” God’s Own Child From God’s Own Country “….

Edmund Thomas Clint was a child prodigy from Kochi, Kerela. Sadly, he lived only for 7 years and passed away due to kidney failure.

But what he did in those 7 years is a work of sheer genius. At such a tender age, he had the creative bent of an artistic legend: he created some fine 25,000 artwork in just 2522 days!

Clint Road in Kochi is named after him. There are books and films on his unbelievable journey, yet this is an untold story. The video rightly attributes,

“Gods Own Child from God’s Own Country”

 

 

 

source::: You Tube and Story Pick

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NASA Announces An Earth like Planet ….

 

NASA and Kepler telescope researchers have just announced that they’ve discovered an Earth-sized planet, circling a dwarf star at a distance that would allow that planet to support liquid water. 

A live press conference is currently happening, which includes Douglas Hudgins of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Tom Barclay of Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Ames, and Victoria Meadows of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute at Ames.

You can watch live on Ustream and we’ve embedded the video below. Questions for the scientists can be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/46348063
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The finding was also published today, April 16, in the journal Science.

The new planet, Kepler-186f, is part of a five-planet planet system that orbits a star named Kepler-186, which is cooler and about half the size and mass of our sun.

The newfound system is located about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Kepler-186f is the outermost planet and the only one circling its star at the right distance to have liquid water on it’s surface. Since liquid water is a key ingredient for life to exist, scientists call this sweet spot the “habitable zone.”

On planets that are too close to their star, liquid water boils away. Those that are too far don’t get enough energy from their star to support a climate and atmosphere similar to Earth.

The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized planets near stars like our sun. Kepler has found dozens of exoplanets in the habitable zone, but most of these are gas giants. Kepler-186f is the first confirmed Earth-sized planet potentially with an Earth-like atmosphere and water at its surface.

 

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Danielle Futselaar

The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone.

 

 

Size and composition

Kepler-186f is less than 10% larger than Earth. Scientists confirmed the size of Kepler-186f by measuring how much light it blocks as it passed in front of its host star.

Scientists don’t yet know the mass or composition of Kepler-186f, but think it could have a rocky surface based on planets of similar size – like Earth.

“There’s a very excellent chance that it does have a rocky surface like the Earth,” co-author Stephen Kane, of San Francisco State University, said in a statement.

Here’s how the planets of our inner solar system compare to those of Kepler-186:

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NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-CalTech

The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

 

source::::Business Insider India

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Message For The Day…” Only When Your Mind Is Pure, You Can Realise The Divinity In You …”

 

There are several, who, despite chanting the Lord’s name for several hours, days and months together, did not transform themselves even one bit. The demonic nature of Ravana, Bhasmasura and Kamsa did not diminish even a little, despite their chanting of the Lord’s name. What is the reason for this? All their sense organs function with the feeling: “I am the body (Aham Dehosmi).” Those who utter the name of the Lord while being immersed in body consciousness cannot realise the Divine, however long their penance may last. You are the embodiment of Divine Consciousness. Only when you are pure, you can experience that consciousness. Through attachment to worldly pleasures one gets bound to the physical and becomes oblivious to one’s essential Divinity.  

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Message For The Day…” Never Be Egoistic of Your Knowledge… “

 

Educare guides a person to be humble, it grants a sense of discrimination endowed with wisdom. Why should anyone feel proud in being educated? Ultimately isn’t what he or she has attained a fraction of all learning? Never be egoistic of the knowledge you have acquired. Education is true, only when you direct it to render service to the society. Humility must be the crest jewel ornament of an educated person; it is truly the essence of education. It must reflect in our daily conduct and behavior, and should not be simply limited to occasional verbal expressions. People with humility, and obedience to parents and elders will achieve great success in their lives. Through your own words and actions, you must manifest the latent values by engaging yourselves in appropriate acts.   

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How A Small Kid Can Inspire a Billion People …

 

 

 

In under 2 minutes, this cute little video achieves what filmmakers struggle to infuse in their work: emotion, empathy and a crystal clear call to action. This social experiment was conducted in Khao Galli, Mumbai . 

The video strikes the right chord coz you can’t impose social responsibility on anyone, but you can surely inspire.

And the best part: you need not be a person of clout to inspire, you can just be a school kid.

source::::You Tube & Storypick

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Try This Trick for Password Management !!!

 

If you’re  scrambling to change your password following the Heartbleed bug and don’t know where to start, this trick may be one of the simplest solutions yet.

Not only does it generate a password that’s random enough to keep intruders away, but it also ensures that you’ll be able to remember it.

Yuriy Guts, a research and development software engineer at Eleks Labs, detailed a comprehensive password creation method on the company’s R&D blog.

The first step in Guts’ process involves thinking of a movie or television show, a line from a song, or any other reference that you associate with that website.

For example, you might want to think of a movie that reminds you of one of your best friends to help you create a strong Facebook password. Grab the most memorable line from that movie.

Once you’ve come up with your quote or phrase, add a few transformations to make it more difficult to guess. For example, Guts suggests replacing each space with an underscore, capitalizing the second letter of each word, adding a number at the end of the phrase that denotes the number of words in it, or any similar method.

If you’re using the line “I’m king of the world!” from the movie “Titanic,” your password may look something like this:

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The trick works even better if you’ve got inside jokes or phrases that only you would know or remember. After you’ve created this password, store it in some type of management system in case you forget it. Guts advises that you change your passwords every 12 months by repeating those steps.

The idea of using a phrase to help you remember your password isn’t particularly new. But what makes Guts’ approach more interesting is that each phrase is specifically tailored to an individual website or app— meaning you’re creating a password that’s easy to remember while also guaranteeing all of your passwords are different from one another.

Since the password method requires you to generate a phrase or sentence, it’s much easier and more natural to type it quickly when logging in rather than pecking at the keyboard to input some obscure string of characters.

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NASA Has An Answer to ” Mysterious Light On MARS …” !!!

 

Sorry, mysterious glow on Mars is not life !!!

KINDLY SEE MY EARLIER POST  ” Mysterious Light On Mars ….Will Somebody Throw Some ” Light ” on This !!! ”  before reading this post…
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Washington, April 12 (IANS) The strange “glow” spotted on the Red Planet by Curiosity is not a sign of life. It is either a shiny rock or a glitch in the rover’s camera, NASA has said.

UFO blogger Scott Waring had claimed that the new photograph taken by the rover suggests there are intelligent creatures living underground.

However, NASA said it has now investigated the image, and found it is simply a trick of light.

“One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun,” a NASA spokesperson was quoted as saying by mailonline.uk.

“When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky.

“The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be caused by cosmic rays striking the camera’s detector.”

NASA’s engineers believe the glow may have been caused by sunlight reaching the camera’s sensors through a vent hole in the camera housing.

The agency said this has happened previously on other cameras on Curiosity and other Mars rovers when the geometry of the incoming sunlight relative to the camera is precisely aligned.

NASA also revealed that such glitches are commonplace.

“Among the thousands of images received from Curiosity, ones with bright spots show up nearly every week.”

Curiosity takes images using two cameras, one in its right eye and the other in its left.

source:::: Techno Storm from Yahoo

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While the image from the right eye shows this bright spot, the same image from the left eye does not.

Message For the Day…” Ensure Your Kids are on The Right Path at All Times…”

 

Young students are innocent. Their hearts and minds are pure, and they are selfless. In the primary school, you will find that many of them observe perfect discipline and are well behaved. By the time they are in secondary school, the purity and discipline slowly decreases. When they reach a college or university, everything becomes topsy-turvy! What really happens in between? As they grow in years, their mental balance is upset; they lose the steadiness of mind and self-control. They are exposed to undesirable influences. At this stage, teachers and parents must practice exemplary behavior and ensure that the children are on the right path at all times. Students also must bear in mind that all the regulations and discipline that are prescribed are for their highest good and in their own interests.   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

 

 

” Think Differently “… That is What Kids Do !!!

Kids Just Think Differently
I’m a huge fan of Bill Cosby’s old show: “Kids say the darndest things”. Because nothing can beat the innocence and inexperience of a child when it comes to funny lines. They sometimes say things that adult comedians would just never think of saying, and it’s all the more hilarious for it!

“Close the curtains,” requested our 2 year old granddaughter, sitting in a pool of bright light. “The sun’s looking at me too hard.”

My friend asked our grandson when he would turn 6. He refreplied, “When I’m tired of being 5.”

Seeing her first hailstorm, Mary Sue, age 3, exclaimed, “Mommy, it’s raining dumplings!”

As I frantically waved away a pesky fly with a white dishtowel, my granddaughter observed, “Maybe he thinks you’re surrendering.”

A friend’s grandson, 4, was reading with his granddad about Adam and Eve. He asked, “Is this where God took out the man’s brain and made a woman?”

Announcing to daughter Lori that her aunt just had a baby and it looked like her uncle, she said, “You mean he has a mustache?”

When I asked our grandson if he could name the capital of Florida, he fired right back, “Capital F!”

While shampooing our son, 4, I noted his hair was growing so fast he’d soon need it cut. He replied, “Maybe we shouldn’t water it so much.”

My daughter told her 5-year-old that their van was going to be fixed. Instantly, the small fry assumed, “Oh, it’s going to the tire-o-practor?”

Impressed by her 5-year-old’s vocabulary, my friend complimented the young scholar, who nonchalantly responded, ” I have words in my head I haven’t even used yet.”

His Mom informed her son, Brian, that she was going outside to get a little sun. “But Mommy, he gulped, “You already have a son. Me!”

When our son asked about two look-alike classmates at school, we told him they were probably twins. The next day, he came home from school all bubbly and said, “Guess what! They are not only twins….they’re brothers!!”

 

source::::ba-ba mail site

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