OLYMPIC RINGS

The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

The Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world. The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games.

The Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius(latin words) ::::::::("Swifter, Higher, Stronger").

The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee. Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter. Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold.

Women were first allowed to participate in 1900 at the second modern Olympic Games.

The last olympic flag hosted in 2008,BEIJING officially known as 29 th olympiad games.

the next olympic flag will be held at LONDON  in 2012,OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS 30TH  OLYMPIC GAMES.

THE STORY BEHIND ORKUT

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....


but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy


grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a

software where he could search for his girlfriend through the web..

Things went as planned...


and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!



It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a


word with this guy and took over this application,



This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,

which we today know as ORKUT .

The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN . Yes its named after him only. Today he


is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is

expected to b the richest person by 2009.

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to


monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:


* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.

* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if
anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.


* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.


* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.


* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.


* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.

"Moral of the story"?

so guys whats the moral of the story
plz post the moral as ur comment  :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

HOW GREAT LOVE IS :-)

Once upon a time there was an Island, where all the feelings lived; Happiness, Sadness and all the others including love.

One day it was announced to the feelings that the Island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere till the last possible moment. When the Island was sinking, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love, in a grand boat, Love said "Richness can you take me with you?"

Richness answered "no I can't." There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat and there is no place for you here.

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity please help me?"

I can't help you love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you?"

"Oh......Love I am so sad I need to be by myself!" Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy she did not even hear when Love called her!

Suddenly there was a voice "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so pleased and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder her name.

When they arrived on dry land, the elder went her own way Love realizing how much he owed the elder asked Knowledge, another elder "Who helped me?"

"It was Time” Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding How Great Love Is.

so frnds , what do u understand with this story and once think about ur love:: ::
plz post ur  lovely comments

WHO WILL WIN IPL4

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
supervised by BCCI Vice President Chirayu Amin, current chairman and commissioner of IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It is currently contested by 10 teams consisting of players from around the world. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League.

IPL 1:(2008)

TEAMS : 8

VENUE : INDIA

WINNERS : RAJASTHAN ROYALS

RUNNERS : CHENNAI SUPER KINGS



IPL 2 :(2009)

TEAMS : 8

VENUE : SOUTH AFRICA

WINNERS : DECCAN CHARGERS

RUNNERS : BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS


IPL 3 : (2010)

TEAMS : 8

VENUE : INDIA

WINNERS : CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

RUNNERS : MUMBAI INDIANS


IPL 4 : (2011)

TEAMS : 10

VENUE : INDIA

WINNERS : ???????????

RUNNERS : ????????????

2 new teams are added in ipl 4 KOCHI AND PUNE WARRIORS

 DLF Indian Premier League could become one of the world's richest domestic cricket tournaments with a winners' cheque of Rs 4.8 crore and overall prize money of Rs 12 crore being offered for the inaugural tournament.

so lets wait who will win such a huge money and ipl 4

SO FRNDS ....SUPPORT UR TEAM WITH UR LOVELY COMMENTS 

PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

There are 3.22 million Indians in the USA (1.5% of population).


YET, 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.

12% scientists in USA are Indians.

36% of NASA scientists are Indians.

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

28% of IBM employees are Indians.

17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.

13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.

sanskrit is mother tounge of all languages
which means swedish too.....
sanskrit is the most suitable language 4 computer software reported forbes magazine ,1987.

some of intresting facts about INDIAN achivements:

*. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

*. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

*. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

*. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

*. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

*. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty-stricken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

*. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

*. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

*. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.

*. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

*. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

*. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

*. Chess was invented in India .

*. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .

*. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest-dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

*. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

some of INDIAN achivers:

Rajiv Gupta  is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp)

Vinod Dahm  is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)

Sabeer Bhatia is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web-based email program)

Arun Netravalli is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)

 Sanjay Tejwrika is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems

Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar  are the Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckinsey & Stanchart.

QUOTES about INDIA by some great persons:

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

– Albert Einstein.

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition.”

– Mark Twain.

“If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”

– French scholar Romain Rolland.

“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”

– Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA)

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don’t see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an ever-shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

THE SECOND INDEPENDENCE STARTED IN INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION

Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare (born 15 January 1940), popularly known as Anna Hazare , is an Indian social activist.
Born January 15, 1940 (age 71)
Bhingar, Maharashtra, India
Parents Laxmibai Hazare(Mother)
Baburao Hazare (Father)

Anna Hazare started his career as a driver in the Indian Army. He spent his spare time reading the books of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave that inspired him to become a social worker and activist

After voluntary retirement from the army, Hazare came to Ralegan Siddhi village in 1975. Initially, he organized the youth of the village into an organization named the Tarun Mandal (Youth Association). He also helped forming the Pani Puravatha Mandals (Water Supply Associations) to ensure proper distribution of water.
As the next step towards social and economical change, Anna Hazare and the youth group decided to take up the issue of Alcoholism
Anna realized that the only way to increase agricultural production in a sustainable manner was to build better irrigation system.
He motivated the residents of the village into shramdan (voluntary labour) to build canals, small-scale check-dams and percolation tanks in the nearby hills for watershed development; efforts that solved the problem of scarcity of water in the village that also made irrigation possible.
Hazare also took steps to stop the second big problem, soil erosion. and also he fought again untouchability.

Awards - received by Anna Hazare
2008 - On April 15 2008, Anna Hazare received the World Bank's 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service: "Hazare created a thriving model village in Ralegan Siddhi, in the impoverished Ahmednagar region of Maharashtra state, and championed the right to information and the fight against corruption."[25]
1992 - Padmabhushan award, by the Government of India
1990 - Padmashri award, by the Government of India
1986 - Indira Priyadarshini Vrikshamitra award by the Government of India on November 19, 1986 from the hands of Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi.
1989 - Krishi Bhushana award by the Government of Maharashtra.

WHY HE STARTED FAST UNTO DEATH:

In 2011, Anna Hazare initiated a movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament. As a part of this movement, N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court along with the members of the India Against Corruption movement drafted an alternate bill, named as the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill) with more stringent provisions and wider power to the Lokpal (Ombudsman)
Hazare has started a fast unto death from 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, to press for the demand to form a joint committee of the representatives of the Government and the civil society to draft a new bill with stronger penal actions and more independence to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh .
 Before commencing his 'fast unto death' he stated, "I will fast until Jan Lokpal Bill is passed".

The great words from ANNA ji :
"The dream of India as a strong nation will not be realised without self-reliant, self-sufficient villages, this can be achieved only through social commitment & involvement of the common man."

The movement attracted attention very quickly through various media. It has been reported that thousands of people joined to support Hazare's effort. Almost 150 people are reported to join Hazare in his fast.
He said that he would not allow any politician to sit with him in this movement.
A number of social activists including Medha Patkar, Arvind Kejriwal and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Jayaprakash Narayan of the Lok Satta have lent their support to Hazare.
The movement gathered quite a significant amount of support from India's youth visible through the local support and on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

so friends i am ready to fight against  corruption ...and lets move and join our hands with anna hazare ji
JAI HO INDIA

YOUNG BOY CREATES HISTORY

A six-and-a-half-year-old boy from Delhi has earned the distinction of being the youngest recipient of an Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) certificate.

Divya Prakash Pandey, who has cleared an IGNOU exam for a Certificate in Craft and Design Programme (CCDP) in pottery, "is not only the youngest student of IGNOU but also the youngest student ever admitted in any university," an IGNOU statement said.

Pandey, a Class II student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vigyan Vihar in East Delhi, passed the exam held under the School of Engineering and Technology with 76% marks and was felicitated by the university, it said.

Pandey has designed different patterns and created innovative ideas in craft and design, it said.

The CCDP course is developed under the IGNOU-Khadi and Village Industries Commission project and aims at upgrading he knowledge and skills of artisans engaged or interested in pottery.

The programme envisages no prerequisite educational qualification for the target group of rural artisans and interested youth.

It introduces artisans to conceptual designing as well as cost analysis and marketing of products, the IGNOU statement said.

He has crafted wonderful creations with clay, besides designing different patterns and creating innovative ideas in craft and design, added the official. (IANS).


Friends u can also share the great achievements of  childrens........

 

"Grandma's  Attic" Antique Portrait Photography

Welcome to Grandma's Attic! A great place to shop for wall art decor.This website invite you to browse through their selections of beautiful, high quality wall art. They carry framed art, unframed art prints, advertising posters and interior decorating items for your home or office wall art decorating needs. They carry many Victorian art prints and antique reproduction art prints for period decorating. Some of their wall art provides inspiration, some are by favorite artists, some are a subject or style that will fit into your home decor. Whatever your taste is for wall art decor your sure to find something you'll enjoy at a price you can afford.

These all framed prints, posters,art paints will give a great look to ur walls
and also refresh ur mind when u look at the paints whenever ur mood is bad r sad.....

STOP all violence against women

According to the 2011 census data, in the last decade alone, the child sex ratio has dipped from 927 to 914 per 1000, the lowest since independence.
 The total population of children in general has dipped as well by 5 million.
Even though the sex ratio has improved for the adult population from 933 to 940 women per 1000 men, experts say, millions of women are still missing.
so many organizations and govt policies are there for protecting female rights.
But, that hasn't changed anything for the girl child who continues to be at risk.
 The data reveals that in the age group 0-6 years, the gender ratio is 914 girls to 1000 boys. Which means that for every 1000 boys, there are at least 86 girls under the age of 6 who were killed before or after birth.
This is the lowest gender ratio recorded since India’s Independence in 1947.

It is very true about girl child. Even some ugly mothers throwing own infant girls in dustbins and they must be punished very severly with a new act.particularly doctors doing abortionts without any sympathy.

The words of baby infant girl ,who is going to death in few minutes:

“My parents detest daughters! They hate me so much that they kill me before birth.They kill me before my first breath.They kill me when i am suckling infants. They kill me before i  learn to walk. They kill me before learn to talk and say ‘maaa’ and ‘baba.’ They kill me before learn to smile and trust, and love, and ask for my favorite foods – mangoes or sweets. They kill me before to play with friends,relatives and listen to stories about fairies, princesses, and far away dreams from my grand parents ,Teachers. 

you are in the world
because of her...u may not devote her
atleast respect her
Woman plays very prominent role in our life...without woman in our life there is no meaning of our life.
A famous known quote " behind every successful man there is a woman"
but now...where is woman so
lets stop killing girl infants in scanning.....

u can feel her warmth in form of a friend
u can feel fer passion in form of a beloved
u can feel her dedication in form of a wife
u can feel her divinity in form of mother
u can feel her blessings in form of grand ma
yet she is so tough too
her heart is so tender
                 so naughty
                 so charming
                 so sharing
                 so melodious
she is woman
she is our life......
i hope u can understand and raise ur hands to stop killing girl infants.....

WILL INDIA REVENGE ON LANKA

India were the co-hosts of the 1996 Cricket World Cup along with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and were expected to perform well at home.

Sri Lanka won the first semi-final over India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in front of a crowd unofficially estimated at 110 000. Chasing Sri Lanka's innings of 251 for 8, India had slumped to 120 for 8 in the 35th over when sections of crowd began to throw fruit and plastic bottles onto the field. The players left the field for 20 minutes in an attempt to quieten the crowd. When the players returned for play, more bottles were thrown onto the field and fires were lit in the stand. Match referee Clive Lloyd awarded the match to Sri Lanka, the first default ever in a Test or One Day International.
The Sri Lankans, coached by Dav Whatmore and captained by Arjuna Ranatunga

Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run scorer (531) in the tournament.

Anil Kumble, the leading wicket taker (15) in the tournament.

THIS is the history of ind v/s srilanka in world cup 1996.
with the anger of fans we couldnt play last more......

But now definitely INDIA will take REVENGE on lanka in 2011 world cup.
because 2003 final ind v/s aus.....AUS won but now in 2011 India won quarters against aus .....
2011 world cup is ours.....thatsall no more discussions...

Indian team ...anywhere anytime,anyplace always rockzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Jaiho India Jaiho India........

ONE OF THE FUNIEST MOMENT IN MY LIFE

ONE  OF  THE 

            FUNNIEST   INCIDENTS 

OF 
MY LIFE

Every day my mom woke up me with her sweet ,cool voice and hot hot nescafe sunrise coffee .But a small change today In the morning , I am in a deep sleep, suddenly "RINGA RINGA RINGA SONG" nothing but my ring-tone disrupted my sleep. I murmured who the hell is calling such early in the morning and attended the call. it's my brother in law, the tension in his voice made me to come out of my sleep completely.....
  He asked whether his wife(my sister) has come to my home, i said no, .... i asked him to stay cool and say what hapend, then he said there is a small quarrel between them last night and she left the home......
  I left my room and asked my mother, if sister has come and she said no..... My heart started beating faster and i asked brother in law what shall we do........................................................................................................................
then he said
  APRIL FOOL nothing has happend..... just wake up..........
we laughed each other at my stupidness......... :) :) :) :)

Friends if you have any such funny incidents in your life, you can share here..............