“Love As Thought”  is   “TRUTH“     (Satya)

“Love As Action“    is    “RIGHT CONDUCT“    (Dharma)

“Love As Understanding“   is   ”PEACE“    (Shanti)

“Love As Feeling”   is    “NON VIOLENCE“    (Ahmisa)

The buyer is reportedly a private collector Christian Vanneque, formerly head Sommelier at the Michelin-starred La Tour d’Argent restaurant in Paris. Vanneque reportedly said he has no intentions of simply keeping the wine as a showpiece. After exhibiting the vino in a bullet-proof, temperature-controlled display case for six years at his Bali restaurant, the SIP Sunset Grill, Vanneque plans to uncork the bottle.He has said that “I will open it in six years to mark the 50th anniversary of when I began work in Paris and share it with my wife, brothers and friends — I already know what the menu will be,” Vanneque told the Guardian. “It was not just purchased as an investment — it is also going to be an enjoyment.”
                                                 Other foods that have gone for a fortune:

Most expensive chocolate bar sold at auction: A 100-year-old Cadbury’s chocolate bar from Captain Robert Scott’s first Discovery expedition (1901-1904) to the Antarctic. In 2001, it was sold for $687 at Christie’s in London.
Most expensive champagne: In June 2011, professional gambler Don Jonson purchased a massive magnum of Armand de Brignac Midas champagne for $190,000. The bottle weighed 100 pounds (the equivalent of 40 regular-sized bottles) and required three men to pour.
Most expensive fortune cookie: Sold in 2006 for £10,000 ($17,473) at an auction at London’s Chinese New Year Gala Dinner to aid Kids at the Banqueting House.
Most expensive whiskey: A 64-year-old Macallan single-malt scotch bottled in a one-of-a-kind Lalique crystal decanter sold last November at Sotheby’s New York for a record-breaking $460,000 - Delish

The letter sent from Pittsburgh and postmarked February 20, 1958  was reported to have arrived in the mailroom of University last week.

The letter had been reportedly addressed to Clark C.Moore, then a junior at the University which was known at the time as California State Teachers College.

Reportedly it  included a return address, but little information about the sender who signed the letter, ” LOVE FOREVER, Vonnie”. The letter reportedly ends by saying, “I still Miss You as much as ever and love you a Thousand Times more.Please write me Real Soon..”

Reportedly, the university hopes to deliver the letter to MOORE and has  received a few tips on his possible whereabouts -TOI

Researchers say mobile phone signals may explain the sudden drop in the global population of bees, which play a vital role in propagating agricultural and horticulture crops according  to the journal Apidologie.

It is reported that Mr.Daniel Favre, Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanna, concealed mobiles in Hives under controlled conditions. He reportedly found that the phone signals bewildered the bees who began to fly in a zigzag manner and then collapsed – TOI

We had no seatbelts, no airbags.. Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…

No safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboards between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…

When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…

We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things …

and we were fearless on our bicycles even when the brakes failed going downhill…

We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….

It was great fun….

We could stay out to play for hours, as long as we got back before dark, in time for dinner…

 We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bicycle.

We had no mobile phones, but we always managed to find each other…. How?

We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn’t anybody’s fault, only ours

We ate everything in sight, cakes, bread, chocolate, ice-cream, sweet sugary drinks, fruits.. yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around. And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 litre coca cola bottle we all had a swig from it & guess what? Nobody picked up any germs…

 We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo’s, I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels, DVD’s, Home Cinema, Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms, Internet, etc …BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!! We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell, just went around the backdoor…

We played with sticks and stones, played cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, hide and seek, soccer games, over and over again…

When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counsellors…

Such were the days…

We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities. ..

Most of all, we learned to respect others…

Are YOU from that generation??

 If that’s the case, mail this to all your friends from the same era…

This message will help them forget the stress that surrounds us these days….and just for a few moments puts a smile to their faces as they remember what life was really like in the good old days……

With excuses to my dear friend Mr. Raj Gopal!

 Wong was contacted after three years of of a Gallup Well Being Index Survey asking Americans about their emotional status, job satisfaction, diet, health, stress levels and other indicators. His characterstics and profile matched a statistical composite for the happiest person in America. He was found through a synagogue in Honolulu, the happiest state in the USA to live -TNIE

Five decades ago, the comic book went for just 12 cents   -TOI

Devotees performing worship before a huge Shivlingam, with a height of 25ft, at a temple on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri in Surat, India on Wednesday  -PTI

“China should overtake the US to become the largest economy in the world by 2020, then be overtaken by India by 2050,” financial services group Citi said in the report. The estimates are based on purchasing power parity (PPP), an economic growth indicator that takes into account the purchasing power of each country’s currency, instead of the prevailing exchange rate conversion.

 Indian economy is expected to be nearly $85.97 trillion on PPP basis by 2050 from $3.92 trillion in 2010, Citi said. Going by the report, India would surpass the US — currently the world’s largest economy — to become the second largest by 2040. “We expect India to overtake Japan to become the third largest economy in the world by 2015,” it noted. In terms of PPP, Indian economy — valued at $3.78 trillion — was at the fourth place in 2009. The country was behind the US, China and Japan, according to the World Bank. Citi pointed out that North America and Western Europe’s share of world’s real GDP (in terms of USD calculated on PPP basis) is expected to fall from 41 per cent in 2010 to just 18 per cent in 2050. During the same period, developing Asia’s share is predicted to rise from 27 per cent to 49 per cent in 2050. Citi emphasised that a number of major changes within a relative short time are required for India to meet future challenges. Noting that India’s infrastructure has to be improved, Citi said the country needs to relax its “hostile attitude towards FDI”, if it is to reap the benefits of rapid cross-border technology transfer that China has benefited from so greatly. “…a further round of serious deregulation of the domestic economy and further trade liberalisation are required,” it noted. The report said India’s population of working age is expected to grow by 40.7 per cent between 2010 and 2050. India has successfully raised its aggregate savings rate to levels that would allow sustained high levels of domestic capital formation (the domestic saving rate averaged 34.4 percent over 2006-2009 and the gross domestic investment rate 32.4 percent), the report added – PTI