Month: December 2012

Facebook Facts …Most of Us Do not Know !!!!!

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With 900 million active users Facebook is a social storm today racing across continents, countries, colonies and even through small territories and hamlets. In today’s world of digital technology you may come across a person without a shirt but it’s hard to find one without a Facebook account. There was a similar situation once when a person without an Email Id was laughed at and today it is the same with the one who doesn’t hold a Facebook user Id.

According to socialbakers.com,United States Of America,with about 157 million users,tops the overall list of Facebook users followed by India with 45.9 million users, Brazil with 45.3 million users, Indonesia with 42.4 million users and Mexico with 32.9 million Facebook users. It may sound unbelievable but it’s a fact the critics around the world are cribbing about.

There are also many skeptics who disagree but for some of it’s users Facebook is an addiction, for some it’s a useful business promotion tool and for many it’s a perfect antidote to their existential loneliness.

In the given scenario it’s not only difficult to imagine our world without Facebook, but it’s also difficult to imagine our living without Facebook..

Firstly..

Here Are Some Popular Facebook Facts Most Of Us Know

>The popular social networking site Facebook Inc derived its name from Facebook, a directory that is found in American Universities. This directory is like a reference book for many and consists of photographs of the staff, faculty and students with their brief bio data mentioned in it.

Mark Zuckerberg Having Fun With His Harvard Friends
>In 2003 five students of Harvard University Mark Zuckerberg, Edurado Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes created a website called Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg, fondly called “Zuck” by his other friends, was a second year student in the university and wrote the software for this website. Later after many twists and turns and ups and downs the same crazy five gang created a social networking revolution website that is popularly known as Facebook today.

>Before opening Facebook it was planned by the team to open a social networking site for high school students called facebookhigh.com. But this idea bombed very badly..

>Originally Facebook was known as thefacebook.com but later Mark Zuckerberg purchased the domain name facebook.com for $2,00,000..

Here Are Some Amazing Facebook Facts Most Of Us Do Not Know

>When Facebook introduced the “News Feed” feature the first reaction it received was “Turn this shit off”

>The average age of a Facebook employee today is thirty one..

>As the CEO of Facebook ”Zuck” enjoys sixty percent of voting power in Facebook today..

>The engineers at the Facebook initially wanted to name the “Like” button “Awesome”

>Initially Facebook bosses decided to name it’s ad product “AdSeeds” in line with Google’s AdSense but for some unknown reasons they later dropped this idea.

>When Facebook was going through a desperate situation in 2004, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc saved today’s world number one social networking site by offering it a lucrative ad deal..

Dignitaries Waiting For Steve Jobs At WWDC,2008
The Worldwide Developers Conference is a conference held every year by Apple Inc in California. Steve Jobs wanted Facebook to present it’s new iPhone application at the 2008 WWDC. Steve expected Mark to do the presentation but instead Mark has sent a marketing manager and an engineer to do the job.Upset with their bad audition Steve Jobs had to cancel the presentation that year.

>In 2005,many of the employees and Mark Zuckerberg’ colleagues at Facebook strongly felt that “Zuck” should be replaced by a better person as their CEO. It is then that he took some serious ” CEO lessons ” from an authority on the topic.

>A Taiwanese guy by name Steve Chen worked for a few weeks with Facebook in 2005 and left it as he wanted to start something of his own. But that time this guy never knew that his decision will create a technological revolution in the digital age. This 27 year old ex PayPal employee joined hands with his other PayPal colleagues Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim and founded the path breaking site that is more popularly known as You Tube today.

>In 2006 Mark Zuckerberg was very impressed with a funny guy called Chris Putnam and hired him for a crucial position in Facebook. Wanna know what this guy did.. ?? He was such a genius, he hacked Facebook site and created thousands of profiles that were meant to look like MySpace profiles. Instead of getting upset with this whiz kid’s misdeed “Zuck” hired him.

>But, quite surprisingly, the current employees of Facebook feel that their CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s best talent lies not in hiring people but in firing people.

>Some time ago, Steve Ballmer, the current C E O of Microsoft who ranks nineteenth in the Forbes 400 list today, wanted to buy Facebook outright but remained contented by investing $240 million when his offer to buy Facebook was rejected by Mark Zuckerberg and team.

>In 2006 Mark Zuckerberg opened Facebook to workplace networks but surprisingly nobody in USA noticed it. That time Yahoo came up with an offer of $1.4 billion to buy Facebook. “Zuck” was initially tempted to accept the billion dollar deal but could somehow overcome his temptation and finally rejected the offer. Though Business Week termed this rejection as one of the “biggest failed mergers” in the history, it still made Mark Zuckerberg a man worth of twenty four billion dollars today.

>Since they hold rights to some social networking patent, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LimkedIn and Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga own a reasonable stake in Facebook today.

>Very few people know that a Russian holding firm, DST holds a great stock in Facebook. It is so because Peter Thiel of Angel Investor, Facebook’s first outside investor, sold half of his stock in 2009 to this Russian holding firm.

>Apple Inc’s veteran Bud Colligan, former Yahoo Inc executive Ellen Siminoff and former Open Table CEO Jeff Jordan were all interviewed for the post of Chief Operations Officer of Facebook in 2007. But it was finally bagged by Sheryl Sandberg who was formerly vice president of Global Online Operations and Sales at Google Inc. Mark Zuckerberg was very much impressed with this lady when he first met her in a 2007 Christmas party hosted by Dan Rosensweig who was then the chief operating officer (COO) of Yahoo Inc. Sheryl is one of the active directors on the Facebook board today. Period.

>Accel partner Jim Breyer invested $12.7 million in Facebook in 2005. After this investment from Jim Breyer, the initial founders of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker and Dustin Moscovitz took a million dollar bonus each.

>Exactly one day after taking the one million dollar bonus, Mark Zuckerberg went to a gas station where a crazy guy, with a pistol in his hand, jumped over him and tried to cause some serious damage. Screaming loudly a fully terrified Zuck jumped into his SUV and zoomed off.

>After being arrested on cocaine related charges in North Carolina, Sean Parker, the co-founder and the then president of Facebook was sent out by Accel Partners who were the principal share holders in Facebook those days.

>With an estimated value of $18.7 million there is also an Indian share holder in Facebook by name Divya Narendra. Though he holds only .022 percent stake in Facebook today, he is already worth the above mentioned figure with that miniature stake. On some copyright issue he waged a prolonged legal battle with Facebook which, as he claims, helped him pursue a career in jurisprudence.

Mark Zuckerberg Kissing His Future Wife Wife Priscilla Chan In Front Of Oprah Winfrey Camera Crew In 2010
>Mark Zuckerberg met his future wife Priscilla Chan, a Chinese, in Harvard University. Before their marriage they lived together in a sparsely furnished rented home in Palo Alto, California. In 2010, when Oprah Winfrey decided to do a talk show with Zuck he allowed her entire crew with cameras into his house. Mark Zuckerberg kissed his then girl friend Priscilla Chan in front of all the giggling crew that day. That time he revealed to the crew that he practices Chinese language every morning at the kitchen table as part of his preparation for his future Honeymoon in China. Period.

>Initially Mark Zuckerberg was not in favor of adding photo sharing feature to Facebook but Sean Parker convinced “Zuck” about it and photo sharing is the most popular feature on Facebook today. Cartoon Cat was the first photo uploaded to Facebook followed by photos of socializing girls.

>Caterina Fake, the co founder of Flickr and Hunch could not open a Facebook account because of the word “Fake” in her last name. Facebook thought it’s a fake name and refused to allow her to create an account.

>Currently there is an official “Facebook Phone” in Asia.

>There was a redesign of Facebook in 2008 that made every digital giant in the Silicon Valley unhappy. In a protest Dell CEO Michael Dell too joined a group called “Petition Against New Facebook”. Period

>Facebook can never come to any understanding with Google anytime in future for any form of acquisition or for any other business understanding since Microsoft, a major partner in Facebook since 2007, will not allow it’s arch rival Google to have any say whatsoever in any of the affairs of Facebook. It’s an irrevocable unwritten understanding between Facebook and Microsoft with which Google shall forever be unhappy. In an effort to break the supremacy of Facebook in social network market Google created Google+ and you all know how it is faring today.

>Finally, according to Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moscovitz, Facebook is planning to come up with an ad network in future just on the lines of their revolutionary social networking site called facebook.com

Conclusion

According to a recent study (July,2012) conducted by the The University Of Wisconsin School Of Medicine And Public Health, Facebook, as is believed by many, doesn’t cause depression. The study further suggests that it is unnecessarily alarming to advise the parents or patients about the risk of “Facebook Depression” which, many critics feel, is caused by the excessive usage of this popular social networking site. The study also found that 70% of Facebook users today are adolescents..

source::::
Narrenaditya in amazing truelife stories.com

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A Small True Story ….Problem With Whom !!!!

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It’s A Small Story But A Very Cute Story

Some where in midtown Mumbai there is a posh locality meant for the living of only aristocratic families.It’s perhaps the only locality in the most popular city of India where there are many independent houses and a very few apartment buildings. Meridian Towers is one such apartment complex in that locality that houses the families of the rich and famous personalities of Mumbai.

And it is in these apartments that our beloved Ramakanth Joglekar and his wife Bhavana Joglekar are living.It is not important here to know what Ramakanth and Bhavana do for their living but it is important to know what made them the central point of this story.

Ramakanth is about sixty years of age and Bhavana about fifty seven.They do everything to make their lives happy and it is again irrelevant here to know more about their other family members because it is only the cute couple of Ramakanth and Bhavana that live in that posh five bed room apartment where our story is taking place.

Ramakanth and Bhavana have a very long and successful love marriage that is about thirty five years old now.Their love story may not be as intense as Sohni-Mahiwal or Shajahan and Mumtaz but they strongly believe that they have a better and more powerful love story to narrate to the world if only the world is willing to pay some attention to them.

They still spend a lot of time together and still believe in squeezing maximum juices out of life.With a wide collection of world’s most popular and rich varieties of Red Wine,the lovely middle aged couple of Ramakanth and Bhavana take pride in throwing lavish parties to their other aristocratic friends,often.

Life is on a song for the lovely couple until Ramakanth gradually started noticing a problem in his wife that really kept bothering him a lot .However,his abundant love for his wife did not allow him to discuss it with her.But at the same time he cannot remain ignorant of the problem and some how wants his wife to overcome that problem at the earliest.He had spent many sleepless nights unable to know what to do.

Then one fine morning Ramakanth personally visited Dr.Jayavanth Divakar,an ENT Surgeon practicing in Linking Road,Santa Cruz, Mumbai.

He told the doctor..”Doc, I have a doubt for the last couple of months that my wife is going deaf day by day.But I cannot discuss the problem with her as it may be very embarrassing for her to accept it..So what do you want me to do..Please help..”

Doctor smiled and said “It’s only your doubt that she is developing deafness but you are not sure that she is deaf..So conduct a small test..When she is working in the kitchen tomorrow ask her a question “What curry are you cooking for lunch today”.. First you stand at a thirty feet distance from her and put this question in a low tone.. Then reduce the distance by five feet and move slightly closer to her and put the same question from twenty five feet distance and then from twenty feet distance and so on..Like that keep decreasing five feet every time and repeat the question..Remember,the tone when you put the question should be in normal conversational level and not more than that..Let me know at what distance you got the reply from her and then we will be able to know how severe her deafness is and what line of treatment should be adopted..Don’t worry I will take care of it..”

Next morning Bhavana was busy in the kitchen preparing food items for the day.Ramakanth thought “it’s the right time to perform the test on her.”

He went into their master bed room;stood in the utmost corner of the room which is more than thirty feet from Bhavana and asked her in a normal tone.. “Sweetheart,what’s cooking up for lunch..”..

No reply from Bhavana..

A shocked Ramakanth reduced the distance and put the same question from about twenty five feet now..No reply again as Bhavana was busy frying something on the pan..

A heart broken Ramakanth repeated the question from twenty feet and then from fifteen feet and again from ten feet but was not getting any reply from his beloved wife.Without even lifting her head she was busy with her cooking operation.

Finally Ramakanth,who is now almost in tears for his beloved wife,moved very close to her and asked the same question from less than a five feet distance “Sweetheart,what’s cooking up for lunch..”..

Watching her beloved husband standing almost next to her Bhavana turned to him and said “It’s Deep Onion Fried Chicken curry Sweetheart..But why are you asking the same question so many times..First you asked me from the corner of our bed room “Sweetheart,what’s cooking up for lunch..”..I said ” Deep Onion Fried Chicken curry..”..Then you came to our wardrobe and asked the same question and again I replied..Then you repeated the same question standing near our double cot,then from our dressing table,then standing at the entrance of our bedroom and then from our dining table and now finally standing so close to me you are asking the same question “Sweetheart what’s cooking up for lunch..”..”It’s your favorite Deep Onion Fried Chicken Curry sweetheart,but now tell me what’s wrong with you..Why are you acting so funny..Why are asking the same question so many times..Is everything fine with you or is there any problem..Why don’t you get checked up once..There is a very good ENT specialist by name Dr.Jayavanth Divakar in Linking Road,Santa Cruz..His wife is my childhood friend..Shall I take his appointment tomorrow..You are sixty sweetheart and therez nothing wrong in getting checked up once..”

Conclusion

Am not sure about the origin of this story but am given to understand that it’s a true story.I have only reported what I have read half a decade ago hence cannot claim originality or ownership to this story.

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7 Ways Money Can Buy Happiness !!!!!

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source :::siliconindia net

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 You may wonder ‘how money can buy a little happiness’ as it is not something which is sold in the market. Of course what you are thinking is right but at the same time you cannot ignore the fact that money can buy many things which make you happy. Different people hold different notion about money, which influences the way they make use of their money. Now let’s look at the ways, by which money adds more fun and happiness in our lives, reports Investopedia.com

 

 

1. Time

 
‘Money can buy a wrist watch but not time’ are you the one who thinks in the same way. To some extent you are right but not completely. Just think once about the ways money can buy technologies which can help you to cut short the time you spend in your day to day work. Like a washing machine, dish washer, lawnmower and many more make some chores quicker and easier to perform. Money can also help you to save time by giving you the ability to hire a maid, landscaper or butler for doing chores and running errands. Hence, money can definitely buy time.

 

 

2. Achieving Goals

 

Today, the things which are available for free can easily be counted on your fingers but the things which money can buy are countless. Even for achieving your goals you need money. You may aim to become a doctor or a engineer or a lawyer or a MBA, but for studying any of these professional courses you need of lakhs of money. Even for training under the vocational courses like music, dance, fine arts you require money to pay your fees. Life is not just about living with serious ambitions but even for achieving softer goals like vacation trips or buying luxurious car. In many ways, money can help achieve goals and make you happy.

 

 
3. Financial Security

 
Financial security can only be achieved with sufficient finance, in other words with money. Financial security helps a man to keep financial worries at bay, and this helps him to live his life more happily than the one who is struggling without it. Laura Vanderkam, Author of “All the Money in the World: What the Happiest People Know About Getting and Spending,” says “satisfaction with life and consequently happiness amplifies with income”. This is possibly because when one has enough money, he or she won’t have to stress day and night about providing proper food for the family, or worry about a family member falling ill and not having adequate funds to pay for healthcare. When someone has sufficient money to take care of his priorities, it brings about bundles of joy.

 

 

 

4. Creates Opportunities

 

It is often said that the person who himself is happy can keep other have too. In the same way the person who has enough money can help someone in need of money. It could be your spouse, child or a close friend who needs money to fulfill his or her aims. Remember, the more money you have, the greater the opportunities we have to help others. As you know, money creates opportunities to help others as its gives you the ability to help them. Michael Norton, associate professor at the Harvard Business School, says it is far more rewarding in the long run if people use their money to aid others, instead of spending it only in fulfilling their individual needs.

 
5. Experiences

 
Vanderkam says that money can buy happiness if used wisely. When you buy too much of something, the pleasure which you get out it start diminishing. Rather use your money for creating an experience that can be shared. This, she says, would help the happiness grow three-fold. It grows through the anticipation, the experience and the happy memories each time you remember it. Money can provide you the capital required to enjoy lasting experiences like traveling around the world, scuba-diving, paragliding and trying some of the most watering meals in the 5 star restaurants. Money can buy a ton of wonderful experiences which you can cherish lifelong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Social Standing

 
In today’s materialistic world money plays an important role in building social status and earning popularity. There is an age old saying that ‘Adversity Test Friends and Prosperity Gains Friends’. It’s true that our socio-economic status are determined largely by the amount of money we have. There is certainly no fun to be poor and it doesn’t hurt to be rich. For most of us who fall in the varying shades of the middle class income group, it is money that puts us there more than our ethnic and educational backgrounds. If it didn’t, then we would have also participated in the proud discussions about how much we earn.

 
7. Enabler

 


Keeping aside the extravagant life and appearance in page 3 of some streaming sections of magazines and tabloid newspaper which comes usually comes with money; you can also aim for attaining eternal peace by donating your money for a charitable cause. Some philanthropists like Azim Premji are working towards building better healthcare and education systems. This year he made a grand donation of $1.3 billion. According to psychologist Martin Seligman, humans find happiness by enabling greater opportunities for many others who need a helping hand, which gives them a great sense of triumph.

 

Mother…A Researcher in Child Development !!!!!

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source ::::unknown….input from my friend….nice one to be shared with you all !!!!!

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I Am A Mother

The Officer At The Driving License Counter Asked The Lady
” What is Your Occupation ? ”

The Woman Seeking Renewal Of Her License Seemed To Be Puzzled.
So The Officer Said
” Ma’am, Are You Employed,
Have Your Own Business Or……..

The Woman Replied
” Oh, Yes !!

I Have A Full Time Occupation.

I Am A Mother ”

Officer : ” We Don’t Have ‘ Mother ‘ As An Option For Occupation.
I Will Write it Down As ‘ Housewife ‘.
That Takes Care Of All Questions.”

This Had Happened Long Ago,
And Was Forgotten.Years Later When I Went To Get My License,The Public Relations Officer Was A Somewhat Pompous. Woman.

” Your Occupation ? ”
She Asked in A Rather Authoritative Tone.

I Just Had An inspiration And Replied
” I Am A Researcher in The Field Of Child Development, Nutrition And Inter-Personal Relationships ”

The Lady Officer Stared At Me in Amazement.
I Calmly Repeated My Statement And She Wrote it Down Verbatim.
Then, Unable To Conceal Her Curiosity,
She Politely Asked

” What Exactly Do You Do in Your Profession, Ma’am ? ”

I Was Feeling Good About Having Described My Occupation So Calmly And Confidently.
So I Replied

” My Research Projects Have Been Going On For A Number Of Years
( Mothers Never Retire !! ).

My Research is Conducted in The Laboratory As Well As in The Field.
I Have Two Bosses.

(One is God and the other is my entire family).
I Have Received Two Honours in This Field.

(A son and a daughter)
My Topic is Considered To Be The Most Difficult Part Of Sociology.

( All Moms will Agree!! ).
I Have To Work More Than 14 Hours Every Day.

Sometimes Even 24 Hours Are Not Enough And The Challenges Are Tougher Than Many Other Professions.

My Compensation is in Terms Of Mental Satisfaction Rather Than Money ”

I Could See That The Officer Was Thoroughly impressed.
After Completing The Licensing Formalities,
She Came To The Door To See Me Off.

This New Viewpoint About My Occupation Made Me Feel Much Better On My Way Back Home.

I Was Welcomed By My 5 Year Old Research Assistant At The Door.

My New Project (My 6 Month old Baby) Was Energetically Practicing Her ‘ Music ‘.

I Had Earned A Small Victory Over The Governmental Red Tape Today.
I Was No Longer ‘ Merely A Mother ‘,
instead I Was Now A Highly Placed
Functionary in A Service Vital For Mankind -Motherhood !!

‘ Mother ‘ – Isn’t it A Great Title.
Fit To Be Added To The Nameplate On The Door !!

By This Standard, Grandmothers Deserve To Be Called Senior Research Officers,And Great Grandmothers Qualify As ‘ Research Directors ‘.
Aunts And Other Ladies Of That Age Group Can Be Called ‘ Research Facilitators ‘

Please Share This With All Mothers, Grandmothers, Great Grandmothers,
All Ladies Currently Holding Posts Like
Didi – Tai – Chachi – Mami – Mausi – Bua ……

They Will All Shower You With Blessings And Life Will Be Happier.

Forget the Past and Move on …..

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A Wiseman once sat in the audience and cracked a joke. Audience laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the same joke again…This

time , little less people laughed!!!

He cracked the same joke once again !!!!….Now , no one laughed !!!!

Then , he smiled and said ” when you can”t laugh on the same joke again and again , then why do you keep crying over the samething over and over again !!!”

He added , ” worrying is like sitting in Rocking Chair….you keep on rocking …but it takes you nowhere !!!!. Forget the past and keep moving !!! ”

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God Is Our Pilot … We are Safe In HIS Hands …

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The Pilot.

A priest was on a long flight home after a Church Conference.

The first warning of approaching problems came when the
‘Fasten Your Seat Belts’ sign flashed on.
After a while a calm voice said,
“We shall not be serving beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence.
Please make sure your seat belt is fastened.”

The priest looked around the aircraft and saw that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive.
Later, the voice on the intercom said,
“We are so sorry that we are unable to serve meals at this time…
The turbulence is still ahead of us.”

And then the storm broke.
The ominous cracks of thunder could be heard even above the roar of the engines.
Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and within moments that great plane was tossed around like a cork in a celestial ocean.
One moment it was lifted on terrific currents of air, the next it fell as if about to crash.

As the priest looked around he could see that nearly
all the passengers were alarmed – except one little girl!

She sat calmly, feet tucked under her, looking at pictures in a book, oblivious of the turbulence around her.
Sometimes she would close her eyes, and then she would go back to her book.

The storm blew over.
When the plane landed and the passengers were disembarking,
the priest approached the little girl and asked her why she was not afraid like the other passengers.

The little girl replied,
“Cause my Daddy’s the pilot and he’s taking me home.”

There are many storms that buffet us…
Physical, mental, financial, domestic and other storms that can darken our skies and throw us into turmoil.

Like the little girl, let us always remember:

Our Father…. GOD… is the Pilot.
He is in complete control… He will take us Home… Don’t worry!

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India on Diwali Night !!!

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NASA releases map of India on Diwali night !!!

  • A satellite imagery of India on Diwali night released by NASA. Photo: PTI
    PTIA satellite imagery of India on Diwali night released by NASA. Photo: PTI
  • NASA releases map of India on Diwali night. PTI graphic
    PTINASA releases map of India on Diwali night. PTI graphic

NASA, the national space agency of the US, on Thursday released a black and white satellite imagery of India Diwali night 2012, cautioning people against the fake image in circulation on the social media.

“On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this night-time view of southern Asia,” NASA said releasing a picture of India on this Diwali night.

“The image is based on data collected by the VIIRS ‘day- night band’, which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared. The image has been brightened to make the city lights easier to distinguish,” it said.

NASA said most of the bright areas in the imagery released by it are cities and towns in India. “India is home to more than 1.2 billion people and has 30 cities with populations over 1 million,” it said.

Cities in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are also visible near the edges of the image.

“An image that claims to show the region lit for Diwali has been circulating on social media websites and the Internet in recent years. In fact, it does not show what it claims.

That image, based on data from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, is a colour—composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time,” NASA said.

“In that image, white areas show city lights that were visible prior to 1992, while blue, green, and red shades indicate city lights that became visible in 1992, 1998, and 2003 respectively,” it said.

“In reality, any extra light produced during Diwali is so subtle that it is likely imperceptible when observed from space,” NASA said.

Keywords: NASA images, Diwali night, India satellite images, Earth at Night

source::::::THE HINDU

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அறநெறி சங்கரர் …மஹா பெரியவா !!!

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ஸமார்த்த ராமதாஸின் புனித நினைவு கமழும் ஸதாரா. அப்பகுதிக்கு இயல்பான ஏகாந்த அமைதி. வைகறையின் சாந்தத்தில் இணைந்து தோய்ந்த அதிகாலை நாலரை மணி. ஸ்ரீ காஞ்சி முனிவரின் குரல் கேட்கிறது. முதல் நாளெல்லாம் பெரியவர் மௌனமானதால் இன்று தெய்வத்தின் குரலைக் கூடுதல் ஆவலுடன் அந்த வேளையிலும் அங்கே குழுமியிருந்தவர்கள் கேட்கிறார்கள்.

” ஆமாம், வாய் மௌனமானாலும் ராத்திரி மூக்குக்கு உப்புமா வாஸனை எட்டித்து! நான் சொல்ல வேண்
டாம்னு பார்த்தாலும் என்னவோ பாவம், இங்கே இருக்கிற ரெண்டு மூணு பேருக்கு ஏற்படற சிரமத்தை எப்படி சொல்லாமயிருக்கிறதா? சாதுர்மாஸ்யம்னு நான் வந்து ஒக்காந்துட்டேன். இன்னம் ரெண்டு மாஸத்துக்கு இந்த இடத்தை விட்டுப் பொறப்படறத்துக்கு இல்லை. ஆனா இது என்ன டவுனா, பட்டணமா? இங்கே பார்த்துப் பார்த்துப் பண்ணறத்துக்கு ஜனக்கட்டு இருக்கா? இந்தச் சின்ன விஷயம் என்னைப் பாக்க வரவாளுக்குத் தெரிய வேண்டாமா? ப்ரியத்தினாலே, பக்தியினாலேதான் எங்கெங்கிருந்தோ எத்தனையோ கஷ்டப் பட்டுண்டு வரேள், வாஸ்தவம்தான். ஆனாலும் பிறத்தியாருக்கு ச்ரமம் தரலாமா? என்னை ஏதோ ஒரு வேளை பாத்துட்டு அப்படியே நகந்துண்டே இருக்க வேண்டியதுதானே? போஜனம், டிஃபன், பலகாரம்னு வந்தவாளுக்குப் பண்ணி வைக்க இந்தச் சின்ன ஊர்லே ஏது வசதி? இங்கே இருக்கப்பட்ட ரெண்டு மூணு பேர்தானே கஷ்டத்தைப் பாக்காம எல்லாம் பண்ணவேண்டியிருக்கும்? அவா நல்ல மனஸோட, ஒண்ணும் மொணமொணக்காமதான் பண்றான்னாலும், என்னைப் பராமரிக்கிறதே கஷ்டம். அது போறாம, என்னைப் பாக்க வரவா, பார்க்க வரவாளைப் பார்க்க வரவான்னு பல பேருக்கு அவாளை சுச்ருக்ஷை பண்ண வைக்கிறது ஸரியா?”

உப்புமா தாளிப்பில் சற்றுக் கார நெடி கூடுதலானது போல் பெரியவரின் குரல் த்வனித்தாலும், அன்பு என்னும் சுத்த நெய்யிலாக்கும் அது வறுபடுகிறது என்பதும் அக மூக்குக்குத் தெரிகிறது. பணிவிடையாளரிடம் எசமானரின் பரிவன்பு!

“எங்கே அந்த ‘பெல்காம் —-இருக்கானா?” என்கிறது நெய்–மிளகாய்க் குரல், மிளகாயை விட்டு விட்டு!

“இதோ இருக்கேன்”—என்று தண்டம் ஸமர்ப்பிக்கிறார் ‘பெல்காம்’…..

“நான் இந்த மஹாராஷ்ட்ராவிலே சுத்த ஆரம்பிச்சதிலேருந்து நீ எத்தனை தடவை என்னைப் பார்க்க ஓடி வந்திருப்பே?”

மிளகாயே அறியாத சுத்த நெய் தன் உள்ளே வர்ஷிப்பதாக உணர்ந்த ‘பெல்காம்’—தான் அடிக்கடி பெரியவாள் தரிசனத்துக்கு வந்திருப்பதை இன்று அவரே எல்லோருக்கும் தெரியப்படுத்துவதில் உற்ற பெருமிதம், அவர் ‘இத்தனாம் தடவை’ என்று சொன்ன குரலிலே பிரதிபலிக்கிறது.

“ஆமாம், உன்னாலே எப்படி இத்தனை தடவை வர முடியறது?”

“எனக்கு ரெயில்வே உத்யோகமொல்லியோ? பாஸ்லே வரேன்”

“ஓஹோ! ஸரி! உன் பாசை இங்கே வை” என்று தமக்கு முன்

தரையைத் தட்டிக் காட்டுகிறார் ஸ்ரீ பெரியவர்.

பெரியவாள் பணித்த வண்ணமே அந்த பக்தர் செய்கிறார்.

இருள் பிரியாத அந்த இளம் பொழுதிலே பெரியவரின் திருக்கர அழுத்தலில் பக்கத்தில் இருந்த டார்ச் பாஸ் மீது ஒளியைப் பாய்ச்சுகிறது!.

பெரியவர் பாஸை உன்னிப்பாக கவனிக்கிறார்; பேசத் தொடங்குகிறார். நெய்யிலே மறுபடி மிளகாய் வறுபடுகிறது. ” பாஸ்லே எக்ஸாமினர் கையெழுத்தே ஆகல்லே. எனக்குத் தெரியும், ரயில்வேக்காராளுக்குப் பாஸ் இருந்தாலும் இத்தனை ட்ரிப்தான் போகலாம்னு கணக்கு உண்டுன்னு இதிலேயானா நீ இத்தனை தடவை வந்ததுக்குக் கணக்கா ஒரு கையெழுத்துக் கூட காணும்! நீ என்ன பண்ணணும் தெரியுமா? முதல் காரியமா இந்தப் பாஸைக் கொண்டு போய் ‘சரண்டர்’ பண்ணணும். இனிமேல் உன் கைக்காசைச் செலவழிச்சுண்டு வர முடியும்னாலே என்னைப் பார்க்க வரணும்.”

ஹரஹர சங்கரர் அறநெறிச் சங்கரராக ஜ்வாலை விட்டு அனைவரையும் பிரமிக்கச் செய்கிறார்.

இந்த அயனான சந்தர்ப்பத்திலே சென்னையைச் சேர்ந்த சிஷ்யப் பிரமுகர் ஒருவர் ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் காணிக்கை பெரியவாளுக்குச் செலுத்த முன்வருகிறார்.

இதற்குப் பதினோறாண்டுகளுக் முன் முனிவர் ஸ்ரீமடத்தை விட்டு வெளிவந்த அன்றிலிருந்து பணக் காணிக்கையைக் கண்ணெடுத்தும் பார்ப்பதில்லை என்று இவர் நன்கறிந்தவர்தான். ஆயினும் பெரியவாளின் திருவுளக்கருத்தினர் படியே செலவழிக்கப் படவேண்டுமென்று அந்தரங்க பக்தியுடன் ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட தொகையாதலாலே இந்த ஆயிரத்தை செலுத்துகிறார்.

பெரியவர் புரிந்து கொள்ளாமல் போவாரா?

“எங்கே ‘பெல்காம்’?” என்கிறார்.

திருணமாக வந்து நிற்கிறார் அந்த நபர்.

நெய்யிலே இப்பொழுது முந்திரியாக்கும் வறுபடுகிறது!

பெல்காமில்……….நிறைவேற்றி வரும் ஆசாரிய ஸேவைத்

திட்டங்களைப்பற்றி ஏகமாக ச்லாகிக்கிறார், பெரியவர். இடித்த

மேகமே இன்மழை கொட்டுகிறது.

அதில் ஒரு பணிக்கே இந்த ஆயிரம் ரூபாயைப்

பயன்படுத்துமாறு அருளாணை பிறக்கிறது.

“பணத்தை எப்படிக் கொண்டு போவே?”

“பத்ரமா எடுத்துண்டு போறேன்” என்கிறார் ‘பெல்காம்’

பொறுப்புணர்ச்சியுடன் நிறைவுடனும் அபார உலகியல்

அறிவுடனும் முனிவர் சொல்கிறார்: ” அதெல்லாம்

ஸரியில்லை தொலைஞ்சு போச்சுன்னா, நீயோ, அவனோ

( கொடுத்தவரோ) ஜவாப் இல்லை. நான்தான் ஜவாப்.

( கொடுத்தபிரமுகரைப் பார்த்து) ,நீ இந்தத்தொகைக்கு அவன்

பேரிலே ‘ட்ராஃப்ட்’ வாங்கிக் குடுத்துடு.”

அறம் என்ன, அன்பு என்ன, பொறுப்பு என்ன, ஸமயோசிதம்

என்ன என்பதற்கெல்லாம் அன்றன்றும் இப்படி அற்புத

முன்னுதாரணம் தருவதே முனிவரின் இயல்பாயிருக்கிறது.

– மஹா பெரியவாள் விருந்து, ரா.கணபதி அண்ணா

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Cheerful People Are Like Sunlight !!!!

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source:::: message from one of the devotees of SAI….

Natarajan

Mother Nature

When you have a Passion and a Reason to do something,
You’ll surely have what you want… It may seem hard or even impossible, but if you have a Strong Enough Reason to do Something, You’ll be able to tap in your Inner God-given Potential!

Cheerful people are like Sunlight.
They shine in to the corners of the heart &
offer bright mornings & fresh hopes.
Good Morning to one such person!!!

Never let life’s hardships disturb you.
After all, no one can avoid problems, not even saints or gods.”

If it stops with you, then the blessing will disappear. The blessing will only keep working if it is continuously passed around. If you are a recipient of a blessing, keeps the blessing working by being the source of blessing to other people.

Never be sad for missing
Whatever you expected… but be happy
Because God has planned to give another one
Better than what you expected
Think.

No one is born happy…
But all of us are born with the ability to create happiness…
So today, make others happy…
Flash your sweetest smile…

No Fast Food at Our Times !!!… Only Slow Food !!!!

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source:::: input from my brother who is younger to me ….a true reflection of good old days !!!!!
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If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don’t blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn’t what it used to be, is it?

Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favourite ‘fast food’ when you were growing up?’
‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him.
‘All the food was slow.’
‘C’mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘home,” I explained. !
‘Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn’t like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.’

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn’t tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I’d figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school… I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow)..

We didn’t have a television in our house until I was 15!!!!
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people….

Pizzas were not delivered to our home… But milk was.

How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.. Ratings at the bottom

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
(There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi’s
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don’t tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You’re positively ancient!

I must be ‘positively ancient’ but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. I am sure People of my age group will tend to agree with my views …

Natarajan