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Importance of Packaging

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Packaging industry has seen a tremendous shift from ordinary packaging techniques to tailor made shapes, sizes and designs. This shift is meant to fulfil the marketing strategies of firms as well as meeting the demand of innovative designs by the customers. Packaging ensures protection of the products that are meant to be distributed in the market for the purpose of sale or storage. Some of the common packaging products include boxes, envelopes, cartons, cans, bottles, bags, wrappers and containers.

In today’s world, packaging is considered as a mode of competition due to the fact that consumers have become more affluent. Another reason is their increased reliance on processed food items and manufactured goods. Companies have started finding ways and techniques to sell their products through better designing and packaging. Strong and attractive packaging designs and labels not only protect the products from breakage and damages but they are also helpful in grabbing attention of the end consumer. Packaging techniques like clustered packaging ensures that less time and manpower is used for packing and labelling of products.
Packaged delivery services started gaining importance in the early twentieth century, a time which was characterized with the advent of attractive, durable and modernized parcel and mailing boxes. Increased dependence on packaging of products has seen a rise in the demand of availing more delivery services. As a result of this, delivery of products through mailing boxes has gained importance as it is seen as the most durable and safe way of packaging. Mailing boxes ensure tamper proof, attractive, cost-effective, recyclable, and convenient way of packaging a product. They are available in various sizes, shapes and designs in order to cater to the needs of the customers.
The size, shape, and strength of mailing boxes depend on the items to be packaged. For example, packing fragile items like glassware and vases requires extra protection in the form of double layering or extra thick walls. On the other hand, narrow boxes would be used for packaging a flat item like a mirror.
One of the companies that aims at meeting all your packaging requirements is http://www.123packaging.co.uk/ . Some of the prominent packaging products offered by them include CD and DVD parcel boxes of all sizes (large, medium, small, extra small), postal tubes , and brown craft papers. It also specializes in stationery supplies like tapes and stickies, paper envelopes, boarded envelopes, Jiffy Padded Envelopes and Jiffy Padded Bag Size , Duracell Batteries, and pens. For more information on the range of their products and services, please visit the website http://www.123packaging.co.uk/.

Osteopathy

Monday, April 27, 2009


Osteopathy is a holistic approach to human body care which is very unique in its own way. It consists of techniques that use hands to influence the way a body works and its theory is a simple one: for anyone to remain in excellent health, all parts of the body must function together in synchronization. If one part of the body is limited, the remainder of body compensates for that limitation and that sometimes lead to discomfort, stiffness, headaches or infection. When a body is in such a discomfort, in Pegasus health care uses osteopathy as a complementary therapy to conventional medicine.

The practitioners at Pegasus Clinics are trained as health care therapists who see an individual as an integrated whole. Patients often seek treatment from them without referral from their general physician. By manoeuvring the muscles, joints, connective tissues, nervous, respiratory and immune system; these practitioners not only cure the problem area, but also give a feeling of overall well being. It is for this reason osteopathy is often seen as a form of manual medicine that can empower the systems of body with strength to heal the primary root causes of diseases and illnesses.

The practice of osteopathy was founded and established by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in the 1880s. His aim was to use manual techniques with hands to enhance the blood circulation in body and provide relief to a sufferer. He was against the use of medicines and argued that every individual has the potential of curing itself provided an appropriate knowledge is imparted to him. He stressed on using a broad range of hands-on techniques to calm the problem/infection region which included soft tissue stretching, deep physical pressure, and mobilisation or manipulation of joints.

Osteopathy is very beneficial for our general health as well. The treatment in itself is not preventative and can be used as a routine practice as well. Osteopaths value the body's inborn capability as a self-regulating mechanism and only intervene when pain or discomfort subsides. One of the major benefits of osteopathy is the overall improvement in mobility and structure of the body. In addition to of this, other systems such as nervous and circulatory systems of the body operate with more orderliness and chances of non functionality of any part minimizes automatically.

Most people have a belief that osteopathy is only for bones correction. In reality however, osteopathic healing can be beneficial in a wide range of conditions such as stress management, menstrual pains, wrong postures, strain injury, nervous disorder, digestion problems, stiffness in body, soreness in jaw, limited mobility due to joint pain and other issues . By using the natural healing techniques, practitioners at Pegasus can cure these illnesses for a long term and ensure that all the body's components are in balance and in sync with each other. If you are a patient of an information seeker, you can contact Pegasus for more information.

Sports Injuries

Thousands of people across this world participate in some kind of sports, exercise or physical activity on daily basis. To each one of us, sports give a feeling of togetherness in more than one way and almost anyone who exercises regularly develop sports injuries at some time or another. The type of injury varies according to the age and kind of exposure to the activity and therefore occurrence of some injuries happen more than others. A representative of Pegasus Clinics, which specializes in treating sports injuries, states its definition as “The term ‘sports injury’ is generally used for injuries that occur in the musculoskeletal system, which includes the bones, muscles and associated tissues like cartilage.”

Some of the common injuries resulting from sports activities include:

Sprains and cramps: Sprain occurs when there is a stretching or tearing of ligaments surrounding the joints. Cramp on the other hand is a sudden, intense and forceful pain caused by a muscle locked in ripple.

Blisters: A fluid-filled loop on the surface of the skin that usually takes place on the hands or the feet.

Knee Pain: This is very common in athletes and occurs due to overtraining syndrome. To treat the cause of the pain, it is important to have an evaluation and proper diagnosis. Common reasons for knee pain include ligament injuries, torn knee cartilage and osteoarthritis.

Fractures: A fracture is a serious injury that causes crack/split in the bone. It can occur from either a one-time quick injury or from recurring stress to the bone over a period of time. The symptoms of Broken Shoulder or Clavicle Fracture is found generally in cricketers, squash and tennis players as their play requires continuous blows to their shoulders.

Chronic Injuries: Chronic sport injuries happen over a period of time and are usually a result of performing repetitive activities. Stress fracture is one of the most common examples of chronic injury and can happen to any individual over the age of 10. Tennis elbow is another type which occurs due to recurring use of muscles in the arms.

Details of other sports injuries and their treatments can be viewed at Pegasus Clinic’s website.Treatment:

At Pegasus Clinics, all the patients are treated as athletes and a prompt treatment is given to ensure that they return to normal activity as soon as possible. Complete diagnoses of the problem area give practitioners an insight on the severity. Some of the orthopaedic methods used at Pegasus to cure sports injuries are: exercise rehabilitation, osteopathy, electrotherapy, ergonomic assessments, dry needling and naturopathy.

Fortunately, most of the patients who approached Pegasus have been diagnosed and treated successfully and they are back to their routine physical activities within a short duration of time.

Think Like An Entrepreneur

Friday, September 5, 2008

Do You Want To Survive? Think Like An Entrepreneur


In order to grow, we need to think like entrepreneurs. General notion is that people who run their own businesses have a strong will power in addition to a stronger action. Same should apply to when we work for some company. A person may be employed with a call centre, or a financial institution or a garage, the question is ‘do we take responsibility of the work as a employer or we work like any other employee?’

Lot of us will say – ‘But I am an EMPLOYEE!!”

And you’re right. You may be an employee but even if you’re working for someone else, you still have to think like an Entrepreneur. The world is changing everyday and we need to tune in to it fast. Latest mantra is ‘to take ownership’ – of one’s actions and their reactions!!
You think you are miserable in your job as it doesn’t pay you a good salary or there’s too much of politics around, take the charge. Fine, there are some things that you cannot manoeuvre according to own likes and dislikes.

But there is a way out - Develop an idea, for ideas have power to create the unthinkable. The authority of taking control over the situation lies within – just don’t be a horse running straight – there are too many things to do in life. The need is not of ‘taking out time from our busy schedules’ but of determination instead, for if we have guts, we become stronger, leading to a risk taking ability and we become fearless.

And to conquer our own lives, we need to be fearless of worries.

Starting a start-up

What is the recipe of a good entrepreneur? Ability to take risk along with a good luck. But how much should we divide among these two? Money also plays an important part and if any country is versatile, opportunities do float in abundance. It has to be active and risk-taking nature of the person to keep him going.

One can always get advice from others. A person with entrepreneurial skills doesn't become one himself because of other’s inability to take and face risks in life. Many first generation entrepreneurs like Dhirubhai Ambani did not have big capital to start with but they had the burning platform to do that. That's more important. One must have the burning desire to do that.

There is no shortage of money and definitely no shortage of entrepreneurs in the human race. It’s connecting the two and making it work which is the trick. Need of hunger of constant growth is essential.

Remember – no risk, no reward
 

2009 ·Random Writings by TNB