culture, history and linguistics. Maithili holds a good collection of oral literature in the form of folk tales in prose, ballads and songs. Script Maithili was generally written in the script known as Mithilakshar or Tirhuta which was developed from the Brahmi script during the first century. It had similarities with the Bengali script. It is based on the Sanskrit grammar of Panini. Today, Maithili language uses the Devanagiri script. A lot of effort is being put in to preserve this script. A digital version is also being compiled to encode the script in the standard Unicode. A proposal has been put forward to implement this. There are three modes of writing in the Maithili language. They are Devanagiri, Mithilakshar and Kaithi. During the last one hundred and fifty years, foreign scholars like Colebrooke (1801) and Kellog (1893) have studied Maithili’s grammar, lexicography and comparative linguistics. These scholars along with the Indian linguists like Rahul Mahapandit Sankrityayan have been successful in turning Maithili into a fully fledged independent language that has originated from Sanskrit Prakrit. There were earlier attempts made by Sir G. Grierson to publish the grammar of the language in 1880. He did work on the vocabulary of the language in 1882 and Bihar peasant life in 1885. In 1946, Pandit Deenbandhu Jha wrote a book on grammar and published a Maithili dictionary. In 1973, the Institute of Advanced studies in Shimla published an incomplete dictionary of the language compiled by Dr. Jayakant Mishra. Royal Nepal Academy has also published a Maithili-Nepali-English dictionary under the guidance of Dr. Y. Yadav. Dr. Subhadra Jha has written on the formation of Maithili language in 1958. Professor Radhakrishna Chaudhury has written the `Survey of Maithili Literature’ in 1964. Dr. Jayakant Mishra has written the `History of Maithili Literature’ in 1968. In the same year, Pandit Govind Jha has written on the `Origin and Growth of Maithili’ and he has also compiled a Maithili-English dictionary in the recent times. Dialects Maithili language has many dialects. The diversification in these dialects has come about due to its geographical locations as well as the caste differences. Some of the dialects are Standard Maithili, Eastern Maithili, Jolaha and Central Colloquial Maithili. A distinct characteristic of these Maithili dialects is the easy comprehensibility among the people who speak them. The main reason is the presence of many similar sounding words in all the dialects. Almost ninety per cent of the words are shared between Brahmin and non Brahmin dialects. Maithili falls in one of the three dialects of the Bihari language along with Magahi and Bhojpuri. Maithili is widespread in the Northern region of Bihar, east of river Gandak. It is also spoken in parts of Southern Bihar. Preservation of the Language Just like Kashmiri, the Maithili speakers themselves do not take much pride in the daily use of the language. There are no daily newspapers published. Even magazines and periodicals are very few in print. The Hindi language purists who hate Maithili do a lot of damage through the apathetic state government. The language has been derecognised at the civil service examinations level. There is no unity among the Maithili speakers themselves. There is too much of consideration for petty squabbles like caste, religion and the big gap between the lower strata of the society and the elitists. People forget that Maithili belongs as much to the Dalits and Muslims and those people belonging to the lower cadres and castes in life as it belongs to the people of the upper castes. It is encouraging to note that the Dalits and the lower castes have preserved these Loris, Nayaks and Rayaranpaals and have memorised them. They have been able to maintain them traditionally down the ages. These traditions have played a great role in the preservation of the Maithili language.

Tablets have become Personal Computers of Convenience

Though laptops or net books are quite common in today’s society, Tablet PCs are fast becoming the new age personal computers for their convenience, portability and functioning. When we analyse the tablet personal computer market in the United Kingdom, we realize that the entire market is dominated up to almost ninety five per cent by Apple with their iPad and iPad2 as per the latest market research. The latter was introduced just a few months back in the UK market. This is not at all a surprise as there are only a handful of other Tablet PCs that are available in the UK market as per Techradar UK. There is a hint of competition in the air to Apple with a recent launch of Windows 7 Tablet PC in UK. Samsung has also entered the market with its 7” Galaxy Tab in UK. Some analysts are predicting that in the next few months, new Android based Tablet PCs are likely to hit the UK market before Christmas this year. The Android Operating System Tablet PCs make up a very small percentage of the total global market. An Android Tablet PC is a wireless personal computer that is little bigger than a cell phone and a little scaled down than a net book. iBUY247 is a popular seller of all brands of Tablet PCs in UK. Their current popular brands in Android Tablet PCs are the ib701, PCX5A and PC ZT-180. Acer also has come out with its Android Tablet PC for UK’s hi-tech gadget market. The model is Iconia Tab A500 with specifications of 1GHz dual core processor and nVidia GeForce video graphics processor with ultra low power consumption. But, it is more expensive than Apple iPad2. iBUY247 is also selling Windows-based Tablet PCS with models like PCX9, P10P and N737i being the popular ones. In addition, the other brands that are available in the UK market are the `Winslate 1’ that is with a display of 1024x600 pixels and `Winslate 2’ which is an ultra thin capacitive tablet at only 14mm, offering a high screen resolution of 1280x720 pixels. The WinPad Ultra is the biggest in rugged design for portable Windows Tablets. With screen sizes of 7” or above and sufficient processing power, Tablet PCs offer a computing experience with functions that are comparable to net books with a growing number of applications.

Le Lac des Cygnes - Swan Lake - The Original Score

Le Lac des Cygnes Swan Lake Piotr Tchaikovsky Antal Dorati Minneapolis Symphony

It does not happen on many occasions that an original score of a well known musical opus remains obscure to the world. It has happened in the case of the original score for Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet. Today, Swan Lake has come to be recognised as the queen of all traditional ballets, no one realises the tumultuous time it had during its earlier years, forcing the composer to keep, revising it neurotically. It all began in 1875, when the director of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, V. Begitchev, commissioned Tchaikovsky to write a score for a ballet and the libretto was provided by the director himself in collaboration with Vasily Geltzer. The story is actually inspired by a German fairy tale and it got Tchaikovsky attracted to it. Tchaikovsky composed feverishly, giving an almost symphonic stature to the score for the ballet and when it was finished, the entire staff of the Bolshoi Theatre felt that it was too orchestral and difficult to perform. The first performance took place on 4th March 1877 and it turned out to be a dismal affair; even the audience not showing too much enthusiasm. The production did not include tasteful and imaginative choreography to match this kind of a symphonic score. The management of the Bolshoi Theatre then decided to tell Tchaikovsky that some sections of the score for the ballet were not danceable at all. They wanted to interpolate dances from other ballets in a similar fashion to how some productions in the earlier part of this decade have inserted Tchaikovsky’ First Winter Dreams Symphony into a ballet arrangement for Snegurochka or the Snow Maiden. So, Tchaikovsky’s original score for Swan Lake collected dust till 1883 and a performance was given at the Maryinsky Theatre at St. Petersburg with revisions and deletions edited by the composer. Another performance also resulted in a disaster. Tchaikovsky never had the fortune of watching his great opus performed as he intended any time after that. The ballet was first appreciated in 1901 when Alexander Gorsky produced it for Bolshoi Theater and took up the challenge admirable, albeit eight years after the composer had long left his earthly abode at a young age of fifty three. He died of cholera. This performance gave the ballet its immortality. What we see choreographed today is the version stamped by the artistry of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, whose partnership finally saved Swan Lake from extinction. Antal Dorati with Minneapolis Symphony and Mercury Recordings presented the first recorded score of this famous ballet. It deserved a world premiere merit at the time it came out in December 1954. The performance was recorded in the Northrop memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota with a single Telefunken microphone hanging fifteen feet above, slightly behind the head of Mr. Dorati. The orchestra was arranged in a normal concert performance set up to achieve a natural balance among the featured solo instruments and the orchestral ensembles. This recording can be considered as an important milestone in the disc literature of this ballet master work.

Ten Soups that are Ideal when Dieting

When you are dieting, you can safely think in terms of soups. There are many delicious soups that you can concoct to lead a healthy life. Tiffany Tse is a Lifestyle writer with a focus on healthy living. She writes regularly for Shape Magazine. She firmly believes that soups can provide ample nutrition when you are dieting. She has compiled eleven ideal soups for people to eat regularly when they diet. 1. Lentil Chili Soup – This is a healthy stew and the fiber rich lentils that are low in fat keep the calorie count in control. Spice could be added with a little dash of chili powder. This recipe is provided by Maris Callahan who is a writer for `Diets in Review’. 2. Mushroom and Barley Soup – You can use nutty grains of barley to get that chewy texture and mushrooms would be able to satisfy as a low calorie treat. This is one of Tiffany Tse’s favorite dieting soups. 3. Red Pepper Bisque – You can shop for crisp and sweet bell peppers and yellow onions. Liquefy them into a colored puree. This will be full of antioxidants and the concoction can turn into a healthy meal with an addition of mixed greens and whole grains. This recipe is also provided by Maris Callahan from `Diets in Review’. 4. Chicken Zucchini and Potato Soup – Good chunks of potato, chicken breast and zucchini make up this stew and it is ideal for a cold day. The vegetables make this stew a filling one. This recipe was taken by Tse from Chris Powell who is a trainer from Extreme Makeover. 5. Crème de Tomate – This is a simple one and must have been made numerous times at home. It is better to make fresh at home than rely on the canned soups. You can chop, roast, simmer and blend the tomatoes to give that silky mélange touch with the combination of onions and red peppers. The recipe remains one of Tse’s top few when dieting. 6. Turkey Rice Soup – When you want to make use of some leftovers, brown rice and turkey cooked in chicken broth with some frozen mixed vegetables can give you a “mouth watering, robust gumbo” as per Tiffany Tse. 7. Spaghetti Squash Noodle Soup – This a low carb combination with strips of spaghetti squash noodles mixed with onions and potatoes. Cook the spaghetti squash and then bake it. Prepare vegetables in a pot and heat with olive oil. Add the squashed noodles and cook for about ten minutes. This recipe was supplied to Tse by `Veg Obsession’. 8. Chicken and Dumplings Soup – This is usually high in calories and sodium but can be turned into a healthy recipe with many nourishing vegetables for a stew and whole wheat pastry flour for the crisp dumplings. This recipe has been provided by the `Gracious Pantry’. 9. Moroccan Chickpea Stew – Tender chickpeas will give this stew a nutritious pep. The chickpea nuggets will be full of protein and fiber and can serve as a filling addition to any meal. Cook the chickpeas in tomato sauce and let it boil. You can add frozen spinach and noodles to the stew. The recipe has been provided by `Gluten Freedom’. 10. Minestrone – This soup is low in carbohydrates and calories. It is made with potatoes, corn, carrots, tomatoes, white beans and lentils. As with the Crème de Tomate, this soup will provide you with lycopene. It will add fiber, protein and iron to your diet. This combo has been supplied to Tiffany Tse by `Young Married Chic’. You may read more for details on how to make these soups for a healthy diet in these articles listed below. http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/meal-ideas/10-healthy-soups-fill-you-not-outrovided http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/7-healthy-soups-to-fit-your-diet.html#b

Hashimoto Thyroiditis

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune and chronic lymphocytic disease in which the thyroid gland is attacked by numerous cells and antibody influenced immune processes. They cause primary thyroidism. This is one of the first auto immune diseases to be recognised. This is a condition where the immune system attacks the thyroid which is a small gland at the base of your neck below the Adam’s apple. This gland is a part of the endocrine system that produces hormones which coordinate many activities in your body. The inflammation that results from Hashimoto’s disease leads to an underactive thyroid gland or hypothyroidism. It affects mostly middle aged women. Treatment is prescribed by way of hormone replacement and it is an effective process. This disease progresses slowly over the years and causes thyroid damage and that leads to a drop in the thyroid hormone levels in the blood. The symptoms are those of hypothyroidism or an underactive thyroid gland. Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism • Fatigue and sluggishness • Increased sensitivity to cold • Constipation • Pale, and dry skin • A puffy face • Hoarse voice • Unexplained weight gain — occurring infrequently and rarely exceeding 10 to 20 pounds, most of which is fluid • Muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness, especially in your shoulders and hips • Pain and stiffness in your joints and swelling in your knees or the small joints in your hands and feet • Muscle weakness, especially in your lower extremities • Excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) • Depression

How do you find Tigers in the Indian Parks?

Seven years ago, I went excitedly to the Corbett Park in India with every expectation of coming across at least one tiger during my stay there for three days. I came back disappointed for I saw none. There were pugmarks at some places or were they? Forget Corbett! There have been similar people like me coming back disillusioned from many a national park in India without sighting a tiger. The tiger tales of Corbett have remained just legends and nothing more than that. The poachers have left nothing much for the coming generations. The actual number of tigers is falling rapidly in India. One of my friends has recently sighted a tiger in Nagzira and the Koka Forest. Elsewhere in Ranthambore, big cats were sighted in Rajasthan. Was I plain unlucky or the others are smarter than me? India has always been famous for the Taj Mahal and the Bengal Tiger. The Taj Mahal is easy enough but the Bengal Tiger is pretty elusive. Sooner than you expect, this magnificent tiger will probably disappear from the face of the planet Earth. In the world, there are not more than three thousand tigers left. This may be hard to believe but it is true. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were almost one hundred thousand tigers in India. Do you want to know what that figure has come down to as of the present? It is one thousand seven hundred and six tigers left as per the 2011 tiger census. The bloody British/Nawab/Rajah hunting expeditions, the evil poachers and the encroachment of people into the animal habitats have collectively taken their toll on this now rare species in India. Who is going to do anything about this and will it be done fast? High hopes. The coming generations in India will only be able to see tigers in tiger tale books and this animal will join the myth and folklore species. Coming to grips with the current situation, if you are planning a vacation to look out for tigers, perhaps Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan may be the place to go for. You may be able to catch a face to face situation with the about-to-be-extinct big cats. Will any poacher or any Wildlife Preservation Organizations raise up their arms to answer ‘Yes’ for the tiger being declared as an endangered animal in India? In the pre-independence era, tiger hunts were considered fashionable with the British officers and the elite of the Indian society. They perhaps still are with the Bollywood eunuchs. These hunts provided entertainment for the Maharajas. Even after independence, hunts were organized when the Royalty visited. Do you believe that? One specific extravagant hunt was organized in 1961 by Maharani Gayatri Devi for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip when the royal couple visited Jaipur. It took twenty five years for an independent nation to initiate a nationwide ban on tiger hunting. The Wildlife Protection Act came into being in 1972. It became illegal to hunt tigers or take ownership of their body parts. The Tiger Task Force was set up in 1973 and, at first; nine forests were declared as tiger reserves. Nowadays, families do not need to play rough to view the tigers as there are several resorts and hotels that have come up as a result of the tiger tourism awareness. Vanyavilas which has been developed by the Oberoi group is about one hundred and eighty kilometers from Jaipur. It was the hunting lodge of the Maharaja of Jaipur and it means `forest resort’. It has been included in Travel and Leisure’s listing of the top hundred hotels in the world. Vanyavilas is a good foil for a decent jungle safari. The guests can stay in luxury tents in this huge resort which is surrounded by landscaped gardens. The guests get to sleep in the tents. They will get to see not only the tiger if they are lucky but about over two hundred species of birds that include the crested honey buzzard, serpent eagle and the Pariah Kite. Visitors have to remember that the Forest Department which is responsible for the conservation of wildlife has put a limit on the number of people touring the Ranthambore National Park on a daily basis. The place which brought back my belief that tigers do exist and can be spotted in India was Tadoba Reserve near Nagpur in Maharashtra. I have seen five tigers spread across four days in a span of two successive years which involved two visits to the park. Tiger sightings have been quite frequent during the months of May and June when they come to the lakes to cool themselves down. So, before it becomes too late, see the tiger for real before the hunters, poachers and villagers eliminate them with their greed to possess and destroy.

Ten Most Likely Causes of Low Back Pain

1. Sprains and Injuries – A simple sprain of a muscle or a ligament while lifting something heavy or after an awkward twisting movement could give us low back pain. Injuries to the back with trauma or fracture will also result in low back pain. 2. Awkward Seating – An improper seating position during the day while we are at our workstations may also result in low back pain. 3. Sleeping Position – Low back pain can result by a wrong sleeping position or the kind of mattress that we are sleeping on. 4. Pregnancy - The expanding uterus will shift the center of gravity and stretch out the abdominal muscles resulting in the weakening of the muscles, changing of the posture and straining of the back. 5. Menstrual Periods – Women, during their menstrual cycle, will experience intense low back pain as the uterus contracts and presses against the surrounding muscles. 6. Obesity – Carrying the bulky weight is a common cause of back pain. 7. Degenerated Discs – Back aches may result from deterioration in the disc condition of the spine. 8. Herniated Disc - A spinal nerve may become trapped when the disc ruptures and presses outward, straining the lumbar spine. Some spinal nerves could be pinched to give us continuous pain. 9. Arthritis – A common cause of back ache in elderly adults is arthritis of the spine. It feels worse when they lie down to sleep. 10. Cervical Stenosis - It is a tightening of the spinal cord that can result in considerable back pain.

Garlic supports Healthy Dieting

The health magazine, `Health.am’, has reported research that has been done at the Weizmann Institute in Israel showing that garlic has been recognized for its health benefits such as preventing heart ailments, diabetes and cancer. Researchers are also endorsing the fact that garlic supports healthy dieting and helps in the reduction of body weight. It contains that vital compound called allicin that suppresses appetite and helps people in losing weight. Allicin has been known to reduce the blood pressure, triglyceride and insulin levels in the animals tested in the laboratories. These animals were fed a diet that was rich in sugar. It has been published in a study in the American Journal of Hypertension that animals that had developed high levels of insulin, blood pressure and triglycerides had their levels reduced by the intake of allicin. It went on to control their levels. During the research, rats were also fed allicin and observed for few days. They did not gain weight but the rats in the other group that were not fed the garlic compound did gain weight. Diana Herrington, Author of `Eating Green and Lean’, writing for the Care2 Magazine, says that “Garlic acts as an appetite suppressant as it gives the brain signals of satiety when it is eaten.” A person with the daily dose of garlic would be inclined to eat less during the day. Garlic has also been known to increase the metabolism rate of our body. The American Journal of Hypertension states that garlic stimulates the nervous system to release the adrenaline hormone which increases the rate of metabolism. This high rate of metabolism can help a person to burn more calories and eventually lose weight. Garlic can be used widely in the daily diet towards weight loss. It can be used in the dishes cooked or it can be used in the salads. Garlic bread also can be eaten along with other garlic products to keep your weight in check and reduce it gradually. It is popular because it is economically priced and easy to find in the food markets. As per the American Journal of Hypertension, garlic has also been considered herbal drug. It has been used in many civilizations as a cure for common cold, influenza and even the plague. Garlic has also helped to make the body more resistant to various allergies. It helps loosen and release the plaque from the walls of the arteries. It has also been considered as the best option to eliminate parasites like pin worms from your body. Garlic is packed with many nutrients and vitamins. Garlic may have been called the `stinking rose’ in the world but it is known for more than its odor. It is an aphrodisiac and is very beneficial for your health. Garlic gets its odor properties from a sulphur compound. These compounds are known for their pungent odors. To read more about the benefits of garlic as a supplement for healthy dieting, you may explore http://www.health.am/weightloss/more/garlic-for-weight-loss/.

Dopamine

Dopamine is a compound which is present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of substances such as adrenaline. It is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families. It plays an important role in the brain and the body. Its name is derived from its chemical structure. It is an amine synthesised by removing a carboxyl group from a molecule of its precursor chemical L-DOPA. It occurs in brain cells and adrenal cells. In the brain cells, it is transported to synaptic locations and packaged into vesicles for release that occurs during synaptic transmission. After its release, the dopamine that is free is either reabsorbed into the pre-synaptic terminal for reuse or it is broken down by the enzymes like monoamine oxidase or COMT. It produces a variety of degradation metabolites whose end products are eventually excreted in the urine. Our brain includes numerous dopamine systems and they play an important role in behaviour hat is reward motivated. Most rewards increase the level of dopamine in the brain and many addictive drugs increase dopamine neuronal activity. Other systems that are affected by dopamine are the motor control activities that control the release of several hormones.

Spending an Italian Vacation in Rapallo

Rapallo has become a resort town in the Province of Genoa in Italy. You will find many hotels and restaurants crowding the bay to the south of the town. When the rainy season recedes, many tourists visit this section of the Italian Riviera each spring. This was a backwater area and many people came for the extra ordinary beauty of the bay here. This was one of the favorite spots of Ezra Pound. He wrote most of his Cantos here in the nineteen thirties. Pound always found rest here in his hectic career. He eventually settled down in the close by village of St. Ambrogio. Rapallo also featured in the regular vacations for D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway. This resort is well known for its large marina and its castle which is now open for exhibition. The landscape here is magnificent and the Mediterranean offers splendid vistas. This is almost a postcard town. It is a seaside resort where you can relax and forget the bustle of heavily crowded places. The town is on the Gulf of Tigullio with pines rising from the hills that are behind the town. You get a great view from the beautiful Sanctuary of Our Lady of Montallegro which is at a height of over six hundred meters in the hills. The main street in Rapallo is an esplanade between the shore and the hotels. Fishermen are always busy at the rocks that are below the walkway. If you stay in any hotel, you can view the whole bay. You will find a statue of Cristoforo Colombo with the palm trees surrounding it. There is a long white pier that juts into the bay. There will be ferries going in and out of that bay. Below your hotel balcony, you can hear the waves smash against the stone walls of a castle that was built in the sixteenth century to safeguard the town from the attacks of the pirates. This castle is lit by orange floodlights in the night and it looks great against the dark sky. There are several pizzerias for you to dine in. You can select from many restaurants along the esplanade. There are people frequenting these restaurants till quite late in the night. The Farmer’s Market is held on most weekdays and you will see quite a range of fresh fruits and vegetables. Its Historical Center has been renovated. The well known hotels are Lido, Excelsior Palace, La Villa Manuelina, Rosa Bianca and Framon Grand Hotel Bristol. You can also rent a villa for about five hundred dollars a week. The nearest connection place is Genoa. Rapallo is connected by many trains from Genoa. You can reach Rapallo by train, car or boats. If you reach Rapallo by a boat, you will be able to see the breathtaking waterfront. You can take a boat trip to Portofino. During summer, Rapallo becomes a very important summer vacation town on the Ligurian Riviera. During winter, Rapallo tends to become very windy.

My Childhood Brands

When I look back at my childhood days, I recall people less clearly than things. I remember erasers, called rubbers, with fragrance made of opaque rubber, particularly an inexpensive eraser Sandow. There were so many soaps that the pages of middle-class India in the nineteen sixties may be written in soap and detergents. The only detergent that has survived as a brand from then is Surf. The word 'detergent' was not used back then. Surf was detergent as it became the generic word for all powdered soaps that came in a box. No one had heard of Rin and Nirma. Red Lifebuoy just could not be overlooked. Hamam and the green Cinthol were the bars to bathe with except for people with higher aspirations who purchased Moti, a fat round soap that was rather large for small hands or perhaps Pears which was considered posh; any household that used Pears regularly was not deemed middle class. Classes in society were distinguished for buying crates of Coca Cola rather than individual bottles. Cans had not been introduced in the market then. The classes were also separated from their children reading fudgy Commando comics versus the illustrated classics or the TinTin comic books. The midpoint was Tarzan and Batman comics. Other from soaps, our childhood was outlined by toothpaste. Almost everyone used Colgate and that has not changed much even today. For a while, Binaca Green was real competition, thanks to Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geet Mala. There were diversions in the form of old men with a giant single-stringed instrument that looked like a bow called 'ektara' and made a deep thrumming sound which was amusing for about five minutes before you realized that it was the only sound it could make. Summer always brought the `gannawala’ or the sugar-cane man who kept his cart outside the house and ran giant canes, sometimes six at a time, through the press. Then he would double those husked sticks and run them through again. The juice ran through a sieve into an aluminium vessel. In ice creams, Kwality was leading the pack with Havmor’s Tutti Frutti also widely popular. There were no signs of London Dairy, Haagen Dazs or Baskin Robbins. The Vadilals were not born yet. Apart from ice cream, Orange bars, HMV records, Godrej refrigerators, Bond paper, Cadbury's Fruit & Nut were those brands that you simply could not ignore. Wrigley's Spearmint, Quality Street and Kraft cheese were the goodies that resulted as gifts from returning family members who travelled abroad. At home, Kathiawar Stores still gave us the blue tin boxes of Britannia’s ginger biscuits. Not many elders have forgotten that taste. It still lingers in their mouth. For tennis lovers, nothing was more appropriate than a can of Dunlop tennis balls. Unlike Indian tennis balls, these were seal packed in pressurized containers and when you pulled the metal tab, there was a whoosh. For kids at school, there were geometry boxes by Staedtler, table tennis bats from Butterfly, Bic ballpoint pens and Parker 45 pens. Their parents used Cherry Blossom or Kiwi shoe polish to keep their shoes shined at all times. The polish scene still finds these two brands quite the strongest even today.

Native American Spirituality

There are over five hundred tribes of Native American Indians spread all over North and South America. For this reason, the Native American religions are varied. But there is a common ancient prayer that they bless each other with. The prayer is, “May you always walk in beauty”. There is one common bond of spirituality in all the tribes. The link is the harmony between nature and man. The beliefs and the rituals make up an essential part of their daily lives. The religion and spiritual ideologies of Native Americans have developed over the centuries from hunting principles, taboos, animal symbolism and belief in spirits passed down the ages as verbal history lessons from family to family along with their traditions. Ceremonies play a very important role in Native American religions. They do not hold rituals and myths as two separate things. The ritual is firmly laid out and the myth is undefined. Most of the ceremonies were adapted in local communities, utilizing traditions and sometimes borrowing customs from the other tribes to suit their local needs. They were always anticipating adapting to the ceremonies that would teach them how to face the difficulties that they encounter in their daily lives. As these traditions and customs developed through the ages, they were always overhauled and made to evolve with new purpose and meaning. Dances are an important part of the ceremonies. There is a rain dance, a crop dance, a harvest dance and a spirit dance. There are rituals for life cycles. There are rites when a toddler takes his first steps in life. When a female grows up, there is a puberty rite which is very important for all the tribes. It is also called the `Sunrise Ceremony’ that takes place during the summer after a girl gets her first menstruation cycle and becomes a woman. The Native American religion is closely associated with nature. The local surroundings are given a symbolic meaning. Natural objects are given importance and inspiration is taken from them making their presence sacred. Ceremonies and rituals that involve these natural objects are indicators of individual and tribal prosperity. These common features bring all the tribes together. Some rituals require a priest to officiate. The priest offers his services through visionary interactions and interpretations. Like four seasons of the year and four parts of the day, four is a sacred number for the Native Americans. Songs and prayers are also composed for quartets. The ceremonial ritual dance always moves clockwise. The rites will always last for four consecutive nights. The main theme that is underlying in Native American religions is the respect given to Mother Earth and the co-existence of man with animals and nature.