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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Testing the power of a patient's hand-grip.
Testing hand-grip strength could be a simple,
low-cost way to predict heart attack and stroke risk
Arthur Ashe, The Legendary Wimbledon Player was dying of AIDS.
Inspiring story.. A Beautiful Message
which he got due to Infected Blood he received during a Heart
Surgery in 1983!
He received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed:
"Why did God have to select you for such a bad
disease??"
To this Arthur Ashe replied:
50 Million children started playing Tennis,
5 Million learnt to play Tennis,
500 000 learnt Professional Tennis,
50 Thousand came to Circuit,
5 Thousand reached Grandslam,
50 reached Wimbledon,
4 reached the Semifinals,
2 reached the Finals and
when I was holding the cup in my hand,
I never asked God
"Why Me?"
So now that I'm in pain how can I ask God "Why Me?"
Happiness
keeps you Sweet!!
Trials
keeps you Strong!!
Sorrows
keeps you Human!!
Failure
keeps you Humble!!
Success
keeps you Glowing!!
But
only,
Faith keeps
you Going.
Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life,
while many people in this world are dreaming of living
your life..
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead dreams of
flying.
But, A pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse dreams of
returning home.
That's life!!
Enjoy yours...
If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich should
be dancing on the streets.
But only poor kids do that.
If power ensures security, then VIPs should
walk unguarded.
But those who live simply, sleep soundly.
If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then
celebrities should have the best marriages.
Live simply. Walk humbly.
and love genuinely..!
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Somewhere my love - Theme music of the film 'Dr. Zhivago'.
Please
click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-
Ray Coniff
【HD】Somewhere
My Love - Andy Williams (Dr Zhivago) (Lyrics on Screen)
Andre
Rieu - Somewhere My Love "Dr. Zhivago" & Kalinka (Maastricht
2011)
Somewhere
My Love (Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago) guitar arrangement by Nemanja Bogunovic
"Somewhere My Love"
Somewhere,
my love, there will be songs to sing
Although the snow covers the hopes of Spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams, all that your heart can hold
Someday we'll meet again, my love
Someday whenever the Spring breaks through
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again
[jazz instrumental-first four lines]
Someday we'll meet again, my love
I said "someday whenever that Spring breaks through"
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, and as soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again!
Although the snow covers the hopes of Spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams, all that your heart can hold
Someday we'll meet again, my love
Someday whenever the Spring breaks through
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again
[jazz instrumental-first four lines]
Someday we'll meet again, my love
I said "someday whenever that Spring breaks through"
You'll come to me out of the long-ago
Warm as the wind, and as soft as the kiss of snow
Till then, my sweet, think of me now and then
Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again!
Lara's Theme
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Somewhere
My Love" redirects here. For the Connie Francis album, see Somewhere, My Love.
"Lara's Theme"
is the generic name given to a leitmotif written
for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, it became the basis of
the song "Somewhere, My Love".[1]
Original composition[edit]
While working on the
soundtrack for Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre was
asked by director David Lean to
come up with a theme for the character of Lara, played by Julie Christie. Initially Lean had desired to use a
well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated
responsibility to Jarre. After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it,
Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and
write a piece of music for her. Jarre says that the resultant piece was
"Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous
tracks for the film. In editing Zhivago,
Lean and producer Carlo Ponti reduced
or outright deleted many of the themes composed by Jarre; Jarre was angry
because he felt that an over-reliance on "Lara's Theme" would ruin
the soundtrack.
Jarre's esthetic fears
proved unfounded commercially, however, as the theme became an instant success
and gained fame throughout the world. By special request of Connie Francis, Paul Francis Webster later took the theme and added lyrics
to it to create "Somewhere My Love". Francis, however, retired from
the project when the lyrics were presented to her because she thought of them
as too "corny". A few weeks later, Francis reconsidered her position
and recorded the song nonetheless, but by then Ray Conniff had
also recorded a version of his own, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
in 1966. Conniff's version of the song also topped the
"Easy
listening" chart in the U.S. for four weeks. Despite Conniff's
success, Francis also had her version released as a single, and although it
failed to chart in the US, it became one of her biggest successes
internationally, becoming one of the "Top 5" in territories such asScandinavia and Asia.
In Italy, her Italian version of the song, "Dove non so", became her
last #1 success.
Various other versions
of it have since been released. Italio-American tenor, Sergio Franchi covered
the song as "Somewhere, My Love" in his 1967 RCA Victor album From Sergio – With Love.[2] "Lara's
Theme" remains to this day one of the most recognizable movie themes ever
written. A music box plays Lara's Theme at the beginning of the film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Coca cola - a cause of Chronic Kidney Disease
email from Chellah
Padmanathan
Avoid drinking Coca Cola
According
to product information of Coca cola, following are the ingredients:
CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, NATURAL
FLAVORS, CAFFEINE.
This
what Wiki-pedia says about Phosphoric acid, one of the ingredients of Coca
cola, and about drinking Cola : Phosphoric acid, used in many soft drinks
(primarily cola), has been linked in
epidemiological studies to (1) chronic kidney disease and (2) lower bone
density.
A study
performed by the Epidemiology Branch of the US National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, concludes that drinking
2 or more colas per day was associated with doubling the risk of chronic kidney
disease.[18]
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