Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Is Justin Bieber a Gay??

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Top 10 richest people in the world



Name: CARLOS SLIM HELU & FAMILY
Net Worth: $74 B
Age: 71
Title: Chairman
Organization: Telmex
Source: telecom, self-made
Residence: Mexico City, Mexico
Country of citizenship: Mexico
Education: BA/BS, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Marital Status: Widow
Children: 6

Name: BILL GATES
 Net Worth: $56 B
 Age: 55
 Title: Co-Chair
 Organization: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Source: Microsoft, self-made
 Residence: Medina, WA
 Country of citizenship: United States
 Education: Dropout, Harvard University
 Marital Status: Married
 Children: 3


                                                                                               

Name:WARREN BUFFETT
Net Worth:$50 B
Age: 80
Title: CEO
Organization: Berkshire Hathaway
Source: Berkshire Hathaway, self-made
Residence: Omaha, NE
Country of citizenship: United States
Education: MS, Columbia University; BA/BS, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Marital Status: Widowed, Remarried
Children: 3



  Name: BERNARD ARNAULT
Net Worth:$41 B
Age: 62
Title: Chairman
Organization: Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
Source: LVMH, inherited and growing
Residence: Paris, France
Country of citizenship: France
Education: BA/BS, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne; BA/BS, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
Marital Status: Married
Children: 5



Name:LARRY ELLISON
Net Worth:$39.5 B
Age: 66
Source: Oracle, self-made
Residence: Woodside, CA
Country of citizenship: United States
Education: Dropout, University of Chicago; Dropout, University of Illinois at Urbana
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: 2






Name:LAKSHMI MITTAL
Net Worth:$31.1 B
Age: 60
Title: Chairman
Organization: ArcelorMittal ADS
Source: Steel, inherited and growing
Residence: London, United Kingdom
Country of citizenship: India
Education: BA/BS, St Xavier’s College Calcutta
Marital Status: Married
Children: 2



Name:AMANCIO ORTEGA
Net Worth:$31 B
Age: 75
Source: Zara, self-made
Residence: La Coruna, Spain
Country of citizenship: Spain
Marital Status: Married
Children: 3


Name:EIKE BATISTA
Net Worth:$30 B
Age: 54
Title: CEO
Organization: EBX Group
Source: mining, oil, self-made
Residence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Country of citizenship: Brazil
Education: Dropout, RWTH Aachen University
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: 2





Name:MUKESH AMBANI
Net Worth:$27 B
Age: 54
Title: Chairman
Organization: Reliance Industries
Source: petrochemicals, oil & gas, inherited and growing
Residence: Mumbai, India
Country of citizenship: India
Education: Dropout, Stanford University; BA/BS, University of Bombay
Marital Status: Married Children: 3

  
Name:CHRISTY WALTON & FAMILY
Net Worth:$26.5 B
Age: 56
Source: Walmart, inherited
Residence: Jackson, WY
Country of citizenship: United States
Marital Status: Widow
Children: 1






Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sorry, This is Not the End of the PC Era [OPINION]



This post reflects the opinions of the author


 After Hewlett-Packard’s announcement on Thursday that it planned to spin off its consumer PC unit, many were quick to pen obituaries for the PC epoch. The iPad, the thinking goes, has dealt the knockout blow to the personal computer, just as it turned 30.
No doubt there’s some truth in this. A portion of the market is heading toward a “post-PC” environment. But the masses still lag behind and probably will for some time. At the moment, the general market isn’t even close to being there. If anything, the end-of-an-era pronouncements say more about the tech blogosphere’s skewed perspective than anything else. But despite what pundits observe at cafes, Apple isn’t the dominant supplier of notebooks and a fairly small amount of the public — roughly 1% — has an iPad. HP’s exit from the market, meanwhile, actually signals that attempting to brand yourself mid-tier in the market is futile.

Post-PC? Not So Fast


First, let’s look at the numbers. Apple has sold about 28.7 million iPads since the device hit the market in March 2010. That’s an impressive figure, to be sure, and Apple is clearly dominant in the tablet PC market. But compare that to the 400 million licenses of Windows 7 that Microsoft has sold since its July 2009 release. Moreover, those iPads don’t seem to be replacements for desktop or laptop devices. Owners of iPads are “not likely to report they’re making tradeoffs on purchases,” says Sarah Rotman Epps, consumer analyst with Forrester Research, who also notes that owners tend to be “relatively wealthy individuals.”
The real problem dogging PC manufacturers such as HP and Dell isn’t the iPad or the burgeoning of the post-PC era, but a confluence of factors, including the economy, the Windows upgrade cycle (Windows 8 isn’t due until late 2012 or so) and commodification. The PC industry has suffered from the latter since the mid-’90s, but things have been stepped up of late, Epps says. HP is making a 2% to 6% margin on its consumer PCs, and getting consumers to spend more seems like folly.
In fact, this is how Apple is killing off rivals such as HP and Dell in a roundabout way: Consumers decide if they’re not going to spend the extra money to buy a Mac, they might as well get the cheapest PC they can find. The race to the bottom is one reason that HP is exiting the business.
However, concluding that just because Apple is growing market share at PC makers’ expense means that no one is buying PCs anymore is a mistake. Even if you lump in iPad sales, as researcher Canalys recently did, Windows PCs still have an 82% market share. Is that majority of the market likely to make the switch to iPads and Macs?

An Economic Argument for the PC’s Survival


If you live in New York or San Francisco, it may seem that way, but the rest of the country may not be on board for the revolution. Consumer spending per household fell by 2.8% in 2009, which was the first time that happened since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such data in 1984. A recent report by Bernstein Research called “U.S. Telecommunications and Cable & Satellite: The Poverty Problem” points out that consumers on the lower end are often choosing between telecom services and their next meal and opting for “good enough” services like Netflix rather than pay TV. As the report goes on to explain, U.S. households at the lower 40% of income really don’t have any disposable cash. That will frustrate the growth of post-PC items like smartphones and iPads.
The other factor to consider is that, as Canalys notes, businesses are quite happy with their PCs. “We have been encouraged by the popularity of Windows 7 and the willingness of businesses to replace their install base,” said Canalys principal analyst Chris Jones in a release. “High-performance PCs are still clearly seen as a major driver of business productivity around the world.” Moreover, “few businesses had yet to replace notebooks with pads or smartphones,” the release states. Canalys expects that it will be a long time before businesses can overcome security concerns and application compatibility issues and embrace the so-called post-PC world.
The mass of consumers who are not thriving in this economy may feel the same way. When you’re pinched for cash, you start running your household like a business, scrutinizing every expense. At that point, an iPad may seem more like a luxury than a necessity and a Wintel PC may look like a great bargain.

Why Facebook's Friends May Fade

This won't come as welcome news to the folks at Facebook, but its customer-satisfaction ratings aren't much to boast about.

Among its social-media peers, Facebook landed at the bottom of the keeping customers-happy list, according to the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report. With a score of 66 out of 100, only airlines, subscription TV and newspapers fared less favorably with consumers.

If you're unfamiliar with it, the ACSI E-Business Report enables businesses to track customer satisfaction in three categories: social media, portals and search engines, and online news. And -- as in last year's report -- social media sites continue to lag significantly behind other e-businesses in maintaining consumer satisfaction rankings. The category earned a paltry 70 score out of 100.

While Facebook remains at the bottom of the heap, the social-networking utility did actually make a modest 3 percent gain over last year's score of 64. ACIS surmises that Facebook's size domination might be a factor in the improved figures. After all, Facebook is approaching one billion users. Wikipedia and YouTube scored 78 and 74 in the latest report, respectively.

So what does this mean for you and your business?
In my experience, consumer dissatisfaction with e-businesses comes from user concerns about their privacy and security. They also appreciate when businesses understand the difference between social networking and social selling -- generally, consumers don't like hearing a sales pitch when they're not expecting it.
Keeping these and other concerns you're aware of in mind when developing and executing your business-communications strategy is key. And it's more important now than ever. If you're old enough to remember when email first emerged and then evolved as a marketing tool, you'll recall that similar concerns surrounding spam, phishing, viruses and formatting plagued consumers right from the get-go. My thinking is that as email evolved to include certain protections and standards, so too will social media-related platforms, but only you -- the business owner -- can set the tone surrounding the proper mix of social networking and social selling.

Even though Facebook remains the dominant player in the social-media spectrum, the ACSI study does suggest that they may need to worry, as users have few other choices for social interaction. In particular, the recent launch of Google+, a social networking platform that boasts an enticing video-conferencing feature, among other things, is expected to give Facebook a run for its money.

And, since Google routinely scores at the top of the ACSI report in the search engine and portals category -- climbing to an astounding 83 rating in customer satisfaction this year -- a continued poor showing by Facebook could give Google the leverage it needs to topple the social-networking giant

10 ways to deal Negative Energy

by Lori Deschene



“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
I love her to death, but it’s draining to talk to her.
Every time I call this friend of mine, I know what I’m in for: a half-hour rant about everything that’s difficult, miserable or unfair.
Sometimes she focuses on the people she feels have wronged her and other times she explores the general hopelessness of life. She never calls to see how I’m doing, and she rarely listens to what’s going on in my life for more than a minute before shifting the focus back to herself.
I tell myself I call because I care, but sometimes I wonder if I have ulterior motives–to pump up my ego offering good advice, or even to feel better about my own reality.
I’m no saint, and if there’s one thing I know well, we only do things repeatedly if we believe there’s something in it for us. Even if that something is just to feel needed.
I thought about this the other day when a reader wrote to me with an interesting question: “How do you offer compassion to someone who doesn’t seem to deserve it?”
While I believe everyone deserves compassion, I understand what we meant after reading more. She went on to describe her offensive, sexist, racist boss who emotionally exhausts everyone around him. He sounds a lot more hateful than my friend, who is, sadly, just terribly depressed.
But these people have one thing in common: boundless negative energy that ends up affecting everyone around them.
So today I started thinking about how we interact with negative or difficult people. People who seem chronically critical, belligerent, indignant, angry, or just plain rude.
When someone repeatedly drains everyone around them, how do you maintain a sense of compassion without getting sucked into their doom? And how do you act in a way that doesn’t reinforce their negativity–and maybe even helps them?
Here’s what I’ve come up with:
1. Resist the urge to judge or assume.
It’s hard to offer someone compassion when you assume you have them pegged. He’s a jerk. She’s a malcontent. He’s an–insert other choice noun. Even if it seems unlikely someone will wake up one day and act differently we have to remember it is possible.
When you think negative thoughts, it comes out in your body language. Someone prone to negativity may feel all too tempted to mirror that. Try coming at them with the positive mindset you wish they had. Expect the best in them. You never know when you might be pleasantly surprised.
2. Dig deeper, but stay out of the hole.

It’s always easier to offer someone compassion if you try to understand where they’re coming from. But that can’t completely justify bad behavior. If you show negative people you support their choice to behave badly, you give them no real incentive to make a change (which they may actually want deep down).
It may help to repeat this in your head when you deal with them: “I understand your pain. But I’m most helpful if I don’t feed into it.” This might help you approach them with both kindness and firmness so they don’t bring you down with them.
3. Maintain a positive boundary.
Some people might tell you to visualize a bright white light around you to maintain a positive space when other people enter it with negativity. This doesn’t actually work for me because I respond better to ideas in words than visualizations. So I tell myself this, “I can only control the positive space I create around myself.”
Then when I interact with this person, I try to do two things, in this order of importance:
  • Protect the positive space around me. When their negativity is too strong to protect it, I need to walk away.
  • Help them feel more positive, not act more positive–which is more likely to create the desired result.
4. Disarm their negativity, even if just for now.

This goes back to the ideas I mentioned above. I know my depressed friend will rant about life’s injustices as long as I let her. Part of me feels tempted to play amateur psychiatrist–get her talking, and then try to help her reframe situations into a more positive light.
Then I remind myself I can’t change her whole way of being in one phone call. She has to want that. I also can’t listen for hours on end, as I’ve done in the past. But I can listen compassionately for a short while and then help her focus on something positive right now, in this moment. I can ask about her upcoming birthday. I can remind her it’s a beautiful day for a walk. Don’t try to solve or fix them. Just aim to help them now.
5. Temper your emotional response.
Negative people often gravitate toward others who react strongly–people who easily offer compassionate or get outraged, or offended. I suspect this gives them a little light in the darkness of their inner world–a sense that they’re not floating alone in their own anger or sadness.
People remember and learn from what you do more than what you say. If you feed into the situation with emotions, you’ll teach them they can depend on you for a reaction. It’s tough not to react because we’re human, but it’s worth practicing.
Once you’ve offered a compassionate ear for as long as you can, respond as calmly as possible with a simple line of fact. If you’re dealing with a rude or angry person, you may want to change the subject to something unrelated: “Dancing with the Stars is on tonight. Planning to watch it?”
6. Question what you’re getting out of it.
Like I mentioned above, we often get something out of relationships with negative people. Get real honest with yourself: have you fallen into a caretaker role because it makes you feel needed? Have you maintained the relationship so you can gossip about this person in a holier-than-thou way with others? Do you have some sort of stake in keeping the things the way they are?
Questioning yourself helps you change the way you respond–which is really all you can control. You can’t make someone think, feel, or act differently. You can be as kind as possible or as combative as possible, and still not change reality for someone else. All you can control is what you think and do–and then do your best to help them without hurting yourself.
7. Remember the numbers.
Research shows that people with negative attitudes have significantly higher rates of stress and disease. Someone’s mental state plays a huge role in their physical health. If someone’s making life difficult for people around them, you can be sure they’re doing worse for themselves.
What a sad reality. That someone has so much pain inside them they have to act out just to feel some sense of relief–even if that relief comes from getting a rise out of people. When you remember how much a difficult person is suffering, it’s easier to stay focused on minimizing negativity, as opposed to defending yourself.
8. Don’t take it personally–but know sometimes it is personal.

Conventional wisdom suggests that you should never take things personally when you deal with a negative person. I think it’s a little more complicated than that. You can’t write off everything someone says about you just because the person is insensitive or tactless. Even an abrasive person may have a valid point. Try to weigh their comments with a willingness to learn.
Accept that you don’t deserve the excessive emotions in someone’s tone, but weigh their ideas with a willingness to learn. Some of the most useful lessons I’ve learned came from people I wished weren’t right.
9. Act instead of just reacting.
Oftentimes we wait until someone gets angry or depressed before we try to buoy their spirits. If you know someone who seems to deal with difficult thoughts or feelings often (as demonstrated in their behavior) don’t wait for a situation to help them create positive feelings.
Give them a compliment for something they did well. Remind them of a moment when they were happy–as in “Remember when you scored that touchdown during the company picnic? That was awesome!” You’re more apt to want to boost them up when they haven’t brought you down. This may help mitigate that later, and also give them a little relief from their pain.
10. Maintain the right relationship based on reality as it is.
With my friend, I’m always wishing she could be more positive. I consistently put myself in situations where I feel bad because I want to help, because I want her to be happy. I’ve recently realized the best I can do is accept her as she is, let her know I believe in her ability to be happy, and then give her space to make the choice.
That means gently bringing our conversation to a close after I’ve made an effort to help. Or cutting short a night out if I’ve done all I can and it’s draining me. Hopefully she’ll want to change some day. Until then, all I can do is love her, while loving myself enough to take care of my needs. Which often means putting them first.

I’ve learned you can’t always saved the world. But you can make the world a better place by working on yourself–by becoming self-aware, tapping into your compassion, and protecting your positive space. You may even help negative people by fostering a sense of peace within yourself that their negativity can’t pierce.

50 things you can control


by Lori Deschene

 
“Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?” ~Unknown
CNN reports that psychic businesses are thriving in this challenging economy—and the clientele has expanded to include more business professionals who are worried about their financial future. According to Columbia Business School’s Professor Gita Johar who studies consumer behavior, the greatest motivation for visiting a psychic is to feel a sense of control.
Sure, there are lots of things we can’t control: businesses may fold, stocks may plummet, relationships may end–the list is infinite, really. But wouldn’t we be far more effective if we focused on all things we can control instead; if we stopped worrying about the indefinite and started benefiting from the guaranteed?
Right now you can control:
1. How many times you smile today.

Tips to advice that Actually Helps

by Maelina Frattaroli & Lori Deschene

 
“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind” ~Buddha
Nothing appears to be going right. The worst part? No one gets it, even though they might claim to.
Even though you know this is all temporary–it always is–you feel the need to ask other people what you should do. If they say what you want to hear, you’re relieved. But it doesn’t usually work that way. In fact, oftentimes you’re more frustrated than you were before once they put their two cents in.
We’ve all been there before.
Think back real hard—what in particular helped or irked you about advice people gave you? Did they say you should have done something differently (which wasn’t very useful after the fact)?
Did they tell you to stop feeling sorry for yourself because other people have bigger problems? Did they offer some platitudes or cliche advice that sounded impossible to follow?
When friends have problems that seem incurable and never-ending, you can sense that hopelessness. And you want to fix it, which always seems so simple when you’re sitting on the outside.Oftentimes, you’re not sure what to say because you don’t feel qualified to give advice but you feel compelled to say something. But it always looks different when you’re inside the mess than it is when you’re standing on the sidelines.
And even if other people have much larger problems, we still dwell on our own because what matters, in that moment, is how we feel.
Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that you can’t, at least not instantly, help someone when they’re in a fragile state. That’s OK. Most of the time when someone comes to you, they’re not expecting you to have all the answers or even talk.
They just want someone to lend an ear and be by their side through a difficult time.
Realizing this is key to delivering good advice. It isn’t always composed of words and answers.
Here’s how you can be helpful to a person in their darkest of times:
1. Advise with permission.

When you care about someone,

Life : Meditation, 8 easy and fun ways

by Goddess Leonie 


“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” ~Robert M. Pirsig
I know meditation is good for me. I know it can do wonders for my mind, body, and spirit. I deeply desire having a daily meditation practice.
And yet I can go months without meditating. I’ll think randomly, “I should really meditate sometime,” but when it comes down to it, I don’t.
My thing is this: I know meditating is good for me, and yet I don’t do it. I suspect I’m not the only one who feels this way.
I’ve read countless books on how to meditate. I have gone to so many meditation retreats and classes it’s not funny.
I know the meditation routines. I know the old staring at a candle flame one. I know the stilling your mind thing. I know the nose-breathing-in-and-out thing. I know about making your own visualization.
I also know that they feel like work. They feel like something I have to work at. It feels hard.
I know I’m not lazy. If you’re like me, I know you’re not, either. It’s just that we haven’t found the right way of meditating for us yet.
Here are some ways to make meditation less of a chore and more like a fun, doable thing for you.

Life: ways to happy in difficult times


Editor’s Note: This is a contribution by Jessica Ainscough 


“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” ~Denis Waitley
Why is it that it can take something as dramatic as a cancer diagnosis to wake you up to the way you should be living your life? One wasn’t even enough for me. I needed to be hit with the C-bomb twice in order to get the message that I was looking at life all wrong.
Just a few years ago I was working at my hectic dream job as the online editor for a teen magazine, partying three nights a week (and that was just the week nights) and living on a diet that consisted mostly of champagne, canapés, and late night Lean Cuisines.
But then in 2008, when I was just 22 years old, I was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive, and essentially “incurable” form of cancer called Epithelioid Sarcoma, in my left hand, arm, and armpit. Chemotherapy and radiation don’t have any success with this type of cancer, and I had too many tumors to perform surgery.
With no knowledge whatsoever about cancer, apart from the fact that Kylie Minogue has survived it, I was eager to do whatever my doctors told me to do—everything except have my arm amputated.
So I went for their second choice of treatment and had an extremely high dose of chemo pumped into just my arm. If that amount went into my body, I would have been dead in an instant.
Following scans showed I was clear of cancer, but in 2009—not even a year after going into remission—the cancer was back. The doctors told me that my only real chance of prolonging my survival would be to have my arm amputated at the shoulder, but that this would just be biding my time.
I decided then to take matters into my own hands. I refused their offers and began searching for natural, alternative cancer treatments.
The way I saw it I had two choices: I could let them chase the disease around my body until there was nothing left of me to cut, zap, or poison; or I could take responsibility for my illness and try to bring my body to optimum health so that it could heal itself. For me it was an easy decision.
This all led me to Gerson Therapy—a strict and rigorous regime of hourly juicing, round-the-clock coffee enemas, a basic vegan diet, and a program of cancer-fighting supplements. I went to Mexico to stay at the Gerson clinic for three weeks, and then came home to continue the therapy with the help of my family.
I am now 16 months into the therapy and I am ecstatic to report that it is working. I have had no cancer spread, no more lumps popping up (they were popping up rapidly beforehand), and I can actually see some of my tumors coming out through my skin and disappearing.
My cancer journey has been the most emotionally taxing, but completely liberating and fascinating experience, and I wouldn’t trade any of it for anything. Before, I was just going through the motions. Now, I live my life with intention and authenticity.
When everything is peachy, it is easy to

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Life :10 tips to Balance Self Interest & Sacrifice for a wonderful life

Yesterday morning, two of the correspondents on the news in Boston (where I’m home for the holidays) had an interesting conversation about the classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
One of them said he’s not a big fan of the movie, which instilled a sense of complete outrage in me.
How dare he take George Bailey’s name in vain? It’s such an inspirational film! From saving Harry’s life to finding Zuzu’s petals, every scene gets my little heart aflutter with renewed hope in our ability to make a difference and find happiness.
When the initial offense faded, I listened to what clearly-heartless news guy was saying. And he actually had a point.
The main character, George Bailey, sacrificed everything he wanted in life for the people around him. If he continued to operate in a constant state of self sacrifice, he’d likely always have regrets where other men have dreams.
And why should he not have the chance, at some point, to feel satisfaction that isn’t hinged upon having saved someone else’s life?
At the end of the movie, he receives the ultimate assurance that his life is best lived with everyone else’s interests before his own: a party where he receives all the gratitude and admiration he clearly felt had been lacking prior.
The implication seems to be that he should continue on this path because everyone’s life would have fallen apart if he didn’t come to their rescue.

The movie critique got me thinking about the sacrifices we make for other people. If you know me, you may find it off that I–ever the eternal optimist–have chosen to dissect the act of selflessness right before a holiday that often inspires it.
This is precisely why I have.
Holidays generally bring out the best in people. When we pull out the tear jerkers that remind us people care and miracles happen, we’re motivated to be the change we want to see in the world. To express and show our feelings. To care in action.
But what’s more important than an epiphany shouted from a balcony on Christmas morning is an understanding of healthy giving–both to others and ourselves–that’s sustainable all year long.
I, for one, would find this information invaluable, as I’m somewhat of a George Bailey–ever willing to consider someone else’s feelings and interests before my own. On some level it’s because I want to be kind; but often I’m motivated by the desire to feel important and useful. Or to please other people. Or even to avoid facing my own needs.
If you can relate on any level, consider these reasons to find a balance between doing for others and yourself:
Too much sacrifice can harm relationships. According to Ted Hagen, PhD, “The give and take between two people creates mutual respect. It strengthens a relationship.”
Excessive giving can create internal resentment. If you continually put everyone else first, you may eventually resent everyone for expecting so much of you–when in all reality, you had the choice to give less at any time.
Sacrificing is not always helpful. We often give because we think it’s the right thing to do; but sometimes it’s just plain not. People (children especially) need to learn to take care of themselves and to accept the world won’t always meet their every wish, whim, and need.
To truly give yourself, you need to take care of yourself. Your daily car ride may make someone’s life easier; but your bond as a healthy, happy person is far more valuable. You can only offer than if you take care of your own needs, as well.


We all deserve a life that involves doing and resisting and giving and taking and being selfish and selfless at times. I recommend the following steps to find a balance with all of the above:
1. Identify your current give/take ratio. If you’d like to find a balance you have to know how off-balance you currently are. Is it 50/50? Or 70/30?
2. Establish your reason for imbalance. Are you overextending yourself to feel powerful? Or to please everyone? You need to figure this out to address the next part.
3. Find an alternative plan. If your goal is to feel powerful and helpful, start mentoring a child on the weekend. If you’d like to be well-liked, nurture qualities and skills that attract people to you–other than your tendency to say yes. This is a far better approach to gaining respect anyway.
4. Take a piece of the pie. You can’t give everyone in your life 100%, so you likely give your parents, friends, and significant other a percentage of your energy. Consider a piece of that your own, and honor that in your choices.
5. Think of taking as another form of giving. Everything you get from giving–the people who love you will get the same if you give them a chance to reciprocate. Why not allow them the opportunity to feel helpful and important, too?
6. Take a drama-free look at your relationships. Do some people take more than give? The goal isn’t to blame, attack, or make yourself a victim; but rather to establish which relationships need to change.
7. Make attempts to repair unbalanced relationships. If the give/take ratio is off-kilter, you need to address this–either by asking for what you need when you need it, or initiating a constructive conversation. If the bond is worth saving the other person will be at least a little receptive.
8. Make a habit of expressing your needs. People won’t always anticipate them and step up to the plate, even if you operate that way. If you state your expectations, it will be easier for people to meet them. (Trust that they’ll want to! That’s how healthy relationships work.)
9. Check in without an even-Steven philosophy. You don’t need to keep an internal scorecard of how much people are doing for you; but you should feel that, on the whole, they’re there for you physically and emotionally as much as you’re there for them.
10. Ask yourself, “Would I need a George Bailey moment of gratitude and admiration to justify all I’ve sacrificed?” If the answer is yes, you know you’re not living a completely fulfilling life. One in which you look out for yourself, and honor your wants and needs as much as other people’s.
Making now the perfect time to ask yourself: how can I accept where the choices I’ve made have taken me–but make more balanced choices from here on out for a truly wonderful life?

Life : Five helpful ways to deal with resistance

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
 by Sonya Derian

Recently I was on a phone call with Brad Yates; and although I know this to be true, when he said it, it made me reflect again. He said (and I’m paraphrasing):
“To the extent that we are not living our lives exactly as we want–with the love and friendships we want, the abundance we want, and the happiness we are seeking–it’s to that extent we are resisting it.”
It’s that word again: resistance. What does it mean? What do we do about it?
Essentially, resistance is any thought, belief or behavior–either conscious or unconscious–that stands contrary to our desire. On the surface, we can be doing positive affirmations, creative visualizations and imagining our success. But in the end, we get what we expect. Every single time.
Sometimes it can be as simple as not believing that you can have what you want. That way of thinking places limitations on what is possible for you. You are restricting what could be, with what you think will be. And you end up getting what you expect.
Your consciousness is a powerful tool. If you don’t believe you can have the thing you desire, it shows up as resistance, despite all the things you are doing to achieve your goals.
Okay, so, what to do about it?
Live in the possibility rather than the probability.
The reason anything is not happening in your life, is because in one way or another you are not yet lined up with it (i.e. don’t think it’s possible, don’t think you’re worthy of it, don’t think you can have it, etc.).

Here are a five helpful ways to deal with resistance:
1. Be honest with yourself.
Be clear on how you participate in the reality you continue to experience. Ask yourself: What limiting thought, belief or pattern of behavior am I currently holding onto, that is standing in the way of my desire? What story do I keep telling myself or others that affirms the current position I’m in?
What part of the equation am I participating in that continues to get me the same results? Because the truth is, you are always living your unconscious expectation. Becoming aware of your “status quo” will give you the first clue on where your work lies.
Take 100% responsibility for being the powerful creator that you are.
2. Stay out of self-judgment.
Just like in the acorn lives the potential of the oak tree, that which you are seeking is already within you.
None of this is a game to the finish line. Instead, use the resistance to point you to areas that need “clearing”. Use it as an opportunity to become more authentically who you already are. Nothing is outside of yourself.
Everything comes to you along your own path, as you are ready. So, prepare yourself and be open to receive.
3. Do what you can do something about.
Let go of what you have no control over. Sometimes becoming aware of your repetitive patterns is all that is required. But other times, we need to take additional action.
In the Course of Miracles, they say there are only two emotions: Love and Fear. If you are in a place of resistance about something, look for the fear behind it and find a way to dissipate it.
Meditation is one way, but so is arming yourself with knowledge, telling yourself a different story (i.e. stop scaring yourself), making phone calls, getting into action, etc.
4. Focus on something else.
When you’re thinking about the thing you want, and why you want it so badly, resistance (belief, frustrations, thought, feeling or unconscious beliefs) is usually present at the same time.
When you distract yourself entirely, and think about something else that pleases you, you’re in much more of a relaxed place of allowing. And the universe can bring it to you with the least amount of resistance.
This is why people who fall in love finally drop the extra weight they’ve been carrying, or get the promotion they’ve been wanting. They are in a place where they’re open to receiving.
Remember, things are delivered to us on our path, most of the time, pretty effortlessly. But we have to get out of the way and feel worthy of receiving them. That is our work.
5. Look for stories that help you change your expectations.
And repeat them often. Make them your new mantra. Instead of it never happens for me it becomes if it can happen for them, it can happen for me.
Ask the universe to give you proof that what you want is possible and then take notice of what comes to you–in billboards, the books people hand you, the article you happen upon, the people you meet.
We often compare ourselves to where people are and don’t pay attention to who they were before they got there. There are plenty of rags to riches stories.
Joe Vitale was homeless before he became a multi-millionaire. Eckhart Tolle got all his epiphanies sitting on a park bench, as well–and then published them. Jack Canfield was a school teacher.
Look for the story that most resonates with where you are and let that be your new possibility. If it can happen for them, it can happen for you as well.
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It’s a known fact that in a marathon, it’s not until someone breaks the record, that everyone else, in short order, makes the same timing. Why? Because in that moment, their expectation of what was possible, changed.
So, in other words, rise yourself above your own limiting thoughts, notice what stories and beliefs you continue to tell. Become aware of the ways you might hold yourself back from your desires and then let them go.
This is the work involved in releasing resistance.
The rest of the work is to surrender to your now. Bask in the glory that is your moment. Savor the experiences that continue to add to your life. And seek joy! Abraham-Hicks states that the optimum place of creating is “Happy with what is. Eager for more”.
In other words, the key to letting go of resistance is letting go of the expectation that you’re supposed to be anywhere other than where you already are, right now.
Things will change soon enough and they will find you along your path, as you are ready. But until then, enjoy here, now.
And prepare yourself to receive.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Firefox 7 beta has launch, promises faster browsing

MemShrink project reduced memory consumption by as much as 50%

By Gregg Keizer 

August 19, 2011 

 

Mozilla yesterday released a beta of Firefox 7, putting the lighter-weight browser in front of a large number of users for the first time.

According to Mozilla, Firefox 7 uses significantly less memory than Firefox 4 through Firefox 6, cutting consumption by as much as 50%.
The savings come courtesy of a two-month-old project dubbed "MemShrink" designed to drive down Firefox's memory consumption and close "memory leaks," bugs that prevent memory from being released to the system when tabs are closed. Over time, those bugs can degrade the browser's performance, or in extreme cases, cause it to crash or lock up.
In a blog post 10 days ago, Nicholas Nethercote, the Mozilla engineer who manages MemShrink, said that Firefox 7 "uses less memory..., often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less" than earlier versions.

Nethercote also claimed that the memory changes make Firefox 7 faster than its predecessors.
The appearance of Firefox 7 in Mozilla's beta channel starts the clock ticking toward a Sept. 27 release of the browser. Mozilla now rolls out new versions every six weeks, adding features to each edition as they're completed rather than waiting for numerous changes to accumulate.
Other improvements in Firefox 7 highlighted by Mozilla include faster synchronization of passwords and bookmarks between copies of the browser, quicker rendering of HTML5 Canvas-based animation on Windows PCs, and a new optional add-on that provides Mozilla with performance data.
Firefox 8, next in the series, will sport some additional memory bug fixes, said Nethercote Tuesday, including one that decreases consumption on very large web pages.
Mozilla said Thursday that it will launch Firefox 8 to the "Aurora" channel some time today. That edition is slated to ship in final form on Nov. 8.
Five months ago, Mozilla shifted to a faster release cadence and a multiple-version program that offers Aurora, beta and release editions -- listed in increasing order of polish and stability -- for testing and evaluation.
The beta of Firefox 7 can be downloaded from Mozilla's website. Users who have been running earlier betas -- such as the one for Firefox 6, which shipped three days ago -- will be automatically offered version 7.

How Can I Start and Shut Down My Computer Automatically Every Morning?

Some of the person wants that their PC will start and shut down automatically . you think its very complicated but It's actually pretty easy to start up your computer each morning when you wake up, or each day when you come home from work. You can even set it to shut itself down at night, too. Here's how.


On Windows

To automatically start your computer up at a specific time of day, you'll actually need to edit your BIOS settings. To do this:

  • Boot up your computer and enter your BIOS setup. Usually this involves pressing the Delete key as your computer boots (your computer should say Press DEL to Enter Setup or something similar as you turn it on).
  • Navigate to the Power Options. If your BIOS supports it, there should be a function for automatically starting up your computer at a certain time of day. Mine was called "Resume by Alarm", but yours might be called something different.
  • Enable that setting and set the time you want your computer to start every day. Save and Exit the BIOS, and your computer should follow that schedule from now on.
You probably shut down your computer when you're done using it at the end of the day, but if not, you can set it to shut itself down on a schedule. This is easy to do with Windows Task Scheduler:

  1. Hit the Start menu and type in "task scheduler". Open up Task Scheduler from your results.
  2. In the right pane, hit Create Task. Give it a name, and under the General tab, check "Run with highest privileges". Also check "Run whether user is logged on or not", if you ever leave your computer logged out.
  3. Head to the Settings tab and check "Stop the task if it runs longer than" and set it to "1 hour". This won't stop your computer from sleeping, but will stop your computer from thinking a task is still running.
  4. Head to the Actions tab, hit New, and choose "Start a Program" as your action. Set the Program to shutdown and the arguments to -s.
  5. Lastly, head to the Triggers tab and click New. Change the schedule to fit whatever you want (say, Daily at 12:00AM), and hit OK. Hit OK again at the next window and your task should be saved in Task Scheduler.
That's it. Now your computer should shut down and wake up on your own schedule.


On a Mac

This process is much easier on a Mac than on Windows. To set it up on OS X:


  1. Open up System Preferences and click Energy Saver.
  2. In the bottom right corner, click the Schedule button.
  3. Check the box next to "Start up or wake" to schedule when your computer turns on and the checkbox beneath it to schedule when you computer goes to sleep, restarts, or shuts down. You can set the schedules for specific days, every day, just weekdays, or weekends only.
  4. Once you've made all your choices, click the OK button.
Note that if you're setting schedules on a Mac laptop, it will need to be connected to power for these schedules to function.

Most popular gadgets in 2011


2011 is a year for gadgets , Here i am presenting some of the best gadgets we've seen in 2011.

10.BlackBerry PlayBook


Research In Motion’s BackBerry Playbook is set to escort the company into the tablet market in or around the first quarter of 2011. The tablet supports Flash 10.1 and HTML 5, has a 7-inch screen, HDMI support, dual (front and back-facing) HD cameras, 1 GB of RAM and a 1 GHz dual-core processor.

9.Kindle 3


As great as the iPad is, it still doesn’t improve upon the book-reading experience of Kindle’s e-ink. This year’s model is improved in just about every way: faster, lighter, longer battery life, better contrast and bigger storage.

8.IPad


The iPad rumour mill is now completely full, and from what we’ve heard, the new specs sound great. Based on the rumours, the newest iteration of the iPad will sport both a front & back facing camera, a lighter & smaller body, USB ports, a newer display technology and a new 3-axis gyroscope.

7.Ultrasonic Touchless Input technology


Elliptic Labs is demo-ing their ultrasonic touchless input technology this year at CES and it looks super cool. It’s similar to the technology built-in to Microsoft Kinect that allows users to execute actions without physically touching the device or a controller.

6.Sonos S5 Zone Player and BR100 ZoneBridge


Sonos keeps raising the bar for home music-listening, and now you can control your listening, whether through iTunes, Pandora, Internet radio or Wolfgang’s Vault via an iPhone/iPad app.

5.MintPass tablet

This upcoming MintPass tablet supports dual-boot tablet and will be able to run both Microsoft Windows and Google Android operating systems. The tablet has dual touch-screens that employ the new SpaceTouch technology and can be used both in combination and separately. The picture above shows the Korean company’s previous tablet, the MintPad.

4.Logitech Harmony One universal remote

One remote to rule them all. Sleek design, both in terms of cosmetics and ergonomics; sharp LCD that offers a touch-screen interface and touch-sensitive buttons for navigation of onscreen menus; web programmable via Windows or Mac PCs; excellent button layout and design; rechargeable lithium-ion battery and docking station.

3. Apple iPhone 5

The new anticipated installment in Apple’s iconic smartphone series is rumored to have a form factor that is completely new to the said series. It is speculated that the iPhone 5 might employ NFC (Near Field Communication) short-range wireless technology to function as an electronic wallet of sorts, complete with debit/credit and identification/passkey applications.

2. PlayStation Phone by Sony

Sony, the leader of innovative technologies is ready to launch playstation phone code named “Zeus” in early 2011. Zeus would have Andriod 3.0 Gingerbread operating system. It also contains 8GB of memory with 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor. This superb phone also contains 1GB ROM and 512 MB RAM. 3.8? touch screen and its touch pad is just like gaming console of PSP.

1.ElectroHub

ElectroHub is a new charging station that will offer compatibility for a huge amount of devices including the TV remote, toys and smartphones. Similar to the Powermat chargers, ElectroHub requires additional add-on cases to make your smartphones compatible although it will charge tons of other gadgets with its use of AA and AAA batteries. It will charge up to six devices at one time (including smartphones) and works by replacing a gadget’s original AA & AAA batteries

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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NOKIA N9 STEEPER IPHONE BUTTON ON THE WHOLE







Nokia has officially unveiled a smartphone Nokia N9 (N9-00 labeling specified in the European site of Nokia), which is running an operating system MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan. The model is a dramatic piece with a thin 3.9-inch AMOLED touchscreen display. Novelty is that it generally has no keyboard, no hardware buttons below the screen - almost all management is carried out with a touchscreen, though, there is a switch and volume control button on the end of the chamber. Nokia has said that its new smartphone is the primary button (home) is replaced by a gesture swipe, she said this is the first in the world like a smartphone. That is, any application can go to the desktop, simply by swiping your finger across the display - "prolistnuv" application as a page of the book. Apparently, the experience of iPhone Finnish boys carried the main thing - fewer buttons, the steeper. According to preliminary hearings, whichroamthe network since last summer, Nokia N9 model was described as a slider with a sliding QWERTY. Who knows, maybe N9-00 still appears less cool "brother" a series of N9 with a hardware keyboard for business travelers. Other features of the device is worth mentioning 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss 720p video recording and support for NFC, Nokia N9 memory is 16 or 64 GB. Smartphone enclosed in a housing made of polycarbonate with rounded ends. Will be offered in black, blue and purple colors. By the way, like the iPhone 4 in the Nokia N9 used micro SIM. Release of new items will be held later this year, although it did not specify exactly when, while the cost is also not reported. 
Features Nokia N9: 

Cellular communication WCDMA / HSDPA / HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 1700, 2100 MHz), GSM / EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) 
3.9-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, Corning Gorilla glass 
Operating system MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan
Processor ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 (1 GHz, PowerVR SGX530)
Memory - 1024 MB RAM, 16/64 GB flash
8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss autofocus, dual LED flash and video recording 720p 
Communications - Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, NFC, USB
GPS receiver (A-GPS)
3.5 mm audio jack
Accelerometer, sensors and light approach, an electronic compass 
Opening hours of talk time, up to 11 hours (GSM), up to 7 hours (WCDMA)
Opening hours in standby mode - up to 380 hours (GSM), up to 450 hours (WCDMA) 
Dimensions - 116,45 x61, 2x7 ,6-12, 1 mm
Weight - 135 grams