Windows XP

Enable support for Indian languages (Indic) on your computer. Windows XP has inbuilt Indian languages features. If you enable these features, you will be able to view the Hindi pages much better. You must have at least 10 MB of free hard disk space. Before starting, please close any open programs.

1. Launch Control Panel (from the Start button)
2. Go to Regional and Language Options.
3. Select the Languages tab.
4. Check (click) the line marked Install files for complex scripts and right to left languages (including Thai) When you check this line, a new window will appear, which will give a list of languages that will be installed. This list includes Indic. (You need atleast 10MB of hard disk space and need to restart you computer).

If Windows XP users are unable to read Hindi text on the website:

* Go to View menu of your browser followed by the Encoding submenu
* Select Unicode (UTF-8) option. If the Autoselect option is available check it.

The above steps will allow Winxp users to view Hindi
For writing in Hindi you can download Baraha Software.

For instructions on Hindi support for Mac please visit the following link.

The successful Hindi launch is a collaborative effort of our dedicated translation & development team members who have worked to ensure the smooth rollout. So far no social network has paid much attention to Hindi, but for Kindo it was an easy choice. Hindi is among the top 5 languages spoken in the world, with over 500 million native speakers, 330 million in India alone. Of India’s Internet users, 44% prefer Hindi to English on the net.

Nils Hammar said, “We’re excited about this launch”. “We believe Internet access and usage will grow among Hindi speakers over the next few years, and that many Indians will want to use the service in their mother tongue. Apart from connecting typical Indian homes, Kindo will provide great assistance to families of many Indians who are based all over the world. Kindo is meant for all generations so it’s Important to make everyone feel at home.”

For Indians, the family is central to the daily life, which is another reason why Kindo decided to launch in Hindi.

To make this release a reality, the translation team has looked towards multiple issues like installation of the correct fonts-package on operating systems (Windows & Mac), cross-browser compatibility with Hindi (Mozilla Firefox and IE). The structured approach to ensure high quality involved the usage of multiple translation interfaces like google’s indic and translate engine.

Many experts have started terming Torres as the successor to Henry’s throne but Lehman believes it would still take him more time. Lehman played alongside Henry as a goalkeeper in the Arsenal team. He watched Henry’s exploits from the other side of the post and feels that Thierry Henry is close to god in terms of performance on the football field.

Team Kindo follows soccer quite closely. Football fans can checkout the celebrity trees of Thierry Henry and Fernando Torres. There are other soccer stars too including our friend Martin’s favorite Zlatan Ibrahamovic

William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the forty-second President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. He is the husband of New York Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. The famous Clinton family is up here on Kindo. Visit their family tree here.

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and is the eldest son of former American President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush. On October 7, 2001, U.S. and Australian forces initiated bombing campaigns that led to the arrival on November 13 of Northern Alliance troops in Kabul. The main goals of the war were to defeat the Taliban, drive al Qaeda out of Afghanistan, and capture key al Qaeda leaders. In December 2001, the Pentagon reported that the Taliban had been defeated but cautioned that the war would go on to continue weakening Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders. Later that month the UN had installed the Afghan Interim Authority chaired by Hamid KarzaiHe was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2001 and his current term is scheduled to end at noon EST (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Check out his family tree here.

For more information about other celebrity trees visit our celebrity family trees page.

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Amitabh Bachchan holds the record for the most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards and has won three National Film Awards and twelve Filmfare Awards to date. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter of Kaun Banega Crorepati, India’s version of the British television game-show, who wants to be a Millionaire? He was also an elected member of the Indian Parliament from 1984 to 1987.

Amitabh Bachchan is the father of bollywood hero Abhishek Bachchan. Kindo has his family tree. For more information about other celebrity trees visit our celebrity family trees page.

Excerpts from the article:

“Kindo was started in April 2007 and went live that October; the idea is a family communication service built around a family tree. The service is backed by some well-lnown characters from London’s start-up scene including Saul and Robin Klein at TAG - the guys behind Stardoll, Lovefilm and Moo, amongst others - along with Last.fm’s first investor Stefan Glänzer and ASI, the investment firm started by Skype’s founding engineers.”

read the entire piece at the digital content blog

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Infact, Germany is not the only country to have played from mixed nationalities. Portugal has relied on Brazilian’s Deco and Roger Guerreiro to take it across to them Euro 2008 semis this year.

Germany and Spain are the two countries who have selected Brazilian players Kevin Kuranyiand and Marcos Senna respectively. France has always looked upon it’s former colonies for football talent. Les Bleus have Patrice Evra (Senegal), Jean-Alain Boumsong (Cameroon), Patrick Vieira (Senegal) as some of their popular imports. If we look at the non-European-born players then they can be easily placed into one-squad with five substitutes and six reserves.

Purists say that its good for the game. Some also opine that it is a cause of worry when teams do not feel players from their own countries. What are your thoughts on the influx of players from different nationalities in this edition’s Euro 2008? What sort of emotion do these players go through while playing against their countries of origin/birth? What do their families feel about it? Do drop in your comments about that

Talking about football players don’t miss out the celebrity family trees of famous football players Zlatan Ibrahimović, David Beckham, Michael Ballack and Gianluigi Buffon. For family trees of other celebrities please visit our celebrity trees page.

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Scott uses an interesting mathematical derivation to arrive at the result. Parents, focus on their expenditures while raising kids (primarily their standard of living is affected) and this standard of living carries on once their job is over.

In mathematical terms for any household the cost of living is the square root of no. of people in the household.

The above derivations show that the cost of living is accounted for by 30% when parents have 2 children. So husband and wife contribute to 70% cost of living.

Scott has used another elaboration to explain his logic. For more on the interesting piece visit dailybreeze.com website here.

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The study which was conducted amongst 1500 kids also showed that involvement with grandparents helps them to maintain cool during critical situations such as divorce. The statistics of the research say that out of every three grandmothers one looks after a grandchild.

According to the university, it is time for the government to take initiative in this direction and ensure that necessary steps are implemented for taking care of grandchildren.

According to Prof Ann Buchanan, the director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Oxford University, “What was especially interesting was the link between involved grandparents and adolescent well-being. Closeness was not enough: only grandparents who got stuck in had this positive impact on their grandchildren”.

What was really amazing is that everyone from the family and the guests came dressed in Indian sarees, jewellery and sherwanis.

Heidi was very moved when she was told about the significance of sindoor for the Indian bride by the priest. Similarly, her parents turned very emotional when they were asked by the priest to wash the feet of their son-in-law Seal, which was a custom in India.

It was terrific sight to witness the mix of rich culture and family traditions from two different global families. Both Heidi and Seal were well aware how Indians view the institution of marriage and how it is seen as saat janmo ka bandhan. They wanted to understand the exact philosophy of the saat pheras.

The dedication towards Indian experience was shown by the fact that only vegetarian north Indian food was served in the menu. The spices were specially imported from India. Although the chef was American, the families enjoyed excellent gobhi-aloo, naan and pulao.

For more information about Heidi Klum and her family check out Heidi’s family tree by us. To browse our other family trees please visit the celebrity trees page.

The picture shows the couple and Heidi’s family after the wedding. In the inset is the Indian priest who conducted the wedding. (Image & story via http://epaper.timesofindia.com)