Very good conversation

A VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION : Worth Reading
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his New Christian Students to stand and . . .
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you Believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD Good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL – POWERFUL ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm? (Student was silent )
Professor : You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, Young Fella. Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from ?
Student : From . . . GOD . . .
Professor : That’s right. Tell Me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil ? (Student did not answer)
Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the World, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who Created them ? (Student had no answer)
Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you. Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes,Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t. (The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )
Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat. But we don’t have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as Cold. Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. We cannot Measure Cold. Heat is Energy. Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it. (There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )
Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn’t Darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light . . . But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, Darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir? (The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going )
Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher? (The Class was in Uproar )
Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor’s Brain? (The Class broke out into Laughter )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . . No one appears to have done so. So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that You have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir? (The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable)
Professor : I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir . . . Exactly ! The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.

That student was Albert Einstein. So, I am told.

Subroto Bagchi CEO MindTree’s speech:- nice and meaningful

This speech was delivered to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on defining success by Subroto Bagchi CEO MindTree.

I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was, and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was home-schooled. My father used to get transferred every year. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep – so the family moved from place to place and without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she married my Father.
My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system, which makes me what I am today and largely, defines what success means to me today.
As District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the government. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked in our house. My father refused to use it to commute to the office. He told us that the jeep is an expensive resource given by the government- he reiterated to us that it was not ”his jeep” but the government’s jeep. Insisting that he would use it only to tour the interiors, he would walk to his office on normal days.. He also made sure that we never sat in the government jeep – we could sit in it only when it was stationary.
That was our early childhood lesson in governance – a lesson that corporate managers learn the hard way, some never do.
The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father’s office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix ‘dada’ whenever we were to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed – I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, ‘Raju Uncle’ – very different from many of their friends who refer to their family driver, as ‘my driver’. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe.
To me, the lesson was significant – you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.
Our day used to start with the family huddling around my Mother’s chulha – an earthen fire place she would build at each place of posting where she would cook for the family. There was neither gas, nor electrical stoves.The morning routine started with tea. As the brew was served, Father would ask us to read aloud the editorial page of The Statesman’s ‘muffosil’ edition – delivered one day late. We did not understand much of what we were reading. But the ritual was meant for us to know that the world was larger than Koraput district and the English I speak today, despite having studied in an Oriya medium school, has to do with that routine. After reading the newspaper aloud, we were told to fold it neatly. Father taught us a simple lesson.
He used to say, “You should leave your newspaper and your toilet, the way you expect to find it”. That lesson was about showing consideration to others. Business begins and ends with that simple precept.
Being small children, we were always enamored with advertisements in the newspaper for transistor radios – we did not have one. We saw other people having radios in their homes and each time there was an advertisement of Philips, Murphy or Bush radios, we would ask Father when we could get one. Each time, my Father would reply that we did not need one because he already had five radios – alluding to his five sons.
We also did not have a house of our own and would occasionally ask Father as to when, like others, we would live in our own house. He would give a similar reply,” We do not need a house of our own. I already own five houses”. His replies did not gladden our hearts in that instant.
Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to measure personal success and sense of well being through material possessions.
Government houses seldom came with fences. Mother and I collected twigs and built a small fence. After lunch, my Mother would never sleep. She would take her kitchen utensils and with those she and I would dig the rocky, white ant infested surrounding. We planted flowering bushes. The white ants destroyed them. My mother brought ash from her chulha and mixed it in the earth and we planted the seedlings all over again. This time, they bloomed. At that time, my father’s transfer order came. A few neighbors told my mother why she was taking so much pain to beautify a government house, why she was planting seeds that would only benefit the next occupant. My mother replied that it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in full bloom. She said, “I have to create a bloom in a desert and whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than what I had inherited”.
That was my first lesson in success. It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.
My mother began and galvanized the nation in to patriotic fervor. Other than reading out the newspaper to my mother, I had no clue about how I could be part of the action. So, after reading her the newspaper, every day I would land up near the University’s water tank, which served the community. I would spend hours under it, imagining that there could be spies who would come to poison the water and I had to watch for them. I would daydream about catching one and how the next day, I would be featured in the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, the spies at war ignored the sleepy town of Bhubaneswar and I never got a chance to catch one in action. Yet, that act unlocked my imagination.
Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.
Over the next few years, my mother’s eyesight dimmed but in me she created a larger vision, a vision with which I continue to see the world and, I sense, through my eyes, she was seeing too. As the next few years unfolded, her vision deteriorated and she was operated for cataract. I remember, when she returned after her operation and she saw my face clearly for the first time, she was astonished. She said, “Oh my God, I did not know you were so fair”.. I remain mighty pleased with that adulation even till date. Within weeks of getting her sight back, she developed a corneal ulcer and, overnight, became blind in both eyes. That was 1969. She died in 2002. In all those 32 years of living with blindness, she never complained about her fate even once. Curious to know what she saw with blind eyes, I asked her once if she sees darkness. She replied, “No, I do not see darkness. I only see light even with my eyes closed”. Until she was eighty years of age, she did her morning yoga everyday, swept her own room and washed her own clothes.
To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light.
Over the many intervening years, I grew up, studied, joined the industry and began to carve my life’s own journey. I began my life as a clerk in a government office, went on to become a Management Trainee with the DCM group and eventually found my life’s calling with the IT industry when fourth generation computers came to India in 1981. Life took me places – I worked with outstanding people, challenging assignments and traveled all over the world.
In 1992, while I was posted in the US, I learnt that my father, living a retired life with my eldest brother, had suffered a third degree burn injury and was admitted in the Safderjung Hospital in Delhi. I flew back to attend to him – he remained for a few days in critical stage, bandaged from neck to toe. The Safderjung Hospital is a cockroach infested, dirty, inhuman place. The overworked, under-resourced sisters in the burn ward are both victims and perpetrators of dehumanized life at its worst. One morning, while attending to my Father, I realized that the blood bottle was empty and fearing that air would go into his vein, I asked the attending nurse to change it. She bluntly told me to do it myself. In that horrible theater of death, I was in pain and frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came, my Father opened his eyes and murmured to her, “Why have you not gone home yet?” Here was a man on his deathbed but more concerned about the overworked nurse than his own state. I was stunned at his stoic self.
There I learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what the limit of inclusion is you can create.
My father died the next day. He was a man whose success was defined by his principles, his frugality, his universalism and his sense of inclusion.
Above all, he taught me that success is your ability to rise above your discomfort, whatever may be your current state. You can, if you want, raise your consciousness above your immediate surroundings. Success is not about building material comforts – the transistor that he never could buy or the house that he never owned. His success was about the legacy he left, the memetic continuity of his ideals that grew beyond the smallness of a ill-paid, unrecognized government servant’s world.
My father was a fervent believer in the British Raj. He sincerely doubted the capability of the post-independence Indian political parties to govern the country. To him, the lowering of the Union Jack was a sad event. My Mother was the exact opposite. When Subhash Bose quit the Indian National Congress and came to Dacca, my mother, then a schoolgirl, garlanded him. She learnt to spin khadi and joined an underground movement that trained her in using daggers and swords. Consequently, our household saw diversity in the political outlook of the two. On major issues concerning the world, the Old Man and the Old Lady had differing opinions.
In them, we learnt the power of disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in thinking.
Success is not about the ability to create a definitive dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes, of dialogue and continuum.
Two years back, at the age of eighty-two, Mother had a paralytic stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on. Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said,
“Why are you kissing me, go kiss the world.” Her river was nearing its journey, at the confluence of life and death, this woman who came to India as a refugee, raised by a widowed Mother, no more educated than high school, married to an anonymous government servant whose last salary was Rupees Three Hundred, robbed of her eyesight by fate and crowned by adversity was telling me to go and kiss the world!
Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.
Thank you very much; I wish you good luck and God’s speed. Go! kiss the world.

Basic concept of sql server testing

The first question which will come from a developer on project engineering is why we need testing?, when I know that my code is perfect and will work fine, Yes he/she is right, in her own way, his/her sentence will be valid if some other person say that your code is okay, that’s the reason testing is required.

Testing is measurable item, which show and say’s “This piece of code is okay /not okay for real time use”, Testing is important; it is valuable in the sense, as a tester you have go to every/all corners of the code where analyst / developer hasn’t gone or thought.

In order to become a good testing you must be a good analyzer, good coder and creative thinker, Next time when you look at good tester, look at him as next version path finder; I am not talking about ordinary tester.

On aspect of SQL Server testing, it is totally different when compared to other type of testing, we can have following as major portions in SQL Server testing:

a) Code compliance testing.

b) Performance Testing.

c) Integration Testing.

Code Compliance Testing:

Under code compliance testing, the code will be checked in compliance with requirements; Developer can develop the code in different ways for a requirement

eg: A typical developer will divide the code into different functions/procedure of reuse and some redundant developer will put the functionality in the same code, as a tester you cannot say that, this is wrong but you can recommend which is good.

When a piece of code arrives to a tester, he/ she have to look into the following areas in SQL Server Code Compliance Testing:

a) Parameter passage.

b) Code blocking (Begin / End).

c) Conditions / loops.

d) Exception handling.

e) Code commenting / alignment.

f) Return values.

Parameter passage: These plays very important, with data types and length, parameter movement (Input /output etc).

Code Blocking: Fast coders will leave the begin and end for single statements and when they change code/modify later they will forget to put the begin and end statement and piece of code will execute even though condition fails, as a tester you need to make sure that which should be in block and which should be out of block.

Conditions /loops: simple condition is easy to understand, but long condition will put confuse to developer, as an example “Not of Not” and the meaning of loop will change with “do while “and “while” usage, As a tester you need to make sure that they are properly conditioned / looped. We can put this under “Branch Testing”

Exception handling: This is very important area which comes under “Range Testing”, everything has to be reported back to the caller, either it is requested result or there is no result. Out bound and inbound value, failing of transaction etc are highlight points under exception handling.

Code commenting / alignment: This is low priority task compared to others but plays very important role in future versions and maintenance of the code, there should be proper comment for each items which is confusing or developer thinks that “this should have proper explanation”, alignment makes code readable.

Return values: For some of the code, return values are mandatory and the return values should be in the context of requirement, when there is result and when there is no result, here boundary value checking plays major role, and this will come under boundary and range value checking.

Performance Testing:

This is validating DBA’s (Database Administrator) role, performance of piece of code plays major role in network based projects, after code is in-compliance with the requirement.

Please do remember that if the code is not in-compliance with the requirements, then there is no scope of performance.

Code performance has to be checked in following area(s):

a) SQL Queries.
b) Indexing.
c) Disabling / enabling of items – bulk insertions.
d) Clustering.
e) Database designing
f) Data types.
g) Locking / unlocking.

SQL Queries: This is the closure area where you will be looking for optimization of code; Queries are source of interacting data on SQL Server, SQL Queries can be written in different forms and some of the queries will be differentiated only with “Execution Plan” to identify the optimized one. Most of the time tester has to look into “Join” conditions and another well known area “IN” condition, where developer can use “Exist” to make code perform better.

Indexing: This is area where fastness /performance could be increased for the requested queries. Database designer will identify where we may require indexing (clustered / non-clustered) and as a tester you need to identify whether all the indexes are properly configured or working with the query list.

Bulk Transactions (Disabling / Enabling of items): when there is bulk data transaction we must make sure that certain elements / objects are disabled for example, Triggers – when millions of records have to be transacted, it will take hell of time if trigger are enabled, make sure that required objects are enabled / disabled.

Clustering: SQL Server clustering can provide fault tolerance for many aspects of a SQL Server, such as hardware, network, operating system, and application failure, make sure that it will not affect the performance and database is clustered on required portions.

Database designing: This is the basic area to look for optimization; too much normalization will affect the performance. As a tester you have to identify which areas (reports, query results etc), are required for normalization and other areas of data manipulation (insertion/ update etc) are done with de-normalization.

Data Types: The lazy designers/developers always use the maximum data type’s usage, Ex: when it requires of true / false, they will keep constants as “VALID” or “INVALID”, and use varchar(8), these datatype will consume more memory, which is not used by the code but still occupying, which will intern increasing the paging.

Locking / unlocking: Some of the code will lock certain portions and until it is released other operations are not performed, as a tester you need to make sure that the correct portion is locked instead of global locking, eg: when row level locking is there you may not require table level locking.
Integration Testing: In order to get certain portions of data, we may require integration of different servers and following are major areas to look on aspect of integration:

a) Calling of External Stored procedure.

b) Usage of multiple Servers.

External Stored procedure is the complex item to test, which can call any windows components, discussion on External Stored procedure is vast area and out of scope of this article. Usage of multiple servers (Linked server) validating should be done on exception throwing cases like when one of the server is down etc.

Other focused areas: As a tester for SQL Server you have to know the general items like

a) Writing test plan.

b) Writing test cases.

c) Usage of bug track system.

d) Differentiating bugs with triage items.

e) Documenting required items.

To become a good testing you need to invest your valuable time on different aspects. Hence forth if you are tester make yourself as creative tester.

A nice note from narayana murthy…. “Late sitting”

Mail sent by Narayan Murthy to all Infosys staff:

It’s half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on…
PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing…
And who’s at work? Most of them ??? Take a closer look…

All or most specimens are ??
Something male species of the human race…..

Look closer… again all or most of them are bachelors…

And why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!!
Any guesses???
Let’s ask one of them…
Here’s what he says… ‘What’s there 2 do after going home…Here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee that is why I am working late…Importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!’

This is the scene in most research centers and software companies and other off-shore offices..

Bachelors ‘Passing-Time’ during late hours in the office just bcoz they say they’ve nothing else to do….
Now what r the consequences…

‘Working’ (for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of the institute or company culture.

With bosses more than eager to provide support to those ‘working’ late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good feedback, (oh, he’s a hard worker…. goes home only to change..!!).
They aren’t helping things too…

To hell with bosses who don’t understand the difference between ’sitting’ late and ‘working’ late!!!

Very soon, the boss start expecting all employees to put in extra working hours.

So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get married and start having a family… office is no longer a priority, family is…. and
That’s when the problem starts… b’coz u start having commitments at home too.

For your boss, the earlier ‘hardworking’ guy suddenly seems to become a ‘early leaver’ even if u leave an hour after regular time….. after doing the same amount of work.

People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labelled as work-shirkers…

Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays…. though) leave on time are labelled as ‘not up to it’. All the while, the bachelors pat their own backs and carry on ‘working’ not realizing that they r spoiling the work culture at their own place and never realize that they would have to regret at one point of time.

So what’s the moral of the story??
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!!
* Never put in extra time ‘ unless really needed ‘
* Don’t stay back unnecessarily and spoil your company work culture which will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.

There are hundred other things to do in the evening..

Learn music…..

Learn a foreign language…

Try a sport… TT, cricket……….

Importantly,get a girl friend or boy friend, take him/her around town…

* And for heaven’s sake, net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low (plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.

Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *’Life’s calling, where are you??’*

Please pass on this message to all those colleagues and please do it before leaving time, don’t stay back till midnight to forward this!!!

Awesome INDIAN Democracy………MUST READ!!!!

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Old Story:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and

laying up supplies for the Winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & amp; dances

plays the summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or

shelter so he dies out in the cold.

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Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and

laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant’s a fool and laughs dances plays

the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands

to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others

are cold and starving.

All Media person show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper

next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with

food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor

Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant’s house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that

Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter

Mayawati states this as `injustice’ done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for

not upholding

the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the

Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support

as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for

‘Bengal Bandh’ in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing

Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty

among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers

on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the ‘Grasshopper Rath’.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ‘Prevention of Terrorism

Against Grasshoppers Act’ [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the

winter.

Arjun Singh makes ‘Special Reservation ‘ for Grasshoppers in Educational

Institutions in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left

to pay his retroactive taxes, it’s home is confiscated by the Government and

handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ‘ A Triumph ofJustice’.

Lalu calls it ‘Socialistic Justice ‘.

CPM calls it the ‘ Revolutionary Resurgence ofthe Downtrodden ‘

Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later…

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi- billion dollar

company in Silicon Valley,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere

in India,

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..AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the

grasshoppers,

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India is still a developing country…!!!

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BIRTHDAY CHART

January 01 – 09 ~ Dog
January 10 – 24 ~ Mouse
January 25 – 31 ~ Lion

February 01 – 05 ~ Cat
February 06 – 14 ~ Dove
February 15 – 21 ~ Turtle
February 22 – 28 ~ Panther

March 01 – 12 ~ Monkey
March 13 – 15 ~ Lion
March 16 – 22 ~ Mouse
March 23 – 31 ~ Cat
April 01 – 03 ~ Dog
April 04 – 14 ~ Panther
April 15 – 26 ~ Mouse
April 27 – 30 ~ Turtle

May 01 – 13 ~ Monkey
May 14 – 21 ~ Dove
May 22 – 31 ~ Lion

June 01 – 03 ~ Mouse
June 04 – 14 ~ Turtle
June 15 – 20 ~ Dog
June 21 – 24 ~ Monkey
June 25 – 30 ~ Cat
July 01 – 09 ~ Mouse
July 10 – 15 ~ Dog
July 16 – 26 ~ Dove
July 27 – 31 ~ Cat

August 01 – 15 ~ Monkey
August 16 – 25 ~ Mouse
August 26 – 31 ~ Turtle

September 01 – 14 ~ Dove
September 15 – 27 ~ Cat
September 28 – 30 ~ Dog
October 01 – 15 ~ Monkey
October 16 – 27 ~ Turtle
October 28 – 31 ~ Panther

November 01 – 16 ~ Lion [red] 1st NOV. Javed [/red]
November 17 – 30 ~ Cat

December 01 – 16 ~ Dog
December 17 – 25 ~ Monkey
December 26 – 31 ~ Dove

If you are a Dog: A very loyal and sweet person.Your loyalty can never
be doubted. You are quite honest and sincere when it comes to your
attitude towards working. You are a very simple person, indeed. Absolutely
hassle free, humble and down-to-earth!! That explains the reason why
your friends cling on to you! You have a good taste for clothes. If your
wardrobe is not updated! with what is trendy, you sure are depressed.
Popular and easy-going. You have a little group of dignified friends,all
of them being quality-personified.

If you are a Mouse : Always up to some sort of a mischief! The
mischievous gleam in your eyes is what makes you so cute and attractive to
everyone. You are an extremely fun-to-be-with kind of person. No wonder,
people seek for your company and look forward to include you for all
get-togethers. However, you are sensitive, which is a drawback. People need
to select their words while talking to you. If someone tries to fiddle
around and play with words while dealing with you, it is enough to
invite your wrath. God bless the person then!
[red]
If you are a Lion : Quite contradictory to your name, you are a peace
loving person. ! You best try to avoid a situation wherein you are
required to fight. An outdoor person, you dislike sitting at one place for a
long duration. You are a born leader, and have it in you how to
tactfully derive work from people. You love being loved, and when you receive
your share of limelight from someone, you are all theirs!!!! Well,
well… hence some people could even take an advantage, flatter you to the
maximum and get their work done. So be careful…..
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If you are a Cat : An extremely lovable, adorable person, sometimes
shy,with a passion for quick wit. At times, you prefer quietness. You love
exploring various things and going into depth of each thing. Under
normal circumstances you’re cool, when given a reason to, you are like a
volcano waiting to erupt. You’re a fashion bird. People look forward to
you as an icon associated with fashion. Basically, you mingle along
freely but don! ‘t like talking much to strangers. People feel very easy in
your company. You observe care in choosing your friends.

If you are a Turtle : You are near to perfect and nice at heart.The
examples of your kindness are always circulated in groups of people.You,
too, love peace. You wouldn’t like to retaliate even to a person who is
in the wrong. You are loved due to this. You do not wish to talk behind
one’s back. People love the way you always treat them. You can give,
give and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back
in return.You are generous enough.Seeing things in a practical light is
what remains the best trait of you guys.

If you are a Dove : You symbolize a very happy-go-lucky approach in
life.Whatever the surroundings may be, grim or cheerful, you rema! in
unaffected.In fact, you spread cheer wherever you go. You are the leader of
your group of friends and good at consoling people in their times of
need. You dislike hypocrisy and tend to shirk away from hypocrites. They
can never be in your good books, no matter what. You are very
methodical and organized in your work. No amount of mess, hence, can ever
encompass you. Beware, it is easy for you to fall in love….

If you are a Panther : You are mysterious.. You are someone who can
handle pressure with ease, and can handle any atmosphere without going
berserk.You can be mean at times, and love to gossip with your selected
group.Very prim and proper. You like all situations and things to be in
the way you desire, which, sometimes is not possible. As a result, you
may lose out in some relationships. But otherwise, you love to help
people out from difficult and tight spots when! they really need you.

If you are a Monkey : Very impatient and hyper!!! You want things to be
done as quick as possible. At heart, you are quite simple and love if
you are the center of attraction. That way, you people are unique. You
would like to keep yourself safe from all the angles. Shall your name be
dragged or featured in any sort of a controversy, you then go all
panicky. Therefore, you take your precautions from the very beginning. When
you foresee anything wrong, your sixth sense is what saves you from
falling in traps. Quite a money minded bunch you people are
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Isyour birthday day 1 of the month?
Your Life
You are very curious and dedicative. When you are interested in som!
ething, everything else has to wait. This is your quality. But if you
learn to be more patient and complete what you have started, you will be
successful in life.

Your Love
You believe in love at first sight. You won’t wait to learn more about
the person. Vise versa, people who fail to impress you will hardly get
a chance to be your friend. Your emotion is on the extreme. You can
only love or hate, nothing in between and this often shows in your
__ex-pression. Try not to end a relationship in a quarrel.
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Is your birthday day 2 of the month?

Your Life
You have great common sense but usually fail to follow through. This
might happens because you are too busy with your mission and shut
yourself from the outside world. You! are clever and profound so there’s a
slight chance for self-control problem.

Your Love
Your love progress slowly, and quietly. You seem to be contented with
your unrequited love. Your are a romantic and loyal lover.

Is your birthday day 3 of the month?
Your Life
Although you are innocent and romantic but your __ex-pression often
mislead others that you are an active, fun loving kid. Because of your
double personality, it’s hard for others to really know the real you. You
are careful and patient.
Your Love
Your love is the greatest which often surprises others. No one can
bring you to light when you are in love. Your confidence
might lead you to the track your parents disagree.

Is your birthday day 4 of the month?
Your Life
You usually think before acting which makes your life quite easy. But
you often are the one who give yourself a hard time by being paranoid.
People might not truly understand you but you are really nice to be
around. You are cheerful and friendly.

Your Love
Still water runs deep, that’s what you are. You always surprise others
with your new character when you are in love. Your love trap often
comes unexpectedly and your love life is full of surprises.

Is your birthday day 5 of the month?
Your Life
Although you are ! on the quiet side, but you enjoy excitement and
changes. Routine is something you cannot stand. Because of your extreme
confidence, you hardly ask others for opinion. You believe in leading your
own life, and you have got the gift in doing so.

Your Love
Nothing can stop you from making progress in your love life. Once you
are in love, you feel the ownership of your lover. A third party can
only makes your jealousy becomes worse.

Is your birthday day 6 of the month?
Your Life
You are generous with people in need, sometimes to an extreme that
people find you nosey. Your hidden courage and dedication often surprise
others. Your imagination is extremely unique.

Your Love
Your! love life is on the smooth track because it grows from
friendship. Although you may not make a sweet lover but your sincerity bring
happiness to your couple.

Is your birthday day 7 of the month?
Your Life
You are sensitive to changes around you but your feeling is hardly
expressed. You hate exaggerations. Under your quiet personality, you are
rather stubborn and self-centered. These qualities are the force behind
your extreme persistence.

Your Love
You have enormous courage to please your lover. Your relationship often
progress quickly.

Is your birthday day 8 of the month?
Your Life
You have! pleasant and friendly personality. People look u to your wit
and imagination. You are unpredictable and hardly complete what you
started, which sometimes create negative impact to people around you.
Your Love
Falling in love becomes your routine. Most of the time you are lucky.
You fascinate people with good taste but you never have enough with one.
Although your love progresses very fast, it never lasts.

Is your birthday day 9 of the month?
Your Life
You often have problem in promoting yourself, just because you don’t
know how to express your true self. On the other hand, you don’t really
care what they think. This is why people misunderstand you until they
really get a chance to learn about your pleasant perso! nality.
Opposite sex find you mysterious and worth searching. Your wit is
remarkable but sometimes you are too fast to follow.

Your Love
You won’t reveal your feeling even after dreaming about the same guy
over and over. Your first love lasts forever. You are responsible to the
feeling of your lover. The chance to betray your lover is none. You
have luck with children.

Is your birthday day 10 of the month?
Your Life
You are very capable. If you are a woman, you have high chance to be a
renowned workingwoman. If you are a man, your path to fame and honor is
near. As an innovator, you are not a good follower. You are good in
implementing your imagination and share it with others. You are always
well dressed.

Your Love
You often lose your love ones from being too jealous. You always feel
like you own the person you fall in love with and that often blows your
relationship.

Is your birthday day 11 of the month?
Your Life
You are gracious, elegant and prudent. People admire your qualities and
some even become jealous of you. You are realistic, flexible and
adaptable. You are remarkably kind and moral person.

Your Love
You are willing to sacrifice yourself for the one you love. Your lover
will always have your gentleness, care and loyalty. You will always be
happy to hand around the one you love.

Is your birthday day 12 of the month?
Your Life
You are friendly, humorous and full of energy. You are open-minded and
do not care for minor details. Your weak point is your hot temper.

Your Love
You are willing to start off in one-sided love affairs because you
strongly believe that you will eventually win his/her heart. On the other
hand, once you are together, you always want to do things your way,
which is often the fire starter. You usually run in and out of love
quickly.

Is your birthday day 13 of the month?
Your Life
You are sincere and easy going. Flattering and charming around are not
your style. You care so much for freedom that often leads you to the
difficult path. Because of your sincerity, most people find you easy to
be around although ! you are sometimes too straightforward.

Your Love
Your gentleness, care and sincerity make you an attractive person. Even
though you don’t intend to be charming, but you naturally are,
especially in the eyes of opposite sex.

Is your birthday day 14 of the month?
Your Life
You are so confident that sometimes you forget about the people around
you. If you have to be in one of the two teams, you will choose to be
in the winning team. On the other hand, you are kind and caring but
above all, you care for your own benefits. Your imagination is unique and
often gets implemented shortly after it comes across.

Your Love
You will not get ! soft with the one you don’t really like, no matter
how hard he/she tries. But once you feel for someone you have chosen,
there’s no getting back.

Is your birthday day 15 of the month?
Your Life
You are outgoing and love to be at the center of attention. From the
outside, you may seem flashy, flirty, and tricky but your true self is
strong, full of hope to be the leader. When you fail to convince someone,
you will get frustrated, and perhaps let your temper shows.

Your Love
You are emotional. Many can win your heart at once, but not for long.
This is why you hardly win a decent relationship.

Is your birthday day 16 of the month?
Your Life
You always follow the good and the right instead of listening to your
heart. Another word, you are a perfectionist. You care for every word
people say about you. You often seen isolated while you are, by nature,
curious and a dreamer who is ready to get over the edge to make your
dream comes true.

Your Love
You often fall in love with a person who is much different from you, in
age and other aspects. Your relationship grows on friendship. Love at
fist sight is not your style.

Is your birthday day 17 of the month?
Your Life
You neither want to be interfered nor have the desire to mess with
others’ life. But you are friendly and occasionally a party animal. You!
are always in a circle of friends. You often do things in your own way
that occasionally go beyond the acceptable limit. People may find you
childish and not very attractive in that sense.

Your Love
Your fun-loving character attracts opposite sex. Many of those are
great.You often find yourself trapped among a few great guys while you have
to choose only one.

Is your birthday day 18 of the month?
Your Life
At first glance, people think you are quiet type of person. Actually
you are cheerful, but conditionally. You will show your joyful character
only in good mood. One the other hand, when you are moody, no one would
dare to be around. Because of your emotion fluctuation and frank
character, some find you hard to be around.

! Your Love
You hardly show your feeling towards opposite sex no matter how much
you like him/her. Your partner also has similar character so your love
affairs often take quite a while to flourish. Time tells it all. Your
sincerity makes you very attractive.

Is your birthday day 19 of the month?
Your Life
You are great in managing everything in your life and this is how you
gain respect from others. Because of this quality, you sometimes feel
that you are better than the rest. Extreme confidence might lead you to
the wrong path. You are a free bird and want to lead your own life.

Your Love
You love life is rather different from others’. When you are in love,
nothin! g can stop you. You may often fight with your partner but, soon
after that, you will make up in a way that surprises others.

Is your birthday day 20 of the month?
Your Life
You are prudent, circumspect and take things seriously. Before you make
any move, you will think of a few alternatives that might take a while.
You are patient, imaginative and target oriented. You value friendship
more than anything else.

Your Love
You usually study your partner carefully before making any move. You
never demand anything beyond the natural quality of that person. Your
sincerity doesn’t bring excitement in your love life but it brings deeply
grown relationship.

Is your birthday day 21 of the month?
Your Life
You are curious and a true follower. You can please someone so much
that it seem like you are trying to charm that person. You hide your
disagreement under your smiling face. This is a charming quality of yours.

Your Love
You are quite unlucky in love. You are loved by someone you don’t like
while your dream man is so far away. Your love life is occasionally
under turbulence. Sometimes you don’t have the clear view of the guy in
your heart.

Is your birthday day 22 of the month?
Your Life
You have the boss character, but not a leader. Most people look up to
you for your capability and confidence although they find you quite
stubborn. You should listen more to others. You are a unique and charming
individual.

Your Love
You hardly take the moderate track. You either love or hate someone.
Whom you call friends are the chosen ones. If any of them betray you, you
won’t let them get away without having hard time.

Is your birthday day 23 of the month?
Your Life
You never live your life in the way others want you to. You are an
independent individual who loves challenges and excitement. You are ready
to face with the result of your decision. You are usually the one your
friends count on.

Your Love
Because you love excitements, you occasionally get involved in
forbidden love affairs. You may fall in love with a married person and no one
can stop you from ma! king progress. You are very charming, although you
might not realize it.

Is your birthday day 24 of the month?
Your Life
You are very optimistic and that’s why you always enjoy life. You are
gifted in entertaining others. Your friends love and trust you. You’ll
be the first they come to when they are in need of someone to speak
their heart out.

Your Love
Sometimes you fall in love just because you want to be in love, not
that you really like that person. You always be seen as a sweet couple but
you can’t really get over your love ones from past. Your partner is
usually crazy about you because you are remarkably charming and romantic.

Is your birthday day 25 of the month?
Your Life
You are a warrior. No obstacle can stop you from reaching your goal.
You always keep yourself busy. This quality plus your responsibility will
eventually bring you success.

Your Love
You adore your partner as the number one priority. You value your love
one more than yourself. Your love is the greatest of all and your have
potential to get married young.

Is your birthday day 26 of the month?
Your Life
You are always curious and responsive to changes. Routine life is not
the way you choose to live. Travelling is your favorite hobby because
excitement is what you are after.

Your Love
You will not stand being around the one ! you dislike. Your love comes
and goes quickly. You can be deeply in love but soon after you will be
looking around for the next one.

Is your birthday day 27 of the month?
Your Life
You are sensitive and vulnerable. Tears often run down your cheeks even
when the matter is not that bad. This might be the result from being to
pessimistic. You might seem cold on the shell, but your inner self is a
kind loving person.

Your Love
You will be elegantly dressed, no matter how casually dressed your date
may be. You are demanding in love and sometimes to an unacceptable
extend .

Is your birthday day 28 of the month?
Your Life
You are a cap! able person but you usually underestimate your own
ability. This is the cause of missing numbers of opportunity to step
forward. If you try to give yourself a chance, you can be successful in life.
Try to see things on the bright side and you will be happier than ever.

Your Love
You are quite unlucky in love. The one in your arm is not the one in
your heart. Your love has so many ups and downs. You often chicken out
before seeing any progress in love.

Is your birthday day 29 of the month?
Your Life
You can trust your sixth sense. Life is exciting so routine job is not
your interest. You have great ideas and fantastic imagination. You
often feel tired of things and people around you.

Your Love
You can tell what’s in the mind of another person just from looking
into his/her eyes. You are paranoid and jealous and these are the cause of
fights between you and your lover. Sometimes the thing you believe in
is just your imagination.

Is your birthday day 30 of the month?
Your Life
You are always surrounded by a circle of friends. You are friendly and
fun to be with. Though you occasionally disappoint them by being
stubborn, but over all, they love your qualities.

Your Love
You want to have full control of your love and that’s not a nice way to
treat your partner. You take your time in saying yes to his wedding
proposal or if you are a man, you will not propose anyone until you are
certainly confident which might take ages.

Is your birthday day 31 of the month?
Your Life
Your emotion is hard to predict. You can be sad this minute and happy
in the next. People might find it difficult to follow your emotion and
understand you. You tend to take things seriously.

Your Love
You take your time to study a person before falling in love. Once you
decide that he or she is the one, no one can stop you from making
progress, even your partner

Home Remedies

Dear Friends,

We always fear to visit the Doctors Dispensary and Medical Clinics, below are the some interesting and useful home remedies.
Go through it plz. and save your pocket expenses from doctors.

ACNE, BLACKHEADS, AND PIMPLES:

· Dab a small amount of toothpaste (paste, not gel) on pimples before bed; this helps dry out the pimples.

· Mix equal amounts of lemon juice and rose water, apply to face w it h a cotton ball, and allow to s it for 30 minutes before rinsing. 15-20 days of this application helps cure pimples and also helps to remove blemishes and scars.

· Apply fresh lemon juice on the affected area overnight. Wash off w it h warm water next morning.

· For acne that hasn’t seemed to respond to anything, steep 2-3 tsp. dried basil leaves in 1 cup boiling water for 10-20 minutes, cool, and apply to affected area w it h a cotton ball.

ANEMIA:

· Avoid drinking tea (regular, not herbal varieties) and coffee immediately after meals, as the tannin present in these interferes in the absorption of iron from the food.

· Drink a cup of herbal tea mixed w it h 1/4 cup blackstrap molasses each day. This provides 80% of the iron needed in one day.

· Foods high in iron: lean beef, lean pork, skinned poultry, shellfish, fish, liver, organ meats, egg yolks, pinto, kidney, lima, navy, chick peas, black-eyed peas, lentils, spl it peas, green peas, spinach, kale, collards, beet greens, chard, broccoli, raisins, prunes, figs, dates, dried peaches, dried apricots, nuts, peanut butter, whole grain breads.

· Your body absorbs iron from meats easier than fru it s and vegetables. To aid in the absorption of iron from fru it s and vegetables, eat them w it h a good source of v it amin C.

ARTHRITIS:

· A daily serving of fresh fish or fish oil capsules helps to give relief of arthr it is and other joint pains.

· 3-4 walnuts eaten daily, on an empty stomach, will help.

ASTHMA:

· Mix 1 tsp. honey w it h 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and take it at night before going to bed.

· Avoid taking aspirin, as this may invoke an asthma attack.

BAD BREATH:

· Boil some cinnamon bark in a cup of water. Store it in a clean bottle in your bathroom. Use it as a mouthwash frequently.

· Parsley leaves are rich in chlorophyll, nature’s own deodorizer. Chew some leaves regularly and your breath will remain fresh.

· You can chew some cardamom seeds to sweeten your breath.

BLADDER INFECTION: Take a bag of fresh or frozen cranberries and boil them in water (they will fall apart). Cool and drink. Don’t add sugar! This remedy is also useful for people w it h kidney problems.

BLADDER STONES: Boil 2 figs in 1 cup of water. Drink daily for a month.

BRUISES: Slice a raw onion and place over the bruise. Do not apply this to broken skin.

COLD AND FLU: Here is a delicious recipe for a cold and flu soup: Sauté 6 crushed cloves of garlic in 1 tsp. vegetable oil until golden. Pour in a quart of beef or chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and whisk in 2 egg wh it es. Beat together 2 egg yolks and 2 Tbls. distilled wh it e vinegar; pour this mixture into the soup. Season w it h salt and pepper and top w it h croutons, if desired.

CONSTIPATION (IN ADULTS):

· Eat a few black licorice sticks.

· Take apple pectin.

· Make sure you’re getting enough Folic Acid in your diet.

· Drinking ginger tea will help start a bowel movement.

CONSTIPATION (IN SMALL CHILDREN): Soak 6-8 raisins in hot water. When cool, crush well and strain. When given routinely even to l it tle infants, it helps to regulate bowel movement.

COUGHS AND ASTHMA: Steep 3-4 cloves of garlic in a cool, dark place for 2 weeks. Use several drops at a time, several times a day for coughs or asthma. Garlic is an exceptional cleanser for the body and has antimicrobial action similar to other antibiotics.

DAMAGED, DRY HAIR: A nourishing cond it ioner for dry or damaged hair which can be used for all hair types: Separate the wh it e of an egg from the yolk, whip it to a peak. Add 1 Tbls. water to the yolk and blend until the mixture is creamy. Then mix the wh it e and yolk together. Wet your hair w it h warm water, remove the excess moisture, and apply the mixture to your scalp w it h your fingertips. Massage gently until the froth is worked into your scalp, then rinse the hair w it h cool water. Keep applying the mixture until it is used up and then rinsed until all of the egg is washed away.

DANDRUFF: Pour distilled wh it e vinegar onto the hair, as close to the scalp as you can manage; massage into the scalp; and allow to dry for several minutes before washing as usual. Repeat daily until the dandruff disappears, usually w it hin a few days.

DARK CIRCLES AROUND EYES: Make a paste out of 1 tsp. tomato juice, 1/2 tsp. lemon juice, a pinch of turmeric powder, and 1 tsp. of flour. Apply around eyes. Leave on for 10 minutes before rinsing.

DEPRESSION: 3/4 cup of cooked spinach a day is enough to give dramatic relief from depression if you are deficient in B v it amins.

DIARRHEA: Eat boiled sweet potatoes seasoned w it h salt and pepper before bedtime to cure chronic diarrhea.

DRY SKIN: Combine 1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup warm water, 1 Tbls. vanilla extract, and 1/2 cup baking soda in a blender or food processor until you have a smooth paste. Pour this paste under the running water while drawing the bath. Very soothing to dry, it chy skin.

EARACHE: Steep 1-2 tsp. chamomile flowers in boiling water for 10-15 minutes. Strain out the water, and apply the hot flowers in a cloth for alleviation of the earache.

ECZEMA: Rub a whole nutmeg against a smooth stone slab w it h a l it tle water and make a paste. Apply on affected parts. (Note: It is believed by some rural, old fashioned pract it ioners that instead of water, one’s own early morning saliva can be used for better results.)

ENERGIZER: Simmer 1 cup honey and 3 cup water together slowly. Allow 1 cup of the water to evaporate. Strain off the top surface, and put the remaining liquid into a stoneware crock or dark bottle. Put a towel over it so it can breathe, yet be free of dirt. Place in a cool place. You can add cinnamon, clove, or the juice of 2 lemons, if you like.

EYE PROBLEMS: Simmer 1 cup water and 1 tsp. honey for 5 minutes. Dip a cloth in the liquid and apply to the closed eye.

FACIAL CLEANSER: Mix 2 Tbls. cornstarch, 2 Tbls. glycerin, and 1/2 cup water until smooth. Heat in a small pan placed in a water bath inside another pan. Heat until thick and clear; it will have the consistency of pudding. Do not boil. Cool completely, Use in place of soap to cleanse your skin. (If mixture is too thick, you may thin it by adding a l it tle water, 1 Tbls. at a time, until you reach the desired consistency. )

FATIGUE: Take a glass of grapefru it and lemon juice in equal parts to dispel fatigue and general tiredness after a day’s work.

GUM IN HAIR: Soak the gum-coated hair in Coke® and it should wipe out easily.

HAIR LIGHTENER: To lighten hair, use 1/4 cup chopped fresh rhubarb to 2 cups boiling water. Cool, strain, and apply as a rinse.

HANG-OVER: Eat honey on crackers. The fructose in the honey will help to flush out the alcohol in your system.

HAY FEVER: Steep 1 tsp. fenugreek seed in 1 cup water, covered, for 10 minutes. Drink 1 cup a day to help hay fever symptoms.

HEADACHE: Eat 10-12 almonds, the equivalent of two aspirins, for a migraine headache. Almonds are far less likely to upset the stomach.

HICCUPS: Only 2 remedies have I ever know to actually work. The first listed makes the most sense, since a hiccough is simply a spasm of the diaphragm, and you need to disrupt this spasm. The second offers no rhyme or reason, but works nonetheless.

· Breath in as deeply as you can, then exhale as hard as you can; repeat 10 times; when exhaling the last time, keep the air pushed out, not taking another breath for as long as you can stand. This normally works the first try, but repeat if necessary. Be sure to s it down when doing this.

· This is a remedy only feasible when s it ting at a bar. Have the bartender fill a small glass w it h club soda. Light a match and drop it , then drink the water quickly (being careful not to drink the match). It works, but I don’t know why!

· Drink 1/2 glass water, slowly.

· Keep a tsp. of sugar in your month and suck slowly.

· Suck 2-3 small pieces of fresh ginger.

· Take a large mouthful of water w it h out swallowing, plug both ears, and slowly begin to swallow the water. Unplug your ears and you’re hiccup free! (Subm it ted by Mrs T. Falkmann)

· Eat a heaping teaspoon of peanut butter all at once. (Subm it ted by Tracy Pletcher)

HICKEY:

· Coat area liberally w it h lotion. Rub w it h the back of a cold spoon vigorously for as long as you can stand to, changing out spoon for new cold one every 10 minutes. Recommended time for this treatment is 45-60 minutes. Why it works: a hickey is a bruise; the discoloration of a bruise is caused by blood accumulating under the skin from broken capillaries; this remedy breaks up the old blood so it can be reabsorbed by the body more quickly, therefore diminished the discoloration.

· Rub whit e toothpaste over the hickey, allow to dry, and later, wipe it off w it h a warm facecloth. After a few applications, the hickey will be faded. Do not use gel toothpaste. (Submitted by Hot Rod Anne.)

INSECT BITES: Mix water w it h cornstarch into a paste and apply. This is effective in drawing out the poisons of most insect bites and is also an effective remedy for diaper rash.

MORNING SICKNESS: Mix 1 tsp. each fresh juice of mint and lime, and 1 Tbls. honey. Take 3 times a day.

MOSQUITO BITES: Apply lime juice diluted w it h water on bites w it h cotton ball.

MUCUS IN COUGH: Pour 1 cup boiling water over 1/2 tsp. each of ginger, ground cloves, and cinnamon. Filter. Sweeten w it h 1 tsp. honey and drink.

MUSCLE CRAMPS: Apply clove oil on the affected body parts.

NAUSEA: Boil 1/2 cup of rice in 1 cup of water for about 10-20 minutes. After it is boiled, drain the water into a cup and sip at the rice water until symptoms are gone.

OBESITY:

· Mix lime juice w it h honey and water; drink a glass of this every morning.

· Mix 3 tsp. lime juice, 1/4 tsp. black pepper, 1 tsp. honey, and 1 cup water; drink a glass a day for 3 months.

· Mix 1 tsp. lime juice w it h 1 cup water and drink each morning.

· Eat a tomato before breakfast.

OILY SKIN: For oily skin, mix 1/2 cup cooked oatmeal, 1 egg whit e, 1 Tbls. lemon juice, and 1/2 cup mashed apple into a smooth paste. Apply to face and leave on 15 minutes. Rinse.

OVERWEIGHT: Effective at getting rid of fat, drink up to 3 cups of green tea daily. Regular tea can also be used w it h a lesser effect.

PAIN RELIEVER: Mix 3 Tbls. of honey in boiled water and drink. Honey has natural pain-relieving powers.

SMELLY FEET: Soak feet in strong tea for 20 minutes every day until the smell disappears. To prepare your footbath, brew two tea bags in 2 1/2 cups of water for 15 minutes and pour the tea into a basin containing two l it ers of cool water.

SMOKING HABIT: Lick a little salt w it h the tip of your tongue whenever you feel the urge to smoke. This is said to break the habit within 1 month.

SORE THROAT: Mix 1 tsp. lime juice and 1 Tbls. honey. Swallow tiny amounts slowly 2-3 times a day.

SPLINTERS:

· Lay scotch tape over the splinter and pull off.

· Soak the area in vegetable oil for a few minutes before removing w it h tweezers.

STOMACH ACHE: A simple cure for a stomachache is to dissolve 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon in 1 cup warm water, cover and let s it for 15 minutes, then drink it like tea. This remedy can also ease diarrhea and flatulence.

STOMACH ACIDITY:

· Drink coconut water 3-4 times a day.

· Have a plateful of watermelon and/or cucumber every hour.

SUNBURN: Mix 2 tsp. tomato juice and 1/4 cup buttermilk. Apply to affected area. Rinse after 1/2 hour.

TOOTHACHE & MOUTH PAIN: To ease toothache or other mouth pain, make a tea by boiling 1 Tbls. fresh peppermint in 1 cup water and adding a l it tle salt. Peppermint is an antiseptic and contains menthol, which relieves pain when applied to skin surfaces.

VARICOSE VEINS: Take 2-3 tsp. black strap molasses orally daily. This also treats all kinds of circulatory ailments.

VOMITING AND NAUSEA:

· Sucking a piece of ice controls vomiting.

· Eat 1/2 tsp. ground cumin seeds.

· Cinnamon and sliced ginger work by interrupting nausea signals sent from the stomach to the brain. If you are an herbal tea drinker, simply sprinkle cinnamon on the tea and drink. To make ginger tea, simmer a few slices of ginger in hot tea water.

WARTS: Try taping a slice of garlic to the wart. Be sure to first protect the surrounding skin w it h petroleum jelly.

WEAK NAILS: To strengthen and shine nails, combine 2 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. castor oil, and 1 tsp. wheat germ oil and mix thoroughly. Pour into bottle. Shake before using. To use, rub a small amount into your nails. Leave on 3-5 minutes and tissue off. Follow up w it h more plain castor oil, if desired.

WRINKLES & SKIN FRESHENER:

· Combine 2 Tbls. vodka, 1 Tbls. fennel seeds, and 1 1/2 tsp. honey. Stir well and allow to s it for 3 days. Strain mixture. Use full strength or add 2 Tbls. water to dilute. Use a cotton ball to apply to face as a toner.

· Apply coconut oil on the portions of skin and face where wrinkles set in and gently massage every night at bed time.

YELLOW TEETH: Mix salt w it h finely powdered rind of lime. Use this as toothpowder frequently.

Just take care

How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’

SOURCE : http://in.news.yahoo.com/240/20090729/1318/ttc-6711345.html
Wed, Jul 29 01:30 PM

Andy Greenberg, Forbes.com

If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.

That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone’s functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device’s camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.

“This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone,” Miller told Forbes. “Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this.”

Though Miller and Mulliner say they notified Apple about the vulnerability more than a month ago, the company hasn’t released a patch, and it didn’t respond to Forbes’ repeated calls seeking comment.

The iPhone SMS bug is just one of a series that the researchers plan to reveal in their talk. They say they’ve also found a similar texting bug in Windows Mobile that allows complete remote control of Microsoft-based devices. Another pair of SMS bugs in the iPhone and Google’s Android phones would purportedly allow a hacker to knock a phone off its wireless network for about 10 seconds with a series of text messages. The trick could be repeated again and again to keep the user offline, Miller says. Though Google has patched the Android flaw, this second iPhone bug also remains unpatched, he adds.

The new round of bugs aren’t the first that Miller has dug up in the iPhone’s code. In 2007, he became the first to remotely hijack the iPhone using a flaw in its browser. But while that vulnerability gave the attacker a similar power over the phone’s functions, it required tricking the user into visiting an infected Web site to invisibly download a piece of malicious software. When Miller alerted Apple in July of that year, the company patched the vulnerability before Miller publicized the bug at the Black Hat conference the following month. (“See: Hacking the iPhone.”)

The new attacks, by contrast, can strike a phone without any action on the part of the user and are virtually unpreventable while the phone is powered on, according to Miller and Mulliner’s research. And unlike the earlier exploits, Apple has inexplicably left them unpatched, Miller says. “I’ve given them more time to patch this than I’ve ever given a company to patch a bug,” he says.

The Windows bug he and Mulliner plan to reveal hasn’t been patched either, says Miller, though he admits that he and Mulliner discovered the Windows flaw on Monday and hadn’t yet alerted Microsoft to its existence.

The attack developed by Miller and Mulliner works by exploiting a missing safeguard in the phones‘ text messaging software that prevents code in the messages’ text from overflowing into other parts of the device’s memory where it can run as an executable program. The two researchers plan to demonstrate how a series of 512 SMS messages can exploit the bug, with only one of those messages actually appearing on the phone, showing a small square. (Someone could easily design the attack to show a different message or without any visible messages, Miller cautions.) The entire process of infecting an iPhone and then using the device to infect another phone on the user’s contact list would take only a few minutes, Miller says.

The vulnerability of SMS to that sort of attack will likely be a hot topic at this year’s Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity confabs. Two other researchers, Zane Lackey and Luis Miras, say they plan to present other vulnerabilities in major vendors’ SMS applications, though they declined to discuss which vendors or the specifics of the vulnerabilities before the companies had issued patches.

Lackey and Miras argue that SMS demands far more attention from the cybersecurity community and device vendors. “Like a lot of mobile phone software, it’s been relatively unexplored in the past,” Lackey told Forbes. “Only recently has there been proper debugging and development tools available. SMS exemplifies a common trend: once it was a simple technology. Now it’s being used in devices far beyond its original purposes, and security is still playing catch up.”

The researchers’ concerns aren’t merely theoretical. Finnish security firm F-Secure says it’s found nearly 500 different variants of mobile phone malicious software since 2004, mostly using Bluetooth to hop between phones in close proximity. But in the last 18 months, cybercriminals have begun using text messages to send links to malicious Web sites that infect the phone with malware, says Mikko Hyppönen, an F-Secure researcher.

One seemingly-Chinese variant, known as “Sexy View” and currently targeting the Symbian operating system, is far more threatening than an iPhone attack, given that around 50% of cellphones use Symbian, Hyppönen says. “After years of the security industry wondering why we aren’t seeing text message worms, it’s starting to happen now,” he says.

While many of those ongoing attacks are merely hacker experiments, some have used phones to text premium numbers that generate revenue for cybercriminals. “Mostly it’s still about curiosity and fun, but eventually the criminal guys move in,” says Hyppönen. “We’re probably on the verge of that right now.”

As dangerous as his iPhone attack sounds, Miller argues that it’s important to expose flaws in SMS software before they can be exploited by more malicious actors. Texting applications’ insecurity isn’t due to the software’s complexity so much as the security community’s inattention and the expense of sending thousands of text messages to test a phone’s security, Miller says.

“The bad news is that SMS is the perfect attack vector, but the good news is that it’s probably possible to build it securely,” he says. “As a researcher, I can only show [Apple] the bugs. It’s up to them to fix them.”

The Little things

After Sept. 11th, one company invited the remaining members of other companies who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers

to share ! their available office space.

At a morning meeting, the head of security told stories of why these people were alive… and all the stories were just:

the ‘L I TT L E’ things.

As you might know, the head of the company survived
that day because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was
his turn to bring donuts.

One woman was late because her
alarm clock didn’t go off in time.

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
because of an auto accident.

One of them
missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
time to change.

One’s
car wouldn’t start.

One went back to
answer the telephone.

One had a
child that dawdled
and didn’t get ready as soon as he should have.

One couldn’t
get a taxi.

The one that struck me was the man
who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
took the various means to get to work
but before he ! got there, he developed
a blister on his foot.

He

stopped at a drugstore

to buy a Band-Aid.

That is why he is alive today.

Now when I am
stuck in traffic, miss an elevator,

turn back to answer a ringing telephone…

all the little things that annoy me.
I think to myself,
this is exactly where

God wants me to be
at this very moment..

Next time your morning seems to be
going wrong,

the children are slow getting dressed,
you can’t seem to find the car keys,
you hit every traffic light,
don’t get mad or frustrated;

God is at work watching over you!

May God continue to bless you
with all those annoying little things
and may you remember their possible purpose