love n' marriage

love n' marriage(ref-Pragyan)

One day, Plato asked his teacher, "What is love? How can I find it?" His teacher answered, "There is a vast wheat field in front. Walk forward without turning back, and pick only one stalk. If you find the most magnificent stalk, then you have found love." Plato walked forward, and before long, he returned with empty hands, having picked nothing. His teacher asked, "Why did you not pick any stalk?" Plato answered, "Because I could only pick once, and yet I could not turn back. I did find the most magnificent stalk, but did not know if there were any better ones ahead, so I did not pick it. As I walked further, the stalks that I saw were not as good as the earlier one, so I did not pick any in the end." His teacher then said, "And that is love." On another day, Plato asked his teacher, "What is marriage? How can I Find it?" His teacher answered, "There is a thriving forest in front. Walk forward without turning back, and chop down only one tree. If you find the tallest tree, then you have found marriage". Plato walked forward, and before long, he returned with a tree. The tree was not thriving, and it was not tall either. It was only an ordinary tree. His teacher asked, "Why did you chop down such an ordinary tree?" Plato answered, "Because of my previous experience. I had walked through the field, but returned with empty hands. This time, I saw this tree, and I felt that it was not bad, so I chopped it down and brought it back. I did not want to miss the opportunity." His teacher then said, "And that is marriage. You see son Love is the most beautiful thing to happen to a person, its an opportunity but you don't realize its worth when you have it but only when its gone like the field of stalks. Marriage is like the tree you chopped , it's a compromise."

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EARTH : Nostalgia

EARTH : Nostalgia

Earth - a place where once the most intelligent species lived; where life was not just life, it was a reason to survive; where the most beautiful sceneries were found; where god first laid his feet down; where histories were made, mysteries were unfolded and where we humans lived. But earth today is not the earth we loved. All the dreams we had are shattered into smithereens, as the real thing is no more. Things that exist today are the memories of the past. Many packages of problems are found today but it seems that they are packed without proper solutions. We, who are supposed to be one of the most intelligent species of the entire universe act as if we have contracted amnesia and have gone insane. A place where once people reached the zenith of love and friendship is now a mere pool of hatred. Earth is no more earth, it is just one of the mysterious nine planets constantly revolving round a satellite known as the Sun. Pollution, population and politics are the three musketeers who are combating us, and our earth. While playing the dirty, dangerous and daring game of immortal combat, I feel the exudation of our happiness as time rolls out through a steep hill to a point of no return. The exuberance of youth and the adrenalin rush that we had is no more as we all are as dead as a dodo. It feels like the earth has been affected by magical spells and voodoos as we look in despair while the place of our destruction is being chosen and the choice is unanimous - the earth. The beauty of earth has now been shaved away by deforestation, which once didn't have a single hair out of its place. People, in complicity of their kind, while committing crimes, only resemble signs of dire straits that always lead to a dead end. These people have engraved earth with their misdeeds and we are the helpless people to endure their by-products. These people are eating the big apple and from where they originate, remains something of an enigma to us. These enigmatic people are enhanced and powered by things such as false modernization, superstition, discrimination, bribery, selfishness and so on, which also play a deadly role in this downfall. It is now time for the climax. We will have to bring an end to this game. It is not at all easy but it?s not impossible too. To bring earth back to its original form, we will have to be more emphatic and en bloc. We should always look forward to the bright side of things; in other words, be more optimistic. We should believe in love and friendship in comparison with money. Only then will the sun shine. That is when the earth will become enchanted and we all will be in a nirvana. But these might just be thoughts that don't work out, clouds that don't rain, dogs that don't bite or dynamites that don't explode. I just have a sneaky premonition about this. If the things that the earth really demands are not done with, all that will remain is dust in the wind. Then, when its too late, the feeling of sentiment and suffering will daunt us as we waste our deserving tears for the feelings of NOSTALGIA!

WORLD BANK AID FOR NEPAL EDUCATION

WORLD BANK AID FOR NEPAL EDUCATION

The World Bank has pledged a further financial assistance of USD130 million towards meeting Nepal’s Education for All goals. The School Sector Reform Programme approved on Sept. 22 is the main vehicle for the implementation of the Nepal government’s 15-year National Programme of Action.

The World Bank said that the funding will meet a slice of the programme’s expenditures over the next five years – both recurrent and development - covering all levels of school education. The programme focuses on the three pillars of Access, Inclusion and Quality. It is supported by eight other development partners who will also pool their resources, together with the World Bank , and with Government resources, reads the press statement issued by the WB in Washinton DC on Sept. 22. In addition, five “non-pooling partners” will support the programme directly. The total cost of the five-year programme (2009/10-2013/14) is estimated to be about USD2.6 billion, of which pooled development partners have committed approximately USD500 million.

As a sector wide approach, the programme will finance salaries and benefits for nearly 120,000 government school teachers. It will also finance salaries of around 100,000 community recruited teachers through salary grants. The programme plans to address the problem of uneven deployment of teachers by providing incentives for teachers to transfer from schools that have too many teachers to those with too few

The programme will also finance a range of activities intended to ensure equitable access and quality basic education for all children in the 5-12 age group, prepare pre- school age children for basic education through Early Childhood Education Development and deliver basic numeracy and literacy to youth and adults, especially women.

“Nepal should be proud of its accomplishments in the education sector,” said Susan Goldmark, World Bank Country Director for Nepal. “In 1951 there were only 10,000 children in primary and secondary schools. Now there are more than 7 million students in more than 30,000 schools throughout the country. Still, much more remains to be done so that schools provide each child with the skills needed to find good jobs and succeed. That is what this partnership with the Ministry of Education and development partners strives to accomplish.”

Because earlier programmes were so successful, the demand for quality schooling beyond primary level has soared. To meet this demand and to provide children with skills to prepare them for a life of work, Nepal is now combining the primary and lower secondary cycles to form a basic education cycle of grades 1-8 and a secondary cycle of grades 9-12

The World Bank has been a partner to the development of Nepal’s education sector for over 30 years through a series of national programmes. These include the Basic and Primary Education Projects I and II, the Community School Support Programme, the Higher Education Projects I and II and the Education for All Programme.

The project is a blend of credit (USD71.50 million) and grant (USD58.50 million) from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s concessionary lending arm. The credit has 40 years to maturity with a 10-year grace period.

ASRONOMERS FOUND ROCKEY ROCKEY PLANET OTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM

ASRONOMERS FOUND ROCKEY ROCKEY PLANET OTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM

Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand — if only it weren't so broiling hot.

As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system. But they all have been gas balls or can't be proven to be solid.

Now a team of European astronomers has confirmed the first rocky extrasolar planet.

Scientists have long figured that if life begins on a planet, it needs a solid surface to rest on, so finding one elsewhere is a big deal."We basically live on a rock ourselves," said co-discoverer Artie Hartzes, director of the Thuringer observatory in Germany. "It's as close to something like the Earth that we've found so far. It's just a little too close to its sun."

So close that its surface temperature is more than 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit, too toasty to sustain life. It circles its star in just 20 hours, zipping around at 466,000 mph. By comparison, Mercury, the planet nearest our sun, completes its solar orbit in 88 days."It's hot, they're calling it the lava planet," Hartzes said.This is a major discovery in the field of trying to find life elsewhere in the universe, said outside expert Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution. It was the buzz of a conference on finding an Earth-like planet outside our solar system, held in Barcelona, Spain, where the discovery was presented Wednesday morning. The find is also being published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.The planet is called Corot-7b. It was first discovered earlier this year. European scientists then watched it dozens of times to measure its density to prove that it is rocky like Earth. It's in our general neighborhood, circling a star in the winter sky about 500 light-years away. Each light-year is about 6 trillion miles.Four planets in our solar system are rocky: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.In addition, the planet is about as close to Earth in size as any other planet found outside our solar system. Its radius is only one-and-a-half times bigger than Earth's and it has a mass about five times the Earth's.

Now that another rocky planet has been found so close to its own star, it gives scientists more confidence that they'll find more Earth-like planets farther away, where the conditions could be more favorable to life, Boss said."The evidence is becoming overwhelming that we live in a crowded universe," Boss said

CYBERSECURITY STARTS

CYBERSECURITY STARTS

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 - When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands.The Obama administration now wants to convey similarly clear and concise guidance about one of the biggest national security threats in your home and office — the computer.Think before you click. Know who's on the other side of that instant message. What you say or do in cyberspace stays in cyberspace — for many to see, steal and use against you or your government.The Internet, said former national intelligence director Michael McConnell, "is the soft underbelly" of the U.S. today. Speaking recently at a new cybersecurity exhibit at the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the Internet has "introduced a level of vulnerability that is unprecedented."The Pentagon's computer systems are probed 360 million times a day, and one prominent power company has acknowledged that its networks see up to 70,000 scans a day, according to cybersecurity expert James Lewis.For the most part, those probes of government and critical infrastructure networks are benign. Many, said McConnell, are a nuisance and some are crimes. But the most dangerous are probes aimed at espionage or tampering with or destroying data.The attackers could be terrorists aiming at the U.S. culture and economy, or nation-states looking to insert malicious computer code into the electrical grid that could be activated weeks or years from now."We are the fat kid in the race," said Lewis. "We are the biggest target, we have the most to steal, and everybody wants to get us."Steps to improve computer security at home include:_using antivirus software, spam filters, parental controls and firewalls._regularly backing up important files to external computer drives._thinking twice before sending information over the Internet, particularly when using wireless or unsecured public networks.

EDUCATION IS LIKE LAUXARY, THAT A FEW CAN AFFORD

EDUCATION IS LIKE LAUXARY, THAT A FEW CAN AFFORD (ref-- pin2.sa)

While watching Alzageera telivision a documentary's line fascinated me but more over i was shocked by the rality it wanted to expres.It was "education is like lauxary, that only few can afford." Literally the statement sounded so good that its meaning was over taken.But when i repeated the statement few after the message was really embrasing.

The programme was based upon the rular area of india and the poor people's living conditions.Now where we advocate education as a basic ned have examples like this. People each day starve to death and we and our government make education their basic agenda. And moreover such agenda remains only as a steps for them. Those sort promise never work.

In this conditions every one form one to dill that is each individual should be concern about their country and countrymen. People should be able to think above their selfish motives. We se more crucial conditions in our country itself.People are dying of dirrohea in one side and Health minister have great time visiting abroad.And we think about better education.

At least we would take some lesson from Asian country that is Malaysia which invested 50% of its annual budget on education and se its GDP is $10,000 which is among top of world.So, people must be escaped with education inorder

EDUCATION ENDS ON THE WAY

EDUCATION ENDS ON THE WAY (ref- pin2.sa)

Having been stucked for half an hour in traffic at Baneshwor, Mandep hitting the window of the bus said,"Hell man i need escape off from this country.There is nothing that this country can provide us."And he was supported by few others youth beside him.

The same day a heading cauht my eyes in the newspaper,"whole day is wasted in reaching and getting back from school to home."It was about a remote village where it takes 4-5 hours for students to reach school and after being reached there they have get back since their home is too far and they cannot make anymore delay.We have more that thousands school in kathmandu valley itself and so is the ratio in other major cities and towns.Even villages with other available facilities have schools but the places where they do not have accessw to other good facilities even do not have acces to the Government facilities. Or it can be said that as centralization is over taking things,soon a day will come when we will se Mt.everest,Janki temple,Lakes,wildlife reserve and other good things in the valley itself.Or the Government should start thinking about the isue and make things beter there.

If the concerned people cant make things overnight than even the Government has options either make transportation good so that students can utilize optimum time in school or provide them with educational institutions so that they do not have to travel a long distance everyday.But anyway these things must be thought

before people start get wrong mentality about education and government.