Ram Janma Bhoomi.

All eyes are focused now these days on the verdict of the Lucknow High Court.
Ram-Janma-Bhumi.
Babri Masjid Matter.
This matter is about the dispute as to title of land of
Ram-Janma Bhoomi and the Babri Masjid premises.
Year.1950.
1. Gopal Singh Visharad of Ayodhya, Plaintiff in this case, had first filed
a civil suit in the Civil Court, at Faizabad UP, in the year 1950 wherein
he claimed the right and title to the ownership of the disputed land at Babri Masjid.

2. The Nirmohi Akhada of Ayodhya joined as a Plaintiff in this matter in 1959.
3. The UP Sunni Wakf Board joined as defendants party in this matter in 1961.
4. The Indian Hindustan Groups joined as Plaintiffs party in the year 1989.
Year 1989.
The matter was pending in the Faizabad Civi-Judge Civil Court. Faizabad.
The Allahbad High Court transferred this matter to Lucknow High Court
Special Bench in the year 1989 to determine the following three points.
1.Was Lord Ram Born at this place?
2.Was Ram Mandir demolished and Babri Masjid built at the same land?
3.Was building of Babri Masjid as per norms of Islam?
Year 2010.
Hearing in the aforesaid matter was concluded this year on the 26th of July 2010
Before the Special Bench of Lucknow High Court. The Judgment is pending.
This case was heard by a full bench of three high court judges out of which
two are Hindu and one Muslim judge. During the course of hearing
one judge got promoted and Sh. DV Sharma was relieved on promotion.
The case proceedings was required to be started a fresh.
Whatever may be the outcome of the above suit, to be announced within days,
The aggrieved party has the right to file SLP in Supreme Court against
the judgment of the Special Bench of Lucknow High Court.
Past History since year 1885.
In fact this issue is much older. It is as old as originated in the year 1885.
The Mahant Raghu Bir Das in the year 1885 had filed a civil suit
In the Court of the Civil Sub-Judge Faizabad that the adjoining land to
The Babri Masjid belonged to Ram Mandir and it was the birth place
of Lord Ram.
The Sub-Judge Pandit Hari Kishan had dismissed this claim on the
ground that building a temple adjacent to Babri Masjid would
hamper public peace and safety.
Mahant Raghu Bir filed an appeal before District Judge Faizabad.
The British District Judge also upheld the judgment of the Sub-Judge,
But also remarked that it was a sad incident that the Ram temple
was demolished, and Babri Masjid was constructed at the aforesaid
premises before some 365 years and therefore no action is warranted
and status quo position should be maintained. This was in 1886.

From 1886 to 1946 there was no new development and position
remained status quo.
Year 1949.
In the year 1949, on 22nd December, Ram Mandir was erected in the aforesaid premises.
Pandit Nehru telephoned the CM of UP GB Pant,
to remove the Ram Mandir. Mr.Pant declined in view of public opinion.

The Collector and District Majistrate of Faizabad Mr. KKK Nair dis-obeyed
the Governments order to remove the Ram Mandir and Mr. Nair resigned his post
as District Collector. The Temple remained there but it was
locked and visiting pilgrims were allowed to have a glimpse
of Lord Ram from outside.
Year 1983.
In 1983 local advocate UC Pande filed an application in
District Court Faizabad to remove the locks of the temple
and declare open the temple for public visits. The District
Judge Faizabad allowed this request and locks were removed
and the Ram Mandir temple was declared open for public visit.
The Sunni Wakf Board have filed a second appeal before the
Special Bench of Lucknow high court. The Special Bench
of Lucknow High Court issued notice but no stay was granted.
The Allahbad High Court ordered to hear all these matters as a
group matter before the Special Bench Lucknow High Court.
Year 1992.
In the year 1992 on 6th of December, the Car-Sevaks,
damaged and destroyed the top of the Masjid.
It is a matter of some anxious moments to hear the verdict.

Take a Vacation Every Year.

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Take the Vacation.

Time Magazine recently posted a news-report as under:


“If you are a working man, do not pass-up your family vacation.
Time off is rejuvenating, according to a research presented to the
American Psychosomatic Society. A study of 18245 men ages
35 to 65 found that, with other factors controlled, men who took
annual vacations were, 22 % less-likely to die of coronary
heart-disease. The findings add to the evidence showing that
cutting stress is good for you.”



What is fascinating about the above report is that Time Magazine
considered this item as news-worthy. We all know that time off
is rejuvenating. We have not to be cajoled into taking our
vacations because there is high incidence of coronary heart
disease in those who do not take an off. But if the truth
were known, many of us do not avail of the vacation. The
USA is the most vacation starved country in the industrialized
world.

Once again Europe takes the lead. In total hours we work
two months longer in a year than Europeans do. European
workers, after only one year on the job, gets five weeks of
fully paid vacation and this is increased to six weeks after two
years of length of job. And every man takes it. It is
time for us to wise-up. Not only should we be taking
our vacations, we should be lobbying our employers
and the elected representatives, for at least a full month
or more of vacation time every year.

Arrange your schedule so you never have to call your
office when you are on vacation. One of the reasons
we come back from the vacation more exhausted than
when we left is that we spend our time worrying about
work.

We fall into the trap of thinking that things cannot go
on without us. At times we are afraid that others will
move on and we shall lag behind.

Let go off all those non-sense ideas and take your
full vacation time. Stop worrying about what
is happening back at the office. Nothing is going
to happen as you feared.

Forget the above. You are not the kind to take vacation.
At the very least in your health interest, please promise
yourself that you will never brag about not availing
a vacation.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

Vinoba Bhave. (1895-1982)


A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behaviour.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.


Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.


Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.


If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.


If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.


In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigour.


In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.


In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.


Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.


It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.


It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.


Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.


The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

Vinoba Bhave.



Born of a high-caste Brahman family, he abandoned his high-school studies in 1916 to join Gandhi's ashram. Gandhi's teachings led Bhave to a life of austerity, dedicated to improving Indian village life. Bhave was interned several times during the 1920s and '30s and served a five-year prison sentence in the '40s for leading nonviolent resistance to British rule.

Bhave's idea of the land-gift movement was conceived in 1951, when, while he was touring villages in the province of Andhra Pradesh, a landholder offered him an acreage in response to his appeal on behalf of a group of landless Harijans. He then walked from village to village, appealing for gifts of land to be distributed among the landless and relating the act of giving to the principle of ahimsa, which had been adopted by Gandhi.

According to Bhave, land reform should be secured by a change of heart and not by enforced government action. His critics maintained that Bhudan Yajna encouraged the fragmentation of land and would thus obstruct a rational approach to large-scale agriculture, but Bhave declared that he preferred fragmented land to fragmented hearts.

Later, however, he encouraged gramdan, the system whereby villagers pooled their land, after which the land was reorganized under a cooperative system. Throughout 1975 Bhave maintained a vow of silence over the issue of the involvement of his followers in political agitation. As a result of a fast in 1979, he secured the government's promise to enforce the law prohibiting the killing of cows throughout India. Bhave's original project and his philosophy of life are explained in a series of articles collected and published as Bhoodan Yajna.

Wardha, atown, eastern Maharashtra state, western India, near the Wardha River, southwest of Nagpur. Situated on major routes between Nagpur and Bombay, it is closely linked with the history of Nagpur. The town was important in the national freedom movement; the Sevagram ashram founded by Mohandas Gandhi close to Wardha was later the headquarters of Vinoba Bhave. The town has several colleges affiliated with the University of Nagpur.

The mantle of Mahatma Gandhi fell on Vinoba Bhave, one of his most devoted Maharashtrian supporters. For some years after independence Vinoba led a campaign of social service that culminated in the bhudan movement, which persuaded many landowners and wealthy peasants to give fields to landless labourers. This movement had some small success in rural areas, but it gradually lost momentum. Although the memory of Gandhi continues to be revered by most Indians, his policies and principles carry little weight. The great bulk of social service is performed by government agencies rather than by voluntary bodies, whether Gandhian or other.

Gandhi devised for India the plan of a decentralized society based on autonomous village communes. Gandhi's village India has not come into being, but the movement known as Sardovaya, led by Vinoba Bhave and Jaya Prakash Narayan, has been working toward it through gramdan--community ownership of land.

By 1969 a fifth of the villages of India had declared for gramdan, and, while this remained largely a matter of unrealized gestures, it represented perhaps the most extensive commitment to basic anarchist ideas in the contemporary world.

Vinoba's religious outlook was very broad and it synthesized the truths of many religions. This can be seen in one of his hymns "Om Tat" which contains symbols of many religions.
Vinoba observed the life of the average Indian living in a village and tried to find solutions for the problems he faced with a firm spiritual foundation. This formed the core of his Sarvodaya movement. Another example of this is the Bhudan movement. He walked all across India asking people with land to consider him as one of their sons and so give him a one seventh of their land which he then distributed to landless poor. and compassion being a hallmark of his philosophy, he also campaigned against the slaughtering of cows.

Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Pradesh.
Capital. Hyderabad.
Population. 77 million.
Area. 106195 square miles.
Revenue Districts. 23.

Definitive historical evidence of the Andhras dates from the times of the Mauryan dynasty, which ruled in the north in the 3rd century BC. Emperor Ashoka sent Buddhist missions to the Andhras in the south. About the 1st century AD, the Satavahanas, came to power.. Experts ascribe parts of the famous paintings in the Ajanta caves of the Deccan to the Andhra painters of that period. Buddhism prospered under the Andhras, and in their capital flourished the great Buddhist university of antiquity, where Nagarjuna, the founder of the Mahayana school of Buddhism, taught. The ruins of the university at Nagarjuna-konda still attest to its former glory. In the 11th century, during the reign of the eastern Chalukyas, a dynasty that unified most of the Andhra area, the first of the Telugu poets, Nannaya, began translating the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, into Telugu, thus inaugurating the birth of Telugu as a literary medium. The dynasty of the Kakatiyas of Warangal in the 12th and 13th centuries extended Andhra power militarily and culturally; it was during their regime that the commercial expansion of the Andhras toward Southeast Asia reached its peak. By this time, however, the Muslims had established themselves in the north, and their invasion of the south led to the fall of Warangal in 1323. But the rise of the kingdom of Vijaya-nagar, to the southwest of Warangal, arrested the expansion of the Muslim power for some time. Acclaimed as the greatest kingdom in Andhra history and as one of the greatest in Indian history, Vijaya-nagar, under the rule of its great king Krishna Deva Raya, who reigned from 1509 to 1529, became synonymous with military glory, economic prosperity, good administration, and artistic splendour. During this period, Telugu literature flourished. The formation of an alliance between the various neighbouring Muslim principalities, however, led to the fall of Vijaya-nagar in 1565, leaving the Muslims in control of the Andhra areas. In the 17th century, English and French traders began to involve themselves in Indian politics. As a result, successive Nizams of Hyderabad, seeking to consolidate their kingdom against rivals, obtained first French and later British support. In exchange for their help, the British acquired from the Nizam the coastal Andhra districts lying to the north of Madras and later the hinterland districts. Thus, the major part of the Andhra country came under British rule. Part of the Telugu-speaking areas, known as the Telangana region, remained under the Nizam's dominion, and the French acquired a few towns. During the 19th century, the Andhras came to the forefront of the movement. Leaders such as Kandukuri Veerasalingam pioneered in social reform. In the struggle against British rule, Andhra leaders played decisive roles. Pride in their historical and linguistic achievements led them to demand a separate province. Simultaneously, a movement was also organized to unite the Telugu-speaking peoples living under British rule and those under the Nizam's administration. The Andhras' demand for separate statehood became so insistent that, when the central government refused to comply, a local leader, Potti Sreeramulu, fasted to death in 1953 to dramatize the issue. The government finally acceded to the people's request by creating on Oct. 1, 1953, the Andhra state, which included the Telugu-speaking districts of the former Madras state, thus paving the way for the formation of linguistic states throughout India in 1957. The erstwhile state of Hyderabad, which had joined independent India in 1949, was split up, and its nine Telugu-speaking districts were joined to the Andhra state on Nov. 1, 1956, to form the new state of Andhra Pradesh. In 1960, 221.4 square miles in the Chingleput and Salem districts of Madras were transferred to Andhra Pradesh in exchange for 410 square miles from Chittoor district.

Andhra Pradesh exhibits a characteristic Indian cultural pattern in the distribution of its languages and religions. Telugu is the official and most widely spoken language in the state; a small minority speak Urdu. The remaining groups consist of people speaking border-area languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, and tribal languages. The great majority of the population are Hindus, and there are both Muslim and Christian minorities. The Christians live in urban centres and coastal areas, and the Muslims are concentrated in the Telangana and Rayala-seema areas. More than one-quarter of the population are urban dwellers, and over a third of these inhabit the industrial and manufacturing areas around the three main cities--Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, and Vijayawada. With increasing industrial development, these cities are becoming linked with neighbouring urban areas, forming agglomerations. Some important industries and several smaller enterprises, such as sugar factories and service industries, are scattered among medium and smaller urban areas.

Tirupati lies about 67 miles northwest of Madras in the Palkonda Hills. Tirupati is known as the abode of Venkateshvara, Lord of Seven Hills. About 6 miles northwest of Tirupati, at an elevation of 2,500 feet.. At the hill's summit is a temple dedicated to Venkateshvara. This temple, nestled among sacred waterfalls and tanks, is a fine example of Dravidian art and is one of the most important pilgrimage centres in India. The temple, which is of great antiquity, is now the centre of Sri Venkateswara University.

Golkonda, fortress and ruined city lying 5 miles west of Hyderabad was the capital of the Qutb Shahi kingdom, one of five Muslim sultanates of the Deccan. The territory of Golconda lay between the lower reaches of the Godavari and Krishna rivers and extended to the Bay of Bengal coast. In 1687 the ruling dynasty of Qutb Shahis was overthrown by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, and Golconda was annexed to the Mughal Empire.The fortress is 3 miles in circumference, with concentric masonry-block walls. Palaces, mosques, and the Qutb Shahi tombs still remain intact. Historically, Golconda was famous for its diamonds, derived from the conglomerate rocks of the nearby hills.



Agriculture, is the primary sector of the state's economy. Andhra Pradesh is one of the leading rice-growing states in the country and produces about four-fifths of India's Virginia tobacco. The state's rivers, particularly the Godavari and the Krishna, account for its agricultural importance; for a long time their benefits were restricted to the coastal districts of Andhra region, which had the best irrigation facilities. Since independence, great efforts have been made to tap the waters of these and other rivers for the benefit of the dry interior. Canal irrigation in the Telangana and Rayalaseema regions has given rise to agro-industrial complexes rivalling those of coastal Andhra Pradesh. The Nagarjuna Sagar multipurpose project, diverting the waters of the Krishna for irrigation, has increased substantially the production of rice and sugarcane. Rice flour, rice-bran oil, paints and varnishes, soaps and detergents, cardboard and other packaging materials, and cattle feed are all produced from local paddy rice. Other agricultural commodities now grown include chilli, pepper, sorghum, pulses, castor beans, peanuts, and cotton. This development in Telangana and Rayalaseema--further stimulated by new agricultural technology, use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and improved transport, marketing, and credit systems helped to reduce the political tensions that formerly existed between interior and coastal Andhra Pradesh. Half of the total investment for development is allotted to agricultural irrigation. The state's forest areas annually yield high-quality timber and forest produce.

There are four airports in the state--at Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Tirupati, and Vishakhapatnam. The rail system serves a major portion of the state and connects it with other parts of India. There is an extensive road system, which includes three national highways connecting Andhra Pradesh with all the major cities of the country. Other roads are maintained by state and local governments. The river canals in coastal areas, especially the saltwater Kommamur Canal running parallel to the coast from the Krishna River to Madras, are used for cargo transportation. Vishakhapatnam is a major international seaport.

The Andhras' contribution to India's cultural heritage is substantial. Architecture and painting have been highly developed arts in the region since ancient times. The kuchipudi style of dance is unique in the Indian tradition, while Carnatic music has derived much from Andhra roots. Many of southern India's major classical composers have been Andhras, and Telugu has been the language of most of the compositions. Telugu, one of the four literary languages of the Dravidian family, occupies a prestigious place among Indian languages, being renowned for its antiquity as well as for its mellifluous quality. Andhras also are prominent in the modern Indian literary renaissance, and their writing reflects the impact of the contemporary revolution in literary forms and expression. There are many periodicals in English, Telugu, and Urdu. Muslim culture in the Telangana region further enriches the state's cultural diversity. Before independence, arts and literature thrived mostly under the sponsorship of royal patrons and private organizations, many of which still function. The state has also created autonomous academies to revive, popularize, and promote fine arts, dance, drama, music, and literature. The conscious pursuit of culture is more an urban than a rural phenomenon, for cultural performances, literary meetings, and religious discussions occur mostly in towns or cities. In rural areas, folk culture predominates. Cultural evolution in different parts of the state under different historical circumstances resulted in the occurrence of recognizable variations in dialect, in the caste structure, and in habits, thus diversifying the folk arts. Folk media such as minstrel-ballad performances, puppet shows, and mythological storytelling are indigenous to the area; use of these media in social and political communication is also common. The penetration of the mass media, especially of radio and television, to rural parts has helped to bring an awareness of classical culture to the rural folk and of folk arts to the urban population. Andhra Pradesh is among the few major moviemaking states of India.

Among the state's mineral resources are asbestos, mica, manganese, barite, and high-grade coal. Low-grade iron ore is found in the southern parts of the state. Andhra Pradesh produces almost all of the country's barite. It is the only state in southern India that possesses coal reserves. Large deposits of natural gas have been discovered in the deltas of the Godavari and Krishna rivers. Production at the once world-renowned diamond mines of Golconda, where the Koh-i-noor diamond and other famous stones were found, is being renewed. Quartz, limestone, and graphite also occur. For the exploitation of its mineral resources the state has established a mining and metal trading corporation, once industrially underdeveloped, has in the latter half of the 20th century become one of the most highly industrialized states in India. Industries such as shipbuilding, aeronautics, and the manufacture of electrical equipment, machine tools, and drugs have been established by the central government in the Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad areas. Private enterprises, many of them located in the Vijayawada-Guntur region, produce chemicals, textiles, cement, fertilizers, processed foods, petroleum derivatives, and cigarettes. An oil refinery is located in Vishakhapatnam, as is the largest shipbuilding yard in the country. Mining and manufacturing industries, however, account for a small percentage of the state's income. The central government has opened a mammoth steel plant at Vishakhapatnam, where there is easy access to raw materials and port facilities. The phenomenal increase in recent years in power generated by hydroelectric and thermoelectric projects augurs well for industrialization and irrigation. With its long coastline and many rivers, the state also has a significant and expanding fishing industry.

A summer that lasts from March to June, a July-to-September season of tropical rains, and a winter from October to February constitute the three seasons. Throughout much of the state, maximum and minimum temperatures range from 23 to 28 C and from10-12, respectively. Summers are very warm on the coastal plain, with temperatures reaching as high as 42 C in some places. On the plateau, summers are cooler and winters colder. Rainfall derives largely from the southwest monsoon winds; some places receive a maximum of 55 inches of rain and others only 20 inches. In coastal areas, rainfall is heavy; in some areas on the plateau, especially in the north and west, it is sparse.

Olive Oil.

Olive Oil.

Olive tree is a subtropical, broad-leaved, and evergreen and olive is its edible fruit.
The tree, ranging in height from 10 to 40 feet or more, has numerous branches; its leaves, leathery and lance-shaped, are dark green above and silvery on the underside and are paired opposite each other on the twig.

The wood is resistant to decay; if the top dies back, a new trunk will often arise from the roots. The tree's beauty has been extolled for thousands of years. The edible olive was grown on the island of Crete about 3500 BC; the Semitic peoples apparently cultivated it as early as 3000 BC.

Olive oil was prized for anointing the body in Greece during the time of Homer; and it was an important crop of the Romans c. 600 BC. Later, olive growing spread to all the countries bordering the Mediterranean.

Olive trees bloom in late spring; small, whitish flowers are borne in loose clusters in the axils of the leaves. Flowers are of two types: perfect, containing both male and female parts, which are capable of developing into the olive fruits; and male, which contain only the pollen-producing parts. The olive is wind-pollinated. Fruit setting in the olive is often erratic; in some areas, especially where irrigation and fertilization are not practiced; bearing in alternate years is the rule.

The trees may set a heavy crop one year and not even bloom the next. The olive fruit is classed botanically as a drupe, similar to the peach or plum. Within the stone are one or two seeds. Olives tend to have maximum oil content about 20-30 percent of fresh weight and greatest weight six to eight months after the blossoms appear.

At that stage they are black and will continue to cling to the tree for several weeks. Fruits for oil extraction are allowed to mature, but, for processing as food, immature fruits are picked or shaken off the tree. Hundreds of named varieties of both types of olives, table and oil, are grown in warm climates.

In California, olives such as the Mission variety are grown almost exclusively for table use. In Europe, olives such as the Picual, Nevadillo, and Morcal are grown mostly for oil.

Commercial olive production generally occurs in two belts around the world, between 30 and 45 N latitude and between 30 and 45 S, where the climatic requirements for growth and fruitfulness can be found. Olive varieties do not come true from seed. Seedlings generally produce inferior fruit and must be budded or grafted to one of the named varieties.

Olives can be propagated by cuttings, either by hardwood cuttings set in the nursery row in the spring or by small, leafy cuttings rooted under mist sprays in a propagating frame. The trees start bearing in 4 to 8 years, but full production is not reached for 15 or 20 years.

Olives are grown mainly for the production of olive oil. Fresh, unprocessed olives are inedible because of their extreme bitterness resulting from a glycoside that can be neutralized by treatments with a dilute alkali such as lye. Salt applications also dispel some of the bitterness. The processed fruit may be eaten either ripe or green. The olive fruit and its oil are key elements in the cuisine of the Mediterranean and popular outside the region.

Olive oil is classified into five grades:

(1) Virgin, from first pressings that meet defined standards;
(2) Pure, or edible, a mixture of refined and virgin;
(3) refined, or commercial, consisting of lamp ante from which acid, colour, and odour have been removed;
(4) lamp ante, high-acid oil, named for its use as a lamp fuel, obtained from a second pressing of residual pulp with hot water.

(5) Sulphide extracted with solvents and refined repeatedly. In the late 20th century, Spain and Italy were the world leaders in commercial olive production, with more than a quarter each of the world's total followed by Greece, with more than a 10th. Other important olive-producing countries are Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, and Portugal. Europe, with nearly 500 million olive trees, has more than three-quarters of the worlds cultivated olives, followed by Asia, about 13 percent.

1. Extra virgin olive oil is nothing but fruit juice extracted mechanically from olive fruit. There is no heat or chemicals used in the extraction process. My favourite and the most beneficial is a fresh organic unfiltered extra virgin olive oil. Follow this link for more information about olive oil grades.

2. Flavour - It just tastes good. I guess I would have to say it is an acquired taste and some people just don't like the bitter characteristic of some oils. There are olive varieties known for their mild flavour and olive oil pressed from ripe olives is smooth, mellow and buttery.


3. Nutritional Value - vitamins E, K, and A as well as poly-phenols, squalene, oleocanthol, triterpenes and hundreds more micronutrients make olive oil a healthy choice. Read more about olive oil nutrients

4. Oleic Acid - oleic acid (omega 9) makes up 55 - 85 percent of the fatty acids in olive oil. Don't confuse this with the amount of free oleic acid which is the main factor used to determine the grade of the olive oil and the lower the better. It's great for your skin - read about common oils used in soaps and how they can do so much more than just clean your skin. Oleic acid aids in keeping our arteries supple and helps prevent cancer.

5. Hydrogenated Oils - olive oil is not hydrogenated oil. Hydrogenation creates dangerous trans-fats found in margarine and many other packaged foods. Please read this page for more information about hydrogenated oil and trans-fats.

6. Heart Health and Cholesterol - extra virgin olive oil is high in poly-phenols (a powerful antioxidant) and monounsaturated fat which contributes to lowering bad cholesterol. Read more about this health benefit here.

7. Cancer - researchers believe that olive oil may be just as effective in the prevention of colon cancer as fresh fruits and veggies. A diet rich in olive oil has been shown to reduce the incidence of colon, breast and skin cancers.

8. Blood Pressure - Studies now indicate that extra virgin olive oil may help to lower blood pressure. Patients were able to reduce or eliminate the need for medications when olive oil was consumed on a regular basis.

9. Alzheimer’s - this disease is associated with the clogging of arteries caused by cholesterol and saturated fat. Replacing other fats with olive oil will reduce the risk.

10. Gallstones - Olive oil promotes the secretion of bile and pancreatic hormones naturally and lowers the incidence of gallstones.

There are more olive oil benefits. It's great for skin and hair care, used in natural remedies, and is more versatile cooking oil than you may think.

The No. 6.

Sure No.6.

The Life Path is the sum of the birth date. This number represents who you are at birth and the native traits that you will carry with you through life. The most important number that will be discussed here is your Life Path number. The Life Path describes the nature of this journey through life.
The Life Path number is established from the date of birth. First, add the Month, day, and year together to arrive at a total. Next, reduce this four digit number to a single digit.
For example 25th August 1980.
Harmony, beauty, nurturing, love, marriage, family, responsibility, understanding, sympathy, healing, empathic, perfectionist, order, duty, comfort, service.

• Willing to assume burdens and responsibilities.
• Family is your main focus.
• Generous with personal material goods.
• Excellent teacher, good with children.
• Capable of bringing balance to situations.
• Emotional
• Artistic


Learning the pleasure of accepting and managing responsibility is the major lesson of the life-path 6.

Other people including strangers, family and friends, turn to the six for help and answers to their problems which the 6 can handle quite well. At times the 6 will feel he/she has more than his/her fair share of responsibilities but learning this lesson of giving of the resources of self means the 6 must accept and deal with it in a cheerful manner, being careful that no one takes undue advantage of his good nature.


When the life-path 6 becomes tired of the burdens placed on him/her then the 6 will have to decide just how many responsibilities he/she is willing to accept. Recognizing those who come to him/her out of genuine need and helplessness versus those who use the 6 from force of habit or for personal gain is when the weeding out process begins. Just be careful you do not throw the baby out with the bath water.

A major part of this lesson is judging who he/she will be responsible for and when this responsibility is to be expressed in action.


The Life Path 6 suggests that you entered this plane with tools to become the ultimate nurturer, and a beacon for truth, justice, righteousness, and domesticity. Your paternal, or maternal, as the case may be, instincts with a 6 Life Path exceed all others by a considerable margin. In the home or in the work place, you are the predominant caretaker and the head. While the 6 may assume significant responsibilities in the community, the life revolves around the immediate home and family, for this is the most domestic of numbers. Conservative principles and convictions are deeply ingrained and define your character.
You are idealistic and must feel useful to be happy. The main contribution you make is that of advice, service, and ever present support. You are a humanitarian of the first order. It is your role to serve others, and you start in the home environment. You are very human and realistic about life, and you feel that the most important thing in your life is the home, the family and the friends.
This is the Life Path related to leadership by example and assumption of responsibility, thus, it is your obligation to pick up the burden and always be ready to help. If you are like the majority with Life Path 6, you are one who will willingly carry far more than your fair share of any load, and you are always there when needed. In doing so, you take ownership and often become an authority over the situation.
In romance, the 6 is loyal and devoted. As a caretaker type, you are apt to attract partners who are somewhat weaker and more needy than yourself; someone you can care for and protect. The main ingredient that must prevail in the relationship is complete harmony. You don't function well in stressful relationships that become challenges for you to control. It is the same with friends, you are loyal and trustworthy. But there is a tendency for you to become dominating and controlling.
It's likely you feel compelled to function with strength and compassion. You are a sympathetic and kind person, generous with personal and material resources. Wisdom, balance, and understanding are the cornerstones of your life, and these define your approach to life in general. Your extraordinary wisdom and the ability to understand the problems of others is apt to commence from an early age. This allows you to easily span the generation gap and assume an important role in life early on.
The number 6 Life Path actually produces few negative examples, but there are some pitfalls peculiar to the path. You may have a tendency to become overwhelmed by responsibilities and a slave to others, especially members of you own family or close friends. It's easy for you to fall into a pattern of being too critical of others; you also have a tendency to become too hard on yourself. The misuse of this Life Path produce tendencies for you to engage in exaggeration, over-expansiveness, and self-righteousness. Modesty and humility may not flow easily. Imposing one's views in an interfering or meddling way must be an issue of concern.
The natural burdens of this number are heavy, and on rare occasions, responsibility is abdicated by persons with this Life Path 6. This rejection of responsibility will make you feel very guilty and uneasy, and it will have very damaging effects upon your relationships with others.

Best Colleges in USA.

America’s Best Colleges.

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Is Money Everything?

Money.

Money has no colour. It is black, it is white and all that is man-made.
Once the money enters the monetary channel it is money.
Money is the password to fame life and everything.
Money is power. Money is strength. Money is everything.
Money is Money. Honest Money and Dis-honest Money is all our creation.
There are more than 600 organized crime groups in our country alone, making billions within illegal industries more varied than simple drug dealing and money laundering. From counterfeit goods to international car theft rings, here are the many — and costly — ways organized criminals make their cash.
Our country has turned out to be the hot-bed for gun violence as our neighbours Pak, Bangladesh, Nepal Sri Lanka, China are all involved in gun-production.. Still, organized crime in India relies on the country's close proximity to the neighbouring countries, because the majority of illegal firearms that end up in India come from these sources. More to that, organized crooks routinely utilize border towns to smuggle their goods making towns breeding grounds for firearm activity. In 2008, many were arrested after several guns were traced back to Pakistan and China make guns. They had smuggled 2200 different guns across the Porbandar and Rajasthan border selling them at huge price.
Contrary to what most people would think, giant, plodding construction equipment is a target for thieves. As with passenger vehicle thefts, stealing heavy machinery has emerged as a profitable enterprise for organized criminals. Heavy equipment thefts in the country continue to increase, while recovery rates continue to decrease. For hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit, large construction equipment is taken from job sites many brands use a universal key for all of their machines, a controversial practice as thefts rise and shipped out of India to neighbouring countries with altered ID numbers, so as not to draw suspicion. Organized crooks are also known to sap costly diesel fuel from unguarded construction equipment, further costing the companies money they rarely recover.
Vehicle thefts, while decreasing in numbers, are still a concern among law enforcement. Despite fewer reported thefts each year since 2006, the amount of unrecovered stolen vehicles continues to increase, up to 40 per cent in 2009 from just 30 per cent a year earlier. About one-third of all stolen cars around 20,000 vehicles are exported to areas such as our neighbouring countries each year, contributing to an illegal enterprise that costs us more than INR one billion annually. By one report, “international car thieves can net about $1 million for stealing 30 or more high-end vehicles, which is not unlike the plot of the action flick "Gone in 60 Seconds."
It may not be the most glamorous criminal enterprise, but mortgage fraud is still one of the largest money makers for organized crooks. Because of underreporting, estimates can never be precisely pinpointed, but at its peak, many reports suggest, the mortgage fraud has accounted for as much as INR a billion in losses per year. Most recently, famously fell victim to our largest mortgage fraud scam, one which generated almost 1400 crore and reportedly cost the banks as much as 300 crore directly.
The other side of drug dealing, the legal stuff, isn't quite as profitable but may be just as dangerous a trade. Much of the trafficked prescription drugs in the country— the major players: Valium, Ritalin, OxContin, Ativan, Mendrex and unnamed etc. — come via our neighbouring countries, yet what concerns authorities just as much is what's coming from Internet sites. Online sites offering sales of counterfeit prescription drugs are becoming more and more popular, making us question why people would knowingly take drugs concocted from an unknown source. "In many cases, these products can cost just a tenth of the price" as what they would in stores, he says, "but it's an issue of personal safety. Who knows where these things come from?"

The sale and importation of illegal drugs, it should go without saying, is still a major source of income for organized criminals. The problem, is how to quantify how much is being sold. Officers have made several recent high-profile busts of cocaine, the most "prominent" drug problem facing the authorities, totalling more than 100 crore per sting in some cases. But besides the value of these busts, law enforcement personnel can't say much more. While estimates suggest more than half a billion dollars in illegal drugs pass through, "there's simply no way to tell an exact figure. We just don't know."

While our nation produces much of its own, the lion's share of counterfeit goods sold within is imported primarily from countries such as China, Thailand, Turkey and Russia. Organized crooks have become so potent in their distribution — which includes products like fake jeans, bogus washers and dryers and bootleg DVDs — that most of the products sold may be counterfeit, according to Criminal Intelligence Service. "And people keep buying them," adding that in this economy many people seem content saving a few bucks rather than steering clear from purchasing illegal goods.


Credit card holders may breathe a sigh of relief now that most credit and debit cards carry chip-and-pin technology, but the simple fact is that payment card fraud has rarely been more prevalent. While combined losses decreased slightly in 2009 to 501 crore, from 550 crore in 2008, that figure conceals one alarming trend. Debit card fraud dramatically spiked from 2008 to 2009, increasing some 36 per cent and saddling card-holders with losses of more than $140 million. Enhanced skimming machines are how modern crooks conduct the bulk of their schemes, but thieves have also begun using Bluetooth to wirelessly extract payment information from consumers.
China demands Indian wild-life. Nepal has got contacts and they pay handsomely beyond
expectation. But they want Tiger Lion Panther cubs. They want meat and bones of dead wild animals. All China-influenced countries demand meat of wild-animals.

Pondicherry.

Pondicherry.
Capital: Pondicherry.
Population. 1 million.
Area. 200 square miles.
Revenue Districts. 4.

This restored, attractive former French Colony exudes a Mediterranean aura
with its chic streets, elegant houses, ornamental gardens and the Hotel-de-Ville.
Being a small and quiet enclave of Tamil Nadu, it has imbibed Tamil Culture.

Pondicherry is an oval-shaped, with streets aligned at right angles.
The skilfully planned township is distinguished by a two mile long esplanade
which skirts the town and enclose in it, the tourist attractions.

Pondicherry is divided into two parts by a canal, and all the main streets, running parallel to one another, lead to the open roadstead offshore. The port of Pondicherry does not have a harbour, and ships are forced to lie a mile or two offshore; but its road-stead was once considered the best on the Coromandel Coast.

There is a promenade and landing place for cargo, and in the 1960s a new pier was constructed. In and around the town are artesian wells that supply a large quantity of water for irrigation, the chief local crops being paddy, sugarcane, cotton, and peanuts. The main industries are food processing, electrical appliances, textiles, paper, and lumber.

The Pondicherry area has about 300 villages and hamlets. The commune of Karaikal is in the fertile Thanjavur delta, in one of the most important rice-producing areas of India. The exceptional fertility of the region is to some extent reflected in the unusually high density of its rural population. The town is on a branch line, the Mayavaram-Peralam route, of the southern railway.

The Mahe sector consists of two parts: the quaint, picturesque town of Mahe, with all its buildings situated on the left bank of the Mahe River close to its mouth; and the isolated tract known as Naluthrara, on the right bank, comprising the four villages of Chambara, Chalakara, Palour, and Pandaquel.

Rice is the chief crop.Yanam is a small town on the bank of a branch of the Godavari River, about 400 miles north of Madras, near Kakinada.The major languages spoken in the areas are Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu. Tamil is predominant in the southern settlements of Pondicherry and Karaikal; Malayalam is predominant in Mahe, and Telugu in Yanam. Other significant languages include Urdu, French, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, English, and Marathi.

Hindus form the majority in all the four regions; Muslims are an important minority in Karaikal, Mahe, and Yanam; and Christians are numerous in Pondicherry. There are also a few Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jain.

There are no heavy industries or mining in the union territory; it purchases its entire power requirement from nearby states. Pondicherry is governed by a lieutenant governor who is advised by a chief minister and a Council of Ministers. The jurisdiction of the Madras High Court extends over the union territory.

Pondicherry is famous for Shanti Niketan, as well as Auroville, the international township and study centre that was named after Aurobindo.. The Romain Rolland Public Library houses some rare French volumes. A medical college, a law college, and several other colleges for general education are affiliated with the University of Madras.

Puducherry is one of the most popular tourist destinations in South India. The city has many colonial buildings, churches, temples, and statues, which, combined with the systematic town planning and the well planned French style avenues, still preserve much of the colonial ambience.
Puducherry is also known as La Côte d'Azur de l'East, meaning "The French Riviera of the East".
There are a number of eighteenth and nineteenth century churches in Puducherry as well as a number of heritage buildings and monuments are present around the Promenade beach such as the Children’s Park & Dupleix Statue, Gandhi statue, Nehru Statue, Le Café, French War Memorial, 19th Century Light House, Bharathi Park, Governors Palace, Romain Rolland Library, Legislative Assembly, Puducherry Museum, and the French Institute of Pondicherry at Saint-Louis Street.
Joyful boat rides at Chunnambar boat house Puducherry-Cuddalore Road and at Osutari lake, Botanical Garden for joyful train ride and for unseen natures beauty.
Thirukaameeswarar Temple is one of the ancient, beautiful, and huge temples that is located in a beautiful rural town called "Villianur,” which is located about 6miles away from Puducherry town. This temple is Renowned As "Periya Koil", which means "Big Temple" in Puducherry locality. The prime god is Lord Shiva and the prime goddess is Goddess Kokilambigai. In addition, there are also other Gods such as Murugan, Vinayagar, ThakshanamoorthY, Perumal, Bhramah, Chandikeshwarar, Natarajar, Navagrahah, and 63 Naayanmaars. The pioneers in this temple say that the age of this temple is about 1000+ years. This seemed to be constructed by one of the Chola Kings. There is also a huge "temple pond". One of the famous festival of this temple is "Ther Thiruvizha" (Car Festival). The other important temple is "Sri Manakula Vinayagar Temple.”


Aurobindo, who started out as an ardent nationalist and was jailed by the British. After his conversion from activism to introspection, which took place in jail, he established Shanti Niketan in Pondicherry. He left behind a rich oeuvre of verse that has inspired a contemporary school of mystic poets. Other modern poets show the influence of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
The independence movement gave strong impetus to expository prose. Important contributors to this genre were Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, and T. Prakasam. Mahatma Gandhi, too, wrote widely in English and edited Young India and the Harijan. He also wrote the autobiography My Experiments with Truth (originally published in Gujarati, 1927-29), now an Indian classic. In this he was followed by Jawaharlal Nehru, whose Discovery of India is justly popular.

Sant Ramanuja.

Sant Ramanuja.(1017-1137). He lived for 120 years.
And called RAMANUJACARYA, OR ILAIYA PERUMAL (TAMIL: AGELESS PERUMAL [GOD]), South Indian Brahman theologian and philosopher, the single most influential thinker of devotional Hinduism. After a long pilgrimage, Ramanuja settled in Shrirangam, where he organized temple worship and founded centres to disseminate his doctrine of devotion to the god Vishnu. He provided an intellectual basis for the practice of bhakti (devotional worship) in three major commentaries: the Vedartha-samgraha on the Veda, the Shri-bhasya on the Brahma-sutras, and the Bhagavadgita-bhasya on the
Bhagavadgita.

According to tradition, he was born in Tamil Nadu state. He showed early signs of theological acumen and was sent to Kañchi for schooling, under the teacher Yadavaprakasha, who was a follower of the monistic system of Vedanta of Shankara, the famous 8th-century philosopher.

Ramanuja's profoundly religious nature was soon at odds with a doctrine that offered no room for a personal god. After falling out with his teacher he had a vision of the god Vishnu and Laksmi, and instituted a daily worship ritual at the place where he beheld them.

He became a temple priest at the Varadaraja temple at Kañchi, where he began to expound the doctrine that the goal of those who aspire to final release from transmigration is not the impersonal Brahman but rather Brahman as identified with the personal god Vishnu.

In Kañchi, as well as Shrirangam, where he was to become associated with the Ranganatha temple, he developed the teaching that the worship of a personal god and the soul's union with him is an essential part of the doctrines of the Upanisads on which the system of Vedanta is built; therefore, the teachings of the Vaisnavas and Bhagavatas
are not heterodox. He set forth this doctrine in his three major commentaries.

Like many Hindu thinkers, he made an extended pilgrimage, circum-ambulating from Rameswaram, along the west coast to Badrinath, the source of the holy river Ganges, and returning along the east coast.

Tradition has it that later he suffered from the zeal of King Kulottunga of the Chola dynasty, who adhered to the god Shiva, and withdrew to Mysore, in the west. There he converted numbers of Jains, as well as King Bittideva of the Hoysala dynasty. This led to the founding in 1099 of the town Melcote, and the dedication of a temple to Sampatkumara.. He returned after 20 years to Shrirangam, where he organized the temple worship, and, reputedly, he founded 74 centres to disseminate his doctrine.




The main religious inspirations are from the theistic tradition of the Alvar poet-saints and their commentators known as the Acharyas, who sought to combine knowledge with karma as the right means to liberation. There is also, besides the Vedic tradition, the religious tradition of Agamas, particularly of the Pañcharatra literature. It is within this old tradition that Ramanuja's philosophical and religious thought developed.

Ramanuja rejected Shankara's conception of Brahman as an indeterminate, qualityless, and differenceless reality on the ground that such a reality cannot be perceived, known, thought of, or even spoken about, in which case it is nothing short of a fiction.

In substantiating this contention, Ramanuja undertook, in his Shri-bhasya on the Vedanta-sutras, a detailed examination of the different ways of knowing. Perception, either non-conceptualized or conceptualized, always apprehends its object as being something, the only difference between the two modes of perception being that the former takes place when one perceives an individual of a certain class for the first time and thus does not subsume it under the same class as some other individuals. Nor can inference provide one with knowledge of an indeterminate reality, because in inference one always knows something as coming under a general rule.

The same holds true of verbal testimony. This kind of knowledge arises from understanding sentences. For Ramanuja there is nothing like a pure consciousness without subject and without object. All consciousness is of something and belongs to someone. He also held that it is not true that consciousness cannot be the object of another consciousness. In fact, one's own past consciousness becomes the object of present consciousness. Consciousness is self-shining only when it reveals an object to its own owner, the self.

Rejecting Shankara's conception of reality, Ramanuja defended the thesis that Brahman is a being with infinitely perfect excellent virtues, a being whose perfection cannot be exceeded. The world and finite individuals are real, and together they constitute the body of Brahman. The category of body and soul is central to his way of thinking. Body is that which can be controlled and moved for the purpose of the spirit. The material world and the conscious spirits, though substantive realities, are yet inseparable from Brahman and thus qualify him in the same sense in which body qualifies the soul. Brahman is spiritual-material-qualified.

Ramanuja and his followers undertook criticisms of Shankara's illusionism, particularly of his doctrine of avidya (ignorance) and the falsity of the world. For Ramanuja, such a beginningless, positive avidya could not have any locus or any object, and if it does conceal the self-shining Brahman, then there would be no way of escaping from its clutches.

A most striking feature of Ramanuja's epistemology is his uncompromising realism. Whatever is known is real, and only the real can be known. This led him to advocate the thesis that even the object of error is real--error is really incomplete knowledge--and correction of error is really completion of incomplete knowledge.

The state of moksa is not a state in which the individuality is negated. In fact, the sense of "I" persists even after liberation, for the self is truly the object of the notion of "I." What is destroyed is egoism, the false sense of independence. The means thereto is bhakti, leading to God's grace.

But by bhakti Ramanuja means dhyana, or intense meditation with love. Obligation to perform one's scriptural duties is never transcended. Liberation is a state of blessedness in the company of God. A path emphasized by Ramanuja for all persons is complete self-surrender to God's will and making oneself worthy of his grace.

In his social outlook, Ramanuja believed that bhakti does not recognize barriers of caste and classes. The doctrinal differences among the followers of Ramanuja is not so great as among Shankara's. Writers such as Sudarshana Suri and Venkatanatha continued to elaborate and defend the theses of the master, and much of their writing is polemical.

Some differences are to be found regarding the nature of emancipation, the nature of devotion, and other ritual matters. The followers are divided into two schools: the Uttara-kalarya, led by Venkatanatha, and the Dakshina-kalarya, led by Lokacharya. One of the points at issue is whether or not emancipation is destructible; another, whether there is a difference between liberation attained by mere self-knowledge and that attained by knowledge of God.

There also were differences in interpreting the exact nature of self-surrender to God and the degree of passivity or activity required of the worshipper.

Labour Day in USA.

Labour Day. 6th September 2010.
Labour Day in USA.

Labour Day holiday is devoted to recognition of working people's contribution to society. Labour Day is observed on the first Monday in September in the United States and on May 1 or other dates in other countries.

The idea for such a holiday in the United States is attributed to Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labour union leader who later cofounded the precursor of the AFL-CIO.
In 1882 he suggested to the Central Labour Union of New York that a celebration be held to honour the American worker.

Acting on this idea, about 10,000 workers paraded in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882, under the sponsorship of the Knights of Labour. The date of the celebration was chosen simply because it filled up the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

In 1884 the Knights of Labour adopted a resolution that the first Monday in September should be considered Labour Day. The idea spread rapidly, and by 1885 Labour Day events were taking place in many states.

Oregon in 1887 was the first state to grant legal status to Labour Day. That same year Colorado, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts established the holiday on the first Monday in September, and other states soon followed.

In 1894 Congress passed a bill making Labour Day a national holiday. Labour Day's associations with trade unions have gradually declined. The holiday marks the end of summer vacation for many American schoolchildren and is often celebrated at family picnics and sporting events. In most other countries, including former communist ones, May Day (May 1) is the day generally chosen by labour unions and left-wing political parties to honour workers.

Like monetary and international economics, labour economics is an old economic speciality. It gets its raison d'être from the peculiarities of labour as a commodity. Labour itself is not bought and sold; rather, its services are hired and rented out. But since people cannot be disassociated from their services, various nonmonetary considerations play a role in the sale of labour services as contrasted with the sale of machine time or the rental of land. Yet, the bulk of the literature in labour economics was until recently concerned solely with the demand side of the labour market. Wages, the textbooks all said, were determined by the "marginal productivity of labour," that is, by the relationships of production and by consumer demand. If the supply of labour came into the picture at all, it was merely to allow for the presence of trade unions; unions could only raise wages by limiting the supply of labour.

After a long period of neglect, the supply side of the labour market began, in the 20th century, to attract the attention of economists. First, attention shifted from the individual worker to the household as a supplier of labour services; the increasing tendency of married women to enter the labour force and the wide disparities and fluctuations observed in the rate that females participate in a labour force drew attention to the fact that an individual's decision to supply labour is not independent of the size, age structure, and asset holdings of the household to which he or she belongs.

Second, the new concept of "human capital"--that people make capital investments in their children and in themselves by incurring the costs of education and training, the costs of searching for better job opportunities, and the costs of migration to other labour markets--has served as a unifying explanation of the diverse activities of households in labour markets. In this way, capital theory has become the dominant analytical tool of the labour economists, replacing or supplementing the traditional theory of consumer behaviour.

The economics of training and education, the economics of information, the economics of migration, the economics of health, and the economics of poverty are some of the by-products of this new perspective. A field that was at one time regarded as rather cut-and-dried has taken on new vitality.

Labour economics, old or new, has always regarded the explanation of wages as its principal task, including the factors determining the general level of wages in an economy and the reasons for wage differentials between industries and occupations. Wages are influenced by trade unions; the impact of their activities is of increased importance at a time when most governments manage the economy with one eye on the unemployment statistics.

The pre-war fears of chronic unemployment gave way to the postwar fears of chronic inflation at or near levels of full employment. In response to this a vast literature sprang up after 1945 analyzing the inflationary pressures stemming from both the supply side and the demand side of labour markets. Whether prices were being pushed up by the labour unions ("cost push") or pulled up by excess purchasing power ("demand pull") became the issues in this long debate on inflation, a controversy that is, of course, intimately related to the quarrels in monetary economics mentioned earlier.

It s a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 6 in 2010).
The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City. In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labour as top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labour day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. Cleveland was also concerned that aligning an American labor holiday with existing international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair.
By the 20th century, all 50 U.S. states have made Labor Day a state holiday.
The form for the celebration of Labor Day was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday: A street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations," followed by a festival for the workers and their families. This became the pattern for Labor Day celebrations. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civil significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labour convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding. Labour Day was adopted as Labour Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
Traditionally, Labour Day is celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. The holiday is often regarded as a day of rest and parades. Speeches or political demonstrations are more low-key than May 1 Labour Day celebrations in most countries, although events held by labor organizations often feature political themes and appearances by candidates for office, especially in election years. Forms of celebration include picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays, water sports, and public art events. Families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer recess. Similarly, some teenagers and young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to school, although school starting times now vary.
In U.S. sports, Labour Day marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons. NCAA teams usually play their first games the week before Labour Day, with the NFL traditionally playing their first game the Thursday following Labour Day.
The Southern 500 NASCAR auto race was held that day from 1950 to 2004.
The expansion of industry was accompanied by increased tensions between employers and workers and by the appearance, for the first time in the United States, of national labour unions. The first effective labour organization that was more than regional in membership and influence was the Knights of Labour, organized in 1869. The Knights believed in the unity of the interests of all producing groups and sought to enlist in their ranks not only all labourers but everyone who could be truly classified as a producer. They championed a variety of causes, many of them more political than industrial, and they hoped to gain their ends through politics and education rather than through economic coercion.

The hardships suffered by many workers during the depression of 1873-78 and the failure of a nationwide railroad strike, which was broken when President Hayes sent federal troops to suppress disorders in Pittsburgh and St. Louis, caused much discontent in the ranks of the Knights. In 1879 Terence V. Powderly, a railroad worker and mayor of Scranton, Pa., was elected grand master workman of the national organization.

He favoured cooperation over a program of aggressive action, but the effective control of the Knights shifted to regional leaders who were willing to initiate strikes or other forms of economic pressure to gain their objectives. The Knights reached the peak of their influence in 1884-85, when much-publicized strikes against the Union Pacific, Southwest System, and Wabash railroads attracted substantial public sympathy and succeeded in preventing a reduction in wages. At that time they claimed a national membership of nearly 700,000. In 1885 Congress, taking note of the apparently increasing power of labour, acceded to union demands to prohibit the entry into the United States of immigrants who had signed contracts to work for specific employers.

The year 1886 was a troubled one in labour relations. There were nearly 1,600 strikes, involving about 600,000 workers, with the eight-hour day the most prominent item in the demands of labour. About half of these strikes were called for May Day; some of them were successful, but the failure of others and internal conflicts between skilled and unskilled members led to a decline in the Knights' popularity and influence.

Simplify the Life.

How to Simplify Life.

Sam had a busy life and a busy work-schedule which he at times found hard to follow.
For the last fifteen years he ran his Consulting firm.
The Firm ran seminars.
They wrote a book on hazards of Consulting Profession and all that.
Sam got into establishing a Consultation Company because he did not know
what else to do. Once he was in, he never had time to get out of it.

Sam worked for sixty hours a week and could seldom spend time with his family.
Rarely he could find time on his own to relax or took a vacation.
He never thought about how work had taken over his life.


One day while looking at his to-do lists, he realised how rotten his life had turned out.
He decided right there and there to simplify his life.
He got rid of a lot of clutter that had accumulated.
He trained a habit to say no to demands of his time.
He cut back on his work schedule.
By working less, he realised that he was more productive and creative.
He had time to think about what he wanted to do with his life.
Over the next several years, Sam realised that it was time to let go of the
Consulting business.
It seemed insane to spend his time on a vocation doing something he did not enjoy.
He came to a new understanding about his life, his work and reason for working.
He had believed for years that he worked for money.
But now he found that money was not enough reason to keep up the grind.
He was productive, committed and financially rewarded when he loved his work.
So simplifying is not about retreating to a cabin in the woods and be a hermit.
Rather by cutting his unproductive labour, and simplified clarity, and insight in his work,
it gave Sam time to develop a rich inner life and made living easier,
to move beyond society’s demands and expectations about work.

Body Wound and Healing.

Healing of a body wound is a miracle.


The human body, brain and the nervous system is a machine composed
of many smaller mechanisms, all purposeful and goal-oriented.

However man is not a machine.
Essence of man is that which animates, inhabits
the machine, directs and controls it and use it to its maximum advantage.

We have to accept that there is some universal energy vitality, life-force that guides us.

Throughout our life we are required to adapt to stress situations. Human body contains defence mechanism which protects against stress. Stress includes any thing which
requires adaptation or adjustment against say extreme heat or extreme cold., invasion by disease, germs, emotional tension and the wear and tear of living life.

This adaptive energy that is consumed in performing the adaptive work, is different from the calorie-energy we receive from food and all that. The human body is designed to maintain itself in health, to cure itself of a disease.

Drugs surgery, therapy work by stimulating the body’s defence mechanism when it is deficient or helpless to function. The adaptation energy in the final analysis, overcomes the disease, heals the wound or win over other stress factors.

Adaptation energy, life force, whatever you call it, manifests itself in many ways.
The energy which heals a wound is the same energy which keeps all our other body
organs functioning.

Loss of muscle mass affects about 10 percent of men and women over 60 and is a major reason why the elderly lose mobility and cannot live independently.. Now they are looking for ways to prevent or reverse the condition.
Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies, let alone aging baby boomers who, despite having spent years sweating in the gym, are confronting the body’s natural loss of muscle tone over time.
Drug companies already are trying to develop drugs that can build muscles or forestall their weakening without the notoriety of anabolic steroids. Food giants are exploring nutritional products with the same objective.


Here we go again. Another normal part of aging is being turned into a disease so that pharmaceutical companies can develop drugs, inevitably with unwanted side effects to "treat" the new malady... and rake in big bucks on the backs of the elderly.

We already know that exercise, especially weight bearing exercise, is the best way to help maintain muscle mass into the golden years. That's the number one place to start.

We also know that may of the causes, inflammation, sedentary lifestyles, oxidative damage, resistance to insulin - are easily and effectively addressed with diet and lifestyle modifications, along with targeted nutritional supplementation, vitamin D, antioxidants, etc.

Let's get an information out to the aging population to provide safe,
preventive and holistic natural support instead of pushing another pricey, toxic drug.