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Jokes For the Weekend… !!!

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Teacher: Now, you must not say, “I ain’t goin’.” You should say, “I am not going, he is not going; we are not going; they are not going.”
Student: Wow! Ain’t nobody goin’ then?

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A guy walking down a street one afternoon passes an old man sitting on the side of the road with a large sack.
The younger guy says to the old man, “Watcha got in the sack?”
The old man responds, “I got some monkeys in that there sack.”
The younger man asks, “If I guess how many monkeys you got in the sack, can I keep one?”
The old man replies, “Son, if you guess how many monkeys I got in this sack, I’ll give you both of ’em!”

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“I’ve never flown before, said the nervous old lady to the pilot. “You will bring me down safely, won’t you?
“All I can say ma’am,” said the pilot, “is that I’ve never left anyone up there yet!”
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Building Security has notified us that there have been 5 suspected terrorists working at our office. Four of the five have been apprehended. Bin Sleeping, Bin Loafing, Bin Gossiping, and Bin Surfing have been taken into custody. Security advised us that they could find no one fitting the description of the fifth cell member, Bin Working, in the office. Police are confident that anyone who looks like Bin Working will be very easy to spot. They thought they had apprehended Bin Working sitting at a desk, but it was actually Bin Surfing trying to impersonate Bin Working.

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Little Johnny wasn’t very good at spelling. During an oral
spelling exam, the teacher wrote the word “new” on the
blackboard. “Now,” she asked Johnny, “what word would we
have if we placed a “K” in the front?”

After a moment’s reflection, Johnny said, “Canoe?”

………………….

Source………www.joka a day.com
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” பணப் பறவைகளோடு வேறு இனப் பறவைகள் …”

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இடி இறங்கும் காலம்!

பணம் சேரச்சேர
அது தன்னை
தானே தின்றுவிடுமா?

என்ன வந்தாலும்
நிரம்ப மறுக்கிறது
எப்போதும்
இதய கஜானா!

பணம் நிறைவைப் பிரசவிப்பதில்லை…
அது, ஆசை முட்டையிட்டு
அடைகாக்கிறது!

அன்பை ஆகுதியாக்கி
பெற்ற பிள்ளைகள்
பட்டம் பெற்ற கையோடு
பறந்து விடுகின்றனர்
தூர தேசங்களுக்கு

கடல் தாண்டி
அவர்கள் சிறகடிப்பது
கவுரவம் சம்பாதிக்க!

விமானங்களில் பயணிக்கையிலேயே
பண்பையும், பாசத்தையும்
உச்சியிலிருந்து உதிர்த்து
இதயத்தை மயானமாக்கி
கண் மறைகின்றனர்!

மேல்நாடுகளின்
மேகம் தொடும்
அபார்ட்மென்டுகளில்
அல்லும் பகலும்
கணினிகளோடு கரைந்து
புதையல் வேட்டையில்
புகுந்து விடுகின்றன
இளந்தளிர்கள்!

கண்டம் விட்டு
கண்டம் கடந்துவந்த
பெயர்தெரியாப் பறவைகள்
குளிர்காலத்தின்
கூதல் முடிந்தவுடன்
தாய்நாடு திரும்புகின்றன
‘தங்கள் துணையோடு!’

இந்த
பணப்பறவைகளோ
வேறு இனப்பறவைகளோடு
ஜோடி சேர்ந்து
வந்து இறங்குகின்றன
பெற்றோர்களின் எதிர்பார்ப்பில்
இடியைப் பொழிந்தபடி!
— சுவாதி, நெல்லை. 

source…..www.dinamalar.com

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படித்து ரசித்தது …” கட்டாய வசூல் கூடாது …”!!!

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பரந்தாமன் எழுதிய, ‘ராஜாஜி நூற்றுக்கு நூறு’ நூலிலிருந்து:
இரண்டாம் உலகப் போரின் போது, ஆங்கில ஏகாதிபத்தியம், தன் ஆட்சிக்கு உட்பட்ட நாடுகளிடமிருந்து உணவாக, பொருட்களாக மற்றும் பல வகையிலும் ஆதரவு திரட்டியது போல, இந்தியாவிலும் திரட்டியது. இப்பணியில், ஆங்கிலேய அதிகார வர்க்கம் வெளிப்படையாகவே ஈடுபட்டிருந்தது.
ராஜாஜியை பின்பற்றக்கூடிய தலைவர்களுள் ஒருவர், யுத்த நிதி வசூலை வெளிப்படையாக எதிர்த்துப் பேசியதன் மூலம், ‘ஜெர்மனிக்கு ஆதரவாக இருந்தார்…’ என்று குற்றம் சாட்டி, அவர் மீது வழக்கு தொடுத்தனர். ஆங்கிலேய அதிகாரிகள். அவர், அவ்வழக்கை எதிர்த்து, இரு வழக்கறிஞர்களை நியமித்த ராஜாஜி, ‘அரசுக்கு எதிராக ஜெர்மானியர்களை ஆதரித்து பேசினார் என்று சொல்வது சரி அல்ல; இது, அதிகாரிகளின் கற்பனை. மக்களாக வலிய வந்து, போர் நிதி தருவதை அவர் தடுக்கவில்லை; அவர் எதிர்த்ததெல்லாம், மக்களிடம் கட்டாயமாக வசூலிப்பதை தான்…’ என்று, அவர்களுக்கு பேச சொல்லி யோசனை தந்தார்.
இது, சாதாரண வாதம் போல தெரிந்தாலும், அவரது மதிநுட்பமும், ஆழ்ந்த சட்ட அறிவும், அதிகாரிகளை இதில் சிக்க வைத்து விட்டது. அவர் எதிர்பார்த்தபடியே அதிகாரிகள் மாட்டிக் கொண்டனர்.
அரசு சட்ட நிபுணர்களோ, ‘கட்டாய போர் நிதி வசூலிக்கவில்லை; பணமோ, பண்டமோ, மக்களாக விரும்பி முன் வந்து வழங்க வேண்டும் என்று தான் அரசு அறிவித்திருந்தது…’ என்று வாதிட்டனர். இப்படி அவர்கள் பதில் சொல்வர் என்று எதிர்பார்த்த ராஜாஜி, அதற்கு ஒரு பதிலையும் வழக்கறிஞர்களுக்கு சொல்லி தந்திருந்தார்.
அதன்படி வழக்கறிஞர்கள், ‘எல்லா அதிகாரங்களையும், தன்னகத்தே கொண்டுள்ள ஆட்சி, சாதாரணமாக வேண்டுகோள் விடுப்பது கூட, மறைமுகமாக கட்டாயத்தில் சேர்ந்தது தான். மக்கள், அதை சர்க்கார் உத்தரவாகத் தான் எடுத்துக் கொள்வர்…’ என்று கூறி,
வேலொடு நின்றான் இடுஎன்றது போலும், கோலொடு நின்றான் இரவு – என்ற திருக்குறளைச் சொல்லி,
‘மனித சஞ்சாரமில்லாத காட்டு வழியே, ஒரு மனிதன், தனியாக மூட்டையோடு வருகிறான்; எதிரில், கையில் வேலோடு வருபவன், ‘அந்த மூட்டையை கொடு…’ என்று அதிகாரமாக கேட்டாலே போதும், ‘கொடுக்காவிட்டால் வேலால் குத்துவேன்…’ என்று சொல்லத் தேவையில்லை. என்பதுதான் இக்குறளின் விளக்கம்…’ என்றதும், வழக்கு தள்ளுபடி செய்யப்பட்டது.

Source……..www.dinamalar.com

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Power of One Rupee…

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Students get the accumulated amount at the end of the year. Photo: Special Arrangement

Students get the accumulated amount at the end of the year. Photo: Special Arrangement

Lions Club of Central Chennai has been giving Re. 1 to every student at Brinda Primary School to reduce the dropout rate and absenteeism, reports K. Sarumathi.

What is the value of a rupee? A lot, if you ask Hari Narayanan, project coordinator of the Lions Club of Central Chennai.

When he read an article on how the Municipal Corporation of Thane checked the dropout rate in municipal schools in the region by distributing Re. 1 to every student every day, Narayanan was immediately attracted to the idea. He thought of replicating the method in Chennai Schools.

“The Thane Municipality was my inspiration and when I put forth the idea to other members of Lions Club of Central Chennai, they were more than happy to start the project,” he says. However, getting the go-ahead from the Corporation, they knew, would be almost impossible. Therefore, they selected a primary school run by the Gopalapuram Educational Society for poor children. At the Brinda Primary School, this initiative has been going on for seven years now.

“Most of these children are sons and daughters of maids, daily wage earners and others engaged in menial jobs. Through this small incentive, it has been ensured that these children attend school regularly,” says Malarvalli, the school principal, who is is going to retire this year, after 32 years in service. To start with, the programme was aimed at only girl students. “Though these children were given free uniforms and book and nourishing meals, they were hardly interested in coming to school. Also girls were held back for taking care of chores at home on most days. When we announced the project, parents ensured they sent their daughters to school every day. We have a fall in the dropout rate as well as absenteeism,” says Narayanan.

Though intake of students has been quite low in this school in Class 1, the management is happy that it is able to carry on with minimum dropouts.

“We want the school to survive for those who can’t afford English education and we want students to continue finishing their primary schooling here. That is the idea behind the initiative,” he says.

Regular attendance has also meant improvement in studies for these children. “Under the ABL method, they are assessed every day. Since they take fewer days off they are able to score better and learn more. Our teachers are totally dedicated as well. They have gone from door to door asking parents to send their wards to this school and benefit from the initiative,” says Malarvalli.

Seeing the popularity of the initiative, parents of boys also approached the Lions Club asking them to give their sons a similar incentive. “For four years now, even boys in the school are getting the amount for attendance,” says Narayanan.

Depending on the number of days they come to school, the accumulated amount is presented to the students at the end of the year in a grand function where parents are also invited. The club has also invested in some infrastructural development of the school such as laying new pavements, creating toilets and installing an RO plant for safe drinking water.

Source….K.Sarumathi in http://www.the hindu.com

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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)

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http://www.businessinsider.com

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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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