Just Start to Sing As You Tackle The Thing That Cannot be Done, And You will Do It...

Like a child you should always believe that everything is possible. The sky is the only limit for a child and young children are open to everything. They are closed to nothing. But a child often tends to be carried away by a childish response when he or she faces an odd at once. The same thing is repeated by a grown-up individual in a childish manner, "why have only I been placed in such a situation? It is not fair." If your response is like this, the problem only gets reinforced, leading you to struggle hard to get over the problem is like this, the problem only gets reinforced, leading you to struggle hard to get over the problem, to find a solution. This struggle is the force which motivates us to move forward. Sometimes a problem may assume a bigger dimension than you expect and it may appear impossible to be overcome. If you are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem, it means you have given up before trying to solve it.

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You should always approach the problem in a childlike manner asking yourself--"What could be good about this?" This approach will not let you think negatively and focus your mind on the positive aspects of the situation. Once your mind sets out in search of the positive aspects of the problem, there is no doubt that you will try to find out a solution. Unless you and your mind accept that there is a problem, a solution can never be found out. In search of a solution you think of various options and start the needed action.

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In the words of Edgar Guest....

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failur;

There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,

The Dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle right in with a bit of a grain,

Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing

That cannot be done, and you'll do it.

Try to learn something from a problem and if you fail to solve it in the first attempt, treat your failure as a lesson and avoid your previous mistakes. Never think that your failure is an end of your endeavor. Treat it as the beginning of your action towards the solution. Your failure can teach you more than your success can. Treat every failure as a yardstick for self-judgement. It is only by realising your mistake that you can stop repeating your mistake. You can look forward to getting better results next time by self-realisation. Life is all about learning.

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People like Usain Bolt, the extraordinary sportsman, are born to remind us of the immense power of will. In order to achieve the enviable position of the fastest human on the earth he must have had to face many odds. But his success proves that he must not have felt like giving up. He must have treated all his failures as lessons, that is why he has succeeded in getting to the top in his area of action.

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Wish you all the best....

Who made the first helicopter flight?

On September 29, 1907 at Douai (France), Louis Brequet nearly became the first man to pilot a helicopter in free flight.  But as the machine rose lurchingly from the ground, several attendants rushed forward to hold it steady.  Six weeks later, at Lisieux, another experimenter, called Paul Cornu, Initiated a new chapter in aviation history when he gained vertical lift unaided and hovered a few feet in the air.

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Years passed before any substantial progress was made beyond these tentative efforts.  The next important step was taken by an Argentinian nobleman, the Marquis de P. Pescara, who built a biplane blade helicopter which was capable of forward as well as  vertical flight.  Though it achieved a straight run of 736 metres during trials in Spain in 1923, the machine was unstable and hard to manoeuvre.

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The real breakthrough was made by German Professor Heinrich Focke's twin roter F-A61-- the first fully controllable helicopter.  After initial free flight trials on June 26, 1936, it went on to establish an altitude record of 11, 242 ft, an endurance record of 80 minutes, a distance record of 143 miles and a speed record of 76 miles per hour.

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In 1938, a huge crowd of spectators watched the famous woman pilot Hanna Reitsch putting this revolutionary machine through its paces at the Deutschland Halle, Berlin--probably the first time an aircraft was actually flown inside a building.

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The first helicopter to go into production was Igor Sikorski's American-built single rotor R.4, used by both the United States Army and the Royal Navy during the World War II for liaison duties, naval spotting and evacuation of wounded.

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What is a Pacemaker?

An artificial pacemaker is used when a person's own heart pacemaker is not working properly. It is an electronic device for stimulating the heart.

Heart muscles contract regularly. However, their natural rate (about 40 beats per minute) is too slow. To increase the rate to around 70 beats, the heart has its own pacemaker. This is a small mass, or node, of nerve tissues in the right auricle.

Certain heart diseases cause this pacemaker to fail. However, the heart can be kept going with a battery powered electronic pacemaker. Some artificial pacemakers are implanted in the chest. Others are small enough to be passed along a vein to the heart. The simplest pacemakers keep the heart going at a steady 70 beats per minute. But sometimes it is possible to get the person's own nervous system to control the pacemaker. In this case the heart can still beat faster or slower according to the body's needs.

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