Gratitude

How many times do we regret not expressing love or gratitude? Perhaps, a number of times. This is rather unfortunate but true. Most people are very quick when it comes to criticizing others but keep quiet when a few positive words from them can help people. Death is one reality no one can deny and sooner or later, in a person’s life the day comes when his earthly existence ends. It would be a shame if we die without expressing positive feelings for people who are important to us. Worse is, if the people we love die before us without knowing how much they mattered to us.


Gratitude is the best attitude and it is the memory of the heart. A person is really hurt when a beneficiary says the routine “thanks” that comes without warmth. On the other hand it is very comforting to feel that some people keep fresh always the memory of favours they receive and continue to show their gratitude for long. In life one comes across many thankless persons who are a disgrace to the society. An honest taxi driver who roamed the whole day searching to return a money bag containing currency notes and gold to its owner received not a word of thanks. On the other hand the owner asked him why he not pointed it out to him at the time when he had got down from the taxi.

The best example of gratitude is of a person who goes to blood bank every year to donate his blood because someone had once given him a pint of blood through blood transfusion when he was sick. We may also recall the example of the learned administrator Mr.V.P.Menon, the man behind the integration of the princely states, who took the help of Rs.20/- from an unknown Sikh at Delhi railway station. At that time Mr.Menon was struggling in life.Mr.Menon asked the Sikh to whom he should return the amount, for that the Sikh replied that he could give it to someone in need. A little before his death Mr.Menon asked his daughter to bring the money bag from his room. He then took out two ten rupees notes, gave them to the beggar who was crying at the door.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it-would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. “Thank you” and “please” are the little words with which we make our way smooth in life. We should thank the milkman who brings us milk, the hawker who brings us newspaper, the liftman who carries us up and down, a taxi driver or auto driver who drops us and so on. Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Let us express love and gratitude to people who deserve it and tell them how much they mean to us. Let us motivate those who need encouragement. Our feelings in terms of affection add up as blessings for both us and the ones we harbour such feelings for.



Last but not least “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them”.

Taj Mahal

Inventor of the Assenbly line.

INVENTOR OF
of the Assembly Line by Ransom E. Olds in 1901. ASSEMBLY LINE



In order to keep up with the increasing demand for those newfangled contraptions, horseless carriages, Ransom E. Olds created the assembly line in 1901. The new approach to putting together automobiles enabled him to more than quadruple his factory’s output, from 425 cars in 1901 to 2,500 in 1902.

Olds should have become known as "The father of automotive assembly line," although many people think that it was Henry Ford who invented the assembly line. What Ford did do was to improve upon Olds’s idea by installing conveyor belts. That cut the time of manufacturing a Model T from a day and a half to a mere ninety minutes. Henry Ford should been called "The father of automotive mass production

Unexplained Mysteries of Science

Unexplained Mysteries of Science

Modern science is a wonderful process that brings us closer to understanding ourselves, and the nature of the universe. But it’s important to remember that “science” is a process, and through the scientific process we often find that previously accepted “scientific truths” are actually not true at all! In some gray areas, traditional scientific methods are ill equipped to explain many of life’s mysteries. Here are a few popular examples:

The Mind/Body Connection

While the medical community likes to pretend that they were always on board with the trend—it was only a few years ago when anyone who thought they could influence their health with “mindpower” was a crackpot. Science is only now beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. Scientists do not know exactly how the placebo effect, for example, can physically cause a relief in medical symptoms simply by the individual believing the cures to be effective. Now there is a plethora of research and evidence that supports that our state of mind and beliefs do have a significant effect on our health. However, exactly how our thoughts/feelings influence physical health is still poorly understood.

Near-Death Experiences

Many individuals who have died and subsequently revived report a similar and yet personal mystical experience that often involves a tunnel, emerging into light and being reunited with a deceased loved one, etc., that in theory could suggest a form of spiritual existence that continues beyond death. Several hypothesis have been suggested for these events. Some believe they are hallucinations of a traumatized brain. Some neurological experts say that the experience is “hard-wired” into our brains and can even be induced in lab experiments. What science can’t explain is why “mother nature” or evolution would have evolved us this way, or if this hard-wiring is indicative of some kind of physical/spiritual connection. Currently, there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly a glimpse of the other side.

Deja vu

Deja vu is a French phrase meaning “already seen”, which refers to the distinctly odd feeling one has when an experience seems to have already occurred. For example, a woman might visit a foreign country on a business trip and sit down for a meeting with people she has never previously met. Suddenly a profound and eery feeling settles on her that she has sat down and talked with this exact group in this exact place before—even though that would be impossible. Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or a glimpse of a past life. Research into human psychology has offered some reasonable sounding naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of this fairly common phenomenon is unknown.

Intuition

Some refer to intuition as a “gut feeling”, or a sixth sense. Most individuals have experienced intuition at one time in their life or another. It can come as a distinct impression to do something, avoid a specific situation or an “instinct” of something about to occur. An example is humming a tune a few seconds before the same song begins to play on the radio, or having a distinct impression to slam on your breaks even before there is any sign of a road hazard ahead. Psychologists note that people subconsciously pick up information about the world around us, and we may get impressions based on information that we are not aware that we possess. Intuition may be nothing more than intellectual thinking that is real but not clearly conscious. However, cases of intuition are difficult to prove and study because they are situational and nearly impossible to reproduce. So far, psychology has only provided partial answers, and the “six sense” is still largely experienced and little understood.

ICC World Cup winners.

year	winner	runner-up
1975	West Indies	Australia
1979	West Indies	Australia
1983	India	West Indies
1987	Australia	England
1992	Pakistan	England
1996	Sri Lanka	Australia
1999	Australia	Pakistan
2003	Australia	India
2007	Australia	Sri Lanka
2011

Unsolved Mystery..The Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle

Here is another intriguing wonder to the world. The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's triangle, is a triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean (305,000 km2) where the disappearances of ships, airplanes, and boats has led to the belief that "supernatural" forces inhabit this area of the sea. Many planes, ships, and boats are believed to have disappeared in this triangle without a trace. This includes the disappearance of over 1,000 seamen and airmen. In most of these disappearances, it is the fact that no distress signal was ever received from the disappearing ships or planes that enhances the cloud of mystery that surrounds them. Although violent storms and downward air currents frequently occur in the area, scientists have not revealed anything extremely peculiar. Boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle are formed by drawing an imaginary line from Melbourne, Florida, to Bermuda, to Puerto Rico, and back to Florida. Could there truly be an unnatural force at work in this geographical triangle or are these disappearances merely coincidence? Either way, numerous people remain unwilling to step over the boundary line into the Devil's Triangle.

A Miracle Baby Indeed.

Meet India's miracle baby

By: Alifiya Khan   Date:  2011-02-18   Place: Pune

Now 4-month-old and 2.4 kg, baby weighing 495 grams at birth is smallest surviving infant in India, say docs Survivor: The baby weighed 495 kg at birth In what is being termed as a scientific miracle, a pre-term baby girl weighing just 495 grams at birth ” probably the smallest in the country ” was presented to the world by the Oyster and Pearl Tulip Hospital after three-and-half months of care. On an average, a baby weighs 2.5-3 kg at birth. The infant, said to be the baby with the lowest birth weight to survive in the country, was born premature at 27 weeks of pregnancy on October 2. She had to be kept in neo-natal care for 90 days. Doctors waited until the baby reached a "safe survival period" and reported the incident only after it had attained a weight of 2.4 kg. A team of senior hospital doctors led by Dr Avinash Phadnis, director of obstetrics and gynaecology, and neo-natologist Dr Tushar Parikh have been involved in taking care of the baby so far. Doctors said the girl, who is yet to be named, was born to Narayangaon resident Shaila Pawar (36), who had a bad obstetric history. This was Pawar's 14th pregnancy. The previous 13 pregnancies were unsuccessful, with three abortions and three intra-uterine deaths. "She went to a doctor couple in Narayangaon, who realised that she might have hypertension related complications and referred her case to us when she was six months pregnant. She was put under the care of Dr Avinash Phadnis and put on anti-hypertensive pills to keep the blood pressure in control," said senior obstretician Dr Neena Sathe. A few days later Pawar had sudden elevation in blood pressure at home and she was rushed to Oyster and Pearl Tulip by her gynaecologist, where doctors decided to do an emergency caesarean after looking at her condition. "Pawar's baby was born premature, weighing just 495 grams at birth. The baby required artificial breathing support to regularise her breathing and then she was quickly transferred to the neo-natal ICU," said Dr Tushar Parikh. "To salvage the life of such a small baby was challenging as there were no reports of a baby weighing so little surviving in India." The doctor said the last reported smallest survival was a baby weighing 540 grams. According to doctors, babies born this small have extremely poor function of all body organs, including the lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, intestine, skin and adrenals. All of these organs need support for the survival of the child. The baby stayed in the neo-natal ICU for almost 90 days and when discharged, its weight was close to 1,400 grams. "We could have reported this case much earlier, but we wanted to ensure that the baby continues to grow normally and remains healthy after discharge. Now the baby is four-month-old and her weight is 2.4 kg,"

HOMONYMS, HOMOPHONES AND HOMOGRAPHS.

Basic Definitions

When we start talking about words with multiple meanings, there are some basic definitions that we need to discuss first. Those defintions are the ones attached to homonyms, homophones, and homographs.

• Homonyms are words which have the same spelling and pronounciation, but have different meanings.
• Homophones are words which have the same pronounication, but different spellings and meanings.
• Homographs are words that are spelt the same, but have different pronounications and meanings.

Since the topic of words with multiple meanings is so broad, we will cover examples from each of these three unique areas. What follows are lists of homonyms, homophones, and homographs, and an explanation as to why each word belongs in that category if it is not apparent from the spellings.

Homonyms

• crane: That bird is a crane./They had to use a crane to lift the object./She had to crane her neck to see the movie.
• date: Her favorite fruit to eat is a date./Joe took Alexandria out on a date.
• engaged: They got engaged on March 7th./The students were very engaged in the presentation.
• foil: Please wrap the sandwich in foil./They learned about the role of a dramatic foil in English class.
• leaves: The children love to play in the leaves./They do not like when their father leaves for work.
• net: What was your net gain for the year?/Crabbing is easier if you bring a net along.
• point: The pencil has a sharp point./It is not polite to point at people.
• right: You were right./Make a right turn at the light.
• rose: My favorite flower is a rose./He quickly rose from his seat.-
•  type: He can type over 100 words per minute./That dress is really not her type.

Homophones

• pale/pail
• ate/eight
• alter/altar
• band/banned
• buy/bye/by
• red/read
• blew/blue
• boar/bore
• canon/cannon
• coarse/course
• fair/fare
• genes/jeans
• foul/fowl
• grate/great
• in/inn
• hour/our
• knight/night
• no/know
• nose/knows
• maize/maze
• meddle/metal
• rain/reign
• sea/see
• role/roll
• their/there/theyre
• veil/vale

Homographs

• bass: They caught a bass./His voice belongs in the bass section.
• read: She is going to read the book later./He read the book last night.
• bow: She put a bow in her daughter's hair./Please bow down to the emperor.
• minute: That is only a minute problem./Wait a minute!
• learned: The class learned that information last week./He is a very learned individual.
• sewer: The rats crept through the sewer./She is a fine sewer.
• wound: They wound up the toy as soon as they got it./She received a wound from the punch.
• does: He does his homework every night./There were many does in the forest.
• wind: The wind swept up the leaves./Wind the clock up before you go to bed.
• sow: A sow is a female pig./Please sow the hole in your pants before the party.

WHY ARE THEY CALLED 'HOT DOGS'

The name hot dog dates back to the 17th century when a sausage maker referred to his sausage as a "little dachshunds" or little dogs. The name evolved from there. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, people commonly believed that the thin sausages contained actual dog meat!!!.

Madme Marie Curie...Mobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry.

ARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy. Her work not only influenced the development of fundamental science but also ushered in a new era in medical research and treatment.