Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Lets congratulate abhinav bindra
Lets Congratulate him...........
Monday, July 21, 2008
My version of controlling inflation(not exactly mine, copied from my friend)
A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the Kiranastore he pays Rs. 12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won'tlast a week henormally buys two dozens at a time.
One day while buyingeggs he noticesthat the price has risen to Rs. 16. The next time he buysgroceries, eggs are Rs. 22 a dozen.When asked to explain the price of eggs the store ownersays, "The pricehas gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly" .This store buys 100dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price andall thedistributors have raised their prices. The distributorshave begun to buyfrom the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have beendriven out ofbusiness. The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a daytodistributors. With no competition, they can set the priceas they see fit.The distributors then have to raise their prices to thegrocery stores.And on and on and on.As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He sawthe big eggtrucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changedthere. Hechecked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling100,000 dozeneggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but theprice of eggs.Then week before Diwali the price of eggs shot up to Rs. 40a dozen. Againhe asked the grocery owner why and was told, "Cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be alot of baking going onand more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goesup. Expect thesame thing at Christmas and other times when familycooking, baking, etc.happen.This pattern continues until the price of eggs is Rs. 60 adozen. The mansays, " There must be something we can do about theprice of eggs".He starts talking to all the people in his town and theydecide to stopbuying eggs. This didn't work because everyone neededeggs.Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. Heate 2 eggs a day.On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery andbuy two eggs.Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.The grocery store owner began complaining that he had toomany eggs in hiscooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need anyeggs.Maybe wouldn't need any all week.The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. Hetold the huge eggfarms that he didn't have any room for eggs would notneed any for atleast two weeks.At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. Torelieve thepressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that theycould buy theeggs at a lower price.The distributor said, " I don't have the room forthe %$&^*&% eggs even ifthey were free". The distributor told the grocerystore owner that hewould lower the price of the eggs if the store would startbuyingagain.The grocery store owner said, "I don't have roomfor more eggs. Thecustomers are only buying 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Now if youwere to dropthe price of eggs back down to the original price, thecustomerswould start buying by the dozen again".The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmersbut the eggfarmers liked the price they were getting for their eggsbut, thosechickens just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmerslowered theprice of their eggs. But only a few paisa.The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Theysaid, "when theprice of eggs gets down to where it was before, we willstart buying bythe dozen."Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributorshad to slashtheir prices to make room for the eggs coming from the eggfarmers.The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributorswouldn't buy ata higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway,they had fullwarehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.And those chickens kept on laying.Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because theywere throwingaway eggs they couldn't sell.The distributors started buying again because the eggs werepriced towhere the stores could afford to sell them at the lowerprice.And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.
Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.What if everyone only bought Rs 200.00 worth of Petrol eachtime theypulled to the pump? The dealer's tanks would stay semifull all the time.The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming fromthe huge tanks. Thetank farms wouldn't have room for the petrol comingfrom the refiningplants. And the refining plants wouldn't have room forthe oil being offloaded from the huge tankers coming from the oil fiends.Just Rs 200.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill up thetank of your car.You may have to stop for gas twice a week, but the priceshould come down.Think about it.Also, don't buy anything else at the fuel station;don't give them anymore of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas,until theprices come down..."...just think of this concept for a while............. ......please pass this conceptaround....reaching out tothe masses ...the world .....
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The Magical Signifigance of the Number Seven (7)
Hogwarts requires seven years of schooling before graduation, and it's also the number of books in the series.
The Weasley family has 7 children, in which Ginny Weasley is the seventh child and only daughter.
Harry Potter is born in July, the seventh month of the year.
In the game of Quidditch, there are seven players.
If you add the numbers of Platform Nine and Three Quarters (9 3/4): 9+3+4=16, 1+6=7.
Hogwarts has 142 flights of stairs: 1+4+2=7
Gryffindor Tower, the Headmaster's office and the Room of Requirement are on the 7th floor of Hogwarts.
There are 700 different fouls in Quidditch.
Throughout the series, Harry and Dumbledore have been together in a Pensieve seven times: once in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the other six in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone:
Gryffindor has not won the house cup for seven years.
Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have a 7 years age difference.
Harry has to overcome 7 obstacles to reach the Philosopher's Stone: Fluffy, Sprout's Devil's Snare, Flitwick's flying keys, McGonagall's giant chess set, Quirrell's troll, Snape's potions puzzle and the Mirror of Erised. The potions puzzle features seven bottles of different shape each and a riddle.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
Hogwarts' students have to buy all the 7 books of Gilderoy Lockhart.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:
The Marauders' Map shows seven secret passageways that go to Hogsmeade.
When Sirius is caught, he is held in Flitwick's office, which is in the seventh floor.
Hermione says that there are only 7 registered Animagi in the last century.
In the film, Harry wears the number 7 in the Quidditch match.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
Frank Bryce is nearing his 77th birthday.
Harry arrives to the Quidditch World Cup at seven past five.
There have been 421 Quidditch World Cups before the one in the book, and 4+2+1=7.
The first Triwizard Tournament was held 700 years before the events in the book.
Fred and George charge 7 sickles for each Canary Cream.
Moody's trunk has 7 locks, and Moody was locked in the seventh lock.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
Mrs. Number Seven looks out of the window when Mundungus Fletcher Disapparates while guarding Harry.
Clause Seven of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery states that an underage wizard or witch can use magic either to save himself or to save someone else, be it Muggle or wizard.
When Molly Weasley is facing the Boggart at Grimmauld Place, it has seven different forms.
Lily and James began dating in their 7th year at Hogwarts.
When they go to the Department of Mysteries to save Sirius, Harry and the DA, seven rooms are mentioned.
When Harry falls into the Death Chamber, seven people came to his aid: Neville, Sirius, Remus, Kingsley Shackelbolt, Tonks, Moody and Dumbledore.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
Harry is waiting for Professor Dumbledore since seven o'clock in the evening.
The Ministry of Magic sends a leaflet with seven ways to protect the home and family against Dark forces.
Harry and Ron receive each 7 O.W.L.s.
Blaise Zabini's mother has been married and widowed seven times.
When brewing the Draught of Living Death, the Half-Blood Prince potions book says to "add a clockwise stir after each seventh counterclockwise stir".
When Harry hides from Professor Trelawney, she is reading tarot cards. One of them is the seven of spades, an ill omen.
During his private classes about Voldemort, Harry sees seven different memories.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
When disguising Harry by creating copies of him, they decide to make six copies (the chapter in which this happens is called "The Seven Potters").
In the British edition of the book, the Ministry is said to have fallen in page 133 (1+3+3=7) and the first kiss between Hermione and Ron happens in page 502 (5+2=7).
Although Voldemort decided to make only six Horcruxes to divide his soul in seven parts, there are seven Horcruxes in total (Tom Riddle's Diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, Harry and Nagini). Each of them is destroyed by a different person (Harry, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione, Vincent Crabbe, Voldemort and Neville, respectively).
