Tuesday, November 1, 2011

So True..from Dalai Lama - Man Dies Having Never Really Lived


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Subject: So True..From Dalai Lama..!

 

 The Dalai Lama  Hits The Nail On The Head..!



Here's A Question That Was Posed To The Dalai Lama..
 
" What Thing About Humanity Surprises You The Most ? "

His Answer Was : "Man"

" Because He Sacrifices His Health In Order To Make Money
Then He Sacrifices His Money To Recuperate His Health
And Then He Is So
Anxious About The Future
That He Doesn't Enjoy The Present,
And As A Result He Doesn't Live In The
Present Or The Future
And He Lives As
If He's Never Going To Die,
And Then He Dies Having Never Really Lived."


  
 








Thursday, October 27, 2011

Interview with Dr. Rick Warren, author of the best seller book 'Purpose Driven Life'

This was from a friend and I'd to share it with you.

It contains very motivational message taken from an interview with Dr. Rick Warren, author of the best seller book 'Purpose Driven Life'.


This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California .

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:

People ask me, What is the purpose of life?

And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.

It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases.

Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.

That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

In Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.

In Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.

In Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.

In Painful moments, TRUST GOD.

Every moment, THANK GOD..

If you do not pass it on, nothing will happen. But it will just be nice to pass it on to a friend....just like I have done.

Enjoy God's Blessings.

HE ARRIVED THIS MORNING, WE HAD PRAYER; SPENT SOME TIME JUST TALKING, AND HE HELD ME FOR AWHILE BECAUSE I WAS HAVING A BAD MORNING.. THEN, HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO YOUR PLACE.

When He gets to your PC, escort Him to the next stop. Please don't allow Him to sleep on your PC. The message He is carrying is very important and needs to go round. May God bless you as you do this- AMEN.



Friday, September 30, 2011

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mail your biodata mentioning your current salary,Experience.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

An Interesting blog by Pritish Nandy!!!

An Interesting blog by Pritish Nandy!!!


I was an MP not very long ago. I loved those six years. Everyone called me sir, not because of my age but because I was an MP. And even though I never travelled anywhere by train during those years, I revealed in the fact that I could have gone anywhere I liked, on any train, first class with a bogey reserved for my family. Whenever I flew, there were always people around to pick up my baggage, not because I was travelling business class but because I was a MP. And yes, whenever I wrote to any Government officer to help Some one in need, it was done. No, not because I was a journalist but because I was an MP.

The job had many perquisites, apart from the tax free wage of Rs 4,000. Then the wages were suddenly quadrupled to Rs 16,000, with office expenses of Rs 20,000 and a constituency allowance of Rs 20,000 thrown in. I could borrow interest free money to buy a car, get my petrol paid, make as many free phone calls as I wanted. My home came free. So did the furniture, the electricity, the water, the gardeners, the plants. There were also allowances to wash curtains and sofa covers and a rather funny allowance of Rs 1,000 per day to attend Parliament, which I always thought was a MP's job in the first place! And, O yes, we also got Rs 1 crore a year (now enhanced to Rs 2 crore) to spend on our constituencies. More enterprising MPs enjoyed many more perquisites best left to your imagination. While I was embarrassed being vastly overpaid for the job I was doing, they kept demanding more.

Today, out of 543 MPs in Lok Sabha, 315 are crorepatis. That's 60%. 43 out of the 54 newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs are also millionaires. Their average declared assets are over Rs 25 crore each. That's an awfully wealthy lot of people in whose hands we have vested out destiny. The assets of your average Lok Sabha MP have grown from Rs 1.86 crore in the last house to Rs 5.33 crore. That's 200% more. And, as we all know, not all our MPs are known to always declare all their assets. Much of these exist in a colour not recognised by our tax laws. That's fine, I guess. Being a MP gives you certain immunities, not all of them meant to be discussed in a public forum.

If you think it pays to be in the ruling party, you are dead right: 7 out of 10 MPs from the Congress are crorepatis. The BJP have 5. MPs from some of the smaller parties like SAD, TRS and JD (Secular) are all crorepatis while the NCP, DMK, RLD, BSP, Shiv Sena, National Conference and Samajwadi Party have more crorepatis than the 60% average. Only the CPM and the Trinamool, the two Bengal based parties, don't field crorepatis. The CPM has 1 crorepati out of 16 MPs; the Trinamool has 7 out of 19. This shows in the state-wise average. West Bengal and Kerala have few crorepati MPs while Punjab and Delhi have only crorepati MPs and Haryana narrowly misses out on this distinction with one MP, poor guy, who's not a crorepati.

Do MPs become richer in office? Sure they do. Statistics show that the average assets of 304 MPs who contested in 2004 and then re-contested last year grew 300%. And, yes, we're only talking about declared assets here. But then, we can't complain. We are the ones who vote for the rich. Over 33% of those with assets above Rs 5 crore won the last elections while 99.5% of those with assets below Rs 10 lakhs lost! Apart from West Bengal and the North East, every other state voted for crorepati MPs. Haryana grabbed first place with its average MP worth Rs 18 crore. Andhra is not far behind at 16.

But no, this is not enough for our MPs. It's not enough that they are rich, infinitely richer than those who they represent, and every term makes them even richer. It's not enough that they openly perpetuate their families in power. It's not enough that all their vulgar indulgences and more are paid for by you and me through back breaking taxes. It's not enough that the number of days they actually work in Parliament are barely 60 in a year. The rest of the time goes in squabbling and ranting. Now they want a 500% pay hike and perquisites quadrupled. The Government, to buy peace, has already agreed to a 300% raise but that's not good enough for our MPs. They want more, much more.

And no, I'm not even mentioning that 150 MPs elected last year have criminal cases against them, with 73 serious, very serious cases ranging from rape to murder. Do you really think these people deserve to earn 104 times what the average Indian earns?



Wednesday, July 13, 2011

[Tintumon Jokes] Chandranil vellamundennu ISRO!

Chandranil vellam matramalla timingalam,kadalaama,sravu tudangiya jeevikal ullatayi kanunnu
- ISRO

Tintumon:

ISROku ariyillalo
ROCKET Arabikadalilanu veenathenn

[Tintumon Jokes] Entha late ayathu?

Teacher:Entha late ayathu? Tindumon:Bike kedayi. Teacher:Ennal businu varayirunnalo? Tindumon:Njan paranjatha pakshe teacherinte makal ketilla.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

ICT 2011 (Rome, Italy) - 1st call extension: until 28 March 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS: Submission deadline (1st call extension): 28 March 2011

IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011
Rome, Italy
24 - 26 July 2011
(http://www.ict-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems (MCCSIS 2011)
Rome, Italy, 20 – 26 July 2011
(http://www.mccsis.org)

Keynote Speaker
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair
Committee
on Global Thought, Columbia University, USA, Centennial Visiting
Professor,
London School of Economics, UK

Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Gunilla Bradley, Professor Em, Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, Sweden
Diane Whitehouse, Chair of IFIP WG 9.2 on Social Accountability and
Computing, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK

Conference background and goals
The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between
ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this
conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important.
Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and
psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on
past, present,
and future challenges – especially planning for handling the latter -
are encouraged.

Today, computer science and ICT-related disciplines are working more
and more together with various behavioural and social sciences
including child psychology and developmental psychology. For this
reason, the conference pays attention to societal changes, global and
more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values
and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and
changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to
solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching
a Good Information Society.

In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and
especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case
studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-
cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological
analyses may all be presented.

The broader scope of this conference is presented in the conference
web site http://www.ict-conf.org  under "Call for papers" including a
theoretical framework which outlines the conference approach.

Submissions
Details on the conference web site http://www.ict-conf.org/ under
"submissions".
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, available also in the IADIS Digital Library
(accessible on-line).
Types of contributions: Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers,
Posters, Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers to selected journals including journals from
INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

Important Dates
- Submission Deadline (1st call extension): 28 March 2011
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 29 April 2011
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call
extension): Until 25 May 2011
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 25 May 2011
- Conference: Rome, Italy, 24 to 26 July 2011

Conference Location
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.

Topics related to ICT, Society and Human Beings
These include, but are not limited to:

Track A: Globalization and ICT
- Globalization processes
- Glocalization processes
- Values, norms
- Labour market (outsourcing, integration, mobility)
- Universal access
- Virtual worlds
- Global villages
- Rethinking economic and social theories
- Human capital theory
- Sustainability, Democracy
- Global catastrophes
- Vulnerability
- Peace and war

Track B: Life environment and ICT
- Psychosocial environment
- Work environment/Work place
- Work content – Work tasks
- Organizational structure
- Decision support systems
- Human-human communication
- Power structure-formal and informal
- Leadership
- Career patterns
- Influence/participation
- Working hours and salary/compensation
- Work pace/work load
- Physical and ergonomic conditions
- Changes in the concept of time
- Changes in the way we are ('being')
- Learning and knowledge growth
- Home Environment
- Public Environment
- Private Environment
- Virtual Environment
- Virtual (on-line) communities
- Organisational Design and Management
- Psychosocial work environment

Track C: Life role and ICT
- Citizen's role
- Professional role
- Leadership role
- Private role
- Virtual roles
- Home of the future
- Mobile life
- Role conflicts

Track D: ICT and effects on humans
- Analyses of impact as well as technology
   contributing to desirable human qualities
- Psychosocial impact
- Life styles
- Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging,
   autonomy, confidence)
- Happiness and fun
- Wellbeing and health
- Dependency
- Identity
- Integrity
- Trust – security – privacy
- Addictiveness (games)
- Availability
- Motivation
- Human memory
- Cyber sickness
- Stress (over- and understimulation)
- Workload
- Fatigue
- Love and relationships
- Skills and competencies
- Creativity
- Problem solving
- Social competence

Track E: Perspectives on ICT
- Social and psychosocial
- Cross-cultural
- Theoretical
- Gender
- Class
- Rural – urban
- Multimodal
- Economic
- Ethical

Track F: Desirable goals and ICT
- Integration
- Humanization
- Reducing poverty
- Bridging the digital gap
- Freedom of expression
- Democratization
- E-cooperation
- Peace
- Sustainability
- Accountability, responsibility
- Involvement, empowerment
- Wellbeing Health
- Human welfare
- Quality of life
- Human Rights

Track G: Actions for reaching the
Good Information Society
- Individual level
- Community (physical and virtual) level
- Governmental level
- International level
- Civil society and social change in
   Communities
- Design of societal systems – rethinking

Secretariat:

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ICT,
SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEINGS 2011
Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/

Please send to interested colleagues and students.