Spiritual Insights about God

Most times we are most awake toward world when we are asleep toward god

Sometimes we are most awake toward God when we are asleep toward the world

When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility

 

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.

We treat sensible and present things as realities, and future and eternal things as fables: whereas the reverse should be our habit.

Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement,

or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen

When you come to Christ, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart. Something

new is added to your life supernaturally. You are transformed by the renewing of your

mind. A new power, a new dimension, a new ability to love, a new joy, a new peace – the Holy Spirit comes in and lives the Christian life through you

Few Quotes about Christ and Christian Life

Many a fellow is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up

God often gives in one brief moment that which he has for a long time denied

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame

The soul of one who loves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, and is always in the mood for singing.

In Christ Jesus heaven meets earth and earth ascends to heaven.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides

Let us adore Jesus in our hearts, who spent thirty years out of thirty-three in silence; who began his public life by spending forty days in silence; who often retired alone to spend the night on a mountain in silence. He who spoke with authority, now spends his earthly life in silence. Let us adore Jesus in the Eucharistic silence

All Kerala government employees to get e-mail IDs

Thiruvananthapuram: Taking a major step forward on the e-Governance front the Government of Kerala has launched an ambitious e-Mail to All Employees project.

The project was kicked off with the allocation of official e-mail IDs to over 4,000 employees, through a
web-based mail service using an open source software package, reports IANS.

"Over 475,000 employees will get the same in a phased manner," Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan said while launching the project.

Once this project is completed there would be an improvement in the efficiency of government functioning, Kerala's state IT Mission Director Rathan Kelkar said.

"We have already published a set of rules and policies regarding managing e-mails approved by the government based on the guidelines of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances," Kelkar said.

He further said that this project will save both—time in inter department communication and paperwork.

"Earlier notes were written on the file and it used to take a couple of days before some action could be taken, as the files had to be carried manually. But now all the information sharing will be done through e- mail which will make the system more efficient and speed up the governance process." he added.

He also said that as of now all the Secretaries from different departments have an official mail ID and in second phase all the Directors will have one. He expected that by next year all the government employees will get their official mail IDs.

The project was developed on a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) platform, configured and tested for hardware and software and finally rolled out by the state-owned Centre for the Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT).

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

"Your son is here," she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.

He dimly saw the young uniformed Officer standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Officer wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Officer could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Officer sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Officer move away and rest awhile. He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Officer was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Officer released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Officer interrupted her.

"Who was that man?" he asked.

The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered.

"No, he wasn't," the Officer replied. "I never saw him before in my life.."

"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"

"I knew right away there had been a mistake,
but I also knew he needed his son, and his
son just wasn't here.

When I realized that he was too sick to tell
whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed."

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.

Life Explained

Life Explained

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.

A tourist complimented the local fishermen
on the quality of their fish and asked
how long it took him to catch them.

"Not very long." they answered in unison.

"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"

The fishermen explained that their small catches were
sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.

"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children,
and take siestas with our wives.
In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends,
have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.

We have a full life."

The tourist interrupted,

"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."

"And after that?"

"With the extra money the larger boat will bring,
you can buy a second one and a third one
and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man,
you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants
and maybe even open your own plant.

You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City,
Los Angeles, or even New York City!

From there you can direct your huge new enterprise."

"How long would that take?"

"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.

"And after that?"

"Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting,"
answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really big,
you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!"

"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the fishermen.

"After that you'll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife
and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends."

And the moral of this story is:

........ Know where you're going in life...
you may already be there!!

Greek Mythology Offers Clues About Ancient Neonatal Care

A new analysis has determined that ancient Greeks may have had considerable knowledge about how to care for premature babies, evidence of which is present in Greek mythology that describes of the birth of the god Dionysus.

According to a report by Athens News Agency, the analysis was done by doctors from Agios Savvas oncological hospital in Athens, working in collaboration with private colleagues in Hania.

The results of the analysis were presented at the 15th Hellenic Conference on Perinatal Medicine taking place in Thessaloniki.

In an essay entitled "Mythological description of an incubator", the doctors said that the description given in ancient myths of the birth of the god Dionysus and how he was cared for very closely approximates the requirements for an incubator used in modern hospitals.

According to some versions of the myth, Dionysus was born prematurely in the eighth month of pregnancy and had a low birth weight.

He was carried by the god Hermes to Mount Nysa and delivered into the care of the Hyades, the nymphs of warm rain, that placed him in a cave having all the requirements of an incubator - an air filter, double lining and protection from draughts.

The ancient myth-makers did not, of course, describe technological appliances or fixtures but rather natural items that appear to serve an equivalent purpose.

The 'air filter' is a stand of pines planted by the Hyades at the entrance of the cave, the 'double lining' is formed by the branches of a virgin vine and the small god is protected from draughts by a covering of thick-leaved ivy.




Combined, these served to maintain a warm and slightly moist - in other words thermically neutral - environment for the newborn.

The above is all in the realm of myth and may only indicate a flight of the imagination by some bolder story-teller of antiquity, rather than evidence that the ancients knew how to care for premature babies.

According to the doctors, however, it would be a strange coincidence if the makers of the myth had hit upon the requirements needed without this knowledge having arisen from some specific experience or practice of the time.

Source-ANI

Assam appoints record 800 doctors in a day

Guwahati: The Assam government on Wednesday appointed nearly 800 doctors in a recruitment drive that is expected to revolutionise the region's rural healthcare sector.

The recruitment campaign has a catch though, as the appointments were made for a one-year period as part of the government legislation that makes it mandatory for all MBBS graduates to serve for a minimum of one year in rural health centres, reports IANS.

"Assam has become the first state in the country to have carried out such a historic recruitment drive by appointing 768 doctors for rural postings in one single day," Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said after handing over appointment letters to the doctors in Guwahati.

The young doctors would be getting a monthly fixed salary of Rs 25,000, besides free accommodation in their area of posting.

"The MBBS doctors had signed a bond during their admission that they would undergo a year-long compulsory rural posting. The idea of the rural posting is to ensure that each and every panchayat or block has a doctor available," the Minister said.

Earlier, the government signed a bond making it mandatory for MBBS graduates to work in rural areas for a period of five years, but it was later revised to just a year.

The government norms were not implemented in the past and even after passing the MBBS course students managed to avoid working in rural areas.

"Any medical graduate flouting the bond will have to pay the state government a compensation of Rs 500,000. This is the estimated amount that the state would have incurred for the education of a single student," the Health Minister said.

A similar bond would be signed for students aspiring to pursue a postgraduate degree in any of the three medical colleges in the state.

"For those wanting to pursue a postgraduate degree from any of the state's three medical colleges, one must be prepared to work for the Health Department for a minimum of two years, although it was 10 years in the past," Sarma said.

The three medical colleges at Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Silchar produce about 400 MBBS doctors and 150 postgraduates annually.

Already the Assam Health Department has come up with several ingenious healthcare schemes for the people.

Patients admitted to government hospitals in Assam will receive a day cash allowance of up to Rs 100 besides free meals and medicines.

As part of the scheme named 'Maram' (Assamese for love), a patient in medical college hospitals will receive Rs 100 daily in cash while those in district hospitals will get Rs 75. The scheme came into force from Tuesday.

Earlier this year, the Assam government announced a series of health packages including a Rs 1.8 billion scheme to do away with the traditional gender bias by offering financial assistance to the girl child and radical measures to improve the health of would-be mothers.

Under a scheme named 'Majoni' (Assamese for little girls), a new-born girl child would be given a fixed deposit instrument worth Rs 5,000 while a would-be mother would get Rs 1,000 in cash.

Assam has also launched an ambitious family planning scheme. Couples choosing not to have babies for two years after marriage will get Rs 5,000 and those who opt not to have children for three years will get Rs 7,500.

Sardarji, Madrasi and Gujju

Gujarati, a Madrasi and a sardaar were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.

They were having lunch. As Gujju opened his lunch box he angrily said, "Dhokla! If I get dhokla one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building."

The Madrasi opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Idli Sambhar... again! If I get idli sambhar one more time I'm going to jump off too."

The sardaar opened his lunch and shouted with anger, "Parontha again! If I get a parontha one more time, I'm jumping too."


The next day, the Gujju opened his lunch box, saw dhokla, and jumped to his death.

The Madrasi opened his lunch, saw idli sambhar, and jumped, too.

The sardaar opened his lunch, saw the parontha and jumped to his death as well.


At the funeral, Gujju's wife was weeping. She said, "If I'd known how really tired he was of dhokla, I never would have given it to him again!"

The Madrasi's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him dossa! I didn't realize he hated idli sambhar so much."


Everyone turned and stared at the sardaar's wife.

UPSC to accept applications online by next year

New Delhi: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the recruitment and selection body for government services will accept online job application by next year.

"UPSC will be introducing system for online application procedure by next year for all exams and recruitment," UPSC Chairman DP Agrawal said, reports IANS.

"UPSC handles about 12 lakh applications annually. Introduction of the online application facility will help in easing the mammoth work of scrutinising the applications," Agrawal said.

UPSC conducts examinations for recruitment to various government jobs including civil, medical, defence, engineering, foreign and central police services.

About 800 UPSC employees have been trained in the use of computer technology, he added.

"This is an ongoing process and the commission is planning to give advance training to its officials with the help of outside expert agencies," Agarwal said.

Few Leave Application

See , how people write leave Applications. 

It's murder of English language. But Too Funny.

Just Read It.

The Leave Applications;)

 

Infosys , Bangalore : An employee applied for leave as follows:

"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife , please sanction me one-week leave."

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This is from Oracle Bangalore: >From an employee who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son:

"as I want to shave my son's head , please leave me for two days.."

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Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:

"as I am marrying my daughter , please grant a week's leave.."

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From H.A.L. Administration Dept:

"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it , please grant me 10 days leave."

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Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:

"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return , please grant me half day casual leave"

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An incident of a leave letter:

"I am suffering from fever , please declare one-day holiday."

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A leave letter to the headmaster:

"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"

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Another leave letter written to the headmaster:

"As my headache is paining , please grant me leave for the day."

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Covering note:

"I am enclosed herewith..."

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Another one:

"Dear Sir: with reference to the above , please refer to my below..."

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Actual letter written for application of leave:

"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".

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Letter writing:-

"I am well here and hope you are also in the same well."

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A candidate's job application:

"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both(!! )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience , I am applying for the post.

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