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Amazing Views Of Our World….

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Amazing Views of this World
This video is one of a series designed to show the abilities of a certain camera, but what we’re interested in is the beautiful locations, direction and photography presented here. These are truly some gorgeous views of our tiny world, which makes us feel it isn’t that tiny after all, and still filled with wonder and wonder of natural and also human beauty.

This is an HD video, best viewed at higher resolutions. For optimal viewing please switch the resolution by clicking on the most left button on the bottom right corner of the player (the oddly shaped wheel) to a higher setting (720 and 1080p are HD quality).  

 

 

 

 

 

source::::baba mail….

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A CPR That Saved the Life of a Pigeon !!!

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DENIS the pigeon owes his life to Gail Daniell.

The Adelaide resident and Fauna Rescue SA volunteer helped nurse the frail, ant-covered bird back to health – and she also performed CPR on him.

Ms Daniell, of Salisbury North, had been caring for the crested pigeon for about four days when, during an attempt to feed him, he started to choke and stopped breathing.

“Denis just stopped breathing and I didn’t even think twice, I just started with the CPR,” Ms Daniell said.

“I gave him probably three or four little breaths and pumped his little chest a few times and he started to come back to life.

“He came to me very sick, covered in ants and in a lot of pain. He was with his little brother, but unfortunately he didn’t make it past the first day or so.”

 Denis the pigeon

Ms Daniell learnt the life-saving skill in a first aid course for humans a decade ago.

In the past six years, she has helped care for 50 animals, including Speedie, a 100-year-old turtle who arrived at Ms Daniell’s home a year ago.

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Denis rides on the back of  this 100-year-old turtle mate Speedie. His life was saved by Gail Daniell, who performed CPR on him. Picture: Mark Brake Source: adelaidenow..

Fauna Rescue SA chairwoman Liz MacGuinness said it was the first time in her 19 years with the organisation she had heard of CPR being administered to a bird.

“I know it can very occasionally happen with puppies, but it’s very unusual, not something I’ve ever heard of with a bird or any other type of animal really,” Ms MacGuinness said.

“Birds especially are difficult because they’re just so tiny and fragile,” she said.

Ms Daniell hopes Denis, who is named after comic and film characterDennis the Menace, will be strong enough to release into a nearby park in coming weeks.

“But it is hard to say when he’ll want to leave,” she said. “He’s being a bit of a sook, he doesn’t like to be too far away from me.”

source::::news.com.au

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Let us Be Like Sea of Galilee…and Not Like Dead Sea !!!

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Sitting in the Geography class in school, I remember how fascinated I was when we were being taught all about the Dead Sea. As you probably recall, the Dead Sea is really a Lake, not a sea (and as my Geography teacher pointed out, if you understood that, it would guarantee 4 marks in the term paper!)
Its so high in salt content that the human body can float easily. You can almost lie down and read a book! The salt in the Dead Sea is as high as 35% – almost 10 times the normal ocean water. And all that saltiness has meant that there is no life at all in the Dead Sea. No fish. No vegetation. No sea animals. Nothing lives in the Dead sea.

And hence the name: Dead Sea.

While the Dead Sea has remained etched in my memory, I don’t seem to recall learning about the Sea of Galilee in my school Geography lesson. So when I heard about the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea and the tale of the two seas – I was intrigued. Turns out that the Sea of Galilee is just north of the Dead Sea. Both the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea receive their water from river Jordan. And yet, they are very, very different.

Unlike the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee is pretty, resplendent with rich, colourful marine life. There are lots of plants. And lots of fish too. In fact, the sea of Galilee is home to over twenty different types of fishes.

Same region, same source of water, and yet while one sea is full of life, the other is dead. How come?

Here apparently is why. The River Jordan flows into the Sea of Galilee and then flows out. The water simply passes through the Sea of Galilee in and then out – and that keeps the Sea healthy and vibrant, teeming with marine life.

But the Dead Sea is so far below the mean sea level, that it has no outlet. The water flows in from the river Jordan, but does not flow out. There are no outlet streams. It is estimated that over a million tons of water evaporate from the Dead Sea every day. Leaving it salty. Too full of minerals. And unfit for any marine life.

The Dead Sea takes water from the River Jordan, and holds it. It does not give. Result? No life at all.

Think about it.

Life is not just about getting. Its about giving. We all need to be a bit like the Sea of Galilee.

We are fortunate to get wealth, knowledge, love and respect. But if we don’t learn to give, we could all end up like the Dead Sea. The love and the respect, the wealth and the knowledge could all evaporate. Like the water in the Dead Sea.

If we get the Dead Sea mentality of merely taking in more water, more money, more everything the results can be disastrous. Good idea to make sure that in the sea of your own life, you have outlets. Many outlets. For love and wealth – and everything else that you get in your life. Make sure you don’t just get, you give too. Open the taps. And you’ll open the floodgates to happiness.

Make that a habit. To share. To give.

And experience life. Experience the magic!

source::::input from a friend of mine…
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பசுமை நிறைந்த நினைவுகளே !!!!

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அந்த நாட்கள் மீண்டும் வந்திடாதோ?

1930- 1980 வரை பிறந்த நம்மை போன்றவர்களை இந்த கால குழந்தைகள் அல்லது இந்த ஜெனரேஷன் மக்கள நம்மைபற்றி என்ன நினைத்தாலும் கேலி செய்தாலும் நாம் மிக மிக அதிர்ஷ்டகாரர்களே!!!!!

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS A LIVING PROOF!!!!!

· தனி படுக்கையில் அல்ல!!! அம்மா அப்பாக்கூட படுத்து உறங்கியவர்கள் நாம் தான்!!!

· எந்த வித உணவுப் பொருட்களும் நமக்கு அலர்ஜியாக இருந்ததில்லை.

· கிச்சன் அலமாரிகளில் சைல்டு புருஃப் லாக் போட்டு இருந்ததில்லை.

· புத்தகங்களை சுமக்கும்பொதிமாடுகளா இருந்ததில்லை.

· சைக்கிள் ஒட்டும் போது ஹெல்மேட் மாட்டி ஒட்டி விளையாண்டது இல்லை.

· பள்ளியில் இருந்து வீட்டிற்கு வந்தது முதல் இருட்டும் வரை ஒரே விளையாட்டுதான்!!!! ரூமிற்குள் அடைந்து உலகத்தை பார்ப்பதில்லை.

· நாங்கள் விளையாடியது நிஜ நண்பர்களிடம் தான்!!!! நெட் நண்பர்களிடம் இல்லை!!!!!

· தாகம் எடுத்தால் தெரு குழாய்க்களில் தண்ணிர் குடிப்போம்!!!! பாட்டில் வாட்டர் தேடியதில்லை!!!!

· ஒரே ஜூஸை வாங்கி நாலு நண்பர்களும் மாறி மாறி குடித்தாலும் நோய்கள் எங்களை வந்தடைந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· அதிக அளவு இனிப்பு பண்டங்களையும் தட்டு நிறைய சாதம் சாப்பிட்டுவந்த போதிலும் ஒவர் குண்டாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!

· காலில் ஏதும் அணியாமல் இருந்து நாள் முழுவதும் சுற்றி வந்தாலும் காலுக்கு ஏதும் நேர்ந்ததில்லை.!!!!

· சிறு விளக்கு வெளிச்சத்தில் படித்து வந்தாலும் கண்ணாடி அணிந்ததில்லை!!!

· உடல் வலிமை பெறஊட்டசத்து பானங்கள்அருந்தியதில்லை .மிஞ்சிய சாதத்தில் ஊற்றி வைத்த நீரைச் சாப்பிட்டே உடல் வலிமை பெற்றவர்கள்!!!!

· எங்களுக்கு வேண்டிய வீளையாட்டு பொருட்களை நாங்களே உருவாக்கி விளையாடி மகிழ்வோம்!!!!

· எங்கள் பெற்றோர்கள் பண வசதி மிக்க லட்சாதிபதிகள் அல்ல!!!! ஆனாலும் அவர்கள் பணம் பணம் என்று அதன் பின்னால் ஒடுபவர்கள் அல்லர். அவர்கள் தேடுவதும் கொடுப்பதும் அன்பை மட்டுமே!!! பொருட்களை அல்ல!!!!

· அவர்கள் தொடர்பு கொள்ளும் அருகாமையில்தான் நாங்கள் இருந்து வந்தோம் அவர்கள் எங்களை தொடர்பு கொள்ள “ஏலேய்ய்ய்” என்ற ஒரு வார்த்தை போதுமானதாக இருந்தது. அதனால் தொடர்பு கொள்ள செல்போனை தேட அவசியமில்லை!!!!

· உடல் நலம் சரியில்லை என்றால் டாக்டர் வீடு தேடி வருவார் >>>டாக்டரை தேடி ஒடியதில்லை!!!!!
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· எங்களது உணர்வுகளை போலியான உதட்டசைப்பினால் செல்போன் மூலம் பறிமாறவில்லை!!!!!

உள்ளத்தில் இருந்து வரும் உண்மைகளை எழுத்தில் கொட்டி கடிதமாக எழுதி தெரிவித்து வந்தோம். அதனால் சொன்ன சொல்லில் இருந்து என்றும் மாறியதில்லை.

· எங்களிடம் செல்போன் டிவிடி, ப்ளை ஸ்டேஷன், எக்ஸ்பாக்ஸ், வீடியோ கேம் பெர்சனல் கம்பியூட்டர், நெட், சாட் போன்றவகள் இல்.லை ஆனால் நிறைய நிஜமான நண்பர்கள் இருந்தனர்!!!!!

· வேண்டும் பொழுது நினைத்த நண்பர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு சென்று உணவுண்டு உரையாடி மகிழந்து வந்தோம். அவர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு போவதற்கு போனில் அனுமதி பெற தேவையில்லை!!!!!

· எங்கள் காலங்களில் திறமை மிக்க தலைவர்கள் இருந்தனர். அவர்கள் சமுகத்திற்காக தங்கள் செல்வங்களை செலவிட்டனர் இந்த காலம் போல சமுக செல்வங்களை கொள்ளை அடித்தவர்கள் அல்லர்!!!!!

· உறவுகள் அருகில் இருந்தது உள்ளம் நன்றாக இருந்ததால் உடல் நலம் காக்க இன்சூரன்ஸ் எடுத்தத்தில்லை

· நாங்கள் எடுத்த புகைபடங்கள் கருப்பு வெள்ளையாக இருந்தாலும் அதில் உள்ளவர்களிடம் வண்ணமயமான நல்ல எண்ணங்கள் இருப்பதை உணரலாம். ஆனால் இப்போது எடுக்கப்படும் படங்கள் கலராக இருக்கலாம் ஆனால் அதில் உள்ளவ்ர்களின் எண்ணங்கள் வெள்ளையா இல்லையா என்று சொல்ல முடியவில்லையே !!!!

· இலவசம் பெறும் பிச்சைகாரர்களாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· சொல்லுங்க நீங்க இப்போ …. அந்த பொன்னான காலங்களில் பிறந்து வளர்ந்த வந்த நாங்கள் அதிர்ஷ்ட சாலிகளா இல்லையா என்பதை !!!!!!!!!!!!

source:::::input from a friend of mine …
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Canned Fresh Air For Sale in China…..

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Prosperity has created new problems for China’s elites, including smog

This is a story that shows how deliriously capitalist China has become (for good and bad). Rapid industrialisation has covered northern China in a dense pea soup of toxic chemicals. In the past, the old fashioned communist solution might have been either to ignore the problem or, if people insist on dying, organise the entire country in a “popular war on bourgeois toxins.” But in a post-Mao order, how does China’s elite deal with pollution? Yuppie consumerism.

Chen Guangbiao, an entrepreneur worth $740 million (how, why, and would he like to meet my daughters?) has started selling cans of fresh air for people to crack open and suck in. They go for 5 yuan each and, according to one report, they come with atmospheric flavours including “pristine Tibet, post-industrial Taiwan and revolutionary Yan’an.” Presumably the “pristine Tibet” can smells ever so slightly of gunpowder.

The story tells us two things. First, the price of China’s rapid development is that it now has to cope with the same problems that beset the already developed world. It’s good, because it means people are getting richer. But it’s bad because it means the country is experiencing what London went through in the 1950s as the industrial landscape coughs up its blackened lungs. According to the BBC, Beijing has reported air quality readings that show pollutants present at 20 times the recommended limits; visibility has been reduced and residents have been advised to stay indoors. Prosperity creates its own kinds of poverty.

But the story also suggests that the response of China’s new middle class is to ape the indulgent lifestyle consumerism of their Western counterparts. The cans of air are partly being sold as a way of promoting environmentalism, although no one has pointed out that the manufacture and disposal of all the cans used in the process will, itself, contribute towards China’s pollution. But Chen also seems deadly serious about the profitability of selling cans of basically nothing to his countrymen. In an interview last year, he explained the process for canning the air thus:

Chen said the air is put into pull-tag cans he invented, with a chip in each can. The air is not compressed – he said his staff need only swing their hands three times to push the air into the can. When there is enough air, the chip will make the cap close automatically.

So, in short, some bloke stands on a mountain, waves a can about, takes it to market and sells it for money. And aside from fooling the buyer in to thinking that they’re helping to keep China clean, what are the benefits? According to Chen, “Open the can and three deep breaths will allow you to have a good mood and a clear mind.” In the West, such vague nonsense would probably get you hauled before the advertising standards people. But China is still in the early, naive stages of consumerism. We’ve all been there. It won’t be long before we see Clive Sinclair’s C5 buzzing through Beijing’s bust streets, and dreamcatchers hanging in Tiananmen Square.

source::::: Tim Stanley in The Telegraph UK…..

Dr Tim Stanley is a historian of the United States. His biography of Pat Buchanan is out now. His personal website is http://www.timothystanley.co.uk and you can follow him on Twitter @timothy_stanley.

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We Cared …We Shared…. It is All Green In Our Memory !!!!!

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ReUse…Reduce….Recycle !!!!!

Green thing ?? V-Care V-Share – …..A Bold statement from a citizen of yester years ….must read !!!!

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

The cashier responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.

She said … “right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so they could use the same bottles over and over. Yes, they really were recycling.
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen; and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But, we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up the stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But, she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an ‘energy gobbling machine burning up 2KW, wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But, that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And, the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the county of Yorkshire .
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But, she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country.
We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect that to be bucked by flying it thousands of air miles around the world.
We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad. But, we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the tram or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service.
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.
And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But, isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Let all the young turks know how bold and wise were the old generation !!!!!!!!!!!

source:::::: unknown….input from my friend…

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