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A Date to Remember….12.12.12. !!!!!

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Miraculous progress in efforts to enhance the human life-span cannot be ruled out, but it can be said with some certainty that most people who have been fortunate enough to see, over the past 12 years, 12 dates where all digits are the same (1 January 2001 or 1-1-1, 2 February 2002, and in the same progression, to 12 December 2012 or 12-12-12) will not be around to see the next, which will come after 88 years (1 January 2101). In the same vein, it is another 88 years and 39 days to 21 January 2101 (or 21-01-2101), the earliest date that can be represented as a four digit number repeated twice over (over the past 11 years, people have seen 11 such dates, from 20 January 2001 to 20 November 2011, and they will see one more eight days from now, on 20 December 2012).

Of course, it remains to be seen whether there is anyone around 88 years from now to register these dates because if the ancient Mayans are to be believed, then the world will end in nine days, on 21 December.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

source::::::livemint net

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An Interaction With a Visiting NRI !!!!!

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Do Not Miss To Read The Summary at the end

A typical conversation with a visiting NRI…..

Self: Hi! Home for a holiday? Are you going back…..or…?

NRI: Yes…yes…I am going back as soon as possible.

Self: But…your parents are here. There are also many new malls now where you can get everything you want. Its even cheaper than in the US, Europe or Canada or Australia.

NRI: Yes…..things are real cheap here in India….products are very good……the malls are also very good…..restaurants are excellent. But….the roads and the traffic are so terrible….I can’t wait to get back.

Self: Yes…I agree….but….that’s only one relatively small factor….surely you can adjust and put up with that. The situation would improve once the Metro is operational.

NRI: No…No. Why should I put up with the traffic and the crowds and the garbage? Why should I adjust?Its impossible.

Self: OK….lets change the subject. How are your parents? I heard your mother had some health problem. Is she ok now?

NRI: Oh… yeah…she’s ok! Doctors have given her some medicines. Dad is there to take care of her.

Self: But he is old ……how will he manage? Besides, both will be missing all of you so much. Loneliness is terrible. That itself can lead to so many diseases.

NRI: He’ll manage. He has to adjust, I guess.

Self: OK…..how is life in America? What do you eat at home?. The usual Idlis, Dosas Upma etc. that you like so much? Indian food, particularly South Indian food is considered the healthiest! It contains all essential nutrients in a very balanced way.

NRI: Well…no…not really. We normally eat cereals for breakfast….straight from boxes. I carry sandwiches for lunch or eat some salad at the cafeteria (everything is so expensive). For dinner we take out some food stored in the freezer and heat it in the microwave….and that’s it. Its difficult to cook every day, you know….so we cook once a week and store it in the freezer.

Self: But that’s not healthy. Also, eating packaged & processed food every day could lead to many diseases. We read about this every day.

NRI: Oh…. no problem. We adjust. We sometimes eat meat to make up for the proteins.

Self: But you are traditionally a vegetarian, I thought. Vegetarianism is considered a better option for general health, animal rights and for spiritual reasons….. and many westerners are now becoming vegetarians. So…why have you switched to non-veg?

NRI: Well…its no big deal really. One has to adjust.

Self: It must be cold where you live…..you have lived all your life in warm South India.

NRI: Yes…its terribly cold out there with months of snow….but we have central heating. We don’t go out much….but its…ok. We learn to adjust.

Self: How is your wife? Does she also work? What about the children?

NRI: Of course…! She has to work! We can’t manage with one person working. We have mortgages to pay. We both leave our home at 8 am and are back at 6 pm. We have only one child who comes from school and stays alone till we come home. He watches TV and eats something from the freezer. Some of our friends are even opting not to have any children….so that they could save all the trouble. God!…..Children are such a responsibility!

Self: Yes…that they certainly are.

NRI: Children are also very expensive. Their clothes, food, eating out, vacations….buying new stuff every few months just to keep up with their peers in school….its terrible!

Self: So how do you manage? What about the culture? The sexual freedom and so on? Aren’t you worried about these adverse influences on your children?

NRI: No one bothers about all that. Its part of life. If my son adopts that lifestyle…that’s ok with me. We need to adjust and get on with life.

Self: I understand that due to the recession and its aftermath there is a subtle antagonism towards foreigners and immigrants. Is that true?

NRI: Well….yeah…sometimes you do sense a mild discrimination and bigotry. Recently in fact, someone shouted out an abuse at my wife when she was out shopping. Someone at school called out ‘Paki go home’ to my son. But these things are rare…. because…. by and large, we keep to ourselves. We rarely interact with the whites or the other immigrants. Even they prefer to keep to themselves. We have our own small Indian groups with whom we socialize. So…such racist incidents are kept to the minimum. We adjust and learn to manage.

Self : What about entertainment? Do you get Indian TV channels and programs? Do you eat out often?

NRI: Indian channels are usually pay channels and very expensive. So…we don’t have them. We manage with the local english programs. We do see Indian movies sometimes. They are expensive and you need to drive for an hour to get to the cinema hall. So….we don’t do it very often. Eating out is very expensive. Indian food is even more expensive.

Self: Where do you live in the US and do you own a house?

NRI: We live in a locality with lot of Hispanics, Koreans and Chinese. We have bought a house on mortgage recently. Its not very big actually. Just a two bedroom twin home of about 1000 sq ft. Unfortunately prices have dropped recently. But we like it.

Self: But you have a fairly big home in India………

NRI: Yes……but…..what have I got in India? Nothing!

Self: What do you do if one of you is ill? Do any neighbors help?

NRI: Actually….one of my neighbors is a Korean man who lives with his girlfriend. On the other side are two….er…..too. We have to help ourselves most of the time. Our Indian friends live some distance away…..and no one will help if we are ill. Everyone is so busy with their own work.

Self: What sort of work do you do in the US? Is it some highly specialized cutting edge work……. for which you cannot get a job in India?

NRI: Actually…..I am a software engineer. I had a good job till recently, but I got laid off and had a terrible three months. I have recently been called for an interview for a temporary contract position. I may get it. Things are looking good…yeah…..I am ok!

Self: But you would be able to get a very good…highly paying job in India. India’s booming with a very high rate of growth!

NRI: Yes…I know. I’ll probably get a much better salary than what I get in the US…. and maybe I’ll be able to save much more too….but…it’s so difficult to adjust to the traffic and the crowds in India…you know. Its impossible to come back.

Self: OK then….. goodbye and good luck!

(I think to myself as I say goodbye)……Yeah.. right! You can adjust to packaged food and poor health, small dark wooden home, heavy mortgages, terrible weather conditions, lack of family, lonely parents, bad cultural environment, racial abuse, loss of dignity & self respect, job insecurity and even your basic principles……but you can’t adjust to simple traffic conditions in India! )

source:::::unknown…..input from one of my NRI friends !!!!
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6 Ds To Keep Your Inbox Clutter-Free !!!

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source:::::DNA net

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A new workshop had revealed the six easy ways to keep our inbox clutter-free as we struggle to handle high volumes of emails every day.

Productivity coach Wendy Cole, in her workshop “The Secret to Getting Things Done, and Managing 100+ Emails a Day”, says majority of employees aren’t trained to tackle vast volumes of emails and didn’t know how to use email programs like Microsoft Outlook, News.com.au reports.

According to Cole, here are the top six ways to handle and manage an email-filled inbox

1. Delete: Every time you read an email, decide if the information is relevant to you. If not, delete it

2. Do: If you can do whatever the email is requesting in two minutes, do it there and then

3. Delegate: If it can’t be done in two minutes but you are in a position to delegate it, pass it on to somebody else

4. Defer: If you can’t do the task immediately but it will take longer than two minutes, pick a time when you will get it done and add it to a to-do list

5. Diminish: Cut down your email load by making rules in your inbox and directing emails into different folders

6. Daily: Get your unread email count down to zero and do it daily

Cole said people should avoid keeping emails as a “messy to do list”, the report said.

She added the key to staying on top of your emails was to go into your inbox with a mindset that you are “processing”, and also advised on ‘centralised to-do lists’ to organise your work day.

11 டிசம்பர் …பாரதி பிறந்த நாள் !!!!

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source:::: A Poetic tribute to Subramania Bharathiyar on his birth day today .. 11 Dec…. Kavithai from SHRI. SANKARANARAYANAN SADASIVAM , Coimbatore..

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எட்டைய புரத்தில் பிறந்து
பாட்டு திறத்தாலே
எட்டாத உயரத்தை
எட்டிப் பிடித்தவன்
.சொற்களில் சுடு
ஏற்றி சூரியனை
வெட்கவைத்தவன்
சிந்திக்கும் வேகத்தில்
எழுத்துகளாய் விழுமுன் – கவிதை
சிந்திசிதறி விடுமோ என
முண்டாசு கட்டிகொண்டவன்
அடிமை இந்தியாவின்
துக்கத்தை
கருப்புக்கோட்டில்
காட்டிக்கொண்டவன்
ஆனால்
கனவில் கவிதையில்
விடுதலை கொண்டாடியவன்
இல்லை
எதிர்கால இந்தியாவிற்கு
கட்டியங்க்கூரியவன்
பண்டிதர் வீட்டில்
புதைந்து கிடந்த
பாட்டுச்சுகத்தை
பாமரனுக்கும்
பரிமாறியவன்
உறங்கிக்கிடந்த
பாரதத்தை
உசுப்பிவிட பூபாளம்
இசைக்காமல்
கம்பீரநாட்டையில்
முழங்கியவன்
பார்
அதிர
பாட்டு எழுதிய
பாரதி
பாட்டுக்குள்
ராகம் வைத்தான்
அடிமை வாழ்வின்
சோகம் இசைத்தான்
வீறுகொண்டு எழ
வேகம் வைத்தான்
அதனால் தன
தாகம் தீர்த்தான்
காலத்தை விஞ்சிநிற்கும்
பாட்டு
எழுதி
காலனைக் காலால்
எட்டி உதைத்தவன்
வாருங்கள் பாரதி பிறந்தநாளில்
அவன் புகழ்
கொண்டாடுவோம் !!!!!!!!!!!!

By….
Sankaranarayanan Sadasivam

Message For the Day…Mother Earth is Watching You !!!!

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Have you heard the story of the rabbit that borrowed from Mother Earth four paisa (pence)? The rabbit thought to itself, “If I run away as far as I can, from the place I received the loan, I will be free from the obligation”. So one day, the rabbit ran as fast as its legs could carry it. After a while, it sat down in great relief thinking, “Now no one will ask me to repay.” The rabbit was shocked, for at that very moment, it heard from the ground beneath, “Mother Earth is right under your feet! You cannot escape from me, however fast you run!” So too, you cannot run away from Divinity. Wherever you may go seeking refuge, the Lord demands good conduct, good habits, good thoughts and good company! Make use of this opportunity, accept this noble advice, select good company and strive sincerely to reach your goal!

source:::: Excerpts from Divine Discourse of Swami Satya Sai….

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Breaking News or Breaking Peace ??!!!!

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Shakuntala .G. Soratur in THE HINDU

By shouting out as if the whole hemisphere had been set on fire, the anchor soon caused an upheaval in our drawing room

After four years, I decided to watch prime-time news on English channels for an entire hour without any break, thanks to the interesting news bit that appeared on the small screen with the tag, ‘BREAKING NEWS’. I watched the same story on two news channels for the first 10 minutes. Both channels were interviewing an activist and conducting a debate on the same issue (it was a sensational scam story and the debate was not ‘live’). The anchors shouted out their questions and sometimes, even before the activist could answer, another question was shot at him. Sometimes, they would stop him in mid-sentence and complete his answer in sarcasm.

After awhile, I zeroed in on the channel whose news anchor was breathing down the neck of the panellists’ without any ‘break’ in the news saga. By shouting out and pretending as if the whole hemisphere had been set on fire, the anchor soon caused an upheaval in our drawing room. My disgruntled husband and son staged a walkout in protest against the ‘foolish’ viewer. My father complained of headache and without paying much attention to it, concluded that the presenter might end up losing his vocal chords.

The second half of the news show turned out to be overbearing. The news anchor continued to bully a panellist in a high-pitched tone, while serious faces shook or nodded their heads depending on which side they were on. My husband and son re-entered the TV room. They looked hungry and serious. My three-year-old son began to wail, demanding that the idiot box be turned off. Most panellists were raising their voices simultaneously, while my husband picked up our son in his arms and shouted at me.

The effect of prime-time news was showing as I yelled back at him. ‘Thirty seconds to go, Mr …,’ the news anchor announced but did not allow the panellist he was addressing to speak for more than 10 seconds. The verdict came from the self-styled judge himself. The news anchor was announcing another media trial with extra zeal in his voice.

This was akin to watching a saas-bahu soap! I switched off the TV set, while my son wiped his tears and gave me a sullen look.

With a sense of guilt, I tried to woo my son, who refused to come near me. Forcefully, I pulled him to me and took him on my lap. The next instant, I felt his underwear was wet. I screamed at the little boy and was about to seek an answer for his act, when the dog in the neighbourhood began to bark. Who knows, there might have been a ‘cat fight’ outside or maybe, my aggression passed on to the poor creature!

(The writer‘s email ID is shakuntalags@gmail.com)

Keywords: breaking news, news anchors

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ராமசேஷன் வினாயகராம் ஆன கதை !!!

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எனக்கு தெய்வமே தந்தையாகிவிட்டார் என்றால் உங்களலா நம்ப முடிகிறதா? அது தான் சத்தியம். பிறந்தவுடன் எனக்கு பெற்றோர் எனக்கு வச்ச பெயர் ராமசேஷன். நானும் என் சகோதரி சீதா லட்சுமியும் இரட்டையர்களாக பிறந்தோம். பிறந்தவுடனே என் உடம்பு ரொம்ப சீரியஸாகி விட்டதாம். அவள் பிழைத்து விடுவாள். ஆண் குழந்தைக்கு தான் ஆபத்து என்று டாக்டர்கள் கை விரித்து விட்டார்களாம். எங்கம்மா உடனே என்னை திருச்சி தென்னூரிலுள்ள பிள்ளையார் கோயிலில் போட்டு விட்டு இந்த பிள்ளையை காப்பாத்தறது உன் பொறுப்பு. அவனை உனக்கு தத்துக் கொடுத்து விட்டேன். என்று அந்த வினாயகரிடம் மனப்பூர்வமாக வேண்டியிருக்கிறார&அதனால் தான் என் பெயர் வினாயகராம் ஆனது. மாதா, பிதா, குரு தெய்வம் என்பார்கள். எனக்கு பதாவே அதாவது அப்பாவே குருவானது என் பாக்கியம். என்தந்தை ஹரிஹர சர்மா தான். இந்த கடவாத்யக் கலையை எனக்கு கற்றுத் தந்தார்.

அதே போல் தெய்வமே இன்னொரு அப்பாவாக வந்து என்னை காப்பாற்றியதை எல்லாம் நினைவத்து பார்த்தால் எனக்க என்ன பேசுவதென்றே தெரியவில்லை. (கண் கலங்குகிறார்).

எங்களுக்கு குலதெய்வம் வேதாரண்யத்திலுள்ள தேத்தாக்குடி அய்யனார் என்றாலும் காஞ்சிமகா பெரியவரை தான் குல தெய்வமா நினைக்கிறேன். எங்களுக்கும் காஞ்சி சங்கர மடத்திற்கும் உள்ள சம்பந்தம் இன்று நேற்று வந்ததல்ல. வழி வழியாக வந்ததெய்வீக பந்தம் இது. எங்க பெரியப்பா, ஒரு ஆசுகவி. அதாவது நினைத்த நேரத்தில் கவிதை எழுதக் கூடிய மகா ஞானஸ்தர். ஒரு முறை மகா பெரியவர் இவரை கூப்பிட்டு கவி குஞ்சரம் என்று பட்டம் கொடுத்திருக்கிறார& # உடனே பெரியவரை நினைத்து ஒரு கவிதை பாட (கடகடவென்று சொல்கிறார்) அவர் கண்ணுக்கு பெரியவர் சிவனாக தெரிந்ததாக சொல்லி கேள்விப்பட்டு பிரமித்திருக்கிறே& #2985;். என் அண்ணா அதாவது பெரியப்பாவின் மகன் பிரதோஷம் வெங்கட்ராமனும், தன் அப்பா வழியில் சங்கரமடத்தோடு நெருங்கிய தொடர்பு கொண்டிருந்தார். மகா பெரியவர் மீது அவருக்கு அபார பக்தி. காஞ்சிபுரத்திலுள்& #; தனது வீட்டையே ஸ்ரீஸ்ரீமகா பெரியவர் இல்லம் என்று மாற்றிவிட்டார். பங்காரு அம்மன் தோட்டத்திலிருக்கு& #;் அந்த இல்லத்தை எங்கள் குல தெய்வ கோயிலாக்கி விட்டோம். அண்ணா இறந்த பின்பும் எந்தவித குறையும் இல்லாமல் அங்கே பூஜை, புனஸ்காரங்கள் எல்லாம் அமோகமாக நடக்கிறது. நான் எனது மூன்று மகன்கள், ஒரே மகள் எல்லோரும் நேரம் கிடைக்கும் பொழுதெல்லாம் அங்கே போய்விடுவோம்.

மானாமதுரை கடம் என்றால் ரொம்ப பிரசித்தம். அந்த ஊரில் ஏராளமாக கடப்பானை செய்து விற்பார்கள். அப்போது மகா பெரியவர் இருந்த நேரம். மானாமதுரையில் வாங்கிய புது கடத்தை எடுத்து கொண்டு காஞ்சிபுரம் போய் அவரிடம் கொடுத்தேன். இப்படி வித்வான்கள் சமயத்தில் கொடுக்கும் வாத்யக் கருவிகளை தொட்டு பார்த்துவிட்டு தந்துவிடுவார் மகா பெரியவர். நான் கடத்தை கொடுத்தவுடன் விரல்களால் சில வினாடிகள் வாசித்து பார்த்தார் பாருங்கள். நான் நெகிழ்நது போய்விட்டேன். அதை இனிநான் வாசிக்க கூடாது என்று நினைத்து இங்கே வைத்து விட்டேன். (மாடியிலுள்ள ஹாலில் இருக்கும் மண்டபத்தில் வைக்கப்படிருப்பதை காட்டுகிறார்). அது பக்கத்திலிருக்கும& # இன்னொரு தங்க மூலாம் பூசப்பட்ட கடப்பானை ஸ்ரீஜயேந்திர சரஸ்வதி சுவாமிகள் தன் பிறந்த நாளுக்காக நான் காஞ்சிபுரம் போன போது தந்தது. நான் மடத்தில் வாசித்ததெல்லாம் கணக்கே கிடையாது. எத்தனையோ முறைகள். ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் அங்கே வாசிக்கிறபோது நான் வெறொரு தெய்வீக உலகிற்கு போய்விடுவேன்.

நான் பிறந்ததிலிருந்து என் வாழ்க்கையில் நடந்தது எல்லாமே அதிசயங்கள். ரொம்ப சாதாரணமான வினாயகராமை இவ்வளவு தூரம் ஏற்றி வச்சது மகா பெரியவரின் அனுக்கிரஷம். அவர்களை திரும்ப திரும்ப நினைக்கிறது தான் கைமாறு. அவர்களை நாம் நினைக்க வைப்பதற்கே அந்த மகான்களின் அனுக்கிரஷம் வேண்டும். பக்தி என்றால் நாம நமக்கு ஏற்றபடி எல்லாம் நடக்கும் என்று எண்ணுவதற்கு அல்ல. நமக்கு கிடைச்சதெல்லாம் பக்தி தான். ஏன் இது கிடைச்சுது. ஏன் கிடைக்கலை போன்ற எல்லாவற்றுக்குமே காரணத்தை புரிந்து கொள்ளும் சக்தி நமக்கு வேண்டும்.

ஒரே ஒரு உதாரணம். நான் முதல் முதலில் திருவையாறில் எம்.எஸ். சுப்புலட்சுமிக்கு வாசிக்க ஆசைப்பட்டேன். சந்தர்ப்பம் கிடைக்கலை. அப்புறம் பல முறை விரும்பியும் நடக்கவில்லை. வருத்தப்பட்டேன். அந்த பக்குவம் நமக்கு வரலையே சில வருடங்கள் கழித்து அந்த வாய்ப்பு எப்படி அமையறது பாருங்கள். 1964ம் வருஷம் நான் ஒரு கச்சேரியில் செம்மங்குடிக்கு வாசிக்கிறபோது யாரும் எதிர்பாராத விதமா எம்.எஸ்.சுப்புலட்சு ;மி வந்து முன்வரிசையில் அமர்கிறார். என் வாசிப்பை பார்த்து விட்டு கொஞஅச நாளிலேயே எம்.எஸ்.ஸிடம் அழைப்பு. அவர் ஐ.நா. சபையில் பாட அமெரிக்க போனபோது நானும் போனேன். முதன்முதலில் அப்போது தான் விமானத்தில் ஏறுகிறேன். ஐ.நா.வில் எவ்வளவு பெரிய வரவேற்பு. எவ்வளவு பெரிய பெருமை.அப்புறம் எத்தனையோ கச்சேரிகள் எம்.எஸ்.ஸூடன். சொல்லப்போனால் அவர் கடைசி மூச்சு வரை வாசிக்கிருக்கேன். திருவையாறில் தட்டிப்போனது இதற்கு தான் என்று அப்புறம் தான் புரியறது. பகவான் கொடுக்க இந்த உயர்ந்த கலையை அவருக்கே அர்ப்பணம் பண்ணுகிறேன்.

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Google Doodle on 197th Birth Anniversary of World”s 1st Computer Programmer !!!!

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Ada Lovelace's 197th Birthday
Visitors to the search engine giant Google’s homepage were greeted with a doodle featuring a stylized Google logo of a progression from old age computers to present day laptops on the occasion of the world’s first computer programmer Ada Lovelace’s 197th birth anniversary…Dec 10 2012!!!!

Doodle shows Ada Lovelace, seated on a desk, writing a computer program with a quill on paper scroll, which twirls into the shape forming the letters of the Google logo.

Hovering the pointer or mouse over the logo would produce a bubble indicating December 10 would have been Ada Lovelace’s 197th birth anniversary.
Augusta Ada Byron, now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is sometimes considered the world’s first computer programmer.
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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..

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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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Natarajan