GLONASS in Cell Phones

GLONASS is an acronym, which stands for Globalnaya Navigazionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, or Global Navigation Satellite System. GLONASS is Russia's version of GPS (Global Position System).

Who built it?

Soviet Union started the development of GLONASS in 1976. GLONASS is the most expensive program of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming a third of its budget in 2010.

Versions-

The various versions of GLONASS were

1. GLONASS – launched in 1982, the satellites launched were intended to work for weather positioning, velocity measuring and timing anywhere in the world or near-Earth space by the military and official organisations.
2. GLONASS-M – launched in 2003 add second civil code. It is important for GIS mapping receivers.
3. GLONASS-k – started in 2011 again has 3 more types namely k1, k2 and km for research. Adds third civil frequency.

How much did GLONASS cost?

In the past decade ie.10 years up to 2011 the Russian government spent about 5 billion dollars on GLONASS project, the most expensive ever by Russian Federal space Agency.

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How is GLONASS different from GPS?

GPS developed by USA has a network of 31 satellites covering this planet and has been widely used in commercial devices like mobile phones, navigators etc.

GLONASS is developed by Russia originally started by Soviet Union in 1976. This has a network of 24 satellites covering the earth.

The image shows the orbit and constellation of GLONASS (left) and GPS (right).

Commercial Use of GLONASS:

GLONASS was first commercially used in car navigator as Glospace SGK-70 but was bulky and expensive.  Russian government is trying hard to promote GLONASS commercially.

IPhone 4S was the first apple product to use both GPS and GLONASS for pinpointing location on maps.

All the high end devices in near future that supports GPS facilities, especially navigators are expected to include GLONASS receivers on their chip to use location based services.

Advantage of GLONASS over GPS:

There is no clear advantage other than accuracy over GPS. When used alone GLONASS doesn't have that strong coverage as GPS has, but when both used together certainly increases accuracy with coverage. And it is more useful in northern latitudes as Russia started GLONASS originally for Russia.

The accuracy is an advantage of GLONASS with up to 2 meter of accuracy. GPS + GLONASS allows your device to be pin pointed by a group of 55 satellites all across the globe. So when you are in a place where GPS signals are stuck like between huge buildings or subways, you will be tracked by GLONASS satellites accurately.

 

What is offered for smartphones?

Today any mobile phone whether it is a high end or a low budget smartphone is equipped with A-GPS (assisted Global Positional System) which uses network capabilities to find your location.

Now with GLONASS being offered for public services, more and more smartphones are being launched with GPS+GLONASS technology to use dual core location based service to find location. Initially only Flagship or high end smartphones boasts these features but as time will progress, we will see both these technologies being equipped on low and mid-range smartphones. More and more companies and chip manufacturers seem to be interested in GLONASS technology, so more and more smartphones are expected to be launched with this technology.

Does GLONASS + GPS drain battery twice as faster than what GPS does?

As a matter of fact renowned manufacturers like Qualcomm are already with energy efficient solutions for phones powered by snapdragon processors. The chip will intelligently switch on and off the GLONASS signal receiver when needed. So smartphones would be energy efficient unlike the earlier generation phones with battery drainer GPS systems.

What's next after GLONASS and GPS? Is this the end?

European Union is currently working on a system called GALILEO which is to be completed by 2014.

China is developing its own constellation of 35 satellites called Compass Navigation system. It will offer more capabilities than current GPS.

courtesy: thetecnica

True Story: Two Puppies and Cobra

The incident occurred in the Indian state of Punjab. Two puppies fell into a well. Their mother ran near the well and started barking, and attracted the attention of the owner, who looked inside and to his surprise there was a king cobra at the bottom, which didn't pose any threat to the puppies. Moreover, the reptile, looked after the puppies, by not allowing them to cross to the other side, where they could possibly drown, when the well is filled with water.

In general, they spent around 48 hours together at the bottom and in these 48 hours the cobra sat quietly next to them. When help finally arrived from the forest department, the cobra slithered to the other end of the well. The puppies were not injured at all and the reptile was immediately taken into the woods and was released into the wild.

Even the most deadly and dangerous creatures on earth know what Co-existence and mutual assistance is. The human race is in this respect far behind, and this is our biggest drawback.

Miscommunication :P

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Why Doctors Commit Suicide??

By Pamela Wible, MD | Consultantlive

Dr Wible is a family physician born into a family of physicians. She has developed a model for change in healthcare delivery that first asks a community what it wants and needs from the healthcare experience. Her model for the "ideal clinic" is taught in graduate medical curricula.

I've been a doctor for 20 years. I've not lost a single patient to suicide. I've lost only colleagues, friends, lovers–ALL male physicians–to suicide. Why?

Here's what I know:

A physician's greatest joy is the patient relationship.

Assembly-line medicine undermines the patient-physician relationship.

Most doctors are burned out, overworked, or exhausted.

Many doctors spend little time with their families.

Workaholics are admired in medicine.

Medicine values competition over nurturing.

Many doctors function in survival mode.

Doctors are not supposed to make mistakes.

Caring for sick people can make you sick if you don't care for yourself.

Medical education often dissociates mind from body and spirit.

Some medical students believe they graduate with PTSD.

Seeing too much pain and not enough joy is unhealthy.

For a physician, a cry for help is weakness.

The reductionist medical model is dehumanizing for patient and physician.

Many doctors are emotionally detached (especially male physicians).

Doctors are obsessive-compulsive perfectionists in an imperfect medical system.

Physicians are the nation's social safety net with few resources to help patients.

Some doctors feel like indentured slaves. 

Death is perceived as failure.

Doctors don't take very good care of themselves or each other.

Many doctors are in denial about the high rate of physician suicide.

Physicians are often bullied by insurance companies, employers, and patients.

Doctoring is more than a job; it's a calling, an identity.

Doctors are often socially isolated.

Doctors can't just be people. They're doctors 24/7.

Doctors can feel severe psychological pain.

Doctors can feel powerless.

Doctors can feel trapped. Some see no alternatives to their suffering.

Doctors have easy access to lethal drugs and firearms.

Doctors have the same problems as everyone else.

Doctors have marital distress. They get divorced.

Doctors have addiction to drugs and alcohol(Drug information on alcohol).

Doctors have economic hardship and unbearable debt.

Doctors have mental illness.

Doctors are human.

Stress

Stress is an unpleasant fact of life. We all experience it for various reasons, and we all try to come up with ways of coping with it—some with more success than others. So what exactly is stress doing to your mind (and body) when you're staring down a deadline? And what can you do to power through it?

The real problem with stress is that, for such a well understood and universally experienced condition, as a society we deal with it so poorly that it leads to many of our most lethal illnesses and long-term health problems. High blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, stroke, obesity, and insomnia are all medical conditions across the spectrum that can be related to or directly influenced by high stress as an environmental condition.

In order to cut through some of that fog, let's take a brief look at what stress is, how it impacts us on a physical and mental level, and finally what we can do about it, with the help of some experts. Photo by bottled_void.

Defining Stress: Acute and Chronic
Everyone experiences stress in some way, shape, or form. We all recognize when we're in stressful situations, and we all know when we're stressed. At the same time, stress is more than just a feeling that we have a lot to deal with. For the purposes of our explainer, we're focusing on so-called "bad stress," as opposed to "good stress," like the kind of you experience on a roller coaster (if you went on willingly), when you get a big promotion, or kiss someone for the first time. Aside from good stress, there are primarily two types of stress: Acute (short-term) stress that's usually a response to a specific influence (called a stressor), and chronic (long-term) stress that sticks with you and could either have sprung from a short-term stress that stuck with you, or a constant state of stress that you're under due to persistent stressors and conditions. Photo by Becky Wetherington.

Acute Stress: Acute stress is the type of stress you experience when you have an immediate reaction to something you're presented with. This is the "in the moment" kind of fight or flight response that you have when you have to speak in a meeting, your boss just asked you to stay late, you're startled by a sudden noise, or someone on the internet makes a ill-informed comment about your favorite smartphone platform/operating system/hardware manufacturer. (How could they!?)

Acute stress is defined by the fact that it's immediate and short term. In most cases, once the stressor has been removed, your body and mind return to a normal state.

Chronic Stress: Chronic stress is entirely different, and is characterized by its long-term nature. This is the type of stressthat you feel that you're under every day, with no reprieve from the things that make you feel stressed. Most chronic stressors are situations, for example, in which you dislike your job and detest going every day, being there all day, and thinking about it when you leave. Living paycheck-to-paycheck and struggling with financial security issues is another common source of chronic stress that many people are familiar with.
Its these types of chronic stress situations that are the most dangerous. They keep your body's defenses activated and heightened longer than is generally healthy, and unfortunately more and more of us are living under constant conditions that create stress. Add to this the fact that "coping with stress" isn't exactly a topic you learn in school and you have a recipe for a lot of very unhappy people.

What's Actually Happening When You're Stressed
Your body shows signs of stress in two ways: first, the rush of hormones that elevate your heart rate, boost your blood pressure, and stop your digestion, and then second the symptoms that you experience and are aware of, like clenched teeth, headaches, and emotional upset.

Most of us can tell when we're stressed momentarily, or are just feeling stressed out generally, but there's a lot going on inside our bodies when we're stressed that play a role in our health.

Symptoms: The most common and recognizable symptoms of stress are the ones most of us know all too well: insomnia, headaches, jaw pain, back and neck pain, stuttering, heartburn and nausea, nervousness and anxiety, fidgeting, nail-biting, lateness and trouble focusing, and a lack of interest in work or activities that are normally interesting. The American Institute of Stress (AIS) has a list of 50 common signs and symptoms of stress that include these, but also note a number of other symptoms that you may not have immediately associated with stress and not another condition like depression.

For example, behavioral changes that lead to other conditions can also be signs of stress, like addictive tendencies, a sudden interest in smoking, alcohol, excessive eating, or gambling, or any other addictive behavior that can be interpreted as an escape from chronic stressors. Often, even subconsciously, many of us try to escape stressful situations or conditions by blocking them out or escaping by way of anything that makes us feel better. Even if it's fleeting, it's common to search out an escape so you can relax for a while. Photo by The American Institute of Stress.

I spoke with Roger S. Gil, MAMFT, about some of the less productive ways people cope with stress, and he highlighted that trying to escape without dealing with the actual stressor is more common than you may think. "Overeating, displaced anger, denial, defensiveness, etc. All are signs of avoidance and coping strategies that are meant to protect the ego from the discomfort caused by the stressor…and none of them do anything about the stressor," he explained. "Withdrawing (i.e. checking out mentally) from the situation at hand is something I see A LOT of in my work with couples. For example a husband may withdraw into his own little world when his wife complains about something. Instead of hearing her concerns, he pulls away and encourages her to nag him some more…which causes more withdrawal."

These behavioral changes cut both ways though: the AIS notes that stress reactions can also lead to isolation, loneliness, and severe depression as well. If you've been suddenly feeling alone, forgetful, overly defensive, disorganized, uninterested in your everyday life, overwhelmed by what's going on around you to the point where you need to lie about them, and having difficulty communicating with others, it's possible that chronic, poorly managed stress may be part of the problem.

Physiological Effects of Stress: While stress is most often discussed in terms of how it changes our mental and emotional condition, stressors and stressful situations also have a profound impact on our bodies. Stressors, whether they're acute or chronic, immediately set off the body's fight-or-flight response, flooding your system with stress hormones like norepinephrine and cortisol that are meant to give you a needed boost in dangerous situations. 

In short and small bursts, those hormones can make you more alert, more perceptive, raise your heart rate so your muscles get more blood to them, and raise your breathing rate so you get more oxygen into your lungs. Your digestive processes stop entirely so your body doesn't waste energy processing food when it needs all the energy it can muster to survive. It's a good thing if, say, you're dashing across a busy street or escaping a burning building, but keeping your body's fight or flight response turned on all the time and those stress hormones at high levels in your body is unhealthy, as this eHealth article explains.

If these hormones stay in your system for too long, they can eventually lead to high blood pressure and increased heart rate, stress-induced hypertension and stroke risk, ulcers and other gastrointestinal distress, a suppressed immune system, fatigue, sexual issues like impotence and decreased libido. After all, those stress hormones are meant to be in our systems for a short period while we deal with an acute stressor, at a time where we need all of our faculties about us. Over the long term, keeping the body on full alert is more of a detriment than a benefit.

What You Can Do About Stress
Once you recognize the effects of stress and understand the damage you're doing to your body by not coming up with ways to cope with the stress that you're under, it's time to do something about it. I spoke with clinical psychologist Jeffrey DeGroat, PhD about some of the ways you can reduce the impact that chronic stress has on you and how to cope with acute stressors.

Dealing with Acute Stressors: If the stressor is acute and temporary, Dr. DeGroat suggests applying simple relaxationtechniques like deep breathing, to calm the mind and the body so you can get the clarity you need to address the situation. He proposes taking a 10-second breathing cycle: breathe in for four seconds, and then out for six seconds. "Works as a thought distraction," he says, "as well as physically slowing down heart rate. This is a good technique to use anytime and anywhere." Photo by Shawn Rossi.


Previously mentioned app CalmDown for Mac is a utility designed just for situations like this: it encourages you to take a deep breath (or a few) so you can step back from the stressor for a moment, gather your thoughts, and push through the fog of frustration and anger that often come with stressors.

I also spoke with Roger Gil about dealing with stressful situations and he reinforced the point: "Stressors like these can produce physical responses at first; so if you're heart is racing, you're short of breath, or you feel your muscles tightening somewhere in your body, know that you're feeling a physiological stress response. In those cases, channeling your awareness of your body can sometimes distract a person away from the area of the body having the stress response." Recognizing that you're having a physical reaction will help you calm down and deal with the situation the way you really want to, as opposed to letting it stew in your mind only to come up with what you wanted to say 15 minutes after you should have said it.

In that vein, Dr. DeGroat explains that figuring out what you wanted to say a few minutes after you said it is very common, and often a result of being unprepared for the stressful situation you're presented with. Aside from making sure to be ready for those situations in advance if you can be, he suggests acknowledging that you're stressed in the situation and telling the person or people you're dealing with that you'll get back to them later. Photo by Sasha Wolff.

"Rather than responding immediately with something we may regret later, or not saying anything at all," he says, "another option might be to indicate to the person that you'll talk to them later about the situation. For example, [imagine] you find out that a co-worker is dating an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend of yours. Rather than yelling at them and making yourself look out of control, or saying 'oh, that's cool,' when you're really upset about it, you could say, 'let's not get into this right now.' This will give you some time to collect your thoughts and approach them on your terms and on your time." Time, as Dr. DeGroat explains, is key to defusing acute stressors, letting your body and mind return to normal, and giving yourself the space to deal with them in a healthy way.

Dealing with Chronic Stressors: Stressors that you deal with on a daily basis or that are always hanging over your head are a different matter entirely. Usually they give you a little more time and space to deal with the thing that's making you stressed, and there are other relaxation techniques for stressors that may not require action on your part right away, or stressors that are always lurking in the background, like your boss, for example.

Visualization is one way to relax yourself when you're presented with a stressor that you don't need to respond to immediately. Dr. DeGroat suggests that if you can, take five to ten minutes to immerse yourself in the most relaxing environment you can possibly imagine, whether it's green fields, a chair by the sea, or your favorite easy chair at home. Focus on as much of that environment as possible, trying to manifest the sounds, smells, and details about it in your head. The more you do this, the farther away you'll get from the thing that's bothering you. It won't make that thing go away, but it will give you a little clarity of mind and distance from the stressor. Photo by Gabriel Pollard.

If you have additional time to relax and some space to be alone, Dr. DeGroat suggests progressive muscle relaxation to defuse some of the natural tension that comes with being stressed. "Systematically tense and relax muscle groups, beginning at your toes and working your way all to the top of your head. [This] serves as a distraction from current stressors and can help reduce physical tension that often accompanies stress."

Another tip Dr. DeGroat offers is to identify whether level of stress and your response to it is realistic or unrealistic when you're in the middle of it. If it's realistic, as in anyone would respond the same way and there's something you can do about it (like your computer froze or you just dropped something,) then address the situation and move on. If the response is unrealistic and others may not respond the same way (traffic isn't moving fast enough or security lines at the airport are too slow,) then address yourself: calm down, step back, and try to relax.

The first step to addressing yourself is to challenge the way you're thinking about the stressor. "Challenging these automatic thoughts that often hijack our minds and promote stress has been shown in research to be a great way to help break the patterns of thinking & behaving that are counterproductive/harmful," Roger Gil explained. "Once the 'mental battle' is won, the IRL battle is more easily handled."

Granted, none of these measures have to be practiced only in the context of chronic stress, but it is more likely that if your boss is getting on your nerves again today or the rent is due and you're worried about being able to afford groceries, you're more likely to take a few minutes and address how you feel so you can approach the issues in a clear manner than you are if you're stuck in a meeting and asked to speak on a topic you weren't ready for.

How to Deal with Stress In the Future
When I asked Dr. DeGroat how we could deal with certain kinds of stress that seem to crop up from time to time, like an overbearing extended family or an aggressive and disrespectful employer, he pointed out that while there are ways to deal with each situation on its own merits, much of the stress that gets to us the most comes from relationships. "Really, I believe stress in relationships (occupational, family, social), often includes difficulties with setting and maintaining boundaries. Others seem to expect too much from us. Rather than setting our own limits/boundaries, we allow others to cross these boundaries, and end up feeling irritated and resentful. One of the best ways to prevent stress in relationships is to identify our own limits/boundaries and hold to them," he says. Photo by Joel Mendoza.

In some cases, it may simply be better to remove yourself from chronic stressors if you're having difficulty adapting to them or minimizing them. After all, if your job is wearing you down and there's no improving it, it may be time to look for a new job. If your relationship is so stressful it's destructive for everyone in it, it may be time to break it off, and if your apartment is run down and your landlord won't fix it, it's time to move out. There are plenty of good reasons to learn to cope with stress, but there are other equally good reasons to remove the stress from your life when you can.

To that end, there's no real way to live a completely stress-free life. Remember, there are positive stressors as well as negative ones, and the positive ones are usually good experiences that we enjoy or seek out. The same applies for negative stressors: they're bound to happen eventually and avoiding them is a futile effort. The key is in knowing how to deal with them, and how to minimize their effect on you.

If the stress you're experiencing is chronic, consider other activities like taking up a hobby, meditating, or traveling—anything that can take your mind off of those stressors and provide a healthy outlet where you can relax. "Other helpful stressful coping mechanisms are exercise, doing an activity you're good at that won't worsen the stress (e.g. cooking, video games, etc), and watching a very engrossing movie/TV show," Gil said, "Sometimes interrupting the state of stress a person is in with an activity they enjoy is enough to keep them from losing control."

There's no magic formula for dealing with stress, but employing coping mechanisms that give you distance, helps you get through the moment, and at best minimizes the overall impact the stressor has on you are a good way to stay healthy, happy, and productive. Photo by Jacob Bøtter.
"It is how we approach it that can cause us problems, or allow us to grow. The more control we can find within a situation, or over ourselves, the more likely we will grow from the situation," Dr. DeGroat explained, "The more we are able to identify and act upon the control and choice we have in situations, the less debilitating the stress will be."

This is just a short introduction, but unsurprisingly, entire books have been written on the topic of stress, its medical and psychological implications, and how you can deal with it in healthy ways. While we hope we've given you some insight into how your body reacts to stressors and how you can manage them in the moment and on the long term, we know that this is by no means an exhaustive study into the topic. What are some of your most successful ways of dealing with stressful situations, both short and long-term? Share your suggestions in the comments

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Brains re-wire after injury

Scientists from the United States and Australia have advanced our understanding of brain plasticity by showing that the brain forms complex new circuits after damage, often far from the damaged site, to compensate for lost function.

A new study by Drs Moriel Zelikowsky and Michael Fanselow from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in collaboration with Dr Bryce Vissel, from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, identified the exact regions of the brain that take over when a learning and memory centre, known as the hippocampus, is damaged.

Their breakthrough, the first demonstration of such circuit plasticity, is published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the Academy of Science (PNAS), the journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences. 

Learning theorists Drs Michael Fanselow and Moriel Zelikowsky conducted studies in the lab showing clearly that rats were able to learn new tasks after damage to the hippocampus. While they needed more training, the rats nonetheless learned from their experiences, a surprising finding.

After performing these behavioural experiments, Dr Zelikowsky came to Australia and collaborated with Dr Bryce Vissel to analyse the anatomy of the changes that had taken place in rat brains. Their analysis identified significant functional changes in two regions of the pre-frontal cortex. 

"Interestingly, previous studies had shown that these pre-frontal cortex regions also light up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, suggesting that similar compensatory circuits develop in people," said Dr Vissel.

Vissel, who examines the potential for hippocampal regeneration and repair in Alzheimer's patients, believes that the finding will radically change the ways in which scientists think about the brain.  He said "we've constrained ourselves by the idea that specific parts of the brain are dedicated to specific functions, and that if regeneration were to take place it would have to do so near the damaged site." 

"Until now, we've been trying to figure out how to stimulate repair within the hippocampus. Now we can see other structures stepping in, and whole new brain circuits coming into being. That's truly exciting."

Dr Zelikowsky finds it interesting that subregions in the pre-frontal cortex compensate in different ways, with one subregion –  the infralimbic cortex – silencing its activity and another subregion –  the prelimbic cortex – increasing its activity.

"If we're going to harness this kind of plasticity to help stroke victims or people with Alzheimer's, we first have to understand exactly how to differentially enhance and silence function, either behaviourally or pharmacologically," she said.

"It's clearly important not to enhance all areas. The brain works by silencing and activating different populations of neurons. To form memories, you have to filter out what's important and what is not – in other words, you need to keep the background noise down in order to detect similar patterns."

Dr Michael Fanselow explained that whenever a complex behaviour develops, it always involves multiple parts of the brain talking to each other, one region's message affecting how another region will respond. These molecular changes produce our memories, feelings and actions.

"The brain is heavily interconnected – you can get from any neuron in the brain to any other neuron via about 6 synaptic connections," he said.

"So there are many alternate pathways the brain can use – but it normally doesn't use them unless it's forced to. Once we understand how the brain makes these decisions, then we're in a position to encourage pathways to take over when they need to, especially in the case of brain damage."

"I expect that the brain probably has to be trained through experience. In this case we gave animals a problem to solve."

"Behaviour creates molecular changes in the brain – so if we know the molecular changes we want to bring about, then we can try and facilitate those changes to occur through behaviour and drug therapy. I think that's the best alternative we have – future treatments are not going to be all behavioural or all pharmacological, but a combination of both."

"While it's probable that the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers are already compensating for damage, this discovery has significant potential for extending that compensation and improving the lives of many," added Dr Vissel.

Courtesy: Science Alert

9 Attributes Of The Best Entrepreneurial Leaders

Creating and building a business is not a one-man show. It requires a team effort, or at least the ability to build trust and confidence among key players, and effectively communicate with partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. These actions are the hallmark of an effective leader.

Behind the actions are a set of principles and characteristics that entrepreneurial leaders, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, seem to have in common. Look for these and nurture them in your own context to improve the odds of success for your own start

 

up:

1. Clarity of vision and expectations. You must be able and willing to communicate to everyone your vision, goals, and objectives. Just as importantly, you have to be absolutely clear about who you are, what you stand for, and what you expect from everyone around you. People won't follow you if they are in the dark or confused.
   
2. Willingness to make decisions. It is often said that making any decision is better than making no decision. Even better than "any decision" is a good decision made quickly. Business decisions always involve risk, at times a great deal of it. Smart entrepreneurs always balance the risk with facts, when they have them, rather than their gut.
   
3. Experience and knowledge in your business area. Effective leaders set a personal standard of competence for every person and function in the start
    
   up. It must be clear that you have the knowledge, insight, and skill to make your new company better than your very best competitor.
   
4.  
   Commitment and conviction for the venture. This commitment must be passionate enough to motivate and inspire people to do their best work, and put their heart into the effort. Behind the passion must be a business model that makes sense in today's world, and a determination to keep going despite setbacks.
   
5. Open to new ideas and creativity. In business, this means spending time and resources on new ideas, as well as encouraging people to find faster, better, cheaper, and easier ways to produce results, beat competition, and improve customer service. Be a role model and guide others to excel.
   
6. Courage to acknowledge and attack constraints. An effective leader is willing and able to allocate resources to remove obstacles to the success of the start
    
   up, as well as removing constraints on individuals on the team. It is believing that where there is the will, there will be a way.
   
7.  
   Reward continuous learning. You have to encourage everyone to learn and grow as a normal and natural part of business. That means no punishment for failures, and positive opportunities for training and advancement. Personally, it means upgrading your own skills, listening, and reading about new developments and approaches.
   
8. Self-discipline for consistency and reliability. An effective leader is totally predictable, calm, positive, and confident, even under pressure. People like to follow someone when they don't have to "walk on eggshells" to avoid angry outbursts, or assume daily changes in direction.
   
9. Accept responsibility for all actions. Everyone and every company makes mistakes. Good entrepreneurs don't want to be seen as perfect, and they have to be seen as willing to accept the fact that "the buck stops here." No excuses, or putting the blame on the economy, competitors, or team members.
   

The good news is that all of these principles of leadership are learnable. The bad news is that it's not easy. Don't assume that success as an entrepreneur is only about great presentations, killing competitors, or having insanely great ideas. It's really more about leadership, understanding the needs of your prospective clients, and communicating your solutions with clarity.

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1	Rights of Parents (English) (Mirza Ehteshamuddin Ahmed)3.4 mb 27 pageshttp://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Rights_of_Parents.pdf or http://ia601603.us.archive.org/25/items/RightsOfParents/Parents.PDF or www.scribd.com/doc/60810874/The-Rights-of-Parents or http://en.islamstory.com/uploads/multimedia/books/muslim_character/rights_of_parents.pdf
2	The rights of Parents (Shaykh Muhammad Saleh Al Uthaymeen) http://abdurrahman.org/character/essentialrights.html#3
3	Kindness to Parents- Abdul Malik Al-Qasim-4 mb-77 Pages http://www.kalamullah.com/kindness-to-parents.html
4	Honoring Parents- (Shaikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid) 1 mb - 72 pages http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Honouring%20Parents.pdf

 

 

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5	Essential Rights- (Shaykh Muhammad Saleh Al Uthaymeen) http://abdurrahman.org/character/essentialrights.html
6	Parent-Child Relationship in Islam –(Dr. I.A. Arshad)  http://www.islam101.com/sociology/parchild.htm
7	The Rights of Parents and Children in Islam(navedz) http://navedz.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/rights-of-parents-and-children-in-islam
8	Rights of Children(Mirza Ehteshamuddin Ahmed) 4.3 mb 31 pages  http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Rights_of_Children.pdf or http://ia801604.us.archive.org/13/items/RightsOfChildren/Children.PDF or www.scribd.com/doc/60811083/Rights-of-Children or http://en.islamstory.com/uploads/multimedia/books/muslim_character/rights-of-children.pdf
9	The rights of Children in Islam (Shaykh Muhammad Saleh Al Uthaymeen) http://www.missionislam.com/family/childrensrights.htm
10	Child Education in Islam- (Shaikh Abdullah Nasih Ulwan) 24mb- 422 Pages http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Child%20Education%20in%20Islam.pdf

 

 

 

 

#	Book Title /  Link
11	Nurturing Eeman in Children- (Dr. Aisha Hamdan) 5mb-220Pages http://www.kalamullah.com/nurturing-eeman-in-children.html
12	Healing with the Medicine of the Prophet-Tibb-e-Nabawi (Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyah)17.9mb http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Medicine.pdf
13	The Beard Between the Salaf and the Khalaf (Muhammad al-Jibaly)1 mb-18pg http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/beard.pdf
14	Muslim's Beard (Mirza Ehteshamuddin Ahmed) 4.3 mb 10 pages http://ia601206.us.archive.org/1/items/MuslimsBeard/MuslimsBeard-1.46mb-10p.pdf
15	The Position of the Beard in Islam- (Allaamah Badee'ud-Deen Shaah ar-Raashidee as-Sindee) http://www.kalamullah.com/brothers04.html
16	Guard Your Tongue (Mirza Ehteshamuddin Ahmed)  2.24 mb 23 pages http://ia701504.us.archive.org/17/items/GuardYourTongue/Tongue1.pdf
17	The Evils of the Tongue - Islamic Propagation Office Rabwah Saudi Arabia http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_The_Evils_of_the_Tongue.pdf
18	Guarding the Tongue-(Imaam Yahya ibn Sharaf An-Nawawi) 56pages http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Guarding_the_Tongue.pdf
19	In Pursuit of Allah's Pleasure (Dr. Naajeh Ibrahim. Sheikh 'Aasim 'Abdul Maajid. Sheikh 'Esaam-ud-Deen Darbaalah- 4 Authors)  http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_Allahs_Pleasure.pdf
20	A Code for Everyday Living (Imam Bukhari) 1.5mb -179pages http://islamfuture.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/al-adab-al-mufrad-a-code-for-everyday-living.pdf

3 Idiots - Facebook Style

Rancho: *Smiling*

Teacher: Aap muskura kyu rahe ho?

Rancho: Bohot dino se Facebook me account banane ki ichha thi...aaj bana diya hai...bohot maza aa raha hai.

Teacher: Zyada maza lene ki zarurat nai hai...Tell me what is a Post?

Rancho: Anything that is posted on Facebook is Post, Sir.

Teacher: Can you please elaborate?

Rancho: Sir...jo bhi Facebook pe log daalte hai post hai sir...Ghumne gaye...photo daal diya! Post hai Sir. Match dekha score daal diya! Post hai Sir... Sir actually hum post se ghire hue hai sir! Katrina ki pic se Ronaldo ki kick tak!
Sab post hai sir! Ek second me comment, ek second me like!
Comment-Like...­ Comment-Like

Teacher: Shut up! Account banake ye karoge? Comment-Like...­ Comment-Like...

Hey Chatur tum batao,

Chatur: Pictures, texts or videos posted through mobile or tablet or laptop or desktop via different operating system using internet on Facebook is called a Post...

Teacher: Excellent!

Rancho: Par sir maine bhi toh wahi bola seedhe shabdo mein...

Teacher: Seedhe shabdo me karna hai toh orkut ya twitter ke pages pe account banao... :@

Rancho: Par sir dusre sites bhi toh...

Teacher: Get out!

Rancho: Why sir?

Teacher: Seedhe shabdo me bahar jaiye.

Rancho goes out and comes back*

Teacher: Kya hua?

Rancho: Kuch bhul gaya tha sir.

Teacher: Kya?

Rancho: An utility button given to us, to protect our private data i.e pictures, messages or personal information for being stolen or used for bad purpose by hackers or anyone else...

Teacher: Kehna kya chahte ho!?!?

Rancho: Logout sir! Logout karna bhul gaya tha!

Teacher: Seedha seedha nahi bol sakte the?!

Rancho: Thodi der pehle try kiya tha sir, aapko pasand nahi aaya :p

Behavioral Contradiction

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, 
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."

We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,

"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."

By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.

"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."

I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway."

I said, "Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.

And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?