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Anger Management

2006-12-06T21:36:00.000-08:00

I somehow got to read this article ,
Its written by an employee who had a stressfull day at work....

When I have the occasional bad day and need to take it out on someone,

I don't take it out on my loved ones anymore...

I got the idea one day when I was sitting at my desk and remembered a phone call I had forgotten to make.

I found the number and dialed it.

A man answered, saying,

"Hello." I politely said,

"This is Chris. May I please speak with Robin Carter?"

Suddenly, the phone was slammed down on me.

I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude.

I tracked down Robin's correct number and called her.

I had transposed the last two digits of her phone number.

After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again.

When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled, "You're an asshole!" and hung up.

I wrote his number down with the word 'asshole' next to it, and put it in my desk drawer.

Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an asshole!"

It always cheered me up.

When Caller ID came to our area,

I thought my therapeutic 'asshole' calling would have to stop.

So, I called his number and said,

"Hi, this is John Smith from the Telephone Company.

I'm just calling to see if you're interested in the Caller ID program?"

He yelled, "NO!" and slammed the phone down.

I quickly called him back and said,

"That's because you're an asshole!"

One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into a parking spot.

Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for.

I hit the horn and yelled that I had been waiting for the spot.

The idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale" sign in his car window, so I wrote down his number.

A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole, (I had his number on speed dial ),

I thought I had better call the BMW asshole, too.

I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?"

"Yes, it is."

"Can you tell me where I can see it?"

"Yes, I live at 1802 West 34th Street. It's a yellow house, and the car's parked right out in front."

"What's your name?" I asked.

"My name is Don Hansen," he said."

When's a good time to catch you, Don?"

"I'm home every evening after five."

"Listen, Don, can I tell you something?"

"Yes?"

"Don, you're an asshole."

Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too.

Now, when I had a problem, I had two assholes to call.

But after several months of calling them, it wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be. So, I came up with an idea. I called Asshole .1.

"Hello."

"You're an asshole!" (But I didn't hang up.)

"Are you still there?" he asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"Stop calling me," he screamed.

"Make me," I said.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"My name is Don Hansen."

"Yeah? Where do you live?""Asshole,

I live at 1802 West 34th Street, a yellow house, with my black Beamer parked in front.

"He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers.

I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, asshole.

"Then I called Asshole .2.

"Hello?" he said.

"Hello, asshole," I said.

He yelled, "If I ever find out who you are!"

"You'll what?" I said.

"I'll kick your ass," he exclaimed.

I answered, "Well, asshole, here's your chance. I'm coming over right now."

Then I hung up and immediately called the police, saying that I lived at 1802 West 34th Street, and that I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover.

Then I called Channel 2 News about the gang war going down on West 34th Street.I quickly got into my car and headed over to 34th street.

There I saw two assholes beating the crap out of each other in front of six squad cars, a police helicopter, and a news crew.

NOW, I feel better.This anger management really works!

who is he---Jack the Ripper

2006-11-28T21:38:00.000-08:00

November 21, 2006

In 1988, a man dubbed Jack the Ripper murdered at least five women in London, all in the same general vicinity, all prostitutes. Each victim was strangled and then mutilated, usually disemboweled and sometimes missing organs when the police arrived. It was a gruesome string of crimes that came to be known as London's first serial killings. Many experts credit the investigation of Jack the Ripper with starting the "criminal profiling" field, as the surgeon who assisted in several victims' autopsies provided police not only with physical details of the crime but also with psychological characteristics that he believed to be associated with the manner of the killings. The surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bond, believed the killer would be unassuming in appearance and manner, and daring and calm in the face of unimaginable violence; he thought he would be middle-aged, leading a solitary life and wearing a long coat to cover up any blood from his crimes, since he killed in public spaces.
Jack the Ripper was never caught, and many have assumed this is because no one ever saw him except for his victims. This is a myth. More than a dozen witness statements from 1888 describe the killer's appearance, at least one in eerie detail, and many of the witness accounts back up Dr. Bond's profile. Most contemporary detectives believe that London police would have caught the killer if they'd had access to modern investigative techniques and that they probably interviewed the killer as a witness. The case was closed after four years.
A new documentary airing in England this week takes another look at the case using state-of-the-art profiling techniques to see if modern detectives can solve the crime. Some results have already been revealed. First, those involved in creating the documentary think the police were looking for the wrong type of person. In 1888, the detectives were expecting Jack the Ripper to seem mentally ill, which may explain why they never caught him. Modern psychological profilers think Jack the Ripper most likely looked and acted perfectly sane. A geographical profiler, who uses locations and details of crimes to try to pinpoint where the killer lived, has determined that Jack the Ripper probably lived in the area of Flower and Dean Street in east London, within 1 square mile (2.6 square km) of each of the killings and within 100 yards (91 meters) of a known residence of each of his victims. In 1888, London police actually canvassed this exact area asking residents if they had seen anything related to the crimes. But they had no sketch of the subject, and they came up with nothing. It could be that the sketch was the missing piece, and now, investigators have one.
Using all of the matching witness statements from the period (eye-witness accounts are notoriously contradictory -- the investigators ignored statements that contradicted the majority) and a piece of computer software called EFIT, or Electronic Facial Identification Technique, detectives have developed what they believe to be an accurate facial depiction of Jack the Ripper. Most of the witness accounts agreed on several traits, including:
He was between 5'5" and 5'7" (165-170 cm) tall.
He was stocky, with a full face.
He had dark hair and a dark moustache.
He was between 25 and 35 years old.
He had a fair complexion. One of the more interesting features of the EFIT software is that it takes into account the myriad psychological shifts that eye-witnesses make when they're reporting on a person's appearance, and it makes adjustments for them. To see the final image the EFIT software produced, check out BBC News: Jack the Ripper's face 'revealed'. You can compare the image to a selection of photos and drawings of suspects in the case located at Casebook: Jack the Ripper Suspects.
After the string of five gruesome deaths attributed to Jack the Ripper, the last of which was that of 24-year-old Mary Kelly, the serial killer apparently stopped killing. No other murders came up that matched his MO. Some believe Jack the Ripper Killed himself some time after the death of Mary Kelly. Others believe he was incarcerated for an unrelated crime.
To learn more about Jack the Ripper, criminal profiling and related topics, check out the following links:
How Autopsies Work
How Crime Scene Investigation Works
How Profiling Works
BBC News: Jack the Ripper's face 'revealed' - Nov. 20, 2006
Casebook: Jack the Ripper
CourtTV Crime Library: Criminal Profiling
Sources
Bennetto, Jason. "Has profiling discovered the real face of Jack the Ripper?" The Independent. Nov. 20, 2006.http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1998836.ece
EFIT for Windowshttp://www.efitforwindows.com/
"Jack the Ripper's face 'revealed'." BBC News. Nov. 20, 2006.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6164544.stm
Ramsland, Katherine. "Early Crime Analysis." CourtTV Crime Library.http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/profiling/history_method/index.html
"Witnesses." Casebook: Jack the Ripper.http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rn-witness.html

Economic growth not at cost of societal development: Sonia

2006-11-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

Cautioning against economic growth at the cost of societal development, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday called for greater investments in education, healthcare and nutrition to ensure that the benefits of development percolated to every level.
Addressing the India Economic Summit, Gandhi also urged greater public-civil society alliances to translate this into reality.
Gandhi presented the Social Entrepreneur of the Year to Vikram Akula, whose SKS Microfinance has provided $110 million in loans to 4,00,000 women in five states, touching the lives of some 2.5 million people.
The Schwab Foundation of World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab has instituted the award. Akula is widely regarded as India's Muhammad Yunus, the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his Grameen Bank movement in Bangladesh.
"We face formidable challenges. While the world faces old age problems, we face age-old problems of providing adequate resources for elementary education, healthcare and nutrition," Gandhi maintained. "Added to this are the problems of HIV and terrorism.
"India is bursting with growth but there is also widespread want. There is the India of new aspirations but there is also the burden of inequality.
"We are still very low in the UNDP index of growth. We need to galvanise ourselves into a collective effort to improve on this," she added.
In this context, Gandhi pointed out the need for public-civil society alliances to take the process forward.
"We have public-private alliances. Why can't we have public-civil society alliances (to improve the lives of citizens)?" she wondered.
Earlier, WEF advisor Colette Mathur paid a moving tribute to Gandhi's late husband, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, saying he was instrumental in bringing the forum to India in 1984.
"He had a vision of a modern India that was open to the world agenda and in which everyone participated in economic success. You are taking that forward," Mathur said, addressing Gandhi as the audience responded with a loud applause.

heart touching

2006-11-22T19:24:00.000-08:00

A boy named Rahul(20) who was doing his engineering IIIrd year from
Karshak Engineering College was suffering from high fever and was
admitted to the Apollo hospital on Sunday, October 29th, 2006, in the
evening. The doctors said that the case was serious and admitted the
boy
in the ICU which was closed from all sides. No one could see what was
happening inside.

At around 9 'o' clock Rahul called his father and told him that the
doctors were talking about removing the kidneys from his body and
hence
he wanted them to take him away from there but since his father was
from
a small village, he thought the boy was scared and so the father took
no
action.

In the night, the doctors at Apollo Hospital removed both the kidneys
from Rahul's body and killed the boy. The next day, i.e. on Monday
when
the case came to light, the students of Karshak college made a big
issue
and called the press from all over India because the police was not
letting them go inside the hospital. When the police saw the press,
they
let the students in.

On seeing the body, the students could see stiches on both the sides
of
the body just above abdomen that clearly proved that the kidneys were
removed. But the doctors somehow got hold of the boy's uncle and
offered
him big money to end the case there. The Greedy Uncle agreed and took
the boys body back home and burned the body leaving behind no proof
for
the students to prove that the kidneys were stolen. Rahul's family
was
in a shock and not in senses and hence did not want to do anything.

Now its in the hands of we, the people of India , to decide whether
we
want to forget the matter or spread the message and prevent more of
such
cases from happening.

Please spread the word so that people can be saved

i m back

2006-11-16T23:37:00.000-08:00

On a Saturday night several weeks ago,

this pastor was working late,

and decided to call his wife before

he left for home.

It was about 10:00 PM,

but his wife didn't answer the phone.

The pastor let the phone ring many times.

He thought it was odd that she didn't answer,

but decided to wrap up a few things

and try again in a few minutes.

When he tried again she answered right away.

He asked her why she hadn't answered before,

and she said that it hadn't rung at their house.

They brushed it off as a fluke and went on their merry ways.

The following Monday,

the pastor received a call at

the church office,

which was the phone that he'd

used that Saturday night.

The man that he spoke with

wanted to know why he'd

called on Saturday night.

The pastor couldn't figure out

what the man was talking about.

Then the man said, "It rang and rang,

but I didn't answer.

"The pastor remembered the mishap

and apologized for disturbing him,

explaining that he'd intended to call his wife.

The man said, "That's, OK.

Let me tell you my story.

You see, I was planning to

commit suicide on Saturday night,

but before I did, I prayed,

'God if you're there, and you

don't want me to do this,

give me a sign now.

'At that point my phone started to ring.

I looked at the caller ID,

and it said, 'Almighty God'.

I was afraid to answer!"

The reason why it showed on the

man's caller ID that the call came from

"Almighty God" is because the church

that the pastor attends is called

Almighty God Tabernacle!!

If you believe that God answers

prayers then pass this on.

God bless!

READ EACH SENTENCE SLOWLY AND

THINK ABOUT IT.

Love starts with a smile,

grows with a kiss,

and ends with a tear.

Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.

Good friends are hard to find,

harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Don't let the past hold you back,

you're missing the good stuff.

BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us.

When it hurts to look back,

and you're scared to look ahead,

you can look beside you and your

BEST FRIEND will be there.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you mad sometimes and to the people whose lives you want to be in!!!

Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.

A Murder or a Suicide…???

2006-07-27T00:11:00.000-07:00

Read Completely....... Too Gud.

A Murder or a Suicide…???

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS
President Dr Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal
complications of a bizarre death.

Here is the Case:

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus
and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head.

Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to
commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency
.As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun
blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had
been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some
building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to
complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "A person, who sets out to commit
suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be
what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide." That Mr. Opus
was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been
successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to
feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was
occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously
and he was threatening her with a shotgun.

The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely
missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr.
Opus. When one intends to kill subject "A" but kills subject "B" in the
attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B".

When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were
both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgun was u nloaded.
The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with
the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her.

Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is,
if the gun had been accidentally loaded. The continuing investigation
turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son load ing the shotgun
about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.

It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support
and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun
threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would
shoot his mother.Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was
guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger.
The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death
of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed hat the
son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent
over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This
led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be
killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The
son had actually Murdered himself, so the medical examiner closed the
case as a suicide

something good for gd

2005-08-04T01:37:00.000-07:00

just go through this and try to talk on the topic might be helpful

Can Pakistan really curb terrorism?

Following the serial bomb blasts in London on July 7, the focus of the international community has once again turned to Pakistan.

Western investigating agencies have found evidence that three of the four bombers visited madrassas in Pakistan just months before 7/7 and even met Al-Qaida operatives in the country during their visit.

The leader of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, along with Shahzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers, stayed in Pakistan for over four months before the bombings.

Pakistani authorities also admitted that Tanweer met a top Al-Qaida operative during his stay in the country and visited several madrassas, including the infamous Markaz-e-Dawa-wal-Irshad in Muridke, about 45 kilometres from Lahore.

Focus on madrassas

Once again, the needle of suspicion points to Islamist organisations based in Pakistan, which have fomented the jihadi wave in the subcontinent and beyond for decades.

In fact, Lashkar-e-Taiba is none other than the armed wing of the Markaz-e-Dawa-wal-Irshad, founded in 1987 to wage a 'holy war' in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Jaish-e-Mohammad, on the other hand, was founded by a notorious terrorist named Masood Azhar who was released from an Indian prison in 1999 in exchange for the lives of hostages of the hijacked aircraft IC-814.

After the IC-814 face-off ended, television images showed Azhar disappearing into the dusty horizon of Kandahar.

He was believed to have been sheltered by the Taliban, but only a few months later, Azhar surfaced in Lahore. There he addressed public rallies, exhorting young Pakistanis to take up arms for the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir.

9/11 and after...

But September 11, 2001 changed the way the world looked at terrorism. The very fact that terrorists could strike at the heart of America with devastating consequences threw up new challenges for the international community.

Days after the 9/11 attacks, the US government sought Islamabad's help in nabbing the perpetrators, believed to have been hiding in Afghanistan and supported by the then Taliban regime.

The US also moved to ban Pakistan-based terrorist organisations and freeze their bank accounts, which were under the watchlist of US intelligence agencies for years.

Faced with an "with us or against us" ultimatum from the US, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf explained in an address to the nation that Pakistan has to "shun extremism" and take "tough" measures against the Taliban and Islamic terrorists.

Over the next few years, the military regime in Pakistan slapped bans on terrorist organisations in Pakistan including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.

Combating terrorism

Even today, as the world grapples with the fallouts of militant Islam, fundamentalists in Pakistan are imparting the same fanatic teachings, advocating jihad to young impressionable minds in thousands of madrassas across the country.

Recent reports in the Pakistani media also point out that terrorist training camps still exist in the country, operating under the very eyes of the ruling establishment.

Time and again, India has voiced concerns over the existence of the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan, though the military regime claims it is doing all it can to curb activities of terrorist groups.

In the post-9/11 scenario, India pointed out to the international community that there can be no 'double standards' on terrorism and that the global war against terror cannot be selective.

The haunting past

Following the London blasts, President Musharraf once again addressed the nation on July 21, facing renewed pressure from the West to act.

But this time, the General said there was "no credible intelligence" tying the London bombers to his country and asked Britain to put its house in order before blaming others.

At the same time, General Musharraf turned his anger against the West and the United States. He said the West is to be blamed for propping up extreme Islamic groups like the Taliban in this region.

"The Taliban, which trained and equipped in the madrassas of Pakistan, went and fought a jihad in Afghanistan for 10 years against the Soviet Union. They received support from the West, United States and Pakistan," he said.

Concerns raised

As the focus once again shifts to the global war against terror, questions are being raised yet again on whether the Pakistan government is serious about its 'crackdown' on terrorism.

There have also been concerns over the possibility of the extremist lobby coming to power in Pakistan and taking control of Islamabad's nuclear arsenal.

At the same time, many feel that the fundamentalists have perhaps become too powerful for even the Pakistan government to control.

its interesting

2005-07-23T21:42:00.000-07:00

HEY BUDDIES,
read the following text and see hoe it is
you will really enjoy it
Vanilla ice cream logic

Never underestimate your Clients' Complaints, no matter how funny it might
be!

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors
and its Customer-Care Executive.

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:
This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for
not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a
tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night.

But the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the
whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive
down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a
new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem.

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the
store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car
starts just fine.

I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it
sounds. "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get
vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but
sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be
greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine
neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinnertime, so the
two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla
ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it
wouldn't start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got
chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car
started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the Engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's
car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue
his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end
he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type
of gas used, time to drive back and forth etc. In a short time, he had a
clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor.

Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most
popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick
pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a
different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the
flavor. Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start
when it took less time.

Once time became problem - not the vanilla ice cream, Eureka!!!!

The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapour lock". It was
happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors
allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got
vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock to dissipate.

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be
simple only when we find the solution with a cool thinking.

Don't just say its "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort...

What really matters is your attitude and your perception.

hello again

2005-07-21T23:48:00.000-07:00

hey friends,i am back after a long vaccation
i know you would be delighted to c me again

break

2005-06-20T02:36:00.000-07:00

hello friends now this is what i call confusion,
i have a friend whom i call as big b
but he feels that i call him so just for name sake,
the other day he came to me and asked,why do you call me as
that so you know big b means big brother(a trusted brother rather)
i told him i really do mean what i say,
he is not ready to accept that
what i think is he is very upset and needs some attention
now tell me what should i do

HELP ME!!!!

2005-06-09T07:26:00.000-07:00

hi guys,
for me life is sucking,its giving me a very bad time duno what to do
how to solve my problems????
now-a-days i am facing a very g8 difficulty
->i can't concentrate on the work i do
->i feel sleepy quite often
->i sit dippressed whenever i sit for atleast 5min,
i want myself to be the same old with th same enthu i had before
->also i get nervous even when speak t my friends
->i cant present myself properly
previously i had lots of things that i wanted to do in life
but now i feel that ewverything is a waste because i itself am a waste
please tell me how to rebuilt my confidence

i want to have some thing +ve to be there for me

hello

2005-06-09T06:45:00.000-07:00

after a long time i am writing another blog of mine,so how are you people

rush hour

2005-06-03T07:12:00.000-07:00

rush hour

hello

2005-06-03T07:11:00.000-07:00

he he he he he he he he he

hi

2005-06-03T06:58:00.000-07:00

this is my first ever blog.......................