EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: BrahMos Launched From INS Tarkash

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: BrahMos Launched From INS Tarkash:

Wildlife and Human Needs Collide in Southern India

Wildlife and Human Needs Collide in Southern India:

The Sigur Plateau has emerged as a key wildlife corridor that sustains Asian elephants and tigers. Tensions are rising between conservationists, farmers, and resort owners about how the area should be be managed.

10 money secrets financial advisors & salesmen don't tell

10 money secrets financial advisors & salesmen don't tell.

HBR - Truths for Our Daughters

As a senior professional in financial services — an industry with comparatively few women in the executive ranks — I've spent a lot of time thinking about why there aren't more women at the top-most levels of companies. I've read the studies and heard the theories that women don't network well; don't have the "vision thing"; communicate too passively; don't ask for bigger jobs and the top clients; and have fewer sponsors who are willing to use political capital to advocate for them the way they do for their male colleagues. There's a lot of agreement and repetition when talking about the problem. It's when discussing solutions that things get quieter.

As a mother watching her 18-year old college freshman daughter contemplate her summer job options and future career, I want her to be exposed to success stories — not to what women lack or haven't done or can't do — because I know these successes exist and we need to share more of them. If young women everywhere went into the workforce steeped not only in the message that "you can't have it all" and inundated not only with data on the lack of senior women, but armed instead with all the accumulated advice and wisdom of experienced women who have thrived in and enjoyed their careers, then they — and the organizations they're joining — would be much better served.

Here is the advice I'll give my daughter — and all young women like her eagerly anticipating building a career — as she starts to make decisions about her life. These are some truths that I know now, twenty-plus years into my career, but wish someone had told me earlier. And though I didn't always follow these guidelines, my career has been more successful — and I got to where I am today — because of them. Maybe my daughter will embody these early on and be ahead of the game.

Be confident. I've watched you approach multivariable calculus class this semester with coolness and calm. Bring that spirit into the workforce with you. (For the record: I can't think of a single thing I've done in my entire career that approaches the complexity of multivariable calculus).

You don't need to "know it all" on day one. And neither does anyone else, including that very confident-sounding guy in the cube next to you. Even CEOs ask questions.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. It took me about a decade, if not longer, to figure this one out. It's easy to hold yourself back by thinking there is someone else out there who is more talented, more experienced, more skilled. You won't grow in your career if you won't venture beyond what you already are comfortable doing.

You have no idea where your career will lead you longer-term so think of it in smaller, manageable stages. Opportunities will come along. Be fearless, take them, and don't worry so much about what's next.

Speak twice as loudly as you think you need to. I really wish someone had said this to me before my first presentation in a corporate boardroom — when someone actually asked me to "speak up".

Be prepared. Practice. Know the numbers inside and out. Great business judgment develops with time, but even on day one, you can have the facts — and this is powerful.

Find that person who believes in you — and then listen to them, even if you don't like what they're saying. You will look back and be thankful that you did.

Draw lines in the sand. Know what it is you absolutely won't give up and stick to it. No one will thank you for not having a life outside of work, never taking vacation. The most successful people I know weave their lives and work together throughout the week. This gives them both career longevity and life fulfillment.

You will frequently feel like you are not giving your 100% best anywhere — either at home, at work, with friends, with other outside interests. I feel like this all the time — and it's okay. High achievers always strive to do more at work, with family and friends, with your other outside commitments and interest.

Pay it forward and good things happen. Take the call or the meeting request when friends and colleagues reach out for business or career advice and connect them with others who may be helpful. They will remember and it's an easy and genuine way to expand your network.

Be ready — for anything.

It's time for us to change the narrative of why there aren't more women at the top. Can we simply whip up a "how to" and change the trends we all see? Likely not — because there is no Secret Formula X for success. We each bring a varying mix of talents, ideas and experience to the equation, as well as differing life circumstances. That's why we need to start sharing our success stories, instead of focusing on all the reasons why women opt out or don't live up to their potential in the workforce. On this Mother's Day, share your story with someone who needs to hear it.

Sunrise Over the South Pacific Ocean

Sunrise Over the South Pacific Ocean:

The sun is about to come up over the South Pacific Ocean in this colorful scene photographed by one of the Expedition 35 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station between 4 and 5 a.m. local time, May 5, 2013. The space station was at a point above Earth located at 27.4 degrees south latitude and 110.1 degrees west longitude, a few hundred miles east of Easter Island.Image Credit: NASA

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Truth about Mutual Funds – II: Avoid these common mistakes to really benefit from mutual funds

Truth about Mutual Funds – II: Avoid these common mistakes to really benefit from mutual funds:

This is the second of a two-part series on essential facts about mutual funds. The first part explained 15 reasons why mutual funds are good for you

Truth about Mutual Funds – I: Fifteen reasons why mutual funds are good for you

Truth about Mutual Funds – I: Fifteen reasons why mutual funds are good for you:
This is the first of a two-part series on essential facts about mutual funds. The second part will discuss the common mistakes people make and end up losing money and faith in mutual funds

NASA - Image: The Rose

The Rose:
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second). This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn's north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Festival of Holi | Reuters.com

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