One of those "day-in-pictures" thing that tells the news for that day. .This one had some interesting shots, and two indian pictures. Click on picture and have a look if you got time.
It also had my favorite tennis star's picture as the first slide.
Harpo is the other name Oprah turns for.. Oprah Winfrey, the famous talk-show host of the US, who is known for many other things than 'The Oprah Winfrey show'. A lady who has turned gold... everything she touched..
Learn more about her achievements in the below link.
The thing I liked about her was.. 'she had raised huge public awareness of child abuse,....she has fought for it and got a bill passed by America on child abuse.... as per the bill.. the government should maintain a publicly accessible database with photographs of all people charged of child abuse one time or the other in their life..
One woman that speaks the pain normally any women has to go through in a world dominated by men. I always wondered at the success of oprah.. specially since I have not felt that her shows are very special than many great TV shows that are there.. Now I understand... its because she speaks out for women. And about turning everything Gold... when women rise-up beyond odds, that's what happens.
Ha.. you are waiting for the link..
http://www2.oprah.com/about/ostory/about_ostory_timeline.jhtml
If her bio could inspires me to making this post, though I never know nothing much of her, she definitely inspires women a lot more.. And the top image says it all. Its her magazine 'O' which is considered one of most successfull magazines in america, .. and as you see the image it aptly says 'Live your best life' on one of the issues.
NASA has a website called 'Blue Marble', where they post very high resolution images of their Earth observatory,(meaning could be used for publishing), and even some analysis images. I found an interesting set of analysis images wherein you can see how the northern hemisphere of the earth really freezes and defreezes in the winter.. While pictures taken in Jan show lot of snow or white, the consequent months show rise in temperature..
January 2004
April 2004
Cool :o)
More pictures are available here:Blue Mable
If you are the crazy guy like me, click on the small round Earth image (top of this post), to open bigger image...right click on it to set as wallpaper.
I have seen some work on water melons in marraige partys.. If they contracted a proffessionally trained caterer at the marriage, the caterer generally displays his skills at the water melon, and many other fruits at the evening reception..
But, now these creations should be pretty complex, and makes me wonder how much time these guys should have spent on it. (This also i received through fwded email, no idea whether it was some big water melon carving competition.. though the complexity suggest that.)
Now, somebody was asking me what to do with a water melon in the winter... its more so eaten for its cold taste in the summer. Who asked me... who was it...
What the rains made Chennai into.
Fallen Tree
At the 'Chennai Central' railway station
This is a road here.. will be able to see it again in 3-4 days, .. somebody is excited and swimming
Water from a subway pumped away... looks like someone took to opportunity to clean up his bicycle. If i had known this earlier, i would have taken my bike.
The Chennai city corporation building.. called 'Ripon building'.. some lord ripon built it. photographer probably had a bad angle on this one, makes it look like ripon building had a very dirty swimming pool.
Still wondering, thats a ford ikon. yes, we sometimes use these in such water too...you would have heard of all-terrain vehicles.. here its a submerged-terrain vehicle
Happy holidays!!.. thats what a small girl studying in this classroom in a school would say if she sees mess.
Chennaites think strange occassions for group photos.. smileee.
Thats our chennais public transport.. an MTC bus with its headlights lighting up underwater. do you see the traffic cop by the side with a stick.. we still check rules. these MTC bus drivers even overtake on such roads filled with water. Our MTC is one over-skilled department.
No, not a power station. 2-3 days and you will see rail tracks here.. well submerged with no trace of anything like a railway system.
I wonder.. whether this is another photo occassion.. i can hardly believe so.. anyway that's a fallen tree cut out from blocking the road.
With all this, it would be apt to call it 'floods' rather than 'rains'. But we chennaites are grown here with such tolerance levels that even I am unable to type floods anywhere thinking that would be exaggeration.
Except that it allowed many office goers to stay back home, all schools to declare a few days of last week as holidays, businesses unable to find customers even if some opened amidst odds, people had to walk into knee deep or some times neck deep water to reach their offices, few car drivers trying under-water driving and ending up stranded, airports and trains suspending or cancelling some services on days leaving passengers in the no-where, and a few or many more issues, .. life seemed to be normal.. or the people triumphed all the odds and made it normal.
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Enter 2006 and it will see the worlds largest aircraft dubbed 'Super Jumbo' by the media enter service. The first airline to use it in 2006 will be Singapore Airlines.
Why 2006? Is the Super Jumbo not ready yet?
Its ready! But as per official norms, the airplane will have to complete 2500 hrs of test flight before entering passenger service anywhere in the world. News is that, already Airbus has received 154 confirmed orders for the BIGgie.
The Airbus team kicked off the test flights recently.
Below are the images and press release made by Airbus after the first official test flight.
[Images and text below are excerpts from Airbus website and copyrights of Airbus]
The first A380 to take to the air landed at Blagnac international airport in Toulouse, France at 14.23 local time (12.23h GMT) after successfully completing a first flight that lasted three hours and 54 minutes.
Fernando Alonso, chief flight test engineer and vice president flight test division, said the A380’s take-off weight for the first flight, at 421 tonnes, was the greatest take-off weight of any aircraft in the world.
Related Links:
Visit the events website of A380. Post A380 e-cards to friends.
Visit the A380 user Specifications and fascinating figures website
A380 Images
A380 for Indians
If you live in India like me, then this news is for you.
India will have its own first A380 in 2010 courtesy Kingfisher Airlines. Kingfisher becomes the first Indian customer for A380. Chairman Dr. Vijay Mallya made the order in Paris air show 2005.
Looking for today's match update on wimbledon...Below links helped me follow the games offline.
These victory photos says it all in brief.
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/photos/galleries/index.html
Live! Match scorecard -from wimbledon
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/index.html
Wimbledon Tennis Courts
Center Court images -Ouside & Inside
Wimbledon in 1887
Maria sharapova is my recent inspiration. I admire the way this russian 17 year old made it to the wimbledon 2004 and eventually won it in straight sets against a hard opponent like serena williams... and very importantly yet she kept her mind in control when she spoke her age at the wimbledon saying "sorry to you (serena).. i didnt want to take this (wimbledon shield) from you, but i had to win today.. i myself didnt know"
I am sure if I stood near her, she would be atleast 1 feet above my head or so. A tall beautiful russian(actually siberian). And one sports magazine ad i saw today had her picture besides which was written.. "For those who thought siberia is cold..." ;-)
It was a display of sheer hardwork and focus on the goal(rather than the result) that this sportswoman showed at the wimbledon. Her walk to the podium to recieve the wimbledon shield was full of jumping, laughter, flying kisses and expressions. It sure showed how she tasted victory at that time.
Its wonderful that this woman showed up at the wimbledon beyond her own expectations. I dedicate this blog entry (well...thats something that i can do :o) to her. Thanks for inspiring me by your achievement.
