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Magical words of encouragement

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
by Sue

Think positive

Do you need encouragement words or is it someone close to you? This article is what you need right now particularly if your issue is about moving on from a broken relationship. Take sometime and read about words of encouragement for you or your loved one.

It is the greatest thing to find someone to spend your life with. A person to commit to for the rest of your life. To have and to hold, for richer for poor, in sickness and in health. The truth is, it is challenging to find that person. In the same way, having to let go of that special someone because of issues of life is even harder. In such times, encouragement words may seem like the only thing to save the situation.

Words of encouragement of a broken relationship can not take away the pain but they can make it endurable. If said repeatedly in a kind and loving spirit, they can eventually heal the heart and make the pain go away.

In order to effectively console someone, you must first know the person what he or she likes, hates, what makes them move smile, laugh or cry. By ensuring that you really know the person before you say anything about his or her broken relationship you are making sure that you are well positioned to say the right things. Rather keep quiet that to say something that will be hurtful. You can simply buy a card with the right message inside.

Do not get tired if they just want to talk about their ex lover or relationship in general. It might not be a bad idea to let the person speak and cry if need be. Lending and ear can do wonders to those in pain.

If you are the one who needs encouragement words if that is the case, visit some interactive websites where you can share your pain with people who are willing to listen and encourage you. There are a number of forums, support groups and chartrooms that offer free support, poems and cards in order to help people who have lost their loved ones or divorced.

Nowadays it is easy to find free inspirational content by using the internet. It is not a bad idea to buy a book that can help take away any form of depression and hopelessness and instead inspire and motivate you to face life with zest.

The reality is, once you gain the best understanding of motivation and how it transform your life, then you will start to enjoy life again. It might not be easy to take this in, but the best is yet to come so hang on tight.

be happy

The dazzling new Beijing airport

Monday, May 12th, 2008
by Sue

This is the Beijing Capital International Airport. It is the world’s largest airport building and the centerpiece of China’s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure boom and provides a glimpse into China’s vision of 21st-century air travel.

The futuristic airport has been built in preparation for the millions who are likely to visit China for the Olympic Games and to meet the country’s booming air traffic.

An airport employee cleans the floor at the new terminal building Terminal Three — T3 — at the Beijing Capital International Airport. This is the world’s largest terminal.

The roof of the swanky new terminal looks like a dragon from the air with its wing spread running 3.25 km. The giant dragon-shaped terminal is 100 hectares in size: that is as big as 170 soccer fields.

This makes the airport larger than the Pentagon and almost 20 per cent bigger than all five terminals of London’s Heathrow put together.

The terminal has walls of glass. The skylights of the terminal building are designed to look like scales on a dragon’s back and to let natural light into the building. The dragon is considered a sign of strength and luck in China.

Almost 50,000 workers toiled round the clock in 8-hour shifts and built the colossal $3.75-billion terminal in only four years. China wanted the airport to be ready before August 8, when the Beijing Olympic Games begin.

However, the construction of the airport involved the demolition of thousands of houses that rendered more than 10,000 Chinese peasants homeless. China’s autocratic Communist regime could thus manage to do something that democratic governments — like India’s — can hardly ever match.

The airport was designed by British architect Norman Foster, who has also designed Hong Kong’s famous Chep Lap Kok airport.

British firm Arup, which has provided engineering and architectural design services for the Hyderabad International Airport, built the airport.

The new terminal will have a capacity of 75 million passengers a year. It features an extremely high-tech passenger baggage system — on 50 km of conveyor belts — that can handle 19,800 bags per hour.

The size of the new Beijing airport can be gauged from the fact that it boasts of 64 restaurants, 80 retail stores, 175 escalators, 173 lifts, 437 travelators or moving footpaths, and 300 check-in counters.

The terminal has a 3-km long concourse, divided into three sections and connected by a shuttle train. The airport’s shuttle train service can ferry passengers around the mammoth airport.

According to Norman Foster, the airport’s architect, the airport is ’so big that under a certain amount of light you can’t see one end of the building from the other.’

Apart from the shuttle, a high-speed commuter train (subway as also elevated) service will carry passengers between the airport and Beijing in 15 minutes. Two Airport Lines, scheduled to open before July, on elevated lines connect the airport with the transport hub of Dongzhimen. The Olympic branch line has four stations, each with a theme.

The airport’s runway is capable of handling the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380.

The airport building has integrated environmental control systems to minimise energy consumption and carbon emissions, report say.

The airlines that will use airport initially include Air China, Sichuan Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Hong Kong’s Dragonair, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa, Air Canada, Qatar Airways, Qantas Airways, El Al Israel Airlines, Emirates and other Star Alliance members.

Need for the soft skills

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

A serious problem is staring India’s higher education in the face. It’s about the misalignment between education and employment.

We proudly claim to have the largest pool of engineers. This is the source which forms the backbone of India’s rapidly growing IT industry along with the other sectors. But, India’s HUGE pool of young graduates actually has fewer numbers of apt candidates employable by MNCs and their off shoring arms. In fact, only 25% of India’s engineering graduates are considered employable material by MNCs. The quality of education in India varies widely and while IITs and NITs are world class, other engineering colleges are nowhere close. Many factors contribute to melancholy: outdated curriculum, obsolete equipments, teachers who don’t update their knowledge base, management that lacks commitment to academic excellence, rote learning, exam oriented teaching, lack of activity-based learning through team effort and lack of practical training.

The Most Valuable Employee

The principal failure of our University system is that students are not taught “soft skills”- the competency to discuss, analyze, innovate and communicate. The findings of the committee set up by University of Mumbai found 42 affiliated engineering colleges falling way below the standards set by AICTE, and it even included reasonably well known colleges such as Rizvi College and KJ Somaiya, Sion.

Below are the few measures from a student’s viewpoint which can make him a better graduate:-

1.        Opportunities for students to do short term or certificate courses along with the degree courses. These courses should be linked to areas in which employment opportunities are opening.

2.       A common curriculum and syllabus throughout the country along the guidelines of the IITs.

3.       Emphasis on practical training rather than theoretical.

4.       A semester dedicated for Industrial training and honing technical skills under the guidance of the experts, which is absent in many major universities & colleges.

5.      Since the university system is not making the graduates compatible, many companies             have to spend substantial resources to train fresh recruits. An “Industry based” syllabi is         the need of the hour to produce “Industry ready Engineers”.

The government currently spends only 0.1% of GDP on technical Education, which is a very miniscule number.

This apart, only 4% of India’s graduates are engineers whereas this figure is as high as 20% in Germany and 30% in China. Consequently, as recommended by Moily Oversight Committee, new IITs and NITs should be setup every year all over the country, in order to counter the shortage of quality engineers. In India most of the top Engineering graduates emigrate.

NASSCOM estimates deficit of about 5 lakh employable graduates by 2010. Hence, it is important to ensure steady supply of young graduates so that India does not lose the advantage of having a large population.

India has a long way to go, both in terms of quality and quantity in higher education. An urgent reform in education has become a necessity. Since our Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh himself has once served as the chairman of UGC, we hope he will push for the reforms in the education system which will propel us in achieving the status of a developed nation.

Students and politics

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
by Ann

Students and politics

There are so many other ways to serve the country, by being a responsible countryman who pays his tax on time, who don’t take/give bribes, who is honest in behavior, who has a helping hand always, who doesn’t bend to the false rules imposed by anyone, who does his duties and ask for proper rights.
So it’s better if we stop wasting our time in giving hot-blooded statement and rather first be a responsible countryman.

Students should join Indian politics. We all know what the problems India is facing today are; we also condemn our politicians of corruption, selfishness and irresponsibility. Instead of just talking waste and let things go their way we should take the lead in shaping politics our way. Education and innovation of the youth will definitely help make India what we always wanted it to be.

Tips For Working Moms

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

working momsThere are a lot of things that working mothers need to take care about. They can primarily be divided into two areas- things at home and things at school.

At school, you can take care of the following things;

  • Take your child for a school visit one day prior to opening and make him familiar with the whereabouts of the building and environment.
  • Find an old student with whom your child can make friends with and who can show him around the school. As it is, finding a familiar face on the first day makes the child feel more comfortable
  • Let your child’s teacher know his likes, dislikes and eating and other habits. Also, if he has any chronic illness or allergies.

At home, keeping a nanny is the most suitable option that most mothers choose. However, The very basic problem in keeping a nanny is the problem of your child getting more dependent and close to the nanny than to yourself. Many times, since he spends most of his time with his nanny the child starts listening to her more than he does to you. Also, he might start needing her more than he needs you.

It is only natural to feel insecure in such a situation. However you can find a practical solution to such a situation by setting clear guidelines of how should the nanny function, including her work hours and the limits of her responsibilities.

You might also want to keep a check of the following things while keeping a nanny.

  • Arrange for a written contact with the nanny who has a provision of mentioning exactly what is expected out of her and what is not. You can set clear guidelines for handling your child and make them exactly the way you want your child to be reared.
  • You can also decide your kid’s computer, television and play time.
  • Make your child more independent by making him learn basic things like cleaning up their rooms getting ready on themselves and not needing anybody while going to the bathroom etc.
  • Handling both work and children together can be really difficult and stressful thing but you can make it a little easier if you take care of such things at the right time and make everything function smoothly on its own!



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