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Worries

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."

- Fran Lebowitz

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Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath (Kannada:ಜಾವಗಲ್‌ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್‌) pronunciation (help·info) (born August 31, 1969 in Mysore, Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement , being the only Indian pace bowler apart from Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. He is arguably India's fastest bowler.

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Worries

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

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Indian National Satellite System

INSAT or the Indian National Satellite System is a series of multipurpose Geo-Stationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and "search and rescue" needs of India. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is the largest domestic communication system in the Asia-Pacific Region. Active satellites of this series include INSAT-2E, INSAT-3A, INSAT-3B, INSAT-3C, INSAT-3E, KALPANA-1 (METSAT), GSAT-2, EDUSAT (GSAT-3) and INSAT-4A.

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Worries

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...."

- Charles M. Schulz

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Ramakrishna Hegde

Ramakrishna Hegde (Kannada: ರಾಮಕೃಷ್ಣ ಹೆಗಡೆ) born on August 29, 1926 at Siddapur, Uttara Kannada district was an Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms and later served as Union Commerce Minister.

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Ethics

"Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."

- Darby Conley


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Rakhi

Rakhi or Rakshabandhan is celebrated on the full moon day of the month of Shravan month according to the Hindu calendar.

On this day people who wear the sacred thread (yagyopaveetam), perform the shravani karm wherein they replace the old yagyopaveetam with a new one after performing the gayatri pooja and sandhyas
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Fortune

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)


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Onam

Onam (Malayalam: ഓണം) is an annual harvest festival, celebrated mainly in the south Indian state of Kerala. It is a popular festival among the culural repertoire of Malayalees, and falls during the month of Chingam (August-September as per the Gregorian calendar), the first month of the Malayalam calendar and lasts for ten days. Traditionally celebrated as a harvest festival, mythologically it is linked to Malayalee-Hindu folktales.But Onam is celebrated by people of all religions.

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Ambition

"It's not enough that we do our best;sometimes we have to do what is required."

- Sir Winston Churchill

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films.[1] Sir Sean Connery was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000.
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Ambition

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

- Doug Larson

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Kolkata

Kolkata (Bengali: কলকাতা, IPA: ['kolkat̪a] (help·info)), formerly Calcutta (help·info), is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city has a population of almost 4.5 million, with an extended metropolitan population of over 14 million, making it the third-largest urban agglomeration and the fourth-largest city in India.

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Ambition

"Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?"

- Frida Kahlo

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Financial Auditing

Financial auditing is an accounting process used in business. It uses an independent body to examine a business' financial transactions and statements. The ultimate purpose of financial auditing is to present an accurate account of a company's financial business transactions. The practice is used to make sure that the company is trading financially fairly, and also that the accounts they are presenting to the public or shareholders are accurate and justified.

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Discovery

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."

- Arthur Koestler

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.

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Humour

"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."

- Jerome Blattner

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்) (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States)[2] was an American astrophysicist born in British India of Tamil Indian heritage.[3] He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Alfred Fowler) for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars.

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Humour

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

- Peter Ustinov

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Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (IPA: [raːdʒiːv gaːnd̪ʰiː]) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election defeat. Becoming the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40, he is the youngest person to date to hold that office.

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Law

"2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2."

- Grabel's Law

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World Photography Day

Today, every moment, we live photography. From research work to entertainment, from documentation to creating stunning pictorial works of art, photography is everywhere

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Love

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

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Smart Card

A smart card is any card that has an integrated circuit on it. A smart card lacks batteries, as the size of a card is too small to mount all but the smallest of special-purpose batteries, which are currently too expensive. Because it has no power on its own, a smart card must be introduced to a smart card reader to temporarily give it power for the purpose of reading the data contained therein.

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Silence

"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

- Thomas Hardy

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Onam

Onam (IPA: [oːɳam], Malayalam: ഓണം) is an annual harvest festival, celebrated mainly in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the foremost festival among the cultural repertoire of Malayalees, and falls during the month of Chingam (August-September as per the Gregorian calendar), the first month of the Malayalam calendar and lasts for ten days. Though it is essentially a harvest festival of Malayalees, mythologically it is linked to Malayalee-Hindu folktales. Like many other religious festivals in India, Onam is celebrated by people of all religions .

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Education

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm Forbes

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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae) [1], (February 18, 1836–August 16, 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. His teachings emphasised God-realisation as the highest goal of life, love and devotion for God, the oneness of existence, and the harmony of religions.

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Advice

"Never give advice unless asked."

- German Proverb

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Optical Scanners

An optical scanner is any scanning technology that converts a physical image, text, or object into a digitized form that can be stored as a 2D image file on a computer. 3D scanners also exist, but they are not widespread and are sometimes based on different technologies. Optical scanners have been around for decades and their price has dropped accordingly. You can buy low-level used optical scanners on eBay for as little as 20 US dollars (USD) and a new scanner on newegg.com for around 50 USD. Better optical scanners sell for hundreds of dollars.

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Wisdom

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."

- Unknown

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Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, Russian: Берли́нская стена́, Berlinskaya stena), known in the Soviet Union and in East Germany as the "Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart,"[1] was a separation barrier between West and East Germany.

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Ideas

"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them."

-Emile Chartier

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Khudiram Bose

Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ক্ষুদিরাম বসু) (1889-1908) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement.

Bose was born on 3rd December 1889 in the village mohobony in Medinipur district of Bengal. His father Trailokyanath Basu was the Tahsildar of the town of the Nadazol prince. His mother Lakshmipriya Devi was a pious lady, who was well known for her virtuous life and generosity.

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Education

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

-Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

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Thomas Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient for The New York Times. In 1978 he married an heiress to a fortune in shopping mall properties, and her $3-billion makes the Friedmans one of America's wealthiest families. He was hired as a financial reporter for The New York Times in May 1981, and within a year was appointed the newspaper's Beirut bureau chief. Rising rapidly through the ranks, he became The Times' bureau chief in Israel, then its chief diplomatic correspondent, White House correspondent, international affairs correspondent, and, since 1995, a foreign affairs columnist

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Truth

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

-Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

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V. K. Gokak

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada:ವಿನಾಯಕ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೊಕಾಕ್ (1909-1992) was a major writer in Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was fifth among seven recipients[1] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi is perhaps the longest epic written in any language in the 20th Century. It deals with the vedic age. Gokak was a Professor of English literature.

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Truth

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

-Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

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V. K. Gokak

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada:ವಿನಾಯಕ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೊಕಾಕ್ (1909-1992) was a major writer in Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was fifth among seven recipients[1] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi is perhaps the longest epic written in any language in the 20th Century. It deals with the vedic age. Gokak was a Professor of English literature.

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Life

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."

-H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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Wireless LAN

A wireless local area network (WLAN or wireless LAN) consists of two or more computers that communicate wirelessly via radio waves. This is contrasted to a wired LAN, in which each computer in the network is physically tethered with an Ethernet cable to the server's network switch or hub.

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Truth

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

-Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (help·info)[α] (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর,[β] IPA: [ɾobin̪d̪ɾonat̪ʰ ʈʰakuɾ] (help·info)) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941[γ]), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev,[δ] was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Earth

"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. "

-Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. They are the only instances of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare.

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MOney

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)

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Swami Chinmayananda

Swami Chinmayananda (May 8, 1916 - Aug 3, 1993) was born Balakrishna Menon (Balan) in Ernakulam, Kerala in a devout Hindu noble family called "Poothampalli". Graduating from Lucknow University, he entered the field of journalism where he felt he could influence political, economic and social reform in India. But his life was changed when he met Swami Sivananda at Rishikesh and became interested in the Hindu spiritual path.

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Services

"Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them."

-Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)

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Bannanje Govindacharya

Shri Bannanje Govindacharya (Kannada:ಬನ್ನಂಜೆ ಗೋವಿಂದಾಚಾರ್ಯ ) is one of the foremost vedic scholars in the world today . He hails from Bannanje locality of Udupi in Karnataka, India. He was born in 1936. He is in particular one of the greatest experts on the Madhva Tathwa Shastras or Madhva philosophy. He is best known for his pravachanas or discourses which are very popular among Kannadigas all over the world.

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Knowledge

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

-Socrates

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What are Stock Options?

In their simplest form, stock options are a contract between two parties that expires at an agreed-upon time in the future. The contract purchaser is buying the right, but not the obligation, to buy (a "call" option) or sell (a "put" option) an asset (the "underlying") at a specific price, on or before the agreed-upon date. The contract seller is accepting the obligation to take the other side of the transaction.

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Friendship

'Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth'

- Herman Melville

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-1891), American author, best known for his novels of the sea and especially for his masterpiece Moby Dick (1851), a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. The work was only recognized as a masterpiece years after Melville's death. The fictionalized travel narrative Typee (1846) was Melville's most popular book during his lifetime.


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