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Fire Burn has always been a general concern for us. Right from woman cooking to the people working with fire generating devices, everybody gets a fire burn when they accidentally touch the stove or a hot burner getting a burn in a hand or legs.

In the end, the fire burn has touched everyone’s life one day or the other.

Sitting in office, i received an email from my peer on how to treat a minor fire burn? The Email contained information of  Egg Whites helping out in reducing the impacts of fire burn.

Confused with the solution as the topic was new to me, i investigated on the possibility of Egg whites healing a fire burn.

Surprisingly, i came across various articles online and also from ehow on the same notes of treating a minor fire burn.

As a journo myself,  i am giving out the instructions below to you folks on how to treat a minor fire burn.

However, the Egg white treatment should not be attempted with major burns. Spraying cool water on major burns is strictly infectious to health and it might cause you a state of shock, warns doctors.

Steps to treat a minor fire burn

• Make a paste of equal parts baking soda and water. For example, mix 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 cold tablespoon water. Put it in a plastic container or bowl and mix together. Apply it gently to minor burns and cover it for about 10 minutes. Rinse the paste off with cool water and cover the wound with gauze or bandage. Wear protective clothing afterward to avoid exposing the burn to the sun.

• Run cool water over the burn for several minutes. Treat the burn with aloe vera or another cooling spray. Aloe vera is soothing and healing to burns. Take Tylenol or aspirin to relive the pain of sunburn or burns. Cover the wound with gauze or bandage loosely.

• Crack an egg and separate the yolk from the egg whites. Put the egg whites into separate containers. Using a soft cloth or paper towel apply the egg white directly to the burn. When it dries, reapply it again. Do not rinse it off, but gently rub off the egg white. Cover the burn loosely with a bandage.

• Cut a tomato into wedges or slices. Rub the tomato over the burn. The acid from the tomato will soothe the burning and prevent blistering.

• Run cold water over the burn for several minutes. Do not apply ice, as it can damage the skin. Apply Vitamin E or any antibacterial cream designed for treating burns. Often called triple antibacterial ointment, these cremes are soothing and heal burns effectively.

If you encountered any burns, We would recommend you to do the First aid and see the doctor right away. As burns no-matter minor or major  is a burn in the end.

Each year, on September 5th, United States celebrates Labor day to recognize and appreciate all the hard working employees in its states. The Labor day is a National Holiday for US citizens.

History Of  Labor Day

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.

In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Day of Rest

A street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations”, followed by a festival for the workers and their families. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civil significance of the holiday.

The holiday is often regarded as a day of rest and parties.

Forms of celebration

Forms of celebration include picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays, water sports, and public art events. Families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer recess. Similarly, some teenagers and young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to school, although school starting times now vary.

Today, the first Sunday of August, People all over the world celebrate the Friendship Day.

Friendship between the two people is considered so holy that this relationship is considered even above Mother, Father, wife and kids.

It is often said that, “A friend is a person who knows all our deeds, but yet he will remain with us forever.”

Traditionally, any one can celebrate the friendship day but more often it is seen among the school kids and college kids hanging out together and celebrating it.

Life changes when people enter their Professional life, where people try to overtake you and downgrade you in all possible ways possible. Its more like impossible to find a friend in later part of one’s life after college.

How Friendship day Idea Originated?

Wikipedia reports the following,

Friendship Day was originally promoted by Joyce Hall, the founder of Hallmark cards in 1919, and intended on first sunday of august to be a day where people celebrated their friendships by sending cards.

The first Sunday in August was chosen as the centre of the largest lull in holiday celebrations. Friendship Day was promoted by the greetings card National Association during the 1920s but met with consumer resistance – given that it was rather too obviously a commercial gimmick to promote greetings cards. By the 1940s the number of Friendship Day cards available in the US had dwindled and the holiday largely died out there.

There is no evidence to date for its uptake in Europe, however it has been kept alive and revitalised in Asia where several countries adopted the tradition of dedicating a day to friends. Today, Friendship Day is enthusiastically celebrated in a number of countries across the world

Its funny that  Friendship day which is followed throughout the world was proposed with an intention of Commercial gain.

Do you Know?

The UN changed the Friendship day from First sunday of August and has official recognized the International Friendship Day on 30th of July.

In Situations like this, i say Who Cares.  For me every day is Friendship Day!

I leave you with beautiful Friendship day Pic.

Happy Friendship Day Folks

Whoa, talk about information overload. Scientists are now claiming that the human brain might have reached its full capacity and that we can’t get any more cleverer then we are now.

Does that mean its end of human technological development? Well, no since we humans always tend to work in large groups and its always a joint effort rather than one human’s brain work, we can still continue to evolve without reaching our limits.

A team at Cambridge University, led by Professor Simon Laughlin, says this is because the people are unable to provide the amount of extra energy and oxygen needed to become more intelligent.

The scientists have based their findings after analysing the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up.

Keeping all these findings aside, our human body always surprise our scientists. Being the brain its functionality still being mysterious I think we might hit the mother lode of information where we find ourselves in the middle of virtually unlimited potential of the brain. But brain being finite its capacity must also be finite. But I believe its still has a lot more potential then right now.

Professor Simon Laughlin was quoted by the British media as saying, “We have demonstrated that brains must consume energy to function and that these requirements are sufficiently demanding to limit our performance and determine design. Far-reaching powers of deduction demand a lot of energy because for the brain to search out new relationships it must constantly correlate information from different sources. Such energy demands mean there is a limit to the information we can process.”

The scientists say that the wiring inside the brain would need vast amounts of extra energy to become more efficient. As it’s impossible for humans to provide this, they can’t become any smarter.

In their research, the team measured the efficiency with which different parts of the brain communicated with each other and found impulses travelled fastest in smarter people and slower in those who were less intelligent.

“High integration of brain networks seems to be associated with high IQ. You pay a price for intelligence. Becoming smarter means improving connections between different brain areas but this runs into tight limits on energy, along with space for the wiring,” Ed Bullmore, team member, said.

Airbus has revealed their dream of 2050 in which they see Airplanes to be the most desired mode of transport by the world population.

In their efforts, Airbus has produced their vision in the graphical images that seemed awesomely exciting.

The images shows Airbus proposal to develop airplanes that would be transparent as well as entertaining to the future passengers.

Sounds exciting to me. If i live by 2050, and if Airbus executes their vision, then air travel in Airbus planes will definitely be the first in my priority list.

Here’s some  stunning images of Airbus Airplanes from year 2050

With its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers of the future will get a window on the world as they fly through the sky. They will be able to see everything to the sides and in front of them.

The concept cabin unveiled at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, would be a bionic structure that ‘mimics’ the efficiency of the bird bone, claimed the company.

The ‘smart tech zone’ is tailored towards the more functional-orientated passenger with what Airbus describes as ‘a chameleon-style offering.’

It aims to meet individual needs ranging from a simple to a complete luxury service, but all allowing ‘you to continue life as if on the ground’.

Researchers have found that the widespread use of search engines and online databases is affecting the way people remember information.

Normally, when we have the urge to know new info, we go straight to Google, Yahoo or Bing and try to find out the solutions.

However, the Googling factor has become so common that even for a simple issue people are using search engines for a solution.

Now, that is an issue!!!

People are finding it hard to remember and are taking internet as granted inorder to search or to know issues that are simple to understand and remember.

The factor of relying everything from the web and not aiming to remember simple issues  has made our mind   “weaker”, according to a new research

Holy cow!!! This is serious.

The research made by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia and her collaborators, Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, just proves the very concern of memory loss.

They staged different memory experiments on a group of people, reports the New York Times.

In one experiment where participants typed 40 bits of trivia, the team found that the subjects were significantly more likely to remember information if they thought they would not be able to find it later.

“Participants did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could later look up the trivia statement they had read,” wrote the authors.

A second experiment was aimed at determining whether computer accessibility affects precisely what we remember.

“If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one colour in their flag, for example,” the researchers wrote, “do we think about flags – or immediately think to go online to find out?”

In this case, participants were asked to remember both the trivia statement itself and which of five computer folders it was saved in. The researchers were surprised to find that people seemed better able to recall the folder.

“That kind of blew my mind,” Dr. Sparrow said.

The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory – the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.

The Internet’s effects on memory are still largely unexplored, Dr. Sparrow said, adding that her experiments had led her to conclude that the Internet has become our primary external storage system.

“Human memory,” she said, “is adapting to new communications technology.”

Working hard for years, yet no appraisals.  My performance is very good but still my manager thinks i am nowhere for a salary hike or a promotion. I behave the most standard way as per corporate norms, yet he thinks i am useless.

An average employee of all organization thinks  “My Manager, My Enemy”

As per any employee, he works good, he is punctual, he is smarter, he deserves better. Their boss is their enemy, just because someone else was given preference than him

Here, through this post, we attempt to change your thoughts about your manager.

A Person responsible to manage a team and the project with the knowledge that every mistakes done by his team lies on his shoulder is the one we term as a Project Manager .

We have analyzed  certain facts that in particular makes an employee frustrated with his boss. Here, we include  Onsite problems, Lack of Appraisals, Lack of promotion.

Onsite Problems

An Employee, normally hates his manager because of low exposure or lack of onsite opportunities. What he fails to understand is the amount of risk a manager is taking by sending an employee to Onsite.

For those who think Onsite is fun, i would suggest you to change your thoughts. An employee who is visiting Onsite does not go alone rather he takes the entire organization on his shoulder. Any lack of judgement or lack of knowledge on a particular field would risk the loss of entire project and the Companies reputation.

Working at Onsite is a toughest job an employee could ever take. And sending an employee to Onsite is Far more toughest job that a person could take.

Lack of Appraisals

I dont suppose appraisals are a problem at all. Almost every organization follow a standard pattern to increase an employees salary for over 10 to 20 percent.

But wait, this is not enough for some employees. This is exactly where the issue began. Although we see employee thanking the manager for the appraisals they get by going for a team lunch or an holiday visit, the majority of them however, disagrees.

People think, they deserve more. Like 100 percent hike! This is  silly.

These are the said employees who in our terms are not ok with anything they get and they always want more.

Lack of Promotions

I believe, an employees argument of Lack of promotion  is  genuine and is his right. Since the IT boom, we see hundreds of thousands of employees working in a single organization. Likewise, we have thousands of high standard  CMMI 5  level companies.

When an employee joins a company, he should work for his as well as an organization growth.  Promotions may come his way or not, but it is very sure that Performance appraisals  will come his way.

If  you are really smart, then i believe your manager will have no issues to promote you.

Trust me, your manager wants to share his load and he will be very happy to give his share of load to an high performing employee.

If you take these three issues and speak to yourself. Then in the end, you would encourage how far your manager is better than any one of you.

An employee thinks for himself!

A manager thinks for his team as well as the Organization