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Water is an important structural component of skin cartilage, tissues and organs. For human beings, every part of the body is dependent on water. Our body comprises about 75% water: the brain has 85%, blood is 90%, muscles are 75%, kidney is 82% and bones are 22% water. The functions of our glands and organs will eventually deteriorate if they are not nourished with good, clean water. The average adult loses about 2.5 litres water daily through perspiration, breathing and elimination. Symptoms of the body's deterioration begins to appear when the body loses 5% of its total water volume. In a healthy adult, this is seen as fatigue and general discomfort, whereas for an infant, it can be dehydrating. In an elderly person, a 5% water loss causes the body chemistry to become abnormal, especially if the percentage of electrolytes is overbalanced with sodium. One can usually see symptoms of aging, such as wrinkles, lethargy and even disorientation. Continuous water loss over time wil...

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. You determine the other 90%. How? By your reaction. You cannot control a red light, but you can control your reaction. Don't let people fool you; YOU can control how you react. Let's use an example. You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of milk onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened. What happens next will be determined by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your wife and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to fi...

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gone as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get throug...

Everything – the good and bad, pleasure and pain, approval and disapproval, achievements and mistakes, fame and shame – all come and go. Everything has a beginning and an ending and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Every experience you have ever had is over. Every thought you’ve ever had, started and finished. Every emotion and mood you’ve experienced has been replaced by another. You’ve been happy, sad, jealous, depressed, angry, in love, shamed, proud, and every other conceivable human feeling. Where did they all go? The answer is, no one really knows, all we know is that, eventually, everything comes and goes. Our disappointment comes about in essentially two ways. When we’re experiencing pleasure we want it to last forever. It never does. Or, when we’re experiencing pain, we want it to go away – now. It usually doesn’t. When something is happening that we enjoy, know that while it’s wonderful to experience the happiness it brings, it will eventually pass. And if you’re exp...

When people fail, they often blame someone else for their failure. People blame others when they do poorly at work. Blame is also used to justify personal problems. When you blame someone or something else, you actually make yourself weak and ineffective. You make yourself "effect" instead of being the "cause" of the situation. You give power to the person or thing you blame. "Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect." For example, you lost a business contract and you blame your assistant. You are making your assistant more powerful than you. You might say, "My assistant messed up the appointment, "which is just another way of saying, "My assistant determines if I succeed or fail in keeping an appointment." If you take responsibility, you would say, "I need to train my assistant so he doesn't make mistakes...

Have you ever heard yourself, or someone else, say: "Don't mind, he didn't know what he was doing"? If so, you have been exposed to the wisdom of "looking beyond behavior." While dealing with children, we all know very well the importance of - simple act of forgiveness. If we all based our love on children's behavior, it would often be difficult to love them at all. If love were based purely on behavior, then perhaps none of us would ever have been loved as a teenager! Wouldn't it be nice if we could try to extend this same loving-kindness toward everyone we meet? Wouldn't we live in a more loving community if, when someone acted in a way that we didn't approve of, we could see their actions in a similar light as our teenager's bad behavior? This doesn't mean that we walk around and pretend that everything is always wonderful, allow others to "walk all over us," or that we excuse or approve of negative behavior. Instea...

Obstacles and problems are a part of life. True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of advancement in Krishna Consciousness, opportunities to practice patience, and to learn to depend on Krishna more and more. Certainly some problems need to be solved. Many others, however, are problems we create for ourselves by struggling to make our life different than it actually is. We can become more peaceful by understanding and accepting the inevitable dualities of life—the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient. Problem and difficulties are considered to be so important to a life of growth. It is felt that when life is too easy, there are fewer opportunities for genuine growth. When you spend less time running away from problems and trying to rid yourself of them— and more time a...

It has been estimated that the average human being has around 60,000 thoughts per day. That's a lot of thoughts. Some of these thoughts are going to be positive and productive. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also going to be negative—angry, fearful, pessimistic, worrisome. Indeed, the important question isn't whether or not you're going to have negative thoughts — you are—it's what you choose to do with the ones that you have. In a practical sense, you really have only two options when it comes to dealing with negative thoughts. You can analyze your thoughts —ponder, think through, study, think some more OR you can learn to ignore them—dismiss, pay less attention to, not take so seriously. This later option, learning to take your negative thoughts less seriously, is infinitely more effective in terms of learning to be more peaceful. If you have a thought from your past, "I'm upset because he scolded me for no fault of mine" you can get into ...

Many of us are reluctant to learn from the people closest to us—our authorities, colleagues, staff and friends. Rather than being open to learning, we close ourselves off out of embarrassment, fear, stubbornness, or pride. It's almost as if we say to ourselves, "I have already learned all that I can [or want to learn] from this person; there is nothing else I can [or need to] learn." It's sad, because often the people closest to us know us the best. They are sometimes able to see ways in which we are acting in a self-defeating manner and can offer very simple solutions. If we are too proud or stubborn to learn, we lose out on some wonderful, simple ways to improve our lives. Remain open to the suggestions of your authorities and other devotees. Ask senior devotees and authorities, "What are some of my blind spots?" By this simple process you end up getting some good advice. It's such a simple shortcut for growth, yet almost no one uses it. All it tak...

One reason Hitler lost World War II was that he did not fully understand the situation. Bearers of bad news were punished. Soon no one dared tell him the truth. Not knowing the truth, he could not act appropriately. Many of us are individually guilty of the same error. We do not like to admit to ourselves our mistakes, errors, shortcomings, or ever admit we have been in the wrong. And because we will not see the truth, we cannot act appropriately. Someone has said that it is a good exercise to daily admit one painful fact about ourselves to ourselves. Look for and seek out true information concerning yourself, your problems, other people, or situation, whether it is good news or bad news. Adopt the motto – “It doesn’t matter who’s right, but what’s right.” Admit your mistakes and errors but don’t cry over them. Correct them and go forward. In dealing with other people try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

The happiest person on earth isn't always happy. In fact, the happiest people all have their fair share of low moods, problems and disappointments. Often the difference between a person who is happy and someone who is unhappy is not how often they get low, or even how low they drop, but instead, it's what they do with their low moods. Many people take their low moods very seriously and try to figure out and analyze what's wrong. They try to force themselves out of their low state, which tends to compound the problem rather than solve it. Intelligent people understand that both positive and negative feelings come and go, and that there will come a time when they won't be feeling so good. So, when they are feeling depressed, angry, or stressed out, they relate to these feelings with the same openness and wisdom. Rather than fight their feelings and panic simply because they are feeling bad, they accept their feelings, knowing that this too shall pass. Rather than ...

What kind of friends do you have? What kind of employees? What kind of colleagues? So many times in life we get from others EXACTLY WHAT WE EXPECT! In short the way we see people affects the way we treat them and the way we treat them affects the way they perform. This is called Pygmalion Effect (sometimes called the “echo effect” or the “mirror effect”). Expectations can influence behavior: therefore, a manager may get better staff performance if he expects better performance. What we see reflected in many objects, situations, or persons are what we put there with our own expectations. We create images of how things should be, and if these images are believed, they become self fulfilling prophecies. The feelings and tones which surround us can be changed if we work to change them by sending out the kind of signal we want reflected or echoed. We all have an audience of individuals and colleagues whose day, including their moods, feelings, and dispositions, will be influenced by th...

Many a times we find an excuse for our failure, we blame the society, unfair treatment, injustice etc. Resentment or bitterness is an attempt to make our own failure palatable. However, resentment is worst than a disease. It is a deadly poison which makes happiness impossible and drains tremendous amount of energy. Resentment is also a “way” of making us feel important. Many people get a perverse satisfaction from the feeling “wronged.” It is an illusion whereby a person thinks, if he can feel resentful / bitter enough, and thereby “prove” the injustice, some magical process will undo the event of circumstances which caused resentment. Resentment is a mental resistance to or non-acceptance of something which has already happened. Resentment is an emotional re-fighting of some event in the past. You cannot win, because you are attempting to do the impossible – change the past. Resentment, even when based upon real injustice and wrongs, is not the way to win. It soon becomes an e...

Most of Our Failures in Human Relations are due to “misunderstandings”. We expect other people to react and respond and come to the same conclusions as we do from a given set of “facts” or “circumstances.” No one responds or reacts to “things as they are,” but to his own mental images. Most of the time, a person “understands” and interprets the situation differently from us. He is merely responding appropriately to what – to him – seems to be the truth about the situation. Ask yourself: “How does this appear to him?” “How does he interpret this situation?” “How does he feel about it?” Try to understand why he might “act the way he does” In dealing with other people try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

Most of Our Failures in Human Relations are due to “misunderstandings”. We expect other people to react and respond and come to the same conclusions as we do from a given set of “facts” or “circumstances.” No one responds or reacts to “things as they are,” but to his own mental images. Most of the time, a person “understands” and interprets the situation differently from us. He is merely responding appropriately to what – to him – seems to be the truth about the situation. Ask yourself: “How does this appear to him?” “How does he interpret this situation?” “How does he feel about it?” Try to understand why he might “act the way he does” In dealing with other people try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

Most people would agree that one of the greatest sources of stress in our lives is our problems. To a certain degree this is true. A more accurate assessment, however, is that the amount of stress we feel has more to do with how we relate to our problems than it does with the problems themselves. In other words, how much of a problem do we make our problems? Problems come in many shapes, sizes, and degrees of seriousness, but all have one thing in common: They present us with something that we wish were different. The more we struggle with our problems and the more we want them to go away, the worse they seem and the more stress they cause us. Ironically, and luckily, the opposite is also true. When we accept our problems as an inevitable part of life, when we look at them as potential teachers, it's as if a weight has been lifted off our shoulders. Think of a problem that you have struggled with for quite some time. How have you dealt with this problem up until now? If you...

When it comes to stress, illness and wellness, it is important to remember that what goes on in your mind is reflected in your body. People who continually worry and get stressed about their problems tend to develop tense muscles, become tired easily or get headaches. When their mind is stressed, their body becomes stressed too. Dwelling on your mistakes and over-analyzing what could go wrong or what you could have done differently only drains your energy and distracts you from what you have to do. Worrying only uses up energy and doesn’t really help your situation. Like acid, worry will just eat you away if you let it into your life each day. There are endless things you can worry about…service, safety, health, future, etc. But let’s face it: Worry doesn’t change the situation Worry won’t help time move any quicker Worry won’t help you with your service Worry just doesn’t help in any way… So don’t do it!

So often we are immobilized by the slightest criticism. We treat it like an emergency, and defend ourselves as if we were in a battle. When we react to criticism with a knee-jerk, defensive response, it hurts. We feel attacked, and we have a need to defend or to offer a counter criticism. We fill our minds with angry or hurtful thoughts directed at ourselves or at the person who is being critical. All this reaction takes an enormous amount of mental energy. An incredibly useful exercise is to agree with criticism directed toward you. I'm not talking about turning into a doormat or ruining your self-esteem by believing all negativity that comes in your direction. There are many times when simply agreeing with criticism defuses the situation, satisfies a person's need to express a point of view, offers you a chance to learn something about yourself by seeing a grain of truth in another position, and, perhaps most important, provides you an opportunity to remain calm. One of...

Blaming has become extremely common in our culture. On a personal level, it has led us to believe that we are never completely responsible for our own actions, problems, or happiness. When we are in the habit of blaming others, we will blame others for our anger, frustration, depression, stress, and unhappiness. In terms of personal happiness, you cannot be peaceful while at the same time blaming others. Surely there are times when other people and/or circumstances contribute to our problems, but it is we who must rise to the occasion and take responsibility for our own happiness. As an experiment, notice what happens when you stop blaming others for anything and everything in your life. This doesn't mean you don't hold people accountable for their actions, but that you hold yourself accountable for your own happiness and for your reactions to other people and the circumstances around you. Blaming others takes an enormous amount of mental energy. It's a "drag-me-...

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That...

Beijing: After Iran, it is China which has been the latest target of the computer virus named Stuxnet. Dubbed as the world's "first cyber superweapon" by experts, the virus is infecting millions of computers around the country. Stuxnet is capable of breaking into computers that control machinery at the heart of industry. After that it allows the attacker to assume control of critical systems like pumps, motors, alarms and valves. Apart from this, it can also explode factory boilers, destroy gas pipelines or even cause a nuclear plant to malfunction. The malware is specially designed to weaken plants and damage industrial systems, instead of stealing personal data. Once Stuxnet successfully penetrates factory computers in China, those industries may collapse, which would damage China's national security, said an engineer surnamed Wang at antivirus service provider Rising. As per the report of the official Xinhua news agency, the attacks had so far infected more t...

Bangalore: The C3 Touch and Type device combines a traditional keyboard with the benefits of a touch screen. The touch and type mobile phone is like the X3 Touch and Type in a way. Both are reminiscent of older Nokia phones such as the 6300 and 6700 classic. It is expected to be priced around Rs. 9,000. The Nokia C3 Touch and Type was one of the phones launched at the Nokia World 2010 event. It is expected to become available in Indian stores by mid-October 2010. It will run the Symbian Series 40 operating system and includes 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity along with Bluetooth, but it doesn't have GPS. The handset includes Nokia Messaging 3.0, Nokia's e-mail and instant messaging software that also provide Facebook and Twitter access. The phone will also be able to access Nokia's Ovi Store for third-party applications. Nokia C3 has a stainless steel case and will come in silver, warm grey and khaki gold colour variants. It has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, and a micro...

Bangalore: Beginning a new initiative called 'Skills to Succeed', Accenture will make 250,000 unskilled and semi-skilled people around the world job- or business-ready by 2015. Accenture and Accenture Foundation will invest over $100 million into this initiative, reports Mini Joseph Tejaswi from The Economic Times. This program will seek to educate people, and build skills that enable them to participate in and contribute to areas like IT, BPO, hospitality and retail. India, with over 450 million unskilled and semi-skilled workforce under 35, is likely to be a significant beneficiary of this campaign. Accenture has roped in Dr. Reddy's Foundation and Nasscom Foundation to provide BPO skills training to underprivileged youth from rural India. It has entered into a partnership with IGNOU to offer a diploma course on BPO services. "With Nasscom Foundation, we will train adolescent girls and young women from economically backward areas in animation skills," said R...

Mumbai: Legal process outsourcing (LPO) the industry is on the fast-track and is likely to hire 30,000 personnel in the next one year, doubling the present level, said leading legal process outsourcing player Pangea3. "The LPO industry is growing phenomenally. It has already provided 15,000 jobs in the last five years and this is set to double in the next one year," said Pangea3 Co-Founder Sanjay Kamlani. The company, founded in 2004, is eyeing a 100 percent growth in revenue over the next year and plans to more than double its headcount this fiscal, Kamlani said. "The growth trend is accelerating. We are on track for a 100 percent growth in revenue over the next year. In line with this, we also plan to scale up our headcount to 1,000 by the second quarter of FY12," he said. The LPO industry has grown phenomenally in the last couple of years. Last year, it grew 100 percent, he said, adding that he expected this trend to continue for the next two years at lea...

Nokia C3-01 Price The new Nokia C3-01  is a  Touch and Type mobile phone (like the Nokia X3-02) featuring 2.4-inch touchscreen display along with alpha-numeric keypad.Nokia C3-01 is slim (11mm) and elegant and looks like the Nokia Classic 6700 and Nokia 6300 .It gives you familiar feel of your these trusted mobile phones along with modern touch display technology.It sports 3G HSPA,WiFi n connectivity options and has a 5 mega-pixel camera with flash. Nokia C3-01 mobile phone specifications : Network: Quad band GSM Dimensions : 111 x 47.5 x 11 mm Weight : 100 g DISPLAY : 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen, 256K colors,240 x 320 pixels 3.5 mm audio jack MEMORY Internal 30 MB Expandable memory : microSD up to 32GB GPRS/EDGE 3G HSDPA 10.2 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP USB v2.0 microUSB CAMERA : 5 megapixel with LED flash Video recording VGA@15fps SMS, MMS, Email, IM WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML Stereo FM radio with RDS Colors: Silver, Warm grey, Gol...

This college was started in 1970-1971 under the name “Kalaignar Karunanidhi Government Arts College”. The then district collector of composite Thanjavur Mr.T.V.Andhoni, I.A.S., and his officials extended their helping hand to start college at the time. The college offering Pre University courses initially started functioning in the precincts of Thiyagaraja Temple, Tiruvarur. A degree course in History was started in the subsequent year. Then the college was shifted to a new building which was opened by the Honourable Chief Minister. Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi and the Educational Minister Dr.Era.Nedunchezhiyan in the presence of the Governor of Tamilnadu, Mr. K. K. Sha on 2nd June 1972. The Economic and the Commerce classes were commenced in the same year. The college was elevated as a Postgraduate educational institution within the four years with the support and patronage of the Government of Tamilnadu. The Postgraduate degree in History was started in 1974 and the M.Com., course in 1...

500-bed hospital is also ready, says Health Secretary When Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi unveils the plaque to formally inaugurate the Tiruvarur Medical College at his birthplace on Tuesday, the State will inch a step closer to its aim of having a medical college in every district. With this college and the other new medical college at Villupuram, the State now has a total of 17 medical colleges, with 1,653 MBBS seats under the State quota. In the counselling process, all government college seats were filled, including 85 each at Villupuram and Tiruvarur. The students who have been allotted State quota seats in Tiruvarur are expected to be present at the inaugural function. The Tiruvarur Medical College was conceived in the State budget in 2008. Efforts were taken from then to set up a medical college in the district, adjoining Thanjavur, Health officials say. A new 500-bed medical hospital has also been constructed to complement the new college that has been built within the Collector...