How to become open to Life

In many ways, I close myself off to life in all its fullness. I close myself off to others, as a form of self defense.

It happens to all of us. When you left yourself open in the early part of your life, you likely would get hurt from time to time. That pain taught us to close ourselves off in different ways: don’t let others in, use humor to keep some distance, hurt others before they hurt you, back away from anything new, and so on.

I close myself off, and miss the world. I miss out on life when I do that.

And so I’m learning to become more open. It’s a slow process, but in many small ways I’ve learned a lot, and am much more open now than I’ve ever been.

What does it mean to be open? It means that I accept more of life without judgment, and am happier no matter what comes. It means I judge others less, criticize less, accept others more, and learn more about their wonderful particularity.

It means more than ever before I am fully experiencing life.....

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PyCon India 2012 is here

PyCon India 2012 is the primary Python conference in India. A purely volunteer effort, it is being hosted for the fourth time in India, and will attract some of the best Python developers in India and abroad.

The conference will consist of tutorials, full length presentations, shorter lightning talks and open sprints and BoFs.

Keynote Speakers:

1. David Mertz is the well-known author of the "Charming Python" series
of articles published in IBM developer works. He is also the author of "Text processing in Python" and is a director of the board of members of the Python Software Foundation. He is also an expert in voting and security aspects related to voting, and open-voting in particular.

2. Jacob Kaplan-Moss is a lead-developer and co-creator of Django.
Jacob currently works for Revolution Systems and in his previous life worked for Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, where he helped develop and eventually open source Django.

With these two luminaries presenting keynotes and sharing their experiences with Python and their projects, and with a good selection of other talks, you don't want to miss PyCon India this year!

With a lot of interesting talks coming up (including 2 talks proposed by a core CPython developer), this is promising to be best PyCon India ever.

The last date for regular registration is August 31. Please register soon. Tickets are available here: http://pyconindia2012.doattend.com/

Important Dates: http://in.pycon.org/2012/blog/pyconindia-important-dates

Official website: http://in.pycon.org/2012/

[IMP] Branded Medicines and Generic Medicines in India

This is to inform you that medicines are prescribed (by our great doctors) by brand name & not by the generics (Ingredients). Hence we end up paying more money for the same medicine. This issue was also highlighted in one of the episodes of Amir Khan's 'Satyamev Jayate'

Follow these few steps to know more & start saving on your medical bills.

• Log on to www.medguideindia.com

• Click on 'Drugs'

• Click on 'Brand'

• Type the brand name which you are using (e. g. Metocard XL (50 mg). The site will also help you with drop down menu) & Click on 'Search'

• Click on 'Active Ingredients(Generics)' in the last column. It will display the ingredients of the tablet.

• Click on 'matched brands'

• Don't be surprised to see that same drug is available at very low cost also. And that to by other reputed manufacturer.

Example: Metocard XL 50 is for Rs. 62.00 & same drug by Cipla (Mepol) is
available ONLY @ Rs. 7.00

PS: Please take your doctor's advice before solely relying and using generic drugs.

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