Simple Analogy

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. What a profound short little paragraph that says it all "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." ~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

Soley On Merits !

Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing lawyers. "So," he said, "I have been presented, by both of you, with a bribe." Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably. "You, attorney Leon, gave me $15,000. And you, attorney Campos, gave me $10,000." The judge reached into his pocket and pulled out a check. He handed it to Leon. "Now then, I'm returning $5,000, and we're going to decide this case solely on its merits!"

CricTrivia

I noticed that in a Test in Sri Lanka in 1994, Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram bowled throughout an all-out innings of 71. How often has this happened, and what's the highest total involved?

The match you're talking about was the third Test, in Kandy, in August 1994: Wasim Akram took 4 for 32 in 14.2 overs, and Waqar Younis 6 for 24 in 14. There has been one similar instance of two bowlers operating unchanged throughout a completed innings since: in Port-of-Spain in 1998-99, Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie bowled throughout West Indies' second innings of 51. In all, it has happened 24 times in Tests, although only six of those instances have come since 1912. The highest total that has featured just two bowlers was also the first such instance - England's 133 in Sydney in 1881-82, when "Joey" Palmer took 7 for 68 in 58 (four-ball) overs, and Edwin Evans 3 for 64 from 57.

Which Test cricketer is nicknamed "Scooter"?

I think the man you're after is the South African opener Herschelle Gibbs, who has now played 90 Tests and almost 250 one-day internationals. Gibbs made his first-class debut (and scored 77) for Western Province B in 1990-91, when he was only 16, still at school, and too young to drive. Some of his team-mates joked that since he didn't have a car they'd have to buy him a scooter to get to matches... and the name stuck.

What is the highest Test partnership that was ended by a run-out?

The biggest one in Tests was the stand of 446 between Conrad Hunte and Garry Sobers for West Indies against Pakistan in Kingston in 1957-58. Hunte had made 260: Sobers went on to break the then-Test record, finishing with 365 not out. Hunte later admitted that he was distracted by the thought of breaking the world-record second-wicket partnership (451 at the time) and tried a quick single, thinking that the fielders would be exhausted - but the man who picked the ball up at mid-on and threw the stumps down was a fresh substitute,Ijaz Butt (now the Pakistan board's president)

Why are You Crying?

When I went to lunch today, I noticed an old lady sitting on a park bench sobbing her eyes out. I stopped and asked her what was wrong. She said,

'I have a 22-year-old husband at home. He makes love to me every morning and then gets up and makes me pancakes, sausage, fresh fruit and freshly ground coffee.'

I said, 'Well, then why are you crying?' She said, 'He makes me homemade soup for lunch and my favourite brownies and then makes love to me for half the afternoon.

I said, 'Well, why are you crying?' She said, 'For dinner he makes me a gourmet meal with wine and my favourite dessert and then makes love to me until 2:00a.m.'

I said, 'Well, why in the world would you be crying?' She said, 'I can't remember where I live!'

Mobile Phone Numbers in India will also start with 8080..

Reliance Communications on Friday said it has been allotted a brand new 8080 series by the Department of Telecommunications for roll-out in Mumbai.

"With the contemporary 9 series being exhausted over the last 14 years, we are now rolling out the 8080 series," Reliance Communications said in a statement.

Reliance Communications is offering the 8080 series on both its pre-paid and post-paid platforms across its GSM network.

How much bad luck can one have?

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Married to Blackberry, Divorced from family.......

8 Oct 2009, 0557 hrs IST, Ravi Teja Sharma, ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: Head bowed, hands together, thumbs going... the typical mannerisms of an inveterate smartphone user— whether in the boardroom or the bedroom — has now made an entry into the Urban Dictionary: The BlackBerry Prayer. That prayer is getting answered, and increasingly, the results are disastrous. The device — be it the BlackBerry, the iPhone or just about any other smartphone — that promised a world of convenience and freedom to millions of busy professionals is now threatening to make their relationships unravel as users increasingly get addicted to their 24x7 connectivity. Psychologists and social scientists that ET spoke to for this story said smartphone-triggered divorces are on the rise, especially in the last one year. Smartphone sales were up 27% this year so far over the corresponding period in 2008, and is slated to jump 30-35% in 2010, says Gartner. The complainants in these cases are mostly women who feel their husbands are busy checking mails or updating their Facebook status or tweeting, completely oblivious to the family at the dinner table. They start the day heads bowed checking messages, never mind the kids waiting in vain for the morning wish or the wife the peck on the cheek. “This is a recent phenomenon,” says senior advocate Geeta Luthra, a specialist in marital separation cases. “A year ago, no one ever came to me saying ‘my husband doesn’t talk to me because he is always on the phone’. They don’t suspect their husbands of infidelity. But they surely blame the phone for cracking their relationships,” she says. Kiran (name changed) recently filed for divorce from her CEO husband, and deposed in the court, that her husband’s smartphone addiction was the most important reason. “That device is like his wife,” she said in court. Delhi-based psychologist Sanjay Chugh says this is a case of classical dependence. “Such people want to know if they have been contacted in the last few minutes, or in some cases, even in the last few seconds. If they find there has been no contact, there is a tinge of disappointment and anxiety,” he says. Smartphones exploded in the Indian market around five years ago, with the launch of Canadian firm RIM’s BlackBerry. A horde of similar products followed, mostly notably Apple’s popular iPhone. Research firm Ascendia estimates that the smartphone market in India stood at around 5 million units in 2008. Gartner expects such devices to have a 4-4.5% share in total mobile phone sales in India in 2009. In developed markets, the addictive nature of smartphones have led to the BlackBerry, the most popular of such devices, being dubbed the Crackberry, a reference to crack cocaine. In fact, the internet is replete with personal accounts of smartphone addiction and ways to overcome it, a la quitting cigarettes. In the US, President Obama himself is said to be a compulsive BlackBerry user, so much so that the Secret Service had to amend rules to let the man pursue his passion. RIM declined to divulge its sales figures for India, but a rival phone maker says of the 90 million phones in use in the country today, some 2% (around 180,000) are high-end phones. According to Comscore, which tracks social networking trends worldwide, India is among the fastest-growing markets in this area. The total internet audience in the country in August 2009 was 35,432,000, up 17% on year-ago levels. Social networking audience in the same period grew 21% to 22,259,000. The number of Facebook users grew 220% to 81,54,000, while those for Orkut grew 34% to 152,76,000. Twitter users grew 2435% to 1,098,000. Not all these people access social networking sites using cellphones, but the numbers clearly indicate a surge in usage. Sure, for every Crackberry addict, there are three who vouch how smartphones have made their lives easier. For many senior executives, using the phone for texting, social networking and checking emails, is also a stressbuster besides a corporate companion. “Such people find this a way to relax after a tiring day at work,” says Dr Harish Shetty, social psychiatrist with Mumbai-based Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital. “But eventually, these can become bigger issues as stress points emerge leading to marital disharmony,” adds Dr Sandeep Vohra, senior consultant psychiatrist at Delhi’s Apollo Hospital. Psychiatrists say Crackberry addicts suffer from wanting to “broadcast to the world” all the time. “This gives them the feeling of one-upmanship, especially if they get comments,” says Mr Chugh. “What’s more, such people never agree they are addicted. They have a valid rationale — that they are working.” Dr Shetty points out that if there is an addiction, there will be a remedy. So, many corporate families are trying to take assertive action, by coming together, once the user realises his problem (addiction). “Kids are the best to regulate the use of the BlackBerry,” he says, citing a case where the family decided that the father, once he reached home, would deposit his phone with the kids, who will then regulate its use during the evening. And for those already separated, they have the phone for company...... (from Economic Times)

Friendship is NOT about.....

Friendship is not about “I m sorry “ its about “abbe teri galti hai “

Friendship is not about “I m there for u “ its about “kahan marr gaya saale “

Friendship is not about “I understand “ its about “sab teri wajah se hua manhus“

Friendship is not about “I care for u “ its about “kamino tumhe chhod ke kahan jaunga “

Friendship is not about “I m happy for ur success “its about “chal party de saale“

Friendship is not about “I love that girl“ its about “saalo izzat se dekho tumhari bhabhi hain “

Friendship is not about “R u coming for outing tomorrow “ its about “ nautanki nahi, hum kal bahar ja rahe hai “

Friendship is not about “Get well soon “ its about “ Itna piyega toh yehi hoga“

Friendship is not about “All the best for ur career“its about “bahut hua, abhi toh switch mar saale“

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India-Born Nobel Prize Winner

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan wins Nobel prize for Chemistry 7 Oct 2009, 1610 hrs IST, PTI

LONDON: Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 along with two others, the Nobel Committee announced today. Born in 1952 in Chidambaram, Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Ramakrishnan earned his B.Sc. in Physics (1971) from Baroda University and his Ph.D. in Physics (1976) from Ohio University. He moved into biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he took a year of classes, then conducted research with Dr Mauricio Montal, a membrane biochemist. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level," the Nobel committee said in its citation. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome, it said. "This year's three Laureates have all generated 3D models that show how different antibiotics bind to the ribosome. These models are now used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering," the citation said. Better known as Venky among friends, Ramakrishnan started out as a theoretical physicist. After graduate school, he designed his own 2-year transition from physics to biology. As a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, he worked on a neutron-scattering map of the small ribosomal subunit of E Coli. He has been studying ribosome structure ever since. Ramakrishnan has authored several important papers in academic journals. In the August 26, 2000 issue of Nature, Ramakrishnan and his coworkers published the structure of the small ribosomal subunit of Thermus thermophilus, a heat-stable bacterium related to one found in the Yellowstone hot springs. With this 5.5 Angstrom-resolution structure, Ramakrishnan's group identified key portions of the RNA and, using previously determined structures, positioned seven of the subunit's proteins. In the September 21, 2000 issue of Nature, Ramakrishnan published two papers. In the first of these, he presents the 3 Angstrom structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit. His second paper reveals the structures of the 30S subunit in complex with three antibiotics that target different regions of the subunit. In this paper, Ramakrishnan discusses the structural basis for the action of each of these drugs. After his postdoctoral fellowship, Ramakrishnan joined the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory in ther US. There, he began his collaboration with Stephen White to clone the genes for several ribosomal proteins and determine their three-dimensional structures. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship during his tenure there, and he used it to make the transition to X-ray crystallography. Ramakrishnan moved to the University of Utah in 1995 to become a professor in the Department of Biochemistry. There, he initiated his studies on protein-RNA complexes and the entire 30S subunit. He since moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division. He joins the list of several Nobel laureates who worked at the laboratory.

New Proverbs.......

• On the other hand, you have different fingers.

• 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

• 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

• Remember, half the people you know are below average.

• Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

• Support bacteria. They're the only culture most people have.

• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

• Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

• If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

• OK, so what's the speed of dark?

• Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

• How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

• Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, 'What the heck happened?'

• Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

Signatures of Famous Indians.....

Authenticity not guaranteed !

RSK

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Wife-Subduing Siren

BERLIN: A 73- year old man, who used an air-raid siren to
stun his wife into submission, has had it confiscated by the
German Police."My wife never lets me get a word in edge-ways"
the man identified as Valdimir R told the Mannheim Police.
" So I cranked up the siren and let it rip for a few minutes.
It works every time. Afterwords, it's real quiet again."

A Police spokesman said that the neighbours had complained about the
220-volt device believed to be an old- fashioned air raid siren.
Rosina, Valdimir's wife for 32 years, said she sometimes had to yell to
get his attention." My husband is a stubborn mule so I have to get loud."