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Author: Natarajan
MOST USED SHORT WORD IN ENGLISH…. UP !!!!
WHAT IS THIS WORD “UP ” up to ?!!!!……AN input recd from one of my friends today…. i am sharing with you all …
Natarajan
Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that’s probably true of many languages.)
There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is ‘UP.’
It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use ! it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is choked UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.We seem to be pretty mixed UPabout UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on & on, but I’ll wrap it UP , for the time being!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
natarajan….
90/10 PRINCIPLE WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE !!!!
SOURCE:::: STEPHEN COVEY on “choosing success”….Many of you must have read about this theory earlier… but still it is posted in my site today for the benefit of those who missed this till today!!!!
Natarajan
Discover The 90/10 Principle
It will change your life (or at least, the way you react to situations) 10% of life is made up of what happens to you …. 90% of life is decided by how you react…
What does this mean?
We really have NO control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in the traffic. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.
How? … By your reaction.
Do not let people fool you. YOU can control how you react. Let us use an example… You are having breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what has just happened. What happens next will be determined by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your wife and you criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows.
You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish her breakfast and getting ready to go to school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles per hour in a 30 mph speed limit zone. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60.00 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minute late, you realize you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home. When you arrive home, you find a small wedge in your relationship with your wife and daughter.
Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.
Why did you have a bad day?
A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?
The answer is “D”
You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say: “It’s okay, honey, you just need to be more careful next time.” Grabbing a towel you go upstairs and change your shirt. You grab your briefcase, and you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early a cheerfully greet the staff.
Notice the difference?
Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different.
Why? Because of how you reacted .
You really have no control over 10% of what happens in your life. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.
Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 Principle.
If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You do not have to let the negative comments affect you. React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, or getting stressed out. How do you react if someone cuts you off in the traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? (a friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off), Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Who cares if you arrive 10 seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive?
Remember the 90/10 Principle and don’t worry about it.
You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time to find a new job. The plane is late. It is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on. Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger, why stress out? It will just make things worse.
Now you know the 90/10 Principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it. The 90/10 Principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this Principle. The result? You will see it by yourself! Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and headaches. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 Principle. It can change your life! Enjoy it! It only takes willpower to give ourselves permission to make the experience. Absolutely everything we do, give, say, or even think, it’s like a Boomerang. It will come back to us. If we want to receive, we need to learn to give first. Maybe we will end with our hands empty, but our heart will be filled with love. And those who love life, have that feeling marked in their hearts.
Stephen Covey, Submitted by Kartik Bodawala, India
INSTANT TEST FOR YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE!!!!!
SOURCE:::::INPUT FROM ONE OF MY CONTACTS… PL TRY YOUR GK ….IT IS NICE TO SHARE TOO….
Natarajan
QUESTIONS:
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of “ICICI?”
6. What does “baker’s dozen” signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot – India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
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HOW MANY QUESTIONS , YOU HAVE ANSWERED CORRECTLY ?….PL SEE THE CORRECT ANSWERS DOWN BELOW….
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Answers:
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .
2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker’s dozen consists of 13 items – 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our ‘s National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: ‘god be with you’.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea .
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .
17. Polo.
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Attribution: http://www.citehr.com/94329-increase-you-general-knowledge.html#ixzz23SySLcq9
SEVEN HOURS IN ONE IMAGE !!!!
SOURCE:::: ON NET…….
Natarajan
WONDERFUL PAPER ARCHITECTURE….
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US-based artist Christina Lihan combines her skills as a trained architect with her sheer talent of paper modeling to build intricately detailed paper relief sculptures of some of the most famous buildings around the world. Mounted in shadowboxes and ranging from two to six inches deep, her subjects ranges from the Eiffel tower and Taj Mahal to private residences and American cities. |
Lihan begins her work by photographing and sketching the site, generally creating scaled charcoal drawings that she then enlarges to the planned size of the finished piece. She lays out the buildings directly over these sketched forms, and cutting out details in place and ultimately assembling all the components into the finished composition. All carving, scoring, cutting, and folding is completed by hand.
Despite her architect background, Lihan admits that she doesn’t construct any pieces with a measured perspective, relying simply on her aesthetic senses.
SOURCE:::::INPUT FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS…..
Natarajan.
A STORY OF PERSEVERENCE , DEDICATION AND AMBITION….
SOURCE::::: UNKNOWN,…
Natarajan
‘Finger Licking’ ….a Good Story…
This Story is Special because it’s an Example
of how Perseverance, Dedication, and Ambition
along with Hard Work ,with a bit of Luck, can
Create Success; regardless of Ones Age.
“Young Colonel Sanders”
When Colonel Harland Sanders retired at the age
of sixty-five, he had little to show for himself,
except an old Caddie Roadster, a Hundred and
five Dollars Monthly Pension Check and a
Recipe for Chicken.
Knowing he couldn’t Live on his Pension, he took
his Chicken Recipe in Hand, got behind the Wheel
of his Van and set out to make his Fortune.
His First Plan was to Sell his Chicken Recipe to
Restaurant Owners, who would in turn give him
a Residual for every Piece of Chicken they Sold-
Five Cents per Chicken. The First Restaurateur
he called on turned him down.
So did the Second.
So did the Third.
In fact, the First One Thousand and Eight Sales Calls
Colonel Sanders made ended in Rejection. Still, he
continued to Call on Owners as he travelled across
the U.S.A., Sleeping in his Van to save Money.
Prospect Number One Thousand and Nine gave him
his first “Yes.”
After Two Years of making Daily Sales, he had Signed
up a total of Five Restaurants. Still the Colonel pressed
on, knowing that he had a great Chicken Recipe and
that Someday the Idea would Catch on.
Naturally, you may know how the Story Ends. The idea
did Catch on. By 1963, the Colonel had Six Hundred
Restaurants across the Country selling his Secret
Recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken
(with Eleven Herbs and Spices).
In 1964, he was bought out by the future Kentucky
Governor, John Brown. Even though the sale made
him a Multi-Millionaire, he continued to represent
and Promote Kentucky Fried Chicken until his death
in 1990.
Colonel Sanders’ Story teaches an Important Lesson –
it’s never Too Late to Decide to never Give Up. Earlier
in his Life, the Colonel was Involved in other Business
Ventures but they weren’t Successful. He had a Gas
Station in the Thirties, a Restaurant in the Forties
and he gave up on both of them.
However, at the age of sixty-five, Harland Sanders
decided his Chicken Idea was the Right Idea and
he refused to give up, even in spite of repeated
Rejections.
He knew that if he kept on Knocking on Doors,
Eventually someone would say “YES.”
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is now a Global
Chain of Fried Chicken Fast Food Restaurants…
with Millions of Ardent Fans for Finger Licking
Good Chicken Recipes…Worldwide.. 
Old Col.Sanders, died at the age of 90 in Dec, 1980!!
THE HANDS THAT SHAPE THE WORLD…..UNSUNG HEROES….
SOURCE:::: ARTICLE BY BISWANATH GOSH..IN THE SUNDAY DIARY COLUMN OF “THE HINDU”…ON 12 AUG 2012…THE AUTHOR HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF THE UNSUNG HEROES IN INFRASTUCTURE BULDING OF ANY PROJECT….VERY TRUE …MUST READ…
Natarajan
I often wonder what a labourer feels when he looks at a palatial house he has helped build: he would have had a free run of the property while it was under construction; but once consecrated, the same house becomes totally out of bounds for him.
Mahatma Gandhi used pencils until they wore down to stubs. When someone once asked him why he held on to a pencil until he could barely grip it instead of sharpening a new one, he replied: “To respect the labour that went into the making of the pencil.” The reply sufficiently explains why Gandhi is called the Mahatma.
How often do we pause to think that the articles we buy at will and discard on a whim are actually products of labour? Who knows if the man who crafted your pencil came to the factory that day leaving behind an ailing wife or child at home, and yet you chuck the pencil into the bin before it reaches half its length?
Ditto for things we cannot discard on a whim. For example, the houses we live in. They stand on the blood and sweat of the faceless labourer who himself lives in pathetic conditions. I often wonder what a labourer feels when he looks at a palatial house he has helped build: he would have had a free run of the property while it was under construction; but once consecrated, the same house becomes totally out of bounds for him. Does he feel emotional about it, or does he understand?
The other day, I was having tea, with a colleague, at the roadside chaiwallah outside office, when about half a dozen metro rail workers, wearing helmets and fluorescent jackets, happened to pass by. The colleague, who writes about metro rail, accosted them — this was two days after a crane crashed at the site near Pachaiyappa’s College and killed one worker — to find if metro rail had resumed work which had been suspended after the accident.
Since the workers spoke better Bengali than Hindi, my colleague summoned me. They told me that work had been suspended only at the accident site, while for them — posted on Mount Road — it was life as usual. I began to ask more questions, but suddenly found myself facing a barrage of questions — from them.
“Kothai bari?” — Where’s your house?
“Kon gram?” — Which village?
“Ekhane ki koren?” — What do you do here?
Their worn-out faces were shining with such happiness at having found a fellow Bengali in faraway Chennai that I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I never lived in Bengal. I gave them the name of my native town — Murshidabad — even the name of the village. This only widened their smiles and they began giving the names of their own villages. They wanted to chat on, but I had a deadline to meet.
This meeting must have been their biggest distraction of the day — distraction from the drudgery they are resigned to, that too in a city where no one speaks their language, no one pauses to enquire about their well-being or their families, no one cares for them. They are paid their wages, and their employers expect them to be grateful for that. They make news when they die, and only in death do they enjoy the luxury of travelling in an aircraft (the body of the labourer killed at the Pachaiyappa’s site was flown to Kolkata).
In less than two years, Chennai will have plush trains running underground and travel time within the city will be drastically shortened. Chennai Metro Rail Limited, or CMRL, will be the toast of the town. How many will know that the ‘M’ and ‘L’ in the acronym actually stand for migrant labourers?
Keywords: Chennai Metro Rail, Sunday Diary column, migrant labourers, working conditions
LORD NATARAJA”s COSMIC DANCE STATUE AT GENEVA…..
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Shiva’s Cosmic Dance at CERN On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva — a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance. The statue, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center’s long association with India. In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the Indian government acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observed and analyzed by CERN’s physicists. The parallel between Shiva’s dance and the dance of subatomic particles was first discussed by Fritjof Capra in an article titled “The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics,” published in Main Currents in Modern Thought in 1972. Shiva’s cosmic dance then became a central metaphor in Capra’s international bestseller The Tao of Physics, first published in 1975 and still in print in over 40 editions around the world. A special plaque next to the Shiva statue at CERN explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics.Here is the text of the plaque:
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STRANGE BUT TRUE !!!!!…..SURF COMPETITION AT AIRPORT !!!!!!
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