Super Feroz

2022-03-20T20:11:00.001+03:00

Donation

Today I donated my watch, phone and Rs.6500 to a poor guy.

You don't know the happiness I felt as I saw him put his knife back in his pocket.

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-04-11T14:01:00.001+03:00

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Senior Metallurgical Engineer at Qatar steel

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Check out Mohamed Ghani's photos on Facebook.

2012-11-16T07:38:00.001+03:00

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How to get your Facebook user ID

2012-06-28T17:21:00.001+03:00

Facebook User ID

There are too many post advising to type @[4:0] to get Facebook founder name Mark ....

now the question is how to get your name or your friends name by typing similar code????

interesting ...isn't it??

now after logged into your FB :

visit:
https://www.facebook.com/settings

get your facebook short id from the username field.

visit:

http://graph.facebook.com/MGFEROZKHAN

this page will give you:

{
   "id": "701334065",
   "name": "Ferozkhan Mohamed Ghani",
   "first_name": "Mohamed Ghani",
   "last_name": "Ferozkhan",
   "link": "https://www.facebook.com/mgferozkhan",
   "username": "mgferozkhan",
   "gender": "male",
   "locale": "en_GB"
}

that's it:

now you have your FB user id in numerical form....

the task is almost completed....

visit any comment page: try to put below:

"@[701334065:0]"

you will get your full name as link in FB.

Enjoy...

Golden Words

2012-05-30T09:18:00.000+03:00

Hi All

Enjoy the Golden Words.......

Difference between Boss and Leader

2012-03-12T09:05:00.001+03:00

A GREAT MESSAGE TO SHARE & SPREAD

Best Diet

2012-03-12T07:45:00.001+03:00

The Best Diet is no diet at all but a lifetime commitment to better choices!

Many studies have proven that all diets have a temporary effect! The secret to losing weight is to make permanent choices in what we do.

Here we have some simple long term commitments:

• Commit to whole wheat bread

• Drink fruit juices instead of soft drinks

• Always select fruit as a dessert

• Start most meal with a large salad

• Use whole grain pasta, bread and rice

• Take longer to eat. It takes time for your body to send its satisfaction signal

• Always park your car far rather than near

• Use the stairs for anything less than 4 stories

• Think positive about all of the choices above.

Forming good habits is the answer to long term health!

Listening

2012-03-11T07:45:00.001+03:00

Listening and hearing are two different things. When a person is truly listening they not only hear the words, but they feel the emotion behind these words. True communication occurs when someone truly listens and not just hears the words.

Learning

2012-03-10T19:02:00.001+03:00

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. ~ Henry Ford

@AncientProverbs,

2012-03-10T18:59:00.001+03:00

Those who educate children r more 2b honored than they who produce them; 4 these only gave them life, those th art of living well.-Aristotle

Being wise

2011-12-17T08:17:00.002+03:00

"How do you know so much about everything?" was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was, "By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

-- John Abbott, 19th century Canadian Prime Minister

Attitude

2011-12-07T07:50:00.001+03:00

Attitude is what you do when the coach, parent, teacher or any supervisors are not looking.

Trust is a Boundary

2011-12-05T08:35:00.002+03:00

Trust is a boundary: yet not known to mankind. It has shaped our existence, but dwelled in our sight. To trust is to love without fear. Though the truth be told, trust is followed by jealousy; an unknown entity in the world of love. A fear held by all, but revealed by few. The world is not a perfect place. It holds heartache, disappointment and anguish. But the world of love can be a wonderful thing. With sorrow comes friendship. With pain comes passion. But at the base of them all lays trust: the beginning of all and the basis of life. Trust is the foundation that we must pursue in the face of love. For without it, it leaves us with nothing but fear.

Make sure your expense is within your means - ET article

2011-12-04T10:19:00.000+03:00

Special thanks to : ET & Author - Priya Kumar

I read somewhere that money cannot buy happiness. If that were true, then what could be the purpose of millions of people who leave their homes and loved ones and spend endless hours at work to earn money? Is happiness not their primary goal?

Is it not apparent that they are trying to reach that goal by generating an income that can lead them to the lifestyle that would make them happy?

I believe happiness lies in the achievement of worthy goals, and money is one of them. If money is the primary goal for all then the least you can do is put the money where your heart is, and that would guarantee the happiness that you deserve at the end of work well done, money well earned and spent.

No matter what your income, you will spend money. If that is a given, then make sure you spend some portion of your income on what you love.

If it's a new gadget you have your eyes on, and if owning it will make you happy, then put your money in the kitty to buy that if you can't afford the expense at once. Don't compromise on your desires. If you keep compromising, then you will stop dreaming.

If you believe in something, don't hesitate to put your money on it. You may not get your money back but the joy you will feel in its completion is what money cannot buy.

Sometimes people compromise on their jobs and their projects because of the unforeseen expenses that will be a direct cost to them. Instead of cutting corners, put your money to create the masterpiece you first envisioned.

Compromise will haunt you and be evidence of your lack of belief in your potential. I believed my books would create a revolution and put my own money on the line in the promotions. Though I have still not broken even, when I see my books on the bestseller racks, it's a joy far greater than the hole in my pocket to get there. Put your money on the people you love.

Don't compromise with the time that can be made beautiful and comfortable with people who love you.

Spending on gifts, get-togethers and holidays with your loved ones is an expense worthy of the time and effort you put, away from them. The last thing you want to do when you are with your loved ones is to watch your pocket.

Make sure your expense is within your means, but cutting corners on what you can afford will steal the joy not only from your personal life, but also from your professional life.

There is one thing that must never be compromised in your pursuit of income and that is your health. I know someone who will buy expensive shoes but will makes a fuss about the salad he finds over-priced.

He consumes carbonated drinks which is nothing but sweetened water but will think twice before paying for the juice that is twice the price. Health is the real wealth and there could be no greater foolishness than to compromise on it. Healthy people are generally happy people.

Getting rid of problems

2011-11-29T07:45:00.002+03:00

Getting rid of problems
The problem with many things is the pre-conceived ideas we have about them!

Letting Go

2011-11-25T10:38:00.001+03:00

It is because of our attachment to things that we suffer. By letting go we find that we have not lost anything except our attachment.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Dreams.........

2011-11-22T08:24:00.002+03:00

Dreams
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

-Anonymous-

Courage!

2011-11-18T17:55:00.001+03:00

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Mind Force

2011-11-18T17:51:00.002+03:00

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck

Listen, Listen, Listen...

2011-01-17T07:37:00.000+03:00

Listen, Listen, Listen...
In our time-starved society, attentiveness and listening skills seem to have fallen to the wayside. In order to make those with whom you communicate feel important, brush up on your listening skills. Make sure to give the speaker your undivided attention: regardless of how great you are at multi-tasking, treating an individual as a "task" is not a good idea. Eye-contact, nodding in agreement, asking leading questions and using your face to provide feedback also contribute to a positive communication experience that will foster the growth of the relationship.

Super Star's Space License

2011-01-08T09:43:00.002+03:00

An Appreciation : What to appreciate, When and How: an Important Lesson!

2010-11-29T14:30:00.002+03:00

One young academically excellent person went for an interview for a
managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview;
BUT in that Company, the director did the last interview, made the last
decision.

The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result was
excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the
postgraduate research, never was there a year he did not score. The
director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the
youth answered "no".

The director asked, " Did your father pay your school fees?". The youth
answered, "my father passed away when I was one year old and it
was my mother who paid my school fees".

The director asked, " Where did your mother work?" the youth answered, "my
mother worked as cloth cleaner." The director requested the
youth to show his hands and the youth showed a pair of hands that was smooth
and perfect to the director.

The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother wash clothes before?"
The youth answered," never, my mother always wanted me to study
and read more books, furthermore, my mother could wash clothes faster than I
could"

The director said, I have a request, when you go back today, go and help to
clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The youth felt that the chance of landing the job was high and when he
went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hands. His
mother felt strange. With happiness mixed with fear, she showed her hands
to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly and his tears fell as he did
that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands
were so wrinkled, and that there were so many bruises in her hands. Some
bruises were so painful that she shuddered when his mother's
hands were cleaned with water.

This is the first time that the youth realized and experienced that it is
this pair of hands that washed the clothes every day to earn him
the school fees and that the bruises in the mother's hand were the price
that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence
and probably his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother's hands, the youth quietly washed
all the remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, the mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office. The director noticed
the tear in the youth's eye and asked: " Can you tell what
you did and learnt yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hands and also finished washing
all the remaining clothes'

The director asked, "Please tell me what you felt"

The youth said:
"Number 1, I know what appreciation is now'. Without my mother, I would not
be successful today.

Number 2, Now I know how to work together with my mother. Only now do I
realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.

Number 3, I know the importance and value of family relationship."

The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person
that can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the
suffering of others to get things done, and a person that would not put
money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of
his subordinates, every employee worked diligently and as a team
and the company improved tremendously.

The Lessons from this anecdote:
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he needs,
develops "entitlement mentality" and always puts himself first. He
is ignorant of his parents' efforts. When he starts work, he assumes every
person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he
would never know the suffering of his employees and always blame others.
These kinds of people, may/will achieve good results and may
be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel a sense of
achievement or satisfaction.

If we happen to be this kind of (protective) parent, this is the time to ask
the question- whether we did/do love our kids or destroy them.

-You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn to play
the piano, watch a big screen TV but when you are cutting grass,
please let them experience it.

-After a meal, let them wash their plate and bowl together with their
brothers and sisters.

-It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because
you want to love and show them the correct way.

-You want them to understand that no matter how rich their parent are, one
day they will grow old, become weak and that their hair too
will grow grey,.

-The most important thing is for your kid to learn how to appreciate,
experience and learn the effort and ability needed to work with
others to get things done. They should also value, appreciate what the
parents have done and love them for who they are!

Tracing history with the Net

2010-11-27T15:59:00.002+03:00

A tool that helps to visit old web pages with ease

It is difficult to study/analyse a phenomenon without understanding its historical context. Net presents several means by which we can enrich our historical understanding. This edition of NetSpeak deals with this theme and introduces a tool that helps us visit old web pages with ease.

Historical reflections help us gain insights on almost every phenomenon one can think of — technological developments, development of economic systems, change in human values over time and so on.

Unlike in the past, thanks to the Net, doing historical research is no more a difficult task. Services meant for doing historical research on different subjects/themes are in place. Smarthistory (http://smarthistory.org/) and ITHistory (http://ithistory.org/about/about.php) are some such sites worth a visit.

The historical values of old movies are indisputable. Besides offering clues on the technological changes, these movies take us back in time to comprehend changes in a society's speech structure/story themes/values and the like.

Many of these old movies are now in public domain, available at various on-line archives (http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline) for free viewing/ download.

Critical Past (http://www.criticalpast.com/), the video archival service that hosts tens of thousands of historic video clippings, is yet another wonderful resource for retrospection.

Yet another innovative service worth a mention in this context is HistoryPin, which attempts to collaboratively recreate the digital history of the world. The service allows netizens across the globe to upload images (of old street surroundings) and pin them on the corresponding current street locations on the Google maps imagery with necessary comments. Once the service is populated with sufficient content, it might help us compare the current surroundings of our favourite streets with that of its past. In addition, the HistoryPin's promoters offer some ideas that might help the teaching community (http://www.historypin. com/schools-toolkit/).

Historical routes

Like any other phenomena, Web also has its historical roots. A few years ago, most of the web sites, even the ones from big companies, were just a pack of static plain HTML pages with a couple of graphics interspersed here and there. From that stage the evolution of the Web is undoubtedly phenomenal.

With the aid of fast changing web technologies, web masters modify the design and appearance of their sites endlessly. It is always fun to compare how your favourite site looks now as against the same a few years ago. Going back to past web pages of your favourite web site is not only amusing but it could be enlightening as well. Accessing previous versions of a web page would provide us insights regarding the changes in Web technologies. This could also provide you an opportunity to discover the humble past of a high-profile web site.

As mentioned in these columns long ago ( The Hindu dated November 22, 2001— http://goo.gl/41ZQG), web archival services such as Wayback machine help us access old web pages with ease. To access via Wayback machine, you just need to enter its URL on the service's input box. In response to your request, the service presents a list of links to older versions of the page being queried.

Of course, Wayback machine is not the lone source from where one can find past versions of a web page. Sites such as Wikipedia automatically keep the older versions of each of its pages. For instance, if you wish to visit the old version of a Wikipedia page, you just need to click on its ‘View History' button.

Now, if you wish to retrieve the old version of a web site at a specific moment in time, you have to go to an online archive and enter its web address. Here is a better and elegant solution — the Firefox extension provided by Memento (http://ww w.mementoweb.org/).

Once installed, the extension places a date-slider that can be used to select a specific date to view the current page in its past shape. To access an old version of the current page, just set the target date and the extension will in turn fetch the relevant copy of the web page from an appropriate web archive.

Also, if this past web page, retrieved from an archive, has got a link, memento will try to make sure that you access the older version of this link (instead of its current version), subject to its availability. If you wish to know how Memento does this, view this video recording of the presentation available at: http://goo.gl/xJCK8.

J. MURALI

He can be contacted at jmurali@gmail.com

Special Thanks: The Hindu News Paper

Quit smoking, for heaven's sake

2010-11-27T15:54:00.000+03:00

Quit smoking, for heaven's sake

DR. P. DURAI

If you kiss a cigarette, it reciprocates by biting your lungs.

A policeman undergoes COPD test in Vijayawada.

A 60-year-old man gets admitted to the intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital with complaints of fever and breathlessness for two days. He is diagnosed as a case of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) with respiratory failure, just hours before he knocks on the doors of death. Though he had troublesome respiratory symptoms for many years, and has been moving around consulting more than half-a-dozen doctors, none has made a precise diagnosis of COPD. Had the diagnosis been made earlier, it would have been possible to prolong his life, if not saving him permanently from the icy hands of death.

The bitter truth is that a large number of COPD cases go undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed and get undertreated/mistreated in our country or rather throughout the globe, leading to permanent complications and poor quality of life thereafter. A simple breathing test, spirometry, would make a precise diagnosis of COPD.

According to the World Health Organisation's global estimates, 210 million people have COPD. The rate of morbidity and mortality will increase over the next 20 years and make COPD the third leading cause of death (currently the fourth) and fifth leading cause of disability.

I do not underestimate the potential of the Indian medical fraternity, but the slackness with which it deals with respiratory care needs to be overcome. This slackness has been utilised, rather misused, by the self-advertising and recently, the legally insulated quacks (in the medical field) and the crude and brutal treatment administered by them has added to the burden of respiratory handicaps.

So what is this COPD? A condition where your airway loses its elasticity and becomes rigid, i.e., your airways which are like rubber tubes turn into plastic tubes.

As a result, there is airflow limitation in and out of the lungs, thereby compromising oxygen supply to the whole body. As a result, the person becomes breathless, coughs up and expectorates, troubling himself and his loved ones for years before dying a painful death.

Tobacco smoking is the main culprit behind the cruel damage. Smoke from other sources has also been implicated but to a lesser extent. An exponential increase in cigarette smoking in the Indian subcontinent has increased the prevalence of COPD. With global warming, the risk of premature death among chronic respiratory patients is up to six times higher than in the rest of the population. Hence, much has to be done to chase out this social evil. A mere pictorial warning on tobacco products won't help. Healthier lifestyles should be inculcated even as a kid grows.

If you kiss a cigarette, it reciprocates by biting your lungs. So those who smoke quit today, and those who do not never ever think of starting it. Remember, “Lighting up a cigarette would darken your life permanently.” The theme for the World COPD Day: ‘2010-The Year of the Lung: Measure your lung health-Ask your doctor about spirometry.'

( The writer is post-graduate student in Thoracic Medicine, Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. His email id is: drpdorai@yahoo.com)

special thanks: The Hindu News Paper

Knowledge

2010-11-12T10:05:00.002+03:00

Knowledge

He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, he is a fool, shun him.

He who knows not, and knows he knows not, he is simple, teach him.

He who knows, and knows not he knows, he is asleep, awaken him.

He who knows, and knows he knows, he is wise follow him.

- Kipling -