Day: August 15, 2021

Our Life In A Day by Jamie Fewery

Synopsis

The rules are simple: choose the most significant moments from your relationship – one for each hour in the day.

You’d probably pick when you first met, right?
And the instant you knew for sure it was love?
Maybe even the time you watched the sunrise after your first night together?

But what about the car journey on the holiday where everything started to go wrong? Or your first proper fight?

Or that time you lied about where you’d been?

It’s a once in a lifetime chance to learn the truth.

But if you had to be completely honest with the one you love, would you still play?

For Esme and Tom, the game is about to begin. But once they start, there’s no going back . . .

Review

Our Life in a Day is the debut novel from Jamie Fewery, and the story of Tom and Esme. The night before they are due to go away for their anniversary Esme challenges Tom to pick important moments from their relationship that relate to each hour of the day. The book takes us on the journey of their relationship, the good and the bad, as we are voyeurs to their most private moments. This is such a beautiful book, in regard to the writing and the plot line, and was such a pleasure to read.

What I really enjoy about this book was the honesty the author employed in terms of the relationship; it wasn’t all hearts and flowers and wonderful memories, there were some incredibly sad and tense moments.  In life it is the rough and the smooth that makes real relationships and Tom’s most significant moments certainly encompassed that.  Yes, there are the romantic parts, the night they met, their first Christmas together, but there were also the arguments in the car on the way to their first anniversary away, the disastrous camping trip etc.  One important thread that ran through these memories for Tom was his inability, or avoidance, of telling Esme about his past with depression.  This secret, that comes up at several points, is always lurking in the background and as we all know huge secrets like that have a habit at coming out when least expected.

As characters, I loved Esme and Tom, they came from very different backgrounds, and represented the hope and fear we all have in starting new relationships. Esme is an independent character, with a great career, but in terms of relationships she doesn’t want marriage.  Tom is a musician, we learn he went to university but left early, and has fantastic friends who are there to look out for him after an unknown event  (revealed later in the book).  Tom’s battle with depression is very topical with a lot of attention being on mental health issues especially in young men.  Tom is obviously ashamed by his depression as he doesn’t want to discuss it or let Esme find out. Jamie Fewery’s writing on this subject is very compassionate, and he deals with the subject with great sensitivity and understanding.

One Day in a Life is an honest and heartfelt look at the dynamics in relationships.  It certainly isn’t a slushy sentimental read; it has some difficult moments but there are also some humorous memories.  The writing of the characters and story drew me straight in with the feeling of intimacy in relation to the characters and the easy flow of the plot line; it is hard to comprehend that this is Jamie Fewery’s debut novel.   This is an emotional rollercoaster of a read that you won’t want to get off, a fabulous read!

I would like to thank Orion Books and Tracy Fenton for providing me with a copy of the book to read and review as part of the blog tour.

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The Da Vinci Code – book review

About the book

Author : Dan Brown
Publication date : April 2003
Pages : 689 (U.S. hardback)
489 (U.S. paperback)


The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince’s The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material.

Characters

Robert Langdon: A professor of symbology at Harvard University and the protagonist of the novel.

Jacques Saunière: The grandmaster of priory of Sion, Curator of Louvre Museum and primary antogonist of the novel.

Sophie Neveu: A Cryptologist of French police and granddaughter of Saunière.

Bezu Fache: A member of Opus dei and a French police.

Silas The monk: A member of Opus dei who murders Saunière.

Manuel Aringarosa: A bishop of Vatican and member of Opus dei.

Sister Sandrine: A Seneschal of priory of Sion and sister of St. Sulpice.

André Vernet: A guard of Zurich bank.

Sir Leigh Teabing The Teacher: A Grail scholar, living in Paris and secondary antogonist of the novel.

Rémy Legaludec: A maid who assist Teabing.

Jérôme Collet: A French police.

Marie Chauvel Saint-Clair: Sophie’s grandmother and Saunière’s wife.

Summary


In the Louvre, a monk of Opus Dei named Silas apprehends Jacques Saunière, the museum’s curator, and demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Saunière tells him, Silas shoots him and leaves him to die. However, Saunière has lied to Silas about the Grail’s location. Realizing that he has only a few minutes to live and that he must pass on his important secret, Saunière paints a pentacle on his stomach with his own blood, draws a circle with his blood, and drags himself into the center of the circle, re-creating the position of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. He also leaves a code, a line of numbers, and two lines of text on the ground in invisible ink.

A police detective, Jerome Collet, calls Robert Langdon, the story’s protagonist and a professor of symbology, and asks him to come to the Louvre to try to interpret the scene. Langdon does not yet realize that he himself is suspected of the murder.

After murdering Saunière, Silas calls the “Teacher” and tells him that, according to Saunière, the keystone is in the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. The Teacher sends Silas there. Silas follows Saunière’s clues to the keystone’s location and discovers that he has been tricked. In a fit of rage, he kills Sister Sandrine Bieil, the church’s keeper and a sentry for the Priory of Sion. At the Louvre, Langdon meets Jerome Collet and Bezu Fache, the police captain, and realizes that the two policemen suspect him of the murder.

Sophie Neveu, an agent of the department of cryptology and Saunière’s granddaughter, arrives at the crime scene and tells Langdon that he must call the embassy. When Langdon calls the number Sophie gave him, he reaches her answering service. The message warns Langdon that he is in danger and should meet Sophie in the bathroom at the Louvre.


In the bathroom, Sophie shows Langdon that Fache is noting his movements with a tracking device. She throws the device out the window onto a passing truck, tricking the police into thinking that Langdon has escaped from the Louvre.

Sophie also tells Langdon that the last line in the secret message, “P.S. Find Robert Langdon,” was her grandfather’s way of alerting her: P.S. are the initials of her grandfather’s nickname for her, Princesse Sophie. Langdon thinks that P.S. might stand for Priory of Sion, an ancient brotherhood devoted to the preservation of the pagan goddess worship tradition, and to the maintenance of the secret that Saunière died protecting.

Langdon decodes the second and third lines in Saunière’s message: “Leonardo Da Vinci! The Mona Lisa!” Sophie returns to the paintings to look for another clue. The police have returned to the Louvre as well, and they arrest Langdon. Sophie finds a key behind the Madonna of the Rocks. By using the painting as a hostage, she manages to disarm the police officer and get herself and Langdon out of the building.

As Sophie and Langdon drive toward the Swiss bank identified on the back of the key, Langdon explains the history of the Priory of Sion and their armed force, the Knights Templar. He reveals that the Priory protects secret documents known as the Sangreal, or the Holy Grail. Langdon’s latest manuscript is about this very subject.

When Sophie and Langdon enter the bank, an unnamed security guard realizes that they are fugitives and calls the police, but André Vernet, the bank’s manager and a friend of Saunière’s, recognizes Sophie and helps her and Langdon escape. Sophie and Langdon figure out that the number left near Saunière’s body must be the account number that will open the vault. When they open the vault they find a cryptex, a message delivery device designed by Da Vinci and crafted by Saunière. The cryptex can only be opened with a password.

Vernet successfully smuggles Sophie and Langdon past Collet in the back of a locked armored car. Vernet turns on them, but they manage to get away with the cryptex, which Langdon realizes is actually the Priory keystone—that is, the key to all of the secrets the Priory holds about the location of the Holy Grail.

Langdon and Sophie go to the house of Sir Leigh Teabing, a historian, to ask for his help opening the box. Teabing tells them the legend of the Grail, starting with the historical evidence that the Bible didn’t come straight from God but was compiled by Emperor Constantine. He also cites evidence that Jesus’ divinity was decided by a vote at Nicaea, and that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, who was of royal blood, and had children by her. Teabing shows them the hidden symbols in The Last Supper and the painted representation of the Magdalene. He tells them that the Holy Grail is actually Mary Magdalene’s body and the documents that prove Mary’s blood line is related to Jesus. He says he thinks Saunière and the others may have been killed because the Church suspected that the Priory was about to unveil this secret.

As Langdon is showing off the cryptex, Silas appears and hits him over the head. Silas holds Sophie and Teabing at gunpoint and demands the keystone, but Teabing attacks Silas, hitting him on the thigh where his punishment belt is located, and Sophie finishes him off by kicking him in the face. They tie Silas up.

Collet arrives at the castle, but Sophie, Langdon, the bound Silas, Teabing, and his servant, Rémy, escape and board Teabing’s private plane to England. Sophie realizes that the writing on the cryptex is decipherable if viewed in a mirror. They come to understand the poem, which refers to “a headstone praised by Templars” and the “Atbash cipher,” which will help them arrive at the password. Langdon remembers that the Knights Templar supposedly worshipped the god Baphomet, who is sometimes represented by a large stone head. The word, unscrambled by the Atbash Cipher, is Sofia. When they open the cryptex, however, they find only another cryptex, this one with a clue about a tomb where a knight was buried by a pope. They must find the orb that should have been on the knight’s tomb.

Fache realizes that Teabing and the rest of them are in the jet. He calls the British police and asks them to surround the airfield, but Teabing tricks the police into believing that there is nobody inside the plane but himself. Then he goes with Sophie, Langdon, Rémy, and Silas to the Temple Church in London, the burial site of knights that the Pope had killed.

Rémy frees Silas and reveals that he, too, follows the Teacher. Silas goes to the church to get the keystone, but when he tries to force Langdon to give it up, Langdon threatens to break it. Rémy intervenes, taking Teabing hostage and thus forcing Langdon to give up the cryptex.

Meanwhile, Collet and his men look through Teabing’s house and become suspicious when they find that he has been monitoring Saunière. Over the phone, the Teacher instructs Silas to let Rémy deliver the cryptex. The Teacher meets Rémy in the park and kills him. The Teacher calls the police and turns Silas in to the authorities. As Silas tries to escape, he is shot, and he accidentally shoots his idol, Bishop Aringarosa.

Silas takes Bishop Aringarosa to the hospital and staggers into a park, where he dies. In the hospital the next day, Aringarosa bitterly reflects that Teabing tricked him into helping with his murderous plan by claiming that if the Bishop delivered the Grail to him, he would help the Opus Dei regain favor with the Church.

Sophie’s and Langdon’s research leads them to the discovery that Sir Isaac Newton is the knight they are looking for, the one buried by a Pope, because they learn he was buried by Alexander Pope. They go to Westminster Abbey, where Newton is buried. There, the Teacher lures them to the garden with a note saying he has Teabing. They go there only to discover that Teabing himself is the Teacher. Teabing suspected that Saunière had decided not to release the secret of the Priory of Sion, because the Church threatened to kill Sophie if the secret was released. Wanting the secret to be public knowledge, he had decided to find the Grail himself.

Teabing gives Langdon the cryptex and asks Langdon and Sophie to help him open it. Langdon figures out that the password is apple—the orb missing from Newton’s tomb. He opens the cryptex and secretly takes out the papyrus. Then he throws the empty cryptex in the air, causing Teabing to drop his pistol as he attempts to catch it and prevent the map inside from being destroyed. Suddenly, Fache bursts into the room and arrests Teabing.

The papyrus inside the second cryptex directs Sophie and Langdon to Scotland, where Sophie finds her brother and her grandmother. During the reunion, she discovers that her family is, indeed, of the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Sophie and Langdon part, promising to meet in Florence in a month. Back in Paris, Langdon comprehends the poem, which leads him to the small pyramid built into the ground in the Louvre, where he is sure the Grail must be hidden

Review

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was a wonderful book. At several points in the book I found myself wondering what the next twist would be. The Da Vinci Code is about a symbologist named Robert Langdon.

I enjoyed how the author tied symbology into his novel. I learned things that I was not expecting to in a way that did not feel like I was in a class. I also feel that the action-packed novel kept me engaged with the characters. I often found myself sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the next piece of the puzzle to be revealed. I highly recommend The Da Vinci Code to any who love mysteries or even to those looking for an adventure.

You can win

By- Shiv Khera

Hello readers.

Looking for the positivity does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.

– Shiv Khera

This book was recommended to me. I had high hopes on it that it will be as good as they said. And it turned true. It is one of the wonderful life-changing books. This book defines success. It gives us solutions to come from failure to success. Its easy language of description makes it easier to grasp the concepts

This book helps increase self confidence and achieve great goals in life. It gives a lot more inspiration for businesses related people. The book contains small basic stories, quotes in between and action plan at the end of every chapter to let you know about yourself.The perfect balance of professional & personal development can be maintained on reading & understanding this book.

Under Adverse conditions – some people break down,some break records

– Shiv Khera

A practical, common sense guide that will help you:
· Build confidence by mastering the seven steps to positive thinking
· Be successful by turning weaknesses into strengths
· Gain credibility by doing the right things for the right reasons
· Take charge by controlling things instead of letting them control you
· Build trust by developing mutual respect with people around you
· Accomplish more by removing the barriers to effectiveness

Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.

– Shiv Khera

This book is totally worth every minute you spend on reading it. It’s even worth every penny you spend on it. It keeps you motivated. Hunger for positivity increases. This book is truly recommended to those who wish to change themselves for a better version of themselves.

Like I say : Reading books is magic, it makes you live hundreds of lives in a single one. Or atleast that’s what I believe. Hopefully this book will have an impact and magic you are/ were waiting for. I’ll take a leave.

And Thanks. 😇

Taliban praise India

The Taliban has encouraged India to desist from having a military role in Afghanistan, notwithstanding India’s humanitarian and developmental efforts in the country, including the construction of the Salma Dam, roads, and other infrastructural projects. Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesperson stationed in Qatar, told ANI, “What do you mean by military role?” If they come militarily to Afghanistan and establish a presence. I believe that will not be beneficial to them, since they have witnessed the consequences of other countries’ military presence in Afghanistan. As a result, they have an open book in front of them. In terms of their assistance to the Afghan people or national programmes, I believe they have done a good job.

Photography

By Anshiki Jadia

Basically, photography’s goal is to convey and archive explicit minutes on schedule. At the point when you snap an image and offer it with others, you’re showing a second that was caught in a photo. From the air to what people are doing, this moment can uncover a great deal.

For instance, in case you’re a city-based editorial picture taker, the pictures you take will remain chronicled for quite a long time. Individuals a long time from now will actually want to perceive what life resembled by taking a gander at the pictures.

In case you’re a wedding picture taker, the couple you’re shooting is depending on you to catch a rare occasion. The objective is to catch glad, cheerful, and adoring minutes. They will love these photos for the remainder of their life. As you investigate your general surroundings, photography records recollections and urges you to be available.

Hardly any reasons why photography is so significant

  1. Photography is both a dream and a show-stopper. Catching photographs is essential for history and individuals’ lives, paying little mind to your ability level. Coming up next are a portion of the reasons why photography is so significant. Gathering significant minutes in your day to day existence requires the utilization of Photography. Photography is an awesome movement since it is both agreeable and open to individuals, all things considered. Nobody is forcing or testing you. In photography, all you need is a telephone and a camera. Gather minutes and trial in an unexpected way. The passage boundary is practically non-existent.

2. You can start at whatever stage in life, with any camera, and at any level. Taking photos is an exceptionally close to home insight. To start taking pictures and working on your abilities, you needn’t bother with a costly camera or an inventive foundation. I’ve seen some mind boggling photos taken with a mobile phone camera. There are numerous basic and charming things to find out about structure, light, openness, and altering that will quickly and effectively lift anybody’s photography.

3. Photos empower us to trade and convey data. Pictures are considerably more than simply an assortment of information. Photography takes advantage of our best and most liberal side: the motivation to share what we discover stunning and fascinating with others. You just need to look at the plenty of photograph sharing locales to see this propensity at work, as a large number of individuals offer their own, enthusiastic, and incidentally strange points of view on their general surroundings. To put it another way, our photos can permit aliens to impart our lives to us.

4. Self-articulation with blossoms on her head, a lady grins. Perhaps the most fundamental purposes behind the significance of photography is that it permits you to communicate your thoughts. It’s a fabulous imaginative source for communicating how you feel, conviction, think, and love. Best of all, you are allowed to do anything you desire. Photography knows no limits, regardless the “rules” and approaches are. You have total opportunity to communicate your thoughts.

5. We become craftsmen in light of photography. We can communicate our thoughts through photography as a fine art. We wish to photo dazzling landscape or an old man’s wrinkled face. Every one of us will have an interesting inspiration for snapping a picture, however we as a whole need to deliver something. Regardless of whether our all day lives are unremarkable, the formation of an image qualifies us as a craftsman.

Landslides : Natural calamity or Human error?

By Anshiki Jadia

Late episode of avalanches in the northern piece of India has welcomed a reestablished focus on the disadvantages of advancement. Life is so valuable, and seeing it vanish in almost no time on viral recordings via online media is upsetting, without a doubt. Simultaneously, it brings mindfulness, and the majority can start to have an open discourse.

The Indian Subcontinent is so various and lovely. It is separated into three sorts of landforms i.e mountain, level and fields. The northernmost space of India i.e the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal, and Uttarakhand, has bumpy sort of landform as they are at higher heights.

Prior in India land courses were not extremely evolved. Spots were not effectively available, not even in plain regions. Later the transportation framework in India created, offices improved and presently pretty much all aspects of the nation is available, even in the mountain regions.

In fields, it’s not difficult to build a street or to set up a rail line network yet in mountain areas it is quite difficult. As the innovation created, the development of streets became conceivable between the mountains. In addition, burrows were developed for running trains. So what is the strategy through which these streets and railroads are being developed? This is finished by breaking or slicing mountains through impacts with high sonic sounds. Over the most recent couple of many years the travel industry in India has been advanced effectively, as it gives great pay to the country and helps in the development of GDP.

India is where culture and religion has impacted individuals to such an extent. Individuals probably won’t go as an energy or for entertainment only yet they will head out to visit sanctuaries and other strict spots. Kashmir is the paradise of India, Kedarnath, Badrinath and Vaishnodevi are the most famous and notable strict spots of the travel industry. These sanctuaries are arranged in the himalayan locales. Going there sometime in the distant past was practically outlandish. Practically every one of the popular sanctuaries are arranged on the pinnacle of the mountains and once in a year individuals visit in swarms when the entryways open for love.

In bumpy regions, giving labor and products was troublesome in before times and henceforth the advancement of the transportation framework has made the existences of individuals living there simple. On one hand this load of improvements have given availability to individuals and have increased the expectation of living of individuals. On other hand it has hurt the normal and genuine magnificence of nature. Because of the travel industry the business and acquiring of individuals has expanded, however when you attempt to enhance, with the assistance of innovation for your own solace it influences the strength of the normal landforms.

This breakdown of mountains powerfully by man has brought about avalanches. At the point when the stones are cut ,the lopsidedness happens in the change of rocks and thus they stall naturally and slide down on the land making hurt life and property. Ordinarily these avalanches block the way.

Geologically, an avalanche is the development of the stones and flotsam and jetsam down a slant affected by gravity. Human elements are exceptionally liable for avalanches these days. Development exercises of people have expanded the delicacy of mountains, particularly of himalayan mountains. Of the relative multitude of world’s avalanches, 30% happen in the Himalaya, as indicated by a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The fundamental justification these kinds of avalanches are mining and badly arranged street development. For the age of power, dams are being based on the banks of waterways in the sloping regions and henceforth prompting the obliteration.

It is said that everyone has their constraints of resistance of torment as is with the nature. We people have badgering and abused the assets of nature. It’s nice to be useful and improvement is a significant part of human culture. In the climate where man resides he needs to create and develop, however this ought to be adjusted. On the off chance that once you have consumed your fingers, why put your hand again in a similar fire? In case it is realized that these developments are bringing about the death toll and property and hurting nature’s stability,it ought to be halted, yet people are so narrow minded and insatiable they will keep doing it. At the point when nature becomes forceful it’s extremely appalling for living souls.

Periods

By Anshiki Jadia

What’s the menstruation?

Your feminine cycle assists your body with getting ready pregnancy consistently. It additionally causes you to have a period in case you’re not pregnant. Your monthly cycle and period are constrained by chemicals like estrogen and progesterone. Here’s the means by which everything goes down. You have 2 ovaries, and every one holds a lot of eggs. The eggs are really minuscule — too little to even consider seeing with the unaided eye.

During your monthly cycle, chemicals make the eggs in your ovaries develop — when an egg is adult, that implies it’s fit to be treated by a sperm cell. These chemicals likewise make the coating of your uterus thick and elastic. So if your egg gets prepared, it has a decent comfortable spot to land and begin a pregnancy. This covering is made of tissue and blood, as nearly all the other things inside our bodies. It has bunches of supplements to assist a pregnancy with developing. Part of the way through your feminine cycle, your chemicals advise one of your ovaries to deliver a develop egg — this is called ovulation. The vast majority don’t feel it when they ovulate, yet some ovulation manifestations are bulging, spotting, or a little aggravation in your lower tummy that you may just feel on one side. When the egg leaves your ovary, it goes through one of your fallopian tubes toward your uterus.

In the event that pregnancy doesn’t occur, your body needn’t bother with the thick covering in your uterus. Your coating separates, and the blood, supplements, and tissue stream out of your body through your vagina. Presto, it’s your period! In the event that you do get pregnant, your body needs the coating — that is the reason your period quits during pregnancy. Your period returns when you’re not pregnant any longer.

When in life do periods begin and stop? Eventually during pubescence, blood emerges from your vagina, and that is your first period. The vast majority get their first period between ages 12 and 14, however a few group get them prior or later than that. It’s basically impossible to know precisely when you’ll get it, however you might feel a few PMS indications (connection to PMS segment) a couple of days before it occurs. On the off chance that you don’t get your period when you’re 16, it’s a smart thought to visit a specialist or attendant. Peruse more about getting your first period.

The vast majority quit getting their period when they’re somewhere in the range of 45 and 55 years of age — this is called menopause. Menopause can require a couple of years, and periods for the most part change progressively during this time. After menopause is absolutely finished, you can’t get pregnant any longer. Peruse more about menopause. Your period might begin and stop around the time it accomplished for others you’re identified with, similar to your mother or sisters.

Do transsexual folks get a period? Not every person who gets a period distinguishes as a young lady or lady. Transsexual men and genderqueer individuals who have uteruses, vaginas, fallopian cylinders, and ovaries additionally get their periods. Having a period can be a distressing encounter for some trans people since it’s an update that their bodies don’t coordinate with their actual sex character — this uneasiness and nervousness is once in a while called sex dysphoria. Other trans individuals probably won’t be excessively troubled by their periods. Either response is typical and alright.

Now and then trans individuals who haven’t arrived at pubescence yet take chemicals (called adolescence blockers) to forestall the entirety of the gendered body changes that occur during pubescence, including periods. What’s more, individuals who as of now get periods can utilize specific kinds of conception prevention (like the embed or hormonal IUD) that help ease up or stop their periods. Chemical substitution treatment, such as taking testosterone, may likewise stop your period.

In the event that you begin taking testosterone, your period will disappear. In any case, this is reversible — on the off chance that you quit taking testosterone, your period will return. There can be a few changes in your feminine cycle before it stops for great. Periods get lighter and more limited over the long run, or come when you don’t anticipate it. You might have spotting or squeezing now and again until you quit getting your period, and once in a while even get-togethers appears to have halted — this is typical. Testosterone infusions make your periods disappear quicker than testosterone cream.

In the event that you experience sexual orientation dysphoria when you get your period, realize that you’re in good company. It very well might be useful to look at our assets and track down a trans-accommodating specialist in your space that you can converse with.

Top 5 deadliest sharks on the planet

Sharks their name is enough to scare any one. Yes that’s for sure. They have some fearsome reputation for attacking humans but more humans are killed by lightning strike than by shark attacks in the world.

They are most ancient animal with low reproductive rates. Their skeleton is made up of cartilage, they are not able to see but their smelling power is more than enough to survive in the great oceans. They are deadly animals and even voilent to. Here, are some of the deadliest shark species for humans.

1) The Great White Shark

The Great White Shark ( Carcharodon carcharias) also known as white shark or great white are one of the deadliest animal. They are huge oceanic creature with 4.5m to 6.4m adult female and 3.4m to 4.1m adult male witha a weight of 520 to 1,100 kg adult. Their relationship with human is not so good. There is estimated to be unprovoked shark bite incident in 2012 to be 272 which is the largest as compared to different other species. Gradually the rates are lower in 2020 as compared to 2019, there is a drastic fall of 19.5% as in 2020.

2) The Tiger Shark

The tiger shark ( Galeocerdo cuvier). It has a length of 5m (16 ft 5 inch). Due to its dark stripes down it’s body which resembles the tiger pattern is called as tiger shark but these stripes fade away as the shark matures. They are found in temperate and tropical waters, and are mainly seen in central Pacific ocean. It comes second after the great white for fatal attacks on humans.

3) The Bull shark

The Bull shark ( Carcharhinus leucas) is also known as Zambezi shark. They are found worldwide along warm, shallow and coast of rivers. They are very well known for its aggressive nature and are found in both salt and fresh water. Make Bull shark grow upto 7 feet and females grow upto 11 feet. Their weight goes upto 91 to 227 kg. Human attacks are mainly found in freshwater and moreover less attacks are found and not every attack is fatal.

4) The Oceanic Whitetip shark

The oceanic whitetip shark ( Carcharhinus longimanus) also known as brown shark, lesser white shark. Its length ranges from 3.4m to 5m or 11ft to 13ft and its weight goes upto 167kg. It is aggressive towards humans. They are known to have attacked many survivor of ships.

5) The shortfin mako shark

The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinxhus) also known as blue pointer or bonito shark. Its size can reach upto 4m (13ft in length). This shark species is classified as endangered species by IUCN. This species is sexually dimorphic with female exceeding a length of 12ft and weight of 570kg. It only shows 9 attacks out of which only one was fatal on human between 1580 to 2017. But after 2017 they are regularly blamed for attack on humans, which are mainly due to harrasment for catching or killing of the fish.

There are many more deadliest species of sharks which cause damage to humans.

Travel Essentials

By Anshiki Jadia

There is no question that everybody loves to investigate new spots or to do voyaging while they travel for significant stretch of time or brief timeframe, there is something normal that is needed in both time span voyaging and that is travel fundamentals. In occasions, for the most part individuals go out to new spots to investigate them and to invest energy with their family at those new spots and gain experiences forever.

However you definitely know what things to be pack for an outing yet at the same time there are times when you fail to remember fundamental things that is an unquestionable requirement to be gone on an outing, so its better to keep away from last min confusion simply a make a rundown of what you need to go on an outing and so forth. That will make your work substantially more simpler and afterward you won’t confront any bedlam or issue in your time. Yet, there are times when you make a rundown yet fails to remember a few things, so to stay away from the present circumstance too process your sacks prior to leaving so that it’ll be useful for you as though you fail to remember something to pack you can add that thing and go for the excursion.

While taking into account what to pack for an outing, things can get overpowering rapidly, and we get that. Here is your movement fundamental registration.

So lets view the a portion of the movement fundamentals for men –

  1. Duffle pack for voyaging – The duffle sack is exceptionally helpful in voyaging trips and is profoundly strong. It can likewise protect your things from the cruel medicines at the excursion as you keep your pack anyplace and at the air terminal too as the sack has great plastic padding at the base.. There are numerous fit zipper pockets too for keeping little stuffs like keeping electronic things, individual things and the sky is the limit from there. It additionally has removable shoulder ties and hold handles simultaneously.
  1. Travel pack – Its better to keep a movement unit to stay away from the pressure of unforeseen travel confusions. Cleanliness is vital while making a trip as you will encounter distinctive natural conditions so keeping your cleanser and body was is an unquestionable requirement. Travel pack might incorporate toothbrush, toothpaste and dental necessities, antiperspirant it’ll make you smell wonderful, keep your razor, shaving cream and post-shaving astringent salve to keep up with yourself and take a gander at it, Moisturizer, lip demulcent is in every case great to convey on account of natural condition, bandage, medication as it is should to keep, hand sanitizers, goggles, and the stuff you might want to keep in your movement unit.
  2. Garments as indicated by your disposition, your vacation location, your character. You can blend n match your garments as indicated by your taste and have a go at something else and perhaps you’ll feel great in the wake of having a go at something else and new in your dress sense.
  3. Shoes – While voyaging shoes are an unquestionable requirement thing. While voyaging men as a rule attempt various kinds of shoes as indicated by their need like lightweight or fit to event. A couple of good games shoes can go with each outfit you wear while voyaging like agreeable garments and that’s just the beginning. You convey your typical shoes when going for conferences or gathering that coordinates with your clothing. You can convey loafers as they are all inclusive they look best with all looks.
  4. Different extras – You can add other stuff to your satchel which you like and figure that it will be useful for you for the excursion like reversible belt, cap or cap, earphones, another sim card as while voyaging if your typical sim doesn’t work you will have another sim for your calls.

Presently we’ll view some of movement fundamental for ladies –

  1. Portable bag – One of the main things while voyaging is bag. It doesn’t make any difference whether you are doing a wilderness journey or doing traveling in valleys a rucksack is particularly deprived for everybody. For a young lady it is particularly deprived as they need to convey such a huge amount with them and their own stuff as well, so a decent and solid sack is enthusiastically suggested.
  1. Multi-pocket cosmetics sack – It is extremely apparent that how cosmetics affects ladies. Regardless of whether its an excursion or an occasion ladies loves to do cosmetics and look delightful. Doing cosmetics is ladies individual decision and who would not like to glance excellent in photographs while voyaging. There are so many cosmetics forces to be reckoned with who motivates to train how to do cosmetics while voyaging that suits you and doesn’t look weighty. So its better to convey multi cosmetics pocket which keeps your cosmetics material sort out with the goal that you can discover every one of your things at ideal time and saves your time.
  2. Bunches of garments – While voyaging you need loads of garments exceptionally ladies. They need distinctive garments as per various events or spots. Like visiting a sea shore you need distinctive garments, while shopping you need diverse garments, while going out on the outing you need various sets of fabric, etc, so keeping various kinds of material while voyaging will be gainful for you.
  3. Cushions or cups for feminine cleanliness – Periods are excluded visitors extraordinarily while voyaging so there are many outings you’ll be going while on periods since you can’t drop your arrangements on account of periods. Thus, its better to keep these things with you so you won’t deal with any issue while voyaging.
  4. Great footwears – Just like you need to keep agreeable garments, you need to keep agreeable footwears as well and assortment of footwears that will supplement your dresses. Like you can keep your boots, your heels, your shoes and the sky is the limit from there,
  5. Another sim card and force bank – While voyaging now and then your sim card doesn’t work at certain spots and you can’t impart so its better to keep another sim card for these circumstances. Force bank is extremely fundamental as your telephone can bite the dust whenever while voyaging like you are on journeying and your telephone kicks the bucket so you can accuse it of your force bank. So its better to keep these things with you.
  6. Tote – Its an unquestionable requirement thing and you can’t leave without it as you keep a ton of things in it while voyaging, everything you need close by including your own stuff.
  7. Small wallet – As you can’t take out your hand ask each time that is the reason you need this that can be taken out at whenever.

There numerous different things that you can add to your rundown as indicated by you like shades, suns cream, lotion, emergency treatment, earphones, etc

Facts About Indian National Flag

By Anshiki Jadia

Independence Day 2021: On the History, Importance and Rare Facts of the National Flag
On this day each year, the Prime Minister of India unfurls the national flag or “tricolor” at the Red Fort. This year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) will also raise the tricolor and deliver a speech from the Red Fort to the country


On this day each year, the Prime Minister of India extends the national flag “tiranga” or “tricolor” at the Red Fort. This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) will also raise the tricolor and head to the country from the Red Fort.
For the Unknown, the national flag was produced after a number of modifications and developments.


Take a look at some interesting facts about the national flag:


1- The first national flag of India was raised on August 7, 1906 at Parsee Bagan Square (Green Park) in Calcutta (then Calcutta). It consists of three horizontal stripes in green, yellow and red (from top to bottom). There is a sun and a new moon in the red bar and eight lotus flowers in the green bar.
2- The second banner was launched in 1907 by Mrs. Kama and her band of exiled revolutionaries. The second logo is similar to the first, but some changes have been made to it. The color of the strips has changed, with saffron at the top, yellow in the middle, and green at the bottom. The lotus has replaced the upper stripe with stars, and the positions of the sun and crescent moon have also been swapped.
3- In 1917, during the local self-government movement, Dr. Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak raised the third revision of the national flag. On the third flag, five red and four green horizontal stripes are arranged alternately. It has the Union Jack in the upper left corner and seven stars in the saptarishi configuration. In one corner, a white crescent moon and a star were also placed.
4- In 1921, a young man from Andhra presented a new flag design to Mahatma Gandhi during the All India Congress Committee meeting. It has two colors, red and green. Red represents Hindus, while green represents Muslims. Gandhi then suggested that he add another white stripe to represent all remaining Indian communities. The idea of ​​adding a spinning wheel to the design was also proposed by Gandhi as a symbol of national progress.
5-Then, in 1931, a resolution was passed to adopt the tricolor flag as the national flag of India. It has three strips of saffron, white and green (from top to bottom), with a spinning wheel in the middle. Although people are very good with these strips, they are opposed to including a spinning wheel because it has no public meaning.
6-Finally, the Constituent Assembly passed the Free India flag on July 22, 1947. The color bars and the meaning of the Indian flag remained unchanged after independence. However, the Ashoka wheel replaced the spinning wheel as a symbol of the national flag.

STEVE JOBS BY WALTER ISAAC- OVERVIEW

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaac is a biography of Steve Jobs that entails not only Steve’s detailed account about founding the iconic Apple company but it also details various aspects of his personal life and his decision making process. This article is not a review of the biography but it is just a list of things that I wanted to point out that were applicable to my own life and what lessons I learnt from it.

I have only ever seen Steve Jobs through online videos where he is introducing some of the most quintessential products of the decade like the iPhone, Mac air, and iPod that would all dictate the technological world for many years to come. The very first video I so of him was when he was on stage eloquently introducing the Mac book Air, he was so calm and collective and I remember being so enticed and willing to buy a product that was over a decade old. After watching a few more videos, I was absolutely awe struck by his sales technique. It was then that I realized that his method of presentation far exceeded the product on display and with enough time he’d be able to sell sand in a desert. But despite this spectacle, I was never really inspired to follow suit to develop my own presentation techniques to market myself better as a person. This was because when Steve was on stage he never stuttered or felt lost for words even once-as I often do. This made me think that maybe some people are just born confident with that level of leadership skills. It just felt so out of reach. That is before I came across his biography.

In the early days of his childhood and high school teens his demeanor was not much different from that of an average introverted person. He had very few friends and would spend most of his time working in the garage with his father. But, from a young age he showed a very potent interest in the field of engineering. Also, by a sheer stroke of luck, he happened to be living right in the middle of silicon valley, where the next decade’s worth of technological innovations would come from. Although success at this point feels tangible, Steve was still not the charismatic business magnet that we know him for today. He was no doubt brilliant in the field of engineering, but he was nowhere near the best. That title went to Steve Wozniack who is the Co-founder of apple. So if he did not find success through the field of engineering, how was he actually successful?

When he joined Reed college in the summer of 1972, he was just a normal skinny kid who liked to pull pranks all the time. His first step of growth was when he met Robert Friedland when he was selling his old type writer to him. Robert was unlike anyone Steve ever met before, he immediately took a liking to him. Robert was a very audacious and outgoing personal, unlike Steve. He would always speak his mind no matter what the situation or how it would make the other person feel. Steve was intrigued by his orthodox methods of dealing with problems and he soon accepted Robert as his sensei. Over the years Robert’s personality would rub off into his own and it was not long before he started developing his cold unforgiving stare and reality distortion field. Steve would then undertake many spiritual trips to discover himself and commit many mistakes on the way before becoming Steve Jobs the Co-founder of APPLE.INC. What this taught me is that no one is born a leader and even the best of the best have not always been the person they are today. I learnt that leadership comes with your own personal experience and the endeavors you have taken throughout your life time.

TIPS TO STAY FOCUSED

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” — George Lucas

Unless you have a strong desire to learn the information or develop a skill, it can be hard to focus all of your attention in one place. If you are impatient to learn or master anything, it wouldn’t benefit you more. If you are restless, you will make more mistakes and you will be more distracted as your whole focus will be on result, not on your action.

Instead, remain calm and be devoted to your work.

A mind which is calmer helps you to concentrate better, attaining undivided focus and it makes you proactive.

Television, smart phones, social media, friends, and family can all distract you from your goal of doing well in school. Create an environment that helps you focus. Set a schedule that maximized your study time. Try different study techniques and take breaks so you don’t become too overwhelmed. Here are some of the best tricks that scientists have come up with to help you increase your focus in studying.

  1. Get rid of distractions. Choose the right spot. In order to concentrate, you must eliminate those things that you know will distract you. Put up mobile devices. Turn off the TV. Close other pages in your web browser. Sit away from people making loud noises.
  2. Play music without lyrics. Some people cannot stand silence. They need to have background noise to help keep themselves motivated. Consider playing classical music softly. For some people, music helps them concentrate. For some, it doesn’t. Try it out and see what works best for you. A little something in the background can make you forget that you’re studying instead of out having fun.
  3. Come prepared. Be sure to have all the materials needed to work. Have pencils, pens, highlighters, paper, textbooks, calculators, or whatever else will help you finish the task. Organize the area. A clean space will mean less distractions too. Your goal should be to take care of everything outside of studying before you sit down to focus. If not, you’ll just end up getting up repeatedly. Having to stop and start takes more time than continuously working.
  4. Find a place where you can “unplug”. One of the biggest complaints that teachers have about their students is their inability to concentrate on a subject. Our constant use of social media and personal devices like cell phones divides our attention and makes it more difficult to concentrate.
  5. Learn when to say no. Often times, people find it difficult to concentrate on their studies because they are overextended with other obligations. If this is you, don’t be afraid to tell people no. Just explain that you need to study and won’t have the time or energy to do so, if you help them out.

    Ultimately, there’s no quick, one-size-fits-all solution to staying focused while studying. Different methods and tools will work better for some than others. However, with a little trial and error and the tools and techniques above, you can create a routine of focused studying that works best for you.

    Procrastination

    Have you ever put off your homework till the last minute? Or perhaps studied for the test only a day before? Maybe delayed writing an essay till the last possible hour? All of us are guilty of delaying tasks and putting off important work until a later date.  This is essentially procrastinating. It is the action of purposefully delaying any task or activity. In this procrastination essay, we will see the reasons and the solutions to this problem.

    As we will see in this procrastination essay, this is not a rare phenomenon. Almost everyone is guilty of it at some point in their lives. So we ask ourselves this question – why do people procrastinate even when they are so busy most of the time? We live in the 21st century, where time is our most precious commodity. And yet, we waste this precious resource procrastinating our time away.

    Procrastination Essay

    Why do we Procrastinate?

    The reasons for a person procrastinating can be varied. It depends on person-to-person and situation-to-situation. However, there are some universal reasons that cause people to delay their tasks and actions. One of the most important ones is the fear of failure. When a person delays doing an important task or is disinterested in finishing it, the cause could be a deep-rooted fear of failure. It is in human nature to avoid and fear failure. So by choosing to never finish the task, we can avoid the consequences as well.

    Another reason is the lack of focus and determination. Feeling directionless and unfocused can often cause people to lose their wills to do their jobs. This leads to procrastination. Sometimes the lack of goals and objectives is also the reason a person loses their focus. Since they do not have an end-goal in mind, they end up wasting energy in other useless tasks.

    There are other reasons a person may procrastinate. Sometimes, a person may be too much of a perfectionist. This distracts them from other tasks. And then there are other reasons like laziness, low energy levels, easy distractions, etc.

    8 Ways to Stop Procrastination

    How to Stop Procrastinating?

    While procrastinating is a very natural fault we all share, if it gets out of hand it can get quite troublesome. Excessive procrastination can disrupt your life and cause you to lose control of your schedules and deadlines. So when the procrastination gets out of hand, you need to reign it in and get back in control.

    One way to stop procrastinating is to break down the dreaded task into little steps. If the work or the task is too overwhelming, we tend to procrastinate about it. But if the job is broken down, then we can tackle one step at a time without being overwhelmed. You can also create a detailed timetable or a timeline of some sort to help you with the steps.

    At other times changing your work environment may be beneficial. It can provide you with the boost necessary to stop procrastinating and finish the task. If possible get a friend or a parent to keep a check on your progress. It helps keep the motivation levels up and encourages you to finish the task on time.

    The main concern is not to over-focus or blame yourself for procrastinating sometimes. We are all a victim to procrastination from time-to-time. As long as it does not derail your entire schedule, give yourself a break and just get back to work!

    The Opposite of Procrastination – Association for Psychological Science – APS

    10 Ways To Stop Procrastinating

    So why do I still do it? In fact, how come millions of people all over the world procrastinate even when they know they will regret it? More importantly still, is there anything that you can do to stop wasting your time, put an end to your procrastination, and get your work done? I discovered some great trick which helped me stay focused on my work, and saved me the embarrassment of missing crucial deadlines. Find out 10 tricks which helped me stop procrastinating, and can help you as well!

    1. Don’t overthink it:
    A plan needn’t be perfect. It should just get the work done. Spending hours, days, or even weeks planning something, is only going to cause you endless delays.

    2. Don’t wait too long to start:

    So you have come up with the perfect plan to do it. Great! So why aren’t you starting? Stop waiting for the perfect moment, there is no such thing. Start today. Start this very instant. You will thank yourself later.

    3. Divide and conquer:
    If the British could rule over half the world with this strategy, you can certainly use it to get that priority assignment done! Break it down. Start small, and just keep going. Divide, and conquer it all!

    4. Stick to your deadlines:
    When you set a deadline for yourself, it is somewhat easy to not follow it. Follow them anyway. Make it a habit. Self-discipline is the only way to conquer procrastination.

    5. Remove all obstacles:
    Whether you are studying or have an important project submission, it is easy to find things to keep you distracted. Identify what these commonly are, and eliminate them before you start work.

    6. Work with others:
    Teams are made for a reason. They not only reduce your overall work load, they also keep you focused. Work with other people and surround yourself with them. If you have to study, go to the library or the common room.

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    7. Broadcast your goals:
    Seek support from your friends and let them know what you are trying to do. Tell them your goals. Their positive feedback will inspire you to work harder.

    8. Ask an expert:
    There will be people who have already achieved what you are trying to do. Seek them out if you can and ask them for the strategy that helped them succeed.

    9. Stop making your life difficult:
    There is no need to complicate things. Sometimes a task can be very simple, and we just keep making it harder by delaying or not planning properly. Do yourself a favour and simplify your goals whenever you can.

    10. Be sure of why you are doing it:
    Setting a goal, such as Complete this assignment in 5 hours is a great start. But what is your end goal? How will you benefit? Remind yourself why you are working so hard, and it will help you stay focused.

    So now you have my 10 simple ways to get work done. They helped me stop procrastinating and I hope they will help you succeed as well!