A Must Read for all those taking Flights to Seattle!

This metropolitan is the largest city in the northwest Pacific in the state of Washington. This major sea port lies about 114 miles south of Canada. It is also the largest cultural, educational and economic centre of the region. It is the home to about 3.4 million inhabitants. Those taking flights to Seattle will be delighted to know that it is the 15th largest metropolitan area in United States.
It is the birth place to rock music and the home of Software giant Microsoft. It also has a reputation for heavy consumption of coffee. The city has some amazing places to visit. We shall discuss some of them in details.


The Space Needle – built during the 1990’s, the tower is a major landmark and a symbol of the city. It is 605 feet high and weighs 9,550 tons. It is the tallest structure on the Mississippi River. Those taking Seattle flights will be amazed to know that you can reach the top of this tower via elevators and you can reach the top point in less than 45 seconds where you can get some of the amazing views of the town which you must not forget to capture. If you a visiting the city for the first time this place is surely a must visit. 

Washington States Ferries – this is the states largest tourist attraction and is always on the top list for those taking flights to Seattle. It is the largest ferry system in United States and the third largest of the world. It is the best and the most beautiful way to explore the gorgeous waters and mountains. While you are on board you will notice the sparkling water, cityscapes, snow caped mountains and the call of the gulls. It is the best way to explore the city in a luxurious manner with friends and family. So if you are visiting this city don’t forget to book your ferry tickets for a weekend trip. 

Seattle Aquarium – this underwater aquarium attracts a lot of people to the city. It is a huge underwater tunnel which in recent time was opened for public visit. Those who wish to visit this place must book their tickets in advance so as to avail cheap flightsto Seattle. You will surely have an amazing experience as you can get to feel the glowing jellyfish, sea anemone’s soft tentacles and sea otters. It is a great place to discover some fun. There are many cafes and restaurants nearby where you can taste amazing dishes prepared using fresh sea fishes. The nearby gift shops are great places to buy your souvenirs from. 

Pike Public Market – located near the waterfront of the city it is the oldest public market of the town. It is the business place for the small farmers, craftsmen and merchants. The market still remains a tourist attraction. Built on the edge of the steep hill it consists of several lower levels where you can shops of antique dealers, comic book seller and small family owned restaurants where you get to taste some of the famous local dishes. 

In the upper part of the market you will find fishmongers, fresh produce stalls and craft stands. It is a must visit for those takingcheap flights to Seattle. Those taking flights to Seattle must not forget to visit place like the Space Needle, Washington States Ferries, Seattle Underground Aquarium, Pike Public Market and many others.

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Why Should You Volunteer For a Charitable Organization?

Do you find it hard to motivate yourself to get involved with a charity? Do you intellectually know it would be good to volunteer your time but still can’t tear yourself away from the TV? Lets take a look at some of the qualities and things you receive from volunteering and see if these can motivate you.


Why Do People Volunteer?

The general conception is that people volunteer to charities for truly altruistic reasons. These are noble reasons but you can also benefit personally by doing philanthropy. Time spent working for charities comes back in multiple ways.


Some people come from the notion that a volunteer should not get anything for their service. It is almost like saying that the act of charity should be done while feeling terrible. Not sure where they pick this notion up, because here are some reasons why volunteering benefits the giver as well as the receiver.

Career Reasons – you get experience in different areas. This experience can be gained rapidly compared to opportunities at work. You get to develop new skills and make new career contacts unwatched by the boss and having to study new manuals during the weekend!

Social Reasons – to do your part improving the community. Maybe you get to spend time with seniors, or feeding the poor, improvements to community come in small steps.

Health Reasons - Volunteering opens your eyes to how good you have it. Sometimes the ability to shift your mental focus off of your problems helps break the cycle your thoughts were in trying to figure a way out of the problem. The sheer distraction from that downward spiral is one of the best reasons I can think of to volunteer.

Helper High – Many people report that when they have finished helping others or working for the greater good there is a general uplifting feeling they experience. The feeling is referred to as a “helpers high.” 

Esteem – To feel like one is making a difference. There’s nothing wrong with feeling like your effort is needed and you are making a contribution.

Spiritual Reasons - Consider that most people find themselves in need in one point in their lives. You can think of it as Karma/Gratitude/Restitution for gifts given but for some volunteering is being spiritually thankful.

About Author

Jolian Grant is owner and operator of http://www.justfundraising.com.He has over 16 years experience helping schools,churches and youth groups acheive their fundraising goals. To date Jolian has helped raise over 45 million dollars for charitable causes. Check out the justfundraising/charity blog at fundraisingideas.com/blog/

Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake - Preeti Shenoy

Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake is a book that talks about the fickle nature of relationships, and how they may come to an abrupt end at any time. It charts the story of two people who fight enormous odds to be together, and here’s more. 

Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake tells us the story of Nisha and the turmoils she undergoes in her life due to her relationship with two men. Nisha leads a perfectly ordinary life that’s hardly exciting till she’s 26, and she tries to live with the fact that men won’t find her chubby looks attractive. Little does she know that fate has other plans in store for her.

When the wealthy and suave Samir reciprocates her love, an ecstatic Nisha can hardly believe her fairy-tale lifestyle. But the fairy tale comes to a rather shattering end when Samir arbitrarily announces the end of their marriage after 8 long years.

Nisha is left abandoned - older, wiser and with two children, and she struggles to pick up the pieces and rebuild her life from scratch. As she see-saws through a series of emotions and feelings of pain and rejection, she finds Akash, an old friend, standing next to her through her dark days.

Can Nisha build a new life with Akash or has her soured marriage put her off love forever?

The book is all about second opportunities in love.

Book Now: books@theteenmag.net

Happy Birthday Twitter

On the 21st of March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first public tweet into the world (“just setting up my twttr”). Can you believe that was 6 years ago yesterday?

Dorsey was evidently one of the key people in the early days of Twitter, and today he still serves as the company’s executive chairman and product lead, combining the job with his role as CEO of Square (another company he co-founded).

His ‘twttr’ tweet was the first of several billions, and counting.

Fun facts: it took Twitter 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach the first billion tweets, and it took about 18 months for the first 500,000 users to sign up.

Twitter-the-company has obviously come a long way since Dorsey published the first tweet on ‘Twttr’, as it was known back then, and today some estimate that 500 million people use its real-time information and social networking service today. I’m skeptical about those estimates but they shouldn’t be too far off the real number.

Last time Twitter itself shared the number of registered users for the service was in April 2011, when they announced that more than 200 million people had signed up.

Twitter says ‘more than’ 100 million users were active in 2011. That number is most certainly higher today, but it’s been a while since Twitter has provided updated numbers. Here’s to hoping their 6th birthday will be an excuse for doing just that.

Last October, Twitter did say they were seeing 250 million tweets per day, a number that’s likely also higher presently.

The service still sees massive spikes from big ‘watercooler’ events like the Super Bowl,the Grammys and Super Tuesday.

Over the years, Twitter has matured and made an impact in the areas of politics, sports, media, and more. But what about, you know, making money from it?

According to eMarketer, Twitter’s advertising revenue is to triple by 2014, hitting over $540 million (up from an estimated $260 million this year).

Recently, the company has been paying close attention to the different ways it canderive revenues from all those tweeters. Twitter has also recently added more languages and acquired blogging software maker Posterous.

However, with rising headcount costs (over 900 employees today, up from about 400 last year) and costly infrastructure and operations, the company is still reportedly losing a ton of money after its first 6 years in business.

We’ll be watching closely what happens next. But today, we raise our glasses to Twitter and wish them a very happy birthday, and many years to come.

Kahaani : A must watch movie

Vidya Baghchi's (Balan) husband Arnab has gone missing and she arrives in Kolkata, seven months pregnant and desperate to find him. The cops at the Kalighat police station are thrown and initially dismiss Vidya's case as one of a husband having fled after knocking up his wife. Vidya finds a friend in rookie officer Rana (Parambrata Chattopadhyay), who helps her piece together a trail that she hopes will lead to Arnab. But the hunt turns deadly when Vidya and Rana discover clues that hold answers to other unsolved mysteries, that are fiercely being kept under wraps.

As the packaged water-guzzling, bellied protagonist, Vidya turns in another fine performance, segueing from steely determination to quiet desperation with ease. And while several supporting characters comfortably hold their own even when sharing presence with Balan (especially Saswata Chatterjee, who plays Bob Biswas), the one that deserves most mention is the city of Kolkata that plays Vidya's friend, foe and silent spectator while it readies to ring in Durga Puja celebrations. 


But there are a few grouses. One wishes that the movie had subtitles, as there's plenty of Bengali in 'Kahaani' that throws the non-speaking viewer off. This reviewer would have totally missed Tagore's song 'Eka', had she not had some help from another viewer who was Bong. There's an unnecessary love angle that turns Chattopadhyay's character into Balan's simpering sidekick. Also the movie's climatic 'aha!' moment feels like the last chapter of a Nancy Drew novel - where the pieces all magically fall in place, motives are suddenly obvious and the characters are all slapping each others' backs for a job well done instead of looking sheepish about not having figured it out earlier.

What to do?
There's certainly a story, but that alone isn't why you're going to enjoy 'Kahaani'. Go watch it for Vidya, Kolkata and thrills that won't have you gripping the handles, but will keep you glued to the seat anyway.

Kohli assault powers India to an extraordinary win

Virat Kohli produced a blistering 183 off 148 balls as India notched up their highest run chase ever to register an incredible six-wicket victory over arch rivals Pakistan and keep themselves afloat in the Asia Cup cricket tournament here today. Chasing Pakistan's stiff 329 for six, the Indians rode on Kohli's breath-taking heroics to pull off a sensational victory with 13 balls to spare in a high-voltage contest at the jam-packed Sher-e-Bangla national stadium.
Apart from Kohli's career-best knock, his second century in the tournament, Rohit Sharma (68) and Sachin Tendulkar (52) were the other notable contributors as India eclipsed their highest successful run chase of 326 for eight against England at the Lords in the NatWest Cup final in 2002. It was a stunning assault by the young Kolhi who smashed 22 boundaries and one six while Tendulkar also gave ample display of his vintage form during his knock. Rohit also marked his return to form with some glorious shots. The outstanding batting display by the Indians completely overshadowed the centuries of the two Pakistan openers Nasir Jamshed (112) and Mohammad Hafeez (105) who stitched a record 224-run opening partnership. But their efforts went in vain.


India, whose Asia Cup campaign was thrown into disarray after their upset five-wicket defeat against minnows Bangladesh, will now have to await the result of the last league match between Sri Lanka and Bangladeshon Tuesday. If Sri Lanka wins, India will go into the final but a Sri Lankan defeat will ensure that Bangladesh take on Pakistan in the final on March 22. As per the rules, if two teams are tied on points, head to head record will be considered, so Bangladesh will go into the final as they had beaten India in their league match. 

Probability Events & Positive Thinking

Human life has so many twists and U turns. We face so many unexpected events in our

life. Sometimes it may bring Positive and sometimes Negative. We have no power on these

events. We can neither predict nor prevent as It occurs spontaneously.Last week I went

to see my friend's mother who was admitted in a hospital for cancer treatment. During our

conversation she frequently asked " why me? ". We have to face these type of questions

frequently in our daily life ,but what is the answer ?

When the events are positive, we enjoy and boast to take the sole responsibility for it,

But when they are negative we ask "Why me?". We frown and feel ourselves a weak one,

Some even take the cowardice decision of suicide to escape from the negative impact of

it.(A report of world health organisation WHO indicates that India has one of the highest

suicide rates in world wide)

Why are these events happening in human life? can we predict or prevent them

Science mentions these Events as "PROBABILITIES". For example,Take some coffee

seeds in a glass and drop them in a floor. The seeds will scatter anomalous. In this action

you can't assume or predict that, how will the seeds scatter? Every seeds scatter in a

different way. Even if you repeat this action, every time the seeds will scatter in a different

way from the previous action. This is "probability".

In science, there are probability theories and maths to assume probability events but they

are not accurate and also you can do probability maths only in the actions which you are

going to do but not on unexpected events.

Actually, In our life we face events unexpectedly. THE birth or death, a profit or loss, friend

or foe, good or bad etc... we don't know, assume, predict or prevent them.

For example, you play volley ball and hit the ball. After your hit, your action will come to an

end. you can't predict accurately that how will the opposite team react? They may block ,

hit forcefully or fail to tackle. That's the main reason, why the games are so interesting!

As in game, in our life also the fate ball may fall in our right side,left side,front or back.

we should always be ready to face it. If you fail because of your fault then try to correct

yourself. If you miss the victory after your excellent performance don't worry that's the

probability. Try to accept the things as it is. Live the life as a game.

If you do not have interest in probability theories of science and you are a spiritual

worm ,then in spiritual view also we have positive attitude. Science only talks about

probability, but it doesn't explain why it is happening in the universe. Science simply

narrates that the man and the universe are the results of an accident, big bang.

All the religions have the faith that, these probability events are pre planned by the

almighty. They believe that, Almighty makes birth and death to trail mankind to show

the world which are good in deeds. So every faith advises human to be patient in the

unexpected events. That's why they are praying "oh God!grant me the serenity to accept

the things which I can't change. Grant me the courage to change the things I can .Grant

me the wisdom to know the difference".

We may accept science or spiritual but be positive always.

-Ibnu Mohamed