| Did you know that according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our body has its own energy clock? Also known as the Chinese Body Clock, it explains some of the most asked questions about our body. For instance, you may be curious to discover why your mood and energy levels fluctuate so much throughout the day? And why you sometimes tend to be less concentrated on your work than in other instances?
Without a doubt, our bodies do extraordinary things, but they are all built around cycles, controlled by the brain and defined by our sleeping and eating patterns. At different times of the day, the body has one organ which is at its energetic peak, and by knowing your energy clock well, you can help your body cope better. The chart below illustrates the human energy body clock, showing the best times to eat, work, sleep and socialize. According to TCM, the body moves its energy concentration from one organ to another every 2 hours (as the chart indicates) with the organ opposite each time slot (12 hours ahead) being the one with the least energetic functioning during that time.
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India’s global ad giant taking on Google and Facebook…
“I am a very proud Indian and I want to see our country succeed,” says Naveen Tewari, chief executive of mobile advertising giant InMobi.
“I thought if I could do something from here that can be successful, maybe I’ll have a small role in creating great companies out of India that can compete with the iconic companies in Silicon Valley.”
It’s fair to say that eight years after starting the company with three co-graduates from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Mr Tewari has done just that.
Today InMobi, based in Bangalore, India, is the third largest player in the fast-growing mobile advertising industry, with only Facebook and Google outstripping it.
The company has 24 offices in 17 countries and employs more than 900 people. Last year it posted 720 billion mobile adverts on the phones of more than a billion users.
In just a few years he hopes they will send adverts to 2.5 billion people every day.
Naveen Tewari’s family hoped he would pursue a career in academia
”That level of ability for us to touch so many lives and impact their decision-making is a huge responsibility,” says Mr Newari.
“I want to ensure we deliver value to them.”
Smartphone revolution
The advertising giant has grown quickly because of the fast proliferation of smartphones and tablets across the world.
“InMobi creates audience networks for advertisers to reach through mobile devices,” explains Ian Maude, the director of digital media at Enders Analysis.
InMobi places adverts on smartphone content apps such as games
“These companies sign up digital publishers, like app makers, so they can access their audiences, package them up and sell them on to advertisers.”
India is the world’s third-largest smartphone market and many users are upgrading to smartphones for the first time from basic handsets.
Chinese mobile companies, like Xiaomi, OnePlus and Coolpad, are now investing in India, providing competition for home-grown brands, such as Micromax and Karbonn, as well as for global giants Samsung and Apple.
”InMobi is directly relevant to what is happening in India at a macro point of view because of its distribution and ability to access people on mobile devices, which people in India are adopting very quickly,” says Eileen Burbidge, who invests in technology companies for Passion Capital.
Global gamble
It has not been a clear road to global success for Mr Tewari and co-founders Abhay Singhal, Amit Gupta and Mohit Saxena.
The company was originally called mKhoj and offered a search engine that worked via text message.
In 2009, with mKhoj failing to take off, they rebranded as InMobi, funding the new business with credit card debt.
The gamble quickly paid off – that year InMobi became the largest mobile ad network in South Africa and opened offices in Europe, expanding to North America the following year.
“People asked us why are you building this as a global business when there is no past success like this,” Mr Tewari says.
“But we said we think we can make it happen; we have a great product and there is a market for it. Logic suggested that if we looked at the past we shouldn’t go for it, but my gut suggested that we should. We went for it and we are successful.
”You have to make decisions with 10% of the available information. If you had 100% information then decision-making would be very easy,” he adds.
Tech ambition
Mr Tewari says the turning point in his career was when he got to work with a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley during his summer breaks from his MBA [Master of Business Administration] at Harvard Business School.
”It was my first introduction to the world of start-ups and I learnt that I could make a difference, define the vision and actually make things happen.”
His chosen career path was a disappointment to some of his more academic family members.
”Everyone was disappointed when I did not go down the path of doing a PhD and taking up something with potential at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
“Now what I do is very different and it’s a big change,” he says.
Pl watch this video clip from you tube too….
Source….www. bbc.com and http://www.youtube.com
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Term of the Day… What is ” White Paper ” ?
1.A concise report that informs readers about a complex issue, often used to convey an organization’s philosophy and pursuade potential customers. This type of document contains proposals for the specific policy area suggested during the consultation process initiated with the publication of a green paper. In British law, several drafts of a white paper may be distributed for the final comments after which it goes for approval to the apex body such as a Parliament before it becomes the official policy.
2.Marketing tool in the form of information on the technology underlying a complex product of system and on how it will benefit the customer.
Use white paper in a sentence
- There were a number of problems with the white paper that Ted sent around, causing the committee to completely rework the document.
- I have laid out the proposals in the white paper that we had spoken about previously during our consultation and would like you to review before it is submitted.
- There had been five drafts of the white paper distributed for comments, and it was still not ready for approval.
Source……www.businessdictionary.com
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Message for the Day…” The dormant spiritual energy {kundalini shakthi} present in us when awakened can destroy all the evil tendencies within our Mind…”
Look at the trainers of wild beasts. They bring the tiger, the most ferocious of animals, like a cat into the circus ring and make it jump through a hoop of fire, lap milk from a plate or sit face to face with a goat on a chair! They tame it to become an unassuming toy! If a ferocious tiger can be subdued, can you not succeed with the ferocious denizens of your mind? You can! That is the message you must internalize when you celebrate the victory of the Primal Energy! On this day the Goddess of Energy (Parashakthi), immanent in the microcosm and macrocosm had destroyed all the evil forces (Asura).That same energy is present in you as the dormant spiritual energy(Kundalini Shakti), which when awakened, can destroy, the evil tendencies within your mind; So, by means of systematic Sadhana tap the inner resources that God has endowed you with and elevate yourselves to a purer and happier realm.
Amazing Animal facts…!!!
| The Animal world is awe-inspiring and full of surprises, I collected some animal facts that will amaze, amuse & teach you something new. Plus – super cute photos! | |||||||||
| 1. Did you know that Turtles can breathe through their anus?!
2. If a Squirrel finds a baby squirrel without parents, it will immediately adopt it!
3. Bees communicate through a complex dance.
4. Did you know that Dolphins actually have specific names for each other?
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Daily Views of Earth on NASA Website….
Earth rotates through an entire day as captured in this animation of 22 still images taken on Sept. 17, 2015 by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.
Credits: NASA
NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force.
Once a day NASA will post at least a dozen new color images of Earth acquired from 12 to 36 hours earlier by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day. The new website also features an archive of EPIC images searchable by date and continent.
The primary objective of NOAA’s DSCOVR mission is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA. NASA has two Earth-observing instruments on the spacecraft. EPIC’s images of Earth allow scientists to study daily variations over the entire globe in such features as vegetation, ozone, aerosols, and cloud height and reflectivity.
EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope. The color Earth images are created by combining three separate single-color images to create a photographic-quality image equivalent to a 12-megapixel camera. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters — from ultraviolet to near infrared — to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used to create the color images. Each image is about 3 megabytes in size.
“The effective resolution of the DSCOVR EPIC camera is somewhere between 6.2 and 9.4 miles (10 and 15 kilometers),” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Since Earth is extremely bright in the darkness of space, EPIC has to take very short exposure images (20-100 milliseconds). The much fainter stars are not visible in the background as a result of the short exposure times.
The DSCOVR spacecraft orbits around the L1 Lagrange point directly between Earth and the sun. This orbit keeps the spacecraft near the L1 point and requires only occasional small maneuvers, but its orbit can vary from 4 to 15 degrees away from the sun-Earth line over several years.
EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. Using an 11.8-inch (30-centimeter) telescope and 2048 x 2048 CCD detector, EPIC measures in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared areas of the spectrum. The data from all 10 wavelengths are posted through a website hosted by the Atmospheric Science Data Center at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. All images are in the public domain.
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth’s interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.
For daily images from EPIC, visit:
For more information about the DSCOVR mission, visit:
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
Source……www.nasa.gov
A Couple in Mumbai Provides Free Food to the Needy Every Day. The Reason Will Melt Your Heart …
He was a photographer with a heart — always caring, compassionate and kind towards those in need. Now his family has chosen to honour his legacy in a unique way.
On a fateful day in August 2011, Nimesh Tanna, a 22-year-old photographer, boarded a crowded local train to make his way to a meeting in Mumbai. He never made it to the meeting or to his home that day. A pole, located dangerously close to the tracks, hit him hard the moment he put his head out of the train. Nimesh fell off the fast moving train and died on the spot.
“We were best friends since childhood. We went to the same school and attended the same college. We even worked together in the same company before he decided to pursue his passion for photography. We had decided to go for a movie that night but I didn’t know Nimesh would never return,” says Kintan Parekh, Nimesh’s friend, with a heavy heart.
It’s been four years and one can still hear the pain in Kintan’s voice. He recalls that day when he received a call from the railway authorities about a dead body lying on the side of the tracks near CST railway station.
“I was with his parents at the time they got the call. They were worried as Nimesh’s phone was not reachable. His father was a heart patient so I didn’t tell him exactly what had happened. I just told him that Nimesh had met with an accident but was fine. But when we reached the accident site, his father broke down. He couldn’t believe what had happened. It was such a tough thing to accept for everyone. We took the dead body home where hundreds of Nimesh’s friends were waiting along with his mother. He was a well-known boy and every one loved him,” recalls Kintan.
Coping with this loss was even more difficult for Mr. Pradeep Tanna and Mrs. Damyanti Tanna, as Nimesh was their only child.
The couple’s life came to a complete halt as they would sit the entire day in front of Nimesh’s photo, remembering him. Barely able to recover from this huge loss, Pradeep faced another setback when he lost the sweet shop he owned in Mulund because his partners cheated him in the business.
Kintan, who had always been there for the family during their tough times, yet again provided a helping hand. He advised Pradeep to start a new venture and he quit his own family business to support the Tanna family. Kintan, along with Pradeep, started a new sweet shop in Mulund.
The family was finally getting back on its feet and decided to honour their lost son in an extraordinary way.
“Nimesh was always socially inclined. He would help people in need, donate money, do volunteer work — he was very compassionate. His parents thought that starting an NGO under his name would be the perfect way to pay a tribute to their son,” says Kintan.
The Tanna couple registered the Shri Nimesh Tanna Charitable Trust (SNTCT) on January 26, 2013.
SNTCT was started with the goal of providing free tiffin service to the needy.
Nimesh’s parents started a free tiffin service for the needy in his memory. –
The Tannas started by making food in their small kitchen for about 30 people. SNTCT now provides lunch to about 100 underprivileged families in Mumbai every day.
It’s been over two years and the Tanna family has not skipped even a single day of their service. They have a new kitchen in a small space near their house in Mulund, where a staff of seven people makes healthy meals for the poor.
To make sure the tiffins reach the beneficiaries on time, the couple has partnered with the famous dabbawalas of Mumbai who do the delivery every day.
“Earlier, it was very challenging to deliver the tiffins on time. Sometimes, uncle and I would personally go to deliver the tiffins but this was not feasible every day since I had my own office then and uncle too had a shop to take care of,” says Kintan.
In time, SNTCT has also started working with a tribal community near Mumbai.
Since tribals are often disconnected from mainstream society and do not have the means to earn a proper livelihood, SNTCT provides them with ‘food kits.’
The kits contain necessary cooking ingredients like foodgrains, oil, sugar, flour, etc., for the entire month. The Trust distributes these rations to 50 adivasi families on the first Sunday of every month.
In addition, SNTCT also runs a ‘Kids Bank’ that supplies clothes, toys, books, cycles, etc., to needy children, and has a senior citizens’ initiative to supply medicines to the elderly.
SNTCT is run mainly with the money that the Tanna family earns from their sweet shop business in Mulund. However, the family also now gets support from other donors who are impressed with the work that they are doing.
“There couldn’t be a better tribute to Nimesh. He was a person with a golden heart and we are trying to keep him alive through the Trust,” says Kintan.
Loved by all, Nimesh may not be in this world anymore, but his friends and family are keeping him alive through a great cause. To know more about the Trust and to extend your support, contact Kintan at – tfpckintan@gmail.com or check out their website.
Source….Shreya Pareek… http://www.thebetterindia.com
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“Can people actually cash those big novelty checks”….?
A Novelty
Though cashing a check is a relatively simple affair from the cashier’s perspective, the work on the back end is remarkably sophisticated and involves an amazing amount of automated technology and travel for the checks.
With this in mind, it’s clear why virtually all checks come in fairly uniform sizes and designs- it’s just easier for everyone involved that way. However, even with this, several million checks are sorted through by hand every single year (usually due to them being rejected by a machine for some reason or another); this costs banks money, so is obviously something they are very keen to cut down on.
This might make you think cashing a giant novelty check would be a no-no. However, legally, there’s nothing stopping you from writing a check on, well, anything, such as a napkin, and then sending it to someone you hate.
For instance, according to Brian Black, onetime managing director of operations and technology at the Bank Administration Institute,
It [a check] has to contain certain features, and it can be written on anything, as long as it has the elements, the surface doesn’t make a difference. A check is an order to pay someone, that’s all it is.
So if a novelty check has all the needed information (the amount to be paid; the payer and payee names; the account number; the name of the bank where the payer has the account and what state the bank is in; the payer’s signature, and the date the check was written), there’s no legal reason it can’t be cashed. But, of course, there are practical reasons you wouldn’t want to try. As such, alternate means of transferring the money is used. For instance, a spokeswoman for iWon online sweepstakes, Samantha Better, said that their winners are also given regular sized checks for their own convenience that they can cash instead. She went on to note that most opt to keep their giant check as a souvenir rather than go through the hassle of actually trying to cash it. In other cases, funds are simply transferred directly from account to account, rather than messing with any physical check cashing.
All that being said, many banks have small print in their terms stating that they can reject any non-standard payments. So while the giant novelty checks are technically legal and valid to cash if they’ve got all the needed information, those banks can, if they choose, reject them. Unfortunately for the novelty of it all, when banks do accept them, they don’t send the giant checks off in comically large envelopes. Rather, they simply take the check, then write all the relevant information down and send it off for further processing that way.
Bonus Fact:
Since you almost certainly clicked this to read about someone cashing a stupid check, we want to tell you about, Patrick Combs. The man who, upon receiving a junk-mail check for a little over $95,000, endorsed it with a smiley face and then cashed it. To his surprise, his bank accidentally honored it. Amazingly, because the bank failed to retract their error within 24 hours of the check bouncing, all $95,000+ was legally his. Since the check wasn’t valid, it came out of the bank’s pocket.
When word of Patrick’s hilarious feat of getting one over on his bank hit the news, some of the finest legal minds in banking joined the argument, on Patrick’s side. Essentially, Patrick was home free and in full, legal possession of $95,000 of the bank’s money. Of course, this didn’t stop the bank from having their head of security threaten him, trying to get him to give the money back. But Patrick knew the law was on his side on this one and had fun with it, telling the security officer,
“Give me a letter on official bank stationery stating that you are who you say you are, that you indeed work for the bank, and also put in that letter the reason why the bank is requesting the money back, as I’m a little confused on that. When I get that letter, we’ll go from there.”
The security officer refused, apparently calling Combs several choice names in the process.
Despite the threats, which actually made him less inclined to give the money back, and that at the time he had about $45,000 in credit-card debt, Patrick eventually decided to return the money. He had meant it as a joke and didn’t actually want to take any money from anyone, not the bank or even the junk mailer who had sent it to him.
He didn’t come off too badly over the thing, though. To this day, he’s still riding the coattails of the story to make a living in his 75 minute Man 1, Bank 0 stage show. He was even once hired to perform the show at a major banker’s conference. Presumably this functions as something of a campfire horror story at banking executive retreats.
Source….www.todayifoundout.com
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“When you are in the ring you know no fear”…
From the humble boxing ring of Dighwara village comes the amazing story of girl boxers who have started a revolution of sorts in Bihar’s rural hinterland.
Archana Masih met the boxing champs and their dedicated coaches as Rediff.com looks at poll-bound Bihar through the lives of its people.
IMAGE: Mona sorts her many medals. Photographs: Archana Masih/Rediff.com
I am standing before some of the brightest stars of Bihar. Girls who have come from neighbouring villages and wait under a mango tree — their medals gleaming under the afternoon sun.
They are the boxing champions of Dighwara, young girls that have trained in a grossly sub-standard boxing ring made of brick and sand in a village school. But this is their hallowed ground. They reverently touch each of its three steps with their hands and then touch their foreheads before stepping on to it.
Burnt and burnished in this pit of sand, where they practice for two-and-half hours every day, they have gone on to win medals at the district, state and national level.
Priyanka and Mona, with three medals each at the national level, are about to leave for another national championships in Guwahati in a couple of days. They have a host of other medals, they say, that can fill up an entire wall in their homes.
“The girls have graduated from salwar suits to track suits and are our pride,” says coach Roshan Singh, a young army man who is the force behind Dighwara’s boxing revolution that began in 2008.
IMAGE: Girl boxers who have assembled from three schools that have started boxing classes. One is a government school. Coaches Roshan Singh, right and Dheeraj Kant, left.
It had started with 6, 8 girls; now 20 of them stand in front of me. In rural Bihar where parents send their girls to school or college to study and not much for sport — and marry them soon after — the interest in boxing is no ordinary achievement.
“It has made us confident and opened our minds,” says Priyanka, who was among the first batch of boxers, “I want to continue boxing and then train to be a referee or a coach.”
All set to travel for her next competition, she had jogged four kilometres from her village of Aami to the boxing ring in Dighwara at 4 am last morning.
For their practice coach Roshan Singh makes them box with boys as well. When I ask Priyanka if it is tough to fight the boys, she brushes it off lightly, “Nahin, there’s no difference. It’s the technique that matters.”
The club is also a rural melting pot of sorts — an ideal learning ground for young athletes. It has children from different castes, religions and backgrounds. Young Sabiya Khatoon is the junior-most in the group.
The ring was made by a sports enthusiast Ashok Singh who is contesting the assembly election as an Independent candidate. When he started it he says little did he imagine that it would become such a hit with the girls.
It is holiday time in Bihar. The schools are closed and there is a festive air, but the girls have come to a college near the boxing ring (which is on a school campus). Some have come from a government school in Amnaur two hours away. The teacher accompanying them says that encouraged by the girls in Dighwara, he wanted his school girls to also learn boxing. Now they have a coach of their own.
IMAGE: Mona and Priyanka, star boxers of the club, who come from villages nearby.
Another school owner had brought students in an autorickshaw from another village. None of the girls are city or town-bred neither do they have access to facilities that boxers in states like Punjab, Haryana and Delhi have, but they are raring to go.
When I ask coaches Roshan and Dheeraj, what they need most — they say a good boxing ring, which would cost around Rs 250,000. The district or state has not helped them enhance their facility, some netas have made some promises, but they have remained just promises, they say.
The girls are confident — a precocious bunch of youngsters, like you may find anywhere in this country — and say that they love to pack a punch.
“There may be some nervousness initially, but when you are in the ring, you know no fear,” says Priyanka, the youngest of her siblings who lives in a large joint family.
IMAGE: Sudha Kumari has got a discount at the club because her mother is a daily wage earner. She stands at the entrance of her home.
Sitting in the drawing room where they offer rasgullas from their sweet shop, her mother Sona Devi, a former municipal office bearer, says, “People here still don’t encourage their girls, but I am determined to support mine. My older daughter has completed her PhD and people are pressing me to get her married, but I think what’s the hurry.”
The girls pay Rs 300 to enrol in the boxing club. A price too high for Sudha Kumari, who has borrowed her friend’s cycle to come to the ring.
She could only pay Rs 200 and was provided her track suit, shoes and gloves by the club. The club often waives the fees of girls who cannot afford it.
Sudha is a quiet girl who is in Class 11. Her mother Mamta is a daily wage worker and her father is no more. Mamta earns around Rs 100 a day.
IMAGE: Coach Roshan with Sudha’s grandparents.
I ask Sudha to take me to her home because I want to meet her mother and she agrees without hesitation. On the way, she tells me she walks to the boxing club which takes 5 minutes by a short cut. She also tells me that the cycle she received as part of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s cycle scheme had broken down and she did not have the means to get it repaired.
You make your way past two cows and three goats to go into the small house that is shared by her four younger siblings, mother and grandparents. The small room has a bed that occupies the whole room, leaving just enough room for two people to stand. A small TV is wedged in a corner where Sudha has watched Mary Kom, who is an idol to all these girls.
“I did not know what boxing was when she told me she wanted to join the club, but I let her because she wanted to. It is eight months now,” says her mother. Sudha will leave for Delhi to compete in her first competition in December.
In the courtyard, coach Roshan is standing with the grandparents. “Dadaji, this girl is better than boys,” he tells Sudha’s old grandfather. “She will make your family proud.”
The old man weeps with tears of joy.
If you want to help Dighwara’s boxing club, you can contact coach Dheeraj Kant at 9852994629.
Source….Archana Masih / Rediff.com
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RARE ‘MAGIC RABBIT’ FROM CHINA SPOTTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS….
Apparently, you don’t have to go to a galaxy far, far away to see Ewoks. In the Tian Shan Mountains of China, researchers have spotted the elusive Ili Pika, an adorable creature which hasn’t been seen in two decades. Discovered back in 1983 by conservationist Li Weidong, he named the rare mammal after his hometown, and not after Pikachu.
The so-called ‘magic bunny’ measures about eight inches long and is a distant relative of the rabbit. It has eluded research teams for decades, sneaking in and out of cliffs, avoiding getting photographed. Until now.
Li, on another one of his Pika spotting expeditions, was able to snap the photos above. According to him, the species numbered around 2,900 at the time of their discovery. Now, their numbers are down to less than a thousand, most likely due to human activity and climate change.
‘I discovered the species, and I watched as it became endangered. If it becomes extinct in front of me, I’ll feel so guilty’, said Li. He hopes that the Ili Pika’s mountain ranges would soon be declared a nature reserve to help their species survive and thrive again.
Via Daily Mail
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Inigo del Castillo
Inigo is a writer and graphic designer from Manila, Philippines. He is a soldier of love who will carry you on his strong back of awesomeness when the zombie apocalypse arrives.
Source…..www.http://www.lostateminor.com/
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