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Dooms day for Srinivasan and the ICC..!

As there are rumours that very senior Indian cricketers are nominated in the India Supreme Court investigating committee report, what credibility of the T20 ICC World Cup will remain of those very senior Indian players are playing in the tournament and the ICC, who knows every thing keeps silent.

In fact, today is the dooms day for the ICC along with Sri Navasan the chief of the BCCI and the future chief of the ICC’s new set up.

For the sake of any iota of semblance of credibility of the ICC the ACU of the ICC must be sacked immediately in view of the findings of the Indian Supreme Court’s observations and the findings of the ISC investigating committee, excerpts given as below:

Last July, a two-member BCCI-appointed panel comprising a pair of retired judges (T Jayaram Chouta and R Balasubramanian) had found “no evidence of any wrongdoing” on the part of Gurunath and Rajasthan royals co-owner Raj Kundra. However, the Mudgal panel pointed out that the question of whether or not Gurunath had been involved in match-fixing and spot-fixing “not been investigated thoroughly” by the anti-corruption units of the ICC and the BCCI or the Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department of the Chennai police, “even though some information was available for such an investigation to be conducted.”

Supreme Court tells N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president for fair IPL scam probe
NDTVCricket | Updated: March 25, 2014 11:16 IST

The Supreme Court has asked N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president to ensure a fair probe of the Indian Premier League fixing and betting scandal. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who was a team official of Chennai Super Kings, has been indicted by a Supreme Court appointed inquiry committee of betting and sharing team information.

A two-member Supreme Court bench comprising Justice AK Patnaik and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla is hearing on Tuesday the inquiry reports submitted by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee on betting and match-fixing in Indian Premier League 2013.

The Mudgal committee submitted two reports to the Supreme Court on February 10. The first, signed by retired judge Justice Mudgal and Additional Solicitor General of India L. Nageswara Rao, asked the court to “decide the further course of action” because the probe committee did not have the power to impose punishment. Another supplementary report, signed by Nilay Dutta, a vice-president of Assam Cricket Association and a member of the IPL Governing Council, said: “This should not be misinterpreted to mean that the report suggests that the Hon’ble Court would decide on the punishment or penalty to be imposed.”

The BCCI, which supports Dutta’s comments, now wants the Supreme Court to let it start fresh disciplinary proceedings against Gurunath and Chennai Super Kings under the IPL franchise rules.

Supreme Court tells N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president for fair IPL scam probe.

It further tells that of SN will not step down ISC will issue necessary orders.

So, party is over for the Pig 3 chief.

Eat more sugar cane..!

Men vs Women…. Very Funny

Did You Know?! A woman’s “I’ll be ready in 5 minutes” and a Man’s “I’ll be home in 5 minutes” are exactly the same !

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.

A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn’t need, because it’s on sale.

Women always have the last word in an argument.
Anything a man adds after that is the beginning of a new argument.

A woman worries about the future — until she gets a husband.

A man never worries about the future — until he gets a wife.

Men are vain; they will check themselves out in a mirror.

Women are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface: mirrors, spoons, store windows, and bald heads

When purchasing a shampoo:

Women look for: Effectiveness, Brand, Smell, what it does to hair, Ingredients, Color, Quality, Design, Recommendations, Reviews, Quantity, popularity

Men look for: It says Shampoo

Women lie about their age, Men lie about their Income

A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

A Man waits till there is nothing left in the fridge, then goes grocery shopping and buys everything that looks good.

If Rosy, Jane and Tanya go out for lunch, they will call each other Rosy, Jane and Tanya.

If John, Mike and Paul go out they will call each other Scrappy, Big Bear and KingKong

A man has five items in his bathroom — a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 247. A man cannot identify most of these items.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot & love him a little.

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot & not try to understand her at all.

Secrets of LUCK..!

By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire

Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck.

I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.

I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50.”

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.

As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties’ intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends.

They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.

The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.

Finally, I had found the elusive “luck factor”.

Here are Professor Wise man’s four top tips for becoming lucky:

1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right

2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine

3) Spend a few moments each
day remembering things that went well

4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

Have a Lucky day and work for it.

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.

Integrity is to act according to moral and ethical principles.

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Aristotle (384-322);
philosopher

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The ordinary person strokes their ego. The exceptional person polishes their craft.