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	<title>Adventures of the Five Non-Gringos</title>
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		<title>Update on Father&#8217;s health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilaruss</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For god sake my father is doing better day by day with up and downs.  But he didn&#8217;t stop worrying in any case. If he feels better any day he worries about the routine things, other wise he worries about  his health and says I am not going to think abut routine things. But next day as usual. I can understand the situation.</p>
<p>He was  in Mission and HIG hospital  for four weeks in that around 16 days in CCU and 12 days in private room.  When he was in CCU, Mission hospital, some how his palms got bubbles and still not recovered. Now he shifted to Hyderabad and staying at my sisters place. Here he was shown to couple of famous cardiologist in Hyderabad and none of them agreed with the opinion of Mission Hospital and suggested Medical Management only based on his body conditions. They didn&#8217;t mean that Surgery is not required, but the risk is more in Surgery than Medical Management based on his health conditions. AT Mission they took Angiogram and advised Two Bypass surgery and  valve replacement.  We want to show one more famous cardiologist and waiting for him  as he went on  vacation. Probably we go for Medical Management.  I learned how corporate hospitals make big money.</p>
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		<title>My experience in the Stock Market Trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened to enter in to the Stocks trading through one of my friends. My idea on Stocks was just loosing money. When I noticed my friend trading the stocks, it is not just putting money in to the stocks but with a lot of thinking after analysis. I know it is sort of emotions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It happened to enter in to the Stocks trading through one of my friends. My idea on Stocks was just loosing money. When I noticed my friend trading the stocks, it is not just putting money in to the stocks but with a lot of thinking after analysis. I know it is sort of emotions play key role in ups and downs on the share value.  When some one sells the share in bulk the other person feel that the share value goes down and try to sell them out which result in collapse of the share value. The stock value depends on so many facts. It is so volatile.</p>
<p>One fine day I decided to buy some shares. I was waiting for the bearish market. Bearish is the term used in the Stock Market when the share value going down. Bullish is the trend when the stock value rises as a rocket into sky.  So I bought some stocks in the bearish trend. I was expecting the share value to increase in couple of day’s time. But this is the stock market. The share value continued bearish trend and settled to the value lower than what I purchased for. Hope the market turns to bullish sooner</p>
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		<title>A warm embrace that saves lives By Jane Chen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhairyashil1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following notes are taken from the lecture delivered by Jane Chen:
Premature babies struggle to stay alive after their birth as they are unable to control their
body temperature. They don&#8217;t have have enough fat on their body to stay warm. Around 20 million premature babies are born around the world every year.4 million of these babies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following notes are taken from the lecture delivered by Jane Chen:</p>
<p>Premature babies struggle to stay alive after their birth as they are unable to control their<br />
body temperature. They don&#8217;t have have enough fat on their body to stay warm. Around 20 million premature babies are born around the world every year.4 million of these babies do not survive.</p>
<p>Those who survive have chances of getting severe long term health problems . In the first month of the baby&#8217;s life, its only job is to grow. Due to the battle with hypothermia, premature baby&#8217;s organs can&#8217;t grow normally which can lead to problems like diabetes,heart disease and low IQ.</p>
<p>Many of these problems can be solved if these babies are kept warm. In the developed countries incubators are used widely to keep premature babies warm. The traditional incubators need electricity and cost up to 20000 dollars. Due to these reasons, it is not cost effective solution in rural areas of developing countries.</p>
<p>The rural people try to find local solution to this problem like tying hot water bottle around baby&#8217;s body<br />
or placing them under light bulb. These methods are ineffective and unsafe. Jane Chen&#8217;s team designed a sleeping bag for the babies which has pouch of bag attached to it back. It has face changing material like wax which has melting point close to the body temperature of the human body. This bag can be easily sterilized. This bag creates warm micro environment for the baby. The pouch maintain constant temperature for 4-6 hours after heating. It can be reheated again. The cost of this bag is approximately 25 dollars.</p>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; End of the World??</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the question many people are wondering about. In the much-studied Long Count calendar from the ancient Maya culture of Central America, the Gregorian calendar date of December 21st in 2012 CE correlates to the ending of a 5125-year period which equals the Gregorian date of August 11th, 3114 BCE. This earlier date is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the question many people are wondering about. In the much-studied Long Count calendar from the ancient Maya culture of Central America, the Gregorian calendar date of December 21st in 2012 CE correlates to the ending of a 5125-year period which equals the Gregorian date of August 11th, 3114 BCE. This earlier date is frequently referenced in inscriptions on Maya monuments. This provided much inspiration to the fiction writers in Hollywood to produce several movies on this issue pushing the world into panic.</p>
<p>Many religions and civilizations across the world mentioned in their manuscripts about the world ending.  New Age thought combined selected information from these scripts and influenced people around the world. Tens of millions of books have been sold by so called self-taught researchers who believe that year 2012 will bring massive global change.</p>
<p>Along with such believes, New Age authors used modern scientific and academically tested data to validate their theories. This data includes current plunge in world economy, natural disasters, increased sunspot activity and a magnetic field reversal etc,.</p>
<p>This looks clear that New Age ideas about 2012 still carry misinformation in understanding the complex calendars and belief systems of the ancient civilizations</p>
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		<title>Recent India Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilaruss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 17th afternoon around 3:30pm (It was 1am in India), I received a call from my sister as my father was taken to Hospital as he got chest pain and not comfortable even after taking couple of tablets. On Sunday night (Monday early hours 5am in India) shifted to another Hospital where ventilators are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On April 17th afternoon around 3:30pm (It was 1am in India), I received a call from my sister as my father was taken to Hospital as he got chest pain and not comfortable even after taking couple of tablets. On Sunday night (Monday early hours 5am in India) shifted to another Hospital where ventilators are available which is The Mission Hospital Durgapur, West Bengal as per doctors advise and he got survived. On Monday afternoon around 1pm I started in Albany and reached Duragapur on Wednesday afternoon around 2pm (430am Albany), after 40 hours. I traveled around 25 miles in Kolkata city and I didn&#8217;t see even one single clean street or good neighborhood. It just resembles Indian documentaries about poor India. </p>
<p>I went to see my father after 3pm in CCU, I spent  around 20 minutes. He was on Ventilator and under sedation. I was not scared that much  as I saw one friend before who was also on Ventilator and I was guessing for couple of days my father situation. After that I was standing out of the CCU along with my brother-in-law, that was scary time. When we came out he got VT(Ventricular Tachycardia, fast heart beat) and can lead to Cardiac Arrest. Later he got again another mild stroke was given electric massage. That was another critical and scary time. Then we called my brother  to start from Phoenix, AZ. He reached Friday afternoon. He was better that day and since he started recovering slowly but white blood cells count was fluctuating from 13000 to 21000 per cmm. At present he is better and still in same Hospital and planning to shift to HYD on Saturday May 15th. All credit goes to my brother-in-law for his immediate actions and great care taken by him all the time.</p>
<p>Will be continued later…</p>
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		<title>How to live before you die—Steve Jobs (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhairyashil1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are the notes taken from the lecture delivered by Steve Jobs:-
Lets continue with our discussion. Steve jobs was lucky to find what he liked to do early in life. He started Apple in his garage when he was 26. In 10 years Apple grew to be 2 billion dollar company with 4000 employees.
At the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following are the notes taken from the lecture delivered by Steve Jobs:-</p>
<p>Lets continue with our discussion. Steve jobs was lucky to find what he liked to do early in life. He started Apple in his garage when he was 26. In 10 years Apple grew to be 2 billion dollar company with 4000 employees.</p>
<p>At the age of 30, Steve Jobs was fired from the Apple, the company he had started. Steve Jobs feels that being fired by Apple was one of the best things that had happened to him. He decided to start over. He felt like a beginner again. During next five years he started companies like Next and Pixar. Pixar is now the most successful animation studio in the world.</p>
<p>Apple bought Next and Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Only thing that kept him going was the fact that he liked to do what he did everyday as job. Steve says,”Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid thinking that you have something to loose.”</p>
<p>Steve is a cancer survivor. Having closer encounter to death, Steve feels that our time on earth is limited. He believes that following our intuition should be the primary focus of our life. Everything else should be secondary.</p>
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		<title>MY Work Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 02:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Guys,
In this post i would like to share with you about my commitment in going to Gym and doing workout and burning my calories.
After the summer has completed and in the winter of last year i started to go gym and it was fine for 1 month and after that  i got lazy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Guys,</p>
<p>In this post i would like to share with you about my commitment in going to Gym and doing workout and burning my calories.<br />
After the summer has completed and in the winter of last year i started to go gym and it was fine for 1 month and after that  i got lazy and was not going to gym and even not controlling my diet and kept on eating a lot and not at all controlling the weight in reducing two pounds a month.</p>
<p>The day when i joined in the weight reducing program i was 171 pounds and now i am on the same weight at 171 pounds.I am not able to cross beyond 165 pounds.The moment i reach the 165 goal the next month i gain either 2 or 3 pounds and back again to 171.So after gaining 3 pounds more this month i have taken a strong decision that i need to cross the 165 target any how and reduce my Tummy as i am unable to wear some nice t-shirts and shirts as they became tight for me at the tummy region so i strongly taken a decision to reduce the tummy and started going to gym and also controlling my diet </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how many days i can control my will power in controlling my diet and cross the Big target for me of 165 pounds.</p>
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		<title>How to live before you die&#8211;Steve Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 02:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dhairyashil1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are the notes taken from the lecture given by Steve Jobs at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University:-
Steve jobs is a drop out from the college. His biological mother was unwed graduate student. She wanted her son to be adopted by educated people. He was adopted by a couple who had not graduated from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following are the notes taken from the lecture given by Steve Jobs at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University:-</p>
<p>Steve jobs is a drop out from the college. His biological mother was unwed graduate student. She wanted her son to be adopted by educated people. He was adopted by a couple who had not graduated from college. They promised his biological mother that they would send him to college.</p>
<p>Eventually Steve Jobs did go to college. The idea of going to college and spending all the money they saved for years didn&#8217;t work well with him. Dropping out of college wasn&#8217;t a bad experience for him. Now he was not forced to take the courses that he did not like . He started to take voluntary courses which had real interest in.</p>
<p>He was not having dorm room. He returned  coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food with. He used to walk 7 miles down the town to Hare Krishna temple every Sunday night to get one good meal for the week.</p>
<p>The calligraphy class that Steve Jobs took during that time helped him to design the typography for the Mac computer 10 years later.</p>
<p>You have to believe that the dots you are following will connect somehow in the future. The trust that the dots will connect in the future won&#8217;t make you afraid when you are following the path not followed by others.</p>
<p>We will continue this in next post.</p>
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		<title>Why am I not posting lately?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kanaka Byraju</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been really long time that I did &#160;a post on 5nongringos. I know it&#8217;s not acceptable on my part since I am the one proposed and setup the whole thing. Answer is, I don&#8217;t know. May be I was losing motivation? Had been really going through the project status, bugs and a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been really long time that I did &nbsp;a post on 5nongringos. I know it&#8217;s not acceptable on my part since I am the one proposed and setup the whole thing. Answer is, I don&#8217;t know. May be I was losing motivation? Had been really going through the project status, bugs and a lot of update. New responsibilities and commitments. My personal work, messed up wordpress intallation, new apps on palm pre or new ideas that are crawling in my mind. I am not sure.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally I am able to pool some time and making my mind to do the posting. I have couple of ideas floating on my mind. Lets talk and decide further. Here we go..&nbsp;</p>
<p>1. We must clean the blog and make it more pretty. May be shell few bucks to buy a news tempate and implement it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>2. We should do few changes to the rule and make more posts and with out limit on word count. It could be as simple as sharing a funny youtube video or a engadget article. It&#8217;s absolutely legal to post articles of other sites as long as we mention the source and excert it. I am talking about putting more ads.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lets find some time and talk about it. I am sure that will motivate us todo more in the future. Bye for now.&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>The Rape of Europa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday as our family was spending a lazy afternoon in the living room, we chanced upon an interesting documentary on PBS. We were actually watching the previous show, a documentary about America&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement (itself a very interesting documentary), but when I saw the next documentary, I couldn&#8217;t help but watch it. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Sunday as our family was spending a lazy afternoon in the living room, we chanced upon an interesting documentary on PBS. We were actually watching the previous show, a documentary about America&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement (itself a very interesting documentary), but when I saw the next documentary, I couldn&#8217;t help but watch it. The title was &#8220;The Rape of Europa&#8221;&#8211;a reference to the rape of the woman Europa by Zeus, disguised as a bull, in Greek mythology&#8211;also very apt considering its subject: the systematic plunder of the Nazis of Europe&#8217;s art treasures.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t even catch all of it, but what struck me the most was the systematic way that the Nazis did it. One thing I recall from it was when Hitler visited Italy upon the invitation of Mussolini, and was very impressed with Renaissance artwork such as those by Leonardo da Vinci. Upon returning to Germany, Hitler decided to make his hometown in Austria the site of what would be the world&#8217;s foremost cultural site, home of the largest collection of art and cultural pieces. Plans were drawn up and a very detailed list of artworks to be included was prepared. This is the scary part: in addition to the names of the artworks, the location of these artworks were also listed. These locations reflected the countries that Hitler invaded, BEFORE they were invaded. In other words, you can make the case that the reason those countries were invaded was to plunder their artworks!<br />
Poland, one of the hardest hit of the artwork plunder, has a catalog of the missing treasures. They list 59,000 missing pieces, and these are just the one they can identify. Of the most important pieces was a painting by Raphael, owned by a Polish nobleman. Its estimated value today is at least 100 million dollars. Someday they hope to find it again, once the children, or grandchildren, of the current owners decide to sell them without knowing the story behind the painting.</p>
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