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Mosquito Repelling Plants For Home ….

November 20, 2014Natarajan1 Comment

Mosquito-Repelling Plants You Can Grow at Home Mosquitoes are a serious nuisance; from that terrible buzz near your ear when you’re trying to sleep, to the itchy, swollen bumps they leave after biting you. If you didn’t know, it’s only the females of the specie who bite us. Male mosquitos prefer to feed on nectar, generally avoiding humans. Mosquitos can also be a health-risk – they can transmit diseases through their bite (including Malaria, Yellow Fever, West-Nile Fever, and more). In-fact, mosquitos are responsible for more human deaths than all wars, combined.

You can buy gadgets and products that repel these nasty bugs, but they’re all temporary and can be irritating or dangerous. Instead, you can grow certain plants that repel mosquitos naturally:
Lemon Verbena: This lovely plant has a light citrus scent and can be added to tea for both flavor and it’s calming effect on the digestive system. You can plant it in the ground or in a deep pot and let it scare away those nasty bugs. Make sure it has a good supply of water and sunlight.

Cloves: Cloves are the flower buds of the Syzygium aromaticum plant. You can plant it around the yard to enjoy its mosquito-repelling properties, as well as use the cloves to spice up food.

Mint: Most common as an added flavor for tea, mint also has powerful mosquito-repelling properties. All species of mint are useful repellants. Mint needs sunlight and plenty of water to grow. You can plant it in your garden or in pots. If you choose to put it in your garden, be aware that it likes to spread, and can sometimes take over and kill weaker plants.

Rosemary: A favorite herb for savory dishes, it’s also a potent repellent. Plant it in your garden or in deep planters and let this lovely bush grow and take care of your mosquito problem.

Lemon Thyme: A natural mosquito repellent, lemon thyme is also a great herb for seasoning dishes. Plant it in pots to get lovely little plants around the house, or in your garden to control mosquito population.

Lavender: The scent of lavender is often a favorite for many people, and it’s commonly used in aromatherapy for its soothing properties. For mosquitos, however, it’s a very strong repellent. Plant them in your garden or in pots in your house and enjoy the scent of the beautiful purple flowers.

Floss Flower: These lovely tiny flowers are superb at repelling mosquitos. Make sure you only grow them in a pot, as they tend to overgrow in the soil and take over the entire garden. Make sure they’re out of reach of children and animals, as they can be toxic.

Pitcher Plant: These carnivorous plants grow natural pitchers, filled with appealing-scented nectar to lure bugs in. Once the bugs get inside the pitcher, they can’t get out again and are digested by the plant. Plant them in planters by window sill and enjoy their mosquito-capturing properties.

Cadaga Tree: (AKA “Cadagi”, oreucalyptus torelliana) – These beautiful trees are natural barriers for mosquitos, who hate their scent. Plant a few of these in your garden and let nature free you of those pesky biters.

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Cartoon of The Day…!!!

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Message For the Day…” What is Liberation ?..Help Ever , Hurt Never … “

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Do not find faults with others. If you point an accusing finger at someone, remember three fingers are pointing to you. Wear the ornament of Truth to adorn your neck (Sathyam Kantasya Bhushanam). Charity is the true ornament that make your hands beautiful and elegant (Hasthasya Bhushanam Dhanam). Thus you must sanctify each limb of your body by engaging in sacred activities. Your eyes should look at only sacred things. Do you know what an enormous power is latent in your eyes? There are crores of light rays in them. In olden days, people used to invoke the grace of Sun God to have a better vision. When you performSurya-namaskar (worship of Sun God) and invoke His grace, the light rays in your eyes will become more effulgent and inspire you. People aspire to attain liberation. What is liberation? Help ever, hurt never – that is true liberation. To get rid of attachment (moha) is true liberation (moksha).

Sathya Sai Baba

World”s Largest Swimming Pool…1KM Length Covering 20 Acres !!!

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San Alfonso del Mar Pool with its length of 1 km and a coverage of almost 20 acres is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest swimming pool. This amazing swimming pool seems to cover the same amount of water as 6000 regular swimming pools and visitors can enjoy in many different activities besides swimming, such as sailing, kayaking, scuba diving and paragliding.

This great man-made lagoon is part of the San Alfonso del Mar resort, located in the city Algarrobo, Chile. It was opened in 2006 and since then attracts an increasing number of tourists. This pool was made by collecting and filtering water from the ocean, while the sun warms it up to 9 degrees higher than the the ocean water. This technology was founded by Fernando Fischmann and the aim is to allow for ‘lagoons of unlimited size’ with crystal clear water and reduced costs to typical pools.

San Alfonso Del Mar Pool The Worlds Largest Swimming Pool

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November 19… Birthday of Mrs. Indira Gandhi…Rare and Vintage Photos Collection…

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Jawaharlal Nehru (1869 – 1964), President of the Indian Congress, with his daughter future Indian prime minister, Indira Nehru (Indira Priyardarshini Nehru, 1917 – 1984) in Bombay. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images

Portrait of Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1974 and 1980 until her assassination in 1984, New York, 1963. (Photo by Bachrach/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II meets Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984), the Prime Minister of India, at Hyderabad House in Delhi, India, 17th November 1983. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

22nd March 1982: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher with the Indian prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984), outside number 10 Downing Street. (Photo by Gary Stone/Central Press/Getty Images)

23rd June 1938: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1869 – 1964) in London for discussions. With him (right) is his daughter Indira (Indira Priyardarshini Nehru, later Gandhi, 1917 – 1984). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

20th January 1966: Mrs Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984) with Mr Kamaraj and Mr Nanda makes a gesture of peace after her election as leader of the Congress Party. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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” A Cycle Beats Ferrari…Reaches Over 330kmph !!!”

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The cycle that you see in the video is definitely not an ordinary cycle, but a rocket-powered one. The cycle is fuelled by a mix of hydrogen peroxide and compressed air. On November 7, 2014, Francois Gissy reached the speed of 207mph on the cycle developed by his friend Arnold Neracher at a racing circuit in France. With the new record, Gissy broke his previous best of 177.13mph.

Makers of this rocket-powered cycle will now be working on a new bicycle to beat their own record in 2015.

Cycle Beats Ferrari; Reaches Over 330kmph

You must have seen so many drag races, where results turned out to be unexpected (a more powerful car losing to a lesser one), but none of those would have been half as exciting as this one. That is because of the fact that this race was not between two sportscars or supercars, but it was a cycle that took on a Ferrari.

Built by Arnold Neracher, the cycle shown above achieved a top-speed of mind-boggling 331Km/h in just 4.8 seconds! Yes you read it right, a cycle that goes faster than some of the most powerful cars out there in the market. The car it took on was a Ferrari F430 Scuderia, and within micro seconds, the cycle left the car way behind.

SOURCE:::: You Tube and auto.ndtv.com

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How One Man….Himanshu Patel…Transformed a Gujarat Village …!!!

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Punsari village, barely 100 km from Ahmedabad, could be a textbook case of development. Closed-circuit cameras, water purifying plants, air-conditioned schools, Wi-Fi, biometric machines – the village has it all. And all of it was done in a matter of eight years, at a cost of a mere Rs. 16 crore.

The man behind the transformation is its young sarpanch – 31-year-old Himanshu Patel. A graduate from North Gujarat University, Mr Patel had won the panchayat polls in 2006, at the age of 23.

Back then, the village didn’t even have proper roads, power or water. The panchayat funds were in deficit. Mr Patel found though money come aplenty, it was the utilisation that’s at fault.

Over the next eight years, together with the district administration, he stitched up funds from under various heads – the District Planning Commission, Backward Regional Grant Fund, 12th Finance Commission, and those under Self Help Group Yojnas – and began the development of the village.

The results are obvious. Recently, a team from the Central ministries of rural and urban development had come to study the “Punsari model”.

But the young sarpanch is already onto his next projects – a unit producing electricity out of plastic waste and e-rickshaws for garbage collection. “The state government has already sanctioned Rs. 52 lakh,” he said.

Understanding the importance of education, Mr Patel has earmarked a chunk for the village school. From 300 students in 2006, the number has now doubled to over 600. The classrooms are not just air-conditioned but also have computers and projectors.

“We have managed to attract more children,” said teacher Narendra Jhala. Vidya Patel, a student of Class 7, thinks learning is fun. “The audio visual presentations make it easier to remember our lessons,” she said.

Interestingly, Mr Patel has not asked for a penny from the MLA fund, and over the last eight years, the village has just got Rs. 1 lakh from the MP fund.

“We didn’t feel the need, since there is enough from various budgetary grants of the state and Centre. If you utilise it properly, you can work wonders,” said Mr Patel.

“The village has demonstrated how understanding various schemes available and leveraging them properly can bring about a qualitative change,” said Himmatnagar collector Banchha Nidhi Pani.

SOURCE::::www.ndtv.com and nidhi-bansal.blogspot.in

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” Saying Good Bye to The Famous DoorMan who Worked For 72 Years …!!!”

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In this photograph taken on February 6, 2010, Sri Lanka's legendary doorman, Kottarapattu Chattu Kuttan holds his palms in a traditional greeting, outside the island's historic 146-year-old Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.

Kottarappu Chattu Kuttan

A doorman who worked for 72 years at the most famous hotel in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, has died aged 94.

Kottarappu Chattu Kuttan, who had started as a waiter, never retired from his job at the Galle Face Hotel.

Guests would be greeted at the grand seafront entrance by the diminutive Mr Kuttan with his palms pressed together in the traditional greeting.

White-haired with a handlebar moustache, the diminutive figure also sported badges from all over the world.

Mr Kuttan had emigrated from his native Kerala in southern India aged 18 in 1938 after the death of his parents.

Looking for work, he crossed to what was then Ceylon by boat, starting in domestic employment in Colombo and joining the Galle Face in 1942.

The 150-year-old hotel is renowned for its illustrious list of past guests, and Mr Kuttan met many of them.

“Ceylon… was a different country then. Famous people like Emperor Hirohito, Richard Nixon, Sir Laurence Olivier and George Bernard Shaw came and stayed with us,” he told Agence France-Presse in 2010.

Mr Kuttan carried on greeting guests almost until his death

He also met Lord Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Princess Elizabeth – and the Bond girl, Ursula Andress. And he saw a Japanese fighter-plane crash-land in the grounds during World War Two.

‘People would notice him’

Sanjeev Gardiner, the hotel’s chairman, told the BBC it was a “truly sad day”.

He said the employee had almost retired after finishing as a waiter in the 1980s but was kept on at the front entrance where he “found his true calling”.

“People would notice him,” said Mr Gardiner.

He recalled the company suggesting, and funding, a trip back to Kerala for his employee, many decades after he had last seen India. Mr Kuttan still had family there including two sisters.

“If they treat me nicely I’ll stay, otherwise I’m coming back tomorrow,” he recalled Mr Kuttan as saying. In the event he stayed 10 days.

Mr Gardiner says that after his father and predecessor as chairman, Cyril Gardiner, died in 1996, Mr Kuttan came to the funeral and to every subsequent memorial service, once a year.

“That says a lot about his character.”

Mr Kuttan’s Sri Lankan wife, who was a Christian, died some years ago and in latter years a grand-daughter looked after him.

He had been ill for his final months but remained on the Galle Face Hotel staff.

The hotel held a minute’s silence as a tribute to Mr Kuttan,….

SOURCE:::: Charles Haviland BBC News IN http://www.bbc.com

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At Gibraltar Airport its Runway Intersects With The Busiest Road in City !!!

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There’s a road running straight through the runway in Gibraltar. Source: Getty Images

SPACE is at a premium in tiny Gibraltar — so much so that the British territory’s only airport runway intersects with its busiest road. Cars travelling along Winston Churchill Avenue must stop for planes several times a day. For about 10 minutes, traffic stays at a standstill to allow a flight to depart for — or arrive from — London, Birmingham, or Manchester.

In 2007 the government released plans for a new four-lane road that would divert traffic through a tunnel under the runway, although cars would not be required to use it. The road, scheduled to open in 2009, has still not been completed.

Drivers in this country have to watch out for unusual traffic. Source: Getty Images

The airport is, by necessity, small. The Spain-Gibraltar border lies just north of the runway. South of the runway, in the shadow of the Rock of Gibraltar, is North Front cemetery, the only graveyard in the territory where burials are still conducted.

Pedestrians and vehicles cross the airport while planes wait. Picture: Lancastrian. Source: Flickr

It’s an intersection on an airport. Picture: D-Stanley. Source: Flickr

Plane enthusiasts will love this road. Picture: Lancastrian Source: Flickr

SOURCE:::: news.com.au

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Message For the Day…” If you hurt others’ Feelings , You will be Hurt , Twice as Much …”

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Women should look after their homes diligently and conduct themselves in a pleasing manner. Treat your guests in a cordial manner and to the extent possible. Empathise with those who are in difficulties, comfort and console them with soothing words. Those who talk harsh words are verily demons. If you hurt others’ feelings, you will be hurt twice as much and you cannot escape from the consequences of your actions. Embodiments of Love! These teachings are simple to practice in your daily life. But do not take them lightly – they can confer on you liberation! It is your good fortune (adrishtam) to know them! What is good fortune? A-drishtam is that which cannot be seen. You may not be able to see the results of your noble conduct and meritorious deeds, but they will confer on you all happiness and comforts in due course of time.

Sathya Sai Baba

Mosquito-Repelling Plants You Can Grow at Home