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Canada- A perfect choice for higher studies

Canada is one of the most preferred avenues for students seeking higher education abroad. Canadian universities and institutes offer Bachelor's degree, Master's degree and Doctoral or Ph.D. degree courses. To take admission in bachelor’s degree, the applicant needs to have a good educational background and minimum 12 years of earlier education (HSC equivalent). Apart from it, there are several institution specific admission criteria. To judge the language proficiency of students, most of the Canadian universities require IELTS band score of 6.0 to 6.5 or TOEFL CBT score 213 to 237 or TOEFL iBT 80 to 93. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) I is common to most of them and few universities require SAT II too. Average duration of studies in bachelor degrees is 3-4 years. For taking admission into master’s degree, the applicant needs to have good academic background and at least 16 years of education. He/she should possess language proficiency of IELTS band of 6.0 to 6.5 or TOEFL CBT sc...

Of blogs and websites and writers

Writers are becoming scarce commodities these days or is it that I just don't know where to look. Anyway, a friend of mind recently started a blog and chose this URL http://the-silver-spirit.blogspot.com/ Go through it once and boost and encourage her up. One thing, I observe in routine is the depth inside writing pieces are fading away and fading away fast. The quality of blogs which I used to read as an active blogger now I seldom see it. My own blogger friends who used to be, are now not too much into the writing scene. A drastic change. For we people write blogs for ourselves and not for others alone and hence the depth I feel should always be there. Anyway soon Jagruti, shall have advertisements and blog orangy, where usually we had content for the members who work on Orangy but now we shall incorporate content meant for the outsiders as well.

YOUTH:-Energetic, exuberant, Bold, brash, confused, demanding

Technically speaking “Youth” is the period between childhood and adulthood An age where every thing seems possible, where no challenge seems too big, where raw energy makes up for lack of experience. In earlier times people used to do a lot of manual work due to which they grew older at an early age but now with the advent of modern medicine, good transportation facilities and machines, the life span an individual has grown considerably. In modern times the word youth can be misleading as there is no particular age limit to capture this exuberance .Political parties recruit people for there youth wing whose ages are between 40 -50 yrs old But generally speaking people with ages varying from 15 -25 are included in youth . Young people are more energetic and over enthusiastic and the old more balanced and patient but at the same time, may lack the drive to change things. The youth in their enthusiasm overlook some finer details and jeopardize the journey; and the old, being overcautious...

Web Designing and Web Branding

Designing the Web There are millions of websites on the internet with each unique in its content, designs and appeal. Have you ever wondered who creates them or maintains them? Who designs the lovely website you visit each time? Who fills the content in it? I am sure many such questions are coming to your mind now. So, if you are new to this world of World Wide Web, then let me tell you that there are people like us who posses good skills and expertise, they use their talent to make your web page beautiful. Surely, web designing is fun and exciting, but there are few important things to take care of when designing a web site. The most important thing to consider is the needs and expectations of a customer for your website. Once you know the requirements of your customer, you can proceed to decide the content for it. The content of your website depends on the user’s preferences. The web designer has to ensure that the web site does not take too much time to load, plus the navigatio...

GRE- gateway to higher studies in US

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a standardized test to evaluate verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and analytical writing skills of students for admission into United States graduate schools. This test is conducted by Educational Testing Service (ETS). It is an online examination conducted at different centres across the globe. Applicants can also opt for paper-based entrance test. GRE score has different level of significance for different US universities. Some treat it as one of the important admission factors while for some universities the score is a mere formality. Except the analytical writing section, rest three sections of GRE are multiple-choice ones. Out of the four sections there is one experimental section and has the least say in one’s GRE score. However, which section will come under the experimental category is a highly confidential one and test takers have no idea regarding it. Time allowed taking GRE test is 4 hours. In the analytic...

Media’s role during troubling times

Hi All, Love them or hate them, you just can’t ignore them goes an adage. This couldn’t apply more to the media than anything else today. Print, electronic or any other form of media pervades every aspect of our life; informing us and determining, to a reasonable extent, the formation of views and our response to developing situations. The ongoing Swine Flu Pandemic has highlighted the media’s role yet again in informing, educating, spreading information and awareness among the masses. In fact, I reckon, without the proactive media we have today in this country, the flu could have posed a much bigger threat than it currently does. Having said this, there are proponents of the argument that media is primarily doing this for the sake of TRPs. Undoubtedly there is great public interest surrounding this flu and media outlets just want to cash in on this frenzy. They point out that we experience greater numbers of mortality just due to preventable diseases like malaria etc. So...

Amendment to the 'Public Office Act circa 2009'...:)

Election Commission [EC] Circular: The following 'rules' have been added to the already existing criteria for filing nominations to run for office. • Ability to shout down opposing views. It is mandatory that prospective member clear the prescribed 'decibel-o-meter' test with flying colours. • Should be strong enough to yank the speaker's microphone out in case the speaker asks you to stop speaking or says anything that is not in your favour. • Ability to fall asleep while serious discussion is going on. Candidates with snoring that amounts to just a whisper will be preferred over the rest. • Compulsory absenting on Fridays so as to take an extended weekend holiday. Punitive action will taken against members who insist on attending sessions on Friday. • Ability to smuggle in wads of currency notes and display it in the well of the house at the most opportune moment in the full glare of the cameras. Conceiving unique smuggling ideas will attract incentiv...

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients: 1 cup maida 1/4 cup cocoa powder 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 6 tablespoon curd 5 tablespoon milk 5 tsp melted butter 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 tsp vanilla essence 150 ml sunflower oil butter grease for baking tray For icing: 1/2 cup icing sugar (comes separately in packet) 4 tsp cocoa powder 3 tsp milk Method: Mix all ingredients in a bowl using wooden spatula, till consistency is smooth.(hand mixer can also be used to mix) pour into greased baking tray bake for 20-25 min (in microwave, it takes 8-10 min)á Remove tray and cool the cake Ice the cake Icing: put butter in bowl --> beat it until soft--> add icing sugar & cocoa powder--> add milk to make it fluffy Recipe Mailed in by Pankhuri Aggarwal

SOME BOOK-ED BLOGS!

The blog Nose In A Book , created on 20 th July 06 is Kirsten’s personal blog, the author being an exceptionally active reader. Though the blog had been inactive since a long time, the good news is that it has been recently resurrected! In any case, a good lot of content is already present, and the reader comes across various books, reading competitions, libraries and even book stores as they appear in the author’s life. Overall presentation is nice and coverage is gigantic, touching upon a vast variety of genres. Book names take one directly to amazon.com, so prices and all can be conveniently referred. Navigation is a bit difficult with linking being absent between two subsequent posts, and one has to move using the archive’s monthly links. But overall this is a nice sweet blog, particularly for the extra Voracious lot!

The Blog Insomniac Observatory

The Blog Insomniac Observatory by Rakesh Sukumar who started his blogging on 19 th December 2007 revolves more around some personal experiences which can be termed as Observation rather then mixing it with the word Insomniac. Though, the Blog name is very impressive. And can attract readers if used sensibly but somewhere it misses that grip of attention and lacks that touch of insomniac. The template of the Blog is as simple as it can be in Black color background and white and green color text. The blog is well maintained and holds every label clearly which makes easy for readers. The blog carry good quality of work considerably. Some are condensed written posts and some are detailed versions. Posts like Fact and Fiction grabbed my mind more. I found them very interesting.The blogger has a very subtle style of expression. But there is a loophole which showcases the negative side of the blog too. There are only 36 posts till now, 33 posts in 2007, 2 Posts in 2008 and 1 post in 20...

Content Writing Courses

It's been quite some time since I last posted here and now I wish to inform you about some courses I am starting. One is for corporates who wish to get thier manpower trained that is the writing manpower. Or institutions and schools who wish to seek for guest lectures. Then thier is a basic course which is being termed as Creative Writing Course. Spread over 30 hours and costing around 3000 bucks, this one shall teach and implore you to bring out your creative juices, to splash around all over. Again for 30 hours, thier is an advanced course that shall be called, Professional Content Writing Course and shall cost around five thousand rupees. It is designed to groom you into professional writers and teach you all the depth and reason to well utilize your creative talent. All this is gonna happen under the banner of Swadeshi School of Professional writing, being patronized by Orangy Consultancies A unit of Sigma Agro Industries Private Limited