| Today, you need to remind yourself of some important things you tend to forget. It’s useless to worry about what might happen, or what might not happen, in your life. Life is bursting with energy, and so is your soul. Do not lose this energy in thought – get things done now before you are regretful, and smile at the future, because what it holds is magical. Start today, by being positive about your day ahead.
Source….www.ba-bamail.com natarajan |
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Few Pictures That Will Make You Feel Better About our World…
Heroes like this:
Owners like this:
Paramedics like this:
Tips like this:
Professors like this:
Families like this:
Animal lovers like this:
Source….www.stumbleupon.com
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படித்து ரசித்தது ….துணுக்கு துளிகள் …
‘சிரிக்கத் தெரிந்த மனமே’ நூலிலிருந்து:
தமிழ்க்கடல் ராய.சொக்கலிங்கம் நடத்தி வந்த, ‘ஊழியன்’ பத்திரிகை, சுதந்திர போராட்ட காலத்தில், மக்களிடம் செல்வாக்கு பெற்று விளங்கியது.
‘ஊழியன்’ பத்திரிகையில் உதவி ஆசிரியர் வேலைக்கு, புதுமைப்பித்தனை அனுப்பி வைத்தார் எழுத்தாளர் வ.ரா., புதுமைப்பித்தன் அப்பத்திரிகையில் பணியாற்றி வரும் போது, ஆசிரியர் குழுவில் முக்கியமானவராக இருந்த
ஈ. சிவம் என்பவர், புதுமைப்பித்தனுடன் அடிக்கடி சச்சரவு செய்து வந்தார். அதனால், ‘ஊழியன்’ பத்திரிகையை விட்டு விலகினார் புதுமைப்பித்தன்.
சில நாட்கள் சென்றபின், வ.ரா.,வும், புதுமைப்பித்தனும் சந்தித்துக் கொண்டனர். புதுமைப்பித்தனின் ராஜினாமா விஷயத்தை முன்பே அறிந்திருந்த வ.ரா., ‘என்ன புதுமைப்பித்தன்… ஈ.சிவம் எப்படியிருக்கிறார்?’ என்று கேட்டார்.
‘அவர் ஈ.சிவம் இல்லை; எறும்பு சிவம். என்னைக் அறுத்துத் தள்ளி விட்டார்…’ என்றார் புதுமைப்பித்தன்.
‘உலக மேதைகள்’ என்ற நூலிலிருந்து: பிரபல எழுத்தாளர் மார்க் டுவைன் தன் பக்கத்து வீட்டுக் காரரிடம் பேசிக் கொண்டிருந்த போது, அவரது மேஜை மீது இருந்த புத்தகத்தை பார்த்து, ‘இந்தப் புத்தகத்தை இரவல் தருகிறீர்களா… படித்து விட்டு தருகிறேன்…’ என்று கேட்டார்.
அதற்கு அந்த நண்பர், ‘புத்தகங்களை நான் இரவல் கொடுக்கிறதில்ல; இந்தப் புத்தகத்தை நீங்க அவசியம் படிக்கணும்ன்னு தோன்றினால், என் வீட்டிலேயே உட்கார்ந்து படித்து விட்டுப் போங்கள்…’ என்றார்.
மனவருத்தப்பட்டார் டுவைன். ஆனால், வெளிப் படுத்திக் கொள்ளவில்லை. சில நாட்களுக்கு பின், டுவைன் வீட்டிற்கு வந்த அந்த நண்பர், ‘நண்பரே… உம்முடைய மண்வெட்டியை இரவல் கொடுங்கள்; என் வீட்டுத் தோட்டத்தில் மண்ணை வெட்டிப் பண்படுத்தி விட்டு திருப்பித் தருகிறேன்…’ என்று கேட்டார்.
‘மண் வெட்டியை நான் பிறருக்கு கடன் கொடுப்பதில்லை; உங்களுக்கு அவசியம் என்று தோன்றினால், என் மண்வெட்டியைக் கொண்டு, என் வீட்டுத் தோட்டத்து மண்ணை வெட்டிப் பண்படுத்துங்கள்…’ என்றார் மார்க் டுவைன்.
தமிழறிஞர்கள்’ நூலிலிருந்து: பண்டிதமணி கதிரேசன் செட்டியாருக்கு ஒரு பிரமுகர், விருந்தளித்தார். விருந்து முடிவில், ஒரு தம்ளரில் பால் தரப்பட்டது. பாலை வாங்கிய பண்டிதமணி அதை உற்று கவனித்து, ‘திருப்பாற் கடலில், எவ்வளவு அழகாக சீனிவாசன் துயில் கொள்கிறான்!’ என்றார்.
விருத்தளித்தவர், பால் தம்ளரை வாங்கிப் பார்த்தார். அப்போது தான், பண்டிதமணி சொன்னதன் உண்மை விளங்கிற்று. ‘சீனி’ (சர்க்கரை)யில் வாசம் செய்யக் கூடியது எறும்பு என்பதால், சீனிவாசன் என்று குறிப்பிட்டு, அது, பாலில் மிதக்கிறது என்பதை, பண்டிதமணி நயமாகக் கூறியதை ரசித்தார் அவர்.
‘தெரிந்து கொள் தம்பி’ நூலிலிருந்து: ஆகாய விமானத்தைக் கண்டு பிடித்த, ‘ரைட்’ சகோதரர்கள், ஒரு விருந்துக்கு அழைக்கப் பட்டிருந்தனர். பல அறிவியல் அறிஞர்கள், பொறியியல் நிபுணர்கள் அங்கு வந்திருந்தனர். விருந்துக்கு தலைமை வகித்தவர், ‘அடுத்து, நம் ரைட் சகோதரர்களில் மூத்தவரான, வில்பர் ரைட் தங்கள் சாதனைகள் குறித்துப் பேசுவார்…’ என்று அறிவித்தார்.
வில்பர் எழுந்து, ‘ஒரு தவறு நேர்ந்து விட்டது; என் தம்பி ஆர்வில் ரைட் தான் நன்றாக சொற்பொழிவாற்றத் தெரிந்தவன். எனக்குப் பேசக் தெரியாது…’ என்று கூறி அமர்ந்து விட்டார்.
தலைமை வகித்தவர், ஆர்வில் ரைட்டை அழைத்து, பேசும்படி கூறினார். அவர் ஒலிபெருக்கி முன் வந்து, ‘என் அண்ணன் வில்பர் ரைட் அற்புதமாகப் பேசிவிட்ட பின், நான் பேசுவதற்கு என்ன இருக்கிறது…’ என்று கூறி அமர்ந்து விட்டார்.
Source….தி்ண்ணை!….www.dinamalar.com
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This Flight Costs Just Rs. 60 and Goes Nowhere….!!!
Never been on an airplane? Here’s your chance to board one for as little as Rs 60, or even for nothing if you don’t have the money. Retired aircraft engineer Bahadur Chand Gupta will be happy to show you around.
“I am in an aeroplane for the first time. I saw many things inside,” exclaimed an excited Jatin when he boarded the flight to nowhere.
He is one of many underprivileged kids who may never get a chance to fly on an actual plane. But he climbed the long stairway that took him to an orange and white aircraft set up on a patch of land on the outskirts of Delhi.
The plane, of course, is going nowhere. But it is giving an opportunity to people from some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the city to experience what it is like to sit on the jets they see fly above them in the sky.
When a retired aircraft engineer Bahadur Chand Gupta, who comes from the small village of Kasana in Haryana, started his career many years ago, the villagers curiously asked him what it was like to be in an aircraft. None of them had ever seen a real airplane and they wanted to get a glimpse of life in the aviation industry through Gupta’s eyes. –
For security reasons, Gupta was never able to take his fellow villagers inside an actual aircraft. But he always wanted to do something that would give them a taste of flying.
Finally, in 2003, Gupta sold some land and bought an old Airbus A300. He parked it on a vacant lot close the city’s domestic airport and started offering virtual ‘flights’ to the general public.
To make the experience close to real, the ‘passengers’ in his ‘flight’ are given boarding passes, shown safety instructions, and even offered in-flight snacks. Some even get to see the cockpit.
The passengers pay as little as Rs. 60 to board this flight and some can even get to be part of it for free (depending upon their financial condition). What adds to the amazing in-flight experience is the unique evacuation practice where the kids slide out of the the aircraft instead of taking the regular stairs.
Source….Shreya Pareek….www.the betterindia.com
Natarajan
Scott Kelly Becomes U.S. Astronaut to Spend the Most Time in Space…
Just before the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence on the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2015, U.S. astronaut and commander of the current Expedition 45 crew, Scott Kelly, is breaking spaceflight records. On Friday, Oct. 16, Kelly begins his 383rd day living in space, surpassing U.S. astronaut Mike Fincke’s record of 382 cumulative days. Kelly will break another record Oct. 29 on his 216th consecutive day in space, when he will surpass astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria’s record for the single-longest spaceflight by an American. Lopez-Alegria spent 215 days in space as commander of the Expedition 14 crew in 2006.
In this July 12 photograph, Kelly is seen inside the Cupola, a special module which provides a 360-degree viewing of the Earth and the space station. On each additional day he spends in orbit as part of his one-year mission, Kelly will add to his record and to our understanding of the effects of long-duration spaceflight.
Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth on March 3, 2016, by which time he will have compiled 522 total days living in space during four missions.
Image Credit: NASA
Source….www.nasa.gov
Natarajan
Message for the Day…”Repeating God’s Name ,Meditation,fasts, Worship at dawn and dusk are certain good ways to control and train our Senses…”
Normally people are drawn to sense objects, for they are victims of instincts. Instincts easily seek sense objects – they come along with the body and aren’t derived by any training. The infant seeks milk from the mother’s breast, and the newborn calf naturally nestles at the udder. However for the infant to walk and talk, some training is necessary, because these actions are either socially prompted or learnt by example or picked up by imitation of others. Training is essential even for the proper pursuit of sense pleasure, for wild untrained search for such pleasure promotes anger, hatred, envy, malice and conceit. Hence to train the senses along salutary lines and to hold them under control, certain good disciplines like repeating Lord’s Name (japa),meditation (dhyana), fasts (upavasa), worship at dawn and dusk, etc. are essential. Though sense pleasures are ‘natural’ at first, by constant practice, training and listening to the wise, slowly the greater and everlasting bliss derived by divine adoration is grasped.
” Super Baby Days…” !!!
Babies are cute and adorable, but also bizarrely strong and capable of doing some extraordinary things. For instance, did you know how amazingly strong you were for your tiny size? Or how you could control your breathing? Or that you had a mustache for a while? Here is a collection of curiosities you didn’t know about your earliest, simplest, and cheekiest times – your super baby days.
Source….www.ba-bamail.com
Natarajan
” Restrictions do not Apply to these Diet Jokes …” !!!
| Most of us have tried to diet at least once, in order to lose a few extra pounds. We’ve given up our favorite foods, changed how much we ate, what we ate, and when we ate. Most of us also realized that even though it’s essential for our health, dieting is not easy at all. If you’re looking for a way to cope with dieting, why not try humor? | ||||||||
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His Parents May Iron Clothes for a Living, but Young Anuj Dreams of His Own Tech Company. ….
Children like 15-year-old Anuj Nirmal are our hope for tomorrow – the hope that one day, every child in our country will be able to nurture a strong dream of his/her own, and will have the opportunities and determination to achieve it.
15-year-old Anuj Nirmal’s interests range from writing blogs, building robots, and researching on how to create educational apps, to studying human psychology and predicting how people would behave in different circumstances. His personal achievements so far include winning an inter-school parliamentary debate competition, and attaining the second place in a city-wide Kho-Kho competition organized by the BMC, naming but a mere few.
Recently, he was also seen in the role of a student facilitator at a Teach For All conference in which leaders like Wendy Kopp (Founder – Teach For America) and State Senator of Colorado, Mike Johnston had also participated.
A few years ago, Anuj and his family moved from a small village near Allahabad, to a one room set-up in Prem Nagar Chawl, located in the bustling suburbs of Goregaon, Mumbai, to start life afresh. He is the youngest of three children in the family and his parents iron clothes for a living. However, such tough circumstances never deterred him from achieving his dreams.
Anuj is not only a brilliant student, but he also makes it a point to find the time to pursue his passion for technology and to learn more about the field.
“I was 7 years old when sci-fi and superhero movies began to inspire me. I loved watching how superheroes were able to help the world using technology!” he says with a grin.
It was then that he started maintaining a journal of all the ideas that would strike him, and also began to experiment on any object that he found around him.
“I dismantled a DVD player I found somewhere once and used its parts to create a locomotive engine for a small prototype crane lift. My experimenting actually caused a power failure inside the house once which made my parents ban the activity at home altogether!”
In the absence of a computer at home, Anuj used to save up money to visit an internet café to update his blog. The owner of café discovered his ability to type fast and offered him a job.
“I got to use his computers for free and paid my school fees with the salary he gave me. Now I work at the café in the evenings on weekdays and on Sundays. There I teach Microsoft Office and undertake admin duties along with learning the basics of coding and java script myself.”
Anuj draws inspiration from his parents and teachers alike.
“Studying in Siddharth Nagar municipal school, I’ve been fortunate to have Teach For India Fellows as my teachers since Grade 3 as they’ve always guided me and supported my ideas. I recently developed an interest in hacking and showed my science teacher and TFI Fellow, Sravanti Didi, how easy it was to hack into her computer. She wisely made me aware about cyber law and ethical hacking and recommended that I look up Ankit Fadia who wrote a book on ethical hacking in 2001 when he was just 15. Another Teach For India fellow, Apoorva Didi, taught us how to debate and construct arguments. I’ve always been a shy public speaker, but Apoorva Didi made me challenge my fear by taking us to the mall and asking us to debate in front of all the people there!”
For a 15-year-old, Anuj has perfected the art of managing his time prudently. He wakes up at 5 am every day, studies for an hour before reaching school at 7 am. Being the head boy of his school, he starts by making sure that everything is clean and ends the day by leading other students to move out of school in an orderly fashion. Since the school does not have a Hindi or Marathi teacher, Anuj attends tuition classes from 2 – 3:30 pm to address his weakness in language studies and then proceeds for Just For Kicks football practice (a TFI-led annual inter-school competition) at 5 pm before heading to the internet café at 7 pm where he works till 9.30 pm.
He has also been selected by Teach for India to be in the Planning Committee for the next phase of the organization.
“I feel so happy to be able to give my views and ideas. Teachers are usually aware of their classrooms to only a certain extent – when I interact with my classmates during recess and outside school, I get to see another side to them. I hope I can make as much of a contribution to the next phase of Teach For India as their Fellows have made to my life and thinking over the last 5 years” he says, solemnly, with heart-warming humility and touching honesty.
Anuj dreams to be the youngest founder of a technology company called Anuj’s Products that would build various tech gadgets. And he wishes to use the money that he makes from this company to build hospitals and schools for the poor.
“God has given us one life and we should use it to the fullest. I feel like crying when I look at beggars and handicapped people on the street and wonder why nobody is even trying to train them to talk on the phone so that they can work in a BPO, for example? After all, they can still use their mouth to speak! I want to make technology that can help such people so that nobody is ever left helpless. I also see boys in my area who sit on their bikes all day – smoking and picking up fights. If they are so interested in fighting, they should do something useful and join the military!”
Children like Anuj Nirmal give us hope that one day every child in our country would be able to nurture a strong dream of his/her own.
Applications to the 2016-18 Teach For India Fellowship program are open till October 27, 2015. Apply here.
Written By Alankrita Khera – Manager, Communications – Teach For India
Source…..www.thebetterindia.com
Natarajan
Singapore Airlines joins Qantas with launch of a 19-hour flight: Non-stop route to New York set to open in 2018 ….
In-flight entertainment systems will need to be top quality in the future as ultra-long non-stop routes are becoming all the rage.
Qantas announced a non-stop 19-hour flight between Australia and the UK within two years – and now Singapore Airlines is set to launch a non-stop journey that’s the same, gruelling length.
In a statement this week Singapore Airlines announced that it would resume offering 19-hour flights from Singapore to New York in 2018.
The carrier previously operated the long haul route until 2013.
Singapore Airlines says that due to demand the service will resume with the help of a brand new aircraft.
The plane in question will be Airbus’ new ‘ultra-long range’ version of its A350-900, of which Singapore Airlines will be the launch customer.
The high-tech newly converted planes will have the capability of flying up to 19 hours using the increased fuel capacity of its system from 141,000 litres to 165,000 litres.
Our customers have been asking us to re-start non-stop Singapore-US flights and we are pleased that Airbus was able to offer the right aircraft to do so in a commercially viable manner,’ said Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong.
The airline has placed an order for 67 of the Airbus A350s, and as more of the efficient planes are added to the fleet, the plan is to resume the 19-hour Singapore-LA route in the near future as well.
At the moment, fliers wishing to make the 8,700-nautical-mile journey to the Big Apple from Singapore have to face the delights of a 22-hour journey, with at least one connection.
LA-bound passengers have a slightly shorter ordeal, with the trip currently taking around 17 hours or more, also with a stop.
Battle is on: Qantas also plans to offer 19-hour flights – from Perth to London
The news comes after Qantas revealed plans to offer a non-stop 19-hour flight between Australia and the UK within two years.
If it does launch before Singapore Airlines’ 19-hour route it will briefly give Qantas the crown of operating the world’s longest non-stop commercial flight.
The airline’s chief executive Alan Joyce said they aim to fly between Perth and London using its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner by 2017.
‘This opens up direct service from Australia to Europe for the first time,’ he said.
The potential flight path would need two pairs of pilots, extra cabin crew and a proper rest area for airline staff.
Qantas has already ordered eight Boeing 787-9 planes to replace its 747 fleet.
The new aircraft will have roughly 250 seats and include business class, premium economy and economy.
Qantas already operates the current longest route in the world, from Sydney to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Source…..www.dailymail.co.uk
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