Friday, April 18, 2014

Only Way To Stay Happy

Recently Someone asked me " I am always caring, Helping and nice to everyone but still from inside I feel Hollow, What should I do to remove this filling and stay Happy?"

Then in reply I just Said " Don't Expect anything from from Others"
And that is the fact many of us fail to understand which is KEY to happy LIFE
When we help someone or behave hood to someone we EXPECT them to do same for us and make a belief that "BY GIVING HAPPINESS WE WILL GET HAPPINESS" which is a VERY WRONG and DISASTROUS belief and unfortunately very common .

All we need to understand is "Giving itself is Happiness". Because happiness is something which comes from inside, No-one, I really mean NO-ONE on this planet can give you Real Happiness apart from YOU.

Then I explained my friend with an example. I told him when a mother is taking care of her child Does she expect anything back from her like when her kid will grow up he will do same for her, NO she is happy by JUST making her kid happy and that is REAL HAPPINESS which is Permanent, Indestructible.

And One more point If you are happy just by giving and without expecting anything in return than if you get something back, whether little, Than it will be a "SURPRISE BONUS" and surprises always makes you happy.
 So final words
"Keep Giving Without Expecting"

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Solar Power & Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Coal Power


Image Credit: Solar panel, wind turbine & globe via Shutterstock
WASHINGTON — It’s less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal-fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
In fact—using the official U.S. government estimates of health and environmental costs from burning fossil fuels—the study shows it’s cheaper to replace a typical existing coal-fired power plant with a wind turbine than to keep the old plant running. And new electricity generation from wind could be more economically efficient than natural gas.
The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost-effective way, by replacing coal-fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.
“Burning coal is a very costly way to make electricity. There are more efficient and sustainable ways to get power,” said Dr. Laurie Johnson, chief economist in the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We can reduce health and climate change costs while reducing the dangerous carbon pollution driving global warming.”
Johnson co-authored the study, “The Social Cost of Carbon: Implications for Modernizing our Electricity System,” with Chris Hope of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge; and Starla Yeh in NRDC’s Center for Market Innovation. Power plants are the nation’s single largest source of such pollution, accounting for 40 percent of our national carbon footprint.
“And yet, there are no federal limits on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants may release,” said Johnson. “That’s wrong. It doesn’t make sense. It’s putting our future at risk. We limit the amount of mercury, arsenic, soot, and other harmful pollution from these plants. It’s time to cut this carbon pollution.”
President Obama has vowed to do that, using his authority under the Clean Air Act to set the first federal limits on the amount of carbon pollution power plants may release. Critics claim that could raise costs. But, in fact, it can reduce the total cost of electricity generation, the new study finds.
Carbon pollution imposes economic costs by damaging public health and driving destructive climate change. Working together, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Treasury Department, the Department of Energy and eight other federal agencies put a dollar value on those damages, in an official figure called the “social cost of carbon” (SCC).
The SCC is used to calculate the benefits (i.e., avoided climate damages) of carbon pollution reduction. The administration puts the best estimate at $33 per ton of carbon pollution emitted in 2010.
The study also included government damage estimates from sulfur dioxide, a pollutant released simultaneously with carbon. Every year, sulfur dioxide causes thousands of premature deaths, respiratory ailments, heart disease and a host of ecosystem damages.
Already, climate change is contributing to record heat waves, floods, drought, wildfires and severe storms. Such extreme weather caused more than $140 billion in damages in 2012. American taxpayers picked up nearly $100 billion of those costs, according to an NRDC report released in May, 2013.
“These damages are only likely to increase if nothing is done to reduce carbon pollution,” Johnson said.

Friday, April 4, 2014

"Love & Like Yourself !!!!" Life Improvement Article

"Love & Like Yourself !!!!"

Secret of happiness is that you like yourself. To like yourself, you have to embrace your good points and accept your bad points which you cannot change then see beyond the physical, make your spirit shine-through your emotions, thoughts and the eyes. That would make you more beautiful and you will be happy. So, begin liking yourself from right now, this very moment.
Whenever and wherever you come across a mirror or have a chance to handle one, you never miss to look into it—be it a barber's shop, the shop of a chewing betel—cigarette sellers shop or watching the shining varnish of a motor car. But why it is so ? Because you like your face-thinking it to be quite beautiful and attractive. Some people think, rightly or wrongly that they have the most beautiful face in the world. Let aside other things— one good point about it is that this illusion keeps people up and makes them not to have funeral looks. They meet and greet people with pleasant looks. So, loving and liking one's ownself is good for personal health and social life. But the strange theory about people's behaviour is that even such persons as are sure of their faces, are found to be suffering from inferiority complex, and the malody of irritability and short temper. In this respect, a doctor's experience may be of help to us. He writes, "some years ago, a beautiful woman came to see me. Her husband had been cheating on her, and she wanted some advice from me regarding her future. Her eyes were dull, shoulders drawn and her face was sad. I managed to look beyond her sadness I told her to go to look on my bathroom mirror." She came back, and I asked her what she saw ? "A fool, she replied." I said she needed glasses and to go again and again. By the third time, she was almost on tears, but she managed to acknowledge that she was beautiful. The scholars of psychology say that our thoughts are the creators of our world. When we are unhappy, specially in times of extreme trauma, the spirit crackes, even fractures into tiny pieces. In order to put them together, we need to start fitting piece-to-piece.
No one in the world, but you yourself can make you happy. The way to be happy is just to do what you did about your face, i.e., you need to like yourself  nd achieve happiness from within. The conditions that you like make you happy, the people whom you like make you happy, the food you like makes you happly. The brain sees this, and soon you feel better you began liking yourself. Silver Jade, the great philosopher says that "When you like yourself, you go beyond the barriers of loneliness."  When you do not like yourself, you feel yourself lonely and develop several unhealthy feelings and complexes.
Ask yourself why I do not like myself. The answer will come "Because you brood over your weaknesses; you emphasise your bad points." The remedy is to do otherwise. In order to really like yourself, you need to emphasise and embrace your good points. But what about the bad points which make you unhappy. I repeat what wise men have suggested. Divide the points which you consider as bad or unfavourable into two groups—the group of bad points that you can change, and the one that you cannot change what you can, and look at what you cannot change from a different point of view. For example —you do not like your height, your feel unhappy about your short stature. But you know it too well that no miracle can change you into a tall figure. Then what you have to do to feel happy about it ? Firstly, accept it—what cannot be cured, must be endured—as the saying goes. Think over the advantages that go with a short stature and also think of those persons, who were short-statured but did miraculous things and live in history as great personalities. For example, Napolean and Lai Bahadur Shastri were physically short-statured but from the view-point of performances, they stand head and shoulders above many tall persons. Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru and many others like them, were not so called tall persons. So, when you try to look at your height beyond the physical and look at the perfection of your thoughts, emotions and the spirit, you may realise and cry out that the good things can reside safely in a shortstatured self. In case you made your spirit shine through your emotions and thoughts, you will feel like a different person you must agree with the great English dramatist, William Shakespeare, who said—"there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." In case you do well or rather excellently at the examinations, the food of appreciation and admiration will make you forget your short-stature and you will be happy beyond expectations. As a short-statured person you can do many things in ordinary life that go to make you happy you can be a good and sincere friend, you can be a hard-working and honest person in your service or in your profession etc. All these things can make you like and love yourself and you ask really happy. That beautiful young woman, referred to above, did all these things. Soon her eyes sparkled and she was lovelier than before. She is her own best friend. And she really likes herself. Trust yourself, like yourself. You have to be happy for yourself. Enjoy discovering your inner beauty and liking yourself.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Irom Sharmila IRON LADY

Irom Sharmila Chanu (born 14 March 1972), also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On 2 November 2000, she began a hunger strike which is still ongoing, i.e. MORE THAN 13 Years
Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker". She is currently on trial for attempted suicide.

Beginning of fast

On 2 November 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop. The incident, known as the "Malom Massacre", was allegedly committed by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state.[5][6] The victims included Leisangbam Ibetombi, a 62-year old woman, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner.
Sharmila, who was 28 at the time, began to fast in protest of the killings, taking neither food nor water. As her brother Irom Singhajit Singh recalled, "It was a Thursday. Sharmila used to fast on Thursdays since she was a child. That day she was fasting too. She has just continued with her fast"

Three days after she began her strike, she was arrested by the police and charged with an "attempt to commit suicide", which is unlawful under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and was later transferred to judicial custody. Her health deteriorated rapidly, and nasogastric intubation was forced on her in order to keep her alive while under arrest.

Current legal battle

Irom Sharmila continues to face the charge of attempted suicide. She is being held in enforced isolation which the National Human Rights Commission of India has recommended for the Manipur government to immediately stop. A summons has been issued for Sharmila Chanu to appear for trial on 19 December 2013.
Since the maximum sentence for attempted suicide is one year and she has been held for more than six years she has been told the case will be settled if she pleads guilty. However, she maintains she has not attempted suicide, but is protesting in the "most non-violent way, like Mahatma Gandhi."

Works based on her life

Deepti Priya Mehrotra's Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the Struggle for Peace in Manipur details Sharmila's life and the political background of her fast
Ojas S V, a theater artist from Pune, performed a mono-play titled Le Mashale ("Take the Torch"), based on Irom Sharmila's life and struggle. It is an adaptation of Meira Paibi (Women bearing torches), a drama written by Malayalam playwright Civic Chandran. The play was performed at several venues in several Indian states