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A Poem for Us

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A little house with 3 bedrooms
One bathroom and a car on the street.
A mower that you had to push
To make the grass look neat.

In the kitchen on the wall
We only had one phone,
And no need for recording things,
Someone was always home.

We only had a living room
Where we would congregate,
Unless it was at mealtime
In the kitchen where we ate.

We had no need for family rooms
Or extra rooms to dine.
When meeting as a family
Those two rooms would work out fine.

We only had one TV set
And channels maybe two,
But always there was one of them
With something worth the view.

For snacks we had potato chips
That tasted like a chip.
And if you wanted flavor
There was Lipton’s onion dip.

Store-bought snacks were rare because
My mother liked to cook
And nothing can compare…

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This one is For you Mom…..

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We’d invited you, our dear readers to share pictures of you and your mother. Here are few responses from the readers..

Priyanka Kumar and her mother.

This is Angshuman Sengupta with his mother when he was all of six months old in 1970.

Ghali Srinivasarao shares this picture of her and her son Phanindra taken some 30 years ago!

Source….www.rediff.com

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Message For the Day…” Understand the ‘Brahman’ Phenomenon…”

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It is an arduous process for people to become aware of the ‘One’ that is their core. The gross body is the product of the food consumed. But within, there is a subtler force, an inner vibration named vital air (prana). The mind(manas) within is subtler still, and deeper and subtler than the mind is the intellect (vijnana). Beyond the intellect, people have in them the subtlest sheath of spiritual bliss (ananda). When one delves into this region of spiritual bliss, the reality, the Brahman or the One can be experienced. That awareness is indeed the most desirable. In the Taittiriya Upanishad, while teaching his son Bhrigu the Brahman phenomenon, Varuna says, “Son!Brahman cannot be seen through the eyes. Know that Brahman is that which enables the eyes to see and the ears to hear. He can be known only through extreme yearning in a cleansed mind and concentrated thought. No other means can help.”

Sathya Sai Baba

This Tiny Australian Village Spawned a New Language….!!!

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Lajamanu

In 2002, University of Michigan linguistics professor Carmel O’Shannessy was visiting Lajamanu, a remote aboriginal community in Australia’s Northern Territory, when she discovered the village’s younger people were speaking a different language from the older generation.

The community, composed of about 700 people, lies hundreds of miles away from commercial centers and cities. It’s one of the several Australian villages that speaks the endangered Warlpiri language.

However, O’Shannessy was surprised to find an even more unique language, one that had never been observed, spoken by the generation who were younger than 35 at the time.

This different language wasn’t a new dialect of Warlpiri, or a combination of Warlpiri with English and Creole, two languages the villagers also spoke. Though many of the words were drawn from the three foundational languages, the new one had a unique grammatical structure

The stark linguistically differences, including the addition of a new tense in the younger generation’s speech, told O’Shannessy that she had stumbled upon a treasure: a new language. She soon dubbed it Light Warlpiri.

So, how did a new language evolve in Lajamanu? According to The New York Times,

The development of the language, Dr. O’Shannessy says, was a two-step process. It began with parents using baby talk with their children in a combination of the three languages. But then the children took that language as their native tongue by adding radical innovations to the syntax, especially in the use of verb structures, that are not present in any of the source languages.

Though O’Shannessey has studied Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri for over a decade, she still remains puzzled as to why the language developed in the first place. After all, the people could already easily communicate. The development is something she continues to research, though she now believes it popped up around the 1970s and ’80s. She and other linguists continue to marvel at the language’s growth, as no one has been able to document or observe the development of a young, new language.

h/t The New York Times)

Read the original article on Modern Notion. Copyright 2015. Follow Modern Notion on Twitter.

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This seaweed farm looks amazing from space…

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Seaweed farms in South Korea

In January 2014, the Operational Land Imager on NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured a series of photos from around South Korea’s Sisan Island. The shallow coastal waters were filled with arrays of evenly spaced patches, like plots in a garden. The verdict? It’s a seaweed farm.
Seaweed Farms in South Korea

The Goddard Space Flight Center’s Flickr page, where the photos are posted, explains that seaweed farming is pretty popular in South Korea. Seaweed patches are rigged up to ropes and buoys to help them stay put and grow better under the constant fluctuation of the tides. More than 90 percent of the seaweed consumed worldwide is farmed, and more than 90 percent of South Korea’s crop, which includes the sushi seaweed known as nori is found off the south coast, where these pictures were taken.

Read the original article on Modern Notion.

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http://www.businessinsider.com

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Joke For the Day…” Where should we go for our Birthday…” ?

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Four women share a birthday and always celebrate it together.

For their 40th birthday they go to the Lakeview restaurant because the waiters are cute and wear tight pants.

For their 50th birthday they go to the Lakeview restaurant because the prices are reasonable and it has a good wine list.

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For their 60th birthday they go to the Lakeview restaurant because its quiet and has a nice view.

For their 70th birthday they go to the Lakeview restaurant because its wheelchair accessible.

For their 80th birthday they go to the Lakeview restaurant because they’ve never been there before.!!!

Source……www.ba-bamail.com

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Message For the Day…” What is Ultimate…” ?

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In Taittiriya Upanishad, Varuna directed his son Bhrigu to enter upon spiritual exercises that would ultimately reveal the Truth. Brighu, with full faith in his father’s words, immersed himself in concentrated spiritual practices. When he returned and declared what he had come to know, that food was Brahman, his father told him that his answer was not right. So Brighu continued the spiritual practices and came back with deeper answers, that Prana or vital air is Brahman, then the Mind, and later that the Intellect (Vijnana) is. But each time he was sent back by his father to search deeper. After undergoing a fifth course of spiritual practices, he became aware that spiritual bliss (ananda) was Brahman. Brighu stayed in the bliss of that awareness and never needed to consult his father again. The father then, himself sought Bhrigu, and congratulated him and said, “Son! You have merged in that vision.” Every being must march on to the goal, from food to bliss.

Sathya Sai Baba

Mongolia”s Reindeer People…. Amazing !!!

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reindeer people rolling hills

Mongolia is twice the size of Texas, but home to only 2.6 million people. The sparse, desolate lands are difficult to live on and the frigid winters are harsh and overbearing, which is why the country’s Dukha people have relied heavily on reindeer in nearly every facet of their lives for thousands of years.

reindeer people frightened deer

Living in northern Mongolia, the Dukha use the completely domesticated reindeer for primarily for transport, as the nomadic tribe changes camp locations between five and eight times per year.

They also use the reindeer for clothing, tools and increasingly trade. Dukha sell reindeer antlers and penises to Chinese traders, who pay a high price for the incredibly rare items. The Dukha use the money to purchase items that they are unable to acquire out in the vast countryside, including electronics.

reindeer people sleeping child

Given the fact that the Dukhas’ very survival is inextricably linked to the animals, it’s no wonder that they treat them with such reverence (which perhaps also explains why they refrain from eating the reindeer meat). Their relationship is mutually beneficial: where the reindeer provide the Dukha with many basic needs, the Dukha provide the reindeer with protection from natural predators. Without each other, their continued existence is questionable.

reindeer people riding man
Winter temperatures in the tiga reach 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, making food scarce and conditions dangerous. A nomadic tribe and traveling caravan which uses teepees (known as ortz) for shelters, the Dukha are a strong and tenacious people with a heritage as long as it is rich.

reindeer people elderly woman
reindeer people herd leader

However, their lifestyles–and understanding of them–are in a state of transition. Regional forests and reindeer populations are diminishing, and since Mongolia’s democratization no governmental programs have been established to bring in any more reindeer from Siberia, which threatens the basic fabric of Dukha livelihoods.

The Dukha have also started to use reindeer revenues (increasingly from tourism) to purchase solar panels, satellite antennas and cell phones, gradually abandoning their “traditional” devices for more modern sources of heat and entertainment.

Increased mining activities are encroaching upon the areas the Dukha call home, leaving some–primarily elder members of the tribe–grasping for their nomadic identity as it is slowly vanishes amid an urbanizing Mongolia and nearby China.

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reindeer people young girl
Currently only 44 Dukha families remain in the region, with an estimated population of between 200 and 400 people. Perhaps hoping to eternalize the Dukha before they disappear, Dr. Hamid Sardar-Afkhami, who holds a Ph. D. in Sanskrit and Tibetan Studies from Harvard, ventured out to their homes to snap these amazing shots. Sardar-Afkhami has since created a documentary film about the Dukha called The Reindeer People.

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reindeer people deer milking
reindeer people frozen tundra
reindeer people hill top
reindeer people mongolian drummer
Source…bored panda and  www.all that is interesting.com
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Image of the Day…

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Mammatus clouds at sunset, over Idaho

Mammatus clouds can appear ominous. But, in a way that’s so common in nature, their dangerous aspect goes hand in hand with a magnificent beauty.

View larger. | Mammatus clouds at sunset submitted by Andrew Ashton in Nampa, Idaho. Thanks, Andrew!

Andrew Ashton in Nampa, Idaho submitted this beautiful shot, which I believe he captured earlier this week. The pouch-like protrusions hanging from the undersides of these clouds are called mammatus clouds.

One interesting aspect of mammatus clouds is that they’re formed by sinking air. Most clouds are formed by rising air. They typically indicate stormy weather, but, contrary to myth, they don’t continue extending downward to form tornados.

Source…….www.earthsky.org

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