Murphy's Law

I had left my TVS 50 in Railway Station two weeks ago. Due to various programmes (few of which were unscheduled), I could not get that from the Station 2 wheeler stand.

I reached the station at 11 PM yesterday night.....

When I went in to the stand, I was totally surprised to see that the air in the tyres was full.... and then it started in the first kick.... even though it was standing in open space for 2 full weeks ....

The Moral of the story... If things can go right, they will

PS : Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time," or, "Anything that can go wrong, will," or even, "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"). The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle's law which can also be rendered as "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment".

Honesty.....

My Son was baptised today, and after the mass we had a dinner....

At about 3 PM, when the crowd was dispersing, the guy who had been handling the sound system (that means, a mike, tape recorder, 2 speakers and an amplifier) came to me, gave a gold chain (about 20 grams) and said that he found that near the stage

I had too many things to look at that moment (seeing guests off, arranging for transport) that I did not even tell him a proper "Thank You" (I did not even realise that he is giving me a gold chain)....

Only after few hours, we found that my niece and her mother (cousin sister) were sitting with gloomy eyes and  then realised that the missing chain was my niece's

If some one gives a 20 gram gold chain that he found lying down, obviously Tamil Nadu is a nice place to live in... Isn't it (inspite of guys like this)

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Srirangam, Pillayarpatti and Avudaiyaarkoil

Srirangam, Pillayarpatti and Avudaiyaarkoil.... are the temples visited by our team on the past two days....

More about this later

Identity this Flower

Identity this Flower



This is also called as the

• Dhak,
  
• Parrot Tree
  
• Bastard Teak
  

And more commonly as the The Flame of the Forest or Palash....

The name Pâlāshi literally means a grove of the red flower Pâlāsh that flowers in the spring (Bangla: পলাশ - Butea frondosa or, Butea monosperma; Common name in English: Flame of the Forest or Bastard Teak).

Pâlāshi (Bengali: পলাশী, English: Plassey) is a small hamlet on the Bhagirathi river, located approximately 50 kilometres south of the city of Krishnagar in the Nadia District of West Bengal, India. The nearest major town is Beldanga. It has its own local gram panchayat.

Pâlāshi achieved historical significance when, on 23 June 1757, the Battle of Plassey was fought between the forces of Siraj Ud Daulah, the last Nawab of Bengal and the troops of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive. This event ultimately led to the establishment of British rule in Bengal, and eventually, the whole Indian Subcontinent.

In 1998, the Khaitan Group, which operates a factory in Plassey for making sugar, had tried to change the name to Khaitan Nagar. Voluble protests from the local press led the industrialists to give up the idea.

Uttar Pradesh declares revised medical entrance results

Lucknow, June 21 - The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday declared revised results of the medical entrance examinations even as a university vice chancellor announced his resignation in the wake of violent statewide protests that led a youth to commit suicide.

Taking a serious note of the plight of thousands of candidates following serious anomalies in the earlier results of the Combined Pre-Medical Test -, Chief Minister Mayawati had recommended the removal of Purvanchal University vice chancellor K.P. Singh to Governor T.V. Rajeshwar.

The vice chancellor announced his decision to resign after the revised results were declared at a press conference here. Poorvanchal University had conducted this year's CPMT examinations.

'I take the entire responsibility for the errors in the CPMT results. But let me tell you, such errors are nor uncommon and were once detected even in the IIT - entrance examination,' Singh said in defence.

The press conference was convened by Principal Medical Secretary Arun Kumar Misra to announce the revised results that came as a boon for many and bane for some.

According to the list released Thursday, as many as 53,735 candidates have passed this time, against 15,088 earlier.

'The difference is attributable to feeding of wrong keys in the computers,' said Misra, adding that revision of results had affected about 75 percent of the candidates.

About 80,000 candidates had appeared in the examination seeking admission in different medical colleges in the state, having a capacity of about 1,500 seats. These also included the aryurvedic and homeopathic institutions.

Significantly, Manvi Dua, who had topped the examination as per the earlier result, was now placed in the 20th position. Similarly, those who had figured among the top 20 in the previous result were now actually far down in the list.

The wide variation in the two results was visible all over the state. Anamika, a Kanpur-based candidate, who had secured 1,044th rank earlier but now stood at the 22nd position, was simply thrilled with joy.

'I had really worked very hard and it was such a disappointment when I saw my name way down in the list. I could not have imagined entry into any of the MBBS colleges. But now I am eligible to get into the best medical college of the state,' Anamika told IANS over telephone.

Another candidate Richa Rai, belonging to Indira Nagar locality in Lucknow, got 24th rank in the revised list after 'failing' as per the earlier result.

'I just could not get over the fact that I had not qualified. Had it not been for the revision of the result I would have been simply cursing my fate,' Richa told IANS.

Officials were tight-lipped about the fate of the candidate who had ended his life by jumping before a moving train due to his 'failure' as per the previous list. However, sources confirmed that he remained equally unlucky this time too.

மணற்கேணி: ஜாதி என்ன?

Prabhu Rajadurai in his blog post மணற்கேணி: ஜாதி என்ன? gives us a very useful piece of information

ஆயினும், எந்தப் பள்ளியிலாவது, குழந்தையின் ஜாதி, மதம் போன்றவற்றை குறிப்பிட கட்டாயப்படுத்தினால் அவர்களிடம் ‘தமிழக அரசு இந்தப் பிரச்னை குறித்து வெளியிட்ட அரசாணை எண்.1210 தேதி 02.07.73’ஐ சுட்டிக்காட்டவும். இந்த அரசாணையின்படி பள்ளிச் சான்றிதழ்களில் ஜாதி, மதம் போன்ற இடங்களை காலியாக விடவோ அல்லது இல்லை என்று குறிப்பிடவோ உரிமை உண்டு என்று அரசு கூறுகிறது.

Why Privatisation (Globalisation) may not work for India

The Lawyer from Madurai dissects the problem in his blog

Though the entire article is full of gems, I quote one para which sums it upi beautifully

பத்தாண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் முப்பது ரூபாய்க்கு சாதாரண செருப்பினை வாங்கியவர்கள் இன்று மூவாயிரம் ரூபாய்க்கு ரீபோக் ஷூ வாங்குகிறார்கள். ஆனால், ரீபோக் கடையில் வேலை செய்யும் சிப்பந்தியின் சம்பளத்தை கேட்டுப் பார்த்தால், அது பண வீக்கத்திற்கு நிகரான முன்னேற்றமே அடைந்திருக்கும். ஒரு ஷூ வாங்குவதற்கு கொடுத்த மூவாயிரம் ரூபாயில் ஆகக் குறைந்த சதவிகிதம், தொழிலாளிக்கு போக செல்வம் முழுவதும் மீண்டும் தொழிலதிபரின் கையிலே சென்று சேர்கிறது. ஆக செல்வம் இந்த இரு மட்டங்களையும் தாண்டி வேறு நிலைகளுக்கு இங்கு கசிவதில்லை என்பதே உண்மை!

How Reservations work in Tamil Nadu

Answer to Reality Check

Question

The question is why hasn’t this happened in TN in so many years (other than the Vanniar agitation)? Why is it that other OBCs are tolerating the Mudaliar/Nadar/Thevar/Kaunder stranglehold on OBC benefits?

Answer

Because NO SINGLE GROUP is marginalised in Tamil Nadu…..

It does not mean that EVERY ONE is affluent, but if you take 100 IAS officers, you can see representation from ALL COMMUNITIES….

The same with doctors, Police, Lawyers etc….

Thus there is no “unrest”…

The only time there was unrest was in the late 80s.. and that too was beautifully solved by splitting the BC into BC and MBC……

That is how the dravidian leaders managed it….

For example, if MGR or Kalaignar had promised SC Status for Vanniars, that would have meant a clash between Vanniars and Parayars… But they just split the BC Quota into two - 3 parts for BC (150 Castes) and 2 parts for MBC (about 100 Castes)…

//Why is it that other OBCs are tolerating the Mudaliar/Nadar/Thevar/Kaunder stranglehold on OBC benefits? //

There is NO Strangle hold at all… The strangle hold is an impression created by few media with vested interests…….

Every community has guys who are below poverty line and every community has millionaires

Every community has IAS Officers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, and of course politicians

Of course, there are few selected communities like Anglo Indians, Saurashtrans etc who may not be represented politically, but they have 100 % literacy rates and manage to get into good jobs…

Nadars, for example include the printers and mill owners of Sivakasi and also the guy who climbs palmyra tree for Rs 40 per day…. The same with fishermen community.,… the same with Thevars…

Thus NO community is marginalised in tamil nadu… and every one knows this

This social equality has been brought on by the reservation, primary education and social revolution over the past 80 years

How I solved http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/1.html

How I solved http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/1.html

1

Welcome to the FreeStuffHotDeals.com Hacker Puzzle! To solve this puzzle you will have to find secret files on our server.
________________________________________
HINT - This is page number one. That should be pretty obvious, because it has the numeral "1" above. But there's a problem... there is no link to page 2! How on earth will you find page 2 without a handy link taking you to it? You have to think like a hacker! To get to page 2, you'll have to play around with the web address (URL) of this page. Change it a little, then go there. If you're right, you'll get the next page. If you're wrong, you'll get an ugly error message.


So I tried http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/2.html and got the next message

two

HINT - Well done, you found the secret page 2! Notice that unlike page "1", here the word two is spelled out. (Hmmm... maybe that's important?) Now, can you figure out the address to page three? Change your web address again and try to find page three!


Obviously the next url will be “three”
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/three.html
iii



HINT - Good show, you did it! Here we are on page 3. But what's this? This page doesn't say "three" at all, it's just a bunch of i's! Can you figure out what the next page is? Like they say: "When in Rome..."


That is i,ii, iii and it should be iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix etc
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ruof



GREAT! - You made it to page 4! You are really know your Roman numerals, don't you? OK, from here on, you are on your own! No more hints! Good luck!



That is four written in the reverse order
The next should be five written in reverse that is evif
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ffiivvee
That is ff ii vv ee and it should be followed by ssiixx
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666666
Six times 6 should be followed by 7 times 7
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uranus
If Uranus is the seventh Planet, Neptune is the eighth
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acht
In What language is 8 = acht. Google told me that. It also told me that 9 is neun

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sept
9th month is September and so tenth month is October. Since we have abbreviation, we go for oct
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After 10, it is the jack
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eLeVeN
We have alternating caps and small case
tWeLvE
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144
12 x 12 is 144 and 13x13 is 169
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I saw a black screen, but when I highlighted it the words were
number13
the next should be number14
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catorce
If catorce is 14, then in the same language, quince is 15
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buchanan
He is the 15th President of America
The 16th President is Lincoln
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sédecim
Same old language translation and we land in for http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/septendecim.html
10001
This is the binary code for 17 (16+0+0+0+1). The binary code for 18 is 10010 (16+0+0+2+0)
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argon
That is the 18th Element and the 19th Element is potassium
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ojofuffo
This was the clue which took me a lot of time
This is a simple cryptography. A letter is being replaced by another letter
N by o, I by j, e by f, t by u and so on
That is a letter is being replaced by the next letter
So twenty will be
U for t, x for w, f for e, o for n, z for y
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/uxfouz.html
icosagon
That is a twenty sided polygon
Polygon names
Name Edges
henagon (or monogon)
1
digon
2
triangle (or trigon)
3
quadrilateral (or tetragon)
4
pentagon
5
hexagon
6
heptagon (avoid "septagon" = Latin [sept-] + Greek)
7
octagon
8
enneagon (or nonagon)
9
decagon
10
hendecagon (avoid "undecagon" = Latin [un-] + Greek)
11
dodecagon (avoid "duodecagon" = Latin [duo-] + Greek)
12
tridecagon (or triskaidecagon)
13
tetradecagon (or tetrakaidecagon)
14
pentadecagon (or quindecagon or pentakaidecagon)
15
hexadecagon (or hexakaidecagon)
16
heptadecagon (or heptakaidecagon)
17
octadecagon (or octakaidecagon)
18
enneadecagon (or enneakaidecagon or nonadecagon)
19
icosagon
20
No established English name ("hectagon" is bad Greek, "centagon" is a Latin-Greek hybrid; neither is widely attested. 100
chiliagon
1000
myriagon
10,000
googolgon 10100
To construct the name of a polygon with more than 20 and less than 100 edges, combine the prefixes as follows
Tens and Ones final suffix
-kai- 1 -hena- -gon
20 icosi- 2 -di-
30 triaconta- 3 -tri-
40 tetraconta- 4 -tetra-
50 pentaconta- 5 -penta-
60 hexaconta- 6 -hexa-
70 heptaconta- 7 -hepta-
80 octaconta- 8 -octa-
90 enneaconta- 9 -ennea-
The 'kai' is not always used. Opinions differ on exactly when it should, or need not, be used (see also examples above).
That is, a 42-sided figure would be named as follows:
Tens and Ones final suffix full polygon name
tetraconta- -kai- -di- -gon tetracontakaidigon
and a 50-sided figure
Tens and Ones final suffix full polygon name
pentaconta- -gon pentacontagon
But beyond enneagons and decagons, professional mathematicians prefer the aforementioned numeral notation (for example, MathWorld has articles on 17-gons and 257-gons).
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1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...
10946
What they have done is very simple. Each Number is the sum of the previous two number. This they have done for 21 times
1 1
2 1
3 2
4 3
5 5
6 8
7 13
8 21
9 34
10 55
11 89
12 144
13 233
14 377
15 610
16 987
17 1597
18 2584
19 4181
20 6765
21 10946
22 17711


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Aoozy, Booyy, Cooxy, ...
Vooey
So The code is
Letter of Alphabet + o + o + Letter of Alphabet from Z + y
Answer is Woody
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