Weakness becomes Strength

A 10-year-old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident.

The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master.

The boy was doing well, so he couldn't understand why, after three months of training the master had taught him only one move.

"Sensei," the boy finally said, "Shouldn't I be learning more moves?"

"This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you'll ever need to know," the sensei replied.

Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.

Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament.

Surprising himself, the boy easily won his first two matches.

The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match.

Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.

This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger,. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a time-out.

He was about to stop the match when the sensei intervened. "No," the sensei insisted, "Let him continue."

Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a critical mistake: he dropped his guard. Instantly, the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament.

"Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?"

"You won for two reasons," the sensei answered. "First, you've almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."

The boy's biggest weakness had become his biggest strength.

"Sometimes we feel that we have certain weaknesses and we blame god, the circumstances and our self for it but we never know that our weakness can become our strength one day.

Bye,

Know (Y)our Scientists

Indian scientists have played a stellar role in the development of India. In the short span of its post-independence history India has achieved several great scientific achievements. Indian scientists have proved their mettle in the face of international sanctions and have made India one of the scientific powerhouses of the world. Here is a brief profile of famous Indian scientists.

C.V. Raman: 

C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India. His full name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his pioneering work on scattering of light, C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

Homi Bhabha:

Homi Bhabha, whose full name was Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, was a famous Indian atomic scientist. In Independent India, Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, with the support of Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundation of a scientific establishment and was responsible for the creation of two premier institutions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

Jagdish Chandra Bose:

Jagdish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858 in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). His father Bhagabanchandra Bose was a Deputy Magistrate. Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early education in village school in Bengal medium.

Meghnad Saha:

Meghnad Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Sheoratali, a village in the District of Dacca, now in Bangladesh. He was the fifth child of his parents, Sri Jagannath Saha and Smt. Bhubaneshwari Devi. His father was a grocer in the village. Meghnad Saha had his early schooling in the primary school of the village.

M. Visvesvaraya:

Sir M. Visvesvaraya was born on September 15, 1860 in Muddenahalli village in the Kolar district of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore (present day Karnataka). His father Srinivasa Sastry was a Sanskrit scholar and Ayurvedic practitioner. His mother Venkachamma was a religious lady. He lost his father when he was only 15 years old.

Satyendra Nath Bose:

Satyendra Nath Bose was an outstanding Indian physicist. He is known for his work in Quantum Physics. He is famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory" and a kind of particle in atom has been named after his name as Boson.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar:

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He did commendable work in astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.

Vikram Sarabhai:

Vikram Sarabhai was one of the greatest scientists of India. He is considered as the Father of the Indian space program. Apart from being a scientist, he was a rare combination of an innovator, industrialist and visionary.

Anil Kakodkar:

Dr Anil Kakodkar is a very distinguished nuclear scientist of India. He is presently the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) as well as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy.

APJ Abdul Kalam:

Apart from being a notable scientist and engineer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. He is a man of vision, who is always full of ideas aimed at the development of the country and is also often also referred to as the Missile Man of India.

Birbal Sahni:

Birbal Sahni was a renowned paleobotanist of India, who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. Also a great geologist, Sahni is credited for establishing the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Born on 14 November in the year 1891 at Behra in the Saharanpur District of West Punjab, Birbal was the third son of Ishwar Devi and Prof.

Srinivasa Ramanujan:

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence. He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century. Srinivasa Ramanujan made significant contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.

Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar:

Dr Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a distinguished Indian scientist. He was born on 21 February 1894 at Shahpur, which is located in Pakistan in present times. His father passed away sometime after the birth of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. As such, he spent his childhood days with his maternal grandfather who was an engineer and it was here that he developed an interest in science and engineering.

Har Gobind Khorana:

Har Gobind Khorana is an American molecular biologist born on 9 January 1922 to an Indian Punjabi couple. For his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 1968.

Raja Ramanna:

Handpicked by the founder of India's nuclear program, Dr. Homi Bhabha, Dr. Raja Ramanna was a celebrated physicist and nuclear scientist that India had ever produced. A multifaceted personality, Dr. Raja Ramanna played the roles of a technologist, nuclear physicist, administrator, leader, musician, Sanskrit literature scholar, and philosophy researcher.

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni:

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, a successful botanist of his days, is remembered till date for his widespread contribution in the field of palynology. His researches and projects not only helped India to make its presence felt on the world stage of botany, it also furthered public relations between two countries.

Harish-Chandra:

For those who quiver at the thought of calculations and numerical deductions, unless when counting money, mathematics can be the equivalent of hell on earth. And for such 'math atheists' a mathematician like Harish Chandra can very well seem like a mirage. Harish Chandra is one amongst those few people who often.

G. N. Ramachandran:

Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran, popularly referred to as G. N. Ramachandran surely must be included in the list of one of the best scientists that 20th century India had produced. The best known work of G. N. Ramachandran till date is the Ramachandran plot, which the scientist had conceived along with Viswanathan Sasisekharan, to understand the structure of peptides.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis:

Economic census, population census, agricultural surveys and various other large scale and in depth samples and surveys that have been admired the world over for their scope and accuracy owes its popularity and worldwide acceptance to the grit, determination and genius of one man, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.

Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao:

Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao was one of the greatest physicists of 20th century India. His work in spectroscopy led to the development of the Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance in Physics. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao is also known for his long association with the Andhra University in which he served as professor of Physics and subsequently.

Salim Ali:

Almost every one of us is interested in watching colorful and distinct birds crossing us. But very few are passionate about studying them in detail. One such man who took extreme interest and excitement in studying birds closely and categorizing them was Dr. Salim Ali. One of the greatest biologists of all times.

Yellapragada Subbarao:

"You've probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subba Rao, yet because he lived you may be well and alive today; because he lived you may live longer". A famous adage quoted by American author, Doron K. Antrim, Yellapragada Subbarao was one of those rare people who made several significant contributions.

Sam Pitroda:

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda is a famous Indian and a renowned inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker who currently serves as an advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh. His work revolves around Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations. He is respected for being a technological intellect

Venkataraman Ramakrishnan:

Indian born American, Venkataraman Ramakrishnan is a senior scientist in the Structural Division at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge, England. This great scholar has worked in various fields of biology during the earlier part of his career. However, Venkat along with Thomas A.

Courtesy: I love India


Urs,

The Greatest Inventions of All Times

Air-Conditioning,	1902	Willis Haviland Carrier
Animation, Motion-Picture	1906	J. Stuart Blackton
Answering Machine, Telephone	1898	Valdemar Poulsen
Aspirin	1897	Felix Hoffmann (Bayer)
Assembly Line	1913	Henry Ford
Audiotape	1928	Fritz Pfleumer
Automated Teller Machine (ATM)	1968	Don Wetzel
Calculator	1967	Jack S. Kilby
Calendar, Modern (Gregorian)	1582	Pope Gregory XIII
Camcorder	1982	Sony Corp.
Camera, Motion Picture	1891	Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson
Camera, Portable Photographic	1888	George Eastman
Communications Satellite	1962	John Robinson Pierce
Compact Disc (CD)	1980	Philips Electronics, Sony Corp.
Detector, Home Smoke	1969	Randolph Smith, Kenneth House
Digital Camera	1975	Steven Sasson
DNA Fingerprinting	1984	Alec Jeffreys
Floppy Disk	1971	Yoshiro Nakamatsu
GPS	1973	Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, & Ivan A. Getting.
iPod,	2001	Apple, Inc
Laptop	1982	Radio Shack Corp.
LED	1962	Nick Holonyak, Jr.
Microwave Oven	1945	Percy L. Spencer
Mobile phone	1947	Bell Laboratories
Mouse	1964	Douglas Engelbart
MP3 Player	1998	Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products.
MRI(magnetic resonance imaging)	1973	Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur
Periodic Table	1871	Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
Refrigerator	1842	John Gorrie
Stove, Electric	1896	William Hadaway
Stove, Gas	1826	James Sharp
Television	1923, 27	Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Philo Taylor Farnsworth
The Airplane,	1903	The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur
The Internet	1969	Advanced Research Projects Agency @Dept. of Defense.
The Telegraph,	1837	Pavel Schilling
The Telephone,	1876	Alexander Graham Bell
Tv Remote Control	1955	Robert Adler
Vacuum Cleaner, Electric	1901	Herbert Cecil Booth
Video Games	1972	Nolan Bushnell
Washing Machine, Electric	1907	Alva J. Fisher

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My Addiction to Social Networking is Making me Fat and Less Productive

Today when I woke up I opened my Ipad nd Iphone and then I saw that the WiFi wasn't working. I panicked. Then I had nothing to do. I thought it isn't that bad, I can do something else. Maybe to watch TV. Ops no I need the Internet for it. Then I only had one thing to do…. House Cleaning. Like it was long time passed I cleaned the house. I realized that I’m kind of addicted to Internet-work.

People become addicted to social networking sites and they start spending hours and hours in front of their laptops or even their mobiles. I thought for a while that the social media addiction is the one l should be thinking on because I was one of the people who spent about 10 hrs a day patrolling social websites, generating contents almost every 5 minutes and contributing to the wealth of such big social network owners like Facebook, Google Plus etc.

Technology is good and evil and humans have the sole responsibility to chose what to consume at what time. Business owners have the mind set to make money, they don’t care about our success or our future. Its all up to each of us to decide what to do with our life at every moment we still breathing. Now, the getting fat part of social media. I know this is crazy but l think social network and technology itself is getting most of our current generation fat and lazy. 

I have watched some people near to me and in my Facebook page, spending lot of time on social network almost commenting, liking, recommending or posting updates on hourly bases. I think this is a whole messy distraction that will not produce very good graduates or leaders of the next generation. 

I am not Anti to social network but just as l love it, l hate how it has taken over most of our lives to the extent we almost live our life online than in real life. We feel obliged to keep conversations about our online life going and forget about our real life. 

Life is a choice so what we decide to do with ours is all up to us. There will never be any regulation on how much time we can spend online so there is no need to think the cops will be knocking on our door because we spend too much time on social sites. Truth is, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what is online, what matters is your real life, so its better to get one and make it important. We may promote our business or sites online and generate income for our-self, that’s a good idea and beneficial.

Have a great day and try to live in real life with real friends.

bye,

Three Disciples and a Great Master

When I was talking to someone today, I realized for a while they were not paying attention to my words. Of course, even I might have done the same thing sometimes. This reminded me of a story which I read sometime ago in one of the blogs I follow, about three disciples and a great master.

This is story of a great Master who was testing his disciples for imparting the required knowledge. So, he brought three skulls and asked his disciples which one of the skull belonged to a great saint. 

The first disciple looked at the skulls, took them in hand and then he pointed at the one which weighed the most. 

The second disciple came and showed the one which was shining as that of the saint. 

The third disciple took a long thin grass stem and put in one ear of a skull and it came out of the other ear. 

He interpreted that the skull belongs to an ordinary man, because whatever he heard through one ear, he let it out through other ear.

We see in our daily life many people that do not respond and we keep saying to them, "did you listen to one ear and let it out through the other ear?" 

Now, on to the second skull, he put the same thin grass through the ear it came out through the mouth of the skull. 

For this he explained that whatever the person heard through the ear he could not hold it for himself and had comfort only after telling someone. I am sure we commonly do this; I wonder if this is how the word ‘gossip’ came into existence! 

Back to the story, the same way, he put the thin grass into the ear of the third skull, this time the stem passed through one ear and went down the neck. 

The disciple was quick to explain that this skull belongs to the saint because whatever he heard took everything into his heart and understood well. 

Now we know what it takes to become a saint. Looking at the understanding and great explanation of this disciple, the master bestowed his wishes on the disciple and suggested him that he should carry on his journey in the real world. We hear so many things everyday from so many sources. Honestly, how many times have we paid attention while hearing to somebody? Don't we choose to spread the words before understanding? I wonder how our skulls would shape up! Honestly, I am the one among them who follows very few in my life and this is the one. Keep sharing.

Urs,

Unnecessary But Fascinating Facts

We learn something useful everyday and think we gained some knowledge. I came across some interesting facts, which may not be useful but are fun to know. Here are some unnecessary but fascinating facts collected from internet which are cool to read at leisure.

• The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69.
• “Bookkeeper” is the only word in the English language that has 3 letters that consecutively repeat.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• Turtles can actually breathe through their butts.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation
• A giraffe can run faster than a horse, and can live without water longer than a camel.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
• Polar bears are left-handed.
There are more Chickens than Human in the World.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• If you keep a Goldfish in a darkroom it will eventually turn White.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
• The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.
• The loudest creature on the planet is the blue whale. Its record is 188 decibels!
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

These Facts might not important, Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Urs,

Story of Appreciation

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research,

Never had a year when he did not score.

The director asked,

"Did you obtain any scholarships in school?"

The youth answered "none".

The director asked,

" Was it your father who paid for your school fees?"

The youth answered,

"My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees.

The director asked,

" Where did your mother work?"

The youth answered,

"My mother worked as clothes cleaner.

The director requested the youth to show his hands.

The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked,

" Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?"

The youth answered,

"Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books.

Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.

The director said,

"I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.*

The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when they were cleaned with water.

This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother's hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, asked:

" Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered,

" I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'

The Director asked,

" please tell me your feelings."

The youth said,

Number 1: I know now what is appreciation. Without my mother, there would not the successful me today.

Number 2: By working together and helping my mother, only I now realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.

Number 3: I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said,

" This is what I am looking for to be my manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life. You are hired.

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked diligently and as a team. The company's performance improved tremendously.

A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop "entitlement mentality"and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent's efforts.

When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the sufferings of his employees and would always blame others.

For this kind of people, who may be good academically, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement.

He will grumble and be full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying the kid instead?*

You can let your kid live in a big house, give him a Driver & Car for going around, Eat a Good Meal, learn Piano, Watch a Big Screen TV.

But when you are Cutting Grass, please let them experience it. After a Meal, let them Wash their Plates and Bowls together with their Brothers and Sisters. Tell them to Travel in Public Bus, It is not because you do not have Money for Car or to Hire a Maid, but it is because you want to Love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will Grow Grey, same as the Mother of that young person.

The most important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done..

Urs,