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!!

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Google shows off

Stephanie Clifford at the New York Times wrote about Google invading the offices of the advertising agency Leo Burnett in July, setting up a sort of mini-carnival of sorts to show their advertising technology. It seems that the company wants to recruit organizations to utilize its tools, but some of these organizations believe Google has ulterior motives.

“As Google begins to try to sell television, radio and print ads and created tools for buying and planning media campaigns, advertising and some academics say that the company works with institutions in order to possibly replace, “writes Clifford.

Advertising aggressive

It is not unreasonable to think that Google has its own interest in mind. Why would it not? The company appears to be his way of working further in the World advertise more aggressively than ever. For example, they speak not even waiting for federal approval before going to submit their ads deal with Yahoo.

It is being investigated as a possible antitrust issue. Imagine if Google has succeeded in phasing out advertising agencies. I do not expect that to happen anytime soon, however. Google is great, and it has a lot of pull, but it’s not all. It is a notion that even Google itself rejects.

“I do not see how we would actually be able to provide better customer experience to a client that a body can today,” said Google Vice President for North America ad sales, Penry Price. “There is no way we could, in fact, the queue behind a customer and provide services and information that the agency can today.”

A lot of ads in the future of Google

Do not mark the extinction of organisms yet, but there is no question that Google becomes a much greater in its advertising Britches these days. You will have YouTube ads will begin to emerge, Feedburner RSS ads, and do not forget that the acquisition of DoubleClick. If Yahoo! deal goes through unscathed, what will be a big piece of the advertising market will do even more.

“Yahoo! Search, … Co-brand e-mail, instant messaging applications and tools” on all be exposed, according to a statement. Other features include a customizable Personal Assistant “(for things like e-mail, horoscope, and weather conditions) and” Top of the page of your choice “(a current focus on the module).

“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.”

Metallic CSS menu for free

The above is a screenshot of this free CSS menu which you can download here.

It’s made up of some pretty simple CSS and html and 2 images.

I’ve tested it in Firefox and IE 6, if you come across problems in other browsers let me know.
It’s main limitation in that you must keep the wording of each menu button to around 17 characters otherwise it doesn’t look right.

Feel free to use in any way you like, some credit is always appreciated but not necessary.

Free backgrounds with stripes

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.

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?

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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