I thought it will be fun to explore this extraordinary subject a little bit as many may have heard the term but not know what it really means.

The definition of the term expands the subject in to mystical connection that exists between the relationship of numbers that has a probable impact on one’s life and all material things in this world. This notion should probably have its roots in Pythagoras’s numerology and numerological deviation which is no longer considered as real mathematics. At present, it is known as pseudo mathematics because the modern mathematicians seem to be lost behind the logic of Pythagoras’s theories.

Anyhow, interestingly there are still a few people among the masses that believe in ancient wisdom. So numerology, although not in its original form, has been preserved up to a certain extent with modern additions.

In today’s world it is commonly seen as a form of occult science alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts. The end product that we call numerology today is probably influenced by the age old wisdom of Pythagoras and his followers in Greece, philosophers from Hellenistic Alexandria, Christian mysticism, Gnostics, Hebrew beliefs, Indian Vedas and Chinese and Egyptian influences.

Interestingly, it is known that at the first council of Nicaea, where the Catholic Church announced all deviation from the church beliefs to be civil violations within the Roman Empire; witch craft, numerology along with astrology and other forms of magical arts and crafts have been banned. So we can assume that this is a huge turning point for Numerology’s apparent invisible state, even today.

Note that numerology varies from region to region and belief to belief. Chinese numerology for example has different methodologies and calculations than the western numerology which is commonly used. So if you are interested to read more about these mystical theories, be patient until I return with the next post.

Memon community is widely spread around the world. They are well-known for trading and are renowned as rich businessmen. In this brief article, we will explore the Memon community in Sri Lanka and their customs.

These days many companies provide management training for their management staff. Normally a management training course is consisting of courses, workshops, and seminars to improve managers skills to face various challenges involved in projects and managing other people. Depending on companies policies, they may provide management training as workshops and motivational seminar, some will send their management staff to outside conferences, and some may hire professional trainers to train their staff on-site.

Team building, time management, business meetings management, goal setting, motivating and communicating employees, and problem solving are normally part of management training curriculum.

Most companies have found that managers who have promoted to a higher level of management, need to receive corporate training because they do not know how to handle their new job descriptions. Since there is a high level of expectation from a manager, he/she needs to learn time management to avoid last moment deadlines and meet goals. In addition they need additional skills including how to handle complaints, how to conduct performance aprisal, and how to mentor and coach.

Here’s is another episode of working from home quick fixes. Don’t take it too literally though. Working from home on the internet demands a lot of time, energy and continued commitment to get anywhere near success.

Let’s take a scenario where you’ve been involved with affiliate marketing for years. After successfully promoting another person’s product, you’ve thought of putting up something of your own. But strangely enough, the idea of marketing or selling your own product is dreadful. If you can relate to this situation, you are not alone. Everybody feels this way at one time or the other. It has to do with stretching beyond your comfort zone and gaining confidence to keep the next giant step.

So alright! Suppose you’ve got an e-book that you’d like to sell on the internet. The first thing you do is to position it well. That means, you should target a specific group of people rather than leaving it open to a vast arena. So if your e-book is about ‘study tips for undergraduates’, make it something like ‘secrets study tips for medical undergraduates’. This way you will attract a specific market. So if I see your book on the net and if I were a medical student, the probability is high that I choose your book over many others. So niche your product well.

The second step is to give away 50 or so, copies free. Don’t be alarmed by the apparent loss because it is an absolute give and take situation. In return for the free e-book you give away, get feedback, comments and suggestions from people. So this way, you can improve the quality of your product and even use these comments as testimonials for your book. Another thing you should do is to direct the interested parties to an opt-in page where they leave their name and email address. So this way, you’ve already got a list of people who are interested in the product for your future use. On a third column, ask these people to state their biggest challenge/obstacle etc. about studying. Use the latter as data for your market research that you will use in your self page, sales page etc.

The third tip is to give absolute discounts. Suppose that the original price of your e-book is $24.99 now you can come up with a promotional offer for $10.99 with the condition that whoever subscribes has to provide feedback on the book. This way, you will gain useful information as well as start making money, as you build the business.

All human cells have 46 chromosomes each, except for sex cells (sperms and ova) which has only 23 chromosomes. Chromosomes are the bodies in the cell nucleus which contains genes. These genes are the carriers of all hereditary characteristics from parents to offspring.

Upon the uniting of a sperm and an ovum, a single celled organism called a “zygote” is formed. This single celled organism consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes, in other words, 46 single chromosomes, of which 23 are inherited from father and the remaining 23 are inherited from the mother. All genetic information is thus carried on to the next generation and the offspring possesses equal halves of mother’s and the father’s genetic information. As the zygote divides itself through the process of mitosis, it develops physical human features (depending on the genetic information) and grows into a human baby, now called an “embryo”.

We shall now see how specific characteristics are passed on to offspring. Let us consider the gender, first. An ovum has XX pair and a sperm has XY pair. At any given time, only a single chromosome is passed on from a parent. Ultimately, the offspring too, gets two chromosomes (associated to a characteristic) but one from mother and the other from father.

In this way, a large number of characteristics are inherited from parents such as the colour of eyes, hair, and skin, abnormalities such as colour blindness, albinism, haemophilia, hypertension, diabetes, some cancers and heart diseases. More serious conditions such as Down’s syndrome and fragile X syndrome are also considered genetic disorders associated with heredity.

How genes manifest their acquired characteristics is also very interesting. Since chromosomes are in pairs, for each genetic characteristic, there are two possible genes, contributed by each parent. Among these are dominant and recessive genes. Let ‘Bb’ shows eye colour brown and ‘bb’ to shows eye colour blue. Let ‘B’ be dominant over ‘b’. Now let us see the probability of eye colours in the offspring. The particular sets of genes inherited from parents are called the genotype. It is determined at conception and cannot be change except due to environment acting upon it. Thereby, the genotype interacting with the environment produces the ‘phenotype’ which are observable and measurable expressions of an individual’s physical and behavioural characteristics. Example; height is highly heritable but it is also heavily influenced by nutrition.

We discussed the process and some of the considerations for becoming a work-at-home professional in the first part of this brief article. As promised in the previous one, let’s discuss the advantages, disadvantage and challenges for work-at-home professionals.

Since you will be taking your entire work home, keeping work and home life separate is very important. But this issue is also viewed in two different angles. For some work-at-home professionals, keeping these two streams separated does not really work and they tend to integrate both and wish to have a balance. This way, they would be working and also will be attending minor household responsibilities. For some this method makes them highly unorganized. For them, they need to setup strict instructions for working hours and stay focused on the work. They are more or less the same as working in an office.

The next challenge would be distractions. Especially if you have a large family with young kids, working from home would be a little difficult. You need to do an assessment and see whether your environment is ready for working from home.

If you ask work-at-home professionals the advantages of working from home, they will tell you many. Most of them see the best advantage as being your own boss. And spending more time with the family comes next. Apart from these two, there are other advantages such as no time and money are wasted for traveling, no extra cost for office-ware, no office politics etc.

When it comes to disadvantages, working alone, feeling isolated and lack of socializing top the list. One can easily become depressed if he or she is used to associate a lot of people in an office environment. But some people would see absolutely no disadvantage of working from home. They like to work alone and take the control of their life to their hand.

Since we have discussed some of the key points of working from home, I assume you may have a better picture of this endeavor and hope this may help you to find a correct approach, if you are willing to work from home.

Among hundreds of social and business networking sites, there are only few standup for quality and classy service. After the social and business-networking boom, there is only handful of survivors catering the Internet users today. These web sites cater different user segments such as teenagers and young adults, senior citizens, work at home professionals etc. In this article, we are reviewing Cambridge Who’s Who service briefly.

Cambridge Who’s Who can be identified as a networking facilitator for executives, professionals and entrepreneurs. It acts as a directory for above categories and has somewhat strict conditions for membership. Candidates will have to go through an evaluation process before they get their membership. That may be one method for ensuring high quality profiles on members so that, members can benefit from each other. As any other service, Cambridge Who’s Who too, comes with a membership fee.

Cambridge Who’s Who publishes the member biographies in three mediums as hardcover, online and CD-ROM. These three mediums are offered targeting different reference options for members. But when it comes to up-to-date information, online directory should be the ideal medium for using Cambridge Who’s Who because with the fast growing member community, hardcover and CD-ROM will quickly be outdated.

Currently there are about two hundred thousand biographies of members spread across a number of countries. Although Cambridge Who’s Who is an international directory, the majority of members are from countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and England. If you are willing to network with other professionals and entrepreneurs to enhance your business contacts, to get a wider customer base for your product or service etc., you can try out Cambridge Who’s Who on a one year membership and then extend it, if it works out for you.

While consumers have resigned themselves to escalating gas prices and the feeling of helplessness, business owners who have fleets have long been taking control of their fuel and maintenance costs through the use of gas cards.

These fuel cards offer the fleet or business owner numerous conveniences and security not afforded other consumers.

Some of the advantages of fleet cards for owners include:
• Cost savings that come from keeping a tight lid on fraudulent transactions
• Access to reports in real time showing fuel usage and maintenance costs
• The monitoring of overall vehicle usage, including fuel economy
• The ability to manage spending by controlling, for instance, not only the number of transactions each day and the number of gallons but also the days and times during the week when purchases can be made

Some of the advantages of fleet cards for drivers include:

• The security of not having to carry cash or a credit card
• The convenience of being able to use it in many locations
• No need to worry about having to get reimbursed later on or being out of pocket in the interim
• The peace of mind that comes with not stressing about running out of money

If you feel like you’re losing control over spiraling costs for your vehicles, then perhaps fuel cards are the solution to watching where your money travels.

Few days back, we discussed about the junk food dilemma. Now let’s turn to the common topic that everybody talks about and only a handful follow: Healthy food Habits.

If you find yourself contemplating for hours and hours on what to eat, what’s healthy and what’s not; you are not alone. The seemingly healthy foods do not for most part contain proper nutrition. Yet you get tangled up with the temptation of tasting that delicious cup of pudding or plate of risotto. Finally when you make up your mind to settle on a full vegetable diet, you remember the article that you’ve read about warning against genetically engineered food.

So now the million dollar question is: what is healthy? And what proof do I have? So here’s my tip for you. Do not despair in your confusion. Learn the basic tips about healthy diet and you will know through intuition what to eat and what to avoid.

Here are the best tips for choosing a healthy diet.  

• Fruits and vegetables are known to do wonders to your body. Pick up fresh vegetables and fruit. Always make sure that you have picked different colors to maximize the variety.
• Give priority to non starchy vegetables such as carrots, spinach, green beans and broccoli.
• Include raw vegetables in your diet at least twice a week and make sure your daily meals contain enough components of fiber. If your main meal does not contain fiber, compensate for it through fruit such as apple and melon.
• If you are prone to food allergies, avoid tropical fruits.
• Avoid processed food. This is especially important of meat items and grains. Replace the processed food with whole grain foods and fresh meat items.
• Brown rice and whole wheat spaghetti contain a sack full of nutrition. Try them out in different styles.
• Have a preference for fresh fish over meat. Try to add fish items to your meal at least twice a week
• When you eat meat, make sure you avoid the fatty components such as chicken’s and turkey’s skin.
• If you are over 35 of age, try using non-fat dairy products such as skim milk, non-fat yogurt and non-fat cheese
• Include dried beans such as lentils, green grams or pinto beans in your diet.
• Water is the best medicine for all your ailments and imbalances in the body. Consume at least 4 liters of water every day. Avoid carbonated drinks. Always choose ‘diet’ drinks over sweetened drinks such as regular soda, sweet tea or cordials.
• Use liquid oils in cooking.
• Cut down on full-fat ice creams, puddings and cakes.

So give in a little thought according to above tips, before you start preparing your meals. I’m sure you will come up with amazing menus that will be both delicious and risk free.

Traveling to Canada is one of those journeys that can happen once in life time for most people, because it is costly and far from rest of the world. Therefore you need to prepare for this travel in order to enjoy it.

On top of list for preparation is travel insurance. Although you might have scheduled your whole trip, but it does not always go your way, anything can happen like accident or medical emergencies.

These days travel insurance has become a necessity and travel insurance Canada in not an exception. You must be prepared for unwanted and unpredictable circumstances in Canada such as medical expenses and even accidental death.

Competition is very tough among insurance companies, the best way is to search in internet and find insurance companies that offer visitors to Canada travel insurance quote, you need to compare their offers and figures and see what type of benefit they offer in their policy. Make sure to visit and contact reliable and reputable insurance websites.

Many of us would like to become our own boss when we face office politics, not-so-good income and lack of freedom for a personal life. Some quit their jobs just like that and later realize the mistake they made. In this short note, we are trying to understand what it takes to become a good work-at-home professional and advantages versus disadvantages of it.

Areas for work-at-home vary a lot as there are thousands of professions out there that can be done by staying at one place. But, all these professions can be divided among few categories such as Teleworking, Self-employed, Freelance, Part-time etc. based on the nature of the commitment and work. You may not need to engage in the same field as you do now but you can learn a new career and move on if you wish to.

The rule of thumb for starting work-at-home endeavor is not to jump in to it all at once. You may need to start it as a part-time or as a hobby and then see how you progress with that. You may even give up the idea of working from home since it’s too much pressure on you or simply you cannot adapt to the new life style. So, try it before you actually do it. When you decide on working from home, first select your area for working. If it’s your current field, then you may not need to learn anything extra in a hurry. So you can start earning a little bit faster than the other way. But sometimes you may want to take a break from what you do and in that case be wise and choose something you are good at and would enjoy doing.

Although you are working from home, you need to have a professional environment for working. Otherwise you won’t “feel” that you are working. Find a place with fewer disturbances and equip it with necessary accessories. Then you need to establish some rules. This is just for maintaining professional discipline. As you are at home, your family, friends and relatives may think that you are approachable any time. This is one thing that you need to make firm arrangements about. Any of these interactions should not distract you from your work. Educate them before hand about what you are going to do and times they can interact with you.

Ok, this is about some points on what it takes to become a good work-at-home professional. In our next article we’ll discuss some of the advantages, disadvantage and challenges for work-at-home professionals.

If you find warnings about food every where you turn, I will not be surprised. Starting from your grand mother, mother, aunty and all other elders will warn you against your diet. They will say junk food is bad for health and you need to slow down on them. At one point it may seem like that people think all that you ever eat is junk food.

But for you (especially if you are very young) you diet seems perfect. Your favorite hamburger with fries will have green leaves, tomatoes, meat, bread, and potato fried in oil so it looks quite balanced because carbohydrate, fiber, protein, fat and vitamins all seem to be there.

So why is everybody making a huge fuss over it calling it ‘junk food’? The matter of the fact is hamburgers and other quick fix take-away food contains ingredients that are over used to bring out a certain taste. With the help of such ingredients, the manufacturers are able to cover up for the empty calorie diet they sell. In addition, some green leaves and tomatoes are used to decorate, so as to add a ‘healthy’ look to the food; after all people have this impeccable belief that anything ‘vegetable’ is great.

But if you analyze closely, such food have low nutritional content in them. They are mostly made up of saturated fat, salt, sugar and food ingredients. Among these, monosodium glutamate and tartrazine have been recognized as the main culprits that make food less nutritious.

Monosodium glutamate is also commonly known as flavor enhancer 621, MSG, Ajinomoto, Vetsin, Accent, Sodium salt and Glutamic acid. Tartrazine on the other hand is commonly known as E102 and FD&C Yellow 5. It is mostly used as a food coloring & additive agent and is known to be produced from coal tar.

So you may be curious to know what type of food contains these ingredients the most. When it comes to tartrazine; soft drinks, instant food like puddings and flavored chips and confectionery tops the list. Other foods include cereals and cake mixes.

If you consider things such as chewing gum, bubble gum, marzipan, jellies, gelatin and mustard pastes, ice creams and certain noodles; they are food with very low or no nutritional value. Even some rice items such as paella and risotto, puddings, custards and soups can be surprisingly low in nutritional value although tangy in taste.

So remember that looks and tastes can be very deceiving when it comes to any sort of food, no matter if they are classified as ‘junk food’ or not.