Dora gets a makeover

Yup, here she is. After all the “teasing” that the new, hot, femme Dora wouldn’t be revealed until Fall, she’s here before Spring. The new Dora is taller, slimmer and little older and has long, flowing hair. Gone are the bowl cut, bermuda shorts and chubby cheeks.
Nickelodeon and Mattel, who own Dora, are attempting to assure concerned parents and teachers that, while Dora may appear to be all glammed up, she hasn’t lost her sense of wonder, adventure or ability to sell products. In fact, they say she “will expand into the world of solving mysteries that have overt and relatable pro-social themes — like volunteerism, water conservation, or planting trees to help the environment.”

Will Tablet PCs replace textbooks in schools?

Bill gates once predicted that Tablet PCs or a tablet mac will replace textbooks in schools. These graphic tablets obviously have a better edge over the drab textbooks.
· When the textbooks are available in electronic form, students can “carry” all of their books with them on a single Tablet PC/ mac tablet.
· Interactive textbook content management systems are being developed that make it easier to have physical access to the texts and allow students to create, organize, share, and archive personalized markups, and to review sheets and notes. One example is the e-Text project, an electronic textbook used in the Introductory Computer Science class at Hope College (Ryan McFall, Hope College).
· In addition, transforming physical textbooks into electronic resources—with highlighted sections, sticky notes, Web pages, and hyperlinks—will enable more efficient sharing of resources. The Adaptive Book Project is one example of this (Ananda Gunawardena, CMU). It may become feasible for a student to use the Tablet PC to drag text and images from a book, annotate, save, and then share them with other students. Furthermore, handwritten annotations could be tied to specific markups in the text.
Isn’t this exciting!

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Language translation is important for customer care

Customer care has evolved dramatically from the days of the printed user manual and telephone support. Most of the customer care today, is through company’s digital database. With companies going global, so is their customer care service, which has to cater to the global customers from varied background, languages and culture.
From the customer’s point of view, customer care can mean a lot of different things, from getting an answer to a question, to requesting information about a product, to conducting research about new products, to getting help with a bug fix or product update.
For global companies with global customers, language could become a barrier in addressing customer queries, especially while your precious customer is using your digital database for trouble shooting.
However, many translation software today help in tackling language issues. Such software provides a three-dimensional advantage to customer care services.
1) Efficient language translation for customer care content
2) Successful, proven technology that saves time and money while keeping the customers informed.
3) Customized, updated and reliable terminologies for translation, guaranteeing that product/service content is translated with online language translation.
Language translation is the key to good customer care globally.

Major concerns about E books

Many publishers are resisting to the e book format with all their might. It’s very evident that eBooks are definitely the way to go these days. They are sure to benefit people all around.
Books are at that metamorphosis stage today, where music was a few years back. Many producers thought that opening up digital versions for sale would lead to more piracy. But look at the success of iTunes. Digital publishing solutions are all set to herald such a revolution for the publishing industry.
E books surely make a lot of business sense, probably more research is needed to dwell into this. Going digital, rendering editorial services might look risky, but its worth taking that risk.
The fact that these books are electronically delivered is icing on the cake as their are no further production costs. Publishers often find themselves between a rock and a hard place because they need to keep up with the cost of production, but sell as many copies as possible at the same time. Hardcover books are reaching the point of being priced out of reach for many people. Not everyone has $25-$30 to spend on every new release that comes out
People are busier than ever these days and often read on the go. What better way to read several books and have access to them at any time than with an ebook reader! Appealing to these 'on the go' people should be a major goal of publishers who want to make sure their books fly off the shelves. Publishers should take all these facts into consideration.

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Marg Helgenberger, CSI Star Files for Divorce

Four months after separating from her husband of nearly two decades, TV series CSI actress Marg Helgenberger has filed for divorce, documents filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court show.
Helgenberger cited irreconcilable differences as the reason behind her split from actor Alan Rosenberg, and is seeking spousal support while asking the court to deny him any.
“After 19 years of marriage, Marg and Alan have decided to take some time apart,” the actress’s rep told People last October. “They love and respect each other and remain committed to their family.” Helgenberger, 50, and Rosenberg, 58, have an adult son together. Watch Mafg Helgenberger TV episodes online.

Easy solution for math problems

Easy is not the word that describes Maths. It may be beneficial, finishing the challenge makes you feel extremely rewarding. But its certainly not easy. You might take geometry tutoring or calculus homework help, which might make it easy, but in the end it always shows out its terror face. You could probably try this technique along with your tutoring and see if it works to be easy. I think it works.

Read
Read the entire problem to learn what it is about. You may find it helpful to read the problem out loud, form a picture of the problem in your mind, or draw a picture of the problem.

Question
Find the question to be answered in the problem. Often the question is directly stated. When it is not stated, you will have to identify the question to be answered.

Write
Write the facts you need to answer the question. It is helpful to cross out any facts presented in the problem that are not needed to answer the question. Sometimes, all of facts presented in the problem are needed to answer the question.

Question
Ask yourself “What computations must I do to answer the question?”

Compute
Set up the problem on paper and do the computations. Check your computations for accuracy and make any needed corrections. Once you have done this, circle your answer.

Question
Look at your answer and ask yourself: “Is my answer possible?” You may find that your answer is not possible because it does not fit with the facts presented in the problem. When this happens, go back through the steps of RQWQCQ until you arrive at an answer that is possible.

RIP Jade Goody

Reality TV star Jade Goody has died at the age of 27.
She died at home with her family in Upshire, Essex, in the early hours of Sunday after a high-profile battle with cervical cancer.

At the wake of Jade goody’s death, I thought I should share some info about cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer starts in the cells of the cervix. The cervix is the narrow, lower part of the uterus (or womb). It is the passageway that connects the uterus to the vagina.

Cancer of the cervix occurs when the cells of the cervix change in a way that leads to abnormal growth and invasion of other tissues or organs of the body.
Like all cancers, cancer of the cervix is much more likely to be cured if it is detected early and treated immediately.

• As in many cancers, you may have no signs or symptoms of cervical cancer until it has progressed to a dangerous stage.


• Cervical cancer does not usually cause pain, although it may in very advanced stages.


• The most common symptom is abnormal vaginal bleeding. This is any bleeding from the vagina other than during menstruation.


• Abnormal vaginal discharge also may occur with cervical cancer.

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Best Photo awards

National Geographic Best photo awards

National Geographic Best Photo Awards Nature

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Sales Prospecting

Sales The New Need Of Life

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An important ingredient in the successful retail or service business is good selling. Without it, many sales are lost sales that may mean the difference between success and failure.

Sales prospecting precedes actual selling. The job of sales prospecting is to locate qualified sales leads that may buy your products or services. Once you have some qualified leads, then it's time to start selling! Essentially, prospecting involves not waiting for the customer to show up at a store or to phone about a service. It is concerned with taking the initiative by going to the customer with a product or service idea.

Happy St Patricks Day

What does a rainbow have to do with St. Patrick's Day?

Most of the "fairy tales" about St. Paddy's Day involve a leprechaun. A leprechaun is said to be a short fellow with a red beard and a pot of gold. Supposedly, this pot of gold is hidden at the end of a rainbow. Because you can never find the "end" of a rainbow, you can't get the pot of gold. To get the gold, you've first got to catch the little Leprechaun.

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Holi - The Festival of color

Holi (also called Holaka or Phagwa) is an annual festival celebrated on the day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna (early March). It celebrates spring, commemorates various events in Hindu mythology and is time of disregarding social norms and indulging in general merrymaking.

Holi is probably the least religious of Hindu holidays. During Holi, Hindus attend a public bonfire, spray friends and family with colored powders and water, and generally go a bit wild in the streets.

Holi

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Big Bang Machine

Stephen Hawkins on Big Bang machine:

Humans have always strived to understand where the universe came from. Aristotle believed it could not have had a beginning and would not end. Immanuel Kant asked why, if there was a beginning, the universe had waited an infinite time before it began.

In 1915, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity solved the conundrum: space and time were not fixed backgrounds to events, but dynamic entities. And, just as there is no point further south than the South Pole, time cannot exist outside the universe. But there was a problem: Einstein's idea, which describes the very large, does not fit with the other pillar of 20th century physics - quantum theory - which describes the very small.

The Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Geneva, which switches on this summer after 20 years of preparation, is an attempt to bring us closer to solving this dilemma. It will smash particles together to recreate the moments after the big bang, producing a new golden age of discovery for physicists. The essays that follow give a taste of our excitement.

Some have asked if turning on the LHC could produce some disastrous, unexpected result. Indeed, some theories of spacetime suggest the particle collisions might create mini black holes. If that happened, I have proposed that these black holes would radiate particles and disappear. If we saw this at the LHC, it would open up a new area of physics, and I might even win a Nobel prize. But I'm not holding my breath.

Vote for Earth

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.




For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming
WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.



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