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Think or sink!

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Is the Ladies only compartment a boon or a bane??? :decision:
It will be so easy for wild vile men to target the poor ladies
with no chivalrous / brave heroes to save them!
 
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A She-devil in the guise of a grand mother! :scared:
Isn't a grandmother supposed to be as soft as fresh butter???

https://in.news.yahoo.com/alabama-woman-set-trial-granddaughters-running-death-164514261.html
 
LIFE itself is an exam testing you how strong you really are!!!

[h=3]Life is much bigger than exams, says Modi[/h]In a pep talk to students preparing for board and competitive exams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday night counselled them to appear for these tests with self-confidence, without getting nervous by making them an issue of life and death. Reaching out to the student community as well as their parents through his monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme over radio, he said students should make their best efforts and strive to get the maximum marks but should not get into any rat race of competition. While noting that he himself was an ordinary student with bad handwriting, Mr. Modi also advised parents not to put pressure on their wards. “Instead of competing with others, you should compete with yourself, do better, do faster and go to greater heights,” the Prime Minister said, citing the example of former Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka who broke his own world record 35 times.

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I found it amusing when the party which gave us power cut up to
~ 12 hours a day complaining about the the half an hour
occasional power cut prevailing today! :rolleyes:

[h=3]Tamil Nadu on verge of attaining self-sufficiency in power supply[/h]The AIADMK-led Tamil Nadu government today said it has added over 4000 mw of power since assuming office in 2011, with schemes afoot to ensure availability of over 22,000 mw of electricity in coming years.
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That makes three more willing sex slaves in addition
to the 10,000 women abducted already! :(

[h=3]Kin of 3 UK girls going to join IS in Syria beg them to return home[/h]The families of three British schoolgirls feared to be travelling to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria issued emotional appeals for them to come home Saturday. Close friends Kadiza Sultana, 17, and 15-year-olds Shamima Begum and Amira Abase left their east London homes Tuesday and flew to Istanbul. Turkey is a key entry point for those seeking to travel to Syria. Abase's family agreed that she could be identified for the first time Saturday in the hope of securing her safe return.

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Too much of Physics in this issue!!! :rolleyes:

[h=3]Chinese reflections on India’s power of refraction[/h]India is debated, watched and prioritised in the Chinese outlook under multiple prisms. Neither does China foresee the supremacy of Indian power as akin to American power nor as a past power like Japan. India is seen more as a ‘potential power’. A consensus is emerging among the experts and academia around the world that Beijing’s foreign policy under Xi Jinping is in continuous transition.

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Those who always do mumble
Or else just growl and grumble
And are by no means humble
Will surely take a tumble!!! :)

[h=3]Your voice may actually help you land the job as it reveals 'intelligence'[/h]Washington, Feb 22 (ANI): A new study has revealed that no matter how good your resume is, but it's your voice that may actually help you land the job. New study of University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that when hypothetical employers and professional recruiters listened to or read job candidates' job qualifications, they rated the candidates as more competent, thoughtful and intelligent when they heard the pitch than when they read it, even when the words used were exactly the same. Researcher Nicholas Epley said that in addition to communicating the contents of one's mind, like specific thoughts and beliefs, a person's speech conveys their fundamental capacity to think, the capacity for reasoning, thoughtfulness and intellect. In another experiment, the evaluators who listened to trained actors reading job candidates' written pitches out loud believed those candidates were more intelligent and wanted to hire them more than the evaluators who read candidates' own written pitches.

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Father of Our Nation is honored by another Nation! :clap2:

[h=3]United Kingdom to unveil Gandhi statue on March 14[/h]London: The much-awaited Mahatma Gandhi's bronze statue at Britain's historic Parliament Square here will be unveiled on March 14, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Sunday. The announcement came as the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust surpassed the one-million pound mark in donations, with steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal adding 100,000 pounds and the Infosys Board chaired by K V Kamath 250,000 pounds in the last few weeks. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to be the special guest at the ceremony to install the statue, which will be the last one to up in the square alongside South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

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Will they be little men with antennae but of

a different color from the Men in Mars????? :rolleyes:

[h=3]NASA to look for alien life on Jupiter’s moon[/h]Washington: NASA will start a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa in the hope of finding signs of life on the frozen planet. The agency is reportedly encouraged by the blasts of water vapour in the moon’s polar region. The research team thinks this could be a way to sample the liquid water, which is normally inaccessible through the thick layer of ice covering the moon, Inquisitr reported. “Europa is clearly such a prime target for astrobiology that having a workshop like this to try and figure out all the ways in which we could possibly sample its oceana [is] critically important,” Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was quoted as saying.

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AND some old men and women can't stay put at the safety of their homes!!!:(

[h=3]Swine flu outbreak: 774 deaths, 13,000 cases set alarm bells ringing[/h]The number of deaths across India due to swine flu reached 774 on Saturday, with 31 more people succumbing to the disease. States like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra and Telangana witnessed a rise in number of swine flu cases and the figure of those infected with H1N1 virus stands at 12,963 till February 21, according to Union health ministry. The toll due to swine flu in Rajasthan on Friday reached 206, as four more deaths due to the disease were reported in the desert state, officials said. "Four deaths and 288 positive cases were reported today (Friday)," BR Meena, director for public health, said.

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[h=3]Type 2 diabetes drug may protect against low blood sugar[/h]Washington, Feb 21 (IANS) A group of drugs called DPP-4 used for treating type 2 diabetes are also found to be effective against low blood sugar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body, new research shows. Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) can occur in people with diabetes when they have eaten too little or after strenuous physical activity, as well as when they have taken too much insulin. "If these inhibitors also prove effective in humans against low blood sugar, then this supports the idea that the area of application of these drugs could be broadened to include persons with diabetes that is difficult to control and suffer from frequent hypoglycaemias," said Siri Malmgren, researcher at the Lund University, Sweden.

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Keralites are busy doing good and useful research! :thumb:


  • Two Indian Diabetes research papers presented in Paris conference

    New Delhi, Feb. 22 (ANI): Two major original research papers from Kerala were presented at the 8th International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) in Paris. The original research was carried out at Jothydev's Diabetes Research Centre in Trivandrum.

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I​ know how these scholars have to discover/ invent
ways of surviving on a pittance in addition to their research!

[h=3]PhD scholars hold protest, demand more scholarship[/h]A PhD student from IISER, Sivaranjan Uppsala, is also on a hunger strike — it entered its fourth day — in protest against the issue. “Despite several attempts to urge the government to ensure that increased scholarship for PhD students is implemented by all funding agencies, nothing has been done,” Krishna Prasad, a PhD student from IISER, said.

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I have heard of people stealing gold jewels from the bloated corpses
during the flood in coastal Andhra Pradesh - which is an annual affair! :(

[h=3]New video shows rebels sifting through burning wreckage, passengers' bags at MH17 crash site[/h]Melbourne, Feb 22 (ANI): Investigators probing the Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash have reportedly uncovered a new footage that showed rebels sifting through the burning wreck and passengers' luggage and bragging about what they thought was a Ukraine military aircraft. According to News.com.au, the 23-minute-long video clip showed the Boeing flight engulfed in flames while a person, recording the scene on his smartphone, filmed his colleagues in a state of excitement over the shooting down of the plane which they thought was a Ukraine airforce Antonov transporter aircraft. The footage clearly shows the distinctive Malaysian Airlines upholstery with armed troops remarking that the flight did not appear to be military. The video clip was found being passed around rebels in Donetsk before a copy was smuggled out to the investigators.

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My father - a busy General practitioner ina small town -
always managed to find free time to take us to
nice a hilarious comedy just before the major exams.
He knew the need to relax and keep cool on the eve of the exam. :cool:

[h=3]PM Modi asks students to remain stress-free during exams[/h]New Delhi, Feb. 22 (ANI): Extending his best wishes to the students appearing for their board exams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked them to remain stress-free and not to take the test as a matter of life and death. By doing so, the nervousness of students will disappear," he said. Prime Minister Modi requested the parents not to compare their children with others, as doing so causes stress among the kids. Citing the example of Ukrainian pole vault legend Sergei Bubka, who has beaten his own record 35 times, the Prime Minister said one should compete with oneself and not measure success with the achievements of others.

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Eureka!

I finally found out how to get the maximum number of dresses from a 5 meter sari.

Now I can get two tops (kameezes) and one bottom (salwar) and a colorful dhuppatta!
So :juggle: depends on one's stretch of imagination and one's determination. :high5:
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
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https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/lost-thought-5-reasons-incorporate-153000120.html

DREAM DREAM YOUNG MINDS
SO LOnG AS THEY ARE NOT DAYMARES
(AS OPPOSED TO NIGHTMARES!!! :rolleyes:
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[h=1]108. Why do we day dream?[/h]
A day dream is a visual fantasy experienced by us, while we are wide awake. Usually it is based on pleasant and happy thoughts, hopes and ambitions, plans for the future or memories of the past. A series of thoughts transport us from the present to a day dream. We sit staring into a distance with blank eyes while the mind is absorbed in the day dream.

Surveys have proved that even ordinary men and women (who are down to earth and practical) spend a large part of their waking hours in some sort of a fantasy, revere or day dream. They spend 11% or more of their waking hours in day dreaming.

Even persons who are engaged in important tasks, which demand all their attention, are found to indulge in day dreams. These are the moments they stop paying attention to what they do and enter an inner theatre of imagination, for the fulfillment of a wish. The work may go on mechanically due to constant practice but the mind is else where.

Sustained fantasies are clearer than dream since we are wide awake. They are longer, more coherent, more colourful and more accurate. All fantasies seem to have a healing and creative power. It may be a way of coping with our deep seated fears and anxieties.

Day dreaming might be considered by some skeptics as a waste of time or as a past time of the lazy people. But creative people such as novelists, film makers and composers get brilliant ideas when they day dream.

Research scientists, mathematicians, and physicists develop new concepts and find new solutions to old problems when they day dream. When a person day dreams, his normal inhibitions are by-passed.

For hard core criminals, this provides a mental theatre to plan and rehearse a crime, before they actually commit it. The evidences lay in the horror filled biographies of the infamous serial killers. They claim to have had frequently recurring violent fantasies-before actually turning to murder.

Day dreaming is a rare boon indeed! We should know how to make the best of that boon for creation and not for destruction.

Visalakshi Ramani

https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/
 
More on dreaming!

[h=1]107. Dreamy Discoveries[/h]
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More discoveries are done in dreams than the “world could dream of!” Do you know why? Dreams make use of our fullest knowledge and experience. They can make use of the facts, which we are not aware of knowing, when we are awake!

Dreaming allows us to tap the hidden knowledge when we seek a solution to a problem. People want “to sleep on a problem” before they make am important decision, since they are sure to find the answer in their dreams.

The story of the Benzene ring is very popular. Benzene is a clear, colorless, highly refractive and inflammable organic liquid. It is derived from petroleum and is used in the manufacture of a number of chemical products.

It is an organic compound with 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms, in it molecule. Carbon can form four chemical bonds while hydrogen can form only one bond. The structure of benzene eluded the scientist for a very long time–since they could not satisfy all the chemical bonds, when they imagined the structure of benzene along a straight line.

German Chemist Friedrich August Kekule spent sleepless nights over this problem. One night he dreamt of a snake. It was going round and round for a while and suddenly grabbed its own tail in its mouth to form a ring.

The Solution dawned immediately on Kekule that structure of benzene was in the form of a ring and not along a straight line. A Hexagonal diagram with a carbon atom in each vertex (attached to a hydrogen atom) and alternate single and double bonds between the six carbon atoms satisfied all the rules correctly. Thus the puzzle of the benzene ring was solved in a dream.

Russian chemist Dimitri Mandeleev found his famous “Periodic Table of the Elements” in one of his dreams.

The American inventor Elias Howe had worked hard for years to perfect the design of his sewing machine. But success came only after he dreamt that he had been ordered on pain of death –to finish his machine!

Dreams can work wonders—if only we know how to utilize them.

Visalakshi Ramani

https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/
 

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