This road is built on several small islands and reefs, and is crossed by eight bridges, several roads and overpasses. This road has a view of the open sea, which is rare on the roads along the Norwegian coast. You can see rocks and mountains near the road.
The spectacular road is a tourist attraction…..
Imagine you are driving …and enjoy the video link…..Click on the link below :source:::::input from a friend of mine ….Natarajan
While everybody struggles with something, for this young boy life’s struggles started early…
When I got a call, I went to the balcony to continue the call. At that moment, I noticed a little boy who was hiding behind my house owner’s car parked nearby. I thought he was playing the “hide and seek” game. Even after my call that lasted for about ten minutes, the boy was still in the same place and that made me take a closer look at him. He was wearing a dirty top and shorts which was unusual for kids in our area to be wearing something like that. That’s when I had a lot of questions running on my mind.
Who is this kid? Why is he hiding here? Is he waiting to steal something from the car? I decided to wait and watch him.
He was constantly looking at the backdoor of my neighbour’s house. After a few minutes, an old lady came out from that door carrying food on a banana leaf. She placed it over the compound wall and shouted “ka..ka..ka” (to invite the crows to eat the food) and returned home.
It took the boy only a few seconds to run towards the wall and grab the food. When he was enjoying the food, that old lady suddenly came back with another banana leaf. The little boy was shocked looking at her. When the old lady screamed at him, he disappeared in seconds.
The very next day, I ran to the balcony when I heard that old woman calling out to the crows but this time the clever woman was standing in the terrace.
I looked for that kid to give him some money so that he could buy something to eat but I never saw him after that incident.
P. SUBRAMANIAN, Engineering graduate in THE HINDU….
After reading this story in The HINDU, I have a question … when we are prepared to feed the crows why not we feed the poor kids too who look for food alongwith crows ?….
Natarajan
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Install a radio receiver, select the wavelength of the station you propose to listen to, and tune it correctly to that wavelength. You will then hear the radio program loud and clear, is it not? Your ear will tell you the accuracy with which you have tuned. Akin to this, you must enter into a course of spiritual discipline. Choose any mantra or incantation of the Lord that pleases you. Meditate on it and repeat it continuously with accurate care and steady attention; tune in to the Voice of God within you. Do not pay heed to the obstacles that come in the way, in the form of satire and criticism that people around you give freely. They may be experts only on short-lived trivialities of social life or sensual pleasure. Persist on your practices – your own experience will tell you the validity and value of this experiment! – Divine Discourse of Swami Satya Sai..
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Unaware of your Divine Status, you revel in low company, you toil and sweat as the slave of mean passions, which drag you into disgrace. Be the royal heir that you really are! Be like the lotus, which though born in the slush at the bottom of the lake, through its sheer will-power, rises above the waters, to see the Sun and be inspired by its rays. The lotus discards contact with water, though it is born and bred in that element. So too, you should avoid being attached to the elemental passions! How long are you to sit content with the minor role of a clown or a clout? Have you no ambition? Why smother your genuine talents under a self-imposed mask? Quit the zero roles today and take on the role of the Hero and shine! This is your right!
Swami Satya Sai in one of HIS divine discourses…
Natarajan
Sorrow simply means that viveka (discrimination) is overshadowed. Viveka means knowing that everything is changing. Your body, your emotions, the people around you and the world-everything is changing. Time and again you have to awaken to this reality. You are often fearful of change. Change is inevitable in many fronts thoug security is hooked on to stability. You know there is a need for change to improve your life, but you feel secure in the old pattern. You need the courage to implement changes whenever it is necessary. You have to evaluate the pros and the cons. You have to see whether that gives you short-term joy and misery in the long run or short-time pain and joy in the long run.
Life is a combination of both change and non-change. So, use your intelligence and courageously implement changes when you feel that there is a need for change.
source::::: SRI SRI Ravishankarji…
Natarajan
In the wee hours of morning
When the whole world is sleeping
HE walks on the deserted street
With few devotees following and
Chanting slokas
For the early morning bath
In the temple pond.
The Sun came out to see HIM
The air breezed to fan HIM
The trees shed their leaves to lay carpet for HIM
The flowers blossomed to welcome HIM
The birds tweeted to greet HIM
The people woke up to bow to HIM.
source::::kanchi perivaa forum…a poem by N.yogeshwaran on Kanchi Mahaperiavaa….
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AN invention that could save not only water but also the lives of millions of people who do not have access to clean water for bath ….
Ludwick Marishane was still in high school when he thought of DryBath, a gel that does all the work of a bath without the need for water.
Within six months, the teenager had devised the formula for the gel.
Within a year, he had written up a 40-page business plan, applied for a patent and launched his startup, called Headbody Industries.
The product idea sounds simple: You slap on the germ-killing lotion and then you don’t need to take a bath.
For people with indoor plumbing this sounds like cool camping gear. But for 2.5 billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water, DryBath is more of a life-saver than a tool of convenience.
The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Program, an international competition that recognizes high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who own a business, thought so, too. In 2011, four years after Marishane hatched the idea for his ground-breaking product, he won the organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year award, along with $10,000 in cash to finance his startup.
Marishane, who was studying at the University of Cape Town at the time, beat out 1,600 other student nominees from around the world.
Despite its life-saving benefits, DryBath was initially inspired by Marishane’s friend who was too lazy to take a bath. The story goes that one day Marishane and some buddies were laying out in the sun when a friend turned to him and said: “Why doesn’t someone invent something that you can put on your skin and then you don’t have to bathe?” the young entrepreneur revealed in a TEDTalk.
That’s when the light bulb went off.
Marishane, who at the time lived in the rural province of Limpopo, had limited resources. So he did most of his research on Google and Wikipedia using only his Internet-connected cell phone.
In poor communities, like Marishane’s native Africa, the gel will protect people who often die from easily treatable diseases caused by bacteria that thrive in stagnant water. This water is transferred onto the skin, and get into either the gut (causing diarrhea for example), or into an orifice like the eye (causing trachoma, an eye infection that can cause blindness). In wealthier areas, the gel can be applied in a pinch when someone doesn’t have time to rinse. The cleansing lotion conserves water in both scenarios.
Based on his knowledge from living in poor communities, Marishane made the decision to sell DryBath in individual packets, rather than in bulk. In Africa, a person “doesn’t buy a box of cigarettes, they buy one cigarette each day, even though it’s more expensive,” he explained.
DryBath packets sell for 50 cents in developing countries and can be purchased for $1.50 by corporate customers like airlines or hotels. Marishane expects economies of scale to drive down the cost for packets sold in poor communities.
DryBath is not yet available to individual consumers, but will soon be sold online, according to company’s website.
SEE ALSO: Roadmap To The Future
source::::businessinsider.com
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Australia experienced a wave of migration from India about 4,000 years ago, a genetic study suggests.
It was thought the continent had been largely isolated after the first humans arrived about 40,000 years ago until the Europeans moved in in the 1800s.
But DNA from Aboriginal Australians revealed there had been some movement from India during this period.
The researchers believe the Indian migrants may have introduced the dingo to Australia.
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say that the fossil record suggests the wild dogs arrived in Australia at around the same time.
They also suggest that Indians may have brought stone tools called microliths to their new home.
Ancient origins
“For a long time, it has been commonly assumed that following the initial colonization, Australia was largely isolated as there wasn’t much evidence of further contact with the outside world,” explained Prof Mark Stoneking, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Dingoes first appeared in Australia at about the same time as the Indians
“It is one of the first dispersals of modern humans – and it did seem a bit of a conundrum that people who got there this early would have been so isolated.”
To study the early origins of Australia’s population, the team compared genetic material from Aboriginal Australians with DNA from people in New Guinea, South East Asia and India.
By looking at specific locations, called genetic markers, within the DNA sequences, the researchers were able to track the genes to see who was most closely related to whom.
They found an ancient genetic association between New Guineans and Australians, which dates to about 35,000 to 45,000 years ago. At that time, Australia and New Guinea were a single land mass, called Sahul, and this tallies with the period when the first humans arrived.
But the researchers also found a substantial amount of gene flow between India and Australia.
Prof Stoneking said: “We have a pretty clear signal from looking at a large number of genetic markers from all across the genome that there was contact between India and Australia somewhere around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.”
He said the genetic data could not establish the route the Indians would have taken to reach the continent, but it was evidence that Australia was not as cut off as had been assumed.
“Our results show that there were indeed people that made a genetic contribution to Australians from India,” Prof Stoneking explained.
The researchers also looked at fossils and other archaeological discoveries that date to this period.
They said changes in tool technology and new animals could possibly be attributed to the new migrants.
Prof Stoneking said: “We don’t have direct evidence of any connection, but it strongly suggestive that microliths, dingo and the movement of people were all connected.”
source:::::BBC NEWS NET..
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