This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks.

The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.

New Delhi: The Kama Sutra is giving computer professionals across the world sleepless nights. But not in the way you think.
A computer virus, scheduled to strike on February 3, Kama Sutra will corrupt documents with the most common file types, including doc, pdf and zip files.
And here's the bad news: India will be the most affected.
Speaking to TOI, managing director of Centre for Anti Virus Technology, Pune, Kailash Katkar, said: ''This virus first emerged on January 16. It has already crashed 300,000 computers across the globe. However, its worst effect will be felt on February 3. We feel the virus specially targets computers with the Norton anti-virus software. That puts India, Peru and Italy, where this software is used in abundance, in grave risk. The only way people can save their files is by updating their anti-virus software before February 3.''
Also known as CME-24, MyWife or BlackWorm, the virus' main purpose will be to destroy all Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint documents and Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop files on all hard drives connected to an infected PC. Besides dis abling anti-virus softwares, Kama Sutra will also raid address books to find e-mail addresses to send itself to.
Microsoft has issued an advisory, warning people about the worm, which affects most versions of its Windows operating system. The virus will spread by making people open attachments on e-mail messages that are infected with the destructive code. The subject lines and body text of the various messages will vary. But all of them will falsely claim that pornographic videos and pictures are attached with it.
What's baffling experts most is that unlike other e-mail worms, Kama Sutra is detached from any profit motive, destruction being its only job. Victims will be able to tell they've been infected if they clicked on an e-mail attachment and their keyboard and mouse freeze up, forcing them to reboot. Disinfection will require reinstalling an anti-virus programme updated to protect against this worm, then scanning to make sure it has been purged.
Another expert said: ''Because big corporations have tighter email defences, small businesses will be hit hard. But big companies won't be immune. The worm is designed to inject file-deletion instructions onto corporate servers. It does so via systems that share data with employees logging on to corporate systems from remote locations.''

Kama Sutra virus may strike on Fri

San Fransisco: A destructive worm posing as a pornographic e-mail may already have infected hundreds of thousands of computers and could erase many everyday files on February 3, security experts warned on Tuesday.
The 'Kama Sutra' worm, which targets popular Microsoft Corp, Adobe Systems Inc and ZIP files, is a threat because many users will not know the virus has infected their computers until it is too late, security experts said.
They also estimate that the worm — which spreads by e-mailing itself to addresses in an infected computer's mailbox — may already have slipped onto 275,000 to 500,000 machines and is now simply waiting to obliterate files on Friday.
The virus, also known as Grew.A or MyWife, tricks users by appearing as an email attachment with subject lines such as "Hot Movie," "give me a kiss" and "Miss Lebanon 2006."
Some variations refer to the ancient Kama Sutra guide to elaborate sexual positionsin order to attract attention and convince victims to open. Reuters

Source: IANS.

New Delhi, February 2: If a group of defence scientists and automobile engineers has its way, people could soon be driving in India in a hydrogen fuel cell-powered mini car that could double up as a power generator.

The DRDO-Reva hybrid vehicle combines a car built by Bangalore-based Reva Electric Car Company with a fuel cell developed by scientists of the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation. Running it could cost as little as 40 paise a kilometre, say its developers.

"DRDO and Reva concluded an agreement about two months ago to develop the car, and we have already built the prototype," said S.C. Sharma, a scientist associated with the fuel cell programme at DRDO's Naval Materials Research Laboratory near Mumbai.

"DRDO has been working on fuel cells for about 10 years. This car currently has a mileage of 20 km per litre of methanol while running on its fuel cell," Sharma told IANS at the Defexpo 2006 where the car is displayed for the first time.

Although the development of the hybrid car could take up to a year, Sharma and Reva's V.M. Suresh, who is associated with the project, said it would have another use in electricity-starved areas in India's rural hinterland - it can be used as a generator to power a small home.

The fuel cell - which Sharma described as a "small power plant" - is silent and produces very little emissions. The green-and-black prototype, for which the chassis of the standard Reva car has been stretched so that the bulky fuel cell can be accommodated at its rear, has been attracting many curious visitors at the Defexpo.

While the standard Reva electric car has a range of 80 km, the hybrid will initially have a range of 120 km and this could be further extended. The hybrid's top speed is 65 km per hour.
When the car is switched on, it draws power from its built-in battery for the initial 30 minutes or so as methanol and water are converted into hydrogen to power the fuel cell.

"The fuel cell then continuously charges the battery and helps extend the vehicle's range and allows it to be operated in places where electricity is not readily available," said Sharma.

Suresh said it would be very cheap to run the hybrid car, given the subsidies offered by the Indian government to popularise methanol as an alternative green fuel.

"Methanol costs only about Rs.8 to Rs.10 a litre and the car has a very good mileage," he remarked.

More importantly, the DRDO-Reva uses a phosphoric acid fuel cell, which can run on "dirty hydrogen" or hydrogen with a strong content of gases like carbon dioxide - something that Sharma noted is ideal for polluted cities like Delhi.

Read about the evolution of Cricket


The game of cricket was played in England more than five hundred years ago. Although at that time, it was not the same as the game we now call cricket. There were two different games, each a little like cricket. They were called club ball and stool ball. In the game of club ball, there was a batsman, a bowler and fielders. The ball was covered with leather. The batsman used a stick or pole to hit the ball, but there was no wicket for him to defend. In the game of stool ball, a stool was used as a wicket. The bowler tried to hit the stool with the ball and one man tried to stop him. The man who was defending the stool did not have a bat. He just hit the ball with his bare hand. The batsman did not score 'runs' as cricketers do nowadays. But, every time he defended his stool against a ball, he scored one point. The batsman was 'out' if the ball hit the stool, or if the ball was caugh by a fieldsman after the batsman had hit it. Many years later, the batsman used a stick, instead of his hand, to defend the stool.
Then sticks began to be used for wickets. There were two wickets about twenty-two yards apart. Each one was made of three sticks. Two sticks were stuck upright in the ground with a third stick across the top. The sticks were often just brancehs off trees. Sometimes, when shepherds wanted to play cricket, they could not find branches. Then they took a wicket gate from one of their sheep pens and used it as a wicket.
As more cricket was played, the batsman's stick was made into a bat. Then he began to score 'runs'; by running between the two wickets. A hole was cut in the ground, between the two upright sticks of the wicket. The batsman had to put his bat in this hole, at the end of every run. The batsman was 'run out' if the wicket keeper put the ball into this popping hole, before the batsman got his bat into it. Many wicket keepers had their fingers hurt in this way. The two upright sticks of the wicket were so far apart that the ball could pass between the. So a third stick was put in the middle of the wicket.
Then there was no space for a popping hole, so a new rule was made. The umpire held up a stick. The batsman had to touch this stick, with his bat, at the end of every run. There were just as many hurt fingers, with this rule, as when the popping hole was used. Then, at last, a 'popping crease' was marked on the grass, in front of the wicket, as it is in cricket today.As cricket became a popular game in England, many cricket clubs were formed. Hambledon Cricket Club, which started in the year 1750, became the most famous of all. At the Hambledon Club, the rules of cricket were written down and clubs all over the country agreed to them. Different ways of bowling, fielding and wicket-keeping were tried out. At this time, for every run that a batsman made, a notch was cut in a stick. The runs were called the 'score', because the word 'score' means a scratch or mark. The man who cut out the notches was called the 'scorer'. When cricket was first played, the bowler always sent the ball to the batsman with a under-arm throw. About one hundred and fifty years ago, a young lady was trying to bowl for her brother. She wore a crinoline dress with a long, full skirt. The skirt had hoops in it to make it stand out stiffly. When she tried to bowl under-arm, her crinoline stopped her arm swinging forward. She then began to swing her arm backwards and upwards, to throw the ball from above her head. Now all cricketers bowl over-arm instead of under-arm. In under-arm bowling the ball travelled along the ground. Then the bat was made wider at the bottom than at the top. Over-arm bowling made the ball bounce in front of the batsman. Then a straight bat began to be used. The early rules did not say how wide the bat should be. At one match a Hambledon, a batsman used a bat almost twelve inches wide. It was as wide as the wicket. No one was able to bowl him out. The rule was then made that a bat could not be wider than four-and-a-half inches. At first, cricket was played mostly by country people. Later, gentlemen in London began to play and many cricket clubs were formed there. The most famous London club was near Marylebone Road. It was started by a man called Thomas Lord and it was called Marylebone Cricket Club.
How it is so well known that people hardly ever use its proper name. It is just spoken of as M.C.C. The M.C.C. cricket ground was always called 'Lords', after Thomas Lord. Twice the club moved to new grounds. Each time, Thomas Lord arranged for the turf to be dug up and moved to the new ground. In the early days of cricket, the players did not wear special clothes for the game. They just took off their jackets. Men who wore top hats, kept them on while they were playing. Sometimes a player used his top hat to catch the ball. Some people thought that a ball caught in a top hat was not a fair catch.
Finally, a rule was made, saying that the ball should not be caught in a hat. If a player did this, five extra runs were given to the other team.

How to Succeed as a WriterCopyright © 2005 Michele Pariza WacekWriting USAhttp://www.writingusa.com

As a professional copywriter, I'm often asked by aspiring copywriters what they need to do to succeed. Most of their questions center around writing ability. They want to know how to find out if they have the talent to succeed, or if there's a "test" they can take that will tell them if they're a good enough writer to actually get paid to write.
Well, for better or for worse, writing ability has very little to do with a writer's ultimate success. (Business owners who want to write to promote their business, take note -- I'm talking to you as well.)

If there was a test out there (and there isn't by the way) but if there was, I would say the test would deal only with your attitude about writing and leave ability flat out of it.

Yes, you heard me right. Attitude over ability. That's the key to success.

I know. It's hard to hear. As writers, we want so badly to be told our work is good, that it has merit, that we truly are talented. I'm not sure why so many of us need that exterior validation -- perhaps because writing is such a solitary, inner activity that when we do finally come up for air, we want to make sure we haven't been wasting our time.

But to be honest, it is possible to become a professional writer, to be paid for your work, and not be terribly talented. (In fact, I'll do you one better. It's even possible to force overworked, exhausted college students in English Lit classes to read your books and not be all that talented. Case in point: Thomas Hardy.)

When I look at professional writers (and I include authors in this category) the common denominator I see isn't writing talent. It isn't even a desire to write -- I know, it's kind of strange, but there's more than a few of those folks out there.

It's a desire to succeed as a writer.

If you're determined to succeed as a writer, and have the will and the mindset to do it, then you'll succeed at it. Period.

Now, that doesn't mean you can skip working hard, honing your craft or, yes, actually putting pen to paper or hands to keyboard and churning out words. You have to be determined enough to do what it takes. To make the necessary sacrifices. To actually do the work. And, to know setbacks will happen and obstacles will appear and learn to take them in stride.
Not everyone is going to like what you've written. I don't care how good you are. You're going to get some, if not a truckload, of criticism along the way. But, again, that's part of your attitude. You have to be able to take the rejection, the criticism, or the just plain mean comments in stride.You have to pick yourself up and keep going. Because you know in your heart you're on the right path and you won't allow those nasty people derail you.

And that, my friends, is what it takes to be a writer.

Creativity Exercise -- Get the right attitude

People have written books about changing your attitude, so I'm not going to pretend this exercise is the end-all, be-all. But it's a start.

Twice a day, place your hand on your chest and say out loud "I choose to become a successful writer. I have the attitude of a successful writer." This is a declaration, not an affirmation. According to T. Harv Eker, author of "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind," declarations are more powerful than affirmations. Declarations simply declare your intent rather than state your goal is already happening (which is an affirmation.) When you state your goal as if it's already happening, a little voice inside you usually pipes up and says "that's a load of crap" thus making it harder to change your attitude. But if you simply state the intention, then no little voice chimes in to tell you otherwise.

And, when you say it out loud, you're letting your subconscious know, the universe know, and the cells in your body know (because they can feel the energy) what you're intending to do. Placing a hand on your chest allows you to feel that energy. So change happens faster. If you also look in the mirror, you'll accelerate that change even more.

Above all, remember this: Believe and it WILL happen.

Follow ur Dreams !
Regard's
Afzee