Here is the report:
PM Han Secures Uranium Promise From Uzbekistan
Korea and Kazakhstan on Wednesday agreed to jointly explore the Zambil Mine in the northwestern Caspian Sea. The Korea National Oil Corporation signed an agreement with Kazakh state-run energy company KazMunaiGaz to buy 27 percent of the Kazakh corporation for US$85 million for the purpose.
This oil field has estimated reserves of 1 billion barrels. If exploration proves successful next year, Korea can import 270 million barrels of oil from Kazakhstan, about one-third of Korea's total annual oil consumption of about 800 million barrels.
The two countries had been in talks on the issue since September 2004 but haggling continued until recently. Korea suggested $75 million, but Kazakhstan $300-400 million to reflect soaring oil prices. But Prime Minister Han Seung-soo's latest visit to Kazakhstan seems to have pushed the two countries finally to reach agreement.
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bouncy
If the day looks kinder gloomy
And your chances kinder slim,
If the situation's puzzlin'
And the prospect's awful grim,
If perplexities keep pressin'
Till hope is nearly gone,
Just bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.
Frettin' never wins a fight
And fumin' never pays;
There ain't no use in broodin'
In these pessimistic ways;
Smile just kinder cheerfully
Though hope is nearly gone,
And bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.
There ain't no use in growlin'
And grumblin' all the time,
When music's ringin' everywhere
And everything's a rhyme.
Just keep on smilin' cheerfully
If hope is nearly gone,
And bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.
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The Bible is filled with God's promises, we have to use these promises from God's words as the basis for praying for ourselves and our loved ones. We have to pray for the reality of those promises into our lives.
Our prayers have great power over the persons or issues we are praying for, but we must trust God to work in his way and in his time. We must be patient, if you have to keep praying for years, then keep praying for years because that is the most powerful thing you can do. Miracles will happen one day.
Prayer is an inner belief, no matter which cadre you hail from
Prayer is our communion with our Lord, opening our heart and poring out our griefs to Him. Prayer is an open expression of our woes at His feet just as a child speaks to his father or mother.
What will happen if we pray earnestly, pleading with God? Consider what happened in the life of Hannah. After she poured out all her mental distresses to the Lord, all her burden and worries vanished . She entered into a divine peace which the world cannot give,her heart was filled with 'the peace of God which surpasses all understanding'. Her heart and soul are overflowing with joy even though the child had not yet been formed in her womb.
Because of her prayers coupled with her faith, a sweet boy, named Samuel was born to her. This was also the result of her patience. Yes! The Lord who always 'regards our prayers' will certainly listen to our prayers of supplication and answer them.
- By Navtej Kohli
What will happen if we pray earnestly, pleading with God? Consider what happened in the life of Hannah. After she poured out all her mental distresses to the Lord, all her burden and worries vanished . She entered into a divine peace which the world cannot give,her heart was filled with 'the peace of God which surpasses all understanding'. Her heart and soul are overflowing with joy even though the child had not yet been formed in her womb.
Because of her prayers coupled with her faith, a sweet boy, named Samuel was born to her. This was also the result of her patience. Yes! The Lord who always 'regards our prayers' will certainly listen to our prayers of supplication and answer them.
- By Navtej Kohli
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grateful
It’s natural for us to chase our unlimited desires, we are made that way. Our psychological mechanism is programmed to do so. But, how important are desires? Are they really significant?
Well, the answer is yes!
Desires do matter. They are important for your development. It’s a fuel that keeps us running all the time. Desires nourish our creativity. It is the soul of life.
It’s very human to run after unlimited desires. For each desire we accomplish we get a sense of victory. It exhibits out potential, our zeal and reinforce self-confidence. Nothing on earth can be more gratifying than seeing your desires getting fulfilled. It’s a ladder. As you evolve, we desire newer things, aim for higher goals and the journey continues.
Can you live a life without desires? No, you can’t.
Because if we didn’t chase desires, or we just chased a few and stopped, we would not reach this technological stage of evolution that we now enjoy. We would have reached a plateau where nothing much would happen. We would stagnate as we lose sight of our purpose and potential. But the mere fact that we are never satisfied with life, that every fulfillment leads to even greater yearning is a clever ploy by God, Nature, the Universe or whatever, to ensure we continue to grow until the day we die; that we never rest on our laurels because we are always moving our own goalposts to new heights of excellence. Desires ensure we have no time to sit and stare, that we are always striving to develop our world and ourselves. Without desires, and the curiosity and yearning to achieve them, we would still be back in the dark ages as primitive beings.
Desires make or break us. We cannot live without them because they shape us into whomever we wish to be and ultimately become. We gradually materialize into our dreams that are formed from desires. In turn, desires keep us on track, every step of the way, through chasing their fulfillment.
Desires make or break us. We cannot live without them because they shape us into whomever we wish to be and ultimately become. We gradually materialize into our dreams that are formed from desires. In turn, desires keep us on track, every step of the way, through chasing their fulfillment.
- Mood: optimistic
Procrastination has become a way of life for many. Procrastination means to put off a work for tomorrow. When a person procrastinates, they are making a conscious decision to put off something that they have to do until some undetermined future time.
Take smoking for example. Even though they want to quit, and must quit, they would rather put it off after "just one more cigarette" or "I'll quit after this pack of cigarettes is finished" or "I'm really stressed right now, and the cigarette will calm down, so I'll quit tomorrow when I feel better".
Do you understand now what procrastination is and why your life is suffering from making these choices? Your job is to kill procrastination, change your habit patterns, and live the life you are supposed to.
If you are a member of the procrastination club, then you more than likely you have a big list of responsibilities that you have fulfilled or at the very least have made it a habit of beginning certain jobs and activities at the last minute, in which the damage is more likely already done. Procrastination is a problem for you if you have a regular habit of postponing the work for some other time. I-will-do-it-later attitude is the hallmark of procrastination.
We have our own reasons to put aside responsibilities. For some people, the work that needs to be accomplished may seem too difficult or endangers their comfort zone.
The example of smoking I cited above is just one case. Not everybody is faced with life-threatening decisions that they keep putting off, but if you are reading this article then the chances are high that there is at least something in your life that you wish to change for the better and can be turned around if you can just master the habit of getting things done when you're supposed to.
Don't believe ??
Then perhaps this report will convince you.
Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year but the results are below par.
And while more expenses are being incurred on oil exploration, less oil is coming out of the ground. The zones being accessed by developmental wells are third-tier producers, so the new drilling has failed to compensate the depletion of America’s aging oil fields.
The realization is setting in that the United States has already discovered all the big pools of easy-to-access oil within its borders. The best parts of the turkey have been eaten, and now we’re trying to make the leftovers last as long as possible. There may be a few prizes left on the outer continental shelf, but these will be difficult to discover and expensive to exploit.
Last week the White House acknowledged that complacency by previous governments has let the problem get worse. When asked about Alaska and the continental shelf, Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers said: “We could have been thinking about all of this 10 or 15 years ago when it comes to alternatives or new exploration, and we weren't.” Today’s efforts, he implies, are too little, too late.
According to the White House’s research, global oil demand isn’t going to fade, as so many analysts have speculated, even if there is an economic slowdown in the U.S.
Instead, growth in oil demand “is here to stay and will be around for a very long time to come, until we find significant ways to conserve.”
Oil shale, despite all the hype, won’t be the magic bullet. Currently, U.S. oil shale is producing only a few thousand barrels a year from test projects, and ramping up from there faces enormous economic and environmental hurdles.
The Argonne National Laboratory estimates that 1 million barrels per day of new oil production from oil shale would consume up to 300,000 acre-feet of water per year. It would also require 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of 10 new power plants, plus five new coal mines to feed them. Eventually, high oil prices will drive the development of oil shale forward, but it will take decades, not years, to figure out the logistics of drawing oil from stone on an economical, mass production scale.
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confused
If you don’t know how to handle criticism, you may end up lowering your self esteem. Embrace criticism with open arms. Don’t let it take the better of you.
Anytime you try to do something different, steel yourself to face criticism that will surely come along. Remember a racing car will always trail clouds of dust, but it doesn’t ebb its zeal to win.
What I mean to say is over come fear and stop worrying about what others think of you. No matter what you do, you will be in the firing line always.
Nobody likes criticism, but at the same time there is no point sticking your head in the sand in an effort to hide. It is a green-eyed world out there, and the real winner is one who stands all burps and brickbats.
I’m saying this to help those who shun their dreams for fear of criticism. I can empathize with them, because it is one area that held me back for so long. Don’t bother what others will think. People will criticize you, not because they are concerned but because it’s basic human temperament. But don’t let their opinions put a full stop on your ambitions.
Overcoming criticism is one thing, enjoying it is quite another. Lets not live in denial, we all are sensitive and criticism does affect us in one way or the other. What my point is that don’t let that fear overshadow your spirit. Keep the fire ignited within. It’s all about how you react to the criticism. If you will keep on doing things for pleasing others, that may help ease your fear but at the cost of your dreams!
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Navtej Kohli came upon an interesting article on the internet by David Brooks. Read on to know how self-control unlocks the door to success. It is really very appealing.
AROUND 1970, psychologist Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the bell, he would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If, however, they didn't ring the bell and waited for him to come back on his own, they could then have two marshmallows.
In videos of the experiment, you can see the children squirming, kicking, hiding their eyes -- desperately trying to exercise self-control so they can wait and get two marshmallows. Their performance varied widely. Some broke down and rang the bell within a minute. Others lasted 15 minutes.
The children who waited longer went on to get higher SAT scores. They got into better colleges and had, on average, better adult outcomes. The children who rang the bell quickest were more likely to become bullies. They received worse teacher and parental evaluations 10 years later and were more likely to have drug problems at age 32.
The Mischel experiments are worth noting because people in the policy world spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve education, how to reduce poverty, how to make the most of the nation's human capital. But when policymakers address these problems, they come up with structural remedies: reduce class sizes, create more charter schools, increase teacher pay, mandate universal day care and try vouchers.
The results of these structural reforms are almost always disappointingly modest. Yet policymakers rarely ever probe deeper into problems and ask the core questions, such as how do we get people to master the sort of self-control that leads to success? To ask that question is to leave the policymakers' comfort zone -- which is the world of inputs and outputs, appropriations and bureaucratic reform -- and to enter the murky world of psychology and human nature.
Yet the Mischel experiments, along with everyday experience, tell us that self-control is essential. Young people who can delay gratification can sit through sometimes boring classes to get a degree. They can perform rote tasks in order to, say, master a language. They can avoid drugs and alcohol. For people without self-control skills, however, school is a series of failed ordeals. No wonder they drop out. Life is a parade of foolish decisions: teenage pregnancy, drug use, gambling, truancy and crime.
If you're a policymaker and you are not talking about core psychological traits such as delayed gratification skills, then you're just dancing around with proxy issues. The research we do have on delayed gratification tells us that differences in self-control skills are deeply rooted but also malleable. Differences in the ability to focus attention and exercise control emerge very early, perhaps as soon as nine months. But there is no consensus on how much of the ability to exercise self-control is hereditary and how much is environmental.
The ability to delay gratification, like most skills, correlates with socioeconomic status and parenting styles. Children from poorer homes do much worse on delayed gratification tests than children from middle-class homes. That's probably because children from poorer homes are more likely to have their lives disrupted by marital breakdown, violence, moving, etc. They think in the short term because there is no predictable long term.
The good news is that while differences in the ability to delay gratification emerge early and persist, that ability can be improved with conscious effort. Moral lectures don't work. Sheer willpower doesn't seem to work either. The children who resisted eating the marshmallow didn't stare directly at it and exercise iron discipline. On the contrary, they were able to resist their appetites because they were able to think about other things.
What works, says Jonathan Haidt, the author of "The Happiness Hypothesis," is creating stable, predictable environments for children, in which good behavior pays off -- and practice. Young people who are given a series of tests that demand self-control get better at it.
This pattern would be too obvious to mention if it weren't so largely ignored by educators and policymakers. Somehow we've entered a world in which we obsess over structural reforms and standardized tests, but skirt around the moral and psychological traits that are at the heart of actual success. Mischel tried to interest New York schools in programs based on his research. Needless to say, he found almost no takers.
The good news is that while differences in the ability to delay gratification emerge early and persist, that ability can be improved with conscious effort. Moral lectures don't work. Sheer willpower doesn't seem to work either. The children who resisted eating the marshmallow didn't stare directly at it and exercise iron discipline. On the contrary, they were able to resist their appetites because they were able to think about other things.
What works, says Jonathan Haidt, the author of "The Happiness Hypothesis," is creating stable, predictable environments for children, in which good behavior pays off -- and practice. Young people who are given a series of tests that demand self-control get better at it.
This pattern would be too obvious to mention if it weren't so largely ignored by educators and policymakers. Somehow we've entered a world in which we obsess over structural reforms and standardized tests, but skirt around the moral and psychological traits that are at the heart of actual success. Mischel tried to interest New York schools in programs based on his research. Needless to say, he found almost no takers.
- Mood: content
Navtej Kohli has been collecting inspirational quotes from various sources. Hope you find your inspiration and motivation from this refreshing bouquet of quotes.
"Lost yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
two golden hours, each set with 60 diamond minutes.
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."
- Horace Mann
“Your attitude does
determine your happiness.”
- Catherine Pulsifer
“The future is purchased by
the present.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Keep walking and keep smiling.”
- Tiny Tim
“Trust your hopes.”
- Author Unknown
“Effort only fully releases its reward after
a person refuses to quit.”
- Napoleon Hill
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive
is to enjoy it.”
- Rita Mae Brown
“What do we live for,
if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
- George Eliot
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Navtej Kohli is really fond of reading inspirational stuff. Below is one of his favorite stories, written by Hugh B. Brown:
Centuries ago a great artist was engaged to paint a mural for the cathedral in a Sicilian town. The subject was the life of Christ. For many years the artist labored diligently, and finally the painting was finished except for the two most important figures: the Christ Child and Judas Iscariot. He searched far and wide for suitable models.
One day while walking in the city he came upon some children playing in the street. Among them was a 12-year-old boy whose face stirred the painter's heart. The artist took the child home with him, and day after day the boy sat patiently until the face of the Christ Child was finished. But the painter still had found no model for the portrait of Judas.
The story of the unfinished masterpiece spread afar, and many men, fancying themselves of wicked countenance, offered to pose for Judas. But in vain the old painter looked for Judas, as he envisioned him-a man warped by life, enfeebled by surrender to greed and lust.
Then one afternoon as he sat in a tavern, a gaunt and tattered figure staggered across the threshold. 'Wine, wine,' he begged. The startled painter looked into a face that seemed to bear the marks of every sin of mankind. "Greatly excited, the old painter said, 'Come with me, and I will give you wine.'
For many days the painter worked feverishly to complete his masterpiece. As the work went on, a change came over the model. A strange tension replaced the stuporous languor, and his bloodshot eyes were fixed with horror on the painted likeness of himself.
One day, perceiving his subject's agitation, the painter paused in his work. "My son," he said, "what troubles you so?"
The man buried his face in his hands, sobbing. After a long moment he lifted pleading eyes to the old painter's face. "Do you not then remember me? Years ago I was your model for the Christ Child.'"
Meet me, I’m Navtej Kohli, a successful entrepreneur and a philanthropist for many. Still, sometimes I wonder if that’s my purpose in life. No, it’s not!
Then what is higher purpose of my life? How many of us actually even consider the question, ‘what is the purpose of my life?’. I think no one, except for those who have transcended the barriers of this materialistic world.
But today, who bothers to give up the comforts of life to ponder their actual purpose in life? We lack the verve and coldly shrug our shoulders whenever life throws this question at us, without even considering that we may have a purpose. We are all busy in a vicious rat race, but the irony is even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Deeply engrossed in our day to day routine, we even fail to remember what our purpose really is?
In fact, if today I ask anyone of you to sacrifice your jobs, comforts, luxuries to discover your purpose, you won’t do it! Rather I personally won’t do it. Because for us money comes first, followed by happiness and comfort, it the basic human tendency. We want money to feed ourselves, our families and eventually feel happy about it. I don’t deny the importance of money, but where do we find happiness, how many of you are genuinely happy? Where do we seek solace?
The answer is from within.
I personally believe that happiness is a state of mind. No matter, you transcend lofty mountains, leap over several seas but you cant get hold of happiness. It’s not something you discover, it’s something that lies within you. Have you ever seen a small kid, who doesn’t know fears? He greets everyone with a warm smile. Content at heart, happy from inside, he measures everyone on same grounds. But as he grows up to get entangled in the worldly things, that spirit fades. All we need to do is resuscitate it!
How we go about it?
It’s plain, simple and easy. Just take some time out of daily routine and connect yourself with the divine god. Just calm your mind, get rid of all tensions and connect yourself to that eternal source of happiness-GOD. This connection leads the way to happiness. I may sound like a spiritual leader taking about life and god and eternity and blah-blah-blah… But once you practice this in your daily life, you can actually see things changing, that too for the better.
I was sitting in my office in London, one day a good friend and mentor when he scribbled on a copy "what drives you Navtej Kohli? I was somewhat offended. Am I so obviously "driven"? Yes, I rush constantly from one thing to the next, living across three continents, taking time to play with children, cleaning the house, managing business... something drives me. It is all part of the same question. I shall use it to try to give two kinds of answer to the question. Who am I - a few facts, who am I - the scientific question or rather the inner question.
The inner question
As far as I can recall I once thought I could answer the question by studying psychology. The best remembered moments in my life were moments of great clarity and immediacy in which I seemed most alive. That seemed to be what I wanted to understand. Who was remembering whom? What is the relationship between me then and me now? Who am I? I am tempted to give my favourite answer "I don't know". But even that would be inappropriate. I - as a body, a public person as Navtej Kohli and the subject of these sentences can only answer by means like writing this post. "I" as a mental model can never know except by embedding models within models. Really "I" can do nothing but go on living moment by moment until "I" die. Whether that will be at the same time as this body dies or before I cannot predict. I am as sure as I can be that it won't be afterwards.
A Few Facts
I was born in Delhi, India to well-off parents who wanted me to have the best and expected a great deal of me. Although I was very happy as a young Tom-boy, I was desperately miserable to be sent away at 13 to an oppressive and expensive boarding school. I was frightened (of doing the wrong thing, of not succeeding, of not having any friends) and bored - a terrible combination. United States, when I went there in 1970 to work as a consulting engineer, was a real challenge. I was far from the cleverest there, which was a shock and an inspiration. It is probably for that work that I am most loved or hated because it overthrew my prior beliefs in everything and anything and set me off on a far more direct path.
- Mood: calm
There are souls that are pure and true,
Then give the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your life will flow,
A strength in your utmost need,
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith in your word and deed.
Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind;
And honor will honor meet;
And a smile that is sweet will surely find
A smile that is just as sweet.
Give pity and sorrow to those who mourn,
You will gather in flowers again
The scattered seeds from your thoughts out borne,
Though the sowing seemed but vain.
For life is the mirror of king and slave,
'This just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
Compiled by Navtej Kohli
It’s a big world out there, with plenty of different laws everywhere you go – but if you’re willing to play by the rules, you’ll do better in the end. That’s a belief that Navtej Kohli firmly holds, and he’s applying it to his efforts with his newest company Granox Ltd., which seeks to become a major player in the exploration, production and distribution of energy sources throughout the world.
With drills being firmly planted in the vast and untapped Russian rural areas, construction crews building facilities and wildcatters signing up right and left to be part of the excitement, these are bold times. Bold times that with Navtej Kohli’s vision, will turn around and do so with quality as its benchmark.
Granox – it’s the only way to drill.
- Mood: cheerful
"At Granox Explorations, the emphasis is really on the fact that everyone is different," said Navtej Kohli . "Our employees come in the door with a vibrant understanding of diversity and social responsibility. We don't have to look alike, act alike or work alike to get the job done.
"There's always a new problem to solve, or a new way to improve upon an existing process. In today's changing environment, if companies want to remain competitive, they have to be receptive and open to individual thinking and new ideas. At Granox, everyone can contribute - everybody has an equal chance to voice their opinion and have their ideas heard, reviewed and considered.
"From a personal standpoint, I want to create and foster an atmosphere where people are comfortable asking questions. Over the years I've had formal and informal mentors who have been instrumental in my development. I pride myself with doing similar things with younger people."
Granox is a company where you can build a career, and develop and grow as a person. If you seize the opportunity and work hard, the possibilities are endless. says Mr. Navtej Kohli
Sergei Ligatov has always loved working with maps.
Nav tej Kohli has helped build a cutting-edge link to the world’s consumers that can help any business adapt to the 21st century. His profile runs into a long list but here is one of the e-print
For 8-year-old Anastacia Hernandez, life in a poor Costa Rican village used to be filled with sadness. That’s because she needed a wheelchair ever since her family was in a bus accident when she was 4, but they couldn’t afford a good one. Instead, she had a chair that was old and rickety, with tires that were too worn to safely navigate the parts of town that had unpaved roads.
But thanks to the Tej Kohli Foundation, Anastacia now can roll right along anywhere she wants. That’s because the Tej Kohli foundation provided funds for her family to buy her her own modern wheelchair and even decorated it so that it’s the envy of all the kids at her school.
Ashima Ganguli can remember the proudest day of her life. It was the day she was hired to work at Grafix Softech, an interactive software company that represented a whole new start in life for this woman raised amid the rural farmlands of
Ashima was lucky to have progressive-minded parents who believed in embracing the changes of a modern world and allowed her to study just as much as the men in her traditionally patriarchal society.
And when she met Grafix Softech head Nav Tej Kohli at a recruiting event last fall, she felt that all her hard work was about to pay off. Sure enough, Nav Tej Kohli hired her two weeks later to join his 150-member team based in
“I’ll always be grateful to him for looking beyond the rules of our society and judging me based on my abilities rather than merely my gender,” says Ashima, her appreciative smile lighting up any room she passes through. “Having a great job in a company that respects me not only boosts myself but all women in our country, and Mr. Kohli is leading the way in welcoming the future.”
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