May 13th, 2009
We had discussed the many uses of the incredible olive oil and it’s time to go back to diet matters. I’m sure you would have seen garlic in the vampire movies where they are used to scare away the vampires but wait a petal of garlic can do more than that , actually a lot more than that .From the recent studies by the scientist group they find that the raw garlic can prevent clotting of blood and decrease the blood pressure , but the problem is majority of the dishes require it to be cooked. Well the study proved that if the cooking is less than three minutes it couldn’t do much damage to the herb but up to six minutes of cooking can drain the nutrient content a lot more. There is however an alternate way the garlic can be crushed and used in almost all the dishes .Microwaving reduces the medicinal content in a matter of few minutes and therefore garlic should never be micro waved. You can also wait till the last minutes of cooking to add the garlic crushed or otherwise to reap the health benefits.
Garlic - Domestic Herb
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April 30th, 2009
Contact lens come is different colours and are boons to those who have a hard time keeping the glasses on their nose. Not only do they help to see the world in the entire aura and the natural colours but also are very user friendly. They also require proper care from time to time. Here are a few tips to care for your contact lenses. Make sure you apply your make up only after you have put your lenses as the chemicals and the lotions in the makeup can ruin your contacts. Also another important thing to remember is that when you are spraying any elements in to the air like perfumes or spray leave your eyes closed. Do not enter those rooms that are filled with smoke as they may wear the lenses off badly. If you had forgotten to soak the lenses in the solution and it has dried off it is better to throw it off and not use it. Keep smiling and take care of those lenses.
your second eye
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April 27th, 2009
This is one section where I’m sure all of you would surely agree on every detail I say .This is indeed a magical bond between individuals. According to some book that I had read long back there were only three occasions on which a man cried , first was when someone near or dear had passed away , the second when the love of the life is lost and the third is when you know you will not be seeing the best friends of your life for a long time when you were so close with them and you remember all the beautiful time you spent with them .The act of making friends is truly an art .You might only know the person for a few months but you always feel like you have known them for eons .The phrase choosing your friends wisely no longer has any profound meaning cause everyone believes that the friendship finds them and not the other way around. It is really hard when you are hurt by a friend but when you share a joy it is almost boundless when your friends are around.
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April 23rd, 2009
In case you are not noticing there is a silent revolution taking place yes the cellular revolution .It’s more like an explosion since it has reached out to such a huge number of users. It seems everybody is caught the cellular epidemic. No one is seen without one. It has almost become one of the most essential things so much so that it has become the top in the forbe’s list of the “one thing that you would take with you when you are stranded”. Wait, this gets even better .What is shocking is the age group of the users the majority of the users fall in the mid age group but the band that spend the most number of hours with their phone companion are the teens and the early twenties. They have gone a step higher saying that when they do not have their phones it like a part of them is missing so much that is has become an extension of their hands. This brings up to wonder at the topic of the post .the phrase born with the silver spoon might be needed to be rephrased as born with a smart phone.
result of the mobile revolution
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April 20th, 2009
Young minds are the most dynamic grasping everything they get with open arms and it is at this age that they are prone to lean their minds on anything that interests them. At this young age one of the thing that they find most interesting are the electronic games .From first person shooters to role playing every genre has its avid followers .The aspect we have to consider when buying them such a game is that if they are mature enough to understand that all the actions in the game are meant only to be in the virtual world. When the child’s imagination takes him to follow the game that seriously that he tries to imitate in the real life, the situation becomes complex. The various foundation for the children argue that the firings that had taken place in many schools across the US has been to an extend affected due to the games that they play .They point out that when children are exposed to this much violence at the tender age they tend to follow the same path when they have to resolve a petty issue. It is up to the parents to carefully understand the child about the line where the virtual world ends and the real world begins.
a snap out of halo 2
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April 17th, 2009
As the usage increased so did the potential for the misuse by the various anti social elements in the community. Since the advent of the networking sites there has been noted increase in the rate of the cyber crime across the country ranging from identity threats to frauds and even murder .One such incident happened where a boy who made friends in a popular networking site was kidnapped by the same friends and then later murdered. This is just one of the many cases that have sprouted up to the attention of the media. These cases lead us to think the ill effects of these sites. Another cause of worry about such sites are the growing porno contents in these sites as the anti social elements can make the teenage users an easy prey who aren’t wary of such things going on. After the complaints and ill deeds there has been many security measure to make these much secure than they were before where the users can choose if they want to remain with the closed group of friends or go out and make friends .Well it is not advised to talk to strangers it cannot do any harm when you know the limit where you have to stop taking him / her as a friend.
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April 9th, 2009
As the users grew in popularity of the new type of communicating environment spread and the word of mouth spread and before you knew it everyone you knew were in orkut.It started off as a great place to find your long lost friends many of whom you last saw off in your elementary schools. It gave you a lot of power in searching with just the name and location and mostly providing accurate results. Even the chat posts which are known as scraps or wall post (in face book) was free to be viewed by anyone. It even gave way for scrap race where people competed to show that they had more scraps than his / her friend’s .As the time passed the objective turned from staying in touch to getting to know other people and creating new friends online. These online sites allowed creating communities where you could group around people with the same interest and create discussion threads on various topics .As the usage increased the sites included more and more applications and even allowed you to put up albums and even comment on the picture put up by others. The latest addition was to allow users to upload their favourite YouTube videos and share it. These were the major plus points of these networking sites.
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April 8th, 2009
Socio-Networking has become an integral mode of interacting with the community and socialising but there are various aspects which are to be considered before plunging yourself into the world of openness which is synonymous with the social networking communities. In the next little post the try will be to summarise in the best possible ways about the pros and cons of these so called networking sites.
In the digital age it seems only an apt decision to embrace a new technology or method to stay in touch or socialise with the people you know .The socio-networking sites provide just that, an alternative way to know what is happening with your loved ones. For the younger generation in India it would be amazement when you say that you haven’t heard of ORKUT.After all Indians are the second biggest online population in the popular networking site ORKUT. It was the brain child of the Google employee of the same name who found it that secrecy was the mantra in most online sites in the age ,he worked with a twist and used a concept where the users lived in the online life where there was no such thing called as private.
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March 30th, 2009
In the recent few years the term single parent has come up across many discussion boards and various social meetings across the various cultural forums existing in the country .The reason? Well the biggest percentage of discussions would have been related to the adoption procedures when you are a single parent. There was a stigma associated with this term until the people came up with many opens forums for discussions on the above topic and made people realise the various aspects of adoptions and single parenting. Often a single parent has to double up as both the father and mother depending on the situation being faced by the child. This makes it a challenge in itself to cope and satisfy a child as a parent without bringing the realization in him or her that he / she is a child to a single parent. There are various fields where a single parent is discriminated the school admission procedures being one, this one reason is looked upon as a problem by many to say that single parent adoption still needs a long road of progressive thinking from this country. Social figures like Sushmitha Sen. who adopted a child in spite of being a single parent goes to prove that the country and its ideas have been changing with times and we may be done away with social stigmas in the near future.
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March 29th, 2009
If you have been an avid animal lover and always dreamt of having a four / two legged companion with you but never could make it because you couldn’t decide what would be perfect for your house and family? Many face this dilemma but find an answer in the default options of dogs or feline to nurture as pets but it often may not be the best option possible .With the flurry of internationally recognised and licensed pet shops opening up in every major city the pet lover who can afford the extra effort and money can find himself the perfect pet that meets his needs. From the ornamental fishes to parakeets the options are diverse. The choosing traditional pets like dogs and cats have also opened up new option in terms of the different breeds that has is available. Even some avid pet lovers have gone to the extent of caring for pythons and tarantulas. Though the liking of many people have not changed mush these pet shops continue to bring in more varieties of home bound pets suitable to every taste and hope that the perceptions of pets as a whole is to change . We will have more on choosing the perfect pets in the upcoming posts.
as cute as pets come
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