After a stay of nearly 115 months in the Middle-East, I am heading back for Pune, in India.
Best Regards,
Ravi S Khot
Monday, January 30, 2012
Ravi* sets in Muscat .........
After a stay of nearly 115 months in the Middle-East, I am heading back for Pune, in India.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
MySnaps: Muscat's Grand Mosque
The much-postponed visit to the Muscat Grand Mosque finally happened ...... here are some pictures with brief description :
Grand Mosque Entrance-1
Entrance-2
Court Yard
Entrance-3
Side View
Minaret
Decorated Ceiling
Partial View of a Huge Carpet
Carved window Frame
Carved Wooden Door
Main Chandelier (weighs over 8000kgs)
Main Chandelier (view from exactly under it)
Gardens bloom in the Omani Winter
Interplay of Light and Shadow
Stained Glass Display
Grand Mosque Entrance-1
Entrance-2
Court Yard
Entrance-3
Side View
Minaret
Decorated Ceiling
Partial View of a Huge Carpet
Carved window Frame
Carved Wooden Door
Main Chandelier (weighs over 8000kgs)
Main Chandelier (view from exactly under it)
Gardens bloom in the Omani Winter
Interplay of Light and Shadow
Stained Glass Display
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Life .......
"Life is a great travel trip.
The challenge is that it doesn't come with a
map ..............
We have to search our own ways to reach
the destination."
map ..............
We have to search our own ways to reach
the destination."
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Baby Names and Governments
Thanks, mum
Governments find reason to regulate the names of children
Jan 14th 2012 | from the print edition of the Economist
LUCIFER, V8, Anal, Christ: these are among the baby names rejected by New Zealand's department of internal affairs, who recently released a comprehensive list of those disallowed by registrars in the past ten years. Though no name is banned outright, says Ross McPherson, the deputy registrar-general, some applications were not even words. Disappointed parents included those wishing to christen their offspring with numbers (89), letters (J, I, T) and punctuation marks (*).
Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring. Yet laws regulating the choice of both first names and surnames are common around the world. Denmark expects new parents to choose from a register of acceptable names; Portugal lists banned and approved ones. In Iceland a committee of language specialists must rule on any unusual name. German registrars prohibit the use of most nouns and place-names, and also frown upon any that do not clearly imply a gender: bad luck, Kim. Experts at a German-language society run a helpline offering advice to puzzled parents (at a cost).
Governments argue that these rules prevent children being saddled with preposterous names (Sinbin) that may cause them problems in later life. They also aim to block names that might cause offence to others . Even where registrars have no power of prohibition, worrisome choices can be referred to judges or to child-protection agencies. In 2009 a couple in New Jersey lost custody of a boy they had named Adolf Hitler.
Over time, the rules have eased. France scrapped its saint-strewn list of acceptable names in 1993. Two years later Iceland stopped requiring immigrants to adopt local names. The new constraint is technological, not bureaucratic. Government databases may struggle with long names: New Zealand allows 100 characters for all first names; the state of Massachusetts has a limit of 40 for each. Chinese face a particular difficulty: their language has tens of thousands of characters, but a name that uses archaic or rare ones can mean computer problems. Japanese parents with a penchant for the arcane face similar difficulties. Most countries ban names spelled in foreign alphabets, and many restrict the use of foreign diacritical marks: that fuels a row between Lithuania and Poland. Carlton Larson at the University of California notes that his state's registrars, unusually, ban all such dots and squiggles. So in America's most Spanish-speaking state it is impossible to christen a boy Josรฉ.Less noble concerns play a role, too. First names that imitate lofty titles remain the most frequently disallowed in New Zealand. Registrars often frustrate enterprising parents trying to name their infants Justice, King, Prince, Baron and Duke. Strict laws in Sweden once aimed to stop people creating family names that imitated those already in use, says Staffan Nystrรถm at Uppsala University. Requests to change a last name must still pass through the patent office there. Patriarchy remains entrenched in countries like Italy that refuse to allow married women to pass their maiden names on to their children, even in a double-barrelled surname.
Still, America and Britain have the most tolerant naming laws: what can be spelled with standard letters (however eccentrically) is allowed. Distinction-hungry celebrities make the most of this, as with Moon Unit (Frank Zappa), Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Pilot Inspektor (the actor Jason Lee). Even the most strait-laced Americans see nothing odd in recycling a surname as a given name. Black parents are among the most inventive: a survey by two economists, Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt, found that nearly 30% of black girls in California in the 1990s received a first name that they shared with no other baby born in the state in the same year. Back in 1954 a baby (later to become secretary of state) gained the one-off name Condoleezza because it sounded like a musical instruction to play "with sweetness".
Whether these decisions make any difference is another matter. A study in 2002 suggested that individuals may be unconsciously influenced by their first names. A disproportionate number of girls named Georgia live in the American state that shares their name; boys named Dennis may be slightly more likely to become dentists than those called Walter (and Georges seem to have a penchant for geology). Academics with surnames early in the alphabet are more likely to get good university jobs (the authors of papers are listed alphabetically). Ballot papers that list politicians' names that way also show a similar effect.
But reinvention beckons. Britain's chancellor was born Gideon Osborne; aged 13, he became George. The UK Deed Poll Service, a legal firm, in 2011 helped 60,000 Britons rename themselves (fees start at £33, around $50); it was only 5,000 a decade before. American courts report similar trends. Some such applicants may wish to escape their parents' enthusiasms. Others may regret they were not given a more memorable moniker.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Angel Falls, Venezuela: ( 360 ยบ view ).
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Well Written !
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Golden Parachutes ( the Economist)
Golden parachutes
Rip-cord economics
Pay-offs for the boss need to be better designed
Jan 14th 2012 | from the print edition
RICH rewards for departing bosses are not popular. After Sir Fred Goodwin led Royal Bank of Scotland into a ditch and dumped the bill on British taxpayers, he left with a pension of over £700,000 ($980,000) a year. The Sun, a tabloid, said he had "screwed the nation".
Yet golden parachutes have their uses. If well-designed, they align the boss's interests more closely with those of shareholders. Suppose, for example, a takeover is brewing. Takeovers are usually lucrative for shareholders of the target firm: in America between 1990 and 2008, they have received a median premium of 35%. But the boss's interests are quite different. If the firm is acquired, he is likely to be fired.
A golden parachute can persuade the boss not to obstruct a takeover. But their notoriety dissuades firms from using them. Dirk Jenter of Stanford University and Katharina Lewellen of Tuck Business School find that golden parachutes are rarer and stingier than they should be.
Another paper, by Eliezer Fich and Ralph Walkling of Drexel University and Anh Tran of Cass Business School, found that when golden parachutes are larger, proposed mergers are more likely to be completed, but buyers pay less for the shares of the target firm. The data from Mr Jenter and Ms Lewellen show that when the boss of the target firm is old, buyers pay an average premium of 26%. For younger bosses, the premium is 33%. This makes sense. If younger bosses are more reluctant to sell, it will cost more to overcome their objections.To test whether bosses block takeovers, they looked at what happens when they are nearing retirement, and therefore have no future career to sacrifice. Using data on American public firms from 1992 to 2008, they found that companies with a boss aged 65 or over were 50% more likely to be taken over.
So boards must strike a balance. If the boss's golden parachute is too miserly, he may block a deal that would benefit shareholders. If it is too generous, he may fail to negotiate hard with potential buyers. As with real parachutes, poor design can have serious consequences.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Success
Does it mean that those who follow the straight and narrow path of virtue are not successful?
RSK
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
HUMAN PLANET : Exceptional video from BBC
| Extraordinary video from the BBC. So vivid, it looks like 3D. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large |
HOME : The Movie
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Indian Cricket
Trring Trring. Bhajji: Hello.
Yuvraj: Oy, match dekh raha hai?
Bhajji: Haan. Hahahahaha.
Yuvraj: Hahahahaha.
Bhajji: Hahahahaha.
Yuvi: Okay bye.
Andy Zaltzman, cricket's funniest man, tweets:
"India fought like cornered tigers. Albeit tigers that, having been cornered,
were promptly shot and turned into rugs.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
9 reasons to choose a career in Banking.....
1. I have already enjoyed my life in childhood
2. I love tension
3. I don't want to spend time with my friends
4. I love night outs
5. I love to work on Sundays and Holidays
6. I want to take revenge on myself (Perfect Reason)
7. I don't want to marry before 30
8. I don't want good Salary
9. I want to learn until my death
Table of Nine
Write 0 to 9 in one column.....next to it write 9 to 0
0 9
1 8
2 7
3 6
4 5
5 4
6 3
7 2
8 1
9 0
....and you have the table of 9 ! Also notice that the sum of the two numbers in each row is 9 too .....
RSK
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
CricTrivia
How many international hundreds have been scored all told between Sachin Tendulkar's 99th hundred and his elusive 100th?
By the end of the two Tests that began on January 3, 2012, there had been 110 individual centuries in international cricket (72 in Tests, 37 in ODIs and one in Twenty20 internationals) since Sachin Tendulkar's 99th hundred, which came on March 12, 2011, against South Africa in Nagpur during the World Cup.
By the end of the two Tests that began on January 3, 2012, there had been 110 individual centuries in international cricket (72 in Tests, 37 in ODIs and one in Twenty20 internationals) since Sachin Tendulkar's 99th hundred, which came on March 12, 2011, against South Africa in Nagpur during the World Cup.
Michael Clarke, Rahul Dravid, Kumar Sangakkara and Zimbabwe's Brendan Taylor have so far scored five international centuries - and Ian Bell, Alastair Cook, Mike Hussey and Mohammad Hafeez four - while Tendulkar has been searching for his 100th one.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Blackberry Blackout Every Day....
( courtesy, Pranati)
A Time to Tune OutBy ROGER COHENPublished: January 2, 2012LONDON — Let's hear it for Volkswagen at the start of 2012. The German automaker has responded to demands from its works council by agreeing to stop the e-mail server to its BlackBerry-using employees a half-hour after their shift ends, only restoring it 30 minutes before work begins the next day.  Damon Winter/The New York TimesRoger Cohen The agreement for now only affects about 1,150 of Volkswagen's more than 190,000 workers in Germany, but it's a start in encouraging employees to switch off, curb the twitchy reflex to check e-mail every couple of minutes, and take a look out at things — like family and the big wide world — without the distraction of a blinking red light.
Now I know we're all supposed to be grown-ups and switching off should be a simple enough decision, but the fact is addictions to BlackBerries and other hand-held devices are powerful and nobody expects addicts to self-administer the right medicine without some help. The Volkswagen decision reflects growing evidence of stress-related burnout tied to employees' inability to separate their working and private lives now that developed societies live in a 24/7 paroxysm of connection.
Employee burnout has become an issue in socially conscious Germany — the object of a Spiegel cover story following the resignation in September of a prominent Bundesliga soccer coach, Ralf Rangnick of Schalke, who complained of exhaustion. A Volkswagen spokesman in Wolfsburg told Bloomberg News the company had to balance the benefits of round-the-clock access to staff with protecting their private lives.
Inside those German private lives, I'd wager, couples are experiencing the now near-universal irritation of finding conversations interrupted by a familiar glance toward the little screen, or conversations deadened by the state of near-permanent distraction from their immediate surroundings in which people live. Device-related marital rows must now be running close to back-seat driving and how to raise the kids as the leading cause of domestic discord.
Connectivity aids productivity. It can also be counterproductive by generating that contemporary state of anxiety in which focus on any activity is interrupted by the irresistible urge to check e-mail or texts; whose absence can in turn provoke the compounded anxiety of feeling unloved or unwanted just because the in-box is empty for a nanosecond; whose onset can in turn induce the super-aggravated anxiety that is linked to low self-esteem and poor performance.
Inhabiting one place — that is to be fully absorbed by and focused on one's surroundings rather than living in some diffuse cyberlocation composed of the different strands of a device-driven existence — is a fast-dwindling ability. This in turn generates a paradox: People have never traveled as much but at the same time been less able to appreciate the difference between here and there.
To be permanently switched on is also to switch off to what takes time to be seen. A lot of good ideas, as well as some of life's deeper satisfactions, can get lost that way. Companies are beginning to perceive these costs. Volkswagen is not alone in its move, which does not affect senior management or employees' ability to make calls.
Thierry Breton, the chief executive of Atos, the French information technology services giant, has said workers are wasting hours of their lives on internal messages at home and work. He plans to ban internal e-mail altogether from 2014. A survey found Atos's 80,000 employees were receiving an average of 100 internal e-mails a day of which only 15 percent were of any use.
Henkel, the manufacturer of Persil detergent, declared an e-mail "amnesty" between Christmas and New Year, saying mail should only be sent in an emergency. One interesting recent case of employee burnout came at the very top, with the stress-induced absence for a couple of months of Antรณnio Horta-Osรณrio, the chief executive of Lloyds Bank. The Portuguese banker, who will return to work Jan. 9, came after he was afflicted with what Sir Win Bischoff, the Lloyds chairman, called an "inability to switch off."
Inability to switch off (ITSO) is a modern curse. Horta-Osรณrio has said he made the decision after not sleeping for five days in late October and realizing that there was, according to his doctor, such a thing as "getting close to the end of your battery." He has now been pronounced fit by the Lloyds board but has said he will change his work habits, presumably in ways that will lower ITSO risks.
I've just returned to work after a few days with my 90-year-old father in Scotland. He lives without any access to e-mail or hand-held devices. It was interesting observing the effects of this vacuum on my teenage children, suddenly unable to center their lives around their laptops (and the screen-lowering gesture that seems to accompany the entry of an adult). They started to read voraciously. They were communicative. They got up earlier. To be fair, they also had a Dad with them who was not device distracted.
It's the start of a new year, a time for resolutions. To each his own, but I know this: Nobody will ever lie on his or her deathbed and say: "I should have kept my device on longer."
You can follow Roger Cohen on Twitter at twitter.com/nytimescohen.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on January 3, 2012, in The International Herald Tribune. |
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
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Finally, Happy New Year !
I have been wanting to send some sort of New Year Greeting to you, but it is difficult
in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone.
So I met with my lawyer yesterday and on his advice I wish to say the
following:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or
secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other
cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that our country is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:
- This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with or without alteration to the original greeting.
- It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her / him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
- The wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
Best Regards (without prejudice)
Name withheld (Privacy Act).
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Sydney Test
With Virat in, INDIA play the Sydney test with only 10 batsmen , oops...make that 9 as I forgot Gautam Gambhir 
RSK
RSK
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Top-10 Health Questions
Top-10 Health QuestionsBy Shameem AktharHere are top ten health questions that you may want to ask yourself, as the new year looms interestingly ahead, so you may face it with robust health.Most of us take health for granted. As long as we are not physically challenged and can get through a day without some health condition nagging us, we assume we are perfectly healthy. But most us also secretly know that this assumption is not quite true.
Health is an investment. It comes from choices and effort, even in youth. It also involves daily commitment. A sudden nasty blimp on the health horizon never happens in isolation. It is always led by earlier neglect.
1. Can you touch your feet when you bend forward?This seems like a simple enough task. However, it involves effort not just from the spine, as most assume, but also from supple legs, an elastic spine, superbly toned back muscles and a firm band of core muscles, that include a toned abdomen.
If you are not able to touch your toes when you bend forward, it could mean several health risks: impaired blood circulation from poor muscle tone and could indicate blood circulation problems.It could mean stiff legs: interestingly even those who walk or run have very stiff legs. They need to do more stretches to prevent future knee injuries. Strong and supple back muscles prop the spine and take the load off the entire body, including the knees.
A flat stomach is not just aesthetic but also implies a strong band of core muscles that further support the entire body.
Stretches that cover the whole body are an ideal way to clear this clog in your body.2. Can you balance on one leg?This simple task can surprise and embarrass even children these days as they increasingly choose sedentary mode of entertainment and games. An ability to maintain balance is a physical skill that indicates a strong proprioception. This is a sense of oneself in space and is an important kinaesthetic experience for the body as it moves. Behind this simple task the cerebellum and the balancing system in your inner ear are involved.
Scientists are still discovering several tasks the cerebellum is involved with: impulse control, cognitive skills, learning new things amongst others. So, an inability to stay upright on one leg could lead, in a few years, lead to impairment on all these fronts.
Balancing poses, training on the gym ball, using core board are some exercise forms to reintroduce the body to this skill.
3. Can you reach your left arm behind to grasp your right hand from below. And vice versa?
This is an interesting health test which can indicate if you are well aligned on both sides. Most people have a huge gap between the left and right hands, and are often shocked to find this out. The gap may indicate a slight postural misalignment that may not just affect gait, but also blood flow according to yoga.
Also, it may later lead to spinal issues of the upper back and neck. This is common in most of us as we enter our twenties, and occurs because we are predominantly right handed. (The other side will affect the left-handed). Also, the right side of our body affects our left hemisphere and vice versa. In yoga, to balance both sides of the body is to harmonise your brain too.
Shoulder circles, upper body stretches would help reverse this misalignment in just a few weeks.
4. Can you take the stairs without becoming breathless?Many people fear they are heading for an attack when they become breathless and avoid such exertions altogether. They may not be far off the mark because it just shows that your heart and lungs are finding this simple task tough and have started losing their tone. Instead of going into a misguided protective mode that makes most people avoid such simple tasks altogether, it may be taken as an alert to invite tone back into these systems through phased exercise.
The heart services blood vessels that, if placed end to end, will cover the entire earth in its circumference. Obviously it needs exercise. And a sedentary lifestyle, it has been found, is more dangerous than chain smoking. The breathlessness is merely an indication that the heart is beginning to lose tone and you need to get it into a repair mode.
Walking is a good start. Slowly increasing the pace, then including other exercises would go a long way in reversing this condition.
5. Can you hum for long?This is a test to check your lung capacity. Any sound is an exhalation. The inhalation that follows is automatic and its depth is actually affected by your exhalation. The deeper you exhale, creating a vacuum effect, the more air you draw into the lungs. However, most people do things topsy-turvy when they breathe, especially when doing physical tasks that need effort. Most people focus on inhaling, straining at it.
However, unless the exhalation is deep and relaxed, the inhalation would be pretty much ineffective. Checking to see how long your hum is, after one breath, will indicate to you how you breathe on a normal basis.
Efficient breathing affects your mood and stress quotient.
Focusing on your breath is a simple way to relax your breathing and deepen it. This is known to encourage respiratory efficiency. Practising other breathing exercises would also up your lung volume considerably.
6. Is breakfast your heaviest meal?This has been repeated umpteen times by many health articles. However, given our current lifestyles we tend to neglect it, making our breakfast light while we drool over a large and late dinner.
A large breakfast is important because the body's biological clock ticks in such a way that maximum nutrient absorption is designed around what you eat at that meal.
If you eat your heaviest meal for the day by 11 am, according to yoga, your small intestine is ready for absorbing nutrients from that meal by 2 pm. After that, the food intake should progressively get lighter, since the digestive system is getting into a go-slow mode.
7. When was the last time you learnt something new?The keenness to learn something new comes from the neurochemical dopamine, which is referred to as the explorer hormone because it enhances the curiosity in you. Dopamine is part of the feel-good, reward neurochemicals. Learning something new -- maybe to use a new gadget, a dancing skill, some art form such as sculpting or pottery or attending a hobby class to pick up a skill like beading could be all it takes to make you feel alive and vital.
Tweaking the feel-good centres in our brain helps to keep us not just alive but also feeling vital. Learning something could be the easiest route towards this. Also, it has been found that aging -- whether it refers to our brain or the body as a whole -- happens from long-term neglect. One area that is often neglected is the brain -- mental effort required to learn something new actually 'muscles' and tones our mind, and keeps us youthful and energetic overall.
8. When was the last time you visited your dentist?
Some visit dentists only when they have some dental problem. However having a good set of teeth could be more than a sparkling smile. It has been found that bad teeth could actually lead to circulatory and cardiac problems.
It is because the mouth forms the perfect site for anaerobic bacteria which then leads to other complications by moving into the body. If you have a sensitive gums or gaps between gum and tooth you must see your dentist very soon!
Soft toothbrush that does not damage the gums, salt water mouth rinses, keep the gums healthy and may be a great way to strengthen your heart.9. How often do you take stretch breaks in a working day?
Progressive companies are said to give out electronic alerts to their workers, to indicate the time for stretch breaks. As we wrote earlier in this copy, a sedentary lifestyle can be more dangerous than chain smoking. Interestingly, it has been found that an impaired or sluggish circulation can be the cause of many ailments, not just cardiac problems but also dementia and brain damage.
Encouraging the blood to move over the body in a systematic way could be the easiest route to health. This is true for even those who may exercise daily. Having an hour of daily exercise may be healthy. But is equally important to move or stretch several times during a day, especially if you have a sedentary work-style.
Having several stretch breaks during the day could mean clearing the lymphatic system (which, unlike other systems like the blood, does not have a pumping mechanism and needs our movements to keep it functioning efficiently), preventing water retention, keeping joints supple and lubricated, and removing the state of chronic fatigue syndrome.10. When did you go out on a relaxing holiday?It has been found that the stress over the week may be better handled if you have planned a relaxing or fun filled weekend. Basically, it means you should plan something which you are looking forward to. This could mean just curling up with your favourite book, catching a film you had meant to see, or anything that for you is fun, relaxing or me-time.
Looking forward towards something can blunt the edge off stress. Stress, it has been found, is the silent killer in all our lives. The sense of being in a rut can cause serious psycho-somatic ailments, including high and low blood pressure, clinical depression, tension headaches, neck/ shoulder problems and digestive disorders.
Creating definite ways to unwind or going off on a holiday could mean more than fun. It could mean perfect health.Shameem Akthar is a yogacharya trained with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center.
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