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Joke of the Day…
I pride myself on being patient when teaching driver education, something I have done for 30 years. I have encountered many, many students, who didn’t seem to be able to hit the floor with their hat. But one incident was just too much.
I had a sweet young thing behind the wheel for the first lesson of the semester. She had volunteered to go first and seemed ready to show the other two kids how well she could drive. We left the rural school and started toward town.
As we approached the first stop sign, the young lady gave no sign that she saw it. We got closer, but she still did not slow down. Finally, I used the “teacher’s brake” pedal, on my side of the car, to get us stopped.
When I asked her why she didn’t slow down to stop for the stop sign, she replied, “but, Mr. Smith, the speed limit is 35 ALL the way to the stop sign!”
Source:Joke a day.com
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” One Airport Literally Charging for Breathing Air … ” !!!
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
A man walks inside the Simon Bolivar airport in La Guaira, outside Caracas.
As if flying wasn’t bad enough these days (we even have to keep our cellphones pre-charged now, egh), one airport has taken air travel to its most comical (read:worst) : Simon Bolivar International Airport is charging passengers for clean air, starting this month.
Well, really what they’re doing is charging flyers for the right to breathe clean air, in the form of a tax — not that that’s much better, really.
From July onwards, anyone flying to or from Simon Bolivar International Airport of Maiquetia in Caracas is going to have spend 125 bolivars — roughly $20, depending on the highly variable exchange rate — on what the airport has called a “breathing tax.”
Ostensibly, the fee is in order to pay for a “state-of-the-art” air purification system, which “deodorizes” and “sanitizes” the building (just how smelly and dirty was it before, you have to wonder). It’s the first of its kind in South America, the ministry of water and air transport boasts, and will help “protect the health of travelers.”
If you’re thinking that this sounds suspiciously like a pricey air conditioning unit, you’re not alone. The move has caused a furor on social media in Venezuela, where people are already pretty unhappy with the government of Nicolas Maduro.
Recently, Maduro’s office has put in place certain currency controls that have stopped international airlines — like Delta and American Airlines, for example — from repatriating what they make from selling tickets in Venezuela. What this has meant is that Delta, American, United and Canada Air have all severely cut down their flights to the country — which, as you can imagine, has not been so good for Maiquetia Airport’s revenues.
“We are isolated as airlines have reduced flights to the U.S. by more than 80 percent,” Jesus Ernesto Ortiz, president of Caracas travel agency Happy Tour Group, told Bloomberg earlier this week. “Venezuela is going to receive less flights than Cuba or Haiti. It is the first time the Venezuela airlines sector is facing a crisis like that.”
Well, it certainly puts Easyjet’s fees into perspective, if nothing else.
Source:::: Business Insider .com
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Image of the Day…A Rocket Reentry over the Skies of Australia…
Bright meteor over Australia on July 10 was a rocket reentry
That bright meteor over Australia – seen by many – was likely the reentry of the upper state of a Soyuz rocket, launched two days earlier. over
UPDATE JULY 10 AT 1815 UTC (1:15 P.M. CDT). Experts are now reporting that today’s bright meteor – widely reported over southeastern Australia today (July 10, 2014) – was not a piece of natural space debris, but instead was the reentry of the upper state of a Soyuz rocket, launched on July 8. It seems the meteor was part of the vehicle used to launch Russia’s second Meteor-M weather satellite. Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589), an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tweeted that the Australian meteor was:
… Object 40077, 3rd stage from Meteor-M launch, reentered over Australia at about 1145 UTC Jul 10
Daniel Fischer (@cosmos4u) pointed out that time and location of the Australian meteor event appear to match the last TIP (Tracking and Impact Prediction) message for the reentry. And, as Fischer pointed out on Twitter just now:
He’s talking about the video below, caught by in Australia via mobile phone. You can see that the meteor does take awhile to streak across the sky, and, indeed, in verbal reports of the meteor from earlier today, people were commenting on how slow it was.
Thursday night in Australia, reports of a very bright and slow-moving shooting star flooded into the Brisbane Times, which covers the widely populated states of Victoria and New South Wales in southeastern Australia. People in the city of Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, also reported a bright object streaking through the sky. The Sun Herald in Melbourne reported:
Social media lit up when the unusual spectacle was seen at around 10pm.
The object – described by witnesses as like a flame – was reported to be flying rapidly.
Charmaine Harris from Thornbury said it lasted more than a minute.
The Australia Bureau of Meteorology, which received reports of the July 10 meteor around 10 p.m., at first said it could be natural debris from space or artificial space junk. Now, it appears it was space junk.
Aviation Week reported on the launch of a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage – carrying a Russian weather satellite and six small spacecraft to orbit on July 8. According to Aviation Week, liftoff took place at 9:58 p.m. local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
They said this satellite – Russia’s second Meteor-M weather satellite – is designed to monitor global hydrometeorological data for weather forecasting and to gather data on the ozone and radiation environment in near-Earth space. It will also measure sea-surface temperature, monitoring icy conditions at the poles for navigation. The satellite itself, presumably still safely in orbit, has a design life of five years.
Bottom line: A bright meteor was seen by many in Australia around 10 p.m. local time on July 10, 2014. Experts are now reporting that the meteor was not a piece of natural space debris, but instead was the reentry of the upper state of a Soyuz rocket, launched on july8.
Source:::: Earth sky news
Natarajan
“வேதத்துக்கு நிகரான மந்திரம் …”
வேதத்திற்கு நிகரான மந்திரம்
திருமூலர் திருமந்திரம்
யாவர்க்குமாம் இறைவற்கொரு பச்சிலை
யாவர்க்குமாம் பசுவுக்கொரு வாயுறை
யாவர்க்குமாம் உண்ணும் போதொரு கைப்பிடி
யாவர்க்குமாம் பிறர்க்கு இன்னுரைதானே
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இந்த மந்திரம் வேதத்திற்கு சமமானதாகும்.
எளிமையான ஆனால் வலிமையான பதப்பிரயோகம் இதில் உபதேசிக்கப்பட்ட தர்மங்களை யாரும் எவ்வித கஷ்டமும் இல்லாமல் எப்போதும் செய்யலாம்.
பகவான் பக்தியைத் தான் பார்க்கிறார். பக்தன் என்னை கொண்டு வந்திருக்கிறான் என்று பார்ப்பதில்லை. சில பச்சிலைகளைப் போட்டால் பரமேஸ்வரன் திருப்தி அடைந்து விடுகிறார்.
இதை யாரும் செய்யலாம். ஒரு பிடி புல்லை கோமாதாவான பசுவுக்கு ஊட்டலாம். இதில் முப்பத்து முக்கோடி தேவதைகளும் திருப்தி அடைந்து விடுகிறார்கள். இதையும் யாரும் எளிதில் செய்யலாம்.
தான் சாப்பிடும் ஆகாரத்தில் ஒரு கைப்பிடி ஒரே ஒரு கைப்பிடி அடுத்தவனுக்கு வழங்கலாம். இதுவும் யாரும் செய்யக் கூடிய எளிமையானதே.
இவைகளில் எதையும் செய்ய முடியவில்லையா பரவாயில்லை. அடுத்தவனோடு பேசும் போது கடுப்படிக்காதே. இதமாகப் பேசு. பதமாகப் பேசு. இல்லையென்று சொன்னாலும் அதையும் இனிமையாகச் சொல். இதையாவது செய்யலாமே.
நாம் மூச்சடக்க வேண்டாம். பேச்சடக்க வேண்டாம். நம்மை கடைத்தேற்றக் கூடிய எளிமையான அறங்கள் இவைகளில் எந்த ஒன்றையாவது செய்து பார்க்கலாமே.
ஒரு கை புல், ஒரு கை பொரி அன்போடு படைத்தால் விநாயகர் வசப்பட்டு விடுவார்.
சில துளசி இலைகளில் மகா விஷ்ணு வசப்பட்டு விடுவார்.
சில துளி கங்கா தீர்த்தம் பரமேஸ்வரன் உச்சி குளிர்ந்து விடுகிறார்.
சின்னச் சின்ன அகல் விளக்குகளில் மகாலட்சுமி பிரசன்னமாகி விடுகிறாள்.
இப்படி அன்போடு செய்யப்படும் பக்தியால் இறைவனை அடையலாம். ஆன்மீகம் என்றால் அன்புதான்.
Source:::: Input from a friend of mine
Natarajan
He has Done it again …. Kudos to Auto Annadurai !!!
‘Auto Anna’ Annadurai has upped the ante this football season. By streaming the FIFA World Cup live in his auto, he has managed to douse many Chennaiites’ angst against auto-drivers! Photos: Vikas Vasu
Annadurai, a share auto driver on the Thiruvanmiyur-Sholinganallur route, live streams the FIFA World Cup for his customers.
With the FIFA fever catching up with him as well, the innovative auto driver from Thanjavur district says, “I support Argentina and I love Messi!”
Apart from the FIFA live streaming, Annadurai also live streamed the Lok Sabha Election results and all IPL matches (he has subscribed to Sony Six).
The posters on his auto are too catchy to miss. His ‘Amazing Auto’ offers live streaming of the FIFA World Cup and also asks customers to ‘like’ him in his facebook page.
Pl also see the following link ….
https://natarajank.com/2013/08/04/meet-auto-annadurai-a-role-model-for-others/ A blogpost On Mr.Annadurai on 4 Aug 2013
Source::::The Hindu
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” Home Made Mouthwash… “
Homemade Mouthwash to Get Rid of Bad Breath
| Traditional mouthwash is usually made with a sharp mint flavor to make our breath smell fresh and pleasant. However, mint only masks the smell and actually feeds the odor-causing bacteria with more sugar. Also, most commercial brands of mouthwash are made up mostly from synthetic colors, flavors and chemicals that are nowhere near good for you.
Instead of just pretending to freshen your breath, you can make your own mouthwash at home using natural ingredients that will clean your mouth from the bottom up. This mouthwash is made from ingredients that you likely have at home, so give it a shot (literally) and get to know the homemade goodness you’ve been missing! |
Honey: This ingredient has a number of anti-bacterial properties that kill off all the bad bacteria in your mouth, instead of feeding them with sugar. Also, adding honey makes the wash taste better. Use organic or raw honey for the best results. Cinnamon: A miracle spice in every way, cinnamon gets rid of odor by killing off the odor-causing bacteria in one blast. The International Association for Dental Research found that people who chewed cinnamon gum had a 50 percent decrease in oral bacteria versus people who chewed mint gum.
Recipe makes: One small bottle of mouthwash Ingredients: Juice of 2 freshly squeezed lemons Mix together all of the ingredients and give it a shake. Swish or gargle 1-2 tablespoons of the mouthwash for a minute after brushing your teeth or whenever you want to freshen your breath. Don’t use the mouthwash more than once to twice a day (the lemon is very acidic). Enjoy your fresh breath and clean mouth and take pride in your fantastic homemade mouthwash! Source::::ba-ba mailsite Natarajan |
Message For the day…” Moon and Mind are interrelated …”
Poornima means the effulgent fullmoon. Guru is One who removes darkness and delusion from the heart and illumines it with the higher wisdom. The moon and the mind are interrelated, as object and image. On this day, the moon is full, fair and cool, its light pleasant and peaceful; the light of the mind too has to be pleasing and pure. In the firmament of your heart, the moon is the mind. Sensual desires and worldly activities are the clouds, thick and heavy which mar your joy at the light of the moon. Let the strong breeze of love scatter the clouds away and confer on you the cool glory of moonlight. When devotion shines full, the sky in the heart becomes a bowl of beauty and life is transformed into a charming avenue of Ananda (bliss). That beauty of heart, that bliss in life can be won through the mind, if the lesson of this day is remembered and realised.
Image of the day… Super moon on 12 july…
July 12 full moon first of 3 full-moon supermoons in 2014…
Courtesy U.S. Naval Observatory
Image at top shows a micro-moon (smallest full moon) superimposed on supermoon (largest full moon). This image – an Astronomy Picture of the Day from earlier this year – is fromStefano Sciarpetti.
The moon has reached the crest of its full phase. The full moon crested this morning (July 12, 2014) at 6:25 a.m. CDT. (11:25 UTC). Saturday night’s moon will still look full, however, and it’ll be closest to Earth for this month. The moon’s perigee or closest point comes at at 3:37 a.m. CDT (8:27 UTC) Sunday morning, July 13. For all of us, around the world, the moon on both Friday and Saturday night rise around the time of sunset and set at dawn.
Thus on July 12 we have the first full moon after the June 21 solstice. Around this time of year, in North America, buck deer start growing antlers, thunder storms rage and farmers struggle to pile up hay in their barns. Thus, according to folklore, we call this full moon the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon or Hay Moon. The July 2014 full moon is also the first of three full-moon supermoons in 2014. Previously, we had two supermoons in January – on January 1 and 30 – but they were new-moon supermoons. The full moons on July 12, August 10 and September 9 all enjoy the supermoon designation because the centers of these full moons and the center of Earth are less than 361,863 kilometers (224,851 miles) apart. The closest supermoon of the year comes with the August 10 full moon, presenting a moon that’s only 356,896 kilometers (221,765 miles) from Earth.
Because it’s a supermoon, and relatively close to Earth, expect higher-than-usual tides in the days ahead.
Source:::: Earth sky news
Natarajan
Joke of the DAY… ” That is Mine … “!!!
After Florida coach Steve Spurrior passes away and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows Steve a little 2-bedroom house with a faded UF banner hanging from the front porch. “This is your home, Coach. Most people don’t get their own house up here,” God exclaims.
Little Steve looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on the top of the hill. It’s a huge two-story mansion with white marble columns and little patios under all of the windows. LSU flags line both sides of the sidewalk with a huge purple and gold LSU banner hanging between the marble columns.
“Thanks for the home, God, but let me ask you a question. I get this little 2 bedroom house with a faded Florida banner, and Nick Saban gets a mansion with new LSU banners and flags flying all over the place. Why is that?”
God looks at him seriously for a moment and then replies, “That’s not Saban’s house, that’s mine!!!!!”
Source::::: joke a day.com
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