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Happy September - HAPPY SOFA PERSON!

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SLEEP 1 2 3 ...

* The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
-- Anonymous

* Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night's sleep.
--Anonymous

* A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book
-- Irish Proverb

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SLEEP 1 2 3 ...

* The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
-- Anonymous

* Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night's sleep.
--Anonymous

* A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book
-- Irish Proverb

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but its difficult to get sleep in such situations....

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SLEEP***** 1 2 3 ...

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but its difficult to get sleep***** in such situations....

TRY 1 2 3 ... "Count Sheep" ... Like "Baby" "Talky" ... To Become "Sleepy"

If Not "Snorey"

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Court stays levy of FBT on Chennai firm

`New provision did not even exempt charitable institutions'

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has stayed the levy of the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) on a Chennai-based audit firm, which challenged the tax on the ground that it was unreasonable and irrational.

Justice K. Ravirajapandian granted the interim injunction in so far as it relates to Kumbhat & Co, on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu chapter president of All India Tax Payers Association, Ashok Kumbhat. He also ordered notices to the Union Ministries of Finance and Law, Justice and Company Affairs.

The petitioner challenged the constitutional validity of Sec. 115WA to 115WL of the Income-tax Act as introduced by the Finance Act 2005. The new measure sought to tax "privileges, services, facilities and amenities directly or indirectly provided by an employer to an employee or reimbursements made directly or indirectly for any purpose.''

Under the impugned provision, payments of certain expenses by the employer are deemed as fringe benefit and certain percentage of such expenses is deemed as value of the fringe benefit.

However, assailing the "notional and presumptive'' FBT, Mr. Kumbhat said the new provision did not even exempt charitable institutions, which had no profit motive behind their activity. He further said, "if this levy is allowed to continue, the influence of foreign taxation formula will be injected into the Indian income tax law, completely shaking the confidence in the taxation policy in India." He said taxing depreciation on motor cars and aircraft would "amount to exaction of tax in an indirect manner and will work as a disincentive.''

He prayed for the declaration of the impugned provisions as ultra vires Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution in so far as the petitioners were concerned. Mr. Justice Ravirajapandian, admitting the plea, granted the interim plea as prayed for.

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Dasara Greetings!

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Festival Fun - Kathmandu NEPAL

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Modern Ways Rob Dasara Of Its Grandeur

nantapur, Oct. 11: Dasara had a special significance for children. During earlier days schoolchildren used to go around their villages seeking donations for their teachers. Private transport operators used to offer a free ride to the school children after the Ayudha Puja.

Thanks to the commercialisation of education, the bond between teacher and student has taken the shape of a salesman and a client and also thanks to the automobile revolution the children do not look forward for any free ride.

The other most significant tradition on the wane is the Bommala Koluvu. Earlier almost every household used to have a Bommala Koluvu where the dolls of mythological characters used to give out a message to the children. Only a few relatively affluent people are showing keenness on maintaining Bommala Koluvu in Anantapur.

Ms C. Mallika Kamalakar of RK Nagar is one of those enthusiasts who organises Bommala Koluvu every year without fail. Hundreds of children from several localities of the town visit her home to witness the dolls arranged in a manner that gave out a social and ethical message.

The dolls were beautifully arranged to display the sequences of Kaveri Push- karam, Ideal Village and Sri Rangam Kamakshi’s procession. Ms Mallika untiringly explains every sequence to the children who visit her home. Similarly, Dr B. Shanta of Prashanti Nursing Home has also arranged a beautiful Bommala Koluvu at her home.
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Deepavali

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Deepavali Info

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There are Nobels and there are Ig Nobels

New Delhi, Oct 20 (PTI) The "Nobel" season has just concluded sans an Indian on the awardees list, but there is another set of "Nobel" awards where our desi brains pop-up fairly frequently- the "Ig Nobels".

Instituted by the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research," the "Ig Nobel" awards or "Igs" as they are popularly known as, entered their 15th year recently and one of the winners included, Gauri Nanda, for Economics for inventing "Clocky," an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that "people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday." "The Igs follow the same spirit of Clocky. They are both an investigation into the more human and personal side of technical concepts. Both look at the world from a slightly different perspective from the norm. And both are about making people laugh" says Nanda talking about her invention and the Ig Nobel.

Past Indian winners of the "Igs" include, Sreekumar and G Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University for Mathematics for their technique that enables one to estimate an elephant surface area without actually measuring it! and Lal Bihari of Uttar Pradesh won it for Peace in 2003 for "leading an active life even though he had been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People (Mritak Sangh)." PTI

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WINS!

WE make a LIVING by what we GET, but we make a LIFE by what we GIVE. Winston Churchill

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Generosity
Decency, generosity and doing right by our fellow human beings are all alive and well. They are what saved a drowning Mumbai. ... Against all odds. – Rathna Rajaiah

- TNSE (3), 23 Oct 2005, p 7

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M. K. Gandhi ... Writes

To be true to my faith, therefore, I may not write in anger or malice. I may not write idly. I may not write merely to excite passion. The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise from week to week in the choice of topics and my vocabulary. It is training for me. It enables me to peep into myself and to make discoveries of my weaknesses. Often my vanity dictates a smart expression or my anger a harsh adjective. It is a terrible ordeal but a fine exercise to remove these weeds.

M. K. Gandhi,
Young India, July 2, 1925
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Sri Ganapati Sachidananda Swamiji On Deepavali

Sri Swamiji mentioned that Deepavali brings happiness, light and love in the families. Sri Swamiji said he was against using excessive fire crackers which was harmful to the environment. Sr i Swamiji then recalled the story of Narakasura and Krishna and how Deepavali is the day on which Krishna liberated the subjects suffering under the demonic rule of Narakasura.


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Sadhu Sundar Singh - Oneness With God

Seeker: But isn’t God everywhere? Can’t we experience God by communing with nature and the world around us?

Sadhu: Both water and oil come from the earth. And though they are similar in many ways, they are opposites in their nature and their purpose. One extinguishes fire, the other gives fuel to the fire. Similarly, the world and its treasures are creations of God along with the soul and its thirst for spiritual truth. But if we try to quench the thirst of our soul with the wealth and pride and honors of this world, then it is like trying to extinguish fire with oil. The soul will only find peace and contentment in the One who created it along with its longing. When we turn to the living Master, we receive water that satisfies our soul. This water is a well of spiritual life that springs up deep within us.

It is pointless to seek peace in the things of this world. Peace and satisfaction are not to be found there. It is like the boy who found an onion and peeled away layer after layer, hoping to find something inside. When he had peeled away the innermost skin, he found nothing else. So this physical existence and all that it contains is empty and hollow until we discover the true source of peace. The water of life cannot be contained in earthen tanks, but those who approach the Risen One with a pure heart will find the answer.

Seeker: Are you saying that this material world is completely evil?

Sadhu: We must live in this world, and we can do so without losing our true spiritual nature. The things of this world need not harm us. Indeed, they can help us to grow spiritually. But this is only possible if we continually turn our hearts to the sun of righteousness.

Sometimes we come to a filthy, polluted place and find flowers blooming and giving off a sweet fragrance that overcomes even the stench around them. The plants are turned to the sun and receive its life-sustaining light. The filth does not harm them, but actually nourishes and mulches them so that they grow all the more richly. It is similar when we pray and turn our hearts to the sun of wholeness. We receive life-giving light and warmth so that our blossoming spiritual lives give off a gentle fragrance. Out of these gentle blossoms grow undying fruits. ...

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My 1969 Vision

You appeared to me first in this life
As best I can recall
When I was at the age of twelve.

I sat by a stream in the woods
at my "special place"
And I cried out for understanding
Then You gave me Your Grace.

Through the trees You came as Lord Jesus
With your compassionate Face
Assuring me that all was well.
You bid me to continue the race

"Seven masters shall you have"
Jesus said to me:
"They shall lead you Homeward
Where you will at last be free."

Next came an old Indian gentleman
Whom I'd never seen
He told me he'd teach me devotion
When the time had come to glean.

Next I met an Englishman
in this visionary state
He said he'd give working insight
So I could fulfill my fate.

Then came a lovely maiden
Who took my breath away
She said she'd teach me love
And the ability to see in the dark
As though by the light of day.

Soon a grim Chinaman
Who soothed me none at all
He said I'd learn from him
How to successfully burn!

The next one I saw was a yogi
Who lightheartedly bid me to come
He said he'd show me everything
If not, at least he'd show me some!

Next came a curious sort of chap
He looked like a hippy of old
He would come to perfect my love
So that in me there'd be nothing cold.

Then I saw one
Like a business man
He just smiled and went away.

Soon Master Jesus returned
And showed me my future fate
I cried out, "I can't my Lord!
"For I am not so great!"

"Follow these Masters and work on Self
This is something you can do."
He showed me many of my future experiences
And I knew his words were true.
As I agreed to do my best
Then the Good Master went away.

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THE HERO

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Rev. Jabez T. Sunderland
Rev. Jabez T. Sunderland (1842-1936) American born, former President of the India Information Bureau of America and Editor of Young India (New York). Author of India, America and World Brotherhood, and Causes of Famine in India. He has written glowingly about India's culture:

"India is a highly civilized nation - a nation which developed a rich culture much earlier than any nation of Europe, and has never lost it."

India was the first and only nation that proved too powerful for Alexander the Great. It was India that stopped his advance and compelled him to turn back in his career of world conquest. India was the richest nation in the world until conquered and robbed of her wealth by Great Britain.

India gave to the world two out of six of its greatest Historic religions. Of the six greatest Epic Poems of the world India produced two. India gave to mankind - Kalidasa. India contributed enormously to the origin and advancement of Civilization by giving to the world its immensely important decimal system, or so-called "Arabic Notation" which is the foundation of modern mathematics and much modern science.

India early created the beginning of nearly all of the sciences, some of which she carried forward to remarkable degrees of development, thus leading the world. India has produced great literature, great arts, great philosophical systems, great religions, and great men in every department of life - rulers, statesmen, financiers, scholars, poets, generals, colonizers, ship-builders, skilled artisans and craftsmen of every kind, agriculturists, industrial organizers and leaders in far-reaching trade and commerce by land and sea.

For 2,500 years India was pre-eminently the intellectual and spiritual teacher of Asia, which means of half the human race.

"When the British first appeared on the scene, India was one of the richest countries of the world; indeed, it was her great riches that attracted the British to her shores. For 2,500 years before the British came on the scene and robbed her of her freedom, India was self-ruling and one of the most influential and illustrious nations of the world." ...

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Get Out ... Go To Bed ... Go To Office ... NO HOLIDAY! ... wink:

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Life Is A Gift ... To Us ... To Help Us GIVE To Others ...

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Thou Shalt ...

There's no need to climb mountains as Moses did, but if you don't use it, you'll lost it.
A famous physician once wrote, "If exercise came in a pill bottle, it would be the most widely prescribed medicine of all."
A sound mind in a sound body...
Again, if you don't use it, you'll lose it. Read. Write, Go back to school. Exchange ideas. Be creative. Be reflective. Learn something new everyday. Share what you learn with others.

Read inspirational and/or scriptural works. Don't be afraid to be open and loving. Give -- and allow others to give to you.
Be sure there's balance in your life: 1) time alone, 2) time with one other person, and 3) time with two or more other people (group activities).
Examine your habits -- the ones you wnat to develop, and the ones you want to change. Then, set goals and make those changes.

Laugh. Live, Create. Share surprises. Help others find joy and purpose in their lives.
Schedule time for pure play, and find ways throughout your day to have fun.

Don't eat or drink or do anything else to excess. Don't smoke cigarettes or use harmful drugs. Don't take stupid chances.
Let go of the past, and move on! Decide what's wrong (not who's wrong), and take action.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The future's not totally in your control, but if you take care of today, most of the future will take care of itself.
Learn from the past, plan for the future, and live in the present.
Love others (and yourself) appropriately -- now. Look for leaders (living, dead, or imagined) who are worthy of admiration, and imitate their good qualities.
Pursue and preserve healthy relationships; you become like those you are with.

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Walt Disney

* All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
* All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
* Born of necessity, the little fellow [Mickey Mouse] literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
* Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
* Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

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Better Late Than Never - MARRY!

Couples who have lived together for years are suddenly deciding to get married. So why is convention winning? ...

Sunday July 31, 2005
The Observer

When Richard Platt and Tracy Brabin emerged from the actors' church, St Paul's in London's Covent Garden, as man and wife on a perfect summer afternoon a fortnight ago, they became instant members of two exclusive clubs.

The first you might call the 'Hello! Refuseniks': as former soap stars - he was in Peak Practice, she in Coronation Street - they had resisted the lure of a cash-for-photographs wedding that might have offset their £10,000 bill for the day.

The second club is that of the 'latelyweds'. For Brabin and Platt are a social oddity: long-term cohabitants who convert to marriage. After 16 years and two children together they decided earlier this year to make the change.

And they did it in style, in tiaras and veils with dreamy bridesmaid dresses for the kids, a choir and a boy band, tearful prose, riotous laughter and waves of love from 150 friends and family.

Brabin said: 'The love and the public declaration to my friends has released both of us. It's a declaration of our commitment to our children - the love we have for them. We are a family that will go through life together.' ...

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Just In Time - JIT - MARRY!

- An inventory strategy companies employ to increase efficiency and decrease waste by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, thereby reducing inventory costs.

This method requires that producers are able to accurately forecast demand.

- A good example would be a car manufacturer that operates with very low inventory levels, relying on their supply chain to deliver the parts they need to build cars. The parts needed to manufacture the cars do not arrive before nor after they are needed, rather they arrive just as they are needed.

This inventory supply system represents a shift away from the older "just in case" strategy where producers carried large inventories in case higher demand had to be met.

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