Update on Spider-Man 4 and 5!!

I have been eagerly awaiting some fresh news about spidey-4 and 5...And here it is..some kind of relief to all spidey fans out here!!:

Sony Pictures have announced their plans for not just doing Spider-Man 4 but creating Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 simultaneously to save time and money (as done with Matrix 2&3, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2&3).

Tobey Maguire is set to return, and he will get a nice $50 million salary for it. Sam Raimi as well is attached to helm and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Rundown) does the screenwriting.

If Kirsten Dunst will return in the role as Mary Jane Watson is not yet decided.

Hope it works as planned and the movie hits theatres 2011-2012!!
Waiting with bated breath for developments on this!..

Nearly 80 pc Lok Sabha MPs are graduates!

Hi all! Contrary to popular belief that most of our Parliamentarians is not an educated lot, official records show that nearly 80 per cent of them have graduation as their minimum academic qualification.

As many as 428 out of 543 lawmakers have graduation or above as their educational qualification as per Lok Sabha records. While 157 Parliamentarians are post-graduate, 22 are doctorates.

The official data show that while there was a decrease in the number of under-matriculate MPs from 112 in the first Lok Sabha to 19 in the present Lower House, there was a substantial increase in the number of those having post-graduate degrees from 85 to 157.

There are as many as 22 Parliamentarians with doctorates, including Raghuvansh Prasad (RJD), M Ramadass (PMK), Rameshar Oraon, Rajesh Kumar Mishra (both Congress) and Kuwar Devendra Singh Yadav (SP).

Senior Parliamentarian and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, a double post-graduate, is among the highly qualified members besides Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who is a Bar-at-Law.

Besides the senior Parliamentarians, the young MPs also contributed in the increase in the number of highly-qualified lawmakers.

Some of those noted MPs include Rahul Gandhi (MPhil), Jitin Prasada (MBA), industrialist-turned MP Naveen Jindal (MBA) and Milind Deora who has a degree in business administration.

Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot, also influential youth leaders, hold masters degree in business administration.

The four Es of great leaders --by Jack Welch

JACK WELCH FORMER CHAIRMAN & CEO | GE

After a while I got the hang of the characteristics that made some people better than others at setting the right goals, reaching them the right way, and doing both in the right amount of time, which is what leadership is when you get right down to it. Basically, my process assesses four essential traits of leadership (each one starting with an E, a nice coincidence). One, successful leaders have tons of positive Energy. They can go-go-go; they love action and relish change. Two, they have the ability to Energize Others — they love people and can inspire them to move mountains when they have to. Three, they have the Edge, the courage to make tough yes-or-no decisions. And finally, they can Execute. A leader’s intelligence has to have a strong emotional component. He must be able to withstand the heat, handle setbacks and, when those lucky moments arise, enjoy success with equal parts of joy and humility. No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is more important in the making of a leader.

When compassion won the battle

EMPEROR ASHOKA

There are few events in ancient Indian history that continue to grab as much attention as Ashoka’s warrior king of the times and is even said to have killed his brothers in a fit of rage — was the Kalinga War.

All this changed after the war, which took place around 265 BCE and, according to Ashoka’s edicts, claimed over 100,000 lives. The carnage deeply scarred Ashoka and radically changed the nature of his empire.

Ashoka embraced Buddhism and adopted ahimsa as his official policy. In one of his edicts, Ashoka declared: “The killing, death or deportation of a hundredth, or even a thousandth part of those who died during the conquest of Kalinga now pains Beloved-of-the-Gods. Now Beloved-of-the-Gods thinks that even those who do wrong should be forgiven where forgiveness is possible.”

The latter half of Ashoka’s reign was marked by acts of piety and tolerance. Ashoka turned his attention to building stupas — including the Sanchi stupa — rest houses and roads. A policy of accommodation and alliance with neighbouring kingdoms was followed. He also sent out Buddhist missionaries to distant places. The decision that Ashoka took on the bloody plains of Kalinga transformed him from a bloodthirsty conqueror to an apostle of peace. That is how India and the world remember him.

Ashokan pillars, which were strewn across his enormous empire, are now the emblem of India and the dharmachakra (the wheel of righteous duty), that crowned the columns, has found a place in India’s flag.

No words to describe!!

Now that the Oscar fever has come down, lemme get back to business..
Today I have grasped IBM Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus 7.2 Certification with a perfect score of 100%!!..My target of the perfect 100 was achieved in a matter of 40-odd minutes of pure excitement.

Of course more challenges keep soming for any IT Professional..so always remaining on toes!! You never know what may come up tomorrow!! so need to constantly update our skills..
But as for now, its the time to celebrate!!..no words to describe!