Saturday, November 30, 2013

My Blog on Aam Aadmi Party : A Political Revolution

Why December 4, 2013 can be a golden letter day in History of India

Dear Friends,


We all have been living in this country and have taken things for granted , like our citizenship, our rights, our duties, facilities we get from our government, life we get as a citizen of India. We may appreciate other countries , their lives and blame our system for all the problems we face. It is a good way to give a vent to our frustration.


We blame our country for all this, but who makes this country.. It is we as citizens. We choose our leaders and entrust them with the responsibility of developing this society/ country. The leaders come from different political parties. They shape the future of societies with different laws and policies. We have seen in these last 66 years that we are not developing as fast as we could have. I am not saying good work would not have been done or the problems have not been solved… But..66 Years is not a short span of time… Our pace has been slow because of the vested interest we have in 
our political class.

Let us take a simple example for better understanding I hire a cook for my home and entrust him the responsibility of handling kitchen. The cook in this process has absolute control in all kitchen matters. He buys vegetables from his own relative, 
purchases grocery from shop where he gets commission, takes all dry fruits, milk , cream, curd and ghee at his own home. He still claims he is doing his best to serve us the finest food. But we are still not liking it. We actually have a problem with us rather than it being with him. Fed up of all this I decide to start cooking myself. Now he starts complaining and shouting.

This is actually the situation with present political class. When we as people demanded things we wanted for ourselves. They said you come in as elected representative and become eligible to draw legislation. When we decided to actually do it, they are shouting we do not have experience.


But there are few things we owe to our next generation.. our Kids. They should be proud of being an Indian Citizen. And we have a right to shape up our future.


For this we need to come out of this complacency, attitude of ‘CHALTA HAI !!’. We may be don't have a time/ resources to CONTRIBUTE in this nation building, but yes we still we can let this ‘change for good’ happen to our country.


A new Party is in election fray this time.. AAM ADMI PARTY (AAP). It is a breath of fresh air in this rotten system. I am recommending this party because If I do not support this movement this time, may be it might come to an end and I will have to wait for another 25-30 years for some changes to happen in my country. The political class will presume whatever they have done in past 60 years was good and we deserve no better. I do not want to say it to my children that your country is just like that.. we can not change it.


This Delhi Election might be the starting point and example for a national movement. I am not happy with the present political class/ political system. My country could have also been a developed and powerful nation had politicians not misused it. I am a common man and want to see power of a common man If they win, it will not be a victory of any leader.. but of us directly I can see the truth behind Sting Operations carried on AAP.


If We do not consider this as our responsibility, who else will?


It (AAP) has to be different for being in business.

Those who dared us to come through political channel for our voices to be heard by them, need to be taught a lesson.

I have not forgotten “Nirbhya” gang rape and the treatment our government gave to us during protests.


I have to do this as an experiment for my children’s future.


We now need to act. Me alone can not bring this change… We all have to be a part of it. I am not a politician, leader or supporter of any political party. But I have a Dream for this country. The dream to be a superpower some day.. To have a system where fairness is guaranteed to society.. A city, I can be proud of as a resident. If I am able to get 10 votes from this letter. I would be contended that I have contributed in this process of change. If you are convinced after reading this mail, I hope you will not stop yourself by Just voting for AAP but also try to convince people around you and also forward this letter to your colleagues/friends/ relatives and acquaintances..

Your contribution will not go in waste... I have a firm belief of it.


Jai Hind... 

A proud Indian

Yes I RECOMMEND STRONGLY.. TO VOTE FOR THIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY...It’s the final lap for the biggest political battle in India’s recent history. Just a few days left-final chance to ensure clean politics & accountable governance. If not now, When? If not you, Who will stand up to clean the system? Will you come out on the streets of Delhi?

Time to Flood the Streets of Delhi with AAP Topis & Jhaadu

AAP launches the biggest volunteer campaigning program (BUZZ) to flood the streets of Delhi with AAP supporters, who would proudly wear their Topis and spread the message of AAP in groups of 2 to 4 at selected 47 locations.

ITS NOW or NEVER !

Here is what you can do. 

1.  Come to the metro location closest to you from the selected metro locations (See below for the table indicating the Metro Stations which are the AAP Buzz metro points). At this location you will be met by an AAP volunteer, provided campaign materials, attached to a small group and sent to one of the selected 47 buzz locations in that area to spread the message of AAP.

2. Visit AAP’s Connaught Place office (41, Hanuman Road, Cannaught Place) form where you will be sent to one of the 47 buzz locations with a small group. For more information on AAP Buzz, call 85888 33565 

Metro Stattions Near Buzz Locations




Why December 4, 2013
can be a golden letter day in History of India


Dear Friends,
We all have been living in this country and have taken things for granted , like our citizenship, our rights, our duties, faclities we get from our government, life we get as a citizen of India. We may appreicate other countries , their lives and blame our system for all the problems we face. It is a good way to give a vent to our frustration.



We blame our country for all this, but who makes this country.. It is we as citizens. We choose our leaders and entrust them with the responsibility of developing this society/ country. The leaders come from different political parties. They shape the future of societies with different laws and policies. We have seen in these last 66 years that we are not deveoping as fast as we could have. I am not saying good work would not have been done or the problems have not been solved… But..66 Years is not a short span of time… Our pace has been slow because of the vested interest we have in
our political class.


Let us take a simple example for better understanding
I hire a cook for my home and entrust him the responsibility of handling kitchen. The cook in this process has absolute control in all kitchen matters. He buys vegetables from his own relative,
purchases grocery from shop where he gets commission, takes all dry fruits, milk , cream, curd and ghee at his own home. He still claims he is doing his best to serve us the finest food. But we are still not liking it. We actually have a problem with us rather than it being with him. Fed up of all this I decide to start cooking myself. Now he starts complaining and shouting.


This is actually the situation with present political class. When we as people demanded things we wanted for ourselves. They said you come in as elected representative and beccome eligible to draw legislation. When we decided to actually do it, they are shouting we do not have
experience.


But there are few things we owe to our next generation.. our Kids. They should be proud of being an Indian Citiizen. And we have a right to shape up our future.
For this we need to come out of this complacency, attitude of ‘CHALTA HAI !!’. We may be
donot have a time/ resources to CONTRIBUTE in this nation building, but yes we still we can let this ‘change for good’ happen to our country.


A new Party is in election fray this time.. AAM ADMI PARTY (AAP). It is a breath of fresh air in this rotten system. I am recommending this party because If I do not support this movement this time, may be it might come to an end and I will have to wait for another 25-30 years for some changes to happen in my country. The political class will presume whatever they have done in past 60 years was good and we deserve no better. I do not want to say it to my children that your country is just like that.. we can not change it.
This Delhi Election might be the starting point and example for a national movement. I am not happy with the present political class/ political system. My country could have also been a developed and powerful nation had politicians not misused it. I am a common man and want to see power of a common man If they win, it will not be a victory of any leader.. but of us directly I can see the truth behind Sting Operations carried on AAP.

If We do not consider this as our responsibility, who else will?
It (AAP) has to be different for being in business.
Those who dared us to come through political channel for our voices to be
heard by them, need to be taught a lesson.


I have not forgotten “Nirbhya” gang rape and the treatment our government
gave to us during protests.


I have to do this as an experiment for my children’s future.
We now need to act. Me alone can not bring this change… We all have to be a part of it. I am not a politician, leader or supporter of any political party. But I have a Dream for this country. The dream to be a superpower some day.. To have a system where fairness is guaranteed to society.. A city, I can be proud of as a resident. If I am able to get 10 votes from this letter. I would be contended
that I have contributed in this process of change. If you are convinced after reading this mail, I hope you will not stop yourself by Just voting for AAP but also try to convince people around you and also forward this letter to your colleagues/friends/ relatives and acquaintances..


Your contribution
will not go in waste... I have a firm belief of it.


Jai Hind... 
A proud Indian
Yes I RECOMMEND STRONGLY.. TO VOTE FOR THIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY...It’s the final lap for the biggest political battle in India’s recent history. Just a few days left-final chance to ensure clean politics & accountable governance. If not now, When? If not you, Who will stand up to clean the system? Will you come out on the streets of Delhi?

Thursday, November 28, 2013

"अब तो जाग जरा" ------क्रांति

"अब तो जाग जरा" ------क्रांति

"फिर मत कहना देश को बचा न सका ,
अब तो जाग जरा "

कभी पाकिस्तान ,तो कभी चाइना हमारे ही घरों में आ रहा ,
लो-कल-लो-बात अब तो बांग्लादेश भी हमें आँखे दिखा रहा ,
महामौन मंत्री , और मैडम जी अमेरिका में शीश झुका रहा ,
अब तो जाग जरा | |

आकाओं ने बेच दिया इमान ,गिरवी रखने को है सोना , गिरवी रख देंगे हमारा सम्मान ,
देश के दुश्मन देश को बेच रहा ,
अब तो जाग जरा | |

लूट गयी ज़मीन , लूट गया आसमां (टू जी )
कोयला , लोहा ,वन सबकुछ दुश्मन लूट रहा ,
अब तो जाग जरा | |

गिर गया नेताओं और बाबाओं का चरित्र ,बढ गया इंफ्लेशन ,
रुपया , जी .डी .पी ,सेंसेक्स सबकुछ दुश्मन गिरा रहा ,
अब तो जाग जरा | |

अँधेरा घना छा रहा , देश पे घोटालों के बादल मंडरा रहा ,
निराशाओं को दूर करने झाड़ू आ रहा ,आम आदमी जाग रहा ,
हाथों में हाथ , कंधे से कन्धा स्वराज मिला रहा ,
अब तो जाग जरा | |

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Monday, November 11, 2013

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Scope of Digital Marketing

Marketing of a business is the most effective way of getting the people to know what the company sells, what the company is all about. It is the phenomenon which is directly proportional to generating revenue for the company. That is why, many companies start marketing even before their product is launched. Using internet as a platform to promote their products is known as digital marketing. Via internet, it becomes possible to target small number of people who are not accessible easily. This is called as Niche Internet Marketing. It helps to gain untapped market which would otherwise be impossible.
Digital Marketing: A Prerequisite for Success.

Promotion is a very expensive way if not done carefully. Advertisements can be useless if they are not present at the right place at the right time. And this task is difficult and tedious. This issue is easily resolved by a new way of marketing that has recently come up, i.e. Digital Marketing.
Today everything is done through internet so it brings in a need to market the product over internet too. The online population has increased at alarming rate. More and more people are using latest electronic gadgets that provide internet connectivity. Promoting products or services using this medium of internet is called Digital marketing. There are various different processes by which a company promotes its product or service such as content writing, improving site efficiency using HTML, search engine marketing, web site design, removing barriers of indexing activities. These are the prime tools of any digital marketing company.
In a recent survey of marketers, it was found that 80% wanted to promote their product through internet and out of those, 70% were planning to promote via Social media.
Scope of

Digital marketing in India
India has large number of companies which work on various scales of business. The diversification of goods and services is huge. Some are small, some are big, some produce products, some provide services. All these companies have to promote their product or service by advertising in the right way. There are many digital media agencies in Mumbai which provide these digital marketing services.
India has a bright future for such companies and a huge scope as international companies tend to outsource these services to India.

Digital marketing companies in Mumbai
Mumbai is the commercial and financial capital of India. Mumbai has great digital marketing companies. These companies take all the necessary steps to make the online marketing of your company successful. In search engine optimization company's website comes in top results of a search engine. The top search engines are Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, etc. Millions of searches are made daily on this site. Placing advertisements tactfully on these search pages helps to capture the right audience for the product.Smo Services in Mumbai are also one of the best ways to promote a fan page on facebook. As of now, there are 1 billion users of facebook. Therefore it is necessary for a marketer to use facebook as a platform to promote the goods or services.
Only a strategically planned digital marketing of a company can be cost effective and lucrative at the same time.

sources:http://goarticles.com/article/The-Emerging-Scope-of-Digital-Marketing/7607571/

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Make a Difference

We are all gifted with a unique set of skills and abilities. With those abilities we can make extra-ordinary things happen in the world around us, or not.

It is completely up to you whether you want your life to make a difference and what difference you want your life to make.

Many people set lofty goals for their lives and want to be remembered as visionaries, they want to change and save the world.

Others want to be remembered as the kind man or women down the street who always helped and always listened if you needed help.

Who do you think is the better person?

The one who changes the world or the one who saves the individual?

Do what not have to do incredible things; just being there for the people around you can save someone from a meaningless life and help them lead the life they were meant to live.

Small things matter

Changing the life of another person is an incredible feeling and it is completely within your grasp. You can do this by deciding to become a mentor for a young ambitious person. You can help them avoid the mistakes you have made and help them learn from the ones they will inevitably make themselves.

Fight for someone's rights

You will often see someone get treated unfairly. It happens both professionally and socially, individuals who deserve recognition do not get it.

By taking up the fight and making sure others get what they deserve and earned you will be a true hero. You will make a lasting impact on their lives and you will be rewarded with love and help in the future when you are in need.

The law of karma says that whatever you do you will get back three fold, helping others is therefore a selfish act, but still a good act, one that you should do without fear, with love and with the knowledge that you will one day be rewarded.

Go the distance

Compromise is the enemy of long term commitment, if you have committed to helping someone by being their mentor or by fighting for their rights, doesn't stop half way. Go the distance and see it through. Make sure something happens so all your work doesn't end up as only talk.

Conclusion

In truth we might all be here to help each other, we might all be a part of a machine that fosters cooperation, or were not. We might just be here to make the best of the situation for ourselves.

In any case, helping others brings happiness and prosperity into your own life, so for whatever reason you chose to help others, it will always help you in return.

The difference between stopping half way and finishing isn't much in terms of the work you put in, but worlds apart in the difference for the individual you are helping.

Monday, October 28, 2013

THIS IS THE LIFE

THIS IS THE LIFE
By Annie Dillard from the Fall issue ofImage: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, published by the Center for Religious Humanism at Seattle Pacific University. Dillard's most recent book is For the Time Being.

Any culture tells you how to live your one and only life: to wit as everyone else does. Probably most cultures prize, as ours rightly does, making a contribution by working hard at work that you love; being in the know, and intelligent; gathering a surplus; and loving your family above all, and your dog, your boat, bird-watching. Beyond those things our culture might specialize in money, and celebrity, and natural beauty. These are not universal. You enjoy work and will love your grandchildren, and somewhere in there you die.
Another contemporary consensus might be: You wear the best shoes you can afford, you seek to know Rome's best restaurants and their staffs, drive the best car, and vacation on Tenerife. And what a cook you are!
Or you take the next tribe's pigs in thrilling raids; you grill yams; you trade for televisions and hunt white-plumed birds. Everyone you know agrees: this is the life. Perhaps you burn captives. You set fire to a drunk. Yours is the human struggle, or the elite one, to achieve... whatever your own culture tells you: to publish the paper that proves the point; to progress in the firm and gain high title and salary, stock options, benefits; to get the loan to store the beans till their price rises; to elude capture, to feed your children or educate them to a feather edge; or to count coup or perfect your calligraphy; to eat the king's deer or catch the poacher; to spear the seal, intimidate the enemy, and be a big man or beloved woman and die respected for the pigs or the title or the shoes. Not a funeral. Forget funeral. A big birthday party. Since everyone around you agrees.
Since everyone around you agrees ever since there were people on earth that land is value, or labor is value, or learning is value, or
title, necklaces, degree, murex shells, or ownership of slaves. Everyone knows bees sting and ghosts haunt and giving your robes away humiliates your rivals. That the enemies are barbarians. That wise men swim through the rock of the earth; that houses breed filth, airstrips attract airplanes, tornadoes punish, ancestors watch, and you can buy a shorter stay in purgatory. The black rock is holy, or the scroll; or the pangolin is holy, the quetzal is holy, this tree, water, rock, stone, cow, cross, or mountain and it's all true. The Red Sox. Or nothing at all is holy, as everyone intelligent knows.
Who is your "everyone"? Chess masters scarcely surround themselves with motocross racers. Do you want aborigines at your birthday party? Or are you serving yak-butter tea? Popular culture deals not in its distant past, or any other past, or any other culture. You know no one who longs to buy a mule or be named to court or thrown into a volcano.
So the illusion, like the visual field, is complete It has no holes except books you read and soon forget. And death takes us by storm. What was that, that life? What else offered? If for him it was contract bridge, if for her it was copyright law, if for everyone it was and is an optimal mix of family and friends, learning, contribution, and joy of making and amelioratingwhat else is there, or was there, or will there ever be?
What else is a vision or fact of time and the peoples it bears issuing from the mouth of the cosmos, from the round mouth of eternity, in a wide and parti-colored utterance. In the complex weave of this utterance like fabric, in its infinite domestic interstices, the centuries and continents and classes dwell. Each people knows only its own squares in the weave, its wars and instruments and arts, and also the starry sky.
Okay, and then what? Say you scale your own weft and see time's breadth and the length of space. You see the way the fabric both passes among the stars and encloses them. You see in the weave nearby, and aslant farther off, the peoples variously scandalized or exalted in their squares. They work on their projects they flake



spear points, hoe, plant; they kill aurochs or one another; they prepare sacrifices as we here and now work on our projects. What, seeing this spread multiply infinitely in every direction, would you do differently? No one could love your children more; would you love them less? Would you change your project? To what? Whatever you do, it has likely brought delight to fewer people than either contract bridge or the Red Sox.
However hypnotized you and your people are, you will be just as dead in their war, our war. However dead you are, more people will come. However many more people come, your time and its passions, and yourself and your passions, weigh equally in the balance with those of any dead who pulled waterwheel poles by the Nile or Yellow rivers, or painted their foreheads black, or starved in the wilderness, or wasted from disease then or now. Our lives and our deaths count equally, or we must abandon one-man-one-vote dismantle democracy, and assign six billion people an importance-of-life ranking from one to six billiona ranking whose number decreases, like gravity, with the square of the distance between us and them.
What would you do differently, you up on your beanstalk looking at scenes of all peoples at all times in all places? When you climb down, would you dance any less to the music you love, knowing that music to be as provisional as a bug? Somebody has to make jugs and shoes, to turn the soil, fish. If you descend the long rope-ladders back to your people and time in the fabric, if you tell them what you have seen, and even if someone cares to listen, then what? Everyone knows times and cultures are plural. If you come back a shrugging relativist or tongue-tied absolutist, then what? If you spend hours a day looking around, high astraddle the warp or woof of your people's wall, then what new wisdom can you take to your grave for worms to untangle? Well, maybe you will not go into advertising.
Then you would know your own death better but perhaps not dread it less. Try to bring people up the wall, carry children to see it to
what end? Fewer golf courses? What is wrong with golf? Nothing at all. Equality of wealth? Sure; how?
The woman watching sheep over there, the man who carries embers in a pierced clay ball, the engineer, the girl who spins wool into yarn as she climbs, the smelter, the babies learning to recognize speech in their own languages, the man whipping a slave's flayed back, the man digging roots, the woman digging roots, the child digging roots what would you tell them? And the future people what are they doing? What excitements sweep peoples here and there from time to time? Into the muddy river they go, into the trenches, into the caves, into the mines, into the granary, into the sea in boats. Most humans who were ever alive lived inside one single culture that never changed for hundreds of thousands of years; archaeologists scratch their heads at so conservative and static a culture.
Over here, the rains fail; they are starving. There, the caribou fail; they are starving. Corrupt leaders take the wealth. Not only there but here. Rust and smut spoil the rye. When pigs and cattle starve or freeze, people die soon after. Disease empties a sector, a billion sectors.
People look at the sky and at the other animals. They make beautiful objects, beautiful sounds, beautiful motions of their bodies beating drums in lines. They pray; they toss people in peat bogs; they help the sick and injured; they pierce their lips, their noses, ears; they make the same mistakes despite religion, written language, philosophy, and science; they build, they kill, they preserve, they count and figure, they boil the pot, they keep the embers alive; they tell their stories and gird themselves.
Will knowledge you experience directly make you a Buddhist? Must you forfeit excitement per se? To what end?
Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?
(posted with the permission of the author)

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Money Is More Important Than Love ??

Love is said to be the most beautiful feeling on Earth. The people who experience this feeling are said to be the luckiest people on Earth.
People often say that they can live their life happily if it filled with love and that they can live without money. But when we go deeper into this statement it proves to be false. It is true that money cannot buy love and happiness but money certainly can buy things through which an individual can express his or her love and also buy essential stuff which would make them happy. There is a famous saying “it is better to cry in a BMW rather than on a cycle”. This statement is indeed true. It is better to be comfortably unhappy than being uncomfortably unhappy.

“Love makes the world go around but money buys the riches”.

Love is essential in each and every individual’s life but money is also extremely essential to live a luxurious life because we are human beings not animals. It is money which improves our condition or else what is the difference between a human being and an animal.

Human being stay in cozy homes, eat whatever they want, do whatever they feel like, travel the world, just with power of money. Ask anyone how many famous lovers they can name as compared to naming famous millionaires and they will most certainly be in a position to name the famous millionaires. It is money and money alone that brings along fame and goodwill with it.
If only love would have been sufficient for an individual to be happy all the poor people today would be content and happy. It is wrong to think that love is all we need. Money too is equally important. It is only in fairy-tales that love alone can make people happy. We live in a practical world sufficient amount of money is extremely depressing and frustrating. If an individual cannot fulfill his or her daily needs, it would be impossible to think about anything other than money, leave alone lone.


In this 21st century world, money is so important that today in most of the household, almost every adult member earn their own living. This is essential to keep at par with the society and it’s raising standards today because people who have more money are considered to be more important by everyone. This is a bitter truth. Moreover , can you contribute for the development of the society and even your own family if you do not possess sufficient money, you cannot. It is therefore essential to use your mind instead of your heart when you try to understand the importance of money.

p.s: there is no intention to hurt anyone, if any author will not be responsible for the same. it is just experience and research shared here.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Monday, April 1, 2013

What Does A New Car Smell Like? Google Nose.


Google is shutting down YouTube? Good riddance! There hasn’t been a video worth watching since Paula Abdul’s Opposites Attract anyway.
With the announcement of their newest totally real project, Google is making it clear that they know where the future of online entertainment really is: smells. Meet Google Nose.
With Google Nose, you’ll be able to stop and smell the roses without having to stop a damned thing.
So, how can you take part in on Google’s new olfactory odyssey? It’s easy! You don’t even have to tweet at Google in hopes that you’ll win the opportunity to give them a pile of money for the appropriate hardware. You’ve already got the appropriate hardware! Just Google for your scent of choice (be it a wet dog, a cracklin’ campfire, or the gym), tap the “smell” button, and sniff away. Google will “intersect photons with infrasound waves” to emulate the requested aroma. That, my friends, is science.
If it doesn’t work right away, just lean closer and keep on sniffin’ — like many a Google product that came before it, this one is in Beta, so it might not work every time. (And, like many a Google product that came before it, they’ll probably kill it off in about 2 weeks)



I'm pretty sure we'll have a running list of April Fool's gags today (it is tradition, after all), but this one is hittin' early enough and got a hearty enough laugh out of me that it's worthy of its own post.
Plus, it had me contemplating what the hell a ghost would smell like for at least 5 minutes.
A Complete guide how to use Google Nose is here:- http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/
sources:-techcrunch

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Google Announces Opt-Out Tool To Keep Content Out Of Its Specialized Search Engines

Google has launched a new way for sites to opt out of having their content show up in Google Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, and Google+ Local search.
Google Opt-Out Tool
Matt Cutts announced the feature in a very brief post on the Google Webmaster Central blog, saying, “Webmasters can now choose this option through our Webmaster Tools, and crawled content currently being displayed on Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, or Google+ Local search pages will be removed within 30 days.”
This is obviously not a feature that Google would want a ton of people to use, because the less content that appears in these services, the less useful they are. Perhaps that’s why Cutts hasn’t tweeted about the tool (maybe not, but perhaps). At least with the short announcement, they have something they can point to.
The feature is a direct response to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. When Google settled with the FTC, one of the voluntary concessions Google made was a feature that would let sites opt out of Google’s specialized search engines.
As Danny Sullivan notes, the feature doesn’t let you choose which search engines you wish to opt out of. If you use the feature, you’re opting out of all of those mentioned.
On a help page, Google says, “This opt-out option currently applies only to services hosted on google.com and won’t apply to other Google domains.”

source:- webpronews.com

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Google Celebrates Google Play’s first birthday By Giving You Discounts

One year after rebranding itself and ditching the "Android Market" label, Google Play is celebrating the occasion by offering deals to Android users.

Google Play has grown rapidly in the last year, bringing you more content in more languages and places around the globe. In addition to offering more than 700,000 apps and games, they’ve partnered with all of the major music companies, movie studios and publishers to bring you the music, movies, TV shows, books and magazines you love. And They’ve added more ways for you to buy them, including paying through your phone bill and gift cards, which we're beginning to roll out in the U.K. this week. 

Since no birthday is complete without presents, Google Play celebrating with a bunch of special offers across the store on songs, TV shows, movies and books. 



As of Wednesday, the site offered: a free $15 gift card and free shipping on photo-sharing webstore, The Fancy; a free fantasy book called A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice; a 10% discount applicable to bookings on Hotels.com; a limited edition character of the game, Yumby Smash; 50% off the movie, Kung Fu Panda; access to a new "Mars" location on the Disney game, Gnome Village; and a variety of in-app savings for the game, Royal Revolt!
While its current offerings are not that impressive, users will have to wait and see what other deals Google Play may have in store later this week.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Google pays tribute to Miriam Makeba 'Mama Africa' with doodle


Miriam Makeba, the South African chanteuse renowned for her collaborations with Calypso king Harry Belafonte and folk legend Paul Simon on his the tours of seminal world music album Graceland in 1987, received tribute from Google in the form of a doodle on her 81st birthday.
Born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932, Makeba gained initial fame in 1959 during a tour of the United States with South African group the Manhattan Brothers.



Makeba's was a strong voice against her home country's racist apartheid government. She ran afoul of the government in 1960 after she participated in Come Back, Africa, an anti-apartheid documentary, a year earlier.
Her subsequent exile, which lasted for nearly 30 years, did nothing to diminish her International renown though she would not return until after Nelson Mandela emerged from prison in 1990.
Five years after her exile, she would become the first woman of African heritage to have the honour of winning a Grammy Award, which she shared with Belafonte for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. It was the first US-produced album to feature authentic Zulu and Swahili music, a milestone in the world music genre.

With a turbulent personal life contrasting the fame she had received as Mama Africa, she was divorced four times. Her first marriage was to trumpeter Hugh Masekelaand her most controversial one was to civil rights activist/Black Panther Stokely Carmichael, which led to her moving to Guinea.
She was responsible for popularising African music in the United States. With iconic traditional flowing gowns and hairstyles, she would belt out music that was richly flavoured by her African roots and childhood Jazz influences.
In 2008, after a concert in the southern Italian town of Caserta, Makeba, the first African woman to address the United Nations (where she testified against apartheid in 1963), passed away.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

To Let Go

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. 

To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I can’t control another. 

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. 

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. 

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it’s to make the most of myself. 

To let go is not to care for, but to care about. 

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive. 

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. 

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. 

To let go is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality. 

To let go is not to criticize, or regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can do. 

To let go is to fear less, and to love more.

Monday, February 25, 2013

You are unique!

Think what a remarkable, unduplicatable, and miraculous thing it is to be you! Of all the people who have come and gone on the earth, since the beginning of time, not ONE of them is like YOU! 

No one who has ever lived or is to come has had your combination of abilities, talents, appearance, friends, acquaintances, burdens, sorrows and opportunities. 

No one’s hair grows exactly the way yours does. No one’s finger prints are like yours. No one has the same combination of secret inside jokes and family expressions that you know. 

The few people who laugh at all the same things you do, don’t sneeze the way you do. No one prays about exactly the same concerns as you do. No one is loved by the same combination of people that love you – NO ONE! 

No one before, no one to come. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE! 

Enjoy that uniqueness. You do not have to pretend in order to seem more like someone else. 

You weren’t meant to be like someone else. You do not have to lie to conceal the parts of you that are not like what you see in anyone else. You were meant to be different. Nowhere ever in all of history will the same things be going on in anyone’s mind, soul and spirit as are going on in yours right now. 

If you did not exist, there would be a hole in creation, a gap in history, something missing from the plan for humankind. 

Treasure your uniqueness. It is a gift given only to you. Enjoy it and share it! 

No one can reach out to others in the same way that you can. No one can speak your words. No one can convey your meanings. No one can comfort with your kind of comfort. No one can bring your kind of understanding to another person. 

No one can be cheerful and lighthearted and joyous in your way. No one can smile your smile. No one else can bring the whole unique impact of you to another human being. 

Share your uniqueness. Let it be free to flow out among your family and friends and people you meet in the rush and clutter of living wherever you are. That gift of yourself was given you to enjoy and share. Give yourself away! 

See it! Receive it! Let it tickle you! Let it inform you and nudge you and inspire you! YOU ARE UNIQUE!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

I’ve learned


I’ve learned-
that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.
I’ve learned-
that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I’ve learned-
that you should never ruin an apology with an excuse.
I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.
I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.
I’ve learned-
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I’ve learned-
that you can keep going long after you can’t.
I’ve learned-
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I’ve learned-
that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.
I’ve learned-
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
I’ve learned-
that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren’t biological.
I’ve learned-
that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive yourself.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned-
that people will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Friday, February 22, 2013

50 Interesting questions

When you have a little spare time to think, review these interesting and thought provoking questions! 

 Then if you still have a little more spare time, share with us your thoughts, answers, and questions!

If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake? 

What is the difference between being alive and truly living? 

Why do religions that support love cause so many wars? 

Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend? 

Does love equal sex? 

If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich? 

Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?

If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently? 

Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things? 

If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today? 

If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be? 

What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? 

What’s holding you back? 

Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton? 

Has your greatest fear ever come true? 

Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing? 

When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing? 

Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you? 

If you had all the money in the world but still had to have some kind of job, what would you choose to do? 

When you’re 90 years old, what will matter most to you? 

What do you regret most so far in life?

If you were at heaven’s gates, and God asked you “Why should I let you in?”, what would you say? 

What small thing could you do to make someone’s day better? 

What impact do you want to leave on the world? 

When was the last time you tried something new? 

What life lesson did you learn the hard way? 

What do you wish you spent more time doing five years ago? 

What is the difference between living and existing? If not now, then when? 

Have you done anything lately worth remembering? 

If you had to teach something, what would you teach? 

What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life? 

Is stealing to feed a starving child wrong? 

What lifts your spirits when life gets you down? 

Have you ever regretted something you did not say or do? 

Why do we think of others the most when they’re gone? Is it more important to love or be loved? 

If a doctor gave you five years to live, what would you try to accomplish? 

Can there be happiness without sadness? 

What’s the one thing you’d like others to remember about you at the end of your life?

Is there such a thing as perfect? 

What does it mean to be human? 

Are you happy with yourself? 

Can you think of a time when impossible became possible? How do you spend the majority of your free time? 

How have you helped someone else recently? 

What did you learn recently that changed the way you live? 

What is the nicest thing someone has ever done for you? 

What will you never do? In your lifetime, what have you done that hurt someone else? 

When was the last time you were nice to someone and did NOT expect anything in return for it?

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Glass of Milk – Paid In Full

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit. Year’s later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She began to read the following words:

Monday, February 18, 2013

What goes around comes around


One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was those chills which only fear can put in you. He said, “I’m here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.”

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.
As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.
He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And think of me.”
He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn’t erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan.

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin.

There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: “You don’t owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.”
Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard….
She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, “Everything’s going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.”

There is an old saying “What goes around comes around.”

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The value of knowledge

A giant ship engine failed. The ship’s owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship’s owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. “What?!” the owners exclaimed. “He hardly did anything!” So they wrote the old man a note saying, “Please send us an itemized bill.” The man sent a bill that read: