Bill Gates ---------Recent Speech

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how to feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

• Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
• Rule 2: The world doesn't care about yourself esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something Before you feel good about yourself.
• Rule 3:You will Not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
• Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
• Rule 5: Flipping a burger is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping, they called it opportunity.
• Rule 6: If you mess up, its not your parents fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
• Rule 7: Before you were born, your parent weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
• Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they will give you as Many TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
• Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you Find Yourself. Do that on your own time.
• Rule 10: Television is Not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
• Rule 11: Be nice to nerds, Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Kids Projects Ancient Cities and Ancient Ruins

Ancient cities were smaller than most modern cities. They were centers where local rulers lived and where people came from the countryside to sell or trade goods. Although many ancient cities have completely disappeared over time, the remains of some still exist. From them, we have learned a great deal about how people once lived.

Buried City

Pompeii was prosperous city in Italy until the volcano Vesuvius erupted on August 24, A.D. 79. About 2,000 of its 20,000 people died. The ruins were preserved in volcanic ash. When archeologist dug them up, the remains provided much information about life in the city.

Planned City

Chang’an (xi’an) was the imperial capital of China from 202 B.C. to A.D. 8, during the Han dynasty. Archeologists working on the site unearthed original plans of the layout of Chang’an as well as many ruins. The city was once surrounded by a wall.

Temple To A Goddess

Built from 447 to 432 B.C., the Parthenon, a temple to the Greek goddess Athene, stands on the hill of the Acropolis, Athens Greece. The sculptor Phidias made a large gold and ivory statue of Athene, which was placed inside the temple. Over the centuries, the temple was used as both a Christian church and a Muslim mosque.

AMAZING FACTS

• The pyramid of the Sun took 3,000 workers 30 years to build.

• Pompeii was covered with volcanic ash up to 7 m deep.

Birthplace Of The Sun

By about A.D.500, Teotihuacán was the largest city in Mexico, with a population of about 200,000. The Pyramid of the Sun was one of the city’s largest buildings. It was a temple thought to be the birthplace of the Sun. Pyramid is terraced and rises over 60 m above the city.

Kids Project - Early India

There were many changes during the early part of India's history. From 2500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. the Indus Valley people of northern India lived as farmers. Then invaders, called Indo-Aryans, arrived. Over the next thousand years, the Hindu civilization developed. It was a mixture of early Indian customs and Indo-Aryan beliefs. India was divided into separate kingdoms, ruled by Hindu warriors. Hindu laws and customs were first written down in holy songs, called Vedas, around 600 B.C.

First Indian Empire

Chandragupta Maurya was a Hindu warrior. Before he came to power, India was made up of thousands small settlements with many languages and customs. By 322 B.C., he had created a new empire that united and controlled much northern and central India.

Riding Off To Battle

From about 320 B.C. to 185 B.C. Hindu warriors fought wars to win riches and conquer new land. They rode to war on elephants and in chariots pulled by horses. The well-trained elephants led the armies into battle.

Indus Valley Civilization

Around 2500 B.C. two great cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, were built in the Indus Valley, in present-day Pakistan and northern India. These cities had forts, palaces,open-air baths and comfortable brick houses. The Indus Valley people were farmers, traders, artists and craft-workers and were ruled by priest-kings.

Amazing Facts

*When the rest of the world managed without indoor plumbing, Indus Valley houses already had bathrooms, piped water and drains. *

New Religious Laws

King Ashoka was Chandraupta's grandson. He was also mighty warrior. However, in 262 B.C. after many battles with the Kalinga people, during which 1,00,000 people were killed, he realized that violence was terrible. King Ashoka ordered pillars carved with his new laws to be built throughout his kingdom. Ashoka's lion is a symbol of modern India. He became a Buddhist and made many new laws based on peaceful Buddhist teachings. He also built roads and hospitals.

Kids Project - Ancient Egypt and its Neighbors

The nation of Egypt was created in 3100 B.C. when two small kingdoms joined together and began to be ruled by a single king. The people called their king pharaoh,and believed he was a god. Pharaohs ruled Egypt for the next 3,000 years. Egypt became rich and strong, and the pharaohs demanded tributes or valuable gifts, from weaker neighboring lands.

Funeral Procession

Egyptians believed that people's spirits could only survive after death if their bodies were preserved. So they made mummies by drying bodies in salt and wrapping them in bandages. Mummies of pharaohs and other important people were carried in a procession to their tombs on funeral barges. Pharaohs mummy lay inside a casket decorated with gold. Funeral barge was sailed across the Nile, then carried to the pyramid. Chest full of treasures were carried for the pharaohs to use in the afterlife. Women mourners were paid to weep and wail.Pyramids were tombs built for early Egyptian kings.

Amazing Facts

*Not only people were made into mummies. Cats, dogs and falcons were made into mummies,too. Some were pets, mummified to go into the afterlife with their owners.*

Egypt's Neighbors

There were many powerful and rich civilizations close to Egypt. The Summerians, Babylonians and Assyrians lived in present - day Iraq. The Phoenicians, Canaanites and Hebrews lived on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. They often traded peacefully, but sometimes they fought one another for land.

TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB

Tutankhamun was a young pharaoh who died around 1350 B.C. He was buried in a tomb full of treasure in the Valley of the kings. His tomb remained hidden for over 2,000 years, until it was discovered in 1922.

Gift Of The Nile

The Egyptians called their country "the gift of the Nile." Almost every year, the River Nile overflowed its banks, bringing fresh water and rich mud to the dry fields. The farmers needed this "gift" so that their crops would grow.

Kids Project - Amazing Erosion

Wind, water and ice can powerful forces that erode or wear down, land forms and sometimes threaten the places where people live.

Water can slowly wear away even the hardest of rocks, sometimes leaving strange structures behind. Some rivers, such as the Colorado River in the U.S., have eroded great canyons through the rocks around them. Wind and sand can whip around land forms in deserts and create fantastic shapes, such as those in the Pinnacles Desert, Australia. Colorado River flows from the Rocky Mountains for 2,300 km the sea.

Pebbles are stones worn smooth by the action of water and sand in a sea or river.

Flowing Water

The Grant Canyon, Arizona, U.S., is 350 km long and up to 1830 m deep. It cuts through layers of rock that are 2 billion year old. The colors of the rocks add to the beauty of the canyon. The Grand Canyon cut out by the fast-flowing Colorado River,starting about 6 million years ago. Grand Canyon is between 6 and 29 km wide.

Erosion By Ice

During the past 2 million years, ice wind and rain have worn away mountains that formed in Chile over 12 million years ago. In this way, the Torres or towers, of the Torres del Paine National Park were created. These peaks are over2,600m tall.

Wave Power

About 75 million years ago, in Phangnga Bay, Thailand, Earth movements pushed up limestone rocks from the ocean floor. The limestone was slowly eroded by sea's waves, until only the hardest rock was left. This formed peaks up to 100m tall.

Desert Wind and Sand

The strange peaks of rocks in Pinnacles Desert, Australia were formed when windblown sand wore away softer outer rock. Plants called lichen growing on the rocks give some protection from erosion, but the peaks are still being worn away. Some of the peaks are up to 5 m.

Kids Project - Waterfalls and Dams

Waterfalls are found where a stream rushes over a cliff. Some stunning waterfalls have become tourist sites. Falling or fast -running water can be powerful. This power can be used to make hydroelectricity. Water is held back in a reservoir by a dam. When it is released, it turns machines called turbines to produce electricity for industry and home. Reservoirs also store water for use later.

Powerful River

In the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was built across the Nile River to provide hydroelectricity and water for irrigating farm crops. When it was built, the huge dam was thought to be a great engineering success. However, much land had to be flooded to create the enormous reservoir behind the dam. Aswan High Dam produces more electricity than Egypt needs.

Amazing Facts

*The Aswan High Dam is 1000 m wide and is built on sand and gravel. Its construction created the 160 km long lake.*

Roaring Falls

The African name for Victoria Falls is Mosi-oa-tunya, which means "the smoke that thunders." The water roars as it plunges over the cliff, and the spray flies 300m into the air. At their widest point the fall are 1,700 m wide and the water drops 108 m. Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Rainbows are often seen near waterfalls because light shines through water droplets in the air.

Mighty Dam

Hoover Dam in the U.S. was built across the Colorado River between 1930 and 1936. The main part of the concrete dam is 221m high. Named after President Herbert Hoover, the dam is used for flood control, electrical power and water supplies.

Waterfall Stunt

Niagara Falls is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Canada and the U.S.. Forming part of the border between the two countries, Horseshoe Falls is 51m high and America Falls is 54 m high. The falls provide electricity. In the 19th century, stunt men rode over Niagara Falls in barrels.

Happy Valentines Day

2010 Valentines ........This day always brings an extra sparkle to all. Add a touch of Romance in everything u do.....Remember to express your love. Your presence and a red rose is really enough to make this day memorable. Dazzle your loved one with candle light dinner. May this day be special, fabulous, simply sweet, romantic,wonderful and filled with surprises..........

"Have a great Valentines Day"

HOW TO MAKE A RED VELVET CAKE FOR YOUR VALENTINE....

Try this for your valentine on Valentines Day.......Have Fun.

Kids project --National Park

A national park is a large area of land where the natural land scape, plants and animals are protected. National parks may be created for leisure activities or for historical or scientific interest. Many countries have national parks, especially Brazil, Japan, Africa, India the U.S. and Australia. The first national park was Yellowstone in the northwestern U.S. It was founded in 1872.

Hot Springs

Yellowstone is the largest national park in the U.S. and is famous for its hot springs. There are also lakes and waterfalls, and ancient forests that have petrified or turned to stone. A huge variety of animals live in Yellowstone, which stretches for 8,992 sq.km across 3 U.S. states. The Yellowstone has about 250 active geysers or gushing hot springs.

Amazing Facts

*The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is world’s largest marine national park at 207,000 sq. km.*

Sacred Rock

Uluru- Kata Tjuta is Australia's most famous national park. It became a national park in 1987. Uluru or Ayers Rock is sacred to the Aborigines, the native people of Australia, who own it. They believe that Uluru was formed from a large, flat sandhill at the time the Earth was created. Thousands of tourists visit the park each year.

Waterfall Border

Iguazu, a huge waterfall, crashes over the cliff that forms part of the Argentina-Brazil border. Both countries have created national parks around Iguazu, covering 2,396 sq km of rain forest. These parks protect animals, insects and pants that live and grow in the area.

Protecting Wild Life

People visit Amboseli National Park in the southern Kenya to watch the wildlife and to look at Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895 m. Visitors are asked to keep to the roads, because vehicles can easily damage the plants and trees on which the animals feed. Giraffe, gazelles, zebras and lions are common in Amboseli.

Baby Sister

Hai Welcome .....was busy with my hubbys birthday and kids studies... Today I thought I will post the pic. of my son holding his sis for the first time. This was taken just one day after our daughters birth. My son always wanted a baby brother, so he can have a company to play, but he was very excited after seeing his little sis. I still remember he was very happy after holding and kissing her for the first time. Kids r like angels...cute, loving and give us lot of happiness....A real gift and blessing from the Almighty. Thank u

The Second Six Months

At 6 months most babies smile.They look like angels ........And you just forget all your worries and tensions and feel relaxed seeing their smile. The baby may roll over when placed on their back. They may learn to crawl, sit, pull them self-up and even stand. By a year they may start to walk, although walking unaided does not often occur so soon.

At this stage the baby is full of life and activity. She won't lie still when you change the diaper and often needs distraction. The baby cries if you put him/her down or leave them alone.

Other changes...........The baby may not want to go to sleep as frequently as before. The baby may awaken at night, let the baby know you are nearby, but don't make a habit of playing in the middle of the night.

If your baby seems to be left handed, do not try to make him /her right handed. Each of us inherits a preference for one hand or the other, and it is harmful to try to change it.

In the 2nd six months period, the baby will probably take milk from a cup. Let them try to take and hold the cup by themselves.

First six months of the BABY

Hello welcome after a break...........Its very important that the baby have regular health supervision during these months. The pediatrician will check the baby's height and weight on each visit and make certain the baby is growing and gaining at a satisfactory rate. No two children develop at the same rate.

By two months a baby often holds his/her head up when the baby lies on his/her stomach or when being held up. The baby recognizes large objects and the feeding position. Baby can probably smile at this stage.

By three months most babies start eating some solids especially processed for babies - fruits, cereals, vegetables, meats in addition to having breast milk.

By four months the baby will look at moving objects. Do not be surprised if the baby's eyes cross, this is a normal condition during early infancy. At about this time, the baby may also learn to turn over from front to back --- An important milestone.

By 5 months, babies show a clear preference for a loved one. In the following months, "separation protest" and "stranger anxiety" are two of the ways babies show this growing attachment. A close bond provides a foundation for future relationships: babies learn from their parents how to love and how to trust.


Most babies double their birth weight by gaining an average of 0.5 oz (14.2 g) to 1 oz (28.4 g) every day for the first 6 months of life. Birth weight usually triples sometime between 9 and 12 months of age. By 12 months of age, most babies have grown in length a total of about 10 in. (25.4 cm) since birth. Head circumference usually increases about 0.25 in. (0.6 cm) to 0.5 in. (1.3 cm) a month.

The first 12 months may be the most dynamic period of life. Dramatic changes are taking place in all areas of growth and development.