My Photo Album-160: Suri with his cousins

A Thought for Today-585: Robin Sharma

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future - Robin Sharma

Brief Write-up on Robin Sharma from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Sharma

His official Website:
http://www.robinsharma.com/

Grateful thanks to Robin Sharma and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Picture of the day-393: Ariyakkudi Temple

Ariyakkudi Arulmigu Thiruvengadamudaiyaan Thirukkovil. 

Photo by Suri with his Canon Powershot A590 IS digital camaera.

My Photo Album-159: Prof ALC delivering a lecture

Prof.AL.Chidambaram, a former professor from Annamalai University, is delivering a lecture at CECRI Auditorium, Karaikudi, for FASOHD.  He is fine gentleman, whose kindness I cherish very much.  Even after losing contact, he used to send me New Year Greetings (containing a lot of wonderful quotations) every year which I loved.  Unfortunately, I have lost his contact completely now.

A Thought for Today-584: Voltaire

Love truth, and pardon error - Voltaire, French Writer, Historian, Philosopher and Playwright

A biographical sketch of Voltaire from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

Links to Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (9 Vol)(English Translation) from Project Gutenberg:

• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 2 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 4 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 8 (English) (as Author)
• A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (English) (as Author)

Grateful thanks to Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Health News-26: Cancer drug to flush out dormant HIV

This is another news item which I came across in the same section of the paper of the same day. It is reported that researchers claim that a drug used to treat certain types of cancer, VORINOSTA or vorinostat, is able to dislodge hidden virus in HIV patients. Lab experiments measuring active HIV levels in CD4 + T cells, which are specialized white blood cells that the virus uses to replicate, showed that this drug unmasked the hidden virus in these cells. It is a major breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS. 

More on this:
Cancer Drug May Flush Out 'Hidden' HIV - Study:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=160683

Grateful thanks to The Times of India and MedicineNet.

Eyecatchers-162: Solar System that looks like Ours!

I came across this news item in the Chennai edition of The Times of India of July 27, 2012 under the section, TIMES TRENDS, which I would like to share here. Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system which has planets lined up in aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. At the centre of this system is Kepler 30, a star as bright and as massive as our sun.

For more on this topic:

On the Same Plane by Sid Perkins (July 25, 2012)

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/07/on-the-same-plane.html?ref=hp&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=fd897

Science Now, News.ScienceMag.Org

Grateful thanks to The Times of India and Science Now.

Picture of the day-392: Macaw

My Photo Album-158: Arunvel

A Thought for Today-583: Harry Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit - Harry Truman, 33rd President of the USA


Some Important events during his Presidency:

1. Dropping of Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2. Formation of the UNO
3. Recognition of Israel
4. Berlin Airlift
5. Formation of NATO
6. Chinese Civil War
7. Korean War


Biographical sketch of Harry Truman from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

Grateful thanks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Picture of the day-391: Pattamangalam Sri Ayyanar Temple

My Photo Album-157: Karthik riding a Kayak in Australia

Grateful thanks to Karthik for providing the photo

A Thought for Today-582:Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Picture of the day-390:

My Photo Album-156: Ganesh and Achu

A Thought for Today-581: Martin Luther King Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that - Martin Luther King Jr.

Biographical sketch Dr Martin Luther King Jr from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Full Text of his famous speech, "I have a dream" from Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-mlk-ihaveadream,0,36081.story

Grateful thanks to Chicago Tribune and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Picture of the day-389: Walruses everywhere!

Grateful thanks to Karthik for the photo, which he took in Australia 

during a picnic with his colleagues.

My Photo Album-155: Training Program for Teachers by FASOHD

During my FASOHD days, we organized a Training Program for School Teachers on Value Education at CECRI, Karaikudi.  About 150 teachers of various schools in the district participated.  The Program organized thru Sahaj Marg Research and Training Institute, Chennai.  Here in the picture Shri Y Mahadeva Iyer, who presided over the function and Shri K.Nakkeeran, the then President of FASOHD.

Here I would like to record my sincere and grateful thanks to Mr.Nakkeeran, who readily gave consent and supported in every idea I wanted to implement thru FASOHD.  With his unstinted support, I was able bring to reality many of my dreams and ideas.

A Thought for Today-580: Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle

A biographical sketch of Aristotle from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle

Full Text of Some Selected Works of Aristotle from Project Gutenberg:

POLITICS: A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT  BY  ARISTOTLE:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6762/6762-h/6762-h.htm

THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1974/1974-h/1974-h.htm

THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE:

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8438/pg8438.html

Grateful thanks to Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia, free encyclopedia.

Self-Improvement-105: Never Give up: Inspirational video

Uploaded to YouTube by realvipul on Aug 7, 2007


Fight for yourself using every drop of blood from your body. Muster every effort within you and fight: sure you will win.


Grateful thanks to realvipul and YouTube.