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The Triple Filter Test !

In ancient Greece, scholar and intellectual, Dr. 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 one of your friend?"

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

"Triple filter?" asked the man.

"That's right," Dr. 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 wanted to tell it to you"

"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, it is bad "

"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." Replied the man.

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

NEW YEAR GREETNGS

Heavenly Nick Names

Here is a list of Nick names for the persons holding the role in your ESTEEMED Company:

Update this list if you have one....

Brahma - Systems Installation

Vishnu - Systems Administration & Support

Lakshmi - Finance and Accounts consultant

Saraswati - Training and Knowledge Management

Shiva - DBA (Crash Specialist)

Ganesh - Quality Assurance & Documentation

Narada - Data transfer

Yama - Reorganization & Downsizing Consultant

Chitragupta - IDP & Personal Records

Apsaras - Downloadable Viruses

Devas - Mainframe Programmers

Surya - Solaris Administrator

Rakshasas - In house Hackers

Ravan - Internet Explorer

Kumbhakarnan - Zombie Process

Lakshman - Support Software and Backup

Hanuman - Linux/s390

Vaali - MS Windows

Sugreeva - DOS

Jatayu - Firewall

Dronacharya - System Programmer

Vishwamitra - Sr. Manager Projects

Shakuni - Annual appraisal & Promotion

Valmiki - Technical Writer (Ramayana Sign off document)

Krishna - SDLC ( Sudarshan Wheel Development Life Cycle)

Dharmaraj Yudhishthira - ISO Consultant (CMM level 5)

Arjun - Lead Programmer (all companies are vying for him)

Abhimanyu - Trainee Programmer

Draupadi - Motivation & Team building

Bhima - MAINFRAME LEGACY SYSTEM

Duryodhana - Microsoft product Written in VB

Karna - Contract programmer

Dhrutarashtra - Visual C++

Gandhari - Dreamweaver

Shanieswara - Test engineer: frequently detecting bugs.

Beware while using the trial rooms any where.

GIRLS BE CAREFUL

Have you seen recent advertisement of M/S SAINT GOBAIN GLASSES shown in TELEVISION'S - Then you must have known about 2 Way mirror)

How to determine if a mirror is 2 way or not ? (Not a Joke!)
Not to scare you, but to make sure that you aware. Many of the Hotels and Textile showrooms cheat the customers this way.

HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR?

When we visit bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror (i.e. they can see you, but you can't see them)?

There have been many cases of people installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms. It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just looking at it. It's time to get paranoid. So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty? Just conduct this simple test:

Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror.
However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a 2-WAY mirror!

So if not at home and changing before a mirror, do the "fingernail test". It doesn't cost you anything. It is simple to do, and it might save you from getting "visually raped"!

This is a really good thing to do. The reason there is a gap on a real mirror, is because the silver is on the back of the mirror UNDER the glass.
Whereas with a two-way mirror, the silver is on the surface. Keep it in mind! Make sure and check every time you enter in hotel rooms.

Hidden Lake in Antartica !!

clipped from www.dailygalaxy.com Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living "time capsules" survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun. Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleo-climatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years. Because of the long isolation, it's believed that Lake Vostok could contain new lifeforms, and unique geochemical processes. For five years, scientists in Russia and the United States have sought to probe the ancient lake to discover the secrets lying inside this pristine body of water.

Galaxies don mask of stars in new Spitzer image

Source: Spitzer Newsletter

A pair of dancing galaxies appears dressed for a cosmic masquerade in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared picture shows what looks like two icy blue eyes staring through an elaborate, swirling red mask. These "eyes" are actually the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, which recently met and began to twirl around each other. The "mask" is made up of the galaxies' twisted spiral arms. Dotted along the arms, like strings of decorative pearls, are dusty clusters of newborn stars. This is the first time that clusters of this type, called "beads on a string" by astronomers, have been seen in NGC 2207 and IC 2163.

NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are located 140 million light-years away in the Canis Major constellation. The two galaxies will meld into one in about 500 million years, bringing their masquerade days to an end.

Fireworks from Man & God

Yammaaadeeeeoooov...

PRICELESS

Adarsh wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.

Adarsh looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table. "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping. Love You!"

So he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating.

Adarsh asks, "Son, what happened last night?"
His son says, "Well, you came home around 3 am, drunk and delirious.
Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door". Confused, Adarsh asks, "So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me? I should expect a big quarrel with her!"

His son replies, "Oh, that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your clothes n shoes off, you said, "Lady leave me alone! I'm married!"

Moral
Self-induced hangover -- Rs. 2000.00
Broken furniture -- Rs. 20,000.00
Breakfast -- Rs. 100.00
Saying The Right Thing While Drunk - PRICELESS

Fish Evolution!!

Lessons on Life!

Have a bit of patience to read fully, after going thru the photos....!! The following pictures are of the same place but taken in different seasons...

Lessons on Life
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral lessons:
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later Greetings!

Nothing is impossible.....

When someone tells you that you can't do something...

Look around...

Consider all options...

Then GO for it!

Use all the things God gave you!

Be creative!  & Be Bold!

In the end, you will succeed and prove them wrong!

New Images of Mars

October 11, 2007
Like sand dunes waving across a vast desert, folds of rock seem to ripple over the floor of the Western Candor Chasma, a major canyon in Mars's Valles Marineris rift system.



The patterns are created by multiple layers of light-colored rocks that once shifted and folded along Martian faults and are now being exposed by erosion.


This striking image is among 143 high-resolution color images of Mars released yesterday by NASA. These are the first color images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Dark blue dunes rise above the coppery surface of Wirtz Crater, a possible landing site for NASA's new Mars Science Laboratory, which is set to launch in 2009.
Might look like an aerial view of waves crashing on a distant shore. But this scene, recently captured by NASA's HiRISE camera, is actually part of the largest sedimentary fan inside Mars's 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer- wide) Holden Crater.
Gullies across the Martian surface resemble Earthly mountain ranges in this high-resolution color image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera.
Sapphire-hued dunes and hills dot the inside of a crater in the Western Arabia Terra region of northern Mars-thought to be some of the oldest terrain on the red planet.


The crater is among 30 possible landing sites for a new Mars rover that were imaged in color by NASA's orbiting HiRISE camera. From NGC

Mahatma Gandhi's First Video

அமெரிக்க டாலர் வீழ்ச்சியிலிருந்து தொழிலைக் காப்பாற்றுவது எப்படி?

Lakhs And Crores to Millions and Billions

Indian Quotation....................... Amount ....................... International Quotation

1 Lakh........................................100,000.00..................100 Thousands
10 Lakhs.................................1,000,000.00..............................1 Million
1 Crore..................................10,000,000.00...........................10 Million
10 Crores............................100,000,000.00........................100 Million
100 Crores.......................1,000,000,000.00.............................1 Billion

To convert a Rupee amount (given in Crores), into its corresponding Dollar amount in Millions,divide the rupee Amount by 4.87.
Thus, Rs 4.87 Cr = Rs 4,87,00,000/- = USD 1 millionSimilarly, Rs 16 Cr = USD 3.29 million.

Please note we are dividing Rs 4.87 Crores (in Words), by 4.87 to arrive at $ 1 million (in words). Inherent within this is the unstated equation which says 1 million = 0.1 Crore (Rs 4.87 Cr / 0.1) / 48.7 = Rs 4.87 Cr / 4.87 = $ 1 million.

The idea behind providing this rough and ready conversion method is to help foreigners who may be reading textual articles or financial statements (where amounts are mentioned as "so-many" Crores) in converting these amounts into equivalent Million Dollars.


Thanks Source : http://www.kshitij.com/utilities/LnCtoMnB.shtml

Words - Sword ?!

This has got to be one of the cleverest E-mails I've received in awhile. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)!

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM
PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER
ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER
DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT
THE EYES: When you rearrange the letters:THEY SEE
THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters:HERE COME DOTS
SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY
ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT
SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z'S
A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: IM A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER

ICICI Bank Duplicate site-be careful

BEWARE OF ICICI DUPLICATE SITE

Sample Spoofed Site

Genuine Site

Hi All,
An important piece of information.

Surprising both the sites have secured SSL from Verisign !!!! beware !!

Dear All, Please be aware of the duplicate ICICI Bank site available in the internet. This is one of the worst phishing scam ever seen. Here are the both the URLs, they are same, except there is a space (%20) at the end of the phishing URL.

The wrong one

https://infinity.icicibank.co.in/BANKAWAY?Action.RetUser.Init.001=Y&AppSignonBankId=ICI&AppType=corporate&abrdPrf=N%20

Actual ICICI Site

https://infinity.icicibank.co.in/BANKAWAY?Action.RetUser.Init.001=Y&AppSignonBankId=ICI&AppType=corporate&abrdPrf=N

Table of calories in alcoholic drinks

Losing weight can be easier if more non-alcohol drinks were consumed. Alcohol is very high in calories, in fact it's not far off the calories in fat, therefore cutting down on alcohol is a start in reducing total calories consumed.

Alcoholic Drink ---------------- Size---------------- Calories
Beer---------------------------------half Liter----------------184
Lager-------------------------------half Liter-----------------180
Cider-------------------------------half Liter-----------------200
Whisky-----------------------------100ml--------------------220
Gin----------------------------------100ml--------------------220
Brandy-----------------------------100ml--------------------220
Rum--------------------------------100ml--------------------220
Wine red--------------------------100ml----------------------70
Wine white dry-------------------100ml---------------------65
Wine white medium------------100ml---------------------70
Wine white sweet---------------100ml---------------------90
Wine white sparkling-----------100ml---------------------74
Rose------------------------------- 100ml---------------------62
Champagne----------------------100ml-------------------126
Pernod-----------------------------100ml-------------------140
Tia Maria--------------------------100ml-------------------155
Southern Comfort---------------100ml-------------------184
Drambuie--------------------------100ml-------------------184
Sherry dry--------------------------100ml-------------------110
Sherry medium-------------------100ml-------------------112
Sherry sweet----------------------100ml-------------------130
Port----------------------------------100ml-------------------160
Martini-------------------------------100ml-------------------175
Malibu-------------------------------100ml-------------------204
Baileys Cream--------------------1 glass-----------------120
Bacardi------------------------------1 glass-----------------118

Calorie values of alcohol are estimates values will vary between different products available!

கடமையை செய்..

Whatever your cross
Whatever your pain
There will always be sunshine,
After rain…
Perhaps you may stumble
Perhaps when fall,
But God’s always ready
To answer your call...
He knows every heart aches,
Sees every tear,
A word from his lips,
Can calm every fear…
Your sorrows may linger,
Throughout the night,
But suddenly vanish
In dawn’s early light
The savior is waiting
Somewhere above
To give you his grace
And send you his love,
Whatever your cross
Whatever your pain
“God always sends rainbows…
after the rain…”

Enjoy the cartoons