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									<title>Universal Appeal</title>
									<link>http://www.fropper.com/ezBlog/CBT1</link>
									<description>Sharing knowledge enhances ones knowledge and happiness.</description>
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									<pubDate>2009-Apr-05, 16:11:22</pubDate>
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						<title>Parent's Wish</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/30538</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Parent's Wish - I am thankful to one of my friend Rasaathi for sharing this parental wish clipping with me. I liked this simple reminder&nbsp; as regards caring our parents till their last days. I just hope you all agree with me.  &quot;To Our Dear Child....&quot;    On the day   when you see   us old, weak   and weary&hellip;&hellip;    Have patience -   and do try to   understand us&hellip;&hellip;.&nbsp;   If we get dirty when eating&hellip;and..   If we cannot dress   on our own&hellip;    Please bear with us and remember the times we spent feeding you   and dressing you up.    If, when we speak to you, we repeat the   same things over and over again&hellip;   do not interrupt us&hellip;   When you were small, we had to read to you the same story a thousand and one times until you went to sleep.   ...listen to us.    When we do not want to have a shower,   neither shame us   nor scold us&hellip;..    Remember when we had to chase you with your thousand excuses to get you to the shower?    When you see our ignorance of new technologies&hellip;.   Help us navigate our way through these worldwide webs..    We taught you how to   do so many things&hellip;    To eat the right foods,   to dress appropriately,   To fight for your rights&hellip;.    When at some moments we loose the memory or the thread of our conversation&hellip;&hellip;...let us have the necessary time to remember&hellip; and if we cannot, do not become nervous&hellip;..   As the most important thing is not our conversation but simply to be with you and to have you listening to us&hellip;.    If ever we do not feel like eating, do not force us. We know well when we need to and when not to eat.   When our tired legs give way and do not allow us to walk without a cane&hellip;.    Lend us your helping hand the same way we did when you   tried your first faltering   steps.    And when someday we say to you that we don&rsquo;t want to live anymore, that we want to die&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;.    Do not get angry&hellip;.   For one day you will understand.   Try to appreciate that our   age is not just lived   but survived.   Some day you will realize that   despite our mistakes&hellip; We always   wanted the best for you.. And we   tried to prepare the way for you&hellip;..   You must not feel sad, angry nor ashamed for having us near you. Instead, try to understand us and help us like we did when you were young.   Help us to walk..   Help us to live the rest of our life with love and dignity.   We will pay you   with a smile and   by the immense love we have   always had for you in our hearts.    We love you, child..   Mom &amp; Dad  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Apr 05, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>TAGORE's POEM</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/30196</link>
						<description><![CDATA[I am sorry that a few of my friends have experienced difficulty in seeing the poem. I do not know the reason. It was pasted from another site. But I am seeing it open after one or two minutes. However now I am retyping and sending the poem in plain text to those of my interested friends to read it. Thank you all. GREAT POEMGo not to the temple to put Flowers upon the feet of the God. First fill your own house with&nbsp; The Fragrance of love...  Go not to the temple to light&nbsp; Candles before the altar of God. First remove the darkness of&nbsp; sin from your heart...  Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer. First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen....  Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees. First bend down to lift someone who is down-trodden...  Go not to the temple to ask for Forgiveness for your sins. First forgive from your heart Those who have sinned against you.&nbsp;]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 29, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>Tagore's Poem</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/30174</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends,  I liked this Poem- I am sharing with you all.       ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 28, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>Living For Others</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/29718</link>
						<description><![CDATA[I read&nbsp;this Touching Story&nbsp;recently. I am happy to share with my Fropper friends.  My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?'   I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter Sindu looked frightened.   Tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with Curd Rice. Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for her age.She has just turned eight. She particularly detested Curd Rice. My mother and my wife are orthodox, and believe firmly in the 'cooling effects' of Curd Rice! I cleared my throat, and picked up the bowl. 'Sindu, darling,why don't you take a few mouthful of this Curd Rice?Just for Dad's sake, dear.   Sindu softened a bit, and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 'OK, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lot of this. But, you should...' Sindu hesitated. 'Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?'....... ....Oh sure, darling'.... 'Promise? '........ ..........  'Promise'. I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal.   'Ask Mom also to give a similar promise', my daughter insisted.   My wife put her hand on Sindu's, muttering 'Promise'.   Now I became a bit anxious. 'Sindu dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items.Dad does not have that kind of money right now. OK?'   'No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive'.Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity.   I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child eat something that she detested.  After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with expectation. All our attention was on her......... ....'Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!' was her demand.  'Atrocious!' shouted my wife, 'A girl child having her head shaved off? Impossible!' 'Never in our family!' my mother rasped.'She has been watching too much of television. Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!'   Sindu darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.'   'No, Dad. I do not want anything else', Sindu said with finality.   'Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?' I tried to plead with her.   'Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice'.   Sindu was in tears. 'And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. Now, you are going back on your words. Was it not you who told me the story of King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?'   It was time for me to call the shots. 'Our promise must be kept.' ' Are you out your mind?' chorused my mother and wife.  'No. If we go back on our promises, she will never learn to honor her own. Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.'   With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.   On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom.She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile.  Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, 'Sinduja, please wait for me!'  What struck me was the hairless head of that boy.. 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought.   'Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed!' Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, and continued,' That boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish.He is suffering from... ... leukemia.' She paused to muffle her sobs. Harish could not attend the school for the whole of the last month. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing of  the schoolmates. 'Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue.   But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son!  Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter..'  I stood transfixed. And then, I wept. 'My little Angel, you are teaching me how self-less real love is!'  *The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love..*&nbsp;  Love Touch And Inspire your FRIENDS   &quot;The life is short, the vanities of world are transient but they alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive.&quot;  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 19, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>Greatness of a Handicapped Woman</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/29457</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Long back Npolean Bonaparte told that &quot; Nothing is impossible to one with a will&quot;. Now I see a great example from&nbsp;a handicapped woman-&nbsp;Jessica Cox   Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'T and  IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionary   Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside an aircraft.  The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot certificate lately  and became the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.   Jessica Cox of Tucson was born without arms, but that has only stopped  her from doing one thing: using the word &quot;can't.&quot;   Her latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the first  pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.   With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding  the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot  certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport  aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet..   &quot;She's a good pilot. She's rock solid,&quot; said Parrish Traweek, 42, the  flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport.   Parrish Traweek runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and  has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's  abilities.   &quot;When she came up here driving a car,&quot; Traweek recalled, &quot;I knew she'd  have no problem flying a plane.&quot;    Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she figured  out early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices.        ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 13, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>INDIAN-INTELLIGENCE</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/29323</link>
						<description><![CDATA[NOT A STORY BUT A  TRUE INCIDENT&nbsp;  I enjoyed this e-mail sent by one of my friend. I am&nbsp;sharing my joy with you all.  An Indian man walks into a bank in  New York City and asks for the loan officer.  He tells the loan officer that he is going to India on business  for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.   The bank officer tells him that the bank&nbsp; will need some form of security for the loan,  so the Indian man hands over the keys&nbsp; and documents of new Ferrari parked  on the street in front of the bank. He produces the title and everything checks out.  The loan officer agrees to accept&nbsp; the car as collateral for the loan.   The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Indian  for using a $250,000 Ferrari&nbsp; as collateral against a $5,000 loan.  An employee of the bank then&nbsp; drives the Ferrari into the bank's  underground garage and parks it there.   Two weeks later, the Indian returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest,  which comes to $15.41. The loan officer says, &quot;Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely,  but we are a little puzzled. While you were away,  we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire.  What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow &quot;$5,000&quot; ?   The Indian replies:   &quot;Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41  and expect it to be there when I return'&quot;   Ah, the mind of the Indian...   This is why India is shining&nbsp;                    ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 09, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>International Women's Day</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/29273</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Hello Fropper Friends,  It is fairly long after I am coming here.   Today is International Women&rsquo;s Day. I just thought it right to revisit the site to wish my friends on this great day to share my mind a little.   There is a saying in Tamil, &ldquo;Behind every successful man there is a woman&rdquo;. I feel many may not dispute this point. If somebody is having doubt on this score, please turn around and look back your own life path. Your mother not only breathed life in to your being, but rocked the cradle with inspiring songs and probably sacrificed many of her likings to make you what you&rsquo;re today. Next your sisters, teachers, wife and of course many other women have inspired and guided yours/my life path.   Leaving apart our own kith and kin women folks, we have been seeing lot many Women who have shown us great inspiring paths to cherish and to follow. Mother Terasa, Our erstwhile Prime Minister Smt.Indira Gandhi, Police Officer retired and active social worker Kiran Bedi and examples are plenty to emulate and follow their varied great qualities for our own betterment in life and also for society at large.   Let us understand their noble nature, the beauty they add to one&rsquo;s life and the important role they play in our real developments.   With this small thought, I wish all my friends, a HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN&rsquo;S DAY.   Best regards and remembrances to one and all.&nbsp;  CBT-1  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Mar 08, '09</pubDate>
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						<title>WHAT IS PHISHING ?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/23347</link>
						<description><![CDATA[ Phishing is a common form of Internet piracy. It is deployed to steal users' personal and confidential information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers, personal identity details etc. Later the perpetrators may use the information for siphoning money from the victim's account or run up bills on victim's credit cards. In the worst case one could also become the victim of identity theft. A few customers of some other Indian banks have been affected by the attempt of phishing during the early 2006. Even the most high-tech phishing scams work like old-fashioned con jobs, in which a phisher convinces his mark that he is reliable and trustworthy Since most people won't reveal their bank account, credit card number or password to just anyone, phishers are taking extra steps to trick their victims into giving up this information. This kind of deceptive attempt to get information is called social engineering.&nbsp;  I &nbsp;would like you to be aware of methodologies in a 'Phishing' attack, do's and don'ts in sharing of personal information and the action to be taken in case you fall prey to a phishing attempt.   Methodologies:   Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal customers' personal identity data and financial account credentials.   1.Customer receives a fraudulent e-mail seemingly from a legitimate Internet address.&nbsp;  2.The email invites the customer to click on a hyperlink provided in the mail.  3.Click on the hyperlink directs the customer to a fake web site that looks similar to the genuine site.  4.Usually the email will either promise a reward on compliance or warn of an impending penalty on non-compliance.  5.Customer is asked to update his personal information, such as login ID, passwords and credit card and bank account numbers etc.  6.Customer provides personal details in good faith. Clicks on 'submit' button.  He gets an error page or redirects to Bank&rsquo;s genuine site after capturing the details given.  Customer falls prey to the phishing attempt.&nbsp;  Don'ts:   1.Do not click on any link, which has come through e-mail. It may contain malicious code or could be an attempt to 'Phish'  2 If you get an e-mail that you believe is a phishing attempt, You do not reply to it . 3. Do not click on the links provided in the mail.  4. Do not provide your personal information.  5. Do not provide any information on a page, which might have come up as a pop-up window.  6. Never provide your password over the phone or in response to an unsolicited request over e-mail.  7. Always remember that information like password, PIN, TIN, etc are strictly confidential and are not known even to employees/service personnel of the Bank. You should therefore, never divulge such information even if asked for.  8. Avoid using cyber caf&eacute; / public PCs for logging into financial web sites.&nbsp;  Do's:   Bookmark genuine web site and always logon to a site by selecting the saved bookmark.  Give your user Id and password only at the authenticated login page.  Before providing your user id and password please ensure that the page displayed is an https:// page and not an http:// page. Please also look for the lock sign ( ) at the right bottom of the browser and the certificate from the verification authorities.  Provide your personal details over phone/Internet only if you have initiated a call or session and the counter party has been duly authenticated by you.  Please remember that bank would never ask you to verify your account information through e-mail.&nbsp;  What to do if you have accidentally revealed password/PIN/TIN etc:   If you feel that you have been phished or you have provided your personal information at a place you should not have, please carry out following immediately as a damage mitigation measure.  Change your password immediately from a secure desktop. If you use the same password at other sites, it is suggested you to change your passwords there, too.  Report to the bank/service provider by mailing them immediately at their address/website.  Check your account statement and ensure that it is correct in every respect.  Report any erroneous entries to Bank/service provider immediately.&nbsp;  Only you can take care of your own interests. Please take care.  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Oct 19, '08</pubDate>
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						<title>Are you LUCKY????</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/22982</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?  
By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire&nbsp; 
 
After reading this article I analyzed with the number of people I have met. Seems True!!! 
 
A psychologist says he has discovered the answer:  
 
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.  
 
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments. The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.  
 
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: &quot;Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win &pound;250.&quot; This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.&nbsp; 
 
Unlucky people are generally more tensed than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.  
 
Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.  
 
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.&nbsp; 
 
Dramatic results. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.  
 
The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive &quot;luck factors Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:  
 
1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right  
 
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine  
 
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well  
 
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.  
 
Luck is very often a self- fulfilling prophecy 
 
You are lucky!!!!!  
 
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.  
- Pablo Picasso 
 
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						<pubDate>Oct 11, '08</pubDate>
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						<title>GOD,LIFE,FAITH and What an argument?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/22765</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Don't miss even a single word...   An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on  the problem science has with GOD, The Almighty.  He asks one of his new students to stand and.....   Prof: So you believe in GOD?  Student: Absolutely, sir.   Prof: Is GOD good?  Student: Sure.   Prof: Is G0D all-powerful?  Student: Yes.   Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?   (Student is silent.)   Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is GOD good?  Student: Yes.   Prof: Is Satan good?  Student: No.   Prof: Where does Satan come from?  Student: From.... GOD...   Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?  Student: Yes.   Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And GOD did make everything. Correct?  Student: Yes.   Prof: So who created evil?  (Student does not answer.)   Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?  Student: Yes, sir.   Prof: So, who created them?  (Student has no answer.)    Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen GOD?  Student: No, sir.   Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?  Student: No, sir.   Prof: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?  Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.   Prof: Yet you still believe in HIM?  Student: Yes.   Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?  Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.   Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.  Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?  Prof: Yes.   Student: And is there such a thing as cold?  Prof: Yes.  Student: No sir. There isn't.  (The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of  events.)   Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat we cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.  (There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)   Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a  thing as darkness?  Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?   Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light.... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?  Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?   Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.  Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?   Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.   Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they  evolved from a monkey?   Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.  Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?  (The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to  realize where the argument is going.)   Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at  work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going  endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you  not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)   Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the  Professor's brain?  (The class breaks out into laughter.)  Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?  (The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)   Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.  Student: That is it sir... The link between man &amp; GOD is FAITH.  That is all that keeps things moving &amp; alive.   NB: I believe you have enjoyed the conversation...and if so...you'll probably want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same...won't you?   This is a true story, and the student was none other than.........   APJ Abdul Kalam, the former president of India  ]]></description>
						<pubDate>Oct 07, '08</pubDate>
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