Devote time to one major walking (or running or some other type of cardio) session at least a few times a week. Start with whatever amount of time you can physically maintain, increasing the duration each week by about five minutes. Do intervals for most of your walk. That means doing bursts of faster walking (or running, depending on your…

Online communications: «Meet me online so we can talk privately for all to read.» The use of electronic internet devices such as computers, laptops, cell-phones and smart phones, has led to an explosion of readily available information. The web has become a literal smorgasbord of data – facts galore, sports stats heaven, and the latest teenage nonsense can all be…

. . . «Come now, be a good young lad. You wouldn’t want us to have to hurt you now would you?» one of them taunted. Laurel felt the urge to break into hysterical laughter, but squelched it. They’d not take her alive. What a time and way to put her rusty fencing skills to the test. She put her…

Celebration: American Utopia or Stepford? «The building of cities is one of man’s greatest achievements. The form of his city always has been and always will be a pitiless indicator of the state of his civilization.» Edmund Bacon, 1967 The art of city building, after being lost and rejected for over half a century in favor of decentralized commercial strip…

Indian mobile industry was started almost 10 years before, because of Govt. regulation it couldn’t grow like China. As per current estimation India’s mobile services market is expected to grow at 28.3% CAGR through 2009. But the market is also very much competitive, all the players are keen to increase the market share, so the prices are getting slashed. The…

The worship of Osun – the river goddess of Osogbo like every other act of idolatry and occultism is forbidden by the Almighty God and He made this very clear in various portions of the scriptures. He said that He will punish anybody that indulges in such and the worse is that the punishment will also go generational. It will…

At the root of any successful leader is a strong ability to communicate. Sure, there have been leaders who have ascended into the highest positions and not had that skill, but they likely didn’t last long. This point was illustrated recently as I listened to a NPR program about the failure of the big banks on Wall Street. When Congress…

I. The Genetic Blueprint A decade after the invention of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is promoting the «Semantic Web». The Internet hitherto is a repository of digital content. It has a rudimentary inventory system and very crude data location services. As a sad result, most of the content is invisible and inaccessible. Moreover, the Internet manipulates strings of…

A Highly Conscious Approach To Business Management. For many years I have worked with people who are keen to work effectively as possible. The most successful people I have encountered in this time are moved by an expansive vision. They are fascinated by life and driven to experience it fully. They respond well to change although they do not necessarily…

«Dear woman,» Grandmother Growth’s voice seems to float in the deepening twilight, echoing, reverberating, ringing in your ears. «Bring me your soreness. Bring me your pain. Bring your aches to me. Bring your burdens. Bring all you can no longer stand, can no longer bear, can no longer carry, can no longer shoulder, can no longer be responsible for. Give…