3 Blood-Pressure Signs You Should Never Ignore

Are you — or your doctor — shrugging off early warnings of brewing blood pressure trouble? The answer is yes if any of these “little” problems haven’t prompted you to take steps to lower your blood pressure:


It’s “high-normal.”
Thirty percent of American adults have slightly elevated blood pressure levels, between 121/81 and 139/89. But this gray zone is no small problem: It nearly doubles stroke risk. Researchers warn that many family doctors see pre-hypertension as a borderline condition that should be watched, rather than a warning that needs prompt attention.


It’s creeping up slowly
In one eye-opening study, women’s blood pressures inched upward 8 to 10 points each decade, and men’s by 4 to 5 points, between the ages of 35 and 64. That’s enough to land you in the pre-hypertensive or even the hypertensive category — and a good reason for you and your doctor to nip rising blood pressure in the bud.


It’s only high in the doctor’s office
So-called white-coat hypertension — elevated blood pressure readings in the doctor’s office but not other places (such as at a health fair, on a home monitor, or from a drugstore blood pressure machine) — isn’t a fluke you can ignore. In one Scottish study, people with this sign of raised blood pressure under stress showed early signs of stiff arteries and an overworked heart that could lead to higher blood pressure later on.

Twitter: Google search changes are 'bad for the internet'

Twitter has criticised Google after the internet giant implemented new features that are said to 'warp' search results. 


Google's new 'Search plus your world' feature, which combines Google search results with those from Google+, has been heavily criticised by Twitter's general counsel Alex Macgillivray, who is also a previous employee of Google.


Macgillivray tweeted from his account: 'Bad day for the Internet. Having been there, I can imagine the dissension at Google to search being warped this way.'


The changes, which are currently only active in the US, mean that logged-in Google+ users will primarily see results from the social network when they key in a search term.


Twitter has been angered by the fact that Google will show results for celebrity Google+ accounts but not for Facebook or Twitter ones.
A Twitter statement read: 'We’re concerned that, as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone.
'We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organisations and Twitter users.'


When speaking to Marketing Land, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt denied accusations that the new feature prioritised Plus over other social networks.


When launching the service, Google said: 'Search is still limited to a universe of web pages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met.


'Today, we’re changing that by bringing your world, rich with people and information, into search.


'We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships.


'We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction.'


Industry expert Danny Sullivan criticised Google for the implementation of the new feature and said it was 'exactly the kind of thing that the antitrust people are screaming about'.


Google has responded to the criticism in a statement, saying: 'We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer, and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions. 
'We want to help you find the most relevant information from your friends and social connections, no matter what site it’s on. However, Google does not have access to fully crawl the content on some sites, so it’s not possible for us to surface all that information.'

Crossword Puzzles and How the Mind Works

Suddenly the answer comes to you when you’re not thinking about it. How does that work? It turns out, according to an article by Stephen Battersby in New Scientist, that this process is in fact indicative of how the mind solves all problems:


“Most of our mental machinations take place pre-consciously, with the results dropping into our conscious minds only after they have been decided elsewhere in the brain. Intuition plays a big role in solving a crossword, [psychologist Raymond] Nickerson observes. Indeed, sometimes your pre-conscious mind may be so quick that it produces the goods instantly. At other times, you might need to take a more methodical approach and consider possible solutions one by one, perhaps listing synonyms of a word in the clue. Even if your list doesn’t seem to make much sense, it might reflect the way your pre-conscious mind is homing in on the solution.”


Interestingly enough, this all also strongly relates to how the mind recognizes faces. Read How crossword puzzles mess with your mind.

ROUTE MAPS... TO ANYWHERE, EVERYWHERE. AMAZING! USEFUL.

Hats off to whoever made this.  
This website is amazing.  
Select start and destination points, it will show you the way,  by all modes of transport. 

The Route with map, to any destination in the world by Air/Bus/Train

Just click on link below and proceed further
www.rome2rio.com

Motivation and motivational training

See how games and other inspirational references and activities help Motivation and motivational training: 

Work and business-based training commonly concentrates on process, rules, theory, structure and logic, all of which tend to develop and use the left-side of the brain. However, modern successful organizations rely just as heavily on their people having well-developed 'soft' skills and attributes, such as self-motivation, confidence, initiative, empathy and creativity, which all tend to use the right-side of the brain. Using games and activities like juggling helps to unleash right-side brain skills, because these activities necessarily draw on a person's intuitive, spatial and 'feeling' capabilities - found in the the right-side of the brain.

Also, using activities and references that take people out of their normal work environment creates new opportunities for them to experience winning, achievement, team-working, learning and personal development, in ways that are often not possible in their usual work context. Experiencing these positive feelings is vital for the conscious and sub-conscious visualisation of success and achievement, essential for broadening people's horizons, raising their sights, setting new personal standards and goals, and increasing motivation. The use of role playing games and role play exercises is an especially effective motivational and visualisation technique, despite people's normal aversion to the practice.
Inspirational references, stories, quotes and examples also help the life coaching process.

Google’s Latest Algorithm Changes

Landing page quality matters more in image search

As you may know, Google has been putting out a monthly list of algorithm changes it has been making, as part of the company’s initiative to be “more transparent”. Google will never put out the entire secret sauce of its algorithm (without a court order, at least), so webmasters can at least be thankful that they’re being thrown a handful of bones in the form of a monthly list.
Have you seen effects from Google’s most recent algorithm changes? 

Webmasters were quick to point the finger at the old panda, but Google assures us that this is not the case. A spokesperson for the company told there have been no Panda updates in 2012 so far (though I’d expect one to launch before too long).

By the way, now that 2011 is over, do you think Panda has done a good job at cleaning up search results?

In the latest edition of the series, on the company’s Inside Search Blog, they highlight 21 changes made in the month of December. 

1) Image Search landing page quality signals

2) More relevant sitelinks

3) Soft 404 Detection

4) More accurate country-restricted searches

5) More rich snippets

6) Better infrastructure for autocomplete

7) Better spam detection in Image Search

8) Google Instant enhancements for Japanese.

9) More accurate byline dates

10) Live results for NFL and college football

11) Improved dataset for related queries

12) Related query improvements

13) Better lyrics results

14) Tweak to +1 button on results page

15) Better spell correction in Vietnamese

16) Upcoming events at venues

17) Improvements to image size signal

18) Improved Hebrew synonyms

19) Safer searching

20) Encrypted search available on new regional domains

21) Faster mobile browsing

The image search landing page quality signal change is quite interesting. We ran a great article on optimizing for image search by Michael Gray last year, and that’s full of tips to consider for this less talked about element of SEO, but the adjustments, as unspecific as they may be, reflect Google’s Panda-style focus on quality in search results. This, to me, is saying they’re applying same kind of thinking they do with regular web search to other parts of Google, more than ever before.

With regards to the “more rich snippets” item on the list, you may want to check out the series of videos Google recently put out on how to do rich snippets.

Top 10 Uses of Coconut

Top 10 uses of coconut?! 

1) Coconut milk for cooking, by adding it as the liquid ingredient in cooking dried gabi or taro leaves (a delicacy in Bicol region, Philippines, sometimes known us 'Bicol express' if fiery red labuyo peppers were added into it, so hot)


2) Coconut husk as floor polisher, is common in elementary grades across many villages across the world. Village people used to polished their floor or vessels with coconut husk . 


3) Coconut shells for fuel, is often used by villagers who didn't have electric or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as source of fuel. Even today, when we ran out of gas or LPG, people still use the coconut shells as fuel. 


4) Young coconut meat for snacks, the 'buko' or young coconut with succulent soft whitey and fleshy meat is often the favorite snacks in the city and villages. I'm not kidding, it's a healthy snack. If you have UTI (urinary track infection) you can drink the cool, fresh coconut water for an immediate relief.


5) Coconut milk for hair spa or conditioner, is usually used by the villagers, especially those girls who have long strands of hair. It leaves a shiny look and fresh smell to the hairs, after you squeeze some juice of lime or lemon. You hair will never look dry.


6) Coconut leaves for roofing materials, are still used by farmers who cannot afford expensive roofing materials.


7) Coconut timber for lumber, is more affordable than other lumber materials.


8) Coconut ribs for brooms,are still used in the country, especially the street sweepers in the city. Every household have two or three sets of coconut brooms for cleaning purposes.


9) Matured coconut meat for copra used is used for cooking food. Most of south Asian cities use this matured coconut for making curry items.


10) Matured coconut meat for copra used in producing cooking oil, is affordable and cholesterol-free. You can make a homemade coconut oil by just letting it boil in the wok or frying pan until the liquid part became transparent.


Bonus: coconut heart (the sweet soft part of coconut timber at top part with young leaves) as viand (as in 'ubod ng niyog' ) like young artichoke.

Ranking The Famous Deaths of 2011

While most of us come and leave this world with little fanfare, there are those among us whose passing, especially if untimely, captures hearts and headlines around the world. The death of a celebrity, or prominent public figure, just does something to people. A death can stir up fond memories, extreme hatred, or obsessive curiosity.


Every year we’re shocked by some of the deaths we read about, and 2011 was no different. This year we saw the deaths of Steve Jobs, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, Andy Rooney, Jack Kevorkian, Betty Ford, Heavy D, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Amy Winehouse, Joe Frazier, among others.


If someone was to ask you to name the top 10 famous deaths of 2011… could you do it?It’s tougher than you might imagine.

Google homepage gets revamped

Google continues to revamp its products, and the latest in line to undergo a makeover is its homepage. Google has begun rolling out the new look of their search page. The upper horizontal bar is replaced by a Google logo in grey. Hover you cursor over it and click to find seven alternative services with an option to see eight more. Here again, we see Google is looking for a clutter-free design just like the neat look it chose to give its other products that underwent a facelift.

The rollout has been designed for an enhanced user experience, says a Google spokesperson. This would take users two steps to get to Images or News, but this is going to work in Google’s favour. Reportedly, Google is also being scrutinized for the way its own services are being displayed in search results. "A key question is whether Google is using its market power to steer users to its own web products or secondary services and discriminating against other websites with which it competes," Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee wrote.
The new design rollout is expected to reach only a limited number of users. Well, let’s see what else the Search giant has in store on the redesigning front.

The world as we know it!

Wish You All A Happy New Year 2012

Copy and Paste

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience.


He Said :
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The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!"
The audience was in silence and shock.
The speaker added : "And that woman was ... my Mother!"
There was laughter and applause from the audience.
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A week later, a top manager trained by that same motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke at home. He was a bit foggy after a drink.


He said loudly to his wife who was preparing dinner, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!"


The wife went ; "ah!" with shock and rage.


Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out, "... and I can't remember who she was!"


By the time the manager regained his consciousness, he was on a hospital bed nursing burns from boiling water.


Moral of the story : Don't copy, if you can't paste !

Iphone 4s Launch in china

The Banpo Bridge

Banpo bridge in south korea..! Colorful..! isn't it.??
More than 300 Engineers works here...
Out of 59 Engineers are from India...
the basic concept is based on "Total Internal Reflection".. !!


The Moonlight Rainbow Fountain is the world’s longest bridge fountain that set a Guinness World Record with nearly 10,000 LED nozzles that run along both sides that is 1,140m long, shooting out 190 tons of water per minute. Installed in September 2009 on the Banpo Bridge, Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon praised that the bridge will further beautify the city and showcase Seoul’s eco-friendliness, as the water is pumped directly from the river itself and continuously recycled. The project is the first of its kind in the world. The bridge has 38 water pumps and 9,380 nozzles on either side, which draw 190 tons of water per minute from the river 20 meters below the deck, and shoots as far as 43 meters horizontally.

Google Launching Nexus Tablet in the Next 6 Months

Google’s Eric Schmidt told an Italian newspaper that we will see a Nexus tablet in the next 6 months. Schmidt indicated to the paper “In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality,” although he didn’t offer very many more details on what that would entail.


During the interview Schmidt also confirmed Google was working on a Siri competitor that would offer some of the same voice-controlled functionality as Siri does for the iPhone 4S.


Google worked with Motorola to release the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom. The Xoom didn’t do as well in sales as either had hoped, so it should be interesting to see what Google does differently with an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet.


Schmidt didn’t comment on who would be making the Nexus tablet, although its pending purchase of Motorola would give the company a definite advantage over the competition.


What would you like to see in a Nexus tablet? Who do you hope Google selects to make the device?

Street artist Eduardo Relero's 3D illusions on pavements

See the magic....

Is enGlish language beautiful or really complicated?

A good piece of language brushing indeed............

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence:
"I hit him in the eye yesterday."

Guess what the word is???

 The word is "ONLY".

 
The Message:

1.   ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2.   I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3.   I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4.   I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5.   I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6.   I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye..)
7.   I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8.   I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.) 

This is the beauty and complexity of the English language.........

Joke of the day!

Boss hangs a notice in office
"I'm the boss, don't forget"

When he returned, someone had written under it...
"ur wife called up, she wants her notice back at home".

British monarch in India

K

ING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY appear as emperor and empress in their coronation robes at the balcony of the Red Fort on 13 December 1911, a day after the coronation ceremony, to receive the thousands of people gathered to greet them. Their appearance at the Delhi Durbar marked the first time a British monarch had come to India. The pompous

ceremony saw a gathering of princes and princesses from Indian kingdoms across the subcontinent flocking to Delhi to pay homage to their king. That same year, the king, while sitting on a golden throne, proclaimed the shifting of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi. The ceremonial laying of the foundation stones of Delhi took place three days after the announcement, on 15 December 1911. Delhi celebrates its centenary year as capital this December.