” Why you are asked to Raise Your Window shades For Take off and Landing … ” ?

Have you ever wondered why cabin crew on commercial flights ask you to raise your window shade for takeoff and landing?

 

Window

We asked around the office and got all sorts of answers, from passenger curiosity to conspiracy theories about terrorism threats.

We decided to ask Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) corporate communications manager Peter Gibson to explain the real reason behind it.

“The simple answer is, for safety reasons,” Gibson told Business Insider Australia. “In case of an emergency, cabin crew need to decide which side of the aircraft is safest to disembark from. Leaving the window shade up allows them to make a quick call.”

Gibson said the measures were part of commercial airline safety procedures in Australia and applied to all large commercial aircraft.

SOURCE:::: BUSINESSINSIDER.COM

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/heres-why-airlines-ask-you-to-raise-the-window-shade-for-take-off-and-landing-2014-10#ixzz3HPE4AbOV

 

Message For the Day…” Do not Underestimate the Potentialities of Human Body…”

Human life is the combination of body, mind and soul. Body is the basis to attain wisdom. Therefore it should not be misused. You must purify your body and mind by undertaking sacred actions. Do not underestimate the potentialities of the human body. In fact the human body is the basis for attaining the goal of life. Work for the redemption of your life by chanting the Divine Name and undertaking sacred activities. You need not make any special effort to acquire the human values – they are latent within you, right from your birth. You have forgotten them, as you failed to practice them. Instead of giving tons of speeches, practice at least an ounce of what you have learnt. Humanity is on the decline only because people are not practicing human values. You are developing desires (asalu) forgetting ideals (adarsalu).

Sathya Sai Baba

” ஆறுமுகமான ஷண்முகத் தத்துவம் என்ன …. “

ஓம் சரவணபவாய நம: பழனியாண்டவனுக்கு அரோகரா! 

  

 

 

இன்று நாம் முருகப்பெருமானுடைய‌ஆறுமுகங்களின் பொருள் என்ன, ஷண்முகத் தத்துவம் என்ன‌, இசைபயில் ச‌டக்கர மந்திரத்தின் விளக்கம் என்ன என்பதுபற்றி சற்று சுருக்கமாக தெரிந்துகொள்வேம்.

ஆறுமுகங்கள் யார், யாரைக் குறிப்பன?

ஒரு முகம்                                           – மஹாவிஷ்ணுவுக்கு,

இரண்டாம் முகம்                              – அக்னிக்கு,

மூன்றாம் முகம்                                 – தத்தாத்ரேயருக்கு,

நான்காம் முகம்                                 – பிரம்மனுக்கு,

ஐந்துவது முகம்                                 – சிவனுக்கு, அனுமனுக்கு, காயத்ரி தேவிக்கு, ஹேரம்ப கணபதிக்கு

ஆறாவது முகம்                                 – கந்தனுக்கு.

அருளாள‌ர்கள் ஆறுமுகங்களைப் பற்றி என்ன சொல்கின்றார்கள்?

நக்கீரர் அவரதுத் திருமுருகாற்றுப்படையில்:

1. உலகைப் பிரகாசிக்கச் செய்ய ஒரு முகம்,

2. பக்தர்களுக்கு அருள ஒரு முகம்,

3. வேள்விகளைக் காக்க ஒரு முகம்,

4. உபதேசம் புரிய ஒரு முகம்,

5. தீயோரை அழிக்க ஒரு முகம்,

6. பிரபஞ்ச நன்மைக்காக வள்ளியுடன் குலவ ஒரு முகம்

– என்று ஆறுமுகங்கள் குறித்துப் பாடுகின்றார்,

குமரகுருபரர் தம் கந்தர் கலிவெண்பாவில்,

1. சத்ரு சம்ஹாரத்திற்கு ஒரு முகம்

2. முக்தி அளிக்க ஒரு முகம்

3. ஞானம் அருள ஒரு முகம்

4. அஞ்ஞானம் அழிக்க ஒரு முகம்

5. சக்தியுடன் இணைந்து அருள ஒரு முகம்

6. பக்தர்களுக்கு அருள ஒரு முகம்

– என்று சண்முகங்களின் அற, மறக்கருணைப் பண்புகளைப் பாடுகின்றார்.

நம் சற்குரு அருணகிரிநாதர் தன் திருப்புகழில்:

ஏறுமயிலேறி விளையாடு முகம் ஒன்றே

ஈசருடன் ஞானமொழி பேசு முகம் ஒன்றே

கூறும் அடியார்கள் வினை தீர்க்கு முகம் ஒன்றே

குன்றுருவ வேல் வாங்கி நின்ற முகம் ஒன்றே

மாறுபடு சூரரை வதைத்த முகம் ஒன்றே

வள்ளியை மணம் புணர வந்த முகம் ஒன்றே

ஆறுமுகமான பொருள் நீயருளல் வேண்டும்

ஆதி அருணாசலம் அமர்ந்த பெருமாளே!

-என்று தான் கண்ட ஆறுமுக தரிசனத்தைப் பாடுகின்றார்.

திருச்செந்தூர் புராணம் ஷண்முகனை:

ஷடரிம் ஷட்விகாரம் ஷட்கோசம் ஷட்ரஸம் தத்

ஷட் ஸூத்ரம் ஷண்மதம் ஷட்வேதாங்கம் ஷண்முகம் பஜே!

-என்று மந்திர உபாசனை செய்கின்றது. ‘ஷடரிம் = காமம், குரோதம், லோபம், மதம், மாத்சர்யம், மோகம் என்ற ஆறு அவகுணங்களை போக்குபவன் கந்தன்,  ஷட்விகாரம் ‍= ஆகுதல், இருத்தல், வளர்தல், மாறுதல், குறைதல், அழிதல் என்ற ஆறும் அற்றவன் அவன், ஷட்கோசம் = அன்னமய, பிராணமய, மனோமய, விஞ்ஞானமய, ஆனந்தமய, அதீதமய என்ற ஆறு நிலைகளில் இருப்பவன் அவன், ஷட்ரசம் = ஆறு வகை சுவைகளாக இருப்பவன் அவன், ஷட்ஸூத்ரம் =  சாங்கியம், வைசேசிகம், யோகம், நியாய‌ம், பூர்வ மீமாம்ஸம், வேதாந்தம் (உத்ர மீமாம்சம்) என்ற ஆறு சாத்திரங்களாக இருப்பவன் அவன், ஷண்மதம் = காணாபத்யம், கௌமாரம், சைவம், சாக்தம், வைணவம், சௌரம் என்ற ஆறு மதங்களின் தத்துவமாக இருப்பவன் அவன், ஷட்வேதாங்கம் = சிக்ஷம், கல்பம், வியாகரணம், நிருக்தம், ஜ்யோதிஷம், சந்தம் என்ற ஆறு வேத அங்கங்களாக இருப்பவன் அவன், ஷண்முகம் ‍= ஈசானம், தத்புருஷம், வாமதேவம், அகோரம், ஸத்யோஜாதம் என்ற சிவனின் ஐந்து முகங்களுடனும் அதோ முகத்துடன் கூடியும் உள்ளவன் அவன்’ என்பது இதன் பொருள்.

ஈசானம், தத்புருஷம், வாமதேவம், அகோரம், ஸத்யோஜாதம், அதோ முகம் ஆகியவைகள் தத்துவ தரினங்களை குறிப்பன‌. அவைகளைச் சற்று விரிவாக விளக்குதல் வேண்டும். பின்னொரு சமயம் இதை ஒரு திருப்புகழக்கு பொருள் விளக்கம் காணும்போது நாம் பார்க்கலாம்.

ஷடாக்ஷர/சடக்கர மகா மந்திரம்:

‘ஸரவணபவ’ என்பது ஷடாக்ஷர மகா மந்திரம். ஆறு எழுத்துக்கள் கொண்ட இந்த மந்திரத்தின் மகிமை என்னவென்றால், ஸ – லக்ஷ்மிகடாக்ஷம், ர – ஸரஸ்வதி கடாக்ஷம், வ – போகம், மோக்ஷம், ண – சத்ருஜயம், ப – ம்ருத்யுஜயம், வ – நோயற்ற வாழ்வு’ ஆகியவற்றை அது குறிப்பதாகும். இம்மந்திரத்தை ‘ஓம்’ என்ற பிரணவ மந்திரத்தோடு சேர்த்து ‘ஓம் சரவணபவாய நம’ என்று உச்சாடனம் செய்தல் வேண்டும். ஆக, பிரணவ ஷடாக்ஷரம் கூறி இவ்வாறு பயன்களும் பெறலாம்!

அறுபடை வீடு

முருகப்பெருமானின் ஆறுபடை வீடுகளும் ஆறு குண்டலினிகளாக/ஆறு ஆதாரச் சக்கரங்களாக‌ விளங்குகின்றன. அவை:

திருப்பரங்குன்றம் – மூலாதாரம்

திருச்செந்தூர் ‍ சுவாதிஷ்டானம்

பழனி – மணிபூரகம்

சுவாமிமலை ‍ அனாகதம்

திருத்தணிகை – விசுத்தி

பழமுதிர்சோலை – ஆக்ஞை

இவைகளுக்கும் மிக விரிவான, தத்துவார்த்தமானப் பொருள் உண்டு. இவைகளையும் நாம் பின்பு விரிவாக வாய்ப்புக் கிடைக்கும்போது பார்க்கலாம்.

கந்த சஷ்டி விழாநாட்களின் போது, அடியார்க்கெளிய நம்பெருமான் சண்முகனை இடையறாது, உள்ளன்போடு நினைத்து, வாக்கால், செயலால், மனத்தால் அவனை வணங்கித் தொழுது, அவனருள் பெற்று இன்புறுவோம்; உய்வடைவோம்!

ஓம் சரவணபவாய நம:

Source::::::

ஹாங்காங் திருப்புகழ் சங்கம். … Information input from a friend of mine 

Natarajan

Image of the Day…” Broken Spectre…”

The Brocken Spectre

Brocken Spectre at Lough Corrib, a lake in the west of Ireland, by Conor Ledwith Photography.

Photo credit: Conor Ledwith Photography

The Brocken Spectre is your own shadow, cast on mists below you, when you are mountain climbing. The shadow may appear enormous and has a ring around it. Read more about the Broken Spectre here.

Thanks to Conor Ledwith Photography for sharing this pic with us. Conor wrote:

I caught this Brocken Spectre at Lough Corrib, Galway this morning and its my most recent selfie. This is my shadow cast upon the fog with the sun on my back, its the first time I have seen or captured this optical effect. Its was great to witness this in reality.

More photos by Conor Ledwith Photograpy

SOURCE::::: earthsky.org

Natarajan

Image of the Day…Comet Siding Spring Near MARS !!!

Cool composite of Comet Siding Spring near Mars

Hubble image of close passage of Comet Siding Spring near Mars. The comet passed Mars at about a third the distance between Earth and the moon on October 19.

This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet, which happened at 2:28 p.m. EDT October 19, 2014. Image credit: NASA, ESA, PSI, JHU/APL, STScI/AURA

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope composite image captures the positions of Comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet. The close encounter took place at 2:28 p.m. EDT October 19, 2014. The comet passed by Mars at approximately 87,000 miles, or about one-third of the distance between Earth and the moon! At that time, the comet and Mars were approximately 149 million miles from Earth.

The comet image shown here is a composite of Hubble exposures taken between Oct. 18, 8:06 a.m. EDT to Oct. 19, 11:17 p.m. EDT. Hubble took a separate photograph of Mars at 10:37 p.m. EDT on Oct. 18. It’s a composite image because a single exposure of the stellar background, comet Siding Spring, and Mars would be problematic. Mars is actually 10,000 times brighter than the comet, and so could not be properly exposed to show detail in the Red Planet. The comet and Mars were also moving with respect to each other and so couldn’t be imaged simultaneously in one exposure without one of the objects being motion blurred. Hubble had to be programmed to track on the comet and Mars separately in two different observations.

The Mars and comet images have been added together to create a single picture to illustrate the distance between the comet and Mars at closest approach. The separation is approximately 1.5 arc minutes, or one-twentieth of the angular diameter of the full moon. The solid icy comet nucleus is too small to be resolved in the Hubble picture. The comet’s bright coma, a diffuse cloud of dust enshrouding the nucleus, and a dusty tail, are clearly visible.

Read more from NASA

SOURCE:::: earthskynews

Natarajan

Sundar Pichai Takes Control of Key Google Products….

In a major move by Google CEO Larry Page, Sundar Pichai, the Google executive responsible for Android, Chrome, and Google Apps will now also be seen looking after other key Google products, according to recode.net.

 

Page had sent out a memo to the staff on Friday on the change in the leadership of certain areas of Google’s business.

Pichai will be in charge of research, search, maps, Google+, commerce and ad products, and infrastructure, apart from his existing responsibilities. Six executives for Google’s newly added products who were directly reporting to Page will now be reporting to Pichai.

According to recode.net, this move was taken due to Page’s concern that Google may become less innovative as time progressed. Page believes that it would reduce bottleneck and he will be free to be able to expand existing business. It would help him focus on the ‘bigger picture’, reported recode.net.

For Pichai who’s initial role was to manage Chrome and later the OS and a line of netbooks, this new responsibility is a big accomplishment.

His previous promotion was in March 2012 when he took control of Google Apps and later in March 2013, when Android too came his way.

According to recode.net, Pichai is known to be ‘well-liked exec is seen as an ambassador and partnership maker’. However it adds that this move does not mean he is being considered as Google’s heir apparent.

Pichai is an Indian citizen born in Chennai in 1972. He joined Google 2004. Before that he worked at Applied Materials and at McKinsey & Co.

He is an alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

SOURCE::::  http://www.dnaindia.com/

Natarajan

 

October 24 1946…. This Date in Science…First Ever Photo of Earth From Space !!!

This date in science: First-ever photo of Earth from space

White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory
White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory
On October 24, 1946, a movie camera on board the V-2 rocket captured the first photo of Earth from outer space.

October 24, 1946. Were you alive at a time when we’d never seen Earth from space? Not many of us were, and it’s hard to imagine. But if you can imagine it, think how you’d have felt seeing this first-ever photograph of Earth from outer space, taken on today’s date in 1946. On this date, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert launched a V-2 rocket – fitted with a 35-millimeter motion picture camera – to a suborbital altitude of 105 kilometers (65 mi). The camera was destroyed after being dropped back to Earth, but the film survived.

Photo credit: White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory

First photo of Earth from space, October 24, 1946  via White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory
Air & Space magazine tells the story of this major event in space history:

Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.

Fred Rulli was a 19-year-old enlisted man assigned to the recovery team that drove into the desert to retrieve film from those early V-2 shots. When the scientists found the cassette in good shape, he recalls, “They were ecstatic, they were jumping up and down like kids.” Later, back at the launch site, “when they first projected [the photos] onto the screen, the scientists just went nuts.”

Before 1946, the highest pictures ever taken of the Earth’s surface were from the Explorer II balloon, which had ascended 13.7 miles in 1935, high enough to discern the curvature of the Earth. The V-2 cameras reached more than five times that altitude, where they clearly showed the planet set against the blackness of space. When the movie frames were stitched together, Clyde Holliday, the engineer who developed the camera, wrote in National Geographic in 1950, the V-2 photos showed for the first time “how our Earth would look to visitors from another planet coming in on a space ship.”

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V-2 #21, launched on March 7, 1947, took this picture from 101 miles up. The dark area at the upper left is the Gulf of California. White Sands Missile Range/Naval Research Laboratory.

V-2 #21, launched on March 7, 1947, took this picture from 101 miles up. The dark area at the upper left is the Gulf of California. White Sands Missile Range/Naval Research Laboratory.
Scientists quickly got better at taking Earth’s picture. Here’s one from about six months later, taken from V-2 #21, launched on March 7, 1947. This picture is also from 101 miles up. The dark area at the upper left is the Gulf of California. Image via White Sands Missile Range/Naval Research Laboratory.
Bottom line: On October 24, 1946, a movie camera on board the V-2 rocket captured the first photo of Earth from outer space.

 

SOURCE::::::EARTH SKY NEWS SITE

Natarajan

Incredible Images ….. Spectacular Earth !!!

Dave Kan in Noosa, Queensland, Australia: ‘I was finishing up a photo shoot when a wild kangaroo appeared out of nowhere and bounded onto the lake, as if walking on water. This, along with the picturesque sunset combined to create an absolute visual treat!’

Dave Kan in Noosa, Queensland, Australia: 'I was finishing up a photo shoot when a wild kangaroo appeared out of nowhere and bounded onto the lake, as if walking on water. This, along with the picturesque sunset combined to create an absolute visual treat!'

Rick Loesche on Sanibel Island, Florida: An island bird gulps down a tiny crab for a meal

Rick Loesche on Sanibel Island, Florida: An island bird gulps down a tiny crab for a meal 

Hendy MP in Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesia: A lemur species gets ready to fly in this photo captured in the early afternoon

Hendy MP in Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesia: A lemur species gets ready to fly in this photo captured in the early afternoon

Source::::::ASHLEY COLLMAN FOR MAILONLINE   www.dailymail.co.uk   & National Geographic

Natarajan

 

 

” Satellite Image of India During Diwali” …Real and Fake !!!

The Hindu festival of Diwali celebrates the victory of Good over the Evil and Light over Darkness. It also marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year. This year, Diwali falls on October 23. Lighting lamps, candles, and fireworks are a big part of Diwali. It’s a celebration of light! But can you see those celebratory lights from space? The answer is no. NASA saysthe extra light produced during Diwali is so subtle that space images don’t show it. This post is about a real satellite image of India during Diwali, versus a false one that’s been circulating on the Internet for a few years, especially around the time of the Diwali festival.

First, a real image:

The image above – which has been artificially brightened – shows what India looked like from space on the night during Diwali in November, 2012. It’s what India looks like from space onany night, according to NASA.

This image is from a NASA satellite known as Suomi NPP, for National Polar-orbiting Partnership. An instrument carried on this satellite – which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared – acquired this image in a single night. The image has been brightened to make the city lights easier to distinguish.

Most of the bright areas are cities and towns in India, which is home to more than 1.2 billion people and has at least 30 cities with populations over 1 million. Cities in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are also visible near the edges of the image.

Now, the fake one:

In contrast, here is the false Diwali image, which has been circulating via the Internet for some years. It doesn’t show what it claims to show; that is, it doesn’t show India on a single night during the Diwali festival.

This image comes from satellite data, too, but not a single satellite on a single night. It’s based on data from U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, and it’s a color-composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time. In this image, white areas show city lights that were visible prior to 1992, while blue, green, and red shades indicate city lights that became visible in 1992, 1998, and 2003 respectively.

Bottom line: This post contains a real space image of India, taken during the 2012 Diwali festival. The image is shown in contrast to another space image – a composite, put together with data taken over many years – which has circulated in recent years. The composite image does not show India during Diwali. NASA says the extra light so many enjoy during Diwali would not be visible from space.

SOURCE::::earthskynews

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Picture of the Day…. View From Eiffel Tower Thro the Eyes of an Eagle !!!

Still from a video filmed from the back of an eagle as it soars over Paris after taking off from the Eiffel tower. In a world's first, a white-tailed eagle soared from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and flew over the Seine down into the Trocadero Gardens with a camera mounted on its back.

Still from a video filmed from the back of an eagle as it soars over Paris after taking off from the Eiffel tower. In a world’s first, a white-tailed eagle soared from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and flew over the Seine down into the Trocadero Gardens with a camera mounted on its back.Picture: Sony/SWNS 

SOURCE:::The Telegraph UK

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