WERE TO SEE ONLINE WHEN YOU WANT ENTERTAINMENT

Watch 

BoxTV 

If you want to watch movies and TV shows, BoxTV has plenty to offer for a monthly subscription of 199. Most of its content is available in HD quality too, and can be streamed as many times as you want. So whether your taste is Scrubs and Community, or Mahabharata and Nukkad, Udaan and Golmaal or Stuart Little and Donnie Brasco - it's all here. 

www.boxtv.com 

Devour 

We have been fans of Devour for a long time now. A team of editors sifts through the large amount of YouTube videos to hand-pick content that's smart, entertaining, funny - or all of the above. Devour is the best place to quickly see that clip everyone's talking about, or the trailer of the next big blockbuster. 

devour.com 

Viralviralvideo 



If you're always the last one to know of videos that are trending, then make haste to Viral Viral Video. This site - categorized by themes such as animals, classics, crazy, funny, music, nerd and spoofs - puts up every conceivable clip that can go viral, or already has. Bookmark right away for the inside dope on what's going to be hot on the interweb. 
viralviralvideos.com 

 The kids should see this 

Rion Nakaya, a mother of two, collects the best kid-safe videos across the web and puts them on this page. "There's just so much science, nature, music, technology, art, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen," she says. 

thekidshouldseethis.com 

Listen 

Gaana 

This free music-streaming site hosts a huge collection of Indian and international tunes, which you can search, or browse through using categories such as New Releases, Most Popular, Playlists, Artists, Genre, etc. All you need is a good internet connection. 
gaana.com 

BC Radio 

Be the Change Radio

is all about showcasing Indian musicians. Choose a 'radio station' (Heavy Metal, Rock, Regional, Progressive or Electronica) and the site starts playing an endless stream of songs by local artists and bands such as Junkyard Groove, Parikrama, Agnee, Them Clones, Demonic Resurrection and more. 

bcradio.in 

Music maze 

Key in the name of an artist or band you like (anything from Coldplay to Kishore Kumar) and one of their songs will start playing, while also displaying a tree of six similar artists/bands. Click any of the artists to listen to their songs and get a new tree; or let Music Maze automatically choose one and take you on an endless journey of music discovery. 

www.musicmaze.fm 

This is my jam 

This Is My Jam is a musical social network that also lets you connect it to your Twitter and Facebook friends, so you can see what your friends are listening to and show them your favourite tunes. Find others with similar tastes, write what makes a song special to you, and enjoy the great interface. 

www.thisismyjam.com 

Read 

Longform 

The internet has seen a resurgence in long form journalism, and here's an entire website dedicated to aggregating the best of these, typically taking pieces that are over 2,000 words long. The site doesn't restrict itself to new articles, but digs through the histories of major publications to find great stories. And yes, it's all free. longform.org 

The browser 

What are the best articles written in the past few days? Head to The Browser to find out, as its crack team of editors pours through hundreds of stories, from publications around the world, to come up with "must-reads" every day. Each piece includes its word count and a short summary by the editors. 

thebrowser.com 

East of the web 

If you are a fan of short stories, there is perhaps no better site on the internet than East Of The Web. The portal has been around for over 10 years - and although it has expanded into interactive stories and games, it remains the best resource for short stories. You can browse through the latest submissions, check out a random story, and go through the most popular ones. And of course, if there's a writer in you, don't forget to click that 'submissions' button. 

www.eastoftheweb.com 

Five chapters 

This is a unique approach to story-telling , but once you get hooked to it, there is nothing like Five Chapters for your daily dose of fiction. Each week, the site publishes a new short story in five parts - one for each weekday. So far, there have been around 400 stories by 340 authors, spanning a wide range of genres. Unfortunately, the resource doesn't have a way to browse its archives by category. But the joy of finding new reading material in your inbox every day is reward by itself. 

www.fivechapters.com 

Play 

Armor games 

Our favourite Flash-based games site, Armor Games is updated daily with new titles, sorted by latest games, the most popular ones, and by category including adventure, action, MMO, shooting, strategy, sports, puzzle and skill. It's all free, so let the gaming begin! 

armorgames.com 

Tiger Woods Golf Online The online Tiger Woods Golf game has beautiful graphics and smooth gameplay. Check the wind, pick your shot or clubs, zoom-in on the target, see where you're hitting on a map, and control the power and speed - all in real time. Whether you're new to golf or not, you'll love this one. 

tigerwoodsonline.ea.com 

Arcademics 

You aren't going to be able to stop your kid from wanting to play video games, so why not introduce them to stuff that's both fun and educational? Arcademics turns subjects like mathematics into fun pastimes. Take, for example, Penguin Jump, where your kid will be in a race with three others; solving a mathematical equation to jump to the tile that matches the answer. Come to think of it, this isn't bad for grown-ups either... 

www.arcademics.com 

Travian 

This is a browser-based , multiplayer, strategy game. You can play either as the Gauls, the Romans, or the Teutons - each with its own strengths and weaknesses - to build a prosperous village and an army that can either defend against attacking hordes or one that can plunder and loot your neighbours. Gameplay is all about striking allegiances, cooperating with teammates, and working towards ultimate domination of everyone else. Travian is addictive and a single game lasts for months. 

www.travian.in

Constructive Ideas For Teaching Addition Skills

The purpose of this article is to put forward some ideas to help with the teaching of addition.

Combining groups of physical objects: for many students, this is their most basic experience of adding up. This process normally involves collecting two sets of objects, then counting how many objects there are in total. (For example, by building two towers of cubes, and then counting up every single block.) For many, this method can be too involved, particularly for those students who present attention deficit disorder. If the child cannot hold their attention for the whole of the activity, blocks will be put awry, towers will end up with additional blocks, blocks will get mixed up, and at the end, the wrong answer is arrived at. The length of the process means that if your child does not master the concept quickly, they are not likely to make progress at all. In addition, it is difficult to extend this process into a calculation that can be approached mentally: for example, try to imagine two large sets of objects in your head, and then count them all up. Even for adults, this is nearly impossible.

Simple drawings: jottings are a more useful alternative to the process described above. Write out the addition problem on a sheet of paper, and next to the first number, jot down the appropriate number of tallies (for instance, for the number 4, draw 4 tallies). Ask your student to predict how many tallies you will need to draw by the other number in the problem. When they come to the correct answer, ask them to draw the tallies. To finish with, ask how many tallies they have drawn altogether. This method is a much easier way of bringing together 2 groups, is less likely to be subject to mechanical error, and is better suited to students with poor focus. It also encourages the child to associate between what the written sum actually says, and why they are drawing a certain number of tallies.

Counting on: this is a technique based around your student's capacity to say number names. When your child has reached a stage where they know how to count to five, start asking them questions like, "what number is 1 more than..." (eg. what comes after 2 when we count?) This is actually equivalent to answering an addition problem of the type 2+1, but helps to connect the ideas of counting and addition, which is very powerful. This technique gets your student ready to use number squares and gives them the confidence to answer problems in their mind. The method can also be made more difficult, by asking, "what number is 2 more than..." When your child can confidently respond to such problems out loud, show them the question written down, and explain that this is the same as the problem you had been doing before. This will help the child to see addition and counting as fundamentally related, and that this new problem is actually something they have met before.

Playing board games: this activity can be both a mathematical learning experience as well as a pleasant pastime. Games that require a counter to be moved around a board do a lot to encourage children to count on. If the board has numbers on it, the child is able to see that the action is similar to counting out numbers aloud, or using a number line. Make a point of remembering to draw attention to the relationship between using board games and addition.

Learning number facts: usually, we rely on number facts learnt by heart to help us answer addition problems. In a nutshell, we do not have to figure out the answer to 7 and 10, we simply remember it. Having the ability to recall addition facts allows us to tackle simple maths tasks confidently. Improve your student's knowledge of known number bonds by singing nursery songs that tell stories of number. Take part in the game of matching pairs with the student, where the point of the game is identify the location of the question (for instance, 7+8) and the corresponding answer from a set of cards all turned face down. Create a set of flashcards with simple addition facts written on them, look at the cards one at a time, and ask the student for the answer, giving a good deal of applause when they give the right answer. When they are confident, expand the number of facts. Games will prevent your child perceiving addition as dull, and will build confidence.

Addition printables and worksheets: Practise makes perfect - and the right style of practice also lends more confidence. By utilizing simple worksheets, aimed towards your student's ability and attention span, you are able to significantly improve your child's ability with addition, both orally and written down. There are plenty of free internet sites that offer worksheets that help with the teaching of adding up, but it does matter what adding up worksheets you use. Ensure that the worksheets are aimed at the right level, being neither too difficult nor too easy, and are of the correct length to maintain the student's interest. You should be attempting to present questions that foster their recollection of number facts, along with a scattering of sums involving some calculation. On the occasions that the student is successful, use the opportunity to give them a lot of praise; when they make a mistake, do not appear frustrated, but briefly explain their mistake. Using adding up worksheets in a considered way can really boost your student's ability.

NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water

Scientists relishing confirmation ofwater ice near the surface beside NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. Phoenix has spotted the sublimation of probable water ice in a trench excavated by its robotic armby comparing two photos taken on the 21st and 25th days of the mission, aka Sols 20 and 24 (15 and 19 June).

The mission has the right instruments for analyzing soil and ice to determine whether the local environment just below the surface of far-northern Mars has ever been favorable for microbial life. Key factors are whether the water ever becomes available as a liquid and whether organic compounds are present that could provide chemical building blocks and energy for life. Phoenix landed on May 25 for a Mars surface mission planned to last for three months.

These color images were acquired by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s Surface Stereo Imager on the 21st and 25th days of the mission, or Sols 20 and 24 (June 15 and 19, 2008).

These images show sublimation of ice in the trench informally called “Dodo-Goldilocks” over the course of four days.

In the lower left corner of the left image, a group of lumps is visible. In the right image, the lumps have disappeared, similar to the process of evaporation.

The key new evidence is that chunks of bright material exposed by digging on June 15 and still present on June 16 had vaporized by June 19. “This tells us we’ve got water ice within reach of the arm, which means we can continue this investigation with the tools we brought with us,” said Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station, lead scientist for Phoenix’s Surface Stereo Imager camera. He said the disappearing chunks could not have been carbon-dioxide ice at the local temperatures because that material would not have been stable for even one day as a solid.

The disappearing chunks were in a trench to the northwest of the lander. A hard material, possibly more ice, but darker than the bright material in the first trench, has been detected in a second trench, to the northeast of the lander. Scientists plan next to have Phoenix collect and analyze surface soil from a third trench near the second one, and later to mechanically probe and sample the hard layer.

Mobile Phone Brain Cancer Link Rejected

Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer.

The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared.

The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than 350,000 people with mobile phones over an 18-year period.

Researchers concluded users were at no greater risk than anyone else of developing brain cancer.

The findings, published on the British Medical Journal website, come after a series of studies have come to similar conclusions.

Steve Jobs’ Golden Words

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

The Text Message/SMS Turns 19 Years Old

 

SMS Text Message Turns 19 Years Old

According to Wikipedia, the first SMS text message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset.

The text of the message was “Merry Christmas”.

The technology behind the SMS text is 27-years old, having first been developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. It was then, eight years later, that the “Merry Christmas” text was sent.

The Text Message turns 19 years old todaySince then, SMS technology has come a long way to dominant the current mobile messaging scene. In 2010, SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in revenues worldwide, but many believe it’s just the beginning. Experts estimate that mobile networks will earn $726 billion from SMS text messaging over the next five years. So while smartphone applications like GroupMe and services like Apple’s iMessage start to make up larger slices of the text messaging field, SMS is not giving up its mobile messaging throne anytime soon.

Now, it’s time to send a happy birthday text!

INDIAN AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Introduction

•         Languages specialists who work as interpreters meet and work with different people from diplomatic circles to tourists, hence the working conditions can be very different.

Working Conditions

•         Considerable time may be spent in very formal settings.

Personality

•         Linguists must have the aptitude to grasp the use of languages. Verbal ability is nurtured from an early age stage and proficiency comes through correct and regular usage.

Courses & Work Area

–       Interpreter/Translator

–       CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Language), Hyderabad/Lucknow/Shilong - Diploma/Bachelor/Certificate

–       Translate government / official documents

–       Newspapers / journals / Radio / TV

–       Book translators: Staff selection commission conducts exam

   Courses      : Certificate / Diploma course in Foreign                              Languages like – German, French,                               Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, etc

   Eligibility    : Pass in +2.

   Duration    : 6 months / 1 year / 2 year

   Cost : Rs.3,000/- (approx)

   Scope         :

          Language Translators,Interpreters in Multi-National Companies, International Hotels, Airlines, Tourist Destinations.

   Scope         : Private Tuitions – Indians & foreigners,

                               Volunteers in Trade fairs,

                               Teaching in Schools & colleges, etc..

   Further       : Diploma, PG Diploma, etc..

          Studies         Regular Classes as well as through

                               correspondence.

Very good part time job for Students

PRODUCTION & MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

Introduction

•         Industrial production managers have to divide their time between the shop floor and their office. While on the floor, they follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment. The time in the office, located on or near the production floor, is usually spent meeting with subordinates or other department managers analysing production data, and writing and reviewing report.

Material Management

•         Material managers are located in the stores of industries. They work often in difficult conditions particularly while carrying out checks on the stores.

Personality

•         Orderly, good at keeping records, aware of products in the market and good observation are essential qualities.

ARMY, NAVY & AIR FORCE

Courses & Work Area

•         Technology/Engineering

•         Management / Administration

•         Medical

•         Combined Defence Service Exam of UPSC

•         Detectives

–       CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), RAW (Research & Analysis Wing)

–       National Institute of Private Investigation, Delhi – One Year Diploma

–       Global Detective Agency, Chennai

CIVIL SERVICES

Courses & Work Area

•         IAS, IPS, IFS

•         Group A: Railway, Audit, Revenue, Posts, Defence Accounts

•         Group B: Armed Forces, Delhi Civil, Pondicherry Civil, CBI, Central Secretariat Service (CSS)

•         Prelims: Objective Type

–       1^st exam: 2 hours – 150 marks (General Studies)

–       2^nd exam: 2 hours – 300 marks

Courses & Work Area

•         Main: Essay Type

–       1^st Exam: Language (NOT USED FOR RANKING)

–       2^nd Exam: English (NOT USED FOR RANKING)

–       3^rd Exam: Essay

–       4^th and 5^th Exam: General Studies

–       6^th to 9^th Exam: Two Subjects

–       Interview

•         Indian Forest Service

•         Indian Econ/Statistics Service

•         Indian Engineering Service

•         Custom Services: U.P.S.C, S.S.C

•         Railway Services: Civil & Allied Services Exam of U.P.S.C.