A doctor monitors vitals after 23 hour long heart transplant surgery in 1987. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.
The patient survived and actually outlived his doctor !!!
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Stunning Aerial Photos of Brazil”s Soccer Fields …
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The community surrounding ‘The Beautiful Game’ is huge, and is a unifying force for countries all over the world. All that soccer requires is a ball, a couple goals, and some players—that’s part of what makes it so brilliant.
As many cities in the World Cup’s current home country are occupied by the most famous soccer players in the world, Brazilian photographer and journalist Renato Stockler’s photo essay Terrão de Cima captures the pure democratic essence and simplicity of the soccer fields ensconced in Sao Paulo neighborhoods.
Stockler says in the project’s description that the fields he photographs, “Are a breath for the hard daily life of those who live in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. These fields show the urgency for public and communal places to practice sports, a portrait of those who fight for leisure in a city as Sao Paulo.”
The reddish dirt and uneven patches of grass that make up most of the fields are a harsh contrast to the soft greens that soccer fans are accustomed to watching. All the same, Stockler says that when the hard day’s work is at an end, it’s easy to find tight knit communities of players, friends, and family gathered around the sparse field to blow off steam.
Terrão de Cima, which loosely translates to, “The Ground from Above,” is a love letter to the rugged fields of Stockler’s home, which are fast disappearing due to land speculation.
Aerial photography is the perfect medium for the task, since it shows the incredible variance in color, shape, and texture of local soccer fields, yet also captures the players as a single unit—a culture, rather than just a bunch of people. We’re still not sure we’d want to slide tackle anyone on these fields, but we’re more than ok with ogling them from above.
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Source:::: Business Insider .com
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Message For the Day…” Who Is God … ” ?
What or who is God? When the answer to this question is sought, one discovers that God is the glory immanent in Nature. The earth rotates on its axis at a speed of thousand miles an hour. As a consequence, we have alternations of day and night, which helps us to live on this globe. Besides, it moves around the sun at the rate of 66,000 miles an hour, causing the seasons which bring rains for crops and vegetation which sustain human life. The earth does not profit in the least by these rotations but human beings survive, enjoy life and prosper on account of them. Nature must indeed be laughing at the sterile frenzies, the endless pursuits, and the countless miseries to which human beings submit themselves to, in their search for achieving the unachievable! You must search in Nature the sacred lessons it holds for you; then, you will understand how deep and how everlasting is the Truth that it conveys to you!
” This Bird is A SuperStar …” !!!
This bird is a superstar
Fewer than 100 pairs of Spoon-billed Sandpipers remain in the wild. Their migration is long and arduous. This is the first hand-reared bird that’s returned to breed.
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is one of the rarest birds in the world. The bird in the image above has now become the first of a group of hand-reared birds in a special program to return to breed. The bird returned to Chukotka, Russia, where it was hatched two years ago.
Saving-Spoon-billed-Sandpiper.com tells the history of this bird:
… it is likely that fewer than 100 pairs remain in the wild.
WWT aviculturist Roland Digby has reared 24 Spoon-billed Sandpipers over the last two summers on their breeding grounds in northeastern Russia, giving them a head start to ensure they survived their crucial first days of life.
Once released, the birds migrated 5,000 miles to south Asia, facing exhaustion, starvation and illegal hunting along the way. There has been a two-year wait to see if any will survive to return to breed.
Now one of the group has been seen back at its birthplace by researchers from Birds Russia, Pavel Tomkovich and Egor Loktionov. They reported that the bird is looking heavy, indicating that she is a female carrying eggs and ready to breed for the first time.
Pavel Tomkovich of Birds Russia said:
Two years ago I attached a tiny plastic leg flag to this bird, so that we’d recognize it if it was ever seen again. The odds were severely stacked against that happening, but amazingly she was spotted, first by birdwatchers in Taiwan in April and then we see her here at her birthplace ready to have young of her own.
It’s a wonderful accomplishment by the people trying to save this bird from extinction. Congratulations to all.
Read more about this bird and its momentous return to breed from Saving-Spoon-billed-Sandpiper.com
Source:::: Earth sky News site
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Image Of the Day… Upside-Down Rainbow !!!
upside-down rainbow. What is it?
Circumzenithal arc by Dudley Williams
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People who look up a lot may occasionally see the rainbow-like arcs depicted in the photos on this page. They’re called circumzenithal arcs, and they’re not really rainbows. Instead, they’re caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. These arcs are related to the frequently seen halos around the sun or moon. Les Cowley of the great website Atmospheric Optics says of these graceful and colorful arcs:
The circumzenithal arc, CZA, is the most beautiful of all the halos. The first sighting is always a surprise, an ethereal rainbow fled from its watery origins and wrapped improbably about the zenith. It is often described as an “upside down rainbow” by first timers. Someone also charmingly likened it to “a grin in the sky”.
Look straight up near to the zenith when the sun if fairly low and especially if sundogs are visible. The centre of the bow always sunwards and red is on the outside.
Les says that the most ideal time to see a circumzenithal arc is when the sun is at a height of 22 degrees in the sky. Look here to see Les Cowley’s illustration of the various kinds of halo phenomena, related to circumzenithal arcs. And enjoy the photos below, contributed by EarthSky friends on Facebook. Thanks to all who contributed.
Bottom line: When you see an upside-down rainbow in the sky, you are likely seeing a circumzenithal arc. It’s related the halos often seen around the sun or moon, caused by ice crystal in the upper atmosphere. The photos here are by EarthSky friends on Facebook. Thanks to all who contributed!
Gallery: Rainbows around the world
Source::::: Deborah Byrd In Earth sky news site
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Joke of the Day…” Just Stand Where You are … ” !!!
Lady:(standing in the middle of a busy street) Officer, can you tell me how to get to the Hospital?
Officer: Just stand where you are!!!
Teacher: “why are you always late for school?”
Student: “ because you always ring the bell before I get here!
Source::: Joke a day.com
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Message For the Day…” Good Conduct Must be the Main Key to Your Life … “
Lord Krishna declares in the Bhagavad Gita, “There is nothing in the three worlds that I am obliged to do, nothing unaccomplished that I have to accomplish, but I am still engaged in activity (karma)”. Lord Krishna says this, for, if God is inactive, the Cosmos will come to a grinding halt. You too, must take the lead and follow it. Translate your strength into activity along the path of duty. The young follow the lead of elders. So elders must consistently hold on to ideals and work towards their realization so that the entire universe can attain prosperity and peace. Mother Earth teaches her children this lesson of service and sacrifice. Good conduct must be the main key to the life of every being. Remember, it is the ‘way of living,’ the path of virtue, that keeps you in the memory of people long after death.
Image of the Day…
Northern Illinois storm clouds on June 30
A farmer captured this photo of a serious storm sweeping through northern Illinois on Monday, June 30.
On Monday, June 30, 2014, flooding, downed trees and fires caused by lightning strikes snarled traffic, cut power and delayed or canceled hundreds of flights in and out of Chicago, Illinois. Steve Pitstick of Pitstick Farms in northern Illinois caught some of the storm clouds of this heavy-weather day on film.
Illinois was said to be hit particularly hard in Monday’s storms, but the central U.S. as a whole had tornadoes, high winds, hail and heavy rains that day. By Tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of people were without power and trying to clean up damaged homes and roadways, according to the National Weather Service.
Source:::: Earth sky news site
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Simple Story With a Strong Message… Gold Coins !!!
AKBAR’S GOLD COINS
This Akbar – Birbal story is just one of the many stories, which are an integral part of rich Indian heritage.
The wisdom of Birbal was unparalleled during the reign of Emperor Akbar. But Akbar’s brother in law was extremely jealous of him. He asked the Emperor to dispense with Birbal’s services and appoint him in his place. He gave ample assurance that he would prove to be more efficient and capable than Birbal. Before Akbar could take a decision on this matter, this news reached Birbal.
Birbal resigned and left. Akbar’s brother in law was made the minister in place of Birbal. Akbar decided to test the new minister. He gave three hundred gold coins to him and said, “Spend these gold coins such that, I get a hundred gold coins here in this life; a hundred gold coins in the other world and another hundred gold coins neither here nor there.”
The minister found the entire situation to be a maze of confusion and hopelessness. He spent sleepless nights worrying over how he would get himself out of this mess. Thinking in circles was making him go crazy. Eventually, on the advice of his wife he sought Birbal’s help. Birbal said, “Just give me the gold cons. I shall handle the rest.”
Birbal walked the streets of the city holding the bag of gold coins in his hand. He noticed a rich merchant celebrating his son’s wedding. Birbal gave a hundred gold coins to him and bowed courteously saying, “The Emperor Akbar sends you his good wishes and blessings for the wedding of your son. Please accept the gift he has sent.” The merchant felt honoured that the king had sent a special messenger with such a precious gift. He honoured Birbal and gave him a large number of expensive gifts and a bag of gold coins as a return gift for the king.
Next, Birbal went to the area of the city were the poor people lived. There he bought food and clothing in exchange for a hundred gold coins and distributed them in the name of the Emperor.
When he came back to town he organized a concert of music and dance. He spent a hundred gold coins on it.
The next day Birbal entered Akbar’s darbar and announced that he had done all that the king had asked his brother-in-law to do. The Emperor waited to know how he had done it. Birbal repeated the sequences of all the events and then said, “The money I gave to the merchant for the wedding of his son – you have got back while on this earth. The money I spent on buying food and clothing for the poor – you will get it in the other world. The money I spent on the musical concert – you will get neither here nor there.”
The Moral:-
This is true even today.
The money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form or the other.
Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from God which becomes your eternal property.
Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away!
So when you spend money, think a little, if not a lot!
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Best Views From Above … Plane”s Eye View !!!
Who wouldn’t want to be a pilot with views like this? Source: ThinkStock
WHEN it comes to the ideal place for a spot of sightseeing, it’s hard to get better than the pointy end of the plane, where lucky pilots get to soak up the best views Earth has to offer in an office that the rest of us could only dream of having.
Our jealousy has soared to new heights with the release of a survey by British Airways of their pilots’ favourite destinations seen from above.
The pilots were asked to chose from the airline’s 180+ different routes, and came up with a top 10 list.
Here are the winners, along with pilots explaining why they are so incredible.
1. Northern Lights, North America
Captain Dave Willsher: “If you’re not already asleep this is an amazing sight three to four hours into most long North America flights. Well worth staying up for.”
Still awake? Picture: Jason Jenkins Source: Flickr
2. Central London, approach into Heathrow
Captain Mark Mannering-Smith: “Most flights approach Heathrow from the east — a great opportunity to get an unbeatable view of London.”
Wave hi to the Poms. Picture: Advait Supnekar Source: Flickr
Another Heathrow shot. Picture: Jessica Spengler Source: Flickr
Coming in to land. Picture: Andy Mitchell Source: Flickr
3. Mont Blanc, Pisa
First Officer Caroline Robinson: “A breathtaking view of the Alps, and especially of Mont Blanc.”
The majestic Alps. Source: ThinkStock
4. Sydney Harbour
Captain Derek May: “When leaving Sydney, sit on the right hand side of the aircraft to get the best views of Sydney Harbour.”
There’s a lot to see at Sydney Harbour. Source: ThinkStock
Meanwhile, flying over South Sydney. Source: ThinkStock
An aerial photo of Goat Island on Sydney Harbour. Source: Supplied
View of Manly, with Sydney Harbour and the city centre in the background. Source: Supplied
5. Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, San Francisco
Captain Simon Scholey: “You get great views of the bridge on the left hand side of the aircraft, Alcatraz from the right, and the bay from both!”
It’s a pretty cool sight. Picture: Paul Williams Source: Flickr
The Golden Gate Bridge. Source: News Limited
Flying over San Francisco. Picture: Jessica “The Hun” Reeder Source: Flickr
6. Greenland, North Atlantic flights
Senior First Officer Peter Nye: “Greenland is visually stunning. The tips of mountains can be seen poking through the snow which is over a mile deep. Occasionally you will be able to see icebergs carving off glaciers around the coast.”
Ice, ice, baby. Picture: My Faily Sublime Source: Flickr
A frozen meltwater lake along the northeast Greenland coast. Picture: NASA Source: Flickr
7. Venetian canals
First Officer Joanne Tait: “This is especially good on a departure to the north east as you circle back over the city.”
Venice down below. Source: ThinkStock
8. Cape Town, Table Mountain
Senior First Officer Kate Laidler: “On early morning arrivals from the north it’s great for Table Mountain and the bay.”
Cape Town aerial view. Source: ThinkStock
9. Dubrovnik
Captain Al Bridger: “It’s a terrific approach into Dubrovnik over the bay to the north east.”
Dubrovnik from above. Source: ThinkStock
10. Mount Fuji
Captain Chris Hanson: “Whether arriving or departing from Tokyo (Narita) you can see Mount Fuji sticking out of the clouds.”
Pilots enjoy great views of Mount Fuji. Source: ThinkStock
Source:::: news.com.au
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