Thursday, 20 August 2015

Japanese Ingenuity...Please watch

Very interesting.  Why aren’t we doing this?
 
Save your plastic.

This is one of the most amazing break-throughs in technology ever seen!  Why isn't this being done NOW???

http://www.youtube.com/embed/qGGabrorRS8?rel=0

Sunday, 16 August 2015

Real Story

Dilip Kumar himself narrated this incident.
At his peak, the star was travelling by plane. The passenger sitting next was elderly. Dressed in a very simple bush shirt and pant, his apparel projected a middle class. He appeared well educated.
Passengers on the aircraft snatched glances of the renowned Dilip Kumar. Yet, the gentleman appeared unconcerned. He read his newspaper, then looked out of the window. When tea came, he sipped it without any notice of Dilip Kumar who sat with him.
It made Dilip Kumar uneasy. Trying to strike a conversation, he smiled. The courteous man smiled back and said hello. Dilip somehow brought the subject to films and asked,
"Do you watch films?"
The man replied,
"Oh, very few. I did see one many years ago"
Dilip casually mentioned that he himself worked in films.
Man; "Oh, that's nice. What do you do?"
Dilip Kumar; "I am a film actor"
Man; "Oh, wonderful?"
There was no further response.
When the flight landed and both stood up, Dilip Kumar held out his hand,
"It was good to travel with you. By the way, my name is Dilip Kumar"
The man shook hand and smiled,
"Thank you. I am J.R.D. Tata".  

Late Dr. Kalam - Former President of India

DD Podhigai telecast an interview with Mr P M Nair retired IAS officer who was the secretary to Dr Kalam Sir when he was the President. Mr Nair had authored a book titled "Kalam Effect".  A summary of the points Mr. Nair spoke in voice choked with emotion is given below. 
 
1. Dr Kalam used to receive costly gifts whenever he went as it is customary for many nations to give gifts to the visiting Head of state. Refusing the gift would become an insult to the nation and an embarrassment for India. So, he received them and on his return, Dr Kalam asked the gifts to be photographed and then catalogued and handed over to the archives. Afterwards, he never even looked at them. He did not take even a pencil from the gifts received when he left Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
 
2.  In 2002, the year Dr Kalam took over, the Ramadan month came in July-August. it was a regular practice for the President to host an iftar party. Dr Kalam asked Mr Nair why he should host a party to people who are already well fed and asked him to find out how much would be the cost. Mr Nair told it costs around Rs. 22 lakhs. Dr Kalam asked him to donate that amount to a few selected orphanages in the form of food, dresses and blankets. The selection of orphanages was left to a team in Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Dr Kalam had no role in it. After the selection was made, Dr Kalam asked Mr Nair to come inside his room and gave him a cheque for Rs 1 lakh. He said that he is giving some amount from his personal savings and this should not be informed to anyone. Mr Nair was so shocked that he said "sir, I will go outside and tell everyone . People should know that here is a man who not only donated what he should have spent but he is giving his own money also". Dr Kalam though he was a devout Muslim did not have Iftar parties in the years in which he was the President.
 
3. Dr Kalam did not like "yes sir" type of people. Once when the Chief Justice of India had come and on some point Dr Kalam expressed his view and asked Mr Nair, "Do you agree?"/ Mr Nair said "No sir, i do not agree with you". The Chief Justice was shocked and could not believe his ears. It was impossible for a civil servant to disagree with the president and that too so openly. Mr Nair told him that the President would question him afterwards why he disagreed and if the reason was logical 99% he would change his mind.
 
4. Dr Kalam invited 50 of his relatives to come to Delhi and they all stayed in Rashtrapathi Bhavan. He organised a bus for them to go around the city which was paid for by him. No official car was used. All their stay and food was calculated as per the instructions of Dr Kalam and the bill came to Rs 2 lakhs which he paid. In the history of this country no one has done it. Now, wait for the climax, Dr Kalam's elder brother stayed with him in his room for the entire one week as Dr Kalam wanted his brother to stay with him. When they left, Dr Kalam wanted to pay rent for that room also. Imagine a President of country paying rent for the room in which he is staying. This was any way not agreed by the staff who thought the honesty was getting too much to handle !!!.
 
5.  When Kalam sir was to leave Rashtrapathi Bhavan at the end of the tenure, every staff member went and met him and paid their respects. Mr Nair went to him alone as his wife had fractured her leg and was bed ridden. Dr Kalam asked why his wife did not come. He replied that she was in bed due to an accident. next day, Nair saw lot of police men around his house and asked what had happened. They said that the President of India was coming to visit him in his house. He came and met his wife and chatted for some time. Mr Nair says that no president of any country would visit a civil servant's house and that too on such a simple pretext.


Monday, 10 August 2015

Most Interesting Unknown Facts.

 Most Interesting Unknown Facts You Should Know

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses
every letter in the English language.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Ants never sleep!
6. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. Coca-Cola was originally green.
8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing
desert sand.
11. There are only two words in the English language that have all
five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects
their heart and nervous system.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
21. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a millisecond.
22. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
23. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
24. “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
25. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
26. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius
28. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
29. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
30. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
31. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
32. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
33. A snail can sleep for three years.
34. All polar bears are left handed.
35. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
36. Butterflies taste with their feet.
37. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
38. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
39. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
40. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
41. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
42. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
43. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
44. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over million descendants.
45. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times
46. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
47. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
48. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Ancient Indian Science

Ancient Indian Science

Canadians? On how to treat Terrorists

The Canadians know how to handle complaints. Here is an example.

A Canadian female liberal wrote a lot of letters to the Canadian government,
complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in
Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter.

She received the following reply:

From:
National Defence Headquarters
Maj. Gen. George R. Pearkes Bldg., 15 NT,
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada.

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of
treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian
Forces, who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and
are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National
Correctional System facilities.

Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were
heard loud and clear here in Ottawa. You will be pleased to learn, thanks to
the concerns of citizens like yourself… we are creating a new department
here at the Department of National Defence, to be called 'Liberals Accept
Responsibility for Killers' program, or “L.A.R.K.” for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided, on a
trial basis, to divert several terrorists and place them in homes of
concerned citizens such as yourself… around the country, under those
citizens personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is
scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in
Toronto next Monday.

Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud is your detainee, and is to be cared for
pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of
complaint. You will be pleased to know that we will conduct weekly
inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate
with your recommendations.

Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your
sensitivity to what you described as his 'attitudinal problem' will help him
overcome those character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these
problems as mere ‘cultural differences’. We understand that you plan to
offer ‘counselling and home schooling’, however, we strongly recommend that
you hire some assistant caretakers.

Please advise any Jewish friends, neighbours or relatives about your house
guest, as he might get agitated or even violent, but we are sure you can
‘reason’ with him. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive
devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items
locked up, unless in your opinion, this might ‘offend him and his
sensibilities’. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in
hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as
a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate
these skills either in your home or wherever you choose to take him while
‘helping him adjust to life in our country’.

Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters except sexually…
since he views females as a form of property, thereby having no rights,
including refusal of his sexual demands. This is a particularly sensitive
subject for him.

You also should know that he has shown violent tendencies around women who
fail to comply with the dress code that he will recommend as more
appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by
the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of 'respecting his
culture and religious beliefs' as described in your letter.

You take good care of Ahmed and remember that we will try to have a
counsellor available to help you over any difficulties you encounter while
Ahmed is adjusting to Canadian culture.

Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you
keep us informed of the “PROPER WAY TO DO OUR JOB AND CARE FOR OUR FELLOW
MAN”.

Good luck and God bless you.

Cordially,
Gordon O'Connor