Person who has killed most chickens !! lol :D

Samsung overtakes Nokia in mobile phone shipments

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world's largest maker of mobile phones, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93m phones compared to almost 83m by Nokia.
Samsung also reported its highest quarterly profit since 2008.
Net profit was 5.05tn won ($4.5bn; £2.8bn) in the quarter ending 31 March, up 81% from 2.78tn won last year.
Samsung is also the world's biggest TV and flat screen maker.
"We cautiously expect our earnings momentum to conBright future
The firm said its IT and mobile communications division, which manufactures the smartphones, made an operating profit of 4.27tn won during the period, as revenues in the division surged 86% from a year earlier.
Samsung will unveil the latest version of its Galaxy range of phones on 3 May.
The Galaxy range has been very popular and helped Samsung overtake Apple to become the world's biggest seller of smartphones.
"The smartphone market has almost only two players, Samsung and Apple," said Lee Sei-Cheol of Meritz Securities.
"Since its Galaxy3 phone is being unveiled in May, Samsung will keep enjoying sales growth in its mobile phone division."
tinue going forward, as competitiveness in our major businesses is enhanced," said Robert Yi, head of investor relations at Samsung.

Bright future
The firm said its IT and mobile communications division, which manufactures the smartphones, made an operating profit of 4.27tn won during the period, as revenues in the division surged 86% from a year earlier.
Samsung will unveil the latest version of its Galaxy range of phones on 3 May.
The Galaxy range has been very popular and helped Samsung overtake Apple to become the world's biggest seller of smartphones.
"The smartphone market has almost only two players, Samsung and Apple," said Lee Sei-Cheol of Meritz Securities.
"Since its Galaxy3 phone is being unveiled in May, Samsung will keep enjoying sales growth in its mobile phone division."

Why can smells unlock forgotten memories?

Complex sense
What we know is that smell is the oldest sense, having its origins in the rudimentary senses for chemicals in air and water – senses that even bacteria have. Before sight or hearing, before even touch, creatures evolved to respond to chemicals around them.
Sight relies on four kinds of light sensors in the human eye, cells known as receptors, which convert light into the electrochemical language of our brain, and touch relies on different receptor types for pressure (at least four of these), for heat, for cold and for pain, but this pales into comparison for what is required for detecting smell. There are at least 1,000 different smell receptor types, which regenerate throughout your lifetime, and change according to what you are used to smelling. The result of this complexity is that we are able discriminate many, many different kinds of smells.
We do not, however, have names for all the smells we can differentiate. Smell is perhaps the sense we are least used to talking about. We are good at describing how things look, or telling how things sounded, but with smells we are reduced to labelling them according to things they are associated with ("smells like summer meadows" or "smells like wet dog", for instance). An example of this “hard-to-talk-about-ness” is that while we have names for colours which mean nothing but the colour, such as “red”, we generally only have names for smells which mean the thing that produces that smell, such as “cedar”, “coconut” or “fresh bread”.

Memory episodes
So now we have the background information, what are the important clues? Well, first, the part of the brain that is responsible for processing smells – the “olfactory bulb” – is next to a part of the brain called the hippocampus. This name means “seahorse”, and the hippocampus is so-called because it is curled up like a seahorse, nested deep within the brain, a convergence point for information arriving from all over the rest of the cortex. Neuroscientists have identified the hippocampus as crucial for creating new memories for events. People with damage to the hippocampus have trouble remembering what has happened to them.
Although they can learn new skills, like riding a bike, and new facts, like what someone is called, they do not create memories of doing these things or having the experiences. This “episodic memory” is precisely the kind of memory I have when I recall visits to my grandmother. And the olfactory bulb, seat of smell in the brain, is conveniently placed just next to the hippocampus, the primary brain nucleus for these memories.

Deep dive
Now, admittedly, this evidence is powerful, but circumstantial. We have the suspect (smell) placed at the scene of the crime (next to the hippocampus). But we are going to need more than circumstantial evidence if the case is going to stand up the scientific court. I hope my next piece of the evidence, a second clue from neuroscience, will convince you as to why smells are so powerful in unlocking memories.
Smell is unique among the senses in that it enters directly deep into the brain. If we look at the major pathways travelled by the other senses, such as hearing and vision, they start at the sense organs – that is, the eyes or the ears – and move to a relay station called the thalamus, before passing on to the rest of the brain.

Good Morning !!

 For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.
The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, www.dcwg.org, that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet.
Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.
Last November, the FBI and other authorities were preparing to take down a hacker ring that had been running an Internet ad scam on a massive network of infected computers.
"We started to realize that we might have a little bit of a problem on our hands because ... if we just pulled the plug on their criminal infrastructure and threw everybody in jail, the victims of this were going to be without Internet service," said Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent. "The average user would open up Internet Explorer and get `page not found' and think the Internet is broken."
On the night of the arrests, the agency brought in Paul Vixie, chairman and founder of Internet Systems Consortium, to install two Internet servers to take the place of the truckload of impounded rogue servers that infected computers were using. Federal officials planned to keep their servers online until March, giving everyone opportunity to clean their computers. But it wasn't enough time. A federal judge in New York extended the deadline until July.
Now, said Grasso, "the full court press is on to get people to address this problem." And it's up to computer users to check their PCs.

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RMS Queen Mary 2

RMS Queen Mary 2 is a transatlantic ocean liner. She was the first major ocean liner built since Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1969, the vessel she succeeded as flagship of the Cunard Line. The ship was named the Queen Mary 2 by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first RMS Queen Mary, completed in 1936. The Queen Mary was in turn named after Mary of Teck, consort of King George V. With the retirement of Queen Elizabeth 2 from active duty in 2008, the Queen Mary 2 is currently the only transatlantic ocean liner in service running between Southampton and New York, although the ship is often used for cruising, including an annual world cruise.^[8]
At the time of her construction in 2003 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, the Queen Mary 2 was the longest, widest, and tallest passenger ship ever built, and with her gross tonnage of 148,528 also the largest. She no longer holds this distinction after the construction of Royal Caribbean International's 154,407 GT Freedom of the Seas in April 2006. Although later cruise ships are larger, the Queen Mary 2 remains the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built.
The Queen Mary 2 was intended primarily to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and was therefore designed differently from many other passenger ships. The ship's final cost was approximately $300,000 US per berth, nearly double that of many contemporary cruise ships. This was due to the size of the ship and her unique design, which reduced the economies of scale achieved with other ship classes. Costs were also increased by the high quality of materials and the fact that, having been designed as an ocean liner, she required 40% more steel than a standard cruise ship.^[9] Queen Mary 2 has a maximum speed of just over 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) and a cruising speed of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph), much faster than contemporary cruise ships, such as Oasis of the Seas, which has a top speed of 22.6 knots (41.9 km/h; 26.0 mph). Instead of the diesel-electric configuration found on many ships, Queen Mary 2 uses a CODLAG configuration (combined diesel-electric and gas) in order to achieve her top speed. This uses additional gas turbines to augment the power given by the diesel generators on board, and allow the ship to reach a higher speed.
Queen Mary 2's facilities include fifteen restaurants and bars, five swimming pools, a casino, a ballroom, a theatre, and the first planetarium at sea. There are also kennels on board, as well as a nursery. Queen Mary 2 is one of the few ships afloat today to have remnants of a class system on board, most prominently seen in her dining options.
Source : Wikipedia

Pay as your wish..

There is a restaurant in Seoul, Korea that has no set prices and simply accepts whatever you can pay..!!

What to do When an ATM Makes a Money Mistake

ATMs can make mistakes. And when they do, it can cost you time and money to clean them up.
They can account a deposit amount incorrectly, dispense too little or too much cash, fail to give a receipt and keep a customer's banking card.
The most spectacular errors occur when ATMs dispense cash to anyone who walks by, including those without money in their accounts or even without accounts.
A couple of times a year, news reports tell of crowds gathering around ATMs that mistakenly begin spewing bills. In 2010, Bank of Ireland ATMs dispensed more cash to customers than they actually had in their accounts, according to The New York Times. One taxi driver with nothing in the bank walked away with 700 euros.

Mistakes Usually From Human Error

How often does it happen? Diebold Inc., a leading maker of ATMs, based in North Canton, Ohio, does not keep records of how many mistakes its machines make, the company says. A representative there says only that mistakes are rare.
However, mistakes do happen, says James Trocme, senior director of market research and knowledge management at Diebold. While they don't know how often they happen, mistakes by the machines can usually be traced to some form of human error. Poor maintenance practices especially can lead to ATM foul-ups, Trocme says.
Although no one in the industry seems to know how often mistakes occur, they generally agree about what to do to avoid being victimized by a rogue ATM.
1. Always get a printed receipt. The receipt contains important information such as the transaction date and time and the machine identifier, says Nessa Feddis, senior counsel for American Bankers Association based in Washington, D.C. Among other things, this will allow the ATM owner to check the photographic record that is often made of transactions.
2. Count your cash. John Prendergast, vice president of supervision for Conference of State Bank Supervisors, an advocacy group composed of state banking regulators based in Washington, D.C., acknowledges that safety concerns may sometimes preclude openly counting a fat stack of $20 bills.
"You need to be cognizant of your surroundings, particularly if there is anyone behind you waiting for the ATM," Prendergast says. "But I would absolutely count the money." It's possible that a video record of the transaction could be used to confirm how many bills you count out, he says.

Act Fast to Improve Your Chances

3. Notify the bank or ATM owner. You can find a phone number on the ATM, telling you whom to call in case the machine isn't located outside of a branch bank, Prendergast says.
4. Act quickly. If you let the ATM owner know immediately, it will make it more likely that the company can trace the error, Feddis says.
An ATM error can leave you baffled, infuriated and not knowing where to turn. But if you take the right steps, the mistake is likely to get corrected. "The outcomes in my experience have been the same," Prendergast says. "That's that the consumer is always dealt with very well and is not left in a bad position."

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Travelling to Outer space !!

Space tourism is expected to "take off" in the next decade, with the Federal Aviation Administration predicting it to blossom into a billion-dollar industry in that time.

It's not all that difficult to imagine, given the technological progression and increasing accessibility since man's first "timid penetration beyond the confines of the atmosphere," as cosmonautic patriarch Konstantin Tsiolkovsky forebode a century ago.
The Jetsons' concept of every average George and Jane scooting around in private saucers was probably inevitable from the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. What followed were decades of space-based machismo between Russia and the United States, one incredible moon landing and a bevy of science fiction that almost made space tourism passe. Almost.

The Most Expensive Walk You'll Ever Take
Since you already wrote a check equivalent to the gross domestic product of a small country to see the Earth as so few have seen it, you may as well go all out. For another $15 million, you can stay on the International Space Station for five days to be trained and certified for an "Extravehicular Activity," otherwise called a spacewalk. For 90 minutes, you will be out in the nothingness of space, realizing exactly how small you really are. You also may be given some menial task to make you feel important and take your mind off of the thought that you're only one "everything going terribly wrong" away from drifting off helplessly into deep space.
If this still isn't enough for you and you've just won Mega Millions, inquire about Space Adventure's mission planned for 2017. It might sound like fiction, but they're planning a circumlunar flight that will be the first human trip to the moon since 1972. As a bonus, you'll get to do the Jim Lovell/Tom Hanks trick of hiding the Earth and "everything you've ever known" under your thumb from 240,000 miles away. The mission provides space for two commercial passengers at a price of $300 million, which is shocking in and of itself until you hear that someone has already reserved one of the seats. We're going to guess they probably also called "shotgun."
Space on a Budget
Not every trip into space requires an eight-figure financial hemorrhage. One can still experience the wonders of weightlessness and looking out into black space and bright stars at a fraction of the price. Well, as long as you keep in mind how large the figure is we're taking a fraction of.
Space Adventure's subsidiary, Zero Gravity, offers what most people would consider the most horrifying plane ride of their life. And more than 7,000 people have paid about $5,000 to take this fear-inducing plunge. A modified Boeing 727 climbs at a 45 degree angle to 34,000 feet before reversing course and hurtling toward the ground. Each "parabola" provides about 30 seconds of weightlessness.
To "slip the surly bonds of Earth" and truly experience space comes with the next price bracket up. Space Adventures has partnered with Armadillo Aerospace to provide suborbital spaceflights at a price of $102,000 per ticket, with more than 200 tickets already reserved.

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/04/20/wanna-travel-to-outer-space-itll-cost/#ixzz1sngNSs

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Swedish Stonehenge? Ancient stone structure spurs debate

Ancient Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a seaside cliff near what is now the Swedish fishing village of Kaseberga. They carefully arranged the massive stones — each weighing up to 4,000 pounds (1,800 kilograms) — in the outline of a 220-foot-long (67-meter) ship overlooking the Baltic Sea.
Archaeologists generally agree this megalithic structure, known as Ales Stenar ("Ale's Stones"), was assembled about 1,000 years ago, near the end of the Iron Age, as a burial monument. But a team of researchers now argues it's really 2,500 years old, dating from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, and was built as an astronomical calendar with the same underlying geometry as England's Stonehenge.
"We can now say Stonehenge has a younger sister, but she's so much more beautiful," said Nils-Axel Morner, a retired geologist from Stockholm University who co-authored the paper on the interpretation, published in March in the International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Other researchers familiar with the site are skeptical. Among other arguments, they cite the results of carbon dating to reject Mörner's interpretation.

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Mörner says his team observed that the sun rises and sets at specific points around Ales Stenar at the summer and winter solstices, hinting that an ancient culture could have built it as an astronomical calendar to time things like annual religious ceremonies or planting and harvesting crops. [Stunning Photos of Summer Solstice]
They also observed that certain aspects of the stone ship's geometry matched those of Stonehenge, a Bronze Age monument that some enthusiasts believe was used as a calendar. (Those claims are contentious, and there are many other theories of Stonehenge's original purpose.)

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The similarities led Mörner to propose the mysterious stone structure of Sweden was a Stonehenge-inspired astronomical calendar constructed by a Bronze Age Scandinavian community that regularly traveled and traded throughout Europe and the Mediterranean.
"The first thing is to see that, yes, it's a calendar," Mörner told LiveScience. "But Ale's Stones also tells us a lot more than we knew before about trading and travel in the Bronze Age among Scandinavia, England and Greece."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/19/swedish-stonehenge-ancient-stone-structure-spurs-debate/#ixzz1siBYewPN

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(Balaa gorge waterfall)

The Baatara gorge waterfall (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon. The waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft) into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Discovered in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri Coiffait, the waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Speleo club du liban. The cave is also known as the “Cave of the Three Bridges.”
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Apps become key to mobile advertising

Ads within smartphone applications such as the popular puzzle game Angry Birds are turning into a key driver for mobile advertising, as apps become the main distribution method for media on mobile phones, according to a report.
In-app spending by advertisers in the United States and western Europe, where there is a high concentration of smartphones owned by affluent consumers, is set to overtake spending on display ads on mobile websites this year, research firm Strategy Analytics says.
The economy in apps, many of which are free, has taken time to establish itself since Apple (AAPL.O) first launched the App Store for the iPhone in 2007. Google (GOOG.O) also has a thriving app store for its Android phones.
At first it seemed that most developers would have a hard time making enough money from their small software programmes, which were made for anything from playing games to checking the weather or recognising songs.
But advertisers are now increasingly using them to reach the consumers of those apps. Strategy Analytics estimates that advertisers will spend $2.9 billion on in-app advertising this year, while consumers will spend $26.1 billion buying them.
The number of apps downloaded globally is expected to grow 38 percent to more than 32 billion this year.
“Advertisers chase eyeballs, so the fact that brands spend more on in-app advertising than the mobile Web is a clear sign that apps are what consumers are glued to for an increasing range of activities,” said David MacQueen, the firm’s director of wireless media strategies.
In less affluent economies, consumers tend to use more basic phones that may not have access to app stores, but browse the Web instead.
Figures from InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, confirm that mobile advertising is taking off, after grappling for years with the small screen size and perceived invasions of privacy on phones.
Source: KT

Novak Djokovic wins in comeback hours after hearing of grandfather’s death

Hours after finding out his beloved grandfather, Vladimir, had died, Novak Djokovic battled back from a one-set deficit to defeat Alexandr Dolgopolov at the Monte Carlo Open, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. The world No. 1 was on a practice court earlier in the day when he received the news and left the court in tears.
Djokovic had lived with his Vladimir during the 1999 bombings in Serbia and credited him with having a great influence on his career. After his win in Thursday's third-round match, Djokovic raised both hands to the sky and wept.
A recent "60 Minutes" piece included a clip of Novak visiting with his grandfather at his apartment in Belgrade. The world No. 1 spoke about how his grandfather, parents, brothers, aunts and uncles lived in the two-bedroom flat during the 78-day campaign. Cameras showed the basement bomb shelter where they'd retreat when air raid sirens sounded.
Last month, Djokovic tweeted about his grandfather's influence after a win in Miami. "I wanted to dedicate this title to my grandfather Vladimir, who is always sending me lots of positive energy," he wrote. "He is my hero and a fighter. He thought [sic] me since i was young to never give up."
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New Inventions..

This wild new motorcycle, invented by 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak, is among the latest inventions to capture attention.

Debuting at the National Motorcycle Show in Toronto, the "Uno" uses gyrotechnology for balance and acceleration.

It is a battery charged machine that accelerates by leaning forward and slowing down by leaning backwards.It weighs approximately 129 pounds (58

kg.) and has a top speed of 25 mph (40 klms).

Some Amazing facts

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal  that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Dream Bedroom !!

Human-made earthquakes reported in central US

The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose “spectacularly” near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, US government geologists report. The average number of earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in the US midcontinent – an area that includes Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas – increased to six times the 20th century average last year, scientists at the US  Geological Survey said in an abstract of their research.
The abstract does not explicitly link rising earthquake activity to fracking – known formally as hydraulic fracturing – that involves pumping water and chemicals into underground rock formations to extract natural gas and oil.
But the wastewater generated by fracking and other extraction processes may play a role in causing geologic faults to slip, causing earthquakes, the report suggests.
“A remarkable increase in the rate of (magnitude 3) and greater earthquakes is currently in progress,” the authors wrote in a brief work summary to be discussed Wednesday at a San Diego meeting of the Seismological Society of America.
“While the seismicity rate changes described here are almost certainly manmade, it remains to be determined how they are related to either changes in extraction methodologies or the rate of oil and gas production,” the abstract said.
From 1970 through 2000, the rate of magnitude 3 or greater quakes was 21 plus or minus 7.6 each year, according to USGS figures. Between 2001 and 2008, that increased to 29 plus or minus 3.5.
But the next three years saw the numbers increase “much more spectacularly,” said Arthur McGarr, of the geologic survey’s Earthquake Science Center in California: 2009 had 50, 2010 had 87 and 2011 had 134 such events.
“We don’t know why, but we doubt that it’s a natural process, because in nature, the only time you see such a big increase is during an aftershock sequence (with a series of quakes) or in a volcanic setting where you often get swarms of earthquakes due to magmatic activity,” McGarr said by telephone.
Source: Dawn News

Rare Protest - Italian museum burns artworks in protest at cuts

A museum in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket.

Antonio Manfredi, of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, set fire to the first painting on Tuesday.
"Our 1,000 artworks are headed for destruction anyway because of the government's indifference," he said.
The work was by French artist Severine Bourguignon, who was in favour of the protest and watched it online.
Mr Manfredi plans to burn three paintings a week from now on, in a protest he has dubbed "Art War".

Gayle breaks girl’s nose after hitting six

West Indies batsman Chris Gayle Wednesday visited a female spectator who suffered a broken nose after being hit by one of his sixes as she watched from the stands at an Indian Premier League match.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore opener smashed eight sixes, including five in a row off leg-spinner Rahul Sharma, during an explosive innings that helped his team beat the Pune Warriors on Tuesday evening.
Gayle said on Twitter that after learning one of his strikes had hit the fan, named only as Tia, and broken her nose he decided to go and visit her.
“Her 1st word to me is to Chill, She’s fine!” he wrote.
The left-handed opener, who was named man of the match, cracked a 48-ball 81 in a magnificent display of power-hitting to help Bangalore surpass Pune’s challenging total of 182 with six wickets to spare in a last-ball finish.

I wonder how can a Health specialist be a World Bank president ? No clue.. what else to question the American transpereny ?

The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington’s grip on the job and leaving developing countries frustrated with the selection process.
The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington’s grip on the job and leaving developing countries frustrated with the selection process.    
Kim, a physician and anthropologist who makes for a somewhat unorthodox choice to head the global anti-poverty lender, won the job over Nigeria’s widely respected finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, with the support of Washington’s allies in Western Europe, Japan and Canada, as well as some emerging economies.
It was the first time in the World Bank’s history that the United States’ hold on the job was challenged.
The decision by the World Bank’s 25-member board was not unanimous, with emerging economies splitting their support.
Brazil and South Africa backed Okonjo-Iweala, while three sources said China and India supported Kim.
Kim, 52, who is president of Dartmouth College, will assume his new post on July 1 after Robert Zoellick steps down as head of the World Bank.
“I will seek a new alignment of the World Bank Group with a rapidly changing world,” Kim said in a statement.
He said he would work to ensure that the World Bank “delivers more powerful results to support sustained growth; prioritizes evidence-based solutions over ideology; amplifies the voices of developing countries; and draws on the expertise and experience of the people we serve.”
Okonjo-Iweala congratulated Kim and said the competition had led to “important victories” for developing nations, which have increasingly pushed for more say at both institutions.
Still, she said more effort was needed to end the “unfair tradition” that ensured Washington’s dominance of the global development lender.
“It is clear to me that we need to make it more open, transparent and merit-based,” Okonjo-Iweala said. “We need to make sure that we do not contribute to a democratic deficit in global governance.”
Some development experts criticized US President Barack Obama’s choice as lacking the economic and financial credentials needed to respond to the needs of rising middle-income countries, which are still riddled with poverty but which are increasingly looking for innovative ways to finance their development.
The United States said the process was open and transparent, but a number of emerging nations questioned whether candidates were assessed on their nationalities rather than on their merits, as World Bank members countries had agreed in 2010.
The United States has held the presidency since the World Bank’s founding after World War Two, while a European has always led its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund.
Source: Dawn News
http://dawn.com/2012/04/17/world-bank-picks-health-expert-kim-as-president/

Google Workplace !!

COLORS !!

I bet you can only understand this image after watching twice !!
This image is taken from air of this camels moving in the desert, at a first look it seem to be camels are in black, but camels are the thin brown if you will see clearly and the black are their shadows !!

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Nearly twice as many emperor penguins inhabit Antarctica as was thought.

UK, US and Australian scientists used satellite technology to trace and count the iconic birds, finding them to number almost 600,000.
Their census technique relies in the first instance on locating individual colonies, which is done by looking for big brown patches of guano (penguin poo) on the white ice.
High resolution imagery is then used to work out the number of birds present.
It is expected that the satellite mapping approach will provide the means to monitor the long-term health of the emperor population.
Climate modelling has suggested their numbers could fall in the decades ahead if warming around Antarctica erodes the sea ice on which the animals nest and launch their forays for seafood.
"If we want to understand whether emperor penguins are endangered by climate change, we have to know first how many birds there are currently and have a methodology to monitor them year on year," said Peter Fretwell from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"This study gives us that baseline population, which is quite surprising because it's twice as many as we thought, but it also gives us the ability to follow their progress to see if that population is changing over time," he told BBC News.
The scientists have reported their work in the journal PLoS One.
Their survey identified 44 key penguin colonies on the White Continent, including seven that had not previously been recognised.
Although finding a great splurge of penguin poo on the ice is a fairly straightforward - if laborious - process, counting individual birds in a group huddle is not, even in the highest resolution satellite pictures.
This means the team therefore had to calibrate their analysis of the colonies by using ground counts and aerial photography at some select sites.

Source:BBC NEWS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17692025

Stylish CUP !!

3 Countries separated by River !

Exclusive ! How we get the worlds most popular gadget "Apple Ipad"..

Worlds Largest Goldfish !!

TITANIC 3D FULL TRAILER 2012

Titanic tragedy remembered in special events

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is being remembered at events across the world, including in the ship's birthplace Belfast.

At the North Atlantic site of the sinking, cruise ship Balmoral, which is retracing the Titanic's route, held a memorial service.
A minute's silence was held, and floral wreaths were cast on to the waves to remember the 1,512 victims who died.
The sinking is also being remembered in other parts of the globe.

 

First Rasberry Pi computer

First Raspberry Pi computers to be delivered

A group of schoolchildren in Leeds are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones computer.
Costing only £16, the tiny computer has been designed to inspire anyone, especially children, to get started with computer programming.
Eager fans who were the first to order a machine should get their Raspberry Pi by 20 April.
Since the Raspberry Pi project began, the plan has garnered huge interest from developers, hobbyists and others keen to get their hands on a cheap, easy-to-use computer.
Delivery of the first batch of production machines has been delayed twice - once because the wrong component was soldered on to circuit boards and a second time thanks to confusion about electromagnetic testing.

 

SONY SMART WATCH - LOOKS REALLY COOL !!!!
(~ Shared by Maliha Imtiaz- Existing Actuality)

Featuring brushed chrome edges, the 1.3-inch OLED touch screen features Bluetooth 3.0 and is compatible with Android phones from Sony, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and others.

The dust and splash proof Smart Watch is essentially the same story. The updated version is sleeker in appearance (and about 0.3-inches thick), has an accelerometer, can vibrate, and will launch with a colorful swatch of wristband accessories. A black wristband and wristband adapter is included..

I love books !!

Nanotube fabric could let you charge your phone by walking

What if you could power up your smartphone with just a brisk walk?
That’s the promise of Power Felt, a new creation of nanotechnology researchers at Wake Forest University.
It’s a fabric, made up of tiny carbon nanotubes locked in flexible plastic fibers, that uses temperature differences to create a charge.
So, for example, you could slap a strip of it onto the back of your phone and hold it in your hand or stick it in your pocket while you walked. Since your body heat would be higher than the temperature outside, it would create one of those differentials and the felt would siphon off that extra heat, turning it into electrical power.
“Heat is all around you,” said David Carroll, Director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. “Heat differentials are everywhere.”
He says all the energy that heat generates is wasted without a way to harness and move it. Enter Power Felt.
Carroll’s research is featured in the current issue of NanoLetters, a leading nanotechnology journal. He says the product isn’t quite ready for market, but that the center is currently courting investors to help get it there.
The felt probably isn’t ready to charge a phone all the way. But a regular day’s activity could add an hour or so to its battery life, Carroll said.
“If you’re at the airport and your phone’s dead and you’re trying to get your wife on the phone to come get you, what you’re concerned about is being able to make that one extra call,” he said.
Other uses could include using the heat inside a car to power its battery, lining solar panels to help them soak in even more of the sun’s rays, or lining emergency kits to power flashlights, radios and other tools.
When reversed, the nanotubes can also move heat away, producing a cooling effect that could be helpful for medical care.
“We’re going to go further and further with this,” Carroll said.
The practice of taking research from a university lab and trying to market it is one that’s relatively recent, he said. But more and more, Carroll said he’s seeing academic work moving from the theoretical to the practical without the new technology needing to change hands.
“Science can make a difference; science can solve stuff,” he said. “It’s not that basic science has goine away, but it is fascinating when you get into this kind of development of technology, and I see more and more of that happening.”

 

Andromeda galaxy

At a distance of about 2.5 million light years, the Andromeda galaxy (also known as NGC 224 and M31) is the nearest galaxy to the Earth apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds.
Like the Milky Way, Andromeda is a spiral galaxy. It can be spotted with the naked eye and so has been known to humans for a very long time.
In the 1920s astronomer Edwin Hubble confirmed that Andromeda is another galaxy and not just a gas cloud in the Milky Way as was previously thought.
Image: A mosaic view of the Andromeda galaxy created from 10 Galaxy Evolution Explorer images (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Earworms: Why catchy tunes get trapped in our heads

  "Earworms", some people call them. Songs that get stuck in your head and go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months. For no apparent reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga or Coldplay, or horror upon horrors, the latest American Idol reject.

To a psychologist – or at least to this psychologist – the most interesting thing about earworms is that they show a part of our mind that is clearly outside of our control. Earworms arrive without permission and refuse to leave when we tell them to. They are parasites, living in a part of our minds that rehearses sounds.

As well as containing repetition, music is also unusual among the things we regularly encounter for being so similar each time we hear it. Fences are visually repetitive, for example, but each time you see the same fence you will look at it from a different angle, or in different light. Put a song on your stereo and the sound comes out virtually identical each time. Remembering is powerfully affected by repetition, so maybe the similarity of music engraves deep grooves in our mind. Grooves in which earworms can thrive.

 

It is unbreakable !!
Recent marketing campaign by a company manufacturing bullet proof strong glasses..
This glass safe is installed on a road and they are damn sure that no one can break this and they have kept huge amount also inside so if anyone can really break, he can take the all money.. 

Very special Morning Breakfast !!!

Snake rolling bus

Amazing paint on a bus.. looks like snake is rolling around and will soon squeeze the bus, but its just an Art of painting..
Simply Awesome :D

What an awesome art !!
coins are arranged in a well disclipline manner to creat this shape..
Just Superb !1