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 17:09 | 19/Jun/2008 |
| Performance Evaluations | |
| On Evaluating Employee Performance (From a Manager to an Employee)I admit it. I have a love/hate attitude about performance evaluations. I love it when you do great work and I get to tell you, and perhaps reward you for your contributions. On the other hand, I hate it when you don’t do great work, and I not only have to tell you, but also deal with...
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| 16:07 | 19/Jun/2008 |
| Speaking up | |
| I was at a party, relaxed, enjoying myself when the joke telling began: “There were three ______ who went to the …” The joke progressed. It was clearly demeaning to a group of people.The face of my close friend and colleague popped into my mind – he is a member of the group being debased. Two different voices – the proverbial angel and devil on my ...
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| 19:56 | 18/Jun/2008 |
| Be Thankful | |
| -Author unknown to me Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,If you did, what would there be to look forward to?Be thankful when you don't know something For it gives you the opportunity to learn.Be thankful for the difficult times.During those times you grow.Be thankful for your limitationsBecause they give you opportunitie...
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| 21:14 | 11/Jun/2008 |
| REward Or Bribe | |
| Its when I had just completed my PG & was about to leave the town to join for my new job in a different city.. The time gap between the announcement of result & my departure dat was very short. I had to collect all my documents which included my no-dues certificate & the migration certificate from the university before leaving.. Hence I had been r...
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| 21:03 | 11/Jun/2008 |
| ....Vacuity | |
| Tired bodies Empty souls, Restless minds Dark alleys Hounding shadows; Passionate overtures Thwarted attempts Eternal search Love still eludes me…
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| 10:18 | 20/Apr/2008 |
| MCP | |
| “You didn’t bring along Sandhya” Ritu asked“No, I didn’t” Sachin replied“Why?” “I left her back home.”“Com’on you couldn’t be doing this.. Where is she?” Ritu sounded unconvinced“Why can't?.. I m the husband.. I can do what I want. Call me an MCP but I didn’t bring her along” Sachin teased her“Whats MCP?” she asked innocently“You don’t know that!”...
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| 06:35 | 9/Apr/2008 |
| Healthy Eating | |
| 12 Quick Tips for Eating to Help your heart and overall health.By Peter Jaret, EatingWell.comFood is far more than sustenance. The dishes we eat are often imbued with family traditions, cultural history and even personal memories—and that’s as it should be. But as studies around the world have shown, eating patterns as different from ours as those ...
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| 11:57 | 3/Feb/2008 |
| Thoughts on THOUGHTS | |
| Strange are the ways of thinking & stranger still the thoughts... The eternal business that our mind keeps itself engaged in 24 x 7... They don’t have a self unless, one gives them a shape, a shape they can acquire when given a name... But strange enough as soon as they get a name, they are categorized as Good or Bad... Love is Good, Hatred is bad...
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| 22:58 | 10/Oct/2007 |
| Of recognition & beyond | |
| I remember the first time I wrote on this isle... I was sitting in the web-world at JBP, it was an autumn evening turning into night... my evenings used to be spent there as that was the only place in that big-village (as we used to call that city) where city-freaks like me could identify themselves with.. the multilights, teak round tables, cushio...
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| 19:52 | 11/Sep/2007 |
| BANG-a-Lore | |
| “So how many blogs will I be reading about this?” he asked“Blogs!?” Both of us conjecturedTill now none of us hadn’t given any thought on writing about it yet, but now that a mention had been made I was left wondering “Why not!?” Well! Even if this small personal & private get-together wasn’t supposedly clandestine enough yet there appeared no obv...
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| Kamalesh Sharma | 08:48 | 15/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (158)
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| News channels |
| Friends have you seen/watch indian news channels nowadays? Their breaking news are nothing except having so many breaks. 4th umpire, IPL,glamour, crime events, bollywood gossips and commercial breaks are main news which are broadcasted on priorities. current national or international issues, economic policies of the Govt, public issues, issues rega...
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| Rajdeep Mander | 19:35 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| Long time no see, blogs and social netwo... |
| Can't believe I haven't been on here for nearly 3 years!! I use to blog at my original iLand but I forgot my account details, doh! nevermind!......I already have another blog that I always used before iLand at Blogger website but I really love iLand too but I just never know what to even post about here.Anyone notice that there is just too much soc...
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| Sameera Nandi | 11:31 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| Its been raining in Mumbai since Friday. And boy! I’m loving it. Thursday evening there were light showers in my area. I did not expect such heavy rain on Friday. So I was caught unawares. No raincoat, no umbrella. Still, I loved it. Getting drenched in the first rain of this monsoon. I sure am glad that the rains have arrived earlier than usual. I...
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| Vincent Abraham | 08:43 | 4/Jun/2008 |
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| Blue Chip Expert - Million Ready Minds |
| Dear IBIBO Friends,I hope and trust this note finds you well.You may be interested in a new site I was introduced to called Blue Chip Expert. They have a community concept called Million Ready Minds, and the premise of Million Ready Minds is that a great many professionals are frustrated in their inability to find project work that maximizes their...
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| RAGHUPAT | 20:52 | 16/Jun/2008 |
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| Love Will Keep Us Alive |
| Love Will Keep Us Alive I was standingAll alone against the world outsideYou were searchingFor a place to hide Lost and lonelyNow you're giving me the will to surviveWhen we're hungryLove will keep us alive Don't you worrySometimes you've just gotta let it rideThe world is changingRight before your eyes Now I've found youThere's no more emptine...
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| chandrakant ... | 11:19 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| naradji ko memorendum |
| Naradji monday ki subah apne nitya karm se farig ho kar.dhartee bhraman ko nikle, paidal paidal aaramse veena hath me liye prabhu ka smaran karte karte apni dhoon me ja rahe the ,unhe logo ka kolhal sunai diya ,thodi dur se 5-50log baithe the sab ,sab alag ,alag nak ,nakshe wale .alag rang ke .gore ,sawle kale ,dubale, patale mote ,atyadhik mote .b...
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| Monalisa Smile | 18:23 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| My Belated Valentine.... |
| "Do you love me just like I do?" Those beautiful deep eyes asked while handing me the card. I took it without answering, opened the white envelope and out came a red heart shaped card which read "Be My Valentine". Gosh, this is June and I was getting a valentine card four months late. Those eyes were eagerly waiting for my answer and I was relish...
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| daniel ribero | 01:18 | 30/May/2008 |
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| Top 10 Ideas To Revive a Fizzling Relati... |
| Love is exciting, and when a relationship is new, almost everything you do together is fresh and alive, and keeps you enthralled. Then time begins to pass, and while the love is still there, the relationship may have lost some of its sparkle, whether it's because you now have a family or not. Here are some of the top 10 ideas to revive a fizzling ...
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| shalinitandon | 23:11 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| My Dad, my best friend |
| It’s been 6 years now dad since you left… I still remember how you used to call me angel of your eyes, You would fight with mom to ensure I always had a smile,You pampered me day in and outO my dad I still miss you. I still remember how you would hide my mistakes from momYou made sure I followed all my dreamsYou were there behind me to hold me whe...
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| lonely | 09:13 | 8/Jun/2008 |
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| My Thoughts!!!! |
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| Hi friends, for the past few days I was busy with my work that kept me away from this iland..That’s reason why u haven’t seen my comments on many of ur posts...Definitely I’ll go through all ur posts which I missed.. Now-a-days life is going very flat. just doing routine work. Coming to office and going from the office. For the past few days I’m th...
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| Seena Vincent | 21:32 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| Affiliate Marketing Income for Rediff Bl... |
| RediffLand Bloggers also can make an extra income by promoting products and services that is related to their blog subject. Have the additional revenue stream simply by working from the comfort of your home. You can even earn 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 a month without much efforts.This is an abstract of blog post that have appeared on the blog Affiliate...
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| avinash | 11:11 | 14/May/2008 |
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| LIST OF 30+ FREE PROGRAMS TO EARN MONEY.... |
| hi everyone, please read the steps given below carefully - 1.click on the link given at the bottom of this blog. 2.u will be taken to a list of 30+ free programs to earn money. 3.join as many as u want.they r all free to join. 4.u will get paid 4 the work u do on those websites daily. u c...
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| shan mugam | 15:26 | 11/Mar/2008 |
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| Where is the India going |
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| we should give the more important to other sports such as hockey,tennis . But in india everybody give the important to cricket. if we give the important only to cricket, surely india does not go olympic.
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| Vish Iyer | 09:28 | 5/Jun/2008 |
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| 11 things you won't learn in school |
| Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2: The world...
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 Tinky Toinkers | 21:49 | 25/Oct/2006 |
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| Colours and light, joy to the spirit, heart of life..
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Amit Agrawal | 18:26 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| faisle ki ghadi hai |
| faisle ki ghadi haiya shaayad nahintumko ye pata nahinfaasle zaroor tai kar lenafaisla gar lena hoto hausla rakhnachaahe uske baad dil pekoi pathar rakh lenahayaat e shareekhone ka alag nasha haikuch ehsaas tum phir bhipalkon ke saath baandh lenaaye dost ye waqt bhi guzaregasahar phir se hogiis ghadi mein tum phir uskiyaad ka daaman thaam lenawo bh...
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| Nischal Thapa | 02:40 | 12/Jun/2008 |
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| 32 |
| OOPS! q: Sorry for disappearing... Hope you guys will like this one. enjoy | nischal
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| sahil banga | 15:21 | 3/Apr/2008 |
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| Kalingini, the Story. |
| No one knows what lies ahead, and because curiosity is greater than fear, and truth is stranger than fiction, we all are searching, like our predecessors. Actually trying hard to face the future. Just like buying an umbrella on the onset of black clouds hovering upon the mauve sky like the ghosts of the 18th century. 18th century. What a period in ...
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| Kanchan Bhat... | 16:29 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| Mist in the Blue Midnight |
| The mist left no scarIn the blue mid-nightI heard the clamorA hidden whisper calling-With a voice sunkInto the deep blacknessA sharp needle prickI am frozenIn my stepsSuspicionThat you are now a stoneMovingTalkingShoutingNo more-A stone frozenIn a passive throatFor sureSo you whisperedYour last breathIn the mistThat left no scarPinned in the blackn...
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| Deepa S | 13:55 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| Crushes - part II |
| Well, I am one of those who wear their hearts on their sleeves. And when one does that, there are plenty of interesting incidents to narrate. And mishaps too. And crushes. And the crashes that follow. Most of you might know about my first crush that crashed. This blog is about one other crush. This can’t be described as something that crashed becau...
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| Wise Donkey | 13:45 | 20/Apr/2008 |
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| Baby Blue |
| She looked so much like a lady, but she was so much like a child. A devil when she held me close, an angel when she smiled. She always held it deep inside, but somehow I always knew She's go away when the grass turned green And the sky turned baby blue. And baby blue was the color of her eyes. Baby blue like the Colorado skies. Like a breath of spr...
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| Kaushik Das | 22:57 | 16/Aug/2006 |
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| Scripts |
| Hmm... During my recent visit to Shimla for a friend's marriage, I walked over to the museum. There were the collections of costumes - I never knew there could exist so many different kinds of them within the small state of Himachal Pradesh. There were the collections of arms. There were the collections of photographs - Simla happens to have had a ...
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| sindhu nair | 19:51 | 29/Feb/2008 |
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| BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder . . . She was not beautiful. Nothing about her was extraordinary. Nothing about her made her stand out in a crowd. She grew up in a family of six. The eldest, she learnt responsibility at an early age. As she grew stronger, and brighter, She instilled a sort of light cheer to whomever she met. She was not bea...
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| manu agarwal | 18:22 | 17/Jan/2006 |
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| Man discovered... |
| *The man discovered COLORS and invented PAINT; the woman discovered PAINT and invented MAKEUP.The man discovered the WORD and invented CONVERSATION;the woman discovered CONVERSATION and invented GOSSIP.The man discovered AGRICULTURE and invented FOOD;The woman discovered FOOD and invented DIET.The man discovered FRIENDSHIP and invented LOVE;The wom...
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| Lavin Ailani | 19:55 | 8/Jan/2006 |
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| Work, work everywhere and no inclination... |
| Man! There are these times when you fell so damn irritated. I mean even as I am typing this I am punching the keys on my keyboard so hard. Its one of those days when I know I have tons of work ahead of me and that very thought puts me off. To add it, the weekend is almost over and its gonna be a loooooooooong week ahead. I have been trying to read ...
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| udita chaudhary | 18:06 | 3/Sep/2007 |
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| "What a Wonderful World"-Louis Armstrong“ I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself, what a wonderful worldI see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”The soulful rendering of this song evokes vivid images of a vib...
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| rajesh vora | 17:09 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| Artificial Intelligence |
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| TheYear : 2020 AD Iam a 30-something old guy. (yes, I will be 30 then too and I will be 30 in 2030and thereafter too….). Coming back to the year 2020, a lot has changed in thisworld. Web 2.0 has become passé. The world has advanced much more than whatpeople had envisaged in the year 2008. Internet too has evolved so much thatbroadband, wi fi, wi m...
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| Gautam Mehrotra | 23:52 | 30/Jan/2006 |
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| Perhaps it was a melody That never impassioned my voice Perhaps it was a portrait That my brush never conjured Perhaps it was a calling To which i could never rise Perhaps it was a pain That my heart never endured Perhaps a bud, a blossom That did not my spirit stir A kiss, a touch, an embrace...
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| vishal rathod | 03:10 | 16/May/2008 |
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| Tom Riddle |
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| Ijust cant write now-a-days.Its tough to put the thoughts on paper.I was readinga book but couldnt read more than five pages again and again.I tried to write abook instead.I did better.I wrote ten pages.Then i gave up.Life seems to movein 10 second ads.The movie has just begun... “ What do people do when they dont know what to do?” I stareout of ...
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| sudha nair | 14:50 | 13/Mar/2006 |
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| Lighter Moments.......... |
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| A Tribute to the Professors of India [not all professors ofcourse], on their usage of English. [------Don’t get annoyed! Please take in Good Spirit!!------]# Inside the Class:* Open the doors of the window. Let the atmosphere come in. * Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in. * Cut an apple into two halves - take the bigger half. ...
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| The Witch | 23:29 | 4/Jan/2006 |
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| My Stupid Suicide Plan - Chetan Bhagat |
| Last week, an IITian committed suicide. People who commit suicide do itwhen they feel there's no future. But wait, isn't IIT the one placewhere a bright and shining future is a foregone conclusion? It justdoesn't add up, does it? Why would a young, hardworking, bright studentwho has the world ahead of him do something like this? But the answer isth...
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| Anurag Jain | 05:51 | 9/Jul/2006 |
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| Reliving life |
| PS: This is not a poem. Just my thoughts..One lazy Sunday..In winter, beneath warm rays.. I decided to close my eyesAnd see..My life.. as it has been..I saw clearly..The times that are still afresh in myself..Times when I was playing in rains..In muds..Was cleaning my dirty cricket ball with my clothes.. and seeing my mom scolding me for that..:-)C...
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| Ravi Kumar | 12:11 | 7/Mar/2007 |
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| Just Because............ |
| Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize what a gold mine you are, doesn't mean you shine any less. Just because no one has been smart enough to figure out that you can't be topped, doesn't stop you from being the best. Just because no one has come along to share your life, doesn't mean that day isn't coming. Just because no one has...
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| rekha kumar | 06:20 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| How well do we know Diabetes? |
| I am sure we all know that diabetes is a metabolic disorder. Our parents, relatives or even we suffer without really doing anything about it. Especially, when we hear it is hereditary. We never think that there may be other factors that tend to aggravate it like insulin deficiency, resistance, excess intake of carbohydrates, high BP, cholesterol, l...
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| atul sabnis | 10:39 | 30/Mar/2007 |
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| Management Lesson |
| Management Lesson One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops - a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well.At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet eight,built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground....
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| geetha raja | 13:46 | 25/Jan/2006 |
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| two wishes..... |
| A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him, and as he sits down, the waitress comes over and asks for their order. The man says, "I'll have a hamburger, fries and a coke," and turns to the ostrich. "What's yours?" "I'll have the same," says the ostrich. A short time later the waitress returns with the order. "That will be $6...
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| Jagadesh Badhri | 11:49 | 16/Dec/2005 |
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| Anyway ... |
| People are often unreasonable, Illogical, and self-centered --- Forgive then anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of being selfish, and having ulterior motives; --- Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; --- Succeed anyway.What you spend years building someone may try to destroy overnig...
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| krishna veni | 09:49 | 13/Jun/2008 |
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| Quit smoking! |
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| There's hardly a part of the human body that's not affected by the chemicals in the cigarettes you smoke. Starting at the TopAs a smoker, you're at risk for cancer of the mouth. Tobacco smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth become unsightly and yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And lack of oxy...
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