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Today the world is facing a lot of problems because people are not doing enough Namasamarana. Let each and every street reverberate with the singing of the divine glory. May each and every cell of your body be filled with the Divine Name. Nothing else can give you the bliss, courage and strength that you derive from Namasamarana. Even if others make fun of you, ignore it, let it go! Everyone young or old, rich or poor, must doNamasamarana. Do it with all your mind and total dedication. Sing to the Lord without any inhibitions; only then can you experience divine bliss. You do not need any musical instruments – it is enough if you call Him from the core of your heart. Take care that you do not have evil thoughts as they will produce discordant notes. Then you will receive divine grace and energy.
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This 27 Year Old Fooled India ….
The Flying Centenarian …. Fred !!!
Who knew a cockatoo could live to 100? Fred celebrates his centenary
with a letter from The Queen
- Fred, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, celebrates his 100th birthday at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobart
- Members of the public joined in on the celebration at the Sanctuary, dressing up as a cockatoo and having their face painted
- To mark this special milestone, Buckingham Palace sent him a letter
- Cockatoos in the wild usually live till 40-years-old
- Fred is very healthy and has not been to the vet in 10-years
Fred the sulphur-crested cockatoo has celebrated his 100th birthday at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobart
A sulphur-crested cockatoo has apparently made it to his 100th year, surpassing most birds of his kind by 60 years.
Keeping to tradition, Fred – the flying-centenarian, was sent a letter from The Queen at Buckingham Palace to mark his special milestone.
The talking-bird was also thrown a huge birthday-bash by his carers at the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobart on Sunday.
Greg Irons, Director of Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary told Daily Mail Australia that Fred could in fact be even older than 100.
‘We aren’t 100 per cent sure but we think that he is well past,’ he said.
‘He was 95-years-old when I started working, which was 10 years ago – we just waited a bit longer to make sure he is past 100’.
If Fred’s age is in fact correct, the senior bird would have been born around World War 1 in 1915, flying his way through a hundred years of memories.
‘He is in really good nick and even though he isn’t as active as the younger ones he is still remarkable for the way he carries on.
‘He doesn’t do a lot of flying, still dances, sings and talks a lot.
Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary manager, Petra Harris, gave Fred his special birthday cake. Fred apparently has a HUGE crush on her – it made his day…
‘He behaves like a two-year-old,’ Mr Irons said.
Other than a few sprains, Fred has had no health issues and has not visited a vet in 10 years.
‘He is a resilient little character – we all love him here.’
Mr Irons said Fred came to the Sanctuary 20-years ago through a woman’s will.
‘He [Fred] was originally owned for decades by a lady who passed away,’ he said. ‘Fred was then looked after by her family who had to move.
‘The lady actually requested in her will to give Fred to us, so they gave him to us.’
The talking-bird was thrown a huge birthday-bash by his carers at the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary outside Hobart on Sunday
Source:::: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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Dialysis @ Rs 100…? ….He Made it Happen !!!
Indian American Harvard Medical School student Sachin Jain looks beyond boundaries of direct service.
Sachin Jain comes from a family of philanthropists.
His India-born father, Subhash, and others funded Jain’s paternal aunt Shanti, who had committed her life to rural health care in Phalodi, Rajasthan.
The family runs the HBS Trust, which, among other things, runs a non-profit hospital (Kalapurnam General Hospital) and a school (Bal Academy).
He watched as his father and brother, Roopam, worked their own magic, once sending to India supplies from a hospital in Kansas that went bankrupt.
Sachin had done his share in organising things for his parents in the United States.
He spent some time at the hospital, even living there awhile.
But if he was to help, he saw that he could not make the same kind of headway his father perhaps did.
He realised there were cultural nuances to India, one that essentially made for a foreign context for him, he says:
“As someone who grew up in America, I don’t have that. People there know to get things done… There’s a different work culture in India.”
Sachin, who went to Harvard Medical School, taking a break to do his MBA first, and then to work awhile in the Obama administration, says, “As I got older, (I saw) the special sweet spot I could be at (would be one where I could) build partnerships that create novel programmes.”
He spoke to Kent Theiry, chief executive officer, Davita, the largest dialysis material supplier in the US, and worked out a deal to do collaborative work on dialysis services in India.
Thanks to Davita and other sources of funding, the HBS Trust has two dialysis centres — in Jodhpur and Phalodi.
Already 17,000 patients have used the facilities in Jodhpur, 3500 in Phalodi.
The charges are on the ability to pay, amounting to about Rs 100 ($1.63) and Rs 200 ($3.27) per session.
That well-nurtured partnership has been on for almost six years.
Sachin also worked out a deal with the Medical Mission for Children (Boston), which worked on cleft lips and palates.
“They were interested in going to India,” Jain says, adding that he “didn’t think there was need for this.”
But a few advertisements in the local papers there unleashed an overwhelming response.
He now realises how important the seven-year partnership has been in helping people living with that social stigma get jobs or even get married.
Sachin goes there every year, to meet family and see how the hospitals are doing.
In the US, he practices at the Boston Veterans Hospital, is editor-in-chief of Healthcare, an academic publication, and the chief innovation officer at Merck.
On the side he organises trips for doctors to India.
The role of Indian Americans has been to go back and give frontline service, he says, adding, “My job is understanding what is going there.”
He says he spends a lot of time maintaining relationships, failing to fix a deal 80 percent of the time.
He speaks of another dialysis company he has been wooing, which has coyly refused to play nice yet.
Something might happen next month or next fall. The important thing is not to get discouraged, Jain says.
He adds that right now people think of doing direct service. But, just as he did, there is also the option for young people to learn to use the options they have here.
SOURCE::::: P.Rajendran in http://www.rediff.com
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Message For the Day…” Youth Must Hold Fast to God …”
Adi Shankara remarked to his disciples that young people were more keen on sensuous pleasures than enquire about the Soul (Atma). It is piteous that people are more attached to the body, which is a container of many filthy objects. They are carried away by the external physical attractions of the body, without understanding its impermanence. How long can youth last? His message is a strong warning to the young to be very careful in the life they lead and encourages them to shed body-consciousness. You must practice recognising the Divine Principle present in all beings, even though they may be called by different names and appear different. Youth must hold fast to God as their only true Friend and Supporter. Once you have firm faith, the Divine will Himself manifest and reveal Himself to you.
Jokes For The Day….
Out in the middle of nowhere a UFO drops out of the sky at a gas station, the aliens not concerned go out of the ship. The ship even has the letters UFO emblazoned on the side. While the owner of the station stands speechless, his young employee goes and fills up their tank and even waves as they pull off. After they’re gone the owner looks shocked at his employee. He says, “Do you realize what just happened?”
“Yeah” he replied?”
“Didn’t you see the letters UFO?”
“Yeah” she repeats” and?”
“Do you know what that means?”
“Gee boss, I’ve been working here for 5 years, of course I know what it means,
“Unleaded Fuel Only”
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Mr. Smith and his son Rick were called to Mrs. Liventhal’s classroom.
“Mr. Smith,” said the teacher, “I asked Rick ‘Who shot Abraham Lincoln?’ and he said that he didn’t do it!”
“Well, teacher,” said Smith, “if my kid said he didn’t do it — he didn’t do it!”
Father and son left the school, and on their way home, Smith turned to the boy and asked, “Tell me, son, did you do it?”
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SOURCE:::::jOKE A DAY.COM
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Image of the Day… View Of Earth Over the Far side Of Moon !!!
Extraordinary shot of moon’s far side and Earth, from Chang’e
China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft rounded the lunar far side earlier this week, on the return leg of its journey to the moon. It’s now safely back on Earth.
The Chinese Chang’e 5 test vehicle captured this extraordinary view of Earth over the far side of the moon on October 28, 2014. From Earth on this date, the phase of the moon was a waxing crescent. From the moon that day, the Earth was in a waning gibbous phase.
Mare Moscoviense – one of the very few lunar maria on the lunar far side, 277 kilometers / 127 miles wide – is visible in the image near the center of the lunar far side.
Tsiolkovskiy Crater with its dark lava flooded floor – 180 kilometers / 112 miles wide – is visible to the lower left on the far side of the moon.
The Chinese Chang’e 5 spacecraft, which is testing lunar sample return technology, has rounded the lunar far side and is now on the return leg of its journey to the moon. It is landed back on Earth on Friday, October 31, 2014.
Bottom line: As it prepared to leave the moon and return to Earth, the Chinese Chang’e 5 spacecraft captured this image of the moon’s far side, with Earth in the background.
SOURCE:::::: earthsky.org
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Password…Will There Be One to Unlock Human Emotions !!!
Every now and then people are creating passwords which demand patience, ingenuity and a
bit of jugglery
What is supposed to be intrinsically strong, have different characters, be case-sensitive, kept as a secret and can only have a single owner? Not many guesses for that — it’s a password.
Remember Enid Blyton’s The Secret Seven and their password, meetings and investigation of mysteries. Well, passwords are not passé any more. They are not just for children to have a thrill and a bit of excitement either. In the cyber world it’s the key to unlocking sites and unravelling new worlds. It helps operate your bank account, buy movie tickets, shop from home, plan your travel, and much more….
My own tryst with passwords began the day I opened a GMail account. I’m not tech-savvy, and I have my limitations when it comes to using the personal computer. My profession demanded that I acquire certain computing skills, whereas in my personal life I have to occasionally log in to glean some information or view popular videos, and so on.
I was soon at ease managing my e-mail, and the password was also taken care of. But I was blissfully unaware of privacy settings. My complacency crashed when, after a hiatus of five weeks I tried to log into my account. The message, ‘your password is incorrect’, did not perturb me the least, even though it flashed even after three unsuccessful attempts.
With apprehension and also a cocky sense of confidence I went to the password assistance page, where a series of questions with multiple-choice answers were settled. Yet at the last page, the message, ‘try again’, stared at me.
So for the next three to four days it was me and Google, trying different combinations. What little I remembered of my password proved futile. My heart went out to my unopened inbox.
Panicking, I contacted a few of my students who I knew had an edge over me as far as technology was concerned. Swallowing my pride, I had to confess before them my inability to log in. They patiently heard me out and tried to help me — but to no avail.
Tearfully, I had to come to terms with opening a new account. Sighing over the loss of memorable links, mails and photographs, I decided to give it one last try. Armed with a sheet of paper and pen, I logged into GMail, and with the rule of elimination tried several combinations. That worked, to my utter delight and surprise, and the page magically opened. I quickly reset the password and noted the recovery e-mail id, the secure question and all.
With a sense of relief, I scribbled the new password in the form of various cryptic clues all around the house — the telephone diary, calendar and the notepad. Finally, with a very strong feeling of security and satisfaction, I signed out.
Every now and then people are creating passwords which demand patience, ingenuity and a bit of jugglery. We are cautioned not to use nicknames, birthday or anniversary dates and school or college names, in short not to create anything that might be very familiar or too easy to remember.
The trick, therefore, lies in living out your fantasies, digging deep into mysterious references, a reference known only to you. And so, with a sense of achievement, a password is created. A page solely for passwords is also created, going by the number of them an individual has. Scrolling to the bottom line, since a password is that one vital link to connect to the virtual world, its role cannot be undermined or overlooked.
Yet, one can only wonder if there could be passwords to unlock the human emotions to enter a person’s mind and delete any anger, hatred lurking there, or a universal password whereby we can reach out to people across the globe irrespective of gender, caste, creed or nation. It may not be possible, but who can tell?
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SOURCE::::Nirmala Varma in the hindu.com
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Keywords: Passwords, managing passwords, complicated passwords
Message For the Day… Advice to Children …
Picture of the Day…. Natural Beauty.!!!
SOURCE::::ba-ba mail site and National Geographic
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