The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again. The local paper read:
PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.
The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the Pastor not to enter the donkey in another race..
The next day, the local paper headline read:
BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.
This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the Pastor to getrid of the donkey..
The Pastor decided to give it to a Nun in a nearby Convent..
The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day:
NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.
The Bishop fainted!
He informed the Nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10.
The next day the papers read:
NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.
This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
The next day the headlines read:
NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The Bishop was buried the next day.
The moral of the story is .... Being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery. It can even shorten your life. So be yourself and enjoy life to the fullest.
Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot happier and live longer!
Ingredients Ghee or oil 1/2 cup, Large eggs (hard boiled) 8, Large onion (finely chopped) 1, Flakes garlic (crushed) 2 ,Bay leaves 2, Cinnamon stick 1 inch, Brown cardamom 1, Green cardamom pods 4, Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp,Chili powder or to taste 1/2 tsp, Basmati Rice (long grain) 2 cups , Warm water 21/2 cups, Salt To taste,Garam masala powder1 tsp,Chopped coriander leaves 1 tbsp, Tomatoes (thickly sliced) to garnish 3-4
Preparation Heat the oil / ghee in a deep sauce pan and fry onions and garlic together with the bay leaves, cinnamon and cardamoms, until golden. Carefully prick the eggs with a fork and add to the pan. Stir in turmeric, chili powder and fry for about 5 minutes. Add pre-soaked rice and stir slowly and carefully for 2 minutes. Pour in water and salt to taste, and cook over a moderate heat until the rice is tender and water is absorbed. Sprinkle garam masala powder over it. Garnish egg biryani with chopped coriander and tomato slices, serve hot.
Ingredients 1. 1 kg mutton with fat, cut into small pieces. 2. 3/4 dsp. chilli powder, 1 12 dsp. coriander powder, 1/2 turmerice power, 1/2 tsp. pepper powder, pinch of aniseeds, 1/8 tsp. cumin seeds, 1/4 cup sliced button onions 3. 3 dsp. oil, 4. 2 tsp. mustard seeds, 5. 1/4 cup thinly sliced button onions, 1 dsp long slices of garlic, 2 tsp. finely chopped ginger. A few curry leaves. 6. 1" cinnamon, 6 cloves, Vinegar and Salt-to taste
Method Grind ingredients in item 2 to a coarse paste. Heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add onion, garlic, ginger, curry leaves and saute till the ingredients turn brown and the oil seperates. Add cinnamon, cloves and the ground masala. Stir well and saute the masala on a low fire till it is well cooked and roasted.
Put in the prepared meat and allow it to cook in the masala with enough water. Add vinegar and salt. Close the vessel with a deep lid containing water. If extra water is needed to cook the meat, use the hot water in the lid. Throw away the water from the lid, as soon as the meat is cooked.
When the meat is done and the gravy is thick and creamy, remove from fire. Serve hot.
Bangalore: “Hey, this is Andrew calling. Do you have a minute? Can I talk you through the new features of your card?” The voice of a Gurgaon call centre employee, thinly disguised as American by rolling the Rs, addressing a customer in Iowa, may become a thing of the past. C ompetition from countries that have a greater cultural affinity with the US is fast upstaging India in outsourced voice services, compelling call centres to diversify into nonvoice areas and give up their efforts to change the accents of Indians. Some centres are moving up to higher-end voice-based services that require technical knowledge and problem-solving capabilities (a space where India still has an advantage), while some others are moving to service domestic call requirements. I n voice, many customers prefer the Philippines, a country that has been a US naval base and hence culturally far closer to the US than India has been. India has already lost tens of thousands of jobs to this Pacific Ocean nation. India had over 3 lakh call agents in 2007 when the Philippines had half of that. Today, India and the Philippines have an equal strength of 3.5 lakh people in the voice BPO segment. R aman Roy, regarded as the father of India’s BPO business, says that as a percentage, the outsourced voice services to India are on the decline while that to the Philippines are accelerating. “Quality suffers because of the lack of proper educational and training platforms in tier-2 and tier-3 towns. And productivity comes down when agents are given thin incentives for making successful sales calls,” he says. D eepak Patel, CEO of BPO company Aditya Birla Minacs, says just about one sales or loan recovery call out of 100 made from India would be successful, while the success rate would be 4-6% in the Philippines. “South Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Australia and Ireland are other major voice destinations for US companies now,” he says, adding, “Indians are often not able to handle irate foreign customers. We will certainly not be there to service premium markets, but we may be still there to service areas of high immigrant populations.” A vinash Vashistha, MD of outsourcing advisory firm Tholons, says most US clients are not increasing the voice customer service work out of India as they strongly prefer the Filipino accent. “The share of voice has started to fall significantly in the last couple of years,” he says.
Survey Says Grooms Getting Biggest Economic Boost From Tying The Knot
Beagy Zielinski is a Germanborn 28-year-old stylist who moved to New York to study fashion in 1995 and stayed. Just before Christmas, she broke up with her blue-collar boyfriend, who repaired Navy ships. & ldquo;He was extremely insecure about my career and how successful I am,” Zielinski said. A n analysis of census data released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center found that she and countless women like her are victims of a role reversal that is profoundly affecting the pool of potential marriage partners. & ldquo;Men now are increasingly likely to marry wives with more education and income than they have, and the reverse is true for women,” said Paul Fucito, spokesman for the Pew Center. “In recent decades, with the rise of well-paid working wives, the economic gains of marriage have been a greater benefit for men.” T he analysis examined Americans 30-44 years old, the first generation in which more women than men have college degrees. Women’s earnings have been increasing faster than men’s since the 1970s. & ldquo;We’ve known for some time that men need marriage more than women from the standpoint of physical and mental well-being,” said Stephanie Coontz, a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. “Now it is becoming increasingly important to their economic well-being as well.” T he education and income gap has grown even more in the latest recession, when men held about three in four of the jobs that were lost. I n 2007, the Pew report found, median household incomes of married men, married women and unmarried women were all about 60% higher than in 1970. But among unmarried men, median household income rose by only 16%. These days, men who marry typically gain another breadwinner. I n 1970, 28% of wives had husbands who were better educated, and 20% were married to men with less education. By 2007, the comparable figures were 19% and 28%. In 1970, 4% of husbands had wives who made more money; in 2007, 22% did. C ollege-educated wives are less likely to have a husband who is college-educated and in the highest income bracket than they were in 1970, and married women are less likely to have a husband who works. & ldquo;Among all married couples,” the report said, “wives contribute a growing share of the household income, and a rising share of those couples include a wife who earns more than her husband.” T he latest shift, Coontz said, “is truly a sea change in gender relations within marriage.” Z ielinski, the fashion stylist, said her best friend, a man, told her once: “‘You are confident, have good credit, own your own business, travel around the world and are self-sufficient. What man is going to want you?’ He laughed, but I found that pretty depressing.” NYT NEWS SERVICE Money Matters A report released on Tuesday said a larger share of today’s American men, compared with their 1970 counterparts, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own According to 2009 US Census Bureau figures, women with full-time jobs earned salaries equal to 77.9% of what men earned, compared with just 52% in 1970 The report also noted that today’s Americans aged 30-44 are the first such cohort in US history to include more women than men with college degrees
