A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, “I know what the Bible means!”
His father smiled and replied, “What do you mean, you ‘know’ what the Bible means?
The son replied, “I do know!”“Okay,” said his father. “What does the Bible mean?”
“That’s easy, Daddy…” the young boy replied excitedly,It stands for ‘Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.'”………………….
There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bibleto her brother in another part of the country.
“Is there anything breakable in here?” asked the postal clerk.
“Only the Ten Commandments.” answered the lady.
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“Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world.There are those who wake up in the morning and say,
“Good morning, Lord,”and there are those who wake up in the morning and say,
“Good Lord, it is morning.”………………………A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he was short of time and couldn’t find a space with a meter.
Then he put a note under the windshield wiper that read:“I have circled the block 10 times. If I don’t park here, I’ll miss my appointment. Forgive us our trespasses.”
When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note :“I’ve circled this block for 10 years. If I don’t give you a ticket I’ll lose my job.Lead us not into temptation.”========
There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation:“I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new gym-fellowship hall building program.The bad news is, it is still out there in your pockets.”========
While driving in Pennsylvania, a family caught up to an Amish carriage.The owner of the carriage obviously had a sense of humor, because attached to the back of the carriage was a hand printed sign… “Energy efficient vehicle: Runs on oats and grass.Caution: Do not step in exhaust.”========
A Sunday School teacher began her lesson with a question,“Boys and girls, what do we know about God?”
A hand shot up in the air.“He is an artist!” said the kindergarten boy.
“Really? How do you know?” the teacher asked.
“You know – Our Father, who does art in Heaven… ”========
A minister waited in line to have his car filled with gas just before a long holiday weekend.The attendant worked quickly but there were many cars ahead of him.Finally the attendant motioned him toward a vacant pump.
“Reverend,” said the young man, “I’m so sorry about the delay.It seems as if everyone waits until the last minute to get readyfor a long trip.”The minister chuckled, “I know what you mean.It is the same in my business.”========
People want the front of the bus,
the back of the church,and the center of attention.========
Sunday, after church, a Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about.
The daughter answered, “Don’t be scared, you’ll get your quilt.”
Needless to say, the Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the pastor stopped by for tea and the Mom asked him what that morning’s Sunday school lesson was about.
He said “Be not afraid, thy comforter is coming.”========
The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation
to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building.Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute. The substitute wanted to know what to play.
“Here’s a copy of the service,” he said impatiently.“But, you’ll have to think of something to play after I make the announcement about the finances.”
During the service, the minister paused and said, “Brothers and Sisters, we are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected and we need $4,000 more. Any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please stand up.”
At that moment, the substitute organist played “The Star Spangled Banner.”And that is how the substitute became the regular organist!source….input from a friend of mineNatarajan
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joke of the Day….” Who is the Oldest Professional …’ !
| A physician, an engineer, and a politician were discussing who among them belonged to the oldest of the three professions. Each one of them thought they had this in the bag.
The physician said, “Remember, on the sixth day God took a rib from Adam and fashioned Eve, making him the first surgeon. Therefore, medicine is the oldest profession.”
The engineer replied, “But, before that, God created the heavens and earth from chaos and confusion, and thus he was the first engineer. Therefore, engineering is an older profession than medicine.” Then, the politician spoke up. “Yes yes, this is all well and true.” he said,“But who do you think created all of the chaos and confusion?” Source……..www.ba-bamail.com natarajan |
” மஹா விஷ்ணுவும் , கொசுவும் ஒண்ணு …..” !!!
ஒரு நாள் மடத்தில் உள்ளவர்களிடம்,” மகா விஷ்ணுவும்
கொசுவும் ஒண்ணு, உனக்குத் தெரியுமா?” என்றார் பெரியவா.
வழக்கம்போல் தானே அந்தப் புதிரையும் விடுவிக்கிறார்.
“விஷ்ணுவின் கையில் சக்கரம் சுற்றிக்கொண்டிருக்கு,கொசுவும்
சக்கரமாய் சுற்றிக்கொண்டுதான் இருக்கு.
கெட்டவர்கள் விஷ்ணுவைப் பார்க்க முடியாமல் ஒதுங்கிக் கொள்வார்கள்.
கண் வலிக்காரர்கள் கொசுவைப் பார்க்க முடியாமல் ஒதுங்கி விடுவார்கள். ச்ருதியிடம் விளையாடுபவர்
விஷ்ணு. [ச்ருதி=வேதம்] ச்ருதி முனையில் ஙொய் என்று கத்திக்கொண்டு விளையாடும் கொசு [ச்ருதி=காது]!”
இந்த சிலேடை சொன்னதுக்குக் காரணம் மடத்தோடு
அவர்கள் இருந்த முகாமில் கொசுத்தொல்லை தாங்க முடியாது.
“அனந்தசயனம் பண்ணும் பெருமாள்தான் கொசுன்னு
நினைச்சுண்டேன்னா, பகவத் ஸ்மரணையோடு தூங்கலாம்!” என்று எல்லோரையும் சமாதானம் செய்வாராம்.
இப்படி எந்தக் கஷ்டத்தையும் நகைச்சுவை ததும்ப சரி செய்துவிடும் அழகையும் பெரியவாளிடம் அனுபவிக்க முடியும்.
ஒரு நீண்ட உபன்யாசம் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. பெரியவாளும் கேட்டார். ஒரு வழியாக உபன்யாசம் முடிந்தது.உடனே பெரியவா”சாக்கு கிடைச்சுதுன்னு நன்னா ரொம்ப நேரம் சொன்னயா?”என்றார்: “நீ ஒக்காந்துண்டிருந்தது ஒரு சாக்குமேலே…அந்த சாக்கைச் சொன்னேன்!” என்று தமாஷ் பண்ணினாராம்
Read more: http://periva.proboards.com/thread/10869/#ixzz3wPgbz2Ii
Source ……..www.perivaproboards.com
Natarajan
The Best Drone Photography of 2015….
1st Prize Winner – Category Nature: Snorkeling with sharks by Tahitiflyshoot
“Drone images can be made where no other image can,” says Geiger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. “It’s like the ultimate selfie-stick.”
Let’s take a look at the some of the aerial imagery that rose to the top.
1st Prize Winner – Category Places: Above the mist by Ricardo Matiello
2nd Prize Winner – Category Nature: La Jolla by kdilliard
2nd Prize Winner – Category places: Mont-Saint-Michel, by Wanaiifilms
3rd Prize Winner – Category places: Tulip fileds byAnders@andersa.com
3rd Prize Winner – Category Nature: Lost island, Tahaa, French Polynesia, by Marama Photo Video
1st Prize Winner – Category Dronies: Where’s Wally, Limassol Carnaval, Cyprus by FlyovermediaCy
2nd Prize Winner – Popular Prizes (most liked picture): Plovidv by night, Bulgaria by Ice Fire
3rd Prize Winner – Popular Prizes (most liked picture): Glorieto Rodolfo Sanchez Taboada, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico by Wootsor
Autodrome st-eustache, Canada by DCPE
Family of storks in the nest on an electric pole by Myszon
Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Alexandre Salem
Jardin de corail dans le lagon de Taha’a – Polynésie Française, by Marama Photo Video
Xiwei Reservoir, Zoucheng, Shandong, China, by AmbroseLune
Moissons près de Metz, Lorraine, photo par drone, by Ookpik
Pont sur le Rhone, photo par drone, Rhone-Alpes, France, by Ookpik
Source……www.amsingplanet.com
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Images of the Day….moving photos !!!
| Close your eyes for a moment and take a deep, slow breath. Then open them only to enjoy the beauty of these quietly moving scenes made by French Photographer and Design Artist Julien Douvier, creating a hybrid where only some elements in the picture are animated. I find that by the time I get to the end of this series, great serenity has taken hold.
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source……ba-bamail.com
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South India Looks Spectacular from Space. As Proved by These Tweets from the ISS…..
Selected specially for a year-long mission, American astronaut Scott Kelly has been on the International Space Station (ISS) since March 2015. Early this morning, as the ISS was passing above the Indian coast, he posted some mind-bendingly beautiful photos of South India.
Here it is (here’s what we look like) from space. SPACE, you guys.
A rare glimpse of beautiful South #India! #GoodMorning from @Space_Station #YearInSpace
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Sandy and green on the South
#Indian coast.#YearInSpace
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The Southern tip of
#India and its blue waters.#YearInSpace
SPECTACULAR.
Source……..www.the betterindia.com
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Scott Kelly Image of the Day….” Spectacular new image of earthrise”
A new earthrise photo, as seen from the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Spectacular new image of earthrise seen from the moon, from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter using cameras operated by Arizona State University. Africa, the south Atlantic Ocean and the eastern edge of South America can be seen. The large tan area on the upper right is the Sahara Desert. In the foreground on the moon, you are seeing the Compton crater. Read more about this image.
As seen from any one spot on the moon’s surface, Earth never rises or sets. Because one side of the moon always faces Earth, the Earth hangs relatively motionless in the lunar sky. But orbiting spacecraft can see earthrises and earthsets. This week, Arizona State University emailed us this amazing new image of an earthrise seen from the moon, along with Q-and-A with Mark Robinson, who is the principal investigator for the cameras aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnissance Orbiter. In it, Robinson talked about this image, which was acquired by the orbiter’s camera (the LROC) in October.
Q: How did you know this image would be possible?
A: [The LROC has] taken pictures of the Earth more than 10 times in the past. We wanted to get a limb shot (showing the edge of the moon). What makes it really hard is getting the moon in the foreground … That was not by accident. We have software tools that allow us to visualize observations. We know where the spacecraft is going to be in the future … We determined from which orbits the Earth will be visible near the limb. Once we know the ground track where the Earth will be visible, we then find a view with a dramatic foreground.
Question: What are some of the pieces that had to come together to make this photo?
Answer: Just a few of the steps: You have to roll the spacecraft, in this case about 70 degrees, but the spacecraft is traveling at over 1,600 meters per second. We’re restricted in the length of one exposure time to something close to 0.4 milliseconds. You also move the spacecraft in the direction of flight so that you can get a wide enough field of view. When a spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit, the timing changes from image-to-image in an orbit. We have to compute all of that beforehand to get it exactly right … That timing has to be precisely carried out … We have to predict the temperature of the CCD (electronic equivalent of film). The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) is imaging an area multiple times while the Narrow Angle Cameras (NAC) takes just one picture. We blow up the WAC images and combine them to produce higher resolution, and then overlay this sharper image on the NAC image. We wanted the Earth to be on the horizon, and that only happens from certain areas of the moon. It’s only when the spacecraft is above the boundary between the nearside and farside that you can see the Earth behind the limb (edge of the moon).
Q: LRO has been in orbit for more than six years. If you picked the best shots to show your friends, what are they?
A: We’ve taken more than a million images. My answer changes every three days. The Apollo landing sites are fantastic. You can see the tracks the astronauts left on the surface of the moon. To me, as a scientist, it’s really great because it helps me visualize the photographs they took on the surface. The significance of the geologic context. ‘All right, now I know they got that soil sample there, and I can see what it looks like.’
Bottom line: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this new image of Earthrise from the moon in October, 2015, using the orbiter’s camera (the LROC) operated by Arizona State University.
Source…..www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
Say Good Bye ….
Acceptance is always one of the hardest things we face in life. There are so many things we have to learn to accept on a regular basis, including our flaws, our failures, our disappointments, our regrets, and our mistakes. And as the year draws to a close, I’d like to come to terms with these small things and make sure I let go of them before the new year crashes in. Free yourself from what is keeping you dwelling in the past, and start the year with a fresh motivation to move on. I’m convinced that most of us can relate to some of the following affirmations…
H/T: thoughtcatalogue.com
Source……www.ba-bamail.com
Natarajan
” Jaw-dropping images of Earth from space in 2015″
Astronauts on board the International Space Station beamed back some spectacular views of Earth this year.
The Earth Observations team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center selected the 15 best photographs, which we’ve republished here.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this image of Adele Island, off Australia’s north coast, on June 11, 2015. The tiny island is only 2.9 kilometres (2 miles) long.
This image shows landscapes of the arid Sahara and the dark green marshes of Lake Chad, which stand out in the foreground.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is seen on the left in a photo taken in February.
The peaks of Colombia’s Santa Marta are so high that trees cannot grow. The highest peak has a permanent snow cap and is the only place where snow can be seen from the tropical beaches of the Caribbean coast.
Southern Scandinavia is illuminated under a full moon in this image, which also features a green aurora to the north and the Baltic Sea, seen as a black patch in the lower right of the photo.
The Paraná River, South America’s second-largest, pours brown muddy water into a wide estuary known as the River Plate.
The snow-covered Himalaya range is seen near the China–India border.
Laguna Colorada, a lake in the Bolivian Andes Mountains, lies at 4,300 metres (14,100 feet) above sea level. Algae in the water is responsible for the lake’s deep red-brown color.
Fish farms are seen on the coast of China’s northeast province of Liaoning.
This September image shows the winding border between Pakistan and India, one of the few places on Earth where an international boundary can be seen at night.
Brightly-coloured salt ponds are seen on the coast of Tunisia’s port city, Sfax.
Red-brown coastal lagoons are seen on this stretch of Western Australia’s coastline, in a photo taken on June 11.
This photo, taken on June 15, shows the northern tip of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod.
The Mekong River, Southeast Asia’s largest river, flows on the border between Thailand and Laos. Heavy monsoon rainfall at the end of July created a red-brown channel of floodwater.
A red sprite — a major electrical discharge thought to occur during large thunderstorms — is captured above the white light of an active thunderstorm high over Missouri or Illinois.
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Rainy Russian Street Photography Looks Like Oil Paintings….!!!
St. Petersburg-based Russian photographer Eduard Gordeev captures delicate cityscape scenes by taking photos in the rain. Flowing rain drops blur the colors and diffuse light, resulting in photos that have a strong resemblance to Impressionist oil paintings.
Though the series mostly features Russia’s St. Petersburg and its widely recognized landmarks, some captivating shots from Lisbon can be found there as well. Nothing gloomy about the rain here, just pure Russian romance!
More info: nau.35.photo.ru (h/t: mymodernmet)
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Source……..Agata Gri in http://www.boredpanda.com
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