Friday, April 23, 2010

Article Author : Vijay Kumar

"LIFESTYLE"
Life is a beautiful gift that must want to take by everyone for living and sharing.If you know about others, then your face will be identified by yourself. Life is not a way to travel and return back in the same path.It must be a different path that reflects a different experience.When we had a mistakes,we want to learn and realize from that experience.Dont try to forced to get something in your life,you make interest and selfmotivate to do anything.Life must start without expectations and accept all the happiness and sorrows.Dont be a stressed person ,when you are in maximum level of sad and happiness.Give a equal preference to both success and failures.Father,mother,sister and brother is not only a relation in life,the person who had met with different people in different occassion in your life is also a relation.Dont think that life is going to end,if it surrounded with full of problem.It is a oppourtunity given by a god to learn from that and also make courage to solve the problem. If you had failure in your path, dont disappointed.We want to make a change and think in a different way that what we learned from failures.If you have this thought ,then you are the first successful person in this world. God would not give a problem to someone without solutions.we must want to find that solutions in the travelling of life journey.Attitude determine our altitude of life,so it must be built with a strong foundation.Eventhough the person is physically disable or handicapped,they will achieve success if have a brave to face problem,eager to show talents,self believeness,and to know about himselves . Failures with experience will lead to a success. Today loosers will become a tomorrow winners.So we need a selfmotivation,enjoyment,accept all pitfalls,finding resources in different place,making oppourtunity, make unique,learning from experience and satisfication is a key factor to achieve success in a life.

Article Author : Narmatha

PAINTINGS

By seeing paintings you can relief from your pain.
INTRODUCTION:
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. Painting is one way to express their feeling and love to others. Now in this your going to learn how to draw a oil painting on toned ground.

MATERIALS:

Da Vinci brand brushes, Linseed oil,Transparent, Semi opaque colours, opaque colours, Acrylic Paints

STEPS:
1. Preparing the canvas the foundation of you piece. It is quite essential that you put on the first underpainting or wash on your canvas. Use a big wash brush to apply the first underpainting it you use acrylic as your underpaint it will dry quickly and get you started quicker.
2. Oil paint is applied in two steps
1.Wet on wet or All Prima (in one step)
2. Stage Painting or Glazing Fat over lean
Wet on wet or All Prima
Wet on wet is applied by using the paint stiff, which is directly from the tube Or thinned to the consistency of salad dressing with linseed oil the essential part of painting wet on wet is making your brushes and painting knives do the work for you.You definitely want to have full control of your brushes and experiment with different brushes to see the marks and texture streaks that they make.
Never work with turps unless you are working with the glazing method.
Never ever stand your brushes in any turps working in your painting session.
Glazing Fat over lean
The glazing technique is a process of building up your painting in a series of layers of the thinned paint.
I found this specific method for the glazing technique with oil paint it is called fat over lean
CONCLUSION:
One last thing, Oil Paint dries very slowly, have patience and enjoy the journey. Paint on.

Article Author : Venugopal

INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquartered in Mumbai and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, chairman & commissioner for IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It presently includes 8 teams (franchises) consisting of players from different countries. It was started after altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League. IPL contains 8 teams initially started but now 2 teams going to be joined on fourth season IPL. The 8 teams are Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Mumbai Indians (MI), Delhi Daredevils(DD), Rajasthan Royals(RR), Royal Challenger Bangalore (RCB), Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), Deccan Charger (DC). For 2011 IPL fourth season the two teams going to be introduced are Kochi and Pune. In IPL player are selected for particular based on bid. The team which bid more for particular player can take that player. There should only four foreign players and remaining should be Indian players during the match. For the first season of IPL, Rajasthan Royals won the final match against Chennai Super Kings and got the first IPL cup. The final match was very crucial but we were unable to predicate the match who won the match. Similarly Second season of IPL, Deccan Chargers won the match Royal Challenger Bangalore but third season of IPL final match is going to held in Mumbai between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings made history of IPL by third time entered into semi-final and second time entered into final match. IPL made a good entertainment for audience. In IPL T20 match, audience enjoy the matches when their supporting getting the wicket or hitting sixes or fours. Basically Twenty-20 match is batsmen game. Each and every player should be hitter to win the match. But now-a-days IPL matches not give enjoyment to audience and also good play of money. IPL turns the black money to white money. The total amount spending in the name of IPL is huge. If that amount is divided, we can give 2.35 lakhs to each family living in the India. IPL fourth Season creates more problem because of two teams. One team cost is equal to first eight teams. The total two team cost is around 1500 Crores. “How that much of currency is circulating in the IPL?” this is the question arise in every mind. So IT (Income Tax) department enquiry is going there on the IPL. They asked the IPL Commissioner Mr. Lalit Modi to submit the report on IPL from first season to till the end of this current season. Will this IPL continue in future is big question? There is no answer for this question because some political leader wants to ban the IPL. IPL is the second highest-paid league in the world. IPL is followed by NBA, which is first leading highest-paid league. IPL also create one more problem is that Pakistan players are not allowed to play in that series.

Article Author : Yukesh

CAUSES FOR GLOBAL WARMING

The major cause of global warming is the emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc into the atmosphere. The major source of carbon dioxide is the power plants. These power plants emit large amounts of carbon dioxide produced from burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. About twenty percent of carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere comes from burning of fossil fuels like petrol,diesel in the engines of the vehicles. This is true for most of the developed countries. Buildings, both commercial and residential represent a larger source of global warming pollution than cars and trucks.
Building of these structures require a lot of fuel to be burnt which emits a large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Methane is more than 20 times as effectual as CO2 at entrapping heat in the atmosphere. Methane is obtained from resources such as rice paddies and fossil fuel manufacture. When fields are flooded, anaerobic situation build up and the organic matter in the soil decays, releasing methane to the atmosphere. The main sources of nitrous oxide include nylon and nitric acid production, cars with catalytic converters, the use of fertilizers in agriculture and the burning of organic matter. Another cause of global warming is deforestation that is caused by cutting and burning of forests for the purpose of residence and industrialization.

Article Author : Punitha

MUSIC
Music is an art is pleasant to listen to . It attracts people of all ages .It relives people from tension. The medium of it is sound. Music consists of pitch, rhythm , dynamics. The creation and definition of music vary according to culture . Music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. Music is tones such as melodies and harmonies.
Ancient music was created by instruments like bones by piercing holes in it. Now it is flutes.India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world.
Music was an important part of cultural and social life. choruses are performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in it.Nowadays many new instruments like guitar , piano , saxophone , harmonica are available.
Performance is the physical expression of music.A musical work is performed once its structure and instrumentation are satisfactory to its creators and it can evolve and change. A performance can either be rehearsed or improvised. Improvisation is done with repetition. A deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. Radio is one of the popular medium of music nowadays.Music hence creates happiness to everyone .

Article Author : Nivetha Kumar

MONEY LAUNDERING
Abstract

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud”
Money laundering happens in almost every country in the world, and a single scheme typically involves transferring money through several countries in order to obscure its origins. The rise of global financial markets makes money laundering easier than ever -- countries with bank-secrecy laws are directly connected to countries with bank-reporting laws, making it possible to anonymously deposit "dirty" money in.

Definition

Money laundering, at its simplest, is the act of making money that comes from Source A look like it comes from Source B. In practice, criminals are trying to disguise the origins of money obtained through illegal activities so it looks like it was obtained from legal sources. Otherwise, they can't use the money because it would connect them to the criminal activity, and law-enforcement officials would seize it. The most common types of criminals who need to launder money are drug traffickers, embezzlers, corrupt politicians and public officials and terrorists. Drug traffickers are in serious need of good laundering systems because they deal almost exclusively in cash, which causes all sorts of logistics problem.

Process Involved
The basic money laundering process has three steps:
1. Placement - At this stage, the launderer inserts the dirty money into a legitimate financial institution.
2. Layering - Layering involves sending the money through various financial transactions to change its form and make it difficult to follow.
3. Integration - At the integration stage, the money re-enters the mainstream economy in legitimate-looking form -- it appears to come from a legal transaction.

Conclusion

While increased worldwide efforts are making a small dent in the money-laundering industry, the problem is huge, and the money launderers are winning overall. Countries with bank-secrecy rules, which arguably have legitimate benefits to the honest depositor, make it extremely hard to track money once it's transferred overseas. Still, the FATF's uncooperative list has gone from 15 countries in 2000 to two countries (Myanmar and Nigeria) in 2005. By most accounts, this is a significant sign of progress. Only increased global awareness and cooperation can curb the success of the money-laundering industry.

Article Author : Preethi Rajaram

INDIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH


India's economic history can be broadly divided into three eras, beginning with the pre-colonial period lasting up to the 18th century. The advent of British colonisation started the colonial period in the early 19th century, which ended with independence in 1947. The third period stretches from independence in 1947 until now.The economy of India is the twelfth largest economy in the world by nominal value and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). In the 1990s, following economic reform from the socialist-inspired economy of post-independence India, the country began to experience rapid economic growth, as markets opened for international competition and investment. In the 21st century, India is an emerging economic power with vast human and natural resources, and a huge knowledge base. Economists predict that by 2020, India will be among the leading economies of the world.


INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT:

Industry accounts for 54.6% of the GDP and employ 17% of the total workforce.Business services (information technology, information technology enabled services, business process outsourcing) are among the fastest growing sectors contributing to one third of the total output of services in 2000. The growth in the IT sector is attributed to increased specialization, and an availability of a large pool of low cost, but highly skilled, educated and fluent English-speaking workers, on the supply side, matched on the demand side by an increased demand from foreign consumers interested in India's service exports, or those looking to outsource their operations.


TRADE RELATIONS:

Since liberalization, the value of India's international trade has become more broad-based and has risen to Rs. 63,080,109 crores in 200351. India's major trading partners are China, the US, the UAE, the UK, Japan and the EU. The exports during April 2007 were $12.31 billion up by 16% and import were $17.68 billion with an increase of 18.06% over the previous year.In 2006-07, major export commodities included engineering goods, petroleum products, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, gems and jewellery, textiles and garments, agricultural products, iron ore and other minerals. Major import commodities included crude oil and related products, machinery, electronic goods, gold and silver.


UNEMPLOYMENT:

Unemployment in India is characterized by chronic or disguised unemployment. Government schemes that target eradication of both poverty and unemployment (which in recent decades has sent millions of poor and unskilled people into urban areas in search of livelihoods) attempt to solve the problem, by providing financial assistance for setting up businesses, skill honing, setting up public sector enterprises, reservations in governments, etc.child labour is a complex problem that is basically rooted in poverty. The Indian government is implementing the world's largest child labor elimination program, with primary education targeted for ~250 million. Numerous non-governmental and voluntary organizations are also involved.


CORRUPTION:

Corruption has been one of the pervasive problems affecting India. The economic reforms of 1991 reduced the red tape, bureaucracy and the Licence Raj that had strangled private enterprise and was blamed by Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari for the corruption and inefficiencies. Yet, a 2005 study by Transparency International (TI) India found that more than half of those surveyed had firsthand experience of paying bribe or peddling influence to get a job done in a public office.The Right to Information Act (2005) and equivalent acts in the Indian states, that require government officials to furnish information requested by citizens or face punitive action, computerisation of services and various central and state government acts that established vigilance commissions have considerably reduced corruption or at least have opened up avenues to redress grievances.The 2009 report by Transparency International ranks India at 84th place and states that significant improvements were made by India in reducing corruption.


INFRASTRUCTURE:

Development of infrastructure was completely in the hands of the public sector and was plagued by corruption, bureaucratic inefficiencies, urban-bias and an inability to scale investment.India's low spending on power, construction, transportation, telecommunications and real estate, at $31 billion or 6% of GDP in 2002 had prevented India from sustaining higher growth rates. This has prompted the government to partially open up infrastructure to the private sector allowing foreign investment which has helped in a sustained growth rate of close to 9% for the past six quarters.


EDUCATION:

India has made huge progress in terms of increasing primary education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population.The right to education at elementary level has been made one of the fundamental rights under the Eighty-Sixth Amendment of 2002.


Thus these are some of the factors and regions which plays an important and serious role in expanding and suppressing the india's development over economic point.

Article author: Yamuna

THE TERRORISTS!

“We strongly condemn the inhuman acts of terrorists”

“I don’t understand what pleasure they get from killing people?! God save them!”

“They are insane! What kind of human beings are they! Oh, first of all I doubt if they are human beings!”….....Idiots!.........Stupid!.........Animals!.......Barbarians!

-------------------whoh whoh whoh-just stop! What rights do you have to criticize the terrorists when YOU ARE ONE?!

You didn’t get me! Ok! I explain:

According to the dictionary of Cambridge, ‘a terrorist is one who uses force or threat for illegal, fanatic activities and political purposes’.

God has given human beings the 6th sense to be different from animals; to stay ahead in all the actions common to both animals and humans. But the fact is that we do not put to use the god given 6th sense(first of all we do not even use the other senses properly! )Any one who hurts others just because he has control over others and because people under him have no other go rather than listen to him due to their situations is considered to be a vicious snake-a Hitler!

Any sensible person is against terrorism. It is inhuman to harm those who do not have the strength to fight back; it is barbaric to hurt someone who has not wronged you in any way (but the Bible says it is barbaric to hurt others even if they have wronged you! )

We all show our solidarity at the wake of any terrorist attacks. But my biggest question is: are we worth showing this type of false concern when we are barbaric ourselves? Aren’t we hypocrites!

If terrorists are barbaric to fellow beings, aren’t we barbaric to the innocent, dumbly, beautiful and harmless animals? YES! My topic is not about political terrorists, but about THE NON-VEG TERRORISTS!

All human beings are attracted towards three things in life: Beauty, Wealth and Our Tongue! Being addicted to beauty or wealth is not a heinous crime as being addicted to tongue. Just as words once spoken cannot be taken back, something when eaten cannot be recovered back as such. The tongue knows only to take and never to give back(enna? Rajini padda dialog madhiri iruka? Nangalum punch dialog pasuvomella!!!)

Just imagine: what happens to the chicken after it goes under your tongue? It becomes human waste. Why should we commit a crime and earn sin just for the sake of the 5 minutes so called pleasure and taste? But most of us do not know the effect of the sins we commit. Why do you think only some humans meet with disasters, have pain, loose their lovable things suddenly, have incurable diseases, loose their body parts when some others lead a peaceful life? It is all the effect of the sins they commit. Don’t ever imagine that if you are beautiful, wealthy and powerful you can escape fate. What if you meet with an accident and loose your life or body parts? What is the use of having loads of money? Will that help you in any way? NO!

The next time you happen to go to a hospital, please do visit the orthopedics ward-you will understand what sin is at the sight of it.

How do you wince if a small injection pricks you? Then just imagine the pain a hen or cow or a goat has when they behead it? Have you ever been to an abattoir and seen how the animal suffers for more than 10 minutes when it is being cut and after it is cut? I’ve been: a shiver ran through my spine and tears ran through my cheeks when I saw it! If at all you do not have any such shiver running through your body, then decide that you are a Hitler-a barbarian-an uncivilized scoundrel!

I don’t understand how people are ready to hurt that harmless creature just for the sake of eating?! How do you feel when someone is torturing you when you have not wronged them? At least you have a tongue to express your feelings-what will the hen do?

How will it cry? How will it question you?

BUT REMEMBER: THERE IS NO HEINOUS CRIME IN THIS WORLD THAN TO HURT A CREATURE WHICH CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS ITS FEELINGS.

But don’t ever imagine that just because the hen has no way to question you, you can escape from the consequences of doing a sin: GOD WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU, FOR YOU ARE HURTING HIS CHILDREN!

Friends, please don’t think that I am intimidating you with sin, accident and stuff. I, in no way have rights to ask you to eat something or forbid you from eating something. This is just an earnest request. After reading this article, go, sit back and imagine the pain you cause to the poor animal for your selfish reasons.

Friends, we are all gods’ children and he loves us all equally. Please make god feel happy and proud to have given us the 6th sense and to have kept us at control of all other species in this world.

If at all I have hurt your pride or principle, I am extremely sorry. My purpose is to spread awareness and not to hurt you.

I dedicate this article to one of the kindest hearts ever on earth: Mother Teresa:

“When you look at electrical things you can see that they are made of small and big wires, cheap and expensive all lined up. Until the current runs through them there will be no light. Those wires are you and me and the current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us and produce the light of the world or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.”

Thank You!