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That is English ….!!!

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English is the easiest langauge to learn, mostly because it doesn’t make use of male/female for everything, like other lanugages do. But even being easy to learn, it doesn’t mean that it’s easy to master, or that it doesn’t have some pretty weird attibutes that have made their way into the language with time. Enjoy these 3 examples of why English is a crazy language!

 

 

Words  Make You  Dizzy !!!

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
SOURCE::: ba-ba mail site
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Image of the Day…Pic. That Spoke 1000 Words !!!

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India’s Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words

Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (MoM) successfully entered the Mars orbit

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When the crowded command control room of India’s Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each other.

Wednesday’s picture arrived with a rather anodyne caption saying “staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (Mom) successfully entered the Mars orbit”.

But in reality, the picture was about much more than that – a bunch of smiling Indian women resplendent in gorgeous saris greeting each other as their male colleagues look on admiringly at mission control in Bangalore.

“The women were leading the applause when the good news arrived. They were celebrating more than men. Who said men are from Mars and women are from Venus?” says senior science journalist Pallava Bagla, who was present in the control room.

The picture – which brightened up my manic morning writing up the Mars mission story – went viral and became the event’s image of the day.

People in their thousands tweeted that they loved it. One said “when was the last time you saw women scientists celebrate a space mission?”; another that the women showed “we don’t need to wear labcoats”. Others said the scientists in saris had “redefined mission control” and called them “true role models”.

The chatter even veered into the contentious Indian debate about tradition and modernity.

Look at our rocket scientists, said one tweet, when women working in call centres think that wearing jeans “makes them modern and scientific”. Somebody wondered why “no matter how much women succeed/achieve, the focus ultimately is on what they are wearing?” That, another respondent tweeted, is “because we have newspapers telling us that smart career women don’t wear saris only western business suits!”.

Although we do not know for sure whether all the women in this picture are engineers or scientists, they all probably work with India’s space agency. Some 20% of Isro’s 14,246 employees are women and their numbers are growing.

Nandini Harinath, 44, a physicist and a mother of two, was the deputy operations director of the Mars mission – in other words, she was the person “operating” the spacecraft between Earth and Mars. “It’s easier to bring up children than to control the Mars orbiter,” she told the NDTV news channel. Minal Sampath and her team built three instruments for the spacecraft and she wants to become “the first woman director of a space centre”.

A woman leads one of the agency’s main strategic programmes. Another female engineer was in charge of wheeling out the 15-storey-high 320,000kg (320 tonne) Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) from the vehicle assembly building to the launch pad. Tessy Thomas, a scientist from India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is thought to be one of the very few women working on strategic nuclear ballistic missiles in the world. Three women led a team which launched a communication satellite three years ago.

What next? Will a woman head India’s space agency one day? (All seven chairmen of Isro so far have been men.) And, as Pallava Bagla writes, Isro reckons that the first astronaut from India “could well be a woman”. When that happens, Indian women will be over the moon.

SOURCE:::: Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent IN BBC.COM

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” Travel Back in Time …” !!!…Incredible use of Technology …

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http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

PL CLICK THE ABOVE LINK …KINDLY FOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BELOW….

Now this is an incredible use of technology—like traveling back in time!

Left click and hold on each photo, and then drag your mouse gently from

left to right on the original photograph and will be become a photo of the
exact same location and view today – drag it back to the left and you are back in 1944!
Scroll down for more of the same.  Just fascinating!   
Source::::  Input from a friend of mine
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Message For the Day…” One Must Always maintain one’s Purity…”

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People today repose their faith in the ephemeral and unreal world, and forget God who is the embodiment of truth. This is the root cause for all sorrows and difficulties faced by humanity. You say you are encountering difficulties. From where did they come? Difficulties are the consequences of one’s past deeds and thoughts. Everything in this world is suscep­tible to change. God is the only changeless principle. What is human life for, after all? Is it merely for eating, drinking, sleeping and ultimately dying? In doing so, can the human life be termed as sacred? At the time of birth everyone is pure and sacred. As they grow old, they gradually lose this purity. This is improper! One must always maintain one’s purity. Install the changeless and eternal God in the altar of your sacred heart and offer your love to Him. Thereby, you can experience bliss. This is the foremost duty of every human being.

Sathya Sai Baba

” நெகிழவைத்த கனடா கொலு… கலசமே கொலுவாக …”

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ஓவியம்: வெங்கி

ஓவியம்: வெங்கி

நவராத்திரி வந்துவிட்டாலே கனடாவில் இருக்கும் என் தங்கையின் கொலு அனுபவம்தான் என் நினைவுக்கு வரும். அவள் திருமணமாகி வெளிநாடு போகவேண்டும் என்றதும் உறவினர்களையும் நண்பர்களையும் பிரிந்து செல்ல எவ்வளவு வருத்தப்பட்டாளோ அதே அளவு கொலுவை மிஸ் செய்வதற்கும் வருந்தினாள்.

அவளின் கவலையை உணர்ந்து வெளிநாட்டுக்கு எடுத்துச் செல்ல ஏற்றாற்போல எடை குறைவான பொம்மைகளை வாங்கித் தந்தோம். அவற்றுடன் வெளிநாட்டுப் பொம்மைகளையும் கலந்து புதுவிதமாகக் கொலு வைக்கலாம் என்ற ஆலோசனையைக் கேட்டு அவள் ஓரளவு நிம்மதியடைந்தாள். அரைமனதோடு சாஸ்திரத்துக்கு இரண்டு பொம்மைகளை எடுத்துச் சென்றாள்.

அவள் அங்கே போன உடனேயே நவராத்திரி வந்துவிட்டது. ஒரு சிறிய பலகையில் எடுத்துப்போன இரண்டு பொம்மைகள், கலசம் அவற்றுடன் அங்கே வாங்கிய பொம்மைகளை சேர்த்து கொலு வைத்து விட்டாள். சிறிய கொலு என்பதால் எப்படி எல்லோரையும் அழைப்பது என்று அவளுக்குத் தயக்கமாக இருந்தது.

கோயிலில் கொலு வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள் என்றதும் அங்கே போனாள். அங்கே இவளுக்கு அறிமுகமே இல்லாத பெண்மணி தன் வீட்டு கொலுவுக்கு வரும்படி அழைத்திருக்கிறாள். இவளை மட்டுமல்லாமல் கோயிலில் நிறையப் பேரை அழைத்திருக்கிறாள். கிட்டத்தட்ட 20 தம்பதிகள் காரில் அவள் வீட்டுக்குப் போனார்கள். எல்லோருக்கும் ஜூஸ், வடை, கேசரி கொடுத்து உபசரித்திருக்கிறாள். ஏதோ இந்தியர்களுக்கான கெட் டுகெதர் போல எல்லோரும் ஒருவருக்கொருவர் அறிமுகம் செய்துகொண்டு சந்தோஷமாகப் பேசிக் கொண்டிருந்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

கடைசியில் அனைவருக்கும் மிகவும் பிரியத்துடன் தாம்பூலம்,ரோஜாப்பூக்கள் கொடுத்திருக்கிறாள் அந்தப் பெண். அப்போதுதான் பேச்சு சுவாரஸ்யத்தில் கொலு பார்க்க மறந்துவிட்டோமே என்று ஞாபகம் வந்து, “கொலு எங்கே?”என்று கேட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். “ஓ , நீங்கள் பார்க்கவில்லையா? இதுதான் கொலு” என்று பிளாஸ்டிக் மாவிலையும் தேங்காயும் வைத்து சந்தனம் குங்குமம் வைத்த ஒரு கலசத்தைக் காட்டினாளாம் அந்தப் பெண். என் தங்கைக்கோ வியப்பு, அதிர்ச்சி, சிரிப்பு எல்லாம் கலந்த உணர்வு. சிரமப்பட்டு அடக்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறாள்.

பின்னால் நிதானமாக யோசித்துப் பார்த்தால் அந்தத் தோழியின் உயர்ந்த குணம் புரிந்தது. அவள் கலசத்தையே கொலுவாக, அம்பாள் வடிவமாக, பக்திபூர் வமாகப் பார்த்திருக்கிறாள். எல்லோரையும் அம்பாள் வடிவமாகவே நினைத்து, தெரியாதவர்களைக்கூட அன்போடு தாம்பூலத்துக்கு அழைத்திருக்கிறாள். சிரமப்பட்டுத் தனி ஆளாக உணவு தயாரித்து எல்லோருக்கும் சிநேக உணர்வுடன் கொடுத்திருக்கிறாள். பலருக்கிடையே நட்பு ஏற்பட உதவும் பாலமாக இருந்திருக்கிறாள். அவள் வீட்டு கொலுவுக்குத் தனி மகிமை இருப்பது புரிந்தது. அன்றிலிருந்து கொலுவின் அளவு பற்றி என் தங்கை கவலைப்படுவதே இல்லை. தன்னால் முடிந்த அளவு எல்லோரையும் அழைத்து தாம்பூலம் கொடுக்கிறாள்.

– ரம்யா சங்கரநாராயணன், பெங்களூர்.

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Air Show in Belgium …

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From September 13 to 14, Kleine Brogel airbase, in Belgium, hosted the Belgian Air Force Days (BAF). The air show’s main themes were “100 years of military air power” and the 40th anniversary of the F-16.

The air show featured not only the usual solo display of several aircraft types, including the Dassault Rafale and the Mig-29, but also a tactical event that provided insight into how the Belgian Air Force is integrated into NATO.

The BAF set up a fictional scenario based on the current Peace Support Operations in Afghanistan. In the scenario, 10 F-16 jets, supported by A-109 and Mi-24 helicopters, B-Hunter UAV and NATO E-3A AWACS, demonstrated some of their capabilities to the public.

Belgian Air ForceAlessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Baf_Days_28Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Among the most interesting aircraft that took part in the BAF Days were two Slovak Air Force Mig-29s, a single seater and a two-seat aircraft (the latter in static display only) belonging to the No. 1 Squadron. The Slovak Air Force is equipped with 12 Mig-29s based at Sliac.

Slovak MiG-29Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

The Polish Air Force flew its Mig-29 Fulcrum, an aircraft they have used to provide Baltic Air Policing.

Polish MiG-29Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Another interesting aircraft was the F-16C Block 52+ of the Hellenic Air Force Solo Demonstration team “Zeus” from Souda Bay airbase, in Crete. The team, formed in 2009, flew its first official demo flight in November 2010 and has so far made only a few overseas appearances.

Greek F-16CAlessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Other highlights of the show included the specially-decorated F-16 of the Solo Turk, the Turkish Air Force F-16 demo team, the Mirage 2000Ns of the RAMEX Delta display team of the French Air Force, the Dutch F-16 and AH-64 demo teams, the F-16 solo display of the Belgian Air Component, as well as the 7-ship Alpha Jet from 11sm formation of the Belgian Air Force.

Turkish F-16Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Baf_Days_16Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Baf_Days_22Alessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Several display teams took part in the show. Along with the world-famous Frecce Tricolori, Red Arrows and Patrouille de France, that have been flying for 50 years, there were also the PC-7 Team, the Team Breitling, and the Royal Jordanian Falcons.

French Display TeamAlessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

Jordanian Display TeamAlessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

The United Arab Emirates’ Air Force’s demo team, Al Fursan, or “The Knights” also flew. The team flies six MB-339 trainers in an attractive black and GOLD color scheme, symbolizing the desert with oil underneath, with the colors of the United Arab Emirates’ flag on the bottom of the planes. The planes trailed the smoke of the UAE’s national colors as well: white, red, green and black.

United Arab Emirates Display TeamAlessandro Fucito/The Aviationist

SOURCE::: Business Insider .com

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Message For the Day…” Joy Of sharing Your Love and Affection…”

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Every human being has a heart. Your heart is already filled with love. With how many are you selflessly sharing the love in your heart? Not many! What then is the use of love, if it is not shared? You must share all the love present in your heart with every being in creation. Love is the gift of God and you must share it freely in this world. This is the only way out of all the troubles and failure that people suffer. Many of you repeat the words mechanically, “May all the beings in all the worlds be happy”. To how many people are you giving happiness? Most of you are concerned with your selfish interests, have strong egos and display ostentation all the time. Whoever has imbibed precious truths from the Masters and scriptures must be filled with love. The day you root out selfishness from within, Divinity will flourish and blossom in your heart.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” God Exists at a Level in accordance to One’s Own Level of understanding…”

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Inside us, outside and all around there is air. But it cannot be seen, nor can it be grasped by the hand. For this reason can you deny the existence of air? How can one exist if there is no air? To deny the existence of air is to deny one’s own existence. God is all-pervading. He is omnipresent. He transcends time, space and circumstances. God exists at a level which is in accordance to one’s own level of understanding of the Divine. All the animate and inanimate objects in the world are Vishnuswarupa(manifestations of the Divine). It is foolish to look at the cosmos and deny the principle that pervades the cosmos. Equally is it not silly to look at the universe, which is the embodiment of the Divine, and deny the existence of the Divine? That is the reason why the scriptures declared:Pashyannapi na pashyathi mudho (The foolish one, even though he beholds, does not recognise)

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Joke of the Day…” You Know …” !!!

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On the way home she saw the same parrot and it said to her, “Hey lady, you are really ugly.” She was incredibly ticked now.

The next day the same parrot again said to her, “Hey lady, you are really ugly.”

The lady was so ticked that she went into the store and warned she would sue the store and kill the bird. The store manager replied profusely and promised he would make sure the parrot didn’t say it again.

When the lady walked past the store that day after work the parrot called to her, “Hey lady.”

She paused and said,”Yes?”

The bird said, “You know.”

 

Source::::Joke a day.com

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