Lalbaugcha Raja

Lalbaugcha Raja is the popular public Ganesha idol kept at Lalbaug, a prominent locality in Mumbai during Ganesh Chaturti festival. The idol is kept for public display for Eleven days thereafter it is immersed on the auspicious day of Anant Chaturdashi.

The Mandal, formerly known as ‘Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal, Lalbaug’ was founded in 1934, because of a vow (Navas) for construction of the present Lalbaug Market at its existing place. The market place at Peru Chawl was shut down in 1932. Hence, the fishermen and vendors who used to sit in the open place vowed to Ganesha for permanent place for their market. With the consistent efforts and support of the then local Councillor-Late Shri. Kuwarji Jethabhai Shah, Dr. V. B. Korgaonkar, Shri. Nakhawa Kokam Mama, Bhausaheb Shinde, Dr. U. A. Rao and the local residents, the landlord Rajabai Tayyabali agreed to give a plot for construction of a market. As fulfillment of their wish, the fisherman and the traders established the Ganesh Idol on 12 September 1934. The idol was dressed in the customary fashion of fisherman. Since that day onwards, this Lord Ganesh has become popular as it fulfills the wishes of devotees. The Mandal was formed in the era when the freedom struggle was at its peak.

Lalbaugcha Raja ganesh utsav 2012 will be innuagrated on Wednesday, 19th Sept 2012, early morning 4.00 AM by the Mandal’s President Mr. Ashok Maruti Pawar. The same will be further followed by Pratishthapana Puja.
Post the Puja, Lalbaugcha Raja 2012 darshan will be opened to all the devotees from early morning 6.00 AM onwards and the Lalbaugcha Raja souvenir for 2012 will be published.
The Morning aarti will take place at 12.30 PM, by the Mandal’s President Mr. Ashok Maruti Pawar.
The Evening aarti will take place at 08.30 PM.
The Jagran for the first night will be managed by Udhyanand Seva Mandal.
Arrangements for Lalbaugcha Raja Utsav 2012
The arrangements for the devotees, who wish to make or fulfill a vow to the Lalbaugcha Raja, is similar to the arrangements made for Ganeshotsav 2011. This queue viz. NAVAS Line will take the following route:- Dinshaw Petit Lane – G.D. Ambekar Marg – Dr. Vijay Walimbe Road, Parel Village – Guru Rani Chowk, Parel.
This year the Mandal has made a arrangement for the devotees of Navas Queue in BMC & MHADA Ground.
The arrangements for other devotees who want to have MUKH DARSHAN of the Lalbaugcha Raja will be similar to the arrangements made for Ganeshotsav 2011. The queue for the MUKH DARSHAN will take the route:- Chhatrapati Shivaji Ground (Garam Khada) – Dr.B.A. Road – Dattaram Lad Marg – T.B. Kadam Marg – Add’l C.P. office – Dr. B.A. Road – Byculla Station.

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Speak It Out

You should say what you feel.

Speak it out,

No matter even in front of crowd,

Don’t be a coward,

Be brave,

No matter, the situation may be grave,

Speak in your own word,

Remember you are not owned,

Speak what you feel,

Let your wounds heal,

Some may feel bad,

And may even feel sad,

Prevent yourself from being drowned,

In the ocean of emotions,

Have mercy on your conditions,

If you won’t speak, you will burst,

And won’t be able to handle the thrust,

Speak the truth caring for none,

Speak it out even if you need to shout,

No one will come and none will hear,

If they don’t have interest they won’t bear,

Remember it’s only a bout,

All will forgive if you do,

You are a human being too,

It’s human to err,

And you should confer,

What you feel,

You need to appeal,

And need to deal,

With those who come to demolish you,

And sometimes even tarnish you,

So, You need to speak it out,

To keep them out.

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Mother of Ashton Boy with Rare Disorder Gets Job at His School to Monitor Him

Mark has Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia – an inherited condition, where the body is unable to make enough hormones to retain salt and fight stress.

Tina’s eight-year-old boy Mark suffers from a rare life-threatening disorder.
He needs daily medication and an emergency shot of drugs if his body goes into shock.

So Tina vowed to make sure   she would never be far from his side. She got a job as a midday assistant at Hurst Knoll Primary School in Ashton-under-Lyneand is now able to check on him every lunchtime.
It is thought to affect just 95 people in the north west, and sufferers have to take several tablets a day to stay healthy.
Tina, of Ashton-under-Lyne, said: “Mark was really poorly as a baby and it was a big shock to us. He was losing weight and wouldn’t feed properly but we didn’t really know why so he had to be transferred from Tameside to the children’s hospital at Pendlebury.
“Doctors ran tests on him and found he had this condition, which basically means he doesn’t produce enough of certain hormones and salt so he had to have it in his milk.

When he got a bit older and was ready for school, we had to think about who would give him his medication. “It was a worry for us but a job came up at the school and I took it so I could be there if he needed me. It works well – and he copes brilliantly with everything.”
Tina and husband David, 48, have another son, Robert, 18, who does not have the condition but he could be a carrier, meaning he could potentially pass it on to his children. Mark has to undergo regular check-ups at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Tina is taking part in a charity walk to thank them.
She will pull on her walking boots at Lake Windermere for the 4.5km Jane Tomlinson Walk For All on Sunday and hopes to raise hundreds of pounds for the hospital’s endocrine department.

Want

What do you want?

What you want is what you get,
When it doesn’t happen you regret,
Where there is want there is greed,
Want is the need for greed,
The more you want, the more greedy you are,
The more you get, the more you don’t share,
And you don’t care,
You become selfish,
To fulfil your every wish,
You don’t spare,
Anyone around you for you want,
To get what you can’t,
In doing so you dare,
And don’t bare,
Anyone who comes in your way,
As there is will there is a way,
For you everything is play,
And you relay not rely,
To get what you can’t,
To say what you want.

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Artist Uses Blood to Bring Life to His Works Read more: http://healthmad.com/medicine/artist-uses-blood-to-bring-life-to-his-works

Jordan Eagles creates images using copper, resin — and animal blood.

His exhibition “Hemofields: A New Series of Multidimensional Works in Blood & Resin” will open on Wednesday at the gallery and run through Oct. 16.

Mr. Eagles, who gets his preserved animal blood from a New Jersey slaughterhouse, began tinkering with it as a medium while studying art at New York University in 1998. As he worked on a series of paintings depicting childbirth, he tried to use red paint to symbolize blood.
But over the course of a year, his childbirth pieces began to change color from red to brown, prompting him to experiment with ways to preserve the blood’s vibrant color. Through “years of trial and error,” he began applying blood to layers of clear plexiglass and then preserving it with layers of resin, allowing the high-gloss surface to suspend the fluid.
 In “Hemofields,” which Mr. Eagles says is a combination of hemoglobin and color fields, he explores various colors and textures of blood, from cattle and oxen, as it reacts during the resin’s cure time.
What’s happening here is that light is going through the colors and textures of the blood and vibrating off a copper backing,” he said of an image called “HF4.” “Copper is a conductor of electricity so it infuses more energy into the work.” Mr. Eagles then walked in front of “Roze 12” and began running an imaginary paint brush up and down the piece.
 “The ‘Roze’ idea here has several meanings. There are all these rows happening on a grid, but at the same time, the blood creates an image of a rebirth, a sort of rising from the dead. Rose is also a person’s name as well as a tribute flower, so the work personifies something that was once living.”
As Mr. Eagles spoke, the front door to the gallery opened. A man named Brandon Park walked in and asked if he could sneak a peek at some of the framed images.
Though Mr. Eagles insists that he has never worked with blood “just for shock value or for the sake of attention,” his unusual creations have brought him controversy.
Two years ago, animal rights activists gathered outside a Hartford gallery where some of his works were on display.
“I did not expect them to show up, but they came to my event, passing out fliers and making a big scene out front,” he said. “I invited them in to see the works before making a judgment, but they declined.
“My view on this is that blood is obviously a sacred material; it’s a life force that has energy but is no longer living,” he said. “You say the word ‘blood’ and people have so many preconceived notions and imagery that comes to mind, like the time you scraped your knee as a kid, or when you gave birth or some other image, and you are potentially going to come and view my work through the lens of those preconceived notions.”
Benjamin Krause, who owns the gallery where Mr. Eagles’s works are now being shown, said that based on Mr. Eagles’s past sales, some of the pieces would most likely sell for $12,000 to $13,000.

Was it a Dream?

A teenage girl Lisa has been just gifted a laptop by her father on her umpteenth birthday. She is quite excited about it & quickly opens it & the first thing she does is to register herself in an online social network & starts searching for friends to chat with.
She finds a strange woman whose profile she visits which says I can make your wishes come true. She leaves a message for her & celebrates her birthday. Next day she again opens that page & she feels lucky to find that woman online. Her profile was quite exciting without any name. She asks that woman for her name but she says,
” Let us first become friends & just make a wish, I will make it come true for you”.
So she wishes to be the most beautiful girl in the world since she was quite concerned about her appearance & felt that she was overweight. That woman asks her to give her email to her & she does all the things as she says.
She receives her email containing a link & when she opens it she finds that a page for registering passport has opened but she already has a passport. She cannot understand anything & questions that woman about it. She only says that if you believe me then do as I say or forget about your wish. Lisa is too tempted for the thought of her dream coming true that she wants to give it a try & does all as she says. She fills the passport form & registers herself  & waits for her wish to get fulfilled.
After a week her doorbell rings. She opens the door to find a postman carrying some parcels & letters. He gives one parcel to that girl which contains the label ‘I can make your wishes come true’. She recalls that this was the heading of the profile of that woman & she must have sent something  which can make her beautiful. She quickly opens it & finds a passport & a letter inside. She is quite confused so she reads the letter in which it is written that if you want to become beautiful just enter the code given at the back of  the passport under the profile of the woman.
She thinks that woman is making an ass out of her by taking advantage of her weakness so she throws it on the floor & goes back to her room in a depressed mood. She lies on her bed when suddenly she hears a voice which was coming from her laptop. She goes closer to it & it was glowing. After that she cannot remember anything what happened to her.
She was hypnotized. She went back to the place where she threw the passport, picked it up & entered the code at the back of the passport in the profile of that woman which was already open. As she does so she finds that laptop is taking her somewhere else, she doesn’t know where. The bright light of the laptop takes her out of hypnotism & she is wondering as she doesn’t remember her past few moments. She is awestruck & afraid.
She finds a door in front  of herself with the label “Come inside & I will make your wishes come true”.
She is quite angry by now & can feel that it is because of that woman she is here. She opens the door with a bang & searches for that woman to ask her to send her back.
She finds a woman sitting on a sofa in the next room & calls her but she doesn’t reply. So, she goes close to her to see her face & as she turns around Lisa shouts in fear. She has never seen such an old, weird & ugly woman throughout her life. That woman tells her that she is Merlin, a witch & she also has the same wish to become the most beautiful woman in the world. She also tells her that only she or Lisa can get her wish fulfilled & she has chosen herself & Lisa will help her in becoming the most beautiful woman by sharing her age with her so that she can become younger & Lisa will become older.
Lisa cannot think of anything except wishing that can it become a bad dream for her & somehow she can get back to her family. Before Lisa can do anything Merlin locks her up in her room & starts preparing for rituals which will make her younger.Lisa thinks that she cannot give up like that. She is her father’s strong daughter & fight till her end. She thinks of what all she can do.
She still has that passport in her hand. She turns it’s pages to get any information from it which can save her. She finds that passport contained all the places in the world & some strange names which she never know they exist or not & are out of this world.
The passport had 3 entries out of which one has been used when she entered into Merlin’s world & two have been left now. She has to make a correct choice to get back  to her home. She cannot bear to stay over here so she enters her name in front of a place she thinks & guesses, her home is located. She writes it with her lucky pen which she always carries with her in her pocket. As she does so she finds herself in the north pole of the earth with snowing all around. She knows that place but it is not her home, it was spelled backwards which created a confusion. Now she has solved the mystery & makes the last entry with her shaking hands remembering God & her family in the passport in front of her city’s name spelled backwards & closes her eyes.
As she opens her eyes she finds herself  lying on the bed & her father shouting at her, ” Get up Lisa. It has been hours since you have been sleeping & get ready for your classes. Otherwise, you will be late.”.
Lisa gets up to find things at their proper place & her lucky pen is still in her pocket. But she cannot find that passport anywhere. It has vanished. She gets ready & goes for her classes still wondering ” Was it a dream”?

Most Athletic Dog Breeds

American Pit Bull Terrier
Unfairly maligned as vicious, American Pit Bull Terriers are superb athletes. Originally bred for dog fighting and catching large game, they are not prone to human aggression and make for wonderful family dogs. Nowadays, Pit Bull owners channel their dog’s energy and drive through sports like weight pulling. Some Pit Bulls have managed to pull 8,000 lbs!

Australian Shepherd
Australian Shepherds, affectionately known as ‘Aussies,’ are loving, loyal, and energetic. They are one of the larger herders, and excel at agility. Aussies are very intelligent and will require mental stimulation as well as physical. They’re a popular breed, partially due to the fact that most have an ‘off switch’; i.e. the ability to settle when not actively engaged in something. Size, shape, and temperament can vary depending on what lines are present in a dog’s pedigree.
Border Collie
Border Collie is the Australian Shepherd’s more intense cousin. Highly biddable and considered the most intelligent of dog breeds, Border Collies NEED a job to be happy. These jobs can be simple: putting toys away, grabbing a soda from the fridge, or even playing fetch.
Boxer
Boxers are one of the best family breeds when they can keep all four paws on the ground. Bred, like the American Pit Bull Terrier, for fighting and hunting, the breed has since transitioned into a companion role and are extremely devoted to their owners. Unlike herding breeds, the Boxer’s energy is not ‘focused.’ Young dogs can seem like whirling, clownish dervishes springing this way and that with no idea what to do with their excess energy.
Doberman Pinscher
Doberman Pinschers are a bold breed that would do anything for their owners. They are large dogs bred for guard work and protection, and as such they need to spend lots of time with their family.
German Shorthaired Pointer
Owners describe them as the jocks of the dog world, not the most intelligent in the class but certainly willing to please and always ready to go out and do something. They are one of the best jogging companions on this list, but also compete in agility with great success.
Greyhound
Greyhounds typically begin their life at a racecourse and are adopted upon retirement. Being raised in a professional setting, they tend to be well socialized and trained, making them great dogs for first time owners.They make good family pets and are actually one of the easiest large breed dogs to own, being low-shedding, calm, and fairly simple to train.
Jack Russell Terrier
ack Russell Terriers are great for dog sports or kicking around town. They have a typical terrier personality- headstrong, vigorous, and protective. They were originally bred to hunt foxes, so you can imagine the tenacity and punch these little dogs pack.
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian Ridgebacks originated in South Africa and were used to hunt lions. The dogs would distract and bait the lion while their masters moved in for the kill. As such, they are large, agile, and courageous. They are named for the distinctive ridge of fur down their back. The Ridgeback is fiercely loyal and aloof with strangers.
Siberian Husky
Independent, enduring, and endlessly energetic, they are a highly rewarding breed for those that can meet their needs. They were bred to pull heavy weights for miles, and because of this they can run for hours on end without tiring.

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World’s Most Wanted

The FBI is offering rewards for information leading to the apprehension of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

ERIC JUSTIN TOTH:

Possession of Child Pornography; Production of Child Pornography

Toth has often been described as a computer “expert” and has demonstrated above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness. Toth has the ability to integrate into various socio-economic classes, and is an expert at social engineering. He possesses an educational background conducive to gaining employment in fields having a connection to children. Toth may advertise online as a tutor or male nanny.

REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Eric Justin Toth.

JASON DEREK BROWN

Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution – First Degree Murder, Armed Robbery

REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Jason Derek Brown.

Brown speaks fluent French and has a Masters Degree in International Business. He is an avid golfer, snowboarder, skier, and dirt biker. Brown enjoys being the center of attention and has been known to frequent nightclubs where he enjoys showing off his high-priced vehicles, boats, and other toys. He has been described as possibly having bisexual tendencies.

Brown has ties to California, Arizona, and Utah. In the past, he has traveled to France and Mexico. Additionally, he may be in the possession of a Glock 9mm and a .45 caliber handgun.

JOE LUIS SAENZ

Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution – Murder, Kidnapping, Rape, Parole Violation

REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Joe Luis Saenz.

Saenz is believed to work for a Mexican drug cartel, and is known to travel between the United States and Mexico. He may have removed his tattoos with a laser. He has reportedly made previous statements indicating plans to kill a police officer upon his arrest. He is believed to always carry a weapon.

GLEN STEWART GODWIN

Unlawful Flight to Avoid Confinement – Murder, Escape

REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Glen Stewart Godwin.

Godwin was arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. After being convicted, he was sent to a prison in Guadalajara. In April of 1991, Godwin allegedly murdered a fellow inmate and then escaped five months later.

Godwin is fluent in Spanish and may be traveling throughout Central and South America, and Mexico. He is thought to be involved in narcotics distribution.

ROBERT WILLIAM FISHER

Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution – First Degree Murder (3 Counts), Arson of an Occupied Structure

REWARD: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Robert William Fisher.

Robert William Fisher is wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two young children and then blowing up the house in which they all lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in April of 2001.

Fisher is physically fit and is an avid outdoors man, hunter, and fisherman. He has a noticeable gold crown on his upper left first bicuspid tooth. He may walk with an exaggerated erect posture and his chest pushed out due to a lower back injury. Fisher is known to chew tobacco heavily. He has ties to New Mexico and Florida. Fisher is believed to be in possession of several weapons, including a high-powered rifle.

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