Articles (from our members)...

Country Of The Week -  Denmark

Sport Of the Week: Cricket

Science Section: Nobel prizes

Puzzles ????? !!!!!!

Learn a Little About IAF

Former Presidents Of India

Word Of the Week:

pandemic \pan-DEM-ik\, adjective:
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

noun:
A pandemic disease.

Believed to have originated in India in ancient times before first ravaging the Roman world as early as A.D. 165, since then it [smallpox] had scourged humanity in what amounted to a permanent pandemic, causing incalculable loss of life and misery through morbidity and disfigurement.

turbid • \TER-bid\ • (adjective)
1 : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment
*2 : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) : confused, muddled

Example sentence:
According to one reviewer, Chauncey's first book was "the turbid and rambling product of an unclear mind."

Did you know?
"Turbid" and "turgid" (which means "swollen, distended" or "overblown, pompous, or bombastic") are two words so frequently mistaken for one another that they could have been invented to keep dictionary makers in business. Not only do these two words differ by only a letter, but, adding to the confusion, they are often used in contexts where either word might fit. For example, a flooded stream is often both distended and muddy, and badly written prose is often both obscure and grandiloquent. Nevertheless, the distinction between these two words, however fine, is an important one for conveying exact shades of meaning, so it's a good idea to keep them straight.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

**********

Affect is a verb meaning 'to influence', 'to change', or 'to assume':
The new evidence will affect the outcome of the trial.
The accused affects an innocent demeanor.

Effect can serve as a verb meaning 'to bring about':
We must effect better government.

Effect can also act as a noun meaning 'result', or 'impression':
The budget had a disastrous effect on the lives of citizens.

Jan	1- New Year
Feb	14- Valentine's Day , 26- Republic day
March	9- Holi
April	1 - Fool's Day
May	13- Mother's Day
June	17 Father's Day
July	1 Doctor's Day
August	5 Friendship Day
September	5 Teacher's Day , 14- Forgiveness Day
October	16- Boss's Day
November	14- Children's Day, Diwali
December	25- Christmas

Birthday Party Behavior
DO'S


Wear casual clothes for a birthday bash.

If you have a doubt as to what to wear, ask the birthday boy/girl.

Take a gift, which your parents think is appropriate for the birthday kid.

Pick up just 1 toffee, chocolate. If the host offers

again, then, pick up one more.

Do talk to everyone and make new friends.

Serve a little of everything and if you like the dish serve yourself more at a party.

Place your gift in the designated place. Don't try to show off how big a gift you brought.

Thank your friend for the wonderful party and for inviting you.


DON'TS

Force your parents to buy expensive gifts.

Grab handful of sweets and pocket them.

Pull down balloons .and buntings, even when other

children indulge in it.

Touching things, especially costly gadgets and objects

like TVs, music systems etc.
 

National Flag Etiquette

No person should use colors of the national flag in the same combination for any commercial purpose.

National flag is designed by an Andhraite,Pingali Venkaiah. It is described by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan,

Waving the flag at cricket matches may be O.K., but see, it is draped right side up.

the first President of India, that the saffron color denotes renunciation or disinterestedness in worldly



things, while white stands for light and path of truth and green connotes our relation with earth

The national flag should not touch the ground or water in the sea.

and life.

The flag should fly only between dawn and dusk.

Flag should be in the ratio of 2:3 height to width,

If the flag has to be kept hoisted in the night, it

and Asoka charka must be in centre.

should be well lit so people can show proper respect.

DINING ETIQUETTE

Pull your chair gently with the back legs slightly

raised from the ground. Don/t drag.

Open the napkin fold by fold and not with a shuffle.

Place the napkin on your lap and not around the neck.

Wait till every one is served. Don/t attack your food the moment it lands in your plate.

Use napkin only to dab your lips and the corners of your mouth, don/t wipe your face with it.

When you want to eat the soup/ dip the spoon and scoop a little soup and touch the opposite edge or

brim of the soup bowl and then bring the spoon to your mouth. It won/t drip then.

When you have to excuse yourself to go to the wash room, keep your spoon and the fork crossed on the

fplate with the handles slightly protruding out so you can pick them up easily and resume eating.


Leave your napkin on the back of the chair and push the chair under the table, to indicate you will

be back.

**************

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

Meditation is the process of getting to know myself completely,
both who I am 'inside' and how I react to what is 'outside'. Above all, meditation is 'enjoying myself' in the literal sense of those words. brough meditation, I discover a very different 'me' from perhaps the stressed or troubled person who may seem superfi­cially to be 'me'. I realize that my true nature, the real me, is actu­ally very positive. I begin to discover an ocean of peace right here on my own doorstep