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What Kind Of Employee Are You? Profile Based On Zodiac Sign
my utterances, based on my blog why don't you take a guess as to what my zodiac is?
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India - A True Democracy?
Dream pedlar,
Nothing is absolute and there is no true paradise anywhere on earth.
But what India with a population of more than a billion with so many languages, castes, religion, foods, regional differences has achieved is nothing short of a miracle. Not to mention a almost flawless election and completely electronic.
Name one country that can boast what India has achieved *with* so many differences.
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POWERS OF THE MIND by Swami Vivekananda
riverine, the title of the article is 'Powers of the mind by Swami Vivekananda'. I end the article with the link to the actual source.
How much clearer can I get? 
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What exactly is in McDonald's McNuggets?
You really want to know what's in the fries we love so much?
French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural
beef flavor (wheat and milk derivatives)*, citric acid (preservative),
dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color),
dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent)), salt. Prepared in vegetable
oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean
oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil,
partially hydrogenated corn oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to
preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming
agent). *CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK (Natural beef flavor contains
hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.)
Don't be fooled by 'natural beef flavor'.
The food industry uses the term "natural ingredients" on labels to protect secret recipes. For some consumers, however, that euphemism can hold unpleasant surprises. Such is the case with the French fries that the fast-food chain McDonald's began selling in the US in 1990. At that time, the company began cooking the fries in 100% vegetable oil instead of beef fat. What McDonald's did not tell their new Hindu and vegetarian French fry customers was that beef flavoring is added to the fries before they are frozen. Instead of publicizing this addition, the company hid it under 'natural ingredients.'
Brij Sharma, a Hindu American who works as an engineer for Boeing, was appalled to learn of the practice from an India West newspaper article in April 2001. To Hindus, cows are sacred; it is a sin to eat them. The article incited protests and damage against McDonald's restaurants in India. In the US, Mr. Sharma and two other people filed a lawsuit in May 2001, accusing McDonald's of deliberately misleading its American customers.
With the filing of the lawsuit, McDonald's admitted that it adds beef flavoring to its US French fries but not to the fries served in India or in Fiji, where half of the population is Hindu. A test by an Indian organization confirmed the company claim. McDonald's says it might change its labeling policies, but the US French fry recipe will remain the same.
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The Seven Chakras
Great article. Amazing how much wisdom ancient hinduism contains! All the recent fads all seem to take a tiny fraction of what we knew all along. One I can think of is the latest fad that's sweeping the US - Law of Attraction.
Another example is a book called the master key to success where the author lays a great emphasis on the solar plexus (one of the chakras) and is convinced focussing on that is the key to success, but seems ignorant of the other chakras. Fascinating.
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Video of Pakistani Surrender To Indian Army
Bangladesh would also go as the most ungrateful country in the world in recent times. If not for India, the country would've been but a dream. Yet it is sad to see they hate India more than the Pakistanis themselves! In most of their war memorials, there is not even a mention of India or Indian forces. They use the term 'allied' forces (or its equivalent in Bengali).
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Swami Vivekananda
Truly inspiring posters. Thanks for sharing!
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