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Srilankan Tamil Crisis - Time is running out

Estimated Tamil people between 230,000 to 300,000 have been trapped in the Vanni conflict zone, denied food and basic living essentials and facing continuous shelling and aerial bombing. No one is there to help the innocent civilians. The cry of infants, children and elderly are not heard by anyone in the world. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is that no one knows how severe the crisis is because the Sri Lankan government has barred local and foreign media from reporting on the subject and severely limited the presence of humanitarian organizations. What is even more disconcerting is that the global mainstream media has largely ignored the Tamil civilian causalities, and has actually praised the Sri Lankan government for "running an effective military campaign." Acts of terrorism from any one are deplorable and cannot be tolerated by any human person; the killing of innocent civilians, under the guise of fighting terror is absolutely ind...

Early Stroke Identification - STR Method

The faster you recognize the signs of a stroke the greater your ability to save a life and lessen the damage from a stroke. Learning the information in this article will help you recognize a stroke so that you can take quick action to counter its effect. If properly treated within a short period of time, it's amazing how modern medicine has progressed in helping people recover from the effects of a stroke. The key is STR and getting treatment within 3 hours. Two Stories – Two Different Outcomes! Story #1: During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall. She assured everyone that she was fine. People offered to call the paramedics but she declined. She told everyone that she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. After getting cleaned up, she got a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later to tell everyone that his wife had bee...

Software Programmer Humour

Top 20 Programmer responses when their programs don't work: 20. "That's weird..." 19. "It's never done that before." 18. "It worked yesterday." 17. "How is that possible?" 16. "It must be a hardware problem." 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"  14. "There is something funky in your data." 13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"  12. "You must have the wrong version." 11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."  10. "I can't test everything!" 9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."  8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."  7. "Somebody must have changed my code." 6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?" 5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?  4. "You can't use that version on your system."  3. "Wh...

Letter by Aziz Premji

Dear Wiproite, My own successes and setbacks along the way have taught me some lessons. I wish to share them with you and hope you will find them useful.    Lesson #1: Be careful to ask what you want. You may get it.  What this means is that do not ask too little either of yourself or the others around you. What you ask is what you get. When I look back at the time when I joined Wipro, I was 21. If you ask me whether I thought that Wipro would grow so by someday, the honest answer is that I did not. But neither did I think it would not. We constantly stretched ourselves to higher and higher targets. Sometimes, it seemed possible, sometimes fanciful and sometimes plain insane. But we never stopped raising limits. And we got a lot more than what we bargained for.    Lesson # 2: Respond, don't react Always be aware of your em...

Living in Reaction to Life to Meet Your Wildest Expectations

" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." Warren Buffett                                                            Does any of the following describe you ? Do you often find yourself automatically reacting to people and events? Are you constantly at the mercy of circumstances? Do you tend to live reactively? Are you disconnected and separate from others? Do you see them in competition with you for things you need in order to survive and prosper? Is your sense of being disconnected magnified by the false façade you put on to protect yourself? Does your façade keep people out and prevent them from seeing yo...