Queen Elizabeth II Reflects on her life, rare footage
rare footage and audio of the queen Elizabeth II in her own words reflecting on her service,
No day is Wasted
15 years ago
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Jewish all around the world
# 1 United States: 5,800,000
# 2 Israel: 4,847,000
# 3 France: 600,000
# 4 Russia: 550,000
# 5 Ukraine: 400,000
# 6 Canada: 360,000
# 7 United Kingdom: 300,000
# 8 Argentina: 250,000
# 9 Brazil: 130,000
# 10 South Africa: 106,000
# 11 Australia: 100,000
# 12 Hungary: 80,000
= 13 Belarus: 60,000
= 13 Germany: 60,000
# 15 Mexico: 40,700
# 16 Belgium: 40,000
= 17 Venezuela: 35,000
= 17 Uzbekistan: 35,000
= 17 Italy: 35,000
# 20 Uruguay: 32,500
= 21 Azerbaijan: 30,000
= 21 Netherlands: 30,000
= 21 Moldova: 30,000
= 24 Iran: 25,000
= 24 Turkey: 25,000
= 26 Sweden: 18,000
= 26 Switzerland: 18,000
# 28 Georgia: 17,000
= 29 Chile: 15,000
= 29 Kazakhstan: 15,000
= 29 Latvia: 15,000
= 32 Romania: 14,000
= 32 Spain: 14,000
# 34 Austria: 10,000
= 35 Denmark: 8,000
= 35 Poland: 8,000
# 37 Morocco: 7,500
# 38 Panama: 7,000
= 39 Slovakia: 6,000
= 39 India: 6,000
= 39 Lithuania: 6,000
= 39 Czech Republic: 6,000
# 43 Colombia: 5,650
= 44 Greece: 5,000
= 44 New Zealand: 5,000
# 46 Kyrgyzstan: 4,500
= 47 Estonia: 3,000
= 47 Bulgaria: 3,000
= 47 Peru: 3,000
= 47 Puerto Rico: 3,000
= 51 Hong Kong: 2,500
= 51 Costa Rica: 2,500
= 53 Japan: 2,000
= 53 Croatia: 2,000
= 53 Tunisia: 2,000
# 56 Tajikistan: 1,800
# 57 Norway: 1,500
= 58 Guatemala: 1,200
= 58 Finland: 1,200
= 58 Paraguay: 1,200
= 58 Turkmenistan: 1,200
= 62 Monaco: 1,000
= 62 Ecuador: 1,000
= 62 Cuba: 1,000
= 62 Ireland: 1,000
# 66 Zimbabwe: 925
# 67 Portugal: 900
# 68 Yemen: 800
= 69 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 600
= 69 Gibraltar: 600
= 69 Luxembourg: 600
# 72 Ethiopia: 500
= 73 Virgin Islands: 400
= 73 Netherlands Antilles: 400
= 73 Kenya: 400
# 76 Bolivia: 380
# 77 Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 320
= 78 Singapore: 300
= 78 Jamaica: 300
= 80 Philippines: 250
= 80 Syria: 250
= 80 Thailand: 250
= 80 Dominican Republic: 250
= 84 Suriname: 200
= 84 Bahamas, The: 200
= 84 Armenia: 200
# 87 Korea, South: 150
= 88 El Salvador: 120
= 88 Iraq: 120
Total: 14,256,365
Weighted average: 160,183.9
# 2 Israel: 4,847,000
# 3 France: 600,000
# 4 Russia: 550,000
# 5 Ukraine: 400,000
# 6 Canada: 360,000
# 7 United Kingdom: 300,000
# 8 Argentina: 250,000
# 9 Brazil: 130,000
# 10 South Africa: 106,000
# 11 Australia: 100,000
# 12 Hungary: 80,000
= 13 Belarus: 60,000
= 13 Germany: 60,000
# 15 Mexico: 40,700
# 16 Belgium: 40,000
= 17 Venezuela: 35,000
= 17 Uzbekistan: 35,000
= 17 Italy: 35,000
# 20 Uruguay: 32,500
= 21 Azerbaijan: 30,000
= 21 Netherlands: 30,000
= 21 Moldova: 30,000
= 24 Iran: 25,000
= 24 Turkey: 25,000
= 26 Sweden: 18,000
= 26 Switzerland: 18,000
# 28 Georgia: 17,000
= 29 Chile: 15,000
= 29 Kazakhstan: 15,000
= 29 Latvia: 15,000
= 32 Romania: 14,000
= 32 Spain: 14,000
# 34 Austria: 10,000
= 35 Denmark: 8,000
= 35 Poland: 8,000
# 37 Morocco: 7,500
# 38 Panama: 7,000
= 39 Slovakia: 6,000
= 39 India: 6,000
= 39 Lithuania: 6,000
= 39 Czech Republic: 6,000
# 43 Colombia: 5,650
= 44 Greece: 5,000
= 44 New Zealand: 5,000
# 46 Kyrgyzstan: 4,500
= 47 Estonia: 3,000
= 47 Bulgaria: 3,000
= 47 Peru: 3,000
= 47 Puerto Rico: 3,000
= 51 Hong Kong: 2,500
= 51 Costa Rica: 2,500
= 53 Japan: 2,000
= 53 Croatia: 2,000
= 53 Tunisia: 2,000
# 56 Tajikistan: 1,800
# 57 Norway: 1,500
= 58 Guatemala: 1,200
= 58 Finland: 1,200
= 58 Paraguay: 1,200
= 58 Turkmenistan: 1,200
= 62 Monaco: 1,000
= 62 Ecuador: 1,000
= 62 Cuba: 1,000
= 62 Ireland: 1,000
# 66 Zimbabwe: 925
# 67 Portugal: 900
# 68 Yemen: 800
= 69 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 600
= 69 Gibraltar: 600
= 69 Luxembourg: 600
# 72 Ethiopia: 500
= 73 Virgin Islands: 400
= 73 Netherlands Antilles: 400
= 73 Kenya: 400
# 76 Bolivia: 380
# 77 Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 320
= 78 Singapore: 300
= 78 Jamaica: 300
= 80 Philippines: 250
= 80 Syria: 250
= 80 Thailand: 250
= 80 Dominican Republic: 250
= 84 Suriname: 200
= 84 Bahamas, The: 200
= 84 Armenia: 200
# 87 Korea, South: 150
= 88 El Salvador: 120
= 88 Iraq: 120
Total: 14,256,365
Weighted average: 160,183.9
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
For some parents, shouting is the new spanking
For some parents, shouting is the new spanking
[Supermoms don’t yell. They just take use the “mommy” tone. — Reuters pic]
Supermoms don’t yell. They just take use the “mommy” tone. — Reuters pic
NEW YORK, Oct 23 — Jackie Klein is a devoted mother of two little boys in the suburbs of Portland, Ore. She spends hours ferrying them to soccer and Cub Scouts. She reads child-development books. She can emulate one of those pitch-perfect calm maternal tones to warn, “You’re making bad choices” when, say, someone doesn’t want to brush his teeth.
That is 90 per cent of the time. Then there is the other 10 per cent, when, she admits, “I have become totally frustrated and lost control of myself.”
It can happen during weeks and weeks and weeks of no camp in the summer, or at the end of a long day at home — just as adult peace is within her grasp — when the 7- or 9-year-old won’t go to sleep.
And then she yells.
“This is ridiculous! I’ve been doing things all day for you!”
Many in today’s pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we friend our teenagers (literally and virtually), we spend hours teaching our elementary-school offspring how to understand their feelings. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells.
“I’ve worked with thousands of parents and I can tell you, without question, that screaming is the new spanking,” said Amy McCready, the founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, which teaches parenting skills in classes, individual coaching sessions and an online course.
“This is so the issue right now. As parents understand that it’s not socially acceptable to spank children, they are at a loss for what they can do. They resort to reminding, nagging, timeout, counting 1-2-3 and quickly realise that those strategies don’t work to change behaviour. In the absence of tools that really work, they feel frustrated and angry and raise their voice. They feel guilty afterward, and the whole cycle begins again.”
Amy Wilson, a writer and actress in Manhattan, used to give up shopping for Lent. That was before she had children, now ages 6, 5 and 2. This year she gave up yelling. Or tried to. “It didn’t really work,” she said, “but I definitely yelled less.”
Wilson has written a humorous autobiographical book about parenting, to be published next year, called “When Did I Get Like This?” An entire chapter is devoted to her personal efforts to curtail her yelling.
A one-woman show, “Mother Load,” which she wrote and performed Off Broadway and will take on tour for the second time next year, opens with a yelling scene that draws laughs and includes the line “I have had it with looking for puppy” in a high-decibel lament that rings true to anyone who has searched for a favourite stuffed animal for the seventh time in a day.
Familial screamers have long been a beloved part of American pop culture, from the Costanzas of “Seinfeld” back to the Goldbergs of radio and early television, but they didn’t yell at small children. And though previous generations of parents may have yelled in real life — Dr. Spock called shouting “inevitable from time to time” — this generation of parents seems to be uniquely troubled by their own outbursts.
“My name is Francesca Castagnoli and I am a screamer,” began a post on Motherblogger..net earlier this year. “Admitting I’m a mom that screams, shouts and loses it in front her kids feels like I’m revealing a dark family secret.”
“It’s not kind,” said Klein in Oregon. “When I’m done I feel awful.”
To research their book “Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids,” the three authors, Devra Renner, Aviva Pflock and Julie Bort, commissioned a survey of 1,300 parents across the country to determine sources of parental guilt. Two-thirds of respondents named yelling — not working or spanking or missing a school event — as their biggest guilt inducer.
“What blew us away about that is that the one thing you really have ultimate control over is the tone of your voice,” said Pflock, a child development specialist.
Parental yelling today may be partly a releasing of stress for multitasking, overachieving adults, parenting experts say.
“Yelling is done when parents feel irritable and anxious,” said Harold S. Koplewicz, the founder of the New York University Child Study Centre. “It can be as simple as ‘I’m overwhelmed, I’m running late for work, I had a fight with my wife, I have a project due — and my son left his homework upstairs.’ “
Numerous studies exist on the effect of corporal punishment on children. A new one came out just last month. Led by a researcher at Duke University’s Centre for Child and Family Policy, the study concluded that spanking children when they are very young (1-year-old) can slow their intellectual development and lead to aggressive behaviour as they grow older. But there is far less data on the more common habit of shouting and screaming in families.
One study that did take a look at the topic — a paper on the “psychological aggression by American parents” published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2003 — found that parental yelling was a near-universal occurrence. Of 991 families interviewed, in 88 per cent of them a parent acknowledged shouting, screaming or yelling at the kids at least once (though it didn’t specify how many did it more often) in the previous year.
“We are so accustomed to this that we just think parents get carried away and that it’s not harmful,” said one of the study’s lead authors, Murray A. Straus, a sociologist who is a director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. “But it affects a child. If someone yelled at you at work, you’d find that pretty jarring. We don’t apply that standard to children.”Psychologists and psychiatrists generally say yelling should be avoided. It’s at best ineffective (the more you do it the more the child tunes it out) and at worse damaging to a child’s sense of well-being and self-esteem.
“It isn’t the yelling per se that’s going to make a difference, it’s how the yelling is interpreted,” said Ronald P. Rohner, director of the Ronald and Nancy Rohner Centre for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection at the University of Connecticut. If a parent is simply loud, he says, the effect is minimal. But if the tone connotes anger, insult or sarcasm, it can be perceived as a sign of rejection.
Rohner noted that while spanking is considered taboo by the major medical and psychological associations, there are still some religious and conservative groups who support it as an effective disciplinary tool, believing that the Bible explicitly allows it.
But, he said, “There is no group of Americans that advocate yelling as a parenting style.”
“My bottom-line recommendation is don’t yell,” he said. “It is a risk factor for a family.”
Easier said than done. Strategies to stop yelling abound. Klein said she has a friend who gives herself a timeout by going into another room when she feels a scream coming on.
Experts suggest figuring out ways to prevent situations that make you most prone to yell. If forgotten homework sends you into the stratosphere, make sure the children have their books and notebooks packed and waiting by the door before they go to bed. If you’re stressed and hungry after a long day at the office, make sure you grab something to eat in the kitchen before you tackle, say, a brewing disagreement over Legos.
Still, there are those moments.
“I’d like to think that most of the time we have a good interaction based on reason,” Lena Merrill said of her 4-year-old daughter, whom she has never spanked. But then there are the times when “she’s done something like poured milk on the floor or ripped a page out of a book,” Merrill said. “I just lose it..”
Usually, she says, she shouts something like, “Why did you do that? Why would you do that?”
“It’s phrased like a question to make her think, but the tone scares her,” Merrill said.
Still, Merrill, a travel consultant in Rutherford, N.J., finds that the threat of yelling can be a convenient stick, much the way the threat of a spanking was in her childhood. Even her husband has taken to using it to encourage good behaviour, she said, issuing the warning:
“Don’t make mommy mad.” — NYT
[Supermoms don’t yell. They just take use the “mommy” tone. — Reuters pic]
Supermoms don’t yell. They just take use the “mommy” tone. — Reuters pic
NEW YORK, Oct 23 — Jackie Klein is a devoted mother of two little boys in the suburbs of Portland, Ore. She spends hours ferrying them to soccer and Cub Scouts. She reads child-development books. She can emulate one of those pitch-perfect calm maternal tones to warn, “You’re making bad choices” when, say, someone doesn’t want to brush his teeth.
That is 90 per cent of the time. Then there is the other 10 per cent, when, she admits, “I have become totally frustrated and lost control of myself.”
It can happen during weeks and weeks and weeks of no camp in the summer, or at the end of a long day at home — just as adult peace is within her grasp — when the 7- or 9-year-old won’t go to sleep.
And then she yells.
“This is ridiculous! I’ve been doing things all day for you!”
Many in today’s pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we friend our teenagers (literally and virtually), we spend hours teaching our elementary-school offspring how to understand their feelings. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells.
“I’ve worked with thousands of parents and I can tell you, without question, that screaming is the new spanking,” said Amy McCready, the founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, which teaches parenting skills in classes, individual coaching sessions and an online course.
“This is so the issue right now. As parents understand that it’s not socially acceptable to spank children, they are at a loss for what they can do. They resort to reminding, nagging, timeout, counting 1-2-3 and quickly realise that those strategies don’t work to change behaviour. In the absence of tools that really work, they feel frustrated and angry and raise their voice. They feel guilty afterward, and the whole cycle begins again.”
Amy Wilson, a writer and actress in Manhattan, used to give up shopping for Lent. That was before she had children, now ages 6, 5 and 2. This year she gave up yelling. Or tried to. “It didn’t really work,” she said, “but I definitely yelled less.”
Wilson has written a humorous autobiographical book about parenting, to be published next year, called “When Did I Get Like This?” An entire chapter is devoted to her personal efforts to curtail her yelling.
A one-woman show, “Mother Load,” which she wrote and performed Off Broadway and will take on tour for the second time next year, opens with a yelling scene that draws laughs and includes the line “I have had it with looking for puppy” in a high-decibel lament that rings true to anyone who has searched for a favourite stuffed animal for the seventh time in a day.
Familial screamers have long been a beloved part of American pop culture, from the Costanzas of “Seinfeld” back to the Goldbergs of radio and early television, but they didn’t yell at small children. And though previous generations of parents may have yelled in real life — Dr. Spock called shouting “inevitable from time to time” — this generation of parents seems to be uniquely troubled by their own outbursts.
“My name is Francesca Castagnoli and I am a screamer,” began a post on Motherblogger..net earlier this year. “Admitting I’m a mom that screams, shouts and loses it in front her kids feels like I’m revealing a dark family secret.”
“It’s not kind,” said Klein in Oregon. “When I’m done I feel awful.”
To research their book “Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids,” the three authors, Devra Renner, Aviva Pflock and Julie Bort, commissioned a survey of 1,300 parents across the country to determine sources of parental guilt. Two-thirds of respondents named yelling — not working or spanking or missing a school event — as their biggest guilt inducer.
“What blew us away about that is that the one thing you really have ultimate control over is the tone of your voice,” said Pflock, a child development specialist.
Parental yelling today may be partly a releasing of stress for multitasking, overachieving adults, parenting experts say.
“Yelling is done when parents feel irritable and anxious,” said Harold S. Koplewicz, the founder of the New York University Child Study Centre. “It can be as simple as ‘I’m overwhelmed, I’m running late for work, I had a fight with my wife, I have a project due — and my son left his homework upstairs.’ “
Numerous studies exist on the effect of corporal punishment on children. A new one came out just last month. Led by a researcher at Duke University’s Centre for Child and Family Policy, the study concluded that spanking children when they are very young (1-year-old) can slow their intellectual development and lead to aggressive behaviour as they grow older. But there is far less data on the more common habit of shouting and screaming in families.
One study that did take a look at the topic — a paper on the “psychological aggression by American parents” published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2003 — found that parental yelling was a near-universal occurrence. Of 991 families interviewed, in 88 per cent of them a parent acknowledged shouting, screaming or yelling at the kids at least once (though it didn’t specify how many did it more often) in the previous year.
“We are so accustomed to this that we just think parents get carried away and that it’s not harmful,” said one of the study’s lead authors, Murray A. Straus, a sociologist who is a director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. “But it affects a child. If someone yelled at you at work, you’d find that pretty jarring. We don’t apply that standard to children.”Psychologists and psychiatrists generally say yelling should be avoided. It’s at best ineffective (the more you do it the more the child tunes it out) and at worse damaging to a child’s sense of well-being and self-esteem.
“It isn’t the yelling per se that’s going to make a difference, it’s how the yelling is interpreted,” said Ronald P. Rohner, director of the Ronald and Nancy Rohner Centre for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection at the University of Connecticut. If a parent is simply loud, he says, the effect is minimal. But if the tone connotes anger, insult or sarcasm, it can be perceived as a sign of rejection.
Rohner noted that while spanking is considered taboo by the major medical and psychological associations, there are still some religious and conservative groups who support it as an effective disciplinary tool, believing that the Bible explicitly allows it.
But, he said, “There is no group of Americans that advocate yelling as a parenting style.”
“My bottom-line recommendation is don’t yell,” he said. “It is a risk factor for a family.”
Easier said than done. Strategies to stop yelling abound. Klein said she has a friend who gives herself a timeout by going into another room when she feels a scream coming on.
Experts suggest figuring out ways to prevent situations that make you most prone to yell. If forgotten homework sends you into the stratosphere, make sure the children have their books and notebooks packed and waiting by the door before they go to bed. If you’re stressed and hungry after a long day at the office, make sure you grab something to eat in the kitchen before you tackle, say, a brewing disagreement over Legos.
Still, there are those moments.
“I’d like to think that most of the time we have a good interaction based on reason,” Lena Merrill said of her 4-year-old daughter, whom she has never spanked. But then there are the times when “she’s done something like poured milk on the floor or ripped a page out of a book,” Merrill said. “I just lose it..”
Usually, she says, she shouts something like, “Why did you do that? Why would you do that?”
“It’s phrased like a question to make her think, but the tone scares her,” Merrill said.
Still, Merrill, a travel consultant in Rutherford, N.J., finds that the threat of yelling can be a convenient stick, much the way the threat of a spanking was in her childhood. Even her husband has taken to using it to encourage good behaviour, she said, issuing the warning:
“Don’t make mommy mad.” — NYT
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Chevrolet Cruze launched in New Delhi (India)
General Motors India's D-segment sedan, Chevrolet Cruze was lauched today in New Delhi. Available in two variants - LT & LTZ , and in six colours, the sedan is equipped with a 2.0-litre diesel engine (the same engine which is also fitted to the Chevrolet Captiva SUV) and produces 149 horsepower and 327Nm of torque. According to ARAI figures, the Cruze's 2.0-litre diesel engine delivers 18.3km/l in terms of fuel economy,and will be pitted against Toyota Corolla Altis and Honda Civic, and VW Jetta.
GMI is offering a 3-year/100,000km warranty and plans to launch a 1.8-litre petrol-engined version of the car by mid-2010. The car will be available at Rs. 10.99 lakh for LT variant and Rs. 12.45 for the LTZ variant. (ex-showroom Delhi). The car comes with a five-speed manual transmission (no automatic is available yet) and safety features like anti-lock brakes (ABS) and an electronic stability program (ESP) as standard equipment.
Some of the prominent features of Cruze LT comprise pf Power Steering, all 4 Power Window with 1 Touch down, Delayed Operation for Power Windows & ORVMs, Day/Night Adjustable Inside Rear View Mirror, Driver Seat Height Adjuster, HVAC, Rear Heating Ducts, Intelligent Rear Defogger, Sunglass Holder, Cigarette Lighter, Removable Cup Type Ashtray, Advanced Windscreen Wash System, Driver Information System, Smart Screen, Outside Temperature Display, Convenience Hook in Trunk, Illuminated Glovebox, Trunk Lamp, 60:40 Split Folding Rear Seat, Intergrated Center Stack with CD MP3 Audio System and Aux-in, 4 Speakers, Tilt Steering.
Its safety features include Antilock Braking System, Front and Rear Disc Brakes, Dual Airbags, Tubeless Tyres, Dual Horn, Immobilizer, Driver Seatbelt Reminder, 4kmph Impact proof Front and Rear Bumpers, Advanced Security System, Child Seats Provisions, Ememrgency Exit System, Battery Run Down Protection, Height Adjustable Front Seatbelts. Its exterior features consist of 205/60 R16 tyres, 16" Alloy Wheels, Chrome Garnish on Window Sills, Electronically Adjustable ORVMs, Programmable Follow-me Home Headlamps, Printed Antenna, Bodycolor Door Handles, ORVMs and Trunkid Garnish. The car also boasts of Front Center Armrest with Storage & Sliding Lid, Dual Cockpit Interior Design, New Age Dark Pewter & Titanium Interior Color Theme, Rear Armrest with Cupholders, Front Cupholders, Front Seat Back Pockets, Silver finish on Dashboard, Dimmable Instrument Cluster and Displays, Passenger Sunvisor with Vanity Mirror and Cover, Stowage Bin on top of Dashboard.
Along with the existing facilities of LT, Cruze’s other variant, LTZ is equipped with additional features like Storage Bin on Dashboard with Lid, Tilt and Telescopic Steering, 6 CD Changer, 6 Speakers, Auto AC with Air Quality System, Cruise Control, Programmable Passive Entry Passive Start System with Push Button Inginition On/Off, 12V Charging Point for Rear Seat Occupants, Audio Controls on Steering Wheels, Front Fog Lamps, Chrome Door Handles and trunk Lid Garnish, Power Folding & Heated ORVMs, Rear Park Assist, Rainsensing Wiper System, Electric Sunroof with Protective Mesh, High Gloss Black Finish and Optic Check Film on Center Console, Leather Upholstery, Leather Steering Wheel & Gear Knob, Silver Accent on Steering Wheel, Transluscent Instrument Cluster with Chrome Surround.
The Cruze is the result of a development process that has fully harnessed GM's expertise in automobile technology and is the first of a new family of global products from GM that delivers world class quality. It is also one of the key drivers of the global expansion of Chevrolet.
Following its market introduction recently, the Cruze is being rolled out in many countries around the globe. It is backed by the highest scores in major crash safety ratings. The Chevrolet Cruze received the maximum five-star China New Car Assessment Program (CNCAP) rating, while its sibling, the Holden Cruze, received the maximum five-star Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) rating, which is the highest score for any vehicles in its segment.
GMI is offering a 3-year/100,000km warranty and plans to launch a 1.8-litre petrol-engined version of the car by mid-2010. The car will be available at Rs. 10.99 lakh for LT variant and Rs. 12.45 for the LTZ variant. (ex-showroom Delhi). The car comes with a five-speed manual transmission (no automatic is available yet) and safety features like anti-lock brakes (ABS) and an electronic stability program (ESP) as standard equipment.
Some of the prominent features of Cruze LT comprise pf Power Steering, all 4 Power Window with 1 Touch down, Delayed Operation for Power Windows & ORVMs, Day/Night Adjustable Inside Rear View Mirror, Driver Seat Height Adjuster, HVAC, Rear Heating Ducts, Intelligent Rear Defogger, Sunglass Holder, Cigarette Lighter, Removable Cup Type Ashtray, Advanced Windscreen Wash System, Driver Information System, Smart Screen, Outside Temperature Display, Convenience Hook in Trunk, Illuminated Glovebox, Trunk Lamp, 60:40 Split Folding Rear Seat, Intergrated Center Stack with CD MP3 Audio System and Aux-in, 4 Speakers, Tilt Steering.
Its safety features include Antilock Braking System, Front and Rear Disc Brakes, Dual Airbags, Tubeless Tyres, Dual Horn, Immobilizer, Driver Seatbelt Reminder, 4kmph Impact proof Front and Rear Bumpers, Advanced Security System, Child Seats Provisions, Ememrgency Exit System, Battery Run Down Protection, Height Adjustable Front Seatbelts. Its exterior features consist of 205/60 R16 tyres, 16" Alloy Wheels, Chrome Garnish on Window Sills, Electronically Adjustable ORVMs, Programmable Follow-me Home Headlamps, Printed Antenna, Bodycolor Door Handles, ORVMs and Trunkid Garnish. The car also boasts of Front Center Armrest with Storage & Sliding Lid, Dual Cockpit Interior Design, New Age Dark Pewter & Titanium Interior Color Theme, Rear Armrest with Cupholders, Front Cupholders, Front Seat Back Pockets, Silver finish on Dashboard, Dimmable Instrument Cluster and Displays, Passenger Sunvisor with Vanity Mirror and Cover, Stowage Bin on top of Dashboard.
Along with the existing facilities of LT, Cruze’s other variant, LTZ is equipped with additional features like Storage Bin on Dashboard with Lid, Tilt and Telescopic Steering, 6 CD Changer, 6 Speakers, Auto AC with Air Quality System, Cruise Control, Programmable Passive Entry Passive Start System with Push Button Inginition On/Off, 12V Charging Point for Rear Seat Occupants, Audio Controls on Steering Wheels, Front Fog Lamps, Chrome Door Handles and trunk Lid Garnish, Power Folding & Heated ORVMs, Rear Park Assist, Rainsensing Wiper System, Electric Sunroof with Protective Mesh, High Gloss Black Finish and Optic Check Film on Center Console, Leather Upholstery, Leather Steering Wheel & Gear Knob, Silver Accent on Steering Wheel, Transluscent Instrument Cluster with Chrome Surround.
The Cruze is the result of a development process that has fully harnessed GM's expertise in automobile technology and is the first of a new family of global products from GM that delivers world class quality. It is also one of the key drivers of the global expansion of Chevrolet.
Following its market introduction recently, the Cruze is being rolled out in many countries around the globe. It is backed by the highest scores in major crash safety ratings. The Chevrolet Cruze received the maximum five-star China New Car Assessment Program (CNCAP) rating, while its sibling, the Holden Cruze, received the maximum five-star Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) rating, which is the highest score for any vehicles in its segment.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Pak Army cautions cellphone users regarding SMS fraud
An official of the FIA said severe action would be taken against the senders of these false messages and they would be booked under the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance, 2008. – Photo by AP.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army is investigating mobile phone messages warning the recipients that their SIMs could be hacked by terrorists if they followed instructions given in some messages.
One such message says: ‘Attention: If you receive a call on your cellphone informing you that they are from quality control department of a GSM company and checking your line and they [terrorists] will also request you to press a specific key on your mobile phone, do not follow their instructions.
‘Your mobile can be hacked by them and may be used for any terrorist activity… like triggering a remote-controlled bomb blast…ISPR-Pak Army.’
A senior military official told Dawn: ‘These are fake messages and we are investigating them.’
An official of the Federal Investigation Agency’s cyber crime cell said his unit was also probing into the matter. He said strict action would be taken against the senders of these false messages and they would be booked under the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance, 2008.
Chevrolet cruze in india
The Chevrolet Cruze, which is expected to be launched in Indian market in the first week of this October, is going to increase the competition between the sedan class cars in India. The Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla Altis are expected to be its main competitors. Sources tell that Chevrolet Cruze price in india may cost about 14 to 16 lakhs,
almost same as the other sedans, which it competes with.
The Chevrolet Cruze is an elephant in boot with its 2.0-litre diesel engine producing 150 bhp and also with 1.8-litre petrol engine producing 130 HP. The diesel variant is expected to be more powerful than the petrol one. The 138 bhp Honda Civic is already doing well and therefore the petrol variant of Cruze is expected to be more than it, to give a tough competition.
The Cruze looks muscular and with its aggressive front chrome grill. The 17 inch, 5 spoke alloy wheels look great for this sedan. The front fog lamps and the combinations lamps in the rear are quite good. The body colored bumpers, door handles and the rear-view mirrors add to its stylish looks. Therefore it is fully loaded, making no disappointments, when it comes to the looks. The red color Cruze appeared in ads looks good, however we have to wait to know about the other colors, in which it is available.
The interiors are also attractive, with its leather covered dual tone beige
Friday, October 23, 2009
INFO: Be Careful
Dear Colleagues,
I had a bad experience this afternoon while walking from Citibank building to KLCC. While I was walking on the sidewalk, one guy walking next me suddenly bent down and started jerking bottom of my pant. I shouted and asked him what he was doing. I pushed his hand away and started walking again. I suddenly realized, in a matter of seconds, that my cell phone was gone from my front pocket. I turned back to look for that guy but he was gone. There must be more than one guy in this gang. While one of them tries to distract your attention for few seconds, the other guy does his job to relieve whatever you have in your pockets. I could have lost my wallet but was fortunate. So please be aware and pay attention to your surroundings.
INFO: Please Read, swine flu injection
This email you need to read ............ ...a big warning ..........please do take the time to read this!!!!
I'm a qualified pharmacist. I've been researching the swine flu vaccine that our government has bought for us (using our money, by the way) and it's DANGEROUS AS. It's easy a hundred times more dangerous than the swine flu itself.
Something that freaked me out is that several swine flu vaccine manufacturers have asked governments to give them an exemption from lawsuits, in case the vaccine caused harm in people. If you made a vaccine that you knew worked, then why would you need a legal exemption in case it hurt people? Massive warning sign - they don't believe its safe!
The swine flu itself has killed about 2/3000 people total. The regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year – so why are we freaking out about swine flu, and not normal flu? Does that make sense? No!
If the regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year, and the swine flu only killed 2/3 000 – then why are governments buying it in advance, giving it to us for free, and giving drug manufacturers immunity to legal cases against them? Does that make sense? No!
The swine flu vaccine contains 2 horribly dangerous compounds – one is called thimerosol. It is made 50% ofmercury. It binds to receptors in your brain, and basically causes brain damage. Is it smart to be injected with thimerosol, and get brain damage, dropping 10 IQ points and going dumb, in order to avoid getting a flu that kills 95% less people than regular flu? No!
The other horrible ingredient is called squalene. Squalene accidentally tricks your immune system into killing your own cells, which creates auto-immune diseases like asthma, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and a bunch of diseases that we don't have a name for yet (because squalene hasn't been used for that long, and we have little data on its effects) – is is smart to inject yourself with that stuff, in order to avoid a relatively mild flu, like the swine flu? No!
If you're a pregnant mother about to take Panvax, ask yourself this – why would you take Panvax, when it contains Neomycin and Polymyxin B Sulfate – both of which exhibit positive risk to unborn children – so as to avoid what? A mild flu, that kills 95% fewer people than the regular flu?
Look, I'm a funny guy. Yeah, I make good Facebook groups. People join them by the thousands, and laugh. But I'm also a qualified pharmacist. I scored in the top 0.1% of my state in school. I'm an expert at critical analysis of drugs and their effects on humans. And let me be blunt – if someone came up to me with a syringe full of swine flu vaccine, or came near my family with one – I would take the needle off them and poke them with it myself – followed by several very hard punches.
I'm a qualified pharmacist. I've been researching the swine flu vaccine that our government has bought for us (using our money, by the way) and it's DANGEROUS AS. It's easy a hundred times more dangerous than the swine flu itself.
Something that freaked me out is that several swine flu vaccine manufacturers have asked governments to give them an exemption from lawsuits, in case the vaccine caused harm in people. If you made a vaccine that you knew worked, then why would you need a legal exemption in case it hurt people? Massive warning sign - they don't believe its safe!
The swine flu itself has killed about 2/3000 people total. The regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year – so why are we freaking out about swine flu, and not normal flu? Does that make sense? No!
If the regular flu kills 40 000 plus per year, and the swine flu only killed 2/3 000 – then why are governments buying it in advance, giving it to us for free, and giving drug manufacturers immunity to legal cases against them? Does that make sense? No!
The swine flu vaccine contains 2 horribly dangerous compounds – one is called thimerosol. It is made 50% ofmercury. It binds to receptors in your brain, and basically causes brain damage. Is it smart to be injected with thimerosol, and get brain damage, dropping 10 IQ points and going dumb, in order to avoid getting a flu that kills 95% less people than regular flu? No!
The other horrible ingredient is called squalene. Squalene accidentally tricks your immune system into killing your own cells, which creates auto-immune diseases like asthma, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and a bunch of diseases that we don't have a name for yet (because squalene hasn't been used for that long, and we have little data on its effects) – is is smart to inject yourself with that stuff, in order to avoid a relatively mild flu, like the swine flu? No!
If you're a pregnant mother about to take Panvax, ask yourself this – why would you take Panvax, when it contains Neomycin and Polymyxin B Sulfate – both of which exhibit positive risk to unborn children – so as to avoid what? A mild flu, that kills 95% fewer people than the regular flu?
Look, I'm a funny guy. Yeah, I make good Facebook groups. People join them by the thousands, and laugh. But I'm also a qualified pharmacist. I scored in the top 0.1% of my state in school. I'm an expert at critical analysis of drugs and their effects on humans. And let me be blunt – if someone came up to me with a syringe full of swine flu vaccine, or came near my family with one – I would take the needle off them and poke them with it myself – followed by several very hard punches.
This stuff is poison. Don't take it. Don't let your friends take it. Don't let your family take it. If some idiot in a lab coat asks you if you want it, ask them about thimerosol, squalene, and why the company making it wants legal exemption from being sued, and watch their face go into "Oh, my God! I'm being asked serious questions that I don't have the answer to” mode.
Anyway. I hope you're all well. Chat to you on Facebook sometime...
Sincerely,
George Mamouzellos
Bachelor of Pharmacy
University of South Australia
Anyway. I hope you're all well. Chat to you on Facebook sometime...
Sincerely,
George Mamouzellos
Bachelor of Pharmacy
University of South Australia
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Book Of Your LIFE
The most important Book –
The Book Of Your LIFE
You are about to open –
Are we Obsessed with acquiring…
Money,
Property,
Prestige ???
When we die,
all our Money, Power, Property…
All Possessions pass on…
To belong to somebody else !
What remains ?
Not much !
In the sands of time …
Only memories remain,
in the minds of those people
that we have helped !
What would you wish to leave behind you …?
Beautiful remembrances
of happy times !
Or
…
Pages you wish you could tear out forever...?
Today you have been given a grand opportunity
To re-write with a fresh sheet –
Make your own script ...
It’s up to you to choose the colors –
Even in adversity, you can add soft pastels of serenity....
If you knew you had only one more day to live –
How would you use this precious time ???
Would you now be able to appreciate the golden rays of the sun… the gentle breeze?
– a page that you will treasure.
Enjoy this new day !
– Take inventory of all the good things in your life
Live each hour with cheer.
Love and affection for the special people in your life
– all the things you never did
before it’s too late …
People we sometimes take for granted
– tell them how you feel !
Offer a helping hand…
Live each day, as if there was no tomorrow !
Be Happy
Give Thanks
A groan grasps the peanut near the offending anthology.
A groan grasps the peanut near the offending anthology.
Facts after you sleep
Blind People Dream
Who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.
You Forget 90% of your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming.
Everybody Dreams
Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience *****ions and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.
Dreams Prevent Psychosis
In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage
We Only Dream of What We Know
Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts - did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces - they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
Not Everyone Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white
Dreams are not about what they are about
If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
Quitters have more vivid dreams
People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.
External Stimuli Invade our Dreams
This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after - this thirst drink thirst loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.
You are paralyzed while you sleep
Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep - most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.
Who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.
You Forget 90% of your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming.
Everybody Dreams
Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience *****ions and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.
Dreams Prevent Psychosis
In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage
We Only Dream of What We Know
Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts - did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces - they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
Not Everyone Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white
Dreams are not about what they are about
If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
Quitters have more vivid dreams
People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.
External Stimuli Invade our Dreams
This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after - this thirst drink thirst loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.
You are paralyzed while you sleep
Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep - most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.
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