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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Jadav Payeng has single-handedly grown a sprawling forest on a 550-hectare sandbar in the middle of the Brahmaputra. It now has many endangered animals, including at least five tigers, one of which bore two cubs recently. The place lies in Jorhat, some 350 km from Guwahati by road, and it wasn't easy for Sunday Times to access him. Locals call the place 'Molai Kathoni' (Molai's woods) after Payeng's nick name, Molai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It all started way back in 1979 when floods washed a large number of snakes ashore on the sandbar. One day, after the waters had receded, Payeng , only 16 then, found the place dotted with the dead reptiles. That was the turning point of his life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">"The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. It was carnage . I alerted the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees there. They said nothing would grow there. Instead, they asked me to try growing bamboo. It was painful, but I did it. There was nobody to help me. Nobody was interested," says Payeng, now 47.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Leaving his education and home, he started living on the sandbar. Unlike Robinson Crusoe, Payeng willingly accepted a life of isolation. And no, he had no Man Friday. He watered the plants morning and evening and pruned them. After a few years, the sandbar was transformed into a bamboo thicket. "I then decided to grow proper trees. I collected and planted them. I also transported red ants from my village, and was stung many times. Red ants change the soil's properties . That was an experience," Payeng says, laughing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Soon, there were a variety of flora and fauna which burst in the sandbar, including endangered animals like the one-horned rhino and Royal Bengal tiger. "After 12 years, we've seen vultures. Migratory birds, too, have started flocking here. Deer and cattle have attracted predators," claims Payeng . He says locals recently killed a rhino which was seen in his forest at another forest in Sibsagar district.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Payeng talks like a trained conservationist. "Nature has made a food chain; why can't we stick to it? Who would protect these animals if we, as superior beings, start hunting them?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The Assam state forest department learnt about Payeng's forest only in 2008 when a herd of some 100 wild elephants strayed into it after a marauding spree in villages nearby. They also destroyed Payeng's hutment . It was then that assistant conservator of forests Gunin Saikia met Payeng for the first time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">"We were surprised to find such a dense forest on the sandbar. Locals, whose homes had been destroyed by the pachyderms, wanted to cut down the forest, but Payeng dared them to kill him instead. He treats the trees and animals like his own children. Seeing this, we, too, decided to pitch in," says Saikia. "We're amazed at Payeng. He has been at it for 30 years. Had he been in any other country, he would have been made a hero."</span></span><br />
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Design Bunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960550443250998370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706052136692426521.post-65527414923020437842013-02-18T23:03:00.001-08:002013-02-18T23:11:34.638-08:00MaGlEv : SPeeD bEyonD wHeeLS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Magnetically levitated ('Maglev') vehicles harness the power of magnetism to lift them off the ground and propel them forward, using elecromagnets made of superconductive metals. Instead of running on conventional metal tracks, they run on specially constructed 'guideways'. Because there is no contact between the maglev vehicle and its guideway when running, problems with friction and wear-and-tear faced by conventional trains are largely eliminated, allowing, in theory at least, higher operating speeds and greater reliability. Superconductors are created when metals are cooled to specific temperatures, causing their electrical resistance to vanish - in this case niobium-titanium alloy is cooled with liquid helium to –269ºC (- 452.2 ºF). Because superconductors display no resistance to electrical currents, coils made from these materials create magnetic fields dozens of times stronger than those of permanent magnets.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Satyameva Jayate means Truth stands invincible. It is a Hindu mantra from the ancient scripture Mundaka Upanishad. Upon the independence of India, this was adopted as the national motto of India.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Aamir Khan Productions’ Satyamev Jayate on Star Plus has managed to create a buzz amongst the masses. It is being watched by millions across the globe. But one question still lingers in everyone’s heart. Will it manage to stir the emotions of Indian citizens and trigger a revolution? </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> One cannot be sure about the revolution but yes, the series has and will definitely create an impact in the minds of the people. And you never know…it might bring in a positive change. Aamir is doing a great job.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> True to his word, Aamir Khan met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot yesterday and requested him to speed up the trial of female foeticide cases. Aamir had promised in the first episode of his TV debut show Satyamev Jayate that he will take this case forward with the Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice so that a fast track court is formed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> PTI reported Aamir Khan as saying, “He has assured me that the government is already working on the issue and will continue to do so.” Aamir further added, “The CM told me that after watching the first episode, he had called a meeting of senior officials. It is an important issue for the entire country and he has decided to take it forward strongly.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Aamir Khan claims to address the roots of social evils, engages statistics, experts and pending court cases to illustrate his findings while offering solutions to overturn Indian feudal structure, all within an hour’s televised show, intensified with tears, hopes and resolutions. And the unprecedented success of ‘Satyamav Jayate’ underlines that this tactic is effectively working. If a generation had somehow failed to awaken following Rang de Basanti, it is wide awake, this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Each episode is a testament to this resounding success. Aamir poses significant questions in the beginning, acknowledges the conventional answers, moves on to dismantle those very assumptions, and the audience bursts into tears at its own ignorance and at the promise of a new tomorrow bereft of the maladies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Just when the cynics wonder if he has turned self-righteous, it turns out ‘Satyamev Jayate’ works precisely because Aamir identifies himself entirely with the audience. He, too, learns of the bitter truths about Indian society from the very show itself, live on the stage. “Mujhe bhi aaj yeh seekh mili hai” is oft-repeated. Along with the audience, he is shocked at the barbaric, with them he sheds the tears, with them he signs petitions. The routine criticisms usually reserved for holier than thou shows simply find no outlets here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Finally, it is the content area where the Aamir Khan effect shines. Female infanticide, dowry tortures, child sexual abuse – the themes so far – are societally entrenched as innately problematic, inherently evil and acutely in need of redress. They are so commonplace that they should have ideally lost any shock value by now; and yet Satyamev Jayate revels in the euphoric disconnect of the audience with their harmful consequences.</span></span><br />
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Is Team India divided or has the defeat in two Tests in Australia and four in England caused fissures in the team? Or as in the past, Australia is playing mind games and our cricketers should not be bothered at all?<br />
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An article in Australian newspaper Herald Sun says, "Virender Sehwag is the man polarizing opinions in the Indian rooms." The paper quotes Australian pacer Ryan Harris as saying that the "Indians were fighting among themselves" and the team does not have unity.<br />
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According to the article there is a division in the team on who should captain the Indian team. According to the report, some players are in favour of Sehwag as captain while a section wants Mahendra Singh Dhoni to continue as skipper.<br />
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The paper also talks about former Indian coach Greg Chappell who had observed in his autobiography Fierce Focus that young members of the team were too afraid of some of their seniors to speak in the team meetings.<br />
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Wicketkeeper Haddin turned up the heat on India, trailing 2-0 ahead of Friday's third Test in Perth, by revealing that Australia had discussed the tourists' mental frailties.<br />
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"We spoke about a bit of that when we were batting," Haddin was quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald.<br />
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"The longer we could keep them out on the field the bigger chance we had of breaking them."<br />
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"We know this side can be as fragile as any team in the world if things aren't going their way and they can turn on each other and the media turns on them pretty quick."<br />
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<b>LONDON: An Indian student was shot dead Monday in Manchester, northern England, by a white man, police said, announcing an investigation.</b><br />
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<b>Anuj Bidve, 23, was murdered in the early hours as he walked with friends from his hotel in Salford, an area to the west of Manchester, towards the city centre.</b><br />
<b>Greater Manchester Police (GMP) called it an “awful” and “unprovoked” attack and vowed their investigation would “leave no stone unturned”.</b><br />
<b>“This is a tragic incident and our first thoughts are for the family,” said chief superintendent Kevin Mulligan.</b><br />
<b>“There is going to be a huge amount of concern in the community and I can reassure the family and the community by telling them we have launched a major investigation and no stone will be left unturned until we find the people who are responsible for this.”</b><br />
<b>When asked if the murder could have a racial motivation, Mulligan said: “We are investigating every possible aspect.”</b><br />
<b>Bidve, who was studying a micro-electronics postgraduate qualification at Lancaster University, around 40 miles from Manchester, was enjoying a short break in the city with eight friends.</b><br />
<b>The group was stopped by a man who spoke to them before shooting Bidve at close range.</b><br />
<b>Mulligan urged the killer, described as a white man in his 20s, to surrender himself to the police as soon as possible.</b><br />
<b>Bidve’s family in India has been informed.</b><br />
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<b>The Bhagwad Gita is a bestseller, controversy or no controversy. The holy book notches up steady sales through the year. In the last financial year, for instance, Gita Press, Gorakhpur, one of the major publishers of the ancient Hindu scripture, sold around six lakh copies of Gita in 13 languages.</b><br />
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<b>Mirza Afsar Baig of the Midland bookstore in the city's Aurobindo Marg has been selling books for over two decades.</b><br />
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<b>"The controversies that crop up around books never cease to amaze me. I've sold over 60 copies of Swami Chinmayananda's The Holy Geeta in the last two days alone. There was a similar interest in Salman Rushdie after his Satanic Verses was banned," says Baig. There was also a rise in interest in books on the Prophet Mohammad and Islam after a US pastor threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary last year, he says.</b><br />
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<b>The city's International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON) reported no spurt in sales. However, the organization is confident that the controversy will get more people interested in the subject.</b><br />
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<b>In June this year, the state prosecutor's office in the Russian city of Tomsk, Siberia, filed a petition asking for a ban on the Gita, interpreting it as war-mongering, extremist literature.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><b>From being anti-politician, the Anna campaign has turned anti-Congress, triggering suspicion about its agenda when the government lacks an overwhelming majority in the House. So much so that Mamata Banerjee was urged to break her silence to lend support to the cause the way she helped scuttle FDI in multi-brand retail.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Coming back to Anna’s bid to rope in political parties, Kiran Bedi who incurred the disapproval of many for her Ramlila maidan caricature of the neta biradari, was subdued and discreet. But not Arvind Kejriwal, who launched into his usual act of leading others by the nose. His unilateralism invited rebuff from the CPI’s A B Bardhan and the BJP’s Arun Jaitley—who said the legislation’s fine print be left to Parliament.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><b>The BJP leader dittoed Bardhan, who had earlier chided Anna’s supporters for their wholesale derision of the political class while claiming to be the “sole repository of wisdom and honesty.” Perceived by many as autocratic and intolerant, Kejriwal heard them without demur. It didn’t make sense from his standpoint to lock horns with the Opposition lineup that supported broadly the Jan Lokpal version to make the PM, the CBI and the lower bureaucracy accountable to the proposed Ombudsman. There was no unanimity on the judiciary and the MPs’ conduct in the House. A measure of Anna’s success was the presence on the stage of the initially skeptical JD (U) chief Sharad Yadav. The attraction was two-way; Anna needing political support in the last lap in Parliament and Opposition parties eyeing electoral gains by associating with the anti-corruption movement.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Such conduct on Kejriwal’s part indicated double-standards. He played the Anna group’s big boss after attacking the ‘high command culture’ that denied individual freedom of action in political parties to even elected representatives.</b></span></span></div>
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</div>Design Bunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960550443250998370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706052136692426521.post-68452113679745949812011-12-07T04:10:00.000-08:002011-12-07T04:10:50.801-08:00AsHiSh's WorLd: Discovery of Earth-like planet "thrilling"<a href="http://lucky-dj.blogspot.com/2011/12/discovery-of-earth-like-planet.html?spref=bl">AsHiSh's WorLd: Discovery of Earth-like planet "thrilling"</a>: (CBS News) Scientists looking for life on other planets like to talk about the "Goldilocks Zone" -- not too hot, not too cold, but just r...Design Bunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960550443250998370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706052136692426521.post-69479637008651848092011-12-07T03:36:00.001-08:002011-12-07T04:06:53.729-08:00Discovery of Earth-like planet "thrilling"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Now, researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., have found a planet -- Kepler-22b -- that's right in that zone.</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>But don't pack your bags just yet. If you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 600 years to get there.</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The discovery, Tyson said on "The Early Show," is thrilling because of the potential for life on the planet. He explained, "In the catalogs of planets that we now have, this is the first time we've had an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone with a star. ... We're kind of biased: We're looking for life as we know it. You can imagine, I suppose, that there is life on something other than water, but that's kind of -- we don't know how to get a handle on that. We do have a handle on life -- every place there's water on Earth, there's life -- even the Dead Sea. They called it the Dead Sea because they didn't see fish. But you pull out your microscope and there's microbes everywhere on Earth."</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>However, it isn't likely humans are going to be guests on Kepler-22b anytime soon, particularly because our current technology has its limitations. "It's not close," Tyson said. "(With) our fastest spacecraft today, it would take something like 300,000 years to get there. ... Probably even longer."</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What's the next realistic step for researchers, now that the planet's been found?</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>"You build the catalog of these planets that could have life," Tyson said. "Now you have a second round of observations to try to see the atmosphere, to see if the atmosphere has bio-markers for thriving life on its surface. Then you say, 'Well, if you ever have the chance to go somewhere or to target telescopes to listen for intelligent life, those will be at the top of the list."'</b></span></span><br />
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Hey guys well as u know I m new to the blog world and this is my 2nd post only jst writin my thought for u this tym,... </div>
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So paint the world is nothing bt is about my hobby which I had while I was in school , I was just in 5th standard and I use to make these small drawings in my drawing book which sometimes looked like nothing just a random drawing which is not copied from anywhere bt is the result of my randomness in mind about the things which I know and also which I dnt know..;)</div>
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As I was too small to think logically ,so i use to think that can v pain the whole Globe with the color v want ??</div>
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Is it really possible to take a paint brush and just paint the whole world with whichever color u think is suitable like red skies,blue skin, yellow mountains , and so on..since I was kid I had no boundaries to imagination coz at that age I knew nthng bt what i think was everything to me, even when i talked with my freinds about it at that very age I use to make them think what I believe ,I never thought that there's a real world out there which is already well designed and established by creator I really dint know who I am talking about bt someone would have given his heart and soul in makin and building this huge world worth living for us ,and at that time I use to think that when I grow up Ill be the one who will design the world by myself . I don't know but this was my first and foremost wish which I wanted to complete after being a Grown up , but as we know I am here writing to you and of course with my unfulfilled dream of painting the world. </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">2. Real Engineers buy their spouses a set of matched screwdrivers for their birthday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">3. Real Engineers wear mustaches or beards for "efficiency". Not because they're lazy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">4. Real Engineers have a non-technical vocabulary of 800 words.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">5. Real Engineers know how to take the cover off of their computer, and are not afraid to do it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">6. Real Engineers know the second law of thermodynamics - but not their own shirt size.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">7. Real Engineers repair their own cameras, telephones, televisions, watches, and automatic transmissions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">8. Real Engineers say "It's 70 degrees Fahrenheit, 25 degrees Celsius, and 298 degrees Kelvin" and all you say is "Isn't it a nice day"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">9. Real Engineers give you the feeling you're having a conversation with a dial tone or busy signal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">10. Real Engineers wear badges so they don't forget who they are. Sometimes a note is attached saying "Don't offer me a ride today. I drove my own car".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">11. Real Engineers' politics run towards acquiring a parking space with their name on it and an office with a window.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">12. Real Engineers know the "ABC's of Infrared" from A to B.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">13. Real Engineers rotate their tires for laughs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">14. Real Engineers will make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">15. Real Engineers' briefcases contain a Phillips screwdriver, a copy of "Quantum Physics", and a half of a peanut butter sandwich.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">16. Real Engineers know that Halloween is really the same as Christmas, because OCT 31 = DEC 25. (If you _don't_ get it, then you're not a Real Engineer.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">17. Real Engineers don't find the above at all funny.</span></div>
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