Fauja Singh vs Marathon

Pheidippides

               Marathon is a battle in 490 BC in which Athenians(Capital of Greece) and their allies defeated the Persians. The victory news was conveyed to people of Greece by "pheidippides" who ran 22 miles(distance between Marathon to Greece) and reached Greece for convey it and soon he died. Then in memory of "pheidippides" to honour him Marathon is conducted by rulers of ancient Greece.


              In recent times the olympic marathon will cover a distance of 26 miles 385 yards which is equal to 42.195 km.This is because, In 1908 only the  modern marathon event's distance was standardized. This is because in 1908 a Marathon event was conducted between wintser palace and royal box in London Stadium(which is 26 miles385 yards distance).Then onwards it was officially announced as correct distance for a Marathon event.After that all are following the same distance.

Pheidippides statue

                  I here come to convey the above message because a recent news says that a 100 year old youngster completed his full distance in Toronto waterfront Marathon event conducted on 16th october 2011.


                Mr.Fauja singh (born on 1st April 1911) from Indian origin living in"Ilford, east London" attracted worldwide publicity after he completed the toronto marathon last week has set a world record of being the oldest person to complete a full-distance in marathon.Mr Singh, who worked as a farmer in the Punjab before moving to Britain in 1992.


                It tooks 8 hours 25 minutes and 16 seconds,by finishing in 3,850th place, ahead of five other competitors.It was more than 6 hours after Kenya's Kenneth Mungara won th scotiabank Toronto waterfront Marathon on 16th oct.for the fourth straight year.


               He accomplished the amazing feat,becoming the oldest person ever to complete a full distance.Mr. Singh who only speaks Punjabi surprised himself and said that "he had set a goal of finishing the race in about 9 hours.Achieving this will be like getting married again."


              "Beating his original prediction, he's overjoyed,"his coach and translator Harmander singh was quoted as saying by the Toronto Star."He is absolutely over-joyed ,he has achieved his life-long wish," his coach added.This was his  8th marathon.He ran his first at the tender age of 89 and wasn't the first time he set a record.


               But his record (at the age 100) was not recognized by Guiness because Mr.Fauja Singh has no Birth certificate for claiming his age as 100. A letter from Indian government officials stating that no birth records were kept in 1911, and a statement from a former neighbour in India, have also been passed to Guinness World Records, but the organisation says these too are not enough.

"We can only accept official birth documents created in the year of the birth. Anything else is really not very useful to us."

                Speaking to the BBC, the editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday, said: "We would love to give him the record. We'd love to say this is a true Guinness World Record, but the problem is there is just no evidence.

              It has also been widely reported that Mr.Singh already had a place in Guinness World Records for the over-90 marathon category after running the 2003 Toronto marathon in five hours and 40 minutes.


                  Any how we can't see pheidippides of  olden Greece, but by seeing Mr.Fauja Singh we may know how he was? Also all have to accept one thing,
"Nothing is impossible and age doesn't matters, if we have goal and self confidence".

Edge of Civilization :-

  Warning:- Please, Don't try to view this post's content if you are a heart patient.

"Yue Yue" in her mother's hand

                  The above videos and pictures are showing a recent accident (cruel murder attempt done by heartless people).This incident happened on October 13 in Foshan city in southern Guangdong, the richest province in China, and was captured by a surveillance camera. The footage was aired by the province's Southern Television Guangdong (TVS).The victim's name is YueYue-a two and half year old girl from a rural migrant workers' family .
                           
                 According to doctors, the girl YueYue is brain dead now and surviving on life support in a deep coma. Police said the drivers of both vehicles have been arrested.The following details are from some other sources.

                            Trash collector Chen Xianmei said (the one you may see in the photo and video who finally picks the girl from the road ) "I was picking up trash in the hardware market when I saw a child lying in the road. I walked up in a hurry to the girl and heard her groan, " . "I lifted her up and saw that one of her eyes was closed, that she had tears in her eyes, and she was bleeding from her mouth, nose and the back of her head. 

"I wanted to carry her but she was soft and collapsed immediately. I was scared to try again and so I dragged her to the side of the road and shouted for help. But nobody showed up," Chen was quoted in Yangcheng Evening News as saying. Chen asked a few nearby shopkeepers who the girl was and only heard "I don't know" in reply.


                              Now let's see the next video.This is little bit worse than the above incident, took place in Coimbatore (Tamil nadu, India).The entire incident happened near a busiest traffic signal and also near to a police station ,was captured by a CCTV.

                   A young man was fatally beaten up in broad daylight in Coimbatore by four drunken men on July 10, 2011. The gang threw the man (identified as 28-year-old Santosh Kumar) on the ground and then repeatedly kicked and punched him. They also hit the man with a huge stone injuring him fatally. Santosh died at the spot.

                     Santosh, a painter by profession, was being beaten up near a traffic signal at 2 pm and several people were nearby, but no one came forward to help him. 

                   Police have arrested the four men who had beaten  Santosh."The incident happened 250 meters away from the police station. All this happened in front of a liquor shop and the people were drunk. They all were of the same age and all have been booked for murder. It is because of CCTV footage the four men - Krishnan, Ganeshan, Murugan and Ramachandran - were arrested,"said Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime & Traffic Mr. S. Nizamuddin".

                     Why i want to share these incidents here is: to show the mentality of the people living in 21st century.I think we are in the edge of civilization.We don't care about anyone. We always think about ourselves and our needs.We never care about others,the only thing is ,we have to survive and only we should live. Are we not ashamed of ourselves. The above incidents are not took place in underdeveloped countries also not took place in a village or a highway.Both incidents happened near heart of the town and 50 - 100 men are there, also this was happened in countries which are nearly ready to attain their global power status.

                        Even a single phone call make some difference,by doing that at-least they may prevent from seeing those persons dying in streets.We have to mind something this is not 18th or 19th century to argue we don't have the facility to inform emergency. We all have cell phone with us also there is 24 hours emergency service.The most funniest thing is both china and India are holding the first two ranks in maximum number of  cell phone users in this world. 

                      By losing our humanity what we are going to achieve?....I am not only talking with this above two incidents.Believe it or not ! while i prepare to writing this post i come across so many news-sites showing this kind of  incidents happening all around the world.Now-a-days we people are losing our helping mentality and acting like machines and animals(only doing the programmed jobs without self thinking "equal to barbarians").Don't bother about this it wasn't happened for us,but if we always think about ourselves one day this will happen to us and on that day some street dogs will help us to move our body from the place by tearing our flesh in middle of streets. Do we think?.....

                      While asking someone who faced the same situation all they told was, the law prevents them in helping. I don't accept this point, this shows little bit of ignorance. Anyway,I don't know, maybe someone faced some problems but saving a life is much more;than these things. If the law prevents means, just throw the old one and construct a new one to save humanity.But in India there was so many awards and cash prices for saving people from accidents. Also china announced some cash price for that woman who took that child from the road. So don't spread false beliefs among people about law.

         Please Respect Others,Help Others and Treat Others as our Brothers and Sisters...

                                        "Service to Humanity is Service to God"

                                                                                                      -Nathan-

Steven Paul Jobs & APPLE

                                      APPLE the name itself has its power to attract people.I am not here to talk about the fruit also this is not a fruitful situation,I am talking about the APPLE corporation. Recently they announced a sad news about a person. I think(After Issac Newton, he is the man who rises to stardom with the help of APPLE) we all need to know about this person,People from all over the world have so much craze over their products. So by knowing the man, who was behind this brilliant technology, we may give a warm farewell for him in his last journey. 

                                       Mr. Steven Paul jobs, was an computer entrepreneur and one among the three founders of APPLE corporation, has passes away 5th October 2011 who was a pancreatic cancer survivor.In his life time he served as chairman , chief executive of APPLE Inc. also Chief executive in 'Pixar animations' and he was a member of board of directors in 2006 for 'The Walt Disney Company'.

Mr.Steve and APPLE:-

                                  He started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976. But after a decade, he was forced out of the company but returned in 1986-1987 to save the company which was in dire financial straits. It had lost more than USD 800 million in a year.After that all we know what is the current situation of this billion dollar company.

Early Life:-

                                    If we looks back his early life,Mr.Steven was born in San Fransisco and grown up with his adopted parents Mr.PAul and Clara jobs of Mountain view, California whom named him Steven Paul Jobs. Mr.Steven biological parents are Abdulfattan John Jandali , a syrian muslim and Joanne simpson.

Spiritual Life:-

                                   Though Steven was an Entrepreneur and Inventor.He was also interested in the way of spirituality.So for reaching his goal in spiritual world, he traveled to India and visited Neem Karoli Baba at Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (later the first Apple Employee) Daniel kottke. When he returned from India he went back as a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian Clothing.

Family:-

                                           Mr.Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18,1991.His marriage was presided by a Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa.This couple have a son and two daughters.Its was confirmed that Mr. Steven has another one daughter ,Lisa Brennan-jobs (1978) from his relation ship with Bay Area Painter Chrisann Brennan.

                                 In the middle of 2004 Mr. Steven announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.He also stated that he had a rare and far less aggressive type known as islet cell Neuro-endocrine tumor.Until his last breath, he survived with this disease.

Awards and Honours:-

                    Mr. Steven Paul Jobs was awarded and honored with so many awards not only for his inventions and also for his charity works all over the world,some of them are 'National Medal of Technology'  by the president Ronald Reagan (America) in 1984, a 'Jefferson Award for Public Service' for greatest public service by an individual under 35 years in 1987.Also he was considered as the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine on 2007.Also he was named as the "CEO of the decade" by Fortune Magazine in 2009.Financial Times named Mr.Jobs as its person of the year for 2010. Recently Forbes ranked him as No.17 in world's most powerful people.

Rest In Peace:-

                                Leaders and famous Personalities from all over the world are paying their homage to this great person of this century.Let's all pay our homage to this great person " May his soul Rest in Peace".

Akash - India's Cheapest Tablet PC:-

Mr.kabil sibal

Wednesday(5/10/2011), India's Hon. minister of communication and Information technology Mr. Kapil Sibal unveiled the world's cheapest computer for and from India. This is named as "Akash" (means Sky). The purpose for  introducing this tablet is for creating a bridge between rural and urban students.


From our Minister Mr. sibal:

Students with Akash

"It is a milestone in history and will bring a paradigm shift in education delivery, defining the 21st century,This wonder called 'Akash' will revolutionise our remote rural villages bringing technology within the reach of poor rural students making them techno savvy,” while distributing free tablets to 500 students after the release.


                          There is no doubt that, this will  revolutionize our country's education both in rural and urban ground. This will available for higher education students at 1,750Rs. with HRD ministry bearing 50% of its original cost.This technology was developed and manufactured jointly by Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan at Jodhpur and UK-based DataWind Ltd.


Akash's Specification:-
Operating system- Google's Android 2.2 with 7inch touch screen, 
256-MB RAM, 2GB internal memory, 
Expandable memory slot- 32 GB,
Wi-fi Internet access, 2 USB Ports , Video-conferencing capabilities,
with 1yr. warranty, 3 hrs. battery life.


                                 Expecting 1,00,000 pieces of delivery by January 2012. Also there is some process is going on to reduce the price by increase its production.If this idea works means we will get it, as cheap as $10(500 rs.). The feedback from the current version will be take part as input in the newest version which is under production.

Medication Tips:-

                          Every one should keep these below tips in mind before taking medicines. This may help the medicines to show their 100% effect over the disease and helps to cure it immediately without a delay.
* While taking antibiotics for contagious diseases,  it is not advisable to in-take milk and milk related food items, also avoid meat.


* While using pain killers, avoid leafy vegetables(prevent the fast-relief) in food.


* Don't take tablets along with hot water( at high temperature) or other hot liquids it may reduce the drug's effect.


* The medicines for diarrhoea must been taken seperately which means dont take medicines for diarrhoea with any other medicines.


* While taking medicines for allergy, avoid egg, strawberry, also bananas(some kinds).


* While taking thyroid medicines, try to avoid calcium enriched food, soya-beans, cabbage.


* Don't take tablets or other medicines along with food (for keep-off its bitter taste) without doctor's advise. 


* There are three ways for taking medicines. 
1.Some should be taken before food, 
2.Some should be taken with food,
3.Some should be taken after food. 
So ask doctor clearly about this before starting medication.


* Always drink plenty of water while taking tablets or other antibiotics, they will be useful in liberating body heat in huge amount and prevent drowsiness and dizziness due to medicinal effects.


* One more important thing, before all these steps its very important,so just listen and take it as a request. Always buy a medicine by showing  prescriptions given by a Doctor. I'm telling this because i heard a lot of our friends are simply going to medical shops and asks their medicines( head ache, cough syrup....),simply by explaining their problems to the shop owners. All we should know is, all of those persons in shops don't have enough knowledge like a doctor, in medicines. Also sometimes they will give us new company medicines like a test drive in our body. So always be careful...  
                                                                          
                                                                                              ---Nathan---