Meeya's Blog

THE FOOD ........

2012-01-17T20:06:00.000+05:30

Seattle-based artist Christopher Boffoli's "Disparity" series aims to highlight America's culture of over-consumption, using hand painted railway model figurines glued into place onto real food. "I chose food as a backdrop because it is a constant," said Christopher. "People see a striking image of food and are immediately drawn in because it is something familiar.

"Citrus mower"

"As an American too I think my choice is conscious in terms of the strange and often negative relationship that many Americans have towards food. I mean, the work is mostly humorous on the surface and most viewers will react to the humour in it. But I'm also perhaps making some other statements too about North America's food bounty, overuse, abuse and obsessions."

"Green bean sawmill"

Christopher feels though that humour must be at the core of every image he is creating. "The images have a strength and a personality of their own," said Christopher. But they are most often exhibited with captions that lend an extra bit of energy to the concept, and of course, often reinforce the laugh. Hopefully it gives the viewer a laugh at the expectation of events that may have followed."

"Blackberry CSI"

Working on his project since 2006, Christopher has been inspired by the Lilliputians of 'Gulliver's Travels' to create his scenes. "The set-ups come from a very organic place," said Christopher. "I'll usually start with the food, seeing what's in season at the farmer's market, considering what I've shot before. Or I think about iconic foods, like Oreo cookies. I also consider how I can populate those images with figures with a context that makes sense.

"Pepperoni fire brigade"

"We have a lot of overcast days here in Seattle so it has marvellous, diffused light. I try to use available light as much as possible, though if I'm still working as the evening approaches I'll set up a couple of off-camera slaves to add light. "

"Pepper vespas"

"Peanut butter cup repair technicians"

"Chocolate cake crumb vacuum"

"Clamshell lovers"

"Barricade challengers"

"Pancake production crew"

"Waffle beekeepers"

"Kiwi painters"

"S'mores cupcake skier"

"Macaron production team"

"Cucumber sunbathers"

"Hand warmer"

"Chocolate quarry"

"Advanced yoga"

"Carrot runners"

ඕවිටේ වීදුරුව!

2011-12-27T21:16:00.001+05:30

කෙටිම කෙටි කථාවකි!! ^_^

ක්‍රිස්තු වර්ෂ දෙදහස් දොළහේ අගෝස්තු 10 වෙනිදා උදේ දහයයි දහයට යෙදී තිබුණු සුබ නැකතෙන් පුජ්‍යස්ථානය භාර ඇමතිතුමා විදුලි බොත්තමක් තද කරලා ඩයිනමයිට් පෝලිමක් පුපුරවලා ගමේ වෙල අයිනේ තිබුන ගාරා වැටුණු පන්සල එක මොහොතකින් බිමට සමතලා කරා. ඇමතිතුමාගේ මල්ලිගේ භුමි සංවර්ධනසහ ගොඩනැගිලි ඉදීකිරීමේ සමාගම තරු පහේ හෝටලයක් එතන හදන්නත් වහ වහාම පටන්ගත්තා.. කොයිතරම් ඉක්මනට කාර්යමක්ෂ්ව වැඩ කෙරුනද කියනවනං දවස් කීපයක් යනකොටහෝටලේ පලවෙනි තට්ටුවත් හදලා ඉවර උනා. පහලම තට්ටුවේ තියෙන කොෆී ෂොප් එකේවිශාල විදුරු හයිකරන්නත් බාස් උන්න්නහැලා පටන් ගත්තා. ඒ මහා විශාල විදුරැජනේලයක් ඕවිටේ රබූටන් ගහකට හේත්තු කරපු බාස්ල දවල්ට කන්ඩ ළඟ තියෙන කඩේටගිය වෙලාවේ වැහි ලිහිණිය පුරුදු විදියට පියාඹගෙන ආවා.

වැහිලිහිණියා වෙනදපුරුද්දට බොහොම වේගෙන් අහස පුරා පියාසර කරලා, කරනම් දෙක තුනකුත් ගහල, රඹුටන් ගහේ උඩම අත්තටයටින් තටු අකුලාගෙන ආවේ අතිවේග ජෙට් එකක් වාගේ. පහලට පියාඹලා ඊට එහායින්තියෙන දං පඳුරේ හැපෙන්නේ නැති වෙන්න අංශක 85 කෝණයකින් ඉහළට යන්ඩ හිතාගෙනඊගහක් වගේ පහලට පියෑඹුවා. හැමදාමත් මේ ධාවන මාර්ගයෙන්ම වැහි ලිහිණියට වේගයෙන්හුලං පාර කනේ වැදීගෙන යනකොට මාර සනීපයක් දැනෙන්නේ.

නමුත් මෙදාවැහිලිහිණියට වැරදුනා!
හීනෙකින්වත් බලාපොරොත්තු නොවූ විදිහිට මොකක්දෝනොපෙනෙන යමක බොහොම තදින් වැදුණු වැහිලිහිණිය ඒ වැදුණු එක දිගේම රූටාගෙනපොළොවට වැටුනා. ටිකක් වෙලා යනතුරු වැහිලිහිණියට කල්පනාව පවා නැතුව ගියා.වෙඩි උණ්ඩය වගේ ඇවිත් හැප්පිච්ච නිසා ඔලුවත් පැලිලා ලේ ගලනවා. යන්තං සිහිඑලවා ගත්ත වැහිලිහිණිය කොයිතරම් කල්පනා කරන්න හැදුවත් තෙරුම් ගන්න බැරිවුණාමේ හැපුනේ මොකකද කියල.

පොඩ්ඩක් පියාඹන්න පුලුවන් ගානට සිහි ආවාට පස්සේවැහිලිහිණිය කෙලින්ම එයාගේ ක්‍රීඩා සමාජයට පියඹලා ගියා ප්‍රථමාධාර ගන්න.ප්‍රථමධාර භාරව ඉන්න කවුඩට කියලා හොඳ බැන්ඩේජ් එකකුත් දාගෙන බාර් එකෙන්බීයර් එකකුත් දාගෙන තමයි වැහිලිහිණිය වටපිටවත් බැලුවේ. ලේ පෙරාගෙන ඇවිත්බැන්ඩේජ් දාගෙන වීදුරුවේ අඩිය පෙන්න කටේ හලා ගන්නව මෙතෙක් වෙලා බලා හිටියඋකුස්සායි නීල කොබෙයියයි මුහුදු ලිහිණියයි එක සැරේම වගේ ඇහැව්වා

"මොකදයාළුවා වුනේ?" කියලා.

වැහිලිහිණිය කිව්වා" මම වෙනදා වගේම කුඹුරයි ඔවිටයි හරහා පියඹලා අංශක 85 කෝණයක් අරගෙන උඩටඑන්න හිතාගෙන පහලට පියාඹනකොට එකපාරටම වගේ ඉස්සහරින් වාතය ඝනි භවනය වෙලා මාවහැපිලා බිමට වැටුනනේ! "

උකුස්සයි නීලකොබෙයියයි මුහුදු ලිහිණියයි කදුළු පනින තුරු බඩත් අල්ලාගෙන හිනා උනා. හිනාවෙනගමන්ම උකුස්සා කියනවා,
"මේ යාළුවාමට තරම් වේගයෙන්වත් ඉහලින්වත් ඉගිලෙන්න පුළුවන් තවත් කවුරුත් නැහැ. මමතරම් ලෝකේ වටේ කරක්ගහපු කෙනෙකුත් නැහැ. හැබැයි මමනම් කවදාවත් මේ සාමාන්‍යවාතය ස්ඵටික වෙලා ඝනවෙලා තියෙනවා දැකලත් නෑ, අහලත් නෑ. අද තමයි ඔන්එහෙම එකක් ඇහැව්වේ" කියලා.

නීල කොබෙයිය කියනවා, "මමත් මගේ ජීවිතේට අහල නෑ වාතය ඝනවෙලා ස්ඵටික හැදෙයි කියලා නං. මෙයා ගහක හැප්පිලාද කොහද..."

"වතුර මිදුමනං ඝන වෙන්න පුළුවන් අයිස් වගේ. වාතය නං කවදාවත් එහෙම ඝන වෙන්න බැහැ" කියලා මුහුදු ලිහිණියත් කිව්වා.

වැහිලිහිණියට දැන් වස ලැජ්ජාවයි!

"අඩ මානයක් නෑ වලාකුලකින් අයිස් කැටයක් වැටෙනකොට මෙයාගේ ඔලුවට වදින්න ඇති." කියලා උකුස්සා ආයෙත් හිනාවෙන්න ගත්තා.

"යාළුවා මොකද මේ ගැන කියන්නේ?" කියලා මෙතෙක් වෙලා පැත්තකට වෙලාමේ කතාව අහගෙන හිටිය කන කොකා දිහාට හැරුන නිල කොබෙයිය ඇහුවා.

"මට හිතෙන්නේනං වාතය ස්ඵටික බවට පත්වෙන්න ඇති" කියලා කිව්වාම උකුස්සායි යාලුවෝ ටිකයි මහා හයියෙන් හිනා වුනා. මුළු ක්‍රීඩා ශාලාවේම හිටපු ඔක්කොම දැන් මෙතනට වටවෙලා නිසා වැහිළිහිනියට පොළොව පලාගෙන යන්න තරම් ලැජ්ජයි.

" හොදයි එහෙනං අපි ඔට්ටුවක් අල්ලමු.. මම කියපු ගමන් මාර්ගයේම අනුගමය කරලා පියාඹලා මොනවත් නොවී ආපහු ආවොත් මගේ ගානේ අලුත් පලා පනුවෝ දීසිය ගානේ ඔය තුන් දෙනාට මගෙන්. බැරි වුනොත් මට ඔය 3න් දෙනාගෙන් දීසි 3ක්, හරිද?" වැහිලිහිණියා කිව්වා.

උකුස්සා කන කොකාට කිව්වා, " අපි දීසි 3 බෙදා ගම්මු. එන්න අපිත් එක්ක පියාඹන්න" කියලා. එත් කන කොකා කැමති වුනේ නැහැ. "මම ඔයාලා එනකං මෙහේම ඉන්නම්." කියලා කන කොකා කිව්වා.

"අපෝ... බයගුල්ලා!" කියලා හිනාවෙච්ච උකුස්සයි නිල කොබෙයියයි මුහුදුලිහිනියයි බොහොම වේගෙන් පියඹන්න පටන් ගත්තා. එක්කෙනාට එක්කෙනා පරද්දන්න වගේ පියාඹගෙන ආ මේ තුන්දෙනා රඹුටන් ගහ යටදී වීදුරුවේ හැපිලා බරපතල විදිහට ඔලු පලා ගත්තා!

ආදර්ශය : පසුබාන්නා බොහෝ විට ආරක්ෂාවේ!

20 Painkillers in Your Kitchen!!!

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1. Make Muscle pain a memory with Ginger

When Danish researchers asked achy people to jazz up their diets with ginger,

it eased muscle and joint pain, swelling and stiffness for up to 63 percent of them within two months.

Experts credit ginger’s potent compounds called gingerols, which prevent the production of pain-triggering hormones.

The study-recommended dose: Add at least 1 teaspoon of dried ginger or 2 teaspoons of chopped ginger to meals daily.

2. Cure a Toothache with Cloves

Got a toothache and can’t get to the dentist?

Gently chewing on a clove can ease tooth pain and gum inflammation for two hours straight, say UCLA researchers.

Experts point to a natural compound in cloves called eugenol, a powerful, natural anesthetic.

Bonus: Sprinkling a ¼ teaspoon of ground cloves on meals daily may also protect your ticker.

Scientists say this simple action helps stabilize blood sugar, plus dampen production of artery-clogging cholesterol in as little as three weeks.

3. Heal Heartburn with Cider Vinegar

Sip 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar mixed with 8 ounces of water before every meal,

and experts say you could shut down painful bouts of heartburn in as little as 24 hours.

“Cider vinegar is rich in malic and tartaric acids, powerful digestive aids that speed the breakdown of fats and proteins so your stomach can empty quickly, before food washes up into the esophagus, triggering heartburn pain,” explains Joseph Brasco, M.D., a gastroenterologist at the Center for Colon and Digestive Diseases in Huntsville, AL.

4. Erase Ear aches with Garlic

Painful ear infections drive millions of Americans to doctors’ offices every year.

To cure one fast, just place two drops of warm garlic oil into your aching ear twice daily for five days.

This simple treatment can clear up ear infections faster than prescription meds, say experts at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Scientists say garlic’s active ingredients (germanium, selenium, and sulfur compounds) are naturally toxic to dozens of different pain-causing bacteria.

To whip up your own garlic oil gently simmer three cloves of crushed garlic in a half a cup of extra virgin olive oil for two minutes, strain, then refrigerate for up to two weeks, suggests Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., co-author of the book, Best Choices From The People’s Pharmacy.

For an optimal experience, warm this mix slightly before using so the liquid will feel soothing in your ear canal.

5. Chase away Joint pain and Headache with Cherries

Latest studies show that at least one in four women is struggling with arthritis, gout or chronic headaches.

If you’re one of them, a daily bowl of cherries could ease your ache, without the stomach upset so often triggered by today’s painkillers,

say researchers at East Lansing ’s Michigan State University .

Their research reveals that anthocyanins, the compounds that give cherries their brilliant red color,

are anti-inflammatories 10 times stronger than ibuprofen and aspirin.

“Anthocyanins help shut down the powerful enzymes that kick-start tissue inflammation, so they can prevent, as well as treat,

many different kinds of pain,” explains Muraleedharan Nair, Ph.D., professor of food science at Michigan State University .

His advice: Enjoy 20 Cherries (fresh, frozen or dried) daily, then continue until your pain disappears.

6. Fight Tummy troubles with Fish

Indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases...if your belly always seems to be in an uproar,

try munching 18 ounces of fish weekly to ease your misery.

Repeated studies show that the fatty acids in fish, called EPA and DHA, can significantly reduce intestinal inflammation,

cramping and belly pain and in some cases, provide as much relief as corticosteroids and other prescription meds.

“EPA and DHA are powerful, natural, side effect-free anti-inflammatories, that can dramatically improve the function of the entire gastrointestinal tract,” explains biological chemist Barry Sears, Ph.D., president of the Inflammation Research Foundation in Marblehead , MA .

For best results, look for oily fish like Salmon, Sardines, Tuna, Mackerel, Trout and Herring.

7. Prevent PMS with Yogurt

Up to 80 percent of women will struggle with premenstrual syndrome and its uncomfortable symptoms, report Yale researchers.

The reason: Their nervous systems are sensitive to the ups and downs in estrogen and progesterone that occur naturally every month.

But snacking on 2 cups of yogurt a day can slash these symptoms by 48 percent, say researchers at New York ’s Columbia University .

“Yogurt is rich in calcium, a mineral that naturally calms the nervous system, preventing painful symptoms even when hormones are in flux,” explains Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., a professor of gynecology at Yale University .

8. Tame Chronic pain with Turmeric

Studies show turmeric, a popular East Indian spice, is actually three times more effective at easing pain than aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen,

plus it can help relieve chronic pain for 50 percent of people struggling with arthritis and even fibromyalgia, according to Cornell researchers.

That’s because turmeric’s active ingredient, curcumin, naturally shuts down cyclooxygenase 2, an enzyme that churns out a stream of pain-producing hormones, explains nutrition researcher Julian Whitaker, M.D. and author of the book, Reversing Diabetes.

The study-recommended dose: Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon of this spice daily onto any rice, poultry, meat or vegetable dish.

9. End Endometrial pain with Oats

The ticket to soothing endometriosis pain could be a daily bowl of oatmeal.

Endometriosis occurs when little bits of the uterine lining detach and grow outside of the uterus.

Experts say these migrating cells can turn menstruation into a misery, causing so much inflammation that they trigger severe cramping during your period, plus a heavy ache that drags on all month long.

Fortunately, scientists say opting for a diet rich in oats can help reduce endometrial pain for up to 60 percent of women within six months.

That’s because Oats don’t contain gluten, a trouble-making protein that triggers inflammation in many women,

making endometriosis difficult to bear, explains Peter Green, M.D., professor of medicine at Colombia University .

10. Soothe Foot pain with Salt

Experts say at least six million Americans develop painful ingrown toenails each year.

But regularly soaking ingrown nails in warm salt water baths can cure these painful infections within four days, say scientists at California ’s Stanford University . The salt in the mix naturally nixes inflammation, plus it’s anti-bacterial, so it quickly destroys the germs that cause swelling and pain.

Just mix 1 teaspoon of salt into each cup of water, heat to the warmest temperature that you can comfortably stand,

and then soak the affected foot area for 20 minutes twice daily, until your infection subsides.

11. Prevent Digestive upsets with Pineapple

Got gas? One cup of fresh pineapple daily can cut painful bloating within 72 hours, say researchers at California ’s Stanford University .

That's because pineapple is naturally packed with proteolytic enzymes, digestive aids that help speed the breakdown of pain-causing proteins in the stomach and small intestine, say USDA researchers.

12. Relax painful Muscles with Peppermint

Suffering from tight, sore muscles?

Stubborn knots can hang around for months if they aren’t properly treated,

says naturopath Mark Stengler, N.D., author of the book, The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies.

His advice: Three times each week, soak in a warm tub scented with 10 drops of peppermint oil.

The warm water will relax your muscles, while the peppermint oil will naturally soothe your nerves -- a combo that can ease muscle cramping 25 percent more effectively than over-the-counter painkillers, and cut the frequency of future flare-ups in half, says Stengler.

13. Give your back some TLC with Grapes

Got an achy back? Grapes could be the ticket to a speedy recovery.

Recent studies at Ohio State University suggest eating a heaping cup of grapes daily can relax tight blood vessels, significantly improving blood flow to damaged back tissues (and often within three hours of enjoying the first bowl).

That’s great news because your back’s vertebrae and shock-absorbing discs are completely dependent on nearby blood vessels to bring them healing nutrients and oxygen, so improving blood flow is essential for healing damaged back tissue, says Stengler.

14. Wash away Pain Injuries with Water

Whether it’s your feet, your knees or your shoulders that are throbbing, experts at New York ’s Manhattan College ,

say you could kick-start your recovery in one week just by drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily.

Why? Experts say water dilutes, and then helps flush out, histamine, a pain-triggering compound produced by injured tissues.

“Plus water is a key building block of the cartilage that cushions the ends of your bones, your joints’ lubricating fluid, and the soft discs in your spine,” adds Susan M. Kleiner, Ph.D., author of the book, The Good Mood Diet.

“And when these tissues are well-hydrated, they can move and glide over each other without causing pain.”

One caveat: Be sure to measure your drinking glasses to find out how large they really are before you start sipping, she says.

Today’s juice glasses often hold more than 12 ounces, which means five servings could be enough to meet your daily goal.

15. Heal Sinus problems with Horseradish

Latest studies show sinusitis is the nation’s number one chronic health problem.

And this condition doesn’t just spur congestion and facial pain, it also makes sufferers six times more likely to feel achy all-over.

Horseradish to the rescue! According to German researchers, this eye-watering condiment naturally revs up blood flow to the sinus cavities,

helping to open and drain clogged sinuses and heal sinus infections more quickly than decongestant sprays do.

The study-recommended dose: One teaspoon twice daily (either on its own, or used as a sandwich or meat topping) until symptoms clear.

16. Beat Bladder Infections with Blueberries

Eating 1 cup of blueberries daily, whether you opt for them fresh, frozen or in juice form,

can cut your risk of a urinary tract infection (UTIs) by 60 percent, according to researchers at New Jersey ’s Rutgers University .

That's because blueberries are loaded with tannins, plant compounds that wrap around problem-causing bacteria in the bladder,

so they can’t get a toehold and create an infection, explains Amy Howell, Ph.D. a scientist at Rutgers University .

17. Heal Mouth Sores with Honey

Dab painful canker and cold sores with unpasteurized honey four times daily until these skin woes disappear,

and they’ll heal 43 percent faster than if you use a prescription cream, say researchers at the Dubai Specialized Medical Center in the United Arab Emirates .

Raw honey’s natural enzymes zap inflammation, destroy invading viruses and speed the healing of damaged tissues, say the study authors.

18. Fight Breast Pain with Flax

In one recent study, adding 3 tablespoons of ground flax to their daily diet eased breast soreness for one in three women within 12 weeks.

Scientists credit flax’s phytoestrogens, natural plant compounds that prevent the estrogen spikes that can trigger breast pain.

More good news: You don’t have to be a master baker to sneak this healthy seed into your diet.

Just sprinkle ground flax on oatmeal, yogurt, applesauce or add it to smoothies and veggie dips.

19. Cure Migraines with Coffee

Prone to migraines? Try muscling-up your painkiller with a coffee chaser.

Whatever over-the-counter pain med you prefer, researchers at the National Headache Foundation say washing it down with a strong 12- ounce cup of coffee will boost the effectiveness of your medication by 40 percent or more.

Experts say caffeine stimulates the stomach lining to absorb painkillers more quickly and more effectively.

20. Tame Leg Cramps with Tomato Juice

At least one in five people regularly struggle with leg cramps.

The culprit? Potassium deficiencies, which occur when this mineral is flushed out by diuretics,

caffeinated beverages or heavy perspiration during exercise.

But sip 10 ounces of potassium-rich tomato juice daily and you'll not only speed your recovery,

you'll reduce your risk of painful cramp flare-ups in as little as 10 days, say UCLA researchers.

►කොල්ලන් ගැන කරුණු 50ක්◄

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1.ඉගි බිගි පාන විසේකාර කෙල්ලන්ට කොල්ලන් කැමති නැත

2.කොල්ලන් හැමවිටම ලස්සන කෙල්ලන් සොයන්නේ නැත. චාම් පිලිවෙලකට සිටින තමා ගැන ආත්ම විශ්වාසයක් ඇති කෙල්ලන්ට ඔවුන් වඩා කැමතිය.

3.මොහොතකට කෙල්ලෙකුට කැමති වී ඉන් පසු ඇයව අමතක කිරීම කොල්ලෙකුට පහසුය.

4.ප්‍රසිද්දියේ නැතත් රහසින් කොල්ලෝ අඩයි.

5."මට ඔයා කියන දේ තේරෙන්නේ නෑ" කොල්ලෝ මෙහෙම කියන එකෙන් තේරෙන්නේ කෙල්ල කොල්ලගේ විදියට හිතන්නේ නෑ කියන එකයි.

6.දවස පුරා වෙනත් කෙල්ලෝ එක්ක ඉගි බිගි පෑවත් රෑ නිද ගන්න කලින් තමන් ඇත්තටම ආදරේ කරන කෙල්ල ගැන කොල්ලෝ හිතනවා.

7.කොල්ලෝ තමන්ගේ අම්මාට ගොඩාක් ආදරෙයි

8.කෙල්ලෝ තමන්ගේ කලින් පෙම්වතුන් ගැන කතා කරනවාට කොල්ලෝ කැමතිම නැත.

9.කෙල්ලත් එක්ක කියන්න ගොඩක් දේවල් හිතේ තිබුනත් ඒවා කියා ගන්න කොල්ලොන්ට බෑ,නමුත් ඒවා කියා ගන්න ධෛර්ය ගන්න පුලුවන් පොඩි ෂොට් එකක් දා ගත්තම.

10.කොල්ලොන් ගේ හැගීම් ඇවිස්සෙන විදියේ කතා විහිලුවටවත් කියන්න එපා!!!

11.කෙල්ලෝ තරම් කොල්ලෝ සිහින මවන්නේවත් හිතේ බලාපොරොත්තු තියාගෙන ඉන්නේවත් නෑ.

12.තමාව ප්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කල කෙල්ලව කෙසේ හෝ ලබා ගැනීමට කොල්ලෝ උත්සාහ කරයි එනම් කෙල්ලෙක් වෙතින් වන පරාජය පිලි ගැනීමට කොල්ලෙක් කැමති නැත.

13.තමන් කැමති කෙල්ලගෙන් ලැබෙන සිනහවක් වෙනුවෙන් කොල්ලෙක් නොකරන දෙයක් නැත.

14.අනෙක් කෙල්ලන් සමග ඉගි බිගි පෑමේදී ඉතා මුඛරි වන මුත් තමා සැබෑවටම කැමති කෙල්ල සමග කතා කිරීමේදී කොල්ලෝ ගොත ගසයි.

15.කොල්ලෙකුගෙ න් කෙල්ලෙක් උදව්වක් ඉල්ලීමේදී "ම්ම්ම්....." ලෙස පවසන්නේ නම් හෝ වෙන්ත් නිදහසට කරුනක් කියන්නේ නම් ඉන් අදහස් වන්නේ ඔහු ඇයට අකමැති බවයි.

16.කෙල්ලෙක් "බෑ" කී විට කොල්ලෙක්ට එය ඇසෙන්නේ "හෙටත් අහන්න" කියන්නාක් මෙනි.

17.කොල්ලෙකුගෙන් යමක් ඉල්ලීමේදී වෙනත් දෙයක් තේරුම් ගැනීමට පෙර කෙල්ලට අවශ්‍ය කුමක්දැයි හරියටම කීම අවශ්‍ය වේ

18.කෙල්ලට සුලු තෑග්ගක් මිලදී ගැනීමට තම දිවා ආහාරය සදහා වන මුදල් වියදම් කිරීම කොල්ලෙකුට පහසු දෙයකි

19.කොල්ලෙකුට සවන් නොදී ඔහුව තේරුම් ගැනීමට නොහැක

20.ප්‍රවේශම් වන්න..කෙල්ලන්ට වඩා සිය දහස් ගුණයක් වේගයෙන් ආරංචි පැතිරවීමේ හැකියාව කොල්ලන් සතුය

21.කොල්ලන් ගේ දුර්වල ස්ථානය කෙල්ලන්‍ ය

22.තමන් ගැන කොල්ලන් බෙහෙවින් විවෘතය

23.කොල්ලෙක්ව විශ්වාස කිරීමට පෙර ඔහුව පරීක්ශා කිරීම සුදුසු නමුත් වැඩි කාලයක් ඔහුව ප්‍රමාද කිරීම නොකල යුතුයි.

24.සැබෑ ලෙසම ආදරය කරන විට කිසිම කොල්ලෙක් නරක නොවේ.

25.තමන් කැමති කෙල්ල ලස්සන නොවූවත් කොල්ලන් ඇයව වර්ණනා කරයි.

26.කොල්ලෙක් ඔහුගේ ප්‍රශ්ණ ගැන කෙල්ලෙක් සමග කියනවා නම් ඔහුට අවශ්‍ය ඔහුගේ ප්‍රශ්ණ වලට නිහඩව සවන් දීම මිස උපදෙස් නොවේ.

27.කොට ඇදුම් අදින කෙල්ලන්ට වඩා නුවනැති කෙල්ලන්ට කොල්ලන් කැමතිය.

28.කෙල්ලන් පවසන රහස් රැකීමට කොල්ලන්ට නොහැකිය.

29.කොල්ලන් ගොඩක් ගැඹුරට සිතයි.

30.කෙල්ලෙකුගේ උස කොල්ලෙකුට ප්‍රශ්ණයක් නොවන නමුත් ඇයගේ බර ඔහුට ලොකු ප්‍රශ්ණයක වේ.

31.තම මිතුරන් සමග සිටින විට කොටියෙක් වැනි නමුත් තම පෙම්වතිය සමග සිටින විට බොහෝ කොල්ලන් පූස් පැටියන් මෙනි.

32.කොල්ලන්ට අවසන් තීරණ නොමැත.

33.කොල්ලෙක් බැරෑරුම් ලෙස කතා කරනවා නම් ඔහුට හොදින් සවන් දෙන්න.

34.කෙල්ලෙක් තමන්ට කැමති බව දැන ගත්තත් එය ඇය ඔහුට කියන තෙක් ඔහු එය විශ්වාස නොකරයි.

35.කොල්ලන් පරිඝණක ක්‍රීඩා සහ ක්‍රිකට් තරග වලට කාලය වැය කරන්නේ කෙල්ලන් ආදරණීය නවකතා කියවීමට සහ රූපලාවන්‍ය කටයුතු සදහා කාලය වැය කරනවා මෙනි.

36.ඉවුම් පිහුම් කටයුතු දන්න කෙල්ලන්ට කොල්ලන් කැමතිය.

37.ඔබට පිටතින් පෙනෙනවාට වඩා ප්‍රශ්ණ රාශියක් කොල්ලෙකුට ඇත.

38.කොල්ලෙකු පිලිබද සියලුම දේ ඔහුගේ හොදම යහලුවා දනී.

39.මාතෘකාව කෙල්ලන් ගැන නම් කොල්ලන් කෙල්ලන්ට වඩා මුඛරිය.

40.ප්‍රශ්ණයක් පැමිනි කල කොල්ලෙකු නිශ්ශබ්ද වන අතර ප්‍රශ්ණයට විසදුමක් නිහඩව කල්පනා කරයි.

41.කොල්ලෙක් පලමු වර කෙල්ලෙකුට වංචා කර සසු වූ විට තව වාරයක් ඉල්ලයි නම් එය ලබා දෙන්න ඔහු දෙවන වරටත් වංචා කල හසු වූ විට තවත් වාරයක් ඉල්ලයි නම් ඔහුව අත් හරින්න.

42.කොල්ලන් ඉගෙන ගන්නේ සැබෑ අත්දැකීම් වලිනි...කෙල්ලන් මෙන් තමා නරඹන ආදරණීය චිත්‍රපටි සහ කියවන ආදරණීය නවකතා තම අත්දැකීම් වල මූලය කර ගන්නේ නැත.

43.කෙල්ලෙකු ඉදිරියේ කොල්ලෙකු අඩනවා නම් ඉන් අදහස් වන්නේ ඔහු සත්‍ය වශයෙන්ම දුකෙන් සහ සිත් වේදනාවෙන් සිටින බවයි.

44.කොල්ලෙක් ආදර සම්බන්ධයක් පවත්වන්නේ සැබෑවටම නම් කෙල්ලට වඩා කොල්ලා කෙල්ලට ආදරය කරයි.

45.කොල්ලන් එකතු වූ විට වැඩියෙන්ම කතා කරන මාතෘකා නම් පරිඝණක,ක්‍රීඩා,දේශපාලනය සහ කෙල්ලන්.

46.පිටතට කදුලු නොගැලුවත් කොල්ලන් හදවතින් කෙල්ලන් තරමටම හඩයි.

47.කෙල්ලෙක් කොල්ලෙක්ට බොරුවක් පවසා එය හසු වූ විට යලි කවරදාවත් ඔහු ඇයව විශ්වාස නොකරයි.

48.කෙල්ල තමාව අගය කරනවාට කොල්ලන් බෙහෙවින් කැමති වේ.

49.කොල්ලන් වැනි කෙල්ලන්ට කොල්ලන් කැමතිම නැත.

50.තමන් කෙල්ලට දුන් තෑග්ගක් කෙල්ල අගය කරනවා දැකීමට කොල්ලන් බෙහෙවින් කැමති වේ.

කුමාරයා පව්!! අපේ කොල්ලොන්ටත් මෙහෙම වෙනවානේ!! =D

2011-11-23T12:50:00.001+05:30

බොහෝම ඉස්සර එකමත් එක රටක හිටියා බොහෝම කඩවසම් කුමාරයෙක්. මේ කුමාරයගේ පරම්පරාවට නපුරු මායාකාරියක් ශාපයක් කරලා තිබුනා. මේ ශාපේ හැටියට මේ පරම්පරවේ කුමාරයන්ට විවාහ වෙනකන් අවුරුද්දකට කතා කරන්න පුලුවන් එකම එක වචනයයි.

ඒත් එක අවුරුද්දක් කතා නොකර හිටියොත් ඒ කතා නොකර හිටපු වචනෙත් එක්ක වචන 2ක් කතා කරන්න පුලුවන් ඊට පස්සේ අවුරුදේ (මේ කාලේ වෙනකොට ගොලු භාශාව කියල දෙයක් තිබුනෙත් නෑ,ලියන විදිය හොයා ගෙන තිබිනෙත් නෑ)

ඉතින් මෙහෙම ඉන්නකොට කුමාරය දැක්ක ලස්සනම ලස්සන කුමාරියක්. රතු පාට තොල්,තද කලු පාට දිග කොණ් ඩේ,නිල් පාට ඇස් දැක්ක කුමාරයා කුමාරිට වශී වුනා. මෙයා හිතුවා කවදා හරි බදින්නේ මේ කුමාරිවම තම කියලා.
ඉතින් මෙයා හිතුවා කොහොම හරි අවුරුදු 2ක් කතා නොකර ඉදලා කුමාරි ලගට ගිහින් "මගේ සොදුරිය" කියලා කියනව කියලා.

අමාරුවෙන් ඒ අවුරුදු 2 ඉවර වුනාම මෙයාට හිතුනා කුමාරිට ආදරෙයි කියලත් කියන්න ඕනි කියලා,ඒ කියන්නේ "මගේ සොදුරිය මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි" කියලා. එතකොට තව වචන 3ක් වැඩි වෙන නිසා තව අවුරුදු 3ක් කතා නොකර ඉන්න වෙනවා කුමාරයට. ඒ කියන්නේ දැන් එක දිගට අවුරුදු 5ක් කතා නොකර ඉන්න ඕනි.

ඒත් ඒ අවුරුදු 5ත් ඉවර උනාම මෙයාට හිතුනා,ආදරෙයි කියලා මදි නිසා කුමාරිව කසාද බදින්නත් ඕනි කියල කියන්න ඕනි කියලා,ඒ කියන්නේ "මගේ සොදුරිය මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි ඔයා මාව කසාද බදිනවද" කියලා,ඒ කියන්නේ තවත් අවුරුදු 4ක් කතා නොකර ඉන්න වෙනවා කුමාරයට,මුලු අවුරුදු ගාන 9ක්.

ඔහොම ගිහින් අවුරුදු 9ක කාලේ ඉවර උනා,දැන් කුමාරයට හරිම සතුටුයි,එයා කුමාරිව ඒ කාලේ ලෝකේ තිබුන මිළ අධිකම උද්‍යානයට එක්ක ගිහින් , ගොඩාක් දුර්ලභ, ගොඩාක් මිළ අධික රෝස මල් කලඹක් එයාට දීලා,එයා ලග දණ ගහලා(ඒ කාලේ එහෙමනේ කලේ) පුරුෂ ධෛර්ය දාලා බොහෝම ආදරණීය විදියට ඇහුවා

"මගේ සොදුරිය... මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි!!! ඔයා මාව කසාද බදිනවද???" කියලා.

එතකොට කුමාරිය පුදුමෙන් එයගේ නිල් පාට ඇස් දෙක ලොකු කරලා...එයාගේ මිහිරි හඩින් මෙහෙම කිව්වා.
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"අනේ මට ඇහුනේ නෑ"

෴මාරක පලතුරු෴ =D

2011-11-23T12:46:00.001+05:30

ඔන්න එකමත් එක දවසක් මිනිස්සු 3 දෙනෙක් කැලයක් මැද්දෙන් ගමනක් යනකොට මෙයාලට පාර වැරදුනා. ඉතින් පාර දන්නේ නැතුව කැලේ එහාට මෙහාට ඇවිද ඇවිද ඉන්න මෙයාලා අතරට එක පාරටම ගෝත්‍රිකයෝ සෙට් එකක් ඇවිත් මෙයාලට සිහි නැති වෙනකන් තඩි බෑවා.

ටික වෙලාවකින් සිහිය එනකොට මෙයාලා හිටියේ ගෝත්‍රිකයන්ගේ නායකයා ඉදිරියේ.
මේ තුන් දෙනා දිහා බලාගෙන හිටිය ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා කිව්වා

"උඹලගේ ජීවිතේ මම බේරනවා හැබැයි එහෙම කරන්නේ මම කියන දේ කලොත් විතරයි" කියලා...
ඒක අහපු මිනිස්සු තුන් දෙනා ගොඩක් කැමැත්තෙන් කිව්වා"හා... අපි ඔබතුමා කියන ඕනෙම දෙයක් කරන්නම්" කියලා.
"හොදයි එහෙනම් දැන්ම කැලේට ගිහින් එක එකා එක පළතුරු වර්ගෙකින් ගෙඩි 10 ගානේ ගෙනෙල්ලා" කියල ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා කිව්වා.

ඉතින් තුන් දෙනා කැලේට ගියා වෙන වෙනම. ගිහින් ටික වෙලාවකින් එක මිනිහෙක් ඇපල් ගෙඩි 10ක් උස්සගෙන ආවා.
ඊට පස්සේ ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා අණ කලා ගෙඩි 10ම මිනිහගේ අධෝ මුඛයෙන් ඇතුල් කරන්න කියලා,හැබැයි ගෙඩි 10ම ඇතුල් කරනකන් කිසිම විදියෙ හැගීමක් මූණෙන් පෙන්නන්නත් බෑ.එහෙම හිටියොත් එයාට අභය දානය දෙනවා.
බොහොම අමාරුවෙන් එක ඇපල් ගෙඩියක් ඇතුල් කරනකන් හිටියත් දෙවෙනි එක ඇතුල් කරන්න යනකොට මිනිහාට වේදනාවෙන් කෑ ගැහුනා. ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා ඒ මිනිහාව මරන්න අණ කලා.

ටික වෙලාවකින් තව මිනිහෙක් කැළෙන් මතු උනා,මිනිහා ගෙනල්ලා තිබුනේ මිදි ගෙඩි 10ක්.ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා කලින් වැඩේම කරන්න අණ කලා.
මිදි ගෙඩි 9ක්ම ඇතුල් කරනකන් බොහොම ශාන්තව හිටිය මිනිහා 10 වෙනි ගෙඩිය ඇතුල් කරන්න යනකොටම බක බක ගාලා බොහොම හයියෙන් හිනා වෙන්න ගත්තා කිසිම හේතුවක් නැතුව.
ඉතින් ගෝත්‍රික නායකයා කලින් වගේම මේ මිනිහවත් මරන්න අණ කලා.

මැරුව මිනිස්සු දෙන්නා දිව්‍ය ලෝකෙදි මුණ ගැහුනා.
දැන් පලවෙනි මිනිහා මෙහෙම අහනවා " ඇයි බං උබ එච්චර හයියෙන් හිනා වෙන්න ගත්තේ? අපරාදෙනේ තව එක ගෙඩියයිනේ දාන්න තිබුනේ එහෙනම් දැන් උබ නිදහස්නේ" කියලා.

දෙවෙනියාට තවම හිනාව නවත්ත ගන්න බෑ,මූ හිනා වෙවී මෙහෙම කියනවා "මොනවා කරන්නද මචං ...මම දැක්ක අනිත් එකා අන්නාසි ගෙඩි 10ක් උස්සගෙන එනවා"...

ධෛර්ය!!

2011-11-23T12:08:00.001+05:30

►ආර්. කරුණානන්ද - 1964 ඔලිම්පික් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික වීරයා◄
මලල ක්‍රීඩකයන් කී සැනින් ඔබේ මතකයට දිව එන්නේ කවුද? උසේන් බෝල්ට්, බෙන් ජොන්සන්, මේරියන් ජොන්සන්, සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ, සුගත් තිලකරත්න වැනි අපට හොදින් අසා පුරුදු නම් නිසැකයෙන්ම ඔබේ මතකයට නැගෙනු ඇත. නමුත් ඔබ ආර්. කරුණානන්ද පිලිබද අසා තිබේද? ඔහු 1964 ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ නුවර පැවති 18 වන ජාත්‍යන්තර ඔලිම්පික් තරගාවලියේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින්(එවකට සිලෝන්) මීටර් 10000 පිරිමි ඉසව්ව සදහා සහභාගී විය.

තම රටට ඔලිම්පික් පදක්කමක් දිනාදීම සදහා ඔහු සිය උපරිමයෙන් උත්සාහ කලේය. නරඹන්නන් ගේ උසුලු විසුලු මැද තරගය පුරාම ඒ සදහා ඔහු ගත් වෙහෙස කැපී පෙනුනි.
අවසානයේ ඔහු සටන ජය ගත්තේය.
අවසානයේ ඔහු තරගය නිමා කලේය.
තරගය නරඹන්නන් තම ආසන වලින් නැගිට ඔහුට ආචාර කලේය.
1964 ඔලිම්පික් තරගාවලියේදී නරඹන්නන් ගෙන් එවැනි ප්‍රතිචාරයක් වෙන කිසිම ක්‍රීඩකයෙකුට ලැබුනේ නැත.

ක්‍රීඩාව දෙස වෙනත් කෝණයකින් බලන කෙනෙක් කරුණානන් දගේ උත්සාහය වෙනස් අයුරකින් දකිනු ඇත.මීටර් 10000 තරගය අවසානයට නිමා කල කරුණානන්ද ලැබූ ඉහල ප්‍රේක්‍ෂක ප්‍රතිචාරය ගැන විශ්මයට පත් වනු ඇත.

මේ 1964 වසරයි,ඒ කාලය වන විට මලල ක්‍රීඩකයන්ට අද මෙන් අනුග්‍රාහකයන්, මිල මුදල්,යාන වාහන, ත්‍යාග ආදිය ලැබුනේ නැත. මද සෙම්ප්‍රතිශ්‍යා ගතියකින් පෙලුනු කරුණානන් ද මීටර් 10000 තරගය සදහා සහභාගී වුනේ දුර්වල වූ ශරීර ශක්තියකින් යුතුවය. තරගය ප්‍රථමයෙන් නිමා කල ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ බිලී මිල්ස් තරගය නිමා කරන විට කරුණානන්ද ඔහු හා එක පෙලට තරග කරමින් සිටියේය.
එයට හේතු වූයේ ඒ වන විටත් කරුණානන්ද වට හතරක් පසු පසින් අවසානයට තරග වදිමින් සිටීමයි. ප්‍රථම දෙවණ හා තෙවන තරග කරුවන් තරගය නිමා කල විට සෙසු බොහෝ ක්‍රීඩකයන් තරගයෙන් ඉවත් වූහ. කරුණානන්දටද ඕනෑම මොහොතක තරගයෙන් ඉවත් වීමේ හැකියාව තිබුනි. නමුත් ඔහු එසේ කලේ නැත,දිගටම ධාවනයේ යෙදුනි.
තරග නරඹන්නන් විශ්මයට පත් වුනි. ඔහු එක වටයක් නිමා කරන විට නරඹන්නන් ඔහුට උසුලු විසුලු කලේය. මුලු ක්‍රීඩාංගනය පුරා සරදම් සිනා හඩ පැතුරුනි. නමුත් කරුණානන්ද නිහඩව ධාවනයේ යෙදුනි.
දෙවණ වටය අවසන් කරන විට නරඹන්නන් නිහඩ විය.
තෙවන වටය අවසන් වන විට ඔහු වෙනුවෙන් ප්‍රීති ඝෝශා නැගුනි.
කරුණානන්ද තරගය නිමා කරන විට සියලුම නරඹන්නන් තම අසුන් වලින් නැගිට අචාර කල අතර තනිවම වට හතරක් ධාවනයේ යෙදී තරගය නිමා කල ඔහු වෙනුවෙන් නරඹන්නන් ගේ දෙනෙත් කදුලින් තෙත් විය.
එම තරගය ජයග්‍රහනය කල ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ බිලී මිල්ස් පසුව පැවසුවේ තරගයේ රන් පදක්කමට නියම සුදුස්සා කරුණානන්ද බවයි.

තරගය නිම වී දින ගණනක් ගත වූවත් කරුණානන්ද පිලිබද මහත් පැහැදීමකින් පසු වූ ජපන් ජනතාවගෙන් ඔහුට ත්‍යාග රාශියක් ලැබුනි.ඔහුගේ ක්‍රියාව අගය කර කරුණානන්ද මහතාට ජපානයෙන් රැකියාවක්ද ප්‍රදානය කල අතර,ඔහු ජපානය බලා පිටත් වීමට දිණ කීපයකට පෙර ඔහු අභිරහස් ආකාරයට මරණයට පත් වුනා. මේ පිලිබදව විවිධ මත පල වූ අතර ඔහුව ඝාතනය කල බවට එක් මතයකුත් ඔහු හදිසි අනතුරකින් මිය ගිය බවට තවත් මතයකුත් පල වුනා.කරුණානන්ද මහතාගේ මරණය දරා ගත නොහැකි වූ ඔහුගේ බිරිදගේ සිහි විකල් වූ අතර ඔහුගේ පවුල අන්ත අසරණ වී පාරට වැටෙන තත්වයට පත් වුනා. ඒ ඔහුට අපෙන් ලැබුන කලගුන සැලකීමයි!!!

මිනිස් අධිෂ්‍ඨානයේ මහිමය ගැන පාසල් ළමුන්ට ඉගැන්වීම සදහා ඔහුගේ කතාව ජපානයේ පාසල් පෙල පොත් වලට ඇතුල් විය. නමුත් අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රණතුංග කරුණානන්ද ගැන දන්නා ළමුන්/වැඩිහිටියන් කී දෙනෙකු සිටීද? ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ජනමාධ්‍ය තුල අද මෙම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ මලල ක්‍රීඩකයා ගැන සදහනක් නොමැත. එම තරගයේදී රට වෙනුවෙන් පදක්කමක් දිනා දීමට ඔහු දැරූ උත්සාහයට සහ ඔහු තුල පැවති ක්‍රීඩාශීලීත්වයට ආර්. කරුණානන් ද වැනි සැබෑ විරුවෙකුට අප ගරු කල යුතු අතර අප රටේ එතෙක් මෙතෙක් ඔහු තරම් ධෛර් ‍යමත් අධිෂ්ඨානශීලී ක්‍රීඩකයෙක් බිහිව නැතුවාට සැක නැත.ජයග්‍රහන පමනක් බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් තරග වැදී පරාජය හමුවේ වියරු වැටෙන අද ක්‍රීඩකයන්ට කරුණානන්දගේ කතාව සැබෑ ආදර්ශයක් වනු නොඅනුමානය(මෑතකදී අගනුවර පාසල් 2ක් අතර පැවති රගර් තරගයක් අවසානයේ පරාජිත පිලේ ක්‍රීඩකයන් ජයග්‍රහනය කල පිලේ ක්‍රීඩකයන්ට කල අමානුෂික පහරදීම සිහිපත් කිරීම වටී).

ඔහු සහභාගී වූ එක තරගය මෙම ලින්ක් එකෙන් නරබන්න.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWDdfTP2qI&feature=player_embedded

ජීවිතයේ ඔබ මානසිකව ඇද වැටී අධෛර්යමත්ව සිටින මොහොතක රණතුංග කරුණානන්ද නම් වූ ඒ අසහාය ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයා ගැන සිහියට නගා ගන්න.
ලෝකයා ඔබ කරන දෙයට සිනා සෙන විට නරඹන්නන් ගේ සරදම් මැද තනිවම වට හතරක් ඔහු ධාවනයේ යෙදුනු ආකාරය සිහිපත් කරන්න.

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Steve Jobs an Inspiration To All

2011-10-18T20:21:00.000+05:30

Every single morning my iPod Touch wakes me up. After being up, I play some music to get me out of sleepy mode and into an aware human mode. I use the device to check all of the social networks like Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Linkedin, and my email as well. After writing for a few hours I take a break to workout/exercise. What do I do while working out? Listen to the latest music on my iPod Touch. I use the device envisioned by the man himself on a daily basis. Kinda crazy to think that a little device has a huge impact in our life.

Now realize, I don’t charge my iPod during the day. I use it to it’s full potential and yet by the time evening comes, it’s still kicking. Now think about it for a second, do you think that Steve intended it to be this way? I personally think so. The amount of details and though Apple puts into each and every one of their devices is mind blowing. Their number one goal is simplicity and that’s what we all love. No loops to go through, no pop-up, no unnecessary errors, you just pick it up and it works.
It’s crazy to think of what the future holds. Steve did not care about being rich, he cared about working on what he loved. Here is a sad truth that we have to accept. Unless your rich parents give you money, unless you win the lottery, or unless you find a million dollars on the road, you will have to work throughout your life. We all have dream jobs at mind and always want to get paid for doing cool things. I heard this from my personal friends many times. “He/She is soooo lucky, if I had that job It would be so easy to do.” Yes, I’m sure you could. However that person probably busted their butt to get to where they are today.
Hard work is the only way to achieve success. Cheating or taking shortcuts will only bring you down once you achieve that success. I can guarantee you won’t be fully proud of yourself once you reach that status, unless you got there honestly. Guilt is a painful thing we deal with, when we do bad things to achieve greed. The bottom line is that you should learn from Steve that hard work and loving what you do will lead to success. Sometime success will then lead to happiness, and that happiness comes when you have changed somebody’s life for the better.
These wisdomatic sayings are not here to create paragraphs, they are here to help you become a better person. Most people don’t realize that Steve came from nothing and achieved everything. Did he lie or do faulty things? Yes, I will not point fingers and list them. That’s just a part of being a human being. Nobody on this planet is perfect, we all have flaws. Jobs corrected his mistakes and kept building a ladder to his dreams.
We dedicate this article and everything included to remember his presence.

What Others are Saying

Here are some statements and reactions regarding his death. The following people are some of the most know in the industry. Check out below what they had to say.
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“Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.” - Barack Obama
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“I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts and Google’s are with his family and the whole Apple family.” - Larry Page, Google CEO
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“From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met. On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.” - Sergey Brin, Google Co-founder
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“I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.” - Bill Gates
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“Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email rememberingsteve@apple.com.
No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.” - Tim Cook, Apple CEO [in an email to Apple employees]
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“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.” - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO
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“Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesnt just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.” - Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO
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“I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.” - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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“Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed and the culture he defined. Steve was such an ‘original,’ with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend.” - Bob Iger, Disney CEO
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The magic of Steve was that while others simply accepted the status quo, he saw the true potential in everything he touched and never compromised on that vision. He leaves behind an incredible family and a legacy that will continue to speak to people for years to come. - George Lucas
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Today, we lost one of the most influential thinkers, creators and entrepreneurs of all time. Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation. While I am deeply saddened by his passing, I’m reminded of the stunning impact he had in revolutionizing the way people consume media and entertainment. My heart goes out to his family and to everyone who had the opportunity to work beside him in bringing his many visions to life. - News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch
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We are saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was an iconic inventor, visionary, and entrepreneur, and we had the privilege to know him as partner and friend. All of us at AT&T offer our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife, family, and his Apple family. - AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson
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Tonight, America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein, and whose ideas will shape the world for generations to come. Again and again over the last four decades, Steve Jobs saw the future and brought it to life long before most people could even see the horizon. And Steve’s passionate belief in the power of technology to transform the way we live brought us more than smart phones and iPads: it brought knowledge and power that is reshaping the face of civilization. In New York City’s government, everyone from street construction inspectors to NYPD detectives have harnessed Apple’s products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively. Tonight our City – a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius – joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping Laurene and the rest of the Jobs family in our thoughts and prayers. - NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
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It’s the ultimate sadness. First of all, it’s a young person who was revered, sometimes feared, but always revered. In a way, it’s kind of prophetic; everyone was hoping he could be on stage yesterday. He was a very special person, and he didn’t get to where he was by having people like him all the time. He got to where he was because he had a vision and a purpose. It’s easy to try and please everyone, but he kept to his principles. - Former Yahoo and Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz
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Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team. - Dell Founder Michael Dell
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He was one of the most remarkable business managers and innovators in american business history. - Warren Buffett
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Steve lived the California Dream every day of his life and he changed the world and inspired all of us. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I think you can say he built three companies. He built the first Apple. He built Pixar. And then he built the second Apple. That is pretty extraordinary. – Jeff Bezos CEO, Amazon.com
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Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes to Live By

“Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice,have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
“Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else’s life, live by your vision.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

“Greatness is communicated in everything you do.”
“Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.”
“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

“But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
“Look at the design of a lot of consumer products — they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.”

Beautiful Steve Jobs Artworks

This would not be a complete tribute without some stunning artworks of our icon.

Image Credit: Richard Davies

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Sad Conclusion

Many companies that are rivals of Apple are paying a tribute to Steve Jobs. Very rare to see this publicly, but not for Steve. His visions have changed the world for the better. This sad news has made me think and realize that death is coming sooner than we might think. I strongly encourage everybody who is reading this to live every day to it’s full potential, and take ever opportunity that comes your way. Steve Jobs is an extraordinary person that has touched us all in some way or another. Can anybody else step up to the plate and fill his shoes? I highly doubt it….
And one more thing… you will always be remembered and serve as a role model to the human kind.
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The Best Mercedes-Benz Cars

2011-10-18T20:17:00.000+05:30

Mercedes-Benz is, perhaps the single most identifiable symbol of luxury and style in the automotive world. Mercedes has been leading the field with a delicate balance between style and technology since 1881, which makes it the oldest car manufacturer in existence today. While it is often said that you can tell what cars will look like in 20 years by looking at a Mercedes-Benz today, this list is a look back at Stuttgart powerhouse’s best designs.

1979 Gelandewagen (G-Class)

The G-Wagon of 1979 was built for the German army as a lightweight combat vehicle – you can think of it as the more badass version of the Jeep. The model didn’t make it into combat that year when the less expensive Volkswagen alternative was selected instead; however, it did kick off a global phenomenon that is still alive and well to this day. The instantly recognizable boxed-off body of the G-Wagon is an automotive icon both in the world of luxury and in off-roading. At the time it was built, it was one of only a tiny handful of vehicles with three fully locking differentials. Now, the G-Wagon is a favorite among celebrities and rappers, and with a starting price tag of over $100,000, it is one of the most expensive SUVs on the road.

2004 CLS

The CLS was, and still is, a revolutionary vehicle concept. It featured a sloped roof like a sports car or coupe, but four doors and a backseat. However, that backseat only had room for two people, not three. The CLS can be described as both a four-door coupe or even a fastback sedan, but the smooth aesthetics of the CLS not only got rave reviews, but also set the tone for the likes of Maserati, Porsche and Aston Martin to release sports car-like executive sedans, something that had previously not been attempted. The CLS created an entirely new vehicle segment, one of the fastest growing in the world today, and did it with style.

1983 190E Cosworth

Originally built to compete in off-road rallies, the Cosworth 190E was put out of the running by Audi’s innovative Quattro all-wheel drive system. That doesn’t mean the 300-plus horsepower special edition E series wouldn’t fly on the road. In fact, the Cosworth set three world speed records in the following years, and was the inspiration for the likes of the BMW M3, which later upped the ante for performance sedans. Think of the 190E Cosworth as the original AMG sedans.

2010 E63 AMG

A wolf in sheep’s clothing if there ever was one, the E63 AMG is perhaps the most perfect “all-purpose” sedan in the world. The car is every bit your typical E-Class Mercedes to 90% of onlookers, but those that are automotively inclined will notice the 20-inch AMG rims, flared body kit and a growl that will wake the neighbors each morning. The E63 uses the AMG-tuned 6.2 liter, 517-horsepower engine you’ll find across the Mercedes lineup; however, what makes the E so special is not the 4.0-second 0-60 time, the riding-on-rails feel or even the three different suspensions or four different transmission settings – it’s the fact that it’s the perfect size. The C63 is too small to be really useful with four people, and the S63 is too large be understated. If you want one car that can do it all, the E63 AMG is the car for you.

2011 SLS AMG

The new 2011 SLS AMG “Gullwing” is a retro grand tourer made from an all-aluminum frame. The car is the very first to be completely designed in-house by AMG, Mercedes’ own high-performance unit. The car features a highly tuned 6.2 liter V8 engine that puts out 575 hp, and the transmission is a 7-speed dual-clutch semiautomatic. The most noticeable part of the SLS is the Gullwing doors and purposeful nod to the original Gullwing of the mid-1950s, a car that many consider the most beautiful ever made. This, the SLS Gullwing, is a totally different animal with all the latest technology, which does include a way to blow the doors right off the frame if you should happen to flip the car. The 2011 Gullwing is without a doubt the hottest car of the year, and will be remembered as a true modern classic.

1963 600 Pullman

Can you name the one car owned by Coco Chanel, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, Aristotle Onassis, Jack Nicholson, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and a whole bevy of Popes? Yup, the Mercedes-Benz 600 Series Pullman. This car was the luxury sedan for two decades, and yet less than 3,000 of them were ever built. The Pullman featured a hydraulically operated moon roof, windows, trunk, and doors (in 1963!). It also boasts the loudest horn ever installed on a production vehicle. The Pullman was the predecessor to the Maybach sedans we see now atop the Mercedes lineup, and it is still an icon to this day.

1937 540 K Special

For a car to have 180 horsepower and a supercharged engine in the 1930s, it needed to be something special. The 540 K (K is for Kompressor) Special was just that car, and set the benchmark for the horsepower race of the first half of the 20th century. At the time, the fastest, most powerful cars on the road were just breaking 100 horsepower, so the 540 K was a leap ahead of the competition. Its massive engine required an enormous nose and the front-end weight made steering difficult. The car was best designed for cruising on the autobahn at high speeds, not for taking sharp curves through the Italian Alps. These cars can fetch up to $6 million at auction today.

1970 C111

The C111 series was an experimental line of cars used by Mercedes-Benz to test innovative technologies of the day like diesel engines, mid-mounted engines and even luxuries like air conditioning. The body of all the C111’s was made of fiberglass and its sliver-like design gave it an unheard of drag coefficient of .191. The C111 set numerous land speed records and many times broke 200 mph. A later version of the C111, equipped with a 500-horsepower engine, once set a record of highest average lap speed of 250.98 mph in 1979.

1954 300 SL Gullwing

The 300 SL Gullwing is the car that changed it all for Mercedes-Benz in the U.S. Prior to the introduction of this model, Americans believed Mercedes to be the maker of classic, high-quality, but boring cars. The Gullwing made people look at MB as the maker of luxury sports cars for the rich and beautiful, despite only 1,400 Gullwings being produced. On top of its trademark upward opening doors, the 300 SL was the first-ever gasoline-powered car equipped with fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber. The Gullwing was recently ranked the No.5 sports car of all time, and it is nothing short of an icon.

1955 300 SLR Racer

It’s not often that a racer takes inspiration from a streetcar, but that’s exactly what happened here. The 300 SLR was based off the U.S. market 300 SL Gullwing, but was much lighter due to the use of a tubular aluminum frame. The 300 SLR was the first race car to use air brakes and was the car of choice for legendary racer Stirling Moss when he competed in the 1955 Mille Miglia, which he won in record-setting fashion. The 300 SLR is being celebrated this year with a limited edition watch from TAG Heuer, and represents the pinnacle of classic Mercedes-Benz design and engineering.

10 unique and amazing places on earth

2011-09-15T17:22:00.000+05:30

After seeing “10 More Amazing Wonders of the Natural World”, which many contained places I had never even heard of, I was inspired to make my own list. This list differs from the previous in that it contains things which may not be stunning to behold, but are unique for their size, location, or natural impact.

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The Door To Hell

Turkmenistan

The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years. In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it. Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days. Unfortunately, there was a slight miscalculation as to the amount of gas that was trapped, and the crater continues to burn to this day.
You can see it on Google Earth at 40°15′8″N 58°26′23″E

Mount Roraima

Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana

Mount Roraima is a pretty remarkable place. It is a tabletop mountain with sheer 400-metre high cliffs on all sides. There is only one ‘easy’ way up, on a natural staircase-like ramp on the Venezuelan side – to get up any other way takes and experienced rock climber. On the top of the mountain it rains almost every day, washing away most of the nutrients for plants to grow and creating a unique landscape on the bare sandstone surface. This also creates some of the highest waterfalls in the world over the sides (Angel falls is located on a similar tabletop mountain some 130 miles away). Though there are only a few marshes on the mountain where vegetation can grow properly, these contain many species unique to the mountain, including a species of carnivorous pitcher plant.

Meteor Crater

USA

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of “Meteor Crater” from the nearby post office named Meteor. The crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper. At the time, the area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and camels. It was probably not inhabited by humans; the earliest confirmed record of human habitation in the Americas dates from long after this impact. The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 50 meters (54 yards) across, which impacted the plain at a speed of several kilometers per second.

The Great Dune of Pyla

France

Since Europe has no deserts, you’d think the title of “Europe’s largest sand dune” would go to something that wasn’t particularly impressive. But you’d be wrong. The Great Dune of Pyla is 3km long, 500m wide and 100m high, and for reasons I will probably never understand, it seems to have formed in a forest. The dune is very steep on the side facing the forest and is famous for being a paragliding site. At the top it also provides spectacular views out to sea and over the forest (since the dune is far higher than any of the trees surrounding it).

Socotra

Republic of Yemen

Socotra has been described as one of the most alien-looking place on Earth, and it’s not hard to see why. It is very isolated with a harsh, dry climate and as a result a third of its plant-life is found nowhere else, including the famous Dragon’s Blood Tree, a very-unnatural looking umbrella-shaped tree which produces red sap. There are also a large number of birds, spiders and other animals native to the island, and coral reefs around it which similarly have a large number of endemic (i.e. only found there) species. Socotra is considered the most biodiverse place in the Arabian sea, and is a World Heritage Site.

83-42

Greenland

This is more of a curiosity and not visually impressive, but 83-42 is believed to be the northernmost permanent point of land on earth. It is tiny, only 35m by 15m and 4m high, but is about 400 miles from the north pole. It beat the previous record holder, ATOW1996, when it was discovered in 1998, and lichens were found growing on it, suggesting it was not just one of the temporary gravel bars that are found in that region, which are regularly pushed around by the rough seas. The picture above features what is currently the northernmost point on land, one of the temporary gravel bars, photographed in 2007, as I could find no photos of 83-42 (For some reason, nobody feels the need to produce a photograph of a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere, which only five people have ever stepped foot on).

Rotorua

New Zealand

Rotorua is a city on the southern shores of the lake of the same name, in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city is known for its geothermal activity, with a number of geysers, notably the Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, and boiling mud pools (pictured above) located in the city. This thermal activity owes itself to the Rotorua caldera on which the city lies. Rotorua is also a top adventure destination and is New Zealand’s Maori cultural heartland. Rotorua city is renowned for its unique “rotten eggs” aroma, which is caused by the geothermal activity releasing sulphur compounds into the atmosphere. If you are ever visiting New Zealand – this is a city you must see. It was once home to the famed Pink and White Terraces and you can visit thermal wonderlands with sights that are truly astounding.

Don Juan Pond

Antarctica

With a salinity of over 40%, Don Juan Pond is the saltiest body of water in the world. It is named after the two pilots who first investigated the pond in 1961, Lt Don Roe and Lt John Hickey. It is a small lake, only 100m by 300m, and on average 0.1m deep, but it is so salty that even in the Antarctic, where the temperature at the pond regularly drops to as low as -30 degrees Celsius, it never freezes. It is 18 times saltier than sea water, compared to the Dead Sea which is only 8 times saltier than sea water.

Iceberg B-15

Antarctica

Iceberg B-15 was the largest ever recorded iceberg. It had an area of 3,100 km², making it larger than the island of Jamaica, and was created when part of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off in March 2000. In 2003, it broke apart, and one of the larger pieces (called B-15a) drifted north, eventually smashing into a glacier in 2005, breaking off an 8-km² section and forcing many antarctic maps to be rewritten. It drifted along the coast and eventually ran aground, breaking up once again. In 2006, a storm in Alaska (that’s right, Alaska) caused an ocean swell that travelled 13,500km, over 6 days, to Antarctica and broke up the largest remaining part even more. Almost a decade on, parts of the iceberg have still not melted, with the largest remaining part, still called B-15a, having an area of 1,700 km². The picture above shows B-15a (top left) in 2005, after drifting west into the Drygalski Glacier (bottom), breaking the end off into several pieces.

Guaíra Falls

Brazil-Paraguay border

Located on the Parana river the Guaíra Falls were, in terms of total volume, the largest waterfall on earth. 1,750,000 cubic feet of water fell over this waterfall each second on average, compared to just 70,000 cubic feet per second for Niagra Falls. However, the falls were flooded in 1982 when a dam was created to take advantage of this massive flow rate. The Itaipu Dam is now the second most powerful hydroelectric dam in the world, after the Three Gorges Dam. The Itaipu Dam supplies 90% of the power consumed by Paraguay, and 19% of the power consumed by Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

The beauty of earth!!! අහසටත් උඩින්!!!

2011-09-10T14:40:00.001+05:30

Astronaut Douglas Wheelock <<
Wheelock has been posting impressive photos of the Earth and some of his thoughts ever since he moved into the space station in June, five months after it got Internet access. Needless to say, the pictures are stunning.
Here is a small collection of some of his best pictures.

Greek islands on a clear night during our flight over Europe.Athens shine brightly along the Mediterranean Sea. Unreal feeling arises when one sees the beauty of the ancient earth from space.

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'Mystery Island' ...located in the Indian Ocean close to Madagascar.Interesting features on the island and the unusual shape should be enough to help you discover this beautiful place.

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Northern lights in the distance in one of the finest nights over Europe.The photo clearly shows the Strait of Dover. Paris is dazzling with the city lights.A little fog over the western part of England, particularly over London.

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The moon is breathtaking

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Every time I look out the window and see our beautiful planet, my soul sings! I see blue skies, white clouds and bright blessed day.

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Another spectacular sunset.We see 16 such sunsets each day, and each of them is really valuable.

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Beautiful atoll in the Pacific Ocean, photographed using 400mm lens.Approximately 1930 km south of Honolulu.

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Above the center of the Atlantic Ocean, before another stunning sunset.Downstairs in the setting sun visible spiral Hurricane Earl.

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Morning over the Andes in South America. I do not know for sure the title of this peak,but was simply amazed by her magic, stretching to the sun and wind tops.

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Over the Sahara desert, approaching the ancient lands and thousand-year history.River Nile flows through Egypt by the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo.Further, the Red Sea, Sinai Peninsula, Dead Sea, Jordan River,as well as the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea and Greece on the horizon.

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Night view of the River Nile, stretching like a snake through Egypt to the Mediterranean, and Cairo, located in the Delta. Far away in this picture, one can see the Mediterranean Sea.

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Our unmanned 'Progress 39P' approaches to the ISS for refueling. It is full of food, fuel, spare parts and all necessities for our station. Inside was a real gift - fresh fruit and vegetables. What a miracle after three months of food from a tube!

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The flash of color, movement and life on the canvas of our amazing world. This is part of the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia, photographed through the lens of 1200 mm.

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All the beauty of Italy, a clear summer night. You can see many beautiful islands that adorn the coast - Capri, Sicily and Malta. Naples and Mount Vesuvius are allocated along the coast.

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"Dome" on the side of nadir station gives a panoramic view of our beautiful planet. Fedor made the picture from the window of the Russian docking compartment. In this photo I'm sitting in the dome, preparing the camera for our evening flight over Hurricane Earl.

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Florida and southeastern U.S. in the evening. A clear autumn evening, the moonlight over the water and sky, dotted with millions of stars.

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Clear starry night over the eastern Mediterranean.The ancient land with a thousand years of history stretching from Athens to Cairo. Historical land of fabulous and alluring island ... Athens - Crete - Rhodes - Izmir - Ankara - Cyprus - Damascus - Beirut - Haifa - Amman - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem - Cairo - all of them turned into tiny lights in this cool November night.

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In this time of year you can enjoy the beauty of the polar mesospheric clouds. With our high-angle illumination, we were able to capture a thin layer of noctilucent clouds at sunset.

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Astronaut Douglas Wheelock

New Age Concept Mobile Phones

2011-09-08T22:36:00.000+05:30

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week 34.. random pix..

2011-09-08T22:27:00.000+05:30

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School children perform Poorna Bhujangasana, a form of yoga meant to make the spine flexible, at a yoga camp inside a college in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh August 19, 2011. More than 100 students participated. REUTERS/Ajay Verma

Members of an international religious movement called the White Brotherhood perform a ritual dance near Babreka lake, in Rila Mountain, some 100 km (62 miles) south of Sofia, August 19, 2011, as part of celebration of their New Year. The teaching of the movement, whose founder is Bulgarian Peter Danov, is a synthesis of Christianity and Hinduism with a heavy emphasis on brotherly love, a healthy diet and living in harmony with nature. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima, northern Japan August 6, 2011. At a temple in Fukushima thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the radiation. It is as if an invisible snow had fallen on Fukushima and continued to fall, covering the area, said Koyu Abe, chief monk at the Buddhist Joenji temple. Sunflowers were used near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident to extract radioactive caesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Japanese scientists are carrying out tests to prove their usefulness in fighting radiation. Picture taken August 6, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company's 2nd battalion 35th infantry regiment, Task Forces Bronco take a break during an early morning mountain patrol at the Chaw Kay district in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Nikola Solic

An internally displaced woman gestures inside a war-ravaged Cathedral church building in the old central of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, August 19, 2011. Turkey will establish an embassy in Somalia, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday during a visit to Mogadishu to draw international attention to the famine sweeping across the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Men run away from burning oil tankers, used to carry fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, as they explode after they were attacked on the outskirts of Quetta August 19, 2011. Five NATO trucks have been set on fire in Mastung in the province of Baluchistan. Gunmen attacked and then set fire to the trucks, carrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, security officials said. There are no reported casualties. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

The Hungarian women's team paddle to win the K4 500m final during the ICF Canoe and Kayak Sprint World Championships in Szeged, 170km (106 miles) south of Budapest, August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

A soldier of the presidential guard stands with his weapon during the changing of the guard ceremony in front of the presidential palace. in Brasilia August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Some of thousands of motorcyclists participating in the annual America's motorcycle ride, to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, arrive from a ride from Shanksville, Pennsylvania to Washington, August 19, 2011. The ride will continue to the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang

Spanish bullfighters (from L to R) Morante de la Puebla, Javier Conde and Julian Lopez 'El Juli' make the paseillo before starting a bullfight at the Malagueta bullring in Malaga, southern Spain, August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush loses his helmet as he stretches for the goal line but comes up short in the first quarter of play against the Carolina Panthers in their pre-season NFL football game in Miami August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Egyptian protesters, calling on the Israeli ambassador to leave and the Egyptian authorities to stop exporting gas to Israel, clash with military police standing guard in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo August 19, 2011. The protesters were demonstrating against Israel after an Egyptian army officer and two security personnel were killed during an Israeli raid on Palestinian militants along the Egypt-Israel border on Thursday. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

A boy climbs on a window railing along a street, during a heavy downpour in Havana August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

A member of the Boi do Seu Teodoro musical group performs at an annual cultural festival in the city of Sobradinho in Brasilia August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Survivors of the Utoeya shooting massacre travel by boat to Utoeya island, 40 km (20 miles) northwest of Oslo August 20, 2011. Some 1,000 people are expected to visit the island on Saturday when survivors and their relatives go back ahead of a national day of remembrance on Sunday. Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik has admitted killing 77 people last month, including eight in a bombing in central Oslo. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

A Belarussian soldier from the Interior Ministry's special unit displays his skills at his base near the village of Volovshchina, about 25 km (16 miles) west of Minsk, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Survivors of the Utoeya shooting massacre walk on the shore of Utoeya island, 40 km (20 miles) northwest of Oslo, August 20, 2011. Some 1,000 people are expected to visit the island on Saturday when survivors and their relatives go back ahead of a national day of remembrance on Sunday. Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik has admitted killing 77 people last month, including eight in a bombing in central Oslo. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

A labourer naps inside a coil of steel wire at a residential construction site in Hefei, Anhui province August 20, 2011. China's annual housing inflation quickened in July for the second straight month this year, official data showed on Thursday, keeping up pressure on Beijing to rein in the red-hot property sector. REUTERS/Stringer

Newcastle United's Joey Barton (L) scuffles with Sunderland's Phil Bardsley during their English Premier League soccer match in Sunderland, northern England August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis

Ethnic Akha children watch male stag beetles fight at Mae Fahluang District, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, 825 km (513 miles) from Bangkok, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Catholic nuns get sprayed with water as they wait for the start of a Vigil with the Pope at Madrid's Cuatro Vientos aerodrome as part of World Youth Day festivities August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading on Germany's highest mountain, the 2,962 metre (9,718 feet) Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen August 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 995 meters long rope to break his own world record, as part of a charity event. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

Garmin-Cervelo's riders cycle during the first stage of the Tour of Spain La Vuelta cycling race, a 13,5 km team time trial, in Benidorm August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

A demonstrator tries to gain entry into a bank during clashes at the so-called streetparty Schanzenfest in the Schanze district in Hamburg August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Pilgrims pray in the Grand Mosque during the Muslim month of Ramadan in the holy city of Mecca August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Hassan Ali

Fans of Santos and Morelia react during the Mexican league championship soccer match after gunshots were heard in the vicinity of the Santos Laguna stadium in Torreon August 20, 2011. The soccer match in Mexico's first division was abandoned on Saturday after a shoot-out just outside the stadium shocked players and fans alike in the northern city of Torreon. Players ran to the dressing room and fans dived for cover when the shots rang out near the end of the first half of the match. REUTERS/ Alejandro Jimenez Aguilar

Brazil's Under-20 soccer team celebrates with their trophy at the podium after beating Portugal during their FIFA U-20 World Cup final soccer match in Bogota, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/John Vizcaino

Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims from his popemobile as he arrives to lead a mass at the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome as part of World Youth Day festivities in Madrid August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Triathletes dive in the water at the ITU Team Triathlon World Championship in Lausanne, August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud

Swiss Acro League pilots fly for a demonstration at the Sonchaux Acro Show paragliding competition in Villeneuve August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Libyan rebel fighters ride through the town of Maia celebrating after advancing to the outskirts of Tripoli, August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Bob Strong

Boston Red Sox's Ryan Lavarnway splits his bat on a first inning single against Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Danny Duffy during their MLB American League baseball game in Kansas City, Missouri, August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Dave Kaup

A couple kisses as people walk by during an international kite festival in the Caribbean port of Cartagena August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Joaquin Sarmiento

Villagers jump as they perform a folk dance for visiting tourists in Zhenxing village in Jinggu county, Yunnan province August 21, 2011. The performance, a traditional folk dance of the Yi ethnic minority, involves a man acting like a shepherd and dozens of people acting as goats by holding wooden sticks attached to a handcrafted goat head. The villagers believe that the dance can ward off evil spirits and bring good fortune, local media reported. Picture taken August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Wong Campion

Afghan policemen train at a live firing range in the central province of Bamiyan August 22, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

A Libyan protester uses a shoe to hit a crossed-out picture of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a demonstration outside the Libyan Embassy in Cairo in this February 21, 2011 file photo. Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on August 22, 2011 after rebels swept into the heart of the capital, cheered on by crowds hailing the end of Gaddafi's 42 years in power. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Men walk past tankers, used to carry fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, which were attacked by unidentified gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta August 22, 2011. About a dozen gunmen in Pakistan's southwestern district of Mastung attacked and set fire to some 18 trucks carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, government and security officials said. There were no reported casualties. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

Veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare wipes his eye in front of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the seventh day of his fasting at Ramlila grounds in New Delhi August 22, 2011. Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare's hunger strike entered its seventh day on Monday with opposition parties calling for nationwide rallies this week, prompting the government of Premier Manmohan Singh to take tentative steps to open talks. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Wingwalker Todd Green falls from John Mohr's Steerman aircraft to his death, after losing his grip while trying to perform a transfer to the helicopter during Selfridge Air Show, less than 30 miles from Detroit, August 21, 2011. Picture taken August 21, 2011. REUTERS/David Angell

Saif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Saif told journalists that Libya, which has been largely overrun in the past 24 hours by rebel forces seeking to topple his father, was in fact in government hands and that Muammar Gaddafi was safe. REUTERS/Paul Hackett

A passenger jet flies towards Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai August 23, 2011.

REUTERS/Aly Song

People sunbath on a field at a public swimming pool in Prague as temperatures hovered over 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 degrees Fahrenheit) August 23, 2011. REUTERS/David W Cerny

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair depart the Manhattan State Supreme Courthouse after a hearing dismissing the case against him in New York August 23, 2011. A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Office workers evacuated from buildings on Wall Street in New York stand outside after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck the U.S. East Coast August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Libyan rebels celebrate at Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Joyful Libyan rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli bastion on Tuesday, seizing weapons and loot and destroying symbols of a 42-year dictatorship they declared was now over as they set about hunting down the fallen ruler and his sons. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi

AIDS patient Anna Bosigo (L) is fed by volunteer worker Lydia Mbhalo of the Sakhi-Sizwe AIDS care initiative, in Orange Farm township, south of Johannesburg, August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Members of the military and emergency personnel are silhouetted through a Canadian flag while waiting for the start of an event with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (not pictured) in Resolute Bay, Nunavut August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

NASA handout image of Hurricane Irene moving over the Caribbean taken by astronaut Ron Garan from the International Space Station, August 22, 2011. The United States put its eastern seaboard on alert for Hurricane Irene on Tuesday as the powerful storm barreled up from the Caribbean on a path that could hit the U.S. coast on the weekend. REUTERS/NASA/Ron Garan/Handout

Actor Al Pacino arrives at the Blu-ray disc launch party for the 1983 classic film Scarface in Los Angeles, California August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

A zookeeper sprays an elephant to cool her down in Budapest's Zoo August 24, 2011. Temperatures reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) in Hungary. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

A boy plays in the mud near the Ravi river after a downpour on the outskirts of Lahore August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Demonstrators block a main street with barricades during a 48-hour national strike in Santiago August 24, 2011. The rally is in support of the August 24 to 25 nationwide strike by students, workers and citizens to demand reforms in the public state education system, and better salaries and health care. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Riot police block Ukrainian opposition supporters during a rally on the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence in Kiev August 24, 2011. Ukrainian police prevented thousands of opposition supporters marching to the presidential administration building on Wednesday during a protest against the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A demonstrator runs away from riot policemen as they fall during a 48-hour national strike at Santiago August 24, 2011. The rally is in support of a two-day national strike comprising students, workers and citizens who demand for reforms in the public state education system and improvements in salaries and health care. REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra

A tourist sits in front of the Fonisa waterfall on the Greek island of Kythera August 24, 2011. The island has an area of 284 square kilometers (109.65 square miles) and is located off the southern tip of Peloponnese. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

British performance artist Alice Newstead smiles while suspending from shark hooks pierced through her back at a cosmetic shop in San Francisco, California August 24, 2011. The act was performed to bring attention to the declining global population of sharks due to demand for shark fin soup and other shark products. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

A woman is seen at the Modern Moma commercial and residential complex in Beijing, August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Lee

The under-construction One World Trade Center (C) is seen as the sun sets over New Jersey in New York's Lower Manhattan on August 24, 2011. New York will mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center with ceremonies on September 11. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

The body of a gunman lies in the woods after a shootout with soldiers in Zirahuen near Morelia August 24, 2011. One gunman, a suspected member of the Caballeros Templarios, a new spin-off cartel in Michoacan state linked to the Gulf Cartel, and a soldier were killed after gunmen opened fire on a convoy of patrolling soldiers, according to local media. REUTERS/Leovigildo Gonzalez

A member of a special unit of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police force takes part in an anti-terrorist and hostage rescue drill in eastern Sarajevo August 25, 2011. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Libyan rebel fighters react as they search for snipers while fighting for the final push to flush out Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Abu Slim area in Tripoli August 25, 2011.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

People boats are seen as they wait to carry passengers ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday during dusk on the Buriganga river in Dhaka August 25, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

A Sadhu or a Hindu holyman who is also a supporter of veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare sits at the Ramlila grounds where Hazare is fasting in New Delhi August 25, 2011. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed to the anti-corruption campaigner to end his public hunger strike as a deal to end some of the biggest protests in decades led by the self-styled Gandhian activist appeared to be close. The campaign by 74-year-old Hazare has united millions of Indians, including its growing middle class, against a Congress party-led government that has been beset by corruption scandals in its second term, paralysing policy making. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

A riot police walk past a burning billboard during a 48-hour national strike at Santiago August 25, 2011. Protesters scuffled with police in the Chilean capital on Thursday, the second of a two-day strike against unpopular President Sebastian Pinera marked by sporadic looting, though the linchpin mining sector was not affected. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

AS Roma's goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg tries to stop a ball as he warms up before their Europa League qualifying soccer match against Slovan Bratislava in Rome, August 25, 2011. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Firefighters and rescue personnel work outside a burning casino after an attack in Monterrey August 25, 2011. Armed men killed at least 20 people in an attack on a casino in northern Mexico that left the building ablaze with gamblers trapped inside, officials said on Thursday. People remained stuck inside the Casino Royale building in Monterrey, a prosperous city 140 miles (230 km) from the Texas border that has suffered from increasing criminal violence in recent months. REUTERS/Victor Hugo Valdivia

A labourer paints the framework as he stands on the roof of a building at a construction site in Wuhan, Hubei province August 26, 2011. China's annual housing inflation quickened in July for the second straight month this year, official data showed on Thursday, keeping up pressure on Beijing to rein in the red-hot property sector. REUTERS/Stringer

Women walk in the ocean in Santa Monica, California August 25, 2011. Temperatures were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of Los Angeles County. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

A Palestinian boy looks through bars while waiting to cross into Jerusalem at Israel's checkpoint in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan August 26, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Hugo Pessanha of Brazil (L) competes with Alexandr Kassachev of Kazakstan during their under 90kg men's elimination bout at the World Judo Championships in Paris August 26, 2011. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Ciuchcia (Steam train engine), a four-month-old dog, chases a cat in a courtyard after being helped onto a specially made wheelchair at Schronisko (Shelter), a shelter for homeless animals, near Piotrkow Trybunalski August 26, 2011. Ciuchcia's rear legs were paralyzed after it was physically abused and abandoned with its two siblings on a train track. The dog survived despite being run over by a number of trains, according to the staff at the animal shelter, who found Ciuchcia on July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Andrews

Sri Dalada Perahara - ශ්‍රී දළදා පෙරහැර 2011 - SRI LANKA

2011-09-08T21:19:00.001+05:30

Kandy 2011

10 Strange Things Your Mind Can Do

2011-06-23T20:50:00.000+05:30

1 – L’esprit de l’Escalier

L’esprit de l’escalier (stairway wit) is the sense of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult, or any witty, clever remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—when one is on the “staircase” leaving the scene. The German word treppenwitz is used to express the same idea. The closest phrase in English to describe this situation is “being wise after the event”. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at having not thought of the riposte when it was most needed or suitable.

2 – Capgras Delusion

Capgras delusion is the phenomenon in which a person believes that a close friend or family member has been replaced by an identical looking impostor. This could be tied in to the old belief that babies were stolen and replaced by changelings in medieval folklore, as well as the modern idea of aliens taking over the bodies of people on earth to live amongst us for reasons unknown. This delusion is most common in people with schizophrenia but it can occur in other disorders.

3 – Déjà Senti

Déjà senti is the phenomenon of having “already felt” something. This is exclusively a mental phenomenon and seldom remains in your memory afterwards. In the words of a person having experienced it: “What is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been forgotten for a time, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. The recollection is always started by another person’s voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as ‘Oh yes—I see’, ‘Of course—I remember’, etc., but a minute or two later I can recollect neither the words nor the verbalized thought which gave rise to the recollection. I only find strongly that they resemble what I have felt before under similar abnormal conditions.”
You could think of it as the feeling of having just spoken, but realizing that you, in fact, didn’t utter a word.

4 – Déjà Vécu

Déjà vécu (pronounced vay-koo) is what most people are experiencing when they think they are experiencing deja vu. Déjà vu is the sense of having seen something before, whereas déjà vécu is the experience of having seen an event before, but in great detail – such as recognizing smells and sounds. This is also usually accompanied by a very strong feeling of knowing what is going to come next. In my own experience of this, I have not only known what was going to come next, but have been able to tell those around me what is going to come next – and I am right. This is a very eerie and unexplainable sensation.

5 – Déjà Visité

Déjà visité is a less common experience and it involves an uncanny knowledge of a new place. For example, you may know your way around a a new town or a landscape despite having never been there, and knowing that it is impossible for you to have this knowledge. Déjà visité is about spatial and geographical relationships, while déjà vécu is about temporal occurrences. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about an experience of this in his book “Our Old Home” in which he visited a ruined castle and had a full knowledge of its layout. He was later able to trace the experience to a poem he had read many years early by Alexander Pope in which the castle was accurately described.

6 – Déjà Vu

“A black cat went past us, and then I saw another that looked just like it,“ says Neo in “The Matrix.” Trinity responds: “A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.“

There are more than 40 theories as to what déjà vu is and what causes it, and they range from reincarnation to glitches in our memory processes.

Déjà vu is a French term that literally means “already seen”. French scientist Emile Boirac, one of the first to study this strange phenomenon, gave the subject its name in 1876.
There are often references to déjà vu that aren’t true déjà vu. Researchers have their own definitions, but generally déjà vu is described as the feeling that you’ve seen or experienced something before when you know you haven’t. The most common misuse of the term déjà vu seems to be with precognitive experiences, experiences where someone gets a feeling that they know exactly what’s going to happen next, and it does. An important distinction is that déjà vu is experienced during an event, not before. Precognitive experiences, if they are real, show things that will happen in the future, not things that you’ve already experienced. (However, one theory about déjà vu deals with precognitive dreams that give us a “déjà vu feeling” afterwards.

7 – Jamais Vu

Jamais vu (never seen) describes a familiar situation which is not recognized. It is often considered to be the opposite of déjà vu and it involves a sense of eeriness. The observer does not recognize the situation despite knowing rationally that they have been there before. It is commonly explained as when a person momentarily doesn’t recognize a person, word, or place that they know. Chris Moulin, of Leeds University, asked 92 volunteers to write out “door” 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 per cent of his guinea pigs showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that “door” was a real word. This has lead him to believe that jamais vu may be a symptom of brain fatigue.

8 – Presque Vu

Presque vu is very similar to the “tip of the tongue” sensation – it is the strong feeling that you are about to experience an epiphany – though the epiphany seldom comes. The term “presque vu” means “almost seen”. The sensation of presque vu can be very disorienting and distracting

9 – Fregoli Delusion

Fregoli delusion is a rare brain phenomenon in which a person holds the belief that different people are, in fact, the same person in a variety of disguises. It is often associated with paranoia and the belief that the person in disguise is trying to persecute them. The condition is named after the Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during his stage act. It was first reported in 1927 in the case study of a 27-year-old woman who believed she was being persecuted by two actors whom she often went to see at the theatre. She believed that these people “pursued her closely, taking the form of people she knows or meets”.

10 – Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia is a phenomenon in which a person is unable to recognize faces of people or objects that they should know. People experiencing this disorder are usually able to use their other senses to recognize people – such as a person’s perfume, the shape or style of their hair, the sound of their voice, or even their gait. A classic case of this disorder was presented in the 1998 book (and later Opera by Michael Nyman) called “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”.

pencil , eraser

2011-06-15T01:04:00.000+05:30

conversation between a pencil and a eraser

Pencil:

I'm sorry....

Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

Pencil: I'm sorry cz you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. :)

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational.

Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on). Though their children will eventually find someone new (friends, colleagues, relatives...), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

This is for all parents out there.....and children too

Culinary Design

2011-06-15T01:00:00.000+05:30

wow!! just amazing!! btw im warning you guys!! you all might get bit hungry!! ;)

home sweet green home!

2011-06-15T00:56:00.002+05:30

just take a look at these pictures!! this house is mind blowing awesome!!

Los Angeles based architect Steve Hermann finished his six year project, which he calls “The Glass Pavilion” four months ago in Montecito, CA.

Apple!

2011-06-15T00:54:00.002+05:30

we all love it and we all NeeD it!!

IF apple made other products!!

random pix

2011-05-30T01:25:00.000+05:30

random collection of miscellaneous pix!! :P

ආදර්ශයට ගන්න!!

2011-05-30T00:43:00.001+05:30

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Your attitude towards life defines not only who you are,
but the quality life you are after!!

Whatever it is that has been bugging you, doesen't seem so bad anymore, does it?
If only we all could have the spirit that this little boy has!

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2011-05-25T01:32:00.002+05:30

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