Spur : Peace of mind

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were travelling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!” So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be ... and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water... Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”

What did Buddha emphasize here? He said, “It is effortless.” 

Having 'peace of mind' is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless process. When there is peace inside you, that peace permeates to the outside. It spreads around you and in the environment, such that people around start feeling that peace and grace.

Current Affairs : 31 december 2013

1. Devendra Kumar Pathak appointed as Special DG, BSF...!!

2. TEJAS Team Set New Record of 500 Flights in 2013...!!

3. International Petroleum Conference 2014 to be held in New Delhi...!!

4. Serena Williams and LeBron James won AP’s Athlete of the year award...!!

5. Sashi Tharoor named PETA’s Person of the Year for taking steps to advance animal protection...!!

6. Anurag Bhushan took charge as the Dubai Consul General of India...!!

7. China banned officials from smoking in public places...!!

8. Air Marshal Arup Raha to take over as IAF chief today.........!!!

9. Ashraf Jehan, first female judge in Pak’s National Sharia Court.....!!

10. Chandra Kant Birla resigned from Hindustan Motors Limited..!!

Spur : The Wooden Bowl

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered.

The family ate together at the table, but the elderly man’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor, and, when he picked up his glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth.

The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. “We must do something about father,” said the son. “I’ve had enough of his noisy eating, spilled milk, and food on the floor.”

So , the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There,
Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner together. And, since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl.

Occasionally, the family would glance in Grandfather’s direction during a meal and see a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions whenever he dropped a fork or spilled food.

The couple’s four-year-old watched all of this in silence. One evening before supper the father noticed his son sitting on the floor, playing with scraps of wood. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” Just as sweetly, the boy responded, “I’m making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in
when I grow up.” The boy smiled and went back to work.

The child’s words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Within moments tears were streaming down their cheeks. Though not a word was spoken, both knew what must be done.

That evening, as the family was about to sit down to dinner, the husband gently took his father’s hand and led him to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And, for some reason, neither the husband nor the wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk
spilled, or the tablecloth was soiled.

"Take care of yourself and those you love, today, and everyday & forever."

First in Sports - Indians

1. The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games---KD Jadhav
2. The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games ---Abhinav Bindra
3. The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games--- Karnam Malleswari
4. The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title ---Ramanathan Krishnan (in 1954)
5. The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997) ---Mahesh Bhupathi
6. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles ---Mahesh Bhupathi (2006)
7. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles--- Leander Paes (2012)
8. The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards ---Wilson Jones
9. India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship ---Vishwanathan Anand
10. The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship--- P. Harikrishna
11. The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship ---Prakash Padukone
12. The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games Ashish Kumar
13. The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's title--- Koneru Humpy
14. The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title--- Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days)
15. The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team--- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
16. The first Indian to swim across the English Channel ---Mihir Sen (1958)
17. The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel--- Aarti Saha (1959)
18. The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas ---Bula Chaudhary
19. The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games--- Kamaljit Sandhu
20. The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003) ---Anju Bobby George
21. The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title ---Sania Mirza
22. The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open) ---Saina Nehwal
23. 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award--- Viswanathan Anand
24. 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ---Karnam Malleswari
25. 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award ---Aparna Ghosh
26. 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award--- Salim Durrani
27. 1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games ---Sushil Kumar

Revolt of 1857

The causes of revolt:

Political Causes:
1. Growing suspicion among native rulers over Lord Dalhousie's policies of "Doctrine of Lapse" and Annexation of the Territories of Native Rulers
2. Annexation of Avadh on the ground of "misgovernance"
3. Disposing of Nawab Wazid Ali Shah, athe reigning ruler of Avadh
4. Lord canning's announcement to that Mughals would lose the title of King and be mere Princess
5. Disbanding of the Pindaris and irregular soliders who constitued a large section among the army ranks

Administrative and economic causes:
1. Inefficient administrative machinery of the company
2. Rampant corruption
3. Racialism in civil and military administration
4. Deprivation of the traditional ruling classes of their luxury due to the establishment of the company's suzerainty over the Indian states;
5. Introduction of new and revenue system which snatched the land from cultivator and gave it to the moneylender or traitor
6. De-industrialisation of the country

Military causes :
1. Dispenser of Indian sepoys with alien rule
2. Compulsion of the sepoys to serve at the cantonments
3. Withdrawal of free postage facility to sepoys following the enactment of Post Office Act of 1854
4. Debarring the foreign service allowance or batta for sepoys serving in Sindh and Punjab
5. Racial discrimination.

Social and Religious causes :
1. Social discrimination of the British against Indians
2. Spread of Christianity through missionaries
3. Enactment of the Religious Dis-abilities act 1850, which enabled a convert to inherit his ancestral property
4. Antagonism of the traditional Indian society into to the law prohibiting sati, child marriage and female infanticide.

The Immediate cause: - 

Greased Cartridges: The government introduced a new Enfield rifle the Army. It's cartridges had a greased paper cover which had to be bitten off before the cartridge was loaded into the rifle. It was believed that increase was composed of beef and pig fat. The Hindu as well as Muslim sepoys was enraged because the use of greased cartridges was against their religion and they feared that the government was deliberately trying to destroy their religion and convert to Christianity. The time to rebel has come.

Causes for the failure of Revolt : 

1. By July 1858, the revolt was completely suppressed. Following factors may be the reason for the failure of revolt:
2. Lack of coordination and central leadership. The revolt was supposed to have started on May 31, 1857 as decided by Nana Saheb and his colleagues. But the Merrut incidence led to early breaking of the revolt
3. Lack of forward looking program.
4. Indian leaders lacked resources and experience as compared to British.
5. Lack of support and martial races of the North
6. British power have remained intact in the eastern, western and southern parts of India from where the forces were sent to suppress the revolt
7. Tacit support of certain sections of Indian public.
8. Limited territorial and base.
9. Many native Indian states, influenced by the example of powerful Hyderabad, did not join the revolt.
10. Sikh soldiers of the Punjab area remained loyal to the British throughout.
11. The aging Bahadur Shah was neither a brave general not an astute leader of people.

Impacts of the Revolt : The impacts of the 1857 revolt may be summarised as---

1. In August 1850, the British Parliament passed an act for Better Government of India, 1858, which put an end to the rule of the Company. The control of the British government in India was transfered to the British Crown.
2. A minister of British government, called the Secretary of State, was made responsible for the Government of India.
3. The British Governor general of India was now also given the title of Viceroy, who was also the representative of the Monarch.
4. Marked the end of British imperialism and Princely states were assured against annexation. Doctrine of Lapse was withdrawn.
5. Marked the end of Peshwaship and the Mughal rule.
6. After the revolt, the British pursued the policy of divide and rule.
7. Far-reaching changes were made in the administration and increase of white soldiers in the army.
8. Total expense of the suppression of the Revolt was borne by the Indians.

Spur : A Small Story With Powerful Lesson

The 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?”

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’50gms!’….. ’100gms!’ …..’125 gms’ …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.

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‘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 student

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“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
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“Very good.
But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” Asked the professor.
‘No’…. Was the answer.
“Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?”
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The students were puzzled.
“What should I do now to come out of pain?” asked professor again.
“Put the glass down!” said one of the students
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“Exactly!” said the professor.
Life’s problems are something like this.
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Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK.
Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache.
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Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.
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It’s important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to ‘PUT THEM DOWN’ at the end of every day before you go to sleep…

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

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Moral

So, when you start your day today, Remember friend to ‘PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY! ‘

New Year's Eve 2013 inspires last Google doodle of the year

https://www.google.co.in/

The doodle features numbers 2, 0, 1, and 3 on the dance floor with the number 4 waiting along the sides, waiting for its turn to replace 3. The dance floor is made up of little squares that are changing colours, designed to represent the floor lights in various colours. The word Google is seen sandwiched between two speakers, with the second O replaced by a disco ball.

Also present on the Google home page is the text "What did the world search for this year? Remember the moments of 2013", with a link to the Google Zeitgeist 2013. This has of course been seen for a while, and is not a new addition.

Though the latest Google doodle looks interactive, we tried various browsers and we couldn't get the doodle to do anything except show Google search results for New Year's Eve 2013. The first result is a Google search card that says, "Tuesday, December 31 New Year's Eve 2013", similar to what you get while searching for other important days like Diwali 2013 on Google India, or Memorial Day 2013 on the Google US homepage.

The rest of the page looks like any other Google results page, with news, image and search results for the query New Year's Eve 2013. Many search results refer to fireworks planned on New Year's Eve 2013. Interestingly, New Year's Eve 2016 comes as a related search for the phrase, which has us wondering - who starts their party planning three years early?

NDTV Gadgets would like to wish its readers a safe New Year's Eve 2013 and a Happy New Year.

List Of Miss World

Miss World 1951 - Kiki Haakonson, Sweden
Miss World 1952 - May Louise Flodin, Sweden
Miss World 1953 - Denise Perrier, France
Miss World 1954 - Antigone Costanda, Egypt
Miss World 1955 - Carmen Zubillaga, Venezuela
Miss World 1956 - Petra Schurmann, Germany
Miss World 1957 - Marita Lindahl, Finland
Miss World 1958 - Penelope Coelen, South Africa
Miss World 1959 - Corine Rottschafer, Holland
Miss World 1960 - Norma Cappagli, Argentina
Miss World 1961 - Rosemarie Frankland, United Kingdom
Miss World 1962 - Catharine Lodders, Holland
Miss World 1963 - Carole Crawford, Jamaica
Miss World 1964 - Ann Sidney, United Kingdom
Miss World 1965 - Lesley Langley, United Kingdom
Miss World 1966 - Reita Faria, India
Miss World 1967 - Madeiline Hartog Bel, Peru
Miss World 1968 - Penelope Plummer, Australia
Miss World 1969 - Eva Reuber Staier, Austria
Miss World 1970 - Jennifer Hosten, Grenada
Miss World 1971 - Lucia Petterle, Brazil
Miss World 1972 - Belina Green, Australia
Miss World 1973 - Marjorie Wallace, USA
Miss World 1974 - Anneline Kriel, South Africa
Miss World 1975 - Winelia Merced, Puerto Rico
Miss World 1976 - Cindy Breakspeare, Jamaica
Miss World 1977 - Mary Stavin, Sweden
Miss World 1978 - Silvana Suarez, Argentina
Miss World 1979 - Gina Swainson, Bermuda
Miss World 1980 - Kimberly Santos, Guam
Miss World 1981 - Pilin Leon, Venezuela
Miss World 1982 - Mariasela Lebron, Dominican Republic
Miss World 1983 - Sarah Jane Hutt, United Kingdom
Miss World 1984 - Astrid Herrera, Venezuela
Miss World 1985 - Hofi Karlsdottir, Iceland
Miss World 1986 - Giselle Laronde, Trinidad
Miss World 1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer, Austria
Miss World 1988 - Linda Petursdottir, Iceland
Miss World 1989 - Andeta Kreglicka, Poland
Miss World 1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson, USA
Miss World 1991 - Ninebeth Jiminez, Venezuela
Miss World 1992 - Julia Kourotchkina, Russia
Miss World 1993 - Lisa Hanna, Jamaica
Miss World 1994 - Aishwariya Rai, India
Miss World 1995 - Jacqueline Aquilera, Venezuela
Miss World 1996 - Irene Skliva ,Greece
Miss World 1997 - Diana Hayden, India
Miss World 1998 - Linor Abargil, Israel
Miss World 1999 - Yukta Mookhey, India
Miss World 2000 - Priyanka Chopra, India
Miss World 2001 - Ibiagbanidokibubo Asenite Darego—Nigeria
Miss World 2002 - Azra Akin—Turkey
Miss World 2003 - Rosanna Davidson, Ireland
Miss World 2004 - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Peru
Miss World 2005 - Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, Iceland
Miss World 2006 - Tat’ana Kucharova, Czech Republic
Miss World 2007 - Zhang Zhi Li, China PR
Miss World 2008 - Ksenia Sukhinova, Russia
Miss World 2009 - Kaiane Aldorino, Gibraltar
Miss World 2010 - Alexandria Mills, USA
Miss World 2011 - Ivian Sarcos, Venezuela
Miss World 2012 - Wen Xia Yu, China PR
Miss World 2013 - Megan Young, Philippines

DESCRIPTION OF BLACKBEARD

The wicked pirate Blackbeard, who in real life was Edward Teach, was a tall man with a very long black beard that hid most of his face and extended down to his waist. He is often associated with the meanest of the Pirates in history and one of merciless to have wrecked havoc on the brave seafarers during The Golden Age of Pirates.

Blackbeard tied his beard up in pigtails adorned with black ribbons. He wore a bandolier over his shoulders with three braces of pistols and was reported to hang two slow-burning cannon fuses from his fur cap that wreathed his head in black smoke. Occasionally, he would set fire to his rum using gunpowder, and he would drink it, flames and all. Others claimed he would fight with matches lit in his beard to strike fear in the heart of his enemies. It would be hard not to believe as many did, Blackbeard was the Devil incarnate. Blackbeard was a master of intimidation. With fire in his eyes; a brace of pistols, daggers, and a cutlass at his side; slow burning fuses protruding from under his tri-cornered hat; and his thick black beard was often tangled and decorated with red ribbons. It is said that Teach sent most merchant captains scurrying to raise the white flag at the mere sight of him.

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

About 250 years ago, this gruesome figure had his head chopped off near a place called “The Point” known today as “Teach’s Hole.” It is here he would seek anchorage in his later years!
Edward Teach was killed by Lt. Robert Maynard of the British Royal Navy when his vessel The HMS Ranger and HMS Jane engaged The Adventure captained by Blackbeard near Teach’s Hole. Blackbeard had retired from Piracy having agreed to a pardon by swearing allegiance to the crown. However, the Governor of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood, was not assuaged. He wanted Blackbeard gone for good and sent Maynard for the job. When they came upon Blackbeard's Adventure, they were hit with a devastating broadside attack. Midshipman Hyde, captain of the smaller HMS Jane, was killed along with six other men. Ten men were also wounded in the surprise attack. The sloop fell astern and was little help in the following action. Maynard continued his pursuit in HMS Ranger, managing to blast the Adventure's rigging, forcing it ashore. Maynard ordered many of his crew into the holds and readied to be boarded. As his ship approached, Blackbeard saw the mostly empty decks, assumed it was safe to board, and did so with ten men, climb aboard The Ranger.
Maynard emerged with his men and engaged Teach in a bloody fight to the death.Blackbeard fought hard. However, he died from blood loss from suffering so many wounds in close quarters combat with Maynard. He was reportedly loading his pistol when he finally keeled out and collapsed on the deck.

In death, his grisly head continued to inspire dread. Hung from the bowsprit of Maynard’s vessel, Blackbeard’s head was carried to various ports in eastern North Carolina. Ultimately, it was impaled on a stake at the entrance to the harbor in Hampton, Virginia as a warning to other “Brethren of the Coast” that rule of law had returned to the Outer Banks and the days of Piracy were ending. It gets better. Before sailing from Ocracoke Inlet, Lt. Maynard tossed Blackbeard’s body over the side of his ship into dark murky water. Legend has it that the remainder of the pirate crew, now shackled and bound for trial, watched in awe as the headless body of their captain, perhaps in one last act of devilish defiance, swam three times around the vessel before sinking silently below the surface to the depths of the water.

MANIFESTATIONS:

Blackbeard's ghost is said to haunt the land near where he was killed. Islanders that are brave and foolhardy enough to venture out to the Point after dark have routinely reported encountering the ghost of Blackbeard himself, pacing along the shoreline, lost in agony, presumably looking for missing head.

Reference:

http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/nc/ocracoke.htm


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina

Kallis departs with a win

For India, the first session on Day 5 was very crucial. The lack of experience in the visitors' side and a few bad shots gave South Africa an upper hand early in the day. Soon, India were on the receiving end and struggling to save the match. Eventually, the second best Test team posted a paltry target of 58 for the world's best to win the match and seal the series.

King Kallis

"Jacques Kallis, the only player to score 10,000 runs and take 200 wickets in Test cricket." His team-mates wore T-shirts with this text, specially printed for the occasion and carried King Kallis out of the ground on their shoulders. The South African legend brought a fairytale ending to his illustrious career and overshadowed two other champions of the game - Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting - by scoring a ton in his final Test against India at Durban. He scored 115, eventually becoming Ravindra Jadeja's fifth victim in the innings but his efforts helped him become the third-highest Test scorer (13,289 runs) - finishing one run ahead of Rahul Dravid. In his farewell speech that lasted barely five minutes, Kallis said that he will miss the friendships, winning times and losing times the most. It was anything but the elaborate farewell that Sachin Tendulkar got at Wankhede.

End of Durban jinx

South Africa beat India by 10 wickets and sealed the two-match series comprehensively. The win that got the Proteas two ranking points, is their first Test win in Durban since 2008. A match that was evenly poised, changed its course in one session and enabled South Africa to send-off Kallis in style. The Indian team, that has never won a Test series in the Rainbow Nation will have to wait longer.

The speed king Michael Schumacher 'In Critical Condition'

The 44-year-old German suffered a "serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation," according to the hospital treating Schumacher in the French city of Grenoble.French media is reporting that he underwent a second operation overnight.Schumacher was wearing a helmet when he reportedly hit his head on a rock while skiing in the French Alps.He was airlifted off the mountain following the accident in the resort of Meribel, in the popular Three Valleys area.The sports star was skiing with his 14-year-old son and some friends when the accident occurred.

Current Affairs : 28th December 2013

1. Arvind Kejriwal sworn-in as Delhi CM; allocated

portfolios to his six Cabinet colleagues while

keeping key departments of Home, Finance, Power

and Vigilance with himself.

Portfolios :

Arvind Kejriwal: Power, Finance, Home and

Planning Departments

Manish Sisodia: Education and PWD

Somnath Bharti: Tourism and Law Departments

Saurabh Bhardwaj: Food Supply and Transport

Rakhi Birla: Women and Child Development

Girish Soni: Development and Employment

Departments

Satendra Jain: Health

2. Arvind Kejriwal became the second Chief

Minister with a IIT background, after his Goa

counterpart Manohar Parrikar.

3. India has signed a Rs 4,000-crore deal with the

US for procuring six more C-130J Super Hercules

Special Operations aircraft for the Indian Air Force.

4. Nine-year-old US boy climbs South America's

tallest mountain Aconcagua peak in Argentina.

5. Veteran Hindi actor Farooq Sheikh, who is best

remembered for his performances in films like

'Garm Hava', 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi', 'Chashme

Buddoor' and 'Kissi Se Na Kehna', died this

morning after suffering a heart attack in Dubai.

6. Star Sports is official broadcaster for Aircel

Chennai Open. Tennis enthusiasts are in for a

treat.

Spur: The Suitcase

A man died, when he realized it, he saw God coming closer with a suitcase in his hand.
- God said: Alright son its time to go.
- surprised the man responded: Now? So soon? I had a lot of plans...
- I'm sorry but its time to go.

- What do you have in that suitcase? the man asked.
- God answered: Your belongings.
- My belongings? you mean my things, my clothes, my money?
-God answered: Those things were not yours they belonged to the earth.

- Is it my memories? the man asked.
-God answered: those never belonged to you they belonged to Time

- Is it my talents?
-God answered: those were never yours they belonged to the circumstances.

- Is it my friends and family?
-God answered: I'm sorry they were never yours they belonged to the path.

- Is it my wife and son?
- God answered: They were never yours the belonged to your heart.

- Is it my body?
- God answered: that was never yours it belonged to the dust.

-Is it my soul?
God answered: No that is mine.

Full of fear, the man took the suitcase from god and opened it just to find out the suitcase was empty.
- With a tear coming down his cheek the man said: I never had anything???
-God answered: that is correct, every moment you lived were only for yours. You never lived for somebody who is not related to u in any way.

Moral:
Do something for other people who cant return the favour back to you. Life is just a moment. A moment that belongs to you.

-Live Now
-Live your life
- Don't forget to be happy and make others happy, as that is the only thing that matters.
- Material things and everything else that you fought for stay here.
-YOU CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING

Spur: Attitude Matters

A Man saw a Poor Young Boy looking at his expensive Car.

He was in a good mood that day and so he offered him a drive

The Boy couldn't believe his luck and joined him

Boy: Car is marvelous…its so huge..What's the Cost ?

Man: I don't know Exactly..My Friend Gifted it

Boy: So Nice of Him

Man: I know what you are thinking..You also want to have a friend like him right?

Boy: No, I want to BE THAT Friend …!! 

"Attitude Matters"

Spur : THE WISE OLD MAN

A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits.  The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there.

The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. “Now pull out that one,” said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.

“Now take this one out,” said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The youth grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge. “It’s impossible,” said the boy, panting with the effort.

“So it is with bad habits,” said the sage. “When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted.”

The session with the old man changed the boy’s life.

"Don’t wait for Bad Habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it else they will get control you."

World's Largest Steel Producers

1. Arcelor Mittal--Luxembourg
2. Baosteel---China
3. Posco---South Korea
4. Nippon Steel---Japan
5. JFE---Japan
6. Jiangsu Shagang---China
7. Tata Steel---India
8. SAIL---India

Steel Plants under Steel Authority of India Ltd

1. Bhilai Steel Plant ---Chattisgarh
2. Rourkela Steel Plant---Orissa
3. Bokaro Steel Plant---Jharkhand
4. Durgapur Steel Plant---West Bengal
5. IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur---West Bengal
6. Salem Steel Plant---Tamilnadu
7. Visvesvaraya Steel Plant---Karnataka

Famous Slogans and their originators

1. Vande Mataram--Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

2. Quit India--+ Mahatma Gandhi

3. Freedom is my birthright and I shall have it----Balgangadhar Tilak

4. Give me blood and I shall give you freedom -----Subhas Chandra Bose

5. Jai Hind----Subhas Chandra Bose

6. Do or die --Mahatma Gandhi

7. Aaram haram hai ----Jawaharlal Nehru

8. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan--- Lal Bahadur Shastri

9. Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan--- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

10. Back to the Vedas---Swami Dayanand Saraswat

Spur: Story of Office boy

A jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy’ at a very big company.

The employer interviewed him, then a test: clean the floor.

“You are hired.” – the employer said. ”Give me your email address, and I’ll send you the application to fill, as well as when you will start.”

The man replied, “I don’t have a computer, neither an email.”

“I’m sorry,” said the employer, “if you don’t have an email , you cannot have the job.”

The man left with no hope. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 USD in his pocket.

He then decided to go to the supermarket, bought a 10 kg tomato crate, then sold the tomatoes door to door. In less than two hours, he succeeded and doubled his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times and returned home with $60 USD. The man realized that he could survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and returned late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday. Shortly later, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

Five years later, the man’s company was one of the biggest food retailers. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email.”

The broker replied curiously, “You don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Do you imagine what position you could have if you had an email?”

The man paused for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”

"Don’t be discouraged if something is not in your favor today. Better opportunities are always waiting ahead."

'Happy Holidays' Google Doodle created to mark Christmas Eve

click on it : http://www.google.co.in/santatracker/#/village

The illustration shows two children in an one horse open sleigh bombing along in front of a winter backdrop

Happy Holidays: Google's Christmas Doodle

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the fact it's Christmas Eve.

The illustration shows a winter scene, the trees bare of their leaves and snow covering the ground.

In the foreground, two children, wrapped up against the elements can be seen in an one horse open sleigh.

When you hover your cursor over the image, the message Happy Holidays appears.

Earlier this week, Google marked the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, with a Doodle.

What Your Signature Says About Your Personality

>> First Letter as Capital: Using first letter as capital in the signature indicates that the person is talented and ambitious. These people are very lucky and so talented that they can complete all the complex work in their life very easily. This also makes them very famous, effective and very honored in the society. 
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>> Artful: An artful signature indicates that the person has talent for dancing, singing, drawing, writing, acting etc. These people begin making fame and money from their childhood. But their old age becomes very struggling. 
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>> Continuous: Using continuous flow in the signature without lifting the pen, indicates the capability of doing continuous work. When such people start any work, they fully complete it. Keeping the work in pending is not their nature. 
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>> Towards Upside: Making the sign from down to upward, indicates the capability of the person for continued development. They only get their life towards a higher end. 
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>> Full Name: People who use their full name in their signature are quite calm in nature. They are also very rigid on any matter. 
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>> Using Pen Forward and Reverse Direction: Moving the pen in forward and reverse direction while making signature indicates that the person is very unstable in his/her life. They are unable to take any decision in proper way and also change their decision frequently. 
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>> Hidden: People who make their signature by hiding or jumbling the letters are very dangerous. They are very difficult to understand. They normally are very clever, fraudulent and cheaters. 
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>> Beautiful Manner: People who sign using first letter as capital and remaining as small with beautiful and clear writing are very attractive, open hearted, honest, dedicated and laborious. This type of person gets the highest post due to his/her hard working nature. 
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>> Unclear: The unclear and unreadable signature gives indication that the person is very lazy, frustrated, confused and unsatisfied. These people complete their work in hurry and without proper thinking. 
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>> Small Size: The very small size of letters with gaps in between the letters in the signature indicates that the person is very clever, cunning and selfish. 
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>> Full Last Name: The person who uses first name as initial and last name as full with a dot below the signature is said to become very lucky. 
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>> Underline: Using diagonal underline in the signature, particularly two lines gives indication that the person is very honest, dedicated and dutiful. 
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>> Separate Letters: If the letters can be identified separately in the signature then it indicates that the person is very clear minded and has solved life strategies. 
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>> Two Dots Below The Sign: These people are considered to be romantic. They prefer beauty in other people and they themselves try to look beautiful. 

It’s Time to Put Your Health First....!

Winter solstice: Google doodles the first day of winter

December 21 is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter solstice usually occurs on either December 21 or December 22.

During the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere the sun is the farthest south. The winter solstice occurs on June 21 or 22 in the Southern Hemisphere when the sun is the farthest north.

The solstice happens twice in a year, during summer and winter. On a solstice the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. During the summer solstice days are the longest and nights shortest and the opposite of this happens on the winter solstice.

December 21 is winter solstice and therefore the shortest day and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Google is commemorating the arrival of the winter in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated winter solstice doodle showing a pair of hands weaving a long woollen hand glove that loops to form the Google letters. Google has used the same animated doodle on June 21 this year to mark the first day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

On June 22, 2011 Google had posted a floral 'first day of summer' doodle on its India home page created by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

Zuckerberg to sell Facebook shares worth about $2.3 billion

Facebook Inc's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion as part of an offering of 70 million Class A common shares of the social network.

Facebook shares were down 4 per cent at $53.54 before the bell.

Zuckerberg's sale will reduce his voting power to 56.1 percent from 58.8 per cent, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

Facebook said it expects Zuckerberg to use most of the net proceeds from the sale to satisfy taxes related to the exercise of an option to buy 60 million Class B shares.

Each Class A share is entitled to one vote, while Class B shares are entitled to 10 votes and are convertible at any time into one Class A share.

Board member Marc Andreessen will also sell 1.65 million Class A shares, while Facebook will sell 27 million.

J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Barclays are joint bookrunners for the offering.

Founder's

*Founder of Apple Computers – Steve Jobs *Founder of Artificial Intelligence – John McCarthy *Founder of Bluetooth – Ericsson *Father of Computer – Charles Babbage *Father of ‘C’ Language – Dennis Ritchie *Founder of Email – Shiva Ayyadurai *Founder of Google – Larry Page and Sergey Brin *Founder of Internet – Vint Cerf *Father of ‘Java’- James Gosling *Father of JQuery – John Resig *Founder of Keyboard – Christoper Latham Sholes *Founder of Linux – Linus Torvalds *Founder of Microsoft – Bill Gates and Paul Allen *Founder of Mobile Phones – Martin Cooper *Founder of Mouse – Douglas Engelbart *Founders of Oracle – Ed Oates, Larry Ellison, Bob Miner *Founder of Php – Rasmus Lerdorf *Founder of USB – Ajay V.Bhatt *Founder of WWW – Tim Berners-Lee *Founder of Yahoo – Jurry Yang and David Filo

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Current Affair: Dec 17

1. RBI likely to raise repo rate by 0.25 per cent to tame inflation. Wholesale Price Index inflation in November climbed to a 14-month high of 7.52 per cent as prices of food items such as onions and potatoes surged. Consumer price inflation touched a nine-month high of 11.24 per cent last month. Factory output shrank 1.8 per cent in October, the first contraction in the Index of Industrial Production ( IIP) in four months.

2. India today retaliated strongly to the arrest of its Deputy Consul General in New York by initiating series of steps to strip US diplomats and their families of privileges including withdrawing all airport passes and stopping import clearances for the embassy.
Slew of measures taken by India in response to Indian diplomat Devyani Kobragade’s arrest in New York:
The government has asked all Consulate personnel and their families to turn in their ID cards immediately.
The government has also sought key information such as salaries paid to all Indian staff employed at the consulates and by Consulate officers and families including as domestic helps.
It has asked the US to provide it with visa information and other details of all teachers at US schools and pay and bank accounts of Indians in these schools.
Apart from these measures, Government has stopped all import clearances for the US embassy including for liquor.
Also, the traffic barricades near the US embassy on Nyaya Marg here will be lifted except the picket.
3. Angela Merkel sworn in as German chancellor for 3rd time. Merkel was elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament, paving the way for her new grand coalition government to be sworn in and formally take power later in the day. The new government faces a host of challenges, from bedding down European reforms aimed at shielding the bloc from future crises, to seeing through Merkel's costly switch from nuclear to renewable energy.

4. Lieuenant Governor Najeeb Jung has recommended the imposition of President's rule in Delhi in the absence of any party staking claim to form a government.

5. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Oscar Fernandes has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, following the passing away of Sis Ram Ola, a release from the President’s Secretariat said. Earlier, President Pranab Mukherjee condoled the passing away of Ola, a veteran Congress leader from Rajasthan.

6. Mumbai University, on Monday launched a book titled ‘Nirbhaya: Ek Atmachintan’ to mark a year since the brutal gangrape of a Delhi paramedic student. The book is a compilation of thoughts and inputs on issues related to women's empowerment along with issues related to their safety. Notable writers and thinkers have contributed for this book.

7. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today released a postage stamp of former Chief Minister of Punjab ,Sardar Beant Singh. After releasing the stamp in New Delhi, Dr Singh said, it is a small token of gratitude to a great leader who is best remembered for providing strong and determined leadership to Punjab in very troubled times. 

8. Over 2,200 J&K youth getting trained under ‘Project Udaan’. Over 2,200 youth from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are getting trained by 29 corporates across the country, thanks to Project Udaan. The project, an initiative of the Prime Minister, the National Skills Development Corporation and the Ministry of Home Affairs and industry, was started with the aim of providing skills to 40,000 youth over a period of five years, according to an NSDC release.

9. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved implementation of various schemes related to agriculture, including continuation of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), in the 12th Plan with a combined outlay of over Rs 80,000 crore. The RKVY is a State plan scheme that provides 'considerable flexibility' and autonomy to states in planning and executing programmes for incentivising investment in agriculture and allied sectors. The CCEA has also approved the implementation of the central sector integrated scheme on agricultural cooperation with an outlay of Rs 920.088 crore during the 12th plan period (2012-13 to 2016-17). 

10. French auto firm Renault SA on Monday signed a deal to build a joint-venture plant costing 7.76 billion yuan ($1.28 billion) to produce cars in the central Chinese province of Hubei. Renault agreed to build the 50:50 joint-venture plant with the Dongfeng Motor Group Co, which is based in the provincial capital of Wuhan, the French company said.

11. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday approved American retail giant Walmart Stores Inc's proposal to acquire Bharti Group's nearly 50 per cent stake in their Indian wholesale stores joint venture. Walmart and Bharti Group had created the joint venture in 2007, called Bharti Walmart Private Limited, to operate wholesale stores.

12. Teen sensation Mahesh Mangaonkar became the first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open, in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. The 19-year-old World No.98 from Mumbai downed defending champion Greg Lobban, the No.2 seed from Scotland 7-11 11-8 11-4 6-11 11-7 to take the title.

13. Australia have the Ashes for the first time in seven years after sealing a deserved 150-run win in Perth to take an impregnable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. England were all out for 353 on the final day at the WACA Ground to hand the home side an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. 

14. The first high altitude cricket stadium in South India, will be inaugurated at Krishnagiri in Wynad district of Kerala this evening. The picturesque stadium, owned by the Kerala Cricket Association, is situated about 2800 feet above sea-level. Spread over 4.4 hectares, the stadium has been constructed at a cost of about 6.5 crore rupees.