TEACHER: Why are you late, Frank?
FRANK: Because of the sign.
TEACHER: What sign?
FRANK: The one that says, “School Ahead, Go Slow.”
Source:::: joke a day.com
Natarajan
cheerful attitude
Want To talk to the CIA ?…. Tweet @ CIA !!!
The Central Intelligence Agency is announcing today that it’s getting into the social media biz. “@CIA” will be its handle on Twitter, the short-attention-span platform with255 million monthly active users, and it’ll also launch on Facebook.
The presence on these premier social media sites will supplement the CIA’s existing digital presence, which includes a Web site and Flickr and YouTube accounts. CIA Director John Brennan explained the move in a press release: “By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on CIA’s mission, history, and other developments. We have important insights to share, and we want to make sure that unclassified information about the Agency is more accessible to the American public that we serve, consistent with our national security mission.”
Don’t get too excited, however, about the level of detail in the tweets and Facebook posts. Though a press release on the new accounts says that the agency will post the “latest news, statements, and career information,” consider the order that came down from the director of national intelligence earlier this year. It stipulated a requirement that intelligence employees seek authorization before talking to the media about a broad basket of “intelligence-related information.”
Given such constraints, it’s a safe bet that the published information will go heavy on promotional fare. The press release notes that tweets will showcase “artifacts and other information from the CIA’s Museum — the best museum most people never get to see. CIA will also post updates and information from the Agency’s ‘World Factbook,’ a unique public resource and educational tool, as well as unclassified intelligence histories and other information.”
Here’s the way the CIA Twitter page looked just before it posted its first tweet.
Hold on a second, though: How did the CIA get control of the @CIA handle? A department spokesperson responds, “CIA filed an impersonation complaint with Twitter and they secured the @CIA account for us, which is routine for government agencies.”
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
Natarajan
Message For the Day…” Install Within Yourself that Nameless, Formless Divine…”
Many imagine that God will appear before them in response to their worship (Yagnas). These are illusions, merely imagination. What ultimately manifests before you is the nameless, formless Lord. In reality, God does not have any one specific form. Your mind keeps prompting such imagination. When you think of God as Krishna, the feelings of Krishna are aroused in you by your mind. As your feelings guide you, you see the manifestation of your favourite Lord everywhere. You must proceed on the path, focusing on the Divine Self. Control the activity of the mind and proceed on the path until the mind vanishes. The Divine Self has no name or form. Install within yourself that nameless, formless Divine. The whole world is the manifestation of the One Divine Soul. In all the beings, whether they are small insects, birds, animals or human beings, the same Lord pervades. Therefore, salute the Lord in every being.
Explore Animal Kingdom @ Perfect Timing !!!
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Rarely do you get to see animals in a way that you have never seen them before, and yet this is exactly what it felt like for me looking at these pictures. Each of the animals you see here was caught by the camera at the perfect timing, showing us nature’s beauty in an unexpected and magnificent ways. “When I grow up, I want to be just like you!” |
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| The perfect reflection of light in both the water and the eyes. |
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| This Is a three-month-old Sumatran tiger called Bandar form the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. In this picture he has just passed his first ever swimming lesson. |
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| “Hello sir, do you mind putting my house back on the ground?” |
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| A rare Rhinoceros Iguana, probably one of the most confusing animals in the world. |
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| A spotted Dog from Kalimpong India, following his own shadow. |
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| This wolf just found out it’s not a good idea to try and steal form a bear. |
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| The Blood Pheasant, commonly found in the eastern Himalayas. |
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| Never before have I been so afraid of an owl. |
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| “Hello there neighbor, just wanted to stop by and see how you are doing”. |
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| Stunning blue eyes. |
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| A group of tadpoles swimming in an underwater palace. |
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| These eyes look like they were made with gold and onyx. |
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| A deer and a fish are about the have an unexpected meeting in the water. |
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| “Everything you can do I can do better”. |
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| A multi-colored Cuckoo Wasp, I’d rather only see it in pictures. |
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| “Thank god for the new umbrella I just got!” |
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Source: Kelly B. in ba-ba mail site
Natarajan
Joke of the Day !!!
A pilot landed a plane with a rather bumpy landing. As part of his job he was required to stand by the terminal door and say goodbye to the passengers as they exited the airplane. He was afraid that someone might say something about his rather less than perfect landing, but everyone left without saying a word except for one passenger, an elderly lady, she slowly approached the pilot after most passengers had exited the plane and asked, “Did we land? Or were we shot down?”
Source::::joke a day .com
Natarajan
Shadows Show a Different Picture !!!
The next time you take a picture, don’t focus on the light or your subject. Look at the shadows… they could be telling an awesome story you were never aware of.
There is always more to life than what’s on the surface. What you may see at first may not be the whole story. Take these photos, for instance. At first, it might seem like a totally normal scene…
Then, you will realize what story the shadows are telling. Two entirely different things are happening in these photos. Photography focuses on the relationship between light, darkness, focus and perspective. By changing something small, the stories change. Check them out, see if you can discover what’s going on here.
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Is he the hunter or the hunted?
Music is everywhere, even when you can’t see it.
Decide what you want to do, bird.
Okay…how?!
It’s not a coincidence that this is a wedding ring.
Looks like they already are.
During the day it’s just a statue…
At night it’s something else.
LOLOLOL.
Image of the Day !!!
Jet zips past moon
“Aimed at the moon and started to focus when I saw the jet enter the frame … “
Check out this cool image of an airplane passing in front of the moon. GregDiesel Landscape Photography captured it on May 31, 2014. He wrote:
Unless you live by an airport and try all day/night it’s a really tough shot to get! Story behind it was that I was just taking my ‘daily moon’ shot and my shutter froze. I took the lens off cleaned the sensors and snapped it back on. Aimed at the moon and started to focus when I saw the jet enter the frame and then, I mean, I needed split-second reaction to focus and get about 5 shots as it flew through in about 2 seconds start to finish. Got lucky with the timing.
Lucky for us! .
Click here to see Greg’s daily moon shots.
Source:::::Earth sky News site
Natarajan
படித்து ரசித்தது …புது கவிதை சில …
இயற்கையின்பங்கு
நீ போட்டு முடித்துவிட்டுபோன
கோலத்தை
மரத்திலிருந்த பூக்களை உதிர்த்து
தன்பங்குக்கு அழகாக்குகிறது
இயற்கை
-சிவபாரதி, திருவாரூர்.
தூரமில்லை
தகவல் தொடர்பில் சுருங்கிவிட்ட உலகில்
அருகருகே உள்ளவர்களோடு
செல்போசியில் பேசுகையில்
தூரமாய் போய்விடுகின்றன.
பக்கத்து பக்கத்து வீடுகள்
-விகடபாரதி, வடபாதிமங்கலம்
முரண்
தீவிர பாதுகாப்பு,
குண்டு வெடித்தபின்
சமாதான கூட்டம் முடிந்தது அடிதடியுடன்
கொட்டும் மழையில்
மந்திரி திறந்து வைத்தார்
தண்ணீர்ப் பந்தல்
-ஆர்.சிவானந்தம், கோவில்பட்டி
தேடல்
தினம், தினம் கடலைத்தேடி
நீந்தி அலைகிறது
கண்ணாடி தொட்டியில் மீன்.
-சோலை அய்யப்பன், சோழசிராமணி.
வெண்ணிலா
மின்கட்டணம்
கட்ட வேண்டாத
உலக பொதுவிளக்கு
இதற்கு மாதம் ஒருநாள்
விடுப்பு.
-ந.வெற்றிவேல், சாாத்தான்குளம்
Source::::Kalki … Tamil weekly
Natarajan
Message For the Day…” How to Meditate …”
Meditation does not mean simply sitting with eyes closed, contemplating on a Form. You may close your eyes, and focus on the form. But if there is some fickleness in the mind while meditating, then it becomes concentration and not contemplation. When the fickle-mindedness fades away, then your concentration becomes steady and turns into contemplation and slowly, you forget both yourself and the Form, and attain Samadhi. Ultimately, there will be no Form – hence it is called Atma. People give it different names. Don’t worry if you are worshipping one Form over another – it is not the end; this is not concentration. Persist and focus on the Form and see that it becomes steady. As you proceed further on the path, your focus becomes fully steady and contemplation blossoms into meditation.
Meet Mr. Masthan ….A Living Proof of Communal Harmony …
The Hindu A native of Tirunelveli, Masthan set up his shop near the Yoga Narasimhar temple on Velachery Main Road in 1980. Photo: M. Srinath
S. Masthan, who has set up shops across the city, is well-versed in the Hindu calendar and festivities
Sixty-year-old S. Masthan is living proof of communal harmony. He also offers the hope that with hard work and perseverance, one can bust the barriers to success in business.
Mr. Masthan is the proprietor of Raja Seeval Store, the most-sought after shop in Velachery for Hindu religious items, for more than three decades.
Masthan, a native of Tirunelveli, recounts the story behind setting up his shop near the Yoga Narasimhar temple on Velachery Main Road, in 1980.
“The locality had a large Brahmin population in those days and they had to travel a long way to Mambalam or Triplicane, to purchase the materials needed for poojas and other rituals, at a time when transportation facilities were poor, if not non existent,” says Mr. Masthan.
That’s when he decided to set up a shop that supplies pooja materials, and it remains there to this date.
Well-versed in the Hindu calendar and festivities, Masthan, who never misses ‘namaaz’ on Fridays, need only be informed of the nature of festivities or religious rites. From the well-stocked shelves of his narrow shop, he gets all the materials ready for his clients.
He notes with pride that most of the Hindu priests in the locality send devotees to his shop to purchase required items.
A number of shops selling religious articles have come up in the area since, but devotees continue to patronise Mr. Masthan’s shop.
Today, he sells the Tamil almanac, the ‘pambu panchangam’, and has also set up branches in various places in the city — Perungalathur, Medavakkam, Urapakkam, Nanganallur, and Keelkattalai.
He has also convinced his five children, including three daughters, to take up the trade.
Mr. Masthan, who cycled several kilometres in his younger days to source the materials demanded by his clients, has a flourishing trade today, but retains the simplicity with which he started out.
He never forgets to greet a regular customer, and treats every new customer equally well.
source::::Srikanth .R. in THE HINDU
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