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Daily Joke- Money

Bim and Ali were touring their brand new house. It was a

house that Bim had paid for with his money, a fact of which
he constantly reminded Ali. In each room of the house he said
to her : "Ali, if it were not for my money, we would not be here."
Ali didn't say a word.
That afternoon a truck delivered a load of new furniture...
furniture which Bim paid for with his money. After the
furniture was in its place, they toured the house again. As they
observed each room, beautifully appointed and magnificently
decorated, Bim reminded her: "Ali, if it were not for my money,

this furniture would not be here."
Again, Ali was silent.
Late in the afternoon another truck came with a special piece of
furniture which was to be the focal point of the family room. It
was a combination stereo-television-computer center all wrapped
into one gorgeous piece of furniture. Bim paid for it with
his money. When it was in place, Bim again said: "Ali, if
it were not for my money, that beautiful electronics system
would not be here."
Finally, Ali spoke: "Honey, I don't want to make you feel bad, but...

if it were not for your money, I wouldn't be here either!"

recipe Badam (Almond) Sherbet

"A traditional Eastern drink/dessert. Surprisingly refreshing but rich, this is a memorable taste. It can be served warm in winter, or over ice in summer. "
Ingredients

• 2 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 cup finely ground almonds
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons rose water

Directions

1. Combine the milk, cream, ground almonds, confectioners' sugar, and rosewater in a blender, and blend until thoroughly mixed and smooth, about 1 minute. Serve over ice.

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 350 | Total Fat: 23.1g | Cholesterol: 20mg

*Relationship & Trust*

*This message is too short..........
but carries lot of meaning*
**
*Relationship & Trust*

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, "Sweetheart,
please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."

The little girl said,

"No, Dad. You hold my hand."

"What's the difference?
Asked the puzzled father.

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.

"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may
let your hand go.

But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you
will never let my hand go."

Moral of the story :-

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its
bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting
them to hold yours...

GREAT INDIAN HEROES LESLIE CLAUDIUS, 85, INDIA'S GREATEST OLYMPIAN

(The writer is a former Indian Civil Servant and presently a corporate management consultant ,a senior tax advisor, and advisor deemed universities-civil services coaching classes)

"I feel very proud today at the way India trounced France 7-1 to qualify for the Olympics at London this year. At last India is on the way to regain the lost glory of hockey at the Olympics".

Leslie Claudius, one of India's greatest hockey players at the Olympics, joint highest individual medalist by an Indian-3 golds and a silver along with fellow Olympian Udham Singh.

A few weeks back, even as Leslie Claudius celebrated his 85th birthday, India gave him a fitting present by qualifying for the Olympics after gap of 8 years, the joy of which was expressed by the former Indian Olympic hockey team captain in the lines quoted at the beginning of this article. The Olympic hosts went a step further and in a rare honour for India's greatest Olympian, long forgotten in his own country and home land, London named Bushey Station on the city's famous metro after Leslie Claudius, one of only 2 Indians to be honored and among 360 other famous Olympians across the world. Now with the Olympics under way, it is worth recollecting the achievements of one of India's greatest sportsmen. Indian have creditable achievements at the Olympics, Norman Pritchard with 2 silvers prior to independents, Leander Paes with India's Sole medal at the Sydney Olympics, Neville D' Souza who was India's greatest footballer in 1956 Melbourne Olympics and almost won for India a near bronze medal finish, numerous other hockey players but clearly the greatest among them all is clearly Leslie Walter Claudius, a living legend living anonymously in the bye-lanes of an old Anglo Indian Colony in Calcutta.

Leslie Claudius was born in Bilaspur in erstwhile Madhya Bharat province (now Madhya Bharat province (now Madhya Pradesh) to a simple middle class Anglo Indian family. At the age of 18 he joined the Bengal Nagpur Railways at Kolkata as part of their football team. Like my famed St. Mary's SSC Mazagaon Mumbai colleague Somaya Manepanda, who twice captained Indian hockey team in recent years, he too switched from football to hockey. Leslie was part of the 1948 Gold winning hockey team at London. His versatile skills led many experts to remark that Leslie would originally be part of any world class team, the other 10 players would have to go through tough selection process. In 1949 he joined my parent department Indian Customs and continued playing and even coaching the customs team which did very well at all national level competitions. He won two more Olympic golds in the then golden hockey era at Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956 and a silver at Rome in 1960 where in dramatic last moments India lost the final to Pakistan. He married Vilia in 1951, a happy marriage with four sons. He lost his son Robert who also played hockey and represented India at International level in the year 1978. Tragically His Olympic medals were stolen by some workers doing up his modest house in Calcutta. A gentlemen to the core, the large hearted Leslie refused to lodge a complaint or even sit and grudge the losses with a Christ like quote " Let the workers keep the medals, perhaps their need is greater than mine". An officer known for his impeccable integrity and honesty, he retired as an Assistant Commissioner from the Customs Department in 1984. Since then livind within meager savings with a host of health ailments, he has been struggling in his twilight years, and a few years back the West Bengal Government footed his medical bill worth a lakh of rupees as a humanitarian gesture. The man who won India three Olympic golds and a silver- the best ever performance by an Indian at the Olympics along with another hockey player Udham Singh.- The brave Olympian is ever his smiling self, ever enthusiastic about India's prospects at the Olympics at this age of 85. I will be writing to Derek O' Brien, MP and Trinamool Congress spokesperson to honor the greatest achiever of his Anglo Indian community in his lifetime and in Calcutta where his party is in power. I will be writing to Member (Personnel) of Central Board of Central Excise and Customs also to honor the greatest sportsperson of our department likewise, and also sanction some amount from the welfare fund committed to such officers who have done the country and the department proud. The welfare fund arises from portion of amount realized from sale proceeds of confiscated gold and silver smuggled across the seas, and is meant for causes such as these. A hockey stadium in Calcutta, Madhya Pradesh or anywhere in India should be named after this great Olympian living legend. Our Christian educational institutions and the Church should acknowledge such great Christian heroes and give our youth much better role models than Pit-Bulls and Lady Gagas.

Meanwhile here's enjoying the metro ride at the station named after Leslie Claudius, and here's wishing Leslie's dream of a repeat of India's Olympic hockey triumph in 1948 of which he was a star player being repeated this year in 2012 - Cheers and all the best to the entire Indian contingent at the London Olympics .let the soothing music of Jana Gana Mana be heard often at the award ceremonies.Jai Hind!

Lack of HIV test kit in tamilnadu

NRHM central government fund Were refund the unspent money in
crore's, its most burden for society,
why they don't analise?

NRHM were get the approval or discuss (higher authority, like health
secretary, Health minister) to the concern person and utilize the
unspent fund for getting HIV testing Kits,but the staff members
convey the issue to that concern person, so the testing centers
running without kit, its opportunity to increase the positive rate,

The centre's staffs also never convey, the people needs and issues to
the concern (higher authority), they having only aim to getting
salary and selfish, don't thing about the people burden,they never
work with their sole, they don't think about gross root level
problems.

The main point i want to share with you thats" why the AIDS Programmes
start under the society registration act (without direct government)
because of the work should implement fast manner but the SACS and NACO
also working lazy they don't think about the people burden,

The society currently facing the problem is Lack of kit, The adult
come to the testing centre (through voluntary with suspection, through
ngo's referral) for HIV test but the centres not having available
kit so the adult create new infections (without his knowledge) and
getting more health problem without take treatment its lead to death
conditions, lack of kit lead to create more new infection and death
rate .

When they get solution for this?

G.Karunanithi
(HUNS - Namakkal)

The KC Mahindra All India Talent Scholarships 2012 enable diploma students to move ahead in their careers Scholarship

The KC Mahindra All India Talent Scholarships 2012 enable diploma students to move ahead in their careers
Scholarship K C Mahindra Education Trust, invites applications for Mahindra All India Talent Scholarships from students who have passed class 10 or class 12 and have secured admission this year in recognised polytechnics for diploma courses.
The 2012 scholarships ` 10,000 pa for a maximum of three academic years will be awarded to selected students.
Eligibility 1. Candidates needs to have passed class 10 or 12 from any recognised board in India 2. Candidates must have secured admission in government or recognised polytechnics for diploma courses.
Selection procedure It is based on an interview at a centre chosen by him/ her.
The dates are intimated to the selected applicants well in advance. The cost of travel, to a certain extent, is also paid to them by the organisation.
Application Students may obtain the application form by sending a self- addressed envelope with ` 6 stamps affixed on it to the following address before July 18. The Executive Director, K C Mahindra Trust, Cecil Court, 3rd Floor, Near Regal Cinema, Mahakavi Bhushan Marg, Mumbai 400001. The Official Application Form will be sent to those students who have qualifications as stated above.

Your Thoughts, Your Words, Your Life

Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts havethe
power to create conditions in your life.
What you speak about, you can bring about.

If you keep saying you can't stand your job,
you might lose your job.

If you keep saying you can't stand your body,
your body can become sick.

If you keep saying you can't stand your car,
your car could be stolen or just stop operating.

If you keep saying you're always broke, guess what?
You'll always be broke.

If you keep saying you can't trust a man or trust a woman,
you will always find someone in your life to hurt and betray you.

If you keep saying you can't find a job,
you will remain unemployed.

If you keep saying you can't find someone
to love you or believe in you,
our very thoughts will attract more
experiences to confirm your beliefs.

Turn your thoughts and conversations around to be more positive
and power packed with faith, hope, love and action.

Don't be afraid to believe that you can
have what you want and deserve.

Watch your "Thoughts,"
they become words;

Watch your "Words,"
they become actions;

Watch your "Actions,"
they become habits;

Watch your "Habits,"
Theybecome character;

Watch your "Character",
for it becomes your "Destiny"

Relationships advice: Small Gifts matter a lot

Just Because.
Give your mate gifts just because. These do not have to be expensive whatsoever. For example, one woman had a miniature dish collection in her kitchen. Her husband came home and told her that he had a gift for her. Holding out her hand, he gently placed in her hand a miniature porcelain cup with her name neatly written in blue ink. She knew that this cup probably cost no more than $2.00 but the thought that he would take the time to find something she enjoyed, was worth $1 million. The small gifts packed with thought are far more cherished.

Indian Scientist Forgotten in Higgs Boson Drama

Scientists in Switzerland said they had discovered a new particle which is likely crucial to current understanding of how the universe is built. But did people know there’s an Indian angle to all off this?

No, not that Indians, like all of us, live in the universe. The long-sought particle, known as Higgs boson, is partly named for an Indian scientist.

The scientist in question, Satyendra Nath Bose, worked with Albert Einstein in the 1920s and made discoveries that led to a kind of particle being named for him.

it was Peter Higgs, a British physicist, who in the 1960s made advances in the field, resulting in the naming of  Higgs boson.

For a start, only the “H” in Higgs boson is capitalized in most cases. In many cases, it’s referred to as the Higgs particle, erasing all allusion to the Indian scientist.

Last year, The Times of India opined "Bosons are virtually everywhere and we cannot escape from these force-carrying particles of nature that enable inanimate matter to interact with each other to create a lively universe. Everyone knows Higgs Bosons- thanks to the Large Hadron Collider experiment. Unfortunately, no one seems to care about, at least conveniently forgets, Satyendra Nath Bose, the late Indian physicist whose last name bears the mark of a set of particles including the elusive Higgs boson.”

"Bosons are virtually everywhere and we cannot escape from these force-carrying particles of nature that enable inanimate matter to interact with each other to create a lively universe. Everyone knows Higgs Bosons- thanks to the Large Hadron Collider experiment. Unfortunately, no one seems to care about, at least conveniently forgets, Satyendra Nath Bose, the late Indian physicist whose last name bears the mark of a set of particles including the elusive Higgs Boson"

Proof that the particle exists would help explain a big puzzle: why some objects in the universe—such as the quark, a constituent of protons—have mass, while other objects—such as photons, the constituent of light—possess only energy.

Satyendra Nath Bose                       Bose-Einstein                                                                                                           

 

Born	1 January 1894 Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata)
Died	4 February 1974 (aged 80) Calcutta, India (now Kolkata)
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Physics and Mathematics
Institutions	University of Dhaka University of Calcutta
Alma mater	University of Calcutta
Known for	Bose–Einstein condensate Bose–Einstein statistics Bose gas
Notable awards	Padma Vibhushan Fellow of the Royal Society

Born: January 1, 1894
Died: February 4, 1974
Achievements: Famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory". A subatomic particle Boson has been named after him. Honored with "Padma Bhushan". 

Satyendra Nath Bose was an outstanding Indian physicist. He is known for his work in Quantum Physics. He is famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory" and a kind of particle in atom has been named after his name as Boson.

Satyendranath Bose was born on January 1, 1894 in Calcutta. His father Surendranath Bose was employed in the Engineering Department of the East India Railway. Satyendranath was the eldest of his seven children.

Satyendra Nath Bose had his schooling from Hindu High School in Calcutta. He was a brilliant student. He passed the ISc in 1911 from the Presidency College, Calcutta securing the first position. Satyendra Nath Bose did his BSc in Mathematics from the Presidency College in 1913 and MSc in Mixed Mathematics in 1915 from the same college. He topped the university in BSc. and MSc. Exams.

In 1916, the Calcutta University started M.Sc. classes in Modern Mathematics and Modern Physics. S.N. Bose started his career in 1916 as a Lecturer in Physics in Calcutta University. He served here from 1916 to 1921. He joined the newly established Dhaka University in 1921 as a Reader in the Department of Physics. In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose published an article titled Max Planck's Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis. This article was sent to Albert Einstein. Einstein appreciated it so much that he himself translated it into German and sent it for publication to a famous periodical in Germany - 'Zeitschrift fur Physik'. The hypothesis received a great attention and was highly appreciated by the scientists. It became famous to the scientists as 'Bose-Einstein Theory'.

In 1926, Satyendra Nath Bose became a Professor of Physics in Dhaka University. Though he had not completed his doctorate till then, he was appointed as professor on Einstein's recommendation. In 1929 Satyendranath Bose was elected chairman of the Physics of the Indian Science Congress and in 1944 elected full chairman of the Congress. In 1945, he was appointed as Khaira Professor of Physics in Calcutta University. He retired from Calcutta University in 1956. The University honored him on his retirement by appointing him as Emeritus Professor. Later he became the Vice Chancellor of the Viswabharati University. In 1958, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.

Satyendra Nath Bose was honored with 'Padmabhusan' by the Indian Government in recognition of his outstanding achievement. He died in Kolkata on February 4, 1974.

Bose-Einstein Statistics

While presenting a lecture at the University of Dhaka on the theory of radiation and the ultraviolet catastrophe, Bose intended to show his students that the contemporary theory was inadequate, because it predicted results not in accordance with experimental results. During this lecture, Bose committed an error in applying the theory, which unexpectedly gave a prediction that agreed with the experiment (he later adapted this lecture into a short article called Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta).

The error was a simple mistake—similar to arguing that flipping two fair coins will produce two heads one-third of the time—that would appear obviously wrong to anyone with a basic understanding of statistics. However, the results it predicted agreed with experiment, and Bose realized it might not be a mistake at all. He for the first time took the position that the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution would not be true for microscopic particles where fluctuations due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle will be significant. Thus he stressed the probability of finding particles in the phase space, each state having volume h³, and discarding the distinct position and momentum of the particles.

He wrote to Albert Einstein

“I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal and opinion. I am anxious to know what you think of it. You will see that I have tried to deduce the coefficient 8π v²/c³ in Planck’s Law independent of classical electrodynamics, only assuming that the elementary regions in the phase-space has the content h³. I do not know sufficient German to translate the paper. If you think the paper worth publication I shall be grateful if you arrange for its publication in Zeitschrift für Physic. Though a complete stranger to you, I do not feel any hesitation in making such a request. Because we are all your pupils though profiting only by your teachings through your writings. I do not know whether you still remember that somebody from Calcutta asked your permission to translate your papers on Relativity in English. You acceded to the request. The book has since published. I was the one who translated your paper on Generalised Relativity.”

Einstein agreed with him, translated Bose's paper "Planck's Law and Hypothesis of Light Quanta" into German, and saw to it that it was published in Zeitschrift für Physik under Bose's name, in 1924.

The reason Bose's "mistake" produced accurate results was that since photons are indistinguishable from each other, one cannot treat any two photons having equal energy as being two distinct identifiable photons. By analogy, if in an alternate universe coins were to behave like photons and other bosons, the probability of producing two heads would indeed be one-third (tail-head = head-tail). Bose's "error" is now called Bose–Einstein statistics. This result derived by Bose laid the foundation of quantum statistics, as acknowledged by Einstein and Dirac.

Einstein adopted the idea and extended it to atoms. This led to the prediction of the existence of phenomena which became known as Bose-Einstein condensate, a dense collection of bosons (which are particles with integer spin, named after Bose), which was demonstrated to exist by experiment in 1995.

Although more than one Nobel Prize was awarded for research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose–Einstein statistics and Bose–Einstein condensate—the latest being the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was given for advancing the theory of Bose–Einstein condensates—Bose himself was not awarded the Nobel Prize.

In his book, The Scientific Edge, the noted physicist Jayant Narlikar observed:

S. N. Bose’s work on particle statistics (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light in an enclosure) and opened the door to new ideas on statistics of Microsystems that obey the rules of quantum theory, was one of the top ten achievements of 20th century Indian science and could be considered in the Nobel Prize class.

Possible outcomes of flipping two coins
Two heads	Two tails	One of each

There are three outcomes. What is the probability of producing two heads?

Outcome probabilities
		Coin 1
		Head	Tail
Coin 2	Head	HH	HT
	Tail	TH	TT

Since the coins are distinct, there are two outcomes which produce a head and a tail. The probability of two heads is one-quarter.

Velocity-distribution data of a gas of rubidiumatoms, confirming the discovery of a new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate. Left: just before the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. Center: just after the appearance of the condensate. Right: after further evaporation, leaving a sample of nearly pure condensate.

Discovery May Help Tell Universe's Secrets

After Half-Century Search, Scientists Pin Down Higgs-Like Particle, Closing In on Explanation for Why All Objects Exist

The particle's namesake, British physicist Peter Higgs was one of several theorists in the 1960s to predict its existence. 'It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime,' he said.

Physicists said they had discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle crucial to scientists' current understanding of how the universe is built..."We have observed a new boson," said Joe Incandela of the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of one of the groups reporting the new data. His colleague Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general of CERN, put it in simpler terms: "I think we have it," he said. The particle is named after British physicist Peter Higgs, one of the theorists who predicted its existence nearly a half-century ago. Now 83 years old, the unassuming Mr. Higgs attended the meeting in Geneva. Bosuns themselves are named in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose, Albert Einstein's Indian collaborator.

Mr. Higgs received a round of applause as he entered the auditorium, and shed a tear when news of the Higgs-like particle was announced. "It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said.

It's been a tough quest, involving thousands of scientists in dozens of countries. No one could predict the mass of the Higgs boson, so they had to hunt for it indirectly. This was done at CERN by propelling particles to near-light speed and then smashing them together to generate an array of other subatomic particles.
The researchers hoped that one such particle would be the Higgs itself, though it would almost instantly decay into different combinations of other particles. Finding it would then involve looking for statistically significant "excesses" of those particles.
The latest experiments at LHC found excesses of this sort in the data. The newly discovered particle is definitely a boson and one of the heaviest such particles to be discovered so far, CERN said. It has a mass of between 125-126 GeV, or gigaelectronvolts, making it about 134 times as heavy as a proton.
The Higgs particle offers an answer to how particles might acquire mass. Physicists hypothesize that as the universe cooled after the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, a force known as the Higgs field formed, along with the particle.
Under this scenario, the Higgs field permeates the universe, and any particles that interact with it are given a mass through the Higgs boson. The more they interact, the heavier they become. Particles that don't interact with the Higgs field are left with no mass at all.
"It is like a big vat of molasses," said Dan Green, a physicist at Fermilab. "As particles go through this, they travel at less than the speed of light and it looks like they acquire mass."
It remains to be seen whether CERN's particle is exactly the one predicted by the standard model or an exotic version. If it is a variant, that would suggest an even more intriguing description of reality.

The three-story, 6,000-ton CDF detector that records snapshots of particles at the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider near Chicago. Scientists at the facility released fresh data bolstering the case for the existence of the Higgs boson

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Thanks & Regards, Raj. Kumar (courtesy to Wikipedia, Wallstreet, OneIndia, Times of India websites)

hiring only married men

A factory had a policy of hiring only married men. Concerned about this, a local Woman's Liberation Front Leader called on the CEO and asked him,

"Why is it you limit your employees to married men?

It must be because you consider us women are weak, dumb, cantankerous (bad-tempered & complaining a lot) or do you consider us as tantrum throwers, bossy, etc?"

"Not at all, Ma'am," the CEO replied.

"Our policy is to hire staff:

Who are used to obeying orders without questioning;

 Who are accustomed to being shoved around;

Know how to keep their mouths shut; and

Put up with anything when I yell at them

And we only find these qualities in Married Men