Thursday, June 3, 2010

~~Love~~

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast".

A Story To Live By

by Ann Wells, Los Angeles Times


My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. "This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is the occasion." He took the slip from me and put it on the bed with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. His  hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me. "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day you're alive is a special occasion."

I remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. I thought about them on the plane returning to California from the Midwestern town where my sister's family lives. I thought about all the things that she hadn't seen or heard or done. I thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special. I'm still thinking about his words, and they've changed my life.

I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting on the deck and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden.

I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them.


I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event-such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom.

I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing.


I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party-going friends'.


"Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what my sister would have done had she known that she wouldn't be here for the tomorrow we all take for granted.


It's those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew that my hours were limited. Angry because I put off seeing good friends whom I was going to get in touch with-someday. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that I intended to write-one of these days.

Angry and sorry that I didn't tell my husband and daughter often enough how much I truly love them.

I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it is special. Every day, every minute, every breath truly is...a gift from God.

by Ann Wells in the Los Angeles Times

Friday, May 14, 2010

25 years ago……How it changed everything



25 years ago……
.. Times surely have changed

A program was … a television show
An application was .. for employment
Windows were….. something u hated to clean
A cusor … used profanity
A keyboard was …a piano
Memory was….. something u lost with age
A CD was… a bank account
If u unzipped in public u went to jail
Compress was something u did to garbage
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
Log on was adding wood to fire
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
Cut.. u did with scissors
paste.. u did with glue
A web was a spiders home
And a virus was the flu!!!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

2 opposite Views.. Nice one!!





Here is how two people looking at the same thing can see it VERY differently.

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet..
He held up a sign which said: ‘I am blind please help.’ There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.


He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words.


He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.


That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.


The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, ‘were you the one who changed my sign this morning?


What did you write?’



The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.



What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.’


Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?


Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind.

The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.



Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?



Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Think differently and positively.


Live life with no excuses and love with no regrets.



When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile.


Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
Keep the faith and drop the fear.


The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…



And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!

True Nice Equations – lovely, very nice


Equation 1




Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy

Donkey = eat + sleep



Therefore:

Human = Donkey + Work + enjoy



Therefore:

Human-enjoy = Donkey + Work



In other words,

A Human that doesn’t know how to enjoy = Donkey that works.



++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ ++ ++

Equation 2



Man = eat + sleep + earn money

Donkey = eat + sleep



Therefore:

Man = Donkey + earn money



Therefore:

Man-earn money = Donkey



In other words

Man who doesn’t earn money = Donkey



++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +

Equation 3



Woman= eat + sleep + spend

Donkey = eat + sleep



Therefore:

Woman = Donkey + spend

Woman – spend = Donkey



In other words,

Woman who doesn’t spend = Donkey



++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ +



To Conclude:

From Equation 2 and Equation 3



Man who doesn’t earn money = Woman who doesn’t spend



So Man earns money not to let woman become a donkey!

And a woman spends not to let the man become a donkey!



So, We have:

Man + Woman = Donkey + earn money + Donkey + Spend money



Therefore from postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude



Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!

A Nice Story-Father and Son

One old man was sitting with his 25 years old son in the train.

Train is about to leave the station.

All passengers are settling down their seat.

As train started young man was filled with lot of joy and

curiosity.

He was sitting on the window side.

He went out one hand and feeling the passing air. He

shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".

Old man smile and admired son feelings.

Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listing all

the conversion between father and son.

They were little awkward with the attitude of 25

years old man behaving like a small child.

Suddenly young man again shouted, "Papa see the pond

and animals. Clouds are moving with train".

Couple was watching the young man in embarrassingly.

Now its start raining and some of water drops touches the

young man's hand.

He filled with joy and he closed the eyes.

He shouted again," Papa it's raining, water is

touching me, see papa".

Couple couldn't help themselves and ask the old man.

"Why don't you visit the Doctor and get treatment for your son."

Old man said,

" Yes, We are coming from the hospital as Today

only my son got his eye sight for first time in his life".

Moral: "Don't draw conclusions until you know all the facts".

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Let One......

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; even love unreturned has its rainbow." Eaton Stannard Barret

Saturday, April 3, 2010

A Small Sweet Story…

A Small Story…

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her.

The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.



The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.

That night, the girl slept peacefully.



But, the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him, the way he had hidden his best marble.



:: Moral of the Story ::

If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent…

This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship etc.,

Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Team Work

Team Work –

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in D.C. One from Bangladesh, another from India and the third, from China.
They go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The Bangladesh contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well", he says, "I figure the job will run about $900. <$400 for materials, $400 for my team and $100 profit for me>".
The Chinese contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700. <$300 for materials, $300 for my team and $100 profit for me>".
The Indian contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."
The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure
The Indian contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from China to fix the fence."
"Done!" replies the government official.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Pure love .........

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit".

How to Be Calm in a Stressful Situation


originated by:Nick Taylor, Alan J, Tom Viren, Cem

The clock is ticking. Everyone's counting on you. Which wire should you cut?





While most of us never have to deal with the life-or-death dilemmas of a bomb squad, everyday situations such as job interviews, public speaking, and family emergencies, can be every bit as stressful if we are not accustomed to dealing with them. Learning how to remain calm in times of stress will not only make things go more smoothly immediately, it can also, over time, help you lead a healthier, happier life. Here's how to keep your cool when the pressure mounts.


Steps


1.


Identify the cause of your stress. Is your heart pounding because that idiot just cut you off on the freeway, or is it because of that presentation you have to give to your boss this afternoon? Think for a moment and try to figure out what’s really bothering you.


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2. 2


Choose your response. Even if you’re powerless to change the source of your stress, you have the power to choose how you’ll respond to it. The appropriate response to stress should depend on what’s causing it: you can either shake off your stress (ignore it and let it go immediately) or face it head-on. In order to choose your response, ask yourself some questions.


o Does it matter? Yeah, it’s all small stuff, but some stuff is smaller than others. Consider how long the source of stress will affect you. That idiot driver will be gone in a moment if you just let him keep speeding down the road, but the death of a loved one may affect you for years.


o How much control do you have over the situation? You can’t control the rain that’s ruining your wedding, but you can control how well you do on your algebra exam tomorrow.


o Is the source of stress in the past, present, or future? You can’t change the past, but you can respond to the present and prepare for the future. Let your past troubles fade.


o Be mindful of and focus on the important things in your life. Your life is precious, so let not the extraneous things interfere with more important things in your life.


3. 3


Shake it all off. If a situation is beyond your control, or if it just isn’t that important, stop worrying about it. Easier said than done? Just do it.


o Inhale deeply through your nose. In your mind, count to five seconds, and then exhale slowly through your mouth, for another five seconds. Repeat this breathing pattern until you feel comfortable with it.


o Think about something else. Get your mind off the stress by thinking about something that makes you happy, such as your kids or spouse (provided they’re not the cause of the current stress), or by concentrating about the things you have planned for the day.


o Visualize relaxing things, such as a deserted island or a country road. Close your eyes and try to picture even minor details about the imaginary place, and you can put yourself in that situation instead of the one you’re in.


o Get away from the cause of the stress. If you can physically escape the stress trigger, do so. Leave the room or pull off the road for a moment to put things in perspective.


o Get some exercise. Whether you go for a run, do calisthenics, do yoga, or lift weights, 10-20 minutes of physical exercise every day can relax you even when "nothing can".


o See also How to Get Rid of Anger and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.


4. 4


Face your stress source head-on when you're ready. Getting stressed is not going to resolve the situation. Sitting around worrying is a good way to procrastinate, but procrastinating will only prolong or intensify the stress. Facing your stress head-on is really just a way to shake off a bad situation that you cannot or should not ignore. If you can change the outcome of a situation that matters to you, the quickest way to overcome that fear or to empower yourself is to take action as quickly as possible. Once you’ve resolved the underlying problem, you can shake off the stress because it no longer matters. The steps below will help you. If you feel paralyzed, use the steps above to relax and temporarily distance yourself from the situation just long enough to be able to see it clearly.


5. 5


Make a plan. Sometimes you can resolve a stressful situation right away with one action, but often you’ll need several steps, perhaps over a long period. Write out a plan with attainable goals and a time line for reaching those goals. Additionally, many stressful situations are avoidable. If you prepare ahead of time for important events and make contingency plans, you may not have to cope with as much stress later. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. See How to Be Proactive.


6. 6


Take one step at a time. A complex problem can be overwhelming, even when you’ve got your plan mapped out, but remember: the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Just focus on one small goal at a time. See also How to Sustain Motivation when You're Struggling.


7. 7


Be realistic. If you continue to experience stress because no matter how hard you try you can’t take the steps quickly enough, you probably haven’t set realistic goals. In a culture that values a can-do attitude, it can be hard to accept that sometimes you can’t do something, at least not within a given period of time. If that’s the case, revise your time line or lower your expectations. If you can’t do that, the situation qualifies as one which you can’t control. Learn from your experience, but let it go. And, if you find yourself constantly failing to meet someone else's unrealistic standards, read How to Stop Being a People Pleaser and How to Overcome Martyr Syndrome.


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Stress about future events is mostly caused by fear, and stress over things in the present is usually caused by a feeling of powerlessness.


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Focus on someone else who is in the same situation as you and try to tune in to that person’s calm. Remember that if he or she isn’t nervous, you probably don't have to be.


Warnings


Inappropriate reactions to stress or an inability to cope with stress can shave years off of your life. It's true that not everything is possible, but it's impossible for anything to change if it needs your attention and you just sit there and slack off. Hard work is an achievement in itself.


Getting in the habit of hitting things while angry might make you a violent or aggressive person. It's better to defuse your anger than to try to take it out on other people or things. Never hit a person or other living thing, and make sure that any inanimate object you hit won’t hurt you.


Don’t self-medicate. Alcohol and drugs may provide a temporary escape, but your problems will be waiting for you when you get back to reality. Besides, do you want an addiction problem in your life, too? You yourself may not care about it, or even be aware of it, but it will affect the people who love you.


See a health professional immediately if you experience chest pain or dizziness.


Don't blame everything on yourself. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, a problem may seem impossible to resolve. Giving up on the subject is not always a bad thing, but giving up on yourself and starting self-abuse methods is counterproductive.


Sources and Citations


National Mental Health Association Factsheet on coping with stress


Mayo Clinic The symptoms of stress


Mayo Clinic Relaxation tips

Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!

"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual".

When u love some one.......

"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults."

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Love is passion........

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived". [William Parrish] from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Love is.......

"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own."

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The power of a glance.....

The power of a glance... It is in this way that love begins, and in this way only... Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark." Victor Hugo

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Love........

"You know when you listen to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes by so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway...then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again, you're still in the exact same time with it. That's what love is like."

Truly...

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."

Love is .......

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own". "* "Alternate version; Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own.

'Tuned' images from Esa's Smos water mission

By Jonathan Amos


Science correspondent, BBC News







Smos produces a snapshot every every 1.2 seconds

The first fully calibrated images from the European Space Agency's Smos satellite have now been released.
The spacecraft's new pictures show swathes of Scandinavia, Australia and the Amazon.
The maps record the amount of moisture held in soils and of the quantity of salts dissolved in seawater.
The mission's data is expected to have wide uses but should improve weather forecasts and warnings of extreme events, such as floods.
Smos was launched on 2 November. It carries a single instrument - an interferometric radiometer called Miras. Some eight metres across, it has the look of helicopter rotor blades.
Miras measures changes in the wetness of the land and in the salinity of ocean water by observing variations in the natural microwave emission coming up off the surface of the planet.





The mission will run for three years in the first instance
To do this, the instrument has 69 antennas positioned on a central structure and along the lengths of its three arms.
The signals received by the different antennas are combined to produce a single image.
This interferometric technique has been borrowed from radio astronomy, and has allowed Miras to mimic a much larger single antenna than could have been launched into space on Smos's rocket.
The instrument produces a snapshot of temperature brightness every 1.2 seconds. The image of Scandinavia shows one snapshot acquired by Smos.
Generally speaking, the "colder" (blue) the "temperature brightness" of the microwave signal, the saltier the water and the wetter the soil. Ocean water naturally shows up as very blue.


The raw images (L) from Smos have to be calibrated (R)





One key problem scientists have been grappling with is interference. Although the L-band (21cm) spectrum in which Smos operates is supposed to be protected, the team has discovered many spurious signals, particularly over China, western Russia and parts of Europe.





The Amazon: Smos will see seasonal changes in soil moisture

This has required the team to tune its reconstruction algorithm in order to clean up the images. It is just one of a number of calibration exercises that have to be undertaken to give the scientific community usable data.



Smos information will result in a better understanding of the hydrological cycle - the description of how water is constantly exchanged between the Earth's land and ocean surfaces and the atmosphere.



The satellite is expected to help improve short and medium-term weather forecasts, and also have practical applications in areas such as agriculture and water resource management.





Cryosat-2 will be launched in the next few weeks

In addition, climate models should benefit from having a more precise picture of the scale and speed of movement of water in the different components of the hydrological cycle.



The satellite is part of Esa's Earth Explorer programme - eight spacecraft that will acquire data on issues of pressing environmental concern.



The first - a gravity satellite called Goce - launched in early 2009. The third in the series is called Cryosat-2 and will launch in the coming weeks.



It will assess the state of the world's ice cover.

Where to find the rest.......

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us."

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Tied with Love,,,,,.........

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love."

Never deny love ...............

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."

Love...........

"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."

Start Loving Yourself.............


Start Working...........

What u are waiting for........

Please help me in cleaning our mind from the hatred & dishonesty
Start Loving YOURSELF & Others.

love

"Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles".

Thursday, February 18, 2010

1 & 2

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze; and when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids".

1 & 2

"One man by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world."

Love is ........

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday".

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Before you do anything......

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Love me ................

"Love me now, love me never, but if you love me, love me forever."

discovery

"I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found". John Forbes Nash, in A Beautiful Mind

5 Sites That Are Better Than Google


How much do I love Google? Thanks to the stats provided by Google Web History, it's easy to quantify: Over the past four and a half years, I've Googled for information 43,295 times. That works out to about one search per hour, 24/7/365. If that doesn't indicate passion for the world's most popular search engine, I don't know what does.

But I'd never argue that Google is always the fastest, most effective way to find facts, seek advice, take actions, or simply satisfy your curiosity about the world around you. Actually, there are more viable Google alternatives than ever. For the most part, they don't compete by trying to out-Google Google at basic Web searching. Instead, they do useful things that Google doesn't.

I'm nowhere near as dependent on any of these five free services as I am on Google -- but I use and recommend them all.

When Microsoft relaunched its blah Windows Live search engine as Bing last year, it didn't just give it a different name and a fresh coat of paint. The new version is Google's most formidable competitor for general-purpose Web searching, with numerous nice touches -- for instance, you get playable previews of videos right in search results.

Microsoft smartly chose to put extra effort into a few key areas, such as its travel section, which is uncannily similar to the excellent Kayak.com. You can enter dates and locations for plane tickets or hotel stays, then get a grid of results that you can further refine -- to direct flights only, for instance, or to hotels with swimming pools. It'll even tell you whether you're likely to save money if you postpone making a reservation a while longer.

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CES Preview: The Gadgets of 2010
Aardvark is a free service (located at Vark.com) whose members serve as a panel of experts on an array of topics. You can ask questions via e-mail or your favorite instant-messaging service; Aardvark relays them to people who it thinks may know about the subject, then collects their answers and delivers them back to you.

It works well when you'd rather get quick advice from a few real knowledgeable people than scour Google results for relevant links on a question such as "Should I buy a mountain bike, a road bike, or a hybrid to ride around San Francisco?" When you belong to Aardvark, it gives you the chance to play expert too, by sending you questions from other users on matters you're interested in.

Wolfram|Alpha calls itself a "computational knowledge engine," but I think of it as a 21st-century equivalent of a thick, fact-packed paperback almanac. It's a vast repository of knowledge skewing towards the mathematical and scientific that you can explore by entering questions.

For purely factual, objective, simple questions such as "What's the wind chill in Barcelona?," "How old was Theodore Roosevelt when he died?," and "What was the population of the U.S. in 1970?," there's nothing better. It also knows the calories in a Big Mac (805). And it'll even tell me the chances that I'll win California's MegaMillions lottery if I enter (1 in 175,711,536).

If you already use Twitter, you know that one of the best things about the ridiculously trendy social network site is the bevy of links that members share to news stories and other interesting stuff. But you don't need to be a Twitter maniac to use it to find worthwhile links on timely topics. In fact, you don't even need to have a Twitter account.

You'll find a Google-like search engine at search.twitter.com that returns 140-character "tweets" from Twitter members, often containing links to articles around the Web. (I used it Monday morning to find interesting tidbits relating to Sunday's Super Bowl commercials.) It's a good way to dip your toe into the Twitter stream without getting overwhelmed or making a commitment.

Siri, which debuted last week, is surely the first iPhone app that's the commercialized result of a multimillion-dollar Defense Department research project. It's a "virtual personal assistant" that uses voice recognition, your GPS location, and links to local information and services to respond to requests you speak into an iPhone 3GS.

You can ask Siri to call you a taxi, or to reserve a table at the best nearby sushi joint, or to tell you who's playing at a local concert venue. The voice-recognition part works just about perfectly. And it all feels like a sneak preview of how we'll get and use information in the future, even though I'm occasionally disappointed by the results (Siri occasionally recommends local businesses based on skimpy data.)

Got any other Google alternatives that you find essential? Leave a comment and let us know about them.

Harry McCracken blogs at Technologizer, his site about personal technology. He's also the former editor in chief of PC World. Follow him on Twitter as @harrymccracken

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Key Climate Change Data Laden With Errors

A science blogger uncovered a catalogue of errors in records that form a key part of the scientific evidence for global warming, it emerged Tuesday.

The mistakes, which led to the data from a large number of weather stations being discarded or misused, were overlooked by professional scientists and only discovered when Britain's national weather service, the Met Office, made data publicly available in December after the so-called Climate-gate e-mail scandal.

Although the errors did not alter the bigger picture on climate change, they were seized upon as a further sign that scientific institutions were not sufficiently transparent.

"It makes you wonder how many other problems there are in the data," said John Graham-Cumming, the programmer who spotted the mistakes. "The whole idea of doing science without releasing your data is quite worrying."

After being alerted of the problems last month, the Met Office issued a corrected version of its land-based temperature record on its Web site.

"We are grateful to Dr. Graham-Cumming, but they are quite minor changes," said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the Met Office.

"It shows how open we are. We have put an exhaustive amount of information out there to show people exactly what we do."

The errors related to the calculation of the average global temperature trend since 1850, based on measurements from land-based thermometers. The record is regarded as one of the most robust pieces of empirical evidence for global warming during the past century.

After trying to reproduce figures shown in scientific publications and on the Met Office Web site, Graham-Cumming identified a number of problems with the way measurements from Australian weather stations were averaged.

He found that data from seven stations was discarded. Data from a further 112 Australian stations, 28 percent of the total, were not being fully included in calculations of year-on-year temperature differences.

"I'm not a climate skeptic, I think it's pretty sure that the world is warming up, but this does show why the raw data and not just the results should be available," he said.

During the checking procedure, Met Office officials discovered further problems with U.S. temperature calculations. They realized that 121 of the U.S. stations did not have unique identifier codes, meaning that data for these stations was either being overwritten or assigned to the wrong location.

When all of the errors identified were corrected, the temperature trend remained well within the 95 percent confidence range of the original plot, meaning that the difference would not be considered scientifically significant.

A science blogger uncovered a catalogue of errors in records that form a key part of the scientific evidence for global warming, it emerged Tuesday.

The mistakes, which led to the data from a large number of weather stations being discarded or misused, were overlooked by professional scientists and only discovered when Britain's national weather service, the Met Office, made data publicly available in December after the so-called Climate-gate e-mail scandal.

Although the errors did not alter the bigger picture on climate change, they were seized upon as a further sign that scientific institutions were not sufficiently transparent.

"It makes you wonder how many other problems there are in the data," said John Graham-Cumming, the programmer who spotted the mistakes. "The whole idea of doing science without releasing your data is quite worrying."

After being alerted of the problems last month, the Met Office issued a corrected version of its land-based temperature record on its Web site.

"We are grateful to Dr. Graham-Cumming, but they are quite minor changes," said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the Met Office.

"It shows how open we are. We have put an exhaustive amount of information out there to show people exactly what we do."

The errors related to the calculation of the average global temperature trend since 1850, based on measurements from land-based thermometers. The record is regarded as one of the most robust pieces of empirical evidence for global warming during the past century.

After trying to reproduce figures shown in scientific publications and on the Met Office Web site, Graham-Cumming identified a number of problems with the way measurements from Australian weather stations were averaged.

He found that data from seven stations was discarded. Data from a further 112 Australian stations, 28 percent of the total, were not being fully included in calculations of year-on-year temperature differences.

"I'm not a climate skeptic, I think it's pretty sure that the world is warming up, but this does show why the raw data and not just the results should be available," he said.

During the checking procedure, Met Office officials discovered further problems with U.S. temperature calculations. They realized that 121 of the U.S. stations did not have unique identifier codes, meaning that data for these stations was either being overwritten or assigned to the wrong location.

When all of the errors identified were corrected, the temperature trend remained well within the 95 percent confidence range of the original plot, meaning that the difference would not be considered scientifically significant.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

love is.........

"Love is just an abbreviation for everything we have ever wanted to say about that one person who truly means something to us, all wrapped up in a tiny four-letter box".

Future Group and Tata Teleservices launches GSM mobile services branded T24

Future Group, one of the largest retail chain in the country, has tied a knot with Tata Teleservices to lunch GSM mobile services in the Indian market. This revolutionary service got a fantastic name T24. Tata Teleservices will explore the concept of a marketing coalition between Retailer and Telecom operator by signing this agreement. The Future group will also give some extra talk time to customers on its sales and the company has launched this service with a very invoking tag line Shop more, Talk more and Talk more Shop More’.

Future Group has also explored similar arrangement with Virgin Group in order to offer mobile telephonic services. The CEO of Future Group even said that its customers will get surely shopping advantages for talking and talk-time benefits each time they shop at Future Group and will make sure that this idea will be completely based on dedication, commitment and trueness for its customers.

This service will also strengthen the company’s presence in the consumption space—in keeping with their vision of offering an incomparable shopping experience to their true-hearted customers, cutting across product and industry categories.

Managing Director TTSL, has said that this is a fresh, unequaled mobility brand that they have launched and is going to be acquirable to people who shop at any of the Future Group Outlets. So when they shop they also have the chance to talk. They will also give all details regarding the plan as they gradually set-up this service. They are right now working on those details and hopefully they will launch it in about 90 days time.

The Company has not yet revealed the details about the tariffs but said that the service will provide a free airtime to consumers who shop at any of the Future Group Stores and that airtime will be linked to their shopping in some way.

Noticing on TTSL's growth the Managing Director said that the company has added 3 million customers in January already. He even said that till December the company had 57 million subscribers and the company was still waiting for GSM spectrum in Delhi, the nineteenth circle.

The Analysts has given a report saying that Future Group’s 1,000 stores across 61 cities reaching subscribers would be easy for the Future Group and the principle behind the group entering an already herded space with multi-SIMs and lowered ARPUs was not clear.

love

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." Goncourt

Monday, February 15, 2010

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh".

FEAR.........

"The greatest mistake you can make in
life is to be continually fearing
you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard

LOVE U...........

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return." Maria Edgeworth

Love

"Love is good in feeling, even if you are always being hurt. It is better to be hurt by love than not loving at all".

For mE.....

when negativity surrounds me i kind of go quiet. have a philosophy...when things r not going ur way..u need to step back a bit.

Notion Ink Adam tablet specs released



Notion Ink Adam tablet specs released


The Notion Ink Adam Tablet is one of the first devices due out with a Pixel Qi display and NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset. If you put those things together, what you get is a heck of a lot of positive buzz for a product from a company that most people hadn’t heard about before CES. But it looks like Notion Ink is a few steps closer to bringing the Adam to market. Today the company posted the specs for the tablet on its web site, and tech blog Technoholik has snagged some hands-on photos of what looks like a production sample (as opposed to the rendered images we saw last week or the handcarved wooden prototype I saw at CES in January).

So here’s what we know about the tablet. It has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel matte (non-glossy) touchscreen which can function as a full color display or as a high contrast (almost black and white), low power display that’s easily readable in direct sunlight. It has a Tegra 2 chipset which combines a low power dual-core ARM A9 CPU with enough graphics power to play 1080p HD video.

The tablet has a 3 cell battery, which should run for up to 16 hours in full color mode. Technoholik claims you’ll get up to 160 hours with the backlight off, but I’m pretty certain that’s not true, since the folks at Pixel Qi tell me you should generally expect to save just a few watts of power by shutting off the backlight. They’re also working on software that will afford greater power savings by allowing the CPU to shut down when the screen is inactive – for instance, when you’re reading an eBook and only need the CPU to power up to flip pages. But I don’t think that technology is available yet.

The Adam tablet supports 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 2.1 and 3G wireless. And it has a 3.2MP camera that you can rotate so it faces the front or back of the tablet, allowing you to snap pictures or use the tablet as a webcam.

There are 3 USB ports, an HDMI output, A-GPS, and an accelerometer. It will weigh about 1.4 pounds and measure just about half an inch thick.

What we still don’t know is the final price or when the Adam Tablet will be available.

Update: SlashGear has more photos, plus a demonstration of the Adam running Adobe Flash, something that rival tablet the iPad can’t do. What’s interesting is that the Adam uses the Google Android operating system, which doesn’t officially support Flash yet either. So either that’s about to change this week at Mobile World Congress, or Notion Ink has some pretty neat tricks up their sleeves.

'My Name Is Khan' earns Rs 250 mn on opening day

NEW DELHI: Controversies notwithstanding, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer "My Name Is Khan" has gone on to rake in around Rs 250 million (about $5.3
million) across the globe on the opening day.

Directed by Karan Johar, "My Name is Khan" was released on Friday.

"We are delighted with the performance and audience reactions across demographics. More so, because this is only phase one of the film release," Vijay Singh, CEO of Fox Star Studios India, the Indian distributors of the film, said in a statement.

"In addition to the release across 45 countries, MNIK will be rolled out in a phased manner across 25 non-traditional markets from April onwards."

The film features Shah Rukh as Rizvan Khan who embarks on a journey across America to win back the love of his life, played by Kajol. It shows how, along the way, his personality touches the lives of many and inspires a nation.

The movie is being marketed and distributed by Fox Star in India, in the US by its sister company Fox Searchlight and in the rest of the world by parent group 20th Century Fox International.

In New Zealand, the opening day collection was about $9,727 while in the Middle-East, the movie is already 50 percent higher than any other previous film in Bollywood with the earning estimated at $300,000.

There's also a huge demand for additional prints in the existing chains across the Middle East and the print count is expected to increase to around 60 by next week.

According to Fox, the film also will be released in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Oman and Lebanon in the coming week.

In terms of paid previews, the movie earned about $193,000 from 89 sites in Britain, which is said to be the highest for a single-day preview there. In Australia Thursday, paid previews collected around $34,000 and it ranked number 11.

14 Feb 2010, 1840 hrs IST, IANS
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MY NAME IS KHAN smashes records worldwide

Shah Rukh, Karan Johar & Fox come together to rewrite Box Office history as MNIK smashes all previous international box office records to record the highest-ever single opening day collections for a Hindi film worldwide.


Just when the industry believed that 3 Idiots had set records which would be stay for a long time, box office Baadshah Shah Rukh Khan's MY NAME IS KHAN looks set to break it just six weeks later!

Despite having a limited release in Maharashtra, Gujarat and parts of Madhya Pradesh on Friday, MNIK's worldwide box office collections are estimated at Rs. 25 crores for Friday! This is the highest ever collections for a non-holiday Friday in Bollywood history. Trade analysts estimate that it could have easily earned an additional 5-6 crores if it had been released normally across India. With the film playing everywhere across the country from Saturday onwards and given the strong buzz, this number is only expected to grow.

WORLDWIDE RECORDS

On the first day outside India, almost every record for Bollywood films was broken globally. Internationally, it is the biggest International opening day by almost 30% of its closest competitor, 3 Idiots.

UK BOX OFFICE RECORDS

In the UK, MNIK previewed on Thursday with an incredible £123k from 89 sites, 4th in the market place behind Avatar, The Wolfman Previews and Invictus.

In this market, MNIK has broken the record for the biggest GBO preview figure for any Bollywood release. The biggest single day preview figure in the UK was previously KANK with £98k.

The biggest total previews figure was 3 IDIOTS which had 2 days of previews (Wed/Thu) during the Xmas holiday period with £121k. MNIK single day previews are bigger than both days of 3 Idiots put together!

It is expected to be the biggest opening Bollywood film ever in this market by the weekend.

ANZ RECORDS

In Australia, Thursday previews of "MNIK" grossed a very good A$39K (US$34K). The movie is ranked #11 in the market. This is 107% of 3 Idiots Thursday BO.

In New Zealand, opening day took LC$ 13,627 (US$ 9,727). Bollywood films traditionally open on a Friday. The exception is 3 Idiots, against which MNIK has over-performed by 204%.

MIDDLE EAST RECORDS

The film is already 50% higher than any other previous film in Bollywood history with an opening day estimated at USD 300k.

There's a huge demand for additional prints in the existing chains across the Middle East and the print count is expected to increase to around 60 by next week.

Given the strong buzz, the film also will be released in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Oman and Lebanon in the coming week.

"We are delighted with the performance and audience reactions across demographics," says Vijay Singh, "More so, because this is only phase one of the film release. In addition to the release across 45 countries, MNIK will be rolled out in a phased manner across 25 non-traditional markets from April onwards."

.........LOVE.....

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

Love....

"The more you judge, the less you love".

Saturday, February 13, 2010

MY JOURNEY

"My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never."

That s love:

"That s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other".

just for u...

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."
-Mother Teresa

How to Use Google Buzz

If you're a Gmail user, chances are you now have Google Buzz in your inbox. Here's how to make the most of it (or just get rid of it).
Patrick Miller, PCWorld

Feb 13, 2010 6:30 am

On Tuesday, Google announced Buzz, a new social networking service integrated with Gmail. On Wednesday, you probably mashed your F5 key waiting for it to arrive in your Gmail account--and maybe you even tried to cut in line. By Thursday, you were likely worried about the privacy issues. Well, if you're buzzing about Buzz, we have the tips you need to make it work for you. And if you're wishing it would buzz off, we'll show you how to remove it from your Gmail account.

Keep Buzz Out of Your Inbox
Google Buzz's default settings send you an e-mail notification every time someone mentions you in a post with an @ reference or replies to one of your buzzes. Since all this stuff also shows up in your Buzz stream anyway, the redundant reminders get annoying fast.

Fortunately, Buzz e-mail notifications are easy to eliminate with Gmail's filter tools. Just click the Create a filter link at the top of the page, to the right of the search field. In the 'Has the words' field, type label:buzz and click OK. In the next screen, select Skip the Inbox and Mark as read to ensure that the message doesn't show in the inbox or set off your Gmail notifications (alternatively, you can choose to delete the notifications entirely).

(For more Buzz filtering tips, read "Google Buzz: 5 Tips for Power Users.")

Hide Your Followers
While Twitter users adore broadcasting their follower counts to the world, Buzz users have plenty of good reasons to keep such information private--particularly since in Buzz, the following/follower lists are not attached just to a cryptic pseudonym but to publicly viewable account names complete with a first name, a last name, and in many cases an e-mail address and links to Picasa and Blogger accounts.

Combined with Buzz's opt-out privacy policy and automatically suggested followers, this arrangement can lead to uncomfortable situations for some users, such as one user who ended up automatically adding his landlord, another who involuntarily added a one-time contact from a Craigslist transaction, and still another whose list somehow included her abusive ex-husband. If you don't want your contacts to be a matter of public record, you can hide your following/follower list by going to your Google Profile, choosing Edit Profile, and unchecking the Display the list of people I'm following and people following me box.

Learn to Love the Side Menu
If your Buzz feed is getting out of hand, look for several management features embedded in the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of each post. For other people's buzzes, you can choose to mute a particularly active buzz that you don't care about, or stop following that person. For your own buzzes, you can mute, edit the content of a buzz, delete some of the comments, or delete the buzz itself.

Prep Your Contacts List
Buzz's privacy settings are based on your Gmail contacts list, so if you haven't already set that up you'll want to go through it before getting too busy with Buzz. You can do so via the Contacts menu on the left side of the Gmail window (just click the New Groups button to the left of the Search Contacts field), or through the Buzz input box's privacy settings (click the Public button and pick Private to get the option to publish to existing Contacts groups or create a new group).

You'll probably want to create a few commonly used groups before diving into Buzz--having to spend a few minutes dealing with the privacy settings each time you want to post a new buzz to a new group kind of kills the spontaneity of it all. (Also, the Buzz Web app doesn't let you specify new groups--you have to do it from the normal Gmail page.)

Tie Your Sites Together
Now that you have your Buzz feed under control, it's time to start tying in your various social networks. When Buzz first surfaced in your Gmail account, you created a Google Profile (if you didn't have one already). At that time, you should have had the option to link other networks to your Buzz account--Flickr and Picasa accounts for sharing pictures, for example, or your Blogger feed. As of this writing, you can officially link only Blogger, Flickr, Picasa, your Google Reader Shared Items, GChat status, and Twitter accounts to your Buzz feed, though WordPress blogs can connect to Google Buzz with a little more work.

To add these sites, just click over to the Buzz tab in your Gmail and click the X Connected Sites link to bring up a window that lets you pick which ones to add. If you have an account or a page you want to link that isn't showing up, go over to your Google Profile, click Edit Profile (in the upper-right corner) and add it to your Links list there.

While you're connecting these sites, you can also set them to share only to certain groups of friends, which is worth doing if you don't want buzzes about your public tweets, photos, and so on to be indexed by Google as part of your Buzz account.

Keep in mind that if you're an avid user of Google Reader, all of your Shared Items will also be posted as buzzes. This means that anyone following you through Buzz and Reader (which is bound to be a decent amount of your follower base, considering that Buzz pulls from your Google Reader followers) is going to get hit with twice the posts, so you might want to consider keeping them separate until Google comes out with more-integrated sharing functions.

Buzz by E-Mail
You can Buzz via e-mail by sending a message to buzz@gmail.com. This works only with messages sent from your Gmail address, though, so SMS and MMS items sent through an e-mail gateway won't do the trick.

Since you can't define privacy permissions within an e-mail, you need to set them in advance. Start by sending a test e-mail to buzz@gmail.com; once it goes through, you'll see that the Connected Sites option now includes privacy settings for 'Posted via Buzz@Gmail'. Set it to Public or Private as you wish.

At the moment, only the e-mail's image and subject heading will show up in the buzz. Anything you put in the main e-mail field will not.

POP/IMAP mail-client users will want to read Gmail's desktop client support page for help in making sure that they're sending from the right address (for more, see "Google Buzz: 5 Tips for Power Users").

Touch Up Your Text
Though Google Buzz's input box lacks the rich text formatting options of an e-mail or blog post, you can still use a few tricks to make your text stand out. Bracketing your text with *asterisks*, _underscores_, and -dashes- will turn it into bold, italicized, and struck-through text, respectively.

Grab Some Add-Ons
Already, a handful of Buzz add-ons to help you integrate Buzz into your social life have surfaced. Firefox users should check out Buzz It, which lets you share your current Web page in Buzz via Gmail (useful if you want to keep your Google Reader shares separate from your Buzz shares.) Chrome users have Chrome Buzz, which adds a menu item that keeps tabs on your Buzz feed so that you don't have to keep checking back to the Gmail page. And WordPress users can add their buzzes to their WordPress blog with the Google Buzz ER sidebar widget.

Push Your Buzzes to Twitter
You can peruse your Google Buzz feed just as you would read any other RSS feed by going to the URL http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/username/public/posted, where username is your Google account name. This is a feed of all your public buzzes, which can then appear in any application that can use RSS feeds--handy if you want to see buzzes in an RSS reader, for example.

Combine this feature with TwitterFeed, a service that lets you use RSS feeds to publish in Facebook and Twitter, and you can get Google Buzz to publish your buzzes to Twitter. The arrangement isn't perfect--the RSS feed refreshes every 30 minutes--but considering that there's no native support for Buzz-to-Twitter publishing, it's worth trying out for now. You'll want to set TwitterFeed to post only the description, or you'll end up with a lot of tweets saying "Buzz from your username"; to do so, under Advanced Settings in the Create Feed page, set 'Post Content' to Include description only.

Kill Buzz Dead
Gone through all this and still don't like what Buzz has to offer? You're not alone. Unfortunately, truly getting rid of Buzz takes some doing.

You can disable Buzz by scrolling down to the bottom of your Gmail page and clicking the tiny turn off buzz link, but that won't get rid of it completely--you'll still have followers and connected sites, you just won't see them from the Gmail page. (Logging in through the mobile Web app, for example, should still work fine.)

Before you eliminate Buzz entirely, you need to go through a few steps. From the main Buzz page, click the Following X People link and unfollow everyone; then click on the X followers link and block everyone. Next, you need to delete your Google Profile: Go to Google Profiles, select View My Profile, Edit profile, scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and select Delete profile.

Once you've done that, disable Buzz from the Gmail window. You'll have successfully killed your Buzz.

Have your own Google Buzz tips? How about horror stories? Share them in the comments!

Nokia launches Nokia 2730 classic in India



Nokia brings the Internet closer to reality with its affordable 3G device, Nokia 2730 classic in India.



The sleek and compact Nokia 2730 classic is one of the industry’s most affordable 3G devices priced at Rs 4,499/-. The device provides an ultimate Internet experience and is competitively equipped with Nokia’s range of emerging market services such as Ovi Mail, Nokia Messaging, Nokia Life Tools, and browsing, making it easy for consumers to share and manage life.



Talking about the new phone Vineet Taneja, Director Marketing Nokia India said, “Nokia has always had a holistic approach towards driving the adoption of 3G in India, both at the infrastructure and at the handset level. As the market leader, our investment into different technologies has always been aimed at being future ready and today with the launch of Nokia 2730 classic we have a portfolio of over 20 3G enabled handsets in the market. We firmly believe that 3G technologies and future enhancements will offer the most expeditious and cost-effective means of providing mobile internet access to the mass market.”



My Name Is Khan fever now hits SA camp!

Nadim Siraj
Tags : my name is khan fever in SA cricket team, kolkata

Posted: Saturday , Feb 13, 2010 at 0245 hrs
Kolkata


If things go according to plan, some members of the visiting South African contingent could be seen catching the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer My Name is Khan at a city theatre any of these days. And the ones most eager to watch the film are the players’ wives and girlfriends.



While the entire nation was riveted to the drama surrounding the release of the flick in theatres across the country, the South African cricketers and their WAGs too joined the party, getting engrossed in discussing the raging issue surrounding SRK and his film’s screening.



“The players and their partners spent the evening out shopping. And throughout the evening, they hotly debated the controversy surrounding this film. Surprisingly, most of them — the players as well as their partners — seem to be quite closely following Shah Rukh Khan and what he’s been up to in Bollywood, and they were wondering if it would be possible to watch the film at a theatre, provided they find time out,” the South African team’s local manager Samir Dasgupta told The Indian Express. “In fact, the women’s contingent — there are five of them — not only enlightened the cricketers who are curious about Shah Rukh Khan. They are even planning to quietly arrange and land up in some theatre to watch the film sometime over the next few days, while the five-day match will be in progress. There’s no concrete plan as of now though.”

To My Love........

"I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

What u think..........?

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness."