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Saurav Ganguly

2010-03-05T18:13:00.000-08:00

Intro about GANGULY

Known as the Bengal Tiger of the Indian cricket team, Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team is arguably one of the most successful captains ever in the history of Indian cricket.

Biodata of DADA

FULL NAME:                              SAURAV CHANDIDAS GANGULY
DATE OF BIRTH:                     8th July 1972
BIRTH PLACE:                          Kolkata, West Bengal, India
WIFE'S NAME:                          Dona Roy
DAUGHTER'S NAME:             SANA
NICK NAMES:                           Dada, Prince of Kolkata, Maharaja
BROTHER'S NAME :              Snehasish Ganguly
DAD'S NAME:                           Chandi Das Ganguly
MAJOR TEAMS PLAYED:     India, Bengal, Lancashire,
.            Kolkatta knight riders(KKR)
BATTING STYLE :                   Left Hand Bat
BOWLING STYLE :                 Right Arm Medium

About Ganguly

HIS FIRST STEP TOWARDS CRICKET

Ganguly, initially was not interested in playing cricket. He was interested in playing football and was playing football for his school team. Ganguly's first step towards cricket was a happy accident of fate. His elder brother Snehasish was an accomplished cricketer. He was a left-hander. So Sourav simply followed his brother and started playing with left hand. It was convenient for him because he could thus use his brother's cricket equipment. One fine day during his holidays, Sourav asked his father to get him enrolled in a cricket academy as he was finding difficult to pass his time and they enrolled due to ganguly's adomence.

HIS DEBAT IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

A hundred (121) for East Zone against West Zone in the Duleep Trophy in 1991 earned Sourav a place on the tour of Australia in 1991-92. He was played in only one One-day International match and was then forgotten for over four years. He thought that his career as an international cricketer was over. He was left alone to sort out his career, and to reinforce his shattered confidence, with some help from an English rugby team sports psychologist.But fate had more surprises in store. Sourav was chosen to tour England with the Indian team in 1996. Navjot SinghSidhu, his roommate on the tour, chose to walk out of the team after a misunderstanding with captain Azharuddin, while Sanjay Manjrekar was injured. Sourav thus got a chance to make his Test debut. There was a crescendo of criticism on his selection for the tour; that the Bengal lobby was at the base of his inclusion was the harsh and unanimous verdict. But all that lasted only till the second Test at Lord's where he blasted a superb century.

GANGULY and TENDULKAR - MOST DESTRUCTIVE OPENING PAIR IN THE WORLD

Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side; some laughed at his lack of athleticism, others took immense pride in his ability to galvanise a side. Sourav Ganguly's ability to polarise opinion led to one of the most fascinating dramas in Indian cricket. Yet, nobody can dispute that he was India's most successful Test captain - forging a winning unit from a bunch of talented, but directionless, individuals - and nobody can argue about him being one of the greatest one-day batsmen of all time.

Despite being a batsman who combined grace with surgical precision in his strokeplay, his career had spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996. Later that year, he was promoted to the top of the order in ODIs and, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed one of the most destructive opening pairs in history. They are the best opening pairs for India and this pair made and broke many records and created new history.

GANGULY - AS A CAPTAIN

When he took over the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader. Under his stewardship India started winning Test matches away. In just a few years, Sourav rewrote the rules of captaincy. Unlike some of his predecessors, he was impartial, non-parochial, and forever pushed his players to perform better.

NATWEST SERIES -2002

Chasing England's 325 for five, India finished on 326 for eight with three balls remaining. Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly, who celebrated the extraordinary win by ripping off his shirt and dancing round the balcony, said he had always thought they could snatch the trophy. "It was a fantastic performance by the team but merited on the way we played in the whole series,"he said. "I always thought given the great state of the pitch we were in with a chance," he added. Kaif's career-best One-day score came from 75 balls including two sixes and six fours. India was almost out of the game at 146 for five in the 24th over with 20-year-old Yuvraj Singh on three when 21-year-old Kaif came to the wicket. The pair stylishly brought India back into the game with a hundred partnership off 90 deliveries. Earlier Marcus Trescothick, who was named man-of-the-series, and England captain Nasser Hussain both made hundreds as England piled up 325 for five. Trescothick's 109 and Hussain's 115 runs couldn't even stop India's victory. Earlier Indian skipper , captian Ganguly' made fifty on 35 balls with his ninth four, off former Lancashire team-mate Andrew Flintoff. Tudor ended Ganguly's assault, the India captain bowled for 60, his side 106 for one. And eight runs later India lost its second wicket when Sehwag (49) was bowled by left-arm spinner Ashley Giles. Dinesh Mongia (9) fell next well-caught by wicket-keeper Alec Stewart standing up to the stumps off Ronnie Irani.Then Rahul Dravid (5) chipped Irani straight to Nick Knight at midwicket. And when Giles bowled India hero Sachin Tendulkar for a mere 14, England looked on course for victory.India got the target down to 11 runs off 12 balls and then two off six before they scrambled the winning runs.

WORLD CUP 2003

Despite political controversy over games to be played in Zimbabwe and Kenya, the suspension of Australian bowler Shane Warne (one of cricket’s leading stars) before a ball had been bowled, and the surprise elimination of host nation South Africa, the 2003 World Cup ended on a high note. After 54 matches spread over 43 days,India under the captaincy of most successful captain of India, Saurav Ganguly, successfully entered the world-cup finals. Indians though performed superbly in the tournament lost the cup after losing the game against Australians. They they lose the match they put together a splendid streak that took them all the way to the World Cup final in 2003.

India’s Sachin Tendulkar, named the Man of the Tournament, scored 673 runs (average 61.18), breaking his own world record for the tournament. Sadly, he failed when it really mattered, in the final, though an unbeaten 140 by Ponting had already effectively sealed the game and the trophy for the defending champions.

India in Australia and Pakistan

Later that year, in Australia, an unexpected and incandescent hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series where India fought the world's best team to a standstill. Victory in Pakistan turned him into a cult figure but instead of being a springboard for greater things, it was the peak of a slippery slope.

HIS RETIREMENT

The beginning of the end came in 2004 at Nagpur - when his last-minute withdrawal played a part in Australia clinching the series - and things went pear shaped when his loss of personal form coincided with India's insipid ODI performances. Breaking point was reached when his differences with Greg Chappell leaked into public domain and his career was in jeopardy when India began their remarkable revival under Rahul Dravid.
His gritty 30s at Karachi, when India succumbed to a humiliating defeat in early 2006, weren't enough for him to retain his spot and some felt he would never get another chance. Others, as always, thought otherwise and they were proved right when he was included in the Test squad for the away series in South Africa in 2006-2007. He ended as the highest Indian run-scorer in that series and capped his fairytale comeback with four half-centuries on his return to ODIs. He continued his fine run in England, where he finished as the second highest scorer in Tests, and went on to slam back-to-back hundreds against Pakistan at home, the second of which was a glorious 239 runs in Bangalore.

Ganguly was surprisingly omitted from India's ODI squad for the CB Series in Australia and has been out of contention in the one-day squad since. After a poor Test series in Sri Lanka, there were reports of him considering retirement but he was given a lifeline in the Tests against Australia at home. Two days before the first Test, he said the series would be his last and retires along with Anil kumble.

Now in IPL

Though retired from International cricket, he'll play domestic matches for bengal and will be there in IPL for Kolkata kinght riders. He's the captian for KKR.

Dada’s hall of fame

# Sourav Ganguly holds the distinction of captaining India in a record 49 Test matches. He is also India’s most successful skipper with 21 Test wins. He is also India`s most successful ODI captain.
Ever since he slammed a ton on his debut, never has his Test average slipped below the 40 mark.

# He emerged as the highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) thrice- in 1997, 1999 and 2000.

# India has never lost a Test match whenever Ganguly has scored a ton! He shares with GR Viswanath, the record for scoring at least 10 or more centuries and his team either winning or drawing each and every match in which he scored a century.

# The Prince of Kolkata, as he was rechristened by Sir Geoffrey Boycott, briefly had to his name, the record for highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka during the 1999 World Cup. The record was however eclipsed by Sachin Tendulkar(now scored 200*) within 2 months when the latter slammed 186 against the Kiwis. He now shares the second spot with Mahendra Singh Dhoni .

# He is the third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest one to do so, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam ul Haq, and reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in least number of matches played.

# He stands sixth on the all time list with 31 Man of the Match awards. He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs.

In one-dayers he formed a formidable opening partnership with Sachin Tendulkar. He holds the record of most 200+ partnerships in ODIs (6 times) along with Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.

# He held the record, shared for the highest first wicket partnership for India in an ODI match twice with Sachin Tendulkar. First the duo scored 252 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1998 and then bettered it when the struck 258 against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingley.

# He also shares with Tendulkar, the record for maximum 175+ runs partnerships in ODIs. The duo crossed 175 a whopping 7 times!

# Dada, as he fondly known, was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.

# He is currently third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs.

# Commented as "The god of offside" by shane warne and by Dravid.

# Maximum run scorer along offside in the world

STATISTICS

SACHIN'S DOUBLE CENTURY

2010-02-25T17:38:00.000-08:00

REVIEW OF SACHIN'S DOUBLE CENTURY

In the end, there seemed to be only one force of nature that could have stopped Sachin Tendulkar from reaching the first double century in one-day internationals: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s inability to get the delivery away for anything less than a boundary. That was apt. Tendulkar owns many records, but they have never been just a matter of numbers. So it is that he again affirmed his special place in cricket by not allowing, in those final overs, any anxiety about the record change the drift of play. His partner was straining to give him the strike, but Tendulkar’s batting did not betray a temptation to get the strike by passing up an opportunity for a run.

This record has come late in Tendulkar’s career, a career in which India remained in the game far too often and for far too many stretches just by his very presence. For that reason, for the sense that Tendulkar now plays in a team that has it to win without him, the record is timely. Now, the team may not despair of playing a match without him; but he, unencumbered by great expectations, can still rise to them.

Tendulkar needed circumstances. We needed these circumstances for an exceptional career like Tendulkar’s to be made complete and invested with specialness. He’s been around for so long that it is easy to forget that he carried a heavy burden from the very beginning. He debuted in a series in Pakistan in 1989. In the Sialkot Test, Waqar Younis, also a debutant, bloodied 16-year-old Tendulkar’s nose. He refused to retire hurt. “It didn’t feel nice, what with blood flowing from my nose,” he would later recall. “But I couldn’t leave, for the side was not doing well.” It was a fidelity that extracted collateral damage. The team’s fortunes so often relied on him that it became a perverse conclusion that anything that made him shine had to be measured against the team’s performance.

And a man given to doing well had to answer questions about not playing just for the records. On Wednesday in Gwalior, everyone was willing the game on for his record. But him. He waited out Dhoni’s uncontrollable flair and let the record come to him.

GANGULY'S COMMENT

Congratulating Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first batsman to score a double century in limited overs cricket, former India skipper Saurav Ganguly on Thursday termed the batting maestro as a "phenomenon".

"I have not seen (Don) Bradman playing cricket. I have played with Sachin and he is a great batsman and I have not seen a player like him," Ganguly, who is leading Bengal in the Vijay Hazare one-day knock out tournament, told reporters here.

"Sachin is a phenomenon and a great cricketer," he said.

BEEPS IN CPU AND IT"S REASON

2010-02-20T04:24:00.000-08:00

No beep at all - this means your motherboard is dead, either due to a
defective or underpowered power supply, poorly seated CPU or RAM, or a
dead-on-arrival board

One beep - board is working fine

One long beep then machine shuts down - faulty, improperly installed or
missing CPU

1 short(Beep) System booting is normally

2 short(Beep) CMOS setting error

1 long - 1 short(Beep) DRAM ERROR

1 long - 2 short(Beep) Display card or monitor connected error

1 long - 3 short(Beep) Keyboard Error

1 long - 9 short(Beep) ROM Error

Long(Beep) continuous DRAM isn't inserted correctly

Short(Beep) continuous POWER supply has a problem

A two-tone siren, generally caused by overheating or out of specification
voltages

Four beeps then machine shuts down. This is because this version of the
BIOS will shut down your machine if no fan tachometer signal is detected
on the fan header. Make sure you attach a fan to the FAN1 or FAN4 header
or clear CMOS to reset to default (no checking).

Im getting continous beeps and the only two things that points to is either ram which i tried every possible configuration even tried removing all of it, or a power supply problem, even tho my computer power ups. Im guessing there might be a short somewhere on the board maybe a peice of material making connection somewhere, or even 1 broken wire in the power harnest to the mother board could most likely throw the entire thing off.
Last edited by cruzin101 : 05-27-2005 at 12:40 PM.

CLIMATIC CHANGE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

2010-02-19T06:03:00.000-08:00

INTRODUCTION:
Climatic change is nothing but the change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around the earth. It's more qualified as anthropogenic climate change, more generally known as global warming.

CAUSES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE:

Factors that can shape climate are climate forcing. These include such processes as variations in solar radiation, deviations in the Earth's orbit, mountain-building and continental drift, and changes in green house gas concentrations. Some parts of the climate system, such as the oceans and ice caps, respond slowly in reaction to climate forcing because of their large mass. Therefore, the climate system can take centuries or longer to fully respond to new external forcing.
Main Reasons:

Increased warming:

• The problem that we face today is that the ‘blanket’ of greenhouse gases that occurs naturally in the troposphere is quickly getting thicker and this results in the rapid warming of the world’s climate.
• The temperature rises when the climate system adjusts to restore the balance between incoming and outgoing energy. A rise in temperature, global warming, occurs in addition to other changes in cloud cover and wind patterns.
• Up until now the earth’s average temperature has been stable but now the ‘blanket’ which regulates the planet’s climate is getting thicker at an unprecedented speed due to the large amount of artificial emissions of greenhouse gases.These emissions result in an enchanced greenhouse effect.

IMPORTANT EFFECT :
Over the past 100 years (1906-2005), the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by around 0.74°C. The rate of warming averaged over the last 50 years is nearly twice the rate for the last 100 years.

Emission of Carbon dioxide ( CO2) in the atmosphere:
The artificial greenhouse gases that are causing global warming largely come from fossil fuels formed by long-dead plants and animals and from the oceans due to the increase in the Earth's temperature.

Other sources caused by humanity are burning coal, oil and natural gas releases.Long-lived gases such as CFCs, HFCs and PFCs, used in air conditioning and refrigeration, are manufactured by industry and eventually enter the atmosphere.
Almost everything we produce and consume today means GHG emissions. Many of these GHG-emitting activities are now essential to the global economy and form a fundamental part of modern life.
Getting from one place to another, transport, demands a lot of energy as well. Energy which results in GHG emissions and housing accounts for 30 percent of global GHG emissions.

Solar output

Variations in solar activity during the last several centuries based on observations of sunspots and beryllium isotopes.
The sun is the predominant source for energy input to the Earth. Both long- and short-term variations in solar intensity are known to affect global climate.
Early in Earth's history the sun emitted only 70% as much power as it does today. With the same atmospheric composition as exists today, liquid water should not have existed on Earth. However, there is evidence for the presence of water on the early Earth, in the Hadean and Archean eons, leading to what is known as the faint young sun paradox. Hypothesized solutions to this paradox include a vastly different atmosphere, with much higher concentrations of greenhouse gases than currently exist .Over the following approximately 4 billion years, the energy output of the sun increased and atmospheric composition changed, with the oxygenation of the atmosphere being the most notable alteration. The changes in luminosity, and the sun's ultimate death as it becomes a red giant and then a white dwarf, will have large effects on climate, with the red giant phase possibly ending life on Earth.
Solar output also varies on shorter time scales, including the 11-year solar cycle and longer-term modulations. The 11-year sunspot cycle produces low-latitude warming and high-latitude cooling over limited areas of statistical significance in the stratosphere with an amplitude of approximately 1.5°C.
But although "variability associated with the 11-yr solar cycle has a significant influence on stratospheric temperatures, there is still no consensus on the exact magnitude and spatial structure".These stratospheric variations are consistent with the idea that excess equatorial heating can drive thermal winds. In the near-surface troposphere, there is only a small change in temperature (on the order of a tenth of a degree, and only statistically significant in limited areas underneath the peaks in stratospheric zonal wind speed) due to the 11-year solar cycle. The cyclical nature of the sun's energy output is not yet fully understood; it differs from the very slow change that is happening within the sun as it ages and evolves, with some studies pointing toward solar radiation increases from cyclical sunspot activity affecting global warming.

Orbital variations

Slight variations in Earth's orbit lead to changes in the seasonal distribution of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and how it is distributed across the globe. There is very little change to the area-averaged annually-averaged sunshine; but there can be strong changes in the geographical and seasonal distribution.

The three types of orbital variations are variations in
• Earth's eccentricity,
• changes in the tilt angle of Earth's axis of rotation, and
• Precession of Earth's axis.

Combined together, these produce Milankovitch cycles which have a large impact on climate and are notable for their correlation to glacial and interglacial periods.

Volcanism

Volcanism is a process of conveying material from the crust and mantle of the Earth to its surface.
Volcanic eruptions, geysers, and hot springs, are examples of volcanic processes which release gases and/or particulates into the atmosphere.
Eruptions cause cooling (by partially blocking the transmission of solar radiation to the Earth's surface) for a period of a few years. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century (after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta) affected the climate substantially. Global temperatures decreased by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F). The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 caused the Year Without a Summer. Much larger eruptions, known as large igneous provinces, occur only a few times every hundred million years, but may cause global warming and mass extinctions.

Volcanoes are also part of the extended carbon cycle. Over very long (geological) time periods, they release carbon dioxide from the Earth's crust and mantle, counteracting the uptake by sedimentary rocks and other geological carbon dioxide sinks. According to the US Geological Survey, however, estimates are that human activities generate more than 130 times the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes.

Ocean variability

The ocean is a fundamental part of the climate system. Short-term fluctuations (years to a few decades) such as
• the El Niño–Southern Oscillation,
• the Pacific decadal oscillation,
• the North Atlantic oscillation, and
• the Arctic oscillation, represent climate variability rather than climate change.
On longer time scales, alterations to ocean processes such as thermohaline circulation play a key role in
redistributing heat by carrying out a very slow and extremely deep movement of water, and the long-term redistribution of heat in the world's oceans.

Human influences

The chain of causality of human influence on the climate is direct and unambiguous (for example, the effects of irrigation on local humidity), whilst in other instances it is less clear. Presently the scientific consensus on climate change is that human activity is very likely the cause for the rapid increase in global average temperatures over the past several decades.[Consequently, the debate has largely shifted onto ways to reduce further human impact and to find ways to adapt to change that has already occurred.

Of most concern in these anthropogenic factors is the increase in CO2 levels due to emissions from fossil fuel combustion, followed by aerosols (particulate matter in the atmosphere) and cement manufacture. Other factors, including land use, ozone depletion, animal agriculture and deforestation, are also of concern in the roles they play - both separately and in conjunction with other factors - in affecting climate, microclimate, and measures of climate variables.

Physical evidence for climatic change

Some can think of having evidence for this climatic change, and my answer to those pessimists is optimistic. Here in this section we are going to discuss about the various factors which forms the evidence.
Historical & Archaeological evidence
Glaciers
Vegetation
Ice cores
Pollen analysis
Insects
Sea level change

Historical & Archaeological evidence :

Climate change in the recent past may be detected by corresponding changes in settlement and agricultural patterns. Archaeological evidence, oral history and historical documents can offer insights into past changes in the climate. Climate change effects have been linked to the collapse of various civilisations.
Glaciers
Glaciers are among the most sensitive indicators of climate change,[30] advancing when climate cools (for example, during the period known as the Little Ice Age) and retreating when climate warms. Glaciers grow and shrink, both contributing to natural variability and amplifying externally forced changes
Vegetation
A change in the type, distribution and coverage of vegetation may occur given a change in the climate; this much is obvious. In any given scenario, a mild change in climate may result in increased precipitation and warmth, resulting in improved plant growth and the subsequent sequestration of airborne CO2. Larger, faster or more radical changes, however, may well result in vegetation stress, rapid plant loss and desertification in certain circumstances.

Ice Cores

Analysis of ice in a core drilled from a ice sheet such as the Antarctic ice sheet, can be used to show a link between temperature and global sea level variations. The air trapped in bubbles in the ice can also reveal the CO2 variations of the atmosphere from the distant past, well before modern environmental influences. The study of these ice cores has been a significant indicator of the changes in CO2 over many millennia, and continue to provide valuable information about the differences between ancient and modern atmospheric conditions.

Pollen Analysis :

Palynology is the study of contemporary and fossil palynomorphs, including pollen. Palynology is used to infer the geographical distribution of plant species, which vary under different climate conditions. Different groups of plants have pollen with distinctive shapes and surface textures, and since the outer surface of pollen is composed of a very resilient material, they resist decay. Changes in the type of pollen found in different sedimentation levels in lakes, bogs or river deltas indicate changes in plant communities; which are dependent on climate conditions.
Insects
Remains of beetles are common in freshwater and land sediments. Different species of beetles tend to be found under different climatic conditions. Given the extensive lineage of beetles whose genetic makeup has not altered significantly over the millennia, knowledge of the present climatic range of the different species, and the age of the sediments in which remains are found, past climatic conditions may be inferred.

Sea level change

Global sea level change for much of the last century has generally been estimated using tide gauge measurements collated over long periods of time to give a long-term average. More recently, altimeter measurements — in combination with accurately determined satellite orbits — have provided an improved measurement of global sea level change.

COPENHAGEN DEAL

So what’s the deal?
The Copenhagen Accord, as it was named last night, makes reference to the need to keep temperature rises to no more than 2°C and says rich countries will commit to cutting greenhouse gases and developing nations will take steps to limit the growth of their emissions – but sets no targets.
Under the accord, countries will set out their pledges for the action they plan to take to tackle climate change, in an appendix to the document, and will provide information to other nations on their progress.
There are promises of short term finance to the tune of $10bn a year over three years for poor countries to help them fight climate change, and a long term funding package worth $100bn a year by 2020.
There are also references to the importance of reducing deforestation and efforts to give poor countries access to technology that helps them go green.

Is it what we expected?
Originally, the plan was for the Copenhagen talks to deliver a comprehensive, legally-binding international deal to tackle climate change. But it has been clear for some time that such an agreement would not materialise at these talks.
In the immediate run-up to the negotiations, it was hoped a political agreement could be reached, which could then be turned into a legal treaty next year.
We did come out of the talks with a political agreement drawn up by leaders and which was eventually accepted by the conference of more than 190 countries this morning, but there are some major holes in the deal.
So what's missing?
Some key things. Firstly there is no mention of any long term global emissions cut targets – although the 50% reduction by 2050, which was dropped at the last minute, is what would be needed to meet the 2°C temperature cap still referred to in the deal. There is no target, either, for the long term cuts developed countries must make.
Perhaps more significant, though, is the absence of any timescale for when or even if the deal could be turned into a legally-binding treaty.
And a series of other agreements which would have formed part of the deal, such as one on how to tackle deforestation, have been shelved until the next conference.

Who drew it up?
Leaders had expected to arrive in Copenhagen for the end of the talks to sign an agreement drawn up by negotiators, but when they arrived – mostly on Thursday – officials had not managed to agree something they could give them.
As a result heads of state and government from a number of countries themselves ended up thrashing out parts of the text in the early hours of Friday morning, and held talks with one another while officials and negotiators continued to work out details throughout the day.
Eventually the US announced it had secured agreement with China, India, Brazil and South Africa for the deal, which got the eventual backing of the EU and – in the end – the majority of developed and developing countries at the conference.
This was billed as a historic opportunity for the world to tackle climate change, but faces have been glum around the talks in the wake of the announcement.

Conclusion:
Thus we have studied various issues related to CLIMATE CHANGE including the source, preventive measures and copenhagen deal. From this , it is evident that only climate and change are the two things which always are subjected to change.

Arrival of two new franchises in IPL

2010-02-17T19:06:00.000-08:00

The Indian Premier League (IPL) will announce two new franchises on March 8, four days before start of the third season, as the Indian Premier League-3 auction
chatter on interested parties continues to rack up and strike out a legion of big names.

The new teams will join eight others only from the 2011 season, but the T20 cricket event will affirm its standing among the world’s richest sporting affairs with a base price of $225 million, more than four times that of the inaugural season. The bidding tenders, said to cost Rs 5 lakh each though this could not be independently verified, would go on sale from February 21.

IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who announced the dates on Wednesday, had earlier set off a speculation frenzy by revealing the interest of a "very famous" UK football club, though he refused to say which one. Speculation is rife that Sheikh Mansour, the owner of Manchester City, will bid for an IPL team. But the base price, roughly double of what he has spent on the soccer club, is a pointer to IPL’s ritzy status in the sporting world.

Other big names have also been doing the rounds. Hero Honda MD Pawan Kant Munjal had earlier said he could look to bid for a new team as a personal investment while Sahara group said it is exploring the opportunity. There have also been reports that Kerala-based financial services company Muthoot group looking to float a consortium with director Priyadarshan and actor Mohanlal. Bollywood actors such as Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan have also shown interest in owning a team.

But according to IPL watchers, consortiums rather than individuals are more likely to bid for the two new teams.

Mr Modi said 12 cities-Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamshala, Indore, Cuttack, Gwalior, Vishakapatnam-were in contention for IPL 4. Prospective bidders can choose from cities, of which four will host games during this season.

Rajkot, Pune, Baroda and Cochin, which are building stadia, are also eligible for bids, Mr Modi wrote on Twitter. The IPL governing council is launching the bidding process for 2011 before the start of the third season so that the new team owners have not only access to the current event but are also better-equipped for Season 4, said Mr Modi.

Hockey Quiz

2010-02-17T18:47:00.000-08:00

Questions

1) Do you know who was the captain of Indian hockey team in 1952 helsinki Olympics where Indian had won gold medal?

2)In which year india had won the world championship?

3)what was the indias goals score to win berlin olympic (1936) gold medal & against whom?

4) Who is the only player who captained Indian hockey team twice in Olympics?

Answers

1) K.D.Singh Babu.

2)Indian won the world championship in 1975 only when it was held at Kwalalampur.
Additional info: World championship started in 1975 only.

3)it was germany & score was 8-1
the only goal india received in full olympic tournament.

4)Pargat Singh is the right answer. He was captain in 1992 (Barcelona) and 1996 (Atlanta).
additional info:
Maj Dhyan chand was captain in 1936 Berlin Olympics only.

"KAMALHAASAN - LEGENDARY ACTOR" - 1st time in this Blog history, an article about an actor

2010-02-17T08:13:00.000-08:00

KAMAL HAASAN

BIO DATA

Date of birth : 7th November 1954
Parents : D. Srinivasan and Rajalakshmi,
Born in : Paramakudi, Madras State( now tamilnadu), India
Spouse(s) : Vani Ganapathi(1978-1988) and Sarika (1988-2002)
Domestic partner : Gouthami Tadimalla (2004-present)
First Movie : Kalathur Kannamma ( as a child) and later on entered through Malayalam film Kanyakumari (1974)

About Kamal hassan

One of the leading method actors of Indian cinema, Kamal Hassan is an Indian film actor, script writer, and filmmaker, and considered the actor with the most number of films submitted in contest for the, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film by Indian film industry.

Kamal Hassan, a Padmashri holder, is the most decorated actor in terms of awards in the history of Indian cinema. He has starred in more than 150 movies, in almost all the major Indian languages -

@ Tamil,
@ Telugu,
@ Kannada,
@ Malayalam
@ Hindi and
@ Bengali

has the distinction of being

# an actor,
# a director,
# a screenwriter,
# a lyricist,
# a playback singer
# a choreographer and so on...

HIS HISTORY:

Kamal gave his first short in 1959 for the film “Kalaththoor Kannamma” when he was only five years old. Produced by AVM Productions and directed by Bhim Singh, the film was released Aug 12, 1960. While Gemini Ganesan and Savitri played lead roles, Kamal featured as a child artist and had even sung a popular song “Ammavum Neeye Appavum Neeye” in it.

Kamal had won the best child actor National Award for his performance in his debut film.

AWARDS :

* Best child actor National Award - Kalaththoor Kannamma (1960) [ In his 1st movie]
* Best actor national awards

---------> “Moondram Pirai” (1982)

---------> “Nayagan” (1987) and

---------> “Indian” (1996).

* Best Actor Filmfare Award - Pushpak (1988) [comedy that didn’t have any dialogue]

* He has won several honours like Nandi awards & many Tamilnadu state film awards.

EXCLUSIVES OF KAMAL:

$ Kamal Haasan happens to be the one and only Indian actor bagging more than 18 Filmfare awards.

$ The actor with the most number of films submitted by India for the Academy Award in Best Foreign Language Film category.

$ 1st South Indian hero to complete his 50 flower full years in film industry.showman of Indian film fraternity just celebrated his “Golden Jubilee’ in grandeur.

$ Kamal Haasan had choreographed dance for

---------> MGR in “Naan En Pirandhein’,

---------> Sivaji Ganeshan in “Savaale Samaali’ and

---------> Jayalalitha in “Anbu Thangai’.

$ He is fluent in Tamil, English, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada and French.

$ At present Kamal Haasan own 4 lavish cars. He owns “Hummer H2′ that costs 1.8Crores. The car is more costly than “Hummer H3′ owned by Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin.

CARRIER MILE STONES:

நட்புக்கு கூட கற்புகள் உண்டு நல்லா தெரிஞ்சுக்கடா!

2010-02-16T03:30:00.001-08:00

நட்புக்கு கூட கற்புகள் உண்டு நல்லா தெரிஞ்சுக்கடா!

ஒன்பதரை மணி காலேஜிக்கு
ஒவ்வொருத்தனா கெளம்பும் போது
ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் தூங்கிகிட்டிருப்பான்
ஒன்பது இருபது ஆகுற வரைக்கும்...

அடிச்சி புடிச்சி கெளம்புறப்போ
அரை குறையா குளிச்சதுண்டு
பத்து நிமிஷ பந்தயத்துல
பட படன்னு சாப்டதுண்டு

பதட்டதோட சாப்பிட்டாலும்
பந்தயத்துல தோத்ததில்ல,
லேட்டா வர்ற நண்பனுக்கு
பார்சல் மட்டும் மறந்ததில்ல!

விறுவிறுன்னு நடந்து வந்து
காலேஜ் Gate நெருங்குறப்போ
'வெறுப்படிக்கிதுடா மச்சான்'னு
ஒருத்தன் பொலம்பி தொலச்சாக்கா,
வேற எதுவும் யோசிக்காம
வேகவேகமா திரும்பிடுவோம்
வெட்டியா ரூம்ல அரட்டை அடிக்க,
இல்ல 'வெற்றி' தியேட்டர்ல படம் பாக்க!

'கஷ்டப்பட்டு' காலேஜிக்கு போனா
கடங்கார professor கழுத்தறுப்பான்...
assignment எழுதாத பாவத்துக்கு
நாள் முழுக்க நிக்கவச்சி தாக்கறுப்பான்!

கேலி கிண்டல் பஞ்சமில்ல,
கூத்து கும்மாள குறையுமில்ல,
எல்லாருக்கும் சேத்துதான் punishmentன்னா
H.O.Dய கூட விட்டதில்ல!

ஈ அடிச்சான் காபி இந்தபக்கம்னா
அத அடிப்பான் காபி அந்தபக்கம்...
ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் படிச்சிட்டு வந்து
ஒன்பதுபேர் பாஸ் ஆனதுண்டு!

பசியில யாரும் தவிச்சதில்ல
காரணம் - தவிக்க விட்டதில்ல...
டீக்கடையில கடன்வச்சி குடிச்சாலும்
சரக்கடிக்க பஞ்சமே வந்ததில்ல!

அம்மா ஆசையா போட்ட செயினும்
மாமா முறையா போட்ட மோதிரமும்
fees கட்ட முடியாத நண்பனுக்காக
அடகு கடை படியேற அழுததில்ல ...

சட்டைய மாத்தி போட்டுக்குவோம்
சாதி சமயம் பாத்ததில்ல,
மூஞ்சிமேல காலபோட்டு தூங்கினாலும்
முகவரி என்னன்னு கேட்டதில்ல!

படிச்சாலும் படிக்கலன்னாலும்
பிரிச்சி வச்சி பாத்ததில்ல...
அரியர்ஸ் வெச்சாலும் வெக்கலன்னாலும்
அந்தஸ்த்து பாத்த ஞாபகமில்ல!

வேல தேடி அலையுறப்போ
வேதனைய பாத்துப்புட்டோம்
'வெட்டி ஆபிஸர்'னு நெஜமாவே
மாறி மாறி சிரிச்சிகிட்டோம்!

ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் சம்பாதிக்க ஆரம்பிச்சு
ஒன்பது பேரும் உக்காந்து சாப்பிட்டப்போ
மனசு கட்டபொம்மனா நண்பனுக்கு நன்றி சொல்ல
கண்ணு எட்டப்பனா கண்ணீர் சிந்தி காட்டி குடுக்கும்...
பக்குவமா இத கண்டும் காணாம
நண்பன் தட்டி கொடுக்க நெனைக்கிறப்போ
'சாப்பாட்ல காரம்டா மச்சான்'னு
சமாளிச்சி எழுந்து போவோம்...

நாட்கள் நகர,
வருஷங்கள் ஓடுது,
எப்போதாவது மட்டுந்தான் இ-மெயிலும் வருகுது
"Hi da machan... how are you?" வுன்னு...

Absolutely True!!!!

2010-02-16T03:27:00.000-08:00

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.
The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant
you three wishes." The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, "Thank
you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.
Whatever you wish for, your husband will get times ten!" The woman
said, "That's okay." For her first wish, she wanted to be the most
beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, "You do realise
that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in
the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to". The woman replied,
"That's okay, because I will be the most beautiful Woman and he
will have eyes only for me." So, KAZAM-she's the most beautiful Woman
in
the world! For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in
the
world.
The frog said, "That will make your husband the richest man in the
world.
And he will be ten times richer than you. " The woman said, "That's
okay,
because what's mine is his and what's his is mine."
So, KAZAM-she's the richest woman in the world! The frog
then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild
heart
attack."

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't mess with them.
Attention female readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop
here and
continue feeling good.
Male readers: Please scroll down.

The man had a heart attack ten times milder than his wife!!!
Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really
smart.
Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show.
PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this; it only goes to show
that
women never listen!!!
Forward this to all the guys for a good laugh, and to all the ladies
who have a good sense of humour...!!!!!

Twenty nice thoughts

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These are the thoughts which i,pressed me as soon as i had an eye on them...

"We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul."

"When something seems to be missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone."

"I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here."

"We all know some lovable person who will certainly get to heaven -- unless it requires being somewhere on time."

"Usually, wanting the best for someone is as far as you should get involved."

"We don't always get to where we want to go, but we always get to where we're going.

"It is hard to reason with a man who sees his personal self-interest as a branch of logic."

New on the best-seller list, "How to Raise Kids", Seventh Revision.

I always turn to the newspaper "Life Styles" section first, looking for goings-on under "Sedentary."

"In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also."

"TV consists mostly of good-looking people and cartoon characters, the first interviewing the second."

"Truth has its advocates, but, these days, nonsense seems to have all the martyrs."

"You will not get compromise from those who advocate pure nonsense, for they have a considerable stake in its purity."

"There are many human relationships that would be improved by one more degree of separation."

"It is not just the skeptic who is incapable of faith but they who profess certainty."

"It is not unreasonable to have faith in that which is necessary for your happiness."

"Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us."

"Ask me to die for what my country might be, but, please, do not ask me to die for what my country once was."

"You can find your answer in God, but it helps to be willing to rephrase the question."

"Inevitably we get bogged down in family responsibilities, our search for life's purpose sidetracked by finding it."

ACCET-Karaikudi

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Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology (ACCET-Karaikudi) is a major autonomous college of engineering college [from the academic year 2009-'10] in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. It is under the control of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The college is also a member institute under the TEQIP - Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme in India. (11 colleges were selected from Tamil Nadu)

History:

In 1952 21 July, ACCET started with three faculties - Civil, Mechanical and Electrical and Electronics Engineering by Dr. R.M. Alagappa Chettiar.

In 1966, the institution was handed over to the Government of Tamil Nadu.

In 1969 a new faculty, Electronics and Communication Engineering was started.

In 2001, B.E. Degree course in Computer Science and Engineering was also introduced.

Departments:

@ MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
@ CIVIL ENGINEERING
@ ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
@ ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
@ COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING

SITES FOR REFERENCE:

http://www.accet.in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagappa_Chettiar_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology
http://www.accetalumni.ning.com/
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/09/01/stories/2008090159380800.htm
http://accet.net/listofprincipals.html

MY OPINION ABOUT MACHINES AND OUR LIFE

2010-02-13T03:47:00.000-08:00

It's an attempt made by me to share my views about the present world, our life and it's co-relation with the machines.

I just initially had a thought of finding out the 1st successful machine invented by man and finally i found that it was printing press. As time passes, automation came and our life have changed.

Due to the automation of machines in every field, though there are many pros we became certain cons too..

We have to work out with the cons and have to rectify them.

----> Suggestions needed for further development<---

Do read it

2010-02-13T03:46:00.000-08:00

nothing in life happens as such. it is all decided to whom,how,when it should happen. scholars say life is to be cherished so so... bla bla... but how many of u have thought of yours own and its proceedings?
at least once in a day?
a week?
or at least a month?
farther to say an year?
u expect everything to happen in favor of you.. but what is there to expect happen which u never thought of?
does it looks crazy:)still it is the truth..

make it happen you will feel the DIFFERENCE.

MY OPINION ABOUT MACHINES AND OUR LIFE

2010-02-13T02:08:00.000-08:00

It's an attempt made by me to share my views about the present world, our life and it's co-relation with the machines.

I just initially had a thought of finding out the 1^st successful machine invented by man and finally i found that it was printing press. As time passes, automation came and our life have changed.

Due to the automation of machines in every field, though there are many pros we became certain cons too..

We have to work out with the cons and have to rectify them.

----> Suggestions needed for further development<---