PROCESS OF MAKING YOUR FAVORITE Sabudana (???????? ) Sabudana is a popular food eaten during fasting and religious events ... Well read the attached story and then decide yourself if sabudana is vegetarian or non-vegetarian !
 
In Tamil Nadu India, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore there are many Sabudana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we were about 2 kms away from the factories.
 
Sabudana is made by root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root each weighing about 6kgs. Factory owners buy these roots in bulk during season, make it to pulp and put it in pits of about 40ft x 25ft. Pits are in open ground and the pulp is allowed to rot for several months. Thousands of tons of roots rot in pits. There are huge electric bulbs throughout the night where millions of insects fall in the pits.
 
While pulp is rotting, water is added everyday due to which 2" long white color eel is automatically born like pests are born automatically in gutter.
The walls of pits are covered by millions of eels and factory owners with the help of machine crush the pulp with the eels which also become paste.
This action is repeated many times during 5-6 months.
 
The pulp is thus ready and millions & millions of pests and insects crushed and pasted together. This paste is then passed through round mesh and made into small balls and then polished. This is sabudana.
 
Now I know why many people don't eat sabudana treating this as non-vegetarian. Please reveal this truth of sabudana to your friends and family and stop them from eating this miserable food on sacred days of fasting.

Source from Friends mail

Sitting in the Geography class in school, I remember how fascinated I was when we were being taught all about the Dead Sea. As you probably recall, the Dead Sea is really a Lake, not a sea (and as my Geography teacher pointed out, if you understood that, it would guarantee 4 marks in the term paper!) It’s so high in salt content that the human body can float easily. You can almost lie down and read a book! The salt in the Dead Sea is as high as 35% - almost 10 times the normal ocean water. And all that saltiness has meant that there is no life at all in the Dead Sea. No fish. No vegetation. No sea animals. Nothing lives in the Dead Sea.
 
And hence the name: Dead Sea.
While the Dead Sea has remained etched in my memory, I don't seem to recall learning about the Sea of Galilee in my school Geography lesson. So when I heard about the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea and the tale of the two seas - I was intrigued.
It turns out that the Sea of Galilee is just north of the Dead Sea. Both the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea receive their water from river Jordan. And yet, they are very, very different.
Unlike the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee is pretty, resplendent with rich, colorful marine life. There are lots of plants. And lots of fish too. In fact, the Sea of Galilee is home to over twenty different types of fishes.
Same region, same source of water, and yet while one sea is full of life, the other is dead.
 
How come?
Here’s apparently why.
The River Jordan flows into the Sea of Galilee and then flows out. The water simply passes through the Sea of Galilee in and then out - and that keeps the sea healthy and vibrant, teeming with marine life. But the Dead Sea is so far below the mean sea level, that it has no outlet. The water flows in from the river Jordan, but does not flow out. There are no outlet streams. It is estimated that over 7 million tons of water evaporate from the Dead Sea every day leaving it salty, too full of minerals and unfit for any marine life.
The Dead Sea takes water from the River Jordan, and holds it. It does not give.
Result ? No life at all.
Think about it.
Life is not just about getting. Its also about giving.
 
We all need to be a bit like the Sea of Galilee. We are fortunate to get wealth, knowledge, love and respect. But if we don't learn to give, we could all end up like the Dead Sea. The love and the respect, the wealth and the knowledge could all evaporate. Like the water in the Dead Sea.
If we get the Dead Sea mentality of merely taking in more water, more money, more everything the results can be disastrous.
It is a good idea to make sure that in the sea of your own life, you have outlets. Many outlets. For love and wealth - and everything else that you get in your life. Make sure you don't just get, you give too.
Open the taps. And you'll open the floodgates to happiness. Make that a habit. To share. To give.
Experience life. Experience the magic! Nature teaches us wonderful lessons.

Why is the keyboard layout Q-W-E-R-T-Y and not simply A-B-C-D-F?   Why were computer keyboards designed in the current format not in a alphabetical order. Is there any specific reason or it's just some random convention we are following?                     

It hasn’t been done randomly or just for fun, it has a very distinct and purposeful reason behind it.

The current format of the keyboard was devised long back in 1870’s by a gentleman named Christopher Sholes for the then typewriter. Though, it definitely was not the first format to come up, it didn’t take much time to switch to this one. Starting with lexicographic order i.e. A-B-C-D-E-F, after various trials and errors and taking hundreds of cases, Christopher Sholes gradually reached the Q-W-E-R-T-Y. It was really well received (evident from the fact that we still use it).

When the typewriter was invented, it used a metal bar to hold the character alphabets and the other end of the bar was attached to a linkage carrying a carriage with the coated ink. When a key was struck, it would emboss its character on the paper placed beneath the carriage. However, when an operator learned to type at a great speed, a certain flaw was noticed. When two letters were struck in quick succession, the bars of the typewriter would entangle and get jammed.

Christopher Sholes found a way out. He proposed that the letters of frequently used letter pairs should be in different rows. For example, ‘C-H’, ‘S-T’, ’T-H’, ‘W-H’ and more. He also formulated that to speed up the typing process, there has to be a regular alternation between two hands. So observing thousands of words, he placed the letters in way that most words would make use of both hands.

He also observed that almost every word in the dictionary carries a vowel. According to him, the most frequently used vowel was ‘A’ and the most frequently used letter (non-vowel) was ‘S’. So he placed ‘A’ and ‘S’ together and chose to keep less common letters like ‘Q’, ‘W’, ‘Z’, ‘X’, ‘C’ around these. This was complemented by placing fairly common letters like ‘M’, ‘N’, ‘L’, ‘K’, ‘O’, ‘P’ at right extremes to create a perfect alternation between both the hands.

All these factors tested with thousands of trials gave us the format that we still use and perhaps would be using till eternity.

Very practical advice for a peaceful and happy life after 60.

 1. Do not feel tired, after you retire.

2. Live in your own place to enjoy independence, privacy and a happy  life.

3. Hold on to your nest egg, bank deposits and assets with yourself or spouse at the most.

4. Don't believe your childrens' promise to care for you when you grow old, since 'change of priorities' in life is a law which seldom changes.

5. Expand your circle of friends to include young ones who will outlive you. Be helpful, giving and sharing type if you have not been earlier. Have correct perspective of money you might need. Be generous in giving. Do not Compare and expect nothing from others.

6. Be well groomed and smelling fresh of spring water all the time.

7. Do not meddle in the life of your children.

8. Do not use old age as your shield and justification for turning grumpy. Do not turn grumpy. It's all in the mind. Do not tell your troubles to anyone who cares to listen.

9. Listen to what others may say. But think and act independently. Read inspiring-motivational books not fiction. Keep yourself busy in some productive work.

10. Pray but do not beg, even from God. If at all, only ask for His forgiveness and for others welfare.

DID YOU KNOW??? I DID NOT. Few know that we have Rs.40 lakh risk cover in case of damage due to cylinder explosion!

Must read and pass on to as to as many as possible.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JPR-lpg-cylinders-come-with-rs-40-lakh-risk-cover-3185659.html

Every year, India sees its fair share of LPG cylinder mishaps?, causing loss of life, limb and material assets. While most us know how to avoid accidents, few know that we have Rs.40 lakh risk cover in case of damage due to cylinder explosion!

"Around 10,000 incidents of cylinder explosions take place in different part of the country every year. Instances of death in such ?incidents are low, but cylinder explosions cause maximum damage to ?houses and properties, besides Injury to people," informed Ishwar Lal ?Jat, chief fire officer, adding that most people don't claim this insurance amount in both cases!!

In fact, most companies have not seen a single insurance claim from citizens in years. Given the level of awareness, it's not a surprise.



Customers are TOTALLY unaware

Most homemakers were completely shocked when DNA told them about the insurance cover available on LPG cylinders. "I never knew that such damages could be claimed from the gas agency," said Varsha Singh.

Leave alone simple homemakers, even well-read professionals seem to have little clue of this "hidden benefit". "I did not know that we get insurance in case an LPG cylinder explodes.

The staff at the gas agency never informed me," said Amit Agarwal, a chartered accountant who recently got a gas connection.


Turn to the court

Bhanwar Singh Chauhan, a senior advocate, confirmed that customers are insured from the time they buy an LPG connection. "If a customer is kept in the dark, they can complain about it in the consumer court and even file a petition against the agencies concerned for withholding the information," he said.

Insurance agents said it is very easy to get the claim - informs cops and gas agency, wait for survey by insurance officials and soon you will get the claim amount.

All it means that if you are a LPG user your life is insured in case of an accident for upto Rs 40 Lakhs. In case of an accident you can claim upto Rs 50 Lakhs incl damages and hospitalisation charges. The LPG companies and the govt are conveniently not advertising this order deliberately.


"In the event of accident. ?All registered LPG consumers are covered under an insurance policy? ? taken by the PSU Oil Companies."

In case of the unfortunate event of an accident, the customer must immediately inform the distributor in writing. The distributor then informs the concerned Oil Company and the Insurance Company about the same.  The distributor will offer assistance to the customer in completing the formalities of insurance claims arising out of the accident.

In addition to the above, all LPG distributors also have Third Party Liability Insurance to cover losses in the event of an LPG accident."

http://www.iocl.com/download/Citizen_Charter_IOCL_Final_Ver_6_01_04_13.pdf