Magazine as a Source of Information

The Magazine came to live in early 1700s during the outbreak of the World War. During those times, it is used as a support for politics, government, criticisms and information that aims to be affirmed or contradicted either through the release of researches or study results. After gaining the freedom, various companies got the idea on starting a magazine publishing business that would evolve in different aspects of life. People started buying these magazines with the goal of keeping themselves updated with their environment and to expand their knowledge. That was successful.

Today, Magazine is probably the number one source of information readily available for everyone. Its readers range from kids to students and to executives. There are actually two types of Magazines. One of these is the consumer magazines that are widely available in the country. The other one is the business magazine that can be availed on a subscription basis. Both magazines usually come in a weekly, monthly, or quarterly release with up to date contents.

For a kid, reading magazines with graphical representations like comics is a good way to start learning. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the early years are a key period for the development of intelligence, personality and behavior of a child.

For students, magazines are good source of information when doing research for school. Since educational magazines have updated content, further reading of it could truly contribute well to their learning.

As for professionals or executives, being the captain of their own journey is really essential. To be constantly updated on workplace and business issues, reading business and other related magazines is important. It gives them not just ideas but awareness on the current issues that are important in their field.

Through the years, magazine has existed with the aim of giving the freshest and accurate information to its readers. Among the famous magazines in the United States include the BusinessWeek for business, American Girl for children, Drovers for agriculture, Sports Illustrated for sports, Cook’s for cooking and recipes, American Baby for parenting, Liberty for politics, Playboy for pornography, Adventist Review for religion, National Geographic for science, WikiMusicGuide for Music Lifestyle and many more.

Reading is indeed, a good way of expanding our knowledge and awareness. There are several reading materials that have great potentials of contributing to our craving mind and magazine is one of them. Choosing our point of interest is definitely endless with magazines.

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Making the Most of Your Summer

At last, summer is here! After a school year full of hard work, you can
finally put away your books, break out your bikinis, and soak up the
sunshine. This is not only what you deserve but in fact what you need: If
you have been working to your maximum level during the school year,
you owe your body about two weeks off during the summer for a real
break. Go ahead and pursue your favorite pastime, relax, sleep, and
reflect on the past year and the year to come. Do not, however, get too
used to your life of leisure! From a college admissions standpoint, it’s
important to be productive during your summer months. Working is
looked upon favorably by the more selective colleges; working on your
tan is not.

It is important to understand that when it comes time to apply to schools
in the fall, you will be competing for admission against a wealth of other
students who made the most of their summers by strengthening their
talents and skills and/or making up in some way for their weaknesses.
Ideally, you have already found something to do for the summer, but if
not, here are some summer suggestions.

For the summer after ninth grade, summer school can be a great idea,
particularly if you want to get ahead in your curriculum. For example,
rising sophomores in the past have used their summers to skip ahead in
their math track, some by taking a class that prepares them for an
honors or advanced level course, others by taking an intensive math
course that spans at least six weeks of the summer. Other students
have chosen to use their summers to take composition or creative
writing courses to strengthen their writing skills.

For the summer after tenth grade, you might want to try participating in a
program designed to strengthen one of your main talents. For example,
if you’re interested in engineering, you could try a program that teaches
students to design their own autonomous robots, such as Carnegie
Mellon West’s seven-week RoboCamp. Students who are artistically
inclined may want to try Northwestern’s National High School Institutes
(colloquially known as “Cherubs”), during which students who excel in
music, theater, journalism, film, debate and/or forensics hone their
talents through intensive workshops in their areas of interest. Another
great opportunity for prospective film students is through University of
Southern California’s Summer Seminars, where students can study
either screenwriting, the business and technology of film, or basic
animation techniques.

The summer after tenth grade also might be used to go away on a
program abroad. Two great resources for finding abroad programs are
www.goabroad.com and www.studyabroad.com, where you can punch
in specific countries and interests and find hundreds of excellent
programs that are off the beaten track. I recommend committing to a
program of at least six weeks: A true cultural immersion will usually take
more than a month, and it will take two weeks just to get over your jet
lag! Also, try to travel to a country where the residents speak the foreign
language you’re taking in school. In order to make the most of your
experience, try and stay away from programs with too many other
Americans, and try to devote yourself to one place for the entire stay.
For example, if you’re taking Spanish in school, it’s best to go to Mexico
or a Central or Latin American country rather than Spain, which is often
teeming with Americans. Also, in cities such as Barcelona, the
language of choice is Catalan as opposed to Spanish.

The summer after eleventh grade is a good time to try and find an
internship or other type of employment experience in one of your fields
of interest. If you’re interested in a sports-related career, let’s say, this is
an excellent summer to work for a sports agency or a sports channel
such as ESPN. To see the sports world from a different angle, you might
even want to try working in a law firm that has a history of representing
athletes. Not only would you gain valuable experience that would give
you a leg up on even the average college student, you might find a new
translation of your passion for sports.

Remember, nepotism is not looked upon favorably, so make sure your
work experience is aligned with your interests and not with your parents’
careers. After all, you are not just spending the summer in Dad’s office;
this should be made clear to the colleges. Likewise, if you’re holding
down a job or internship, the ideal amount of time to do this is for about
eight weeks. Given that the typical summer is twelve weeks long, you’ll
still have several weeks for relaxation and, of course, working on
college applications. IvyWise students in the past have interned in the
office of Senator Hillary Clinton, conducted original cancer research at
hospitals alongside professors, reported for major and local
newspapers, and interned at a variety of companies ranging from law
firms to Goldman Sachs.

If you’re a serious athlete with the chance of being recruited for your
sport in college, you will likely be spending the majority of your summers
on the field or in the gym, where coaches will get a chance to watch you
play. Sports camps and workshops are great for serious student
athletes; this is the path you must pursue to achieve entry into college-
level athletics.

Before you leave for summer break, I also recommend asking your
school for next year’s reading list for English and history. Beginning
your reading early is a great way to get a jump start on next year’s
homework. Also, starting your reading list during the summer will help
you gain a deeper understanding of the assigned material: When you
revisit your summer reading during the school year, you will be familiar
with the basic story and will therefore be equipped to conduct a better
analysis of the text. Also, if you choose to remain in your hometown
during the summer, colleges will love to see you continuing your school
year community service activities through the summer months.

Summer don’ts:

#1: CAMP. Unless you are a focused athlete and you are attending a
sports camp, sleepaway camp and camping trips should end before the
summer before ninth grade. The only exception to this rule is if a
student has the opportunity to take on a leadership role such as a CIT,
and even then, the summer before ninth grade should be the last year at
camp. Colleges are not looking for experts in the arts of s’more-making
and Spin the Bottle!

#2: TEEN TOURS. It may sound great to travel around the country with
a busload of other kids in your age group for a couple of weeks, and
while it’s true that you would get to sample the cuisine of many different
McDonald’s locations across the country, this will not help you get into
college. On a teen tour, students can never get to know one place well,
and it’s likely that they will be with students like themselves and will
therefore not get the opportunity to stretch. Teen tours are so organized
and scheduled that it’s nearly impossible for any one student to make an
impact in his or her community. Students should make sure that
whatever they do over the summer, they are somehow making an
impact, whether it be on an organization, a favorite cause, or a foreign or
local community.

#3: “IMMERSION” TRIPS. Any so-called cultural immersion trip that
lasts three weeks or less, particularly those of the Putney or ASA brand,
is not a wise use of summer time. These trips break up a student’s
summer and take the place of an in-depth program; they are vacations
rather than commitments and are not something to add to a college brag
sheet. Again, students should choose a program off the beaten track
that lasts for a minimum of six weeks so they have the opportunity to
grow and to make an impact.

#4: SUMMER SAT PREP. If you’re a rising junior, the summer is not the
best time to start preparing for your standardized tests. Sure, working on
vocabulary a few hours a week can never hurt, but devoting chunks of
your day to SAT tutoring or a class will only take the place of an activity
that you can put on your brag sheet. Furthermore, you are likely to
forget a lot of what you learn during the summer; you will absorb far
more during the year, when you are in “school mode.”

On a final note, when you are setting aside your personal time, make
sure you allow yourself time to have fun! As high school progresses, the
courses inevitably get harder and your workload will increases—it’s
important to use your summer break to unwind and reflect. While there
are always weekends during the school year, there’s nothing like a
sunny Wednesday on the beach, so please, make the most of your
freedom while you can! Have a great summer, and we’re looking
forward to hearing your stories.

Katherine Cohen is a college counselor at IvyWise, LLC,
ivywise.com ivywise.com

Sarah Ehrlich’s Help for Orphans Follows Oprah in Educating African Kids

Whether it’s George Clooney publicizing the violence in Darfur, Bono campaigning for debt relief, or Angelina Jolie visiting as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, stars are using their wattage to raise public awareness about the problems facing Africa today. Hand in hand with other celebs, Oprah Winfrey recently opened her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. “Despite their efforts, there remain millions of orphaned African children who need nutritious food, clean water, housing, and an education,” says Sarah Ehrlich, founder and president of the non-profit Help for Orphans (www.helpfororphans.org). “Although every effort helps, the challenge is to create a sustainable system that nurtures and educates children for years to come.”

The numbers are stark. According to the United Nations, the number of African orphans increased from 30.9 million to 41.9 million between 1990 and 2000, and projections suggest that the number will increase to 53.1 million by the year 2010.

But Ehrlich is up to the challenge. Inspired by an organization in India that has several hundred orphanage schools and that encourages children who graduate to give back, Ehrlich’s Help for Orphans (www.myspace.com/helpfororphans) has already given thousands of books to orphanages in Uganda, Kenya, and India. Moreover, the organization is currently building two orphanage schools in Kenya; the Kisumu school will educate 60 children, while the Kisii school will educate another 50 children. While the Reading and Phonics Curriculum by Applied Scholastics (www.study-tech.org) will be central, Ehrlich wants to go beyond the basics to provide students with the tools they need to support themselves within their culture. “In order to truly make a difference, we also need to raise their self-confidence by teaching them about human rights, values, how to avoid HIV, and by tapping into their creative energy through an art program that includes painting and dance,” she says.

Leaving a small environmental footprint is central to the philosophy of Help for Orphans. To that end, the organization has engaged AB Architekten (www.abarchitekten.com), a New York architectural firm that specializes in designing “green” buildings. “We want to teach by example,” explains Ehrlich, who is footing 100 percent of the administrative costs of the organization. “It’s important to assure our donors that their $30-per-month sponsorships are going directly to the children for food and school supplies, and that other donations are being used for building projects, food, and educational materials.”

Ehrlich and her team are preparing for a trip to Kenya, where they will partner with additional orphanages in order to sponsor their children and build more schools, as well as to donate books, food, and school supplies. But Ehrlich doesn’t feel her mission will be accomplished until Help for Orphans has launched at least 500 schools all over the globe. “We are starting in Africa, but there are orphans in many countries who need our help,” she says. “Right now, we’re focusing on Africa, but we also have immediate plans to build sustainable schools for orphans in southern India and Central America. Eventually, we will launch efforts in Southeast Asia, North and South America, and Europe.”

Ehrlich says the response to Help for Orphans has been overwhelming, and concludes, “When you do the right thing, everything seems to take off.” Ehrlich’s ability to create that synergy is certain to help African orphans take off and reach for the stars.

Kris Nickerson is the Editor-in-Chief of Press Direct International ( pressdirectinternational.org pressdirectinternational.org), a global information website that provides reliable information tailored to professionals in financial, media, and corporate markets. His thorough knowledge of industries ranging from health care and travel to real estate and financial investing enables him to quickly grasp the nuances of emerging markets and technologies.

Develop Your Psychic Ability

TRUST YOURSELF. This is still the greatest way to develop your psychic ability and any other talents that you have. You develop anything that interests you by working with it, practicing a lot, and becoming aware of everything that is written, everything that is working, and aware of the people in the field who are making a huge achievement.

For your own psychic awareness start to become aware of how your receive messages.
What does it feel like? How does it come in? Is there a specific part of your being that is receiving the information? How do you make an assessment that this is a message? How do you know? What do you feel? Trust this process. As you become more aware of your own space, ability, and the psychic energy, set up little experiments for yourself. For an example: Put out a casual thought for someone to call you. Record how many times that happens. Become aware of your dreams, and watch if any of these come true and how often.

Listen silently, and see if you can pick up the thoughts of someone who is physically near you. Start with someone you know well, like a friend or relative. See if you can hear the words, or get an impression of the thought picture that they are holding in their mind. Do not be afraid of this. You are practicing and developing as you would with any musical instrument, any new tool, or any skill. A part of you is a casual and objective observer. You are just becoming aware of what is there. You become aware of how you receive, and how you can transmit, and then you become aware of pictures, sounds, or words coming spontaneously in.

Some techniques of practice according to the Spiritcommunity.com website- Try pausing before you do something. For example, when the phone rings pause a few seconds before answering, can you tell who it is? Try it when someone knocks at your front door. Try it at work, can you tell when someone is happy, sad or pre-occupied with other things on their mind? Try to become universally aware, let your mind and body become an antenna to psychic information that flows through and about you. Touch objects that belong to someone that you know and try to see if you sense any impressions of that person. Work with a known psychic who is very adept at the psychic practice and who can teach you well. You need to feel very comfortable and trust this person.

One of the ways to develop and hone your talent is to work with the energy. Keep allowing yourself to receive messages. If you don’t understand the messages keep ask probing questions until what you are receiving comes in more clearly. This is very effective when you are working in healing such as Reiki. When the information is correct, try to determine how it was correct, how that felt before and during the impressions. Was it a strong feeling? Was it more subtle? What part of your body did the information come through? Remember how it felt so that you can have greater understanding in the future when messages come through. Also if it felt off, or there was any tension. Why does it feel that way? What adjustment needs to be made, or is this a warning of something for you or the person?

When you are walking in the street or you get an impression about changing directions, or a thought of caution about something small, like locking your keys in the car. Pay attention to these little promptings. If you are open to this, you get prompting very frequently throughout the day. These are all little flashes of your psychic ability. The more that you tune in, the more clearer your impressions and flashes will become.

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Getting a 5 Year Old To Want To Learn to Read

Recently, a young mother wrote and told me, she has a 5 year old son who loves to be read to but has no interest in learning to read. She then asked, “how do I go about teaching him the “Emergence” visual way?”

My answer? Know the key is your child’s curiosity. The mystery can literally drive them to learn. Thus, if you can get your son to be curious about reading, you can get him to want to learn to read.

Here are some specific things you might try.

Imitation Reading: First, if he loves to be read to, he might be inspired to learn to read to you. Even if he merely imitates what you do at first, try it. Ask him if he will try to read to you. Even one line.

Now do your best not to correct him, no matter how off he is. For instance, if he says “dog” and it’s a cat, get excited and reinforce his love of learning. As for the true words, introduce them later, when you read to him. Use your index finger. Then say the real word.

The point is, his “curiosity” is the seed in the kindergarten cup. Water it with love and kindness as often as you can.

Whose Name Is It?: Second, you might try putting a pad and a mirror next to each other, then write his name on the pad. Now ask him to look in the mirror and ask him what he thinks the word spells. Awakening his curiosity is the focus, remember? Finally, while having him look in the mirror, with surprise, tell him it is him.

Do the same with you and your name, then try to get him to know which face the name, “names.”

Treat For a Name: Set up a small amount of his favorite fruit, a cookie, or fork full of dessert inside a clear plastic, labeled-with-the-treat-name container. Or behind pads with the names written on them. Now tell him, if he reads the name, he will get the dessert.

Know you’ll need to be pretty patient here, as five year olds can get pretty overwhelmed with neediness and then lose their sense of curiosity. To this end, it might be good to do this only when he has not asked for a treat. And when he’s pretty satisfied already.

Be sure to vary the “treats” over time. For instance, you might use 3 by 5 cards on which you draw favorite activities. Including being read to. Now set up three hiding places (bright colored pads stood up, colorful closed paper boxes) and hide this card in one of them (behind one of the pads, inside one of the boxes). Now allow him to keep guessing until he finds the card. At which point, he needs to read the word in order to get the treat.

And if he doesn’t read the word?

Give in after a few tries, then end the game. Why? Because the whole focus here is on his curiosity, not on his being able to parrot. Laughter and smiles are a plus.

Guess the Letter: With him at your side and with bright colored markers, draw the first five letters of the alphabet on three by five cards. Each letter should be drawn with a different color. Then turn them upside down, shuffle, and have him guess which card is the first one in the pile. Cards to be called by their letter names.

Remember, mystery is the key, and his curiosity, the drive.

Do let me know if any of this works and in the mean time, I’ll try to think of some more things you might try.

Best wishes,

Steven Paglierani is a writer, teacher, personality theorist, and therapist whose work on human consciousness is read weekly by thousands all over the world. He is the author of Emergence Personality Theory, and his mission is to make the world better for children by restoring and deepening their love of learning.

He can be read or reached at his site, theEmergenceSite.com theEmergenceSite.com

Tampa Schools Prepare Students for the World of Tomorrow through Global Classrooms

The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), along with New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., has brought the Model United Nations to Tampa schools. Originally, only four high schools were participating and only as an extra-curricular activity. Now, over 50 teachers teach the Global Classrooms curriculum to students in over 120 classrooms in 35 Tampa schools. The program has the supported of Tampa schools District Social Studies Supervisors Dennis Holt and Martha Ford, as well as Tampa schools administrators, University of South Florida, and University of Tampa.

The Model United Nations program of Global Classrooms was developed by the UNA to enhance student understanding of international issues. Their hope is to develop strong leadership and critical-thinking skills in our youth, needed to shape a globally informed workforce in the future. To that end, a special Model UN teachers training program was recently developed that includes global trade, finance and development.

Global Classrooms deal with such critical world issues as human rights for refugees, prevention of nuclear terrorism, global economics, post-conflict transition, and UN Security Council reform — the same issues world diplomats deal with daily in the United Nations. It is an excellent educational opportunity for students in the Tampa schools.

Tampa schools participation increased in the Model UN program after the April 2006 conference, held at the Tampa Convention Center. More than 500 high schools and 600 middle schools participated in the conference of Global Classrooms.

Ambassador William H. Luers, president of the UNA-USA, addressed the Tampa schools students and students from other areas within the Hillsborough and Pinellas County Public Schools. Luers noted that children today must learn about the world to be prepared for tomorrow. The younger the child, the more open minded he or she will be.

Another speaker was Shaun King, former quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, current player for the Detroit Lions, and a favorite with Tampa schools’ students. Like Luers, King wants to see young people use all that talent they have. He believes it truly makes a difference, especially for children of single-parent and/or disadvantaged families.

The UNA-USA is a not-for-profit organization that develops innovative programs to engage Americans, especially the children, in issues of global concern. It promotes educational and humanitarian campaigns, as well as policy and advocacy programs. The UNA’s mission is to allow people to make a global impact at a local level.

The Model UN program would not be possible without the support of business. Merrill Lynch has donated more than $37 million in 2005 to charities with educational organizations receiving more than half. They are responsible for bringing the April Model UN conference to Tampa and underwrote the cost of implementing the program in the Tampa schools.

Together, the UNA and Merrill Lynch hope to bring the Model UN experience to urban public schools across the nation, as well as a diverse array of schools around the world.

It is a fact that the U.S. is losing its world economic edge by falling far behind other countries in preparing its youth for the global world issues of tomorrow. With programs, such as the No Child Left Behind that concentrates only on reading and mathematics skills, the children of the U.S. are missing an opportunity to know about the world and its issues. Bringing the Model UN program to students in areas like the Tampa schools is an essential step. Hopefully, more Tampa schools will participate in the future.

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Looking for a Good Digital Photography School

Although photography largely involve an eye for beauty and a natural instinct for clicking the camera, it is still important for photographers especially those that are just starting in the field to gather some experience in actual photography. Some practice on their spare time and learn the techniques on their own but this will take a lot of clicking time and magazine reading.

This is why most will go for the short-cut by enrolling in schools that offer short courses in photography. Of course, this will not guarantee to make you a master photographer in months but at least you already have all the tools that you need to make your way to the world of shapes and colors.

Here are some of the things that you should consider when looking for a good photography school to enroll to.

1.Course outline

This is perhaps the most important thing that you have to think about when looking for a school. The course outline will help you determine if the course is suited to the training that you need. It will contain a rundown of all the lessons that students like you will tackle in the class.

Take a look at the list and try to see if all the things that you need to learn are already there. If you find it lacking, try to shop around for other photography courses in the same school or better yet inquire in another school. With a lot of schools, museums and centers offering photography courses, chances are you will find the one that fits you to a T.

2. Specialization

There are courses that are offered according to certain specializations. For instance, some courses concentrate entirely on nature photography. Others go for portraits and human interest pieces. There are even some that do nude photography classes.

In other words, there are a multitude of specializations that you can go into. You can even take all of them; but of course, you have to shell out big bucks for that.

3. Laboratory and field work

Photography is a largely experiential field. You learn not from reading about it or discussing about the theories but in actual taking of shots and doing field works. In the course outline, try to look for the number of hours that will be spent outside the classroom.

Ideally, about 75 percent of the whole course should be used as practice time in fields or in the dark room. Only a quarter should be spent for theories and basics. Some courses offer a 50-50 ratio. Shop around for courses that emphasize field works and experiential learning as these are the courses where you can learn more.

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