HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

Let’s say it’s 6.15p m and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to adiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have

been trained in CPR [Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) It's an emergency medical procedure for a victim of cardiac arrest or, in some circumstances, respiratory arrest. CPR is performed in hospitals, or in the community by laypersons or by emergency response professionals] , but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However,these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

Filed under: Chennai, India, news , blood circulating, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, HEART ATTACK

YouTube for business : Google Launches Video For Business

Google introduced Google Video for business, which is a new addition to Google Apps Premium, which allows workers in organizations for sharing videos, save them to Google Apps and invite co-workers to view content.

“What’s in the consumer world YouTube, Google Video for business will be done in the company,” said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise division.

Apps Premier is a fee-based software package, which is also free, including versions of Standard and education. Google is adding video applications, without increasing prices Apps Premier, which cost 50 dollars per user per year.

At the beginning of September 8, educational users of Google Apps will be able to use the service free for six months and will be charged $ 10 and users continue to use video.

Google Video for businesses will be able to run for more than an hour. The service is able to detect scene transitions and creates so you can go to specific parts of the video. Each video can be up to 300 MBs in size, and Apps Premier subscribers have 3GBs video on the storage account.

“The cost and complexity not limited to the effective use of video to improve business functions,” said Manesh Patel, Director of Information Systems, Sanmina-SCI.

“Integrating video into Google Apps, in combination with the continued improvement of video equipment and network infrastructure, provides significant opportunities for innovation and economies across our global teams.”

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How to start a web site for free !!

I am often asked “How can I start my own web site without any web design knowledge and without any money whatsoever?”
I know it can be hard to get started sometimes and not everyone wants to put money down just to get a simple site to share photos, news etc. So I have set out to find as many resources as I could that help you get started.

Option 1) Free blogs

Probably the most well known of the lot is Google’s Blogger.com. Starting your own site (blog) there is very easy. No mucking around with designs (unless you want to that is) it’s just a matter of a few clicks of your mouse button and away you go.

Thoughts.com Forums – Click on “blogs” in the navbar to open a free blog account.
Vox.com – Free blog provider, photo sharing.
Xanga – Another blog and photo sharing site.
i.ph – This blog provider boasts of very refined privacy settings with many options.

Option 2) Social/business network sites
LiveJournal – Blog provider / social network.
MySpace – I’m guessing Myspace needs no introduction.
BraveJournal – Another blog place that is leaning towards being more social network then just blog provider.
Squidoo – Here you can make a one page site about any topic and you can even get paid for your content. You can make many one page content pages not just one.

Option 3) Free web hosting with site builders or content management systems
FreeWebs – Advertising will be placed on your site but if you just want a simple page this is a good place to start.
Yahoo/Geocities – Lots of ads will be placed on your site so only use for personal sites.
Google page creator – You need to have a Gmail account and be using either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher, with JavaScript and cookies enabled. If you don’t have a Gmail account, you can sign up for one here free.

If you know of more good services please let us know in the comments.

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You can become a millionaire too!

Tell me the worth of Rs 100, at 10 per cent interest, after 150 years. Is it in thousands, lakhs…? Nah! That’s Rs 16 crore! And the same amount would grow to Rs 1899 crore after 200 years. No, that is no magic, but simply the power of compounding, described as the eight wonder of the world by Albert Einstein himself. Imagine someone in your family might have left Rs 100 in a bank account 200 years ago. You would already have become a billionaire today! Simple.
Still unimpressed? Because you don’t have the patience to wait for such a long period? Then try some other ways and avenues. You may get the desired result even within 3 to 10 years, depending on the kind of investment and the risk involved.

Says Ashish Kapur, CEO, invest  Shoppe India Ltd, “We believe the best way of making money, if you were to start with an empty kitty, is to make investment regularly in a disciplined manner. And when it comes to regular investing, there is nothing to beat SIP.”

Thus, an extremely conservative person can easily look forward to an 8 per cent return compounded monthly and make a crore by investing Rs 1.37 lakh every month for five years.

If you are unable to make that kind of investment, then you can safely decrease the investment amount by increasing the period. For instance, if you save just Rs 5,000 every month and invest it in an absolutely safe instrument, which gives 8 per cent return compounded annually, you will amass over Rs 1 crore in 35 years alone.

However, if you are also willing to take risk for higher returns, then only the sky is the limit.

Says Amit Sarup, director, Religare Venture Capital Ltd, “There are various investment options which can increase the investor’s wealth multifold over a time span. At the safest end of the spectrum are relatively risk-free investments such as National Savings Certificates, fixed deposits, debt mutual funds etc. which in current scenario can give a return of approximately 8-9 per cent pa and can double your money over a period of 8 to 9 years. However, one can opt for a high risk investment and venture into equities to get a much higher return in a shorter time-frame.”

One needs to understand, however, that equity markets are very volatile and can also result in capital getting eroded in case of negative movements in equity markets. For an individual one of the best ways to invest into equities is by investing via the mutual funds route. In the past couple of years, the returns have been phenomenal with average returns being up to as high as 40 to 50 per cent per annum. However, even if one looks at the performance over much longer periods, there are many schemes which have given an annual return between 25 and 30 per cent.
Thus, if one looks at this option, one can invest Rs 50 lakh and reach a figure of Rs 1 crore within three years. If one wants to invest a smaller amount, an investment of just Rs 15 lakh can increase and reach the magic figure of Rs 1 cr within seven to eight years, going by the historical data.

Now if you were to combine the power of compounding and the power of equity, you require mere Rs 13,500 monthly to be a crorepati in 10 years at 30 per cent return. If 30 per cent sounds unrealistic, then you can settle for Rs 26,500 every month to be a crorepati in 10 years at 20 per cent annual return. And given the kind of salaries people are getting today, these sums are not that difficult to invest.

Real estate investment is the other option by way of which one can multiply the investments at a good rate of return. Like equity markets, returns over the past 2-3 years have been phenomenal with investment values doubling or even tripling during this phase. True, the realty market is currently witnessing some corrections in prices, but that is mostly happening where the prices are or were abnormally high owing to speculative activities and artificial pricing. This is in fact good for genuine buyers as it will drive speculators out of the market. Anyway, this is only a temporary phase and the real estate market should soon be back on track as property prices always rise in the long run.

Another avenue whereby one can make high returns is by taking the private equity or venture capital route. This involves investing into equity of emerging business which is normally not listed on any stock exchanges at the time of investing. However on listing, these investments can yield multibagger gains and can probably multiply an investor’s money at a very fast rate. The risk involved is also very high as the business itself carries the risk of failure. Thus one has to do an in-depth study into various factors before taking such an investment decision. Also since the deal size is large and not available publicly, it may not be possible for all investors to opt for this route.

“Other ways are trading in equity derivative, where one can take huge position by just paying small margin money. It, however, entails a huge risk as the positions taken by players are levered several times over. Commodities, art etc also provide avenues for acquiring humongous wealth provided luck favours you,” informs Kapur.

But why to bet on luck when you can rely on the power of compounding?

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Google’s new Web browser

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The free browser, called “Chrome,” is supposed to be available in more than 100 countries for computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Google said it’s still working on versions compatible with Apple’s  Mac and the Linux operating system.

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

With the launch of Google Chrome, Google has published an online reference book, in comic book form, describing the technology behind the browser.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

“We realised… we needed to completely rethink the browser,” said Google’s Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

Although Google is using a cartoonish approach to promote Chrome, the new browser underscores the gravity of Google’s rivalry with Microsoft , whose Internet Explorer is used by about 75 percent of Web surfers.

Google for several years has been trying to take advantage of its search engine’s popularity to loosen Microsoft’s grip on how most people interact with personal computers.

The assault so far has been focused on a bundle of computer programs, including word processing and spreadsheet applications, that Google offers as an alternative to one of Microsoft’s biggest money makers, its Office suite of products.

Google has tried to make its alternatives more appealing and accessible by hosting them for free over Internet connections instead of requiring users to pay a licensing fee to install them on individual computers

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been trying to thwart Google by investing billions in the development of its own search engine and making an unsuccessful attempt to buy Yahoo  for $47.5 billion.

The tensions between Microsoft and Google now seem likely to escalate with Google’s foray into Web browsing.

In a Monday blog posting, Google touted Chrome as a more sophisticated Web browser better suited for displaying the more dynamic and interactive content blossoming on the Web as people migrate from television, radio and newspapers.

“The Web gets better with more options and innovation,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google’s engineering director, wrote in the posting. “Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the Web even better.”

Competition

The launch of a beta version of Chrome on Tuesday will be Google’s latest assault on Microsoft’s dominance of the PC business. The firm’s Internet Explorer program dominates the browser landscape, with 80% of the market.

Those already in the browser space were quick to respond to the news.

Writing in his blog, John Lilly, chief executive of Mozilla was sanguine about the new rival.

“It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they’ve got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better.”

Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves,” he wrote.

He welcomed the competition and said collaboration between Mozilla and Google on certain projects would continue.

Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, was more bullish.

“The browser landscape is highly competitive, but people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online,” he said in a statement.

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Hot News : MySpace to launch “High School Musical” contest

NEW YORK  – MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co’s blockbuster franchise “High School Musical 3″ in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date. 

Disney is hoping to build interest in the third movie in its hit television films series, and the first to hit theaters, by tapping MySpace’s estimated 76 million unique users as of July, according to comScore.

 Some 40 percent of U.S. mothers are also members of MySpace, according to comScore, which a MySpace spokesman said was one reason why the family and kids entertainment-focused Disney selected MySpace to promote one of the studio’s biggest hits.

 Schools are pitted against each other as high school seniors compete by completing undisclosed online tasks involving uploading photos, filming and uploading videos, and decorating their profile pages to see which school has the most “school spirit,” said Angela Courtin, MySpace’s senior vice president of marketing.

 Unlike sweepstakes where users do little more than sign up, the contest entails weeks of participation on the Internet, offline and using cellphones to send text messages. The contest ends on November 3.

 Courtin called the so-called integrated marketing campaign a “continuation of a dialogue between the franchise, MySpace and the user.”

 Winners will receive a free trip for the entire class to a Disney theme park and a pep rally featuring U.K. pop star Natasha Bedingfield.

 ”High School Musical 3″ opens in theaters in the United States on October 24.

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Nearly half of Britons suffer “discomgoogolation”

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the Internet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone and now there’s a word for it: “discomgoogolation”.

 

Nearly half of Britons — 44 percent — are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey, with over a quarter — 27 percent — admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable to go online.

 

“The proliferation of broadband has meant for the first time in history we’ve entered a culture of ‘instant answers,’” said psychologist Dr David Lewis, who identified discomgoogolation by measuring heart rates and brainwave activity.

 

The term comes from “discombobulate,” which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google.

 

“A galaxy of information is just a mouse click away and we have become addicted to the web,” added Lewis. “When unable to get online, discomgoogolation takes over.

 

“It was surprising to see the stress this led to brain activity and blood pressure in participants both increase in response to being cut off from the Internet.”

 

The survey also found 76 percent of Britons could not live without the Internet, with over half of the population using the web between one and four hours a day and 19 percent of people spending more time online than with their family in a week.

 

Forty-seven percent of those polled believed the Internet was more important in people’s lives than religion, with one in five people paying the Internet more attention than their partner.

 

Commissioned by information service 118118, the YouGov poll questioned 2,100 Britons during the first week of July.

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Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search
MENLO PARK, Calif.—July 28, 2008—Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

“The Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are unable to keep up with it,” said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil. “Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers with content-based results, not just popular ones, providing different and more insightful answers that illustrate the vastness and the variety of the Web.”

Cuil’s technology was developed by a team with extensive history in search. The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Mr. Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company’s large search index and led a Web page ranking team. They refused to accept the limitations of current search technology and dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive search engine. Together with Russell Power, Anna’s former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more fully and discover its true potential.

“Since we met at Stanford, Tom and I have shared a vision of the ideal search engine,” said Anna Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. “Our team approaches search differently. By leveraging our expertise in search architecture and relevance methods, we’ve built a more efficient yet richer search engine from the ground up. The Internet has grown and we think it’s time search did too.”

Cuil’s methods guarantee online privacy for searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based on content instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary, so personal search history is always private.

Summary of Cuil’s features:

Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories

Filed under: Tools, news, technology , Search Engine, technology

Oil prices Hike? Chidambaram has a solution

I represent a country that has over 1.1 billion people; that began a long and arduous journey of development; and that has, in recent years, rediscovered its inner strengths and acquired the capacity to end poverty.

I speak with great anguish because the goals that we have set for ourselves are in grave peril.

Oil prices threaten to wipe out the economic gains made by developing countries in recent years. The irrational escalation in oil prices is the cause of diversion of scarce resources from education, health and other social sector schemes.

Three weeks ago, India passed on barely 9 per cent of the required price increase to consumers: the result is that inflation measured by wholesale prices has crossed 11 per cent.

We are sorry to note that even oil producing countries such as Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela face double-digit inflation rates ranging from 10.5 per cent to 29.3 per cent.

How did this situation come about? And how may we overcome what appear to be formidable challenges? Let me focus on some key areas from the perspective of developing economies like India.

Questions have been raised about the fundamentals of the oil industry. There is a need for the oil industry to re-assert its leadership in price formation and not remain passive spectator of speculation and paper trading in oil. The global hydrocarbon community must address this situation through appropriate supply-side responses and calm the oil markets.

Today, the vulnerability of the supply chain to temporary supply disruptions stands exposed. Global oil consumption grew by 1.1 per cent or 1,000,000 barrels per day in 2007 whereas the global oil production fell by 130,000 barrels per day. Spare capacity, across the supply chain, has dwindled considerably. This has added to risks and uncertainty.

According to the estimates of the International Energy Agency, our future oil and gas needs call for massive investments of the order of $ 10 trillion by the year 2030. Such fund mobilisation can be achieved. Fresh investments are not materialising perhaps because of anticipated fall in demand. This is plainly wrong.

Respectfully, we reject the suggestion that rising demand is the cause of spiraling oil prices. Surely, demand and supply dynamics can not explain what has happened over the last 12 months.

How is it that oil prices were $70 a barrel in August, 2007, and how is it that they have doubled when there has been no dramatic change in demand? The causes for the current pandemonium in oil prices lie elsewhere: in unregulated over-the-counter markets and futures trading in oil.

There is ample evidence that large financial institutions, pension funds, hedge funds etc. have channelised trillions of dollars into commodity investments and commodity derivatives.

It is common knowledge that these financial transactions are unregulated and highly opaque. The demand for oil generated by these funds is purely speculative demand. In our view, the time has come for producers – especially OPEC – and consumers to wrest control over oil trading from the hands of the speculators.

The only way forward is for the both producers and consumers to find common ground. We have a proposal that will instill mutual confidence. We propose that we adopt a Price Band Mechanism. Consuming countries must guarantee that oil prices will not fall below an agreed level and producing countries must guarantee that oil prices will not rise above a guaranteed level.

In the band between these two levels, let prices be determined by market forces. This is the only way to shelter the world from volatility and unpredictability in oil prices.

We firmly believe that the current level of international oil prices is in the interest of neither the oil-producing countries nor the consuming countries. If the global economy slows down or slips into a recession due to high oil prices, that will eventually hurt all of us.

I appeal to you in the name of development; I appeal to you on behalf of all developing countries to seize the moment.

Remarks by Finance Minister P Chidambaram at the Energy Ministers’ Meeting, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 22 June 2008.

Filed under: news , Oil prices

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