Draw a Mayflower Ship

May Flower Ship

Draw a May Flower Ship

Coconut & Ego

Coconut Smashing

In Indian belief, the coconut fruit is a representation of the ego, i.e. it is a symbol of an individual's ego. When a person's ego is very big, they will not bow down in front of anyone. And to pray to god means to break this ego and there is no better representation than smashing a coconut at god's feet. Some religion in India breaking a coconut is symbolic of overcoming one's ego and surrendering themselves to the God.

- Internet source.

Catch of the day.

Agriculture after Independence

Vinobha Bhave and Land Donation Movement

From Indian history after independence...

"Vinoba started out on his extraordinary bhoodan (Land Gift) movement. Over a period of twenty years, Vinoba walked the length and breath of India, persuading landlords to give to their poor neighbors a total of over four million acres of land (aprox. size of Indian state Nagaland)".

During those time farmers were asked to do 'rishi kheti’ (agriculture of the sages). Natural farming without disturbing the soil.

"The rishis looked upon the soil as a ‘mother’. Ploughing was forbidden, for many of them believed that the plough would damage the soil and turn it into sand.

The rishis considered fruit, tubers and milk the most appropriate diet for humans. Rice, barley and millet were grown in small quantities, and used as offerings to the sacrificial fire. Leftovers were considered consecrated food – prasad – and eaten as such."

- from internet resources.

கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவு -Hair Pin Bend

ஒரே நாளில் இரண்டு கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவு விபத்து..

சத்தியமங்கலம் அருகே திம்பம் மலைப்பாதை உள்ளது. இந்த மலைப்பாதையில் 27 கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவுகள் உள்ளன. தமிழகம்-கர்நாடகத்தை இணைக்கும் முக்கிய வழித்தடமாக திம்பம் மலைப்பாதை உள்ளது. இந்த மலைப்பாதை வழியாக தினமும் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான சரக்கு வாகனங்கள் சென்று வருகின்றன.

கர்நாடக மாநிலம் மைசூரில் இருந்து திண்டுக்கல் நத்தம் பகுதிக்கு மாங்காய் பாரம் ஏற்றிக்கொண்டு லாரி நேற்று 25-05-2018 சென்று கொண்டிருந்தது. காலை 8 மணி அளவில் திம்பம் மலைப்பாதை 23-வது கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவில் லாரி திரும்பிய போது கட்டுப்பாட்டை இழந்து நடுரோட்டில் கவிழ்ந்தது. இதில் லாரியில் இருந்த மாங்காய்கள் ரோட்டில் சிதறின.

மற்றொரு விபத்தில்

நீலகிரி மாவட்டம் ஊட்டியி இருந்து மைசூரு நகரை நோக்கி கர்நாடக அரசு பேருந்து ஒன்று இன்று மாலை சென்று கொண்டிருந்தது. அந்த பேருந்து கூடலூர் அருகே தவளமலை பகுதியில் உள்ள கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவில் திரும்பும் போது எதிர்பாராத விதமாக அருகில் இருந்த பள்ளத்தில் கவிழ்ந்ந்தது. 

தவிர்க்கும் வழி முறைகள்..

விபத்தை தவிர்க்க, 'கண்ணாடி பார்வை!' மலைப்பாதையில் அதிகாரிகள் கவனம்..

வால்பாறை:வால்பாறை ரோட்டிலுள்ள, கொண்டைஊசி வளைவுகளில் விபத்துக்களை தவிர்க்கும் வகையில், கண்ணாடி பொருத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது.வால்பாறை செல்லும் வழித்தடத்தில், ஆழியாறில் இருந்து ஐயர்பாடி வரையிலும், 40 கொண்டை ஊசி வளைவுகள் உள்ளன. வால்பாறைக்கு சுற்றுலா வாகனங்கள் வருகை அதிகரித்துள்ளது. ஆனால், ஒரு வழிப்பாதை மட்டுமே உள்ளதால், அடிக்கடி விபத்துகள் ஏற்படுகிறது.விபத்துக்களை தவிர்க்கும் வகையில் நெடுஞ்சாலைத்துறை சார்பில், 48 இடங்களில், வாகன ஓட்டுனர்களின் பார்வைக்காக கண்ணாடி பொருத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது. 
இதன் மூலம், எந்த திசையில் வாகனம் வந்தாலும் கண்ணாடியில் தெரிந்து கொண்டு, விபத்தை தவிர்க்க டிரைவர்களால் முடிவெடுக்க முடியும்.

- shared from internet resource.

How Fast Do Earthworms Travel?

If you’ve ever watched a worm wriggle around in the soil, you’ll notice that no matter how aggressive they move, they don’t travel as fast as a spider. The speed at which earthworms travel depends on the size of the earthworm.

A small earthworm travels at a rate of around 27 feet per hour (0.2 centimeters per second).

A medium sized worm can cover 185 feet in one hour or 1.5 centimeters per second.

And large earthworms can make their way across 240 feet of earth in one hour.


- taken from Internet resource.

Curd rice & dravidian association

In one of the interview with K Veeramani Thanthi TV journalist Hariharan asked him about his experience with E V R Periyar.

He spoke about feast he had together with Periyar..curd rice was served in the meal and Periyar wanted pickle to be served but not knowing the exact word he just made - "tok tok" making sound with tongue and snaping fingers making the person serving understand what he want.

அது சரி அந்த சம்பவத்த இன்னைக்கு ஹரிஹரனோட பகிர்ந்துகிறாரே  ரகசியம் இருக்குமோ?

Filmy

During an appearance on EW Radio Spotlight, Reynolds confessed that the little ones were scared shitless whenever he was in full Wade Wilson mode and they visited the set.

When I’m in the scar makeup, that’s hard for my kids because they were on set a lot. I leave the house in the morning and I’d be ‘Dad’ and then by lunch it looked like I fell asleep on a stove.

In fact, Inez had a particularly severe reaction to glimpsing her usually-handsome father 

In fact, Reynolds admits that the experience will probably haunt the toddler for a long time to come.

My 1-year-old daughter would just sob, I mean for hours after seeing me. It’s torture because you can’t rip it off in the moment and be like, ‘No, no, no! See I’m under here,’ [and] undo four hours of prosthetic makeup work.

Safe to say that poor innocent Inez is probably carrying similar scars herself now, only the deep-seated emotional ones. 

- Shared from internet.

This actor should understand the fruit of love. Caring is love..

Criquet - 1478 First Recorded Cricket Match

French hamlet claims to be site of the first recorded cricket match

In 1478, at the village of Liettres in northern France, a young man called Estiavannet came across a group of disagreeable people playing an unusual game. It involved “boules” or balls and a wooden post or “criquet”.

According to a letter of grievance to the king, which survives in the French national archives, an argument broke out. One of the players said: “Why are you staring at our ball game?” There was violence. Someone was killed.

This may be the first mention anywhere of the game of cricket, almost a century before the first written record of the game in England (although there are also suggestions that an early form of the game might have been mentioned in 1300).

The village of Liettres in French Flanders now stage an “international cricket tournament”.

The Liettres Challenge 1478 is an international cricket competition held every year at the end of September in the municipality of Liettres and celebrating the world's oldest witness of cricket authenticated in a letter of complaint addressed to King Louis XI who mentions a death during a match on October 25, 1478 in the Castle Park of Liettres.

The tournament brings together the 3 countries concerned by the birth of Cricket France (French Flanders), Belgium (Belgian Flanders) and England, country of cricket.

- shared from internet resource.

Clip from IPL 2018 KKR vs MI - May 09, 2018

A hint of MSD in Ishan Kishan

How would a left-handed MS Dhoni play the helicopter shot? Ishan Kishan showed how.

Triumph of Labour

Triumph of Labour

The Triumph of Labour, also known as the Labour statue, is a statue at the Marina Beach, Chennai, India. Erected at the northern end of the beach at the Anna Square opposite University of Madras, it is an important landmark of Chennai. The statue shows four men toiling to move a rock, depicting the hard work of the labouring class. It bears a semblance to the famed World War II photograph of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima by the American Marines. It was sculpted by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945, which depicts six United States Marines raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, in World War II.

The photograph was first published in Sunday newspapers on February 25, 1945. It was extremely popular and was reprinted in thousands of publications.

- shared from internet resource.