my new blog

hai friends I have been  thinking of moving to wordpress.. I think its nice to switch to wordpress blog now.
U can read my older blog posts in the blogger in  my new  wordpress blog also.so please do reading my blogs
at http://blognikhil.wordpress.com

follow me on twitter:@niksindia

Neelathamara- movie review(Malayalam 2009)

Neelathamara(Malayalam 2009) is really a nice movie which is not more than2 hours..just  as a short film.Its the remaking of an old film which released 30 years ago with  the same title.

neelathamara  is a female centric film with majority of freshers. With the nice script of M.T.Vasudevan Nair and from the hit maker Laljose the film had become something nice to see,which is not boring.

The story starts in the present time and later it moves as flash back before some years.The heroine(Archana kavi) comes as a house maid to the land lady.The land lady's son  the hero (kailas)who doing his final year LLB return home and gets attracted to the girl.He makes advantage of the girl and later gets married to his relative.They sends the girl out of the house and gets married to another guy who is her relative.The girl came back after years and remembers the story as she saw her old photos.

The name neelathamara suits the film,in the story there is a blue coloured  lotus in the pond near a temple, which blossoms when we offers prayers.
The movie has got Vidyasagars great music.The background score and the original tracks is also nice.
Nice camera and more over the great script from great writer.
The pictorization also needs appreciation.
The movie ends iat unexpected time and has no such amazing climax.Its sure that it won't make the audience unhappy.

"So I personallly reccomend to watch the movie..."

2012- review

I recently saw 2012 the movie which came with lot of advertisements and expectations.. But it doesnt make any sense.One thing the movie is graphically intense and at the same time it has no good story. As usual the hero an american guy and his family tries to save the world and by themselves as all americans are born to save the world in movies.The doesn't shows anything to prove what they really meant.
It shows some thing like the Noah's ark.The movie seems to be a low budget even though its expenditure  was   about 900 crores.
Its recommendedto  watch tom and jerry rather than going for 2012 movie....

Janmashtami 09

Its more than one week after janmashtami am writing this blog..We in kerala celebrated janmashtami on sep 11th...where the north indians celebrated this almost one month ago...This year it was really nice that i wa sat home.. celebrated with my friends amd all...I too had some family functionson the same day.. It was realy  busy days.. we slept for only 1 hour  maximun on the day before janmashtami as we were busy with the decorations and all.. we celebrated it as the part of balagokulam....a  was procession was there..small kids with the dressings of krishna and radha. It was nice to see that.....
Last year i celebrated the janmashtami in the ashram(MAM), amritapuri... my classmates was there....and this year i had to go to home...as we decided to conduct it colourfully......
festivals always brings happiness....

This month we are having another celebrations.. a great event...the birthday celebrations of Amma(Mata Amritandamayi Devi). in our campus...as amritapuri campus is hosting the great event this year also....
Time is so busy.... our end sem starts on nov 12th, second internals on oct 12th, the ACM ICPC Asia Level contest...the same thing is also hosted by amritapuri campus itself... Our department tech fest....exams..... so days  are getting busy...
see you.....

10 Deadly Sins of Negative Thinking

1. I will be happy once I have _____ (or once I earn X).

Problem: If you think you can’t be happy until you reach a certain point, or until you reach a certain income, or have a certain type of house or car or computer setup, you’ll never be happy. That elusive goal is always just out of reach. Once we reach those goals, we are not satisfied — we want more.

Solution: Learn to be happy with what you have, where you are, and who you are, right at this moment. Happiness doesn’t have to be some state that we want to get to eventually — it can be found right now. Learn to count your blessings, and see the positive in your situation. This might sound simplistic, but it works.

2. I wish I were as ____ as (a celebrity, friend, co-worker).

Problem: We’ll never be as pretty, as talented, as rich, as sculpted, as cool, as everyone else. There will always be someone better, if you look hard enough. Therefore, if we compare ourselves to others like this, we will always pale, and will always fail, and will always feel bad about ourselves. This is no way to be happy.

Solution: Stop comparing yourself to others, and look instead at yourself — what are your strengths, your accomplishments, your successes, however small? What do you love about yourself? Learn to love who you are, right now, not who you want to become. There is good in each of us, love in each of us, and a wonderful human spirit in every one of us.

3. Seeing others becoming successful makes me jealous and resentful.

Problem: First, this assumes that only a small number of people can be successful. In truth, many, many people can be successful — in different ways.

Solution: Learn to admire the success of others, and learn from it, and be happy for them, by empathizing with them and understanding what it must be like to be them. And then turn away from them, and look at yourself — you can be successful too, in whatever you choose to do. And even more, you already are successful. Look not at those above you in the social ladder, but those below you — there are always millions of people worse off than you, people who couldn’t even read this article or afford a computer. In that light, you are a huge success.

4. I am a miserable failure — I can’t seem to do anything right.

Problem: Everyone is a failure, if you look at it in certain ways. Everyone has failed, many times, at different things. I have certainly failed so many times I cannot count them — and I continue to fail, daily. However, looking at your failures as failures only makes you feel bad about yourself. By thinking in this way, we will have a negative self-image and never move on from here.

Solution: See your successes and ignore your failures. Look back on your life, in the last month, or year, or 5 years. And try to remember your successes. If you have trouble with this, start documenting them — keep a success journal, either in a notebook or online. Document your success each day, or each week. When you look back at what you’ve accomplished, over a year, you will be amazed. It’s an incredibly positive feeling.

5. I’m going to beat so-and-so no matter what — I’m better than him. And there’s no way I’ll help him succeed — he might beat me.

Problem: Competitiveness assumes that there is a small amount of gold to be had, and I need to get it before he does. It makes us into greedy, back-stabbing, hurtful people. We try to claw our way over people to get to success, because of our competitive feelings. For example, if a blogger wants to have more subscribers than another blogger, he may never link to or mention that other blogger. However, who is to say that my subscribers can’t also be yours? People can read and subscribe to more than one blog.

Solution: Learn to see success as something that can be shared, and learn that if we help each other out, we can each have a better chance to be successful. Two people working towards a common goal are better than two people trying to beat each other up to get to that goal. There is more than enough success to go around. Learn to think in terms of abundance rather than scarcity.

6. Dammit! Why do these bad things always happen to me?

Problem: Bad things happen to everybody. If we dwell on them, they will frustrate us and bring us down.

Solution: See bad things as a part of the ebb and flow of life. Suffering is a part of the human condition — but it passes. All pain goes away, eventually. Meanwhile, don’t let it hold you back. Don’t dwell on bad things, but look forward towards something good in your future. And learn to take the bad things in stride, and learn from them. Bad things are actually opportunities to grow and learn and get stronger, in disguise.

7. You can’t do anything right! Why can’t you be like ____ ?

Problem: This can be said to your child or your subordinate or your sibling. The problem? Comparing two people, first of all, is always a fallacy. People are different, with different ways of doing things, different strengths and weaknesses, different human characteristics. If we were all the same, we’d be robots. Second, saying negative things like this to another person never helps the situation. It might make you feel better, and more powerful, but in truth, it hurts your relationship, it will actually make you feel negative, and it will certainly make the other person feel negative and more likely to continue negative behavior. Everyone loses.

Solution: Take the mistakes or bad behavior of others as an opportunity to teach. Show them how to do something. Second, praise them for their positive behavior, and encourage their success. Last, and most important, love them for who they are, and celebrate their differences.

8. Your work sucks. It’s super lame. You are a moron and I hope you never reproduce.

Problem: I’ve actually gotten this comment before. It feels wonderful. However, let’s look at it not from the perspective of the person receiving this kind of comment but from the perspective of the person giving it. How does saying something negative like this help you? I guess it might feel good to vent if you feel like your time has been wasted. But really, how much of your time has been wasted? A few minutes? And whose fault is that? The bloggers or yours? In truth, making negative comments just keeps you in a negative mindset. It’s also not a good way to make friends.

Solution: Learn to offer constructive solutions, first of all. Instead of telling someone their blog sucks, or that a post is lame, offer some specific suggestions for improvement. Help them get better. If you are going to take the time to make a comment, make it worth your time. Second, learn to interact with people in a more positive way — it makes others feel good and it makes you feel better about yourself. And you can make some great friends this way. That’s a good thing.

9. Insulting People Back

Problem: If someone insults you or angers you in some way, insulting them back and continuing your anger only transfers their problem to you. This person was probably having a bad day (or a bad year) and took it out on you for some reason. If you reciprocate, you are now having a bad day too. His problem has become yours. Not only that, but the cycle of insults can get worse and worse until it results in violence or other negative consequences — for both of you.

Solution: Let the insults or negative comments of others slide off you like Teflon. Don’t let their problem become yours. In fact, try to understand their problem more — why would someone say something like that? What problems are they going through? Having a little empathy for someone not only makes you understand that their comment is not about you, but it can make you feel and act in a positive manner towards them — and make you feel better about yourself in the process.

10. I don’t think I can do this — I don’t have enough discipline. Maybe some other time.

Problem: If you don’t think you can do something, you probably won’t. Especially for the big stuff. Discipline has nothing to do with it — motivation and focus has everything to do with it. And if you put stuff off for “some other time”, you’ll never get it done. Negative thinking like this inhibits us from accomplishing anything.

Solution: Turn your thinking around: you can do this! You don’t need discipline. Find ways to make yourself a success at your goal. If you fail, learn from your mistakes, and try again. Instead of putting a goal off for later, start now. And focus on one goal at a time, putting all of your energy into it, and getting as much help from others as you can. You can really move mountains if you start with positive thinking.

Practice Everyday!!!

friends pls.............
check this video...This was actually shown to me by uma miss(arl of our campus, amrita). I was inspired by this video.. I showed this to all my friends... They all are inspireso pls dont neglect it.. If you are sad, or if you are worried,when loose your will power, when you loss your concentration,when you loss all the hope.. this will make you energetic....
please watch it... really inspiring....

Happpy holidays!!!!!

I dont know its a happy thing or not... As I was sitting in the lab it was announced that the college will be closed for two weeks due to precautions aganist swine flu..(It was later annouced by meda that it was swine flu and 4 got affected)If its so its unhappy for them for me also....lets prayfor them....
The second part about happness is i can go to home earlier for onam and so am happy....my mom too...my non keralte friends and friends from north kerala has got an oppourtuity to go home... even they never went to home for more than one and half months...
One ting the onam celebrations was cancelled due to the holidays(i mean precaution)..so all the joy lost...the pookalm competition ,malayali manka etc......
We were planning to ne project and we started to learn php but on the same day the ollege closed, so am afraid that the time limit will be closed or not...any way am now at home....
I think i'll get time to be active in groups and blogs....and enjoy with my family.....
take care......

H1N1 Flu Virus (Swine Flu)

In April 2009, a new strain of H1N1 swine flu emerged that contained a combination of swine, avian, and human influenza viruses. In the past, swine flu had mainly affected people who had direct contact with pigs. The new virus is unusual because it has spread among people who haven't been near pigs.

H1N1 swine flu, which was first observed in Mexico, has crossed borders and oceans, spreading to different countries and continents.

Causes of Swine Flu

Swine flu is contagious, and health officials believe it spreads in the same way as the seasonal flu. When people who are infected with swine flu cough or sneeze, they release tiny droplets containing the virus into the air. Anyone who comes in contact with these droplets or touches a surface (such as a doorknob or sink) that an infected person has recently touched can catch H1N1 swine flu.

A person who has swine flu can be contagious from one day before they show symptoms to seven days after they get sick. Children can be contagious for as long as 10 days.

Despite the name of the virus, you can't catch swine flu from eating bacon, ham, or any other pork product. However, to avoid other illnesses, it is always important to cook pork until it reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

Symptoms of Swine Flu

Symptoms of swine influenza are the same as those of seasonal influenza, and can include:

• cough
• fever
• sore throat
• stuffy or runny nose
• body aches
• headache
• chills
• fatigue
• nausea and vomiting

Swine flu also can lead to more serious complications, including pneumonia and respiratory failure, and it can worsen the severity of chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma. Serious symptoms such as shortness of breath, severe vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness, or confusion warrant an immediate call to your doctor or 911.

What is concerning about swine flu is that, unlike seasonal flu, which is typically most dangerous to the very young, elderly, and those with a weakened immune system, swine flu can also be life-threatening to young, healthy people.

Tests for Swine Flu

Because the symptoms of swine flu closely mimic those of seasonal flu, only a lab test can determine for sure whether you have the 2009 H1N1 swine flu. To test for swine flu, your doctor will collect a sample from your nose or throat. Not everyone with suspected H1N1 swine flu needs to be tested to confirm diagnosis, according to the CDC. The CDC says priority for testing is for people who are hospitalized or have high risk for severe disease, such as:

• Children under 5 years old
• People aged 65 or older
• Children and adolescents (under age 18) who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy and who might be at risk for experiencing Reye syndrome after influenza virus infection
• Pregnant women
• Adults and children who have chronic pulmonary, cardiovascular, hepatic, hematological, neurologic, neuromuscular, or metabolic disorders
• Adults and children who have immunosuppression
  

Precautions aganist Swine flu

Doctors urge people to take the standard precautions - primarily frequent hand washing, airing of rooms. If you feel sick, see a doctor. ...

What the nations did!!

As the H1N1 flu has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, NPE2009 is taking precautionary measures, including setting up hand-sanitizer stations throughout Chicago's McCormick Place convention center, having all shuttle buses cleaned daily, and making sure all Chicago hotels have instituted additional cleaning measures.

In a statement issued today, SPI President & CEO William R. Carteaux said: "It is certainly not my intention to make light of concerns regarding the H1N1 pandemic, but the plain fact is that in the United States, aside from a few temporary school closings, the situation continues to be 'business as usual'. The percentage of the total population affected remains less than one-tenth of 1 percent. Furthermore, after thoughtful research based on mathematical modeling, the World Health Organization decided not to restrict global travel because limiting travel would have very little effect on stopping the virus from spreading. Historical records of previous influenza pandemics, as well as experience with SARS, validate this."The good news is that 30,000 attendees from more than 100 countries have already registered for NPE2009 after the initial media coverage of H1N1. Carteaux said he will bring his entire family and 80 percent of his staff to Chicago for NPE week. All is encouraging. But just as how many American citizens were culture shocked with China's heavy hand on H1N1 prevention (see PN editor Bob Grace's recent column from Chinaplas called "Taking temperature of the flu outbreak"), I can just imagine how Chinese exhibitors and visitors will be shocked that American airports and convention centers don't take people's temperature, that the authorities don't quarantine people who have had contact with H1N1 patients or those who have fever, that Americans are not very nervous about the pandemic. China and the U.S. have very different legal, political and medical systems, population conditions as well as mentalities.Let's hope everything goes smoothly at the upcoming NPE show, and everyone remains safe and healthy.

What we people can do?
Only thing be clean, avoid contact with the persons who has gor swine....Wash hands regularly...

the terrible flu

what is it????[from yahoo answrs]

H1N1 commonly known as the "Swine" flu is a combination of human, swine, and two different types of bird virus'. This I believe was constructed in a lab. The most likely suspect is a vaccine company called Baxter International which literally stands to make billions of dollars from this pandemic scare. He's an article that strongly implicates them to this latest epidemic. Which has killed hundreds of people.

"The OMFG moment of the century: Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to ’stop’ swine flu outbreak in Mexico 25 Apr 2009 Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem [foment] an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico. Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said Saturday that the Deerfield, Ill.-based company has asked the WHO for a sample of the flu strain. He says Baxter has patented technology that allows the company to develop vaccines in half the time it usually takes — about 13 weeks instead of 26. [Is Baxter International taking a page from the Blackwater playbook? Just as Blackwater/Xe keep on killing to justify their multi-billion dollar contracts to provide 'security' in Iraq and Afghanistan, Baxter International is poised to make *billions* to vaccinate people against their pandemic.]

Are you ready? Wait for it…

Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic [Uh, it apparently *did.*]

06 Mar 2009 It’s emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab [the Austrian branch of US vaccine company, Baxter] last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic.

‘This was infected with a bird flu virus.’ Viral Pandemic H5N1 flu threat: Illinois-based Baxter contaminates European labs by error 25 Feb 2009 According to the scientific network PROMED, Baxter International Inc. in Austria “unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighboring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease”. As PROMED reports, the contamination has been discovered when ferrets at a laboratory in the Czech Republic died after being inoculated with vaccine made from the samples early this month. “The material came from Deerfield, Illinois-based Baxter, which reported the incident to the Austrian Ministry of Health, Sigrid Rosenberger, a ministry spokeswoman, said today in a telephone interview”, the network-alert-system is quoting. “This was infected with a bird flu virus,” Rosenberger said. “There were some people from the company who handled it.”
‘That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created.’ Baxter admits sending live avian flu viruses to subcontractor –People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled [!] in the Orth-Donau facility. 27 Feb 2009 The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses. And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria. [Source: The Canadian Press]

Spectre of pandemic 26 Apr 2009 The new strain contains gene sequences from North American and Eurasian swine flus, North American bird flu and North American human flu, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of Mexico’s dead were young, healthy adults, and none was aged older than 60 or or younger than three, the World Health Organisation said. This has alarmed health officials… Pandemic flus - like the 1918 Spanish flu and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics - often strike young, healthy people the hardest. Mexican officials promised a huge immunisation campaign in the capital this week. [The deadly vaccine program *ensures* a pandemic!]

CLG: Flu Kills The Torture Memos –In a ‘Holy convenience, Batman!’ moment, a ‘unique’ flu virus (one likely concocted in US Army labs) overtakes media coverage of revelations that the highest levels of the US government instructed the CIA (and private contractors) to torture terror suspects. By Lori Price 26 April 2009 Guess where the first swine flu outbreak occurred? That’s right, Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1976. Thirteen soldiers died, leading the US government to force a questionable vaccine on the population — backed by a legal liability escape clause mandated by and for the pharma-terrorists. Next, people started dying not from the flu — but from the *vaccine.*"

MY I - DAY 2009

As the nation celebretes its 63rd birthday we students and the seva association of our campus, sanjeevani planned to do sonething for india.We cleaned a Mini8 Civil station in karunagapally, kollam dist,kerala. It was a good experience in my life. WE all know what's the condition of a govt. office. Full of dust, may be snakes will be there in their store room....
I feel really proud that we did a great thing for our country, although its a small work.I think we did the same in last year, a small difference is that it was a govt hospita.A t that only a few came. But now manycame, those who were not present in the last year..now i remember the song "Tumchalo toh hindusthan chale.....".If we do it automaticaly others will do it....
Am sure... so lets hope others will do then same thing...
jai hind!!!!!!

Public Nuicense

This is what actually happened to me before one week before.AS i was going to my home from college for weekend holidays.. WE three (jithu, hqri. amd myself) got the very last seat of the bus.
Two people (age about 40) were sitting in the next seat to us.They were talking as louder as they can.Even the driver could hear what they are saying... They were talking in hindi.. None of us cant either sleep or do some thing that time.. Their mobile was of more sound than their speech.. It was really a uncomfortable journey.... MAny of us has faced the same thing atleast once in life... WE dont care about what others feel....This a public nuisenc .. I remember an incident happened in my first semester, as we threee are going home and i asked jithu tomplay a song and to increase its voulme, but he refused and told it may cause disturbance to others... I want to appreciate for his .....So it would be better if we care others, i mean not to hurt others.....

Meaning of Nikhil!

Gender: Boy
Origin: Sanskrit
Meaning: Entire; all(whole)
Pronunciation: ( nik hil)
Form of: Itself (Nikhil)
Rating: High

Miscellaneous Info for Nikhil
Categories:Hindu Names
Used in:English speaking countries,INDIA

Nikhil is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census).

Nikhil is of Hindi origin and means "complete," "universal," or "all." The name it would most likely mean "complete man." (wiki answers).

What is the meaning of the word Nikhil & in what language?

Nikhil is a Hindi and Sanskrit word that means "complete" or "universal". Sanskrit fragmentation of the word yields: Ni (without) + Kh (sky or boundary) + L (agreed or liked). It also has connotations with the colour blue, possibly because of the word "sky" being one of its roots. It is a commonly used name for males among Hindus.(yahoo answers)

IF more answere pls...send me or post it as comment!!!!

Sanjeevanam 09

I had attended a 3 day camp in our college conducted by Amrita Sanjeevani.... It was first of its kind in my campus....and for the scond time in my life..the first one was a 10 days camp.From 3rd july to 5th july 2009.I thought it will be boring and i think i felt so worried because none of my classmates was there in the camp.First day was ok...But 2nd and 3rd day we really rocked!!!!!
DAY 1
it wasnt a gud start , because our senior passed away unfortunately...
We woke up at 4:00 in the morning, for the first time in my life...we went for archana(dont mis understand..its a kind of puja or worship)...we chant lalitasahasranama, the manthras of godess lekshmi..It is belived that chanting of lalitashasranama will make us more energetic, more welthier,and so on... We went back to my room,E-block in ashram.We noticed one our roommate a guy from mEchanical, VISHAk was suffering from fever...we gave him medicine and advised to take rest...We went to mess, had our breakfast.. as usual dosa(on friday)..We went to college...I thougt I'll be the first.. but when i reached the e-learning room(where the inaguration is going to happen.) i found a lot of ssndals.. as like a supermarket....We entered into it.. Waited for the Chief guest.. Swami... He came with in a five minutes, with backgroundscore lokasamastha... wow a great monment...
(pls wait the rest will be uploaded soon)

3D Bowser...........

hey friends
bored of 2D browsers???
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Spacetime...ITS 100% free.Its just 7.8mb.It will take less than only 5 mins to download..To down lpad PLS go to www.spacetime.com or click here to download

Minimum PC Configuration:
	Operating System:	Windows 2000, Windows XP or Vista
	System Memory (RAM):	512MB
	Graphics Adapter:	128MB plus 3D Capable
	CPU:	Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD 2400xp+
	Screen Resolution:	1280 x 1024
	Color:	32-Bit True Color
	Network Speed:	768 Kbits/sec

USERS GUIDE
There are two main features of SpaceTime:

(1) 3D Search (2) 3D Tabbed Browsing




3D SEARCH

To use 3D Search, you simply choose what you would like to search from the drop-down menu in the toolbar of the application and type in your search term. SpaceTime then displays the output for your search results in what we call 3D Visual Stacks where all of your search results are displayed in an elegant 3D arrangement in a column.



NAVIGATION

Once you have a 3D Visual Stack in front of you, you have several options which are presented to you to move around. They are:

(1) next - advance forward to the next item in the visual stack

(2) previous - go back to the previous item in the visual stack

(3) next 10 - add the next 10 items to the current visual stack

(4) previous 10 - go back 10 pages at a time in the visual stack

(5) Scroll Wheel - You may also use the scrool wheel of your mouse as an alternative to the "next" and "previous" buttons.

(6) Fly around with Keyboard - You can also fly around in SpaceTime (which is really thrilling) and assume any viewpoint you can think of. To Fly, use the up, down, left and right keys. In addition, you can change the style of your up, down, left and right key navigation by choosing the right-click menu > movements > to walk, slide, examine and pan style movements. This is really one of the greatest features of SpaceTime as you have total freedom to move about your space.




3D TABBED BROWSING

If you have ever used a browser that features tabbed browsing, you know that each time you create a new tab, the new page replaces the previous page and the browser creates a tab to keep track of the new page.

Clicking these tabs allows you to shuffle among the pages in your browser.

SpaceTime allows end users to enter in URLs in the address line at the top of the application. Once you press Enter, SpaceTime creates this web page in your 3D Space. You can enter in as many URLs in the address line as you choose. Each time you enter a new URL, SpaceTime creates a new page behind the previous page that make up a 3D Visual Stack.

In addition, for each URL you enter in the address line, SpaceTime catalogues this by creating an icon on the Timeline which is located at the bottom of the application. Once you have several web pages within SpaceTime, you can shuffle between these pages by clicking the icons on the Timeline. Because SpaceTime displays you web pages in 3D, you may find yourself wanting to Go into 2D in order interact with one of the pages. To do this, you simply double-click anywhere on the web page. Once in 2D you can use this web page just as you would in your regular browser. When you're finished, you can Go back into 3D to continue using 3D Tabbed Browsing by clicking the red icon in the upper right of the application called "Go Back"

As an overview, you can:

(1) Create Web Page - Enter in a URL in the address line

(2) Shuffle Pages - Click the icons on the Timeline

(3) Go Into 2D - Double-click a web page

(4) Go back into 3D - Click the red "Go Back" button in the upper right hand corner of the application.


TIMELINE

SpaceTime keeps track of everything you do by cataloging it on the Timeline located at the bottom of the program.

When you conduct searches, SpaceTime creates one icon for this new search on the Timeline . Clicking among the icons on the Timeline will allow you to shuffle between your searches.

In addition, when you create new web pages using 3D Tabbed Browsiing, SpaceTime also creates one new icon for each newly created web page and adds this to the Timeline as well.

HISTORY

Most of the functionality in SpaceTime is visible to you as you mouse-over the icons on the screen. For example, if you mouse over the small triangle in the upper left hand corner of the screen you will see a thought bubble that says Open History. By clicking this triangle, it will open the History which reveales three tabs representing three categories (web pages, searches, and pictures). All of the searches you create in SpaceTime are indexed in the Searches Tab. All of your web pages you create using 3D Tabbed Browsing are indexed under the Web Pages Tab. Similarly, all of your pictures are indexed in the Pictures Tab. Of course, SpaceTime offers a novel way to visualize all of your information at once using 3D Visual Stacks where you can shuffle among your 3D Visual Stacks by clicking the icons on the Timeline. The History, on the other hand, gives you pin-point access to any item in your 3D scene accessible by category. You can close the History by clicking the same triangle icon you used to open the History.

Right Click Menu

If you are in SpaceTime, in 3D (not in 2D mode) and you click the right button on your mouse, you'll a bunch of commands available to you. One of the menu items on the right-click menu is options which features a list of very useful commands. Let's go over them.

Delete Item - Let's you delete a single item that your mouse's cursor is positioned at. Simply mouse over the item you would like to delete, right-click, choose options and delete item.

Delete Stack - This is similar to delete item, but instead of deleting one image or one web page, delete stack allow you to delete an entire 3D Visual Stack. In addition, if you mouse-over the active icon on the timeline, you'll see a small "x box" in the upper right hand corner of the timeline icon which clicking allows you to accomplish the same Delete Stack command.

Reset Scene - Resets your entire 3D Scene and frees up all you memory. It is equivalent to running the program for the first time.

Refresh Item - Reloads a web page

Save Item As - Saves either your (1) image or (2) web page to your computer's local file system. This is very usefull for 3D Image searches where you are able to save the images that you find right from within SpaceTime

3D Desktop

One of SpaceTime's most fascinating features is the ability to use your unlimitted 3D Space presented to you as beautiful blue skys as a floating 3D desktop. In other words, you can drag or move any item you would like to any position you choose.

Ctrl-Click-Drag - Just choose an image or web page, press the Ctrl key and then click-drag the item you would like to reposition along the X and y axis (up down, left right).

Ctrl-Shift-Click Drag - Just choose an image or web page, press the Ctrl-Shift key and then click drag the item you would like to reposition along the +z and -Z axis (into the background or into the foreground).

Please note that to reposition web pages, you must Ctrl-Click the Menu bar of the 3D web page to initiate teh Ctrl-Click-Drag.

Climatic change: the threat to life!!!

The earth's climate is dynamic and always changing through a natural cycle. What the world is more worried about is that the changes that are occurring today have been speeded up because of man's activities. These changes are being studied by scientists all over the world who are finding evidence from tree rings, pollen samples, ice cores, and sea sediments. The causes of climate change can be divided into two categories - those that are due to natural causes and those that are created by man.

Natural causes

There are a number of natural factors responsible for climate change. Some of the more prominent ones are continental drift, volcanoes, ocean currents, the earth's tilt, and comets and meteorites. Let's look at them in a little detail.

Continental drift
You may have noticed something peculiar about South America and Africa on a map of the world - don't they seem to fit into each other like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle?
About 200 million years ago they were joined together! Scientists believe that back then, the earth was not as we see it today, but the continents were all part of one large landmass. Proof of this comes from the similarity between plant and animal fossils and broad belts of rocks found on the eastern coastline of South America and western coastline of Africa, which are now widely separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery of fossils of tropical plants (in the form of coal deposits) in Antarctica has led to the conclusion that this frozen land at some time in the past, must have been situated closer to the equator, where the climate was tropical, with swamps and plenty of lush vegetation.

The continents that we are familiar with today were formed when the landmass began gradually drifting apart, millions of years back. This drift also had an impact on the climate because it changed the physical features of the landmass, their position and the position of water bodies. The separation of the landmasses changed the flow of ocean currents and winds, which affected the climate. This drift of the continents continues even today; the Himalayan range is rising by about 1 mm (millimeter) every year because the Indian land mass is moving towards the Asian land mass, slowly but steadily.

Volcanoes
When a volcano erupts it throws out large volumes of sulphur dioxide (SO₂), water vapour, dust, and ash into the atmosphere. Although the volcanic activity may last only a few days, yet the large volumes of gases and ash can influence climatic patterns for years. Millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide gas can reach the upper levels of the atmosphere (called the stratosphere) from a major eruption. The gases and dust particles partially block the incoming rays of the sun, leading to cooling. Sulphur dioxide combines with water to form tiny droplets of sulphuric acid. These droplets are so small that many of them can stay aloft for several years. They are efficient reflectors of sunlight, and screen the ground from some of the energy that it would ordinarily receive from the sun. Winds in the upper levels of the atmopshere, called the stratosphere, carry the aerosols rapidly around the globe in either an easterly or westerly direction. Movement of aerosols north and south is always much slower. This should give you some idea of the ways by which cooling can be brought about for a few years after a major volcanic eruption.

Mount Pinatoba, in the Philippine islands erupted in April 1991 emitting thousands of tonnes of gases into the atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions of this magnitude can reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface, lowering temperatures in the lower levels of the atmosphere (called the troposphere), and changing atmospheric circulation patterns. The extent to which this occurs is an ongoing debate.

Another striking example was in the year 1816, often referred to as "the year without a summer." Significant weather-related disruptions occurred in New England and in Western Europe with killing summer frosts in the United States and Canada. These strange phenomena were attributed to a major eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia, in 1815.

The earth's tilt
The earth makes one full orbit around the sun each year. It is tilted at an angle of 23.5° to the perpendicular plane of its orbital path. For one half of the year when it is summer, the northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun. In the other half when it is winter, the earth is tilted away from the sun. If there was no tilt we would not have experienced seasons. Changes in the tilt of the earth can affect the severity of the seasons - more tilt means warmer summers and colder winters; less tilt means cooler summers and milder winters.

The Earth's orbit is somewhat elliptical, which means that the distance between the earth and the Sun varies over the course of a year. We usually think of the earth's axis as being fixed, after all, it always seems to point toward Polaris (also known as the Pole Star and the North Star). Actually, it is not quite constant: the axis does move, at the rate of a little more than a half-degree each century. So Polaris has not always been, and will not always be, the star pointing to the North. When the pyramids were built, around 2500 BC, the pole was near the star Thuban (Alpha Draconis). This gradual change in the direction of the earth's axis, called precession is responsible for changes in the climate.

Ocean currents
The oceans are a major component of the climate system. They cover about 71% of the Earth and absorb about twice as much of the sun's radiation as the atmosphere or the land surface. Ocean currents move vast amounts of heat across the planet - roughly the same amount as the atmosphere does. But the oceans are surrounded by land masses, so heat transport through the water is through channels.

Winds push horizontally against the sea surface and drive ocean current patterns.
Certain parts of the world are influenced by ocean currents more than others. The coast of Peru and other adjoining regions are directly influenced by the Humboldt current that flows along the coastline of Peru. The El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean can affect climatic conditions all over the world.

Another region that is strongly influenced by ocean currents is the North Atlantic. If we compare places at the same latitude in Europe and North America the effect is immediately obvious. Take a closer look at this example - some parts of coastal Norway have an average temperature of -2°C in January and 14°C in July; while places at the same latitude on the Pacific coast of Alaska are far colder: -15°C in January and only 10°C in July. The warm current along the Norewgian coast keeps much of the Greenland-Norwegian Sea free of ice even in winter. The rest of the Arctic Ocean, even though it is much further south, remains frozen.

Ocean currents have been known to change direction or slow down. Much of the heat that escapes from the oceans is in the form of water vapour, the most abundant greenhouse gas on Earth. Yet, water vapor also contributes to the formation of clouds, which shade the surface and have a net cooling effect.
Any or all of these phenomena can have an impact on the climate, as is believed to have happened at the end of the last Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago.

Human causes

The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century saw the large-scale use of fossil fuels for industrial activities. These industries created jobs and over the years, people moved from rural areas to the cities. This trend is continuing even today. More and more land that was covered with vegetation has been cleared to make way for houses. Natural resources are being used extensively for construction, industries, transport, and consumption. Consumerism (our increasing want for material things) has increased by leaps and bounds, creating mountains of waste. Also, our population has increased to an incredible extent.

All this has contributed to a rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas supply most of the energy needed to run vehicles, generate electricity for industries, households, etc. The energy sector is responsible for about ¾ of the carbon dioxide emissions, 1/5 of the methane emissions and a large quantity of nitrous oxide. It also produces nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) which are not greenhouse gases but do have an influence on the chemical cycles in the atmosphere that produce or destroy greenhouse gases.

Greenhouse gases and their sources
Carbon dioxide is undoubtedly, the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Changes in land use pattern, deforestation, land clearing, agriculture, and other activities have all led to a rise in the emission of carbon dioxide.

Methane is another important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. About ¼ of all methane emissions are said to come from domesticated animals such as dairy cows, goats, pigs, buffaloes, camels, horses, and sheep. These animals produce methane during the cud-chewing process. Methane is also released from rice or paddy fields that are flooded during the sowing and maturing periods. When soil is covered with water it becomes anaerobic or lacking in oxygen. Under such conditions, methane-producing bacteria and other organisms decompose organic matter in the soil to form methane. Nearly 90% of the paddy-growing area in the world is found in Asia, as rice is the staple food there. China and India, between them, have 80-90% of the world's rice-growing areas.

Methane is also emitted from landfills and other waste dumps. If the waste is put into an incinerator or burnt in the open, carbon dioxide is emitted. Methane is also emitted during the process of oil drilling, coal mining and also from leaking gas pipelines (due to accidents and poor maintenance of sites).
A large amount of nitrous oxide emission has been attributed to fertilizer application. This in turn depends on the type of fertilizer that is used, how and when it is used and the methods of tilling that are followed. Contributions are also made by leguminous plants, such as beans and pulses that add nitrogen to the soil.

How we all contribute every day
All of us in our daily lives contribute our bit to this change in the climate. Give these points a good, serious thought:

- Electricity is the main source of power in urban areas. All our gadgets run on electricity generated mainly from thermal power plants. These thermal power plants are run on fossil fuels (mostly coal) and are responsible for the emission of huge amounts of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
- Cars, buses, and trucks are the principal ways by which goods and people are transported in most of our cities. These are run mainly on petrol or diesel, both fossil fuels.
- We generate large quantities of waste in the form of plastics that remain in the environment for many years and cause damage.
- We use a huge quantity of paper in our work at schools and in offices. Have we ever thought about the number of trees that we use in a day?
- Timber is used in large quantities for construction of houses, which means that large areas of forest have to be cut down.
- A growing population has meant more and more mouths to feed. Because the land area available for agriculture is limited (and in fact, is actually shrinking as a result of ecological degradation!), high-yielding varieties of crop are being grown to increase the agricultural output from a given area of land. However, such high-yielding varieties of crops require large quantities of fertilizers; and more fertilizer means more emissions of nitrous oxide, both from the field into which it is put and the fertilizer industry that makes it. Pollution also results from the run-off of fertilizer into water bodies.

[sources:http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/climate/causes.htm]

what to do???

To Control Climate Change, Alternative Energy Technologies Must Be Developed

Uncertainty in the climate sensitivity to growing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide has been a stumbling block to policy makers addressing the climate change issue. A study published in the March 28 issue of the journal Science, however, concludes that huge reductions in fossil-fuel carbon emissions will be required by the middle of this century -- regardless of the likely climate sensitivity.

"To reduce carbon dioxide emissions and avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we must switch to alternative, carbon-free energy sources," said Atul Jain, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a co-author of the study.

Jain and his colleagues -- lead author Ken Caldeira, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Martin Hoffert, a professor of physics at New York University -- found that even if climate sensitivity is in the low end of the accepted range, climate stabilization will require a massive transition to carbon-emission-free energy technologies during this century.

Climate sensitivity is the global mean temperature change that would result from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Based on current models, climate sensitivity is thought to lie between 1.5 degrees Celsius and 4.5 degrees Celsius.

In their study, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the researchers constructed stabilization pathways that led to a 2 degree Celsius warming after the year 2150. For each of the pathways, they calculated the allowable carbon dioxide levels using a globally aggregated Earth system model called the Integrated Science Assessment Model.

If climate sensitivity is at the high end of the range, then by the end of this century nearly all of our power will have to come from non-carbon-dioxide-emitting sources, the researchers found. "We must begin replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy technologies that support economic growth and equity," Jain said. "To achieve stabilization at a 2 degree Celsius warming, we would need to bring the equivalent of a large carbon-emission-free power plant into production somewhere in the world every day for the next 50 years."

The study concludes: "We do not now have non-carbon-dioxide-emitting energy technologies that can be applied today at the required scale. Given the long lead times needed for market penetration of new energy technologies, we need to develop appropriate energy technologies

source:www.eoearth.org/article/causes_of_climate_change

MADAM SIR :-Kiran Bedi

MADAM SIR :-Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi was the first woman police officer of the Indian Police Service. Spectators at the 1973 Republic Day Parade were amazed to see a lady at the head of the Police Contingent. The then Prime Minister, Mrs. lndira Gandhi was so impressed that she invited Kiran for breakfast with her the very next day.

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EARLY LIFE
Kiran Bedi was born on June 9, 1949,amritsar Punjab india.she was the second of the four daughters. Her father Prakash Lal Peshawaria, a landlord in Punjab was determined to educate his four daughters at a time when women were largely limited to doing household tasks.
While studying at the Sacred Heart Convent, Kiran joined the National Cadet Corps (NCC) and took up tennis, a game which her father used to play.
After school she went on to study Political Science at the Government College for Women, Amritsar. She loved the subject as she felt it taught her about her role as a citizen of the country. Kiran excelled at sports particularly tennis. She won the inter-University women's team title and bagged the national title as well as the Asian title in tennis. Bedi says the game taught her the value of hard work, the importance of staying fit and built in her the qualities of fair play, team work, concentration, and the ability to give in that extra bit under stress.
Kiran fell in love with Brij Bedi a fellow student and married him in 1972. This was also the year when Kiran was selected for the Indian Police Service (IPS).[source:www.kiranbedi.com]

PERSONAL LIFE:
Kiran Bedi's first serious relationship did not work for long. The basic reasons was that she was strongly career oriented, while he wanted her career to be secondary to his. The second issue was that he wanted a traditional marriage that included a dowry. The brave heart lady was not willing to be domesticated, so she decided to end the relationship. She then met Brij Bedi at the Amritsar tennis courts who shared same interests, beliefs and goals. He was nine years elder to her. They married in 1972 in the most unique marriage ceremony of the yesteryears. Neither of them believed in religious ceremonies, or an expensive marriage ritual. Therefore they went to the Shiva temple and prayed, going around the temple seven times. Then they organized a joint reception paid from their combined earnings.Three years later, in 1975, they had daughter Saina. Among her other three siblings, Shashi is settled in Canada, Reeta is a Tennis player and writer, and Anu is also Tennis player.


CAREER
She began her career as a Lecturer in Political Science (1970-72) at Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, India. In July 1972, she joined the Indian Police Service. On her web site, she states that she joined the police service "because of my urge to be outstanding".
She served in a number of tough assignments ranging from Traffic Commissoner of New Delhi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in insurgency prone Mizoram, Advisor to the Lieutanent Governor of Chandigarh, Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau and also on a United Nations deputation, where she became the Civilian Police Advisor in the United Nations peacekeeping department and for which she was awarded with the UN medal.She is popularly referred to as Crane Bedi for towing the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's car for a parking violation (the PM was on tour of United States then)[
Kiran Bedi influenced several decisions of the Indian Police Service, particularly in the areas of control over narcotics, traffic management, and VIP security. During her stint as the Inspector General of Prisons, Tihar Jail (Delhi) (1993-1995), she instituted a number of reforms in the management the prison, and initiated a number of measures such as detoxification programs, yoga, vipassana meditation, redressing of complaints by prisoners and literacy programs. For this she not only won the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award, but was also awarded the 'Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship', to write about the work done at Tihar Jail.
Important events in her career
*She was last appointed as Director General of India's Bureau of Police Research and Development.
*In May 2005, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law In recognition of her “humanitarian approach to prison reforms and policing”
*On 27 November 2007, she had expressed her wish to take Voluntary Retirement from job to take up new challenges in life. On 25 December 2007, Government of India decided to relieve Bedi, who was holding the post of the director general of Bureau of Police Research and Development, from her duties immediately.
*She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She has represented India at the United Nations, and in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues.
Career Highlights
* In 1977, she put an end to the Akali-Nirankari Sikh riots at India Gate.
* 1979, as DCP (West Delhi), she broke up a 200-year-old illicit liquor trade.
* In 1981 as DCP (Traffic) she controlled traffic during the 1982 Asian Games efficiently. She didn't hesitate to tow away cars and once even challaned the Prime Minister's car for wrong parking near a car repair shop.
* In 1985, as DCP (headquarters) she ordered 1600 pending promotions to be made in a single day. Standing instructions were issued that if any file was not cleared within three days the person concerned would be called personally to explain the delay.* In 1993, as the Inspector General of Asia's biggest jail - the Tihar jail (9100 inmates including 300 women) she turned the unlivable jail into an abode of education. Said Kiran while joining her posting at the jail, "I want to transform this jail into an Ashram within six months". She introduced many classes and programs for the inmates including those on basic education, meditation, yoga besides functions like mushairas, kavi sammelans, dramas and games, which involved the jail inmates. For her effort to humanize the Tihar jail she was honored with the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Achivements/ Awards

Kiran Bedi won the
*Junior National Lawn Tennis Championship in 1966T
*The Asian Lawn Tennis Championship in 1972
* All-India Interstate Women's Lawn Tennis Championship in 1976
*All-Asian tennis champion
*Asian Ladies Title at the age of 22.
*President’s Gallantry Award (1979)
*Women of the Year Award (1980)
*Asia Region Award for Drug Prevention and Control (1991)
*Magsaysay Award (1994) for Government Service
*Mahila Shiromani Award (1995)
*Father Machismo Humanitarian Award (1995)
*Lion of the Year (1995)
*Joseph Beuys Award (1997)
*Pride of India (1999)
*Mother Teresa Memorial National Award for Social Justice (2005)
In polls conducted by the "The Week "( 2002) Kiran Bedi was voted as the most admired woman in the country, 5th most admired Indian and one of the 15 Indian Icons of 2006.

Films:
A non fiction feature film on Dr Kiran bedi's life entitled Yes, Madam Sir has been produced by Australian film maker, Megan Doneman. This film is being screened in film festivals around the world. Its commentator is an Academy Award winner, Helen Mirren. Dr Kiran Bedi was present during its screenings in Toronto, Dubai and Adelaide, and to address the Q&A sessions at the end of each show. Every time it has been screened, it has received a standing ovation.
The documentary has made a clean sweep of the award categories---“Best Documentary” with a cash award of $100,000, the biggest prize for a documentary for any film festival in the US and the Social Justice Award with $2500.00 at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. ‘Yes Madam Sir’ got a unanimous vote from the jury
Books on Kiran Bedi
‘I Dare!’ biography of Kiran Bedi by Parmesh Dangwal.
Kiran Bedi — The Kindly Baton, by Dr Meenakshi Saksena,
"Government@net" by Sandeep Srivastava and Parminder Jeet Singh.
Autobiography
'I Dare. It's Always Possible', which was released in 1998
Her contributions to India
She is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti(New Enlightenment) , set up in 1994and India Vision Foundation, which reach out to over 10,000 beneficiaries daily, in the areas of drug abuse treatment, schooling for children of prisoners, in addition to education, training, counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor.. Her efforts have won national and international recognition, and her organizations was awarded the Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award for drug abuse prevention by the United Nations.
Dr. Bedi is an author of several books, anchors radio and television shows and is a columnist with leading newspapers and magazines. She is a sought after speaker on social, professional and leadership issues. Kiran Bedi hosted the TV show Aap Ki Kachehri Kiran Ke Saath on Star Plus.

After retirement Kiran Bedi launched a new website, www.saferindia.com , on January 3, 2007. The motto of this website is to help people whose complaints are not accepted by the local police. This project is undertaken by the non-profit, voluntary and non-government organisaton, India Vision Foundation.
and her latest initiative on police reforms (www.indiapolice.in). These safer India and indiapolice made the releation between common man and police good.
How she inspired Indians??
At the time of kiran bedi’s childhood women used to do household works. They were not even getting enough education. Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking (retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972.her activities made her popular. She did her job more and more scincerly, she didn’t show any different attitude to the prime minister,as the law is for all,for rulers and to the common. She was the inspiration of all Indian women who came in the policeforce, administrators, and even celebrities like filmstars. Her dediction to the nation ispires not only the womens but the whole nation…

India Vision 2020:-dedicated to aspiring young indians

India Vision 2020:-dedicated to aspiring young !ndians…


India Vision 2020 was initially a documanet prepared by TIFAC under the chairmanship of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul kalam and a team of 500 experts. Dr.Kalam further gave shape to this concept through his seminal work along with Dr.Y.S.Rajan – “ India 2020 : Vision for thenewmillennium.Dr.Kalam in one of his speeches elaborates the concept :“Transforming the nation into a developed country, five areas in combination have been identified based on India's core competence, natural resources and talented manpower for integrated action to double the growth rate of GDP and realize the Vision of Developed India.
These are:
*Agriculture and food processing
*Infrastructure with reliable and quality electric power
*Education and Healthcare:
*Information and Communication Technology:
*Critical technologies and strategic industries
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Speech delivered by Dr.Kalam at Hyderabad about 2020:
I have three visions for India.

In 3000 years of our history, people from allover the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Portuguese,the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us,took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and built on. If we are not free, no one will respect us. My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling, our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self reliant and self assured. Isn't this right? I have a third vision. The India must STAND UP TO THE WORLD. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have work with three great minds. Dr Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him, and Dr.Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life. I see four milestones in my career:
ONE: Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the project director for India 's first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of Scientist.
TWO: After my ISRO years, i joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of India 's guided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its mission requirements in 1994.
THREE: The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear tests and proving to the world that India can make it.That we are no longer a developing nation but one of them. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed this new material. A Very light material called carbon-carbon.
FOUR: One day an orthopaedic surgeon from Nizam institute of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three Kgs.each, dragging their feet around. He said to me: Please remove the pain of my patients. In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis 300 gram calipers and took them to the orthopaedic center. The children didn't believe their eyes. From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now move around! Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my forth bliss!
Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are thesecond largest producer of wheat in the world. We are the second largest producers in rice. We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed with the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings,bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so negative? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? we want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is: She replied: "I want to live in a developed India ." For her, you and I will have to built this developed India . You must proclaim. As an aside from yours truly: India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation in an advanced state of decay!!!!!
[Dr. Kalam’s speech at hydrabad:][source: www.indiavision2020.com]

My thoughts
Dr:APJ Abdul Kalam have the view that where should be India by 2020.What would be the position of India in world. I strongly believe that the coming years will be of India, India will become the most powerful and developed nations in the world. The reasons are
19th century was for the Europe, the ruled the world.
20th century was for the US. but I believe 21st century is for ASIA. Especially for INDIA and CHINA. We can become the most powerful nation if we work hard…
But still many problems are there, many obstacles!!
We have to overcome that…
We won’t fear because we have a great leader Dr. Kalam his visions , his inspiring speeches…
our great culture , and

our confidence to lead us…
We are now facing many problems, they are listed below and my ways to solve them
1.Terrorism:
The main obstacle for the development is terrorism. About 20 or more bomb blasts, attacks happens in India every year. The recent Mumbai blast 26/11 killed many, destroyed social life, made fear to tourists. The courts in India are very poor. The trail of the 1993 bomb blasts are still continuing in court even after 16 years.
As the chairman of planning coming commission I will try to make special courts for these kinds of cases in 4 zones.
I will make laws more strong laws as the VIPs are involved in many criminal and terrorism issues. I will try to make laws that no one with high criminal backgrounds cannot be a candidate in elections.
With these cases the internal issues like the public nuisance like destroying public properties like buses, gardens, government offices etc has to be stopped.
So as the existing laws are not sufficient, I’ll try to take these cases as some kind terrorism and the accused has to pay high fines and imprisonment if needed.
The internal security of India will be doubled by 2020.think that after 11 sep: 2001 no terrorists attacks are reported in America. Because the made their security more tight. So we will distribute good weapons to police, make each reserve battalions in each stare. Make NSG zone wise offices in Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkotta. I’ll will make more armed forces inn north eastern parts of India, as terrorism is more in that area. Make an aeroplane and helicopters ready for 24/7 for NSG in nearest airports to the Headquarters.
The security of the airports, railways, coasts will doubled, but it won’t affect the enjoyment of travelers.
.I’ll establish a 24/7 helpline for the public to inform any doubts on terrorism.
2.The life of a nation lies on the food and agriculture.
I’ll try to issue subsidies for local governments for the agriculture. The government will take the crops directly and if any loss happens the government will take its responsibility. As the 65%of India’s agriculture is concentrated on north India, we will try to make each state to make its own food. It’s too difficult, so we will issue subsidies. This will help in the economic growth of farmers.
*we will try to establish solar farming , as it’s a great source of energy, a project to interlink rivers.
* Establish a good pension plans for farmers.
*Make agriculture as a career
3.Infrastructure &develoment:
As kalam’s vision we will try to make more facities to all fields.
*Make more roadways, railway lines.Road ways connecting metros and towns. Make job security to all the people above 21 years. As the 70 percent of Indians are of below 30 rupees daily wage, we’ll try to give them good salary.
*As the nation’s life lies on the villages I’ll try to develop the villages along with the development of cities.
*Try to reduce the frequent price hikes. For that in case of food the food processing will be done with help of local government.
* To reduce sudden and frequent petroleum products price hikes the government will first increase the price to a little. So that we can control frequent price hikes.
*Try to make methods that people don’t spit or pass urine in the roads. Make enough toilets in cities (between in 500 meters ) and make bins to spit. Make law to pay fine if necessary.
Development of a nation doesn’t means building of multiplexes or building giant buildings. Development has to be started from the lower level of society.
4.Education
*Make the education up to 12th standard compulsory.
*Make more colleges and try to give job. Make laws to check colleges offering professional courses help in job assistance or not.
*Give free food to all who needed in government schools.
*Make digital classrooms in all schools that they can make use edusat to the maximum. Makes broadband network to all schools.
*Makes internet connectivity of all schools in a state.
*Compulsory Cultural studies (about ancient Indian civilization)in all schools
*Introduce national level scholarships for all.
*Make higher education to all who are eligible.
*Ban reservations in colleges, and schools in basis of caste and religion.
New reservation will introduce (in terms of economic background like APL. BPL).
5. Health
Change the primary health centers in all villages to small hospitals.
Ensure insurance to all who comes to government hospitals (for BPL).
Free medicines to all who below poverty line.
Reduce the price of emergency medicines by reducing the taxes.
6.Information and Communication Technology(ICT):
ICT can be used for tele-education, tele-medicine and e-governance to promote education in remote areas, healthcare and also transparency in the administration. People can ask the doubts about any thing by RTI (Right to Information). These technologies must reach villages, every where in India. Technology should reach people beyond territories Make broadband and other technologies in villages. Develop technologies to stop hacking and other cyber crimes.
7.Critical technologies
Make technologies that can predict disasters like tsunami, earthquake etc…
Make 24/7 helpline for disasters. Make seawalls to prevent another technology
Make those technologies help in public administration also.
8.Strategic industries
Make the India to develop more defence technologies, more space technologies, nuclear technologies. India should be a god military power as well as economic power.
9.Tourism
The one of the good business sectors in India. Make the programs like Incredible !ndia to promote tourism. Preserve historical places.
10.Enviornmental protection
Introduce programs like green !ndia for environmental protection and to control climate changes. Plants trees in the sides of roads. Make gardens in all cities.
More than that we will improve the living conditions for the women. As our epic says “ where women is worshipped, there Lord Rama is also worshipped”.
I am sure that by 2020 we will reach the top of the world.
11 more years!!
Work hard… make India shine.
Jai hind!