Sunday 28 June 2015

Her devout Nasrani Syrian Christian parents from Kerala named her after Mother Teresa. She graduated in engineering from Government Engineering College, Thrissur. She grew up near a rocket launching station and says her fascination with rockets and missiles began then. She also has an M.Tech in Guided Missile from the Institute of Armament Technology, Pune (now known as the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology).
Identity this dynamic Lady.
During the Mughal period, it was used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat and fat.
What ?
In Norse mythology, X symbolised heavy rain, while Y were associated with Odin the storm god, and therefore represented howling wind.
This led to a phrase which means raining heavily.
Id X and Y..

In times gone by, farmers would bring suckling pigs to market wrapped up in a bag. Unscrupulous ones would substitute a cat for the pig. If someone did X, the deceit was uncovered.

X is a commonly used phrase. 
Give me X.
X is shortened from X-bae, which comes from the Old English "usquebae," derived from two Gaelic words: uisce (water) and bethu (life).

Thus, X literally means "water of life." 
Quiet Accurate!!.

Give me X.
Before anaesthetics were invented, injured soldiers would X to help them endure the pain of an operation/amputation.this led to the origin of the phrase X meaning to face an unpleasant reality.

What is the phrase (X)?
Its early contracts included providing punched card services to TISCO (now Tata Steel), fortune ranking 1 working on an Inter-Branch Reconciliation System for the Central Bank of India, and providing bureau services to Unit Trust of India.
Name this Entity.
In November 2011, the Computer Society of India conferred him with the award and title of eRatna for his contribution in the field of e-governance. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives at the Chief Ministers office won the Award of Excellence- Departmental Level at the CSI Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2011. In addition, the eGov strategies and ICT enabled initiatives at the CMO were awarded the Best Government to Citizen Initiative of the Year Award at the eIndia Summit held in late 2010 .
Who?
This was translated into Pahlavi in 570 CE by Borzūya & into Arabic in 750 CE by Persian scholar Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa as Kalil ah wa Dimnah . In Baghdad, the translation commissioned by Al-Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph, is claimed to have become "second only to the Quran in popularity."
What is being talked about?

Friday 19 June 2015

The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy."

Some famous awardees include:-

-Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)(2005)

- Business: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner(2005)

- History/Current Events/Politics: An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore(2006)

- Biography/memoir: Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson(2007)


Which was the first manga to win this award?
The name was devised by branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma.Cronan and Hibma suggested X as they felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.

Give me X?
X estimated that he auditioned for between 15 and 30 television pilots, however the shows failed to find a television network. Eventually there came along an exception.

Though the character he was cast for had no similarity to him, he was enchanted by the dialogue structure, the way the writers "brilliantly use those words that most of us don't recognize to create that rhythm. And the rhythm got me. It was the chance to dance through that dialogue, and in a lot of ways still is."


The role requires X to "rattle off line after line of tightly composed, rhythmic dialogue, as well as then do something with his face or body during the silence that follows."
Who's X?
This person was named by Time as "The Most Influential Asians of the Century".To quote them "As much as Mao Zedong or Mohandas Gandhi changed Asian days, this guy transformed its nights."
In 2004 he was awarded the IgNobel prize for " creating something and, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."

What did he do?
After facing a writers block for almost over a year X decided it was time to introspect. The problem was fairly simple. If he wrote about things appreciated at the mathematical center in Amsterdam his colleagues at Eindhoven University of technology didn't appreciate it and vice versa. He then decided to write only for himself, and in this way the EWDs were born. X was known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with his fountain pen. The manuscripts are called EWDs.

Apart from his job he also served as a chairman for the fictional company Mathematics inc. ( a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer programs)
EWD 443 (1974) describes his fictional company as having over 75 percent of the world's market share.


I'd this lunatic who started his career as a theoretical physicist.
In Hindu and yogic traditions and other belief systems, X are energy points or nodes in the subtle body.

Their name derives from the Sanskrit word for "wheel" or "turning", but in the yogic context a better translation of the word is 'vortex or whirlpool'


X is also a very important theme in Mashashi Kishimoto's manga series Naruto and is depicted as basic life source.

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The ads were directed by genius documentarian Errol Morris, a frequent dabbler in the world of commercials who's contributed to campaigns for Levis, Citibank, and Nike, among others.
It helped that the ads were incredibly easy to produce, requiring only the creative director on the campaign, a whiteboard and a brown marker. These ads were conceived as a refreshing change from typical shipping spots, which show trucks and package handlers and business people meeting deadlines.

Whose ads are we talking about?
X initiated the Y language project in June 1991 for use in one of his many set-top box projects.The language,initially called Oak,after an oak tree that stood outside X's office,also went by the name Green and ended up later being renamed as Y,from a list of random words.Id X and Y. 


This is the logo of a philosophical "mock religion" which seeks to promote a modern form of Taoism along with the concepts by the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. What is this 'mock religion' called?