This isn’t the Arctic. It isn’t Greenland. It’s Pakistan. At 63 kilometers (39 miles) in length, Baltoro Glacier in Pakistan is one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions.
Source:::Earth sky news
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discipline
Message For the Day…” Do Your Work with utmost sincerity and Dedication… “
For success in any aspect of life, three things are essential – knowledge, skill and balance. If you combine knowledge with skill, you get balance which is very important. It means maintaining equipoise in the face of praise and criticism. To stay balanced, skill is necessary. If you lose balance, suffering will soon follow. When you are given some work, you should put your heart and soul into it, and do it with utmost sincerity and dedication, to the limit of your capacity. Take for example, a person who is entrusted with planting trees and developing a garden. If he does the work wholeheartedly without getting affected by praise or blame, the plants will come up well, and the garden will get transformed into a place of beauty. When the Guru comes to see that garden and feels happy with the growth of the plants, the joy of the Guru becomes the grace He bestows on that individual, and that grace will confer great happiness to that person.
Message For the Day…” Inner Purity is the Greatest Wealth One Can Acquire…”
Only by the light of the Divine lamp inside can blossom you as a worthwhile person. Inner purity is the greatest wealth that one can acquire; it is the wick in the container of the heart. Devotion is the oil and Divine Grace is the fire with which the lamp of wisdom can be lit. The prime requisite for achieving Divine Grace is to have harmony in thought, word and deed.
Message For the day…” Your Body is The Temple of God… “
The scriptures declare that body is the temple and God is installed therein. Hence consider your body as a vessel for cooking food, given on loan for hosting the festival of life. Can we return it to God, the Owner, in a worse condition? Should we not scrub it clean and return it bright and free from rust and dust? When the festival of life began, we received a pure, fresh and bright body from Him, innocent of evil. We have now inflicted dents, leaks and other signs of damage, through lust, greed, hatred, anger and envy. Do not return His property in poor condition. You must return it to Him, as pure as He gave it, to be most worthy of His Grace. Remember the purpose of your birth; and leverage your full potential and capability to achieve it. Wear the garland of devotion around your neck and saturate your thought, word and deed with Divine Love.
Watching Whales in Queensland !!!
Gentle Giants Of The Deep Ocean …
We had a privilege to witness one of the longest migrations in animal history right here in Brisbane’s Moreton Bay. Humpback Whales travel over 10,000 kilometres on their yearly round migration from their feedings grounds of the cold Antarctic waters to the warm tropical breeding grounds in sunny Queensland.
Of all the great whales, the Humpback is the most inquisitive and playful often leaping clear out of the ocean or slapping the surface with great fins and tail flukes in awesome displays of grace and power. The Humpback Whale is the most surface active displaying behaviour
that will not only inspire you but leave you in awe.
Natarajan From Brisbane , Australia
6 jULY 2014
Humpback Whales have:
- Little or no sense of smell or taste
- A very sensitive skin that is easily sunburned
- Remarkable eyes with strong muscles that change the hape of the lens so they can see in the air or underwater
- Incredible hearing ranging over many kilometres for navigation, communication and finding food
- Calls or songs that travel hundreds of kilometres
- Pectoral fins that are ten times longer than your arm
- Flukes that often feature black and white markings on the underside which can be used to identify individual whales
- The longest and most varied sign in the animal kingdom
- An average weight of 45 tonnes which is about 1000 children together
- An average length of 15 to 17 metres which is about 10 adults lying head to foot
- An eye the size of a grapefruit
- A belly button
- Calves that are fed daily over 400 litres of rich milk which is the consistency of condensed cream
- An expelled breath or ‘blow’ that reaches a speed of between 300 – 500 kilometres per hour as it exist through the blowhole
Few Glimpses of Whales in the Deep Ocean spotted By us ….ME, My Wife and our Son during our ” Brisbane Whale Watching ” Trip on 6 Juy 2014.
Photo Credit… brisbanewhalewatching.com.au
Photo credit…brisbane whalewatching.com.au
Photo credit… brisbane whale watching .com au
Photo credit… brisbane whale watching .com.au
Photo credit…brisbane whale watching.com.au
PhotoCredit::::Senthil Natarajan
Photo Credit:::: Senthil Natarajan
Source:::: http://www.brisbanewhalewatching.com.au
Natarajan July 6 2014
Image of the Day….
Stairway to heaven
“I saw this stairway leading into the Milky Way and figured I would give it a try.”
Wesley Liikane caught this shot on the last weekend in June, when he hosted a photography workshop at a very dark site, Algonquin Park in central Ontario, Canada. He wrote:
… at the second location I saw this stairway leading into the Milky Way and figured I would give it a try. I used multiple exposures, as I did not want to have light ruining the others night vision. One exposure was 155 seconds to let the natural light bring out the foreground while the other image was a 35-second exposure.
You can see the result here. Beautiful. Thank you, Wesley.
More photos by Wesley Liikane, aka Cowbody with a Camera
Source::::Earth Sky News
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A Close Call For Two Planes …Scary Too !!!
Pilots averted a catastrophic situation on Saturday when two planes nearly collided at Barcelona Airport in Spain.
The video shows an Utair Boeing 767-300 on final approach to a runway just as an Aerolineas Argentineas Airbus A340-300 prepares to take off.
The Utair pilots quickly aborts the landing, pulling up and clearing the plane on the ground.
YouTube/Barcelona-El Prat In’tl
The manoeuvre is risky because the plane has to unexpectedly re-enter the air, which is populated with other planes.
The Utair pilots close the landing gear doors and circle around for another landing attempt.
Meanwhile, the Airbus takes off unscathed.
Eventually, the Utair flight lands safely on its second attempt.
A very scary close call.
Here’s the full video:
Source:::: Business Insider AU and You Tube
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Joke of the Day… “but ten dollars are ten dollars… ” !!!
Stumpy Grinder and his wife Martha were from Portland, Maine. Every year they went to the Portland Fair and every year Stumpy said, “Ya know, Mahtha, I’d like ta get a ride in that theah aihplane.” And every year, Martha would say “I know, Stumpy, but that aihplane ride costs ten dollahs .. and ten dollahs is ten dollahs.”
So one year Stumpy says, “By Jeebers, Mahtha, I’m 71 yeahs old, and if I don’t go this time I may nevah go.” Martha replies, “Stumpy, that there aihplane ride is ten dollahs … and ten dollahs is ten dollahs.”
So the pilot overhears then and says, “Folks, I’ll make you a deal. I’ll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say ONE WORD, then I won’t charge you. But just ONE WORD and it’s ten dollars.”
They agree and up they go… the pilot does all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word is heard. He does it one more time, and there is still no word… so he lands.
He turns to Stumpy as they come to a stop and says, “By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to holler out, but you didn’t.”
And Stumpy replies “Well, I was gonna say something when Mahtha fell out … but ten dollahs is ten dollahs.”
Source::::Joke a day.com
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Message For the Day…”Nothing Can be More Powerful Than Character …”
It is often declared that knowledge is power. No! No! Character is power. Nothing can be more powerful on earth than character. Riches, scholarship, status, authority, etc. are all frail and flimsy before it. There is no dearth of books today; nor is there lack of gurus. Educational institutions spread knowledge everywhere. The Sun of Knowledge (Jnaana Bhaskara) is showering His rays in plenty to all alike. But, one can hardly find those who have imbibed the nectarous wisdom thus offered and are dwelling in the ecstasy it can confer. The mountain range with lust, anger, hatred, envy and pride as the peaks, shuts out the splendor of the Sun. Charity, compassion, fortitude, sympathy, and sacrifice, arise from the higher levels of consciousness while opposite tendencies breed in the lower levels. Remember, a strong virtuous character cannot be earned from any book; it is earned only through intimate involvement with society.
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Jokes of The day… ” Midnight Come Here… ” !!!
“Have you got any kittens going cheap?” Asked a customer in a pet shop.
“No, sir,” replied the owner. “All our kittens go “Meow.
“Please keep your dog beside you, sir,” a woman said crossly to the man sitting opposite to her on the bench at the park. “I can feel a
flea in my shoe.” “Midnight, come here,” replied the man. “This woman has fleas.”
These bear hunters were sitting around the cabin the night before the hunt bragging about their passt hunts.
The cabin boy was listening and went over and said “you guys make it seem pretty hard on capturing a bear”.
They all laughed and said “it is hard; do you think you could bag one”?
“I can go out and bag you 2 if you will skin them, and I will bet each of you $100.00.
They agreed and off he went out into the night.
Soon he spotted a big grizzly; he waved his arm and started hollering the big bear started after him and he started running for the shack. When he got close to the shack he started yelling. “Open the door he yelled”.
They looked out and saw the bear chasing the boy. Just as he got to the door they opened it and he stepped aside and the bear went in. He slammed the door and locked it and shouted. “OK skin him I’ll go and get the other one”.
Source::: Joke a day .com
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