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ஆய கலைகள் அறுபத்து நான்கு எவை தெரியுமா!

1. அக்கரவிலக்கணம்
2. இலிகிதம்
3. கணிதம்
4. வேதம்
5. புராணம்
6. வியாகரணம்
7. நீதி சாத்திரம்
8. சோதிட சாத்திரம்
9. தர்ம சாத்திரம்
10. யோக சாத்திரம்
11. மந்திர சாத்திரம்
12. சகுன சாத்திரம்
13. சிற்ப சாத்திரம்
14. வைத்திய சாத்திரம்
15. உருவ சாத்திரம்

16. இதிகாசம்
17. காவியம்
18. அலங்காரம்
19. மதுரபாடனம்
20. நாடகம்
21. நிருத்தம்
22. சத்தப்பிரமம்
23. வீணை
24. வேணு
25. மிருதங்கம்
26. தாளம்
27. அத்திரப்பரீட்சை
28. கனகபரீட்சை
29. ரத பரீட்சை
30. கசபரீட்சை
31. அசுவபரீட்சை
32. ரத்திரனப்பரீட்சை
33. பூமிபரீட்சை
34. சங்ககிராம இலக்கணம்
35. மல்யுத்தம்
36. ஆகரூடணம்
37. உச்சாடணம்

38. விந்து வேடணம்
39. மதன சாத்திரம்
40. மோகனம்
41. வசீகரணம்
42. ரசவாதம்
43. காந்தருவவாதம்
44. பைபீலவாதம்
45. கவுத்துக வாதம்
46. தாது வாதம்
47. காருடம்
48. நட்டம்
49. முட்டி
50. ஆகாயப் பிரவேசம்
51. ஆகாய கமணம்
52. பரகாயப் பிரவேசம்
53. அதிரிசயம்
54. இந்திரசாபம்
55. மகேந்திரசாபம்
56. அக்கினித்தம்பம்
57. சலத்தம்பம்
58. வாயுத்தம்பம்
59. நிட்டித்தம்பம்
60. வாக்குத்தம்பம்

61. சுக்கிலத்தம்பம்
62. கன்னத்தம்பம்
63. கட்கத் தம்பம்
64. அவத்தைப் பிரயோகம்

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எண்களில் விசேஷமான
எண்ணாக கருதப்படுவது
ஒன்பது.
அந்த எண்ணில்
நீண்ட வாழ்வு எனும்
அர்த்தம் பொதிந்திருப்பதாகச்
சொல்கின்றனர்,

சீனர்களின் சொர்க்க கோபுரம்,
ஒன்பது வளையங்களால்
சூழப்பட்டுள்ளது.
எகிப்து, ஐரோப்பா, கிரீக்
முதலான நாடுகளும்
9-ஆம் எண்ணை
விசேஷமாகப் பயன்படுத்திப்
போற்றுகின்றன.
புத்த மதத்தில்,
மிக முக்கியமான
சடங்குகள் யாவும்
ஒன்பது துறவிகளைக் கொண்டே
நடைபெறும்.
தங்கம், வெள்ளி மற்றும்
பிளாட்டினத்தின்
சுத்தத்தை 999 என்று
மதிப்பிடுவார்கள்.

பெண்களின் கர்ப்பம்,
பூரணமாவது ஒன்பதாம் மாத
நிறைவில்தான்!

ஒன்பது எனும் எண்
இன்னும் மகத்துவங்கள்
கொண்டது.
ஒன்பது என்ற எண்ணுக்கு
வடமொழியில் நவம்
என்று பெயர்.
நவ என்ற சொல்
புதிய, புதுமை எனும்
பொருள் உடையது.

நவ சக்திகள்:

1,வாமை,
2,ஜேஷ்டை,
3,ரவுத்ரி,
4,காளி,
5,கலவிகரணி,
6,பலவிகரணி,
7,பலப்பிரமதனி,
8,சர்வபூததமனி,
9,மனோன்மணி,

நவ தீர்த்தங்கள்:
1,கங்கை,
2,யமுனை,
3,சரஸ்வதி,
4,கோதாவரி,
5,சரயு,
6.நர்மதை,
7,காவிரி,
8,பாலாறு,
9,குமரி

நவ வீரர்கள்:
1,வீரவாகுதேவர்,
2,வீரகேசரி,
3,வீரமகேந்திரன்,
4,வீரமகேசன்,
5,வீரபுரந்திரன்,
6,வீரராக்ஷசன்,
7,வீரமார்த்தாண்டன்,
8,வீரராந்தகன்,
9,வீரதீரன்

நவ அபிஷேகங்கள்:
1,மஞ்சள்,
2,பஞ்சாமிர்தம்,
3,பால்,
4,நெய்,
5,தேன்,
6,தயிர்,
7,சர்க்கரை,
8,சந்தனம்,
9,விபூதி.

நவ ரசம்:
1,இன்பம்,
2,நகை,
3,கருணை,
4,கோபம்,
5,வீரம்,
6,பயம்,
7,அருவருப்பு,
8,அற்புதம்,
9,சாந்தம் ,

நவக்கிரகங்கள்:
1,சூரியன்,
2,சந்திரன்,
3,செவ்வாய்,
4,புதன்,
5,குரு,
6,சுக்கிரன்,
7,சனி,
8,ராகு,
9.கேது

நவமணிகள்:-

நவரத்தினங்கள்:
1,கோமேதகம்,
2,நீலம்,
3,வைரம்,
4,பவளம்,
5,புஸ்பராகம்,
6,மரகதம்,
7,மாணிக்கம்,
8,முத்து,
9,வைடூரியம்

நவ திரவியங்கள்:
1,பிருதிவி,
2,அப்பு,
3,தேயு,
4,வாயு,
5,ஆகாயம்,
6,காலம்,
7, திக்கு,
8,ஆன்மா,
9,மனம்

நவலோகம் (தாது):
1,பொன்,
2,வெள்ளி,
3,செம்பு,
4,பித்தளை,
5,ஈயம்,
6,வெண்கலம்,
7,இரும்பு,
8,தரா,
9,துத்தநாகம்

நவ தானியங்கள்:
1,நெல்,
2,கோதுமை,
3,பாசிப்பயறு,
4,துவரை,
5,மொச்சை,
6,எள்,
7,கொள்ளு,
8,உளுந்து,
9,வேர்க்கடலை

சிவ விரதங்கள் ஒன்பது:

1,சோமவார விரதம்,
2,திருவாதிரை விரதம்,
3,உமாகேச்வர விரதம்,
4,சிவராத்ரி விரதம்,
5,பிரதோஷ விரதம்,
6,கேதார விரதம்,
7,ரிஷப விரதம்,
8,கல்யாணசுந்தர விரதம்,
9,சூல விரதம்

நவசந்தி தாளங்கள்:

1,அரிதாளம்,
2,அருமதாளம்,
3,சமதாளம்,
4,சயதாளம்,
5,சித்திரதாளம்,
6,துருவதாளம்,
7,நிவர்த்திதாளம்,
8,படிமதாளம்,
9,விடதாளம்

அடியார்களின் பண்புகள்:
1,எதிர்கொள்ளல்,
2,பணிதல்,
3,ஆசனம் (இருக்கை) தருதல்,
4,கால் கழுவுதல்,
5,அருச்சித்தல்,
6,தூபம் இடல்,
7,தீபம் சாட்டல்,
8,புகழ்தல்,
9,அமுது அளித்தல்,

(விக்ரமார்க்கனின்
சபையிலிருந்த 9 புலவர்கள்; நவரத்னங்கள் எனச் சிறப்பிக்கப்படுவர்)

1,நவரத்னங்கள் (முனிவர்கள்)தன்வந்த்ரி,
2,க்ஷணபகர்,
3,அமரஸிம்ஹர்,
4,சங்கு,
5,வேதாலபட்டர்,
6,கடகர்ப்பரர்,
7,காளிதாசர்,
8,வராகமிஹிரர்,
9,வரருசி

அடியார்களின் நவகுணங்கள்:
1,அன்பு,
2,இனிமை,
3,உண்மை,
4,நன்மை,
5,மென்மை,
6,சிந்தனை,
7,காலம்,
8,சபை,
9,மவுனம்.

நவ நிதிகள்:
1,சங்கம்,
2,பதுமம்,
3,மகாபதுமம்,
4,மகரம்,
5,கச்சபம்,
6,முகுந்தம்,
7,குந்தம்,
8.நீலம்,
9.வரம்

நவ குண்டங்கள்:
யாகசாலையில் அமைக்கப்படும்
ஒன்பது வகையிலான
யாக குண்ட அமைப்புக்கள்:
1,சதுரம்,
2,யோனி,
3,அர்த்த சந்திரன்,
4,திரிகோணம்,
5,விருத்தம் (வட்டம்),
6.அறுகோணம்,
பத்மம்,
எண்கோணம்,

பிரதான விருத்தம்.

1,நவவித பக்தி :
2,சிரவணம்,
3,கீர்த்தனம்,
4,ஸ்மரணம்,
5,பாத சேவனம்அர்ச்சனம்,
6,வந்தனம்,
7,தாஸ்யம்,
8,சக்கியம்,
9,ஆத்ம நிவேதனம்

நவ பிரம்மாக்கள் :
1,குமார பிரம்மன்,
2,அர்க்க பிரம்மன்,
3,வீர பிரம்மன்,
4,பால பிரம்மன்,
5,சுவர்க்க பிரம்மன்,
6,கருட பிரம்மன்,
7,விஸ்வ பிரம்மன்,
8,பத்ம பிரம்மன்,
9,தராக பிரம்மன்

நவக்கிரக தலங்கள் –
1,சூரியனார் கோயிவில்,
2,திங்களூர்,
3,வைத்தீஸ்வரன் கோவில்,
4,திருவெண்காடு,
5,ஆலங்குடி,
6,கஞ்சனூர்,
7,திருநள்ளாறு,
8,திருநாகேஸ்வரம், 9,கீழ்ப்பெரும்பள்ளம்

நவபாஷாணம் –
1,வீரம்,
2, பூரம்,
3, ரசம்,
4,ஜாதிலிங்கம்,
5,கண்டகம்,
6,கவுரி பாஷாணம்,
7,வெள்ளை பாஷாணம்,
8,ம்ருதர்சிங்,
9,சிலாஷத்

நவதுர்க்கா –
1,ஸித்திதத்ரி,
2,கஷ்முந்தா,
3,பிரம்மாச்சாரினி,
5,ஷைலபுத்ரி,
7,மகா கவுரி,
8,சந்திரகாந்தா,
9,ஸ்கந்தமாதா,
6.மகிஷாசுரமர்த்தினி, -,காளராத்ரி

நவ சக்கரங்கள் –

நவ சக்கரங்கள் –
1,த்ரைலோக்ய மோகன சக்கரம்,
2,சர்வசாபுரக சக்கரம்,
3,சர்வ சம்மோகன சக்கரம்,
4,சர்வ சவுபாக்ய சக்கரம்,
5,சர்வார்த்த சாதக சக்கரம்,
6,சர்வ ரக்ஷõகர சக்கரம்,
7,சர்வ ரோஹ ஹர சக்கரம்,
8,சர்வ ஸித்தி ப்ரத சக்கரம்,
9,சர்வனந்தமைய சக்கரம்.

நவநாதர்கள் –
1,ஆதிநாதர்,
2,உதய நாதர்,
3,சத்ய நாதர்,
4,சந்தோஷ நாதர்,
5,ஆச்சாள் அசாம்பயநாதர்,
6,கஜ்வேலி கஜ்கண்டர் நாதர்,
7,சித்த சொவ்றங்கி
8,நாதர், மச்சேந்திர நாதர்,
9,குரு கோரக்க நாதர்

உடலின் நவ துவாரங்கள் :
இரண்டு கண்கள்,
இரண்டு காதுகள்,
இரண்டு மூக்குத் துவாரங்கள்,
ஒரு வாய்,
இரண்டு மலஜல துவாரங்கள்

உடலின் ஒன்பது சக்கரங்கள் :
1,தோல்,
2,ரத்தம்,
3,மாமிசம்,
4,மேதஸ்,
5,எலும்பு,
6,மஜ்ஜை,
7,சுக்கிலம்,
8,தேஜஸ்,
9,ரோமம்

18 புராணங்கள்,
18 படிகள் என அனைத்தும்
9-ன் மூலமாக தான் உள்ளன.

காயத்ரி மந்திரத்தை
108 முறை ஜபிக்க வேண்டும்.
எல்லா தெய்வத்தின்
நாமாவளியும் ஜப மாலையின்
எண்ணிக்கையும்
இதை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டதுதான்!

புத்த மதத்தினர்
108 முறை மணியடித்து,
புது வருடத்தை வரவேற்றுக்
கொண்டாடுகின்றனர்.
சீனாவில்,
36 மணிகளை
மூன்று பிரிவாகக் கொண்டு,
சு ஸூ எனப்படும்
மாலையைக் கொண்டு
ஜபம் செய்வார்கள்.

ஸ்ரீகிருஷ்ணருக்குப்
பிரியமான மாதம்… மார்கழி.
இது வருடத்தின் 9-வது மாதம்!
மனிதராகப் பிறந்தவன்
எப்படி வாழ வேண்டும் என
வாழ்ந்து காட்டிய
ஸ்ரீராமபிரான் பிறந்தது,
9-ஆம் திதியான
நவமி நாளில்தான்.

Source….input from a friend of mine….

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Schoolboy arrested for bringing homemade clock to school, gets invite from Obama, Zuckerberg….

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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited a Muslim schoolboy to the White House after he was arrested and dragged off in handcuffs for bringing a homemade clock to class.

Obama congratulated 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed on his skills and issued a presidential invitation, in what amounts to a pointed rebuke to school and police officials who precipitated his arrest.

Obama congratulated 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed on his skills and issued a presidential invitation, in what amounts to a pointed rebuke to school and police officials who precipitated his arrest.

“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great,” the president tweeted.

The teen was led out of his Texas school after a teacher mistook his homemade digital clock for a bomb, prompting accusations of Islamophobia and an online backlash.

A photo of Ahmed standing in handcuffs while wearing a t-shirt with the US space agency NASA’s logo was retweeted thousands of times in a matter of hours and “#IStandWithAhmed” was the top trending hashtag on Twitter.

Along with Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also complimented the boy and invited him to the Facebook office.

“Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed. Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you. Keep building,” he said.

Source….www.ibnlive.com

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World’s first-ever unmanned airport control tower….

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Bye guys. A plane takes off beyond a remotely controlled control tower.

HAVE you ever imagined landing at an airport with no humans watching from the control tower?

Introducing the world’s loneliest airport.

In an era where pilot error is the leading cause of commercial airline accidents, a Swedish airport is testing an unmanned control tower.

And Australia may soon follow suit.

The commercial planes landing at the remote Ornskoldsvik Airport are instead watched by cameras, guided in by controllers viewing the video at another airport nearly 150 kilometres away.

Ornskoldsvik is the first airport in the world to use such technology.

Others in Europe are testing the idea, as is one airport in the United States.

While the majority of the world’s airports will, for some time, still have controllers on site, experts say unmanned towers are coming.

They’ll likely first go into use at small and medium airports, but eventually even the world’s largest airports could see an array of cameras mounted on a pole replacing their concrete control towers.

The companies building these remote systems say their technology is cheaper and better than traditional towers.

There is a lot of good camera technology that can do things that the human eye can’t,” says Pat Urbanek, of Searidge Technologies, “We understand that video is not real life, out the window. It’s a different way of surveying.”

Cameras spread out around an airport eliminate blind spots and give controllers more-detailed views. Infra-red can supplement images in rain, fog or snow and other cameras can include thermal sensors to see if animals stray onto the runway at the last second.

None of those features are — yet — in the Swedish airport because of regulatory hurdles.

Ornskoldsvik Airport is a vital lifeline for residents who want to get to Stockholm and the rest of the world. But with just 80,000 annual passengers, it can’t justify the cost of a fulltime control staff — about $175,000 a year in salary, benefits and taxes for each of six controllers.

In April, after a year and a half of testing a system designed by Saab, all the controllers left Ornskoldsvik.

Now, a 24-metre tall mast housing 14 high-definition cameras sends the signal back to the controllers, stationed at Sunvsal Airport. No jobs have been eliminated but ultimately such systems will allow tiny airports to pool controllers.

Old habits are hard to break. Despite the ability to zoom in, controllers instinctively grab their binoculars to get a closer look at images on the 55-inch TV screens. And two microphones were added to the airfield at Ornskoldsvik to pipe in the sounds of planes.

This is the first airport in the world to use such technology.

This is the first airport in the world to use such technology.Source:AP

“Without the sound, the air traffic controllers felt very lost,” says Anders Carp, head of traffic management for Saab.

The cameras are housed in a glass bubble. High pressure air flows over the windows, keeping them clear of insects, rain and snow. The system has been tested for severe temperatures: 22 degrees below zero and, at the other extreme, a sizzling 122 degrees.

Niclas Gustavsson, head of commercial development for LFV Group, the air navigation operator at 26 Swedish airports, says digital cameras offer numerous possibilities for improving safety.

Computers can compare every picture to the one a second before. If something changes — such as birds or deer crossing the runway — alerts are issued.

“Maybe, eventually there will be no towers built at all,” says Gustavsson.

Saab is currently testing — and seeking regulatory approval — for remote systems in Norway and Australia and has contracts to develop the technology for another Swedish airport and two in Ireland.

Competitor Searidge is working on a remote tower for the main airport in Budapest, Hungary. That airport serves 8.5 million passengers annually and, within two years, controllers could be stationed a few miles from the airport.

Now, Saab is bringing some aspects of this technology to the United States.

Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia is a relatively busy airport with 300 daily takeoffs and landings.

Just a few kilometres from Dulles International Airport, Leesburg does not have its own control tower. A regional air traffic control centre clears private jets into the airspace and then pilots use an established radio frequency to negotiate the landing and takeoff order. That often leads to delays.

Saab has built a system for Leesburg and has just started a three-month test with the Federal Aviation Administration.

FAA controllers will, at first, familiarise themselves with the technology and just observe the planes operating as they already do today.

If the FAA approves, the next phase would be to start clearing planes onto taxiways and to take off and land.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association says it is participating in the testing.

Towers for large commercial airports are expensive. They need elevators, air conditioning and heating, fire suppression systems plus room for all the controllers.

A new tower in Oakland, California that opened in 2013 cost $51 million. Towers at smaller airports are cheaper.

Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport opened a new one in February at a cost of $15.4 million. Saab won’t detail the cost of its system except to say it is “significantly less.” There is no need for a tower and elevator.

The companies see a giant market: The vast majority of US commercial airports — 315 of 506 — have control towers. However, only 198 of the 2,825 general aviation airports have manned towers.

source….www.news.com.au

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BUBBLE WRAP WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO BE USED AS WALLPAPER….

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Today I found out bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.

Bubble Wrap was invented by two engineers Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne, N.J. in 1957.  The two were not, however, trying to make a product to be used as packaging material. Rather, they were trying to create a textured wallpaper.  They started out by sealing two shower curtains together in such a way that it would capture air bubbles which would make the textured appearance for their wallpaper.  Needless to say, this wallpaper idea didn’t sell too well.

Not to be deterred, they then set about finding another use for their product.  The alternate use they came up with was to use it as greenhouse insulation.  While bubble wrap by itself does create somewhat of an insulating effect, this idea didn’t pan out popularly either.

It was three years after the initial creation of Bubble Wrap that Frederick W. Bowers, a marketer at Sealed Air, which makes Bubble Wrap, finally came up with the perfect use for their product.  On October the 5, 1959, IBM announced their new 1401 variable word length computer.  Bowers got the idea that Bubble Wrap could be used as a good packaging material to protect the computer while it was being shipped.  He then pitched the idea to IBM and demonstrated Bubble Wrap’s protective abilities.  His demonstration went over well and IBM began purchasing Bubble Wrap to protect their 1401 and other fragile product they sold and shipped.

From those humble beginnings, the company has grown to annual sales of around $4 billion with a net profit of around $255 million.  For reference, about 10% of Sealed Air’s revenue comes from Bubble Wrap, so around $400 million worth of Bubble Wrap is sold annually.

Bonus Facts:

  • One common misconception about Bubble Wrap is that it is created using machinery that inflates and then seals each and every bubble.  In fact, it’s made by trapping air bubbles in between two sheets of plastic as they are heated and passed between rollers.
  • In its lifetime, the IBM managed to sell or lease about double the number of 1401’s it projected, a whopping 10,000 units, 5,000 of which were sold or leased in its first five weeks on the market.  This might not sound like much, but by the mid-1960s about half of all the computers in the world were the IBM 1401. This computer leased for $2,500 a month (about $18,000 a month today).
  • One of the more interesting aspects of the 1401 was that it was a decimal based computer, rather than binary like most all computers today.
  • One of the downsides to Bubble Wrap has always been how much space it takes up during shipping and storage, for customers who are just buying the Bubble Wrap.  In order to get around this problem, one of the dreams of the original inventors was that they’d some day be able to create a Bubble Wrap that customers could self inflate, as needed.  So that when they purchased it from the manufacturer, it could be shipped as thin flat sheets of plastic, without the bubbles.  Once they assigned some engineers to the problem in the early 1990s, it took about a decade to finally work out the kinks, but Sealed Air now offers such a Bubble Wrap product.  The method they came up with was to extrude tiny pellets of polyethylene into sheets, which are then heated.  The tiny beads of polyethylene then flatten to form extremely strong polymer sheets with rows of un-inflated bubbles which are connected in lines.  Customers can then lease a special machine ($500 per year) from Sealed Air which connect to one end of the sheets and inflate all the lines and then seal off the opening.
  • This new customer inflatable Bubble Wrap is about 40 times cheaper than the traditional bubble wrap in terms of shipping costs to the customers buying the Bubble Wrap.
  • You can tell if some of the Bubble Wrap you have uses these inflatable Bubble Wrap sheets if you can’t pop individual bubbles on the sheets.  Popping one bubble will just pop all the bubbles on a line.
  • While originally being used primarily for packaging for electronics equipment, today the vast majority of Bubble Wrap made is used for food packaging.
  • Sealed Air continually does extreme demonstrations showing how much better Bubble Wrap performs at protecting fragile items. In one such demonstration, they dropped an 815 pound pumpkin from a height of 35 feet onto layers of Bubble Wrap.  The pumpkin survived the fall without a scratch.
  • Among its many uses, Bubble Wrap can be used as a cheap burglar alarm  by placing large bubbled bubble wrap on the floor in front of your door.  Another zany use, used by teenage girls the word over, is as a good stuffing for one’s bra. ;-)
  • The amount of Bubble Wrap produced by Sealed Air annually is enough to wrap the entire Earth (at the equator) with Bubble Wrap about ten times.
  • One major competitor to Bubble Wrap in the packaging industry popped up around five years after Bubble Wrap, “packing peanuts”.  These are typically made from pure polystyrene resin.
  • The color of packaging peanuts usually indicates what it is exactly made of.  Green, for instance, indicates that it’s made from recycled polystyrene.  Pink means that it is an anti-static version of packaging peanuts.  White means that it’s at least 70% virgin polystyrene resin.
  • A new kind of packaging peanut has come on the market in the last couple decades which is actually edible.  These are made from organic based materials, such as corn starch, rather than petroleum based.  They are also completely biodegradable and can’t retain an electrostatic charge, which can be useful in shipping electronics equipment.

Source…..www.todayifoundout.com

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Message for the Day…”Nothing Untoward can happen Wherever Ganapathi is Present…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Easwara blessed Ganapathi saying, “I have many attributes, but not Your intelligence. Hence, before offering worship to Me, let all people worship You. This is the boon I confer on You.” Easwara is a parent who conferred such an honour of a higher status than His own on His son. Hence Ganapathi represents no commonplace principle. He is the embodiment of all potencies. He is the abode of every kind of intelligence. Nothing untoward can happen wherever He is present. Ganapathi occupies the position of one who is the source of all prosperity. Moreover, when He is invoked before any undertaking, there will be no impediments to its completion. People look upon the Vighneswara festival as some routine affair. But Vighneswara embodies all the forms and all the powers of all the deities. It is not enough to worship Him once a year. We must worship Him always.

Cute& Eco-Friendly Pillayar for Ganesh Pooja at Brisbane Australia….Made out of Clay….

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Credit ….Photo as well as the Clay Model ….By my Son Senthil Natarajan  Brisbane Australia

Senthil Natarajan deserves a pat on his back for his artistic creation of the clay model pillayar as well as an  eye catching photographic image of the art he created thro his photoshoot this day.. REf his facebook page .

This Pillayar is going to be kept in the Ganesh Pooja Tomorrow.@ our Home in Australia

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Image of the Day….Ancient theater of Aegira, Greece…

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Settled in the 3rd millennium BCE, Aegira – or Egira – once was a prosperous and important city of ancient Greece

The ancient theater of Egira, Greece, and the Milky way, in a summer night. Photo by Nikolaos Pantazis.

Nikolaos Pantazis posted this photo to EarthSky Facebook this week. It’s a stunning view of the ancient theater of Aegira (or Egira) in Greece, under the starlit trail of the summer Milky Way.

This area of western Greece was settled in the 3rd millennium BCE. It’s the site of some fascinating archeological finds, including the head, left arm and right finger of an ancient statue of Zeus, a small temple, this ancient theater and other structures.

Source….www.earthsky.org

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‘Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.’….

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baby elephants

baby elephants

An elephant calf is around 250 pounds or 115 kgs in weight when born. Females mature at about 11 years and stay in the group, while the males, who mature between 12 and 15, are usually expelled from the maternal herd.

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baby elephants

baby elephants

The elephant trunk, a specialized nose, is analogous to an octopus tentacle in terms of dexterity. It allows them a high degree of manipulation of objects and elephants are adept tool-users. Elephants have been taught to paint with their adroit trunks and produce some fascinating artwork. In captivity, elephants easily learn how to open simple locks and many master more complex ones, something impossible for most other animals due to a lack of dexterity and intellect.

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baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

baby elephants

Source….www.ba-bamail.com

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This Lecturer-Turned-Cop Just Scaled a 7,077m High Himalayan Mountain …

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Meet G R Radhika, the lady who has achieved the incredible feat of becoming the first woman police officer from the states of  Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to scale the 7,077 metres high Mount Kun of Kashmir. We salute her spirit of adventure.

On Sept. 7, 2015, G R Radhika, the Additional Superintendent of Police (Admin) from Adilabad district of Telengana, scaled the 7,077 metres high Mount Kun in the Zanskar mountain range of Kashmir.

This 35-year-old former lecturer, is the first woman police officer from the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to achieve this feat.

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Source: Youtube

She was the only Indian to reach the peak from among the eight other participants who attempted the climb. Other than her, an American and three Sherpas were able to achieve success. Nun (7,135 metres tall) and Kun are the two highest peaks in the Zanskar range.

“I felt on top of the world when I reached the peak. It was a challenging task but once I got there I felt the sky is not the limit if we have the determination,” she told The New Indian Express.

Radhika’s hometown is Anantapur in AP. She was posted as the DSP of Nellore city between 2009 and 2011. After that she worked in Karimnagar in 2012 and was then promoted to the post of ASP in January 2015.

This is not Radhika’s first adventure. Her journey as a mountaineer began in 2013 and this was her second attempt to conquer Mount Kun. It started when former Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Rajiv Trivedi, who is now the principal secretary for Home in Telangana, recommended that she join the basic mountaineering course at the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports in Jammu and Kashmir. She completed the course with distinction and was then nominated for an advanced course at the same institute.

It was on Sept. 20, 2013, that Radhika first tasted success by scaling the 5,980 metre Golep Kangri peak, located in the Zanskar range of the Western Himalayas.

In addition to an adventurous spirit, Radhika has a philanthropic mindset as well. She is one of the police officers who have adopted different villages under the Grama Jyothi scheme of the Telangana Government. She has adopted the Ponnari village in Tamsi Mandal of Adilabad district and is working for its development.

This adventure lover is now planning to scale Mount Everest as well. “I will start preparing to climb Everest and will undergo training for the same. Mountaineering is not an easy task,” she says.

Radhika has received praise from various officers of the police department. The state police is also considering helping her financially, besides giving her special leave so she can pursue her mountaineering expeditions.

– Source….Tanaya Singh…www.the better india.com

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How Sikh Organization Khalsa Aid Is Selflessly Helping Syrian Refugees in Serbia…

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An international Sikh relief organisation, Khalsa Aid, is setting an example for the world to follow by helping Syrian refugees in Serbia.

When it comes to helping people in need, this international relief organization is leading the way and inspiring many to come forward and do everything they can in the name of humanity, selflessness and goodwill.

Members of Khalsa Aid have come to the rescue of the Syrian refugees in Serbia, and have been helping them by providing for their basic daily needs.

khalsa aid

“Our teams landed in Serbia last Thursday and ever since have been working closely with several local organisations to provide food, water, clothing, toys, etc., to the many Syrian refugee families arriving after an exhausting journey,” they announced in a Facebook post.

According to their website, Khalsa Aid is primarily a non-profit humanitarian relief agency. Their work is based on the teachings of the Sikh Gurus who preached well-being of all humanity, selfless service and universal love.

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The organization was set up to provide cross border humanitarian relief and raise awareness about global relief and development work.

Since its launch, the organization has not paid anyone for this work; it operates on a completely voluntary model.

Khalsa Aid is known for providing aid in many different disasters across the world. This, they say, would not have been possible without the generosity of the Sikh community worldwide.

All Pictures: Facebook

Source….Tanaya Singh ….www.the betterindia .com

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