The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
Monica Baldwin ( an ex nun who spent 28 years in a convent freom age 17 to 45 )
Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Key to Life - Running and Reading
The Key to Life - Running ( Swimming) and Reading
When you are ou there running or swimming , and you are tired and you want to quit if you can defeat that person who tells you to quit then you will win.
While other guys are sleeping I'm working
While other guys are eating I'm working
The person who works hardest wins.
Reading :
There is no new problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and written a book.
Love what you do and do what you love.
When you are ou there running or swimming , and you are tired and you want to quit if you can defeat that person who tells you to quit then you will win.
While other guys are sleeping I'm working
While other guys are eating I'm working
The person who works hardest wins.
Reading :
There is no new problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and written a book.
Love what you do and do what you love.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, choreographer, and author of The Creative Habit,talks about creativity.
Asking Questions
Jonas Salk , discoverer of the polio vaccine on the importance of asking questions.
'You never have an idea of what you might accomplish. All that you do is you pursue a question and see where it leads. The first moment that a question occurred to me that did influence my future career, occurred in my second year at medical school.'
'You never have an idea of what you might accomplish. All that you do is you pursue a question and see where it leads. The first moment that a question occurred to me that did influence my future career, occurred in my second year at medical school.'
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
20/20 vision for 1 billion people
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver
Josh Silver , professor at Oxford University takes up the huge challenge of providing DIY glasses to one billion of the world's poor.
Josh Silver , professor at Oxford University takes up the huge challenge of providing DIY glasses to one billion of the world's poor.
LifeStraw Portable Water Filter
Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne diseases and this tool contains a halogen-based resin which is claimed to kill 99.9999% of bacteria and 98.7% of viruses that can cause deadly diseases.
Trevor Baylis and the Wind Up Radio
The world famous inventor invites us into his home to give you an insight into how he got into inventing.
The Solar Cooker
This is a solar cooker workshop in Nyala, Darfur. As the women look for firewood around the displacement camps they face the danger of rape and abduction. Solar cooking offers an alternative to using firewood for cooking.
A colorful array of characters have fun as they use their solar stoves in Bosaso, Somalia.
A colorful array of characters have fun as they use their solar stoves in Bosaso, Somalia.
Jawed Karim and the Story of Youtube
Jawed Karim co founder of You Tube talks about the story of You Tube at the University of Illinois commencement speech.
Turning Dream into Fiction
Last weekend i went to see Twilight with my daughter and was surprised that I liked the film as I expected it to be a childreen's movie. Stephenie Meyer's story of how the book was conceived is also very inspiring.
The Beauty of Cherry Blossoms
sakura photoclips
BGM : Love Poem (Spring Waltz OST)
photos taken from http://www.goopunch.net/freephoto/
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Reducing Inequities
I hope you come back to Harvard thirty years from now and reflect what you have done with your talents and energy and judge yourself on not only your professional accomplishments but how well you addressed the world’s deepest inequities, how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity. Bill Gates
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Warren Buffet's stock picks
"Some guys read Playboy, I read annual reports" Says it all.
Warren Buffet says he looks at companies, not countries. When asked the secret behind his success in stock picking he replies that while other people reads Playboy, he reads annual reports.
Warren Buffet says he looks at companies, not countries. When asked the secret behind his success in stock picking he replies that while other people reads Playboy, he reads annual reports.
Bourne Ultimatum
Paul Greengrass, the director of the Bourne films explains why the character of Jason Bourne has such wide appeal.
The Mamma Mia Story
Judy Craymer's dream became a reality when she overcame numerous obstacles to bring the ABBA musical on stage which became a world wide hit and now has followed it up with a big screen movie.
The Story of 7UP
I came across this interesting story while reading Donald Trump's 'Why we want you to be rich':
Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner. [...] My father used to tell us this story about a guy who loved soda, so he went into the soda business, with a product he called 3UP. It failed. So he started again with a product called 4UP. It failed, too. So he decided to name his product 5UP and worked just as hard to make it work, but sure enough, it failed again. He realized that he still loved soda, so he tried again with a product named 6UP. It failed, and he gave up completely. Then, a few years later, someone else came up with a soda product and named it 7UP, which became a huge success.
I wonder if it is true.
Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner. [...] My father used to tell us this story about a guy who loved soda, so he went into the soda business, with a product he called 3UP. It failed. So he started again with a product called 4UP. It failed, too. So he decided to name his product 5UP and worked just as hard to make it work, but sure enough, it failed again. He realized that he still loved soda, so he tried again with a product named 6UP. It failed, and he gave up completely. Then, a few years later, someone else came up with a soda product and named it 7UP, which became a huge success.
I wonder if it is true.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
The role of the mobile phone in ending poverty
Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh. His latest project will help rural entrepreneurs build power plants.
As a kid in rural Bangladesh in 1971, Iqbal Quadir had to walk half a day to another village to find the doctor -- who was not there. Twenty years later he felt the same frustration while working at a New York bank, using diskettes to share information during a computer network breakdown. His epiphany: In both cases, "connectivity is productivity." Had he been able to call the doctor, it would have saved him hours of walking for nothing.
Partnering with microcredit pioneer GrameenBank, in 1997 Quadir established GrameenPhone, a wireless operator now offering phone services to 80 million rural Bangladeshi. It's become the model for a bottom-up, tech-empowered approach to development. "Phones have a triple impact," Quadir says. "They provide business opportunities; connect the village to the world; and generate over time a culture of entrepreneurship, which is crucial for any economic development."
"GrameenPhone has increased the country’s GDP by a far greater amount than repeated infusions of foreign aid. "
The New Nation
As a kid in rural Bangladesh in 1971, Iqbal Quadir had to walk half a day to another village to find the doctor -- who was not there. Twenty years later he felt the same frustration while working at a New York bank, using diskettes to share information during a computer network breakdown. His epiphany: In both cases, "connectivity is productivity." Had he been able to call the doctor, it would have saved him hours of walking for nothing.
Partnering with microcredit pioneer GrameenBank, in 1997 Quadir established GrameenPhone, a wireless operator now offering phone services to 80 million rural Bangladeshi. It's become the model for a bottom-up, tech-empowered approach to development. "Phones have a triple impact," Quadir says. "They provide business opportunities; connect the village to the world; and generate over time a culture of entrepreneurship, which is crucial for any economic development."
"GrameenPhone has increased the country’s GDP by a far greater amount than repeated infusions of foreign aid. "
The New Nation
Hans Rosling and Global Trends ( The seemingly impossible is possible)
Hans Rosling (b.1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of Gapminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St John's Medical College, Bangalore. He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
On 21 August 1981, he discovered an outbreak of a formerly unknown paralytic disease and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University in 1986. He spent two decades studying outbreaks of this disease in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than 10 PhD students. His research group named the new disease konzo, the local designation by the first affected population. Outbreaks occur among hunger stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake [1].
His research has also focused on other links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been health adviser to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies. In 1993 he co-founded Médecins sans frontières in Sweden and he is since 2005 member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science. At Karolinska Institutet he was head of the Division of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. As chairman (1998-2004) of Karolinska International Research and Training Committee he started health research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. He started new courses on Global Health, co-authors a textbook on Global Health and promotes a fact based world view.
He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Gapminder developed the Trendalyzer software that converts international statistics into moving, interactive and enjoyable graphics. The aim is to promote a fact based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. His lectures using Gapminder graphics to visualise world development have won awards by being humorous yet deadly serious'. The interactive animations are freely available from the Foundation's website. In March 2007 Google acquired the Trendalyzer software with the intention to scale it up and make it freely available for public statistics.
On 21 August 1981, he discovered an outbreak of a formerly unknown paralytic disease and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University in 1986. He spent two decades studying outbreaks of this disease in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than 10 PhD students. His research group named the new disease konzo, the local designation by the first affected population. Outbreaks occur among hunger stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake [1].
His research has also focused on other links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been health adviser to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies. In 1993 he co-founded Médecins sans frontières in Sweden and he is since 2005 member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science. At Karolinska Institutet he was head of the Division of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. As chairman (1998-2004) of Karolinska International Research and Training Committee he started health research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. He started new courses on Global Health, co-authors a textbook on Global Health and promotes a fact based world view.
He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Gapminder developed the Trendalyzer software that converts international statistics into moving, interactive and enjoyable graphics. The aim is to promote a fact based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. His lectures using Gapminder graphics to visualise world development have won awards by being humorous yet deadly serious'. The interactive animations are freely available from the Foundation's website. In March 2007 Google acquired the Trendalyzer software with the intention to scale it up and make it freely available for public statistics.
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