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Thiru. Ward No.68 of Chennai Corporation, the contract work commenced on Monday 11th September 2006, is renovating Vi.Ka. Park in Shenoy Nagar. When interviewed, an officer informed our reporter that this work is scheduled to be completed within 6 months.

1. Location, location, location…
Serious about getting work done? Find a good location. Use the libraries, study rooms, or empty classrooms.

2. Make It a Habit: Do Coursework Every Day
Cramming is not conducive to understanding and retaining large amounts of information. Time on your courses each day is the best way to learn. Use the time between classes to stay on top of readings.

3. Help Exists! Seek It Out and Improve Your Grades
Whether you’re an ‘A’ grade student or a ‘D’ grade student, you can strengthen your skills. Get to know your professors and tutorial assistants. Use study guides and help centres.

4. Write It Down
Use a day planner or wall calendar. Plan time for coursework. Plan ahead for assignments and exam periods.

5. Get Energized - Eat, Exercise, Sleep
Fatigue and stress weaken memory and comprehension. Eat properly, exercise regularly, and get adequate sleep.

6. Perform Like a Pro: Go to Class Prepared and Take Thorough Notes
Don’t miss class. Someone else’s notes aren’t going to be as good as having gone to the lecture yourself. While taking notes, listen for emphases and examples. Questions after the lecture? Go to your professor or tutorial assistant after office hours. Learn as you go and you won’t find yourself unprepared the night before an exam.

7. Lectures and Textbooks: What’s the BIG Picture?
University learning requires understanding how pieces of information fit together to form a “big picture.” Use course outlines, tables of content, and headings and subheadings to organize information.

8. Do Something to Remember Key Information
Be active! Generate examples, create mnemonics, make summary notes, identify key words, highlight textbooks, or add margin notes. Improve your memory by being creative and interested.

9. Think You’ll Remember Key Points? Prove It.
No matter how well you understand something, without practice forgetting will occur. Before a test, recall information without looking at notes or textbooks and by doing practice questions.

10. Be Test Smart
Don’t lose marks because of test-writing errors. Use strategies to tackle different types of tests (e.g., multiple-choice). Read instructions, budget time to marks, and do less difficult questions first to build confidence.

Your child sits down at the dining room table and with a sigh, opens an English textbook. Pulling out a grammar exercise, she throws a sidewise glance your way before whining, “I don’t know how to do this.”

What should you do? Drop everything and run to her aid? Calmly tell her to do the work herself? Call a tutor?

A parent can play a healthy role in helping kids to successfully complete their homework assignments. But parents must draw clear boundaries that protect them from offering too much help and their kids from expecting it.

Encourage your child to do as much as possible alone:
“Try the first set of verbs. See what you can do.”
“Read the directions again.”

But if your son or daughter persists in claiming they are unable to understand or complete the assignment, you may need to step in:

“What specific problem are you having?”

“Read it aloud to me, slowly.”

Kids may not appreciate this type of response, preferring, instead, a hands-on approach from Mom or Dad. But it is more helpful when parents gently insist that kids apply critical thinking skills to solve problems themselves.

Due to the ever-increasing heavy road traffic and traffic congestion in the city. The government is looking for all feasibility for underground metro train service. The RIGHTS department of Chennai is conducting preliminary surveys at Anna Nagar to this effect. It is reliably understood that the proposal of underground metro train service is for the entire city.

Nowadays women travel a lot independently either on a vacation or on a business purpose. If you are considering going solo your next vacation, here are a few travel-tested tips that make it easier.

The accommodations, hangouts and restaurants listed will be full of other independent travelers. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to hook up with a variety of people for an afternoon of exploring the bazaar, eating a meal together, or even traveling for a day or a week together.

Some guidebooks (such as the Lonely Planet series) will list them. Many cities have well-known meccas for independent travelers from bookstores to cafes to youth hostels with bulletin boards and calendars of local events. These provide a treasure trove of listings for inexpensive tours, travel companions or ride wanted, free or almost free lectures, or social gatherings, which you can join.

Even if you want to be unstructured, book at least the first night’s accommodation in advance. It may cost more than you want to spend the rest of the trip for lodging, but this makes it easier getting your bearings and ensures you don’t start the trip fatigued trying to get it all together right when you step off the plane in a foreign country.

Advances can be thwarted by silence, no eye contact and quickly moving away from the source of irritation.

Always trust your instincts. If you are really being pestered, go into a store or hotel and explain that you are a tourist and there is a person annoying you, that you are afraid and don’t know how to handle it. Can they help by calling the police or telling the obnoxious person to go away? Works every time!

Dress conservatively so as not to draw attention to you and take clues from the way local women are dressed. Some of the most meaningful travel experiences come from spontaneous invitations to join a person, family or group for a dinner or activity. Communicate with women, children and elders.

Even if you don’t speak their language, a smile goes a long way.

Ask yourself if a destination is perfect for honeymooners. If it is, then avoid this location (unless you are a romance voyeur).

So be brave and take the plunge - try traveling solo, you may become a convert. Remember, it is better to BE alone than to wish you WERE alone.

Women have come a long way, but the odds are stacked against them when it comes to financial matters. Worse, many women view money and money-related tasks as necessary evils, not opportunities to even the odds. Following these strategies can help ensure prosperity.

12 smart moves to make
1. Set a financial goal.
2. Train yourself to be financial independent.
3. Buy your own home.
4. Fund your retirement account.
5. Plan your long-term not crisis management.
6. Start investing.
7. Don’t fear risk.
8. Don’t do it alone.
9. Get emotional support, if you need it.
10.Be more confident in your salary negotiations.
11.Venture out of your financial comfort zone.
12.Know that it’s never too late.

Teaching is an art.Teaching with a dedication and a vision is what that makes it unique. Mrs.Emmie is one such exponent who travels on par with a vision admist challenges.
Emmie hails from an orthodox and conservative family of Mr.John and Mrs.Elizabeth John from No.7, Second Street, VGP Amudha Nagar, Maduravoil Chennai. Emmie completed her school education at Presidency Higher Secondary School, Egmore. But before completion of her school studies she was married to Charles, when she was in her final year in School.

The inborn instinct to serve others inspired her to persue her studies even after her marriage and she successfully completed M.A. M.Ed., in Madras University in the year 1981. During this span, her father who was running a small Primary School with few children gave in charge of the school to her. Mrs.Emmie Charles by her sheer perscverence made that primary school to higher secondary school in the year 1988, which is now Nathans Girls Higher Secondary School, Nerkundram.

To make the school exemplary, she introduced night classes for the village students, which resulted in the students securing centum results continously for 3 years.

Mrs.Emmie Charles says that this method has encouraged more students from the village to join her instiution. May god bless this teacher to continue her yeomen services?

Mrs.Shanthi Muralidharan got Best Teacher’s award for the academic year 2006-07. The teacher’s day celebrations were held on 08.09.2006, at Maharisi Vidhya Mandhir Senior Secondary School at a solemn function.

Mrs.Shanthi Muralidharan, a primary teacher handling Tamil at Chinmaya Vidhyalaya, Anna Nagar, was awarded the best teacher’s award for the academic year 2006-07, for her 12 years service in the field of education by the West Sahodaya Cluster Schools, Southern Region.

The Chief guest of this occasion was Shri. M.V.V. Prasada Roa, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed. & B.L., Joint Seceratry & Regional officer, Central Board of Secondary Education, Chennai.

The Tamilnadu Handicrafts Development Corporation has opened “Kolu” dolls exhibition at Poombuhar showroom in Anna Salai. State Minister inaugurated the exhibition for Electricity and Rural Development Shri. Arcot. N.Veerasamy presided over by Shri. C.P.Singh I.A.S, Shri.T.Rajendran I.A.S. was also present.

Idols made of clay; paper and marble dust are on display. Apart from traditional sets of Vinayagar, Ramar, Ashtalaxmi and Dasavatharam, Gopika dance sets and Mysore dhassehra sets are also on offer. Some Kolu dolls have also been made in Kondapalli and Kolcutta styles. A 10% discount is offered on all items. The exhibition is on till 30.09.2006 from 10.00a.m to 8.00 p.m on all days including Sundays.

An annual exhibition of the Women Entrepreneurship Promotional Association (WEPA) will be held at the Corporation Community Centre, Kamarajar Salai, R.A.Puram,between 21st and 23rd September 2006, both days inclusive. WEPA will also be organising a seminar on World Trade Organisation and Small Scale Industries at hotel Savera, Dr.Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore on 25th September 2006.
Registration fee will be Rs.250/- each.

For further details contact: 9444044068/98418713385.