Thursday, 17 January 2013

[www.keralites.net] 5 Things That Really Smart People Do

 

Don't get in the way of your own learning. Here are five ways to step aside and continue to increase your smarts.

Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? Not really. In fact, I find as I get older that real learning takes more work. The more I fill my brain with facts, figures, and experience, the less room I have for new ideas and new thoughts. Plus, now I have all sorts of opinions that may refute the ideas being pushed at me. Like many people I consider myself a lifelong learner, but more and more I have to work hard to stay open minded.

But the need for learning never ends, so your desire to do so should always outweigh your desire to be right. The world is changing and new ideas pop up everyday; incorporating them into your life will keep you engaged and relevant. The following are the methods I use to stay open and impressionable. They'll work for you too. No matter how old you get.

1. Quiet Your Inner Voice

You know the one I am talking about. It's the little voice that offers a running commentary when you are listening to someone. It's the voice that brings up your own opinion about the information being provided. It is too easy to pay more attention to the inner voice than the actual speaker. That voice often keeps you from listening openly for good information and can often make you shut down before you have heard the entire premise. Focus less on what your brain has to say and more on the speaker. You may be surprised at what you hear.

2. Argue With Yourself

If you can't quiet the inner voice, then at least use it to your advantage. Every time you hear yourself contradicting the speaker, stop and take the other point of view. Suggest to your brain all the reasons why the speaker may be correct and you may be wrong. In the best case you may open yourself to the information being provided. Failing that, you will at least strengthen your own argument.

3. Act Like You Are Curious

Some people are naturally curious and others are not. No matter which category you are in you can benefit from behaving like a curious person. Next time you are listening to information, make up and write down three to five relevant questions. If you are in a lecture, Google them after for answers. If you are in a conversation you can ask the other person. Either way you'll likely learn more, and the action of thinking up questions will help encode the concepts in your brain. As long as you're not a cat you should benefit from these actions of curiosity.

4. Find the Kernel of Truth

No concept or theory comes out of thin air. Somewhere in the elaborate concept that sounds like completemalarkeythere is some aspect that is based upon fact. Even if you don't buy into the idea, you should at least identify the little bit of truth from whence it came. Play like a detective and build your own extrapolation. You'll enhance your skills of deduction and may even improve the concept beyond the speaker's original idea.

5. Focus on the Message Not the Messenger

Often people shut out learning due to the person delivering the material. Whether it's a boring lecturer, someone physically unappealing, or a member of the opposite political party, the communicator can impact your learning. Even friends can disrupt the learning process since there may be too much history and familiarity to see them as an authority on a topic. Separate the material from the provider. Pretend you don't know the person or their beliefs so you can hear the information objectively. As for the boring person, focus on tip two, three, or four as if it were a game, thereby creating your own entertainment

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[www.keralites.net] Speeding train kills five elephants in eastern India

 


Speeding train kills five elephants in eastern India


BHUBANESHWAR: A speeding passenger train killed five elephants when it ploughed into a herd crossing the track in eastern India, a railway spokesman said Monday.
The train struck the animals on Sunday near the Khallikote forest range in Orissa state's Ganjam district, some 120 kilometres (74 miles) south of the state capital Bhubaneshwar.
"The local forest department had alerted the railway control room about the possibility of the movements of the animals but by the time we got the message the accident had already occurred," spokesman R. N. Mohapatra told AFP. The train was badly damaged and it took railroad workers several hours to clear the tracks.
A local forest officer said one of the animals killed was a 45-year-old pregnant mother. The state has a poor record of protecting its wildlife with as many as 250 elephants and 504 other wild animals having died since 2009, according to official data.
India is home to around 25,000 Asian elephants but their numbers are falling due to poaching, chiefly for the precious ivory, and destruction of habitat by human populations.
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[www.keralites.net] Khatte-mitten khabharain from around the world for

 

An apocryphal joke attributed to Shakespeare
 
His wife: What's the similarity between Woman and Alcohol?
 
Shakespeare: They both have amazing qualities of giving pleasure at night and headache in morning.
 
(Me: This contribution came from an English teacherfriend and a woman at that. So I take it be true!).
 
"We are all worms. But I believe I'm a glow-worm"  Winston Churchill
 
(Me: ha! A naked confession n conceitedness..).
 
Tongue in cheek
 
My resume is basically a list of things I hate to do!
 
Line Maro
 
Smoking is hazardous to your health and baby, you're killing me!
 
(Me: You're welcome  to kill yourself that is..)
 
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Health tips
 
Eat 56g of fenugreek (methi) seeds every day over 24 weeks to reduce cholesterol levels (it reduces blood sugar, too).
 
(Me: A good thing about this tip is, the tip gives the precise amount to consume..).
 
Weird world
 
Serbs set up 'Rage Room' to unleash anger.
 
Savo Duvnjak and Nikola Pausic look around the room, Duvnjak lifts a metal baseball bat and wrecks everything in sight   bed, table, shelves, chair  until there's nothing left to wreck. This isn't a criminal onslaught. It's the Rage Room opened by the two. And it's smashing its way to success. "This feels so good!. I feel I let go of all my negative energy", he said.
 
(Me: Letting off steam does release your pent-up anger. The original idea, as usual, came from an enterprising American).
 
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Drunk driver crashes car eight times in one mile.
 
Connecticut: Police say a driver was so intoxicated that he was involved in eight collisions within a mile before slamming into a pole on Tuesday.
 
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Portland: Firefighters cut through concrete and used a soapy lubricant to free a woman who fell and became stuck in a narrow opening between two buildings on Wednesday. She couldn't explain how she fell.
 
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Surgeons leave 16 items in patient's body after operation
 
A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body, including a needle, compresses and surgical strips, after an operation for prostate cancer. Helmut Brecht, whose wounds failed to heal properly due to items left in his body, died last year and his family is seeking $106,216 in damages
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This India
 
CBI seizes Rs.1 crore from officer's houses.
 
The CBI on Thursday recovered over Rs. One crore in cash from three properties of an Environment Ministry official, who was arrested along with a middle-man for allged accepting a bribe of Rs. seven lakhs from a cement firm.
 
(Me: a regulation, ANY regulation, provides opportunities to the dishonest officials to milk money from public who would be adversely affected by it (the rule). Since "environment" and "green" are the buzzwords in currency now, the department personnel concerned can allegedly mint money through dubious means   tightening (or appearing to tighten) the screws on those come for licences or exemptions. As the PM rightly said recently, environment/green clearance is another name for the obnoxious pre-1990 licence-permit-raj)
 
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work"  Mark Twain.
 
(Me: But you can steal another's thunder  steal the credit for another's work..!! haha)
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A bus load of tourists arrives at Runnymede. They gather around the guide, who says, "This is the spot where the barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta.
 
A fellow at the front of the crowd asks, "When did that happen?"
 
"1215," answers the guide.
 
The man looks at his watch and says, "Damn! Just missed it by a half-hour!"
 
(Me: Not sooo laffing a matter   if you don't know the onions, that is British history..)
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[www.keralites.net] How to Scan Your Computer With Multiple Antivirus Programs

 

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You should only run a single antivirus application at a time, but none of them are perfect. Some antiviruses may catch malware that other antiviruses miss. Luckily, you don't just have to rely on a single antivirus program.

The key to using multiple antivirus programs is running a single antivirus as your main background protection and running another scanner occasionally – say, once a week – for a second opinion.
If you have a suspicious file, you can also quickly scan it with in 46 different antivirus programs at once using a website.

Why You Shouldn't Run Multiple Antivirus Programs At Once

Most antivirus programs are designed to be the single security solution for your computer. The antivirus has a background, always-on scanning feature that's enabled by default. When you download a file, load a program, or access a website, the antivirus keeps an eye on everything and ensures it doesn't match a known threat.

This works fine as long as you only have a single antivirus running at a time. These programs hook deep into your Windows operating system and are not designed to work together. In a best case scenario, running multiple antivirus programs at once could result in degraded performance. In a worst case scenario, the programs could interfere with each other and cause system crashes.

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How You Can Scan Your Computer With Multiple Antivirus Programs

However, no antivirus program is perfect. Some antivirus programs may miss problems other antivirus programs will detect. To get more complete detection coverage, you may want to scan your computer with additional antivirus programs while leaving a single antivirus program – such as Microsoft Security Essentials (known as Windows Defender in Windows 8) — running in the background.

The additional antivirus programs you'll use won't stay running in the background. They'll scan your computer once and give you a second opinion. You can load up the additional programs and scan your computer once a week with them. While running the manual scanner, you should consider disabling real-time protection in your primary antivirus program – if only to speed things up.

When you select an additional antivirus program, look for one that doesn't stay running in the background – this feature is referred to by many names, such as real-time protection, on-access scanning, background protection, or resident shield.

There are several options for second-opinion scanning, including:
  • Malwarebytes: The free version must be started for a manual scan and can't run in the background, which is perfect for this use case.
  • ESET Online Scanner: A quick, one-time scanner from the creators of NOD32. Unlike many online-scanning products from antivirus companies, ESET Online Scanner includes the ability to remove malware it finds.
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When looking for a second-opinion antivirus, try to avoid the more lightweight options. Some products, such as Bitdefender QuickScan, may do a very quick scan that won't necessarily find some malware. Bitdefender QuickScan and other products like it don't remove malware they find, either – they exist to point you towards the company's paid product.

Scanning a File With Many Antivirus Programs

If you have a suspicious file – perhaps you just downloaded it and are a bit worried or your antivirus says it's malicious but the creator insists that your antivirus is offering up a false positive and the file is actually completely safe – you may want to scan that specific file with a variety of different antivirus programs.

Unfortunately, this can be difficult when you don't have twenty different antivirus engines on your computer. Even if you did, updating each with the latest virus definitions would be way too much work.

When you need to scan a suspicious file in multiple antivirus programs, use the VirusTotal website – now owned by Google. You can upload files up to 32MB in size or even point VirusTotal at a URL online where it can download a file to analyze. The file will be scanned by 46 different antivirus programs on VirusTotal's servers and you'll see a report.

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As with all antivirus programs, there's no guarantee that the results are perfect. A file could be considered clean by every antivirus program but still be malicious. It's also theoretically possible (although very unlikely) that a false positive could be marked as such by many different antiviruses. However, in practice, VirusTotal will tell you what a wide variety of antivirus programs think of a file, which can help you make a more informed decision about it.
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