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Om is the sum and essence of all the teachings in scriptures about Divinity;“Om ithi ekaaksharam Brahma” states the Vedas, meaning, the one syllable Om, is Brahman, the Divine! Om is a composite of three sounds A (aa), U (oo) and M (mm). It has to be pronounced rising in a crescendo as slowly as possible, and as gradually coming down, until there remains only the echo of the silence reverberating in the cavity of your heart. Do not take it in two stages, arguing that your breath will not hold so long. Persevere until you are able to be stirred by the upward sweep and the downward curve and the silent sequel. These represent the waking, dreaming and sleeping, and the fourth, beyond the three stages. It represents also the flower of your individuality maturing into a fruit and filling you with sweet juice from your own inner essence, and thereafter the final release.
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Amazing Freestyle FootBall Skill … Watch This Lady !!!
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Breaking Stereotypes: This Woman’s Freestyle Football Skills Will Leave You Spellbound
Rub your eyes all you want but it’s true. This young woman’s skills with the football are unbelievable and this video will give you much joy and motivation to find and nurture a talent, maybe. Melody Donchet, winner of the 2014 Street Style World Final held in Salvador, Brazil, makes sweet music with her footwork as she juggles a football, watched by a thrilled audience.She does hand-stands and swirls her legs like a ribbon, all the while balancing a football like it’s no big deal. The expression on her fellow contestant’s face tells you everything there is. She looks awed and mortified and we don’t blame her.
With the crowd cheering her on and the judges unanimously declaring her victorious, there is no doubt whatsoever that Melody’s skill with the ball makes her everything that a winner ought to be.
Mind = blown.
SOURCE::::: http://www.ndtv.com
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5 Things Lucky People Do …
Author Ashwin Sanghi says that it is indeed possible to ‘attract’ good luck! Here’s how!
Ashwin Sanghi is the author of four bestselling books — The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key and Private India, the last of which he co-authored with the American bestselling writer James Patterson.
Sanghi’s next book, like all his previous ones, is also a page-turner. But 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck also happens to be his first work of non-fiction.
In it, Sanghi suggests that while some people are ‘luckier’ than others, it is also possible to ‘attract’ good luck your way.
Lady Luck, he says, isn’t all that fickle after all because we can ‘train’ ourselves to be lucky!
So what is it exactly that lucky people do?
Speaking to Rediff.com, Sanghi lists out five important things that most lucky people seem to do:
1. Lucky people grow and strengthen their network
Luck hates loneliness. It’s almost impossible to be lucky alone. A story that will illustrate this point is that of Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Ravi Shankar was a music director with All India Radio (or AIR) from 1949 to 1956. VK Narayana Menon, Director of AIR, introduced Shankar to the renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
Menuhin invited Shankar to perform in America.
In America, Shankar became friends with Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records.
Shankar executed several recordings at Bock’s studio.
The American rock band The Byrds who also used to record there heard Shankar’s music and incorporated some of his music into their tracks.
These tracks came to the attention of George Harrison of the Beatles and Harrison soon visited India to study the sitar under Ravi Shankar.
The Beatles went on to use the sitar in their ‘Norwegian Wood’ track.
Shankar’s association with The Beatles got him invited to Woodstock and made him the most famous Indian musician on the planet by 1966.
That’s called the network effect.
2. Lucky people listen to their intuition and develop it
All of us seem to have two voices inside us.
The first is intuition, our ‘inner wizard’.
It tries to tell us what we should be doing and what will be good for us.
The second voice inside us is the ‘inner critic’, which sends a steady stream of destructive thoughts directed towards us and others.
Ignoring the critic and listening to the wizard is a key trait of lucky people.
An example of intuitive good luck is the story of Conrad Hilton, the legendary founder of Hilton Hotels.
Hilton claimed that his incredible success as a hotelier was often due to his lucky hunches.
On one particular occasion, Hilton submitted a sealed bid of $165,000 to buy a rundown Chicago hotel in a sealed bid auction.
The next morning, something didn’t feel right. Acting on his intuition, he submitted another bid of $180,000.
When the bids were examined, Hilton’s was the winning bid.
The next highest offer was $179,800.
3. Lucky people are willing to try new things
The overall willingness of lucky people to try new things simply increases the number of opportunities that come their way thus increasing their good luck.
Consider the story of the great painter Henri Matisse. Matisse went to Paris to study law and started working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambresis after gaining his qualification.
Following an attack of appendicitis in 1889, he underwent a period of convalescence.
His mother bought him some art supplies so that he could keep himself occupied even though Matisse had never painted in his life.
Little did his mother realise that her son would discover ‘a kind of paradise’ as he later described the experience.
He decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father by that decision but going on to become one of the greatest painters ever.
The good luck would simply not have kicked in without Matisse’s openness to try a new activity.
4. Lucky people make the best of bad situations, stay positive and persevere
Lucky people are simply those who use every bad situation to the best of their abilities.
The life stories of some of the ‘luckiest’ people reveal that most of them thrived under conditions of adversity.
Beethoven composed his best-known masterpieces after he became deaf while Sir Walter Raleigh wrote History of the World during his 13 years in prison.
The Discovery of India was written by Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in Ahmednagar Fort from 1942 to 1946 while Martin Luther translated the Holy Bible while confined in the Castle of Wartburg.
With a sentence of death hanging over him, Dante wrote The Divine Comedy during 20 years of exile.
5. Lucky people stay alert and informed
Most lucky people have understood that calming the mind is a key method to increase alertness.
Lucky people find their own unique ways to tame their minds.
Hence they are better able to deal with difficult or stressful situations in their lives.
Often it is this alertness that allows ‘lucky’ people to spot opportunities when they arise.
Consider the case of Ray Kroc, the person credited with creating the McDonald’s franchising system.
The brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald had established McDonald’s, a fast food restaurant.
The restaurant used Castle Multimixers to make milkshakes.
Ray Kroc supplied these machines to McDonald’s among others.
When Ray noticed that the McDonald brothers had purchased eight Multimixers in a very short period of time, he visited their San Bernardino restaurant to investigate.
Seeing their efficient operation convinced Ray that their scientific restaurant processes could be converted into a national franchising opportunity.
He quickly offered to become a franchising agent for the brothers and opened McDonald’s Inc’s very first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
He eventually bought out the company from the brothers in 1961 for $2.7 million.
Good luck for Ray Kroc?
Yes. But his good luck only happened because he was alert to a sudden spike in the sales of Castle Multimixers!
SOURCE::: http://www.rediff.com
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” பார்த்து , படித்து ரசித்த ‘வாட்ஸ் அப்’ கலக்கல்கள் …” !!!
A Briton Who is Cleaning Up India ….
There is a reason Jodie Underhill is called the ‘garbage girl’.
Archana Masih/Rediff.com meets the young lady who has been dirtying her hands in a crusade against filth.
“The first thing I saw were the beautiful mountains, but when I looked over the edge what I saw was — garbage,” says Jodie Underhill remembering her trek to Triund, near McLeodganj a few years ago.
Left: Jodie Underhill, CEO-Founder, Waste Warriors. Photograph: Seema Pant/Rediff.com
After spending three months travelling through Mumbai, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, she had made her way to Dharamsala in 2008.
“India is such a beautiful country, but I haven’t seen filth on this scale. People just don’t care,” she continues talking about her battle with garbage in her office-cum-home in Dehradun; which is also a refuge to Bella, a donkey that broke its leg in a car accident across the road.
“I thought Dharamsala would be my salvation. It was the home of the Dalai Lama and would be clean, but I was wrong. I got off the tourist bus at 6 am to see a big pile of garbage at my feet. I couldn’t take it anymore.”
A native of England, Underhill, who had come to volunteer at a Tibetan school, then spent two weeks walking around McLeodganj with a placard saying ‘Volunteers Needed.’
Hundreds of people, mostly foreigners, turned up for her first clean up.
She and the volunteers went on to clean a children’s park that had been made into a dumping ground and started a waste collection system from home and shops in Triund so that people stopped throwing garbage down the mountains.
“With every piece of glass, plastic or trash you picked, it felt you were rescuing nature in a small way,” she says.
Since then waste is collected from 250 households and brought down on mules. Her NGO also maintains an 8-km-long popular trekking trail.
Underhill, who is often called ‘pagal (mad) for her passion for cleaning up and disposing off waste in the correct way, moved to Dehradun in 2012 to start Waste Warriors with funding from Max-India.
One of its projects was Gandhi Park, the only park in the city, which costs Rs 20,000 a month to maintain.
The organisation and its staff of 24 waste workers maintain certain shopping complexes, forest areas and localities in cooperation with shopkeepers and locals. She also conducts workshops in schools and has conducted a programme on waste management with the Indian Army.
“In India, people have a terrible attitude towards those who clear waste. They are the invisible people. Without them India would have disappeared under its garbage,” says the 38 year old, who won Times Now’s Amazing Indian Award in 2012 and a Rs 4 lakh (Rs 400,000) grant from the Mahindra Rise competition that supports new ideas.
In addition, Mahindra also gave Waste Warriors two pick-up trucks. It was the first time Waste Warriors moved on from the sole cycle rickshaw it had used till then to collect waste. Individual donations also help the organisation with funds — one of them being Telugu movie superstar Chiranjeevi’s contribution of Rs 5 lakhs (Rs 500,000).
When Underhill, a CEO without a salary, could not get a reduction in her visa extension fee of Rs 32,000 recently, Michael Dalvi, the former Ranji Trophy player, donated the amount to the NGO.
Waste Warriors charges Rs 100 from a chaiwallah to Rs 5,000 from a bank to collect and dispose the garbage responsibly. In a particular complex in Dehradun, the waste was earlier being dumped into a parking lot.
Struggling to raise funds and at times confronted with local governmental indifference, working with garbage hasn’t been easy for Underhill. It also elicits prejudice. She was once reported as a prostitute to the Foreigners Registration Office because residents disapproved of her living with two sweepers and her clean-up rounds in a cycle rickshaw.
“I shared their home. It was convenient as I worked with them,” she says and is grateful to have found the present space where Waste Warriors does waste segregation, composting and even provides shelter to cows, donkeys and dogs
Getting down on her knees as she goes through a pile of garbage her waste warriors had brought in, she picks up a plastic bag with rotting, smelly foodstuff.
“This plastic will take hundreds of years to decompose,” she says, reiterating the 5 important things all of us MUST do:
- Segregate dry and liquid waste.
- Stop using plastic.
- Recycle.
- Compost food/ garden waste.
- Stop LITTERING and PEEING anywhere you feel like!
Image: Jodie Underhill with Bella, an injured donkey that she has given refuge. Photograph: Seema Pant/Rediff.com
“To change mindsets and habits is not impossible, but difficult. Stopping littering, dumping, burning is equivalent to giving up alcohol or drug addiction,” says Underhill, whose NGO is also working with six villages surrounding the Corbett National Park and aims to expand to 120 villages in the next five years.
With no awareness or mechanism, villagers have been dumping their waste into the Corbett tiger reserve. Funding for the first year has been provided by Mahindra. Waste Warriors has projects in Dharamsala, Dehradun, Corbett and has recently started work in Rishikesh. It aims at having similar projects around the country.
Underhill is quite obviously, excited about the Swachh Bharat initiative, and is eager to make a presentation to the prime minister. “I’d like to tell him what needs to be done because I work in the field,” she says.
“The PM is doing the right thing, but sweeping is not enough, it also has to be disposed properly. We need infrastructure, technology and mass scale awareness,” says Underhill.
“The municipal solid waste rules that came into being 14 years ago need to be enforced and read by every government official. This piece of legislation is the key to cleaning India.”
Yet she feels no government can work wonders unless the people bring about the transformation themselves.
Back in England, her parents think she has lost her mind to be working with garbage in India. But she feels India is home.
“English parents are like Indian parents. They want you to get married and have kids. I say I want to make a difference for other kids,” says Underhill who hasn’t been home for a couple of years.
“What are we leaving behind for them — a planet that has nothing left? Millions are going to die if we don’t change the way we live.”
Archana Masih/Rediff.com in Dehradun
Joke of the Day…” Only one Parachute Left Now … ” !!!
Four people are in an airplane, the pilot, the smartest man in the world, the richest man in the world, and a punk teenager. The airplane experiences some difficulties, and the pilot informs the three passengers that the plane is going to crash, and there are only three parachutes on the plane. The richest man in the world takes one, because he says that his lawyers will sue everyone else on the plane if he doesn’t survive. The smartest man in the world takes a parachute, because he thinks that the world would be a worse place without him. The pilot says to the punk “There’s only one parachute left, I’ll fight you for it.” “That won’t be necessary,” said the punk, “The smartest man in the world took my backpack.”
SOURCE:::: http://www.joke a day.com
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Strange … But True !!!
The U.S. Accidentally Dropped An Atomic Bomb On South Carolina In 1958 !!!
The Cold War is over, but there are still plenty of remnants from its troubles across the American landscape. One major reminder of this era is the crater in Mars Bluffs, South Carolina, where the Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb in 1958. This site was one of the biggest military blunders of the entire Cold War. It’s a miracle that no one was killed.
Walter Gregg and his family were minding their own business on March 11, 1958. Suddenly, a giant explosion out of nowhere rocked the property and nearly destroyed their house. After Gregg accounted for his family members (none of whom were injured), he wondered what exactly happened.
Unbeknownst to Gregg, on that same spring morning, a B-47 Stratojet was flying in the skies over his property. The bomber was on its way to the U.K. to take part in a war game exercise. At that time, all bombers in the air were required to carry an atomic payload. This was because of the off-chance that nuclear war broke out while they were in the air. This particular bomber carried a Mark 6 atomic bomb, like the one pictured below.
Luckily, this particular Mark 6 bomb did not have its nuclear rod inserted. Otherwise, what happened would have been much, much worse.
As the bomber passed over Gregg’s house, a warning light went off. Something was wrong with the bomb’s docking system. Apparently, the locking pin was not engaged properly. That’s when navigator Captain Bruce Kulka went to investigate. However, while he was trying to fix the locking pin, Kulka accidentally pressed the bomb’s emergency release.
The weight of the 8,500 pound bomb forced the bay doors open. The bomb plummeted towards the woods of Mars Bluff. When the bomb landed, it left a 75-foot-wide, and 30-foot-deep crater in the forest near Gregg’s house. Here is what the impact site looks like today.
Luckily, no one died in the explosion, but it did level several buildings on Gregg’s property and damage nearby houses. Just imagine how much worse it would have been if the bomb was armed with its nuclear material.
The military paid Gregg and his family $54,000 to rebuild what was destroyed by the bomb and to keep things quiet. It was also around this time when a new rule was put in place requiring planes to make sure that their payloads were locked before take-off.
You can still see some pieces of the original bomb dropped on Mars Bluff at a local museum.
Via: Atlas Obscura
Talk about a big “oopsie.” I can’t believe the flight crew didn’t think to check if the bomb was secured properly before taking off. This could have kicked off World War III if the bomb was actually armed with its nuclear rod. What a simple mistake. Luckily, we’re all around now to laugh about it.
Image of the day…” MoonLight Skating in Sweden …” !!!
“Nights like these are almost to good to be true.” See this touching, just-released video.
Master sky photographer Göran Strand of Sweden – whose beautiful photo The Father, The Son and the Moon is also featured here at EarthSky this week – mentioned a couple of days ago that he soon would have something more “exotic” to show us. Today (December 10, 2014), he wrote with word of a new video he’s just completed and posted at YouTube. He wrote:
Now I finished the movie showing me and a couple of my friends tour skating on a frozen lake near Östersund, Sweden [a couple of nights ago]. This night was really magic, no wind, lots of ice crystals in the air and an almost full moon that shined upon us during our two hours out on the ice. To the right of the moon, you can see the constellation of Orion and, down left of the moon, you can see planet Jupiter shining brightly.
Nights like these are almost to good to be true.
Hope you like it.
Visit Göran Strand’s website: http://www.astrofotografen.se
Visit Göran on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fotografgoranstrand
Follow Göran on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astrofotografen
Göran Strand on Instagram: http://instagram.com/Astrofotografen
SOURCE::: http://www.earthsky.org and You Tube
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Joke of the Day… ” It is Not Addressed to you …” !!!
A couple of terrorist were making letter bombs. After they had finished, one said: “Do you think I put enough explosive in this envelope? “I don’t know,” said the other. “Open it and see.” “But it will explode.” “Don’t be stupid! It’s not addressed to you!
SOURCE:::: joke a day.com
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Home Remedies to control Your Blood Sugar Level !!!
Home Remedies To Control Blood Sugar Levels
| Diabetes is one of the leading concerns among health professionals today as more and more individuals fall prey to this life-long and dangerous disease. Diabetes is caused when the blood sugar levels rise to an excess and a resistance to insulin results. Once this happens, the diabetic individual can no longer control their blood sugar levels, and they can rise and fall with serious consequences. Yet whether you are diabetic or know someone diabetic or not, it is important to implement measures to control blood sugar levels and to stop the spread of the diabetes in its tracks. |
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1. Consume More Dairy Products
 The protein and fat in dairy products helps improve blood sugar levels, and if the products are low in fat, it has been shown that they can also decreased the chances for developing insulin resistance.
2. Choose the Right Kind of Bread
Avoid white flour based products at all costs! These simple carbohydrates are full of sugar that spike up your blood sugar. Instead, you should consume whole wheat or rye products that are high in fiber, protein and complex carbohydrates which control blood sugar levels and keep you full longer.
3. Maximize the Magnesium
Magnesium is a mineral known to help prevent the onset of Type II diabetes and should be consumed as much as possible. It is best to consume natural sources of magnesium such as spinach, fish, nuts, leafy greens and avocados. All of these foods have been proved to lower the risk of diabetes and can even aid in weightless.
 4. Cardamom is great!
Cardamom originates in the ginger family of spices and comes from Asia as well as South America. The spice is known to regulate Type II diabetes and can be sprinkled on coffee, tea, yogurt and even cereal. The spice is known to help decrease blood glucose levels by eighteen to thirty percent.
5. Buckwheat
 Buckwheat is an excellent source of fiber that you may never have heard of. It also does wonders for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. Buckwheat comes in the form of soba noodles, which are a delicious substitute for rice or pasta as well as in a number of powders that can be added to baked goods or even on top of a slice of (whole wheat) bread.
6. Drink in Moderation
Alcohol contains huge amounts of sugar, and anyone trying to watch out for their blood sugar should definitely moderate the amount of alcohol they consume. It is best to occasionally drink wine with dinner, and not after dinner when the same glass of wine could alter insulin levels in the blood.
7. Watch Fat Intake
It is important to watch the amount of saturated fats entering the body because these can seriously increase the chances of contracting diabetes. Saturated fats are usually in fried and junk foods as they are cooked in unhealthy oils.
8. Exercise Daily
Getting in exercise each day is critical to maintaining normal blood sugar levels, even if it’s a brisk walk in the park.
9. Laughing
Yes, this is really one of the tips that will prevent your chances for diabetes. It was found that those who laugh have lower blood sugar levels than those who don’t laugh enough (this means you should keep reading our jokes!).
 10. Eat Grapefruit
Grapefruit has been proved to aid in weight loss as it affects the glucose metabolism, keeping insulin levels steady.
11. Do Resistance Training
Building muscle mass is important for burning more glucose out of your system and training once to twice a week could significantly aid in preventing the occurrence of diabetes.
12. Drink Decaf, Not Regular
 Decaffeinated coffee slows down the rate at which the intestines absorb sugars and speeds up the absorption of sugar by the muscles.
13. Eat Smaller Meals
It is best to have a small meal every half hour and then another small meal (or a second half of the regular size meal) later on. In the same vein, it is also important to eat regularly so that insulin levels don’t spike.
14. Get Enough Sleep
Sleep deprivation can affect blood sugar and insulin levels so it is important to get enough sleep each night. It is also essential to stop snoring because according to some studies, those who snore are more likely to develop diabetes (because snoring is often tied to being overweight).
15. Learn Relaxation
Listen to soothing music or read an interesting book, whatever you need to do to relax. Meditation and yoga can also help if they are done properly and on a regular basis.
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SOURCE::::www.ba-bamail ,com
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