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” அன்று வெள்ளை மாளிகை வாசலில் ….இன்று வெள்ளை மாளிகை விருந்தினர்” …!!!

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வெள்ளை மாளிகை வாசலில் படம் எடுக்க நின்ற மோடிக்கு 20

ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு சிவப்பு கம்பள வரவேற்பு !!!

கடந்த 1994-ம் ஆண்டு வெள்ளைமாளிகை முன்பு (இடமிருந்து) தற்போதைய பாஜக தெலங்கானா மாநில தலைவர் ஜி.கிஷண் ரெட்டி, நரேந்திர மோடி, தற்போதைய தமிழக காங். பொதுச்செயலாளர் பாலசுப்பிரமணியன். படம்: பிடிஐ

கடந்த 1994-ம் ஆண்டு வெள்ளைமாளிகை முன்பு (இடமிருந்து) தற்போதைய பாஜக தெலங்கானா மாநில தலைவர் ஜி.கிஷண் ரெட்டி, நரேந்திர மோடி, தற்போதைய தமிழக காங். பொதுச்செயலாளர் பாலசுப்பிரமணியன். படம்: பிடிஐ

சுமார் இருபது வருடங்களுக்கு முன் அமெரிக்க அதிபர் மாளிகை யின் வாசலில் நின்று புகைப்படம் எடுத்துக் கொண்ட நரேந்திர மோடி, இப்போது சிவப்பு கம்பள வரவேற்புடன் வெள்ளை மாளிகையில் காலடி எடுத்து வைக்க உள்ளார்.

அமெரிக்க அரசு சார்பில் ‘அமெரிக்கன் கவுன்சில் பார் யூத் பொலிடிக்கல் லீடர்ஸ் (ஏ.சி.ஒய்.பி.எல்)’ எனும் பெயரில் ஓர் அமைப்பு நடத்தப்படுகிறது. இதன் சார்பில் அமெரிக்காவை புரிந்து கொள்ளும் வகையில் ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் உலக நாடுகளின் முக்கிய அரசியல் கட்சிகளை அழைத்து சிறப்புக் கூட்டம் நடத்தப்படுகிறது.

இந்த கூட்டத்துக்கு இந்தியாவில் இருந்து காங்கிரஸ், பாஜக உள்ளிட்ட கட்சிகளுக்கு அழைப்பு அனுப்பப்படுகிறது. இதை ஏற்று இரு கட்சிகளும் மாநில கட்சித் தலைவர்களை அமெரிக்காவுக்கு அனுப்புவதை வழக்கமாகக் கொண்டுள்ளன.

கடந்த 1994-ல் நடந்த கூட்டத்துக்கு பாஜக சார்பில் குஜராத் மாநில பாஜக அமைப்புச் செயலாளராக இருந்த மோடி, ஆந்திர மாநில இளைஞர் அணித் தலைவராக இருந்த ஜி.கிஷண் ரெட்டி, கர்நாடகா மாநில இளைஞர் அணித் தலைவராக இருந்த அனந்தகுமார் ஆகியோர் அமெரிக்காவுக்கு சென்றனர்.

அந்த சமயத்தில் மூவரும் அமெரிக்க அதிபரின் வெள்ளை மாளிகை வாசல் முன்பு நின்று எடுத்த புகைப்படம் வெளியாகி பரபரப்பை ஏற்படுத்தி உள்ளது.

இது குறித்து தி இந்துவிடம் மோடியுடன் படத்தில் இருக்கும் ஜி.கிஷண் ரெட்டி கூறியதாவது:

‘அந்தப் படம் எடுக்கும்போது எங்களுடன் இருந்த மோடி நம் நாட்டின் பிரதமராவார் எனவும் அதே மாளிகையின் சிறப்பு விருந்தினராக செல்வார் என நினைத்துக்கூட பார்த்தது இல்லை. எனினும் அப்போதே அந்த நாட்டை நம் நாட்டுடன் ஒப்பிட்டு பார்ப்பதில் மோடி அதிக ஆர்வம் காட்டினார். அங்கிருந்த லிபர்டி சிலை உட்பட பல விஷயங்களை பார்த்து அது நம் நாட்டில் செய்யப்படாதது ஏன் எனக் கேள்வி எழுப்பினார்.

அமெரிக்க அதிகாரிகளிடம் அந்நாட்டு அரசின் நிர்வாகங்கள் பற்றி பல்வேறு கேள்விகளை மோடி எழுப்பினார்.

அரசு கூட்டங்களைவிட அங்கிருந்த குஜராத் மக்கள் நடத்திய கூட்டங்களில் அதிகமாக கலந்து கொள்ள வேண்டி இருந்தது. எங்களையும் அழைத்து சென்று அந்த கூட்டங்களில் மோடி பேசியதை நினைத்தால் இப்போது எனக்கு ஆச்சரியமாக உள்ளது.

தற்போது தெலங்கானா மாநில பாஜகவின் தலைவராக இருக்கும் கிஷண் ரெட்டி, அந்த மாநில அம்பர்பேட் தொகுதி சட்டசபை உறுப்பினராகவும் இருக்கிறார்.

சிறியவகை பழைய கேமராவில் எடுத்த இருபது படங்கள் அவரிடம் இருந்துள்ளன. இப்போது மோடி அமெரிக்காவுக்கு செல்வதை ஒட்டி அதை எடுத்து பார்த்தபோது படங்கள் ஒன்றுடன் ஒன்றாக ஒட்டிக் கொண்டிருந்ததாம். அதில் இரண்டை மட்டும் பத்திரமாக எடுத்து பத்திரிகைகளில் வெளியிட்டுள்ளார் ரெட்டி.

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Source::::: ஆர்.ஷபிமுன்னா  in The Hindu…Tamil

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Image of the Day…Curiosity Rover Drilling Mars Mountain…

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Curiosity rover drill pulls first taste from Mars mountain

The mission’s emphasis has changed from drive, drive, drive to systematic layer-by-layer investigation. “Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this.”

This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the first sample-collection hole drilled in Mount Sharp, the layered mountain that is the science destination of the rover's extended mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first taste of the layered mountain whose scientific allure drew the mission to choose this part of Mars as a landing site.

Late Wednesday, September 24, the rover’s hammering drill chewed about 2.6 inches (6.7 centimeters) deep into a basal-layer outcrop on Mount Sharp and collected a powdered-rock sample. Data and images received early Thursday at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, confirmed success of this operation. The powder collected by the drilling is temporarily held within the sample-handling mechanism on the rover’s arm.

This southeastward-looking vista from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the

After landing on Mars in August 2012 but before beginning the drive toward Mount Sharp, Curiosity spent much of the mission’s first year productively studying in the Yellowknife Bay area, an area much closer to the landing site, but in the opposite direction.

From Yellowknife Bay to the base of Mount Sharp, Curiosity drove more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) in about 15 months, with pauses at a few science waypoints. The emphasis in mission operations has now changed from drive, drive, drive to systematic layer-by-layer investigation.

Jennifer Trosper of JPL is Curiosity Deputy Project Manager. She saud:

We’re putting on the brakes to study this amazing mountain.Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this.

By investigating the shapes and chemical ingredients in the rock features, the team hopes to gain information about the possible composition of fluids at this Martian location long ago. Ashwin Vasavada of JPL is Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist. Vasavada said:

This drilling target is at the lowest part of the base layer of the mountain, and from here we plan to examine the higher, younger layers exposed in the nearby hills. This first look at rocks we believe to underlie Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time the mountain formed, and what led to its growth.

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SOURCE::::Earth sky news

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Message for the Day…” Consider Yourself as The Master of the Senses…Your Action will be Positive …”

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Do not see, speak or hear what is evil. You must only see what is good, hear and speak what is sacred. These may seem simple maxims but are full of profound significance. Constantly discriminate between negative and positive actions. All bad and unwholesome actions are negative in character, eschew them altogether. Your mind must be filled with good thoughts, your hearts should be filled with compassion, and your hands must be engaged in selfless service. You will be caught up in negative behavior, as long as you identify yourself with the body. The moment you consider yourself as the master of the senses, your actions will be positive. Mastery of the senses leads to liberation. Liberation is not something to be achieved after life. Striving for liberation must start early in life and proceed continuously, until you are free from the bondage to the senses. Carry on all duties without attachment to the fruits thereof.

Sathya Sai Baba

” Why Aluminium Foil is Shinier on one side …” ?

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Why Aluminum Foil is Shinier on One Side Than the Other

aluminum-foilThe most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust, aluminum naturally occurs as a compound with other elements, such as aluminum oxide or potassium aluminum sulfate. As such, it was not isolated as a separate element until 1825 when a Danish chemist, Hans Christian Oersted, was able to produce a small amount.

By 1845, a German chemist, Friedrich Wöhler, had perfected a way of producing enough aluminum to be able to study it. In 1854, the French chemist, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville improved on Wöhler’s method and developed a process to commercially produce the element, although it still remained expensive, even more than gold.

Other improvements were made independently by chemists Charles Martin Hall (American) and Paul L.T. Héroult (French) in 1886, and by Karl Joseph Bayer (Austrian) in 1888. As a result, sufficiently large quantities of aluminum oxide were now able to be produced from bauxite, and then aluminum could easily be obtained from the aluminum oxide.

This greatly reduced the cost of aluminum, and in 1888, Charles Martin Hall formed the precursor to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. Production methods continued to improve and by 1909, the Pittsburgh company’s output was at 41,000 kg per day. By 1910, the first manufacturing plant for the production of aluminum foil opened in Emmishofen, Switzerland by Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie.

So why is aluminum foil shiny on one side and not as much on the other? In what is called the Bayer Process, after pure molten aluminum is obtained from aluminum oxide, it is placed in furnaces with a small amount of other elements (typically the final product will be between 99.8% and 99.9% aluminum). This liquid is then poured into “chill casting devices where it cools into large slabs called ‘ingots.’” Next the ingot is treated with heat (annealed), and then rolled between heavy rollers.

This initial foil is sent through still more rollers, several times, until it reaches the desired thinness. For the type of foil that is bright on one side and matte on the other, it is so thin that during some of the last rollings, two sheets of the thin foil must be placed together lest they tear or crimp during the final rolling of the sheets.

One consequence of this is that while the sides that touch the highly polished rollers are burnished to a bright finish, the inner sides that touch the other aluminum foil remain matte.

Bonus Foil Facts:

  • More than just packaging, aluminum can be used to polish silver: after lining a deep pan with foil, cover it with cold water and add a couple of teaspoons of salt and your silverware. Chemistry (magic) will remove the tarnish. A similar process can be used to clean jewelry, except exchange the cold water for hot, and the salt for a tablespoon of laundry detergent. Likewise, a sheet of aluminum foil underneath freshly polished silverware will deter tarnishing.
  • Scissors can be sharpened by cutting through several layers of aluminum foil a few times.

SOURCE::::: Today i found out .com

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Image of the Day… ” Young Moon Is Back in the Sky ….” !!!

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Young moon returns to the evening sky

Moon was rising and setting with the sun in the past few days. Now it’s far enough from the sun’s glare to be visible in the evening sky, shortly after sunset.

Young moon - a waxing crescent in the west after sunset - captured by Spencer Mann in Davis, California on September 25, 2014.

The young moon is back in the evening sky. We received several photos of it from last night (September 25), and expect to see more photos as the sun sets across the world today. So far the only North American photo we’ve seen came from Spencer Mann in Davis, California. From his location on the western edge of the continent, he managed to catch last night’syoung moon. He wrote:

My aunt Kathy Friebertshauser and I camped out on a country road, waiting to see the waxing crescent. We weren’t disappointed – it was very faint, but clearly visible among the dark clouds, rose-tinged sky, and coastal mountains. It was definitely a scene worth waiting for!

Denis Crute in Parkes Australia had a better view of the moon than we do in North America. At this time of year (spring in the Southern Hemisphere), it’s possible to catch objects in the western twilight above the sunset, not to one side of the sunset as we now see it during our northern autumn. Here’s Denis’ photo, taken a few hours after Spencer caught his, as night fell in Australia on September 26.

Denis Crute had a better view of the moon from Parkes, Australia. Here it is on the Australian evening of September 26. Thank you, Denis!

Will you see the moon near Mercury on the evening of September 26? Maybe.

This little moon will be waxing in the evening sky over the next couple of weeks. It’s waxing toward a full moon eclipse, visible in North America, on the night of October 7-8.

 

SOURCE::::Earth sky news

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Joke of the Day… ” Key in the car … ” !!!

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Bill, Jim, and Scott were at a convention together and were sharing a large suite on the top of a 75-story skyscraper. After a long day of meetings they were shocked to hear that the elevators in their hotel were broken and they would have to climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room. Bill said to Jim and Scott, let’s break the monotony of this unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I’ll tell jokes for 25 flights, and Jim can sing songs for 25 flights, and Scott can tell sad stories the rest of the way. At the 26th floor Bill stopped telling jokes and Jim began to sing. At the 51st floor Jim stopped singing and Scott began to tell sad stories. “I will tell my saddest story first,” he said. “I left the room key in the car!”  

SOURCE::::joke a day.com

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The Most Entertaining Airports In The World …

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Here are seven international airports that go beyond free Wi-Fi and luggage carts to offer truly entertaining amenities.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands

Amsterdam Airport SchipholFlickr/ajay_suresh

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport highlights: “Holland Boulevard,” a library, Dutch Kitchen restaurant, a museum, and Holland CASINO.

Changi International Airport, Changi, Singapore

changi slideFlickr/wongjunhao

Changi International Airport highlights: Nature trails, gardens, a four-story slide, a rooftop pool, and a movie theater (free admission).

Munich Airport, Munich, Germany

Munich AirportMunich Airport

Munich Airport highlights: Airbrau brewery and restaurant, free surfing lessons in the outdoor wave pool (summer only), volleyball tournaments, and a Christmas MARKET.

Incheon International Airport, Incheon, South Korea

incheon airportFlickr/zionorbi

Incheon International Airport highlights: “Spa on Air” sauna, Thai massage, the Ice Forest skating rink, a movie theater, gardens, and traditional musical performances.

Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong

Hong Kong International AirportHong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport highlights: A nine-hole golf course, the Aviation Discovery Center, the Dream Come True Education Park, and an IMAX theater.

Vancouver International Airport, Richmond, British Columbia

vancouver airportFlickr/alanchan

Vancouver International Airport highlights: A 114,000-liter aquarium and a jellyfish exhibit.

Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland

zurich airportFlickr/patrick_nouhailler

Zurich Airport highlights: Observation decks and a miniature airport for children.

This article originally appeared at SmarterTravel.

SOURCE::: Business insider.com

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Message For the Day…”Train Your Sense Organs Only to Perceive Sacred Things…”

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In the drama of life, some act on the basis that nothing belongs to them and that, whatever words one utters or whatever action one does, all belong to God and nothing is their own. They play their role in this spirit, ascribing nothing to oneself. The other category are those that are like the actors who are conscious of the role they are playing and do not forget their individuality in their actions. They do not consider themselves as merely acting a part but as the doer. The difference between the two is that while the former realises the temporary nature of the part being played and is not attached to the things connected with the role, the other develops attachment to the role and does not wish to part with things connected with the role. Presently, most people suffer from the possessive attitude. The reason is the failure to use the senses properly and enslavement to the desires prompted by them. Train your sense organs only to perceive sacred things and abstain from indiscriminate enjoyment.

Sathya Sai Baba

That is English ….!!!

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English is the easiest langauge to learn, mostly because it doesn’t make use of male/female for everything, like other lanugages do. But even being easy to learn, it doesn’t mean that it’s easy to master, or that it doesn’t have some pretty weird attibutes that have made their way into the language with time. Enjoy these 3 examples of why English is a crazy language!

 

 

Words  Make You  Dizzy !!!

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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Image of the Day…Pic. That Spoke 1000 Words !!!

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India’s Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words

Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (MoM) successfully entered the Mars orbit

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When the crowded command control room of India’s Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each other.

Wednesday’s picture arrived with a rather anodyne caption saying “staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (Mom) successfully entered the Mars orbit”.

But in reality, the picture was about much more than that – a bunch of smiling Indian women resplendent in gorgeous saris greeting each other as their male colleagues look on admiringly at mission control in Bangalore.

“The women were leading the applause when the good news arrived. They were celebrating more than men. Who said men are from Mars and women are from Venus?” says senior science journalist Pallava Bagla, who was present in the control room.

The picture – which brightened up my manic morning writing up the Mars mission story – went viral and became the event’s image of the day.

People in their thousands tweeted that they loved it. One said “when was the last time you saw women scientists celebrate a space mission?”; another that the women showed “we don’t need to wear labcoats”. Others said the scientists in saris had “redefined mission control” and called them “true role models”.

The chatter even veered into the contentious Indian debate about tradition and modernity.

Look at our rocket scientists, said one tweet, when women working in call centres think that wearing jeans “makes them modern and scientific”. Somebody wondered why “no matter how much women succeed/achieve, the focus ultimately is on what they are wearing?” That, another respondent tweeted, is “because we have newspapers telling us that smart career women don’t wear saris only western business suits!”.

Although we do not know for sure whether all the women in this picture are engineers or scientists, they all probably work with India’s space agency. Some 20% of Isro’s 14,246 employees are women and their numbers are growing.

Nandini Harinath, 44, a physicist and a mother of two, was the deputy operations director of the Mars mission – in other words, she was the person “operating” the spacecraft between Earth and Mars. “It’s easier to bring up children than to control the Mars orbiter,” she told the NDTV news channel. Minal Sampath and her team built three instruments for the spacecraft and she wants to become “the first woman director of a space centre”.

A woman leads one of the agency’s main strategic programmes. Another female engineer was in charge of wheeling out the 15-storey-high 320,000kg (320 tonne) Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) from the vehicle assembly building to the launch pad. Tessy Thomas, a scientist from India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is thought to be one of the very few women working on strategic nuclear ballistic missiles in the world. Three women led a team which launched a communication satellite three years ago.

What next? Will a woman head India’s space agency one day? (All seven chairmen of Isro so far have been men.) And, as Pallava Bagla writes, Isro reckons that the first astronaut from India “could well be a woman”. When that happens, Indian women will be over the moon.

SOURCE:::: Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent IN BBC.COM

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