Author: Natarajan
Image of the Day…Earth-sized aurora on Jupiter!
NASA released this image as Juno prepares for Jupiter orbit insertion on July 4.
Source: Earth-sized aurora on Jupiter
Message for the Day…”when all of us have merged ourselves in Divinity, we will not quarrel over individual forms and names.”…..
How You should Plan your Day …?
Did you know that according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our body has its own energy clock? Also known as the Chinese Body Clock, it explains some of the most asked questions about our body. For instance, you may be curious to discover why your mood and energy levels fluctuate so much throughout the day? And why you sometimes tend to be less concentrated on your work than in other instances?
Without a doubt, our bodies do extraordinary things, but they are all built around cycles, controlled by the brain and defined by our sleeping and eating patterns. At different times of the day, the body has one organ which is at its energetic peak, and by knowing your energy clock well, you can help your body cope better.
The chart below illustrates the human energy body clock, showing the best times to eat, work, sleep and socialize. According to TCM, the body moves its energy concentration from one organ to another every 2 hours (as the chart indicates) with the organ opposite each time slot (12 hours ahead) being the one with the least energetic functioning during that time.
| For a more detailed overview, this is how the Chinese Body Clock works.
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| First of all, our body goes through 3 main cycles every day. These cycles are as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Elimination Cycle (4am-12pm):
This is the time during which the body is getting rid of toxins – the reason behind the bad breath and sweaty skin we wake up with in the morning. During this period, it is recommended that we eat food that is easily digestible, such as raw produce, green juice, smoothies, etc. |
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| 2. Appropriation Cycle (12pm-8pm):
The body is most awake and active during this time of the day, and so is its digestion and metabolism. You may be feeling more hungry than usual during this time period. If so, it is important to eat, even if it’s not during meal times.
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Message for the Day…”Whether we observe appropriate Rules and Code of Conduct in our Life …” ?
Photos of World’s Famous Monuments Taken The Other Way | Amusing Planet…
Message for the Day…” Even if you experience a small part of the aspect of Divine present within your heart, you can understand the divine.”…
Joke of the Day…” You people have a penchant for doing things wrong …” !!!
An American soldier, serving in World War II, had just returned from several weeks of intense action on the German front lines.
He had finally been granted R&R and was on a train bound for London. The train was very crowded, so the soldier walked the length of the train, looking for an empty seat.
The only unoccupied seat was directly adjacent to a well-dressed middle-aged lady and was being used by her little dog.
The war weary soldier asked, “Please, ma’am, may I sit in that seat?”
The English woman looked down her nose at the soldier, sniffed and said, “You Americans. You are such a rude class of people. Can’t you see my little Fifi is using that seat?”
The soldier walked away, determined to find a place to rest, but after another trip down to the end of the train, found himself again facing the woman with the dog.
Again he asked, “Please, lady. May I sit there? I’m very tired.”
The English woman wrinkled her nose and snorted, “You Americans! Not only are you rude, you are also arrogant. Imagine!”
The soldier didn’t say anything else; he leaned over, picked up the little dog, tossed it out the window of the train and sat down in the empty seat.
The woman shrieked and railed, and demanded that someone defend her and chastise the soldier.
An English gentleman sitting across the aisle spoke up, “You know, sir, you Americans do seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You eat holding the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your cars on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you’ve thrown the wrong bitch out the window.”
Source….input from a friend of mine
Natarajan
THAT TIME A FLYING PIG GROUNDED EVERY PLANE AT LONDON’S HEATHROW AIRPORT….
Imagine if you will that you’re sitting in an airport waiting to go on vacation. Suddenly and without warning you hear a voice over the tannoy system informing you that every single plane scheduled that day had been grounded. As your mind begins to think of all the horrible things that could have caused the delay, you hear the voice again informing you that flights have been grounded not by a freak storm, crash or technical glitch, but by an escaped flying pig.
As unbelievable as it’s going to sound, this is genuinely something that once happened in London in the 1970s thanks to the band Pink Floyd and their gigantic pig shaped balloon.
In 1976, Pink Floyd recorded an album called Animals which drew inspiration from the 1945 novel Animal Farm, a thinly veiled allegory of Soviet communism that prominently features pigs as characters.
After the album was recorded, the band met with a design team called Hipgnosis to create the album’s cover. Despite being regarded by many as some of the best album designers of all time (working with and designing albums for the likes of AC/DC, ELO, Styx and Rainbow), all of Hipgnosis’ ideas fell flat with the band.
After some deliberation, bassist Roger Waters suggested to Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis that they use Battersea Power Station as the backdrop for the cover. Waters later explained to Rolling Stone, “I’d always loved Battersea Power Station, just as a piece of architecture. And I thought it had some good symbolic connections with Pink Floyd as it was at that point. One, I thought it was a power station, that’s pretty obvious. And two, that it had four legs. If you inverted it, it was like a table. And there were four bits to it, representing the four members of the band…” (I’m getting a definite This is Spinal Tapvibe here… Just me?)
The band had recently commissioned a gigantic 40 ft. inflatable pig for their upcoming tour. Putting two and two together, Powell stated in an interview that when the pair were discussing the power station idea, “Roger and I both looked up at the Station, and said, ‘let’s fly the pig between the chimneys’. Just like that.”
After applying for what we can only assume was an ungodly amount of permits to float a giant balloon shaped like a pig above an (at the time) operational major power station, the band with help from Powell picked out the best angle from which to shoot the cover. Other prep work included hiring an expert marksman who was given orders to shoot the pig down should it escape. The band then decided on a date on which to shoot the photo- December 2, 1976, a day which was supposed to be mostly clear with some cloud, which the band specifically wanted so that the sky didn’t look “boring”, or as boring as it could be with a giant floating pig in the middle of it.
However, on the day of the shoot, the pig wouldn’t inflate for reasons never explained in any interview we could find. This annoyed Powell to no end because, “that day there was the most incredible, Turner-esque sky. But for some reason, the pig wasn’t inflating. I shot the Station anyway, because the sky was so amazing.”
After trying and failing to inflate the pig for several hours, the band gave up and they agreed to come back the next day.
The group returned and, oddly, this time the pig inflated just fine. After painstakingly attaching the pig to Battersea’s southernmost chimney, disaster struck as the tether holding the balloon in place broke during a wind gust, causing the gigantic inflatable porcine to begin lazily drifting away.
The pig was loose.
So what happened to the sniper they hired for just such a bizarre event? Well, apparently the manager simply forgot to tell him or his gun that they required his services the next day. So he never showed up.
As the pig began to climb ever higher, rising to heights no pig, inflatable or otherwise, had ever hoped or dared to dream, a terrible realisation crept over those watching it sail toward the heavens- the pig was flying directly towards Heathrow airport. As panic began to set in, the band did what many would do in such a situation, according to Powell, “Pink Floyd left the site.”
Moments after the skyward swine escaped, Heathrow officials received several communiqués from pilots in passing planes matter-of-factly telling them that they’d just seen a giant pig float past their windows. After realising that the calls weren’t a joke, all flights from the airport were grounded.
As the pig danced around in the sky, police helicopters and eventually the RAF were called in to chase it down, but to no avail; by the time they arrived the pig was gone and, despite their sincerest efforts, they couldn’t find it.
With the pig off enjoying its freedom and the band having absconded the scene of the crime, this left Aubrey Powell to take the fall. After police arrived, according to Powell, he was promptly arrested and taken in for questioning.
Meanwhile the band, who’d managed to retain their freedom, set about trying to find the pig- giant inflatable pigs not being cheap, after all. Using their status as Pink Floyd, they were able to convince radio stations across the country to plead with listeners to keep their eyes peeled for a giant floating pig, providing a number they could call if they happened to see it.
Almost immediately this number was flooded with prank calls because, of course it was. However, at around 9:30 pm that evening, a phone call from an irate farmer in Kent (about 40 miles or 65 km away) came in, with the farmer sharply asking “Are you the guy looking for a pig?”
After having this fact affirmed, the farmer angrily told the group that such an object had landed on his farm and was currently scaring all his cows. After getting the man’s details, Powell, along with the police, went and collected the swine which was miraculously undamaged from its adventure.
Surprisingly, the police and officials at Battersea allowed the band to come back and re-shoot their album cover, with the proviso that they actually bring the sharpshooter along this time. Although Powell was able to get shots with the tethered pig, the sky that day was entirely clear and he ended up hating how they looked initially. However, he was able to get the shot he wanted by using a photo from the first day and superimposing the pig on top of it. Sans Photoshop, this did not look that great if you looked too closely at the picture.
As such, this all went against Waters’ original requirements that the “picture should be real”, rather than superimposing the pig, as Powell had at one point suggested before the whole debacle. This nevertheless all ended up working out for the band swimmingly. As Powell later noted, the escaped pig “was front-page news: Pink Floyd couldn’t have got better publicity if they tried.”
After its little adventure, the pig went on tour with the band later the following year.
Source…….www.today i foundout .com
Natarajan
வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை….” எப்படி மறப்பேன் …” ?
எப்படி மறப்பேன் ?
………………
அன்பும் அறிவும் பண்புடன் பாசமும்
ஒன்றுக்கு ஒன்று குறையாமல்
என்றும் உன் மாணவன் வாழ்வில் இருக்க
அன்றே வழி காட்டிய ஆசான் அய்யா நீ !
எப்படி மறப்பேன் நீ காட்டிய வழியை நான் ?
பள்ளி கணக்கில் கூட்டலும் கழித்தலும் உண்டு
ஆனால் நன்னெறி வாழ்க்கைக் கணக்கில் கூட்டலும்
பெருக்கலும் மட்டுமே என்று சொன்னவன் அய்யா நீ !
உன் மாணவன் நான் …இன்றும் உன் மாணவன்தான் !
எப்படி மறப்பேன் உன் பாடத்தை நான் ?
தமிழ் செய்யுள் பாடம் படிக்கும் நேரம் …செய்ய முடியும்
செய்யுள் ஒன்று உன்னாலும் என்று சொல்லி நாலடி
கவிதை பல என்னை எழுத வைத்து நீயும் நல்ல கவிஞன் ஆவாய்
ஒருநாள் என்று நீ சொன்ன சமயம் விண்ணில் பறந்தேனே நான் !
எப்படி மறப்பேன் உன்னை நான் இன்று ?
தினம் ஒரு திருக்குறள் கரும்பலகையில் எழுதி வாழ்க்கையின்
நியதி என்னவென்று உன் மாணவர்கள் மனதில் பதிய வைத்த
ஒரு நல்ல ஆசிரியர் நீ …இன்றும் அதுவே என் வாழ்வின் மந்திரம் !
எப்படி மறப்பேன் நான் என் வாழ்வை சிறக்க வைத்த உன்னை ?
Natarajan
My Kavithai published in http://www.dinamani.com on 27th June 2016
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