Tuesday, August 19, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Advice

"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal."

- Oscar Wilde

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19 1946) was the forty-second President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Before his presidency, Clinton served nearly twelve years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas. He was the third-youngest person to serve as president, behind Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, and is known as the first baby boomer president. Clinton is considered to have served during the American transition from the political order of the Cold War. Clinton was a New Democrat politician and was mainly responsible for the Third Way philosophy of governance that came to epitomize his two terms as president.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Talent

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

- Erica Jong

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine 'Shiv' Chanderpaul (born 16 August, 1974 in Unity Village, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana) is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He captained the West Indies in fourteen Tests and sixteen One-Day Internationals. He joined Durham for the second half of the 2007 English county season.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

LUCK

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."

- William Shakespeare

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Shmuel Yoseph Agnon

The Israeli author Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970) is noted for his folkloric yet sophisticated novels. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966.On July 17, 1888, S. Y. Agnon was born Shmuel Yoseph Czaczkes in the town of Buszacz, Eastern Galicia (then part of Austro-Hungary). His father was descended from a long line of Talmudic scholars. The young Shmuel's studies encompassed the whole gamut of Jewish writings: the Bible, Talmudic and Midrashic lore, medieval philosophical treatises, rabbinic writings, and Hasidic tales.


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Saturday, August 16, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Dreams

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (February 18, 1836 - August 16, 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was a rustic Bengali religious ecstatic who practiced Vaishnava and Śakti bhakti, Vedanta, Tantra, and other spiritual disciplines. Toward the end of his life, he became a guru to Anglicized Bengalis, including Narendranath Dutta—the future Swami Vivekananda—and also became an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance. He was considered an avatar or incarnation of God by many of his disciples, and is considered as such by many of his devotees today. Though recent academic scholarship has concentrated on, among other things, aspects of his sexuality, the Ramakrishna Mission and other scholars have criticized the work of these scholars

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Angry

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

- Henry Ward Beecher

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Guido Castelnuovo

Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian Jewish mathematician. His father, Enrico Castelnuovo, was a novelist and campaigner for the unification of Italy. Castelnuovo is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability are also significant.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

View

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

- Anais Nin

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Team Building

Team building is a process that develops cooperation and teamwork within a work unit. To constitute an effective team, its members must share a common goal, have respect for each other, and be motivated to use the strengths of each member to achieve their objectives. Current corporate philosophy stresses that each member of a team plays an integral part in the success of the company.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Pasts

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- George Santayana

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the Father of the Indian space program.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Frederick W. Smith

Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

TOPIC OF THE DAY

V. V. Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Telugu: వరాహగిరి వేంకట గిరి) (August 10, 1894 - June 23, 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India (August 24, 1969 - August 23, 1974).He was born into a Telugu-speaking family, residing in Berhampur in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The town and district are now part of the state of Orissa.


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Saturday, August 09, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

War

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

- Thomas Mann

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Mahesh Babu

He is the son of Telugu actor Krishna and Indira, born in Madras, Tamil Nadu and did most of his schooling and undergraduate in Chennai (formerly Madras). Mahesh babu graduated with a B.Comm from the famous Loyola College, Chennai. He has one elder brother, Ramesh, two elder sisters, Padmavathi, Manjula and one younger sister Priyadarsini. He married Bollywood actress Namrata Shirodkar.[1] in February 2005. On August 31, 2006, Mahesh and Namrata's first son was born[2] and named as Gautam Gattamaneni

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Friday, August 08, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Imitate

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Vulimiri Ramalingaswami

Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (August 8, 1921 – May 28, 2001) was an Indian medical scientist. He was born to an orthodox Brahmin family of South India. His father was a lowly paid government servant. He received his medical education from Andhra Medical School and then went on a scholarship to Oxford. His pioneering research on nutrition got him elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of London.

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Thursday, August 07, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Enemy

"Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake."

- Persian Proverb

TOPIC OF THE DAY

M. S. Swaminathan

Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (Tamil: மொன்கொம்பு சாம்பசிவன் சுவாமிநாதன்) is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a surgeon. His ancestral home is the island village of Monkompu, Alleppey District, Kerala. He is known as "Father of the Green Revolution" in India, for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. He is founder and Chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, leading the 'Evergreen Revolution'.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

-Aristotle

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone[1] (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the '70s to the '90s, international megastar Sylvester Stallone is a global icon of machismo and Hollywood action heroism. He has played two characters who have become a part of the American cultural lexicon: Rocky Balboa, the boxer who overcame all odds to fight for love and glory, and John Rambo, a courageous soldier who specialized in violent rescue and revenge missions.


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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Performance

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

-Mark Twain

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Venkatesh Prasad

Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad (born August 5, 1969 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer, now retired. He made his debut for the Indian national team in 1996. Prasad, opened the Indian bowling with his Karnataka team-mate, Javagal Srinath.


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Monday, August 04, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Desires

"Let your desires be ruled by reason."

-Cicero

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 – October 13, 1987) was an Indian film playback singer and comic actor. He also achieved notable successes as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.

Kishore Kumar has sung in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali (his mother tongue), Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. Along with Mohammed Rafi , and Mukesh, he was one of the three leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. He holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for Best Male Playback Singer.


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Sunday, August 03, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY



"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."

-Mary Catherwood

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Friendship Day

The National Friendship Day is celebrated every year on the first Sunday in August. There is not much history that can be garnered for this day except the fact that the US Congress proclaimed this day as the Friendship Day in the year 1935


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Saturday, August 02, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

ART

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

-William Blake

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Alexander Graham Bell - Biography

In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe.
Alexander Graham Bell might easily have been content with the success of his telephone invention. His many laboratory notebooks demonstrate, however, that he was driven by a genuine and rare intellectual curiosity that kept him regularly searching, striving, and wanting always to learn and to create. He would continue to test out new ideas through a long and productive life. He would explore the realm of communications as well as engage in a great variety of scientific activities involving kites, airplanes, tetrahedral structures, sheep-breeding, artificial respiration, desalinization and water distillation, and hydrofoils.


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Friday, August 01, 2008

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Belief

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."

- John Stuart Mill

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. At least two and up to five solar eclipses occur each year on Earth, with between zero and two of them being total eclipses. Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any location because during each eclipse totality exists only along a narrow corridor in the relatively tiny area of the Moon's umbra.

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