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Portland Airport Carpet … Most Sought After and a Social Media Star too !!!

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Portlanders REALLY love their airport carpet.

Portlanders REALLY love their airport carpet. Source: Facebook 

 

THE carpet at the Portland Airport has a cult-like following and has become a social media superstar.

That’s right. The people of Portland love the kitsch pattern that lines the flooring of their provincial airport so much that it has its own Facebook, Instagram and Twitteraccounts.

The carpet’s celebrity has spread through the internet as a growing number of travellers partake in a ritual of photographing themselves on the famed flooring. Currently there are nearly 30,000 photos on Instagram with the hashtag #PDXcarpet.

This airport carpet has a cult following

This is what you’re supposed to do at Portland Airport. Picture: adamdachis. Source: Flickr 

 

The popularity of the carpet’s pattern has spawned an online store where one can pick up shirts, mugs, bags and even posters designed in the carpet’s likeness.

But such is the adoration and dedication to the carpet that those not content with a bag have even gone as far as getting the renowned pattern tattooed on them.

If you’re a tad perplexed, you’re not alone.

A spokesperson for PDX, Kama Simonds, seems equally baffled by the carpet’s stardom.

“Yes, other airports have carpets, but right now people seem to think we have a masterpiece of a welcome mat,” she told USA Today.

 

It seems the affection felt for the carpet lies in the nostalgic sentiment it holds for Portland residents returning to their beloved city.

When it was announced that the carpet would be getting replaced this month (albeit with a somewhat similar pattern) people’s reaction on social media was closer to disappointment than despair. But only just.

In an effort to comfort travellers and commemorate the beloved carpet, the airport has installed an artistic display which hangs on the wall over one of the gates entitled “Carpet Diem!”

The 3 metre by 5 metre collage is made of — you guessed it — pieces of that sacred carpet from throughout the terminal.

 

Public demand for the old carpet is likely to be high with an airport spokesperson telling the LA Times they are “offering a very limited number of 1,000-square-yard (304.8 metres) increments of the carpet to interested parties through a formal public advertisement.”

By all accounts, it will be a very competitive sale. !!!

SOURCE:::: http://www.news.com.au

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Jan 23 2015

 

 

Message For the Day… ” God Never Lets You Down… “

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You may be subjected to calumny, insult and dishonour; you may be plunged into poverty or pain; but the person who has surrendered to the Will of God will welcome each of these gladly and bear it with equanimity. The Lord will never give up His children. Those devoted to God have to be patient and calm, under the most poignant provocation. The fact is, the pious and the God-fearing are those who are visited by travails and troubles: in order to teach mankind these great truths, Krishna enacted this drama with the Pandavas as the cast. Every incident in their lives is but a scene in His play. Intending to declare to the world their intense devotion and its efficacy, and also to hold them up as examples for the Kali age that was to come, the Lord contrived this thrilling drama. There is nothing more in this than that purpose of the Lord.

Sathya Sai Baba

Image For the Day… Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module !!!

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 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module

This July 20, 1969 photograph of the interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. during the lunar landing mission. The picture was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, prior to the landing.

Buzz Aldrin was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on Jan. 20, 1930. Aldrin became an astronaut during the selection of the third group by NASA in October 1963. On Nov. 11, 1966 he orbited aboard the Gemini XII spacecraft, a 4-day 59-revolution flight that successfully ended the Gemini program. During Project Gemini, Aldrin became one of the key figures working on the problem of rendezvous of spacecraft in Earth or lunar orbit, and docking them together for spaceflight. Aldrin was chosen as a member of the three-person Apollo 11 crew that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, fulfilling the mandate of President John F. Kennedy to send Americans to the moon before the end of the decade. Aldrin was the second American to set foot on the lunar surface.

Image Credit: NASA 

SOURCE::::: http://www.nasa.gov

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Jan 22 2015

 

 

Image of the Day…Largest Picture Ever Taken … !!!

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Did you see the largest picture ever taken, released on January 5? The picture has a staggering 1.5 billion pixels, so you’d need 600 HD television screens to display it. It shows the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. Now daveachuk on YouTube has created this wonderful fly-through video, showing detail in the gigantic Andromeda pic. Enjoy feeling small! And remember … each one of those white dots? Each one is a sun, much like the sun that powers all life on Earth.

Enjoy the video! And be sure to watch until the end!

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the full image, which is made up of 411 Hubble images, takes you through a 100 million stars and travels over more than 40,000 light years. Our thanks to Alex Grossman on G+ for sharing! As he said:

Wow. Just wow.

Bottom line: Fly-through video of the largest image ever taken, of the Andromeda galaxy, nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. Prepare to feel small!

SOURCE:::: www. earthskynews.org and You Tube

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Jan 22 2015

 

Message For the Day….” What Should We seek From God …” ?

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“When the Lord takes on the deluding human form, He moves with us, mixes and dines with us, behaves as our very own kinsman, well-wisher, friend, and guide; and also saves us from many a calamity that threatened to overwhelm us. He showered divine mercy on us and solved the toughest problems that defied solution, in remarkably simple ways. When He was near and dear to us, we were carried away by pride that we had His grace and did not try to fill ourselves with that supreme joy, to dive deep into the flood of His grace. We sought from Him mere external victory and temporal benefits, ignoring the vast treasure that could have filled our hearts. We never contemplated on His reality. We might be born many times over, but can we ever have such a friend and kinsman again?”, remarked Arjuna recounting the time he spent with Krishna. 

Sathya Sai Baba

“தை அமாவசை … நன்றி நவிலும் தினம் “….

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” தை அமாவசை … நன்றி நவிலும் தினம் “….

ஜன., 20  தை அமாவாசை

பிரகலாதனின் தந்தை இரண்யன். திருமால், நரசிம்ம அவதாரம் எடுத்து, இவனை அழித்த போது, பிரகலாதன் சோகமாய் இருந்தான். அவன், ‘தந்தை, தன்னை கொடுமைப்படுத்தினாரே… அந்த கொடுமைக்கான தண்டனையைத் தான் அவர் அனுபவிக்கிறார்…’ என்று நினைக்கவில்லை. என்ன இருந்தாலும், தந்தை அல்லவா… வருத்தம் இருக்கத்தானே செய்யும்!
பிரகலாதன் வருத்ததை அறிந்த நரசிம்மர் அவனை அழைத்து, வாஞ்சையுடன் அவனது தலையை தடவியபடி, ‘பிரகலாதா… ஒரு வரம் கேளேன்…’ என்றார்.
‘சுவாமி… வரம் கேள் என்கிறீர்களே… பிரதிபலனை எதிர்பார்த்தா உங்களிடம் பக்தி செய்தேன். இல்லையே…’வரம் கேள்’ என்கிறீர்கள். நான் கேட்காமல் போனால், உங்கள் சொல்லை தட்டிய பாவத்திற்கு ஆளாவேன். அதனால், சுவாமி, என் தந்தைக்கு நல்ல கதியைக் கொடுங்கள்…’ என்றான். இதுதான் நன்றியறிதல் என்பது! பெற்றவர்களும், நம் முன்னோர்களும் நல்லவர்களோ, கெட்டவர்களோ அவர்கள் மோட்ச கதியை அடைய, நாம் கடவுளிடம் பிரார்த்தனை செய்ய வேண்டும். இதற்காகத்தான் தை அமாவாசை போன்ற நிகழ்வுகள் ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளன.
சூரியன் தன் வடதிசை பயணத்தை ஆரம்பிக்கும் உத்ராயண காலத்தில், தை பிறக்கிறது. இந்த மாதத்து அமாவாசை மிகவும் விசேஷத்திற்குரியது. ஆடி முதல் மார்கழி வரை நம் முன்னோர் பூமிக்கு வந்து, நம்மை பாதுகாக்கின்றனர். பின், தை அமாவாசையன்று விடை பெற்று, பிதுர்லோகத்துக்கு செல்வதாக ஐதீகம். இந்த நாளில், அவர்களை நாம் நன்றியுடன் வழியனுப்பி வைக்க வேண்டும்.
தை அமாவாசை விரதம் மிகவும் எளிது. அன்று காலையில், ஏதாவது தீர்த்தக்கரைகளுக்குச் சென்று, தர்ப்பணம் செய்ய வேண்டும். அருகிலுள்ள கோவிலில் முன்னோர் நற்கதியடைய கடவுளைப் பிரார்த்திக்க வேண்டும். தர்ப்பணம் கொடுக்கும் நேரம் வரையாவது சாப்பிடாமல் இருக்க வேண்டும். நம்மை எத்தனையோ நாட்கள் பாதுகாத்த அவர்களுக்காக, நாம், ஒரு வேளை பட்டினி கிடப்பது ஒன்றும் பெரிய விஷயமல்ல. அதே நேரம், மற்றவர்களின் பட்டினியைப் போக்கும் வகையில், அன்னதானம் செய்ய வேண்டும்.
அன்று, நம் குலதெய்வம் கோவிலுக்குச் சென்று வர வேண்டும். ஏனெனில், அங்கே, நம் முன்னோர் அனைவரின் பாதமும் பட்டிருக்கும். அந்த புண்ணிய பூமியில், நம் பாதமும் படுவது, மிகுந்த புண்ணியத்தைத் தரும். நம் முன்னோர்களின் பெயரையும், அவர்களது பெருமையையும் பிள்ளைகளுக்கு சொல்லி, அவர்கள் வழியில் நடக்கும்படி அறிவுறுத்த வேண்டும்.
தை அமாவாசை நன்னாளை, நன்றியறிதல் தினமாக கொண்டாட தயாராவோம்!

SOURCE::::: http://www.Dinamalar.com  and Repeat of my Earlier Blog  dated 30 Jan 2014

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Jan 20 2015

Message For the Day…’ Benefit of Listening to Guru…”

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Do not look at the world with a worldly eye. Look upon it with the eye of the Soul (Atma), as the projection of the Supreme Self (Paramatma). Then you can cross the horizon of dualities into the region of the Oneness. The One is experienced as many because of the forms and names people have imposed on it. That is the result of the mind playing its game. Withdrawal from sensory objects promotes inner exploration (nivritti), not outer inquiry and activity (pravritti). Along inner exploration lies the path of intellectual inquiry (jnana). The sacred activities like rituals and sacrifices laid down in the Scriptures help only to cleanse the consciousness. The freedom that makes one aware of the truth, is gained only by listening to the Guru, ruminating over what has been listened to, and meditating on its validity and significance. Only those who have detached their minds from desire can benefit from the Guru 

Sathya Sai Baba