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P. Sainath - Globalizing Inequality - SPECIAL EDITION!

2011-10-19T22:27:00.001-07:00

Rural reporter and photojournalist, P. Sainath, talks about the impact of globalization on the rural populations of India. This is a special edition of this program, including the entire unedited lecture and question and answer session. This program includes nearly an hour of additional material not seen in the original broadcast program!

Draw Your Style - A Very Creative Ad

2011-10-19T03:39:00.000-07:00

The Must-Read Steve Jobs Speech That Will Change Your Life

2011-10-17T01:54:00.000-07:00

This is the "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" address delivered by Steve Jobs in 2005 at Stanford University:

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Junko Furuta: The Girl Who Went through 44 days of Torture

2011-10-13T23:45:00.000-07:00

We were utterly shocked at what they did to her. It was unimaginable a human being can be so cruel. the following was an excerpt from a group dedicated to remember this poor girl on facebook . Her killers are free men. I think all her 4 killers should be stripped off their limbs. so they would not harm another life. ever.

DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy’s girlfriend
Raped (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus

DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times
Face held against concrete ground and jumped on
Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag
Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth
Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach
Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn’t accept it)
Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms
Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire
Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury

DAY 20: December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns
Beat with bamboo sticks
Fireworks inserted into anus and lit
Hands smashed by weights and fingernails cracked
Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina
Beaten with iron rods repeatedly
Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony
Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding

DAY 30: Hot wax dripped onto face
Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter
Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area
Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers
Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina
Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion
Unable to urinate properly
Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom
Eardrums severely damaged
Extreme reduced brain size

DAY 40: Begged her torturers to “kill her and get it over with”

January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Years Day alone
Body mutilated
Unable to move from the ground

DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle’s flame to her face and eyes.

Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.

Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.

When her mother heard the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment . Imagine her endless pain.

Her killers are now free men. Justice was never served, not even after 20 years.
They deserve a punishment much greater than they had put upon Furuta, for putting an innocent girl through the most unbearable suffering.

This story from 1989 is true. Please spread her story around. Everyone should know about the existence of Junko Furuta’s unimaginable and incomprehensible suffering, and this is why this group has been made.

Invite your friends. Never let her story be forgotten. If this story changes the life of at least one person then it has been worth it.

Rest In Eternal Peace,
Junko Furuta
1989-Eternity

See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

P.S.: We Know our page name is I LIKE IT ..but Believe us we NOT LIKE such act at all. We Share this to make people aware and share this story to help her family to get justice. thanks

About A Farmer (A Short Story)

2011-10-13T22:52:00.000-07:00

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honor and prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours'.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.

"Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn, If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn".

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions!

Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.

Success does not happen in isolation. It is very often a participative and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas, new learning with your family, team members, neighbours.

Please Read this and Help UNICEF..Thanks

2011-10-12T00:33:00.000-07:00

SHARE your message, you do not charge any service, but UNICEF is 5 euros.

Before you throw away the left over food in your bowl, please think about the people starving.

In Africa and elsewhere in the world, there are children starving, after the agreement was signed between UNICEF and MSN, for lost children and other children, a program to help beginners.

How many times do you SHARE this picture to a friend, is that many times the Unicef fund received 5 euros. let's make these kids are dying to live. Let us not forget that every second, they have a child die of hunger.

This is only worth nearly 2 minutes of your life, but for African children, this accounts for our whole life......PLEASE SHARE.

A Tribute to iConic Man 'Steve Jobs'

2011-10-07T01:49:00.000-07:00

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." - Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” - Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

He was, sorry is and will always be, the one who influenced my life much. If today i believe in myself, it's all because of him. His inspirations will continue to lighten us like Pole Star.

Apple - Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leave behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

Steve Wozniak - while everyone else was fumbling around trying to find the formula, he had the better instincts………People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he ever set for himself.

Mark Zuckerberg - Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you

Bill Gates - Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.... For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor.

Barack Obama - Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.… And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

Jerry Yang - Steve was my hero growing up.

One Day before his Death, The whole world was watching the launch of much awaited iphone 5. But just after the event Apple stock dropped. people were missing the "Boom" presenter Steve jobs. Tim Cook had to be a follower of jobs rather than a leader of Apple and that's what was not at par, so far achieved by jobs.

Lays Chips के पैकेट में जो E631 लिखा है वह दर असल सूअर की चर्बी है। चाहो तो गूगल पर देख लो।

2011-10-03T22:56:00.000-07:00

गब्बर की यही चीख भरी आवाज़ मेरे ज़हन में आई जब आज दोपहर आया एक एस एम एस पढ़ा मैंने, जो मेरे एक सहयोगी द्वारा भेजा गया था। SMS का संदेश था कि "Lays चिप्स के पैकेट में जो E631 लिखा है वह दर असल सूअर की चर्बी है। चाहो तो गूगल पर देख लो। " कमाल है ! शायद ही कोई भारतीय परिवार चिप्स आदि से बच पाया होगा!! मुझे तत्काल कुछ वर्षों पहले का वह समय या...द आने लगा जब MSG का पता चलने पर मैं हर स्टोर पर किसी खाद्य पदार्थ के पैकेट पर नज़रें गड़ा कर यह देखने लगा जाता था कि इसमे कहीं MSG तो नहीं। यह देख वहां का स्टाफ व्यंग्य भरी नज़रें लिए बताता था कि ये सस्ता है सर, ज़्यादा महंगा नहीं है! मै जब कहता कि कीमत नहीं देख रहा हूँ तो उनकी जिज्ञासा बढ़ती तब बताता कि यह क्या होता है। आजकल तो बड़े बड़े अक्षरों में खास तौर पर लिखा रहता है कि No MSG ऐसा ही कुछ वाकया ब्रुक बोंड की चाय-पत्ती के साथ हुआ था जिस पर पोस्ट लिखी थी मैंने कि किस तरह इतनी बड़ी कम्पनी लोगों को सरासर बेवकूफ बना रही है। बात हो रही E631 की। मैं दन्न से बाज़ार गया और Lays के पैकेट देखे कुछ नहीं दिखा। लेकिन मुझे याद आने लग पड़ा था कि इस तरह के कोड देखें हैं मैंने कुछ दिन पहले। शहर के दूसरे कोने वाल़े एक सुपर बाज़ार में भी कुछ नहीं दिखा तो स्टोर वालों से इस बारे में बात करने पर ज्ञात हुआ कि कुछ सप्ताह पहले आयातित चिप्स और बिस्किट लाए गए थे जो अब ख़त्म हो चुके। तब तक एक जिज्ञासु कर्मचारी कहीं से दो ऐसे पैकेट ले आया जिन्हें चूहों द्वारा कुतरे जाने पर अलग रख दिया गया था। उन में इस तरह के कोड थे जिस में वाकई 631 लिखा हुआ है अब मैंने गूगल की शरण ली तो पता चला कि कुछ अरसे पहले यह हंगामा पाकिस्तान में हुआ था जिस पर ढेरों आरोप और सफाइयां दस्तावेजों सहित मौजूद हैं । हैरत की बात यह दिखी कि इस पदार्थ को कई देशों में प्रतिबंधित किया गया है किन्तु अपने देश में धड़ल्ले से उपयोग हो रहा। मूल तौर पर यह पदार्थ सूअर और मछली की चर्बी से प्राप्त होता है और ज्यादातर नूडल्स, चिप्स में स्वाद बढाने के लिए किया जाता है। रसायन शास्त्र में इसे Disodium Inosinate कहा जाता है जिसका सूत्र है C10H11N4Na2O8P1 होता यह है कि अधिकतर (ठंडे) पश्चिमी देशों में सूअर का मांस बहुत पसंद किया जाता है। वहाँ तो बाकायदा इसके लिए हजारों की तादाद में सूअर फार्म हैं। सूअर ही ऐसा प्राणी है जिसमे सभी जानवरों से अधिक चर्बी होती है। दिक्कत यह है कि चर्बी से बचते हैं लोग। तो फिर इस बेकार चर्बी का क्या किया जाए? पहले तो इसे जला दिया जाता था लेकिन फिर दिमाग दौड़ा कर इसका उपयोग साबुन वगैरह में किया गया और यह हिट रहा। फिर तो इसका व्यापारिक जाल बन गया और तरह तरह के उपयोग होने लगे। नाम दिया गया 'पिग फैट' 1857 का वर्ष तो याद होगा आपको? उस समयकाल में बंदूकों की गोलियां पश्चिमी देशों से भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप में समुद्री राह से भेजी जाती थीं और उस महीनों लम्बे सफ़र में समुद्री आबोहवा से गोलियां खराब हो जाती थीं। तब उन पर सूअर चर्बी की परत चढ़ा कर भेजा जाने लगा। लेकिन गोलियां भरने के पहले उस परत को दांतों से काट कर अलग किया जाना होता था। यह तथ्य सामने आते ही जो क्रोध फैला उसकी परिणिति 1857 की क्रांति में हुई बताई जाती है। इससे परेशान हो अब इसे नाम दिया गया 'ऐनिमल फैट' ! मुस्लिम देशों में इसे गाय या भेड़ की चर्बी कह प्रचारित किया गया लेकिन इसके हलाल न होने से असंतोष थमा नहीं और इसे प्रतिबंधित कर दिया गया। बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनियों की नींद उड़ गई। आखिर उनका 75 प्रतिशत कमाई मारी जा रही थी इन बातों से। हार कर एक राह निकाली गई। अब गुप्त संकेतो वाली भाषा का उपयोग करने की सोची गई जिसे केवल संबंधित विभाग ही जानें कि यह क्या है! आम उपभोक्ता अनजान रह सब हजम करता रहे। तब जनम हुआ E कोड का तब से यह E631 पदार्थ कई चीजों में उपयोग किया जाने लगा जिसमे मुख्य हैं टूथपेस्ट, शेविंग क्रीम, च्युंग गम, चॉकलेट, मिठाई, बिस्कुट, कोर्न फ्लैक्स, टॉफी, डिब्बाबंद खाद्य पदार्थ आदि। सूची में और भी नाम हो सकते हैं। हाँ, कुछ मल्टी- विटामिन की गोलियों में भी यह पदार्थ होता है। शिशुयों, किशोरों सहित अस्थमा और गठिया के रोगियों को इस E631 पदार्थ मिश्रित सामग्री को उपयोग नहीं करने की सलाह है लेकिन कम्पनियाँ कहती हैं कि इसकी कम मात्रा होने से कुछ नहीं होता। पिछले वर्ष खुशदीप सहगल जी ने एक पोस्ट में बताया था कि कुरकुरे में प्लास्टिक होने की खबर है चाहें तो एक दो टुकड़ों को जला कर देख लें। मैंने वैसा किया और पिघलते टपकते कुरकुरे को देख हैरान हो गया। अब लग रहा कि कहीं वह चर्बी का प्रभाव तो नहीं था!? अब बताया तो यही जा रहा है कि जहां भी किसी पदार्थ पर लिखा दिखे E100, E110, E120, E 140, E141, E153, E210, E213, E214, E216, E234, E252,E270, E280, E325, E326, E327, E334, E335, E336, E337, E422, E430, E431, E432, E433, E434, E435, E436, E440, E470, E471, E472, E473, E474, E475,E476, E477, E478, E481, E482, E483, E491, E492, E493, E494, E495, E542,E570, E572, E631, E635, E904 समझ लीजिए कि उसमे सूअर की चर्बी है। और कुछ जानना हो कि किस कोड वाल़े पदार्थ का उपयोग करने से किसे बचना चाहिए तो यह सूची देख लें || ..................................जानकार ी " श्री बी. एस. पाबला जी " के ब्लॉग से ली गयी है ||प्रभात कुमार भारद्वाज"परवाना"(समाज सेवक)(आल इंडिया नेशनल क्राएम रिपोर्टर)

Respect Others ( A Short Story)

2011-10-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

Maharaja Ranjeet Singh has been one of the greatest king in India. Once he was on tour visiting his kingdom in night in camouflage. During visit, a beggar recognised him and he bowed in front of Maharaja to pay respect. Maharaja, in response to the beggar, bowed even more to him and paid him a bagful of money.

When Ranjit Singh moved on, his general curiuosly asked him, "Sir, you are such a great Maharaja. Why did you bowed in front of that beggar?"

Then Ranjit Singh said, "That beggar was poor and illiterate. When despite this fact, he knew how to pay respect to others; I am much more educated than him, so I should have shown much more respect to him. And that's exactly what I did."

Never Give Up - An Inspirational Video

2011-09-29T09:46:00.000-07:00

No Arms..No Legs...No Worries !

2011-09-29T05:31:00.000-07:00

Put The Glass down! (A Short Story)

2011-09-28T23:30:00.000-07:00

Once A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it.

He held it up for all to see; asked the students, "How much do you think this glass weighs?

'50gms!' ?....'100gms!' .....'125gms' ......the students answered.

'I really don't know unless I weigh it,' said the professor, 'but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?' "Nothing" the students said.

OK what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?' the professor asked.

Your arm would begin to ache' said one of the students.

You're right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?' Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis; have to go to hospital for sure! ventured another student ; all the students laughed.

Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?

Asked the professor. No replied the students Then what caused the arm ache; the muscle stress?' Instead What should I do?

The students were puzzled. Put the glass down! said one of the students.

Exactly!' said the professor' Life's problems are something like this.

Hold it for a few minutes in your head; they seem OK. Think of them fora long time; they begin to ache. Hold it even longer; they begin to paralyze you.

You will not be able to do anything.

It's important to think of the challenges (problems) in your life, but Even MORE IMPORTANT to 'put them down' at the end of every day before you go to sleep.

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh; strong;can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

Remember everyday- PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!

This Will Make You Speechless (Think for While)

2011-09-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

A Little Sallu Doing Dhinka Chika

2011-09-25T21:18:00.000-07:00

ROFL ..LMAO...Oh My God ..Thats What I called A DANCE :)))

2011-09-25T00:44:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Most Famous Paintings in the World

2011-09-22T23:06:00.000-07:00

(10) From the Lake by Georgia O’Keeffe

This painting was drawn by Georgia O’Keefe when She spent her days at Lake George, New York in the early 1900s, which has inspired many of her works. This painting describe the gentle waves and ripples of Lake George.

From the Lake by Georgia O' Keeffe

(9) The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

This painting maybe the most famous painting by Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory was created in 1931 and is now displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Salvador Dali introduced the melting pocket watches in this piece.

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

(8) The Dream by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a pioneer of the modern art movement called Cubism. Picasso is also widely acknowledged as the most important artist of the 20th century.

The Dream by Pablo Picasso

7. Corner of the Garden at Montgeron by Claude Monet

This famous painting by Monet was created in 1877. Monet is known as the classic impressionist. This painting is drawn in the Corner of the Garden at Montgeron, where Monet has captured the ever-changing nature of light and color.

Corner of the Garden at Montgeron by Claude Monet

6. Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh

This painting depicts a cafe in Arles,France specifically the Cafe Terrace and today the cafe is called Cafe van Gogh. The style of the painting is unique for Van Gogh with warm colors and depth of perspective.

Cafe Terrace at Night

5. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer

This painting is a plain portrait of a girl, presumably before her wedding. The lack of background and color showcases her tear drop pearl earrings.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer

4. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre Auguste Renoir

This painting depicts a group of Renoir’s friends relaxing on a balcony along the Seine River in France. In this painting Renoir has captured the joy of the middle class of late 19th century in France, it is a lively painting that brings happiness and excitement to any room.

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre Auguste Renoir

3. The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

The painting was painted by Gustav Klimt, the Vienna master,in 1907. The painting depicts a couple surrounded by a gold blanket and ornaments sharing a moment of shear passion: the perfect kiss.

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

2. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

This is one of the most recognized paintings nowadays. Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a classic painting that invokes emotions from the serenity of the church steeple to the wild abandon of color used for the late night sky.

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

Everyone will be agreed if The Mona Lisa is the world’s most famous painting. This painting is owned by the French government and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The painting shows a woman looking out at the viewer with what is often described as an “enigmatic smile”. The Mona Lisa is perhaps the most famous piece in art history. If Monalisa sold, It will be the most expensive painting in the world ever, or maybe the most expensive art works in human history. Of course the art prints copy of this painting is spread out all over the world.

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

Simply Heart Touching

2011-09-22T10:09:00.000-07:00

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Gulzar's Mind Blowing Lines for Poster of ARUSHI TRUST

2011-09-22T01:39:00.000-07:00

These poster has been designed for Arushi Trust. Lines written by veteran writer Gulzar and these poster going to be showcase in Indian trains.

The Obedient Wife ( A Short Funny Story)

2011-09-21T02:14:00.000-07:00

There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of

his money, and was a real "miser" when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife..."When I die, I want
you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I
want to take my money to the afterlife with me."

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart,
that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was
sitting there - dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next
to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the
undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, "Wait just a moment!"

She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away. So her friend said,

"Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband."
The loyal wife replied, "Listen, I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him."

You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?"

"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a check.... If he can cash it, then he can spend it."

MORAL : Do not mess around with women !!!!!

Tippi - The Most Courageous & Amazing Girl You Ever Know

2011-09-20T05:11:00.000-07:00

This French girl, Tippi, was born in Nairobi, Africa In 1990. Grew up in the jungles with her parents who are wild life photographers. They documented her life with the animals. She went back to France @ age 10.

Here are some pics, WOW. Isn't it heaven on earth ???

Nida Fazli - Khatti Chatnee Jaisi Maa

2011-09-19T23:56:00.000-07:00

खट्टी चटनी जैसी माँ / निदा फ़ाज़ली

बेसन की सोंधी रोटी पर खट्टी चटनी जैसी माँ ,

याद आता है चौका-बासन, चिमटा फुँकनी जैसी माँ ।

बाँस की खुर्री खाट के ऊपर हर आहट पर कान धरे ,

आधी सोई आधी जागी थकी दुपहरी जैसी माँ ।

चिड़ियों के चहकार में गूँजे राधा-मोहन अली-अली ,

मुर्गे की आवाज़ से खुलती, घर की कुंड़ी जैसी माँ ।

बीवी, बेटी, बहन, पड़ोसन थोड़ी-थोड़ी सी सब में ,

दिन भर इक रस्सी के ऊपर चलती नटनी जैसी मां ।

बाँट के अपना चेहरा, माथा, आँखें जाने कहाँ गई ,

फटे पुराने इक अलबम में चंचल लड़की जैसी माँ ।

-निदा फ़ाज़ली

Interesting Indian Advert for National Geographic - Snake Charmer

2011-09-19T22:34:00.000-07:00

This commercial was shot for National Geographic.. Producer - Subrat Ray , Director- Gajraj Rao, Writer- Agnello Dias , DOP -Arvind Kannabiran , Music-Jolly Jose , Production House - code red films , Creative Agency -TapRoot India .

The Empty Chair ( An Amazing Short Story)

2011-09-18T23:05:00.001-07:00

A man's daughter had asked the local pastor to come and pray with her father. When the pastor arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows and an empty chair beside his bed. The priest assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. "I guess you were expecting me," he said.

"No, who are you?"

"I'm the new associate at your local church," the pastor replied. "When I saw the empty chair, I figured you knew I was going to show up."

"Oh yeah, the chair," said the bedridden man. "Would you mind closing the door?"

Puzzled, the pastor shut the door.

"I've never told anyone this, not even my daughter," said the man. "But all of my life I have never known how to pray. At church I used to hear the pastor talk about prayer, but it always went right over my head.."

"I abandoned any attempt at prayer," the old man continued, "until one day about four years ago my best friend said to me, 'Joe, prayer is just a simple matter of having a conversation with Jesus. Here's what I suggest. Sit down on a chair, place an empty chair in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It's not spooky because he promised, 'I'll be with you always.' Then just speak to him and listen in the same way you're doing with me right now."

"So, I tried it and I've liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours every day. I'm careful, though. If my daughter saw me talking to an empty chair, she'd either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the funny farm."

The pastor was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old guy to continue on the journey. Then he prayed with him, and returned to the church.

Two nights later the daughter called to tell the pastor that her daddy had died that afternoon.

"Did he seem to die in peace?" he asked.

"Yes, when I left the house around two o'clock, he called me over to his bedside, told me one of his corny jokes, and kissed me on the cheek. When I got back from the store an hour later, I found him dead. But there was something strange, In fact, beyond strange--kinda weird. Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on a chair beside the bed."

Live Curious - A fabulous philosophy for life by National Geographic

2011-09-18T22:24:00.000-07:00

Credits:
Creative Director: Patrizio Marini
Art Director: Claudia Ganapini
Copywriter: Federico Russo
Production Company: Mercurio Cinematografica s.r.l.
Director: Bryan Little "Fly on the wall"
Executive producer: Luca Fanfani
Producer: Annalisa De Maria / Alessandro Cavriani
Producer South Africa and still photographer: Filipa Domingues "Fly on the wall"
DOP: Grant Appleton "Fly on the wall"
Production Designer: Latisha Duarte "Fly on the wall"
Post- Production: Green Movie
Editor: Massimo Magnetti c/o Green Movie
Sound House/ Engineer: Roberto Grassi c/o Green Movie

Amazing GO FOR GREEN Ideas

2011-09-17T03:53:00.000-07:00

THESE INVENTIONS ARE REALLY AWESOME

Hotel offers free meal to guests who are willing to generate electricity

The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros)

Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor

All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs.

Company creates a desktop printer that doesn't use ink nor paper

Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.

University constructs a green roof as a gathering place

Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.

Designer creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant

Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out.

Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water

20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.

Designer creates an i Phone charger powered by a hand grip

A green idea that gives you a great hand workout as well. Charge your iPhone by a hand grip! This concept is called You can work it out, designed by Mac Funamizu.

Environmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution

Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic.

Designer creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy

Teaching the importance of energy conservation is the goal of this design from Tim Holley. He calls it Tio, and it's a ghost-shaped light switch that gives kids a visual reminder of how much energy they've used by leaving lights on. Tio starts out green and smiling. If the light is left on for more than four hours, he turns yellow and looks shocked. And if you dare to leave that light on for more than eight hours, sweet little Tio turns into a raging red hulk, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes. But he won't just visually remind your kids about their energy habits; information from the light switch is sent to Tio's computer program so the entire family can see how they're doing. In a brilliant piece of visual positive reinforcement, Holley's program lets kids grow a â€œvirtual treeâ€ which gets bigger and healthier the more energy they save.