Moonrise over Gunnison
The full Worm Moon rising over Gunnison, Colorado on Thursday night. Photo by Matt Burt.
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Arunima Sinha ….On the Top of the World…. Hats off To This Brave Lady …
You Might Have watched a plenty of Motivational and Inspirational Videos and Talks …
But this Talk by Arunima Sinha on her goal and experience is totally on a different platform.
My request to you is to watch this video and Listen to her talk … Also share this Video Talk with your Kids and friends …You need not listen to any Gurus …both Religious and Management… after listening to her.
HATS OF TO THIS COURAGEOUS LADY …
Natarajan
In April 2011, Arunima Sinha, a national level volleyball player, was thrown out of a running train by robbers who were after her gold chain. Her left leg crushed by the passing trains had to be amputated. This did not stop her from dreaming the impossible, on May 21st, 2013, Arunima summited Mount Everest. Watch as she takes us along on her journey in this passionate talk.
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ABOUT ARUNIMA SINHA:
Arunima is a former national level volleyball player who was thrown off a moving train in 2011. In order to save her life, the doctors had to amputate part of her left leg. In light of this event, Arunima became inspired by Yuvarj Singh, an international cricket player who successfully won his battle with cancer. As such, she was determined to climb Mount Everest. In 2013, Arunima became the first female amputee (and the first Indian amputee) to make the climb.
Arunima then went on to be the first female amputee to climb Mt. Kilamanjaro in Africa and Mt. Elbrus in Europe. She has been honoured with numerous awards and recognitions. Currently she is busy planning to open a sports academy for underprivileged and physically disabled children.
SOURCE::::: http://www.You Tube.com and ink talks.com
Natarajan
Himalayas From 20000 Feet ….A Video Clip …
The Himalayas From 20,000 Feet
It isn’t easy to film at 20,000 feet, but the aerial cinema experts at Teton Gravity Research have outdone themselves in this video of the world’s highest mountains.
This first ultra HD footage of the Himalayas is shot from above 20,000 ft. with the GSS C520 system, the most advanced gyro-stabilized camera system in the world.
It was shot from a helicopter with a crew flying from Kathmandu at 4,600 ft. up to 24,000 ft. on supplemental oxygen. The images of Mt. Everest, Ama Dablam, and Lhotse are so clear and sharp it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen.
SOURCE:::: http://www.you tube .com and http://www.yougottobekidding.wordpress.com
Natarajan
“Harrison Ford is Not Only a Reel Hero… But A Real Hero …” !!!
Harrison Ford showed he takes flying as seriously as acting when he crashed
DAMIAN DOVARGANES / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officials examine Harrison Ford’s vintage airplane on the Penmar Golf Course in Los Angeles, where he crash-landed it on Thursday.
Harrison Ford is a hero.
If you said this to his face, of course, he’d scowl. He’d tap his Breitling Aerospace watch and give you 30 seconds to explain. Then you’d back up two steps and nervously recallhis brush with death on Thursday.
“Well, Mr. Ford, when the engine in your Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR conked out after takeoff from Santa Monica Airport, you made an emergency landing on a golf course. You steered away from houses and roadways. You were as cool as Han Solo, as focused as Indiana Jones. Strapped inside that vintage two-seater, you glided to safety without killing yourself or anyone on the ground. Just imagine if . . . ”
“. . . What’s your point?” Ford would cut you off, sounding a bit like his villainous character Dr. Norman Spencer in What Lies Beneath. “I’m no hero. I just take flying very seriously.”
The post-shock reaction to the crash, in which Ford was injured but is expected to fully recover, was predictable. There were stories suggesting the 72-year-old is a real lifedaredevil. There were headlines that wondered if the actor had “the experience to pilot the vintage WWII plane that crashed.”
This is what we do when a celebrity crashes. We theorize, speculate, inculpate, deconstruct and ask pointed questions. The exercise gets foggy and more feverish when those accidents are fatal. In 1997, John Denver was killed after crashing his experimental Rutan Long-EZ plane in Monterey Bay. Two years later, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren died when the Piper Saratoga he was piloting went down in the Atlantic.
We know travelling on a commercial airliner is now safer than at any time since the dawn of powered flight. An MIT study in 2013 concluded a person could fly every day for 123,000 years before getting into a fatal crash. But fear is not rational. And statistics are of cold comfort when we see footage of mishaps, as on Thursday morning when Delta Flight 1086 skidded off an icy runway at LaGuardia Airport.
Meanwhile, Sunday marks a grim anniversary: it has been one year since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace.
Accidents happen. Conditions in the sky and on the ground can be unpredictable. Pilots are not immune to error. There can be deadly mechanical failures, especially in aircraft not equipped with the automated systems and safety redundancies and sophisticated navigation computers found in commercial fleets.
Five years ago, a pilot died after his Cessna crashed eerily close to where Ford touched down near the eighth hole at Penmar Golf Course. Santa Monica Airport, where celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger keep their planes, has been the point of departure or arrival for at least a dozen crashes since 1989.
So why is Ford a hero? Because during a terrifying few seconds, when everything could have gone terribly wrong, he calmly did everything right. He was flying a plane that was built in the same year he was born.
But as it turns out, Ford is a great pilot for the same reason he’s a great actor: he takes it seriously.
He immerses himself in the process. He masters the small details. He is respectful of the machines he controls and the physical laws he cannot. As he observed in a non-daredevil way in 1998: “Flying attracted me as a chance to develop a skill, build a body of knowledge, not as a way to seek danger. I try to observe a distinction between exciting and scary.”
That distinction has revealed itself in previous close calls.
In 1999, a number of experts were stunned when Ford walked away unscathed after crash-landing his helicopter during a training exercise in California. The next year, he made an emergency landing at Lincoln Municipal Airport in Nebraska due to wind shear. One official who witnessed Ford’s deft handling of the twin-engine Beechcraft Bonanza said: “He’s either very experienced or darn lucky.”
But this isn’t a binary equation. Ford is now both. And that he’s used his love of flying to help others — including rescuing a hiker in Idaho in 2000 and, the following year,finding a missing a Boy Scout in Yellowstone National Park — is proof Hollywood is not just a toxic sinkhole of ego and greed and narcissism.
Hidden behind the fame, lurking behind some of the most memorable characters of our time, stand real heroes.
SOURCE::::: vinay menon , columnist in http://www.the star.com and http://www.you tube.com
Natarajan
Image of the Day…. Smallest Full Moon On March 5 2015…
EarthSky Facebook friend Curtis Beaird in south Georgia captured the shot above.
Tonight’s full moon is the smallest full moon of the year. We’ve heard it called the micro-moon or mini-moon. This March 5, 2015 full moon lies about 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) farther away from Earth than will the year’s closest full moon – the full supermoon and Northern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon – on September 28. The March 5 moon is the year’s farthest full moon because full moon and lunar apogee – the moon’s farthest point in its monthly orbit – both fall on the same date.
Every year has a closest full moon, of course. The mini-moon returns about one month and 18 days later with each passing year, meaning that, in 2016, the year’s smallest full moon will come on April 22. In 2017, it’ll come June 9. In 2018, the year’s smallest full moon will come on July 27. And so on, no doubt until our earthly calendars are long forgotten.
By the way, as an aside, mark your calendar for that September 28, 2015 full moon – the Harvest moon – and closest full moon of this year. It’ll also stage a total eclipse of the moon, which some will call a Blood Moon eclipse. It concludes a series of four straight total lunar eclipses that started on April 15, 2014.
The crest of the moon’s full phase comes on March 5, 2015 at precisely 18:05 Universal Time.
Although the full moon occurs at the same instant all around the world, our clocks read differently in different time zones. In the United States, the moon turns exactly full onThursday, March 5, at 1:05 p.m. EST, 12:05 p.m. CST, 11:05 a.m. MST or 10:05 a.m. PST. So the Americas won’t see the moon at the instant it turns full because it happens during the daytime hours, when the moon is below the horizon and under our feet.
The moon looks full for several days around full moon. William Vann submitted this shot. It’s the rising almost-full moon on March 4, 2015.
No matter where you live worldwide, look for the full moon tonight, lighting up the nighttime from Thursday nightfall until dawn Friday. As with any moon at the vicinity of full moon, tonight’s moon rises in the east at early evening, climbs highest in the sky around midnight and sets in the west in the vicinity of sunrise.
In North America, we often call the March full moon by the names of Sap Moon, Crow Moon, Worm Moon or Lenten Moon. But in recent years, we’ve also heard the term mini-moon to describe the year’s smallest full moon. It’s not a name (like Sap Moon). It’s not bound to a particular month or season. It’s just a term to describe the year’s smallest moon.
What is a mini-moon or micro-moon? Like most astronomers, we at EarthSky have always referred to the year’s smallest full moon as an apogee full moon. The terms mini-moon andmicro-moon stem from popular culture. They roll off the tongue more easily than apogee full moon. As some indication of the appellation’s growing popularity, we’ve found that theNASA Astronomy Photo of the Day and timeanddate.org sites both like to call the smallest full moon a micro-moon.
Billie C. Barb submitted this photo of the rising moon on March 4, 2015 from the state of Washington, saying it was “. . . a love affair between the moon and the evergreens.”
Bottom line: The micro-moon or mini-moon – smallest full moon of 2015 – comes on March 5, 2015 It lies about 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) farther away from Earth than will the full moon supermoon of September 28, 2015.
SOURCE:::: http://www.earhskynews.org
Natarajan
” Chic Leaving the Nest and Takes a Giantleap from the Hilltop…” Watch !!!
Cameraman from the BBC took this amazing video of a chick leaving the nest,
while the parents wait at the bottom. Believe-it or not, he made it in one piece.
Programme website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026vg7w Within the first few hours after hatching a Barnacle gosling must make a giant leap from it’s clifftop nest falling over 400ft in order to reach the ground below.
SOURCE:::: http://www.YOU TUBE.com
Natarajan
How to Enhance Positive Energy in Our House …
HOW TO INCREASE POSITIVE ENERGY IN OUR HOUSE
Very Useful suggestions/Guidelines from the Wise/Experts
1) Open all windows in the house and allow fresh air and sunshine to enter the house. Free flowing air and sun are excellent negativity removers. Keeping the windows closed prevents positive energy from coming inside your house and negative energy from going out.
2) Throw out all the clutter out of the house. Clean your house. Dispose of all the old unwanted things lying in the house. Clutter is a negativity magnet. It attracts and accumulates negative energy in the house.
3). Walking barefoot in the house helps all your negative energy to be absorbed by the earth.
Grounding is important to keep the energy balance in our body.
Walking barefoot on grass is also an excellent way to ground yourself.
4) Always leave your footwear at the entrance of the house. Our footwear collects negative energy.
Hence in the olden days, these were kept out of the house. People used to enter the house only after washing feet with water. This action ensures that all the negativity remains outside or are grounded by earth and does not enter the house.
Now it has become difficult to keep the footwear outside. So preferably remove them near the entrance door.
5) Go out in the open air. Take walks in the garden or open ground. Being amongst nature re-energizes or charges you fully.
6) Sweeping the floor also ensures that the negative energies are shaken and moved out with the dirt.
7) Rock salt is another negativity remover. Wash or mop your floor with a fistful rock salt in a bucket of water. This ensures that every nook and corner of the house is rid of negative energy.
8) Potted plants or trees around your house or society also ensures more positive energy in the house and area.
9) Bathing or Soaking your legs and hands in rock salt water once in a while removes the negativity attached to your body.
11) Repetition of Prayers, increases the positive vibrations in the house.
12) Keep your thoughts, action and speech Positive. Negative thoughts will bring in negative vibes. So avoid all negative thoughts, speech and actions.
12) Keep your house well lit and illuminated. Light removes negativity.
13) Keep faith in God and in yourself.
You are the Creator of your own destiny by the Choices you make.
STAY HAPPY
STAY BLESSED
SOURCE:::: iNPUT FROM A FRIEND OF MINE
Natarajan
Message For the Day… ” Role of ‘ Vairagya ‘..Detachment…For Experiencing the Divine Bliss…”
A matchstick produces fire. Where is the fire? Is it in the matchstick or the matchbox? Fire is latent in both and it is ignited when the stick and box come in contact. Similarly effulgence latent in the heart and the mind emerges as Divinity when the heart and the mind act in unison. Just as the same fire is latent in the matchbox and matchstick, the effulgence encased in the mind and the heart is the same. If the matchstick is dipped in water, no fire emanates from it, as the matchstick loses its capacity to aflame. Similarly, the human mind sunken in materialistic desires, loses its capacity to radiate the Divine Atmic splendour. When the matchstick is dried in the sun, it regains its original capacity. Similarly, the human mind steeped in sensual pleasures, regains its original potency and radiates divine effulgence when it is dried in the sun of detachment (Vairagya)
Picture of the Day… Half Moon !!!
Photograph of Half Moon as appeared on the clear blue sky of Brisbane on 25 th Feb Evening.
This Picture was Taken by my son Senthil Natarajan right from the front lawns of his Home at Brisbane , Australia .
He is not a Professional Photographer , but has got a keen interest in photography and enjoys his moments with his camera.
I admire his skill and this Picture in particular … Looks like a PICTURE captured by the crew of International Space Station from Spaceship !!!
He has posted this picture in his FB Column … Having appreciated my son for this photograph , i thought that i should share this picture with my friends and followers of my site thro this Post
Image Credit….Senthil Natarajan
Natarajan
” What Color is this Dress …? ” Here is a Possible Answer !!!
What color is this dress?
Some say gold and some say blue. Here’s why you see what you see, from the guys at AsapSCIENCE.
SOURCE:::: www. youtube.com and http://www.earthsky.org
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