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Advice From 104 Years Old Doctor ….” Energy Comes From Feeling Good, Not from Eating Well…”
Advice From a 104 year Old Doctor….!!!
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Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan,
As a 97 year old Doctor, he was interviewed, and gave his advice for a long and healthy life… Born in 1911 he is now 104 years old …
Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara’s magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing.
 He has published around 15 books since his 75th birthday, including one “Living Long, Living Good” that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara’s main points for a long and happy life:
* Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.
* All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common:None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.
* Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work.
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100…
* Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.
 * When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.
* To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
* My inspiration is Robert Browning’s poem “Abt Vogler.” My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke’s we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.
* Don’t be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don’t know when your number is up, and you can’t take it with you to the next place.
* Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St. Luke’s so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.
* Science alone can’t cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.
* Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.
* Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.
* It’s wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one’s family and to achieve one’s goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.
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” Let us Take our Eyes Away from the Dark Spots of our Life …”
The Black Dot: A Beautiful and Inspiring Story!
| This beautiful story has a simple, yet important message. I hope as many people as possible give it a read. I know I am happy I read it, as it gave me a few things to think about in my own life. Sometimes it is the simplest of stories that make us ponder the most.
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A Friend is….
A Friend is…
| Throughout my years, I have learned to treasure and value my true friends. Having a lot of friends is nothing compared to having a few real friends you know you can count on – friends that will lend you an ear whenever you’re in need, a shoulder to cry on when all else falls apart. This is why I’m sending this to you, my friend, and I hope you enjoy it…
A friend is someone
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” Kids with Big Hearts… Truly inspiring …”
Kids Who Give You Faith in Humanity
| Everybody is born with a heart, but these kids are born with extra big ones. Their optimism and generous natures don’t let circumstances stop them from showing kindness to people and animals. These are the people who are going to change the world, one act at a time. Their stories are truly inspiring.
This girl got proactive to raise money for animal care.
The card reads: “I sold my stuffed animals. So real animals can get better care. I got $40 bucks for you! from: Kiaha.”
This rescue shelter has a program called “Book Buddies”. Kids can come read to the rescued cats to comfort them.
The letter reads: “I’m going to shave my head in honor of all of the children fighting cancer especially my sister Natalie. And I DO NOT CARE if someone makes fun of me because I am beautiful no matter what! – Hannah Gorsegar.”
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Retail king Yusuff Ali’s amazing success story….
Ranked 737 in the Forbes global billionaire list with personal wealth of $2.4 billion, Yusuffali’s diversification does not stop here.
Yusuff Ali seen with former late President APJ Kalam. Photograph: Courtesy, Yusuff Ali/Facebook
For Yusuffali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader, or Yusuff Ali MA as he is better known as, diversification is a natural trait. Born in Nattika in the Thrissur district of Kerala in 1955,
Yusuffali left the country in 1973 when he was 18 to join his uncle MK Abdullah in Abu Dhabi.
The latter ran a manufacturing company there. Yusuffali developed the import and wholesale distribution of the group, and soon ventured into retail.
In the 1990s, he launched a chain of supermarkets called Lulu.
Yusuff Ali is the s the managing director of the $5.8-billion Lulu Group.
Today, he owns over 100 supermarkets and grocery outlets and is the managing director of the $5.8-billion Lulu Group.
His business has acquired a global scale with presence in Malaysia, Indonesia and India.
With hospitality as his next area of interest, the 60-year-old staked a claim on history this week after he entered into a $170-million agreement with London-based property developer Galliard Homes to create a five-star hotel at the site of the original Scotland Yard Police Station in London.
He has set up a separate hospitality arm, Twenty14 Holdings, to focus on acquisition and management of assets around the globe.
The hotel arm is looking to expand its operations in Europe, North America and India, it has been reported. Recently, the company acquired a property at Business Bay in Dubai, which is expected to open in October.
It also jointly with Al Hashar Hotel owns the Sheraton Oman Hotel in Muscat.
“The future growth markets for us in the hospitality sector include Britain, West Asia, India and Southeast Asia,” a Lulu spokesman was quoted in Abu Dhabi’s The National.
“Since we are now firmly established in the retail sector, we want to diversify into hospitality as these two are complementary,” he added.
Ranked 737 in the Forbes global billionaire list with personal wealth of $2.4 billion, Yusuffali’s diversification does not stop here.
His companies, which have operational base in West Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia, India and the UK among others, employ 34,420 people from 37 nationalities.
A Padma Shree recipient, Yusuffali expanded his retail empire to India when he launched Lulu Hypermarket in Kochi in 2013.
He has also invested in food processing units in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai, and is building a mall and a food processing unit in Hyderabad.
Yusuff Ali seen with HE Badr bin Mohammed Al-Otaishan, Governor of Jubail touring the newly opened LULU Hypermarket along with HRH Prince Saud Bin Abdulla bin Abdul Aziz and other dignitaries. Photograph: Courtesy, Yusuff Ali/Facebook
He also has a presence in the Indian banking sector.
In 2013, he acquired a 4.99 per cent stake in the 93-year-old Catholic Syrian Bank in Thrissur and a 4.47 per cent stake in Kochi-based Federal Bank to become the biggest individual shareholder in the two Kerala-based lenders. The billionaire, though, also likes to give money to charity.
A website dedicated to him says: “Yusuffali is very closely involved in many social, charitable and humanitarian activities both in India as well as in West Asia, and plays a vital role in fostering the interests of non-resident Indians and keeping intact the communal harmony among them.”
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A Pilot”s Story…Flying High , @ Home and @ Work…
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Priti Kohal’s love of flying began when she was a 16-year-old living in Mumbai. But her passion for planes started sitting in the driving seat on the open road, not wide-open skies.
As a teenager, Kohal, now age 45, would take her parents’ car, unbeknownst to them, for joy rides around town. She loved being in control of the vehicle and the freedom that came with it.
“I just loved the thought of getting away,” she said.
When Kohal turned 18 and officially received her driver’s license, her passion for driving intensified. “It was great to be able to do things on my own without having anyone ferry me around,” she said. “After the car I moved on to faster modes of transportation.”
Kohal earned her pilot’s license in 1994 and since 1996 has been a pilot with India’s Jet Airways — she’s one of 600 female pilots in India — and she’s been a captain since 2009.
There are only 4,000 female pilots worldwide, versus 130,000 male pilots, according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots. Kohal’s doctor mother and engineer father taught her and her sister that they weren’t any different from men and could do anything they wanted as long as they had fun doing it.
This family support has helped her excel, but many women entering traditionally male-dominated professions in India encounter more obstacles. Kohal says she hasn’t run into sexism, but other females in the airline industry have and continue to face hurdles simply because of their gender. In 2009, Air India fired ten female flight attendants for being overweight. GoAir, a budget airline in India, said in 2013 that it only wanted to hire small, young females to be flight attendants in order to save money on fuel by keeping the weight of the plane down. And there are stories in the media and social media of notes being left on flights, or complaints being made, by passengers upset that they’ve flown with a female pilot.
However, Kohal never thought twice about being in the airline business. “I never considered being a pilot different from being an engineer or a teacher,” she said. “There were no limits for what we could do.”
Short flights, long days
When her children were younger, Kohal only flew one- or two-hour flights. She woke at 03:30, fed her baby, put him back to sleep and then headed off to the airport by 04:00. She’d work her flight and usually be home by 10:30, having the remainder of the day to spend with her children. By sticking with this system and meticulous planning, Kohal said she has never missed an important milestone or a school meeting for her children, now ages 14 and 11.
When her children were young, Kohal flew early in the morning and was home by 10:30. (Credit: Courtesy of Priti Kohal)
Contrary to how it might appear, being a pilot is a “very good career” for managing home and work life, Kohal believes, but it takes strategic planning. She decided to choose her flights so that she could spend time at home with her children. As long as someone doesn’t mind getting up in the wee hours of the morning, they can be home for long stretches of the day, she said.
As Kohal’s children have gotten older, her schedule has changed a bit, too. She’ll now captain long-haul flights, but tries to be away from home no more than four nights each month. The sacrifice: Kohal doesn’t get to see her husband, who is also a pilot and captains Boeing 777 planes for Air India, as often as she used to. He’s typically away for four days at a time, and then he’s off for six days. When he’s home, she spends her evenings with him — “all six nights are booked for my husband,” she said — but when he’s away, she can do as she pleases.
“It’s freedom for me,” when he’s in the air, she said, with a laugh. “I can do what I want for those 16 hours and he can’t reach me.”
When both are away, Kohal’s parents, who are retired, look after the children. Indian families tend to have strong support systems, she said. When grandkids are young, grandparents are happy to help, but when they are older there’s an expectation that children, in turn, will help their ageing parents.
Having that (wider family) support is important because it eases up an entire part of your life that you would have to constantly monitor,” she said.
Priti Kohal balances her flight schedule with that of her husband, who is also a pilot. He travels more than she does. (Credit: Courtesy of Priti Kohal)
A disciplined approach
These days, Kohal’s typical routine goes something like this: She wakes up at 05:30 and gets ready for work, arriving at 09:00 where she receives her flying assignment. She typically flies for a few hours a day — unless she’s taking an overnight flight. That means she can be home by 14:30. After an hour nap, Kohal is wide-awake to greet her kids when they get home from school.
The family has dinner by 20:30 and bedtime for the children is at 21:30, without exception.
“One aspect of being a pilot is that rules can’t be broken,” Kohal said. “You can’t mess up when you have to be stabilised at 1,000 feet. So I have some hard rules at home. They have it tougher than I did when I was younger.”
She’s usually in bed by midnight, but when her husband is away and she doesn’t have to fly the next day, Kohal will stay up reading until 02:30. “That’s my time,” she said.
Hard work pays off
Kohal attributes her success to one thing: hard work. For instance, only 0.1% of people pass the pilot’s entrance exam — and it’s given only twice a year. She was the only one to pass in her class.
Kohal has accomplished nearly everything she’s set out to do, but looking at her situation, she doesn’t think that she’s done anything extraordinary. Many educated women in India have successful careers, she added.
“Anything you set your mind to do, you just do it,” she said. “Tomorrow it will be something else.”
Source….Bryan Borzykowski in www. bbc.com
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The World”s Strangest Unsolved Plane Mysteries….
The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion is seen on low-level clouds while the aircraft searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014.Photo: AP
Plane debris that could possibly be linked to missing Flight MH370 has been discovered washed up on the beach of a remote island in the Indian Ocean, officials revealed Wednesday.
The component found is believed to be the flaperon from a Boeing 777, the same type of plane that disappeared over the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014 with 239 people onboard.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is the only Boeing 777 currently unaccounted for, and experts have taken the part away for further analysis in an attempt to determine its origin.
This is the first major development in the flight’s puzzling disappearance over a year ago in an event that has become one of the biggest unsolved aviation mysteries in history.
However, this is not the first time a plane has disappeared or crashed under mysterious circumstances. Here are some of the other unexplained aviation disasters that have taken place in the last century:
1. Aer Lingus Flight 712
On March 24, 1968, Aer Lingus Flight 712 from Cork in Ireland to London’s Heathrow Airport crashed into the sea, killing all 61 onboard.
But when investigators looked into the crash, they could find no explanation for what brought the plane down. In the years following the crash, several witnesses came forward to claim that the plane had been shot down by an experimental British missile — a claim that was strongly denied by the British government.
2. B47 Stratojet Bomber
In March 1956, a Boeing B47 Stratojet long-range bomber carrying three US Air Force personnel vanished over the Mediterranean Sea while en route from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to Ben Guerir Air Force Base in Morocco. The plane disappeared without a trace. Frighteningly, the bomber was carrying two nuclear warheads, which were never recovered.
3. Helios Airways Flight 522
On Aug. 14, 2005, Greek air traffic controllers lost contact with Helios Airways Flight 522 as it headed toward Athens airport to begin its descent after a short trip from Cyprus. Strangely, the plane stayed within its set holding pattern around the airport for over an hour. When fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the flight, they saw the pilot slumped over the controls. The plane descended rapidly around 30 minutes later, crashing into a hillside outside the city and killing all 121 souls onboard. An investigation into the crash determined that there may have been a gradual cabin pressure loss that had likely incapacitated the crew.
4. Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra
One of the most famous aviation mysteries in history occurred in 1937 when the Lockheed Electra plane piloted by pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. No wreckage was ever found, and the plane’s disappearance has been the focus of intense conspiracy theories ever since. There have been stories of her being shot down by the Japanese or being a spy. Some have speculated that she faked her own death, and a very small contingent is convinced she was abducted by aliens.
5. Flight 19
Flight 19 was the name given to a US Air Force training exercise that took place on Dec. 5, 1945, involving an Avenger Torpedo Bomber. The plane disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle with 14 airmen on board. The Air Force then sent a Mariner flying boat with 13 men onboard to attempt to find the missing aircraft. That plane also went missing. Neither of the planes, nor the 27 crew members in total, was ever seen again, and investigators could never determine the cause of either flight’s disappearance.
6. Egypt Air Flight 990
Flight 990 was a scheduled flight from Los Angeles to Cairo with a stopover in New York. But on Oct. 31, 1999, the Boeing 747 mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 100 miles south of Nantucket, killing all 217 people onboard, including 14 crew members. While investigators never discovered the specific cause of the crash, the FBI believed that the evidence suggested the crash was deliberate rather than accidental. Egyptian and American authorities never agreed on the cause of the crash, with the Egyptians concluding it was due to mechanical malfunction and the Americans stating it was the responsibility of the relief first officer.
7. Pan Am Flight 7
Pan Am Flight 7 was once considered one of the most exclusive and luxurious “around-the-world trips” available. But in 1957, during a leg from Los Angeles to Hawaii, the Boeing Stratocruiser vanished into thin air. Rescue crews hunted for five days before finding the plane floating in the ocean, hundreds of miles off course, with very little actual damage to the aircraft. Autopsies on the passengers found that they had been poisoned by carbon monoxide emissions, but no reason for the poisoning was ever found. Many speculated that it was possibly an act of insurance fraud.
8. Air France Flight 447
On the morning of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447, traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, went missing with 216 passengers and 12 crew members onboard. The Airbus A330 had flown through a thunderstorm, but no distress signal was sent. For several days there was no trace of the plane, and it took over two years to recover the black boxes from the ocean floor. Analysis of the boxes found that a combination of equipment malfunction and human error resulted in the crash.
Source…. Sohpie Forbes, Yahoo Travel in http://www.nypost.com and www,news.com.au
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” Survival of the Fittest…” … !!!
3 Lessons I learnt Working Corporate
| Those who have worked in the corporate world know that it is a kind of jungle, where only some survive. Over the years, a few lessons have been made clear to those who work in the world of big corporations. These 3 lessons are the most valuable of the lot, and I feel that I have to share them with you. Warning, some rude language ahead!
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” How to Beat Stress and Come out of that sinking feeling….”
Don’t let all those things happening at your workplace get you down. Read on to find out how you can beat stress.
It’s Monday morning and the start of a new week. You get up from the bed with a sinking feeling.
The new boss shouts at you before others, he is never content with the work you do, and quick to pounce on you at the tiniest error.
But this job means a lot to you. You have a housing mortgage on your shoulders.
You are in your mid 40s and it would be extremely difficult to find another job.
Stress spirals into depression
The physical symptoms of stress shows on you: the stomach tightens into a knot, the heart races in panic, breathing becomes shallow and your palms go damp.
The food is tasteless and you worry even in sleep.
There is an emotional quotient too.
A stressed employee suffers from a hurt morale, bruised ego, fears and insecurity.
Instead of job satisfaction there is job revulsion.
If not checked, it could spiral into a depression or a nervous breakdown.
Here’s how to manage your stress:
Don’t make it worse:
Your stress is not going to go away by smoking all the day.
It makes you fall prey to self-pity and seek solace from cigarettes and alcohol.
Don’t crib about your boss to colleagues:
If you are stressed it is better not to spill out the angst to others in the team by painting oneself as a victim or the boss as a devil.
You could lose a lot in the long term including your job.
Identify the sources of stress:
Once you know the cause behind it you need to address it.
Determine how you are going to deal with it and whether it’s something that can be fixed or managed.
Being aware of your own stress level is a worthwhile objective.
Instead of being reactive to situations, try to observe your mind and the emotions as stress in the environment meets you.
Don’t be afraid to talk to your boss or top management about your stress source.
See the big picture:
Experts say that one experiences stress when s/he feels that the situation is out of control.
That vulnerability activates the stress hormone and wears down your confidence and concentration. The first step is to identify the stress factors.
Take breaks:
In today’s fast-paced work environment many people spend their entire day at their desk, even working through lunch.
This may cause heightened stress levels besides strain for the eyes!
Experts advise you to take short breaks, stretch arms while seated in the chair, let eyes wander to the furthest end of the room for respite from staring a computer monitor for hours, have coffee or tea at the pantry or even listen to favourite songs over the headphone.
Short breaks help you in calming your nerves.
Relax at home.
Your lifestyle outside the office plays a big part.
Experts say getting enough sleep, supportive friends and family can help maintain a more stable state of mind.
There are stress relievers like exercise, yoga and music.
Take up a hobby and you’ll find the office blues lose their potency to torment you.
Photograph (used for representational purposes only): Dadang Tri/Reuters
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