ANUBHAVAM PUDHUMAI- 37/- NEWSEUM, WASHINGTON DC.

CONTENTS:
1)- ANUBHAVAM PAZHAMAI.
2)- TOPIC OF THE POST.
3)- HISTORY OF THE US- CONTINUED.
4)- US MEDIA ON INDIA.
5)- OUR MEDIA ON THE US
6)- BOSTON FIREWORKS.
7)- WORLD NEWSPAPER MAP.
8)- INDRA BLOG- MAHANANDI.
9)- STRANGE BUT TRUE.
10)- ONE QUESTION, MANY ANSWERS.

1)- ANUBHAVAM PAZHAMAI:

BELT
Sri Gopa deals about belt. The oxford dictionary t has given three meanings. All of them has been detailed in an interesting manner in this posting.



1. Waist belt.

The first meaning given for belt  is a strip of material worn around the waist to support the cloth or carry weapons.

I started wearing belt with ready made satin pants I purchased in 64's to hold it in position. These ready made pants on satin had belt in satin itself provided along with.

Before that I had worn the grey colour cotton belt supplied with NCC Uniform.
Later when I started stitching cotton pants I purchased belt made of leather or sponge leather (processed leather)

I have never seen my father wearing belt. For him well tied dhothi itself was OK.

The leather belt used to be of either black or brown in colour. These belts worn with pants had almost uniform width of about ¾".

1a. Waist belt of Muslims

There was a provision shop at my native run by one Musthappa. When I know he would have been about 45. He used to wear a wider belt green in colour with some pockets over the Lunki.

Musthappa was well built and with his beard appeared some what rough but he used to talk soft to children. Immediately on seeing me he used to ask- "Entha kunjae vendathu?" (What you child require?)

He knew my father well and occasionally we used to purchase things from his shop mostly on loan.

Muslims used to wear belt and in the pockets they used to keep miscellaneous things like money, small pen knife, papers for reference etc. These types  of belts are now used by many during Sabarimala pilgrimage since felt convenient to keep many things.

1b. Uthareeyam

I have seen our elders with slightly more belly used to tie uthareeyam firmly over the veshti as a sort of bent. This I could specially see when they do cooking for sadya. Wearing belt over the dhothi was not common on those days.

Now most wear belt over dhothi in the waist especially when it is worn as pancha kachham during functions and with an overlap of cloth cover it. This include me. During sraadha, I used to wear dhothi in ordinary manner, but to hold it, I used to wear the belt and cover it with dhothi end.

1c. Children belt

Whether purpose is there or not – children belt started appear later. This used to be in plastic also in addition and with different colours.

1d. Belt holes

The belt has in general a buckle at one end and a few holes in the other end. Once it was particular to wear belt of exact size. Later people start to wear belt of any sizes.

The tying was done by inserting the buckle pin through the hole and then inserting the belt end through buckle. The size and appearance of buckle was important and it was ensured the buckle was exactly in middle.

1e. Insertion

Mostly while the shirt is inserted in side pant, the belt passed through loops in the pant gave an excellent appearance.  While shirt is inserted, if the belt misses to pass through a loop, it could give a very bad appearance. Hence double check is made that belt is passed through all the pant loops. Now a day the missing is common with old age people and not much seen to.

1f. Belt adjustment

The holes in the end is for adjusting belt tightness. If the belt is made tight after morning break fast, by afternoon in most it will become loose. During meals it is preferable to keep the belt slightly loose, so that after meals it is OK.

The belt is very convenient to hold the pant especially with ready made now commonly worn by most. The belt has only one replacement – another belt when worn out and it may break at any hole at any time.

1g. Belt cost.

While the platform belts cost from Rs 75-00, belt in bata shops may cost 600-700. In belt shops a good belt may cost about Rs 175-200.

1h  Goorkha and police belt

The goorkhas used to keep the knife and police their revolver in an attachment to the belt.  Though ladies wear pants I have not seen belt along with so far.

2. The mechanical belt

The second meaning given for belt is that it is  a continuous band in machinery that transforms motion from one wheel to other.

These belts are very thicker and made of cotton, fibre and rubber together or reinforced rubber.

2a. Flour mill and Hydro projects.

Mostly we can see the cotton reinforcement  in these rubber belts. While one machine is hulling, another will be extracting oil and a third will be grinding our masala. All these machines have shafts and wheels and they are interconnected through belt.

The advantage is saving a lot of power. The excess power from one machine is transferred to other. When voltage is less we can see grind mill people removing belts.

Hydro projects uses the belts in motor for production of current itself.

2b. Kitchen application

In the kitchen, the wet grinder make use of a belt to transfer the motion from motor to grinder. Very often when the belt become loose the grinder get heated since rotating for much more time.

It is always better to inform the mechanic to come with a belt. He will replace in one minute and solve the problem when dhow is hot on using the grinder. Mixies too use belt to transfer the motion.

Our VCRs employ belt for mechanical movements.

3. Belted area.

The third is a belted encircling area. Here the belting is identified with a colour normally read. Belt need not be there. It can be any strip of material. When work is done on the high way a belt is made with red polythene fibre belt. This give the caution. In factories where complicated works are done, the areas are earmarked with red striped belt. It is dangerous to go further more.

4. Emergency use

A leather belt can be used to blow opponents  in case  of emergency

5. My broken belt

I conclude this posting with remark of my broken belt. My wife used to open the loft covers using my lengthy belt putting through the door handle. In spite of my warning about the cost of belt, the action still continued.
One fine day the belt broke due to pulling with extra strength to open the door. Fortunately it broke in to one lengthier piece and one smaller. The broken belt is now readily available to open the loft cover for my wife though she complain the length is not sufficient to pull the handle!!!.


2)- TOPIC OF THE POST:



Welcome to the Newseum, the world’s 
most interactive museum, where fi ve 
centuries of news history meets 
up-to-the-second technology on America’s 
Main Street. The Newseum’s galleries and theaters 
will immerse you in the world’s greatest news 
stories — the people, the places and the times. 
We hope you enjoy your visit!
By clicking the following Link, you will come across hundreds of newspapers world-wide to read! Just choose the Zone, Country & paper's name in the drop-down menu!



http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_chr=I


Other Links-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum

http://www.newseum.com/

SLIDE SHOW:

3)- HISTORY OF THE US- CONTNUED

Idaho is the 12th State alphabetically, taken up here!   Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state.
Links are-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho
http://www.50states.com/idaho.htm
http://www.idaho.gov/
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions/idaho/index.html

State Bird- Mountain Blue Bird!
State Flower- Syringa!
Nick-name- The Gem State!
State Horse- Appaloosa!
Potato is the Main crop, introduced to The US through this State!

:4)- THE US MEDIA ON INDIA:


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/world/asia/27tycoon.html?_r=1&ref=world


5)- OUR MEDIA ON THE US:


http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/11/stories/2011041156071000.htm


6)- BOSTON FIREWORKS:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSaJDyuQug


7)- World Newspaper Map 
(this is too cool not to try!)


WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THIS IS REALLY GOOD..


Just put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the newspaper headlines pop up...
Double click and the page gets larger....you can read the entire paper if you click on the right place. You can spend forever here.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/


Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left side of Germany will pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of course). 
AND, this site changes every day with the publication of new editions of the paper.                        

8)- STRANGE BUT TRUE:

http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/28/stories/2011062850900603.htm


9)- INDIRA BLOG:


Smt Indira of India, residing at The US, contributes a lot about Greenery & Cookery online! Here is a glimpse of her popular Blogs!

Mahanandi

Cooking with Consciousness ~ Indi(r)a’s Recipe and Photo Weblog

http://www.themahanandi.org/

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http://www.themahanandi.org/2011/03/27/garden-log-march-2011/

10)- ONE QUESTION MANY ANSWERS: 

_____________Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side. PLATO: For the greater good. ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads. KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability. TIMOTHY LEARY: Because that's the only trip the establishment would let it take. SADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. RONALD REAGAN: I forgot. CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas. CONSULTING COMPANY: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Our Consulting Company, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), we helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Our Consulting Company convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with our consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Our Consulting Company helped the chicken change to become more successful. LOUIS FARRAKHAN: The road, you see, represents the black man. The chicken 'crossed' the black man in order to trample him and keep him down. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing. FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it? RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road. MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?" FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. OLIVER STONE: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?" DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads. EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road it transcended it.

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Back to you soon with 38th Post,
Krishnan