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What is Greater Than God ? !!!…

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The Riddle That 80% of Kindergartners Answered Correctly, but Only 17% of Stanford Seniors Got Right-Fiction!

e rumor…
A simple riddle with a simple answer that was allegedly reported on Paul Harvey…and that Kindergartners answered more correctly than university seniors.

The Truth
The riddle has been around for a long time, but there is no evidence that research was ever conducted on the comparative answers of Kindergartners and Stanford University seniors.
There is also no evidence that this was reported on Paul Harvey.

The riddle:
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it,
The rich don’t need it, And if you eat it, you’ll die?

The answer to the riddle is “nothing.”
Nothing is greater than God.
Nothing is more evil than the Devil.
The poor have nothing.
The rich need nothing.
And if you eat nothing, you’ll die.

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Paul Harvey RIDDLE:

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer,
compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it,
The rich need it, And if you eat it, you’ll die?

 

source ::::truth or fiction.com

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” Geek ” Named ” Word of 2013″ ….

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The word geek, once used as a slurto describe a person with unfashionable interests or a social misfit, has now been declared the ‘word of the year’ by the Collins online dictionary.

The dictionary has also changed the definition of geek to “a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about a specific subject.”

Collins has already added ‘geekery’, ‘geek chic’ and ‘geekdom’ to the dictionary’s fold.

While ‘geek chic’ refers to a fashion style believed to be characteristic of geeks, ‘geekery’ means preoccupation with, or great knowledge about, a subject, according to the the dictionary.

“For those of us born into a pre-internet world ‘geek’ meant ‘a boring and unattractive social misfit – who tends to smell slightly gamey at close quarters,” the dictionary said on its website.

“But times change, even if we don’t change with them and what Collins first included as a secondary definition in 2003 – ‘A person who is preoccupied with or very knowledgeable about computing’ – has long since overtaken the original.

“Now the meaning has changed again and the new definition will read ‘a person who is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about a specific subject’,” Collins said on its website.

Last month, Oxford Dictionaries named selfie – “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” as the word of the year.

Geek has seen an interesting transformation in meaning over the last couple of decades.

According to Oxford Dictionaries, the word used to be a cruel and critical label attached to clever, but socially awkward, people – such as computer or science geeks.

However, in the 1990s, the computer industry helped many geeks to achieve great success, and the wider perception of geeks began to shift.
Source:  silicon india net

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Message For the Day…” Learn From Animals ,Birds &Insects ….”

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Man can learn any number of good qualities from animals, birds, insects and worms. The animal, donkey is viewed with contempt. But the quality of patience to be found in a donkey is not found even in man. Whatever burdens may be heaped on its back, it bears them all with forbearance. Even when it is starved of food and water, it presents a calm face. Man has thus to learn the quality of forbearance from the donkey. The ant is one of the tiniest among insects. But the ant has a capacity for foresight; with foreknowledge of the rainy season ahead, it starts storing food from three months in advance. Then, there is the spider – Determination is one of its traits. How many times its web may be destroyed or broken, the spider will go on remaking it with relentless determination.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…”Education Should also Purify Heart”…

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True education means trying to manifest the inner divinity in man. How is this manifestation to be brought about? Students must receive education that illumines every aspect of life – the economic, the political, the moral, the spiritual and the physical, the mental and the social environment of man. It should not be confined to one specific sphere. Many students consider book knowledge as education. This gives them only superficial knowledge. They need practical knowledge which will enable them to lead righteous lives. Education should also result in the purification of the heart. Men and women must be taught to be sincere in thought, word and deed, as a mark of humanness. Students must also revere their parents at all times and promote the cause of social improvement. They must co-operate with all fellow-beings. These are the things all students should learn.

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In Homage to Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma …

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Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma

Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma

Kerala lost one of the last links with its royal past with the passing away of Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma, head of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore, in the early hours of Monday.  16 Dec.2013.  . Mr. Varma, a witness to the transformation from imperial rule to a democratic polity, was a common presence in the social and cultural scene of the city.

He had stood guard over the age-old traditions, rites and rituals of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple ever since 1991, when he was anointed the trustee and “dasa” of the temple following the death of his elder brother and last sovereign of Travancore, Sree Chithira Tirunal Balarama Varma. Mr. Varma, born as the younger son of Maharani Sethuparvathi Bayi and Ravi Varma Koyi Thampuran on March 22, 1922, was educated in the Kowdiar Palace by a group of 14 tutors in various subjects. He later graduated from the then Travancore University with Economics, Politics and History as specialisations in 1943. He was the recipient of the Moncombu Aandi Iyer Gold Medal for the best student in Sanskrit.

 

 

source :::::Mahesh Krishnamurthy  in Sage of Kanchi Blog and Youtube and The Hindu

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” Are You Smarter than ” Seniors ” !!!

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This is a test for us ‘older kids’!

The answers are printed below, (after the questions) but don’t cheat! answer them first…..

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. .In early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show.

03. Get your kicks, __________________.’

04. ‘The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.’

05. ‘In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.’

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dancecalled the ‘_____________.’

07. Nestle’s makes the very best… _________ ______.’

08. Satchmo was America ‘s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good

Night, and ‘________ ________.. ‘

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________.

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to ___________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __ ______________.

Answers:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop

Send this to your ‘older’ friends, (Better known as Seniors.) It will drive them crazy! And also keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes !!!

source::::baba mail site

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” மார்கழி என்றால் …..”

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“வைகறையின் செம்மை இனிது.

மலர்கள் போல நகைக்கும் உஷை வாழ்க.

உஷையை நாங்கள் தொழுகின்றோம்.

அவள் திரு.

அவள் விழிப்பு தருகின்றாள்.

தெளிவு தருகின்றாள்.

உயிர் தருகின்றாள்.

ஊக்கந் தருகின்றாள்.

அழகு தருகின்றாள்.

கவிதை தருகின்றாள்.”

– வைகறைப் பொழுதை வாழ்த்தும் பாரதியின் வார்த்தைகள் இவை.

வைகறை எப்போதும் அழகு; மார்கழியிலோ கூடுதல் அழகு; தமிழர் வாழ்வியலில் இன்னும் அழகு. முன்பனி, பின்பனி, நான்கு திசைகளில் வரும் வாடை, தென்றல், குடக்கு, குணக்கு என எல்லாவற்றையும் போற்றிய எம் மக்கள் பனிப் படலத்தைத் தன்மீது போர்த்திக்கொள்ளும் மார்கழியைக் கொண்டாடுவதுதான் எத்தனை அழகு?

மார்கழி என்றால், ‘முன்பே வந்து என்னை எழுப்புவேன் என்று சொன்னாயே, இன்னும் உறங்குகின்றாயோ, நாங்கள் முன்வந்து உன்னை எழுப்ப வேண்டியதாகியுள்ளதே, என்ன வினோதம் இது. பெருமாளை அத்தன் என்று அழைத்தாய் நீ, ஆனந்தன் என்று அழைத்தாய், அமுதன் என்று அழைத்தாய் நீ. இதெல்லாம் வெறும் வாய்ஜாலமோ. நீ இனி தூங்கிக்கொண்டே இருந்தால், உன் இரு கண்களும் மிக நீண்டு வளர்ந்துவிடும் எனும் அபாயத்தை மறந்துவிடாதே, விரைவில் நீராடிவிட்டு இறைவனை வழிபட வா’ என்று துயில் எழுப்பும் திருப்பாவை, திருவெம்பாவைக் கவிதைகள்.

மார்கழி என்றால், திருப்பாவை, திருவெம்பாவைக் கவிதைகளை அடாணா, பிலஹரி, வராளி, குந்தளவராளி, சங்கராபரணம், சிந்துபைரவி, தேஷ், பெஹாக் ராகங்களில் பாடிய எம்.எல்.வசந்தகுமாரியின் மறக்க முடியாத குரல். மார்கழி என்றால், கவிதையை ஆண்ட ஆண்டாள் பாசுரங்கள்.

மார்கழி என்றால், பாவை நோன்பு. மார்கழி என்றால், வீதிகள்தோறும் வெள்ளிக் கம்பளம் விரித்தது போன்று அரிசி மாவில் ஐந்து புள்ளி ஐந்து வரிசை, ஏழு புள்ளி ஏழு வரிசை, ஒன்பது புள்ளி ஒன்பது வரிசை என வளைந்து நெளியும் விதவிதமான கோலங்கள்.

மார்கழி என்றால், சூரிய விடியலுக்குக் காத்திராமல் அதற்கு முன்பே நீராடி விடியற்காலம் நான்கு மணிக்கே தொடங்கும் உஷ கால பூஜை. உஷ கால பூஜையில் வாசிக்கப்படும் பௌளி, பூபாளம்; காலை காலசந்தி பூஜையின்போது வாசிக்கப்படும் மலைய மாருதம், பிலஹரி, சாவேரி; சூரியன் உச்சியை அடையும் மத்திம காலத்தில் வாசிக்கப்படும் மத்தியமாவதி, சுருட்டி; உச்சிப் பொழுதிலிருந்து சூரியன் சாயுங்காலமான சாயரட்சை காலத்தில் வாசிக்கப்படும் கல்யாணி, பூர்விகல்யாணி; இரண்டாம் காலம், சுவாமி படுக்கைக்குச் செல்லும் முன் அர்த்தஜாம பூஜையில் வாசிக்கப்படும் நீதேனுகாலாம்பரி ராகங்கள்.

மார்கழி என்றால், முன்புறம் சுருட்டி, வாசமாலை, முகபடாம் போர்த்திய யானையின் அலங்காரம், எக்காளம், திருச்சீர்னம், டவுண்டி, நகரா என இசைக் கருவிகளின் இசையின் நடுவே மிதந்து வரும் சுவாமியின் வீதியுலா.

மார்கழி என்றால், இசை விழா.

மார்கழி என்றால், எதையும் கொண்டாடிப் பார்க்கும் எம் மக்களின் பண்பாட்டுச் சான்று.

மார்கழி என்றால், ஞாபகங்கள்.

மார்கழி போற்றுதும், மார்கழி போற்றுதும்!

source::::: தேனுகா  in The Hindu ….Tamil

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Stunning Images of the Year !!!

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Moonshine: Tim Taylor took this dramatic photograph of the moon over the French Alps

Moonshine: Tim Taylor took this dramatic photograph of the moon over the French Alps


Misty eyed: This tender moment between a Japanese macaques mother and baby was captured by Jasper Doest

Misty eyed: This tender moment between a Japanese macaques mother and baby was captured by Jasper Doest

Gotcha: UK-based photographer Peter Downing won a best single image in a portfolio category for this shot of a kingfisher in Worcester

Gotcha: UK-based photographer Peter Downing won a best single image in a portfolio category for this shot of a kingfisher in Worcester
Race to the finish: Camels ridden by robotic jockeys race to the finish line to the joy of the watching crowd in this picture taken by Jason Edwards

Race to the finish: Camels ridden by robotic jockeys race to the finish line to the joy of the watching crowd in this picture taken by Jason Edwards

Leap of faith: British photographer Cat Vinton was commended for this image of a sea gypsy spear fishing on the Andaman Sea

Leap of faith: British photographer Cat Vinton was commended for this image of a sea gypsy spear fishing on the Andaman Sea

Dramatic: US photographer Justin Mott took home the One Shot, Extraordinary prize for this image taken in Phuket, Thailand

Dramatic: US photographer Justin Mott took home the One Shot, Extraordinary prize for this image taken in Phuket, Thailand

Human nature: This photograph of human towers being built at a festival in Catalonia, Spain was taken by David Oliete

Human nature: This photograph of human towers being built at a festival in Catalonia, Spain was taken by David Oliete

source:::::mailonline.com UK

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“யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ் மொழி போல் “….மகாகவியின் கவிநயம் !!!

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யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே   தமிழ்மொழி  போல்
இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்
பாமரராய், விலங்குகளாய், உலகனைத்தும்
இகழ்ச்சிசொலப்  பான்மை கெட்டு
நாமமது தமிழரெனக் கொண்டுஇங்கு
வாழ்திடுதல்  நன்றோ? சொல்லீர்!
தேமதுரத் தமிழோசை உலகமெலாம்
பரவும்வகை  செய்தல் வேண்டும்

யாமறிந்த புலவரிலே கம்பனைப்போ
வள்ளுவர்போல், இளங்கோ வைப்போ
பூமிதனில் யாங்கணுமே பிறந்ததில்லை;
உண்மை, வெறும் புகழ்ச்சியில்லை;
ஊமையராய்ச் செவிடர்களாய்க் குருடர்களாய்
வாழ்கின்றோம், ஒரு சொற் கேளிர்!
சேமமுற வேண்டுமெனில் தெருவெல்லம்
தமிழ்முழக்கம் செழிக்கச் செய்வீர்

source::::blog.dinamani.com

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