It’s easy to solve this equation (1+x)^n rather than understanding life….so don’t try to understand much and enjoy more….

“The headcount reductions have begun and will continue into 2009… the company also plans to forgo 2009 salary increases in most of the company’s markets,” Unisys Corporation said in a statement.

Unisys said that it is exploring a wide range of cost-reduction options and that actions currently underway are expected to reduce its annual cost structure by more than USD 225 million.

The cost-reduction actions –led by new Unisys Chairman and CEO Ed Coleman — are part of an overall programme to simplify the company’s business structure, concentrate its resources more effectively and drive improved market success and profitability, Unisys added.

The initial cost-reduction actions are focused on reducing selling, general and administrative (SGandA) expenses and controlling or reducing labor costs across the board.

“The company plans to reduce its spending on third-party expenses, facility consolidations, head-count reductions and a suspension of company matching contributions to the US 401(k) plan, which had been costing about USD 50 million annually,” the statement added.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20081223/1265/tbs-unisys-to-axe-1-300-jobs-suspends-sa.html

The Sadhu kind enuf to pose for me

The clock tower on the Banks of Ganges!

We stayed in a hotel called “Aarthi Darshan” which is just across this tower. The hotel is a pathetic one in terms of cleaniness or service, but then its location waives all its disadvantages. From the balcony of this place, we can have a look at the Ganges all thru the day!

Another disadvantage of the hotel was “Monkey Trouble”, as the balcony has no grills we never know when it will come and sit next to us to give us company! ))

The “Aarthi” for Ganges takes place twice in a day Morning around 6am and evening @ 6pm!! This is a spiritually enlightening experience just to attend the Aarthi.. The community prayer blaring in the loud speakers and the Aarthi itself against the back drop of the vibrant river – is peaceful thingy!!

We have to keep our wallets careful as the place is crowded during the Aarthi session. Also beware of the Sadhus who aim at minting money.

After the aarthi session, my sister and I went on a walk along the Bazzar. It was a delightful experience!

The agarbhathi stand that my sister brought for her!

Mouth watering Pedas!

All kinds of accesories! I couldnt resist and hence bought a copper ring!
Copper is supposed to be good for the skin!!

My niece is a shoe freak!! She is just 2 and half and she wants matching slippers for every dress that she wears!
But with beautiful slippers like this, why not pamper her, so we picked one for her

Designer Dress for adorning God and Goddess @ home!

Cute Krishna!

)) How is it??

More sweets!!

It found that a belief in one weakens positive feelings for the other and this effect appears to be independent of a person’s religious background or views, said University of Illinois psychology professor Jesse Preston, who led the research.

Preston and her colleague, Nicholas Epley, of the University of Chicago, wanted to explore how information about science influences a belief in God, and how religious teaching can also cause people to doubt certain scientific theories. They conducted two experiments designed to manipulate how well science or God can be used as explanations.

In the first experiment, 129 volunteers read short summaries of the Big Bang theory and the “Primordial Soup Hypothesis,” a scientific theory of the origin of life. Half then read a statement that said that the theories were strong and supported by the data. The other half read that the theories “raised more questions than they answered.”

In the second experiment, which involved 27 undergraduate students, half of the study subjects had to “list six things that you think God can explain.” The others were asked to “list six things that you think can explain or influence God.”

All the subjects were then required to quickly categorize various words as positive or negative on a computer.

“What they didn’t realize was that they were being subliminally primed immediately before each word. So right before the word ‘awful’ came up on the screen, for example, there was a 15-millisecond flash of either ‘God’ or ’science’ or a control word,” Preston said.

A 15-millisecond visual cue is too brief to register in the conscious mind, but the brief word flash did have an effect. Those who had read statements emphasizing the explanatory power of science prior to the test were able to categorize positive words appearing just after the word, “science,” more quickly than those who had read statements critical of the scientific theories.

The researchers found that those who were asked to use God as an ultimate explanation for various phenomena displayed a more positive association with God and a much more negative association with science than those directed to list other things that can explain God.

Preston said that similarly, those who read the statement suggesting that the scientific theories were weak were extremely slow to identify negative words that appeared after they were primed with the word “God.”

“It was like they didn’t want to say no to God. What is really intriguing is that the larger effect happens on the opposite belief. When God isn’t being used to explain much, people have a positive attitude toward science. But when God is being used to account for many events – especially the things that they list, which are life, the universe, free will, these big questions – then somehow science loses its value,” she said.

“On the other hand, people may have a generally positive view of science until it fails to explain the important questions. Then belief in God may be boosted to fill in the gap,” she added.

Preston said that the most obvious implication of the research is that “to be compatible, science and religion need to stick to their own territories, their own explanatory space.”

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081216/981/tsc-belief-in-god-weakens-positive-feeli.html

This new “enhanced” form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-E), developed by researchers at Wellcome Trust, builds on and improves the current leading treatment for bulimia nervosa as recommended by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

CBT-E is the first treatment to be shown to be suitable for the majority of cases of eating disorders.

According to NICE, eating disorders are a major cause of physical and psychosocial impairment in young women, affecting at least one in twenty women between the ages of 18 and 30. They also occur in young men but are less common.

Three eating disorders are recognised: anorexia nervosa, which accounts for around one in ten cases in adults; bulimia nervosa, which accounts for a third of all cases; and the remainder are classed as “atypical eating disorders, which account for over half of all cases. In these atypical cases the features of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are combined in a different way.

The three eating disorders vary in their severity, but typically involve extreme and relentless dieting, self-induced vomiting or laxative misuse, binge eating, driven exercising and in some cases marked weight loss. Common associated features are depression, social withdrawal, perfectionism and low self-esteem.

The disorders tend to run a chronic course and are notoriously difficult to treat. Relapse is common.

This new treatment derives from an earlier form of CBT that was designed exclusively for patients with bulimia nervosa. Both were developed by Professor Christopher Fairburn, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

In 2004, the earlier treatment became the first psychotherapy to be recognised by NICE as the leading treatment for a clinical condition and its use was recommended across the NHS.

Now, in a new study, Professor Fairburn and colleagues have shown that the enhanced version of the treatment is not only more potent than the earlier NICE-recommended treatment, but it can also be used to treat both bulimia nervosa and the atypical eating disorders, making it suitable for over 80 percent of cases of eating disorders.

“Eating disorders are serious mental health problems and can be very distressing for both patients and their families. Now for the first time, we have a single treatment which can be effective at treating the majority of cases without the need for patients to be admitted into hospital,” said Professor Fairburn.

The study is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081215/981/tsc-new-psychotherapy-effective-against.html

• २. बप्तिस्मा

“जल से शुद्धिकरण अपराधों से क्षमा तथा पुनर्जीवन के लिए है । शुद्धिकरण प्राकृतिक जल में ही होना चाहिए, जैसे कि नदी, सागर या झरने में । जिसका शुद्धिकरण जल तथा पवित्र आत्मा के साथ हो चुका है, यह संस्कार भगवान यीशु के नाम से करेगा । जिसका शुद्धिकरण हो रहा हो उसे जल में पूर्णतया समाना होगा तथा वह सामने की ओर नतमस्तक होगा ।”

• ३. चरण धुलाई

“चरण धोने का संस्कार प्रभु ईशु से सम्बंधित होने की योग्यता प्रदान करती है। यह इस बात का स्मरण कराने का कार्य भी करती है कि हर किसी के पास प्रेम, पवित्रता, नम्रता, क्षमाशीलता तथा सेवाभाव के गुण होने चाहिये। उस प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को जिसे कि बपतिस्मा जल की प्राप्ति हुई हो प्रभु ईशु के नाम पर चरण अवश्य धोने चाहिये। दृढ़ संकल्प के साथ परस्पर चरण धोने का अभ्यास किया जा सकता है।”

• ४. ईश्वर से पवित्र संबंध

“पवित्र समागम भगवान यीशु की मृत्यु की याद में मनाया जाता है । यह हमें अपने ईश्वर के अंग बनने की क्षमता प्रदान करता है, ताकि हमारा जीवन अनन्तकाल तक बना रहे और क़यामत के दिन हमारी आत्मा परलौकिक हो जाय । यह संस्कार जितनी अधिक आवृति के साथ संभव हो, होना चाहिए तथा केवल खमीररहित रोटी तथा अंगूर का रस ही प्रयुक्त होना चाहिए ।”

• ५. विश्राम दिवस

“विश्राम दिवस, सप्ताह का सातवाँ दिन (शनिवार), पवित्र दिन होता है जिसे कि ईश्वर की पवित्रता तथा आशीर्वाद प्राप्त है। इस दिन को ईश्वर कृति (संसार) से मुक्ति पाने के लिये प्रभु के आशीर्वाद एवं जीवन में शाश्वत विश्राम प्राप्त करने की आशा के रूप में देखना चाहिये।”

http://newbornchurch.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/10/-5.htm

Diwali is queen of festivals
diwali is celebrated as homecoming Of
Lord Rama to Ayodhya
The people of ayodhya decorated the whole city with diyas
Diwali can be dangerous to Nature
A safer Diwali
Take care of sick and little children
Look into many deprived
Many old people in old homes
Lord Rama went to excile for fourteen years
To fulfill the promise of his father
Many children sent their parents to excile
Bring them back from such excile with vow not to sent back again
It will be great diwali celebration and gift for them
Visit an orphanage with your children to celebrate diwali
so that your children know to share humanity
And it will be great celebration for children
who live in orphanages
Visit the people who are alone in this world
And share diwali celebration
Use mud diyas to go back to nature .
In my house I celebrate diwali with simplicity
Prayers and gifts to people who work for me
And share my recipes with them as my family members.

http://aroona.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/10/diwali-festival-of-lights-sulekha-com.htm

But what was the purpose of these group-based institutions that were formed centuries ago and still affect our lives? Initially religion was built to bring spiritual enlightenment among the masses. The intention behind its formation was to evoke the feeling of love among humanity and towards God.

But with passing time, somewhere the true sense of religion has been lost and the medium which was considered to be the path to love is now no more than a frame holding and promoting a set of rules, rituals and blind acts doing no good to humanity. Now religion is used as a tool to manipulate, exploit and gain power over the masses and to promote fear.

The God of religion is one to be feared, who judges and punishes if one stands to question him or deviates from ancient rules. But surely that is unnatural? Surely God only observes, having provided free will to every soul nourished by him on this earth, to experience and live this life in a constructive way? Our True God, I feel, doesn’t expect us to follow any religion or perform any rituals, instead he wants us to be a better human with each passing day and learn from every moment by analyzing and understanding our experiences.

We should face every phase of our life with full faith in him, not in fear of him. Every human being should form and build their own relationship with God if they wish understand the true meaning of life, otherwise they would spend their entire lives following only rules.

In the eyes of God, every human, of whatever gender, caste, religion, community or sexuality is the same. We human has no right to distinguish anyone by our judgment because the only language of God is Truth and Truth means human kindness.

That is the only reality acceptable to both heart and head.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20081017/1074/tod-true-meaning-of-god.html

According to the experts, the chances of developing a malignant tumour are “significantly increased” for people who use a mobile for ten years.

The shocking finding is the result of the biggest ever study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organisation.

The experts found a type of brain tumour called glioma is more likely in long-term mobile users.

French experts analysed data from 13 countries, including Britain.

Although researchers admit the cause is unknown, but according to them radiation from handsets could be the trigger.

“To underestimate the risk would be a complete disaster,” the Sun quoted study chief Professor Elisabeth Cardis, as saying.

However, a British expert insisted mobiles are not dangerous.

Professor Patricia McKinney of the University of Leeds said: “Reasonable use is unlikely to increase the risk of tumours.” (ANI)

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081016/936/thl-mobile-phones-really-do-up-brain-can.html

The boffins found that individuals who ate the milk product saw their risk of suffering from the disease drop by 40 per cent compared to those who rarely touched yogurt.

Researchers reckon that bacteria in yogurt gives the protection.

To reach the conclusion, the experts looked at the diets of more than 80,000 volunteers over nine years and found that the 500 who developed bladder cancer were likely not to have eaten much yogurt.

The scientists said that having about two average-sized tubs of yogurt a day reduced the risk by 45 per cent in women and 36 per cent in men.

But not all dairy products were found to have the same benefit.

“Cultured milk products such as yogurt contain lactic acid bacteria and have been shown to suppress bladder cancer in rats,” the Daily Express quoted the researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, as saying.

“Our research suggests a high intake may reduce the risk,” they added.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081017/936/thl-eating-yogurt-every-day-cuts-bladder.html