What makes her cool

Good Morning friends, Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit, I think we all need to learn lesson from her. I am not talking about her with reference to her political position or political position. As individual I think we all need to learn from her. I read following news on yahoo.

 

Grand mommas are kind, caring, lovable but…cool? Sheila Dikshit, grandmother of two and the first person to be elected thrice as Delhi’s Chief Minister, is different. HT City finds her cool quotient.

 

People Like Us: She studied at Convent of Jesus and Mary, attended lectures at Miranda House, watched films in Priya, and the day before the voting was spotted in – where else – Khan Market.

 

Bollywood buff: As a teen the CM had a crush on Dev Anand and saw Guide and Jewel Thief 10 times. Her loyalties are now with Shahid Kapur. While chief ministerial duties may not permit her to watch every new flick, she managed to sneak out for Welcome to Sajjanpur.

 

Love-ly life: Dikshit’s love life was as breezy as a Yash Chopra film. A college sweetheart, long drives and pure Bollywood twists – unwilling ma-in-law, caste issues and the fact that Miranda House girls were considered too modern.

 

Artist’s touch: She has a keen eye for art. Accompanying her late IAS husband to mofussil districts, she bought stuff off artisans in local bazaars. A painting she bought for Rs 55 is now worth lakhs of rupees.

 

Designer Politician: Dikshit designed the interior of her official residence at 3 Motilal Nehru Marg. If she invites you for a power lunch, take a look at the 8-seater square dining table she designed.

 

Green Woman: With 250 species of plants, animals and butterflies, Dikshit’s grounds is listed among the Capital’s richest biodiversity gardens. It boasts several rare or nearly extinct species of trees. And hundreds of bats.

 

Healthy trendy : Cool people do yoga. So does Dikshit. And while a traditional Delhi morning starts with cholesterol friendly parathas, our CM’s boasts toast, egg, porridge and sprouts. That’s smart.

 

Disciplined workaholic: Age sits lightly on her 70-year-old shoulders. Her 14-hour workday ends at 11 pm and she still looks geared up at the day’s end.

 

Music buff: Dikshit is into classical, pop, Indian and Western. What’s more, Dikshit has FM channels playing in her bedroom all night.

 

Weekend woman: Chief Minister or not, our lady knows how to make best use of a Sunday. Half of that day is booked for doing what we all do on that day – shopping, visiting exhibitions and catching up with long-time-no-see friends.

 

Doesn’t that make Madam CM People Like Us?

 

By Mayank Austen Soofi

 

Ref: yahoo, roller shades, blinds

 

Female dolphins more likely to use sponge as hunting ‘accessory’ than males

 A review of data gathered through several studies on dolphins suggests that male calves are less likely to be interested in learning to use a sponge as a hunting tool than their sisters.

It was in the 1980s that dolphins were first seen carrying sponges cupped over their beaks in Shark Bay, Australia.

Janet Mann and her colleagues at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, reviewed data collected during 20 years spent monitoring this group of dolphins.

The researchers observed that mother dolphins, though showed their offspring how to use sponges irrespective of their sexes, female calves were almost exclusively the only ones to apply that knowledge.

“The daughters seem really keen to do it. They try and try, whereas the sons don’t seem to think it’s a big deal and hang out at the surface waiting for their mothers to come back up,” New Scientist magazine quoted Mann as saying.

Sponger dolphins shuffle their beak around in the sand, apparently, using the sponge as protection, and as soon as they ferreted out a hidden fish, they drop the sponge and catch the prey.

During the study, 11 out of the 19 dolphins born to sponging mothers were female and eight were male.

The researchers observed that 10 out of the 11 females, but just two of the eight males, became spongers themselves, generally within two to three years.

The study also showed that sponger dolphins generally tended to be loners, as they would spend over 80 per cent of the time on their own or with one calf.

The researchers also said that dolphins that used sponges as a hunting “accessory” did not seem to have a competitive advantage over those that did not, for females in both groups produced roughly the same number of calves.

Mann claims that her study is the first to look at the advantages that using tools brings to non-human animals.

“I think the finding that spongers have no fitness advantage over non-spongers despite supposedly higher costs is exciting,” says Michael Kretzen an expert in cetacean behaviour at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

ref: yahooindia