Tuesday, March 31, 2009

~*~Building India: 49-O in Constitution of India - "I VOTE NOBODY"~*~

Information must be known by everyone in INDIA - 49-O in Constitution of India - "I VOTE NOBODY"  
Source - http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 49-O 
Did you know that there is a system in our constitution, as per the 1969 act, in section " 49-O" that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he doesn't want to vote anyone! 
Yes such a feature is available, but obviously these leaders have never disclosed it. 
This is called "49-O". 
Why should you go and say " I VOTE NOBODY"... because, in a ward, if a candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward has received "49-O" votes more than 123, then that polling will be cancelled and will have to be re-polled. Not only that, but the candidature of the contestants will be removed and they cannot contest the re-polling, since people had already expressed their decision on them. 
This would bring fear into parties and hence look for genuine candidates for their parties for election. This would change the way; of our whole political system.... it is seemingly surprising why the election commission has not revealed such a feature to the public.... 

Seems to be a wonderful weapon against corrupt parties in India ... show your power, expressing your desire not to vote for anybody, is even more powerful than voting... so don't miss your chance. So either vote, or vote not to vote (vote 49-O)... 
Use your voting right for a better INDIA

Monday, March 23, 2009

~*~I am an Indian~*~

AN AMERICAN VISITED INDIA AND WENT BACK TO AMERICA 

WHERE HE MET HIS INDIAN FRIEND WHO ASKED HIM 

HOW DID U FIND MY COUNTRY 

THE AMERICAN SAID IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY 

WITH SOLID ANCIENT HISTORY 

AND IMMENSELY RICH WITH NATURAL RESOURCES. 

THE INDIAN FRIEND THEN ASKED …. 

HOW DID U FIND INDIANS ……...?? 

INDIANS?? 

WHO INDIANS?? 

I DIDNT FIND OR MEET A SINGLE INDIAN 

THERE IN INDIA ……. 

WHAT NONSENSE?? 

WHO ELSE CAN U MEET IN INDIA THEN……?? 

THE AMERICAN SAID …….. 


IN KASHMIR,GUJARAT,BIHAR,MAHARASTRA,PUNJAB, RAJ ASTHAN, BENGAL,TAMILNADU....

I MET A KASHMIRI,GUJARATI,BIHARI,MARATHI,PUNJABI, MARWADI, BENGALI,TAMILIAN, MALAYALI………  


THEN I MET 

A MUSLIM, 

A HINDU 

A CHRISTIAN, 

A JAIN, 

A BUDDHIST 

AND MANY MANY MORE 

BUT NOT A SINGLE INDIAN DID I MEET 


………………………………………………………….. 

THINK HOW SERIOUS THIS JOKE IS…………….. 

THE DAY WOULD NOT BE FAR OFF WHEN INDEED WE WOULD 

BEC OM E A COLLECTION OF NATION STATES AS SOME 

REGIONAL ANTI-NATIONAL POLITICIANS WANT ... 

FIGHT BACK - 

ALWAYS SAY I AM INDIAN 

JAI HIND


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

~*~DONT FORGET TO LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL EXISTS...... ~*~

When 

The school reopened in June, 

And we settled in our new desks and 

benches! 


When we queued up in book depot, 

And got our new books

and notes! 


When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet 

managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.. 

We learnt writing with 

slates and pencils, and

Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips! 


When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to

Color pencils and finally sketch pens! 


When we started calculating 

first with tables and then with 

Clarke's tables and advanced to 

Calculators and computers! 


When we chased one another in the 

corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms 

Drenched in sweat! 


When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors, 

Playgrounds, 

under the trees and even in cycle sheds! 


When all the colors in the world, 

Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!


When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,

Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons! 


When cricket was played with writing pads as bats, 

And Neckties and socks rolled into balls! 


When few played 

'kabadi' and 'Kho-Kho' in scorching sun, 

While others simply played

'book cricket' in the 

Confines of classroom! 


Of fights but no conspiracies, 

Of Competitions but seldom jealousy! 


When we used to 

watch Live Cricket telecast,

In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks! 


When few rushed at 3:45 to 

'Conquer' window seats in our School bus! 

While few others had 'Big Fun', 'peppermint' ,

'kulfi', ' milk ice !' and 'sharbat !' at 4o Clock! 

Gone are the days 

Of Sports Day, 

and the annual School Day , 

And the one-month long 

preparations for them. 


Gone are the days 

Of the stressful Quarterly, 

Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most 

enjoyed holidays after them! 


Gone are the days 

Of tenth and twelfth standards, when 

We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!

We learnt, 

We enjoyed,

We played,

We won, 

We lost, 

We laughed,

We cried, 

We fought,

We thought.

With so much fun in them, so many friends, 

So much experience, all this and more! 


Gone are the days 

When we used 

to talk for hours with our friends!

Now we don't have time to say a `Hi'! 


Gone are the days 

When we played games on the road!

Now we 

Code on the road with laptop! 


Gone are the days 

When we saw stars Shining at Night! 

Now we see stars when our code doesn't Work! 


Gone are the days 

When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds! 

Now we chat in chat rooms......! 


Gone are the days 

Where we 

studied just to pass! 

Now we study to save our job! 

Gone are the days 

Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!! 

Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!! 

Gone are the days 

Where we shouted on the road! 

Now we don't shout even at home 

Gone are the days

Where we got lectures from all!

Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!! 

Gone are the days 

But not the memories, which will be 

Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and 

Ever and ever and ever ..... 


Gone are the Days.... But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!! 

NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,

DONT FORGET TO 

LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL

EXISTS...... ...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

~*~Do's and Don't's while using the INTERNET~*~

Do's and Don't's while using the INTERNET

With hacking, viruses and what-have-you attacking your computer, here is a list of do's and don'ts that you should enforce when you are using your machine… 

  

* DO use passwords that are difficult to guess. Choose a password that uses a combination of characters, numbers and symbols. 
  

* DO change your password regularly. 
  

* DO use an antivirus program on your computer and keep it up to date. 
  

* DO use an anti-spyware program and be sure to run it on a regular basis. 


* DO apply operating system software patches to your computer. 

  
* DO turn off your computer when you don't expect to use it for an extended period of time, such as just before you leave work. 


* DO lock your workstation, if possible, when you're not using it. 


* DO be aware of scams and hoaxes. 


* DO make a backup of your important data and keep it in a safe place. 
 

* DO use a VPN when using remote access to your work computer or when using wireless technology. 
  

* DO use a personal firewall where applicable, such as a PC. 
  

* DO use your commonsense, if you get a bad feeling about something, it probably is. 
 

* DON'T write down your passwords to remember them (and don't tape them on your computer monitor). 
  

* DON'T set your computer to remember your passwords when accessing specific web sites or applications. 
  

* DON'T use auto fill programs to automatically fill in your personal information on web sites. 
  

* DON'T open any emails with any of the following subject lines: Test, hi, hello, Mail Delivery System, Mail Deliver Failed, Mail Transaction, Failed, Unable to Deliver (mail, message, etc), Server Report, Status, Error, Urgent, Or anything else that even "feels" like it's urging you to hurry up and open this email. 
  

* DON'T open attachments if you are unsure of the sender. 
  

* DON'T leave your computer unlocked when you are away. 
  

* DON'T leave your computer turned on overnight. 
  

* DON'T install unknown programs on your computer. 
  

* DON'T use file sharing programs or download copyrighted material to your computer. 
  

* DON'T use illegal or pirated software.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

~*~Is India a poor country - Revelation of Swiss Bank Accounts~*~

Revelation of Swiss bank accounts
 
This is so shocking.......If black money deposits was an Olympics event.... India would have won a gold medal hands down. The second best Russia has 4 times lesser deposit. U.S. is not even there in the counting in top five! India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined!
Recently, due to international pressure, the Swiss government agreed to disclose the names of the account holders only if the respective governments formally asked for it. Indian government is not asking for the details.......no marks for guessing why?
 
We need to start a movement to pressurise the government to do so! This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity, to expose the high and mighty and weed out corruption!
 
Is India poor, who says? Ask the Swiss banks. With personal account deposit bank of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?
 
DISHONEST INDUSTRIALISTS, scandalous politicians and corrupt IAS, IRS, IPS officers have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts a sum of about $1500 billion, which have been misappropriated by them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt.. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them. Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India , the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.
 
Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of whom 25,000 travel very frequently. 'Obviously, these people won't be tourists. They must be travelling there for some other reason,' believes an official involved in tracking illegal money. And, clearly, he isn't referring to the commerce ministry bureaucrats who've been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin!
 
Just read the following details and note how these dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a few, sucked this country's wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks?
 
Black money in Swiss banks -- Swiss Banking Association report, 2006 details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries:
 
TOP FIVE
 
 INDIA $1,456 BILLION
 RUSSIA $470 BILLION
 U.K. $390 BILLION
 UKRAINE $100 BILLION
 CHINA $96 BILLION

 
Now do the math's - India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947:
 
Can we bring back our money? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the Aam Aadmi (common man) since 1947, by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.
 
The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world's best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of 'Swiss bank accounts,' the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.
 
In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the twentieth century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding demonstrating that $11..5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by rich individuals across the globe.
 
The findings estimated that a large proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker -- in his widely celebrated book titled 'Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free Market System' -- estimates that at least $5 trillion have been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970.
 
It is further estimated by experts that one per cent of the world's population holds more than 57 per cent of total global wealth, routing it invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is anybody's guess.
 
What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. Naturally, the secrecy associated with the bank accounts in such places is central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term 'tax havens' suggests. Remember Bofors and how India could not trace the ultimate beneficiary of those transactions because of the secrecy associated with these bank accounts?
 
IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN SAVE INDIA?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

~*~5-Are we friendly with our life?~*~

Other green materials

  * Raw vegetable peelings from your kitchen
  * Tea bags and leaves, coffee grounds
  * Young green weed growth – avoid weeds with seeds
  * Soft green prunings
  * Animal manure from herbivores eg cows and horses
  * Poultry manure and bedding

'Browns' or carbon rich ingredients - slow to rot
Torn up newspaper and junk mail make good dry material

  * Cardboard eg. cereal packets and egg boxes
  * Waste paper and junk mail, including shredded confidential waste
  * Cardboard tubes
  * Glossy magazines – although it is better for the environment to pass them on to your local doctors’ or dentists' surgery or send them for recycling
  * Newspaper – although it is better for the environment to send your newspapers for recycling
  * Bedding from vegetarian pets eg rabbits, guinea pigs – hay, straw, shredded paper, wood shavings
  * Tough hedge clippings
  * Woody prunings
  * Old bedding plants
  * Bracken
  * Sawdust
  * Wood shavings
  * Fallen leaves can be composted but the best use of them is to make leafmould

Other compostable items

  * Wood ash, in moderation
  * Hair, nail clippings
  * Egg shells (crushed)
  * Natural fibres eg. 100% wool or cotton

Do NOT compost

  * Meat
  * Fish
  * Cooked food
  * Coal & coke ash
  * Cat litter
  * Dog faeces
  * Disposable nappies

How do I make my compost?

You can make compost simply by adding compostable items to a compost heap when you feel like it. It will all compost eventually but may take a long time and if the mix is unbalanced, may not produce a very pleasant end product. With a little extra attention you could improve things dramatically. If you want to produce more compost in a short time, and are able to put more effort into it, follow the 'HOT HEAP' route.
An ideal mix

To make good compost you need a more or less equal amount of 'greens' and 'browns' by volume. You can also include small amounts of the 'other ingredients' listed in the What can I compost section.

The Cool! heap route


  1.

  Try, if possible, to collect enough compost materials to make a layer of at least 30cm or more in the compost bin. Weed the garden, mow the lawn, empty the kitchen bucket! Mix in some straw, woody prunings, scrunched up cardboard packaging eg cereal boxes – this helps create air spaces within the heap. It may help if you place a few woody plant stems or small twigs on the bottom first as this will improve the air circulation and drainage.
  2.

  Continue to fill the container as and when you have ingredients. If most of what you compost is kitchen waste, mix it with egg boxes, toilet roll middles and similar household paper and cardboard products to create a better balance.
  3.

  When the container is full - which it may never be as the contents will sink as it composts - or when you decide to, stop adding any more. Then either just leave it to finish composting (which could take up to a year) or go to Step 4.
  4.

  Remove the container from the material, or the material from the container – whichever you find easiest. If the lower layers have composted, use this on the garden. Mix everything else together well. Add water if it is dry, or add dry material if it is soggy. Replace in the bin and leave to mature.

The Hot! heap route

  1.

  Gather enough material to fill your compost container at one go. Some of this may have been stored in a cool heap and have started to rot slightly. Make sure you have a mixture of soft and tough materials.
  2.

  Chop up tough items using shears, a sharp spade (lay items out on soil or grass to avoid jarring) or a shredder.
  3.

  Mix ingredients together as much as possible before adding to the container. In particular, mix items, such as grass mowings and any shredded paper, which tend to settle and exclude air, with more open items that tend to dry out. Fill the container as above, watering as you go.
  4.

  If you have the energy, give the heap a good mix several times.
  Give the heap a good mix
  Within a few days, the heap is likely to get hot to the touch. When it begins to cool down, or a week or two later, turn the heap. Remove everything from the container or lift the container off and mix it all up, trying to get the outside to the inside. Add water if it is dry, or dry material if it is soggy. Replace in the bin.
  5.

  The heap may well heat up again; the new supply of air you have mixed in allows the fast acting aerobic microbes, ie those that need oxygen, to continue with their work. Step 4 can be repeated several more times if you have the energy, but the heating will be less and less. When it no longer heats up again, leave it undisturbed to finish composting.

A hybrid route

There’s nothing wrong with doing a bit of both. Fill your heap as you create waste (as for the cool method), then turn it when you have time. This will help it heat up. You can turn it as much or as rarely as you please – the more often you turn the heap, the quicker your compost will be ready.
When is it ready?

Compost can be made in as little as six to eight weeks, or, more usually, it can take a year or more. In general, the more effort you put in, the quicker you will get compost.

When the ingredients you have put in your container have turned into a dark brown, earthy smelling material, the composting process is complete. It is then best left for a month or two to 'mature' before it is used. Don't worry if your compost is not fine and crumbly. Even if it is lumpy, sticky or stringy, with bits of twig and eggshell still obvious, it is quite usable. It can be sieved before using if you prefer. Any large bits can be added back into your new compost heap.


Compost hints & tips

Autumn leaves


These can be added to your compost heap but the best use of them is to make leafmould. Stuff wet leaves into black plastic sacks (loosely tied), or an open wire mesh container. The resulting leafmould is ready to use after a year or two.

Grass mowings

Mix well with browns to avoid a slimy mess. Alternatively, leave on the lawn whenever possible - they will soon disappear and feed the grass; this will not cause 'thatch'. Can also be mixed into a leafmould heap, or used directly as a soil mulch.

Diseased plants


Plant materials suffering from soil-borne diseases such as clubroot and white rot should not be added to a compost heap. Anything else can be safely composted in a hot heap. Diseases that don’t need living matter to survive, such as grey mould, mildews, and wilts, may survive in a cold heap. But heat is not the only factor that will kill diseases: the intense microbial activity in a compost heap also helps to dispose of them. Some diseases, such as tomato and potato blight need living plant tissue to survive and will not last long without it. It is fine to add foliage suffering from these diseases to your hot or cold compost heap.

If in doubt, leave it out. Problem materials can be sent to your local council green waste recycling facility where the composting methods are hot enough to kill any problem organisms. – .

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Perennial weeds

Some perennial weeds will be killed in a hot heap; avoid really persistent horrors such as celandine, docks, bulbous buttercup, ground elder and bindweed. Don't burn or dump these weeds - they are rich in plant foods. Mix with grass mowings in a plastic sack. Tie it up and leave for a few months until the weeds are no longer recognisable, then add to the compost heap. Or send them to your local council green waste recycling facility where the composting methods are hot enough to kill them off.

Weed seeds

Weed seeds may survive a cool heap, but should be killed in a hot one. If your finished compost tends to grow weeds, dig it in rather than spreading it on the soil surface.

Hedge clippings and prunings

Chop or shred tough prunings and clippings from evergreen hedges before adding to a mixed compost heap. Compost large quantities separately; even unshredded they will compost eventually. Mix with grass or other activating material; water well. Tread down the heap, then cover. In anything from a few months to a few years you will have a coarse mulch which can be used on perennial beds.

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Animal manures

Strawy horse and cattle manure composts well. Manure mixed with wood shavings should be left to rot until the shavings have decomposed. If it is dry, water well and mix with grass mowings, poultry manure or other activating (ie ‘green’ or nitrogen rich) material. When rotted use as a surface mulch.

Small pets, like hamsters, don't produce many droppings but you can still use their waste as a strawy addition to the compost heap. Guinea pigs are marvellous - they love eating weeds and convert them quickly to prime compost material!

Paper products

Newspaper can be added to a compost heap, but in any quantity it should go for recycling into more paper. Cardboard, paper towels and other paper items can be scrunched up and composted. They are particularly useful where kitchen scraps make up a high proportion of the compost ingredients. Glossy paper takes a long time to rot down. Coloured inks are quite safe to compost.

Sawdust and wood shavings

Very slow to decay. Raw or uncomposted wood shavings incorporated into the soil can lock up soil nitrogen, making it unavailable for plants for a year or more. Add in small quantities; balance with quick-to-rot activating materials. See also 'Animal manures' above. Do not use if treated with wood preservatives.