The French Lady the Statue of Liberty’s, shadow falls on Twin Towers (World Trade Center).
A photoshop's photo
Monday, August 08, 2005
Twin Towers
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Happy Friendship Day
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterwards, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This Friendship Day, remember to tell your friends how special you think they are.
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
Friends are the elixir of life that makes our world go round, brightening our lives and bringing a sparkle to our eyes. Friendship is an absolutely unique relationship, strengthening with the passage of time and withstanding all the tests of time.
Celebrated the world over on the first sunday of August, the origin of Friendship Day is unclear. The U.S Congress sanctioned National Friendship Day in 1935 as a special day to honour and celebrate friendships. In 1997, the U.N named Winnie the Pooh as the world's Friendship Ambassador.
Psychologists say that true friendships are not need based, they continue and thrive even when there is no need. They further add that friendships are great stress busters, time spent with friends reduces stress, uplifts the mood, banishes the blues by pepping up our lives.
Not only do friends awaken the best within us, they also arouse our sense of friendliness-a friend's friend is a friend. In the olden days there were quaint customs and symbols associated with friendship.
Salt a natural preservative was made a symbol of lasting friendship as well as of immortality. Arabs to this day place salt in front of a stranger to assure him of their goodwill.
Friendly knights raised their visors to each other and the removal of a helmet indicated friendship and utter trust in a hostile world. Did you know that the herb parsley's (supposed to relieve indigestion and counteract poison ) presence in food assured guests of their hosts' friendship and good intentions?
Friendship is a lifelong process. This Friendship Day, let your old friends know that you haven't forgotten them and tell your new friends that you never will.
Have a Happy Friendship Day.
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterwards, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This Friendship Day, remember to tell your friends how special you think they are.
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
Friends are the elixir of life that makes our world go round, brightening our lives and bringing a sparkle to our eyes. Friendship is an absolutely unique relationship, strengthening with the passage of time and withstanding all the tests of time.
Celebrated the world over on the first sunday of August, the origin of Friendship Day is unclear. The U.S Congress sanctioned National Friendship Day in 1935 as a special day to honour and celebrate friendships. In 1997, the U.N named Winnie the Pooh as the world's Friendship Ambassador.
Psychologists say that true friendships are not need based, they continue and thrive even when there is no need. They further add that friendships are great stress busters, time spent with friends reduces stress, uplifts the mood, banishes the blues by pepping up our lives.
Not only do friends awaken the best within us, they also arouse our sense of friendliness-a friend's friend is a friend. In the olden days there were quaint customs and symbols associated with friendship.
Salt a natural preservative was made a symbol of lasting friendship as well as of immortality. Arabs to this day place salt in front of a stranger to assure him of their goodwill.
Friendly knights raised their visors to each other and the removal of a helmet indicated friendship and utter trust in a hostile world. Did you know that the herb parsley's (supposed to relieve indigestion and counteract poison ) presence in food assured guests of their hosts' friendship and good intentions?
Friendship is a lifelong process. This Friendship Day, let your old friends know that you haven't forgotten them and tell your new friends that you never will.
Have a Happy Friendship Day.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
60th anniversary of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, a single American aircraft dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima.
Three days later Nagasaki faces the same fate. Japan surrendered within a week, ending World War Two. More than 120,000 of the 450,000 people in the two cities were killed – a further 100,000 died from radiation-related illness within months
August 6, 8.15am: B-29 bomber Enola Gay, flying at 30,000 feet, drops first atomic bomb
1.Little Boy: 9,000lb uranium bomb falls for 25,000ft barometric safety switch operated
2.At 1,900ft proximity fuze fires explosive charge
3.Conical wedge of uranium-235 is shot into large target uranium-235
4.Force of impact welds two pieces together, creating super-critical mass of uranium drenched in neutrons. Chain reaction accelerates and atomic blast – equivalent to 12,500 tonnes of high-explosive – follows, instantly killing 70,000
5.Fireball – with temperature of 300,000degreeC – kills almost everyone within 3,000ft of ground zero. Blast destroys all wooden buildings within 7,500ft of ground zero. 70,000 people seriously injured. Black rain falls heavily for over one hour, depositing radioactive debris over wide area
August 9, 11.02am: U.S. drops plutonium bomb on industrial section of Nagasaki, totally destroying 1.5 square miles of city, instantly killing 40,000 people, and injuring 60,000 more. By year’s end, death toll climbs to 70,000
It should stop in Japan it should not continue. I can’t imagine like this type of attacks. Coming years should be a good years for all people in global. We can pray for those innocent persons.
Three days later Nagasaki faces the same fate. Japan surrendered within a week, ending World War Two. More than 120,000 of the 450,000 people in the two cities were killed – a further 100,000 died from radiation-related illness within months
August 6, 8.15am: B-29 bomber Enola Gay, flying at 30,000 feet, drops first atomic bomb
1.Little Boy: 9,000lb uranium bomb falls for 25,000ft barometric safety switch operated
2.At 1,900ft proximity fuze fires explosive charge
3.Conical wedge of uranium-235 is shot into large target uranium-235
4.Force of impact welds two pieces together, creating super-critical mass of uranium drenched in neutrons. Chain reaction accelerates and atomic blast – equivalent to 12,500 tonnes of high-explosive – follows, instantly killing 70,000
5.Fireball – with temperature of 300,000degreeC – kills almost everyone within 3,000ft of ground zero. Blast destroys all wooden buildings within 7,500ft of ground zero. 70,000 people seriously injured. Black rain falls heavily for over one hour, depositing radioactive debris over wide area
August 9, 11.02am: U.S. drops plutonium bomb on industrial section of Nagasaki, totally destroying 1.5 square miles of city, instantly killing 40,000 people, and injuring 60,000 more. By year’s end, death toll climbs to 70,000
It should stop in Japan it should not continue. I can’t imagine like this type of attacks. Coming years should be a good years for all people in global. We can pray for those innocent persons.
Dream big, Kalam tells children
India should focus on five key areas for achieving Vision 2020
The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, on Friday did what he is best at doing -- ignite the young minds with his searching questions and extracting exacting answers and promises, of course.
Addressing students, Dr. Kalam stressed the importance of vision for development of a nation and quizzed them with rapid fire round on the contribution of Newton, Sir C. V. Raman, Chandrasekhar Subramaniam, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha.
They all had vision. If Vikram Sarabhai did not have a vision, India would not have been able to develop its own satellite and the launch vehicles, he said while impressing upon children to develop a vision. He made them repeat, We children generate vision. We will become great and the nation will become great and asked them to their vision to his website www.presidentofindia.nic.in.
Dr. Kalam said if India is to achieve the goals set for 2020, it should aim at doubling the GDP growth rate. It should concentrate on five key areas -- agriculture and food processing, education, information and communication technology, networking of rivers and attaining self-reliance in critical technologies. He did not miss out his familiar Provision of Urban infrastructure in Rural Areas (PURA). One such project of PURA is under implementation in Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.
He administered an oath to them saying they would not support any religious, caste or language differentiation; that they would be honest and strive for a corruption-free society.
Fielding questions from students, he said his science teacher, Sivasubramanya Iyer, was his role model. The roles of a scientist and the President were complementary and it was after his long tenure as scientist that he opted for the latter post. Now I am marketing my PURA vision to the Government and Parliament.
The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, on Friday did what he is best at doing -- ignite the young minds with his searching questions and extracting exacting answers and promises, of course.
Addressing students, Dr. Kalam stressed the importance of vision for development of a nation and quizzed them with rapid fire round on the contribution of Newton, Sir C. V. Raman, Chandrasekhar Subramaniam, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha.
They all had vision. If Vikram Sarabhai did not have a vision, India would not have been able to develop its own satellite and the launch vehicles, he said while impressing upon children to develop a vision. He made them repeat, We children generate vision. We will become great and the nation will become great and asked them to their vision to his website www.presidentofindia.nic.in.
Dr. Kalam said if India is to achieve the goals set for 2020, it should aim at doubling the GDP growth rate. It should concentrate on five key areas -- agriculture and food processing, education, information and communication technology, networking of rivers and attaining self-reliance in critical technologies. He did not miss out his familiar Provision of Urban infrastructure in Rural Areas (PURA). One such project of PURA is under implementation in Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.
He administered an oath to them saying they would not support any religious, caste or language differentiation; that they would be honest and strive for a corruption-free society.
Fielding questions from students, he said his science teacher, Sivasubramanya Iyer, was his role model. The roles of a scientist and the President were complementary and it was after his long tenure as scientist that he opted for the latter post. Now I am marketing my PURA vision to the Government and Parliament.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Innocents killed in Kashmir & London
In the season of peace, the last thing that the Army wanted was the blood of innocents on its hands. But three days after it shot dead a boy in Pulwama in a case of mistaken identity, the Army killed three teenagers at Bangargund in Kupwara on July 25. Bilal Ahmed Sheikh, Wasim Ahmed Wani and Shabir Ahmed Shah had ventured out at night during a marriage ceremony.
They had left the house of the groom, Muhammad Jamal Sheikh, to light a cigarette and join the festivities at the bride’s house in the same village at 1.30 a.m. along with two others when the troops opened fire. Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh, the groom’s brother, was wounded but his friend Shafi Ahmed escaped unhurt.
We told the soldiers that we were going to Zubera’s house, but they opened fire. I ran away amid a hail of gunfire and explosions, said Shafi.
The soldiers guarded the bodies until 7.45 a.m., when the police took over and sent them for postmortem examination. By then, the news had spread and tension risen. A mob burnt scores of sewing machines in a welfare centre built by the Army. Barbed wires, barricades and signboards of the Army were the next target. The incident brought back memories of the 1990s when Kashmir boiled over civilian killings by the Army.
The Army called the incident unfortunate and regrettable. It offered Rs 3 lakh to the families of the dead boys and Rs 2 lakh to the injured. We have ordered a court of inquiry and will make changes in our ambush procedures. This is not a revenge killing as some elements have said, said 15 Corps Commander Lt-Gen. S.S. Dhillon. This is a militant-infested area and only a few days ago we lost a soldier and a major after they hesitated to open fire against militants for fear of killing civilians.
But alienation of people from security forces can only be to the advantage of militants.
It is not only in KASHMIR, it continues in LONDON.
SCOTLAND YARD was forced to admit that a man shot five times from close range by police officers was not connected to Thursday London terror attacks.
The Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician from Brazil who had been working legally in Britain for three years. It is believed he lived with relatives in Brixton, south London.
Witnesses to the killing of Menezes described how he was chased into Stockwell Tube station on Friday morning by armed plainclothes officers and killed with shots to the head while lying on the floor of a train.
The officers are thought to have feared that Menezes, who was wearing a quilted jacket on a summer’s day, might have been concealing a bomb. No explosives were found on him.
Within hours of the shooting, however, senior officers were saying they were very confident the man had been one of the four bombers who attempted to set off explosives in London on Thursday.
Then, as it emerged that the Brazilian was not one of the four, officers suggested he was still linked to the bombings.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said the shooting was directly linked to anti-terror operations. Even, hours before Menezes’s identity was confirmed, security sources said police had known him from a recent counter-terrorist investigation.
It now appears to be a case of mistaken identity. The body of the electrician, originally from a town north of Rio de Janeiro, was identified by his cousin in Britain, Alex Alves Pereira.
A statement by police earlier in the day had said: We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday, July 21, 2005. For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan police service regrets.
The Brazilian government said it was shocked and perplexed at the killing and expected a full explanation.
Menezes was followed by officers on Friday morning after leaving a block of flats that had been under surveillance in Tulse Hill, south London. The officers were under the control of Gold Command, Scotland Yard’s major incident centre.
Originally, police had said the man walked from a property in Stockwell to the local Tube station. But later the statement was changed to say he had been under surveillance during a three-mile bus journey from his home to the station.
They picked him up hoping that he would take them to other people. But as soon as he was seen going towards the Tube they had to take action, a police source said.
The armed officers intervened as Menezes entered Stockwell station. Witnesses there say he bolted, leaping over the ticket barrier and running down the escalator, pursued by the plainclothes officers.
Whit by said Menezes tripped or was pushed to the floor. One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him.
It is not clear why Menezes, who was described as light-skinned, ran from the officers. Gesio de Avila, a friend, last night told how Menezes had been planning to buy a motorbike because of all the disruption to public transport. He added that he did not believe understanding police instructions would have been a problem for Menezes.
He had good English, better than mine, said Avila. The police stopped him sometimes, because he used the Underground every day, and asked him some things, and every time they would tell him ‘thank you’, and ‘sorry for stopping you’.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission confirmed it will launch an investigation into the death. The police said an inquest would be opened and adjourned.
If its continues many innocents will be kill.
They had left the house of the groom, Muhammad Jamal Sheikh, to light a cigarette and join the festivities at the bride’s house in the same village at 1.30 a.m. along with two others when the troops opened fire. Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh, the groom’s brother, was wounded but his friend Shafi Ahmed escaped unhurt.
We told the soldiers that we were going to Zubera’s house, but they opened fire. I ran away amid a hail of gunfire and explosions, said Shafi.
The soldiers guarded the bodies until 7.45 a.m., when the police took over and sent them for postmortem examination. By then, the news had spread and tension risen. A mob burnt scores of sewing machines in a welfare centre built by the Army. Barbed wires, barricades and signboards of the Army were the next target. The incident brought back memories of the 1990s when Kashmir boiled over civilian killings by the Army.
The Army called the incident unfortunate and regrettable. It offered Rs 3 lakh to the families of the dead boys and Rs 2 lakh to the injured. We have ordered a court of inquiry and will make changes in our ambush procedures. This is not a revenge killing as some elements have said, said 15 Corps Commander Lt-Gen. S.S. Dhillon. This is a militant-infested area and only a few days ago we lost a soldier and a major after they hesitated to open fire against militants for fear of killing civilians.
But alienation of people from security forces can only be to the advantage of militants.
It is not only in KASHMIR, it continues in LONDON.
SCOTLAND YARD was forced to admit that a man shot five times from close range by police officers was not connected to Thursday London terror attacks.
The Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician from Brazil who had been working legally in Britain for three years. It is believed he lived with relatives in Brixton, south London.
Witnesses to the killing of Menezes described how he was chased into Stockwell Tube station on Friday morning by armed plainclothes officers and killed with shots to the head while lying on the floor of a train.
The officers are thought to have feared that Menezes, who was wearing a quilted jacket on a summer’s day, might have been concealing a bomb. No explosives were found on him.
Within hours of the shooting, however, senior officers were saying they were very confident the man had been one of the four bombers who attempted to set off explosives in London on Thursday.
Then, as it emerged that the Brazilian was not one of the four, officers suggested he was still linked to the bombings.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, said the shooting was directly linked to anti-terror operations. Even, hours before Menezes’s identity was confirmed, security sources said police had known him from a recent counter-terrorist investigation.
It now appears to be a case of mistaken identity. The body of the electrician, originally from a town north of Rio de Janeiro, was identified by his cousin in Britain, Alex Alves Pereira.
A statement by police earlier in the day had said: We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday, July 21, 2005. For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan police service regrets.
The Brazilian government said it was shocked and perplexed at the killing and expected a full explanation.
Menezes was followed by officers on Friday morning after leaving a block of flats that had been under surveillance in Tulse Hill, south London. The officers were under the control of Gold Command, Scotland Yard’s major incident centre.
Originally, police had said the man walked from a property in Stockwell to the local Tube station. But later the statement was changed to say he had been under surveillance during a three-mile bus journey from his home to the station.
They picked him up hoping that he would take them to other people. But as soon as he was seen going towards the Tube they had to take action, a police source said.
The armed officers intervened as Menezes entered Stockwell station. Witnesses there say he bolted, leaping over the ticket barrier and running down the escalator, pursued by the plainclothes officers.
Whit by said Menezes tripped or was pushed to the floor. One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him.
It is not clear why Menezes, who was described as light-skinned, ran from the officers. Gesio de Avila, a friend, last night told how Menezes had been planning to buy a motorbike because of all the disruption to public transport. He added that he did not believe understanding police instructions would have been a problem for Menezes.
He had good English, better than mine, said Avila. The police stopped him sometimes, because he used the Underground every day, and asked him some things, and every time they would tell him ‘thank you’, and ‘sorry for stopping you’.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission confirmed it will launch an investigation into the death. The police said an inquest would be opened and adjourned.
If its continues many innocents will be kill.
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