| Did you know that according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our body has its own energy clock? Also known as the Chinese Body Clock, it explains some of the most asked questions about our body. For instance, you may be curious to discover why your mood and energy levels fluctuate so much throughout the day? And why you sometimes tend to be less concentrated on your work than in other instances?
Without a doubt, our bodies do extraordinary things, but they are all built around cycles, controlled by the brain and defined by our sleeping and eating patterns. At different times of the day, the body has one organ which is at its energetic peak, and by knowing your energy clock well, you can help your body cope better. The chart below illustrates the human energy body clock, showing the best times to eat, work, sleep and socialize. According to TCM, the body moves its energy concentration from one organ to another every 2 hours (as the chart indicates) with the organ opposite each time slot (12 hours ahead) being the one with the least energetic functioning during that time.
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India’s global ad giant taking on Google and Facebook…
“I am a very proud Indian and I want to see our country succeed,” says Naveen Tewari, chief executive of mobile advertising giant InMobi.
“I thought if I could do something from here that can be successful, maybe I’ll have a small role in creating great companies out of India that can compete with the iconic companies in Silicon Valley.”
It’s fair to say that eight years after starting the company with three co-graduates from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Mr Tewari has done just that.
Today InMobi, based in Bangalore, India, is the third largest player in the fast-growing mobile advertising industry, with only Facebook and Google outstripping it.
The company has 24 offices in 17 countries and employs more than 900 people. Last year it posted 720 billion mobile adverts on the phones of more than a billion users.
In just a few years he hopes they will send adverts to 2.5 billion people every day.
Naveen Tewari’s family hoped he would pursue a career in academia
”That level of ability for us to touch so many lives and impact their decision-making is a huge responsibility,” says Mr Newari.
“I want to ensure we deliver value to them.”
Smartphone revolution
The advertising giant has grown quickly because of the fast proliferation of smartphones and tablets across the world.
“InMobi creates audience networks for advertisers to reach through mobile devices,” explains Ian Maude, the director of digital media at Enders Analysis.
InMobi places adverts on smartphone content apps such as games
“These companies sign up digital publishers, like app makers, so they can access their audiences, package them up and sell them on to advertisers.”
India is the world’s third-largest smartphone market and many users are upgrading to smartphones for the first time from basic handsets.
Chinese mobile companies, like Xiaomi, OnePlus and Coolpad, are now investing in India, providing competition for home-grown brands, such as Micromax and Karbonn, as well as for global giants Samsung and Apple.
”InMobi is directly relevant to what is happening in India at a macro point of view because of its distribution and ability to access people on mobile devices, which people in India are adopting very quickly,” says Eileen Burbidge, who invests in technology companies for Passion Capital.
Global gamble
It has not been a clear road to global success for Mr Tewari and co-founders Abhay Singhal, Amit Gupta and Mohit Saxena.
The company was originally called mKhoj and offered a search engine that worked via text message.
In 2009, with mKhoj failing to take off, they rebranded as InMobi, funding the new business with credit card debt.
The gamble quickly paid off – that year InMobi became the largest mobile ad network in South Africa and opened offices in Europe, expanding to North America the following year.
“People asked us why are you building this as a global business when there is no past success like this,” Mr Tewari says.
“But we said we think we can make it happen; we have a great product and there is a market for it. Logic suggested that if we looked at the past we shouldn’t go for it, but my gut suggested that we should. We went for it and we are successful.
”You have to make decisions with 10% of the available information. If you had 100% information then decision-making would be very easy,” he adds.
Tech ambition
Mr Tewari says the turning point in his career was when he got to work with a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley during his summer breaks from his MBA [Master of Business Administration] at Harvard Business School.
”It was my first introduction to the world of start-ups and I learnt that I could make a difference, define the vision and actually make things happen.”
His chosen career path was a disappointment to some of his more academic family members.
”Everyone was disappointed when I did not go down the path of doing a PhD and taking up something with potential at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
“Now what I do is very different and it’s a big change,” he says.
Pl watch this video clip from you tube too….
Source….www. bbc.com and http://www.youtube.com
Natarajan
” எப்போ நீங்க திரும்ப வருவீங்க எங்க வீட்டுக்கு …” ?
நீங்க வந்து எங்களுடன் இருந்த இந்த ஒம்பது நாளும் எங்களுக்கு
ஒரே கொண்டாட்டம்..சந்தோஷம் … உங்க பேர் சொல்லி நாங்களும்
சாப்பிட்டோம் தினம் தினம் ஒரு இனிப்பு …சுண்டல் !!!
கூப்பிட்டு கூப்பிட்டு வீட்டுக்கு வந்த சொந்த பந்த உறவுக்கும்
ஒரே சந்தோஷம் …விருந்தாளி உங்களை எல்லாம் பார்க்க …அவங்க
சந்தோஷத்தில் பிறந்தது தினம் பல பாட்டும் , பஜனையும்
எல்லாமே உங்களுக்காக …
எங்களுக்கு இன்று ‘பொக்’கென்று போய் விட்டது
உங்களுக்கு தெரியுமா ஏன் என்று ?
விஜய தசமி சுண்டல் இனிப்புடன் நீங்க எல்லாம்
உங்க உங்க ஊருக்கு கிளம்பி விடுவீர்களாம்
எங்க அம்மா சொன்னாங்க …
பிள்ளையாரப்பா , முருகன் மாமா , சிவன் தாத்தா
பார்வதி பாட்டி , பெருமாள் தாத்தா , லக்ஷ்மி பாட்டி
குட்டி கிருஷ்ணா , நீங்க எல்லாம் எப்போ மறுபடி
எங்க வீட்டுக்கு வருவீங்க ? சீக்கிரமா வாங்க …
நாங்க உங்களையே நினைத்துக் கொண்டிருப்போம்
நீங்க திரும்ப எங்க வீட்டுக்கு வரும் வரைக்கும் !!!
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நவராத்திரி கொலு நிறைவுற்றது …பொம்மைகள் எல்லாம் மீண்டும் பரண் மேலே செல்லும்…
வீட்டு குழந்தைகள் விஜயதசமி அன்று பொம்மைகளுடன் பேசுவதாக வடிக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு சிறு கவிதை.
நடராஜன்
22 OCT 2015
Term of the Day… What is ” White Paper ” ?
1.A concise report that informs readers about a complex issue, often used to convey an organization’s philosophy and pursuade potential customers. This type of document contains proposals for the specific policy area suggested during the consultation process initiated with the publication of a green paper. In British law, several drafts of a white paper may be distributed for the final comments after which it goes for approval to the apex body such as a Parliament before it becomes the official policy.
2.Marketing tool in the form of information on the technology underlying a complex product of system and on how it will benefit the customer.
Use white paper in a sentence
- There were a number of problems with the white paper that Ted sent around, causing the committee to completely rework the document.
- I have laid out the proposals in the white paper that we had spoken about previously during our consultation and would like you to review before it is submitted.
- There had been five drafts of the white paper distributed for comments, and it was still not ready for approval.
Source……www.businessdictionary.com
Natarajan
Message for the Day…” The dormant spiritual energy {kundalini shakthi} present in us when awakened can destroy all the evil tendencies within our Mind…”
Look at the trainers of wild beasts. They bring the tiger, the most ferocious of animals, like a cat into the circus ring and make it jump through a hoop of fire, lap milk from a plate or sit face to face with a goat on a chair! They tame it to become an unassuming toy! If a ferocious tiger can be subdued, can you not succeed with the ferocious denizens of your mind? You can! That is the message you must internalize when you celebrate the victory of the Primal Energy! On this day the Goddess of Energy (Parashakthi), immanent in the microcosm and macrocosm had destroyed all the evil forces (Asura).That same energy is present in you as the dormant spiritual energy(Kundalini Shakti), which when awakened, can destroy, the evil tendencies within your mind; So, by means of systematic Sadhana tap the inner resources that God has endowed you with and elevate yourselves to a purer and happier realm.
Amazing Animal facts…!!!
| The Animal world is awe-inspiring and full of surprises, I collected some animal facts that will amaze, amuse & teach you something new. Plus – super cute photos! | |||||||||
| 1. Did you know that Turtles can breathe through their anus?!
2. If a Squirrel finds a baby squirrel without parents, it will immediately adopt it!
3. Bees communicate through a complex dance.
4. Did you know that Dolphins actually have specific names for each other?
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Image of the Day… Car Light and Starlight…!!!
Car lights, starlight
Have you ever driven along a mountain road in Colorado? How about at night?
Here’s a time-exposure photograph, posted to Earthsky Facebook yesterday (October 20, 2015) by Joe Randall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It captures the headlights of cars moving along a highway, plus the movement of stars at night, as Earth turns under the sky. The starry streaks are called star trails.
Source……..www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
Daily Views of Earth on NASA Website….
Earth rotates through an entire day as captured in this animation of 22 still images taken on Sept. 17, 2015 by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.
Credits: NASA
NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day. The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force.
Once a day NASA will post at least a dozen new color images of Earth acquired from 12 to 36 hours earlier by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day. The new website also features an archive of EPIC images searchable by date and continent.
The primary objective of NOAA’s DSCOVR mission is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA. NASA has two Earth-observing instruments on the spacecraft. EPIC’s images of Earth allow scientists to study daily variations over the entire globe in such features as vegetation, ozone, aerosols, and cloud height and reflectivity.
EPIC is a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope. The color Earth images are created by combining three separate single-color images to create a photographic-quality image equivalent to a 12-megapixel camera. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters — from ultraviolet to near infrared — to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used to create the color images. Each image is about 3 megabytes in size.
“The effective resolution of the DSCOVR EPIC camera is somewhere between 6.2 and 9.4 miles (10 and 15 kilometers),” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Since Earth is extremely bright in the darkness of space, EPIC has to take very short exposure images (20-100 milliseconds). The much fainter stars are not visible in the background as a result of the short exposure times.
The DSCOVR spacecraft orbits around the L1 Lagrange point directly between Earth and the sun. This orbit keeps the spacecraft near the L1 point and requires only occasional small maneuvers, but its orbit can vary from 4 to 15 degrees away from the sun-Earth line over several years.
EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. Using an 11.8-inch (30-centimeter) telescope and 2048 x 2048 CCD detector, EPIC measures in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared areas of the spectrum. The data from all 10 wavelengths are posted through a website hosted by the Atmospheric Science Data Center at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. All images are in the public domain.
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth’s interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.
For daily images from EPIC, visit:
For more information about the DSCOVR mission, visit:
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
Source……www.nasa.gov
Joke of the Day….” Over Smart Pug….” !!!
A rich man decided to go on a vacation . He took his faithful pet pug along for company. One day, the pug starts chasing butterflies and before long discovers that he is lost.
So, wandering around, he notices a tiger heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having him for lunch. The pug thinks, “I’m in trouble!” Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the tiger is about to leap, the pug exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious tiger. I wonder if there are any more around here!”
Hearing this, the tiger halts his attack in mid-stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. “Whew,” grunts the tiger. “That was close. That weird creature nearly had me.” Meanwhile, a monkey, who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the tiger. So, off he goes.
But the pug saw him heading after the tiger with great speed, and figured that something must be up.
The monkey soon catches up with the tiger, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the tiger. The tiger, furious at being made a fool of, says, “Here monkey, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving little thing.”
Now the pug sees the tiger coming with the monkey on his back, and thinks, “What am I going to do now?” But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn’t seen them yet… and, just when they get close enough to hear, the pug says: “Where’s that darn monkey? I sent him off over an hour ago to bring me another tiger!”
When he turned around… he was alone.!!!!!
Source….www.ba-bamail.com
Natarajan
A Couple in Mumbai Provides Free Food to the Needy Every Day. The Reason Will Melt Your Heart …
He was a photographer with a heart — always caring, compassionate and kind towards those in need. Now his family has chosen to honour his legacy in a unique way.
On a fateful day in August 2011, Nimesh Tanna, a 22-year-old photographer, boarded a crowded local train to make his way to a meeting in Mumbai. He never made it to the meeting or to his home that day. A pole, located dangerously close to the tracks, hit him hard the moment he put his head out of the train. Nimesh fell off the fast moving train and died on the spot.
“We were best friends since childhood. We went to the same school and attended the same college. We even worked together in the same company before he decided to pursue his passion for photography. We had decided to go for a movie that night but I didn’t know Nimesh would never return,” says Kintan Parekh, Nimesh’s friend, with a heavy heart.
It’s been four years and one can still hear the pain in Kintan’s voice. He recalls that day when he received a call from the railway authorities about a dead body lying on the side of the tracks near CST railway station.
“I was with his parents at the time they got the call. They were worried as Nimesh’s phone was not reachable. His father was a heart patient so I didn’t tell him exactly what had happened. I just told him that Nimesh had met with an accident but was fine. But when we reached the accident site, his father broke down. He couldn’t believe what had happened. It was such a tough thing to accept for everyone. We took the dead body home where hundreds of Nimesh’s friends were waiting along with his mother. He was a well-known boy and every one loved him,” recalls Kintan.
Coping with this loss was even more difficult for Mr. Pradeep Tanna and Mrs. Damyanti Tanna, as Nimesh was their only child.
The couple’s life came to a complete halt as they would sit the entire day in front of Nimesh’s photo, remembering him. Barely able to recover from this huge loss, Pradeep faced another setback when he lost the sweet shop he owned in Mulund because his partners cheated him in the business.
Kintan, who had always been there for the family during their tough times, yet again provided a helping hand. He advised Pradeep to start a new venture and he quit his own family business to support the Tanna family. Kintan, along with Pradeep, started a new sweet shop in Mulund.
The family was finally getting back on its feet and decided to honour their lost son in an extraordinary way.
“Nimesh was always socially inclined. He would help people in need, donate money, do volunteer work — he was very compassionate. His parents thought that starting an NGO under his name would be the perfect way to pay a tribute to their son,” says Kintan.
The Tanna couple registered the Shri Nimesh Tanna Charitable Trust (SNTCT) on January 26, 2013.
SNTCT was started with the goal of providing free tiffin service to the needy.
Nimesh’s parents started a free tiffin service for the needy in his memory. –
The Tannas started by making food in their small kitchen for about 30 people. SNTCT now provides lunch to about 100 underprivileged families in Mumbai every day.
It’s been over two years and the Tanna family has not skipped even a single day of their service. They have a new kitchen in a small space near their house in Mulund, where a staff of seven people makes healthy meals for the poor.
To make sure the tiffins reach the beneficiaries on time, the couple has partnered with the famous dabbawalas of Mumbai who do the delivery every day.
“Earlier, it was very challenging to deliver the tiffins on time. Sometimes, uncle and I would personally go to deliver the tiffins but this was not feasible every day since I had my own office then and uncle too had a shop to take care of,” says Kintan.
In time, SNTCT has also started working with a tribal community near Mumbai.
Since tribals are often disconnected from mainstream society and do not have the means to earn a proper livelihood, SNTCT provides them with ‘food kits.’
The kits contain necessary cooking ingredients like foodgrains, oil, sugar, flour, etc., for the entire month. The Trust distributes these rations to 50 adivasi families on the first Sunday of every month.
In addition, SNTCT also runs a ‘Kids Bank’ that supplies clothes, toys, books, cycles, etc., to needy children, and has a senior citizens’ initiative to supply medicines to the elderly.
SNTCT is run mainly with the money that the Tanna family earns from their sweet shop business in Mulund. However, the family also now gets support from other donors who are impressed with the work that they are doing.
“There couldn’t be a better tribute to Nimesh. He was a person with a golden heart and we are trying to keep him alive through the Trust,” says Kintan.
Loved by all, Nimesh may not be in this world anymore, but his friends and family are keeping him alive through a great cause. To know more about the Trust and to extend your support, contact Kintan at – tfpckintan@gmail.com or check out their website.
Source….Shreya Pareek… http://www.thebetterindia.com
Natarajan
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