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India”s NIRBHAY Subsonic Cruise Missile… Few Facts on its Launch …

October 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Nirbhay, India’s first home-grown subsonic cruise missile, was on Friday successfully test-launched from the Interim Test Range in Chandipur, near Balasore in Orissa.

This is Nirbhay’s second launch, the first being terminated mid-way on 12 March 2013 owing to a technical snag. Nirbhay, with an expected strike range of 800-1000 km, is the first missile being made completely in Bangalore.

Here are some facts of the missile:

1) Nirbhay is a subsonic cruise missile – it starts off as a rocket and then turns into an aircraft.

2) Nirbhay is expected to have an expected strike range of 800-1000 km.

3) The missile was nurtured at the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s premier laboratory Aeronautical Development Establishment in Bangalore’s C V Raman Nagar.

4) The cost of one missile is Rs 10 crore.

5) It has good loitering capability, good control and guidance, high degree of accuracy in terms of impact and very good stealth features.

6) The Nirbhay missile is similar to the US Tomahawks, which can fly like an aircraft and capable of travelling up to 1,000 km.

7) It can fly at tree-top level making it difficult to detect on radar and as it approaches the target, the missile can determine the point of impact while hovering over the target.

8) It gives India the capacity to launch different kinds of payloads at different ranges from various platforms at a very low cost. It can be launched from a mobile launcher.

SOURCE::: REDIFF.COM

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” Obstacles in Our Lives ” …How It Help Us Ultimately … !!!

October 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

GOD AND THE FARMER

ONCE UPON A TIME A FARMER WAS VERY MUCH DISSATISFIED WITH THE GOD.

HE WAS VERY UPSET WITH THE UNUSUAL ENVIRONMENT, BY THE GOD FOR FARMING.

EVERY SEASON, THE REPETITION OF THE SAME PROBLEMS SUCH AS DROUGHT, FLOOD, INTENSE HEAT, SNOWFALL etc. WOULD DAMAGE HIS CROP.

ONE DAY DISSATISFIED WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, HE COMPLAINED TO GOD, “YOU ARE GOD, BUT I FEEL YOU DON’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF AGRICULTURE AND FRAMING. ”

I PRAY “PLEASE GIVE ME A BOON THAT WHATEVER SEASON I WANT , THE SAME ENTERS AND THEN WATCH THE QUANTITY OF MY CROP THAT I WILL GROW. ”

GOD SMILED AND GAVE HIM THE BLESSING OF FULFILLING HIS WISH …………… THE FARMER SOWED THE SEED AND WHATEVER HE WANTED FOR HIS CROPS i.e. SUNLIGHT, RAIN, etc .

HE ASKED FOR IT AND GOT THE SAME.

HE NEVER LET THE HEAVY RAIN, FLOOD etc. TO ENTER IN THE ENVIRONMENT AS THEY WOULD DAMAGE HIS CROPS.

AT THE TIME PASSED , HIS CROPS GOT READY AND THE FARMER WAS VERY HAPPY, SEEING ALL THESE THINGS AS NEVER FELT BEFORE.

FARMER THOUGHT THAT NOW GOD WILL REALIZE THE TECHNIQUE OF PROPER FARMING.

NOW, WAS THE TIME TO HARVEST THE CROP. VERY PROUDLY HE WENT TO HARVEST BUT AS SOON AS HE HARVESTED HE WAS TOTALLY SHOCKED.

HE DIDN’T FIND ANY SEED INSIDE THE CROP.

HOPELESS, HE ASKED GOD THE REASON FOR SUCH A MISFORTUNE?

GOD REPLIED “IT WAS BUT NATURAL. AS YOU NEVER GAVE YOUR CROP THE OPPORTUNITY OF STRUGGLING WITH THE INTENSE HEAT OF SUN, WIND OF HEAVY RAIN FULL etc., AS A RESULT, THE CROP BECAME HOLLOW FROM INSIDE. WHENEVER WIND BLOWS, HEAVY RAIN FALLS, SNOW FALLS, FOG APPEARS, THE PLANT GETS STRENGTH FROM IT.

CROPS STRUGGLE FOR THEIR OWN IDENTITY AND AS THE RESULT THEY PRODUCE, SEEDS, SEEDS OF HAPPINESS, LONGIVITY AND TOLERANCE.”

SOURCE:::: unknown… Input from a friend of mine…

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Message For the Day…” Human Beings are Bound by Merits and Demerits of Past Lives…'”

October 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

God is not a separate entity. Man is the image of God. Scriptures declare that God appears in human form (Daivam maanusha rupena). Though God has no separate form, Avatars descend from time to time to show how human lives can be divinised. I have often declared that God does not come down as Avatar to relieve individuals of their troubles and sorrow and to confer joy and happiness on them. Difficulties, troubles and worries come in the natural course as a consequence of your past actions. The Gita declares: Human beings are bound by merits and demerits (Karma) from previous lives (Karmaanubandheeni manushya loke). As is your action, so is the reaction. When you stand before a mirror and offer salutations, the salutation is reflected by the image. If you scowl at the mirror, the harshness is reflected back at you.

Sathya Sai Baba

Laughter …The Best Medicine !!!

October 17, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

TOM TOM writing medical entrance exam… gives definitions as follows :

*Antibody : Against everybody
*Artery : Study of fine paintings
*Genes : Blue denims
*Labour pain : Hurt at work
*Microbes : Small dressing gowns
*Cardiology : Advanced study of playing cards
*Cat scan : Searching for lost cat
*Coma : Punctuation mark
*Bacteria : Back door to cafeteria

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Best part…..he gets MBBS degree……Bachelor in madness….and Bachelor in stupidity

A funny story of a C.A.’s wife.

There was a C.A., who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money.
He was a real miser when it came to his money.
Just before he died, he said to his wife…
‘When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me.
I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.’
And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart.
He died soon.

He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there,dressed in black,
and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before
the undertakers got ready to close the casket.

The obedient wife said,
‘Wait just a moment!’ She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box
and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away.
Then her friend said, ‘Girl, I know you were not foolish enough to put all that money in there with your husband.’

The loyal wife replied,
‘Listen, I’m a wife; I cannot go back on my word. I promised him.’

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

I sure did,’ said the loyal wife. ‘I got all the money together, put it into my account, and wrote him a cheque….
I put the cheque in the casket.Now it is upto him to encash the cheque.’
“If he can cash it, then he can spend it.”

SOURCE:::: Unknown….Input from a friend of mine

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” AMUL Refuses to Cry Over ‘spoilt’ Milk ” !!!

October 17, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

In the age of better-informed consumers and omnipresent social media platforms, it isn’t surprising that manufacturers are being held accountable for their wares.

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation’s marketing arm Amul, however, used Facebook to show how seriously it took customer complaints that could hurt its brand image. The dairy giant responded to photographs uploaded on Facebook by a Gurgaon customer on October 10 showing ‘Amul Gold’ milk purchased by her resembling slop after she tried to heat it. The pictures were shared some 89,000 times and she proceeded to file complaints via e-mail and over the phone.

Amul’s response

The company’s response was immediate. Upon investigating, it found that the expiry date of the product was October 9, and questioned the basis of the complaint.

Rs. Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF, toldBusinessLine that Amul deals with complaints swiftly. “This particular complaint stemmed from her using expired stock. Milk is a perishable commodity to be used within the specified time. When the pH level dropped and she tried to make cheese by heating it, such a result was bound to happen,” he said.

The company gave a detailed response through its official Facebook page, where it stated that after visiting the customer at her home twice, she was informed that no problems had been found in any of the ‘Amul Gold’ batches.

The post on Amul’s official Facebook page garnered over 5,000 ‘likes’ and had been shared more than 2,500 times till late in the evening.

Amul also posted a video demonstrating where the consumer had gone wrong. The video, which was uploaded on YouTube, has received around 7,000 hits so far.

Amul’s response

The company’s response was immediate. Upon investigating, it found that the expiry date of the product was October 9, and questioned the basis of the complaint.

The post on Amul’s official Facebook page garnered over 5,000 ‘likes’ and had been shared more than 2,500 times till late in the evening.

Amul also posted a video demonstrating where the consumer had gone wrong. The video, which was uploaded on YouTube, has received around 7,000 hits so far.

SOURCE:::: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com

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” Three Things I Have Learned From Warren Buffett “…. Bill Gates

October 17, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

I’m looking forward to sharing posts from time to time about things I’ve learned in my career atMicrosoft and the Gates Foundation. (I also post frequently on my blog.)

Last month, I went to Omaha for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. It’s always a lot of fun, and not just because of the ping-pong matches and the newspaper-throwing contest I have with Warren Buffett. It’s also fun because I get to learn from Warren and gain insight into how he thinks.

Here are three things I’ve learned from Warren over the years:

1. It’s not just about investing.

The first thing people learn from Warren, of course, is how to think about investing. That’s natural, given his amazing track record. Unfortunately, that’s where a lot of people stop, and they miss out on the fact that he has a whole framework for business thinking that is very powerful. For example, he talks about looking for a company’s moat—its competitive advantage—and whether the moat is shrinking or growing. He says a shareholder has to act as if he owns the entire business, looking at the future profit stream and deciding what it’s worth. And you have to be willing to ignore the market rather than follow it, because you want to take advantage of the market’s mistakes—the companies that have been underpriced.

I have to admit, when I first met Warren, the fact that he had this framework was a real surprise to me. I met him at a dinner my mother had put together. On my way there, I thought, “Why would I want to meet this guy who picks stocks?” I thought he just used various market-related things—like volume, or how the price had changed over time—to make his decisions. But when we started talking that day, he didn’t ask me about any of those things. Instead he started asking big questions about the fundamentals of our business. “Why can’t IBM do what Microsoft does? Why has Microsoft been so profitable?” That’s when I realized he thought about business in a much more profound way than I’d given him credit for.

2. Use your platform.

A lot of business leaders write letters to their shareholders, but Warren is justly famous for his. Partly that’s because his natural good humor shines through. Partly it’s because people think it will help them invest better (and they’re right). But it’s also because he’s been willing to speak frankly and criticize things like stock options and financial derivatives. He’s not afraid to take positions, like his stand on raising taxes on the rich, that run counter to his self-interest. Warren inspired me to start writing my own annual letter about the foundation’s work. I still have a ways to go before mine is as good as Warren’s, but it’s been helpful to sit down once a year and explain the results we’re seeing, both good and bad.

3. Know how valuable your time is.

No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time. There are only 24 hours in everyone’s day. Warren has a keen sense of this. He doesn’t let his calendar get filled up with useless meetings. On the other hand, he’s very generous with his time for the people he trusts. He gives his close advisers at Berkshire his phone number, and they can just call him up and he’ll answer the phone.

Although Warren makes a point of meeting with dozens of university classes every year, not many people get to ask him for advice on a regular basis. I feel very lucky in that regard: The dialogue has been invaluable to me, and not only at Microsoft. When Melinda and I started our foundation, I turned to him for advice. We talked a lot about the idea that philanthropy could be just as impactful in its own way as software had been. It turns out that Warren’s brilliant way of looking at the world is just as useful in attacking poverty and disease as it is in building a business. He’s one of a kind.

SOURCE:::: Bill Gates in http://www.linkedin.com

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Some Common Daily Habits That Might be Standing in Your Way of Happy and Healthy Heart ….

October 17, 2014October 17, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Could These Daily Habits Be Increasing Your Risk Of Heart Disease

Cardiovascular disease is a very common condition. There are many seemingly harmless everyday habits that might also be leading to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. Here are some of the most common daily habits that might be standing in your way of a healthy and happy heart.

You don’t take care of your teeth
Poor dental hygiene is a surprising cause of heart diseases. Taking care of your teeth and gums not only leaves you with pearly white teeth, but also keeps your heart healthy. According to research, there is a link between cardiac risks and dental hygiene. This is because when gums are inflamed, bacteria enter the blood vessels, which then travel to the coronary area. This narrows the passages, leading to lesser blood flow.

You tend to bottle up your emotions
If you are feeling depressed, hostile or stressed, it could take a toll on your heart’s health. It is not uncommon for all of us to feel these emotions at some point in our lives, but it is how you handle them that makes all the difference. If you tend to bottle up or internalize stress, you may be in grave danger. Laughter and social support have been clinically proven to positively affect for stress and heart health.

You spend hours on the couch in front of your television set
Sometimes you just want to block out the world and become a couch potato, but if this becomes a daily habit, it could start to affect your heart. Sitting for hours at a stretch can increase your risk of heart attack and stroke, even if you exercise on a regular basis. The lack of movement is not compensated by intermittent exercise. This sedentary position affects blood levels of sugars and fats. If you must laze on your couch, at least get up and walk around every now and then.

You have an erratic sleep schedule
You may be at risk of a heart disease if you have an erratic sleep schedule. Sleeping less than five hours or more than nine hours a night may have an adverse affect on your heart health, because both extremes affect your levels of stress hormones and blood pressure.

You snore
Snoring, while annoying for your sleeping partner, may be a sign of a more serious condition – obstructive sleep apnea. This disorder, marked by breathing that is interrupted during sleep, has been known to cause blood pressure to shoot up when you are snoring in your sleep. You should consult your doctor immediately if you sleep regular hours but wake up feeling lethargic and tired.

Your exercise routine isn’t consistent
If you feel particularly motivated to exercise on a Monday morning, but then through the week, your motivation seems to dwindle, you are setting yourself up for heart damage. If you work out inconsistently, say by exercising rigorous one day and then taking the next week of because you have overstressed yourself, it could be bad for your heart health. The best thing to do would be to aim for a routine that is slow and steady so that your heart can get accustomed to the physical exertion and be able to adapt accordingly.

You tend to have too many cocktails
While getting belligerent once in a while on an occasion is completely acceptable, if you make it a regular feature, you will put yourself at risk of high blood pressure, heart failure, and high level of blood fats. If you have to drink socially, make sure you have just one drink a day.

You find yourself binge eating very often
One of the main risk factors for heart disease is excess weight. If you add binge eating to the equation, your heart is sure to suffer. Many people tend to overeat when they are stressed, bored or emotional, but it is in your heart’s best interest to stick to small portions.

You procrastinate on visiting the doctor for regular checkups
Just because you aren’t showing symptoms of heart disease, that doesn’t mean you are absolutely safe. Heart conditions have a nasty way of creeping up on you and affect just about anyone. The best way to stay safe is to visit your doctor for regular checkups and keep you weight, diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking in check.

You tend to withdraw from the world
On some days, you feel you just want to shut out everyone and everything and go into your shell. That is fine once in a while, but if you make it a habit, it will manifest in some way or the other, most likely in the form of your health. People who have stronger ties with friends, family and society in general tend to live healthier, more fulfilled, longer lives. While it is important to have alone time every so often, reaching out to others and keeping in touch is equally important.

Vishal Ingole in http://www.lifehacker.co.in

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Message For the Day…” One Must Pay Due Care to Understand the Teachings of Great Avatars…”

October 17, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

There may be a few statements in Bhagavad Gita or other scriptures that might appear to contradict each other. For instance, in the Gita at one place, Lord Krishna stresses the need for action, at another the adherence to Dharma, and in another place commends renunciation of all Dharma and urges complete surrender to the Lord. These apparent contradictions are not contradictions. The teaching varies according to the state of spiritual development of the person concerned and the situation in which one is placed. The lesson here is one must pay due care and attention to understanding completely the inner significance of the great teachings of the Avatars and sages before any criticism is attempted.

Sathya Sai Baba

” This Teenager From West Bengal is the True Hero …” Malala Yousafzai

October 16, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

As the world celebrates Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala herself is celebrating the courage of a little known young girl from West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali area who has been quietly working against the trafficking of young girls from the region.

Anoyara Khatun, 18, from North 24 Parganas, has, with the support of other children and non-governmental organisations, built a strong network to resist trafficking of young girls and prevent child marriages in the region.

“Malala and the Malala Fund celebrate Anoyara’s exemplary courage and leadership. She has helped reunite more than 180 trafficked children with their families, prevented 35 child marriages, rescued 85 children from the clutches of child labour and registered 200 out-of-schools (drop-outs) into schools,” says a Facebook post by the Malalafund, an initiative by Malala.

The post made on October 13, International Day of the Girl, only a few days after Ms. Malala was awarded the Nobel Prize, has described Anoyara as “a true girl hero.”

When The Hindu met Anoyara at Sandeshkhali on Wednesday, she was aware of the Facebook post and could not stop talking about Malala. The first year student of a local college has also collected a number of vernacular newspapers that published news of Ms. Malala’s award and shared it with her friends.

“Though I have not met Malala, I did meet her father Ziauddin Yousafzai at Brussels in June 2012,” she said. She made the trip to Belgium when she was nominated for The International Children’s Peace Prize.

“Trafficking of young girls and child marriages were rampant in the villages here. Poverty and lack of awareness and education provided the ideal conditions for traffickers to operate here,” Ms. Anoyara said.

In 2008, Save the Children, an international non-governmental organisation working for child rights, helped establish a number of multi activity centres in the Sandeshkhali area. These centres help create awareness among the children of the region about the dangers of trafficking and similar crimes. Anoyara recalls stories of how she and others chased away traffickers who came offering jobs and marriage to young girls in the region.

Jatin Mondar, the State Programme Manager of Save the Children, West Bengal said that through these centres, the organisation had managed to put in place a “committee-based child protection model” in Sandeshkhali since 2004.

“Now, if someone approaches the villagers with the proposal to take a girl to Delhi or anywhere else for work, that person is sure to be handed over to the police by us,” Anoyara said.

Keywords: Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, Anoyara Khatun, Malala mentor

SOURCE:::: The Hindu.com

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Joke For The Day…” I have an Idea…” !!!

October 16, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Two roofers, Larry and Joe were on the roof laying tile, when a sudden wind gust came and knocked down their ladder. “I have an idea” said Larry. “I ’ll throw you down, and then you can pick up the ladder.” What, do you think , I’m stupid? “I have and idea” said Joe. “I’ll shine my flashlight, and you can climb down on the beam of light.” What, do you think I’m stupid? “You’ll just turn off the flashlight when I’m halfway there.”

Source:::::joke a day.com

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