Saturday, April 23, 2011

Morto Sai Baba 24 aprile 2011, citazioni del guru

Il leader spirituale indiano Sai Baba, è morto stamane in un ospedale di sua fondazione a Puttaparthi all’età di 85 anni (nato Sathya Narayana Raju Ratnakaram il 23 novembre 1926 sempre a Puttaparthi)

Anche se si vocifera che Sathya Sai Baba lo tenevano da qualche giorno in "ghiaccio" (sostenuto artificialmente in vita da respirazione meccanica e dialisi) per far confluire il giorno della sua morte con la Resurrezione di Gesù.
Gli altri sono delusi perchè si prediceva che il santone dovrebbe vivere fino a 90 anni...

Il guru, conosciuto in tutto il modo e considerato dai suoi seguaci (circa 10 milioni) come un dio vivente, era ricoverato dal 28 marzo nell’ospedale di Puttaparthi, la cittadina dell’Andhra Pradesh nel sud dell’India dove si trova il suo ashram, assistito e curato da decine di illustri medici.
Davanti all’ospedale sono radunate migliaia di suoi sostenitori e la polizia ha dovuto montare delle barriere per contenere la folla. Sai Baba, era stato ricoverato per problemi cardiaci, poi degenerati da "out" del fegato, dei reni, dai polmoni e dal cervello...
Dal 2005 manifestava evidenti difficoltà motorie, apparendo la maggior parte delle volte su una sedia a rotelle.

Ecco il suo motto. messaggio principale, universale direi:

"C'è una sola razza: la razza dell'umanità.
C'è una sola religione: la religione dell'Amore.
C'è un solo linguaggio: il linguaggio del cuore.
C'è un solo Dio: Egli è onnipresente."

"Il mio ruolo è quello di rigenerare
spiritualmente l'umanità,
mediante la verità e l'amore"

Sathya Sai Baba ha fondato un sistema educativo scolastico comprendente tutti i livelli dove insieme ai programmi ministeriali vengono impartite lezioni di vita basate su 5 valori, da lui chiamati Valori Umani: Verità, Rettitudine, Pace, Amore e Non-Violenza.

La disciplina più importante impartita dal maestro è stata quella detta Jyoti, la "meditazione sulla Luce".
“Non seminare paura nei cuori, non infliggere dolore. Non promuovere l'ansia”, era una delle massime di Sai Baba più conosciute e da alcuni ripetute come un mantra o di motto personale, non solo nel mondo asiatico. Secondo alcune correnti di fedeli, Sai Baba era l'ultima incarnazione esistente del Buddha, dopo Siddharta. Era considerato, secondo un termine indù, l'avatar del Buddha.

Alcune massime e pensieri di Sathya Sai Baba:

"Non date importanza ai miracoli. Non esagerate il loro significato.
La grandezza del mio potere non sta in questi miracoli,
ma consiste solo nel mio Amore.
Tutti i miracoli apparenti non sono che goccioline di quell'oceano d'Amore.
Non fatevi abbagliare dalle goccioline.
Intravedete l'oceano e tuffatevi profondamente in esso”.

- Ama tutti, servi tutti - Aiuta sempre, non ferire mai
(Love all, serve all - Help ever, Hurt never)
- Dio è dentro di te. Scoprilo!
- Il servizio reso all'uomo è servizio reso a Dio.

- Se le malattie e le sofferenze non fanno distinzione tra ricchi e poveri, perché dovremmo farlo noi?
- La mia vita è il mio messaggio, il mio messaggio è la mia vita.
- Amate voi stessi perché incarnate Dio; amate e servite gli altri, perché incarnano Dio che parla ed agisce per mezzo loro.
- La Pace è il fiore profumato che nasce dal puro amore.

Sai Baba è un Maestro di Verità.
I Suoi principali obiettivi sono:

- Aiutare l'individuo a divenire consapevole della Divinità insita in lui e fare in modo che egli possa comportarsi coerentemente con questa verità.

"Nell'uomo c'è la Verità. Nell'uomo c'è la Saggezza. Nell'uomo c'è l'Infinito."
(Baba)

-Stimolare l'uomo a compiere il proprio dovere nei confronti di sé stesso, della famiglia e della nazione.

"Incomincia il giorno con Amore. Riempi il giorno con Amore.
Trascorri il giorno con Amore. Concludi il giorno con Amore.
Questa è la strada che porta a Dio."
(Baba)

- Fare in modo che in ogni relazione umana sia rispettato il principio della coerenza tra Pensiero, Parola e Azione.

"Le parole non fanno i Valori Umani.
Esprimete il vostro pensiero,
ma poi mettete in pratica quanto avete pensato e detto.”
(Baba)

- Trasformare ogni uomo in un ricercatore della verità.

"Come un filo attraversa una serie di brillanti,
cosi il filo dell'Amore trapassa e lega insieme tutti gli esseri umani.
Il Principio dell'Amore è la più grande forza di coesione
che unisce tutte le pratiche spirituali,
tutte le religioni, tutte le fedi, tutte le scritture, tutte le filosofie”.

"Non otterrete la Grazia di Dio con un mero cambiamento di religione.
Dovete cambiare nella mente, nel modo di pensare.
Non avrete le qualità di Dio limitandovi a cambiare il vestito,
ma dovrete cambiare le vostre stesse qualità”.

- È in tuo potere fare dei tuoi giorni "mortali" un tappeto di fiori, invece di un sentiero di spine.

- I programmi e i desideri del mondo non hanno uno scopo e non sono permanenti. Non hanno un valore genuino.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

French "house woman"real private life

In France, everyone's impression is elegant and romantic women, but they are the most real aspect we have not really learned. Born in 1977, French photographer Baudouin, in-depth many women take home life in France, used the camera to record the true French "house woman"the most real private life, which created the photographic series "I am a parisian lady "see what all.

indonesia food

Introduction
Geographic and cultural diversity, together with a long history of visiting foreign merchants and colonists, have produced Indonesia's unique cuisine, which is still largely unknown to the outside world with the possible exception of the Netherlands.
The Chinese introduced nasi goreng (fried rice with vegetables), mie (noodles) stir-frying and the wajang (wok), the Indians their curries and spices (notably cardamom, coriander, cumin, ginger, onions and garlic), the Spanish chilli, peanuts and tomatoes while the Dutch have left their mark with sweets and cakes, and of course rijstaffel ( a selection of up to 40 dishes of meat, vegetables and rice served in individual bowls).
Indonesian cuisine continues to adopt ingredients and technologies – thanks to the Indonesian people's open-mindedness towards the new and their ability to give the new dishes a 'local twist'. For example, at a McDonalds in Indonesia, a Big Mac comes with chilli and you can even order McSatay!
How Indonesians eat
Indonesians eat relatively simple but delicious meals. Indonesian food is essentially 'peasant' cuisine – fresh, simple ingredients, combined with a subtle blend of spices, resulting in a delicious, inexpensive meal. Eating only becomes a grand affair in Indonesia when communal feats are held to celebrate family occasions, such as weddings, funerals and circumcisions, or harvest and religious feasts, such as the end of Ramadan.
An Indonesian meal usually consists of a main rice (nasi) dish with a combination of meat, fish, chicken, vegetable and egg side dishes. The range of flavourings used in Indonesian cooking is vast. Aromatic coriander and cumin, together with chillies, lemon grass, coconut, kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and palm sugar are all important flavourings while sambal – a hot chilli sauce – is served just about everywhere, in case the food isn't spicy enough!
Vegetables are well catered for and Indonesian cooking uses tahu (tofu, soybean cake) and tempe (fermented soybeans), which are both good sources of protein.
Traditionally, food is eaten using the fingers of the right hand (the left is considered unclean), hence the soft stickiness of their rice. However, in areas familiar with Westerners, cutlery will be provided – usually a spoon and a fork – but otherwise you'll just have to 'do as the natives do'.
Sate, nasi goreng and gado gado (vegetables with spicy peanut sauce) are some of Indonesia's most famous dishes.
Regional Food
Many dishes served in restaurants come from Java and Sumatra. The coastal areas traditionally use a wider range of spices and flavourings. Sumatran cooking blends fresh and dry spices to produce hot and spicy dishes served with plenty of rice to tone down the spices. Rendang (meat simmered in spices and coconut milk) is a traditional West Sumatran dish. The Javanese use a more subtle blend of fresh spices, together with chilli mellowed by the addition of sugar. The Sundanese people of West Java make a beautiful crisp aromatic salad (karedok).
The third region usually visited by tourists is Bali and Lombock, where you'll find delicious sate (small pieces of meat roasted on a skewer) and poultry dishes. Babi guling (roasted suckling pig) is a traditional Balinese dish.
Where to eat
Indonesians eat best at home. So an invitation to eat with any friends you make in Indonesia should not be missed! Outside the home there are a range of eating places open all day.
Snacks – soup, sate (satay), noodles, etc. – can be obtained from a kaki lima (food cart). The smaller ones are mobile and the larger ones have tables and benches nearby.
Warungs (street stalls) are simple, open-air eating-places providing a small range of dishes based on rice and one meat or vegetable. A good place for warungs is at the pasar malam (night market). It's unlikely you'll find a menu in them – either ask for what you want or have a look and see what others are eating.
Rumah makan (eating house) refers to anything one step above a warung, although some owners prefer to use the more western-sounding restoran. Offerings may be as simple as a warung's, but usually include more choices of meat and vegetable dishes, and spicy accompaniments.
Simple Padang restaurants are common everywhere, although they are most authentic around Padang, the West Sumatran capital from which the cuisine originates. You don't order, but are presented with plain rice and a large selection of hot and spicy meat, fish and vegetable dishes. You pay for what you eat. But beware – a lot of padang food is extremely hot!
Large hotels in places such as Jakarta and Bali often have extensive buffets, incorporating richly spiced and sauced dishes. This is a modern version of Dutch rijstaffel, which once fed planters and businessmen.
Spices, sauces and flavourings
Asam (Tamarind)
In Indonesian, asam is the name given to tamarind as well as the taste: sour. This is the pulp surrounding the pod found on the tamarind tree. It is usually sold in dried form and is mixed with water when used in curries and fish dishes.
Cengkeh (Cloves)
These are the buds of the clove tree. Once only grown in the Maluku islands, cloves were the catalyst for an intense trade war between the Dutch, English and Portuguese. You won't taste cloves much in Indonesian cooking but you will smell them burning everywhere as they're the prime ingredient in kretek (clove cigarettes).
Daun Jeruk Perut (Kaffir Lime Leaves)
These aromatic, tart-tasting leaves are used much the same way as bay leaves are – namely, added into a stock or curry then taken out before serving.
Duan Salam (Salam Leaves)
These leaves are also called 'Indonesian laurel leaves' or 'Indonesian bay leaves'. But neither name does the leaf justice. It is an aromatic ingredient added to savoury dishes.
Gula (Sugar)
The main sweetener in Indonesian cooking is gula merah (palm sugar), which is made by extracting and boiling sap from the jaka (palm tree). Unlike granulated cane sugar, palm sugar is sold as a solid block. When it comes to using the sugar, it is chipped off or even grated into the mix. (It is also what makes teh manis (sweet tea) so sweet.)
Kemiri (Candlenut)
The fleshy interior of these nuts is used to add a nutty flavour and creamy texture to dishes.
Laos & Kencur (Galangal)
Laos has the same shape and function as ginger, but is bright orange and has a more bitter taste. Also popular is kencur which has more of a kick than laos.
Minyak (Oil)
The most widely used oil is minyak kelapa (cocounut oil) as it burns at a high temperature, making it perfect for deep frying. Other types of oil include minyak kacang (peanut oil) and minyak jagung (corn oil). But coconut oil, also called minyak sawit, is the number one oil used for all types of cooking.
Pala (Nutmeg)
It's ironic that the ingredient all of Europe scrambled for in the 16th-17th centuries isn’t used very extensively in the Indonesian kitchen. The fruit of the nutmeg is made into a preserve called manisan pala and both the seed and the nutmeg's shell are dried and sold whole or as powder.
Duan Pendan (Screwpine)
This plant, named for its twisted stems, is used in traditional cooking from India to Australia. Screwpine is used in sweet dishes for its delicate fragrance and green colouring.
Terasi, Belacan (Shrimp Paste)
You'll know when you come across shrimp paste because it has a very fishy, pungent aroma. This paste is made from small shrimp that are rinsed in sea water, dried, salted, dried again then pummelled to a paste. It is left to dry for about two weeks before being shaped into blocks. As you would expect, the paste adds a fishy, salty flavour to dishes.
Chilli
Known as cabe when fresh off the bush and sambal when mashed into a paste, chillies are what make Indonesians tick and they'll add them to almost anything. If you ever fall victim to a deceptively hot chilli, don't try to extinguish the fire with water as it will only make it worse. Instead, eat some plain rice.
Sambal (Chilli sauce)
The Mexicans have salsa, the Indians chutney, but in Indonesia, the essential condiment is sambal (chilli sauce). A table set without sambal isn't set properly. Sambals come in many varieties but the base for any sambal will be chillies, garlic, shallots and salt. Here are some of the most popular varieties:
Sambal Badjak: Chilli sauce made with shallots, sugar, tamarind, galangal and shrimp paste. Fried to a caramel consistency. (Mild by Indonesian standards.)
Sambal Jeruk: Chilli sauce made with lime juice, lime peel, salt and vinegar.
Sambal Terasi: Chilli sauce made with lime and roasted shrimp paste.
Ulek: Chilli sauce made with vinegar and lots of chillies. Very spicy!
Pecel: This sauce is similar to sambal but the spice is lessened with the addition of peanuts and tomato.
Saus Kacang (Peanut Sauce)
This is one of Indonesia's most famous culinary exports, the reason being that peanut sauce is so versatile. It can be used as a condiment, as a dip or as the flavour for a main meal. It is most famous for its appearance in gado gado.
Kecap (Soy Sauce)
Every restaurant in the country provides their diners with a bottle of soy sauce (made from soybeans fermented in brine). Most provide two – kecap asin (salty soy sauce), which is the same as soy sauce found throughout the world, and kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) which is thicker and sweeter.
A Recipe: Beef Rendang

Ingredients
6 cups coconut milk
2 salam leaves
2 lime leaves
1 turmeric leaf
1 cinnamon stick (3 cm)
1 lemongrass tick (10 cm)
15 cloves shallots
15 cloves garlic
1 piece of ginger (3 cm)
1 piece of galangal (3 cm)
1 nutmeg seed
2 tbs chilli paste
500g prime rump beef cut into 4 sq cm pieces (leave fat on)
Salt to taste

Method
Heat the coconut milk in an uncovered wok over a very low flame. Add the salem leaves, lime leaves, turmeric leaf, cinnamon stick and lemongrass (don't cut these up). Crush the shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal and nutmeg to a paste. For this you can use a food processor or a traditional Indonesian mortar and pestle. Add this paste, the chilli paste and the salt to the coconut milk. Once the ingredients are heated through, add the beef and leave to cook very slowly for about four hours. Once the coconut milk has been reduced to an oily paste that sticks to the meat it is ready.
Rendang is very rich, so it's best served with lots of rice and other dishes.

by:www.garudarestaurant.co.uk

highst paying google ADSense keywords

A friend sent me a list of supposedly highest paying keywords for contextual advertising. I wonder is this true or whether this is just a gimmick to make other people believe so... and me supporting the hype by reproducing it here? For your amusement the partial list is at the end of this article. (and don't be surprised if google actually serves you those ads matching those keywords.)
Assuming that whoever produced this list is correct, by looking at the data one can tell that NY and Chicago lawyers are willing to pay a lot of money to get a potential customer via online ads.
But can someone explain why mesothelioma is in the top rank? Is it because people are afraid to get it? Or is it because many people have it already?
Luckily Google doesn't allow porn ads, otherwise we would have been drowning in nasty ads, which probably would have had the highest
click rate ever.

The list

Here is a partial list:

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  $61.17 mesothelioma lawyers
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  $58.25 what is mesothelioma
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  $57.95 lasik new york
  $56.88 whole life insurance quote
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  [...]
  $53.46 whole life insurance quotes
  $53.42 car insurance in new jersey
  $53.12 las vegas personal injury lawyer
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  $52.41 equity loan rate
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  [...]
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I wonder whether I should research topics about lawyers and mesothelioma :)

Hoax Revealed

After receiving this list, I've googled for "Highest Paying Google AdSense Keywords" and apparently there is a lot of sites out there suggesting those words, most seem to concentrate on mesothelioma and lawyers but the prices seem to vary. I'm still puzzled how did they find out that information?
OK, I think I've figured it out: many of those sites seem to be a hoax. The source seem to be coming from: hxxp://www.cwire.org/highest-paying-search-terms/, but it will just trick you into clicking on some auto-generated content. Bad boy. No cookie.
Further search reveals more sites advertising similar hoaxes. Oh well, the nature of the internet -- you get both: the good and the less good.
One forum (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2301) has suggested something that may give you an idea on the subject of keywords, but this thread is very dated. For example it suggests to go to http://www.google.com/adwords and try bidding at words and see which one come with a high price tag. Another user suggested to use Overture http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/USm/search/tools/bidtool/.
But even that thread concludes that those techniques don't really work and suggests:

You shouldn't be building pages for
AdSense. You should be putting
  AdSense ads on pages with lots of good content. Build the pages for
  the reader, optimize them for the Search Engines, then you will get
  visitors who are interested in the content and will be interested in
  the AdSense ads. That is how you get a good CTR and that is how you
  make money with AdSense.

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