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New Delhi: The dengue menace continues in the city with Jamia Nagar still being the worst hit, with sources saying around 4000 cases have been reported in Jamia and Okhla.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finally confirmed a dengue outbreak in south Delhi's Jamia Nagar. Almost every house in this area has reported at least one case of dengue. The MCD has now started using 5 de-fogging machines in Jamia Nagar to tackle the issue of mosquito breeding. Awareness programmes have been started to increase the general consciousness among the people. Disinfectants are being sprayed on the roads and waterlogged manholes are cleaned up to prevent mosquito breeding.

However, residents complain that the anti-dengue drive ends right at the main road. There are hundreds of side lanes which are left out from the cleaning drive. This has made the residents completely enraged and vulnerable.

CNN IBN had earlier reported about the Ansari family who had lost their 25-year-old daughter Shabana to dengue. Now two more children in their family have been confirmed to have dengue.

Ansari complained that fogging to ward off mosquitoes was only done once or twice and after that it was stopped. He also said there are no doctors to attend to the patients.

Meanwhile, the MCD blames the construction sites in Jamia Nagar for the rampant spread of dengue. MCD officials said it is impossible for corporation inspectors to look into each and every construction site. The ounus should remain with the owner as well.

However, at the midst of the danger, the health officials have reported that this situation is just the beginning of Delhi’s dengue season and the worst is still yet to come.

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dengue is carried by aegis egypty, a low flying, black and white-spotted mosquito. When it bites you, the virus it carries will travel your bloodstream causing you to have dengue.



Dengue fever is a benign acute febrile syndrome occurring in tropical regions, which is the most important mosquito (Aedes aegypti), transmitted viral disease. The virus causes Dengue shock syndrome in 20-30% of infected cases. There are four types (known as "serotypes") of dengue.
Infection and recovery from one type of dengue does not protect a person from another type. Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock Syndrome (DHSS) is a dangerous implication in which fever is followed by the collapse with shock, decreased blood pressure and signs of hemorrhage. The shock increases the production of the hormone adrenaline, which in turn increases the heartbeat. Blood is pumped faster resulting in more hemorrhage and the heart becomes overworked. Dengue infection weakens the wall of the blood vessels resulting in plasma leakage; disease suppresses the production of platelets that help in the clotting of blood. If the process continues unchecked, the volume of blood decreases due to leakage, the blood pressure drops and the platelet count reduces. Bleeding occurs in patients with severe shock syndrome. "The fever lasts about seven days and the patient has severe body ache. It's in fact known as a bone-breaking fever. But dengue hemorrhagic fever is a far more serious condition, which generally occurs in patients who have already experienced dengue," explains Dr Pradeep Seth,

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Commonwealth Games preparations don't seem going as per plan on deadlines as well quality; every now n then new scams getting unearthed showing again even when Nations pride is at stake Indian bureaucrats politicians n contractors hardly care for anything but making money n media publicity for them. So if game fails nation may get shamed; these set of people would walk away with millions of dollars worth ill money in bank accounts.

Reminds of this quote from writer Khushwant Singh's 1994 piece of work; "Indian commoners are among the stupidest in the world; they re-elect thieves" Hasn't this quote stood times n becoming very norm of misuse of public funds at large?

With such hurdles how long India can really keep growing? Specially when most Infrastructure projects are missing deadlines n budgets almost all over nation.

So called educated n OK doing majority of country is not caring to VOTE on election day is biggest culprit n responsible for this mess far more than Politicians or Bureaucrats themselves?

And finally whats your take on

Commonwealth Games 2010 - India's Fame or India's Shame?

Thanking in Advance

regds-
Vijay

# BTW weren't Commonwealth Games started as games of BritishEmpire for Empire and its Slave nations? As British Empire of queen has crumbled post WWI & II isn't it high time world sport federations stop this games in future; since no ones Master and Slave in today's free world?

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CHENNAI, India — India's Commonwealth Games, which are set to roll in New Delhi from Oct. 3, have turned into the nation's biggest shame. At a cost of $7.5 billion — excluding improvements and additions to city infrastructure — these will be the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever.

The cost — all laid to Indian taxpayers — has sky-rocketed because of terrible mismanagement and hugely inflated bills. Overnight, men in charge of the games have become stinking rich, and the event has helped to convert common wealth into personal wealth.

Scandalous reports of financial corruption, nepotism and incompetence have already tarnished India's image to a degree that appears beyond redemption. Sports stadiums are not yet ready, or if they are, there are growing fears of substandard materials having been used.

The roof of the weightlifting stadium, part of the main venue, began leaking hours after its inauguration.

The ceiling of the SP Mukherjee Swimming Complex came crashing down and a swimmer was injured.

Before that, a roof at the Yamuna Sports Complex collapsed.

The games village is not ready, nor are the living quarters for the hundreds of players due to descend on New Delhi.

The blame for all these rests squarely on the shoulders of Suresh Kalmadi, head of the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games. He also happens to be a Congress member of Parliament, the party that heads India's coalition government.

Mihir Bose, a former BBC sports editor and a London-based writer and broadcaster, has been quoted as having said: "I do not understand how Kalmadi has come to acquire this position of influence in the Indian Commonwealth Games. He has no sporting credentials and he makes no international impression. The question is who is Kalmadi? Had it not been for the Commonwealth Games, would we have ever heard of him?"

The moot point is, why are Indians obsessed with politicians and have men like Kalmadi governing Indian sports? The answer is easy: Who governs has to do with class bias.

To quote Bose again: "In India, players tend to come from the lower classes, with the possible exception of cricket. They are not considered intelligent enough to run sports, never put in a position of power and always exploited by the babus and politicians. The politicians ride on the back of the athletes and use their success to acquire power and run sports in India."

The Congress party feels that Kalmadi must be seen as head of the games, not as a party representative. Worried about the stigma to the brand, the chief of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennel, has asked for an inquiry into the allegations.

What is even more condemnable is the abdication of responsibility by Kalmadi and the government. Both have begun passing the buck: For now, it stops at a British firm that made the queen of England furious, as well as a couple of Australian firms. Last year the organizing committee hired a British firm to perform a games-related service for a hugely inflated sum of money. Kalmadi claimed that the firm was hired on the explicit advice of the Indian High Commissioner in London. It now appears that the e-mail shown as proof of such advice may have been forged.

The queen will not attend the sporting event — though for reasons other than corruption — and this will be the first time in the history of the games that she, the symbolic head of the Commonwealth, will be absent. Also, some star sportsmen will not participate.

Included in this scam of scams is vulgar spending. Over $200 was spent on every single roll of toilet paper bought for the games. Approximately, $13,000 was used to hire each thread-mill for two months, while seven or eight of the gadgets could have been purchased outright with this amount.

Over $130 was spent to hire an umbrella for the duration. An official justified this by saying it was of a special kind that withstands winds of very high velocity. But New Delhi is not on the Pacific Coast. Nor is it in a region frequented by cyclones. Where are the winds blowing from?

All this spending in a country where 76 percent of the 1.3 billion population live in abject poverty, with less than 40 cents a day to spend. Does the nation need the Commonwealth Games at all?

Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi - “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then
they fight you, then you win.”

Mahatma Gandhi - “I believe in equality for everyone, except
reporters and photographers.”

Abraham Lincoln - “Character is like a tree and reputation like its
shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real
thing.”

Abraham Lincoln - “I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”


Man kind must put an end to war or war will put an end to man kind
-john f kennedy


Abraham Lincoln - “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?”
38. Abraham Lincoln - “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives
the test first, the lesson afterward. And in the end, it's not the
years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln - “The probability that we may fall in the struggle
ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be
just; it shall not deter me.”

Mahatma Gandhi - “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the
attainment, full effort is full victory.”

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it. ~
Thomas Jefferson

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible
substitute for it. ~
James A. Garfield

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where
you haven't planted. ~
David Bly
~ Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough ~
Unknown

TERRORISM
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really
easy way: stop participating in it. ~
Noam Chomsky

Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred
brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that
gets past you. ~
Paul Wilkinson

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite
terrorism by ignoring them. ~
GEORGE W. BUSH

A "war against terrorism" is an impracticable conception if it means
fighting terrorism with terrorism.

JOHN MORTIMER


RECESSION

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan

“Do not make Recession your Obsession, Just remember to forget it and
you’ll be OK”

Mina Tadros

INDIA

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without
which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"
Albert Einstein



"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human
speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the
great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive
materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"
Mark Twain

Stuti Ji Ke Liye...: ).

I Love This One...

One day, when I was a fresh man in high school,I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle.

It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?

He must really be a nerd."

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.

His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes. My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye.

As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks."  They really should get lives. " He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!" 

There was a big smile on his face.

It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude. I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had n ever seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now. I would have never hung out with a private school kid before...

We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. 

I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends

He said yes.

We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.

Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again.

I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday! 

" He just laughed and handed me half the books. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends..  When we were seniors we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.. 

I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem. He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship. Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation. I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak

Graduation day,

I saw Kyle.....He looked great.

He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. 

Boy, sometimes I was jealous!

Today was one of those days.

I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!" 

He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled.

"Thanks," he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began.

"Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends.....I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them.I am going to tell you a story".

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile..."Thankfully, I was saved... My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment.I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile.Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.

Never underestimate the power of your actions.

With one small gesture you can change a person's life. 

For better or for worse.

God puts us all in each others lives to impact one another in some way.

Look for God in others...: ).

Mast Slogans...

# Sign on a railway station at Patna: 

Aana free, jaana free, 

pakde gaye to khana free. 

# Seen on a famous beauty parlor in Bombay: 

Don't whistle at the girl going out from here. 

She may be your grandmother! 

# Seen on a bulletin board: 

Success is relative 

More the success, more the relatives. 

# Sign at a barber's saloon in Juhu, Bombay: 

We need your heads to run our business. 

# A traffic slogan: 

Don't let your kids drive if they are not old enough - or else they never will be..... 

#THE BEST ONE:   Indian Army

Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations 

It's our responsibility to arrange their meeting with God.'

Rivalry Among Friends

Good friends help us grow. They bring stability in our ever-changing world. They're good for our well-being. It's natural to have conflicts with true friends, but they're too precious to let go. Follow these steps to mend a broken friendship.

Step 1 - Practice empathy. Broken friendships often occur because of misunderstandings. Your friend's behavior was likely because of the problems in her life and not a wish to hurt or use you.

Step 2 - Write him a letter about what you're feeling. Let your anger go but explain to him why you feel wronged. Writing helps you get your thoughts in order.

Step 3 - Mark a date on your calendar when you'll approach your friend. Prepare for it the day before with meditation, physical exercise, aromatherapy or whatever relieves your stress.

Step 4 - Stay calm when patching up a broken friendship, no matter what happens. Anger clouds your vision and inhibits communication.

Step 5 - Forget your pride and apologize, even if you've been wronged. She may not even realize she treated you badly. Or if she does, she may have been scared to make the first move.

Step 6 - Relive good memories together. Nothing mends a broken friendship better than shared positivity. Remind each other why you've stayed friends for so long.

Step 7 - Accept that not every broken friendship can go back to the way it was. You've both grown during your time apart. But it's worth maintaining good friendships even if they're not as close as before.

And I hope, they (friends) solve there conflict and become friends once again. Please cross your fingers bcoz I want to see them together.

Source: http://www.khannasahab.co.cc/blog.html

Engineer's Brain

Seems this is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive.

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you

for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that

we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after

dinner each night. but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night,

after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream

we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a

fact that I recently purchased a new pontiac and since then my trips

to the store have created a problem.

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from

the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream,

the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this

question, no matter how silly it sounds:

"What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get

vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"

The Pontiac Executive was understandably skeptical about the letter,

but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised

to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine

neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time,

so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It

was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came

back to the car, it wouldn't start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got

chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The

car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to

start.

Now the Engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this

man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore,

to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem.

And toward this end he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts

of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth

etc. In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy

vanilla than any other flavor.

Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the

most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store

for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the

store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to

check out the flavor. Now, the question for the Engineer was why the

car wouldn't start when it took less time.

Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!!

The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapour lock". It was

happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other

flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When

the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock

to dissipate.

Remember:

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem

to be simple only when we find the solution with cool thinking.

Don't just say its "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort...

Observe the word "IMPOSSIBLE" carefully... Looking closer you will

see, "I'M POSSIBLE"...

What really matters is your attitude and your perception...

The Socrates Triple Filter Test...

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem.

One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called

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THE TRIPLE FILTER TEST..."

"TRIPLE FILTER?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test."

"The first filter is TRUTH. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

 

'All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of USEFULNESS. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

Friends, use this triple filter each time you hear loose talk about any of your near & dear friends.

DOST YEH STORY HUM LOGO KE LIYE HAI.........

Once PVNR (PV Narasimha Rao), L.K.Advani and Laloo Prasad Yadav were

travelling in an autorickshaw. They met with an accident and all three of 

them died.

Yama Raja was waiting for this moment at the doorstep of death.

He asks PVNR and Advani to go to HEAVEN.

But, for Laloo, Yama had already decided that he should be sent to HELL.

Laloo is not at all happy with this decision. 

He asks Yama as to why this discrimination is being made. All the three of

them had served the public. Similarly, all took bribes, all misused public

positions, etc.

Then why the differential treatment? 

He felt that there should be a formal test or an objective evaluation before

a decision is made; and should not be just based on opinion or pre-conceived

notions.

Yama agrees to this and asks all the three of them to appear for an English 

test.

TEST 1:

PVNR is asked to spell 'INDIA' and he does it correctly.

Advani is asked to spell 'ENGLAND' and he too passes.

It is Laloo's turn and he is asked to spell 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA'. 

Laloo protests that he doesn't know English.

He says this is not fair and that he was given a tough question and thus

forced to fail with false intent.

Yama then agrees to conduct a written test in Hindi (to give another chance 

assuming that Laloo should at least feel that Hindi would provide an equal

platform for all three).

TEST 2:

PVNR is asked to write 'KUTTA BOLA BHOW BHOW'. He writes it easily and

passes.

Advani is asked to write 'BILLY BOLI MYAUN MYAUN'. He too passes. 

Laloo is asked to write 'BANDAR BOLA GURRRRRR....'.

Tough one. He fails again.

Laloo is extremely unhappy.

Having been a student of history (which the other two weren't),he now 

requested for all the 3 to be subjected to a test in history

Yama says OK but this would be the last chance and that he would not take

any more tests.

TEST 3:

PVNR is asked: 'When did India get Independence?'. He replied '1947' and 

passed.

Advani is asked 'How many people died during the independence struggle?'...

He gets nervous. Yama asked him to choose from 3 options: 100,000 or 200,000

or 300,000.

Advani catches it and says 200,000 and passes.. 

It's Laloo's turn now.

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Yama asks him to 'Give the Name and Address of each of the 200,000 who died

in the struggle'. [:P].

Laloo accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL...

Moral of the story:  "IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO SCREW YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE......So be Prepared!!"