MySpace vs. Multiply

According to The New York Times Monday 1st Oct article, the number of internet users older than 55 is roughly the same as those who are aged between 18 to 34. While the youngsters look for pleasures in MySpace, the rather older versions looked for something useful for practical life. Reason is plain. The group is matured and experienced in life, so to spend time on something should have something in return. What MySpace returns? Mostly the members get invitation for party’s or to be a friend of some girls who would like to direct your link to their adult-looking sites. No talk about any serious issues of daily life although there are many groups and users can create if they wish. But this is what is called flavor. Once established it remains as sole trademark. MySpace can’t change better than what it is today.

Multiply can do that job. Decent looking Multiply offers the right platform for it. Many past users of MySpace find it useful in real-world perspectives. The short attention span of users in MySpace or even in Facebook made those sites just as peeping through windows but not filling the demands of sound internet users. People like to talk about their problems and get solutions. Offering some good and healthy topics to discuss and feel good. Multiply offers it. If you want to put down your roots it’s the right place.

Recovering Ozone Layer

After the first discovery of "Ozone Layer" over the Antarctic and more recently over Arctic, groups meeting in Montreal this week are pushing forward for a phase-out of HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons) 10 years earlier than scheduled. This will reduce cumulatively 18 to 25 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. HCFCs are now currently used in refrigerators and air-conditions instead of CFCs(chlorofluorocarbons). The aim is to recover Ozone layer to healthy pre-1980 levels.

What CFCs and HCFCs do? Chlorine (Cl) liberated from these greenhouse gases goes through a chain reaction that breaks down the ozone molecules thus creating a hole in the stratosphere where the ozone layer is located from about 15 to 35 km above Earth's surface. Ultraviolet rays from Sun can easily enter the Earth's atmosphere and can cause skin cancers and other health problem and can damage the eco-system as well.

Honey and Cinnamon

It's reported in many articles about the healing property of honey and cinnamon together. Diseases like arthritis, heart problem, weak immune system, bladder infection and even for infertility, proper use of both brought some excellent results. Although it is always advisable to consult the physician first, but it's interesting to learn about it. Here's a link where you can find more info about it:

http://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/honey_and_cinnamon/

Pollution of Beaches

According to U.S Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) a number of beaches are not safe for swimming because of pollution mainly from sewage and storm water systems. Elevated bacteria levels from sources like boat discharge (in fact, human discharge) or wildlife are threatening public health as well. As a result dysentry, hepatitis (which can be very fatal to many), respiratory problems are being reported from the beachgoers. At the same time careless urban sprawl in coastal areas is devouring wetlands and natural buffers like beach grass which normally works as filter for dangerous pollution. Now you need to ask before swimming, "Is the beachwater safe for swimming". In fact, it`s not only a case in US, countries like Brazil and India where reckless attitude of tourists create more pollution than normal, environment industries now need to have a close look before it is alarmingly high!!

Signs of Climatic Change

Something is Changing......Flood killed more than 7000 people world-wide last year. In recent weeks heavy rainfall in China killed over 400 and more than 700 have been killed in South Asia by flooding. This year's flood in Britain is an event that can stastisticalls occur in every 30 to 50 years. But the flood in 2000 is already an event of 25 to 30 years. Two big flood just within a seven years span. That's quite abnormal sign of nature. Climatic change is no more a fairy tale. It's a dynamic and responsive phenomena means will get worse if nothing done and will go better is proper actions are taken. Normally warmaer air holds more water and will unleash huge energy if weather turns bad. Consequence is heavy storms or rainfall.

The Bastille Day

The Bastille Day..............Today is 14th of July, the historic Bastille Day, when French peasants stormed the medieval fortress in 1789 and marked the beginning of French Revolution. The Bastion was built during the Hundred Years War under the rule of king Charles V of France. It was supposed to defend the eastern gate of the City of Paris against English attacks. The Bastille was not very large: just 66 meters long, 34 meters wide and 24 meters tall. The fortress earned a notorious reputation as it held political dissidents and became a symbol of opression. Since 1880 Bastille Day is French National Holiday.

Byproducts of Urban Life.

Urban life produces severe byproducts harmful to its ecosystem. Sewage is one such example. It is a type of wastewater that includes human faeces, household wastes that drains out as end-product. Developed countries pay highest attention to this issue as not only public health but the surrounding ecosystem, specially fisheries in the nearby rivers and lakes can get close to extinction, while developing countires overlook the issue simply on public hand. Sewage channels or drains are not enough, the wastewater needs to be treated before discharging to the nature, so that nature can do rest of the cleaning. Wastewater treatment is always to aid nature by not letting it overwhelmingly disrupting its cleaning capacity. Let us be more conscious about our wastes and help the environment becoming more healthy.

Green Tech for Green Planet

Plants, since the first Man walked on earth, became his friend,..... silent, beneficial and sacrificing for the highest creation in the universe. What a gift from God!! They will never speak, may be you will hear the whisper among the leaves if you care so. Being green, they put a beautiful pleasing color for our eyes. But this is not all. Scientists are now using plants to detoxify contaminated land. As industrialization is rapidly moving fast on the globe, more and more new areas are getting polluted which first and foremost threatens the ecosystem. Now plants can be used to extract these toxic contaminants from soil or wastewater. Althoug a long ways still to go, but some plants already showed promising results. Sunflower, as an example used in Chernobyl, to extract radioactive Uranium. At the end of extraction plants die but again silently. Where on earth there is a friend like this standing just next to you. What a Grace!!

San Francisco Solar Map !!

The San Francisco Solar Map, first of its type, will show you the solar activity around the city of SF. Currently 585 houses are producing energy from solar technology of about 3548 MWh. By 2010 the goal is for an annual savings of $7M. It's not much but the environmental impact is huge. A green technology for our green planet. By clicking on each yellow or brown point you can view a stats of each installation. Have a look here....

Have fun while drawing comic :-). After few sessions, you will surely draw your own one.

Summer Wine !!

Summer Wine........!! Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in Spring.......My Summer wine is really made from all these things.............. 'summer wine'

Campain to tackle bacpain

EU is doing it now for several reasons. For the laborers part it causes personal sufferings and loss of incone while for the business it reduces efficiency and governments pay extra social security costs. Things that will be followed are, workers don't have to carry excessively heavy loads, work long hours in unhelathy positions or cold environments. In general it's a good step forward to help the laborers keep helathy life time (not only just limited for industrial purposes). But will ILO (International Labor Organisation) be active at the same time to implement these strategies for third-world countries?

Sky - the limit ??

Sky i s t h e limit........Really ?? Do you know what Wikipedia wrote while defining sky, ''The sky is the part of the atmosphere or of outer space visible from the surface of any astronomical object. It is difficult to define precisely for several reasons. During daylight the sky has the appearance of a deep blue surface, but this is the result of the air scattering sunlight. There is no "blue object" above the earth in any normal sense, so it is hard to say what object the sky is.'' Now tell me, when you put your limit to the sky, do you use your normal sense ? Funny.......Yaa ? ? ?

Coffee

Is it true that if you drink more and more coffee you get addicted. I am facing it now. Although I take av. 3 cups a day but I feel like to take more, specially when I think in beta level. May be because of caffeine. But recent news in yahoo says it´s good for gout. So I am happy afterwards.