NARA'S NOTEPAD

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NARA'S NOTEPAD

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:36:00 +0000

VOLUME 5

DECEMBER 2009

NUMBER 12

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SUPPORTED

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EAT SLOWLY,

AVOID OVEREATING!

MEMO FROM NARA

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Bad things happen in everyone’s life every time. We absorb them and move on. Similarly good things also happen. We do enjoy them and move on towards the future experiencing some more good things as and when they happen. That’s what happens in everyone’s life on earth. Most of us attribute some reasons for such happenings. One of the reasons comes from astrology based on our date and time of birth. It states that there are good and bad times in one’s life. No one in this world has good time throughout his/her life. Evidently we do see with our own eyes such happenings in the life of our friends, relatives and in our own life itself. How far it is really linked with our date and time of birth is known only to the astrologers who are found every where on earth. Some say that each individual is responsible for his/her bad or good things. That means, the behavior and action of a person determine these things.

Another view is that the happenings in one’s life are due to the ancestors’ action. Sometimes we find fault with time. During good time only good things happen and during bad time bad things happen. Whatever may be the reason, one who undergoes these things has to take them with courage and determination. Not many have the courage to take in bad things whereas they can easily absorb good things happily. Great men and women take things easy and try to pacify themselves and even others to instill courage at testing times. Bad things may be illness, death, accidents, breakage of relationships, failures etc. Good things are healthy life, well-being, marriage, child-birth, success etc. But bad things are shared with our dear ones to get consolation. Time paves the way out for bad things. Only thing is that we need to search for it. The necessity to come out of bad things often makes us to think and find out some measures which may be opt or not opt for the concerned things. Still people are on the look out for finding out solutions to problems which bother them on and off. Such challenges are the ones which make our life worth living. Life without challenges is not a life at all. Therefore bad and good things make our life active by making us sad or happy. We have to accept this fact of life to live in this world.

BIOETHICS

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:25:00 +0000

The investigations of biology, scientific technology and ethical issues combine to form a new science called ‘bioethics’. For this multidisciplinary science, van Reusselaer Potter in 1971 coined the term ‘bioethics’ stating that it is ‘biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental priorities for acceptable survival.
Potter’s definition establishes the premise that we operate through ‘humanistic knowledge’ – the rejection of superstition; where human kind is in control of its own destiny; that our actions are based on moral principles and ethical thinking. It provides a ‘system’ approach (Scientific methodology) to medical and environmental priorities and also, an over-arching context of survival. But Potter points out that survival without qualification are meaningless. Potter offers five categories of survival: mere survival, miserable survival, ideal survival, irresponsible survival and acceptable survival. Acceptable survival refers to a sustainable society with a healthy ecosystem.

JUST TO LAUGH...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:22:00 +0000

Sita watched her husband Ramu searching high and low all over the living room. She asked him, “What are you searching for so frantically?”
“Hidden Camera,” answered Ramu.
“And what makes you think there are hidden cameras here?”
she asked in surprise.
“How else is that guy on television saying every few minutes, “you are watching Star World? How can he know what I am watching?”

Customer: Waiter, this soup tastes funny.
Waiter: Funny? But then why aren’t you laughing?

A man asked Gopal why Manmohan Singh walked in the evening and not in the morning. Gopal replied, “Manmohan is PM and not AM.

A photographer focusing on a dead body’s face at a funeral is suddenly beaten up by the relatives of the dead man. Why? He had said , “ Smile Please.”

CONFIRM PERCEPTIONS

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +0000

Some our most serious disagreements arise as a result of misperceptions and misconceptions. "I thought you were going to come!" we can reprimand a friend who has not shown up for a meeting. A simple confirmation beforehand could have completely avoided the mishap. What we are thinking is not always what the other person is thinking and it is almost impossible to know what goes on in another's mind with any degree of certainty. We can also confirm important facts. For example we may say, "I thought my money was insured!" The answer which comes back could be, "That's what you get for thinking!" When we confirm perceptions and important facts, we open the doors to beneficial agreements and understanding.

DEFINITIONS...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:17:00 +0000

School:
A place where Parents pay and children play.
Life Insurance:
A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.
Nurse:
A person who wakes you up, to give you sleeping pills.
Marriage:
It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Divorce:
Future tense of Marriage. The hydraulic force, by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.
Lecture:
An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students , without passing through "the minds of either."
Conference:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Conference Room:
A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody
disagrees later on.
Father:
A banker provided by nature.
Criminal:
A person no different from the rest ....except that he / she got caught.

FOR A SUCCESSFUL LIFE...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0000

1. Master your mind and thoughts. Don’t let them control you.
2. Discover and learn to use your personal compass, feelings and emotions.
3. The awesome power of focus and concentration. Eliminate distractions.
4. Be organized and utilize your most valuable resource, time!
5. Your health is the most valuable thing you own.
6. Become action – and result-oriented.
7. Question limiting beliefs and uncover the truth!
8. Learn the real secret behind goals: affirmations.
9. Face fear and destroy it.
10. Communication. Ask for what you want, say what you feel and convey what you mean.
11. Ego is a dirty word, clean yours.
12. Be yourself, there is only one YOU.
13. Most importantly put it all together and put it into practice.

THEY SAID...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:12:00 +0000

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. – Lao Tzu

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon – E. M. Forster

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness, there is also the success of others. – Jules Renard

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of will. - Epictetus

NO...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:08:00 +0000

The ability to say ‘NO’ will reap great benefits. Here are three of them.

1. As you increase your ability to say “NO,” your “YES” becomes more appreciated.
2. The ability to say “NO” helps you to make good decisions.
3. The ability to say “NO” builds character.
There are times when it’s tough to look a loved one in the eye and disappoint him.
But if you always go along with what he wants you’re not living life honestly or courageously.

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:05:00 +0000

See things exactly as they are!
Meet you next month – JANUARY, 2009

Prof. A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
# 19, PHASE 5, MAHARANI AVENUE, VADAVALLI, COIMBATORE – 641 041, TAMIL NADU

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noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:00 +0000

NARA'S NOTEPAD

VOLUME 5

NOVERMBER 2009

NUMBER 11

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EMBRACE

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ENCOURAGERS

MEMO FROM NARA...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:51:00 +0000

Well-to-do people tell us to dress well, eat well and enjoy well. They way to live and the way to behave are being taught to us by them. But unfortunately such people are not many in the country. The world they live in is very different from the one many others live. The disparity between these people and the common people is very much. The gap is not closing up by any means. The attitude and general behavior of the well-to-dos are highly sophisticated. They look for quality life. They spend lot of money to achieve such quality. They follow a particular style to suit their convenience. In general, they do not respect the poor. They invariably expect that the poor to do service to them. I know some of these kind of people who least care for others. Most of them are good, but highly selfish. Kindness, generosity, and politeness are the characters we rarely find in some of these people. Everything they do will be significantly different from others do. Thus they stand aloof, creating a world of their own. A welfare state should have well-to-do people, but a country like India cannot have such a luxury because of the billions plus people of all kinds – below poverty, above poverty and mid-level poverty population – can not be homogenized to bring a welfare state. However, the democratic policy of each country is trying its best to bring some kind of uniformity and economic stability creating facilities to train and employ the ever enhancing population number. Health care, education, skill development, food security, infrastructure facilities and opportunities for employment are some of the welfare measures to the grass root level are very slow. Moreover, reaching these measures to the voiceless lot who live in remote regions of the country is one of the difficult tasks. The officials responsible to implement such measures are mostly corrupt. The harassment they cause to the illiterate and poor people are countless. Under such conditions who will be able to establish a welfare state in this world? I do not know. What about you? Do you have a solution? However, day by day people are getting benefited one way or other. Opportunities are plenty. Only thing is the initiative one has to take for making use of these golden opportunities instead of crying always that the government is not doing enough to the people. Slow and steady win the race! We can’t live like the people in America. But we can certainly live comfortably in our own country like most of the well-to-do people.

MAN OF THE YEAR IN SCIENCE 2009

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:48:00 +0000

American Biographic Institute Inc. USA, has selected

PROF. A. NARAYANAN (NARA)

for the Institute’s

MAN OF THE YEAR in SCIENCE designation for 2009.

It was announced by Dr. J. M. Evans, President of ABI, U. S. A. on
4 Sept. 2009.

LINES I LIKED...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:46:00 +0000

· The perfect week would be one without a Monday.
· Curiosity is seen to be the catalyst that creates knowledge.
· Children exhibit a stronger sense of curiosity which seems to diminish as we grow older.
· Nothing new happens till you question the old.
· What unites men and women matters more than what divide them.

BIOREMEDIATION

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:44:00 +0000

Bioremediation is an ecologically sound natural process where natural strains of bacteria breakdown organic wastes most effectively. Bioremediation is one of the most promising new technologies for treating industrial wastes (solid and liquid), municipal / urban wastes (sewages), mining wastes (including effluents containing heavy metals etc.), chemical spills and hazardous wastes, etc. This list is nearly all embracing indeed. It can be used as an in situ remediation technology with indigenous micro-organisms or can be used in an ex situ mode in either composite piles or bioreactors. By altering the types of microorganisms present, nutrients and climatic conditions (pH, moisture, temperature, and oxygen levels), microbial degradation can be enhanced. In situ bioremediation can be implemented in many treatment modes – including aerobic (oxygen respiration), anoxic (nitrate respiration) and anaerobic (non-oxygen respiration) and co-metabolic. The aerobic mode has proved to be the most effective mode in reducing contaminant levels of aliphatic and aromatic petroleum hydrocarbons from gasoline (petrol) and diesel fuels.

FEAR

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:42:00 +0000

Probably the most debilitating emotion that humans must confront is that of fear. Fear confuses. Fear paralyzes. Fear prevents you from thinking clearly, accessing your spiritual gifts and being who you truly are. Fear is the anticipation of future pain. It's been said that 90% of humans are motivated to avoid pain, while only 10% seek pleasure. It's no surprise that we suffer from fear. We've been trained to fear from an early age. Don't play in traffic - fear of getting run over. Don't talk to strangers - fear of being abducted. Don't misbehave or Mommy won't love you - fear of abandonment. As we grow older, we learn new fears: Fear of not being loved. Fear of being rejected. Fear of not having enough. Fear of being unworthy or inadequate. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of being restricted. Fear of getting fired. Fear of being annihilated by nuclear-armed terrorists. Every day, we are bombarded with new fear-based messages by advertisers, politicians and the media. It's easy to understand why: Fearful people are easy to control.
Fear is one of humanity's most primitive emotions, triggering the adrenaline rush associated with the fight or flight response to danger. In life-threatening situations, this is helpful, better preparing you to do battle or to escape. But in non-lethal situations, fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even worse, attachment to fear inhibits your ability to tap into your innermost self. Connecting with your inner master requires you to be balanced and your brain hemispheres be in synch. Fear causes your brain to automatically return to its dominant side - logical or emotional - again, ensuring unbalanced input into solving your problem.
Fear is a low vibration, dense emotion. Clinging to this negative, energy-draining emotion guarantees you will be unable to transcend to higher states of consciousness, characterized by higher vibration emotions such as love, joy, peace and happiness. You can't take your baggage to the higher worlds, so eliminating fear is critical. All people, even warriors, have some degree of fear. What separates warriors from timid souls is not their inability to recognize danger. What makes some people warriors is their willingness to act in the face of fear. By repeated experience, warriors come to know that fear dissolves with conscious action. - Edwin Harkness Spina

WHY THINK POSITIVE?

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:40:00 +0000

All of our feelings beliefs and knowledge are based on our internal thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. We are in control, whether we know it or not. We can be positive or negative enthusiastic or dull, active or passive. The biggest difference between people is their attitudes. For some learning is enjoyable and exciting. For others, learning is drudgery. For many learning is just okay, something required on the road to a job.

Our present attitudes are habits built from the feedback of parents, friends, society and self that forms our self-image and our world-image. These attitudes are maintained by the inner conversation we constantly have with ourselves, both consciously and subconsciously. The first step in changing our attitudes is to change our inner conversations by commitment, control and challenge.

Make a positive commitment to yourself, to learning, work, family, friends, nature and other worthwhile causes. Praise yourself and others. Dream of success. Be enthusiastic.

Keep your mind focused on important things. Set goals and priorities for what you think and do. Visualize practicing your actions. Develop a strategy for dealing with problems. Learn to relax. Enjoy successes. Be honest with yourself.

Be courageous. Change and improve each day. Do your best and don’t look back. See learning and change as opportunities. Try new thing. Consider several options. Meet new people. Ask lots of questions. Keep track of your mental and physical health. Be optimistic.

Studies show that people with these characteristics are winners in good times and survivors in hard times.

THEY SAID...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:37:00 +0000

The best books are yet to be written, the best paintings have not yet been painted; the best governments are yet to be formed, the best is yet to be done by YOU. – John Erskine

Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. – Edward Stanley

Hear no evil, speak no evil and you’ll never be invited to a party. – Oscar Wilde

Doing the same thing again and again but expecting different results is a form of insanity. – Old Saying.

JUST TO LAUGH...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:34:00 +0000

Eva Peron was utterly incensed when she returned from a trip to Europe.

She let out her troubles to a friendly retired admiral.

“Do you believe it? The crowds in the street called me a whore!"

"Don't worry Eva, I have the same problem.

I haven't been on a ship for ten years and people still call me Admiral."

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...

noreply@blogger.com (NARA'S NOTEPAD) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:32:00 +0000

1. Adhere to truth at all time.
2. Cultivate a persevering attitude of mind and spirit.
3. Aim to control the senses.
4. Have a check on the wandering and straying mind.
5. Perform the ordained duties and rituals.
6. Honor the guests.
7. Maintain equanimity at all costs.
8. Lead the life of an ideal house holder.