The Beer Prayer

The Beer Prayer

Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hollowed be thy drink.
...I will be drunk,
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer. The bitter and the lager
Forever and ever,
Barmen

Cheers !!!

I'm hurt

I'm hurt all the time.
I don't want to cry for the way I feel inside.
I just want someone to hold me...
I'm alone in the dark, please try to find me.
If no one cares, I don't see a point to go on.
Anyone find me! Anyone care!
I'm sorry, I just don't want to be alone anymore.
I feel unheard and unseen. Depressed and weak.
No one cares and yet I'm always the sorry one.
Someone find me! I'm scared.
Please hold me until it all ends.
Just hold me that’s all I want.
I don't want to be alone in the dark.
Just hold me as I start to disappear from the light.
Just hold me as I start to cry.
Just hold me so I wont be alone inside.
Just hold me so I don't do something wrong.
Just hold me so tight, that for a moment I could feel the light....

A Priest & A Lad

 

 There was once a lad who had been scholastic study abroad for a very long time before returning to his hometown. Upon his return, he asked his parents to find any teacher, or priest or anybody that would be capable of answering 3 of his questions.

 At last, his parents found the man.

Lad: Who are you? And would you be able to answer my questions.

Priest: I am a servant of God and through His Will, i shall answer your questions

Lad: Are you sure? Even proffesors can't answer my questions.

Priest: I shall do my best on answering them.

Lad: I have 3 questions
1. If God exist, show him to me
2. What is it that is called Fate?
3. If Devil is created out of fire, then why is it that they are banished in hellish fire? It would not hurt them I suppose, since they are of the same element. Has God ever think that far?

All of a sudden, the priest slapped the lad very hard.

Lad: Why are you angry at me?

Priest: I am not angry at all...that is my answer to three of your questions

Lad: I don't get it

Priest: How does the slap feel?

Lad: Of course it is painful

Priest: So you do believe that pain exist?

Lad: Yes

Priest: Show the pain to me

Lad: I can't

Priest: That is my answer to your first question. All of us can feel God presence without seeing him.

Priest: Did you dream of being slapped by me last night? Have you ever thought that you would get a slap from me today? That's what i call fate

Priest: What is the hand that i used to slap you made of?

Lad: Skin

Priest: What is your cheek made of?

Lad: Skin

Priest: But you feel pain don't you? Even if devils are made of fire and hell is of fire, if it is of God's desire, then Hell would be hell for devils.

Water Crisis in INDIA

According to experts, by 2025 two thirds of the world’s population will face a shortage of drinking water. Already more than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. More than 4 million children worldwide die from diseases caused by poor water quality. The problems of desertification areas, rapid population growth and climate change only exacerbate the problem. India, a developing country, at first glance, has already felt the shortage of water in the “full height.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You Live Only Once

When all is said and done,what really  matters?
at the end of the day,at the end of the week,
or at the end of your life,what really matters?

Does it really matters where you lived?
Does it really matters how much money
 you had or didn't had?

Does it matter what you drove or what
you did for living?

 

Make the best of life's moments....
what reallyt matters end of the day
is who you are and what is left in your life
when all of the incignificant things are
 taken away....

Treasure those things what truly matters.

What really matters is if you've made the
best use of time,and done everything that
you needed to do.

 

Don't sit just there waiting,
You only LIVE Once!

Facebook "clickjacking" spreads across site

 

Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users are falling victim to so-called "clickjacking" attacks, warn web security labs.
Facebook members see links to subjects such as "World Cup 2010 in HD" or "Justin Bieber's phone number" that their friends appear to have "liked".
Clicking the link tricks users into recommending the site on Facebook too.
Security experts say the scam currently has no malicious intent but could be adapted to deliver malware.
The link generally takes the user through to a page containing an instruction, such as asking them to click a button to confirm that they are over 18.
However, wherever they click on the page it adds a link to their own Facebook profile saying they have also "liked" the site.
Currently the purpose of clickjacking is "trivial" and does not actively result in any malware or phishing attacks, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
"At the moment the attacks which we've seen are more like old-school viruses - written for the heck of it to see how many fans they can get.
"But our feeling is that it would be fairly easy for the bad guys to introduce some revenue generation for themselves," he told BBC News.
Clickjacking works across all computer operating systems, added Mr Cluley.
The Facebook attack uses iFrames, which essentially places an invisible button over an entire web page, so that wherever the user clicks, they end up hitting the button - in this case a hidden Facebook "like" button.
A free plug-in called NoScript, built for the Firefox web browser, includes pop-up warnings about potential clickjacks.
However, it will also query clicks on Flash videos, commonly used on many websites - and it is not easy to install, said Mr Cluley.
"You have to be a little bit nerdy to configure it."

 

One of those moment

*Many years ago I was acting as the system administrator for a test system
in a large publicly held company. *
*Periodically I would receive a call from someone who had not accessed the
system recently, forgot their *
*password and locked themselves out trying to logon. I would look up their
password and unlock the system*
*for them and they would go on their merry way. One day I received a call
from a young lady who was in just *
*such a predicament. I looked up her password and informed her that it was
'DOME' and, just to be playful, *
*told her the price for me being gracious enough to unlock her sign-on was
an explanation of the meaning *
*of her password. She became very embarrassed over the phone and pleaded
that she could never reveal *
*her secret. I of course replied that I would not give her system access
until she did. After negotiating for *
*several minutes she finally acquiesced but made me promise to never reveal
her password meaning to *
*any of her colleagues to which I gladly agreed. "Well, what does it mean?"
I asked. *
**
*She hesitated and then replied, "It's two words." *
**
*There was pregnant pause. I unlocked her system and simply said, "Have a
nice day."

AIRPORT - Trust the PILOT....amazing

AIRPORT - Trust the PILOT....amazing!

Times when you just have to trust the pilot

The last one is the most amazing. .....

1.  Tioman Island, Off the coast of Malaysia

2. Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

3.  Macao Intl Airport

4.  Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec

5.  A rock, off the coast of Greenwood

(Canadian Military Labrador Helicopter)

Outstanding job by a great young pilot from Pennsylvania! Can't add anything else to this ... the next picture is worth 10,000 words! If you don't think our military pilots earn their pay, you need to take a look at this picture.

This photo was taken by a soldier in  Afghanistan of a helicopter rescue mission.
The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life.

Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the ass end of a
chopper down on the roof top of a shack, on a steep mountain cliff, and hold
it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress
you... nothing ever will.

 

Memorise This !!

Visitors will ask you this during the World Cup period.

Q: What do the colours and the pattern on the South African flag represent?


Answer:
RED is the SUN, so it's above;
BLUE is the SEA, therefore below;
GREEN is the MONEY in the middle;
BLACK is the MAJORITY on the left centre,
WHITE is the MINORITY covering the money
YELLOW is the ELECTRIC FENCE keeping the MAJORITY away from the MONEY

Bas aik tum ho

Humein bhulne ka jis waqt faisla karna,
Phir apni aankhon se khwabon ko bhi rihaa karna,

Bas aik tum ho jis se dil ki baat kartay hey,
Hamari baaton ka sab se na zikar karna,

Chunay hen hum ne kuch ajnabi rastay,
Jo ho sakay to humare liye dua karna,

Tamam din ki thakan ko utarne k liye,
Zara si dair yaad kar liya karna,

Gar judai ka poochay koi sabab tum se,
toh hum pe nit naye ilzaam dhar lia karna,

Hum aise qabeele mein reh rahe hey!
Jahan logon ne seekha hi nahi wafa karna.

Transparent Animals

Amazing Transparent Animals

Being transparent (or nearly so) doesn’t mean animals have nothing to hide. On the contrary, their lack of pigmentation can help them elude predators who literally see right through them. Transparency also allows creatures to conserve precious resources, a benefit anyone can see.

Transparent Sea Cucumber

Slow moving, soft bodied bottom dwellers for the most part, Sea Cucumbers are an ancient lineage of sea creatures who have evolved a variety of ways to survive and thrive over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. For some Sea Cucumbers, being transparent allows them to fly under the radar, as it were, of predators in search of a quick & easy kill.

Lightly tinted in rosy pink, Enypniastes sea cucumbers live in the pitch-black ocean depths far below the 656-ft (200m) threshold where sunlight is unable to penetrate. The species was discovered in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 1.7 miles beneath the surface – before the current sub-sea oil spill occurred. Hope the li’l guy’s OK…

Transparent Butterfly

Butterflies of the species Greta Oto are commonly called clearwings or glasswings. It’s not that these butterflies have evolved transparent wings, more like they have dispensed with the growth of colored scales that normally cover the wings of butterflies and moths. Wash an average butterfly (well, imagine doing so) and you’ll end up with something that looks a lot like Greta Oto.

Glasswing butterflies are found from Mexico through Panama and have wingspans of 2.2 to 2.4 inches (5.6 to 6.1 cm) in width. It is thought that their mostly transparent wings make these butterflies less visible when in flight.

Transparent Goldfish

In late 2009, researchers at Mie University in Japan created a transparent goldfish by selectively breeding pale gold fish. The end result was a fish with translucent scales and skin through which many of the creature’s internal organs can be easily seen. “As this goldfish grows bigger, you can watch its whole life,” said Yutaka Tamaru, an associate professor at Mie University. That life could go on for some time as the non-gold goldfish are expected to live up to 20 years and grow to a length of 10 inches (25cm).

Though the general public will undoubtedly be clamoring for transparent goldfish to stock their home aquariums, the real reason the Mie University researchers created the transparent goldfish was to reduce, even negate, the need for dissections in school biology classrooms. This should make countless queasy students very, very happy – not to mention countless fish.

Transparent-Headed Barreleye Fish

The Pacific Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) was first described in 1939 but specimens of this unusual deep sea fish suffered damage when raised to the surface through low-pressure shallow surface waters. In 2009, researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) using remote-operated cameras were able to observe barreleyes in their element – 2,000 to 2,600 feet (600 to 800 meters) below sea level off the coast of central California. What they saw astonished them: the barreleye’s eyes rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled head shield.

Viewed head on, the barreleye’s face looks normal but what seem to be eyes are actually “nares” – the piscine equivalent of nostrils. The eyes are the vivid green structures located within the fish’s head, where they can be directed to look upwards while the fish remains horizontal.

Here is a video of the barreleye as first spied by MBARI’s seagoing ROV cameras:
\”Macropinna microstoma: A deep-sea fish with a transparent head and tubular eyes\”, via MBARIvideo

Transparent Cave Crayfish

Caves are some of the darkest places on the planet – even sophisticated light-gathering instruments are unable to register a single photon in the deepest, darkest caves. Under these conditions, creatures including fish, spiders, insects and crayfish have evolved into “troglobites”: animals so precisely adapted to living in darkness that they cannot survive outside cave environments. Under such conditions, neither eyes nor pigmentation are necessary.

There are (at the latest count) 39 species of cave crayfish species in North America, some restricted to the isolated caves in which they evolved. Cave crayfish range from whitish albinos to nearly translucent in appearance. If their chitinous exoskeletons were as thin as skin they would certainly be considered to be transparent.

Transparent Squid

Squid of the family Cranchiidae number around 60 species and are commonly known as Glass Squids. Indeed, these robustly built but delicate looking cephalopods outwardly resemble hand blown glass bottles with the only pigmented part being the cigar-shaped liver. Glass squids come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and include the Colossal Squid that can grow up to 9.8 feet (3m) long – not including the arms.

Glass squid are near-invisible for the most part, but sometimes they want to be seen… at mating time, for instance. That’s when heretofore hidden chromophores blaze into action, bathing the squid in undulating waves of eerie bioluminescent light.

Transparent Jellyfish

Jellyfish can be found in all of the world’s oceans and, if the predictions of some scientists can be believed, are increasing in number as the oceans warm up. Jellyfish are often transparent to some degree, often appearing as thin films that serenely undulate amongst schools of fish who don’t see them… until it’s too late.

Like glass squids and other deep sea marine animals, certain species of transparent jellyfish use bioluminescence to attract prey close enough for the jellyfish’s tentacles to shock them into submission. The Comb Jelly above displays pretty rainbow colors – fatal attraction indeed!

Transparent Flounder

Many marine creatures employ transparent body tissues in their larval stages in order to help secrete themselves from bigger predators, and fish are no exception. The young flounder above enhances its translucence by virtue of having a flat, thin body plan.

Flat, tasty and transparent is no way to go through life, so as a young flounder grows it will turn to another way of disguising itself – camouflage. As for its pancake shape, it continues to provide an advantage by helping the flounder keep a low profile on flat, sandy seafloors (and, presumably, the floors of certain frat houses).

Transparent Salp

Once dismissed as being a rather unsophisticated, primitive form of sea life, salps are now credited with being one of the most efficient carbon sequestering organisms on the planet. Scientists estimate as much as 1/3 of all human-created CO2 is being processed by salps, who constantly eat phytoplankton and expel compact fecal pellets rich in carbon that rapidly sink to the ocean floor.

Salps are almost completely transparent, with only their constantly full stomachs breaking the pattern. Salps are normally solitary creatures but have been known to link together in elaborate chains as shown above.

Transparent Frog

In late 2007, a research team from the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Hiroshima University in Japan announced it had successfully created transparent frogs. According to Professor Masayuki Sumida of the IAB, “Transparent frogs will prove useful as laboratory animals because they make it easier and cheaper to observe the development and progress of cancer, the growth and aging of internal organs, and the effects of chemicals on organs.” All this without causing the frogs to, er, croak.

Umm, not so fast, prof… have you seen the “glass frog” (above), native to the Venezuelan rainforest? Like the transparent frogs selectively bred in the lab from generations of pale-skinned Japanese Brown Frogs, the Glass Frog’s internal organs and eggs can be seen without too much trouble. Word to Professor Sumida: take the grant money and run!


As we have seen, the vast majority of transparent creatures live in the sea – see-through butterflies, crayfish and frogs are much less common and the latter do not occur naturally. Will scientists pursue the lines of experimentation that brought about transparent goldfish and frogs to their logical conclusion? Time will tell… and some day we may end up questioning the old maxim, “beauty is only skin deep”.