| Roses are the most well known and celebrated flower. They have been used for ages to symbolize many things, love being the foremost among them. But do you know what the different shades and colors mean? Each actually symbolizes a different feeling, and while they are all beautiful, it’s great to know which feeling you’d like to convey.
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Image of the Day….” Desert in Bloom ” !!!
Blossoming Atacama desert in Chile
Hundreds of millions of flowers bloomed in the Atacama Desert in Chile this year, linked to 2015’s ongoing strong El Niño.
View larger. | Flowers in the Atacama, November 1, 2015. Photo by Yuri Beletsky.
Earlier this week, we began hearing about the amazing desierto florido (desert in bloom) taking place in the Atacama, in Chile. It corresponds to the ongoing strong El Niño, which is a periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters off the northern Chile’s coast. The El Niño caused more rainfall than usual over the Atacama, which caused hundreds of millions of flowers to germinate and bloom. Yuri Beletsky – who has contributed other beautiful photos of the Atacama to EarthSky – captured this image. He wrote:
Pretty amazing we still see flowers in the desert! I was driving down from the mountain and was astonished by the amount of flowers we still can see – it’s been almost a month (!) after the their normal season. Here is an image taken just with my cell phone. This year is truly exceptional here in Chile due to El Niño phenomenon.
We’ve got lots of clouds, high humidity, and no wonder the desert is full of life now.
I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Thank you, Yuri!
Just as El Niño is cyclical, so the unusual flower blooms in the Atacama are known to come and go about every five to seven years. That’s according to Pedro León Lobos, a botanist with Chile’s Institute of Agriculture and Livestock Research (IRA), in an interview with National Geographic published earlier this week.
By the way, Chile is prone to frequent earthquakes, and the Acacama Desert is north of Coquimbo, Chile, where a strong 6.8-magnitude quake struck earlier today (November 7, 2015).
Bottom line: 2015 featured an unusually prolific bloom of flowers in the Atacama Desert in Chile, tied to this year’s El Niño.
Source….www.earthsky.org
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Message for the Day…” Position , Pride and Power – all Vanish Before Death …”
To a superficial observer, life appears to revolve around eating and drinking, working, and sleeping. But verily life has a much deeper significance. Life is a sacrifice (yajna). Every little act is an offering to the Lord. If your days are spent in deeds performed in this spirit of surrender, your sleep would be a total immersion in the Divine Consciousness(Samadhi)! Most people commit the great fault of identifying themselves with the body and accumulate a variety of things for its upkeep and comfort. When the body becomes weak and decrepit with age, they still attempt to bolster it by one means or the other. How long can death be postponed? When Yama’s (Lord of Death’s) warrant comes, everyone must depart. Position, pride, and power – all vanish before death. Remember, you are not this body! It is your vehicle to serve all. Realising this, strive day and night, with purity in body, mind and spirit, to realise the Higher Self.
This terrifying ‘tsunami cloud’ just engulfed Sydney harbor…….
People in Australia were probably terrified when they saw this apocalyptic-looking storm cloud rolling toward the coast of Sydney on Friday.
Sydney was battered by heavy rain and strong winds throughout the day, along with other areas along the east coast, despite severe-weather warnings being canceled.
The suburb of Mona Vale recorded 27 millimeters of rain in three hours after the eerie approach of this wedge-shaped spectacle, commonly known as a shelf cloud or a tsunami cloud.
Australia is no stranger to the shelf-cloud phenomenon and can experience a few such clouds in a year.
These bizarre clouds essentially take the shape of the thunderstorm by forming along the leading edge of the gust front. They can be as low down as a few hundred feet, and Accuweathersays a lot of false tornado alerts can be linked to sightings of shelf clouds.
According to ABC News, there have been no reports of damage so far, but at least 44 people sent out calls for help along the coastline.
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A severe-weather warning is still in place for locations further north, with residents being told to prepare for large hailstones, more heavy rain, and potential damage from gale-force winds.
Sydney residents took to social media to post spectacular pictures of the incoming storm, and in true Australian style, one Facebook user even asked whether anyone would like to join him in surfing out the storm.
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Joke of the Day…” Are You OK …” ?
Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for the airport leaned over to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the shaking driver said “Are you OK? I’m so sorry, but you scared the living daylights out of me.”
The badly shaken passenger apologized to the driver and said, “I didn’t realize that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle someone so badly.”
The driver replied, “No, no, I’m the one who is sorry, it’s entirely my fault. Today is my very first day driving a cab. I’ve been driving a hearse for 25 years.”
Source…..www.ba-bamail.com
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This Man Turned His Halloween Candy Into A Magical Landscape That’ll Amaze You…!!!
There are very few things you can do with all that candy you got on Halloween but don’t actually like. You know, those subpar candy necklaces and 3 Musketeers…I mean, we’re all in for the Twix and Reese’s, am I right? Sure, you can videotape yourself telling your kids you ate all their candy, or you can just power through and eat it, but typically you wouldn’t think to make a whimsical dreamland out of it…that is, unless you’re this guy.
A photographer by trade, this dad decided to take some of his kid’s Halloween candy and create a cool landscape with it.
It doesn’t look like much from here…but a quick zoom-in reveals:
A whole town of mini people mining candies.
He bought the tiny characters at a local hobby store and used various sweets in key shots.
He’d always wanted to try his hand at macro photography…I think he’s found his calling!
Just chillin’ by a giant bubble gum.
According to the photographer, the figurines are pretty much all about as tall as a Nerd candy.
Chocolate is basically the same thing as water.
The man behind the photos says, “I’ve never spent so much time setting up a shoot.”
Judging by all this detail, we can totally understand.
Honestly, I would have just eaten it, but this is way cooler — and involves less of a sugar high.
If you’d like to see more of the photographer’s work, head over to his Flickr page!
Source…..Amanda Black in http://www.viralnova.com
Natarajan
All Hope Was Lost At This Crash Site…Until They Made A Shocking Discovery…
Just yesterday, on November 4, 2015, a devastating accident rocked South Sudan as a cargo plane full of passengers crashed shortly after takeoff. When investigators and rescue workers arrived on the scene, they knew that there was little hope of finding survivors in the charred, twisted wreckage.
But just as they were about to give up all hope, they made a miraculous discovery.
Prospects were grim as rescue workers stepped onto the site of the horrific crash.
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The plane was only designed to hold cargo and about 12 crew members, so it’s believed that overcrowding caused it to go down.
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Approximately 36 passengers are confirmed dead, but numbers will likely rise as the wreckage is moved.
But just as they were about to give up hope, rescuers made a heartbreaking — but completely amazing — discovery.
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They found a one-year-old girl crying underneath the wreckage. She’s one of two reported survivors, and volunteers were completely floored by the tiny child’s will to live. The other survivor ultimately succumbed to injuries sustained in the crash, but somehow, this brave little one made it.
The girl, named Nyalou Thong, was immediately rushed to the hospital. She’s reportedly doing well after receiving treatment for a broken leg and other minor injuries.
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Sadly, Nyalou’s mother and brother died in the crash. As of now, rescuers are attempting to contact other family members.
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She is expected to make a full recovery.
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This child truly is a tiny miracle. Officials and volunteers who responded to the crash signed on for the recovery mission with heavy hearts, but this discovery proved to be a glimmer of hope. We’re sending our thoughts to the people of South Sudan as they recover from this tragedy, and to little Nyalou as she heals.
Source..Madeline Distasio……www.viralnova.com
Natarajan
Joke of the Day…. ” They can not trace us …” !!!
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Abe and Esther are flying to Australia for a two-week vacation to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Suddenly, over the public address system, the Captain announces, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am afraid I have some very bad news. Our engines have ceased functioning and we will attempt an emergency landing.”
“Luckily, I see an uncharted island below us and we should be able to land on the beach. However, odds are that we may never be rescued and will have to live on the island for the rest of our lives!”
Thanks to the skill of the flight crew, the plane lands safely on the island. An hour later Abe turns to his wife and asks, “Esther, did we pay our $5,000 PBS pledge check yet?”
“No, sweetheart,” she responds.
Abe, still shaken from the crash landing, then asks, “Esther, did we pay our American Express card yet?”
“Oh, no! I’m sorry. I forgot to send the check,” she says.
“One last thing, Esther. Did you remember to send checks for the Visa and MasterCard this month?” he asks.
“Oy, forgive me, Abie,” begged Esther. “I didn’t send that one, either.”
Abe grabs her and gives her the biggest kiss in 40 years. Esther pulls away and asks him, “What was that for?”
Abe answers, “Our problems are over, there’s no way they won’t find us now!“
Source…..www.ba-bamail.com
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Image of the Day…. “Elephant Foot Glacier” ….
The Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland, looks like a bowl of batter that has been poured over a pan. The sheer pressure of the zillion-ton ice has broken through the mountain and spilled into the sea in a near symmetric, fan-shaped lobe. Such glaciers are known as piedmont glaciers, and the Elephant Foot Glacier is a perfect example of it. Its shape is so distinct that it stands out dramatically from its surroundings when viewed from high above.
Glaciers are one of the most extraordinary of the earth’s natural phenomena. These rivers of frozen snow accumulated over centuries of precipitation are so densely packed that it exceeds its overall ablation. They are in a constant state of flux, flowing down in the direction of the slope towards a valley or a water body. You can’t really tell if it’s moving but come back in a few decades and you will be able to see thedramatic change in the landscape.
The Elephant Foot Glacier is located on the Kronprins Christian Land peninsula. It is not connected to Greenland’s main ice sheet. Rather, it’s part of a network of glaciers and ice caps that hangs around the periphery of the island. Research has shown that as a whole, these outlying glaciers and ice caps account for 5 to 7 percent of Greenland’s total ice coverage, but they are responsible for 20 percent of its contribution to sea level rise.
Another example of piedmont glaciers is the Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska. 65-km long and 45-km wide, it is the largest piedmont glacier in the world. The glacier arises where several valley glaciers, primarily the Seward Glacier and Agassiz Glacier, spill out from the Saint Elias Mountains onto the coastal plain facing the Gulf of Alaska.
Photo credit: Thobu/Panoramio
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Malaspina Glacier. Photo credit: Bob Mattson/Panoramio
Source….www.amusingplanet.com
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This Simple Feature Tells Emergency Services Your Medical Information……..
| If you’ve got an iPhone, here’s a handy app you’ll most definitely want to install, one that could potentially save your life. This health app, contains an important feature called Medical ID. You’re probably already familiar with the ‘In Case of Emergency’ (ICE) practice, which collects important contact information on your phone so that it may be used to contact family in the event of an emergency – well, Apple’s Medical ID is basically an enhanced version of ICE. This feature provides both emergency contact information, and also informs first responders and medical personnel of important health information, such as your medications, medical conditions, blood type and allergies. | |||||||
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Here’s how to set up Medical ID on your iPhone:
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