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lucille iacovelli
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|   Cape Cod, MA | |
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Nature, flora & fauna, cooking, gardening, vintage saris, doc films, wild edible plants, biodiversity, medical ethics, investigative journalism,
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 22:29 | 13/Jul/2008 |
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| I find myself in an incomprehensible position... a situation real enough to kill me, should I lose my balance on a loosening tightrope. Yet so surreal I sometimes think my death will be nothing more than an instantaneous vaporization of the molecules I call my body. I am dying... we are all dying. But for most of us, living life prevails over the e...
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| 22:43 | 10/Jul/2008 |
| Wild Turkey Families | |
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| Lucille Iacovelli Please excuse this post! Silly, I know, but still cannot not resist. (Yes, I love this tune Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo : ) ~ Lucille Iacovelli
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| 01:22 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| A Special Kind of Medicine | |
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| Lucille IacovelliiLanders who have read my earliest posts may recall my negative experience with cosmetic facial surgery. I was left with serious functional disorders which have progressed to a life threatening degree. I will not reiterate the details here which can be found on my website Losing Face. Put simply, I was blacklisted as a patient ...
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| 23:04 | 22/Jun/2008 |
| Help Free Greenpeace Activists | |
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| class="statcounter">http://www.statcount er.com/free_invisible_web_tracker.html" target="_blank">http://c44.statcounter.c om/3631817/0/37827719/1/" alt="website tracking" >Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government- sponsored whaling program. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, ...
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| 18:38 | 19/Jun/2008 |
| Just for fun! | |
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| Lucille IacovelliBomonoClick on the link above and begin "fancy doodling". Whether you use it as a creative tool or simply for fun, this program can become addictive! Best to set a stop-time alarm if you are unable to tear yourself away from your computer. ( *Note: Bomono will not work with Internet Explorer. At present, only users of Foxfire, O...
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| 19:27 | 14/Jun/2008 |
| Return of the Cicadas | |
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| Lucille IacovelliMother Nature has turned up the volume on my tinnitus to a nerve-wracking cacophony. The "Peridiocal Cicadas" known by entomologists as Brood XIV are emerging here on Cape Cod right on schedule. Every 17 years, these cicadas complete another life-cycle when nymphs buried under ground emerge to molt and mate in unimaginable numbe...
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| 20:04 | 26/May/2008 |
| Visitors' Return | |
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| Lucille IacovelliWith the warm weather comes the return of my wild visitors. Right now, the furry variety seems to have overpowered my flying feathered friends. In an attempt to divert the squirrels from devouring seed intended for the birds, I thought I could entice them away from the bird feeder with tiny crackers spread with peanut butter. I...
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| 22:17 | 24/May/2008 |
| For Anulekha & My iLand Friends | |
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| I recently sent an e-card to my dearest friend Anulekha. However, she was not able to open the card, perhaps due to some glitch in the system. So I am posting it here, hoping it will open from this blog. . I enjoy these animated e-cards and hope you do as well! ~ Anulekha"s Card ~ ~ Another Amusing Animation ~
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| 10:05 | 4/Mar/2008 |
| ~ Shweta in Chandigarth ... | |
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| class="statcounter">http://www.statcount er.com/free_invisible_web_tracker.html" target="_blank">http://c44.statcounter.c om/3631817/0/37827719/1/" alt="website tracking" >Lucille IacovelliYesterday I had occasion to contact Dell tech support online as my new printer/scanner was not working properly. What I thought might be an ordeal, turned out t...
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| Swati Kapoor | 18:38 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (33)
| City: Nagpur
| Interests: reading,painting,...
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| A SWATIAN MUSING |
| A SWATIAN MUSING Sitting beside her,In the mild morning sun,As the bees hum, a goat bleatsShe murmurs gently to me. I feel soothingly happy andGreatly attracted towards her.Sometimes she is beautiful,Soft, loving and full of laughter. Sometimes she’s harsh,Angry and full of hatred.Gushing and frothing,As if in a storm. Yet I trust her, she won...
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| RAJEEV GARG | 18:33 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (201)
| City: HARYANA
| Interests: LISTENING MUSIC,O...
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| LADY&POLICE |
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| KABRISTAN ONCE AN OLD LADY WAS DRIVING A CAR AT A VERY SLOW SPEED WITH FOUR OTHER LADIES SITTING IN .A POLICEMAN SAW THAT CAR AND STOPPED THAT TO PUNISH AND FINE.LADY DRIVER:-I WAS NOT DRIVING THE CAR ABOVE THE SPEED LIMIT THAN WHY YOU HAVE STOPPED ME?POLICEMAN:-I HAVE STOPPED YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE DRIVING BELOW THE SPEED LIMIT ON THE HIGHWA...
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| DIBYA | 11:35 | 14/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (314)
| City: Kolkata
| Interests: MAKING NEW FRIENDS
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| IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS |
| We never realise what happiness is….We run behind it…. Chase it… but can’t get hold of it…Then we get tired … shed tears … and say we are sad…Where did the happiness go?Happiness never left us… we made it run away..Let us now relax for a moment…feel the happiness in the heart…Think of all those things that ones made you smileâ...
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| swift swift | 00:00 | 14/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (15)
| City: Lucknow
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| This is one of the best I have read in a long timeDear Friends, I am posting here a short story sent to me by my one e-friend. You can feel the story very well. I hope this will clinch your heart and affect your perspective.One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how...
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| AJAYRAJ | 12:16 | 12/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (23)
| City: Hyderabad
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| LEGAL ENQUIRIES WELCOME |
| I AM HAPPY IF THERE IS NO ENQUIRIES FROM THIS BLOG. I PRESUME IT THAT MY FRIENDS HAVE NO LEGAL PROBLEMS. BUT REMEMBER I AM ALWAYS READY TO GIVE YOU ADVISE ON LEGAL PROBLEMS WHEN YOU FACE.
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| ardhendu | 13:58 | 19/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (18)
| City: Siliguri
| Interests: Love and Peace
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| The Empror's Horse |
| The Emperor’s Horse The horse only on which can ride his master’s ambition to be the king of the kings is the emperor’s horse. In the olden days, a king became an emperor after winning many wars and subjugating many kingdoms. In those days, the emperors won wars with great horses and grand warriors. Often these grand warriors used to be famous e...
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| krishna agarwal | 07:34 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (255)
| City: Bhubaneshwar
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| General Knowledge |
| Can You Give You Woman A Deeper Orgasm?Author: Jerry LeungAs a man, you will probably want to learn more ways to give your lady deeper orgasms. Yet, the fact is that no many people can really do that. In fact, there are some methods you can use in order to give your lady a deeper orgasm. Here are some tips for you to do so.At this point, some of th...
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| praveen sharma | 15:05 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (698)
| City: Delhi
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| Pleasure Comes After Pain |
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| You are to me what sun is to the earth.On a dark day you bring light.On a cold day you bring warmth.I want to hold you in my arms and never let go.Hugging the sun is impossible though.When my eyes are closed is you who i see.Smile gentle as a dove.The look in your eyes is like a gate into heaven.Your hair is like the leaves in the wind.Every second...
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| sadaf | 14:53 | 12/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (196)
| City: Jaipur
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| Tell Me Whom You LoveJohn Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a ...
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| Pat Grand | 23:05 | 6/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (48)
| City: Dubai
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| Greys and Browns and all Such Nouns !! |
| “when the crunch comes, people show their true colors” … lot of irritations were overflowing with these words in the course of conversation with my pal, vidya and her hubby satish.it was such a nice dinner eve at their residence … and then the talks had slowly turned into relating the not-so-nice experiences … satish was normally quite and smiley ...
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| amrut patil | 18:44 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (74)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: singing
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| Ganeshaya Namah |
| A great song and Class Performance .... Pausaaaaaaa? Pausaaaaaa?Gananayaka GanadaivatayaGanadaksha YadhimahiGuna shariraya Guna ManditayaGuneshanay DhimahiGunaditaya Gunadhishaya Gunapravishtaya DhimahaiEkadantaya Vakratundaya Gauritanahaya yadhi mahiGajeshanaya Bhalchandraya shree ganeshaya dhimahi{Ekadantaya Vakratundaya Gauritanahaya yadhi mahi...
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| krishna veni | 10:43 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Take me away |
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| Take me away to a distant land far, far away from the misery and suffering of this uncanny world. Wake me up and take me away for here I lay in a dormant state in the cocoon of this materialistic world. Take me away from this gloomy world towards the path of enlightenment. Take me away from the grief, misery, aversion ...
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| vs unnikrishnan | 14:55 | 21/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (66)
| City: Cochin
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| TELL U LATER |
| TELL U LATER MY DEAR FRIENDS, TILL THEN READ MY FRIENDS ILANDS, AND THEIIR GOOD CREATIONS
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| SHAHID ALI | 13:22 | 24/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (21)
| City: Delhi
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| Innocence |
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| Look at this photo....must have reminded you the golden days of your childhood....of which you infact have no remembrance. Looking at a child is always worthful. It delight the watchers, it takes him to his childhood...it in fact forced him to spare some time and to co-relate him with the childish activities of the said child. For a moment, he forg...
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| Bharath Kumar | 13:44 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (121)
| City: Coimbatore
| Interests: Music,Cricket
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| Dont Quit |
| When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit. Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turnsAs every one of us sometimes learns. And many a failu...
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| bimal raj | 12:20 | 19/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (181)
| City: Chengannur
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| My Visitor.......... |
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| These were my special visitors.........she came with family....except hubby, he is on a BT...
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| Ananta Khakh... | 18:25 | 3/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (211)
| City: Balacharah
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| WALKING IN THE MOONSOON RAIN IN DEEP RAI... |
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| I HAVE JUST COME OUT OF OFFICE ON 03.07.08 ON BHARAT BANDH DAY AT 1305 HOURS TO GO FOR LUNCH. IT WAS AN ORDINARY DAY EXCEPT THE FACT THAT NO OFFICE SUPPORT STAFF TURN UP , INCLUDING THE DRIVERS . THAT MEENS I HAVE TO WLAK BACK FOR LUNCH IN THE BRIGHT SUNNY SUMMER MID DAY. AS SOON AS I HAVE CAME OUT OF OFFICE THE RAIN CAME DOWN LASHINGLY FROM NOW...
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| vijayaram reddy | 12:11 | 16/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (608)
| City: Bangalore
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| నువ్వĺ 3;నా ! ఎలా వున్నĹ 4;వ్ ? నన్ను తలుచుĵ 3;ోటాని 093;ి కూడా వీలు కాన...
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| sandy raj | 13:20 | 13/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (66)
| City: Pune
| Interests: music,travelling,...
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| Hand Of Hope......... |
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| Amazing photo !!! A picture began circulating in January. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The Baby was diagnosed with Spina Bifida and would not survive if removed f...
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| satya dubey | 17:09 | 7/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (157)
| City: NOIDA
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| Reflections : Burning Issues- ii |
| In one of my blogs, I raised the question of burning issues which had not found sufficient expression in the blogs of the rediffiland. I am delighted to find very enthusiastic support and response to my pleadings and since then dozens of blogs have been posted on issues which directly affect our social, cultural and national life-not only as medi...
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| Gaurav mishra | 15:31 | 27/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (122)
| City: Patna
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| dont 4get |
| Hai frnds,when i first came on this iland, i have not hoped that i will b able 2 make even 20 frnds,but today i have more than 100 frnds.u all bcame a part of my life.not a single day wentby when i have not read your thoughts on various topics,and i have also tried 2 write or u cn say tell everything true about me,as we all know that frndship star...
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| abhay sudhakar | 12:58 | 14/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (77)
| City: Bhilai
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| Economic slavery |
| I am no economist but it always aghasts me that our market collapses when ever US markets crash.Its ridiculous that we are worried when rupee gains strength.Are we so dollar dependent? If it is then it suggests that we are economic slaves.No doubt now is the time of globalisation but that doesnt mean that we absorb negetive curre...
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| Manu Nair | 12:28 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (588)
| City: Bangalore
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| Caught In The Net |
| It seems that the BJP has not learnt its lesson from the tie-up with the JD (S) in the state of Karnataka. Now the CPI (M) has opened its door towards the BJP. It’s really interesting to see if this tie-up would click if the BJP government is elected to power during the upcoming polls. The tie up of CPI (M) with BJP won’t click as people have alrea...
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| anil verma | 03:14 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (726)
| City: Delhi
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| Blind Faith ? |
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| Sai Baba open one-eye ?Jul 18, 2008. Bangalore: It was blind belief, but people came with their eyes wide open, all for a glimpse of the one-eyed Sai Baba. A one-foot high idol of Sai Baba attracted a huge crowd as well as huge donations all through Friday, when word spread fast that Sai Baba had come to bless one and all by opening one eye on Guru...
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| kem | 19:00 | 15/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (30)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Does Page Rank Have Any Use? |
| Any newbie in home business is keen to get a Page Rank (PR) for his/her website or blog. Google gives PR based on the value of the webpage. Does it promise anything? Does it make your webpage rank higher in the search results? Do a search on Google for any keyword or key phrase and chances are that a zero PR website may come on top of the search re...
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| vanimol | 15:30 | 22/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (36)
| City: batam
| Interests: writing,drawing
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| My F lower Dreams Last time I planted a flower, Then the next day I saw the flower grown... It had grown very high, until the sky… Until the clouds to sing to me, Those songs were, the songs that I sang before……….
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| asif duftry | 17:58 | 12/May/2008 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Kolkata
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| Its all Personal. |
| It's really nice to get a free tool like this where I can talk at-least myself....or with the friends scattered here and there through out the country. Now I am very busy in office still very nostalgic. My dual natur was a talk to everyone since my childhood.I've determind to write my feelings and share the pink moments with everyonne......Next day...
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| deepthi menon | 22:50 | 9/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (84)
| City: Delhi
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| memoirs of a geisha |
| after a gap of 2 weeks..i got this book" memoirs of a geisha"..by Arthur Golden i found this one intresting but not touching ..geishas are a kind of devadasis of ancient india,who can be called as entertainers.. (not prostitutes) not of a must read category ..but a good one
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| Krishnan Ven... | 08:39 | 29/May/2008 |
| Friends: (44)
| City: Delhi
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| HOW RELIABLE IS CHINA? |
| CAN CHINA BE EVER TRUSTED ? China swallowed Tibet in the late fifties. None in the world had the guts to question it. It declared war on India in 1962 just because it gave asylum to the Dalai Lama and India could not emerge victorious in the war as China was superior in military strength.All this happened in spite of Nehru 's promotion of "Indo-Chi...
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| lonely | 10:47 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (328)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Far away from reality..!!! |
| Yester day while watching TV there was an advertisement that caught my attention.. I think most of u people have seen that. It is an advertisement of some **** water purifier, where there was a guy in a desert collapsed on his knee becoz of dehydration. Some people near to him observe and rush towards that guy and offering some water. If suppose u...
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| Subhransu | 12:51 | 1/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (180)
| City: Tokyo
| Interests: Computer
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| Salvage India |
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| Young guns, young mind with a zest to do something different can bring revolutionary change in the system. Believe they only can correct the plunging system. They understand the world better than anybody else. They are the smarter generation, they have the knowledge. They are competitive and have the attitude. Taking as an example in the current in...
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| raj phad | 17:29 | 17/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (106)
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| साधो, सो सदगुरì 9; मोहि भावेसê 0;प्रेम का भर-भर प्यालì 6;,आप पिलाई मो&#...
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| nitin bhatnagar | 20:24 | 25/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (248)
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| Let's Laugh..... |
| Prescription for cyanide A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide." The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband." Please click here to read the full post
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| Kamalesh Sharma | 08:48 | 15/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (184)
| City: Jaipur
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| News channels |
| Friends have you seen/watch indian news channels nowadays? Their breaking news are nothing except having so many breaks. 4th umpire, IPL,glamour, crime events, bollywood gossips and commercial breaks are main news which are broadcasted on priorities. current national or international issues, economic policies of the Govt, public issues, issues rega...
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| chandrakant ... | 12:22 | 21/Jul/2008 |
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| wanted |
| मित्रो, पिच्छले कुच्छ दिनोसे मुबारक बाद के म्स्ग आरहे थे ,मू&#...
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| narendra shah | 23:29 | 8/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (450)
| City: Ahmedabad
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| WEEK DAY PRAYERS |
| Prayer for Monday - Wash DayLord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead.Prayer for Tuesday - Ironing DayDear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty of others.Prayer for Wednessday - Mending DayO Go...
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| PAULAMI DAM | 11:38 | 13/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (156)
| City: Raiganj
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| GLOBAL WARMING |
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| GLOBAL WARMING means the gradual warming of the earth's surface due to greenhouse effect. It poses a great threat to environmental sustainnability. The immediate cause of global warming is the thinning of the ozone layer over the atmosphere that limits the greenhouse emissions and keeps the earth cool and congenial . The large-scale pollution is at...
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