Beans/Pod

"X" is the second most expensive spice is the world after Saffron.Despite the expense, "X" is highly valued for its flavor, which author Frederic Rosengarten, Jr. described in The Book of Spices as "pure, spicy, and delicate" and its complex floral aroma depicted as a "peculiar bouquet". "X" is widely used in both commercial and domestic baking, perfume manufacture and aromatherapy.

Id X

Answer (highlight to read) : "X" - Vanilla

Fill in the Blanks

Butch, Spike, Tyke, Toodles Galore, Miss Mammy Two Shoes, Clint Clobber, Nibbles/Tuffy, Cuckoo, Quacker, Meathead , Lightning , __________ and _________




Answer (highlight to read) : Tom and Jerry

*Swoosh*

The "X"s blade cuts through most substances without resistance. It leaves cauterized wounds in flesh, but can be deflected by another "X"'s blade, or by energy shields. An active "X" gives off a distinctive hum, which rises in pitch and volume as the blade is moved rapidly through the air. Bringing the blade into contact with an object or another "X"'s blade produces a loud crackle.In 2008, a survey of approximately 2,000  fans found "X" to be the most popular weapon in film history

ID "X"




Answer (highlight to read) : Lightsabers from the Star Wars series 

Come on!

Conjunctivitis (also called pink eye or  _______ in India) is inflammation of the conjunctiva (the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids). It is most commonly due to an infection (usually viral, but sometimes bacterial) or an allergic reaction.

Signs and symptoms

Red eye (hyperaemia), swelling of conjunctiva (chemosis) and watering (epiphora) of the eyes are symptoms common to all forms of conjunctivitis. However, the pupils should be normally reactive and the visual acuity normal
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How do we better know Conjunctivitis?

Answer (highlight to read) : Madras Eye

Lost in Translation

Mega Connect :-

• The word "P" first appeared in English in 1607 in a Thomas Middleton play entitled Your Five Gallants."P" is believed to have stemmed from the French infinitive meaning to dress up elegantly.In the 18th and 19th centuries, "P" was commonly used to refer to informers. "P" can also mean "a despicable person".In the first years of the 21st century, a new meaning of "P" has emerged in the form of a transitive verb , which means "to decorate" or "to gussyup". This new definition was made popular by " "P" My Ride ", an MTV television show Although this new definition paid homage to hip-hop culture and its connection to street culture, "P" has now entered common, even mainstream commercial, use.In medical contexts, "P" means "to ask (a student) a question for the purpose of testing his knowledge".In the US military, "P" can be used to express a superior reminding a subordinate of a task that the subordinate forgot to accomplish. The main use of the word  "P" is for a a procurer, colloquially called a "P"(if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for nymphos who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the nymphos may engage clients

• We are all familiar with those unnatural, robot-pitched, synthetic voices coming out of singers over the last 10 years or so. So much so that we've coined a term "Q" for it ."Q" describes a “singer” whose off-key inaccuracies, and out of tune mistakes, have been digitally disguised so that it appears to perform perfectly.Noun form of "Q" means an audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies, which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances through use of a phase vocoder. "Q" as originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-key.

• A "R" is a situation that involves losing one quality or aspect of something in return for gaining another quality or aspect. "R" often implies a decision to be made with full comprehension of both the upside and downside of a particular choice; "R" is also used in an evolutionary context, in which case the selection process acts as the "decision-maker".In economics "R" is expressed as opportunity cost, referring to the most preferred alternative given up. "R", then, involves a sacrifice that must be made to obtain a certain product, rather than other products that can be made using the same required resources. In computer science, "R" are viewed as a tool of the trade. A program can often run faster if it uses more memory. Consider the following examples:

1. By compressing an image, you can reduce transmission time/costs at the expense of CPU time to perform the compression and decompression.
2. By using a lookup table, you may be able to reduce CPU time at the expense of space to hold the table, e.g. to determine the parity of a byte you can either look at each bit individually (using shifts and masks), or use a 256-entry table giving the parity for each possible bit-pattern, or combine the upper and lower nibbles and use a 16-entry table.
3. For some situations (e.g. string manipulation), a compiler may be able to use inline code for greater speed, or call run-time routines for reduced memory; the user of the compiler should be able to indicate whether speed or space is more important.

          In medicine, patients and physicians are often faced with difficult decisions involving "R". One example is localized prostate cancer where patients need to weigh the possibility of a prolonged life expectancy against possible stressful treatment side-effects

• "S" is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages, especially advertising, indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of "S" is e-mail "S", the term is applied to similar abuses in other media:

1. Instant messaging "S"
2. Usenet newsgroup "S", 
3. Web search engine "S",
4. "S" in blogs, 
5. Wiki "S",
6. Online classified ads "S", 
7. Mobile phone messaging "S", 
8. Internet forum "S", 
9. Junk fax transmissions,
10. Social networking "S", 
11. Social "S", television advertising 
12. and File sharing "S". 

          It is named for  "S" , a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is  included in almost every dish.  A 2011 Cisco Systems survey shows  "S" volume originating from countries worldwide in Which India stands first with a Percentage of  13.9 "S"  volume of the world.

• "T" was Coined by editor Dave Carnie to describe the kind of relationships that develop between skaters who spend a great deal of time together it is defined as a form of homosocial intimacy between two or more men."T" is also a portmanteau of two words.The regular use of the term "T" was propelled into the lexicon during Big Brother 7 (U.S.), when contestants Will Kirby and Mike Malin referred to their "T" throughout the show and popularized the term. The contemporary circumstances of "T" separate it from more general homosocial practices and historic romantic friendships.Aristotle's classical description of friendship is often taken to be the prototype of the "T"  He wrote around 330 BC, "It is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends' sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality".

• A "U" is the physical gesture of placing one's hand flat across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands. The gesture "U" is found in many cultures as a display of frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, shock, surprise or sarcasm.This gesture "U" is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.An example of U's use in popular culture is seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation series, where Jean-Luc Picard repeatedly expressed frustration using this gesture. Double and triple "U" were also observed, becoming it into an internet Meme.

• "V" (loanword from German) is a style of mass-produced art or design using cultural icons. The term "V" is generally reserved for unsubstantial or gaudy works, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal.The concept of "V" is applied to artwork that was a response to the 19th-century art with aesthetics that convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama, hence,"V" art is closely associated with sentimental art.As a descriptive term, "V" originated in the art markets of Munich in the 1860s and the 1870s, describing cheap, popular, and marketable pictures and sketches. In Das Buch vom "V"(The Book of "V"), Hans Reinman defines "V" as a professional expression “born in a painter's studio”.

• "X"  is jargon or especially convoluted language that results in it being excessively hard to understand or even incomprehensible. "Officialese" or "bureaucratese" is one form of "X"  There are two distinct and opposite cases. One is that incomprehensible material is actual gibberish. In the other some obscure material is either ineptly presented or is subjectively perceived to be gibberish due to a lack of preparation. According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website the word "X" was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas. His comments, recorded in the New York Times Magazine, were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee. He was being critical of the obscure language used by other committee members. The allusion was to a turkey, “always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity.” Contemporary reports, as shown by a United Press dispatch published in the Pittsburgh Press, identify the date of Maverick's statement as March 31.Maverick's message includes the following sentence: "Stay off the "X" language. It only fouls people up."

• "Y" means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; a fortunate mistake. Specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.The first noted use of "Y" in the English language was by Horace Walpole (1717–1797). In a letter to Horace Mann (dated 28 January 1754) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of "Y", whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". The name stems from "Y", an old name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon), from Arabic Sarandib. Parts of Sri Lanka were under the rule of South Indian kings for extended periods of time in history. Kings of Kerala, India (Cheranadu)were called Chera Kings and dheep means island, the island belonging to Chera King was called Cherandeep, hence called "Y" by Arab traders.

• In cricket, a "Z" is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. "Z" is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey), an eponym in honour of its inventor Bernard Bosanquet. It can also be described, colloquially, as a wrong'un. "Z" is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler’s most effective wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value. The term  "Z" is so peculiar to the English language that the Wikipedia article about is not available in any other language. If it were to be translated to a language like, perhaps, Spanish the word would come out like: “Tiro de Cricket curvado hecho por un tirador con la derecha.” or Curved Cricket shot made by a bowler with its right hand.

Connect P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y and Z

Answer (highlight to read) : "P" - Pimp "Q" - Auto-Tuned  "R" - Trade-Off  "S" - Spam "T"- Bromance 

"U" - Face Palm  "V" - Kitsch "X"- Gobbledygook "Y" - Serendipity and "Z" - Googly

and the Connect is These words have been voted  the top ten hardest English words to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company 

Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division

Connect:-

• "Y" means "I have received all of the last transmission" in both military and civilian aviation radio communications.Contrary to popular belief, "Y" does not mean or imply both "received" and "I will comply." That distinction goes to the contraction wilco (from, "will comply"), which is used exclusively if the speaker intends to say "received and will comply." Thus, the phrase ""Y" Wilco" is both procedurally incorrect and redundant."Y" was intended to take place in the modern international NATO phonetic alphabet but was replace by a Shakespearean Character."Y" was derrived from an Old Norse word for “renown for his sword”(or spear)

• "X" Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006) is nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter" 

• "Z":-

Mass

Connect "X", "Y" and "Z"




Answer (highlight to read) : "X"- Roger "Y"- Steve and "Z"- Captain   Connect:- Captain America(Steve Rogers) 

Vadivel Comedy

Recipe

Ingredients

• Milk – 5 cups
• China Grass (Agar Agar) – 5 grams
• Sugar – 1 cup (you can add less sugar if you please) or alternatively u can add half a tin of *Milkmaid(TM) this will reduce the cooking time of the milk and give it the faint pink color soon.
• Latex of the Badam tree 
• Sarsaparilla syrup – 1 tbsp (Available in syrup form in Ayurvedic shops) / Rose syrup - 1 tbsp
• Ice cream – 1 scoop for one glass,
• Sago(javarishi / sabudana) – 1 small cup soaked in water for 2–3 hours

Method

• Boil the milk in a saucepan, till it turns slightly pink.
• In case you are using milkmaid then check for sugar, if you need more sweet you can add sugar to taste and stir until it dissolves and when the milk turns slightly pink, switch off the gas.
• Allow it to come to room temperature and then refrigerate it.
• Take some hot milk (from the milk we boiled with sugar/ milkmaid) from the saucepan and add in another vessel, Add the sago to this milk and cook till the sago becomes transparent.
• Switch off the gas.
• Keep this separately and refrigerate it.
• Prepare the Agar Agar Jelly and keep the cubes ready accordingly.

Serving Instructions

• Take a tall glass tumbler, pour one ladle of the cool milk with the sago, ensuring that there is enough sago at the bottom of your glass.
• Add 1 tablespoon of the Agar Agar (China Grass) jelly that u have cut into cubes and kept.
• Add the Sarsaparilla syrup  if Sarsaparilla syrup is not available you can also add rose syrup which is commonly available, Rose is also known for its cooling properties if consumed.
• Now pour the boiled cool milk on top of all this leaving just quarter of a space in the tumbler.
• Garnish it up with a scoop of ice cream.

Answer (highlight to read) : Jil Jil Jigarthanda