Vibes October

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VIRGO

The month looks good for you Mr Hotshot! Promotions are likely; just don’t screw things up with the boss. SAGITTARIUS

“Curiosity killed the cat” - whoever said that must have been thinking about you. Weigh options before taking chances. CAPRICORN Loosen up a bit. Slow down and take time to reflect at everytihing happening around you.

This month is about YOU. Don’t live just for others, help yourself too. Go ahead pamper yourself. What use is money if you don’t spend it?

GEMINI

Get out of your cocoon and have some fun - paint the town red. Remember - it’s a crime only if the cops catch you doing it.

1. Forehead Rest for Urinals ( US Patent no. 6681419) 2. Electromechanical Ultrasonic Teenager Repellent (Compound Security Systems) 3. Washing machines for Cats and Dogs (Lavakan USA) 4. Barrack Obama Action Figures (Gamu toys, Japan) 5. Dog to Human Language Converter - ‘The Bow-Lingual’(Takara Corporations, Japan)

BRIDGES NUMBERS

Rumour Has It “We use just 10% of our brain. Imagine the possibilities if we could use the rest 90%” Used mostly by psychics to explain their supernatural powers or by salesmen trying to sell miracle memory enhancers, the myth has lived on for about a century or so.

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per 150 kilometers hour - the estimat-

EEG, PET and MRI scans of the brain have shown that there aren’t any areas in the brain that remain passive throughout one’s lifetime.

Brain Damage:

One variation of the myth suggests that there are clear divisions of Because Darthe brain itself Rumour: i.e. 90% of the win Said So: Human beings use only ten brain’s area is Brain tissues are useless. But metabolically ex- percent of their brains. medical teams tremely expensive where to grow. Natural Selection (Survival are yet to find cases of the fittest) is at work inside our damage to certain parts of the brain body too. So evolution would not leaves any functions of the patient have permitted the wastage of use- unharmed. Have you ever heard a ful resources inside the body to de- doctor say “Luckily he was hit in the velop useless organs, especially the useless part of his brain”? brain, which uses up much of the For these reasons, we label this rumour FALSE body’s resources.

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Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

ed speed of an average sneeze percent people yawn 5 minutes after seeing someone else yawn number of guns per 100 people in USA

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RULES: Each number is an island. Connect all islands with bridges. The number of lines surrounding an island must be same as the number in it. Maximum of two bridges can be drawn between two islands.

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Number of body parts that have three letters : eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum billion - number of people who share your birthday

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years - the time spent by an average person on the phone in his lifetime

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Luck is on your side, so don’t be afraid to mix things up and let your imagination run wild. Solutions to problems can be found in the oddest of places .Answers will come from unexpected sources. ARIES Learn to juggle your career and social life. Remember, nobody wants to be friends with a broke bum. TAURUS You may be faced with some difficult challenges. Remember, if somthing starts to seem impossible, it may be time to build robots.

CANCER

Wackiest Inventions

AQUARIUS

PISCES

You will have to deal with a lot of stress while balancing various projects. Finding a balance is going to be tuff but you cannot be a lazy bum this month.

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Just because its your birthday doesn’t mean the world will bend over for you. Have fun this month but be careful you don’t do something you will regret - or have to have someone bail you out. SCORPIO.

LEO

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LIBRA

Look at your budget before you go on a buying spree. Your birthday is over already! So slowdown on the spending and start saving.

ranking of the name ‘Muhammad’ as the most common boy’s name. The first being ‘Jack’

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Zits - Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Dilbert - Adams Scott

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average number of insect legs in an average chocolate bar

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minutes - the time taken to hard boil an ostrich egg

feet - distance a toothbrush should be kept from the comode to avoid contamination while flushing

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number of golf balls sitting on the surface of the moon

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International

Bhatta Priests Brutally Beaten

National

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Bombings in Iraq near a Shiite shrine kill at least 6. 85 others expected to have been wounded in the blasts

Girish and Raghavendra Bhatta, Indian nationals, are appointed as priests of Pashupatinath temple.

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Sri Lanka expels UNICEF official over comments he made during the war with Tamil Tiger rebels.

Goverment withdraws all Vice-Presidential priviledges from Parmanandha Jha after his refusal to retake oath

9 A Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet

Madan Puraskar awarded to Yubaraj Nyaghare for his 4th Oct to the gates of the temple nel have reviewed the book “Ek Haat Ko Tali” about Girish Bhatta and Raghav- and their holy threads cut security arrangements modern life in Nepal’s cities

carrying is hijacked. 104 passengers on board the plane are kept hostage.

10 Uruguay passes law to allow same-sex couples to adopt children; the first country to do so in Latin America 11 Purported bin Laden mes-

sage surfaces. Audio message quotes “Obama is powerless in war in Afghanistan”

14 Actor Patrick Swayze dies after long running battle with pancreatic cancer at age of 57

15 Hatoyama is formally elect-

ed as Japan’s Prime Minister after five decades of rule by Liberal Democratic Party

17 Tiny Rex “Raptorex” fossil find startles scientists thought to be 60 million years older than T rex

The Bhatta priests of Pashupatinath being given police protection a day after the attacks

endra Bhatta, the two newly appointed priests at Pashupatinath temple were beaten brutally inside the temple premises by a group of people, suspected to consist of Maoist Cadres. The two priests, who are Indian nationals from the Singeri Mutt in Karnataka, are suspected to have been beaten due to the Maoists’ continued disapproval of having Indian priests in Pashupatinath. In an exhibition of cruelty and disregard for the holy stature of the priests, the duo was beat, dragged

off. After the horrendious incident, the priests have been provided with close security. The government has arranged for a personal security officer to the head priest of the temple and a platoon of armed police was deployed at the shrine. Due to intense security threats, the priests had to perform daily rituals in the temple surrounded at all times by armed personnel. Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood and other Indian person-

Road To Copenhagen Bin Laden Video China Pledges to Curb Emissions Emerges on 9/11

19 Obama to host Israeli-Palestinian talks in an attempt to resolve long running conflicts between the countries

20 King Bhumibol Adulyadej

hospitalized with fatigue. At 81, he is the world’s longest reigning moarch

25 Chinese president pledges

to combat climate change in the first Chinese address to climate change in the UN

26 The Group of 20 will meet

for two days to focus on the global financial crisis and avoiding it again in future

28 Google to release new online communication application ‘Google Wave’ to 100,000 beta users

29 Iran test-fires long-range

missiles a week after revealing the existence of a covert uranium enrichment site

29 First ever batch of H1N1

flu vaccine from its plant in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, ahead of deadline

Twenty five members of the attacking group including leaders, Punya Prasad Pandey (ex-member of Pashupati Area Development Trust/PADT) and Ramesh Dongel (ex-member of PADT), have been arrested. The Indian governemnt has expressed ‘anguish and serious concern’ as per the Indian Foreign Office Statement on the issue.

President Jintao (Right) commiting to curb carbon emissions at a UN meeting in New York

25th Oct In an adress to the UN in New York, Hu Jintao, President of China, pledged that China would curb its carbon emissions per unit of Gross Domestic Product by a “notable margin” by 2020 from the 2005 level. China, which had always been somewhat hesitant in completely engrossing in preservation initiatives

that curb economic welfare, has shown much needed support to the global initiative to stop global warming. An important implication of this move could be that the US may now need to reconsider its environmental goals as until now it has been accused of using Chinese hesitation to set goals as an excuse not to set any itself.

Wave:The New E-mail

11th Oct In a newly released video beleived to be of Osama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda Supremo praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers. The video was released on the the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Al Qaeda traditionally issues a video every year on the anniversary, with the last testament of one of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This year’s video showed hijacker Waleed alShehri addressing the camera and warning the U.S.: “We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left.” U.S. officials dismissed the tape as propaganda and said they see nothing in that video or in last Friday’s bin Laden tape to signal a new attack In the past, al Qaeda has been known to used footage and audio of bin Laden taped long ago for release later.

magazine, its main defect is that it cannot be explained. Google, in what seems to be an attempt to replace e-mail, has given users a new taste of communication which is much more Publisized as ‘what e-mail real time. Similar would would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 to the launching of gmail, Wave is curyears ago’ . According to Time

Maoists deny allegations of beating and trying to break the ‘janais’ of new priests of Pashupatinath on Friday. Binod Pandey, Vice-commander of Ranvir Sena is arrested after a raid in their ‘headquarters’ Chhatra Man Singh Gurung is appointed as the Chief of Army Staff after taking oath of office and secrecy Tacky Chinese mobile phone kills one. Phone explodes in pocket. Suspected while making a call. Players of the year announced Player of the year-Jumanu Rai Female player of the year Karishma Karki

CPN Maoist Chairman Prachanda warns of possibility of a communist revolt after Tihar ANNISU-R announces higher secondary schools to be shut for four days demanding govt to address their 13 demands

Nepal ranked 129th in “Economic Freedom of the World: Annual Report 2009”. First is Hong Kong PM Nepal leaves for New York to attend 64th General Assembly of the United Nations. Zenisha Moktan crowned as Miss Nepal 2009. She will be representing Nepal in Miss World 2009 in December

Nepal Satellite Telecom rently available to only launch ‘Hello Nepal’ with GP 100,000 users world- Koirala, Prachanda and Ishowor Pokhrel’s conference call wide. Unlike email, Collapse of a church in wave is live. With live Dharan claims 23 lives and transmission as you type, participants on a injures many others wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.