Management Learning

Lesson Number 1:

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.
A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you
and do nothing all day long?
The crow answered: "Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.
All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it. 

Management Learning:

To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. 
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Lesson Number 2: 

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to
the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy.
"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the
bull."They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Learning: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there. ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *********

Lesson Number 3: 

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!

Management Learning:

1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut! ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *********

Lesson Number 4: 

The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked. As they went along, they passed some people who remarked "it was a shame the old man was walking and the boy was riding". The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.
Later, they passed some e people that remarked, "What a shame, he makes that little boy walk." They decided they both would walk! Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent donkey to ride. So the both rode the donkey! Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying "how awful to put such a load on a poor donkey". The boy and man said they were probably right so they decided to carry the donkey.
As they crossed a bridge, they lost their grip on the animal and he fell into the river and drowned.

Management Learning: 

If you try to please everyone, you will eventually lose your ass. ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *********

Lesson Number 5: 

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 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.
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).
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.
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 asses.
It's Laloo's turn now. Yama asks him to give the Name and Address of
each of the 200,000 who died in the struggle. Laloo accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL.

Management Lesson: 
"IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO FIX YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE"

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10 Things You Might Know About Google

1. The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for 'Googol.' Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Initially, Larry and Sergey Brin called their search engine BackRub, named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." The search for a new name began in 1997, with Larry and his officemates starting a hunt for a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology. 

2.The reason the google page is so bare is because the founder didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just kept sitting staring at the screen, waiting for the rest to appear. To solve the particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as an end of page marker. 

3. Google started as a research project by Larry page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 and 23 years respectively. Google's mission statement is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The company's first office was in a garage, in Menlo Park, California. Google's first employee was Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology. The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank that assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that is not why it is called PageRank. It is actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page. 


4.Google receives about 20 million search queries each day from every part of the world, including Antarctica and Vatican. You can have the Google homepage set up in as many as 116 different languages -- including Urdu, Latin, Cambodia, Tonga, and Yoruba. In fact, Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

5. In the earliest stage of Google, there was no submit button, rather the Enter key needed to be pressed. Google has banned computer-generated search requests, which can sop up substantial system resources and help unscrupulous marketers manipulate its search rankings

6. The Google's free web mail service Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to launch to the public. The researchers found out six types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these six.
The free e-mail service recently changed its name for new UK users. Following a trademark dispute with a London-based Independent International Investment Research, the mail account has been renamed Google Mail.

7. It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds. Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation 

8. The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days and dates and important events are called Google Doodle. The company has also created an online museum where it has all the logos it has put on various occasions so far. Dennis Hwang, a Korean computer artist in the United States, is the guy behind these witty Doodles. Hwang has been drawing the face of Google for over two years.

9. You have heard of Google Earth, but not many know there is a site called Google Moon, which maps the Lunar surface. Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery, enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings

10. Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004 was funded by CIA. Keyhole's technology runs Google's popular program Google Earth that allows users to quickly view stored satellite images from all around the world. 

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Meaning of Rose Colors

Red - Love and Respect
Many exciting red roses are available from the very dark Cara Mia, large flowered Madam Delbard, bright red Kardinal to strawberry red Preference

Coral - Desire
The coral/peach rose family has several popular varieties including the world favorite Sonia, peach washed Kyria and peach/pink bi-color Harmony.

Orange - Fascination
Roses in brilliant orange are a delight to the eye including these ... brightly colored Belinda, shocking orange Lambada and apricot-hued Pareo.

Pale Peach - Modesty
Soft peach hues are a delightful color gaining in popularity. Choose the very popular Osiana, the palest peach Champagne or the spray rose Porcelina.

Dark Pink - Thankfulness
Choose from several shades of dark pink roses from the hot pink Laser to the dark pink Privé and the medium pink variety, Diplomat.

Yellow - Joy and Friendship
Many shades of yellow roses are available from the large blossomed Alsmeer Gold, medium sized Golden Emblem to the spray rose Rhumba.

Pale Pink - Grace and Joy
Among the varieties of delicate pink roses are the softly-shaded Kalinka, delicately colored Deloris, true pink Vivaldi and the favorite Bridal Pink.

White - Innocence and Secrecy
White roses are a pure and elegant symbol of caring. Try the true white Escimo, the purest white Tineke and an old favorite, Bridal White.

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The Senses of Sight and Smell

SENSE OF SIGHT

Your eyes sit in a hollow space in the skull and are protected by an eyelid and a bony eyebrow. The eye is covered with a transparent, curved cornea over a donut-shaped ring called the iris, which sits in the center of the white of the eye. The iris is the part that can vary from blue, to brown to hazel, which determines eye color. It's also the part of the eye where there are muscles that cause the pupil, the dark circle in the center, to enlarge or contract.
It is through the pupil that light rays enter the eyeball. The size of your pupil changes depending upon the light available. Just behind the pupil is the lens. This is a transparent part of the eye which bends the rays of light and focuses the image on the back surface of the eyeball.
If you are looking at something up close, the lens will become thicker. If you are looking at something far away, the muscles will squeeze the lens, making it thinner so that you can see the image clearly.
Once the light travels through the lens, it must still travel through a biochemical goo (clear jelly), called the vitreous humor. This jelly-like substance makes up most of the eye. After the light travels through the lens, it makes it to the back surface, or retina, of the eye.

THERE ARE 130 MILLION LIGHT-SENSITIVE CELLS 
The retina is about the size of a postage stamp and is filled with two different kinds of light-sensitive cells (about 130 million of them called "rods" and "cones.") Rods register shapes and respond to low levels of light. Cones register color and only work in bright light, which is why colors become harder to see as it gets darker. Then, through optic nerves, these light-sensitive cells send information to the brain.

WHAT IMAGES COMMUNICATE WITH THE BRAIN? The images shining onto the retina and also being communicated to the brain are really upside down. It's the brain's job to translate those upside-down images and interpret the information it receives into visual meaning that you can understand. It's just not in the eye's job description.

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE NEED TO WEAR GLASSES? 
Sometimes the lens in some people's eyes don't properly focus light on the back of the retina. If an eyeball is too short, the image will fall behind the retina. People are then called far-sighted, because their eyes can focus on things far away but not close up. If an eyeball is too long, people see things nearby but not far off and are called near-sighted. Either way, glasses or contact lenses can generally enable them to see much clearer. 

JUST THE FACTS ABOUT SIGHT:

• An owl can see a mouse moving over 150 feet away with light no brighter than a candle!
• Cat's can see in the dark because they have special silvery "mirrors" that reflect light. This also causes their eyes to glow.
• Color-blindness affects about 1 in 30 people and much more in men than women causing the colors green and red to be difficult to distinguish.

WHAT IS THE SENSE OF SMELL? 
Odors are tiny molecules of chemicals from things like food, flowers or other chemical substances that float through the air. Most odors aren't just single scents or single molecules but a whole mixture of scents.

HOW DOES THE SENSE OF SMELL WORK? 
The nose is a mucus-covered, curvy cavern that is designed to smell. It's also made to warm, moisten, and filter the air you breath. When you breath through your nose, air enters both of your nostrils and the nose hairs (cilia) will act to filter dirt, dust, pollen and even tiny critters!
As the air moves further back inside your nose, the area gets warmer, slimier and is in a state of movement. The small hair-like structures (cilia) are sweeping or flowing back and forth, moving the mucus (and anything trapped in it) further and further back. At the same time, the air moving back is warmed by blood vessels just beneath the surface, filled with warm, pulsing blood.
As the air curves around, the passageway opens up to a big cavern, which is your nasal cavity and the mucus streams back and down into our throat. Yep, a lot of this mucus is swallowed. 

The chemicals that you inhaled, float upward, not downward. They hit a tiny ceiling area in your nasal cavity. It's covered with millions and millions of microscopic nerve cells that can detect smell. Odor molecules will enter through a thick, mustard-colored mucus until they reach the sensitive hair-like tops of the nerve cells and get trapped. Differently shaped nerve cells recognize different smells because each smell molecule fits into a nerve cell like a hand and glove. These cells send signals along your olfactory nerve to the smell center in your brain. It senses the odor or collection of odors. Whether the smell is Good or bad all depends on you.

IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN SMELL AND TASTE? Most of your sense of taste is really about your sense of smell. If you like the smell, more than likely you'll enjoy the taste. Not only do you smell before you take a bite of food, but while you are chewing and odor molecules from the ground-up food inside your mouth float upwards taking that wonderful smell to the brain.

JUST THE FACTS ABOUT SMELLING:

• Your sense of smell can tell the difference between 4,000 - 10,000 smells.
• As you grow older, your sense of smell gets worse.
• Children have more subtle senses of smell than their parents or grandparents.
• A bloodhound can smell at least 1000 times better than humans.
• A dozen odor molecules from a lady moth a block away can drive a male moth absolutely crazy! 

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History of Pencils

                                              

Everyone knows about the good old number 2 pencil. But who knows what that number 2 actually means? Have no fear, I've taken the time to research this pointless topic for your pleasure. First, a little history.

Today pencils are numbered and/or lettered to tell us how hard the lead is. The higher the number, the harder the lead, and the lighter the markings. However, it wasn't always this way.

The earliest pencils were made simply from filling a wood shaft with raw graphite. The hardness of the graphite would differ depending on the quality of the graphite, thus it was different depending on where the pencil was made.

The current style of making pencils was developed in 1794 by Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755-1805). Conté, a painter, chemist, physicist, balloonist, and inventor, put into practice a new method of making pencils so that they would be much more functional.

                                                       

The Conté Process, as it became known, mixes powdered graphite with finely ground clay. This mixture is then shaped into a long cylinder and then baked in an oven. The more clay that is added versus graphite the harder the pencil lead. In January 1795, Conté patented his method as patent number 32. (Pretty high up there!)

Conté's first pencils were numbered for varing degrees of hardness. As the Conté process made its way into the world, other pencil makers decided to use the same technique. Of course, like any product, each company came up with their own standards for how their product should be labeled.

To further complicate things, English pencil decided to use letters instead of numbers. Soft leads were labeled 'B' for black, and harder leads with 'H' for hard. For varying grades they would just add more letters, thus very soft was 'BB', very hard was 'HH', and extra hard was 'HHH'. Simple right?

Later they switched again to a combination of numbers and letters! Where you would see 2B, 9H, etc. Although more complicated, this system allowed for a much wider variety of grades to be made with no more than a two character description. This was the last major change in the English grading system, the same they use today.

                                             

Why an F and an HB? Who knows. They're crazy! Many of the United States companies use a number only system for writing pencils (1, 2, 2½, 3, 4), but the number letter combination for graphic and artist pencils. I guess they couldn't make up their mind.

The No. 2 / HB grade pencil is the middle grade and is the most commonly used pencil for generic use. Harder grades are used for drafting and engineering, while softer grades are used usually by artists.

Still to this day there is not a "universal" pencil grading method. The foolish pencil makers have yet to sit down and come up with one. We should lobby our governments.

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General Knowledge Questions about Music

MUSIC

Q1. How many strings does a violin have?
Ans:- Four

Q2. Where was Ricky Martin born?
Ans:- Puerto Rico

Q3. What pop group is Howie D. in?
Ans:- Backstreet Boys

Q4. Which singer usually sings rap music, Mariah Carey or Eminem?
Ans:- Eminem

Q5. Which instrument is often used in jazz music, a saxophone or a tuba?
Ans:- A Saxophone

Q6. What nationality is Robbie Williams?
Ans:- English / British

Q7. Which pop singer married British movie director Guy Ritchie?
Ans:- Maddona

Q8. Which rock group did George Harrison belong to?
Ans:- The Beatless

Q9. Which classical composer became deaf near the end of his life?
Ans:- Beethoven

Q10. How many strings does a bass guitar usually have?
Ans:- Four

Q11. Which famous pop musician sang at Princess Diana's funeral?
Ans:- Elton John

Q12. How many instruments are there in a string quintet?
Ans:- Five

Q13. Which female pop singer had a big hit called 'Baby, One More Time'?
Ans:- Britney Spears

Q14. What pop group was Michael Jackson a member of when he was young?Ans:- The Jackson Five

Q15. What type of music did Louis Armstrong play?Ans:- Jazz

Q16. What does an orchestra's conductor wave to keep time?Ans:- Baton

Q17. What nationality was Mozart?
Ans:- Austrian

Q18. Which rock group is Michael Stipe the lead singer of?
Ans:- REM

Q19. What instrument did the jazz musician Miles Davis play?
Ans:- Trumpet

Q20. Which British rock group do Liam and Noel Gallagher belong to?
Ans:- Oasis

Q21. Which instrument has keys, pedals and strings?
Ans:- Piano

Q22. In which country is a 'gamelan orchestra' most commonly found?Ans:- Indonesia

Q23. Who wrote the song entitled 'Yesterday'?
Ans:- Paul McCartney

Q24. Which is the largest stringed instrument in a classical orchestra?Ans:- Double Bass

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Who Invented Pizza...........?

Who invented Pizza ?

Pizza was first made in Naples about 500 years ago. According to ancient stories, a baker  in Naples wanted to make something for the King and Queen of Italy,

who happened to be visiting that area that day. So he added some food on top of a flat bread that were like the colors of the Italian flag -

  red, green and white. He added tomatoes,  cheese  and basil  and served  it to the king.

The king loved it so much that soon a lot of people were eating "Pizza"!It was just something a lot of people ate in that area. The Duke of Naples made it popular by

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adding a variety of toppings.  

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10 Reasons to Plant More Trees

               

1. Trees save energy and money. Just three trees strategically planted around your home can cut your air conditioning bill in half.

2. Trees save tax payers. Trees in a city slow storm water runoff and reduce the need for storm sewers. Tree shade also help cool municipal buildings, lowering electricity bills.

3. Trees cool our cities. Urban "heat islands" are directly related to massive tree-cutting for development.

4. Trees clean our water and air. From low level ozone in our cities to pesticide and fertiziler runoff from our farms, trees absorb harmful pollutants. 

5. Trees help community life. Tree planting and community based forestry can add significantly to a local community's sustainable economy while restoring the environment.

6. Trees protect soil. By holding soil in place with their root systems, by deflecting pounding rain with their canopies, and by adding nutrients each fall with their leaves, trees are crucial to keeping and improving our soil.

7. Trees provide habitat for species of many kinds -- including endangered species. A key project of American Forests is "Trees for Tigers" in the Russian Far East that is restoring habitat for the endangered Siberian tiger.

8. Trees can pay your "carbon debt". Planting just 30 Global ReLeaf trees will absorb the amount of carbon dioxide that is generated in the production of energy for the average American lifestyle each year.

9. Trees provide clean water and natural flood control. Forests act as natural reservoirs, and they protect watersheds, providing clean water for cities, bays and rivers. 

10. Trees are a beautiful part of our lives. From striking individual trees that are of historic significance or are simply large and majestic, to a grove of trees in a city park, trees enrich our lives by simply being there. Trees are not just a key to the natural ecosystem -- trees are an essential part of community life.

So palnt at least one tree in this mansoon and grow it!!

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Fun With Words

Can you imagine that you can play even with words? Yes, you can. Here are three such ways in which you can do so. Read the instructions and do as directed.

 

Spoonerism

Interchanging of the sound of two words while speaking is called spoonerism. For example, instead of saying ease my tears, you can say tease my ears. This game is named after its inventor William spooner. Here are some famous spoonerisms.

 

Spoonerism A half-wormed fish Our showing leopard Hags flung Tons of Soil Blushing crow

Actual Phrase A half-formed wish Our loving Shepherd Flags hung Sons of toil Crushing Flow

Anagram

An anagram is made by reordering the letters of another words or phrases. For example, the words admirer and married have same letters rearranged. Some more examples are:

 

Words Sadder Disease Earth Parental Listen

Anagram Dreads Seaside Heart Paternal Silent

Oxymoron

The combination of two opposite words in a phrase is called oxymoron. When two opposite things are put together, it is called oxymoron. For example, pretty ugly and seriously funny. Some more oxymoron are:

 

Word Tragic Virtual Soft Found Extinct Original

Oxymoron Tragic comedy Virtual reality Soft rock Found missing Life extinct Original copy

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General knowledge Questions on Mythology/Religion

Ques:-Which holy book describes the Ten Commandents of Omnipresent God?
Ans:- Bible

Ques:-Name the place where the crucifixation of Jesus took place?
Ans:- Golgotha

Ques:-Muslims glorify God in Masjids by saying, "Allah Hu Akbar". What does it mean?
Ans:- God is the highest.

Ques:-In which garden was jesus praying when he was arrested by the group of soldiers?
Ans:- Garden of Gathsameni.

Ques:-Which Holy Book states that " the soul could not be cut into pieces, burnt by fire or withered by wind"?
Ans:- Holy book of Geeta.

Ques:-In which book did Lord Buddha give his first sermon?
Ans:- Varanasi
Ques:-Who is the founder of ISKCON and the greatest exponent of Krishna Consciousness in the western world?
Ans:- Swami Prabhupada
Ques:-What is the meaning of ' demigod' ?
Ans:- Half God
Ques:-What is the name of first child of Adam and Eve?
Ans:- Coin
Ques:- Who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge?
Ans:- Snake

Ques:-What is 'Sin'?
Ans:- Doing things forbidden by Omnipresent God.
Ques:-Who is the most popular religious leader of Tibet?
Ans:- Dalai Lama
Ques:-What are the three modes of material nature according to Bhagvad Gita?
Ans:- Ignorance, Passion, Goodness.
Ques:-Who is known as the mighty Lord of Death, according to Hindu mythology?
Ans:- Lord Yamraj
Ques:- "Gayatri Mantra" is one of the most prominent prayers of Hindus. Who is worshipped in this prayer?
Ans:- Sun God

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