TN State board books are online

Dear All..... Pls pass on this information to your friends / neighbors... whose children are studying in the Stateboards.
I think sometimes we are indirectly helping to someone like this.
Now the TN State board books are online in PDF and downloadable.
From Std 1 to Std 12. All subjects... Any GOOD heart person can print this material & handover to some Poor people.
http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/

New Definitions...

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich
Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.
Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.
Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either"
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Dictionary : A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Father : A banker provided by nature.
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.
Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.
Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Committee : Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

POWER OF TAMIL

Can you compare it with any other languages?????????
1 = ONDRU -one
10 = PATTU -ten
100 = NOORU -hundred
1000 = AAYIRAM -thousand
10000 = PATTAYIRAM -ten thousand
100000 = NOORAYIRAM -hundred thousand
1000000 = PATTU NOORAYIRAM - one million
10000000 = KOODI -ten million
100000000 = ARPUTHAM -hundred million
1000000000 = NIGARPUTAM - one billion
10000000000 = KUMBAM -ten billion
100000000000 = KANAM -hundred billion
1000000000000 = KARPAM -one trillion
10000000000000 = NIKARPAM -ten trillion
100000000000000 = PATHUMAM -hundred trillion
1000000000000000 = SANGGAM -one zillion
10000000000000000 = VELLAM -ten zillion
100000000000000000 = ANNIYAM -hundred zillion
1000000000000000000 = ARTTAM -?////
10000000000000000000 = PARARTTAM --anyboby know
100000000000000000000 = POORIYAM -<>?#%^&
1000000000000000000000 = MUKKODI -&^*^%^#
10000000000000000000000 = MAHAYUGAM -????????????????
One of the oldest and greatest languages in the World - TAMIL

Milky Way twice as thick as we think

If the Milky Way is thicker than we think,
as seen edge-on,
what does it mean for other questions in astrophysics?
For instance, will we have to rethink how stars form or how galaxies are held together? (Source: EL Wright, UCLA; The COBE Project; DIRBE; NASA

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is twice as thick as we thought it was, Australian astrophysicists discover.

Professor Bryan Gaensler from the University of Sydney and his team found that the enormous spiral-shaped collection gas and stars is 12,000 light-years thick when seen edge-on, not 6000 as scientists previously thought.
"This was quite a stunning result," Gaensler says. "It was a bit of a shock to us. It's like walking out into your backyard and finding your tree is twice the size you remembered."
The researchers made their discovery without high-tech equipment or powerful telescopes.
Instead, they downloaded publicly available data from the internet and carefully analysed it.
"It took us just a few hours to calculate this for ourselves," Gaensler says. "We thought we had to be wrong, so we checked and rechecked and couldn't find any mistakes."
The surprising new result came about because the researchers were discerning about the data they used to make their calculations.
Choosing the right pulsars
To measure the size of the Milky Way, researchers study light coming from a pulsar, a type of star that sends beams of light through space like a searchlight.
"As light from these pulsars travels to us, it interacts with electrons scattered between the stars, which slows the light down," Gaensler says.
Scientists refer to those electrons as the Warm Ionised Medium, or WIM.
The WIM has a bigger effect on longer wavelengths of light, which are redder, than on the shorter, bluer, light.
"So by seeing how far the red lags behind the blue we can calculate how much of the WIM the pulse has travelled through," he says.
By comparing this effect on the light from stars different distances away from us, researchers can find where the WIM stops; in other words, the galaxy's edge.
The trick for getting a more accurate figure lay in choosing the right pulsars to include in that analysis, Gaensler says.
"What we did in terms of picking better data was picking pulsars that are either high above the galaxy or underneath it, and not the ones sitting inside the galaxy, which is what nobody had bothered to do before."
Doing the sums
The researchers presented their results recently at the world's biggest annual conference of stargazers, the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
"Overall, most people were accepting because they agreed that our analysis was a better approach than had been done in the past. What's more, it fixes a lot of things that hadn't made sense in our galaxy," he says.
"By making the galaxy twice as thick, dozens of other seemingly unrelated calculations ... all of a sudden work now."
For example, it helps make sense of how magnetic the galaxy is, he says.
The new figure could also lead to a rethink about the wider universe.
"Many of detailed calculations people do on galaxies across the universe - how gas is converted to stars, and stars are converted into gas, and how gravity and pressure balance to stop the galaxy flying apart - use that number," Gaensler says.

Exact meaning...!...!

Read the paragraph below...

and try to understand the meaning.

Then look for the answer below.

Test yourself first.

'Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic
protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement
of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact
size of which was unspecified.

'One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe
damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure;
subsequently, the second member of the team performed
self-rotational translation, orientated in the same direction taken by the
first team member.'

ANY GUESSES WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT???

Scroll down to understand :.......in simple English what does this translate to?

'Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Jill came tumbling after!'
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