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Steve Job..All that you did not know!~

1) Nature versus Nurture. His sister is famous author Mona Simpson but he didn’t know it until he was an adult.. Her first novel,’ Anywhere but Here’, was about her relationship with her parents. Which, ironically, were Steve Jobs’ parents too. But since Steve Jobs was adopted they didn’t know they were brother-sister until the 90s when he tracked her down. It’s proof (to an extent) of the nature versus nurture argument. Two kids, without knowing they were brother and sister, both having a unique sensibility of life on this planet to become among the best artists in the world in completely different endeavors.

2) His father’s name is Abdulfattah Jandali. Steve Jobs biologically was half Syrian Muslim. Steve Jobs' biological mother gave him up for adoption one week after giving birth. She was unmarried and was also in graduate school. He was adopted by an Armenian couple, Paul and Clara Hagopian. The one requirement his biological parents had was that he be adopted by two college educated people. But the couple that adopted him lied at first and turned out not to be college educated (the mom was not a high school graduate) so the deal almost fell through until they promised to send Steve to college. A promise they couldn’t keep .So despite many layers of lies and promises broken, it all worked out in the end.

3) He made the game  “Breakout”.

4) He denied paternity on his first child, He fathered a child with a woman named Chrisann Brennan but denied paternity, claiming he was sterile.Eventually Jobs became a good father. Lisa computer (the “Apple III”) was named after this first child.

5) He’s a pescetarian. He ate fish but no other meat.

6) He didn’t give any money to charity. And when he became Apple’s CEO he stopped all of their philanthropic programs. He said, “wait until we are profitable”. And even when they became profitable, there was no corporate philanthropy.

7)He lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.

8) He was a Zen Buddhist. He was such a hardcore Zen Buddhist that he almost thought about joining a monastery and becoming a monk. He was married in a Buddhist tradition by a Zen monk who was his own personal guru.

9) He didn’t go to college. Steve Jobs went to Reed College for one semester and then dropped out.  

10) Psychedelics. He enjoyed LSD: After dropping out of college, Jobs traveled to India in 1974, became a Buddhist, and experimented with the psychedelic drug LSD. Steve describes his LSD experiences as "one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life."
11) Apple is one of many inventions: Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.

 

12) He dated Dianne Keaton and Joan Baez: Before marrying his wife Laurene Powell in 1991, Steve dated Diane and Joan. Baez

13) He was fired from Apple: Steve created Apple at the age of 20 out of his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniak. He and Steve had a falling out as he turned 30 and he was fired. Jobs said it was the best thing to ever happen to him. "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again," he once said.

14) Dyslexic : He was Dyslexic like some other greats such as Einstein, Graham Bell and Henry Ford

15) He was declared dead once before in 2008 when Bloomberg had announced his death

16) Forever in Blue Jeans : He owned more than 100 pair of Levi Blue Jeans which was part of his daily uniform

 

17) Number Zero : His employee number in Apple was 0. He was originally assigned no 2 behind co-founder Steve Wozniak. Job protested and settled only for ‘0’ because ‘0’comes before 1.

Steve Job resigns from Apple.

Steve and Wozniak.

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                       May his soul rest in peace.

AYUDHA POOJA

• Well celebrated on penultimate day of Navarathri

Mangalore/ Bangalore, Oct 8, 2008: The Navarathri celebrations during the nine days is a cluster of festivities. While the last day is the Navarathri the succeeding day is the Vijayadashami and preceding day is the important festival of Ayudha Pooja - It is a day when man pays respect to his implements and machinery that includes agricultural implements, industrial machinery, vehicles and nowadays even the computers. In short whatever Man woman or child uses for learning, earning and living is offered poojas on that day.

Walk through the streets of any city town or village you will find bullock carts, buses, cars two wheelers or anything that moves on wheels will be smeared with chalk paste, Kumkum, turmeric and bedecked with flowers, after being serviced the previous night. Or go into any machine shop right from printing to high-tech satellite launch sites all machineries would have received the same treatment and perhaps an additional ‘aarati’ also.

There is a philosophy behind the Ayudya Pooja. In Hindu school of thought even the mechanical non living things have to be respected for they help the mankind to progress and prosper. They are made of metal and some of them could be dangerous to use if anybody uses them without care. The pooja offered will help the human beings to respect the non living things and use them safely without hurting themselves and make judicious use of the materials and implements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The true splendor of the Ayudha Pooja could be seen in the Mysore Palace where every gun, every spear every armaments, vehicles that belonged to the erstwhile Maharaja are cleaned given a coat of fresh polish and are displayed in the exhibition for the common man to see.
 
No historian is able to predict the time of this the emergence of such a meaningful practice and reverence to the non living things, but it is believed that Goddess Durga when she slayed the demon king he had threatened to take over the world with his evil force and infuse life into the non living things as the mission she undertook was perhaps the last chance for the forces of god to prevail on this earth.
 
Later the Rajpuths, the Kadambas, Marathas, Peshwas, Wodyears, Cholas, Pallavans, Cherans have practiced Ayuda Pooja, at certain time of the Bhakti movement even the alien Moghul sultanates had followed this tradition on the advise of their Hindu ministers and commanders. Akbar, Aurangazeb, Humayun are some of the kings of the Moghal empire who did celebrate Ayudha Pooja say historians. 
 
 But in the modern days this tradition is being followed at all levels right form the street corner lathe to the ultra modern IT or BT parks observe holiday for Ayudha Pooja. The KSRTC and BMTC offers pooja to over 10,000 buses on this day and every drive conductor and Mechanic irrespective of their religious affiliations offer pooja to their vehicles.
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DURGA POOJA

Pundaal Decoration during Durga Puja
An Artist decorating the Idol of Maa Durga
Maa Durga killing Mahishasur

Origin of Durga - The Mythology.

Devi is the great goddess of the Hindus,the consort of Shiva and she is worshiped in various forms corresponding to her two aspects: benevolence and fierceness. She is Uma, "light"; Gauri, "yellow or brilliant"; Parvati, "the mountaineer"; and Jagatmata, "the-mother-of-the-world" in her milder guise. The terrible emanations are Durga "the inaccessible"; Kali, "the black"; Chandi, "the fierce"; and Bhairavi, "the terrible."

Significance of Durga Puja

The making of goddess idol is a very detailed work of art.

During Durga Puja, God in the form of the Divine Mother is worshiped in Her various forms as Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Though the Goddess is one, She is represented and worshiped in three different aspects. On the first three nights of the festival, Durga is worshiped. On the following three, Lakshmi and then Saraswati Devi on the last three nights. The following tenth day is called Vijayadasami. Vijaya means "victory", the victory over one's own minds that can come only when these three: Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati are worshiped.

Meaning Of Durga
Durga is perhaps the most widely worshiped deity of Shakti. Maa Durga's divine characterization include entire Devibhagavatham is dedicated to her. Durga means one who is difficult to approach. However since she is the mother of universe she is the personification of tender love, wealth, power, beauty and all virtues.

Implications Of The Idol
The complete image of Goddess Durga represent destruction of evil and protection of good and reflects the point that in order to become divine one should keep one's animal instincts under control. Thus, by worshiping Durga the idea of ruthless destruction is invoked to annihilate all the desires and unfold divinity.

Its Connotation 
ln Bengal, Goddess Durga is worshiped for nine days. In South India, an altar decorated with a stepped platform and filled with small images of gods, animals,birds,and other beings, animate and inanimate, is worshiped for nine days. This altar is known as the Kolu. People re-dedicate themselves to their profession. On this day, a child also begins to learn the alphabet in a ceremony known as aksarabhyasa. This day marks the beginning of any type of learning. One offers gifts to one's teachers, seeks their blessings,and prays for success in one's new endeavors.