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Venn Pongal By Bindu | வெண் பொங்கல் | மிளகு பொங்கல் | Savoury Pongal

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Ulundu Kozhukattai Recipe – Uppu Kozhukattai/ Urad Dal Modak The Ulundu Kozhukattai  also known as the Ulutham Poornam Kozhukattai is a very festive dish that is made for Lord Ganesha's Birthday also known as Vinayaka or Ganesh Chaturthi that is observed in the month of August - September.

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Foxtail Millet Uppu Kozhukattai Recipe Are you looking for an easy snack to enjoy your ‘me’ time with a cup of Chai?

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தூத்துக்குடி உப்பள தொழிலாளர்கள். #thoothukudi | #thoothukudipeople | #salt | #uppu | #உப்பு #தூத்துக்குடிமக்கள் #தூத்துக்குடி pc: @thoothukudi_photography view the above id.. (at Tuticorin(Thoothukudi), India) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu06nD1n9do/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mrfqut7cd36j

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Tender Chettinad Mutton Fry | Uppu Kari | The CuisineWorld

This is our favourite Chettinad recipe EVER! Mutton doesn't get better than this. Chettinad Mutton Fry, better known as Uppu Kari

Tender Chettinad Mutton Fry | Uppu Kari | The CuisineWorld

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Salt and Srivaishnavan(m)

Swami Paraasara Bhattar's words were '"Kokkai pol irupaan, kozhiyai pol irupaan, uppai pol irupaan, ummai pol irupaan". He says that a srivaishnavan should be like a crane, hen, salt and a parama bhaagvatha like the person who asked Bhattar as to how a srivaishnavan should be. We will see what are the commonalities between salt and a srivaishnavan.

1) Salt has to be in correct quantity. If it is more, it is like a srivaishnavan in a goshti talking haughtily of onself. 2) On the contrary, if it is low it is as if he is too much naichyanusandham that he does not even mingle with the goshti. So quantity should be just right.3) Just like salt, a srivaishnava should wear himself out to give parimalam to group like how salt dissolves in water and becomes invisible.For other ingredients like milagu, milagaai etc we cannot find this quality.They would not dissolve in the first place.4) Salt mixes with food items in a subtle manner and makes the food delicious. Also, absence of salt is easily noticeable. Similarly, srivaishnavas should subdue subdue their egos and bring happiness into other srivaishnavas lives due to their presence. And they should conduct themselves that in their absence every one is thinking about the good deeds of them.5) Salt can be added at anytime in the food even after the whole food preparation is done. But if we had missed to add puli, kaaram etc, we cannot add it later on once the food is prepared. Similarly, a srivaishnava should be able to do kainkaryam at anytime and any order to give parimalam to goshti.6) Sometimes, only when the whole food is done, salt is added. Similarly, a srivaishnava should take care of himself after others have taken care of themselves. taking care may be seating, eating, etc.7) Salt is called as "Common" salt as it is easily available. It shows how easy it is to get salt (saulabhyam).Similarly,srivaishnava bhagavathas, they find us wherever we are and they can come anytime to grace us. We don’t even need to go to find them with lot of efforts. Instead they come to us, just like how salt was sold in those days where there used to be a guy bringing huge amounts of salt to each home and they buy it easily, as opposed to other ingredients where they have to put some basic efforts (atleat like going to a shop) to procure it. 8) Salt is the cheapest in terms of price. Similarly, a bhaagavatha should regard himself as the lowest of all and should say "I am the lowest, neesanen nirai ondrum illen, adiyen siriya gyaanathan etc".9) Salt cannot be added in all foods like akkara adisil, sweets, etc. So if srivaishnava 1 says to a srivaishnava 2, “hi. please stay out of this kainkarayam”, We (srivaishnava2) should gladly obey it and not fight for it. Srivaishnva 2 should think that Srivaishnava 1 had told us with some good reason. If we try to over power or disobey his order, it will be like how good it will be if we put salt in akkara adisil. If other srivaishnavas tell us to stay away from soemthing, we should not disobey their orders. We should be like salt (parathanthriyam) and not fight in a group. 10) Other qualities of salt - you have to "vadikattify" from sea thus removing all impurities and what is left is clean and white (meaning pure) salt. Also very little goes a long way; meaning even the tiniest kainkaryam you do goes a very long way. You don't have to do lavish and exhaustive things to show your devotion; a tiny bit is all that is required and God accepts it.

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The Scientists Who Pee Plutonium

Matthew Gault, War Is Boring, October 7, 2015

There is a club among atomic scientists who have worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Known as UPPU, it’s a strange, informal organization that began in 1951 and includes scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and brought nuclear weapons to the world.

It’s a small club, and only 26 people had joined as of the mid-1990s. Membership isn’t easy to obtain, and there are few benefits. First, an applicant must expose themselves to a high dose of plutonium, then they must volunteer to allow the U.S. government to monitor their health for the rest of their lives.

How much plutonium in the body does it take to join the club? Enough so that it comes out in your urine. The members of the UPPU club pee plutonium … and some of them ship it back to the government for study.

Nick Dallas and Ted Magel came to Los Alamos in February 1944. The scientists of the Manhattan Project had yet to manufacture the plutonium metal required to power an atomic bomb. Dallas and Magel would change all that, but at the time of their arrival … morale was low.

“The place seemed like a morgue to us; everyone was quiet and working in isolation. I guess they were discouraged,” Magel told Los Alamos Science in 1995. The pair worked to improve the methods and working conditions of the metallurgy lab at Los Alamos, and soon they thought they had figured out how to refine and produce plutonium on demand.

The administrators were so excited about the scientists’ progress that they set up a special exhibition of their work. Manhattan Project leaders, including Gen. Leslie Groves, were set to come out and watch a demonstration of their technique on March 24, 1944.

Magel was reluctant. “Well when does everything go wrong--when you have a whole lot of observers, right?” he explained. “So on the 23rd, I said to Nick, ‘Let’s go up to the lab and make the reduction tonight before all these people get here.’”

And so they did. Magel and Dallas performed one of the earliest refinements of plutonium in the dead of night with no one watching.

“When it was done, we cut open the bomb, dropped the little button of plutonium metal in a glass vial and put it on Cyril Smith’s desk with a note that read: Here is your button of plutonium. We have gone to Santa Fe for the day.”

The higher ups didn’t take it well.

“Everyone was pretty mad at us and claimed that we had contaminated the lathe and the back shop when we had opened the bomb to retrieve the plutonium button,” Magel said. “I don’t believe that we had, but I understood how they felt.”

Magel’s understanding would deepen just a few weeks later when an accident granted him access to the exclusive club of plutonium whizzers.

“I had an incident in which I was working in a dry box scraping the slag from another of those one-gram buttons, and the needle I was using slipped, went through the rubber glove, and embedded in my finger,” he told Los Alamos Science. “ I could see some black stuff in my finger. OK, I thought, that’s plutonium oxide.”

Doctors rushed him to the hospital and attempted to dig out the radioactive material, but they couldn’t get it all. “I still have some plutonium in one finger,” he said. Later, both Magel and Dallas inhaled a significant amount of plutonium dust. The power behind the first atom bomb would be with them forever.

“They began taking urine samples in 1945,” Magel explained. Los Alamos continued to monitor their urine for the duration of their long lives. “Every year, I would send them a gallon of urine from a 24-hour period so they could measure plutonium content.”

The members of the UPPU club are some of the most studied cases of plutonium poisoning in the world. Which is important. Many news stories about the substance focus on its toxicity and danger. Both scientists and journalists have sparred over the past half-century about the potential dangers.

It may be a surprise to learn that the members of the UPPU club have all done well, especially when compared to national averages.

“They’ve fared pretty well as a group,” George Volez and expert on plutonium exposure told Los Alamos Science in 1995. “Of the original 26, only seven have died, and the last death was in 1990.” Since the publication of this interview, more of the original 26 have died, including both Magel and Dallas in 2008 and 2007, respectively.

“One was a lung-cancer death, and two died of other causes but had lung cancer at the time of death. All three were heavy smokers. In fact, 17 of the original 26 were smokers at the time,” Volez continued. Others died due to heart disease, some to car accidents. But overall, “the mortality rate for the group is about 50 per cent lower than the national average.”

But Volez was quick to point out “that doesn’t mean that plutonium isn’t very hazardous. It is.”

“I’ve lived 50 years in good health, and I have two healthy children,” Bill Gibson, an Army veteran and member of the UPPU club told Los Alamos Science. “I’m 74 now, and I don’t see any reason that I shouldn’t get to 84 or 94. I don’t really have any concerns about the plutonium in me.”

The plutonium pissers are lucky. They worked on one of the most important and frightening scientific achievements of the 20th century, breathed in the chemicals that made it work and lived long, healthy lives. The same is not true for others exposed to radiation, such as the Radium Girls or the people the U.S. government secretly injected with plutonium.

But that’s another story.