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Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother's Day, the celebration honoring mothers.

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Father’s Day is considered to be the day of commemoration and celebration for that one person in your life who is there for you at different walks of verve, to help you out when you need him, to make you feel secure, to make available to you all pleasures of life. This day is an occasion to recall, recognize and remember those endless pains; he had taken for your growth and upbringing, that very special icon, your father or what do you call your Dad. This day not just calls for an honour to your father, but to all men who have acted as a fatherly figure in your life- whether as Stepfathers, Grandfathers, or even your ‘Big Brothers’.

He was there for your first step, your first fall, and you can count on him to be there when you need him next. Your biggest hero deserves your biggest thanks.

Father's Day History

Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.

The first observance of Father's Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. It was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907. It's possible that Clayton was influenced by the first celebration of Mother's Day that same year, just a few miles away. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her recently deceased father.

Unfortunately, the day was overshadowed by other events in the city, West Virginia did not officially register the holiday, and it was not celebrated again. All the credit for Father's Day went to Sonora Dodd from Spokane, who invented independently her own celebration of Father's Day just two years later, also influenced by Jarvis' Mother's Day.

Clayton's celebration was forgotten until 1972, when one of the attendants to the celebration saw Nixon's proclamation of Father's Day, and worked to recover its legacy. The celebration is now held every year in the Central United Methodist Church – the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was torn down in 1922. Fairmont is now promoted as the "Home of the First Father's Day Service,

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus " out just one of our two parents In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.

In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.

Father's Day Dates around the world

When is Father's Day

Countries	2011	2012	2013
USA, UK, India, Canada, China, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey	June 19	June 17	June 16
Russia	February 23	February 23	February 23
Italy & Spain	March 19	March 19	March 19
Germany	June 2	May 17	May 9
Australia & New Zealand	September 4	September 2	September 1
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland	November 6	November 4	November 3
Thailand	December 5	December 5	December 5

Father's Day Dates around the world International history and traditions

Australia

In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and is not a public holiday. YMCA Victoria continues the tradition of honouring the role fathers, and father figures play in parenting through the annual awarding of Local Community Father of the Year in 32 municipalities in Victoria. The Father's Day Council of Victoria annually recognise fathers in the Father of the Year Award

United States of America

In the US, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. Other festivities honoring fathers had been held in Fairmont and in Creston, but the modern holiday did not emerge from those.

Modern Father's Day was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas, who was also the driving force behind its establishment. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington.

She was inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts to establish Mother's Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.

Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. President Woodrow Wilson was personally feted by his family in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting greeting cards and traditionally male-oriented gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts.

More phone calls are made in the United States during Mother's Day than during Father's Day, but the percentage of collect calls on Father's Day is much higher, making it the busiest day of the year for collect calls.

United Kingdom

Father's Day in the United Kingdom is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.

Fathers Day Quotes

Let's see what these quotes, sayings and verses have to tell about their loving fathers:

* "I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started." - Bartrand Hubbard

* "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. " -Charles Wadsworth

* "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."- Sigmund Freud

* "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. " - Mark Twain

* "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert

* " I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -Mario Cuomo

* "One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters." - George Herbert

* Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill Cosby

* "It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons." - Johann Schiller

* There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." - John Gregory Brown

* "My father was a statesman; I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.- Indira Gandhi

* "You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together." - Erika Cosby

* "Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death murdered me." - Howard Moss

* "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." - Anonymous

* "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern

* "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. " - James Baldwin

You can write these quotes and verses on your father day cards or gifts and express your true feelings to your Dad. Happy Fathers Day !!!

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Google Celebrate 96th Birthday Guitar Hero Les Paul A Musical Genius

Les Paul, the legendary guitar virtuoso and unparalleled musical visionary, passed away on the night of August 12, 2009 in a New York hospital, plunging the world of music into mourning. He was 94 years of age.

Les Paul, who was affectionately called Wizard of Waukesha, is indisputably one of the world’s most accomplished, influential and revered guitarists. But the crowning glory of his glittering achievements in the musical sphere, which has taken him beyond the realm of the ordinary and into the extra-ordinary, has been his innovations in the development of the electric guitar.

Les Paul is credited with the creation of the most iconic solid body guitar ever – the Gibson Les Paul. Even while the magnificence of the music he created has passed into history, the splendor of the electric guitar sound he gifted to guitarists, old and new, has endured through the years and kept his musical legacy alive. Every time a band performs on stage, whether it is Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols or Green Day, Les Paul comes alive in the sound of their music.
Les Paul Changed The Sound Of Music

Les Paul’s innovations with the techniques of sound recording are no less revolutionary. His groundbreaking inventions in the sphere of recording have changed the way we perceive music today. Some of the techniques he’s pioneered are close miking, overdubbing, multi-tracking and echo delay. These techniques forever changed the way music was recorded and allowed musicians to play around with a variety of sound-effects while making music. His avant-garde inventions have earned him a place in the Inventors’ Hall Of Fame, bringing him on par with inventors of the caliber of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers.

There is hardly a musical soul in the world today whose life has not been touched by Les Paul’s contributions to modern music, whether they are a guitar player or just a listener. Guitar greats such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck and Slash are just some of the musical luminaries that venerate Les Paul’s immense genius as the driving force behind their success.

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page once wrote of Paul, “He’s the man who started everything. He’s just a genius.” While sharing a stage with Paul, Eddie Van Halen once told him, “Without the things you’ve done, I wouldn’t be able to do half the things I do.” Les Paul is not considered rock royalty for nothing, so complete is his synonymy with the electric guitar, that people sometimes credit him to be its inventor.

Les Paul’s achievements as an inventor and innovator have sometimes overshadowed his indelible prowess as a mesmerizing performer. But the fact remains that his melodious jazz and pop-flavored compositions and his skill as a guitarist are vital elements of his musical genius. He achieved phenomenal success as a solo performer as well as a duo with his wife, singer Mary Ford. His effervescent and energetic musical masterpieces are also noteworthy because of his use of the radical techniques of multi-tracking and overdubbing.

Born as Lester William Polfus on June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Les Paul showed an early interest in music as well as technology. He had built his first crystal radio by the tender age of nine. Around the same time, after learning to play the harmonica and the banjo, Les Paul turned his attention to mastering the art of playing guitar. By the time he was thirteen years old, Paul was already a semi-professional honky-tonk guitarist.

A Young Les PaulAt age 17, he dropped out of high school to play in Sunny Joe Wolverton’s Radio Band in St. Louis under the moniker ‘Rhubarb Red’. By 1934, he was in Chicago where he became popular in a dual radio persona, doing a hillbilly act as Rhubarb Red and playing jazz as Les Paul. In 1936, he formed the Les Paul Trio with Jimmy Atkins on vocals and Ernie Newton on bass. The group moved to New York in 1937, where they joined Fred Waring’s NBC radio show as regulars in his Pennsylvanians band.

Around this time in the mid-thirties, even as his musical career was finding its feet, Paul was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the sound of the first generation of commercially available hollow-body electric guitars. The thin tone, lack of sustaining power and feedback problems of the guitars spurred him on to develop his own prototype of the electric guitar – one which would have a better sustain, clear sound and no feedback. As he told writer Jim O’Donnell,

“What I wanted to do is not have two things vibrating. I wanted the string to vibrate and nothing else. I wanted the guitar to sustain longer than an acoustical box and have different sounds than an acoustical box.”

He figured that to eliminate the sound of the resonance of the wood in the electric guitars in use at the time, they would have to have a solid body as against the traditional hollow body. Persevering in that direction, his efforts bore fruit in 1941, when he built his famous prototype, solid body guitar out of a four foot long piece of pine with strings, an electric pickup and a plug. To make the contraption look like a guitar, he sawed an Epiphone hollow body guitar in half and fixed the two halves onto the wood piece. He nicknamed it ‘The Log’. The Gibson Guitar Company wasn’t very enamored with the model however and dismissed it saying it was nothing more than a “broomstick with pickups”.

In the meantime, Paul’s musical aspirations were moving towards jazz. He left Waring in 1941 and moved to LA where he was recruited to play in the Armed Forces Radio Service alongside such greats as Bing Crosby and the Andrew sisters. As a last minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul gave a dazzling performance with superstars like Nat King Cole and Illinois Jacquet in the inaugural “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert in Los Angeles in 1944. The same year, Paul’s Trio appeared on Bing Crosby’s hit radio show. The two also recorded together several times, including the 1945 number one hit and million-seller, “It’s Been a Long, Long Time.”

It was Bing Crosby who encouraged Paul’s experiments in recording techniques and even sponsored his first recording studio built in Paul’s LA garage in 1945. It was in this studio that Paul developed his futuristic techniques – multi-tracking, echo delay and overdubbing which forever changed the way music was recorded.

In 1947, Paul showcased the magic of multi-tracking in the complex and revolutionary instrumental piece ‘Lover’. The instrumental, released by Capitol Records, featured Paul playing eight different guitar parts simultaneously and was a runaway hit. The world listened in astonishment to the spectacular effects that could be created by using the technique of multi-tracking.
The Near Loss Of A Legend

In 1948, the world nearly lost the musical magician to a devastating car accident in Oklahoma. Les Paul’s right arm and elbow were shattered in the process. Doctors told him that they wouldn’t be able to restore movement in the elbow and it would be best to amputate the arm. But Paul convinced them to permanently set the arm at such an angle as to be able to cradle and pick a guitar! He was thus able to salvage his music career from destruction. Total recovery was still a year and a half away.

Not letting the tragedy bog him down, Paul forged ahead with more innovations in the recording sphere such as sound on sound recording, echo delay and close miking. These effects were all integrated into the 1950 historic tour de force, the No.1 hit ‘How High the Moon’, a duo with wife Mary Ford whom he had met and married in 1949. The song is an aural masterpiece because of its scintillating sonic effects, a fitting culmination to Paul’s tireless efforts towards innovation. A number of hits followed such as ‘Mockin Bird Hill’, ‘The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise’ and ‘Vaya Con Dios’ and their successful collaboration continued till 1961 after which the hits surprisingly dried up. In 1964, the two divorced and went their separate ways. Paul went into semi-retirement as far as making music was concerned.
Achievements And Honors

In 1952, Les Paul introduced his musical marvel – the 8 track tape recorder, and immediately thereafter, his dream guitar in collaboration with Gibson Guitar Company – the gold top, solid body guitar christened the Gibson Les Paul Goldtop. The guitar was an instant hit among musicians of every genre. The popularity and respect it commands remain unmatched and unsurpassed to this day.

Gibson followed up the success of the model with the Les Paul Custom (1954), the Les Paul Junior (1954), the Les Paul Special (1955) and the iconic Les Paul Standard (1958). Paul also patented the floating bridge pickup and the electro-dynamic pickup. Les Paul guitars are the chosen axes of some of the great guitarists of the modern music scene.

Les Paul resurfaced in 1977 to record a Grammy award winning compilation of instrumental duets with his long time friend Chet Atkins, dubbed ‘Chester and Lester’. In 2006, he released the double Grammy winner ‘Les Paul & Friends – American Made World Played’, an eclectic compilation featuring Paul’s illustrious disciples and devotees – a veritable who’s who of the guitar world, such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, Joe Perry etc, playing alongside Paul. Till his death, he continued to play a weekly gig at the Iridium Club in New York.

Les Paul remains the only individual in the history of music to share membership in the Grammy Hall of Fame (1978), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988), the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2005), and the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame (2006). In addition to these honors, he has received the Grammy award for lifetime technical achievement in 2001 and was ranked #46 by Rolling Stone magazine in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time.

Les Paul’s chequered and multi-dimensional life is a source of constant encouragement to every individual who strives to achieve the highest pinnacles of success in his or her chosen field. His tenacity, perseverance and diligence to realise his dreams against all odds, even while beating the kind of tragedies that would destroy a lesser man, has made him the epitome of inspiration to every human being.

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Celebrate June 5 World Environment Day 2011

World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED activities take place all year round but climax on 5 June every year, involving everyone from everywhere.

World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972.

The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme and is commemorated with an international exposition in the week of 5 June. World Environment Day is in summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

"Stockholm was without doubt the landmark event in the growth of international environmentalism", writes John McCormick in the book Reclaiming Paradise. "It was the first occasion on which the political, social and economic problems of the global environment were discussed at an intergovernmental forum with a view to actually taking corrective action."

World Environment Day is similar to Earth Day.

Recent events on World Environment Day (WED)

Theme 2011 World Environment Day (WED)

Forests-Nature At Your Service-cover one third of the earth’s land mass, performing vital functions and services around the world which make our planet alive with possibilities. In fact, 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. They play a key role in our battle against climate change, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere while storing carbon dioxide. Thousands of activities were organized worldwide, with beach clean-ups, concerts, exhibits, film festivals, community events and much more.

Countdown begins to World Environment Day 2011

Nairobi, 31 May 2011 - Whether through a litter clean-up around Mount Everest, a training programme in forest management Costa Rica or a music festival in Belgium, millions of people across the world will join forces to mark World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June 2011.

This year's WED theme is 'Forests: Nature at Your Service', which highlights the crucial environmental, economic and social roles played by the world's forests.

As WED host nation for 2011, India will be the focus of worldwide celebrations, with major events planned in New Delhi and Bangalore. The World 10K Race on 5 June will see some 25,000 runners pound the pavements of Bangalore in support of WED. Organizers and participants will also inaugurate a 'World 10K Forest', to which more trees will be added at future races.


UNEP will also release the Forests in a Green Economy report in New Delhi on 5 June. In the face of continuing deforestation (currently estimated at 5.2 million hectares worldwide per year), the report outlines how increased public and private investment in forest management and forest resources can boost employment, drastically reduce deforestation and help tackle climate change.

Beyond India, WED celebrations are already taking shape in cities, towns, villages and communities across the world, including:

    * NEPAL: UNEP is supporting a clean-up expedition to remove an estimated 9 tons of litter in and around Mount Everest. Enlisting some 60 climber volunteers, the long-term aim of the initiative is to develop more sustainable waste management facilities and recycling plants in the region
    * CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: A major international summit on tropical forest basins will be held from 31 May to 6 June. The event will focus on the sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong Borneo basins
    * BRAZIL: The 'MudaRock Project' - a free music download service - will be launched on 3 June. For every song or video downloaded by users, a tree sapling will be planted in a reforestation area in Brazil. The project aims to plant one million native trees within a year.
    * COSTA RICA: A major success story in reforestation (having increased its forest cover from 22 percent in 1995 to 51 percent by 2010), Costa Rica will host participants from 15 neighbouring countries for a training course on sustainable forest management
    * CANADA: Toronto is the regional host city for World Environment Day celebrations in North America. To date, over 50 WED events have been registered in Canada including environmental workshops for students, a high-level consultation on the Green Economy with 40 environmental leaders and a series of book readings for children.
    * BELGIUM: WED celebrations will kick off on 5 June with an environment fete at Parc Cinquintenaire in Brussels, featuring activities, stands and a music concert. Brussels will also be welcoming UN Youth Ambassador and Disney star Monique Coleman as well as comic book hero Marsupilami and his illustrator Batem.
    * BAHRAIN: UNEP's Regional Office for West Asia will help co-ordinate a beach-cleaning and tree-planting campaign

In the run-up to World Environment Day, UNEP Goodwill Ambassadors Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle are going head-to-head in the WED Challenge.

Before WED officially kicks off, individuals, groups, families and schools - even entire communities - can post details of their planned green events online at http://www.wedchallenge.org

When registering a WED activity on the website, you'll be asked to pledge your activity to either Don or Gisele. Full of goodwill, Gisele has pledged to plant a tree for every activity registered in her name. Full of confidence, Don Cheadle has pledged to plant two.

When the votes are counted on 5 June, the result will be a new forest inaugurated by the winner, leaving a lasting green legacy from the global WED community.

Bollywood stars Priyanka Chopra and Rahul Bose are also facing off for World Environment Day in the WED Challenge India. More details are available at http://www.wedchallenge.org/india

Whether it's switching from plastic bags to cloth bags, car-pooling with colleagues or organizing a tree-planting day, WED activities can be big, small, local, international, noisy, quiet...just as long as they're green.

India named Global Host of World Environment Day 2011

Nairobi (Kenya), 22 February 2011 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that India, with one of the fastest growing economies in the world that is embracing the process of a transition to a Green Economy, will be for the first time ever the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on 5 June.

This year's theme 'Forests: Nature at Your Service' underscores the intrinsic link between quality of life and the health of forests and forest ecosystems. The WED theme also supports this year's UN International Year of Forests.

India is a country of 1.2 billion people who continue to put pressure on forests especially in densely populated areas where people are cultivating on marginal lands and where overgrazing is contributing to desertification.

But the Indian Government has also found solutions. While the socio-economic pressures on the country's forests are tremendous, India has instituted a tree-planting system to combat land-degradation and desertification, including windbreaks and shelterbelts to protect agricultural land.

In conserving its critical ecosystem, India has successfully introduced projects that track the health of the nation's plants, animals, water and other natural resources, including the Sunderbans - the largest deltaic mangrove forest in the world, and home to one of India's most iconic wildlife species: the tiger.

India has also launched a compensation afforestation programme under which any diversion of public forests for non-forestry purposes is compensated through afforestation in degraded or non-forested land. The funds received as compensation are used to improve forest management, protection of forests and of watershed areas. Moreover, a government authority has been created specifically to administer this programme.

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: "Over close to the 40-year history of WED, India's cities and communities have been among the most active with a myriad of events undertaken across the country each and every year—so it is only fitting that this rapidly developing economy is the host in 2011."

"India is famous for its culture, arts, movies and world-beating Information Technology industries. Increasingly it is at the forefront of some of the 'green shoots' of a Green Economy that are emerging across the globe," he said.

"From its manufacturing of solar and wind turbines to its Rural Employment Guarantee Act which underwrites paid work for millions of households via investments in areas ranging from water conservation to sustainable land management, foundations are being laid towards a fundamental and far reaching new development path," added Mr. Steiner.

This is underlined by India's introduction of the Clean Energy Fund into its national budget which provides subsidies for green technology and has been the basis for a National Action Plan on Climate Change which sets specific targets on issues such as energy efficiency and sustaining the Himalayan eco-system.

India is currently planning one of the largest green energy projects in the world that will generate 20,000 megawatts of solar energy and 3,000 megawatts from wind farms on 50,000 acres in Karnataka in southwest India. The first phase of the US$50 billion project will start next year.

In its ground-breaking report on the Green Economy launched yesterday, UNEP cites India, where over 80 per cent of the US$8 billion National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which underwrites at least 100 days of paid work for rural households, invests in water conservation, irrigation and land development. This has generated three billion working days-worth of employment benefiting close to 60 million households.

"India's offer to host WED is another expression of India's strong commitment to work with the global community for sustainable development. This event will serve as the inauguration of a series of events leading up to the hosting of the 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It will also flag off the celebrations of the international decade for biodiversity. This will in addition signal India's commitment to the biomass economy so dependent on the sustainability of our natural resources," said Dr. T. Chatterjee, Secretary for Environment and Forests of the Government of India.

Two of India's most prominent cities - Mumbai and Delhi - will be the venue for this year's global celebration of the environment, with a myriad of activities over several days to inspire Indians and people around the world to take action for the environment.

The celebrations in India on 5 June are part of thousands of events taking place around the globe. WED 2011 will emphasize how individual actions can have an exponential impact, with a variety of activities ranging from school tree-planting drives to community clean-ups, car-free days, photo competitions on forests, bird-watching trips, city park clean-up initiatives, exhibits, green petitions, nationwide green campaigns and much more.

Previous events World Environment Day (WED)

World Environment Day celebrations have been hosted in the following cities

1974     Only one Earth    
1975     Human Settlements    
1976     Water: Vital Resource for Life    
1977     Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation    
1978     Development Without Destruction    
1979     Only One Future for Our Children - Development Without Destruction    
1980     A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without Destruction    
1981     Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains    
1982     Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)    
1983     Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy    
1984     Desertification    
1985     Youth: Population and the Environment    
1986     A Tree for Peace    
1987     Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof     Nairobi, Kenya
1988     When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last     Bangkok, Thailand
1989     Global Warming; Global Warning     Brussels, Belgium
1990     Children and the Environment     Mexico City, Mexico
1991     Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership     Stockholm, Sweden
1992     Only One Earth, Care and Share     Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993     Poverty and the Environment - Breaking the Vicious Circle     Beijing, People's Republic of China
1994     One Earth One Family     London, United Kingdom
1995     We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment     Pretoria, South Africa
1996     Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home     Istanbul, Turkey
1997     For Life on Earth     Seoul, Republic of Korea
1998     For Life on Earth - Save Our Seas     Moscow, Russian Federation
1999     Our Earth - Our Future - Just Save It!     Tokyo, Japan
2000     The Environment Millennium - Time to Act     Adelaide, Australia
2001     Connect with the World Wide Web of Life     Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba
2002     Give Earth a Chance     Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
2003     Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!     Beirut, Lebanon
2004     Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?     Barcelona, Spain
2005     Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!     San Francisco, United States
2006     Deserts and Desertification - Don't Desert Drylands!     Algiers, Algeria
2007     Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?     Tromsø, Norway
2008     Kick The Habit - Towards A Low Carbon Economy     Wellington, New Zealand
2009     Your Planet Needs You - UNite to Combat Climate Change     Mexico City, Mexico
2010     Many Species. One Planet. One Future     Kigali, Rwanda
2011     Forests:Nature at your Service     New Delhi, India

For more Detail Visit- unep.org And wikipedia.org

"Mother's Day"

Mother's Day History

Origin of Mother's Day goes back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans. But the roots of Mother's Day history can also be traced in UK where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in US. However, the celebration of the festival as it is seen today is a recent phenomenon and not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work of the pioneering women of their times, Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis that the day came into existence. Today the festival of Mothers day is celebrated across 46 countries (though on different dates) and is a hugely popular affair. Millions of people across the globe take the day as an opportunity to honor their mothers, thank them for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant support and well wisher.

Earliest History of Mothers Day

The earliest history of Mothers Day dates back to the ancient annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to maternal goddesses. The Greeks used the occasion to honor Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology.

Ancient Romans, too, celebrated a spring festival, called Hilaria dedicated to Cybele, a mother goddess. It may be noted that ceremonies in honour of Cybele began some 250 years before Christ was born. The celebration made on the Ides of March by making offerings in the temple of Cybele lasted for three days and included parades, games and masquerades. The celebrations were notorious enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome.

Early Christians celebrated a Mother's Day of sorts during the festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ. In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers. It was then called Mothering Sunday.

History of Mother's Day: Mothering Sunday

The more recent history of Mothers Day dates back to 1600s in England. Here a Mothering Sunday was celebrated annually on the fourth Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter) to honor mothers. After a prayer service in church to honor Virgin Mary, children brought gifts and flowers to pay tribute to their own mothers.

On the occasion, servants, apprentices and other employees staying away from their homes were encouraged by their employers to visit their mothers and honor them. Traditionally children brought with them gifts and a special fruit cake or fruit-filled pastry called a simnel. Yugoslavs and people in other nations have observed similar days.

Custom of celebrating Mothering Sunday died out almost completely by the 19th century. However, the day came to be celebrated again after World War II, when American servicemen brought the custom and commercial enterprises used it as an occasion for sales.

History of Mother's Day: Julia Ward Howe

The idea of official celebration of Mothers day in US was first suggested by Julia Ward Howe in 1872. An activist, writer and poet Julia shot to fame with her famous Civil War song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Julia Ward Howe suggested that June 2 be annually celebrated as Mothers Day and should be dedicated to peace. She wrote a passionate appeal to women and urged them to rise against war in her famous Mothers Day Proclamation, written in Boston in 1870. She also initiated a Mothers' Peace Day observance on the second Sunday in June in Boston and held the meeting for a number of years. Julia tirelessly championed the cause of official celebration of Mothers Day and declaration of official holiday on the day. Her idea spread but was later replaced by the Mothers' Day holiday now celebrated in May.

Mother's Day Date

Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on different dates. Check out the exact date for Mother's Day in your country from the list of Mothers Day dates 2011 given below and start preparing for a big surprise of love for her.

Mother's Day 2011 Country Day Date India Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 United States Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Australia Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Belgium Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Brazil Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Canada Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Denmark Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Finland Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Germany Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Greece Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Italy Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Japan Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 New Zealand Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Singapore Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 South Africa Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Turkey Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Sweden Last Sunday in the month of May May 30, 2011 Austria First Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Hong Kong First Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Netherlands Second Sunday in the month of May May 8, 2011 Taiwan First Sunday in the month of May May 2, 2011 Hungary First Sunday in the month of May May 2, 2011 Portugal First Sunday in the month of May May 2, 2011 Spain First Sunday in the month of May May 2, 2011 United Kingdom Fourth Sunday in the month of March March 14, 2011 Romania First Sunday in the month of May May 2, 2011

History of Mother's Day: Anna Jarvis

Mothers Day OriginAnna Jarvis is recognised as the Founder of Mothers Day in US. Though Anna Jarvis never married and never had kids, she is also known as the Mother of Mothers Day, an apt title for the lady who worked hard to bestow honor on all mothers.

Anna Jarvis got the inspiration of celebrating Mothers Day from her own mother Mrs Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis in her childhood. An activist and social worker, Mrs Jarvis used to express her desire that someday someone must honor all mothers, living and dead, and pay tribute to the contributions made by them.

A loving daughter, Anna never forgot her mothers word and when her mother died in 1905, she resolved to fulfill her mothers desire of having a mothers day. Growing negligent attitude of adult Americans towards their mothers and a desire to honor her mothers soared her ambitions.

To begin with Anna, send Carnations in the church service in Grafton, West Virginia to honor her mother. Carnations were her mothers favorite flower and Anna felt that they symbolised a mothers pure love. Later Anna along with her supporters wrote letters to people in positions of power lobbying for the official declaration of Mothers Day holiday. The hard work paid off. By 1911, Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state in the Union and on May 8, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

History of Mother's Day: Present Day Celebrations

Today Mothers Day is celebrated in several countries including US, UK, India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium. People take the day as an opportunity to pay tribute to their mothers and thank them for all their love and support. The day has become hugely popular and in several countries phone lines witness maximum traffic. There is also a tradition of gifting flowers, cards and others gift to mothers on the Mothers Day. The festival has become commercialised to a great extent. Florists, card manufacturers and gift sellers see huge business potential in the day and make good money through a rigorous advertising campaign.

It is unfortunate to note that Ms Anna Jarvis, who devoted her life for the declaration of Mothers Day holiday was deeply hurt to note the huge commercialisation of the day.

Mother's Day Gift Ideas

It is always a tough task to decide on the perfect gift for your perfect mom on a Mothers Day. To offer solution to your problem here are some unique and special gift ideas for mother. Remember your Mother is always going to appreciate your feelings behind the gift you buy. So even if you are a bit incorrect in your choice, she will always treasure a gift from some one whom she loves the most. However, a little thought while purchasing gift might make her day more delightful. You may also order online Mother's Day gift on various shopping sites. This way you may go through a range of gift items and decide on the most suitable and special Mother's Day present for your loving mom.

Osama Bin Laden , Says President Obama

Osama bin Laden's Death body buried at sea: Photos

Washington, May 2(ANI): Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's body has been buried at sea, as the United States does not want his burial place to become a terrorist shrine, a US official has said.

The official said that the body was handled according to Islamic practice and tradition, Fox News reports.

That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official added.


"Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult. So, the US decided to bury him at sea," the official said.

The Saudi-born terrorist, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed in a top secret operation involving a small team of US special forces in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Under Islamic tradition, the body is washed by Muslim men and buried as soon as possible.

The body is usually buried in a simple white sheet -whether buried in the ground, or at sea. (ANI)

Osama bin Laden, the orchestrator of the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history, has been killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan, said President Barack Obamain a stunning stunning announcement on Sunday night.

The decade-long search for bin Laden has come to an end, after CIA operatives reportedly found and killed the al Qaida leader in a mansion outside the Pakistan capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a U.S. officail revealed.

"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Obama said. "A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

Bin Laden's body was confirmed by DNA analysis, say White House officials.

While a crowd gathered at the White House gates on Sunday night cheering and singing the National Anthem, the news of bin Laden's demise also brought a measure of relief to the families of those killed on September 11.

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"This is important news for us, and for the world. It cannot ease our pain, or bring back our loved ones," Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93, said in a statement. "It does bring a measure of comfort that the mastermind of the September 11th tragedy and the face of global terror can no longer spread his evil."

Meanwhile, President Obama made clear that this news is not a celebration AGAINST Islam.

"I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims."

U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world have been placed on high alert, for fear that al Qaida and other bin Laden supporters could attack Americans in retaliation of Osama bin Laden's death.

"The Voice" NBC's new singing competition series

"The Voice" is a vocal competition series modeled after Holland's top-rated vocal talent discovery show, "The Voice of Holland." Hosted by Carson Daly, the show features four musician coaches: Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, who will coach only the most talented vocalists.

The show's innovative format features three stages of competition: the first begins with the blind audition, then the competition enters into a battle phase, and finally, the live performance. The show's casting team is working with the music industry and searching the country for the best singers to bring to the blind audition process. During the blind auditions, the decisions from the coaches are based solely on voice and not on looks. The coaches hear the contestants perform, but they don't get to see them - thanks to rotating chairs. If a coach is impressed by a contestant's voice, he/she pushes a button to select the contestant. At this point, the coach's chair will swivel to face the contestant selected. If more than one coach selects the talent, the power shifts to the contestant, who may choose which coach they want to work with throughout the competition.

Once the teams are set, the battle is on. Coaches will dedicate themselves to developing their singers, giving them advice, and sharing the secrets of their success. During the battle rounds the coaches will pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song together in front of a studio audience. After the vocal face-off, the coach must choose which singers will advance.

 At the end of the battle episodes, only the strongest members of each coach's roster remain and proceed to the live stage shows. In this final performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team will compete against each other during a live broadcast. The television audience will vote to save one contestant on each team, leaving the coach to decide live who they want to save and who will not move on. At last, each coach will have his/her best contestant left standing to compete in the finale. From these four, one will be named "The Voice" - and will receive the grand prize of a recording contract and $100,000.

"The Voice" is a presentation of Talpa Productions, Mark Burnett and Warner Horizon Television. The series is created by John De Mol, who will executive produce along with Burnett and Audrey Morrissey.

The Voice features four celebrity coaches - Christina Aguilera

 One of the most accomplished performers of the last decade, Christina Aguilera has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, achieved four No. 1 singles on the Billboard hot 100 chart, and has won five Grammy awards, as well as three top five albums in the United States. She has collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett, Elton John and The Rolling Stones. Aguilera was also the only artist under 30 to make Rolling Stone Magazine's list of 100 greatest singers of all time.

In 2010 Aguilera starred in her first feature film, "Burlesque," opposite Cher and Stanley Tucci, earning a Golden Globe nomination for "Bound to You," which she co-wrote and performed. Earlier that same year, Aguilera launched her new album, "Bionic," collaborating with artists Sia, Le Tigre and Ladytron as well as producers Tricky Stewart and Hill/Switch.

 The New York native's trajectory from performing in local talent shows in Pennsylvania, where she grew up, to getting her big break on "Star Search" in 1992 to landing a part on the Disney Channel's "The New Mickey Mouse Club," is well known. It was her song "Reflection" for Disney's "Mulan" that led to a record deal with RCA and the release of her self-titled debut album in the summer of 1999. The album quickly hit No. 1 on the strength of its first dance/pop single, "Genie in a Bottle" (which dominated the charts for five weeks and broke records worldwide) and other chart-toppers including "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over." It was a feat she would repeat the following year with "Mi Reflejo," the smash Spanish-language version of her debut, followed by her hit holiday release, "My Kind of Christmas."

In 2001 Aguilera joined forces with Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim on the smash "Lady Marmalade" single and video. Her second album, "Stripped," released in October 2002, sealed her status as an international superstar while transforming her image from bubble-gum pop princess to steamy sex kitten. Along with the superheated funk of the album's provocative debut single, "Dirrty," came such standout tracks as "Beautiful," "Can't Hold Us Down" and "Voice Within."

 After sweeping the top of the charts with her third album, "Back to Basics," which debuted at No. 1 in August '06 and sold over 3.7 million worldwide, the unstoppable Aguilera announced a global tour. With the fashion legend Roberto Cavalli as the exclusive costume designer, choreographer and director Jamie King (Madonna, Janet Jackson and Prince) on board, and a unique stage design that allowed fans unprecedented access to the pop star, the shows were a feast for all senses and earned her rave reviews.

Earning her first of four Grammy awards in 2000 for Best New Artist, her subsequent trophies came in 2001 for "Lady Marmalade" (Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals), in 2003 for "Beautiful" (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance), and in 2007 for "Ain't No Other Man (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance), winning a Grammy for each of her albums. She is also the recipient of a 2001 Latin Grammy Award for Mi Reflejo (Best Female Pop Vocal Album), a 2000 Billboard Music Award for Female Artist of the Year, and two 2004 Rolling Stone Music Awards (Best Female Performer, Readers' Pick; and Best Tour, Readers' Pick, "Justified and Stripped"). Voted Sexiest Teen Idol in a VH1 poll, Aguilera's beauty and charisma have also led Teen People to list her among its 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 and Maxim to crown her Best International Female Singer (2000), one of the Sexiest Women of the Year (2003) and No. 1 on their Hot 100 list (2003). Aguilera has also been honored with two NRJ Awards (Best International Female, Best International Album) as well as a 2007 MTV Europe Award (Best Female Artist).

 In 2007, Aguilera lent her hand to an entirely new production - an eponymous perfume, "Christina Aguilera," which she launched through P&G Prestige. The fragrance continues to be an international bestseller and has paved the way for two additional scents - "Inspire" and "By Night." In October 2010, Aguilera added a fourth fragrance to her line, "Royal Desire."

In January 2008, Aguilera gave birth to her first child, son Max Liron Bratman.

Today, while devoting the lion's share of her time to recording and touring, the 29-year-old is active in a range of philanthropy. In 2009 Aguilera joined forces with Yum! Brands in their World Hunger Relief effort, acting as global spokesperson. In less than one year she has created widespread awareness and deeper engagement to benefit the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief agencies and helped to raise a record breaking $22.5 million in donations. In 2010 she was named an ambassador to the United Nations for her hard work and outreach. In addition, Aguilera and her son, Max, appeared in a PSA for Rock the Vote, encouraging young people to take a stand and vote for what they believe in. The ad, featuring Aguilera singing "America the Beautiful" to Max who is wrapped in an American flag, was included in magazines, television spots and billboards in Times Square. A major contributor to the fight against AIDS, Aguilera has participated in the What's Going On? cover project for AIDS Project Los Angeles' Artists Against AIDS. In 2004 she became the new face for MAC cosmetic company and spokesperson for the MAC AIDS Fund. In addition, Aguilera became involved in awareness campaigns with Youth AIDS and ALDO. She also sponsors and is actively involved in the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh for battered women and children.


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