State Kids Malnourished
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State's infants are found to be malnourished and the level is rising higher that the national average. Below 3 years children, the situation in tribal children is worst. The CM is shocked with the statistic reports of malnutrition in kids and have announced 'Bal Bhog' project under which 1000 specially indentified malnourished children will be brought from nine most under-nourished Districts - Banaskantha, Vadodara, Bharuch, Narmada, Dangs, Sabarkantha, Surat, Valsad and Navsari. Under the project specially made chocolates containing Vitamin A, C, folic acid and iron will be distributed. The National Family Health Survey on 'Trends in children's national status in India shows that Gujarat has 47 percent underweight children. This indicates poor nutrient status. Gujarat has 17 per cent children who are too think for their height and 42 per cent children stunted which means too short for their age. In 1999, Gujarat state had 45% children under weight whereas in 2006, the percentage falls to 47%.

Hike in Textbook prices
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The School re-opening has found many parents fumbling and fuming over the price hike in text books. Parents are dissatisfied with the Education Department for the steep hike in textbook prices of Class II, III and IV. The prices have doubled compared to last year which indicates that the Education dept. is minting money, says the parents. The State Education Dept text books are taken for syllabus in many primary schools. Many schools have assigned books of Scholastic (Ratna Sagar pubn) and other publication books which are found to be very costly even compared to Education Dept. books. Education Dept books cost to Rs.30/- whereas Scholastic books (3 in a set i.e. English Communication / Englich vocabulary / English Grammar) costs Rs. 150/- around each i.e. average Rs.400/- per set for only English books along with more expenses for books in Science, Social studies, etc. This year, it is noted that the stationary prices too have hiked.

October 2 has been declared as World Day of Non Violence
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The Gandhi Brand is getting popular with the 114 UN member countries joining hands recently to support India's resolution to declare Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday on October 2 as the "International Day of Non Violence". The idea to pay the tribute to the Mahatma's ideology came from the follow up of the Satyagraha Conference organised by the Congress earlier and a dedicated campaign that was launched under the aegis of the government. Kidsfreesouls News earlier mentioned of the Satyagraha Conference titled "Peace, Non Violence and Empowerment - Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century" held at the Death Anniversary of Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi, Congress President had then called steps to get the day marked for non violence. She had written to the UN Secretary General for the UN Declaration with follow ups made by PM Manmohan Singh. The Leaders also wrote to several world leaders including Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, other world leaders of Spain, Brazil, etc.

Young Matriculate
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In Lucknow, a seven and a half year old girl Sushma Verma has created a record by becoming India's Youngest Matriculate. Daughter of a labourer, she cleared the Uttar Pradesh Board high school examination securing 354 marks out of 600. She got 60 marks in English, 68 in science, 66 in maths and 58 in Hindi. So far, the record was held by Patna's Tathagat Avatar Tulsi who accomplished the feat when he was nine years of age. Sushma took direct admission to class IX last year, following permission given by Secondary Education Dept.

World Env Day Celebrated
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Aware Organizations celebrated World Environment Day by conducting sapling plantations and spreading awareness to mark the day. The CEE campus organized Children activity with Canvas Painting, pottery making and slogan writing.

Arts & Crafts Workshop
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Sangati Trust workshop

Sangati Trust organized a two-day Summer Arts and Crafts Children's Workshop on  June 2nd and 3rd 2007 at 9:30 am to  5 pm at 33, (Old No.70), Z Block, 11th St., Anna Nagar, Chennai 600 040. (Shanmuga at 094441 83955) The session was led by veteran educator and teacher trainer, Mr. Ravi Aluganti. The workshop was primarily meant for children in the age group of 6 to 12 years.

Kids of smoking Parents not healthy
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Recently, World No Tobacco Day - 31st May was observed by WHO to spread the
message to say 'No Way' to Tobaco. An average 11,000 deaths per day globally
are caused due to tobacco. Six lac deaths per year are caused due to Tobacco
consumption in India itself with 50% resulting to cancer. What is more alarming is,
55000 Indian children get addicted to tobacco every year.

Tobacco was smoked as far back as 1556 by the people of the Caribbean, as
discovered by Christopher Columbus. It is a silent trap and causes lung cancer,
bronchitis and asthma, mouth ulcers, etc. Smoking or chewing tobacco gets a
person addicted and No Safe Cigarettes are proven too as low nicotine or the light
cigarettes are also equally harmful.

Researchers presented a study at the American Thoracic Society 2007
International Conference lately that Kids of smoking parents aren't so healthy.
Children whose parents smoke have more respiratory problems. More puffing,
wheezing, cases of pneumonia are the effects to the health of the children. The
kids also have higher risk of getting depressed, hyper tense and even get lower
grades in schools due to their health problems of wheezing and lower respiratory
infection due to which, they cannot concentrate in class.

It is noted that growing number of smoking bans in public places might cause
parents to smoke indoors in the privacy of their homes. As a result, children are
apt to increased harm to the developing lungs and they may get prone to
bronchial and asthamatic diseases.

CBSE Course on NSE
The CBSE Board in association with the NSE (national Stock Exchange) has introduced a new stream. Financial Market Management (FMM) for XI and XII students will be taught to students in the new course. Over 50 schools in the country will offer the course from June 2007. The course is aimed at making students understand entrepreneurship and getting self employed. Students will be taught subjects from functioning of the BPO sector to indulging in mutual funds. They will have to appear for online exams conducted by the NSE. Even the Teachers will get into Training Programs by known Institutes of Financial Markets. In Bombay, RN Podar School, Santacruz will be the only school in the city to introduce FMM.

Tintin entertainment
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The most beloved Belgian comic strip hero Tintin is to come alive on screen as Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are to join forces to direct and produce a series of three films based on the character Tintin. The Entertainment journal Daily Variety reported in it's recent edition that the legendary film makers would direct at least one of the films each and serve as producers on all three. Tintin had been a long time pet project of Steven Spielberg who finally secured the film rights to the comic series in the past months. Spielberg said that the computer animation technology used for the films would be unlike anything ever seen. The characters would be made to look real and photorealistic. The three stories are chosen from the 23 Tintin books published between 1929 and 1976.
 

Notices to Govt. for irregularities in mid-day meal
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The Gujarat High court has acted on the petition challenging the irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme for schools and issued notices to the State Govt. and AMC. Since 1984, the mid-day meal was started with the intention to give nutritious food to students. AMC in May 2006 signed an agreement with Stree Shakti, an NGO, for implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. The petitioner Bipin Rathod sumitted that the NGO cooked the food in one kitchen and hence the students, who should be getting fresh food are getting stale food that contain worms and insects. Moreover, the food was cooked in Palmolive oil, making difficult for students to digest.

Book in Gujarati on "Sibling Rivalry"
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The Eklavya Institute of Teacher's Education has published the Gujarati translation of Sibling Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. The translated version is "Harifaimukta bhai bahen" which will be released on 13th April.

- You can read more on Sibling Rivalry on kidsfreesouls Counselling page with a mention of this book earlier.

School reserves bulk seats for girls
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A reputed CBSE school Prakash Higher Secondary School for girls and boys announced a change in its admission policy wherein the school management has decided to take in 70% girls and 30% boys from the academic year 2007-08. Earlier, there were 55% boys in the school. To provide better facilities, the school also decided to provide free education to girls who have lost their fathers.

City boy excels
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Kartikeya Tanna of Ahmedabad excels to win laurels with his team in England's Phillip Jessup International Law Moot Court as first prize winner & International Law Moot Student's Association participating at Washington DC in "2007 in Shearman & Sterling LLP as second prize in competition.

Jessup moot is the biggest international mooting competition in the world, with more than 500 teams competing for a place in the finals, held in the United States. A moot is a mock trial, where participant argue points of law as they would in a court. Kartikeya is a student of King's College, London which has been awarded the highest research and teaching ratings by the UK Government's Higher Education Funding Council, and enjoys a distinguished international reputation.

Kartikeya, son of a reputed Lawyer Bhaskar Tanna , an ex student of St. Xavier's Loyala School in Ahmedabad and got his graduation from H.L. College. He is also an ex-student of Swagat Children Library.

Heat Wave
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Ahmedabad get the biggest heat wave as hardly the summer begins. It is the cause of the Global warming. As per the recent study of CEPT, there is an increase in concrete structures in the walled city which is responsible for radiating back maximum heat into Ahmedabad's environment. The study measured heat at 20 different places and where trees were found, the environment was cool compared to other areas. A green cover development is an important factor in urban planning. Narrow streets, dense concrete buildings and less trees has made the environment more hotter.

Cycling Mission
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Congress participants set off on a 13 day bicycle tour from Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad to Porbander. These 250 congress workers attempts to spread the message of Mahatma Gandhi across the state. Gandhian values, his ideology of non violence and truth is almost revived with the recent movie 'Lage Raho Munnabhai'. The object of this rally is also to spread the gandhian values but the opposition parties believe it to be a stunt to woo voters. The highlights of the rally will be the visit of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Porbander, the birth place of Gandhi.

Newspaper with a mission
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A Campaign for Kalam is announced by a leading Gujarati newspaper 'Sandesh'. President APJ Kalam is on the verge of retiring from his presidential post and he no longer wish to hold the post in future. However, educationists and children who are too fond of the President wants him to be re-elected for the post as he has major influence in education. The newspaper anecdotes a recent incident while Abdul Kalam landed at the city airport when he informed a father that if his daughter gets admission in medical, not worry for the cost. The Sandesh Newspaper has called for student's group photographs with attached student's list who would like Dr. Kalam to continue as President of India. These school kids photographs will appear on the Sandesh City page in their print media. Sandesh will also email the President of the school participating in the Campaign for Kalam. The submissions of school photographs can be made to Sandesh, Sandesh Bhavan, Lad Society, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad. (India)

Acting School in city
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Anupam Kher, a popular Film Artist who runs many Drama Schools have recently announced a unique Acting School, opposite the popular Nirma University. Actor Prepares is India’s finest acting school for talented individuals who wish to pursue careers as actor-performers in the entertainment industry.The school has credits with students like Rithik Roshan, Uday Chopra and Abhishek Bacchan who have undergone training at the center. The Teaching Modules vary from acting techniques, Body movements, Yoga, Aerobics, Stunts, Dance, Voice & culture, Diction and speech, Camera, film appreciation, Scene studies and script analysis, dubbing, television & radio, etc.
For more on the courses, visit the Actor's Actor Prepares website here.

Better Choice than Cricketers in India
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Pop Star Shakira & Gazal singer Gulam Ali prove to be a better choice for entertainment than the Indian Cricketers who miserably failed to show their performance in on-going Cricket world cup. Recently, Shakira performed a live show in Bombay after a successful Dubai concert. She performed amidst crowds longing to see her dancing on the tunes of Hips don't lie, La torture, Objection Tango and all the tunes that makes the fans go for more. An Indian choreographer Farah Khan from the Bollywood has also taught her some Indian dance steps which she performed on the stage.

The Gazal singer Gulam Ali who sings soulful music of gazals is reverse to shakira and do not sing the hip hop or pop. He sings songs worth in terms of lyrics and music and interacts with his audience to fulfil the expectations of his audience. He sings worldwide but belong to India and Pakistan. Ustad Ghulam Ali Khan sings in Hindi and urdu language.

Fans of these artists comments, "This is better choice than cricket'.

World Consumer Right Day
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World Consumer Right Day in Gujarat State was held on 15th March to protect the Consumer Rights. The slogan 'Jago Grahak Jago' has become popular to bring about awareness on Consumer rights for:
1. Right to safety
2. Right to Information
3. Right to Choose
4. Right to redress
5. Right to compensation
6. Right to Consumer education

Consumer is said to be the king of Market and the Govt. stand beside citizens to join hands together in the crusade against consumer products that lapse its originality and found to be adulterated or spurious goods. People should carefully shop and insist for bill/receipt and know the proper weight, quality and price and avail compensation on expenditure. The consumer awareness also prompts people to not get trapped with exaggerated and lucrative advertisements. Complaints can be lodged to Food, Civil supplies and Consumer Affairs dept, Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar if any customer is found cheated or provided insufficient services.

School Activities at N R (GLS)
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- scanned pic from TOI

Recently, N.R. Primary School held an Assembly wherein many children participated to show their talents and spread a social message. The invited students were from Mahipatram Roopram Ashram, an orphanage (extreme pic on left top). Children of N R school presented skits with a view to spread awareness on environment themes and save natural resources. The green theme with kids dancing and performing show with various other talents sent a message to stop greed, get rid of lust, anger, pride and jealousy. Ms. Rita Baker and her staff actively encouraged the children of the Orphanage and NR kids and praised their efforts to save nature.

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Gandhi's movement-Salt Satyagraha
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12th March 1930, Gandhiji in his boldest act of civil disobedience against British rule, began a long march to the sea in protest of the British salt tax. Gandhi and his followers eventually reached the Arabian Sea, where they made their own salt by evaporating sea water. The march, which resulted in the arrest of Gandhi and 60,000 others, earned new international respect and support for the leader and his movement. Gandhi's nonviolent methods, including dramatic hunger strikes, eventually did bring great results to his goal of Indian independence in 1947.


Insat 4B Launch
India's latest communication satellite Insat-4B on board the Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou was halted after an operational anomaly was detected on sunday. The launch is now expected to take place in the early hours of Monday, 12th March 2007.

Comic characters teach proper speech skills
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Characters like Noddy, Tweety and more are showed on Cartoon channels on the television. These are widely viewed by children who find a fancy knowing what they speak as these characters speak in the Indian language 'Hindi' on most TV channels. As a result, children have learnt to speak right hindi language and even immitate these characters. Among the favourite are Noddy, Oswald, Tweety, Bugs and Daffy. These cartoon character influence on kids also in mannerisms. Parents are now learning to speak better hindi instead of mix english-hindi-slang language they often speak.

Board Exams begin
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Board Exams of Grade 10 & 12 begins today at 892 centers with over ten lac students appearing for their finals. It is expected that the Questions papers will be easier with additional 15 minutes for solving the exam paper. There will be 400 flying squads teams to control mass copying and other mall practice during exams. Teachers are warned with penalty Rs.50 per mark for making errors in counting marks and placing wrong total after corrections. The Board also warned that the centre will not be allowed to host exams if officials who run these centres are found guilty of allowing cheating, mass copying and institutional irregularities.

Green Drive during Holi
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A city based NGO has decided to distribute saplings to create green awareness during Holi. According to a rough estimate, 7.5 lakh trees are chopped down in the Gujarat State as a part of Holi celebrations. Wood is burnt to mark Holi celebrations and at various residential places and cross roads, this traditional culture is on rise. As the story goes, burning of wood mean as killing of evil Holika who sat in the fire lit pyre with Prahlad who believed in god. The TLF (Tree Lovers Foundation) members are starting their campaign this week and they will be spreading the message in a unique way instead of preaching to save the trees. 

School Children die in a boat mishap
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School children who were out for a picnic died in a boat mishap in the Periya river in the Ernakulam district on Tuesday, 20th Feb. 19 children and 3 teachers were killed as the tragedy occured with over 100 children, below 10 and teachers were returning in three boats after the joy ride. More children were missing at the spot It is said, negligence was the cause as more children were placed in the boats than the allowed passengers. 

UK Schools Reform Curriculum for children
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A new curriculum has been announced for UK School children offering skills and languages relevant to changing times. This change will give the pupils "social and cultural flexibility" and a "feeling for justice and fairness. The curriculum should evolve to meet a rapidly changing world, and enable teachers to teach in a way that will continue to interest and enthuse their pupils," said the Education Secretary Alan Johnson.

Diverse range of languages like the Mandarin and Arabic will be taught to students. As William Shakespeare remains as an approved author for this age group - alongside novelists such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. However, Milton, Yeats, Conrad, Anthony Trollope, etc will no more appear in the recommended list of teaching literature. Instead, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and Kate Chopin of US will be included. A cross culture category of authors for different cultures and traditions include Meera Syal, Anita Desai, Benjamin Zephaniah and Maya Angelou. 

Practical cooking and nutrition lessons will be taught as a Health class teaching. 

The QCA's curriculum director, Mick Waters, while writing for the BBC News website, highlighted the need for the curriculum to promote such citizenship skills as "an ability to tolerate difference" and "the capacity to cope with change.

Sidney Sheldon, No More!
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Sidney Sheldon, the highly read US Author in India, died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage due to Pneumonia on Tuesday. He was 89. (Born on 17th Feb) Sidney Sheldon who won wide acclaim and awards in three careers - Broadway teater, movies and television, turned a best selling Author when he started writing at the age of 50. His most famous and wide read books are : Rage of Angels, The Other side of Midnight, Master of the Gave, If Tomorrow comes and Sands of Time. He always referred, "I try to write my books in such a way so the reader can't put them down"  He use to dictate 50 pages a day, corrected next day and continued till he churned out a story with 1200-1500 pages with several re-writes. His book Naked Face paperback sold around 3.1 million copies. 

Gandhi Nirvan Din (Death Anniversary)
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Gandhi, The Father of the nation and here is the profile of a leader who influenced thousands of Indians and people round the globe with his non violence philosophy. On the D Day of the Mahatma, a two-day international conference is being organized on January 29-30 by the All India Congress Committee to mark the centenary of the launch of Satyagraha Centenary entitled "`Peace, Non-violence and Empowerment - Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century'.

The conference is  structured around four presentations by Scholars and Gandhians. The subject emphasized is:
conflict resolution and peace-building
Gandhian philosophy for poverty eradication, 
education and people's empowerment
dialogue among peoples and cultures
towards a nuclear weapons free and non-violent world order

The Satyagraha movement was first started by Mahatma Gandhi on September 11, 1906 in South Africa against apartheid.

In hometown, here in Ahmedabad at the Sabarmati Ashram, to mark the 59th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a documentary film, "The poet and Mahatma' will be shown along with eminent Scholars who will give a lecture "Two lonely wayfarers in the dark night : Tagore and Gandhi. This is being organized by the Sabarmati Ashram Suraksha and Smarak Trust, Ravindra Bhavan and Gujarat Sahitya Parishad.

Kidsfreesouls salute the great leader and highly believe in the Gandhi Principles.
- click for Republic Day (26th Jan & on Gandhi here)

Missing Kids Racket
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There has been a concern recently with over a 40,000 children who went missing across India every year. 30% are almost never traced. It is learnt that majority of the kids who are missing has been forced to begging or into sex trade or domestic work.

This calls in for parents to play a major role to follow guidelines of discipline and safety to protect younger children. Children need to be taught on self protection and refrain from being exploited. Kids need to be well attended and taken care of. It is much to learn on how to keep children safer - be it at home, school or out at places. The 'stranger-danger' term is to be made clear with safety guidelines properly given to a child. The tips on Missing kids (US) site might be helpful in protecting kids from potential dangers. 

Vibrant Gujarat Kite Festival Celebrations
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Gujarat's International Kite Festival celebrations 'Vibrant Gujarat' has kicked off at the Sabarmati riverfront on 11th January. Kite flying day falls on 14th January as Uttaryan festival followed by Vasi Uttarayan on 15th Jan. There were patriotic Bollywood numbers sung with more than 10,000 school students performed surya namaskar, colorful banners and drumbeats at the venue. The festival posters were sent up in the air with the help of helium balloons, the CM Narendra Modi & Guj Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma took the centerstage. Kite enthusiastics from countries like Cambodia, Italy, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany etc. participated in the kite flying festival. 

Global Investors' Summit 2007 - Vibrant Gujarat

Gujarat Government has organised the Gujarat Global Investors' Summit 2007 on the occassion 'Vibrant Gujarat' like every year and expects to notch up record breaking MoUs of around 2 lac crore over the two days of summit. Among the many, some of Foreign Investors in Gujarat Projects are GE, Exxon Mobil, Heubach, Shell, British Gas, Hitachi, McCain and Dupont. Mergers, Aquisitions and Alliances are stealing the show at the Exhibit venue of Vibrant Gujarat at Science City with Business barons and corporate biz rubbing shoulders with foreign delegates and politicians. The many upcoming SEZ (Special Economic Zones) projects are on way with big companies like Reliance Industries Ltd, Jamnagar and Adani Group at Mundra along with a couple of others. The first Global Summit was held in 2003. 

Multimedia Gandhi Exhibition
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India's first worldclass Multimedia 'The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Exhibition' is held at Science City in Ahmedabad on 10th January 2007. This exhibition will show cast the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the nation. In the multimedia exhibition, technology fuses with art to make the life and teachings of Gandhi transparent and easily understood to all ages and backgrounds. Using language and imagery that crosses boundaries with the wonder of new discovery, this comprehensive exhibition stretches beyond cognitive frontiers. The Aditya Birla Group has supported the cause in joint initiative with the Government of Gujarat. The exhibition is expected to continue for two months with public opening from 16th January 2007. 

Scooby Doo Animator No More!
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TheScooby Doo Animator, Iwao Takamoto who designed the cartoon canine as well as characters on such shows as The Flinstones and The Jetsons, died on 8th January 2007, Monday at Los Angeles. He suffered a massive stroke. He was 81.  Iwao Takamoto designed Scooby Doo, his equally famished and cowardly master Shaggy, and their pals Velma, Daphne and Fred in the late 1960s while working at the Hanna Barbera animation studio. He also designed the snickering dog Muttley who was featured in a number of productions and Astro, the family dog on The Jetsons. For The Flinstones, he created the Great Gazoo, a green alien. He was the Vice President at Warner Bros. Animation. His death came soon after that of Hanna Barbera co founder Joseph Barbera, recently and his business partner William Hanna died in2001. 

No Interviews for Kids
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The Supreme Court has put its stamp of approval on the Interview-less Nursery admissions policy that the High Court had asked city schools to follow on the experimental basis for the coming academic year.

Can a small child be burdened with the tests and interviews for entry level admission?, asked the Court and ordered a ban on such an evaluation process both for tiny tots and parents for the year 2007-2008 academic session. 

Cartoon King Barbera dies
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Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna Barbera animation, team which produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones, died on Monday (Dec 25). He was 95. Barbera died of natural causes at his home. With his long time partner Hanna, Barbera first found success creating the highly successful Tom and Jerry cartoons. The antics of the battling cat and mouse went on to win seven Academy Awards, more than any other series with the same characters.

The partners had first teamed up while in MGM in 1930s. Hanna, who died in 2001, once said his partner could "capture the mood and expression in a quick sketch better than anyone I've ever known" . The two first teamed cat and mouse in the short 'Puss Gets the Boot.' It earned an Academy Award nomination and MGM let the pair keep experimenting until the full fledged Tom and Jerry characters eventually were born. 

National Book Fair
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A National Book Fair is held in town from 2-10 December 2006 at Sanskar Kendra. It is organised by National Book Trust. More than a thousand books are on display.  There are books on Education, Stories for children & children books, classics, management, computers, etc. Also school text books, workbooks and dictionaries are available and most of the visitors buy them. As the city is on back seat of Book reading Habits, the initiative of Books Exhibition is worth an encouragement for people to read books. 

Biggest Air show in Ahmedabad
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As a part of a year long Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, the Indian Air Force has planned a mammoth Air Awareness Campaign in association to the Government of Gujarat & Municipal Corporation from 10th November 06 to 19th November 06. This is going to be the biggest show with special arrangements for students on 10th November at the Ahmedabad Airport. There are Air shows for general public and Static display for all at the Airport on 10th & 12th November. The Air Warriors Symphony Orchestra will be conducted at Tagore Hall and this is only for special Invitees on 12th November. A special show is also arranged for general public on the next day. 

To spice up, a Recruitment Rally is held from morning to evening at Sardar Patel Stadium from 14-19th November. Youths will get an opportunity of direct recruitment into IAf. The recruitment will be a good option in the Office cadre as well as those below Officer's rank. 

The show will include frontline fighter Aircrafts, Helicorpoters and Transport fleet in the IAF. The Surya Kiran aerobatic team will display breath taking manoeuvres in the sky. Sky divers from Akash Ganga and Dare devil teams will show their aerial ballet and lethal agility on ground. 

Special arrangements for parking and free entry will be given to all at the events. 

Mind Gym
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Mind Gym' is the most in-thing in Britain. Instead of treadmills, the first Mind Gym was opened in London in October  2006 with mentally challenging games which will have memory-enhancing tips along with traditional mental challenges such as chess and Rubik's cube. Also the new Japanese puzzle sudoku. This is geared towards 'cognitive fitness' as mental exercise can delay age related memory loss and help increase intelligence.

Poetic Laurels on the Web

Nikhil Parekh, an Ahmedabad based Poet is blogging his way to fame with the most largest, longest and most prolific Poetry Blog on the web.  His blog http://www.nikhilparekh.blogspot.com  already has 550 posts in just 7 days of blogging. At the rate of 60 posts a day, he would be rolling 2060 posts within the end of the month with a word count of over 13.6 lac words and 8000 pages. This would be the Largest/Longest/Most prolific blog on the Internet .