A report by Navtej Kohli - Costa Rica is poorer now than a year ago, reveals the latest Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (National Household Survey)

According to the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares's survey, Costa Rica is poorer now as compared to the last year. The national household survey company reveals that of the1.327.554 households in the country, nearly 287.000 live in poverty and 85.557 in extreme poverty.

In 2010, the poverty rate in Costa Rica was recorded 21.3%, this year it stands at 21.6%. the extremely poor population rose from 6% last year to 6.4% this year.

Most of the poor population reside in Brunca, La Chorotega and the Central Pacific, while the Central Valley (San José) has a lower incidence of poverty

The employment rate is 7.7%, up from 7.3% in 2010, meaning an additional 15.500 people are without work this year over last. Notwithstanding the higher employment rate, the survey shows that this saw 87.000 more people employed than in 2010.

The areas of higher employment were in retail, repair, construction and public administration. According to the Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INEC), unskilled occupations are those with that had a greater increase in employment.

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Frank McCourt has been offered $1.2 billion to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers to a group backed by Chinese government-owned investment banks, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday.

According to the reports, Frank McCourt has been offered a whopping $1.2 billion to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers to a group supported by Chinese government owned investment banks.

The bid to purchase the team which is now bankrupt (first reported by the Los Angeles Times), was being managed by Los Angeles Marathon Founder Bill Bruke.

The terms of the bid, as mentioned in the letter sent to McCourt, demand an all cash payment to purchase the team, all property related to the team and the team's media rights. The present offer the almost $800 million more that what he paid for Dodgers in 2004 at more than $430 million.

The letter said funding for the bid would come from "certain state-owned investment institutions of the People's Republic of China"

The bid is valid for 21 days, as per the letter, and they are expecting to close the deal within 90 days, depending on the approvals of the bankruptcy court and Major League Baseball.

The offered bid would break a record for a Major League Baseball team that had been set two years ago when the Ricketts family paid $845 million to purchase the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. The involvement of overseas investors in the team's ownership would not be marvelous, with the Seattle Mariners' ownership group including a significant Japanese presence.

Navtej Kohlihad concluded after watching Slumdog Millionaire is the writer have very clean and right approach for telling the truth. Its not a movie but just drama of the life which usually Slum areas kids and person spending whole life .

      There are many expectation with the Slumdog Millionaire in the Oscar awards  because it was nominated near about 14 category and had already won many International Movie awards . Movie conceived with stunning cinematography, a emotional script and an ideal cast,   but all these nothing making sure that movie will be Oscar winner because   Oscar awards having many different parameter as well as technical issue while judge deciding a movie or even a hero to be winner of Oscar.

     Navtej Kohlijust want to leave this discussion and want to say “I can’t say about wheatear it will be winner of Oscar awards , but I am sure that it had already wins hearts of millions”. Its seems that real life is going while we are watching Slumdog Millionaire

.Its a story of a teen boy who wins million in reality show which was based on question  and answer . The question was so difficult but hero had answered al the because all question remained unpleasant moment or his life struggle.

    Slumdog Millionaire had already win awards, such as SAG, DGA, PGA, WAGA and Golden Globes . Its be story of Love and life struggle of Jamal Malek which role is played by Dev Patel as flashbacks show his struggles from the slums of Mumbia to present day where he is accused of cheating.

  Moreover it’s a great one story because its shows reality of India , how much slum areas person have to suffer for living a simple. Basically it is based on writer Book name “Q & A “  which is an Indian writer but the film is directed by an British Director . It’s a British Film but all the character are Indian and music, lyrics given by an Indian “A . R. Rehman”. Navtej Kohli best wishes for movie  Slumdog Millionaire.

Hey friends!

First of all I apologize for not being active on Navtej Kohli live journal of late. I have been on vacation for a while and before that was busy with some other things. But now I’m back with lots of interesting experiences and stories to share with you guys ;)

The past month I have been vacationing in India, my native land, and it was for most part a remindful experience. It’s been almost 25 years since I left India, but it seems like India never left me. Those childhood memories are still as fresh in my mind as if it happened only yesterday. I still remember how I and my brother used to steal mangoes from the neighbors’ yard with sticks and stones. Wow! Those days were fun. We would eat till we almost burst. And our poor neighbor, a stout bald man, would get mad at us, not because we stole his mangoes, but because we threw the peels right at his door. LOL! I can never forget those days!

I had wanted to visit India for quite some time now, however, thanks to my hectic work schedule, it wasn’t until this year that I finally took some time to make it happen. It’s been almost eight years now since my last trip here. Although, not much has changed since then except my grandmother who now look even more shriveled and frail. Anyways, that is ought to happen at her age. She otherwise looks fine, if a little weak. My grandmother loves me a lot. No matter after how many years we meet, or how much I have matured, she still loves me as her little ‘Tinku’ (that’s my childhood name). Even I’m very fond of her, especially for the stories that she would tell us as kids.

Well, enough of the memories for now! I will get back to you shortly with some more interesting posts. Till then, stay tuned!

Will 2012 mark the end of human race?

YES!!!

Well so are predicting the scientists of the world. Four years from now i.e. in 2012, earth is likely to meet its doomsday. However, whether this doom would be a natural phenomenon or man caused occurrence is not yet clear, but it will sure happen, says the soothsayers. 

Honestly speaking, no one really knows what 2012 will bring for the mankind. Nevertheless, astronomers, historians, mystics and scientists unanimously agree that 2012 is going to be the most significant year in the history of mankind. Over centuries, a number of theories have been proposed regarding the doomsday. Given below is a rundown of the seven most convincing and interesting theories till date:

1.    The Mayan calendar predicts the universal ‘Armageddon’ on December 21, 2012. Considering their expertise in making highly accurate astrological equipments out of stone & proximity in calculating the length of lunar moon, we certainly have a reason to believe them this time too.

2.    According to a startling revelation made by solar experts from around the world, the intensity of already severe solar storms is likely to reach its deadly peak by 2012. Currently, the energy output cycle of sun is believed to be in the midst of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. By 2012 the things would certainly get worse.

3.    The Atom Smasher: European scientists have been devising the world’s largest particle accelerator. This machine is nothing but a 27 km long tunnel designed to smash atoms together to see what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4.    The Bible says: If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5.     Super Volcano:Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6.     The Physicists: This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni  have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7.    Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG! We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

Navtej Kolhi strikes back after a long time with another topic to open your heart and mind.

The disease of civilization has blurred the understanding of overall human race towards health and happiness. We must constantly remind ourselves that health is the reward of living at one with laws of nature.  It’s a natural state of being. Dis-ease is by and large the outcome of our ignorance, an offspring of our fears and badly managed way of life.

Some one has rightly said “People perish through lack of knowledge.” Even after decades of much peddled development, humans seem to have gained nothing but sufferings that persists throughout life.  

Right from seeking remedies in filthy animal extracts to loathsome potions, medical science has done it all, yet failed to keep diseases at bay.  The reason –we always lean on curing the effect than preventing the cause.

We humans are masterpiece of creative intelligence. Bearing this in mind we must also realize that state of healthiness, happiness and accomplishment lies within our soul and not in the things around us.

Navtej Kohli touches another sensitive virtue. Are we really losing patience in the haze of our desires.

IN a constant desire to win and dominate there is something really important we are losing on. Imagine, being stuck in a seemingly endless traffic jam, or standing in a long queue at ATM…we sigh and murmur to ourselves, “What the heck is going on?”

We just don’t have time! So we get irritated and annoyed. Exasperated, we start cursing the way things are, disregarding the fact that we are also a part of this whole chaos.

However, this was not the scenario in not too distant past. Times were when we used to just sit and talk to our family, or friends, or even pets for that matter. But today, we are all so messed up in meeting deadlines, chasing desires, that we just don’t have time.

Do you realize what are we losing?

 It’s patience!

Where is all the tolerance gone? Are we falling prey to our own ambitions, our craving to get more in least possible time?

It’s a topic worth dwelling on! Think of the last time when you watched TV patiently, without flicking channels for half an hour. There is hardly an instance to tell.  

Impatience is creeping rapidly down inside our psyche. You agree or don’t agree we have lost our power to keep calm. All we want is to dictate everything around us, to have them move and act anyway we want. But unfortunately, we cannot alter the predestined scheme of things.  

But still, we try only to realize how foolish we are. We feel more frustrated, anxious and futile. Such feelings make way for impatience.

Now, the question is, ‘How do you expect us to keep perseverance in midst of turmoil?’

Fair enough! We are human beings, not god. We are bound to give up patience under sufferings. That’s the best we can do.

Sorry, but I don’t agree! That’s not the best we can do. Let me tell you this, we can all learn to be more patient. Even the most impatient person can master this skill by exercising some mind control. Idea of cultivating patience revolves around respecting acts and opinions of others.

Sometimes in a futile attempt to attain this state of mind, we put meditation, yoga or spirituality into practice. Yet everyday we see ourselves at swords with our patience on trifling matters, too insignificant to be even mentioned here.

Surrendering to your undue demands is no solution. Acknowledge your flaws. Don’t let impatience take its toll on your mind and body. Get real, talk to yourself, find logics (appearances can be deceptive at times), and visualize positive things.

Give it a thought guys! Developing patience just calls for a desire to change. So, next time when you find yourself at the tipping point of losing patience indulge in some self-control.

Some unexplained enigmas of human life…by Navtej Kohli

Do you believe in mysticism, something like your own spirit, or your own exact replica?

I know, this may sound atypical, but there are some people who claim to have met their own phantom – their doppelgangers.

Several accounts throughout the history confirm some remarkable cases of doppelgangers been observed globally. Also, instances are when people experienced being in two distinct locations at the same time.

Literally, doppelganger means double-walker or a look alike. It is a German word that means a shadow self. And if we are to believe the German folklore, it can be a harbinger of misfortune and death, visible exclusively to the owner other than family members in certain exceptional cases.

Of all the fascinating reports of doppelganger I found online, this one really knocked me off my feet!

Emilie Sagée (32 years, French) school teacher became a topic of rumor and speculation when students reported having seen her twin appear and disappear right in front of them.

In an episode, while Sagée was writing on blackboard, suddenly her duplicate appeared behind her. It (the duplicate) copied teacher’s every move as she was writing. Strangely enough, it held no chalk to write with. Almost 13 students in the class saw the entire happening.

Another similar event was reported at a dinner where Sagée’s phantom was seen standing besides her, imitating her movements as she ate, except that it did not hold any utensils.

Else than just mimicking her, doppelganger was also said to be seen alone sometimes. While she was teaching in a classroom, students alleged having seen her doppelganger in other parts of school. One day, a class of 42 students assembled in the hall for their tailoring lessons, under the supervision of a teacher. From the class they could distinctly see Sagée collecting flowers in the school’s garden. To their surprise, however, when the supervising teacher left the hall, Sagée’s doppelganger surfaced on her chair, whereas the real Sagée could still be seen gathering flowers in the garden. Two girls even dared to touch it, but felt a strange sort of resistance in its aura. It then gradually disappeared. This entire instance occurred in the full view of all the students.

Sagée on the other hand, claimed never to have seen the doppelganger herself, but said that whenever it was said to appear, she felt drained and fatigued. Her physical color even seemed to pale at those times.

I wish not to see my doppelganger ever in my life!!!

Navtej Kohli is back once again with another issue worth considering. Do you ever feel mentally restrained while doing anything creative? like while painting or may be writing? If yes, You surely suffer from mental fog!

What is that? Read on to know:

Brain Fog is a commonly used expression for indicating a state of mind when you can't quite focus or think clearly. There are primarily two causes of Brain Fog – Mental & Physical.

Physical causes include lack of sleep. However, it varies from person to person. While some sleep five hours a day and feel as fresh as those who snooze almost eight hours a day. Make sure that you sleep sound for whatever time you sleep. The more sound you sleep, the better your brain works.

Avoid too much of sugar. As a common observation, you tend to become more fatigued and moody after eating anything sugary. So, if you want to clear that brain fog, keep your hands off sugar!

Other likely causes of brain fog can be ill health, boozing and some natural factors detrimental to clear thinking. Apart from this, certain prescription drugs also facilitate brain fog. Look for some remedial action. Consult you doctor and see if it helps.

Many a times we can’t concentrate due to some redundant thoughts or qualms that keep popping in our heads. These mental distractions interrupt our smooth run of thoughts and creative thinking. Such unwanted thoughts remain active in our subconscious mind, creating a sort of mental block. Thinking under this stress is just like concentrating on work amid chaotic crowd.  An unfinished business, uncertainties pertaining to future and several such distressing thoughts drain our brains, leaving us with nothing but some fractured ideas.

How do we get rid of it?

Resolve them, as simple as that! Create a list and jot down everything damn thing bothering you, sequence them priority-wise. Finish up tasks.  Keep telling yourself ‘I have nothing to worry about’. Repeat it quite a few times, and you will see your life improving, thoughts vanishing and mind opening up. Other techniques like mediation and deep breathing exercises also help flushing tensions off your mind.

Navtej Kohli's Garden of  Inspirational quotes:

•    One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
         - Peter Drucker

•    Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
         - Bill Gates

•    If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.
        - Jay Leno