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8:07 AM
Think.......
-We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization,but this is not true.Slavery still exists,but now it applies only to women and it's name is Prostitution-
-Victor Hugo-
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
TIME
8:02 AM
Largest Oil tankers still operating
-TI class supertanker-
The largest oil tankers currently operating are the TI Class supertankers built in 2002/3.
General Characteristics
Tonnage: 234,006 GT (162,477 NT)
Length: 380 m (1,250 ft)
Beam: 68 m (223 ft)
Draught: 24.525 m (80.46 ft)
Capacity: 441,585 DWT, 3,166,353 barrels (503,409,900 l)
Speed: 16.5 knots laden, 17.5 knots in ballast
The class comprises from the following ships: TI Africa, TI Asia, TI Europe and TI Oceania, where the "TI" refers to the VLCC Tanker Pool operator Tankers International L.L.C.
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| TI Europa |
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| TI Oceania |
-Adopted from Maritime connector-
Monday, August 26, 2013
TIME
9:30 AM
"Ali" - The Greatest
Muhammad Ali was born on January 17, 1942.He is considered as the Greatest boxer of all time ,not only because of his boxing skills but because of his qualities as a human-being.
At his birth ,he had given the name "Cassius Clay". But he refused to be called by the name 'Clay" because it was the name given by white masters whom his ancestors worked for hundreds of years as slaves,and he is no longer a slave but a free man.
After he became a follower of Islam,He was given the name "Muhammad Ali".
He refused to join the Vietnam war due to his religious believes,and it is also unfair for him to go to Vietnam and fight against it's people because he has no quarrel with Vietcong and they have never even call him Nigger.
With a boxing record of Total fights 61,Wins 56,Wins by KO 37,Losses 5,Draws 0,No contests 0 is is still considered as the the Greatest of all time.
Great quotes by Muhammad Ali
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion".
"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill".
At his birth ,he had given the name "Cassius Clay". But he refused to be called by the name 'Clay" because it was the name given by white masters whom his ancestors worked for hundreds of years as slaves,and he is no longer a slave but a free man.
After he became a follower of Islam,He was given the name "Muhammad Ali".
He refused to join the Vietnam war due to his religious believes,and it is also unfair for him to go to Vietnam and fight against it's people because he has no quarrel with Vietcong and they have never even call him Nigger.
With a boxing record of Total fights 61,Wins 56,Wins by KO 37,Losses 5,Draws 0,No contests 0 is is still considered as the the Greatest of all time.
Great quotes by Muhammad Ali
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion".
"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill".
Sunday, August 25, 2013
TIME
9:30 AM
Saturday, August 24, 2013
TIME
10:00 AM
Largest Oil Tanker ever
Seawise Giant (1979–1989), later named Happy Giant (1989–1991), Jahre Viking (1991–2004), Knock Nevis (2004–2009) and Mont (2009–2010) was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship mankind ever built, and possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded.
Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons, 724,239 short tons), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal.
She could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) in good weather, it took 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to stop from that speed, and the turning circle in clear weather was about 2 miles (3.2 km)
Overall, she was generally considered the largest ship ever built, as well as the largest self-propelled, man made object ever built.
Tonnage: 260,941 GT (214,793 NT)
Length: 458.45 m (1,504.10 ft)
Beam: 68.8 m (225.72 ft)
Draught: 24.611 m (80.74 ft)
Capacity: 564,763 DWT
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Built in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries,Ltd. at their shipyard in Japan.
During the Iran-Iraq War it was damaged by an air force attack in the Strait of Hormuz on 14 May 1988.
She was sank and was considered completely lost. However the wreckage was salvaged and repaired. After the repairs she was back in service as Happy Giant.
In 1991 she was bought by the Norwegian Jorgen Jahre and renamed into Jahre Viking.
She was last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) moored off the coast of Qatar in the Persian Gulf at the Al Shaheen Oil Field.
The vessel was sold to Indian ship breakers, and renamed Mont for her final journey in December 2009. After clearing Indian customs, she was sailed to, and intentionally beached at Alang, Gujarat, India for demolition.
Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons, 724,239 short tons), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal.
She could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) in good weather, it took 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to stop from that speed, and the turning circle in clear weather was about 2 miles (3.2 km)
Overall, she was generally considered the largest ship ever built, as well as the largest self-propelled, man made object ever built.
Tonnage: 260,941 GT (214,793 NT)
Length: 458.45 m (1,504.10 ft)
Beam: 68.8 m (225.72 ft)
Draught: 24.611 m (80.74 ft)
Capacity: 564,763 DWT
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Built in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries,Ltd. at their shipyard in Japan.
During the Iran-Iraq War it was damaged by an air force attack in the Strait of Hormuz on 14 May 1988.
She was sank and was considered completely lost. However the wreckage was salvaged and repaired. After the repairs she was back in service as Happy Giant.
In 1991 she was bought by the Norwegian Jorgen Jahre and renamed into Jahre Viking.
She was last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) moored off the coast of Qatar in the Persian Gulf at the Al Shaheen Oil Field.
The vessel was sold to Indian ship breakers, and renamed Mont for her final journey in December 2009. After clearing Indian customs, she was sailed to, and intentionally beached at Alang, Gujarat, India for demolition.
-Adopted from Maritime connector-
Friday, August 23, 2013
TIME
12:52 PM
The Largest container ship in the world
-MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller-
The sea giant: MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller is the world's largest container ship.
The Danish oil and shipping group, A.P. Moller-Maersk is the parent company of the world's largest container, MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, named after the son of the company's founder.
The vessel, that was built by the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering shipyard, has a cargo capacity of 18,270 containers, the largest of any ship yet constructed.
The 55,000 tonne ship, has a length of 400 meters.
The ship carries the first Triple-E Standard (Economy of Scale, Energy Efficiency, Environmentally-improved) and is the most efficient and energy saving container ship in the world.
The ship is capable of delivering more goods than ever, while using less fuel consumption and lower CO2 emissions.
- Adopted from The Economic Times-
Thursday, August 22, 2013
TIME
7:30 PM
Great Quotes
Never fear shadows, that always means there is a light shining somewhere. -Jonathan Santos-
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,this time more intelligently. -Henry Ford-
Learn from yesterday,Live for today,Hope for tomorrow.-Albert Einstein-
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
TIME
9:00 PM
"Rabbit-proof Fence" movie
In Western Australia, 1931, the small depot of Jigalong sits on the edge of the Gibson Desert. Running through Jigalong and out into the desert is a rabbit-proof fence that bisects Australia from north to south. The fence was built to keep rabbits on one side and pasture on the other.
This remote country is home to three spirited Aboriginal girls, Molly, her sister Daisy, and their cousin Gracie. The girls' white fathers are fence workers who have moved on. Now their only contact with white Australia is the weekly ration day at Jigalong Depot.
In Perth, A.O Neville, the area's Chief Protector of Aborigines, receives word that the three girls are running wild. He believes the Aboriginal race is dying out and believes that the answer to the "colored problem" is to breed out the Aboriginal race.
To achieve this he has ruled that children of mixed marriages cannot marry full-blooded aborigines. Settlements are set up across the state and "half-caste" children are removed from their families and prepared for their "new life in white society" as domestic servants and laborers.
Neville orders the removal of Molly, Gracie, and Daisy and they are relocated 1,200 miles from home to a grim settlement. The harsh conditions they must live under shock Molly, and she convinces Daisy and Gracie to run away with her. With Moodoo, a cruel and master tracker on their tails, they begin a grueling three month journey home, following the rabbit-proof fence that will guide them back to their mother and their rightful home.
This remote country is home to three spirited Aboriginal girls, Molly, her sister Daisy, and their cousin Gracie. The girls' white fathers are fence workers who have moved on. Now their only contact with white Australia is the weekly ration day at Jigalong Depot.
In Perth, A.O Neville, the area's Chief Protector of Aborigines, receives word that the three girls are running wild. He believes the Aboriginal race is dying out and believes that the answer to the "colored problem" is to breed out the Aboriginal race.
To achieve this he has ruled that children of mixed marriages cannot marry full-blooded aborigines. Settlements are set up across the state and "half-caste" children are removed from their families and prepared for their "new life in white society" as domestic servants and laborers.
Neville orders the removal of Molly, Gracie, and Daisy and they are relocated 1,200 miles from home to a grim settlement. The harsh conditions they must live under shock Molly, and she convinces Daisy and Gracie to run away with her. With Moodoo, a cruel and master tracker on their tails, they begin a grueling three month journey home, following the rabbit-proof fence that will guide them back to their mother and their rightful home.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
TIME
5:54 PM
A book I read resently
-A Thousand Splendid Suns-
A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate.
As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.
With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
TIME
10:30 PM
A movie with an extraordinary story
-The curious case of Benjamin Button-
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital.At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button.
Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time.
Benjamin Button: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Academy awards - Best Art Direction,Best Makeup,Best Visual Effect
Saturday, August 17, 2013
TIME
6:30 PM
Great Quotes
"Nothing in life is to be feared,it is only to be understood" -Marie Curie-
"We can not solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we creating them."
- Albert Einstein-
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars"
- Rabindranath Tagore-
Friday, August 16, 2013
TIME
8:00 PM
An interesting book I read recently
"A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry
This magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India, time is 1975, is an unnamed city by the sea.The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
TIME
10:18 PM
Nothing is Impossible
Nice motivational video
TIME
8:41 AM
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is one of the best movies by Steven Spielberg.
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews.
Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
A testament for the good in all of us.
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews.
Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
A testament for the good in all of us.
"Whoever saves one Life,saves the world entire"
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
TIME
12:33 PM
TIME
9:21 AM
Lincoln's Biography
"Lincoln the Unknown" by Dale Carnegie is the Greatest Biography I've ever read.
This book beautifully portraits how a son of a poor hunter became the 16th president of the united states and how many obstacles he had to pass through until he abolish slavery in the country.
TIME
8:58 AM
Great Quotes
"Listen to your Brain,because it often makes better choices than your Heart."
"Be careful with your words ,once they are said,
they can be Forgiven,
but not Forgotten."
Monday, August 12, 2013
TIME
6:52 PM
The most unforgettable novel ever.
The most interesting and heart touching novel I've ever read.The story is filled with love,guilt,brotherhood,fear and it also shows how the war effects the lives of human beings.
This is a strong novel which led me to think How unpredictable the LIFE can be.
TIME
5:20 PM
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