DIRTY EARRINGS Kavitha Kumari – Cochin A wealthy lady from Mumbai once decided to celebrate her forty fifth birthday with the inmates of the women’s mental hospital, in line with the new social trend. She set out distributing food packets, when one of them smiled at her and asked her for her gold earrings. Being her birthday, she didn’t want to disappoint the mental patient and so played tactfully, ‘My earrings are dirty. I picked it up from a lavatory’. ‘Lavatory?; then I don’t want your stinking earrings. You…
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THE BRAIN BEHIND Charumathi – Mumbai A South African gold mine owner brought his son to the Mumbai based Trivedi Hospitals for a cardiac surgery. The surgery was successful and his son discharged within a week. As a mark of gratitude, the overwhelmed father presented a golden heart to the cardio surgeon who performed the surgery. A few months later the mine owner had to bring his brother to the same hospital for a brain tumor removal. The operation and subsequent recovery being successful, they started packing up, after…
Read MoreChange Implementation and Management
Page 2 of 25 Title: Change Implementation and Management Title description: A brief analysis of HR fundamentals and strategies Word count: 2900 Keywords: Change implementation, Change management strategies, Quantum changes, Man-machine relationships, Science-driven changes, Downsizing, New technology introduction Excerpts: To succeed in today’s competitive environment it is important for the organizations to anticipate and predict the future and initiate changes proactively. The factors necessary for changes are more prevalent and influential today than ever before. Even most manufacturing jobs connected to services like finance, human resources and engineering are highly…
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Page 1 of 25 Title: Auction Title description: A brief analysis of types and methods Word count: 1460 Keywords: Surplus maximization, Sealed-Bid First Price Auction, Sealed-Bid Second Price Auction, English Auction, Dutch Auction, Private value auctions, Interdependent value auctions, Common value auctions Excerpts: An auction would help in carrying out a ‘market test’ to establish the market value of the item. Auctions have rules that are explained beforehand. These help in avoiding manipulation and back stage deals between selected buyers and sellers. A typical auction model includes a mechanism for…
Read MoreNASA TO SEND MAN ON A ONE WAY MISSION TO MARS
Oct. 2010. Subsequent to its discovery of water on Mars, Nasa intends to send man on a one way mission to the red planet. The feasibility studies are already underway to determine if astronauts could permanently settle down and establish human colonies in Mars. The billion pound mission, code named ‘Hundred Years Starship’ is led by the Ames Research Center, one of Nasa’s main research centers based at California. Pentagon is also supposedly involved in the project which is associated with advanced defense research project. The project estimated to be…
Read MoreFRIED BEER ON A PLATE
Aug 2010: Well if you only thought that beer always come in a bottle, you’re no longer right. It just started coming on a plate. Well that’s what is called as the ‘fried beer’. The liquor snack was invented by Mark Zable which according to the BBC was in an effort to win the fried food competition at the Texas State Fair. The inventor described his ‘fried beer’ as being a result of three years of development of the cooking methods. Zable did not disclose if any special ingredients have…
Read MoreCHEERS! LETS START TRADING
Liquor and trading is a deadly combination as was seen in Britain, five years back. The British financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) had on the 29th June 2010, punished a broker of PVM Oil Futures, Stephen Noel Perkins with a fine of 72,000 pounds and a five year ban. Perkins had bought over 7 million barrels of Brent crude oil, under a drunken trading spree. Skipping work after the weekend, and still under heavy intoxication, he traded in the wee hours of the next day. Drunken Perkins set…
Read More‘PRESIDENT MUGABE, YOUR TOILET IS NOT YOUR BEDROOM’
A police court in Zimbabwe’s city Bulawayo has sentenced a man to ten days imprisonment for using the toilet meant for President Mugabe, at a trade fair. The user of the high profile toilet was a policeman Alois Mabhunu, who was on duty at the international trade fair, when he suddenly needed to relive himself. Human rights lawyers pointed out that there was no law forbidding any individual from using a presidential toilet. Also the charge sheet did not specify any laws breached or grounds for compromising security. The incident…
Read MoreTHE DREADED MIDDLE FINGER SALUTE
South Africa is one of those nations that push individual liberties and rights to the fore. However last year, the South African Human Rights Commission had asked the country’s police minister Nathi Mthethwa to apologize to Chumani Maxwele for wrongful arrest carried out the previous year. The commission also noted that many of Maxwele’s rights have been violated. It might be recalled that Chumani Maxwele was arrested for raising his middle finger at President Jacob Zuma. The court ruled that there was no law preventing anyone from giving a one…
Read MoreIS THE RATIONALE BEHIND CURRENCY STILL VALID
Today almost all nations across the world are facing economic difficulties. Huge budget deficits have become the order of the day. Governments have to spend a lot particularly on infrastructure, health and education, even as they continue to increase spending on interest payments, against conservative tax incomes. Where are we leading to? Poverty levels are increasing at high rates, and each day global poverty levels a hitting a new high. There is famine and drought like conditions for many, despite our mother earth providing all for everyone. We can’t continue…
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