The Judges are left open-mouthed when Marc Métral introduces his talking dog Miss Wendy.
“Congratulations, in the nine years of doing this show, Simon has said he wanted a dog that could meow or sing, and you did both, incredible,” says Amanda.
Simon is totally smitten!
Source………www.youTube .com
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Chennai-born Raja Rajeswari has been sworn-in as a criminal court judge in New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City.
Newly appointed city judge, Chennai-born Raja Rajeswari, rises to take her place for a Judicial Swearing-In Ceremony at New York City Hall in New York on Monday.
Ms. Rajeswari, 43, who had migrated to the U.S. from Chennai as a teenager, previously worked with the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office for her entire career in several bureaus including Criminal Court, Narcotics, Supreme Court, and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau, where she last served as Deputy Chief.
Ms. Rajeswari took the oath of office at a ceremony in New York City on Monday along with 27 other judges appointed earlier this month to the Family Court, Criminal Court, and Civil Court, which are part of the New York State Unified Court System.
The mayor appoints judges to 10-year terms in the New York City Criminal Court and the Family Court within the city.
“To ensure New Yorkers have access to a fair, equitable justice system, we need judges who are qualified, honest and reflective of the people of this city,” Mr. de Blasio said.
“With their wealth of legal experience, these appointees represent all five boroughs and all walks of life. From the first female South Asian-American judge in New York City to a former NYPD First Deputy Commissioner, these talented leaders truly reflect the diverse range of communities that make up our great city,” he said.
The mayor said Ms. Rajeswari has an “extraordinary, extraordinary empathy for others”.
He lauded her ability to speak in Indian, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian languages, saying she put her history as an immigrant and ability to speak all these languages to work, “helping to reach immigrants” in the Staten Island communities where she served as an Assistant District Attorney.
“And she saw as her mission to give them confidence in the justice process,” Mr. de Blasio said.
Ms. Rajeswari came to the U.S. when she was 16.
“It’s like a dream. It’s way beyond what I imagined,” she had told silive.com, a Staten Island news website.
“For someone like me, an immigrant who comes from India, I’m beyond grateful,” she had said. “I told the mayor this is not only my American Dream, but it shows another girl from a far away country that this is possible.”
Ms. Rajeswari hoped to use her new position to improve the judicial system by encouraging interpreters to have more access to aid immigrants, the news site had said.
Ms. Rajeswari had told Desi Talk newspaper that she had observed gender inequality even before coming to the US when some of her “brilliant” girlfriends in India were married off at the age of 14 and 15. “That has always stayed with me.”
As a prosecuting attorney in New York, she has come across numerous cases of spousal and child abuse with in the South Asian community in New York, Ms Rajeswari had said. “Many of the domestic violence victims have been South Asians, Sri Lankans.”
Ms. Rajeswari has served in the district attorney’s office for the past 16 years and has been the deputy chief of the Special Victims Unit for more than four years.
She has worked on cases involving women and children and said they are the ones that touched her the most.
Ms. Rajeswari said that she hopes to use her new position to improve the judicial system by encouraging interpreters to have more access to aid immigrants.
“I’m honoured to sit on a city bench and make Staten Island proud,” she said.
Currently, there are two male judges of Indian descent in civil court settings — Jaya Madhavan on the New York City Housing Court in Bronx County, and Anil C. Singh of New York County Supreme Court, 1st District, according to ethnic New India Times.
Besides her legal acumen Ms Rajeswari is an accomplished Bharat Natyam and Kucchipudi dancer who continues to perform at Indian events and temples with her troupe from the Padmalaya Dance Academy, named after her mother, Padma Ramanathan.
Source…..www.thehindu.com and http://www.ndtv.com
Natarajan
Nature Creates the Most Beautiful Geometry… |
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| I used to hate math when it was taught to me at school. It just never seemed to have a connection to real life. I forgot, you see, that the natural world makes use of mathematics all the time, and these fractal plants are just the proof of that. The language of God, as they say, is math. And so these beautiful plants (and one animal) represent both a real and a mathematical beauty.
Dahlia
Hoya Aldrichi
Aloe Polyphylla
Romanesco Broccoli
Amazon Lily Pad
Jeweled Carpet…
Fractal Cabbage
Sunflower
Spiraling Succulent
The Thinking Cactus
Camelia
Viola Sacculus
Chameleon Tail
Hoya Pubicalyx
Spiral Begonia
Hoya kerrii
Gorgeous Symmetry
Source…www.ba-bamail.com Natarajan |
While studying for a degree in neuroscience, Nadav Bagim (A.K.A. Aimishboy) went through a period of introspection. He wasn’t sure whether he wanted to continue with his studies, leaving him in somewhat of an existential impasse. When his father gave him an SLR-like camera, Nadav’s life went in an entirely different direction.
Nadav taught himself how to use the camera and became fascinated with macro photography. He says that he only uses Photoshop to perform minor tweaks in his images and that his tiny models do the real work.
The Celestial Conductor
Moon River
The Offering
Life Inside a Snowglobe
Swirling
Winged Shadows
Piggy-Back Ride
Tickle Me
Hey There!
Waiting for the Princess
Sunrise Friends
Make Slime, Not War
Source….www.ba-bamail.com
Natarajan
The words “I’m sorry”, followed by “I love you” were written across the Brisbane sky just after lunchtime on April 27. Photo: Michael Coombes/Twitter
It’s the question all of Brisbane wants answered: What on earth did he do to need to apologise in the sky?
Just after lunchtime on Monday, a skywriter plastered the words “I’m sorry”, followed by “I love you”, with the love signified by a heart, and two crosses for kisses, across the sky over the city.
Pictures of the airborne apology splashed across social media within minutes, with rumours flying about what somebody could have possibly done to warrant a gesture way that went beyond a bunch of flowers or make-up dinner.
The apology, as seen from the CBD.
The apology, as seen from the CBD. Photo: Daniela Sunde-Brown
The $4000 contrail confessional was carried out by Rob Vance of Skywriting Services Australia, based on the Gold Coast.
Mr Vance began the mercurial mea culpa at 12.58pm and finished it at 1.10pm.
“For us the words are back to front and upside down,” he said of the skywriting procedure.
“We’re working in three dimensions and can’t see what we’re doing, so it’s a bit tricky.”
Mr Vance said for now he could only confirm the person behind the apology was a man and an “interesting guy”.
But the man who requested it didn’t appear to be frantically lovelorn, he said.
“No, he was calm, cool and collected,” Mr Vance said.
While you can’t put a price on love, Mr Vance said the service usually charged $3990 for up to 10 letters or characters.
Interestingly, it’s not the first time Mr Vance has made a profit from someone screwing up.
“It’s usually along the same lines – someone saying sorry and that’s basically it,” he said.
“‘I’m sorry Barbara’ or something like that.”
The author and recipient of Monday’s message remain a mystery.
Mr Vance said he would check with his client to see if he could share the story behind the soaring sorry note.
“I’m sorry” appears over Brisbane. Photo: Amy Remeikis
Source….
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Natarajan
A FLIGHT attendant has been praised for “going the extra mile” to help a passenger.
Approximately three hours into a Turkish Airlines flight from Osaka to Istanbul, a Japanese passenger fainted, hitting her head. Her glasses shattered, cutting her cheek.
That’s when crew member Burcu Kirmaci sprung into action, according to local news site Bgnnews.com.
She applied first aid and looked after the passenger until the flight landed in Istanbul 10 hours later, but didn’t stop there. Ms Kirmaci escorted the passenger to hospital to get stitches, after realising the difficulty she would have
experienced there without knowing the local language.
“I knew I was the only one who could fully help the passenger given that I speak Japanese,” Ms Kirmaci said.
The woman was injured on a Turkish Airways flight. Source: Getty Images
She liaised with the Turkish doctor and the passenger, and took charge of the rest of the injured woman’s itinerary. She refused to leave her side, accompanying the passenger back to her final destination at approximately 10.30pm that night.
Fellow Japanese passengers from the flight voiced their appreciation and tried to offer Ms Kirmaci gifts.
She said her decision “was not an act of responsibility but rather an act of empathy”.
news.com.au has contacted Turkish Airlines for comment.
Ms Kirmaci was empathetic. Source: Facebook
Source……..www.news.com.au
Natarajan
It’s N. Hemisphere spring, and this male Purple Finch’s thoughts are turning to … well, hello, ladies!
Tom Wildoner says love is in the air this week at his bird feeders! He photographed this male and female Purple Finch Wednesday afternoon in Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Source……www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
This is a scene from the ghost town of Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu by Nempu Guru.
And this is the sunrise as seen from Varanasi’s Assi Ghat also by Guru.
Atanu Banerjee shares with us this photograph of a fisherman at work in Digha, West Bengal
And Pradipto Chakrabarty sends us this stunning view from the picturesque village of Sarahan in Himachal Pradesh.
And this view of Chandrakhani Pass in Manali has been sent to us by Shyam Chavan.
Chavan also sends us this picture of Parashar Lake in Himachal Pradesh
And Pankaj Kumar witnesses the cleanliness of Meghalaya’s rivers. This picture has been shot at Dauki.
This is a picture of the frozen Lake Tsongmo in Gangtok by Ashish Kawale.
And we come back to Tamil Nadu with this picture of the Kasimedu fishing harbour in Chennai by Jaimurugan.
Source……..www.rediff.com
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Amanda Curtis’ rare sighting of a quadruple rainbow over Long Island on April 21, 2015 is the real thing. It’s what’s called a reflection rainbow …
Amanda Curtis, CEO of 19th Amendment, is having a very lucky day. While waiting for a train in Long Island this morning she caught this heavenly vision, a rare quadruple rainbow.
Amanda’s photo, which quickly went viral turns out to be what Les Cowley of the great website Atmospheric Optics calls a reflection rainbow. A reflected double rainbow! Bad Astronomer Phil Plaitat Slate agrees. In other words, according to Phil:
The angle of the weirder, more vertical bows is what gives it away. If the light forming rainbows reflects off a body of water (say, a lake, pond, or even standing water on a road) you get another set of rainbows cast at a different angle.
Les explains that reflection rainbows are:
… produced by sunlight beaming upwards after reflection from calm water or wet sand …
The Scottish Western Isles are favored places for reflection bows. The prevailing warm south westerlies from the Atlantic Ocean bring frequent showers of fine rain interspersed by skies of exceptional purity whose sunlight is reflected in the many bays and inlets.
But today, thanks to Amanda Curtis, we can all enjoy this rare optical phenomenon!
Thanks for sharing your pic with us at EarthSky, Amanda!
P.S. This reflected double rainbow is a different phenomenon, by the way, from what experts in atmospheric optics call tertiary or quaternary bows. They are even more rare. Read the latest on them – from 2011 – here: First-ever photos of triple and quadruple rainbows
Bottom line: Amanda Curtis’ rare photo of a quadruple rainbow, seen over Long Island on April 21, is the real thing. It’s a reflected double rainbow.
Source…….www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
A Very Helpful Color Chart |
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This great and handy color chart was diligently made by Ingrid Sundberg, a write and children’s books illustrator. Sundberg says that she loves nothing more than collecting exotic words that give her stories variety. We all have different associations with the words that describe colors, says Sundberg. I know that I have certain associations with ‘sepia’, for instance, imaginging mostly as a light brown, although some see it as a darker hue.
With this handy color chart, there will be no more arguing about color! Now you can always show the person (or salesman) the exact color you are talking about
            Source……www.ba-bamail.com
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