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aaya na line pe.... :chair:

 

four wives..... :rofl:

 

 

indeed..... <_<

arey arab hota toh 4 wives na yaar......first thing you can afford it....phir unka tension nahi yaar... someday you dont like it...you can end it in seconds...talak talak talak .....baat khatam ladkhi wapas jaha se ayi.......hum log normal admi....baat bigdara... ..divorce ke liya tarik pe tarik.....phir alag se alimony .....isa acha live in relationship....baat samaj mein nahi aya........priya tum jaa sakti ho........neha tum aa sakti ho....B)

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Prep yourself for some slow broadband speeds.

 

India broadband users be ready to face slow internet speeds starting today to 30th July .This is due to a planned maintenance activity in BSNL’s international Bandwidth for internet equivalent to 19 STM-16(47.5Gbps) will be down during this maintenance activity period.

 

Its is believed that STM-16 12.5Gbps bandwidth has been restored by Tata Communication thus out of total planned outage of 47.5 Gbps international bandwidth 35Gbps of bandwidth will be affected.

 

So what does this mean we believe BSNL broadband users will be most affected during the downtime.

 

Surprisingly, my connection is actually working better now. Full speed, low pings etc. :P

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The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him

 

Before the former American football player Dave Duerson killed himself, he asked that his brain be left to researchers studying head injuries among athletes. What it revealed shocked the scientists.

 

a neuropathologist who jointly heads the lab, retrieves a brain from a plastic container and places it carefully on a workbench. At the request of the family, she will not tell me who the brain belonged to, other than to say "he was a very skilled NFL player, very well known".

 

If you were a fan of American football, I ask her, would you know the name?

 

"Right," she replies.

 

McKee is a world expert on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive degenerative disease similar to Alzheimer's in its symptoms – memory loss, irritability, mood changes – but with its own distinct pathology. The disease has long been recognised: it was first described in 1928 and for many years was thought to be confined to boxers, hence the name "punch drunk" syndrome or "dementia pugilistica". But in the past three years, largely as a result of the work of McKee's brain bank, it has come to be seen as a danger to anyone who suffers repetitive concussions.

 

McKee begins her examination of the unidentified football star's brain by turning it in her surgically gloved hands with the tender concentration of a fruit-lover inspecting a pineapple. "It's too small for an adult male's brain," she says. "There's shrinkage pretty much throughout the brain."

 

Using a long knife, she cuts the organ sideways – from ear to ear, as it were – so that the front half is separated from the back. The sliced surface glistens under the morgue's neon lighting.

 

The dissection reveals three huge holes in the brain – one large triangle right in the centre of the brain, and two ovals parallel to each other at the base. It is apparent that McKee, who has studied more athletes' brains than probably any other person, is shocked by what she sees.

 

"This is an extreme case," she says, "but it is also very characteristic." She points to the triangular hole, consisting of the lateral ventricles, and says it clearly shows "tremendous disruption". There should be a membrane separating the two ventricles, but it has been so battered by the footballer's repeated blows to the head that only the thinnest of filaments is left. The two oval holes are the ventricles of the temporal lobe and they too are extremely enlarged to compensate for tissue lost from the lobes themselves, another classic sign of having your head bashed repeatedly. "The temporal lobes are crucial to memory and learning and you can see they are very, very small, as miniaturised as possible."

 

McKee takes a deep look at the cross-section of this brain and momentarily appears sad. "This is a brain at the end-stage of disease," she says. "I would assume that with this amount of damage the person was very cognitively impaired. I would assume they were demented, had substantial problems with their speech and gait, that this person was Parkinsonian, was slow to speak and walk, if he could walk at all."

 

Without being melodramatic about it, I say, you are holding in your hands an example of the price that is paid for being a professional footballer at the top of his game.

 

She hesitates a second. "At least in this case, yes," she says.

 

Give the whole article a read. Moving but bloody awesome !

There's a video showing the brain examination as well.

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It's getting even worse now , atleast pages are opening up on cell phone . It's kind of a double blow, from yesterday the free 3G which was active from many months stopped and now the Mtnl is fubar, and my work is completety dependent on Internet :(

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I wrote this small article on impact of youth politics. Let me know what you guys think

 

http://criticsthink.blogspot.com/2011/07/reason-for-minimum-impact-of-youth-in.html

 

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. “

 

The no. of times I’ve heard similar lines from youth, motivated to make a difference to the nation, in the world of politics, is hardly countable. But the no.of times Ive not seen it happen, is countless.

 

The world of politics never fails to amuse me. The system set up to embark on the quest of bringing deliverance to the people that elect those who govern it. And then the messiahs use the platform as their own little escalator to quicker riches. Every 5 years, we rinse and repeat the process. The so called stable system is run by largely incompetent, slanderous, two faced, conniving grey-beards. We just see a rotation policy hit the wooden benches of the Delhi parliament every half a decade. The motivated youth get consumed in this well oiled system in place. It’s almost impossible to destablise it, is what it looks like.

 

Take this for example, 27 year old, well educated; X enters the world of politics to make a difference. Against all odds (which needless to say is extremely high, for various reasons I will not get into) he gets elected to represent the people on the golden stage. So there sits X, the toddler in the world of giants. Picture X sitting there, surrounded by 100 other much older people clad in their dhotis and sarees, who are not new to their location, unlike the young man. Well, can you really see X standing up and making his point across without getting swamped? Can you see X able to state his argument amongst the shouting, table banging and chair throwing, of the people who run the country? What choice does X have? Ill tell you what his choices are :

 

i) Make his point and get beaten up, laughed at or chucked out in the process

ii) Sit for 5 years spending precious time at the parliament, wanting to make a point but not doing to avoid the embarrassment or backlash.

iii) Quit/resign from his elected post

iv) Join the system

 

I find it hard to blame them for selecting to the most obvious answer. But in the end, what can we say? We expect the country to be run one way and it’s run another.

 

This article does not hold solutions to a cancerous problem but merely highlights the problems, for even the people who care; face to make a difference. The truth, in truth, has been driven from this system like a slave, flogged from court to court, wretched and destitute. But I am an optimist and I hate to think all the good is lost forever. Nothing is lost forever, there is only some sort of painful progress. I believe every scam, every incident, every indictment, every CBI raid is one step closer to progress or atleast one step farther from the depths of, proverbial, Mordor.

 

“Life is good in the system. Its paradise on Earth. That’s what they tell you anyway.”

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http://in.news.yahoo.com/17-indian-youth-death-row-uae-walk-free-143049229.html

 

Next time when you are out comimiting a murder in Dubai , Make sure you carry your Cheque book :gunsmilie:

Yea ...read that some time back only...those 17 youth have been saying this from long time they have not committed and that they are being frame...uae government could have done some more investigation to be sure abt it....it is sad that how arab countries laws treat immigrants specially from different religion....

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