OLYMPICS 2008

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008 and followed by the 2008 Summer Paralympics from September 6 to September 17. Ten thousand, five hundred athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 games. The 2008 Beijing Olympics will also mark the third time that Olympic events will have been held in the territories of two different National Olympic Committees at the 2008 Olympics, equestrian events will be held in Hong Kong, which competes separately from mainland China.

The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The official logo of the games, titled "Dancing Beijing," features a stylized calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city. The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing both a colour of the Olympic rings and a symbol of Chinese culture. The Olympic slogan, One World, One Dream, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit. Several new NOCs have also been recognized by the IOC.

The Chinese government has promoted the games to highlight China's emergence on the world stage and has invested heavily in new facilities and transportation systems. A total of 37 venues will be used to host the events including 12 newly constructed venues. Earlier in 2007, former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch had said that he believes that the Beijing games will be "the best in Olympic history, and despite the controversies that have marred the image of the Chinese Olympics, current president Jacques Rogge asserts that the IOC has "absolutely no regrets" in choosing Beijing to host the 2008 games.

N.I.T BHOPAL ::{ { My Alma Matter}}

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (formerly Maulana Azad College of Technology, MACT), is one of the first eight Regional Engineering Colleges in India. The institute has been named after the great scholar, educationist and the first education Minister of Govt. of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The Govt. of India and Govt. of Madhya Pradesh jointly sponsored the then MACT (a Regional Engineering College) in 1960 to attract bright young students from across the country. The Institute is successfully meeting the objective of producing skilled manpower of the highest quality who is able to cope up with challenges of ever evolving industrial needs of the country.

The Institute is situated in the heart of Bhopal on southern side. The verdant 650-acre (2.6 km²) campus, on a beautiful plateau, houses, about 400 faculty and 1500 students who enjoy excellent facilities of laboratories that are well equipped. Over the past 40 years of the effective existence the laboratories have not only at attained maturity and confidence but also shaped themselves as Center for Excellence for higher education.

MANIT has students from all parts of the country. Student life revolves around the college campus and hostels. College has Hostel facility with round the clock net connectivity, electricity, water, security, canteen and other facilities for students. There are separate hostels for students who are in different academic years. Other than these hostels, Hostels for post graduation students are also available. All the hostels have a care taker, an assistant warden and a warden separately. A Chief warden is head of all hostels and post is held by senior Professor of college.

Apart from Indian students, candidates from many countries such as Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, United Arab Emirates and Oman also join MANIT for various undergraduate and post-graduate programs.

The college has active student life with various student organizations that include Drishtant (The literary society), iBC,ISTE(Technical Community), Vision (Science community),The Edboard,.etc. The students learn a lot more than mere academics. They are made into good entrepreneurs.

The year 2007-08 saw an unprecedented 662 job offers being made to MANITians from 64 companies. The year also saw a marked increase in the number of core jobs to an extent that the core fields seem promising. Many students had 2 offers and some even had 3 or more jobs. The institute boasts of very good placements with leading companies like Microsoft, Google,Verizon, HP Labs, Accenture , Aricent, CSC, IBM, Intel, Amdocs, Analog Devices, Reliance, Essar, TIME, LG, C-Dot, Capgemini, Honda, Hindalco, Samsung, BPCL, Bajaj Verizon, Career Launcher, Vedanta, Nestle, Areva TnD, DRDO, ABB, Tata Motors, Maruti, Pepsico, IOCL, NTPC, BHEL, Alstom, Satyam, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Conexant, Cognizant, HCC, L&T etc. visiting the institute for placement.

cELLO mANIA

In our modernized world, we all like or we can say addicted to use the most latest and fancy gadgets. But we don’t care for the harm they are doing to us, as it doesn’t appear sharply. The gadget like cell phone, we even can’t think about our life without it. In India the cell phone business is in flow. India at now is a home of 200 million mobile phone user with 60 million being added each month.

Phone too creates health problems. Cell phone usage has been suspect for time for the health hazards it poses. Studies have shown that people who use cell phone for long periods face the risk of developing malignant brain tumors; or it could lead to hearing impairment and sleep disorders and memory lapses. According to a survey, conducted by a Swedish scientist, indicates that’s an hour a day on a mobile phone for a decade is enough to increase the risk. Those who are much more addicted to their phones have double chances of developing a brain tumor on the side of skull where they held their handsets for over 10 years. The scientists have said to strictly prohibit children to use mobile phones because their thinner skull and developing nervous system made them especially vulnerable. This phone anxiety has added a new term in its dictionary and it is ringxiety. According to the psychiatrist it is a phenomenon in which users imagine their phone ringing or feel it vibrate when it is actually doesn’t.

For this there is no permanent solution since there is no replacement to phone, as it has become our essential part of living that is we can’t remove phone from our life but we can reduce its usage to have a painless and secure life. And yah the children must be discouraged to use mobile phones as they are our future generation.

The "Babylonian" Brotherhood

As the flood waters receded after the Venus cataclysm the survivors came down from the mountains and up from within the Earth. They settled on the lowlands and plains and began to rebuild. This was when Sumer, Egypt and the civilization in the Indus Valley suddenly appeared at a very high level of technological advancement, although they had existed before and were now restored after the upheavals. The Sumerian society began at the peak of its development because of this sudden infusion of knowledge and the white Aryan race, originally from Mars, expanded out from the Caucasus Mountains and the Near East down into Sumer, Egypt and the Indus Valley where, as even conventional history agrees, highly advanced societies spontaneously emerged. However within this white race, and others also, was a genetic stream I will call reptile-Aryan or reptile-human. Whenever I use the term Aryan I am referring to the white race. These were the crossbreed bloodlines created from the genetic manipulation of the Anunnaki. The major centre for the reptile-Aryan bloodlines, in the ancient world after the flood waters receded, was Babylon in the south of the Sumer region alongside the River Euphrates. A closer look at the evidence appears to date the foundation of Babylon far earlier than previously believed and it\ was one of the first cities of the post-flood era. It was here that the mystery schools and secret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years that followed. The Brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression of the Babylonian Brotherhood of reptile-Aryan priests and ‘royalty’ which came together there after the flood. It was in Babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000 years ago that the foundation beliefs - manipulated beliefs - of today’s world religions were established to control and rule the people.

Genetics : The Science of Heredity

Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. Knowledge of the inheritance of characteristics has been implicitly used since prehistoric times for improving crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However, the modern science of genetics, which seeks to understand the mechanisms of inheritance, only began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-1800s.^[3] Although he did not know the physical basis for heredity, Mendel observed that inheritance is fundamentally a discrete process with specific traits that are inherited in an independent manner — these basic units of inheritance are now called genes.

Following the rediscovery of Mendel's observations in the early 1900s, research in 1910s yielded the first physical understanding of inheritance — that genes are arranged linearly along large cellular structures called chromosomes. By the 1950s it was understood that the core of a chromosome was a long molecule called DNA and genes existed as linear sections within the molecule. A single strand of DNA is a chain of four types of nucleotides; hereditary information is contained within the sequence of these nucleotides. Solved by Watson and Crick in 1953, DNA's three-dimensional structure is a double-stranded helix, with the nucleotides on each strand complementary to each other. Each strand acts as a template for synthesis of a new partner strand, providing the physical mechanism for the inheritance of information.

The sequence of nucleotides in DNA is used to produce specific sequences of amino acids, creating proteins — a correspondence known as the "genetic code". This sequence of amino acids in a protein determines how it folds into a three-dimensional structure, this structure is in turn responsible for the protein's function. Proteins are responsible for almost all functional roles in the cell. A change to DNA sequence can change a protein's structure and behavior, and this can have dramatic consequences in the cell and on the organism as a whole.

Ancient Rome and the Republic

According to Roman legend, Rome was founded in 753 BC by the twins named Romulus and Remus. They built their settlements on the Palatine and Aventine hills respectively. (Rome sits on seven hills.) Remus grew jealous of Romulus and mocked the size of the walls he had built, so Romulus killed him. He then named the city after himself and was crowned king. Whether or not this story is true, it highlights the warlike origins of Rome. Around 753 BC the foundations of one of the most powerful empires in history were laid - one which would shake the very foundations of the world.

The Romans' own accounts and historical evidence suggests that, for several hundred years after its founding, Rome was ruled by kings from the nearby land of Etruria. The Etruscans were very oppressive rulers and the Romans desired to rid themselves of their masters. In 509 BC, the son of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, raped a noblewoman named Lucretia, and then Lucretia, out of her own humiliation, killed herself. Outraged, her family instigated a revolt that drove the royal house of the Tarquins out of Rome. Lucretia's husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collantis and one Lucius Junius Brutus became the first two consuls of a new republic which they founded. The office of the consul became the chief executive position in the Republic. The title of "king" became so despised that it remained a career-shattering charge until the rise of Julius Caesar and the end of the Republic.

The social structure of the Republic was basically divided between two main groups: the patricians, or the wealthy noble class, and the plebeians, the broad mass of peasant citizens. One's class was hereditary, meaning that even if one was lucky enough to be one of the few plebeians who became wealthy and rich, especially as a merchant, one was still considered a plebian. Likewise, some patricians had become almost poor towards the latter end of the Republic. The plebeians were often at odds with the patricians and the class conflict that was generated often saw the patrician nobles granting certain privileges, rights, and concessions to the plebeians in order to keep them under control. In 494 BC, the plebeians gained the right to elect two Tribunes, who held large amounts of control in the government of the Republic. Later, this number was expanded to ten. Finally, the plebeians were eventually allowed to elect a Concilium Plebis, or "Council of the Plebians" which gave them greater control in legal affairs. Towards the end of the Republic, a new group known as the equites became a powerful and potent force within the Republic, as the result of the actions of the Consul Tiberius Gracchus (more on him later). Note that only men, no matter what class, were able to have authority or hold a political position in Rome.

REGISTRY : The Windows Power Tool

The registry has a subtle but important role in Microsoft Windows XP. On one hand, the registry is passive—it's just a big collection of settings sitting on your hard disk, and you probably don't think much about it while you're editing a document, browsing the Internet, or searching for a file. On the other hand, it plays a key role in all those activities. The settings in the registry determine how Windows XP appears and how it behaves. They even control applications running on your computer. This gives the registry great potential as a tool for power users or IT professionals, enabling them to customize settings that aren't available in the user interface.

Heart and Soul of Windows XP :
Windows XP stores configuration data in the registry. The registry is a hierarchical database, which you can describe as a central repository for configuration data (Microsoft's terminology) or a configuration database (my terminology). A hierarchical database has characteristics that make it ideally suited to storing configuration data. The registry's hierarchical organization makes all settings easy to reference.