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Awesome Quotes

2011-03-10T02:48:00.000-08:00

Awesome Quotes….

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

-Dennis Ritchie

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

—Ralph Johnson

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

-Fred Brooks

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;

It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

-Steve McConnell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure,

and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell

(This is the best 1.....)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs,

Then programming must be the process of putting them in..

-Edsger Dijkstra

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;

You cannot have both at the same time.

–Bertrand Meyer

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

-Alan J. Perlis

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring

aircraft building progress by weight.

-Bill Gates

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.

The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

-Tom Cargill

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.

The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.

So far the Universe is winning.

-Anonymous

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.

Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works.

Programmers combine Theory and Practice:

Nothing works and they don't know why.

The Six Phases of a Project:

· Enthusiasm

· Disillusionment

· Panic

· Search for the Guilty

· Punishment of the Innocent

· Praise for non-participants

Three Wishes

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Once an angel appears before a girl & grants her 3 wishes.

Under the condtion that her boyfriend gets 10 times what she gets.

The girl asks these 3 wishes:

1. "I must be rich."

This made her boy friend 10 times richer

2. "I must become very beautiful."

This made her boyfriend extremely handsome

3. And ...... "I must get a mild heart attack!!!"

Moral of the story - Girls are extremely SMART.

Story ends here for girls.

Boys read on....

The boy friend gets a heart attack 10 times milder!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Actual moral - Girls think they are smart. But they are stupid.

Rajini Rocks!!!

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Rajnikant rocks.. JJJ
1. Once a big stone obstructed Rajani's way.
He kicked high in sky and now it is so called
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2. Once when shooting on a beach in Tamil Nadu, Rajanikant kicked a stone..
Now that stone is known as
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SRI LANKA

3. Rajinikant participated in 100 meter race and obviously he came first...
But Einstein died after watching that...
bcoz..
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LIGHT came second...

4.Once Rajinikant participated in Moto gp Bike race......
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Don't even try to guess wat happened
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Rajinikant won d race on neutral gear!

5. Rajinikanth doesnt breathe. Air hides in his lungs for protection.

6. Once Rajinikant went to Bhopal for shooting and had a stomach upset.....and the result was..
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY...

7. 1 day Rajinikant got angry on his sweeper boy., he kicked him so hard that he went flying in the sky with is broom...
2day that boy is famous as "HARRY POTTER"...

8. Before tom cruise,rajnikant was approached for
the movie "mission impossible"
but he refused
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as he found the title insulting

9. Once Rajnikanth was asked how he felt about the jokes made on him which were spreading through sms and internet.
To everyones surprise he started laughing and replied-Ennada Do you really think they are jokes?

10. Rajni once taught a child how to play

counter strike and that guy is now
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"OSAMA BIN LADEN"

11. Once Dinosaurs borrowed money from Rajnikanth and refused to payhim back... .
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That was the last time anyone saw Dinosaurs

12. Rajinikanth once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are today called giraffes.

13. An e-mail was sent from Pune to Mumbai
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Rajnikant stopped it in Lonavla ... : D

14. as a kid Rajnikant maintained a diary of day to day activities,
today that diary called as.
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Guinness Book Of World Records

15. once Rajnikan taught a kid how to enter a house without ringing the doorbell....
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today that kid is known as inspector Daya.

16. Once a boy inserted A CD named rajnikanth
into his PC...
Guess wot...
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17. Intel's new tag line for its processors ...
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"Rajnikanth Inside"

18. Rajnikant's school time homework is now known as
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wikipedia

19. Rajnikant was caught on d highway for speeding................
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While walking

20. Once Rajnikant taught a boy how to kiss. Now that boy is known as '.
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Emran Hashmi'

21. When Rajinikant croses the Road, the cars have to look
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left and right before moving.

22. After release of Robot, Rajnikanth gave Times of India 3 stars.

23. Rajnikanth goes to court and sentences the judge...

24. Rajnikanth kills harry potter in the 8th book.

25. Rajnikanth can kill Spiderman with BAYGON!!!

26. Time and tide, wait for Rajnikanth.....

27. Rajnikanth was practicing for a spelling test... The rough sheet he used is known as ...
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OXFORD DICTIONARY !! :D

28. Rajnikanth has seen the face of the fat lady who owns the house in ...
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TOM and JERRY !! :D

29. If Rajnikant was born 100 years back, Britishers would have fought to get independence from India !! :)

30. The ultimate RAJNI fact :

Even GHAJINI remebers RAJNI !!!!!

Rajni Rox !!! :)

31. People who set CAT paper will have to pass RAT paper from this year onwards.

Yes RAT paper....
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Rajnikant Aptitude Test !!!

RECENTLY CHINA AIRPORTS WERE CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY FOG
........ LATER IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT RAJINIKANTH WAS SMOKING IN INDIA !!!!!!!!!!

* GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PAYS TAX TO RAJINIKANTH FOR LIVING IN INDIA !!!!!!!

* DEFINITION OF SOLAR ECLIPSE:
WHEN RAJINIKANTH STARES AT SUN WITH ANGER, SUN HIDES BEHIND THE MOON. THIS GREATEST PHENOMENA IS CALLED SOLAR ECLIPSE.........!!!!!

* RAJINIKANTH WOKE UP ONE DAY AND DECIDED HE SHOULD SHARE ATLEAST ONE PERCENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE WITH THE WORLD...... THUS....................... THE GOOGLE WAS BORN!!!!

* WHY DO EARTHQUAKE OCCURS?????
BECAUSE AT THAT TIME RAJINIKANTH'S MOBILE IS ON VIBRATION MODE!!!!!!!!!

* WHY DID RAJINI BUY AN ACRE OF LAND WITH 4 WELLS ON EACH CORNER?????
....................... TO PLAY CARROM!!!!!!

* Rajnikanth’s next project. Titanic in Tamil. Climax revised. Both survive. Rajnikant swims across the Atlantic Ocean with heroine in one hand and… Titanic in the other.

Rajini Vs Amitabh

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Rajini Vs Amitabh Bachan - Too Good

Rajnikant was bragging to Amitabh Bachan one day, "You know, I know
everyone Just name someone, anyone, and I know them.
Tired of his boasting, Amitabh Bachan called his bluff, "OK, Rajini how
about Tom Cruise?"
"Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it" Rajini said.
So Rajini and Amitabh Bachan fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom
Cruise's door,
and sure enough, Tom Cruise shouts :--- "Thalaiva! Great to see you! You
and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!"

..Although impressed, Amitabh Bachan is still skeptical.After they leave
Cruise's house, he tells Rajini that he thinks Rajini knowing Cruise was
just lucky.

"No, no, just name anyone else" Rajini says

."President Obama???", Amitabh Bachan quickly retorts

.."Yes", Rajini says, "I know him"....

And off they go. At the White House, Obama spots Rajini on the tour and
motions him, saying, "!!!Rajini, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up".

Well, Amitabh Bachan is much shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds, he implores him to name anyone else.

"The Pope????????" Amitabh Bachan replies
..."Sure!" says Rajini, "My folks are from Italy and I've known the Pope a long time".

Rajini and Amitabh Bachan are assembled with the masses in Vatican
Square when Rajini says, "This will never work...I cant catch the Pope's eye among all these people.Tell you what,I know all the guards...so let me just go upstairs and i'll come out on the balcony with the Pope.."
he disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican .. Sure
enough,half an hour later,Rajini emerges with the Pope on the balcony.
But by the time Rajini returns, he finds that Amitabh Bachan has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics. Working his way to Amitabh Bachan's side, Rajini asks him, "What happened?"

Amitabh Bachan looks up and says, "I was doing fine until u and the pope came out on the balcony and the guy next to me asked..

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Super staru yaaru nu keta... chinna kozhandayum sollum...................................

Facts about Julian Assange

2011-03-09T04:11:00.000-08:00

Some facts about Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website, who was arrested by British police on Tuesday.

Ø       Assange was born in Townsville, Australia, in July 1971, to parents who were involved in theatre and travelled frequently. Assange's mother runs a puppet theatre.

Ø       In his teens, Assange gained a reputation as a sophisticated computer programmer.

Ø       In 1995 he was arrested and pleaded guilty to hacking. He was fined, but avoided prison on condition he did not reoffend.

Ø       In his late 20s, he went to Melbourne University to study mathematics and physics.

Ø       Assange has no permanent home and was often seen carrying a rucksack, moving from city to city and staying with friends in countries from Iceland to Kenya.

Ø       He is described by those he has worked with as highly intelligent, determined, intense and at times paranoid.

Ø       He is known for being highly secretive. It has been reported that he carries several mobile phones and at one point believed he was being followed.

Ø       Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning about allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, and an arrest warrant was received by London's Metropolitan Police. Authorities in Sweden, where Assange has spent much of his time, were seeking to have him detained to investigate the allegations by two Swedish women. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Ø       Assange began WikiLeaks in 2006, creating a web-based "dead letter drop" for would-be leakers.

Ø       His website has five full-time staff, several dozen active volunteers and 800 part-time volunteers. Assange has said he has received hundreds of documents and does not have enough resources to go through all of them.

Ø       Assange said he thinks there is still a place for investigative journalism and hoped that WikiLeaks could complement traditional media.

Ø       He said that WikiLeaks has never compromised a source.

Ø       Assange is an avid user of social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter and is known for his sometimes sharply worded tweets. WikiLeaks' pages have some 300,000 to 400,000 followers.

Funny Jokes - Not for Vijay Fans

2011-03-09T04:07:00.000-08:00

Really gud ones..

This is not for Vijay fans…

Dr. Vijay SSLC goes 2 a shop and shouts: Where is the free item with
Mineral water??
Seller: There is no free item issued with it.
Dr. Vijay: But on the label it is written as Bacteria free...Dont Cheat me
I am a Doctor.. Mind it.

Dr.Vijay got the 4th child. He fills data in the birth certificate
"Mother: Indian
Father: Indian
Kid:Chinese."
"How come you write "Chinese" when both parents are Indians?" "
Dr.vijay:ah haa u cant fool me i read a newspaper,
it says that every 4th person born on the Earth now is a Chinese"

Officer : Where were you born ?
V chai : tamilnadu
Officer :which part ?
V chai: wat na which part ? My Whole body born in Tamilnadu only na.

Ennathan Vijay ku Kulandhai Pirandhaalum,
Avanukku pirantha Mudhal Kulandhaiya Ellarumae
" THALA" pullanu dhan koopduvaanga....

Surya: Chess Vilayaadalaama?
Dr. VijaySSLC: Neenga Poi Ground la wait pannunga naan sports shoe pottutu
varaen!

Reporter: When is kavalan film releasing?
Vijay: I will not tell that?
Reporter:Why
Vijay: Sagara naal therunguchuduna vazhra naal naragam ayudum

Interviewer: Do you know MS office ?
Dr. Vijay SSLC fail: Address kudunga sir poi paarthutu vandhurren!!!!
Interviewer: Sabba Mudiyalaiyae!!!!!!!

Tell any Microsoft Products
Surya: MS Excel
Ajith: MS Word
Vikram: MS Powerpoint
Doctor Vijay SSLC Fail: MS Dhoni

INDIAN ATHLETIC LOST GOLD MEDAL IN OLYMPICS LONG JUMPd
Dr.visay reads this in news paper and says,
"WHO TOLD HIM TO WEAR GOLD MEDAL WHILE JUMPING"

What Dr.Vijay do if he becomes a chief minister? (Impossible anyway, just
imagine)
He will take a copy of Andhra Budget and declare it as Tamil Nadu budget
(Remake)

Vijay went to cloth shop. he asked INDIA flag.. the worker gave him.. but
after some seconds the worker shouted.. do u know WHY??
vijay asked him "vera colour illayaa!!''

Professor: Neenga ennava aaga aasai padureenga?
Student: Naan MBBS padichu, Police aagi, Nalla software companyla, lawyera
work panni periya periya building ah katti research panna poraen....
Professor: Aei niruthu... Nee enna Vijay fan' a?

SHIP CAPTAIN-
oh!!!!what shall we do???????the water level is rising above the danger
mark???????
DR.VIJAY-
raise the danger mark above the water level.......
SHIP CAPTAIN-?????

DR.VIJAY- hey y traffic???
MAN-bcoz prime minister is coming
DR.VIJAY-PRIME MINISTER na enna periya COLLECTORA?????

DR.VIJAY with CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
DR.VIJAY- i am one of the best actor in tamil film industry
MORKEL- joke adichathu pothum.......poi tea sollu.....
RAINA- enakku sugar jasthiya.........
DR.VIJAY(crying)- dai enga amma sathiyama na hero da..........
DHONI- thambi tea innum varala......

Dad:-doctor! en son'a kaapathave mudiyaadha?
Doc:-poison ethuvum saptu irundha kaapathi irukalam but paiyan veverama
"VIJAY" padatha pathirukran
Dad:-interval'la kondu vandhirundha avanai kaapathi irukkalama?
Doc:-vaaipe illa..introduction scene liye uyir poyidichu

Dr. Vijay SSLC started a college....

The Name of the college is
Dr. VIJAY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING....

WHERE DO YOU/ WE STAND???

2011-03-09T03:47:00.000-08:00

WHERE DO YOU/ WE STAND???

TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

A telephone operator told me that one day she received a phone call. She answered, 'Public Utilities Board.' There was silence. She repeated, 'PUB.' There was still no answer. When she was going to cut off the line, she heard a lady's voice, 'Oh, so this is PUB. Sorry, I got the number from my husband's pocket but I do not know whose number it is.'

Without mutual trust, just imagine what will happen to the couple if the telephone operator answered with just 'hello' instead of 'PUB'.

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NO POINTING FINGERS

A man asked his father-in-law, 'Many people praised you for a successful marriage. Could you please share with me your secret?'
The father-in-law answered in a smile, 'Never criticize your wife for her shortcomings or when she does something wrong. Always bear in mind that because of her shortcomings and weaknesses, she could not find a better husband than you.'

We all look forward to being loved and respected. Many people are afraid of losing face. Generally, when a person makes a mistake, he would look around to find a scapegoat to point the finger at. This is the start of a war. We should always remember that when we point one finger at a person, the other four fingers are pointing at ourselves.

If we forgive the others, others will ignore our mistake too.

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CREATING PERFECT RELATIONSHIPS?

A person visited the government matchmaker for marriage, SDU, and requested 'I am looking for a spouse. Please help me to find a suitable one.' The SDU officer said, 'Your requirements, please.' 'Oh, good looking, polite, humorous, sporty, knowledgeable, good in singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home during my leisure hour, if I don't go out. Telling me interesting stories when I need a companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest.' The officer listened carefully and replied, 'I understand, you need television.'

There is a saying that a perfect match can only be found between a blind wife and a deaf husband, because the blind wife cannot see the faults of the husband and the deaf husband cannot hear the nagging of the wife. Many couples are blind and deaf at the courting stage and dream of perpetual perfect relationship. Unfortunately, when the excitement of love wears off, they wake up and discover that marriage is not a bed of roses. The nightmare begins.

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NO OVERPOWERING

Many relationships fail because one party tries to overpower another, or demands too much. People in love tend to think that love will conquer all and their spouses will change the bad habits after marriage. Actually, this is not the case. There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that 'It is easier to reshape a mountain or a river than a person's character.'

It is not easy to change. Thus, having high expectations on changing the spouse's character will cause disappointment and unpleasantness.

It would be less painful to change ourselves and lower our expectations..

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RIGHT SPEECH

There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that 'A speech will either prosper or ruin a nation.' Many relationships break off because of wrong speech. When a couple is too close with each other, we always forget mutual respect and courtesy. We may say anything without considering if it would hurt the other party.

A friend and her millionaire husband visited their construction site. A worker who wore a helmet saw her and shouted, 'Hi, Emily! Remember me? We used to date in the secondary school.' On the way home, her millionaire husband teased her, 'Luckily you married me. Otherwise you will be the wife of a construction worker.' She answered, 'You should appreciate that you married me. Otherwise, he will be the millionaire and not you.'

Frequently exchanging these remarks plants the seed for a bad relationship. It's like a broken egg - cannot be reversed.

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PERSONAL PERCEPTION

Different people have different perceptions. One man's meat could be another man's poison. A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, 'Very stupid. Why neither of them ride on the donkey?' Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, 'The husband is the head of family. How can the wife ride on the donkey while the husband is on foot?' Hearing this, the wife quickly got down and let the husband ride on the donkey.

Further on the way home, they met an old Lady. She commented, 'How can the man ride on the donkey but let the wife walk. He is no gentleman.' The husband thus quickly asked the wife to join him on the donkey. Then, they met a young man. He commented, 'Poor donkey, how can you hold up the weight of two persons. They are cruel to you.' Hearing that, the husband and wife immediately climbed down from the donkey and carried it on their shoulders.

It seems to be the only choice left. Later, on a narrow bridge, the donkey was frightened and struggled. They lost their balance and fell into the river. You can never have everyone praise you, nor will everyone condemn you. Never in the past, not at present, and never will be in the future.

Thus, do not be too bothered by others words if our conscience is clear..

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BE PATIENT

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, 'Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck.' Then he asked, 'but when are my fingers going to grow back?' The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or you wish to take revenge. Think first before you lose your patience with someone you love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.

People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

'Good Life starts only when you stop wanting a better One'
'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away '

Top Hit Movies - 2010

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Hit Movies - 2010

The big difference

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The big difference:

How bloggers led the way in Arab protests - Complete Story

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How bloggers led the way in Arab protests

Cairo: As protesters in Tahrir Square faced off against pro-government forces, they drew a lesson from their counterparts in Tunisia: "Advice to the youth of Egypt: Put vinegar or onion under your scarf for tear gas."

The exchange on Facebook was part of a remarkable two-year collaboration that has given birth to a new force in the Arab world -- a pan-Arab youth movement dedicated to spreading democracy in a region without it. Young Egyptian and Tunisian activists brainstormed on the use of technology to evade surveillance, commiserated about torture and traded practical tips on how to stand up to rubber bullets and organize barricades.

They fused their secular expertise in social networks with a discipline culled from religious movements and combined the energy of soccer fans with the sophistication of surgeons. Breaking free from older veterans of the Arab political opposition, they relied on tactics of nonviolent resistance channeled from an American scholar through a Serbian youth brigade -- but also on marketing tactics borrowed from Silicon Valley.

As their swelling protests shook the Egyptian state, they were locked in a virtual tug of war with a leader with a very different vision -- Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak, a wealthy investment banker and ruling-party power broker. Considered the heir apparent to his father until the youth revolt eliminated any thought of dynastic succession, the younger Mubarak pushed his father to hold on to power even after his top generals and the prime minister were urging an exit, according to American officials who tracked Hosni Mubarak's final days.

The defiant tone of the president's speech on Thursday, the officials said, was largely his son's work.

"He was probably more strident than his father was," said one American official, who characterized Gamal's role as "sugarcoating what was for Mubarak a disastrous situation." But the speech backfired, prompting Egypt's military to force the president out and assert control of what they promise will be a transition to civilian government.

Now the young leaders are looking beyond Egypt. "Tunis is the force that pushed Egypt, but what Egypt did will be the force that will push the world," said Walid Rachid, one of the members of the April 6 Youth Movement, which helped organize the January 25 protests that set off the uprising. He spoke at a meeting on Sunday night where the members discussed sharing their experiences with similar youth movements in Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Iran.

"If a small group of people in every Arab country went out and persevered as we did, then that would be the end of all the regimes," he said, joking that the next Arab summit might be "a coming-out party" for all the ascendant youth leaders.

Bloggers Lead the Way

The Egyptian revolt was years in the making. Ahmed Maher, a 30-year-old civil engineer and a leading organizer of the April 6 Youth Movement, first became engaged in a political movement known as Kefaya, or Enough, in about 2005. Mr. Maher and others organized their own brigade, Youth for Change. But they could not muster enough followers; arrests decimated their leadership ranks, and many of those left became mired in the timid, legally recognized opposition parties. "What destroyed the movement were the old parties," said Mr. Maher, who has since been arrested four times.

By 2008, many of the young organizers had retreated to their computer keyboards and turned into bloggers, attempting to raise support for a wave of isolated labor strikes set off by government privatizations and runaway inflation.

After a strike that March in the city of Malhalla, Egypt, Mr. Maher and his friends called for a nationwide general strike for April 6. To promote it, they set up a Facebook group that became the nexus of their movement, which they were determined to keep independent from any of the established political groups. Bad weather turned the strike into a nonevent in most places, but in Malhalla a demonstration by the workers' families led to a violent police crackdown -- the first major labor confrontation in years.

Just a few months later, after a strike in the Tunisian city of Hawd el-Mongamy, a group of young online organizers followed the same model, setting up what became the Progressive Youth of Tunisia. The organizers in both countries began exchanging their experiences over Facebook. The Tunisians faced a more pervasive police state than the Egyptians, with less latitude for blogging or press freedom, but their trade unions were stronger and more independent. "We shared our experience with strikes and blogging," Mr. Maher recalled.

For their part, Mr. Maher and his colleagues began reading about nonviolent struggles. They were especially drawn to a Serbian youth movement called Otpor, which had helped topple the dictator Slobodan Milosovic by drawing on the ideas of an American political thinker, Gene Sharp. The hallmark of Mr. Sharp's work is well-tailored to Mr. Mubark's Egypt: He argues that nonviolence is a singularly effective way to undermine police states that might cite violent resistance to justify repression in the name of stability.

The April 6 Youth Movement modeled its logo -- a vaguely Soviet looking red and white clenched fist--after Otpor's, and some of its members traveled to Serbia to meet with Otpor activists.

Another influence, several said, was a group of Egyptian expatriates in their 30s who set up an organization in Qatar called the Academy of Change, which promotes ideas drawn in part on Mr. Sharp's work. One of the group's organizers, Hisham Morsy, was arrested during the Cairo protests and remained in detention.

"The Academy of Change is sort of like Karl Marx, and we are like Lenin," said Basem Fathy, another organizer who sometimes works with the April 6 Youth Movement and is also the project director at the Egyptian Democratic Academy, which receives grants from the United States and focuses on human rights and election-monitoring. During the protesters' occupation of Tahrir Square, he said, he used his connections to raise about $5,100 from Egyptian businessmen to buy blankets and tents.

'This Is Your Country'

Then, about a year ago, the growing Egyptian youth movement acquired a strategic ally, Wael Ghonim, a 31-year-old Google marketing executive. Like many others, he was introduced into the informal network of young organizers by the movement that came together around Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat who returned to Egypt a year ago to try to jump-start its moribund political opposition.

Mr. Ghonim had little experience in politics but an intense dislike for the abusive Egyptian police, the mainstay of the government's power. He offered his business savvy to the cause. "I worked in marketing, and I knew that if you build a brand you can get people to trust the brand," he said.

The result was a Facebook group Mr. Ghonim set up: We Are All Khalid Said, after a young Egyptian who was beaten to death by police. Mr. Ghonim -- unknown to the public, but working closely with Mr. Maher of the April 6 Youth Movement and a contact from Mr. ElBaradei's group -- said that he used Mr. Said's killing to educate Egyptians about democracy movements.

He filled the site with video clips and newspaper articles about police violence. He repeatedly hammered home a simple message: "This is your country; a government official is your employee who gets his salary from your tax money, and you have your rights." He took special aim at the distortions of the official media, because when the people "distrust the media then you know you are not going to lose them," he said.

He eventually attracted hundreds of thousands of users, building their allegiance through exercises in online democratic participation. When organizers planned a "day of silence" in the Cairo streets, for example, he polled users on what color shirts they should all wear -- black or white.

After the Tunisian revolution on Jan. 14, the April 6 Youth Movement saw an opportunity to turn its little-noticed annual protest on Police Day -- the Jan. 25 holiday that celebrates a police revolt that was suppressed by the British -- into a much bigger event. Mr. Ghonim used the Facebook site to mobilize support. If at least 50,000 people committed to turn out that day, the site suggested, the protest could be held. More than 100,000 signed up.

"I have never seen a revolution that was preannounced before," Mr. Ghonim said.

By then, the April 6 movement had teamed up with Mr. ElBaradei's supporters, some liberal and leftist parties, and the youth wing of the Muslim Brotherhood to plaster Cairo with eye-catching modernist posters advertising their Tunisia-inspired Police Day protest. But their elders -- even members of the Brotherhood who had long been portrayed as extremists by Mr. Mubarak and the West -- shied away from taking to the streets.

Explaining that Police Day was supposed to honour the fight against British colonialism, Essem Erian, a Brotherhood leader, said, "On that day we should all be celebrating together.

"All these people are on Facebook, but do we know who they are?" he asked. "We cannot tie our parties and entities to a virtual world."

'This Was It'

When the 25th came, the coalition of young activists, almost all of them affluent, wanted to tap into the widespread frustration with the country's autocracy, and also with the grinding poverty of Egyptian life. They started their day trying to rally poor people with complaints about pocketbook issues: "They are eating pigeon and chicken, but we eat beans every day."

By the end of the day, when tens of thousands had marched to Tahrir Square, their chants had become more sweeping. "The people want to bring down the regime," they shouted, a slogan that the organizers said they had read in signs and on Facebook pages from Tunisia. Mr. Maher of the April 6 Youth Movement said the organizers even debated storming Parliament and the state television building -- classic revolutionary moves.

"When I looked around me and I saw all these unfamiliar faces in the protests, and they were braver than us -- I knew that this was it for the regime," Mr. Maher said.

It was then that they began to rely on advice from Tunisia, Serbia and the Academy of Change, which had sent staff members to Cairo a week before to train the protest organizers. After the police used tear gas to break up the protest on Tuesday, the organisers came back better prepared for their next march on Friday, the 28th, the "Day of Rage."

This time, they brought lemons, onions and vinegar to sniff for relief from the tear gas, and soda or milk to pour into their eyes. Some had fashioned cardboard or plastic bottles into makeshift armor worn under their clothes to protect against riot police bullets. They brought spray paint to cover the windshields of police cars, and they were ready to stuff the exhaust pipes and jam the wheels to render them useless. By the early afternoon, a few thousand protesters faced off against well over a thousand heavily armed riot police officers on the four-lane Kasr al-Nile Bridge in perhaps the most pivotal battle of the revolution.

"We pulled out all the tricks of the game -- the Pepsi, the onion, the vinegar," said Mr. Maher, who wore cardboard and plastic bottles under his sweater, a bike helmet on his head and a barrel-top shield on his arm. "The strategy was the people who were injured would go to the back and other people would replace them," he said. "We just kept rotating." After more than five hours of battle, they had finally won -- and burned down the empty headquarters of the ruling party on their way to occupy Tahrir Square.

Pressuring Mubarak

In Washington that day, President Obama turned up, unexpectedly, at a 3:30 p.m. Situation Room meeting of his "principals," the key members of the national security team, where he displaced Thomas E. Donilon, the national security adviser, from his seat at the head of the table.

The White House had been debating the likelihood of a domino effect since youth-driven revolts had toppled President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, even though the American intelligence community and Israel's intelligence services had estimated that the risk to President Mubarak was low -- less than 20 percent, some officials said.

According to senior officials who participated in Mr. Obama's policy debates, the president took a different view. He made the point early on, a senior official said, that "this was a trend" that could spread to other authoritarian governments in the region, including in Iran. By the end of the 18-day uprising, by a White House count, there were 38 meetings with the president about Egypt. Mr. Obama said that this was a chance to create an alternative to "the Al Qaeda narrative" of Western interference.

American officials had seen no evidence of overtly anti-American or anti-Western sentiment. "When we saw people bringing their children to Tahrir Square, wanting to see history being made, we knew this was something different," one official said.

On January 28, the debate quickly turned to how to pressure Mr. Mubarak in private and in public -- and whether Mr. Obama should appear on television urging change. Mr. Obama decided to call Mr. Mubarak, and several aides listened in on the line. Mr. Obama did not suggest that the 82-year-old leader step aside or transfer power. At this point, "the argument was that he really needed to do the reforms, and do them fast," a senior official said. Mr. Mubarak resisted, saying the protests were about outside interference.

According to the official, Mr. Obama told him, "You have a large portion of your people who are not satisfied, and they won't be until you make concrete political, social and economic reforms."

The conversation continued for 30 minutes or so, with Mr. Obama trying to convince Mr. Mubarak that he was not being singled out.

Mr. Obama hung up, and remarked to his aides that Mr. Mubarak did not seem to understand the different nature of these protests. Mr. Obama's public statement was carefully edited to refer to the demands of the Egyptian people. It was an effort to make it harder for the Mubarak government to claim that the United States was a ringleader.

The next day, the decision was made to send former Ambassador Frank G. Wisner to Cairo as an envoy. Mr. Obama began placing calls to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and other regional leaders.

The most difficult calls, officials said, were with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Mr. Netanyahu, who feared regional instability and urged the United States to stick with Mr. Mubarak. According to American officials, senior members of the government in Saudi Arabia argued that the United States should back Mr. Mubarak even if he used force against the demonstrators. Some Israelis argued for the unconditional backing of Mr. Mubarak, while others recognized there was little that anyone could do to stop the protests.

By February 1, when Mr. Mubarak broadcast a speech pledging that he would not run again and that elections would be held in September, Mr. Obama concluded that the Egyptian president still had not gotten the message.

Within an hour, Mr. Obama called Mr. Mubarak again in the toughest, and last, of their conversations. "He said if this transition process drags out for months, the protests will, too," one of Mr. Obama's aides said.

Mr. Mubarak told Mr. Obama that the protests would be over in a few days.

Mr. Obama ended the call, the official said, with these words: "I respect my elders. And you have been in politics for a very long time, Mr. President. But there are moments in history when just because things were the same way in the past doesn't mean they will be that way in the future."

The next day, heedless of Mr. Obama's admonitions, Mr. Mubarak launched another attack against the protesters, many of whom had by then spent five nights camped out in Tahrir Square. By about 2:30 p.m., thousands of burly men loyal to Mr. Mubarak and armed with rocks, clubs and, eventually, improvised explosives had come crashing into the square.

The protesters -- trying to stay true to the lessons they had learned from Gandhi, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and Gene Sharp -- tried for a time to avoid retaliating. A row of men stood silent as rocks rained down on them. An older man told a younger one to put down his stick.

But by 3:30 p.m., the battle was joined. A rhythmic din of stones on metal rang out as the protesters beat street lamps and fences to rally their troops.

The Muslim Brotherhood, after sitting out the first day, had reversed itself, issuing an order for all able-bodied men to join the occupation of Tahrir Square. They now took the lead. As a secret, illegal organization, the Brotherhood was accustomed to operating in a disciplined hierarchy. The group's members helped the protesters divide into teams to organize their defense, several organizers said. One team broke the pavement into rocks, while another ferried the rocks to makeshift barricades along their perimeter and the third defended the front.

"The youth of the Muslim Brotherhood played a really big role," Mr. Maher said. "But actually so did the soccer fans" of Egypt's two leading teams, usually rivals. "These are always used to having confrontations with police at the stadiums," he said.

Soldiers of the Egyptian military, evidently under orders to stay neutral, stood watching from behind the iron gates of the Egyptian Museum as the war of stone missiles and improvised bombs continued for 14 hours until about four in the morning.

Then, unable to break the protesters' discipline or determination, the Mubarak forces resorted to guns, shooting 45 and killing 2, according to witnesses and doctors interviewed early that morning. The soldiers -- perhaps following orders to prevent excessive bloodshed, perhaps acting on their own -- finally intervened. They fired rounds of their machine guns into the ground and into the air, several witnesses said, scattering the Mubarak forces and leaving the protesters in unmolested control of the square, and by extension, the streets.

Their intervention prefigured the military's role in ultimately ushering Mr. Mubarak out on Friday. On Thursday, Mr. Mubarak's vice president, Omar Suleiman, was on the phone with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at 2 p.m. in Washington, the third time they had spoken in a week. The airwaves were filled with rumors that Mr. Mubarak was stepping down, and Mr. Suleiman told Mr. Biden that he was preparing to assume Mr. Mubarak's powers. But as he spoke to Mr. Biden and other officials, Mr. Suleiman said that "certain powers" would remain with Mr. Mubarak under the Constitution, including the power to dissolve the Parliament and fire the cabinet. "The message from Suleiman was that he would be the de facto president," one person involved in the call said.

But while Mr. Mubarak huddled with his son Gamal, the Obama administration was in the dark about how events would unfold, reduced to watching cable television to see what Mr. Mubarak would decide. What they heard on Thursday night was a drastically rewritten speech, delivered in the unbowed tone of the father of the country, with scarcely any mention of a presumably temporary "delegation" of his power.

It was that rambling, convoluted address that proved the final straw for the Egyptian military, now fairly certain that it would have Washington's backing if it moved against Mr. Mubarak, American officials said. Mr. Mubarak's generals ramped up the pressure that led him at last, without further comment, to relinquish his power.

"Eighty-five million people live in Egypt, and less than 1,000 people died in this revolution -- most of them killed by the police," said Mr. Ghonim, the Google executive. "It shows how civilized the Egyptian people are." He added, "Now our nightmare is over. Now it is time to dream."

Australia's newest tourist attraction

2011-03-09T03:14:00.000-08:00

Australia's newest tourist attraction.. ......... ...

The theme park's 'cage of death' that drops tourists into a crocodile's lair
Without the cage you wouldn't stand a chance swimming with a massive saltwater crocodile.

But for brave punters who still want to get cosy with a feisty croc, a new Australian tourist attraction is offering the chance for a close encounter in the safety of a clear acrylic box dubbed the 'cage of death'.

Just 4cm of acrylic, a pair of goggles and a swimsuit, will separate thrill-seekers from the jaws of Choppa, a saltwater crocodile.

The cage has no bars, unlike cages used in shark dives, which prevents the reptiles from gripping on but deep teeth scratches are visible on the sides, deterring some hesitant participants.

Top End tourists climb into the clear box before being lowered into Choppa's lair.
They then spend 15 minutes inside the 9ft high cage and watch Choppa, who lost both front feet while fighting other crocodiles, trying to take a bite out of them.

The attraction at Crocosaurus Cove in the heart of the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory has been given high marks by adrenaline-junkies.

Face-to-face: The experience is made even more thrilling for tourists because the cage has no bars.

Saltwater crocodiles, known locally as "salties," are the largest crocodile species, with the males growing up to 6m long and weighing up to 1000Kg.

They are found in across Southeast Asia but the highest numbers are found in northern Australia .

Michael Scott, who opened the attraction in July, said there was plenty of demand for the A$ 65 thrill.

'In the Northern Territory , the saltwater crocodile is an icon and is part of our life. They are always in the news, either in someone's swimming pool or killing someone's favourite horse,' Mr Scott said.

Hunting for food: Up to two people are allowed in the cage at the one time.

The most famous crocodile to be housed at the park is Burt, who starred as the beast that nearly ate Linda Koslowski's character in Crocodile Dundee .

Although saltwater crocodiles are dangerous, fatal attacks on humans are rare in Australia with only one or two reported a year.

Swimming face-to-face with a massive saltwater crocodile might not be everyone's idea of fun but thrill-seekers are snapping up Australia 's newest tourist

RBI launched 150 Rupee Coin

2011-03-09T03:04:00.000-08:00

Reserve Bank of India launched 150 Rupee Coin

India celebrating the Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary. On this celebration Reserve Bank of India launched the 150 Rupee coin in the memory of Nobel Winner Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Newly launched 150 Rupee coin is about 40 mm in diameter and It's weighs is about 35 grams. The coin of 150 Rupee contain Rabindranath Tagore image on one side and on another side it will contain the image of Ashok Stambha.
Both Side of Indian 150 Rupee Coin

Want to Touch Water???

2011-03-09T00:48:00.000-08:00

Want to Touch Water???

When this picture has loaded, you can move your mouse over the water to see an amazing effect.

23 வயதில் பாட்டியான பெண்

2011-03-08T23:14:00.000-08:00

ருமேனியாவை சேர்ந்தவர் ரிப்கா ஸ்டேன்ங்கு (23). தற்போது இவர் இங்கிலாந்தில் கணவர் அயோனஸ் ஸ்டேன்ஸ் (25). தங்க நகை வியாபாரி.

ரிப்கா தனது 11 வயதில் ஸ்டேன்ஸ்சை காதலித்து திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டாள். அப்போது ஸ்டேன்ஸ்சுக்கு 13 வயது. இந்த நிலையில் தனது 12-வது வயதில் ரிப்கா ஒரு பெண் குழந்தையை பெற்றெடுத்தார்.

அதற்கு மரியா என பெயரிட்டார். அதன் பின்னர் நிக்கோல் என்ற மகன் பிறந்தான். குறைந்த வயதில் சிறுமியாக இருந்த போதே குழந்தை பெற்ற ரிப்கா இருந்த நிலை தனது மகள் மரியாவுக்கு வரக்கூடாது என விரும்பினார்.

எனவே, அவரை ஒரு பள்ளியில் தங்க வைத்து படிக்க வைத்தார். ஆனால் விதி யாரை விட்டது. படிக்கும் பொழுதே மரியா ஒரு மாணவனை காதலித்தாள்.

அவனுடன் நெருங்கி பழகினாள். விளைவு கர்ப்பம் அடைந்தாள். சமீபத்தில் ஒரு ஆண் குழந்தையை பெற்றெடுத்தாள். தற்போது மரியாவுக்கு வயது 11.

இதன் மூலம் தனது 23-வது வயதில் ரிப்கா பாட்டி ஆகவும், அவரது கணவர் ஸ்டேன்ங்கு தாத்தாவாகவும் ஆகி விட்டனர். இதனால் அவர்கள் மகிழ்ச்சி அடைந்துள்ளனர். இது குறித்து ரிப்கா கூறும்போது, எனது நிலை மகளுக்கும் வரக்கூடாது என நினைத்தேன்.

40 வயதில் தான் பாட்டியாகவேண்டும் என விரும்பினேன். ஆனால் என்னை 23 வயதிலேயே என் மகள் பாட்டியாக்கி விட்டாள் என்று தனது பேரனை கொஞ்சியபடியே அவர் கூறினார்.

இதற்கு முன்பு ரோதர்ம் நகரைச்சேர்ந்த 26 வயது பெண்தான் இங்கிலாந்தின் மிக இளமையான பாட்டி என்ற பெருமையை பெற்று இருந்தார்.

கடந்த 1999-ம் ஆண்டு அவரது மகள் 12 வயதில் குழந்தை பெற்றார். ஆனால் ரிப்காவின் மகள் மரியா 11 வயதிலேயே குழந்தை பெற்று பரபரப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியதுடன் தனது தாயை மிக இளமையான பாட்டி ஆக்கி விட்டாள்.

Count the People!!!

2011-03-06T02:56:00.000-08:00

Jus try to count the number of people in this image.