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Tuesday 27 September 2016

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA GEET


Sunday 25 September 2016

Library Associations in India


1Central Government Library Association (CGLA)  View
2Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) View
3Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS)View
4Indian Library Association (ILA) View
5Raja Rammohun Roy Library FoundationView
6Society for Advancement of Library & Information Science View
7Society for Information ScienceView
8Assam Library AssociationView
9Bengal Library Association View
10Delhi Library Association View
11Gujarat Library Association View
12Karnataka State Library AssociationView
13Kerala Library Association View
14Madras Library AssociationView
15Punjab Library Association View
16Uttar Pradesh Library AssociationView
17All Bengal School Librarians' Association (ABSLA)View
18Bombay Science Librarian's AssociationView
19Indian Academic Library Association (IALA)View
20Indian Theological Library Association  View
21Medical Library Association of IndiaView
22Young Librarians Association (YLA)View
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Environmental Science as a Field of Study

Within the natural sciences, environmental science is very much a generalist degree. Focusing primarily on both the understanding of our natural and man-made environments, environmental science degrees draw from diverse fields of studies and require a strong background in the more traditional sciences: biology, physics, chemistry, geography, and ecology. In addition, environmental science degrees also draw heavily from the social sciences, such as economics, business, or sociology. The degree to which any of these fields of study becomes prevalent within an environmental science education largely depends on the specialization one chooses. Due to the fact that environmental science is a generalist degree, students often complete specializations within a more select area, i.e. energy, sustainability, conservation, etc. True to most science degrees, environmental science programs often require significant field work, lab work, or other data-oriented work.
http://www.environmentalscience.org/degree

Saturday 24 September 2016

Environmental Science Degrees


For those keen to study a subject that touches on many of the biggest challenges for the world today, environmental science degrees are a good starting point. Environmental science incorporates the study of the physical, chemical and biological processes that take place on the Earth, as well as the social, political and cultural processes which impact the planet. As an environmental science student, you’ll strive to understand the complex relationships between mankind and the environment, drawing on a diverse range of disciplines.


Common skills gained from an environmental science degree include:

  1. Numeracy and data analysis
  2. General IT skills
  3. General research skills, including use of scientific literature
  4. Lab and fieldwork skills
  5. Ability to present findings clearly and persuasively
What do environmental science degrees cover?
Very much an ‘interdisciplinary’ subject, environmental science degrees challenge students to combine skills and knowledge from a variety of different fields. This could mean exploring aspects of biologychemistryphysicsgeographyEarth and marine sciences, and also social sciences. The idea is to combine multiple perspectives and data sources, to build up a fuller understanding of natural and human environments.
Fieldwork is an important part of most environmental science degrees, which often include trips to a variety of different countries and world regions, giving those who study environmental science the opportunity to experience different habitats, climates, land formations and societies. You can also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the lab, learning how to carry out different types of tests and analysis. In addition, students often undertake voluntary work in an environment-related role, which provides valuable experience to prepare them for future environmental science careers.
Entry requirements for environmental science degrees
As is true of all subjects, entry requirements will vary between different institutions. However, those applying for an undergraduate (bachelor’s) degree in environmental science can expect to be asked for a diploma of secondary education, including good grades in at least one of the following related subjects: biology, chemistry, economics, geography, geology, mathematics or physics. At master’s level, you’ll need to have completed a relevant bachelor’s degree, either in environmental sciences or in one of the subjects mentioned above. Some universities may require applicants to attend a face-to-face interview, and/or to sit an entrance exam, often depending on national norms.
Course structure and assessment methods
Environmental science degrees usually last for three or four years at bachelor’s level and one or two years for a master’s qualification. The initial stage of your studies will include compulsory core modules, which aim to give you a general understanding of environmental science and introduce you to some of the main principles. The following stages will typically allow students to choose options from a selection of possible course modules, allowing for growing specialization in one or more environmental science topics. Towards the end of your program, you are likely to have the opportunity to carry out your own research on a topic of your choice. Assessment methods include essays, written discussions, exams, problem sheets, laboratory reports, field exercises, field notebooks and seminar presentations.
SPECIALIZATIONS

  • Environmental science specializations
  • Soil ecology
  • Aquatic/marine biology
  • Earth systems
  • Environmental and biological conservation
  • Energy and climate change
  • Water resource management
  • Pollution prevention and remediation

Environmental science careers

Environmental consultancy careers

Nature conservation careers

Environmental education careers

Environmental management careers


World Tourism Day-27 September

Theme for 2016: "Tourism for All - promoting universal accessibility"

Accessible Tourism for all is about the creation of environments that can cater for the needs of all of us, whether we are traveling or staying at home. May that be due to a disability, even temporary, families with small children, or the ageing population, at some point in our lives, sooner or later, we all benefit of universal accessibility in tourism.

Which is why, we want to call upon the right for all of the world’s citizens to experience the incredible diversity of our planet and the beauty of the world we live in. On this year’s World Tourism Day help us spread the word of both the importance and immense benefits universal accessibility has and can bring to society at large.
#tourism4all #WTD2016
Ever since its inception, World Tourism Day is celebrated on 27 September to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value. As the official day set aside in the United Nations Calendar the celebration seeks to highlight tourisms potential to contribute to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing some of the most pressing challenges society is faced with today.
The official World Tourism Day 2016 celebrations will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
More information about the event
Current developments and forecasts
  • International tourist arrivals grew by 4.6 % in 2015 to 1,184 million
  • In 2015, international tourism generated US$ 1.5 trillion in export earnings
  • UNWTO forecasts a growth in international tourist arrivals of between 3.5% and 4.5% in 2016
  • By 2030, UNWTO forecasts international tourist arrivals to reach 1.8 billion 
  • (UNWTO Tourism Towards 2030)
  • http://www.un.org/en/events/tourismday/

World Deaf Day

World Deaf Day is celebrated every year in last week 

(last Sunday of the month of September)

of the September to draw the attention of general public, politician and development authorities towards the achievements of the deaf people as well as deaf people community.

Throughout the celebration of the event, all the deaf people organization worldwide are encouraged greatly to fulfill the demands and needs of the deaf people as well as increasing their rights all over the world.

Objectives of World Deaf Day

  • To promote understanding among common people about the problems of deaf people in the community all over the world.
  • To motivate deaf people to learn sign language as an essential human right.
  • To make available the required resources in the community for deaf people.
  • To promote the deaf people human rights about equal access to the education and modern technologies.



Purposes of Education and Schooling.

In the 1980s, the noted educator and philosopher Mortimore Adler put forth the Paideia Proposal (Adler, 1982) which integrated the ideas of Dewey and Counts, as well as his own. Specifically, Adler suggested that there are three objectives of children’s schooling:
  • the development of citizenship,
  • personal growth or self-improvement, and
  • occupational preparation
  • Expanding on the pragmatic purpose of school, deMarrais and LeCompte (1995) outlined four major purposes of schooling that include:
    • intellectual purposes such as the development of mathematical and reading skills;
    • political purposes such as the assimilation of immigrants;
    • economic purposes such as job preparation; and
    • social purposes such as the development of social and moral responsibility.
  • http://www.purposeofschool.com/philosophical/

ALL ABOUT TRAFFIC AND DRIVING


Safe and Responsible Driving-Getting ready to drive

Before driving
  • Ensure that you are comfortable with your mental and physical condition.
  • Inspect your vehicle and observe the driving conditions.
  • While driving you should carry your driving licence, registration certificate, insurance certificate and pollution control certificate. Transport and commercial vehicle drivers should carry the permits and vehicle fitness certificates also.
A combination of knowledge, skill and attitude is required to be a safe driver.

Knowledge of traffic rules and driving practices that help traffic move safely.

Skill to care about the safety of others on the road. We all are responsible for avoiding accidents.

Attitude to co-operate with other drivers to keep traffic moving safely. We must be courteous, giving other drivers space to change lanes, not cutting them off and signalling before turning.



TEST YOURSELF

This test is to improve your knowledge only.
- You can appear in the test any number of
times you want.
- You will get a set of 10 questions.
- It is not mandatory to complete the test.



 


Thursday 22 September 2016

AEP- A Nation Without Women-

AEP

Matrubhoomi: 
A Nation Without Women
(Hindi: मातृभूमि, translation:Motherland) is a 2003 Indian film written and directed by Manish Jha. The film examines the impact of female foeticide and female infanticide on the gender balance and consequently the stability and attitudes of society. Its storyline bears some resemblance to real-life instances of gender imbalance and economics resulting in fraternal polyandry and bride buying in some parts of India. It depicts a future dystopia in an Indian village populated exclusively by males due to female infanticide over the years.
Matrubhoomi received widespread critical acclaim and was shown at festivals through 2003, including the 2003 Venice Film Festival, where it was presented in the Critic's Week (Parallel Sections) and later awarded theFIPRESCI Award "For it's  important theme on women's issues and female infanticide handled with sensitivity by a first-time director".


Legal education in India

Academic degrees

In India, a student can pursue a legal course only after completing an undergraduate course in any discipline. However, following the national law school model, one can study law as an integrated course of five years after passing the senior secondary examination.
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) - The LL.B. is the most common law degree offered and conferred by Indian universities which has a duration of three years. Almost all law universities follow a standard LL.B. curriculum, wherein students are exposed to the required bar subjects.
  • Integrated undergraduate degrees - B.A. LL.B., B.Sc. LL.B., BBA. LLB., B.Com. LL.B. These degrees are mostly offered in the autonomous law schools having a duration of five years.
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) - The LL.M. is most common postgraduate law degree which has a duration of one/two years.
  • Master of Business Law
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  • Integrated MBL-LLM/ MBA-LLM. -Generally a three years double degree integrated course with specialisation in business law.

Admission

As of 2012, admission to LLB and LLM in most of the autonomous law schools in India is based on performance in Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). However, the National Law University, Delhi and the private autonomous law schools conduct their own admission tests. 

Admission to top institutes like ICFAI Law School, Dehradun is done through the LSATexamination conducted by Law School Admission Council, USA conducted by Pearson VUE, through its affiliate in India.
In most of the traditional universities, the admission is done on the basis of an admission test to the constituent law college or a common admission test for its affiliated colleges (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University). Some traditional universities and affiliated colleges also admits students on the basis of merit in the preceding examination.


Law of India

Law of India refers to the system of law in modern India. India maintains acommon law legal system inherited from the colonial era and various legislations first introduced by the British are still in effect in modified forms today. During the drafting of the Indian Constitution, Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and the environmental law. Certain international trade laws, such as those on intellectual property, are also enforced in India.
Indian personal law is fairly complex, with each religion adhering to its own specific laws. In most states, registering of marriages and divorces is not compulsory. Separate laws govern HindusMuslimsChristians, and followers of other religions. The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where auniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces, and adoption.
As of May 2010, there were about 1,221 laws. However, since there are Central laws as well as State laws, it is difficult to ascertain their exact numbers as on a given date and the best way to find the Central Laws in India is from the official website.

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Wednesday 21 September 2016

International Day of Peace 21 September

"Let us all work together to help all human beings achieve dignity and equality; to build a greener planet; and to make sure no one is left behind." — UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
The Day’s theme for 2016 is “The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace.”
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations at an historic summit of the world’s leaders in New York in September 2015. The new ambitious 2030 agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve these goals over the next 15 years. It aims to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.
The Sustainable Development Goals are integral to achieving peace in our time, as development and peace are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
“The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success.”
Sustainability addresses the fundamental needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Modern challenges of poverty, hunger, diminishing natural resources, water scarcity, social inequality, environmental degradation, diseases, corruption, racism and xenophobia, among others, pose challenges for peace and create fertile grounds for conflict. Sustainable development contributes decisively to dissipation and elimination of these causes of conflict and provides the foundation for a lasting peace. Peace, meanwhile, reinforces the conditions for sustainable development and liberates the resources needed for societies to develop and prosper.
Every single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is a building block in the global architecture of peace. It is critical that we mobilise means of implementation, including financial resources, technology development and transfer, and capacity-building, as well as the role of partnerships. Everyone has a stake and everyone has a contribution to make.



PEACE DAY -AT OUR  SCHOOL LEVEL 

Tuesday 20 September 2016

Ozone and climate: Restored by a world united.-16 September

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer


2016 Theme: Ozone and climate: Restored by a world united.”

In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (resolution 49/114).
States were invited to devote the Day to promote activities in accordance with the objectives of the Protocol and its amendments. The ozone layer, a fragile shield of gas, protects the Earth from the harmful portion of the rays of the sun, thus helping preserve life on the planet.
The phaseout of controlled uses of ozone depleting substances and the related reductions have not only helped protect the ozone layer for this and future generations, but have also contributed significantly to global efforts to address climate change; furthermore, it has protected human health and ecosystems by limiting the harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the earth.
The theme for this year's International Ozone Day recognizes the collective efforts of the parties to the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol towards the restoration of the ozone layer over the past three decades and the global commitment to combat climate change.


Friday 16 September 2016

57th Foundation Day of DD

Celebrations of 57th Foundation Day oDoordarshan...


https://www.facebook.com/DoordarshanNational/

Thursday 15 September 2016

Ganesh Chaturthi

The date of Ganesh Chaturthi falls on the fourth day of the waxing moon period (Shukla Chaturthi) in the Hindu month of Bhadrapada. This is August or September each year. The festival is usually celebrated for 11 days, with the biggest spectacle taking place on the last day called Anant Chaturdasi.

http://goindia.about.com/od/indiafestivaldates/f/When-Is-Ganesh-Chaturthi.htm#

Engineers day


Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
KCIE (popularly known as Sir MV; 15 September 1861 – 12 April 1962) was an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman, gentleman and the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire (KCIE) by King George V for his contributions to the public good. Every year, on his birthday, 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory. He is held in high regard as a pre-eminent engineer of India. He was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam in Mysore as well as the chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad. 


Learning Physics ....on line...

Who should attend?

The discussion will be roughly at +2 and UG first year level but the experiments could be an educative experience for students from grade 9 onwards. Most of these experiments will throw some challenge to understand it, so even the well trained persons up to Postgraduate level will find it interesting!
Core target groups are  
(a)  Physics teachers teaching in schools from grade 9 to 12
(b)  Physics teachers teaching in colleges at B Sc, B.Tech level
(c)  Students from grade 9 to BSc/B.Tech
(d)  Others interested in enjoying Physics displayed by Nature in day-to-day life

Course Content

Optics
  • Shadows and rectilinear motion
  • Diffraction and Interference
  • Polarization
  • Scattering
  • Reflection
  • Fermat’s Principle
  • Refraction
  • Dispersion
  • Prisms and Lenses
 Mechanics
  • Classification of forces
  • Non inertial frames and pseudo forces
  • Rotating frames, Centrifugal and coriolis force
  • Friction and Card-Coin experiment
  • Rolling
  • Angular momentum, Moment of inertia, Rigid body rotation
  • Conical Pendulum
 Electricity/Magnetism
  • Circular motion of charge in magnetic field
  • Force on a current in a magnetic field
  • B-field of a bar magnet and forces on a magnetic material in this field
  • Misconceptions on poles
  • Role of inhomogeneity in force on a magnet
  • Diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials
  • Curie Temperature
  • Faraday’s law of induction
  • Non conservative Electric Field
  • Lenz’s law and eddy currents
Oscillations and waves
  • Stable equilibrium and oscillations
  • Damped / Forced oscillations
  • Similarity between mechanical and L-C-R oscillations
  • Resonance
  • Complexity of Simple pendulum
  • Waves on a slinky, a string
  • Wave speed, dependence on tension and linear density
  • Standing waves on strings and on springs

Schedule

Three Lectures to be released every week. Generally one on each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The lectures can be viewed any time during the 8 week course.Four Multiple choice quizzes will be held during the course for evaluation.There could be homework for which you might be asked to write and upload the answer file.

Certificates

Certificates will be given to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance. Qualifying criteria will be announced soon. Certificates will be issued by Centre for Development of Technical Education (CDTE) , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Course Logistics

Start Date: 
September 20 , 2016
Duration : 8 weeks
Prerequisites : None
Registration : 
Open and free of charge

Instructor Incharge

Prof. H C Verma
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hcverma/
info@physicsexperiments.in
https://www.physicsexperiments.in