PSYCHOPATHS AND TED BUNDY

TRIGGER WARNING

SENSITIVE CONTENT!

A CASE

On June 11, 1974 a 21 year old Georgann Hawkins was going back home after meeting some old friends. It was almost midnight when she saw a car stop by her. Inside the car she sees an old friend whom she talks about the anxiety she is developing due to the upcoming Spanish exam. They talk for a while and leave. Just across the street she sees a well suited charming man with crunches trying to lift the briefcase and put it into the truck of the car. Being the polite and caring woman she was, she offered to help the man. The man gladly accepted the help and thanked her. When she leaned into the truck to put the briefcase she feels a sudden rush of pain in the back of her head as if someone had hit her with a blunt object so strong. Within a matter of seconds she passes out. Hours later she wakes up with an acute concussion, at the back seat of the car of the man she helped ago. Still confused Georgann asked ” are you going to help me with my Spanish? ” After which she is strangled to death and thrown in the woods. The same man visited her several times and does unspeakable things. This man is none other than Ted Bundy!

Georgann Hawkins
TED BUNDY

BRIEFING

If you are interested in crime and mystery series then you must know who this man is! Ted Bundy, the well known serial killer and a twisted psychopath.

Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior impaired empathy and remorse and bold dis-inhibited egotistical traits. Here is a catch, Ted was a psychopath but not every psychopath is Ted Bundy. In our society there have bee people who are psychopaths who are excellent leaders, CEO s, lawyers etc, who never harmed anyone. The real deal is, they wouldn’t mind harming someone is they wanted to. Nobody but a psychopath himself can determine that he is a psychopath.

They are extremely smart people. Easily hide themselves and their motives and blend themselves like jelly. Usually people like these are aware of their lack of emotions at a really early age and use a phenomenon called Masking, where they constantly pick personalities that will help them to blend with the crowd. When Ted’s wife got to know about his personality she was blown away and quoted “that man used to make me feel like a new bride every day.”

MASKING

CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOPATHS

  1. Zero empathy – For a psychopath nothings maters more than themselves. no emotions and fails to understand emotions.
  2. Narcissistic overload – This comes hand in hand with psychopathy. With every sense of emotion the sense of humility is non existence to them.
  3. Intelligence – They are very goal oriented people. They put a 100% in their plans that are indeed, always successful.
  4. OCD – Their goals wouldn’t be very huge but they all suffered with OCD as they obsess over something. For Ted it was rendering women helplessly and raping them.
  5. Charm – If charm and a good behavior is what will take them to their goal then they will obtain the quality. They lie effortlessly and so well that they are never caught. They can fake laughing and crying just to blend with the crowd.

THE FAMOUS SERIAL KILLER

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946. He had a strange childhood where he believed that he was adopted by his grandparents and his mother was his sister. His mother didn’t tell him the truth as she was ashamed of the fact that Ted was born out of wedlock. He was handsome and easy to talk to. He later admitted that he never really card about making friends. Ted used to do normal things like others as going to church and dating women but when he got rejected he had this un-suppressible urge to take revenge.

Ted was a psychology student who graduated in the same from university of Washington in 1972. He even worked on the phones at the suicidal prevention hotline center later in life and became the assistant director of Seatle’s crime prevention advisory commission. As unsettling that is, he even published pamphlets telling women ways to prevent rape. By this time he had raped many women.

Ted used charms and approachable behavior to catch his victims. He often wore a sling or crutches to appear helpless and gained empathy from his victims whom he often attacked. Many suffocated in sleep and many rendered unconscious by the hit on their head with crowbars and man were simply stabbed. He chose young women who were students and attacked them with an object while they were sleeping or render them helpless before sexually assault them.

after being caught in 1977 he chose to fight his own case and gained access to library. There he jumped out of the window and ran away. He outsmarted the authority again and escaped for a real long time. With stolen vehicles and stolen food he escaped to Florida, where one night he snuck in one of Florida’s university hostels and had assaulted 4 women within 15 minutes, out of which 2 died. He even killed a 12 year old girl shortly after.

He was caught by a cop for driving a vehicle that was reported stolen. That cop who arrested Bundy had no idea whom he had captured. On the way Bundy said ” I wish you could have killed me”. The story of Ted Bundy still haunts the mankind to the day. The man was diagnosed with psychopathy, sociopathy, anti-social personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and multiple personalty disorder. He was ultimately executed in 1989 by electrocution.

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There are a lot of films and documentaries written and made on Ted Bundy. Where some of them have his own taped films.

Article By : Haniah Mirza

Swami Vivekanand

Early life

Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta (shortened to Narendra or Naren) in a bengali family at his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee street in Calcutta, the capital of British india, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar sanskrati festival. He belonged to a traditional family and was one of nine siblings. His father, Vishwanath Datta , was an attorney at the Calcutta high Court. Durgacharan Datta, Narendra’s grandfather was a sanskrti  and Persian  scholar who left his family and became a monk at age twenty-five. His mother, Bhubaneswari Devi, was a devout housewife. The progressive, rational attitude of Narendra’s father and the religious temperament of his mother helped shape his thinking and personality.

Narendranath was interested in spirituality from a young age and used to meditate before the images of deities such as Shiva, rama, sita, and mahavir hanuman. He was fascinated by wandering ascetics and monks. Narendra was naughty and restless as a child, and his parents often had difficulty controlling him. His mother said, “I prayed to Shiva for a son and he has sent me one of his demons”.

Education

1871, at the age of eight, Narendranath enrolled at Ishwar Chandra Vidhyasagar’s Metropolitan institutions, where he went to school until his family moved to Raipur in 1877. In 1879, after his family’s return to Calcutta, he was the only student to receive first-division mark entrance examination.  He was an avid reader in a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, religion, history, social science, art and literature was also interested in Hindu scriptures, including the vedas, the upanishads, the Bhagvad gita, the Ramayana, Mahabharata and the puranas. Narendra was trained in Indian classical music and regularly participated in physical exercise, sports and organised activities.

Narendra studied Western logic, Western philosophy  and European history General assemblyinstitutions (now known as the Scottish Church College). In 1881, he passed the fine arts examination, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1884. Narendra studied the works He became fascinated with the evolution  of herbert Spencer and corresponded with him, translating Herbert’s Spencer book Education (1861) into Bengali. While studying Western philosophers, he also learned Sanskrit scriptures and Bengali literature.

William hestie (principal of Christian College, Calcutta, from where Narendra graduated) wrote, “Narendra is really a genius. I have travelled far and wide but I have never come across a lad of his talents and possibilities, even in German universities, among philosophical students. He is bound to make his mark in life”.

Narendra was known for his prodigious memory and the ability at speed reading. Several incidents have been given as examples. In a talk, he once quoted verbatim, two or three pages from Pickwick papers. Another incident that is given is his argument with a Swedish national where he gave reference to some details on Swedish history that the Swede originally disagreed with but later conceded.

In another incident with Dr. Paul Deussen’s at kiel in Germany, Vivekananda was going over some poetical work and did not reply when the professor spoke to him. Later, he apologised to Dr. Deussen explaining that he was too absorbed in reading and hence did not hear him. The professor was not satisfied with this explanation, but Vivekananda quoted and interpreted verses from the text, leaving the professor dumbfounded about his feat of memory. Once, he requested some books written by Sir John Lubbock from a library and returned them the very next day, claiming that he had read them. The librarian refused to believe him until cross-examination about the contents convinced him that Vivekananda was being truthful.

Realism on English drama

The movement began in the middle 19th century in Europe. Play write Henrik Ibsen is credited for introducing realism in drama it is known as the father of realism. The main aim of realism is to bring greater fidelity of real-life to the stage. It also deals with social value and unconventional subjects of society.


Realism pertains to any artistic or literary narrative of life in a faithful, accurate manner unclouded by false ideas, literary conventions, and beautification of the world. It is a theory or a tendency in writing to depict events in human life in a matter-of-fact straightforward manner. It is an attempt to reflect life as it is.

The beliefs of Darwin and mark lead to an overall change in social and autonomous thoughts. Society began to question religious-political and economic beliefs, science, and deep observation paramount in European societies. the scientific methodology can apply to human problem-solving.


In a realistic work in En, English drama there important techniques that make a play or a novel realistic. The realistic story, the characters believable and engaging. The character lives a relatable life in the story. There is an accurate reflection of the human condition and contemporary life with no stereotype in the story. As a reality, there is a reflection made by the culture and social class in the play. There is always a detail of individual problems and challenges taking place in life.

Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

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The WHO evidence retrieval sub-group has begun collaboration with key partners to enrich the citations and build a more comprehensive database with inclusion of other content. The database is built by BIREME, the Specialized Center of PAHO/AMRO and part of the Regional Office’s Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health.

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Sugarcane- a resource for food, industries, culture and history

For a majority of Indians their first love is “doodh waali chai” with a large amount of sugar. It is also a well known fact about the love that exists between the Indians and the sweets. The basic ingredients of all these eatables which are a source of happiness for us is SUGAR. When the different forms of sugar goes in our system they not only boost our immune system , maintains over all health but also boost up our energy levels.

Ever wondered how this crystalline dose of happiness was first created? Sugar comes from the crop of Sugarcane of which India is the second largest producer. Today India has 732 sugar mills both private and government runned with Uttar Pradesh leading in the sugar production in India. The crop of sugarcane provides employment to nearly 50 million farmers and over 5 lakh workers directly employed in the sugar mills in the country. Further, sugar is not the only product extracted from sugarcane, sugarcane juice is a very popular summer drink in India and jaggery a sweet brown mass is like a national sweet for winters which is also said to maintain the immune system in the chilly winters of the North.

A product of such vast food value has a great industrial value as well as provides 7.5 % of employment in the Indian economy and has over 1% contribution in the GDP value. Read the blog further to know about the history of the production of this big stick of juice which has a great cultural and monetary significance .

Although sugar was being used in India from time immemorial , there was no sugar industry in India before 1904 which was set up in Saran, Bihar. Prior to that the juice from sugar cane was extracted and the crystals formed on boiling the juice were used as sugar . Though the crystals were not as refines as the sugar we get today , it served the purpose. These crystals were called SARKARA in the ancient times which mean sgravel in Sanskrit. The word sugar is a derivative from Sarkara.

BY-Products of Sugarcane and its industrial value

Bagasse and Molasses are the two major by products of sugarcane which holds a great industrial value.

Bagasse is the heterogeneous fibrous residue that remains after sugarcane stalks are crushed for sugar extraction. Typically, from processing 100 tons of sugarcane in a factory, 30–34 tons of bagasse is obtained . Bagasse is mainly used in cellulose based industries such as pulp, paper, particle boards and as a cattle fodder. In order to conserve the forests, initiatives are being taken to replace the wooden products by equally sustainable material. Bagasse based particle board and fibre based board plants are set up to produce wooden boards which are used as a wood replacement in making table tops, office racks, partition ceilings etc.

Molasses is the final mother liquor leftover after the crystallization of sugar which is sent out of the factory. However, the total sugar content of molasses is 45–55 per cent. It is by virtue of this total content that molasses is a valuable raw material for the production of many value-added products. The main products that can be produced from it on commercial scale are ethyl alcohol, citric acid, lactic acid, cattle feed, oxalic acid, bakers yeast, mono sodium glutamate, torula yeast, lysine etc which are some of great industrial value being used in one or the other industries. In addition to this, many alcohol-based chemicals like acetic acid, acetic anhydride, acetone, ethyl acetate, ethyl benzene, styrene, poly-styrene, poly-ethylene and synthetic rubber are also produced using cane molasses.

The historical and cultural value of sugarcane

There are references of sugarcane cultivation, its crushing and preparation of Gur ( jaggery) in Atharva Veda as well as Kautaliya’s Arthasastra. Also, the scribes of Alexander the Great, who happens to visit India in 327 BC recorded that the inhabitants chewed a marvelous reed which produced a kind of honey without the help of bees,which was a reference to none other than the famous jaggery. Also, the Indian religious offerings contain five ‘Amrits’ (elixirs) like milk, curd, ghee (clarified butter), honey and sugar — which indicates how important sugar is not only as an item of consumption but as an item which influences the Indian way of life.

It is fascinating to know how a crop which is hardly 3 to 4 m in height is of such value and importance in the Indian sub continent.

Football as an emerging sport and a career option in India

Sports, in India has highly been underrated since ages. It has always been considered as a leisure and just a means of recreation but not at all a career option. People do love seeing sports on the television but never did they motivate someone to go into that field. They had their own reasons for it. First of all, sports was never a promising career in the ancient India. They thought it as out of reach and therefore it became underrated. Cricket was the only sport which successfully gathered a huge number of fans India. This happened highly after the Indian premier league was introduced. It became the talk of the town and was something which almost everyone would emotionally connect to.

Football which has always been one of the most interesting sports but was meandering around with no defined path to follow, so it never came into light. But now it has risen above the threshold of a mere game and has become a way of life. India, which was once a sleeping football giant, has woken up with a bang.

ATK Mohun Bagan’s Sumit Rathi Keen to Use ISL as ‘Launchpad’ to Play Abroad

The rise of football in India had began long ago when a club named Mohul Bagan estd around 1890s became the first team to win IFA shield before independence. Later in the year 2013, with the establishment of Indian Super league, football gained a drastic craze among the youngsters in the similar manner as IPL did. People started to connect emotionally. They sprawled near the ticket counters to get the tickets to the atches of their favourites. This growing trend since then hasn’t slowed down yet. ISL became a sudden hit and our players got high recognition through this. Youngsters now have started considering football too as a promising career in India. Every year there are many youngsters getting selected to prove their calibre and are reaching heights of fame all around the world. ISL has led people to watch and love football to a level that nobody could have ever thought. It is through this, that Indian football team has started getting support from their own people. ISL in partnership with Reliance Industries has come a long way and has achieved many milestones. The growing popularity of football in India has prompted foreign leagues to engage Indian enthusiasts through customised training and outreach.

For the first time 2017 Fifa U-17 World Cup, broke previous attendance records with over 1.3 million spectators. As a reult India won the hosting rights of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020. India who had never earlier got to play FIFA qualifiers is now capable enough for it and it is not too far when we the people of India will see our country play FIFA.

IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
Meetali soni

WHAT IS EDUCATION ?
Education plays the most important part in our life. It is a tool to change ones life. Education is a weapon to improve one’s life. Education for a child begins at home.The first thing that strikes in our minds when we think about education is gaining knowledge. It is a lifelong process that ends with death. Education improves one’s knowledge, skills and develops the personality, confidence and attitude. A highly educated person likely to get a great job. Reading and writing is the first step in Education. It plays a great role in our career growth as well as in the personal growth. It has no limitation; people of any age group can get education anytime. An educated person having good education becomes the good citizen in the society. Education makes the life so easier .Education makes people literate .Education is extremely important for employment. It certainly is a great opportunity to make a decent living. If you are not educated you have to face many problems in job and if you are educated your job is much easier.Education makes an individual a better user of technology. Without Education, it would probably be difficult to handle modern machines. People become more mature with the help of Education. Educated people also realize the value of time much more. To educated people, time is equal to money. Education helps in the development and innovation of technology.It expands our vision and outlook to see the world. Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It is the most important element in the evolution of the nation. Without education, one will not explore new ideas. It means one will not able to develop the world because without ideas there is no creativity and without creativity, there is no development of the nation.

BENEFITS OF EDUCATION ;-

Creating More Employment Opportunities

Securing a Higher Income

Developing Problem-solving Skills

Improving the Economy

 Providing a Prosperous and Happy Life

Giving Back to the Community

 Creating Modern Society

Bridging the Borders

Creating equal opportunities

FRETURES OF EDUCATION

1.  Removing Poverty
Education helps in removing poverty as if a person is educated, he can get a good job and fulfill all the basic needs & requirement of his family.

2.  Safety and Security against Crime
If a person is well-educated, he will not be fooled by anyone easily. An educated person is less prone to involve in domestic violence & other social evils.

3. Prevention of Wars and Terrorism
To lead a safe & secure life, one needs to understand the value of education in our daily life. One needs to take an active part in various educational activities. These types of productive activities provide knowledge to live a better life.

4. Commerce and Trade
A good education doesn’t simply mean going to school or college & getting a degree.Education helps to become self-dependent and build great confidence among them to accomplish difficult tasks. On getting an education, their standard of life gets improved.

5.  Law and Order
Education enables the process of the Nation’s Fast Development. If you have a good education, you can serve your country well. It develops a good political ideology.

6. Women Empowerment
Education also helps in empowering women. Certain old customs like Not Remarrying Widows, Sati Pratha, Child Marriage, Dowry System etc. can be demolished with the power of education.

Conclusion

Education is a ray of light in the darkness. It certainly is a hope for a good life. Education is a basic right of every Human on this Planet. To deny this right is evil. Uneducated youth is the worst thing for Humanity. Above all, the governments of all countries must ensure to spread Education.

BOOK REVIEW : THE ALCHEMIST

~ Paulo Coelho

Philosophy

Characters – Santiago

Setting Egypt

Literary awards – National book award nominee for translation(2015)

Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity a inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherded boy named Santiago who travels from his home land in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buriek in the pyramids.

Along the way he meets a gypsy women, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. Noone knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within.

Lush, evocating, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

The all new Nintendo Switch OLED Model.

The Japanese gaming company Nintendo has launched its trendy version of the Switch gaming console, called the switch (OLED model). As for the key highlights, the tool comes with a bigger 7.0-inch OLED display in conjunction with an upgraded NVIDIA chipset and superior audio system. It carries a charge tag of $349.99 (around Rs. 26,000) and is to be had in two color options.

Nintendo Switch OLED 2021.

The Nintendo Switch OLED model — which was released on July 6, 2021 — is similar to the normal Nintendo switch that was released in March 2017. It is a hybrid console that swaps without problems from hand-held mode to television mode. There are pleasure-Con on both aspects of the console, which might be similar to those at the normal Switch. It plays all the same old switch video games, has the equal processor, battery, RAM, and most different specifications.

However, Nintendo upgraded and more advantageous a selection of capabilities of the console to make it higher (greater on that in the subsequent section). This makes the console advanced to the normal Switch and the hand-held-only switch Lite. It does now not make it a switch pro or switch 2, though, because it’s no longer modified that a lot.

New Nintendo Switch OLED specifications-

Switch OLEDOriginal Switch
Display7-inch OLED touchscreen6.2-inch LED touchscreen
Resolution720p handheld/1080p docked720p handheld/1080p docked
Storage64GB (expandable)32GB (expandable)
ChipsetCustom Nvidia Tegra X1Custom Nvidia Tegra X1
Battery LifeApprox. 4.5 – 9 hoursApprox. 4.5 – 9 hours
ConnectivityUSB-C, 3.5mm audio, microSD, wired LANUSB-C, 3.5mm audio, microSD
Size9.5 x 4 x 0.55 inches9.4 x 4 x 0.55 inches
WeightApprox. 0.93 poundsApprox. 0.88 pounds

lamentably, the Nintendo Switch OLED remains lacking some things we would hope a brand new Switch console could have. For a start, the joy-Cons are the same as the present-day Nintendo switch, which means they may (and we strain could) fall victim to Joy-Con drift that has blighted the controllers of the authentic Switch.

There may be also no aid for Bluetooth headphones, which with stellar headsets like the Sony WH-100XM4 available, appears to be a rather disappointing omission with the Switch OLED. simply bear in thoughts, the identical workarounds for wireless headphones used in the unique switch ought to paintings with the Switch OLED.

However, arguably the maximum disappointing thing is the Switch OLED does not provide a lift in overall performance over the authentic switch. It makes use of the same custom Nvidia Tegra X1 gadget-on-a-chip with reputedly no specs modifications, which means a shape of 4K output while docked or 1080p when treated isn’t always to be had.

All it is no longer to mention the Nintendo switch OLED is flawed, however, it cannot be a must-have for those who are already playing the present-day Switch.

The new adjustable stand and LAN-

The bigger and adjustable stand is arguably the most compelling upgrade for the brand new Switch after the OLED show. The single-role stand on the original Switch changed into instead skimpy and flimsy and often toppled over on the merest wobble.

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The broader stance at the switch OLED seems lots more stable and the larger display method it can make for a wi-fi new portable console that can be legitimately installation everywhere for a bit of Mario Kart or damage Bros local multiplayer.

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And speaking of multiplayer, the Nintendo switch OLED also has a LAN port to guide a stressed-out internet connection for extra stable online gaming. that would be available for people in homes with patchy Wi-Fi.

Nintendo Switch OLED Pricing and availablity-

The Nintendo Switch (OLED model) is priced at $349.ninety-nine (around Rs. 26,000). it’ll be to be had for buy within the US from October 8 onwards. information concerning its availability in different markets is doubtful as of now.

MOTHER TERESA

Who Was Mother Teresa?

Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her “call within a call” in 1946. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony. 

In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, pope francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.

Mother Teresa’s Family and Young Life

Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. The following day, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.

Mother Teresa’s parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent; her father was an entrepreneur who worked as a construction contractor and a trader of medicines and other goods. The Bojaxhius were a devoutly Catholic family, and Nikola was deeply involved in the local church as well as in city politics as a vocal proponent of Albanian independence.

In 1919, when Mother Teresa — then Agnes — was only eight years old, her father suddenly fell ill and died. While the cause of his death remains unknown, many have speculated that political enemies poisoned him.

In the aftermath of her father’s death, Agnes became extraordinarily close to her mother, a pious and compassionate woman who instilled in her daughter a deep commitment to charity. Although by no means wealthy, Drana Bojaxhiu extended an open invitation to the city’s destitute to dine with her family. “My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others,” she counseled her daughter. When Agnes asked who the people eating with them were, her mother uniformly responded, “Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people.”

Education and Nunhood

Agnes attended a convent-run primary school and then a state-run secondary school. As a girl, she sang in the local Sacred Heart choir and was often asked to sing solos. The congregation made an annual pilgrimage to the Church of the Black Madonna in Letnice, and it was on one such trip at the age of 12 that she first felt a calling to religious life. Six years later, in 1928, an 18-year-old Agnes Bojaxhiu decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin. It was there that she took the name Sister Mary Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

A year later, Sister Mary Teresa traveled on to Darjeeling, India, for the novitiate period; in May 1931, she made her First Profession of Vows. Afterward, she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary’s High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city’s poorest Bengali families. Sister Teresa learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and dedicated herself to alleviating the girls’ poverty through education.

On May 24, 1937, she took her Final Profession of Vows to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. As was the custom for Loreto nuns, she took on the title of “Mother” upon making her final vows and thus became known as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa continued to teach at Saint Mary’s, and in 1944 she became the school’s principal. Through her kindness, generosity and unfailing commitment to her students’ education, she sought to lead them to a life of devotion to Christ. “Give me the strength to be ever the light of their lives, so that I may lead them at last to you,” she wrote in prayer.

‘Call Within a Call’

On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa experienced a second calling, the “call within a call” that would forever transform her life. She was riding in a train from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills for a retreat when she said Christ spoke to her and told her to abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta aiding the city’s poorest and sickest people.

Since Mother Teresa had taken a vow of obedience, she could not leave her convent without official permission. After nearly a year and a half of lobbying, in January 1948 she finally received approval to pursue this new calling. That August, donning the blue-and-white sari that she would wear in public for the rest of her life, she left the Loreto convent and wandered out into the city. After six months of basic medical training, she voyaged for the first time into Calcutta’s slums with no more specific a goal than to aid “the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for.”

Missionaries of Charity

Mother Teresa quickly translated her calling into concrete actions to help the city’s poor. She began an open-air school and established a home for the dying destitute in a dilapidated building she convinced the city government to donate to her cause. In October 1950, she won canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded with only a handful of members—most of them former teachers or pupils from St. Mary’s School.

As the ranks of her congregation swelled and donations poured in from around India and across the globe, the scope of Mother Teresa’s charitable activities expanded exponentially. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, she established a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and a string of mobile health clinics.

In 1971, Mother Teresa traveled to New York City to open her first American-based house of charity, and in the summer of 1982, she secretly went to Beirut, Lebanon, where she crossed between Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut to aid children of both faiths. In 1985, Mother Teresa returned to New York and spoke at the 40th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly. While there, she also opened Gift of Love, a home to care for those infected with HIV/AIDS.

Mother Teresa’s Awards and Recognition

In February 1965, Pope Paul VI bestowed the Decree of Praise upon the Missionaries of Charity, which prompted Mother Teresa to begin expanding internationally. By the time of her death in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity numbered more than 4,000 — in addition to thousands more lay volunteers — with 610 foundations in 123 countries around the world.

The Decree of Praise was just the beginning, as Mother Teresa received various honors for her tireless and effective charity. She was awarded the Jewel of India, the highest honor bestowed on Indian civilians, as well as the now-defunct Soviet Union’s Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work “in bringing help to suffering humanity.”

Criticism of Mother Teresa

Despite this widespread praise, Mother Teresa’s life and work have not gone without its controversies. In particular, she has drawn criticism for her vocal endorsement of some of the Catholic Church’s more controversial doctrines, such as opposition to contraception and abortion. “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion,” Mother Teresa said in her 1979 Nobel lecture.

In 1995, she publicly advocated a “no” vote in the Irish referendum to end the country’s constitutional ban on divorce and remarriage. The most scathing criticism of Mother Teresa can be found in Christopher Hitchens’ book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, in which Hitchens argued that Mother Teresa glorified poverty for her own ends and provided a justification for the preservation of institutions and beliefs that sustained widespread poverty.

When and How Mother Teresa Died

After several years of deteriorating health, including heart, lung and kidney problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87.

POST – TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

 

This kind of disorder arises when we are ­­­­­­­affected
by situations that cannot be accepted so easily associated or experienced or
witnessing of events in life. Those unforgettable moments always haunt us as
nightmares and memories making us to regret for a lifelong period.

It is not an easy task to make them vanish from our
life but feeling to overcome from it is a worse kind struggle between heart and
soul.

It reflects that one-fourth of the people gets
affected by this kind of deep emotion and as life goes by sacrifice those
hinderances and move on. The more affected gender falls on mostly women as they
are more emotional and trust worthy then men.

“IT’S NOT THE PERSON REFUSING TO LET GO OF THE PAST, BUT THE
PAST REFUSING TO GO OF THE PERSON”



It is clear that people at several ages have
experienced this disorder being in a state to console themselves, to come out
of it and to forget the certain thing happened.

This disorder is affected if the affected one unable
to move out of that trauma. About 10 percent have experienced this kind of
situation out of 100. But the worse part is the trauma became advanced for 2
percent which they were out of control without treatment.

 There are
different levels for this disorder where each level will affect our mental
ability badly and make us weaker. The stages of this effect will last till six
months until for life period of one person.

Reducing the pressure and engaging on with multiple
tasks at the same time makes us concentrate on the work to relieve us for some
time. “Unexpected
things happen but humans are a part of it to accept the fact of life”.

“Thing can’t be undone unless or until you come out of it”.



The Big Bang

Ever heard of the Big Bang? No, not the TV show. The beginning of the Universe as we know it. 

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model explaining the existence of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature,  and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale structure.

Crucially, the theory is compatible with Hubble–Lemaître law—the observation that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away from Earth. Extrapolating this cosmic expansion backwards in time using the known laws of physics, the theory describes an increasingly concentrated cosmos preceded by a singularity in which space and time lose meaning (typically named “the Big Bang singularity”). Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the universe place the Big Bang singularity at around 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. 

Timeline

The first second after the Big Bang, the entire universe was a soup of subatomic particles, superheated to 10 billion degrees. In that first second, amazing things happened: The force of gravity separated out from the electronuclear force and was joined soon thereafter by the electromagnetic force. The universe changed from being a hot soup of quarks and gluons (elementary particles), and protons and neutrons began to form. At the ripe old age of one second, the newborn universe was cool enough that it began forming deuterium (a form of hydrogen) and helium-3. At this point, the newborn universe had doubled in size at least ninety times!

Over the next three minutes, the infant universe continued to cool down and expand, and the creation of the first elements continued. 

For the next 370,000 years, the universe continued its expansion. But it was a dark place, too hot for any light to shine. There existed only a dense plasma, an opaque hot soup that blocked and scattered light. The universe was essentially a fog. 

The next big change in the universe came during the era of recombination, which occurred when matter cooled enough to form atoms. The result was a transparent gas through which the original flash of light from the Big Bang could finally travel. We see that flash today as a faint, all-encompassing, distant glow called the cosmic microwave background radiation (sometimes shortened to CMB or CMBR). The universe was leaving its cosmic dark ages behind. Gas clouds condensed under their own self-gravity (possibly helped along by the gravitational influence of dark matter) to form the first stars. These stars energized (or ionized) the remaining gas around them, lighting up the universe even more. This period is called the Epoch of Reionization.

From the Big Bang to You 

Pre–Big Bang: quantum density fluctuations

Pre–Big Bang: cosmic inflation

13.8 billion years ago: the Big Bang

13.4 billion years ago: the first stars and galaxies 

11 billion years ago: the Milky Way Galaxy starts to form 

5 billion years ago: the Sun begins to form, along with the planets 

3.8 billion years ago: the first life appears on Earth 

2.3 million years ago: the first humans appear Modern time: you were born

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang

Jersey No 7

For every Indian Fan  jersey No 7 will be an emotion. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, former Indian Captain. Nick name was Mahi. And a famous dialogue “Mahi mar raha h”. MS Dhoni joined Indian Cricket in 2004, and his first ODI match was against Bangladesh. In 2005 Dhoni played his first Test match against Sri-Lanka. Against South Africa in 2006 Dhoni played his debut match in T20 format.

Early Life:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born on 7th July 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar(now in Jharkhand). His parent names are Pan Singh and Devaki Devi. He also has sister name Jayanti Gupta and brother Narendra Singh Dhoni. Dhoni completed his study at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir and he started badminton and football. Early he was an goalkeeper but later he impressed in wicket keeping and he started wicket keeping at commando Cricket Club. Later he selected for Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 championship and he performed well. Dhoni focused on cricket after 10th standard. He was a Travelling Ticket Examiner(TTE) at Kharagpur Railway Station from 2001 to 2003.

Career In Cricket:

Junior cricket in Bihar: Dhoni was selected by Devel Sahay to play for the Central Coal Fields Limited(CCL) team in 1998. Till 1998 Dhoni, who was in class 12th in school, had played only school cricket and club cricket and no professional cricket. One of the famous episodes, when Dhoni used to play for CCL, was when Deval Sahay used to gift him Rs 50 for each six that he hit in Sheesh Mahal tournament cricket matches.

Bihar Cricket Team: In 1999-2000 Dhoni made his first debut in Ranji Trophy and the made his first half century of 68* in second Innings against Assam Cricket Team. Dhoni scored his maiden first-class century while playing for Bihar against Bengal in the 2000/01 season, in a losing cause.

India A team: In the 2003/2004 season, especially in One day format Dhoni was picked for the India A squad for a tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya. In the tri-nation tournament involving Kenya, India A and Pakistan A, Dhoni helped India A chase down their target of 223 against Pakistan A with a half-century. Dhoni scored 362 runs in 6 innings at an average of 72.40 and his performance in the series received attention from the Indian Captain- Sourav Ganguly and Ravi Shastri, amongst others.

International Career:

The Indian ODI team in the early 2000s saw Rahul Dravid as the Wicket-Keeper to ensure thet the Wicket-Keeper to ensure that the Wicket-keeper spot didn’t lack in batting talent. With Dhoni making a mark in the India A squad, he was picked in the ODI squad for the Bangladesh tour in 2004/05.

2011 World Cup: Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India won the 2011 World Cup. In Final against Sri Lanka, chasing 275, Dhoni promoted himself up the batting order, coming before an in-form Yuvraj Singh. When he came to bat, India needed more than six runs per over with three top-order batsman already dismissed. Dhoni made 91 not out of 79 balls. Dhoni finished with a SIX and won the World Cup.

##HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

Email marketing

Email marketing is the act of sending a commercial message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It involves using email to send advertisements, request business, or solicit sales or donations.

Benefits of email marketing: spread sheet use, customization draft, option of subscribe and unsubscribe, track links, provide list categories, personification feature, save time. Businesses and organizations who send a high volume of emails can use an ESP (email service provider) to gather information about the behavior of the recipients. The insights provided by consumer response to email marketing help businesses and organizations understand and make use of consumer behavior. Words that can help in increasing the chance of opening an email by your customer- free, discount, specials, reminder,customer name; link with such words can help.

A/B testing- test many things via email. It is a method of comparing two versions of a web page or app against each other to determine which one performs better. AB testing is essentially an experiment where two or more variants of a page are shown to users at random, and statistical analysis is used to determine which variation performs better for a given conversion goal.


Email analytics tools can help to manage the business via email and lessen the burden for checking and keeping track thousands of emails. Many email analytics platforms are geared toward email marketers, who have a more pressing need and a bigger budget, rather than office workers trying to improve their own productivity – or office managers trying to improve the productivity of their team members. The majority of apps focusing on improving productivity add some functionality that makes workers faster or more efficient, rather than getting to the heart of the problem with objective data analysis. Some tools which can help- sortd, email analytics powered by google, ActiveInbox, The Email Game, Todoist, and many more.

WATER FASTING

Fasting is considered as a part and parcel in the process of losing their weight and staying healthy. When it comes to fasting there is no one approach that is suitable for all. As the time progresses newer ways of fasting are coming to light. On the one hand we have diets that involve eating only during a certain time window (Intermittent Fasting) and on the other hand we have a diet that involves not eating at all for hours. This type of diet is known as Water Fasting.

Water fasting is a type of fasting that restricts the consumption of any kind of solid foods as well as drinks (even zero calorie drinks) except water. Someone who wishes to pursue this diet must only intake water during the entire timeline of their fasting. Even though the practice of restricting food intake has been around for a long period of time but people normally don’t do it for a period long enough for it to actually work. Water diet is as extreme as other forms for dieting and it a little bit tougher follow as compared to other forms of fasting too. However, before considering following this diet one must be familiar with both sides of the coin.

ADVANTAGES:

+ The main advantage of water diet is that it helps in loosing weight.
+ Water diet helps in improving blood pressure and keeps blood sugar levels in check too.
+ It helps in breaking down broken cells and further recycles them.
+ Consuming so much water for days will detoxify you body and ensure all toxins are excreted.
+ Some studies have shown that water fasting reduces the risk of certain types of cancer and diabetes too.
+ It has physical as well as psychological benefits. It helps in improving the cognitive functioning.

DISADVANTAGES:

– This fasting might help in weight loss but the results are short lived.
– Giving up food for long period of time can trigger an eating spree leading to development of disorders.
– It might sound odd but drinking that much water can lead to dehydration. You could feel dizzy, nauseated and might even develop headaches.
– It increases the risk of kidney stones.
– Consumption of only water can lead to nutrient deficiency in the body.
– And lastly, water fasting can worsen many other health conditions and impact you body negatively.

WHO SHOULD NOT DO IT?

As you would have been able to judge by now that water fasting not as easy as it sounds, there are certain categories of people who should avoid it at all costs. The categories include:
1. people having eating disorder
2. pregnant women
3. people with severe diseased
4. people who have heart problems, diabetes and migraines
5. people who are underweight

Except from the people mentioned above, everyone who wants to follow the diet must consult their doctors once to avoid complications in the future. These kinds of fasting are physically tiring so try to avoid exercising and undertake the fast on days when you can take ample rest and the effects don’t take a toll on you. Doctors recommend a person not to fast more than 3 days at a time. The fasting period can be anywhere between 24 hours to 3 days.

Fasting and different kinds of diet might look appealing but they work only if you are regular and if your body agrees with it. No one should push their body to its limits just to loose that stubborn belly fat. Start easy and then progress. Remember that you must not loose your healthy self in a race to loose weight. Consume whatever is healthy and best suited for your lifestyle.