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” God’s Own Child From God’s Own Country “….

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Edmund Thomas Clint was a child prodigy from Kochi, Kerela. Sadly, he lived only for 7 years and passed away due to kidney failure.

But what he did in those 7 years is a work of sheer genius. At such a tender age, he had the creative bent of an artistic legend: he created some fine 25,000 artwork in just 2522 days!

Clint Road in Kochi is named after him. There are books and films on his unbelievable journey, yet this is an untold story. The video rightly attributes,

“Gods Own Child from God’s Own Country”

 

 

 

source::: You Tube and Story Pick

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Happy Easter…Say it With A Huge Smile !!!

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Have a Very Happy Puppy Easter!
Easter is here, and I wanted to make sure that you start it with a HUGE smile on your face. I hope this will do just that and that you have the very best of holidays. This will get you started in the right direction!

 

source:::: You Tube and ba-ba mail site

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NASA Announces An Earth like Planet ….

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NASA and Kepler telescope researchers have just announced that they’ve discovered an Earth-sized planet, circling a dwarf star at a distance that would allow that planet to support liquid water. 

A live press conference is currently happening, which includes Douglas Hudgins of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Tom Barclay of Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Ames, and Victoria Meadows of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute at Ames.

You can watch live on Ustream and we’ve embedded the video below. Questions for the scientists can be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/46348063
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The finding was also published today, April 16, in the journal Science.

The new planet, Kepler-186f, is part of a five-planet planet system that orbits a star named Kepler-186, which is cooler and about half the size and mass of our sun.

The newfound system is located about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Kepler-186f is the outermost planet and the only one circling its star at the right distance to have liquid water on it’s surface. Since liquid water is a key ingredient for life to exist, scientists call this sweet spot the “habitable zone.”

On planets that are too close to their star, liquid water boils away. Those that are too far don’t get enough energy from their star to support a climate and atmosphere similar to Earth.

The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized planets near stars like our sun. Kepler has found dozens of exoplanets in the habitable zone, but most of these are gas giants. Kepler-186f is the first confirmed Earth-sized planet potentially with an Earth-like atmosphere and water at its surface.

 

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Danielle Futselaar

The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone.

 

 

Size and composition

Kepler-186f is less than 10% larger than Earth. Scientists confirmed the size of Kepler-186f by measuring how much light it blocks as it passed in front of its host star.

Scientists don’t yet know the mass or composition of Kepler-186f, but think it could have a rocky surface based on planets of similar size – like Earth.

“There’s a very excellent chance that it does have a rocky surface like the Earth,” co-author Stephen Kane, of San Francisco State University, said in a statement.

Here’s how the planets of our inner solar system compare to those of Kepler-186:

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NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-CalTech

The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

 

source::::Business Insider India

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Sri Mahapriava Sri Pada Darsnam …On Anusham Day …

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Anusham Special – 18 APRIL 2014…

Here is a beautiful compilation of Guru Paduka Stotram, interwoven with Periva’s rare photos – carefully chosen sets where you can get to have his Padam/Paduka darshan in almost every photo.

 

 

 

source::::www.periva.proboards.com

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Kitchen That Feeds 100000 Daily …

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Free kitchen in India run at the Sikhs’ holiest shrine produces 200,000 flat breads and 1.5 tonnes of lentil soup daily.


Two hundred thousand rotis (Indian flat bread), 1.5 tonnes of dal (lentil soup) and free food served to 100,000 people everyday are what makes the free kitchen run at the Golden Temple in the western Indian city of Amritsar stand apart.By all measures, the kitchen (called langar in Punjabi ) is one of the largest free kitchens to be run anywhere in the world.The concept of langars was initiated centuries ago by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion.

At the Langar, no one goes hungry – and everybody gets a hot meal regardless of caste, creed and religion.

All Sikh Gurudwaras (places of worship) have langars, but the one at Golden Temple – Sikhs’ holiest shrine – has little parallel.

“Anyone can eat for free here and on an average we serve food to 100,000 people. On weekends and special occasions double the numbers of people visit the langar. The langar never stops and on an average 7,000 kg of wheat flour, 1,200 kg of rice, 1,300 kg of lentils, 500 kg of ghee (clarified butter) is used in preparing the meal every day,” says Harpreet Singh, manager of this huge kitchen.

“The free kitchen uses firewood, LPG gas and electronic bread makers for the cooking and we use around 100 LPG cylinders and 5,000 kilograms of firewood every day,” he adds.

The kitchen is run by 450 staff, helped by hundreds of other volunteers.

Sanjay Arora, 46, from New Delhi, comes to volunteer at the langar two days a month. “This is seva (service) for me. I feel happy after doing this service. This is not just free food because here you forget all the differences that separate humans from each other,” he says.

Volunteers also wash the 300,000 plates, spoons and bowls used in feeding the people. The food is vegetarian and the expenses are managed through donations from all over the world.

The yearly budget of the langar runs into hundreds of millions.
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The “langar” or free kitchen at Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar is perhaps the world’s largest free eatery. The Langar or free kitchen was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak

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Around one hundred thousand (100,000) people visit the langar every day and the number increases on weekends and special days.
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People from all over the world especially ” Sikhs” visit Golden temple at least once in their life time.
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Everybody is welcome at the langar, no one is turned away. It works on the principle of equality between people of the world regardless of religion, caste, colour, creed, age, gender or social status.
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People sit on the floor together as equals and eat the same simple food at the eating hall of the Golden Temple langar.

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Langar teaches the etiquette of sitting and eating in a community situation.
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People from any community and faith can serve as volunteers.
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The lines of status, caste and class vanish at the langar. Everybody is treated as equals.
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The meal served is hot but simple: comprising roti (flat Indian bread), lentil soup and rice.

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The utensils are washed in three rounds to ensure that the plates are perfectly clean to be again used.
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Running the kitchen also means washing and cleaning thousands of plates, bowls and spoons.

 

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Some 450 staff and hundreds of volunteers help to run the kitchen.

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Five thousand kilograms of fire wood is used every day for preparing the meals at this langar, that runs 24/7.
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A Sikh volunteer prepares the dal (lentil soup) that will be served for the meals at the langar.
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Around 200,000 rotis are prepared every day at the langar which is served to the people.
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Wheat flour being put in a contraption that acts like a dough maker. The dough will be used for making rotis (Indian flat bread).
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Rotis (Indian flatbread) are cooked over electric machine .
/Showkat Shafi  in Alzazeera .com
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Women play an important role in the preparation of meals. Volunteers make stacks of rotis that will be served at the free kitchen.

 

Cheetahs on the Bonnet !!!

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On the plains of the Serengeti our safari columnists have an unforgettable, heart-stopping encounter with a cheetah family

Bush Telegraph Column :::: In The Telegraph UK

 

 


On the face of it you would be forgiven for thinking that the ‘bush’ is the ‘bush’ and that the places where the wild creatures of Africa still roam look much like one another. But like that evocative word ‘wilderness’, the terrain and the variety of the ecosystems involved vary hugely in terms of both geography and geology.

In southern Africa, where we have spent much of the last year, the ‘bush’ includes the shrublands, riverine forests, grasslands, floodplains and sand islands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta at one extreme and the desert mountains of Namibia with its populations of desert-adapted elephant, lion and rhino on the other. In between lies everything from the Nyika plateau in Malawi where leopards and antelope roam across a landscape that could easily be mistaken for Scotland to the fever tree forests of the northern Kruger in South Africa.

But there is nowhere that reflects the ‘Out Of Africa’ image of the popular imagination better than the hills and rolling savannah grasslands of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania alongside, of course, the game parks and reserves of Kenya itself where Karen Von Blixen’s classic was written.

Savannah grasslands have the distinct advantage that the big cats can be followed in a game vehicle and seen from afar off. Watching a kill, for example, from start to finish is a very rare event at the best of times but in dense bush it is more or less impossible. In the open savannah, however, particularly during the wildebeest migration, it is a real possibility.

While not of a kill (thankfully for us), the accompanying film demonstrates how intimate an experience an encounter with wild cats can be in the Serengeti. Cheetah, like this mother and her year-old cub, favour the wide-open spaces where they can keep an eye out for their arch enemy, lions, and use that extraordinary acceleration to get quickly out of trouble.

This particular cub, whose juvenile mane or ‘mantle’ can still be seen on his neck and down his back, will soon be leaving his mother for a solitary existence on his own and is demonstrating his adolescent bravado to the full.

 

Film shot on a Panasonic HC-X920

 

source::::Richard and Sarah Madden’  in The Telegraph UK

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How A Small Kid Can Inspire a Billion People …

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In under 2 minutes, this cute little video achieves what filmmakers struggle to infuse in their work: emotion, empathy and a crystal clear call to action. This social experiment was conducted in Khao Galli, Mumbai . 

The video strikes the right chord coz you can’t impose social responsibility on anyone, but you can surely inspire.

And the best part: you need not be a person of clout to inspire, you can just be a school kid.

source::::You Tube & Storypick

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A Ring Master Who Makes You Say ” WoW ” … ” !!!

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A Beautiful Optical Illusion With Rings
Lindzee is a French contact juggler who will now demontrate the ‘right ring’ technique, an optical illusion using conjoined rings that can also be used to convey a lot of beauty. This video showing his skills is set to Amelie’s “Comptine d’un Autre Ete”.

 

 

source:::::YOU TUBE  and ba-ba mail site

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