Effect Of Social Network Sites For Youths

"Believe it or not, Britain’s “Facebook generation” — the 16 to 24-year-olds — are lonelier than any other age group, a survey has revealed"
    In the survey, one in three said they were bored with their lives compared to just 8% of pensioners and 28% complained loneliness was making them unhappy and so they are taking to drinking. More than a quarter of the Facebook generation revealed they turned to alcohol for comfort, and half admitted to using junk food as an emotional crutch, found the poll into national happiness levels, conducted for BBC.
 
    Asked what made them unhappy, 70% of the 16 to 24 year olds said finances topped their list of concerns. More than a third were worried about holding down a job, compared to a quarter of middle-aged respondents. One in three said they were tormented by family or relationship problems, and they were also the age group that were most likely to struggle over their social status. Overall money was the biggest cause of unhappiness across all age groups, above work, relationships and loneliness. 
    But while older age groups shared the Facebook generation’s finance fears, they were more fulfilled in other areas of their lives. Almost a third of youngest generation reported they had relationship problems which dropped to eight per cent among 55 to 64-year-olds. And one in three of the Facebook generation said they wanted to move abroad in search of happiness.

Networking site to block pics of users’ exes
 
    Social networking website Facebook keeps a record of users’ former lovers, if they had typed in the data earlier, but has now been forced to change a feature which caused their photos to appear when they logged in. After users reacted over the Photo Memories sidebar, which gave users an “unpleasant surprise” by dredging up old photographs of ex-wives or husbands, Facebook has now blocked such photos. However, in order to successfully block the “hurt-inducing” snaps, the site is now keeping a record of its users’ ex-partners — those who have used the site. 

Think Global, Think Strategic

" This excitement for President Obama’s visit is not surprising. His life is one that Indians and Americans directly relate to and embodies many of the shared values that make the US-India strategic partnership so strong"

    Through hard work, dedication, education and commitment, President Obama rose above the difficulties that life presented him. His multiracial heritage and childhood in many cultures have given him a strong belief in tolerance, a trait commonly seen in India. As an admirer of Gandhi, he worked to empower people in underdeveloped neighbourhoods of his hometown of Chicago and, after graduating from two of America’s most prestigious universities, he spurned more lucrative career opportunities to defend the civil rights of ordinary citizens. So it is not surprising that he is highly thought of by many Indians. His story of hard work and education, hope and opportunity, is the story of the American dream. It is also a shared value and story in India. 
    President Obama’s visit will be marked by excitement, pomp, and ceremony. Underlying this excitement is the opportunity to make the US-India relationship what he has called “one of the defining partnerships of the 21^st century”. To do so, his visit will focus on expanding trade and commerce; infusing the relationship with new innovations; and partnering with India as a rising and responsible global power. 
  

India a Part of Supercontinent

"A new and exciting piece of research from IISc has confirmed what has long been believed: that India was part of a supercontinent that later broke away into smaller physical entities and transformed into small continents and countries as we know them now"

    Geological research conducted recently by assistant professor Sanjeev Krishnan of the Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, has revealed that certain rock crusts or granulites in Sri Lanka, southern India and Madagascar have properties that demonstrate India as being part of a supercontinent.
 
    “The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana once consisted of what are now the smaller continents of South America, Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka, Antarctica and Australia. Our research reveals that massive tectonic activity had occurred 600 million years ago and had brought together all the earth formations into a supercontinent,”. 


Krishnan deduced the tectonic activity from the massive underground temperatures rock crusts in Sri Lanka, parts of Antarctica and southern India were exposed to and withstood over a period of 500 million years. The high temperatures, especially at the lower crust of the rocks, reveal the chemical composition of the crusts from which the tectonic activity has been deduced. These crusts/rocks, which go back 500 million years ago, are now visible in the form of granules and crust deposits on the surface. 
   

Be Like Them

"Catching the latest movie or gadget and hanging out with friends in cool cafes with an occasional study hour thrown in, pretty much summarises the weekend schedule of high school teenagers"

1. This is not so for Basanagouda Patil, Prabhu Suresh and Aditya Dev Gupta — three students pursuing their International Baccalaureate Diploma at The International School, Bangalore (TISB). They prefer to pack their bags and head for the slums during weekends to teach their less privileged counterparts computer science through the initiative IT4ALL.
2. At present, they cater to about 40 students but want to take the figure to 500. This, they say, will only be possible with help from voluntary teachers and sponsors. 
3. When the trio entered the prestigious TISB, computers was a part of their curriculum. But they soon realised that for students from the slums, IT was a far cry. Deciding to bridge this disparity, they stared IT4ALL. “With the help of the NGO World Vision, we started the project a year ago to make IT and computers accessible to students from the slums. 
4. World Vision set up community centres in the slums of Koramangala, Ramamurthynagar and Yeshwanthpur. These centres were then fitted with computers, some of which were donated by my father and some by his company,” said 16-year-old Patil. The centres have about four to five computers each, but the students could definitely do with a few more. 
5. “We have made appeals to various IT companies to chip in. But obviously, there is some hesitation as they feel that this might not be a credible process. So we are trying to create awareness about this project,” added Patil, a Koramangala resident.
     
   

Learning Language From Mestru

"For them, Kannada is a foreign tongue, but they are mastering it with some difficulty and a lot of determination. And Mestru says it is foreign nationals who are more disciplined when it comes to speaking Kannada Mestru is B V Raghavan, Bangalore’s most well-known Kannada teacher — and he should know best, for he has been teaching Kannada without a break on weekends, since 1973"

    Raghavan has so far taught Kannada to hundreds of Americans, Germans, French, Russian and British who stay in Bangalore. For Lyudov Kulikovich, 31, learning Kannada became necessary as her English, with a Russian accent, was not understood by many English-speaking Bangaloreans.
    “Whenever I asked for directions, the usual reply was, ‘Can you speak in English?’ Nothing can be more embarrassing. Then I decided to learn Kannada and attended classes for three months last year. Though I cannot speak well, I understand conversations in Kannada, which is what I required,” says Kulikovich. She is working in an outsourcing company here and thinks English alone cannot save a foreign national in Bangalore. Especially when they take a trip to the outskirts.
    According to her, it is easy to understand the culture of a place by understanding the regional language spoken. “I watched Kannada movie Mungaru Male, and could understand it within the context because I made efforts to learn the language. I recognize the vegetables by their names in Kannada, which makes buying easy,” she added. “Nange Kannada swalpa swalpa baratthe,” says Kovila C, 28, a Mauritius national living in Bangalore for over seven years now. Learning Kannada was a choice she made. “I love learning languages. I have learnt Tamil and Hindi, which helped me learn Kannada. There are striking similarities among these Dravidian languages, which have their origin in Sanskrit. I travel across Karnataka just out of passion for tourism and my learning of Kannada has helped while conversing with non-English speakers,” says Kovila. Kovila is working for the French Consulate here.

Technology Is Speaking

" Engineering students will learn not just nuts and bolts of their chosen subjects but Kannada as well as the culture and heritage of the state, with a lesson or two on how to don the iconic Mysore peta"

1.   This is part of Visvesvaraya Technological University’s ambitious Rs 2-crore plan to popularize Kannada culture and language among engineering students in the state. Under a state government-sponsored scheme, the varsity will conduct functional Kannada classes for non-state students and lectures in culture for those from the state. 
2. “There are thousands of engineering students from other states in the state. Since they spend at least four years here, we want to help them pick up functional Kannada. The Kannada Kali (Learn Kannada) scheme is under way for first semester students. We’ll roll out programmes on culture and heritage for state students who have passed out of English-medium schools and not well versed with the local language,” VTU vice-chancellor M Maheshappa.
3. Interestingly, the sessions, voluntary in nature, will be open to non-state professors.The university plans to set up a Kannada language laboratory in the university and publish a technical glossary in Kannada. To coincide with the 150th birth celebrations of Sir M Visvesvaraya, the university is preparing a compendium of his works in Kannada for free distribution in schools and colleges.

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Yoga For Students

"Want to have a healthy heart? Practice yoga daily as Indian researchers have claimed that breathing exercises, stretching, relaxation and meditation improve heart health "

According to the researchers at IIT-Roorkee in Uttarakhand, heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners.

The team said that in their preliminary study of 84 volunteers, there was strengthening of parasympathetic (vagal) control in subjects who regularly practice yoga, which is indicative of better autonomic control over heart rate and so a healthier heart.

BlackBerry Bold For Students

"Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone – the newest addition to the BlackBerry Bold series of smartphones.  It is the first BlackBerry Bold smartphone to come with the new BlackBerry 6 operating system"

The BlackBerry Bold 9780 supports 3G networks around the world, includes Wi-Fi with support for carrier supported Wi-Fi calling (UMA where available) and GPS for location-based applications and geo-tagging. It comes with a 5 MP camera with auto focus, scene modes, image stabilization, flash and video recording. The BlackBerry Bold 9780 also includes 512 MB Flash memory and an expandable memory card slot that supports up to 32 GB of additional storage.

Additional features of BlackBerry 6 include expanded messaging capabilities with features to simplify the management of social networking and RSS feeds (Social Feeds), and integrated access to BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and various instant messaging applications on the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone.

Students More Attraction Towards Sai-Baba Temple

"More students in the city is regularly visiting the Sai-Baba Temple regularly to get a peace and attention to get the success in life"
Now a days more students are going to visit the Sai-Baba Temple ,When we asked one student Name Prasanth.He told that this is the temple in which we can fulfill our thoughts.We get inspiration to get involved in the study , so that we come here daily once in the evening time .Here there will be Bhajan will go on, We are actively participating with the team.This is the only place where we get the peace,and attention.We do Dhayna for upto 30 minutes and it will give some relaxation for us.
He also joined that If you Dont believe than come to Temple and you will feel the relaxation and peace it cont get on outside, so here by not only students but all people working on different workstation , housewives can also visit to this temple.

Kids Love With Pets

"Though our brains aren’t ‘wired’ to love dogs, the latter ‘hijack’ the same neural mechanisms that bond us to our kids"

1.   “A dog is not ‘almost human’ and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such,” writes author John Holmes. And yet the reasons we love our dogs are deeply human indeed. 
2. Psychologist John Bowlby’s “attachment theory” identifies two important characteristics of the parent-infant bond in mammals and birds: one, the desire for physical proximity, and an attempt to restore it when separated; two, the display of individual recognition and ‘special’ behaviour toward one another that does not occur with others of their species. 
3. A puppy’s constant need for our specific presence and attention – along with its large forehead, big eyes and chubby cheeks that we find biologically irresistible – tricks our brains into loving him as we would our child. In essence, we aren’t ‘wired’ to love our dogs, but rather they ‘hijack’ the same neural mechanisms that bond us to our children. 
4. Dogs and babies share one other important characteristic: they make us happy. Oxytocin is often described as the most important neurotransmitter responsible for social bonding. “Nicknamed the ‘cuddle chemical’ and the ‘love drug’, oxytocin has been found to dampen stress, combat depression, and breed trust in humans,” writes Ewen Callaway in the New Scientist. 
5. It also plays a key role in cementing the bond between parents and their infants and, as it turns out, dogs. A number of studies show that interaction between humans and their dogs – touching, eye contact, or play – produces a significant spike of oxytocin in both. 

Get The Knowledge Of Indian Current Issues

"At the first top-level meet since the Sino-Indian defence exchanges were suspended in July, Manmohan Singh tells Wen Jiabao that it’s imperative to work their way to solutions to the ‘difficult’ problems"

HANOI In the backdrop of concerns over stapled visas being given by China to Kashmiris, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asked it to be sensitive to India’s “core issues” as he met Premier Wen Jiabao here, even as the two sides agreed to work their way to solutions to the “difficult” problems. 
    At the same time, the two leaders agreed that there was enough space in the world for both the countries to grow and they should cooperate and collaborate. In this regard, Wen will visit India by the end of this year, possibly in December, a step that was immediately welcomed by Singh at the meeting. 
    It was also decided at the 45-minute meeting that the Special Representatives of the two countries will meet by the end of this month to discuss “difficult” issues, including the boundary question. 

Youths Idea About Indian Future

"With a view to provide a platform to the youth to express their aspirations on India's future, ITC has unveiled a competition for students"

"Classmate - Ideas For India echoes ITC's credo of Let's Put India First. It is a powerful forum to kindle great ideas," Chand Das, chief executive of ITC's Education and Stationery Products Business said on Wednesday.

 The competition, which began in September, received around 6,000 entries. These were classified into six broad categories of ideas relating to science and technology, education, social and religious tolerance, infrastructure and environment. About 500 entries have been shortlisted for the citylevel contest in 11 cities. Finally,one will be chosen from each city for the finals in December. Five of the finalists will receive internships and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh each.

SOME INNOVATIVE IDEAS
• Aritra, a city-level contestant, has proposed a GPS-based People's Transport Information System to help citizens with instant updates

• Lokesh and Supreet are two other contestants who have proposed ideas regarding production of electricity

• Cricketer Yuvaraj Singh, the programme's brand ambassador, expressed his wish to open a cricket academy for youngsters

Technology Biz For Students

"The annual statesponsored technology exhibition BangaloreIT.biz will begin here on Thursday. The three-day event will be inaugurated by Union minister for communications and IT A Raja"

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), research and development, and innovation will be the highlight of the event. The expo will project and bring to fore the contribution of SMEs in the IT field, and provide a podium for SMEs and bigger companies to interact and partner with each other. Besides, there will be sessions on e-governance,GIS & ICT tools in disaster management, and on animation, VFX, gaming & comics. Around 850 delegates, 92 exhibitors, 5,500 business visitors, and 630 companies from nine states and eight countries are expected to take part in the event.

CAT Was Cool On First Day

"There was no mouse trouble for CAT this year. Day one of the second edition of the online Common Admission Test (CAT), that decides admission to Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and 150-odd business schools, went off without technical glitches on Wednesday. Last year, the test was not smooth due to technical problems galore"

Candidates, who braved the early morning showers in the city to make it to the exam centres, were pleasantly surprised by the easy format of the exam - and courteous volunteers at the centres.


"The exam was easy. There were 60 questions with 20 in each section. All sections had 8-9 sitters," said Dhruv, an engineering student.

With the nightmare of last year's technical fiasco still hanging heavily on their mind, Prometric, the American testing agency, tried every trick in the trade to ensure a glitch-free first day of the 29-day long exam season.


Only 4,548 (2.2%) of the total 2.06 lakh candidates had lined up to take the exam across India, including 10 centres in Bangalore. With the organisers expanding the testing period from 10 to 20 days this year, most centres had smaller groups turning up at each session for the exam.


At least two centres in Bangalore reported not having a single student taking the second session on Wednesday. Karthik (name changed), a Tommy Hilfiger employee, was the only candidate to report a tech-glitch at Bangalore's IBMT Business School. "The computer hung when I had five minutes to finish the exam. Immediately I was provided with another PC and given additional time to complete the test. But I was really nervous for those five minutes," he told .


Coaching centres pointed out two possible errors in the paper. "I could make out there was one question with incorrect options and the second one had a typographical error. Both were in the quantitative section," Gautam Puri, IIM-B alumnus and Career Launcher head, said.


Thursday will be a nontest day.

Designing The SSLC Notes

"Like music, the language of technology knows no bar. It may stun tech-savvy urbanites to know that a youth from a hamlet in North Karnataka has designed SSLC notes in the form of a DVD, to help rural students of the state"

Veeresh Kori, from a village near Talikoti of Bijapur district, through sheer passion, has designed the notes in both Kannada and English languages, as per the SSLC state syllabus.

 Kori completed his PU in science and got a seat for mechanical engineering, which he did not pursue due to abject poverty. He then underwent computer training for a short period and started a computer lab in Talikoti with the help of his relatives, where he trained rural students from 2007.

 Veeresh observed that rural SSLC students found it difficult to understand science. He conducted a survey of some villages of the district and discovered that about 40% of families had TV sets with DVD players. That's when the idea of designing a DVD on science subjects hit him. In the meanwhile, with a little encouragement from his parents, Amaresh and Shivabai, Kori joined a BCA course in PC Jabin Science College, Hubli, in 2008 and is now studying his 5th semester. But he continued to work on the DVD, devoting more than six months to the cause. He finally came out with a video DVD of notes for the subjects of science, which can be viewed on both a TV or a computer.

The DVD contains around 27 chapters on subjects pertaining to the science stream. Kori said: "I have presented a demo in most schools in North Karnataka. They are keen on trying it. If students follow this DVD, they will easily understand science subjects and score well."

 The DDPIs of Dharwad, Bijapur and Yadgir are planning to suggest thestudents. "I wanted to help middle class and rural students to understand tough subjects. I am also planning to bring out a DVD on other difficult subjects like Mathematics and English, but I have no intention of making money out of it," he added.

Test Your Language

"To help young students studying English as a foreign language, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has launched the TOEFL Junior test, a global assessment of middle school-level English language proficiency"

The first operational administration took place on Tuesday when more than 500 Korean middle school students took the test. Additional administrations will soon follow in 12 other countries, including France, Brazil, and Vietnam.


The TOEFL Junior test is a low-stakes assessment that measures the degree to which young students have attained language proficiency. It measures listening and reading ability, as well as knowledge of language form and meaning. It caters to the language-learning needs of students in the age group of 11 to 14.


"English proficiency is an increasingly important skill for students worldwide," explained Philip Tabbiner, senior vice-president, ETS Global & Partnerships. "With instructions beginning at an early age, mastering English expands students' access to a range of educational, personal and professional opportunities. This is especially true for public and private schools in English-dominant countries like the US, Canada and the UK, as well as international schools in non English-dominant countries." Visit TOEFLJunior@ets. org or www.ets.org/TOEFLJunior

Be Cool While Answering

"The CAT anxiety is palpable among those keyed up to take the test this year, starting Wednesday. The Common Admission Test is one of the toughest entrance exams for management college admissions in the country"

• CAT aspirants are concerned about not having satisfactorily 'covered' the course. But what experts advise is - don't get bogged down by pressure. Instead, use it constructively to improve performance.
  
  
• Experts also say that it's smart thinking that helps crack the CAT. For instance, Ajit Phadnis, an IIMB alumnus, an academic consultant with Career Launcher Pvt Ltd, says that if a student gets stuck in a question that appears to need rigorous calculations, then "the candidate is probably not dealing with it 'smartly' or that the smarter decision may be to simply leave it and move ahead. Many a time, rigorous calculations can be made simple by use of common sense approximations".
  
  
• The student should keep a contingency plan in place, adds Ajit. "I would suggest a plan of 30-35 minutes for each of the three sections and answer whatever you can. The rest of the time can be effectively used to improve sections which need it," he says.
  
  
• Whether a student makes it to the IIMs or not, he or she will surely be a better reader of reports, better creator and interpreter of graphs and quicker analyst, he adds on, saying, "In short, a better professional." Experts have some common advice: "stay cool" on the D-day while writing the exam and do not study anything new.

FOLLOW THE PATTERN

Byju Raveendran, founder, Byju Classes, says they have conducted special workshops during the past two weeks based on papers of previous years to familiarize candidates with test patterns, apart from giving students enough number of mock papers. "These workshops and tests give them hands-on experience," he says.

 On the day of the test, whether one solves the question from the answer options through formula or from a sheer hunch, makes absolutely no difference. "But focus should be on solving questions fast without compromising on accuracy. And the most important point which you may have heard a million times - keep cool and be confident. So do anything that works for you but feel confident about yourself on that day. Past performance, incomplete syllabus, fear of a section should all be replaced by one encompassing belief 'today is my day'," he says.

 Ajay Arora, director, TIME, Bangalore, feels a student should take mock tests depending on the availability of time and analyze them properly. "This is the time when rumour mills peak. Students should not get into them. Instead of checking with previous test takers on questions that appeared, students should just focus on preparation," he says.

MORE TIPS

• Revise all main concepts during the last week, do not mug up anything
• Relax! Read a current affairs book, play games, but do not exhaust yourself. If you are daring enough, you can even hit the theatre
• Don't revise anything new in the last moment
• Take as many mock tests as possible

No Mental Pressure For Tennis Kids

"There is something about children who opt for the open school system and are into home schooling. Otherwise interested in sports, they are academically brilliant and usually outshine regular school goers"

1. For example, most of the kids who train at the High Performance Tennis Centre housed in the KSLTA premises are into home schooling. These kids seem to be in their element when exam time draws nigh, scoring in the 80 percent and above bracket.
   
   
2. Sunil Yajaman, HPTC director, says, "Tennis kids are smart. Their grasping power is very strong. They undergo a lot of pressure during matches and are no strangers to challenges. For them, exams are a replication of the challenges they face on the court. These kids don't need to go to school daily and can easily make up for lost time."
   
   
3. Asked to outline the academy schedule for the wards, Yajaman said, "The schedule is drawn depending on the individual's height, weight, attitude and mental toughness."
   
   
4. He said, "We begin at 8.45 - 9 in the morning and the kids generally go through an hour of fitness based on agility and speed. This is followed by two hours of technical and tactical hitting of tennis balls after which they take a two hour break for lunch and rest. Post rest, they are back on court for a two-hour match play where they compete with each other and practise what they learnt during the morning session.
   
   
5. This is followed by a fitness hour again. Twice a week, they undergo endurance training and at the end of the day, they shower,have a snack and are ready to leave for home or the hostel."
   
   

Its Time To Get Into Help

"This is the Time in which we have to do some-thing to our country, its a resposibility to give their hands to childrens who are willing to get their education"

In this blog we had already posted regarding the childrens education , but only some of them had shown their Interest in this subject , But not much response came .Still peoples are not ware of getting education is essential for the childrens.

Recent report has stated that over 8 million childrens are not getting their education from schools,They had been utilized for the child labours are for other works.This is the time where every person has to come forword and do some contribution for these childrens .With your help childrens will go to school and get educated and contribute to their society.Please help these childrens, and make them educated.

We Wish all peoples get involved in this, and help them .This is the camapign conducting by student2050 blog, For more details contact to our mail student20502050@gmail.com