Mandela, The LAST HERO...heart felt tribute

Sachin,the God of Cricket RETIRES -Sammy took the catch in the bowling of Deonarine-Watch the final moments

Dear SACHIN  , Heart felt thanks  for Mesmerizing us and for showing us  the right meaning of DEDICATION & PASSION

SACHIN, the GOD of cricket out for 74 in his final innings(watch video by clicking on this link)

SACHIN 100 DULKAR announces the The SADDEST THING both for HIM and for US -" We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will." -Famous quotes on the Legend

Buddha shaped Pears & Buddha's Hand fruit

Buddha shaped Pears

             Gao Xianzhang (an indigenous farmer hailing from the village of Hexia in Northern China) has managed to mould juicy pears into little Buddha figurines. Gao Xianzhang worked six years to perfect his Buddha-Pear-Growing technique and has grown over 10,000 Buddha-shaped baby pears with amazing and inspiring results. The pears are grown in an aerated plastic Buddha mould, each painstakingly attached to baby pears during the growing phase. . People believe that the Budha pears will bring them good luck and have been willing to pay upto Rs.500/- for each pear.

 Buddha's Hand fruit(fingered citron)

    Buddha's hand fruit is very fragrant and is used predominantly in China and Japan for perfuming rooms and personal items such as clothing.

    The fruit may be given as a religious offering in Buddhist temples. According to tradition, Buddha prefers the "fingers" of the fruit to be in a position where they resemble a closed rather than open hand, as closed hands symbolize to Buddha the act of prayer.

QUIXPLOD-2013 OPEN QUIZ AT ARINALLOOR ON 11th October 2013

Cascat Quiz-2013 -little drops of knowledge-on 14 th october

RAJINIKANTH'S - KOCHADAIYAAN - The Legend -is coming to CONQUER our HEARTS

    KOCHADAIYAAN (: King with long, curly mane) is is coming to CONQUER our HEARTS, directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. the film will feature Rajinikanth in three roles  alongside  R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika  Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar,Jackie Shroff and Nassar. The film, is  shot with motion capture in 3D, cinematography  by Rajiv Menon whilst background score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film will be dubbed and simultaneously released in Telugu (as Vikrama Simha), Malayalam and English,  and will also be released in Hindi and Japanese., Italian and Spanish versions of the film have also been announced. It's now confirmed that work is on to get the late Nagesh to share screenspace with Rajinikanth,  through animation. 

Widely hailed as India’s first 3D performance-capturing flick, Rajinikanth has got the credit of the first Indian star to be captured on motion capture techno­logy. 

                    THERE ARE HEROES ,THERE ARE SUPER HEROES BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE                                                                             RAJINIKANTH

click on the link below to watch KOCHADAIYAAN   Trailer $ RAJNIKANTH''s INTERVIEW
                        
                  KOCHADAIYAAN
                       
            RAJINIKANTH- INTERVIEW
     

Amazing sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why the following sentence is an amazing one?

       "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing           handwriting;nevertheless,extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness "
     

Answer: The First word of the above sentence has  one letter,second has two letters ,third has three letters.....and the twentieth word has twenty letters

Naked lady flower{Naree pol (Narilatha)},Fake flower born in the garden of Internet (A biggggg internet hoax)

         Many people apparently believe that the Nareepol Tree and its improbable fruit really exists and, although they have never seen it "in the flesh" , some have even come to regard it as a sacred object. However, the Nareepol Tree is almost certainly nothing more than a hoax. If such an amazing phenomenon was real, the tree would undoubtedly be quite famous and there would be many media reports published about it all around the world. The scientific community and religious groups would also have examined the tree and published their findings. Instead, the only information about the alleged Nareepol Tree is in versions of the above message.

     

    Moreover, the three photographs above appear to be the only images of the tree available. Given the self-publishing power provided by the Internet, if the tree was real, there would surely be myriad photographs of the tree available on many different blogs, travel websites and photo sharing websites.

    According to the message, the Nareepol Tree is found  in the Petchaboon province,Thailand and in Himalayas . So, if the tree and its fruit really existed, it would likely be a major tourist attraction for the region and promoted as such. However, the tree is not listed as an attraction on any credible travel related websites for the Petchaboon province  .It is said that Narilatha bloom once in two decades only; in other words it blossoms into a lady like flower after a 20-year interval. It is believed that in times of yore the concentration of hermits and sages doing deep meditation would be shattered at the sight of these lady-shaped flowers.

                                                

  Thus, it seems very probable that some unknown prankster has created the hoax by cleverly attaching a few man-made figurines to an ordinary tree's branches and then taking some photographs to document his "creation". The junction where each "fruit" joins the branch is conveniently obscured by leaves, perhaps to hide the wire or twine that holds it aloft. And, the figures look too uniform to be natural. Except for the positioning of the arms, each piece of "fruit" is virtually identical in size and colour. Real fruit is likely to vary considerably in size, hue and quality, even when growing on the same tree.

                                         

There are many false messages which is making the rounds of the Internet via email, blogs and forums, with photoshop images & artificially made  photographs .Narilatha is most  probably  one of them

Look at the melancholic eyes of this iconic girl and identify her .....

  





Answer:  Omayra Sánchez Garzón (August 28, 1972 – November 16, 1985) was a 13-year-old Colombian girl killed in Armero, Colombia by the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. Volcanic debris mixed with ice to form massive lahars (volcanically induced mudslides, landslides, and debris flows) that rushed into the river valleys below the mountain, killing nearly 25,000 people and destroying Armero and 13 other villages.

After a lahar demolished her home, Omayra became pinned beneath the debris of her house; she remained trapped in water for three days. Her plight was documented as she descended from calmness into agony. Her courage and dignity touched journalists and relief workers, who put great efforts into comforting her. After 60 hours of struggling, she died, likely due to exposure. Her death highlighted the failure of officials to respond promptly to the threat of the volcano and the efforts of volunteer rescue workers to reach and treat trapped victims despite a dearth of supplies and equipment.

Omayra became internationally famous through a photograph of her taken shortly before her death by photojournalist Frank Fournier, which when published worldwide spawned considerable controversy; it was later designated the World Press Photo of the Year for 1985. She has remained a lasting figure in popular culture, remembered through music, literature, and commemorative articles.

  Despite her situation, Omayra remained relatively positive: she sang to volunteer worker Germán Santa María Barragán, a journalist and future diplomat asked for sweet food, drank soda, and agreed to be interviewed. At times, the teenage girl was scared, and prayed or cried On the third night, Omayra began hallucinating, saying that she did not want to be late for school and mentioned a math exam.Near the end of her life, Omayra's eyes reddened, her face swelled, and her hands whitened. At one point she asked the people to leave her so they could rest. Hours later the workers returned with a pump and worked feverishly to save her, but her legs were oriented as though she was kneeling, and so it was impossible to remove her without severing her legs. Lacking the surgical equipment to save her from the effects of an amputation, the doctors present agreed that it would be more humane to let her die.^[ In all, Omayra suffered for nearly three nights (roughly 60 hours) before she died at approximately 10:05 A.M. on November 16 from exposure

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH OMAYRA VIDEO

Omayra, we love you

Hugo Chavez....People's Leader....Red Salute

"Take my life, Lord, but don't take that of the president!" wailed an older woman who was among a group of mourners in Bolivar Square in Sabaneta in Barinas State

    

His progressive social and economic changes took millions out of poverty 

Red Salute

             
  

Hugo Chavez Quotes
"Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society." [on Christ's economic views, 2006]

“The devil came here yesterday,” said Chavez, who then crossed himself and looked skyward. “It smells of sulphur still today.” [Again on Bush Jr., addressing the U.N. in 2006]

"It's very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America, would it be so strange that they've invented technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?"[about cancer]

"That hill will open up and a big atomic bomb will come out. The imperialist spokesmen say Ahmadinejad and I are going into the basement now to set our sights on Washington and launch cannons and missiles… It’s laughable,”[on Iran's nuclear issue]

“Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the iggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity." [2003, on the discovery of the New World by Europeans]

"I think that Barack Obama - aside from 'the president' - is a good guy,"[on Obama]

"..........., Obama. ... Go and ask many people in Africa, who might have believed in you because of the color of your skin, because your father was from Africa. You are an Afro-descendant, but you are the shame of all those people." [on Barack Obama, 2011]

“Bombing the brave Libyan people to save them? What a brilliant strategy by the mad empire. Where are the international rights? This is like the caveman era." [on NATO's bombing campaign in Libya, 2011]

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," [about Mars]

"You are an alcoholic, a drunk, a liar, an immoral person, Mr. Danger. You are the worst ... a psychologically sick man." [on George W. Bush]

He is a donkey.” “Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.” [On former president George W. Bush, 2006]

"I chew coca leaves every morning, and look at me!" [on natural health benefits, 2008]

Remember, little girl, I’m like the thorn tree that flowers on the plain,” Chavez said. “Don’t mess with me, Condoleezza. Don’t mess with me, girl,”[on Condoleezza Rice]

“Mr. Obama ... You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace … Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people," [on Obama]

"We go from summit to summit, while our people go from abyss to abyss." [2005, on the value of presidential summits]

Can you name this rare fish?

Answer:"Barreleye" fish (Macropinna microstoma)                      

The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish's tubular eyes are capped by bright green lenses. The eyes point upward  when the fish is looking for food overhead. They point forward when the fish is feeding. The two spots above the fish's mouth are are olfactory organs called nares, which are analogous to human nostrils.       Researchers  recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that it's tubular eyes are very good at collecting light. However, the eyes were believed to be fixed in place and seemed to provide only a "tunnel-vision" view of whatever was directly above the fish's head and  these unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish's head. This allows the barreleye to peer up at potential prey or focus forward to see what it is eating.

Which poem is inscribed at the entrance of Wimbledon tennis court?

115.Which poem is inscribed at the entrance of Wimbledon tennis court?

116.Teresa Draco is the wife of.............

117.Name of the dress worn in Karate?

118.Which company has a tagline ‘emotionally yours’?

119.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes from............

120.Mercedes Benz’s ad line?

121.The term ‘Rock n roll’ is coined by...............

122.Moon walk is the autobiography of..............

123.Which is the Royal fish of U.K?

124.What does A.R stands for in A.R. Rahman?

Answers
115.If by Rudyard Kipling

116.James Bond

117.Gee
118.Sahara
119.Dr. Joseph Bell
120.Alan Freed
121.‘The best or nothing’

122.Michael Jackson

123.Sturgeon

124.Allah Rakha

Purana Quiz

Purana Quiz

640 crores for a painting!!! (Q.no.114) name the painting and name the author

ANSWER:The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) >>>>is the name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as bothpaintings and lithographs, by the Expressionist artistEdvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The works all show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a red sky. The landscape in the background is the Oslofjord, viewed from Ekeberg, Oslo, Norway.

Edvard Munch created the four versions of The Scream in various media. The National Gallery, Oslo, holds one of two painted versions (1893, shown at right). The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910, seegallery) and one pastel. The fourth version (pastel, 1895) sold for $119,922,500 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art auction on 2 May 2012 to a private buyer,^[]the highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction.^[2](The Card Players by Paul Cézanne was sold privately in 2011 for between $250 and 300 million^[3]).

The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen  from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years later.

Thieves taking paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo on 22 August 2004. Photo taken by unidentified bystander.

The 1895 pastel-on-board version of the painting, owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, sold at Sotheby's for a record US$120 million at auction on 2 May 2012 The bidding started at $40 million and lasted for over 12 minutes when an unnamed bidder by phone gave the final offer of US$119,922,500, including the buyer's premium. Sotheby's said the painting was the most colorful and vibrant of the four versions painted by Munch and the only version whose frame was hand-painted by the artist to include his poem, detailing the work's inspiration. After the sale, Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer said the painting was "worth every penny", adding: "It is one of the great icons of art in the world and whoever bought it should be congratulated."

The previous record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction had been held by Picasso'sNude, Green Leaves and Bust,

 which went for US$106.5 million at Christie's two years prior on 4 May 2010.. When accounting for inflation, the highest price paid for art at an auction is still held by Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which sold for $82.5 million in 1990, or about $147 million 2012 dollars. There have been reports that The Card Players, by Cézanne, sold privately for $250m in 2011.

CHUCKING KILLS CRICKET

CHUCKING $ MATCH FIXING  ARE  THE TWO  INCURABLE MALADIES AFFECTED TO MODERN DAY CRICKET
 Marlon Samuels is reported for chucking in the IPL SEASON 5...ITS QUITE INJUSTICE...what about others?...MALINGA  chucked OWAIS SHAH  2 daysback,an excellent innings came to an end through an UNDERARM ILLEGAL DELIVERY.Everybody praised Malinga for the ball ,none is ready to comment against him

.What is Murlitharan doing ?...he is just chucking ,Harbhajan also chucks atleast once in each and every over... .Johan Botha ..and the list continues ..... DEAR UMPIRES ..I CHALLENGE YOU ..ARE YOU BOLD ENOUGH TO CATCH   MALINGA,MURALITHARAN ,HARBHAJAN ,BOTHA AND ALL THE OTHER BIG CHUCKERS? NO, YOU CANT ...
Marlon Samuels is an occasional chucker  so he must be caught but THE  BIG CATS are also be punished.By punishing only Samuels BCCI proved yet agauin that they are   A SPINELESS BUNCH
   PLEASE READ   THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WHICH I POSTED ON MARCH 20 th AND  DO WHAT YOU CAN  TO SAVE THIS WONDERFUL GAME  FROM  CHUCKING AND  ILLEGAL BETTING

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....Indian cricketers have raised their concern over P akistan  cricketor  AJMAL'S bowling  action after  the high-voltage match against India in the 2012 Asia cup but the Indian team management has decided not to go ahead with its strong reservations over Saeed Ajmal’s action after the International Cricket Council (ICC) made it clear that the off-spinner’s action was legal....(because we also have chuckkers)

The 34-year-old Ajmal has been in the midst of a controversy over his action, and just before theAsia Cup the English cricketers had also raised their concern about the bowler. He later claimed that he had a special dispensation from the game's governing body to straighten his arm beyond the allowed 15 degrees. 

Ajmal, during an interview to an English media house, after Pakistan's 3-0 Test win over England in the UAE, had claimed, "ICC has allowed me 23.5 because my arm is not good because of an accident, that is why a problem." 

Sajeed Ajmal



   As long as a bowler chucking to the naked eye. He is a chucker. Don't care  about 15 or30degrees.I have been  closely watching  the game(ONLY AS A CRICKET LOVER) for the last 24 years,In my opinion   Sajeed Ajmal ,Muralitharan  .
(I am also saying that Muraleetharan  is a  spirited, hardworking,gentleman  cricketer with a wrong bowling action  ) Johaan Botha ,Shoaib Malik,Marlon Samuels,  Muhammad Hafeez  ,Malinga ,$Harbhajan Singh  are chuckers .Fidel edward's action is also suspicious. ,Shoaib Akthar(chucks minium two balls in one over),Brett lee ,R.P Singh and Praveenkumar are  also  occasional chuckkers. Watch Sri Lanka's upcoming off spinner  Sachithra Senanayake,who bowled well  against  the brave Bangladesh  today has also a very doutful action BUT None is willing to  correct him.

ntleman  cricketer  Most of the  current off spinners are  chucking to get extra turn  and variations 

    and NONE IS READY TO BELL THE CAT. Third umpire must interfere if a bowler chuckes even only once in a game,.Severe action must be taken against chuckers and occassional chuckers.In my opinion WARNE and KUMBLE are the BEST SPINNERS of NEW ERA .Without the help of  ILLEGAL BENDING OF ARM  Muralitharan CANT ACHIEVE  WHAT HE HAD ACHIEVED   but the fact is that none is ready to say THE KING IS NAKED

Sajeed Ajmal

Muralitharan

        ICC said that unless the Match Referee or the umpires express doubts over AJMAL'S action, nobody has any right to cast aspersions. Doubts over his action were cleared by the ICC in May 2009...“In Ajmal’s case we have tested him, we have monitored him even in live situations, he bowls within the allowed degree of tolerance. So there isn’t any issue with him… You are allowed to bowl with an arm that you don’t straighten in the course of action and he is well within the degrees of tolerance,” an ICC official said.


        NO UMPIRE WILL CALL  BECAUSE THEY ALL KNEW THE  FATE OF THE BOLD DARRELL HAIR, who RIGHTLY no balled  Muttiah Muralitharan seven times in three overs for throwing the ICC later said that umpires had expressed doubts about his legitimacy for more than two years. Biomechanical investigation of Muralitharan's action conducted at the behest of the ICC concluded that a congenital elbow deformity was partly responsible for his unusual action and his arm remained bent throughout delivery of the ball. After further review by an expert panel, the ICC decided to raise the elbow extension limit to 15 degrees for all bowlers. In 1999 Hair was found guilty by the ICC of bringing the game into disrepute after he described Muralitharan action as "diabolical".Hair later received death threats that referenced the throwing incident and as a result the ICC decreed that he would not officiate any of Sri Lankas matches at the 1999 World Cup.^[In 2011, Hair is still saying that Muralitharan's bowling action is suspect.   

Muralitharan

   
 "Muralitharan  has a congenital elbow deformity ,Shoaib  AKTHER' and RP SINGH have  Hyperextension  of arm   AND Sajeed Ajmal had an accident and his hand broken so he can't bowl  as normal...GET LOST....."ICC, PLEASE DONT FOOL US ANYMORE  by these types of RIDICULOUS ASSUMPTIONS.
    NO COMMENTATOR IS BOLD ENOUGH TO CALL THE SPADE A SPADE .RAVI SHASTRI,GAVASKAR,IAN CHAPPEL,RAMEES RAJA,MANJAREKAR,HARSHA BHOGLE,DEAN JOHNS,NASSER HUSSAIN.etc....ALL OF THEM KNEW THE TRUTH ...BUT NONE WILL UTTER A WORD ...BECAUSE THEY LOVE  THEIR JOB.They are also cheating and misleading us..SO THEY CALL MALINGA NOT A CHUCKER BUT A SLINGER.

Harbhajan Singh

Fidel Edwards 

Malinga

Malinga

Fidel Edwards

Brett Lee

Praveen Kumar

                                             

Johaan Botha

                                   

Mohammad Hafeez

                                 

                 
                                                                                  

Marlon Samuels

                                   

Shoaib Malik during  Bio  Mechanics test

1.                   *****   How about testing a bowler during an actual test match. Anyone can alter their action slightly when being put in a clinic and told you are being tested for chucking..*******        

Shoaib Malik

R P Singh

                                     

Shoaib Akthar

                                                 

                               
    PLEASE DONT KILL CRICKET  ...NO ONE CAN BE  CLEARED FOR EVER . THESE TYPE OF BOWLERS DO OFTEN  CHUCK AFTER CLEARANCE.FORGET ABOUT THE MONEY AND MUSCLE POWER OF CRICKET BOARDS.PUT A LASH OF WHIP AGAINST THESE CHUKERS AND WATCH THEM CLOSELY AND BAN THEM IF THEY CONTINUE IT, OTHERWISE YOUNGER GENERATION WILL FOLLOW THESE FELLOWS...THROW AWAY THE ' degrees'  BELIEVE THE NAKED EYE  OR WATCH THE ACTION REPLAYS ,EVEN A BLIND CAN SIMPLY PERCEIVE IT.

 Sachithra Senanayake                            

                                   
                                         
 ICC , please keep your eyes open and come out strongly on those issues and send a clear and loud message to everyone  otherwise what can not be cured must be endured   Nobody in the world can bowl  DOOSRA or THEESARA with legal action.


    PLEASE HAVE A CLOSE LOOK AT  THE ABOVE PHOTOS AND WATCH THE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THESE BOWLERS AND  JUDGE whether I AM RIGHT OR WRONG
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THROWING  OR CHUCKING

In the sport of cricket, throwing, commonly referred to as chucking, is an illegal bowling action which occurs when a bowler straightens their arm when delivering the ball. The Laws of Cricket specify that a bowler's arm must be fully extended and rotated about the shoulder to impart velocity to the ball. Throws are not allowed. If the umpire deems that the ball has been thrown, he will call a no ball which means the batsman cannot be given out from that delivery. Current regulations of the International Cricket Council (ICC) set the legal limit of 15 degrees of permissible straightening of the elbow joint for all bowlers in international cricket. This law applies between the point at which the bowling arm passes above shoulder height and the point at which the ball is released.

The charge of 'throwing' against a bowler is one of the most serious and controversial that can be made in cricket, as a bowler with an illegal action cannot dismiss a batsman. This means the player cannot effectively participate in the game, and may not be selected again without significant change to the way they bowl.

Hyperextension

In a recent report by scientists commissioned by the ICC it was shown that Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar and Indian bowler R. P. Singh were seen to extend their elbow joints by a negative angle with respect to the upper arm. This phenomenon, also known as hyperextension, can give the illusion of throwing. However, in the report it was seen that R. P. Singh maintained this negative angle throughout his delivery stride, while Akhtar sometimes bowled a quicker delivery by flexing this hyperextension. These actions are not considered to be chucking as they are due to the unique architecture of their elbows, possibly a congenital condition. Since these cricketers have no control over this hyperextension it is permitted so long as their action is inside the 15 degree elbow extension tolerance threshold.

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