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Citing rumors from production plants in Shenzhen, China, Shanzai.com reported Friday that Apple is in fact working on a 7-inch tablet, though its alleged design is said to be more like an iPhone 4. The report said,
"Yes 5 plus different designs have been floating around to help Apple protect itself from people
discovering its next product look and feel but... the final design will in fact bear more resemblance to the iPhone 4 stylings than the original iPad design."
Apple has tipped its hand on future iPad designs by filing for patents in China. According to Patently Apple, the new patent filings show a number of changes to the design of the iPad, the first is the ability to dock in landscape mode as well as portrait. Other features that may be in the works include a new port and a smart bezel. Time will tell if any of these designs pan out but it's a fascinating peek at what could surface in the next several weeks or quarters ahead.

New 7-inch Apple iPad Coming Soon

The RSPCA has launched a hunt to trace the owner of a cat which was dyed pink and thrown over a garden fence. The North Wiltshire branch of the society was alerted to the animal’s plight by a member of the public who saw a cat being thrown into their back garden in Wesley Street, Swindon, at 10.30pm on Saturday did not see the person responsible but called the RSPCA.

The naturally white female cat, aged between one and two years, is in good health and the fur
pattern around her neck suggests she wore a collar until recently. An RSPCA spokesman said it cannot rule out the possibility the cat is someone's missing pet which was dyed as "a sick prank". It is unknown how long the dye will stay on Veterinary surgeon Penny Gillespie, who is caring for Pink at Cheldene Veterinary Centre and Boarding Cattery, said: "We have no idea what the dye is or how long it will last. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the RSPCA cruelty and information line on 0300 1234 999.

Pink cat found dumped in a garden of Swindon, Wiltshire

Actress Lindsay Lohan was released from a suburban Los Angeles jail late Friday night, well short of the nearly monthlong stay a judge had intended for the actress following a failed drug test. The actress is not entirely free. She will be required to wear an ankle alcohol monitor and stay away from establishments that primarily sell alcohol until her next court date on Oct. 22.

After news of her positive drug test broke last week, Lohan seemed to acknowledge an addiction problem on her Twitter feed. "Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before Judge Fox... as a result," she wrote.

Lohan's father, Michael Lohan said, "I pray to God that Shawn does the right thing and advises her to go right into rehab now, and show the judge she's serious, because in 30 days when she goes back before the judge he can do whatever he wants".
Lindsay Lohan was arrested twice in 2007 on charges of driving under the influence, and in the second incident, she was charged with cocaine possession.

Lindsay Lohan freed from LA jail after posting bail

In New Delhi, it's a race against time for the organisers to clean up the mess around the stadium as more and more athletes continue to pull out. Tubby Reddy, the Sascoc chief executive officer, confirmed fears that India was not ready to host the Games, scheduled to run from October 3 to 14. "We have been monitoring the situation on a month-to-month basis and found that the facilities are currently not appropriate to stage the Games," Reddy said this week.
"I have been told that only 18 of the 34 blocks that will house athletes during the Games have been sufficiently finished," said Reddy.

The transfer of the Games Village to the Delhi Government has taken place in the wake of complaints from various Commonwealth Games Associations about poor hygienic conditions at the venue. Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation Mike Hooper had gone to the extent of terming the condition “filthy and unimaginable'' and its president Mike Fennel had lodged a written complaint with the Cabinet Secretary. There was more bad publicity for the Games on Tuesday when a pedestrian suspension bridge for athletes collapsed, injuring 27 workers. It was to be an important link between the athlete's car park and Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, the venue of the opening ceremony. As a result, an Australian discus champion and a British triple jumper have pulled out, citing safety and security concerns. A day after the bridge collapsed, The Times of India reported that another embarrassment had hit the troubled Games -- the ceiling of the weightlifting arena at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium also collapsed. According to the reports, the ceiling fell "directly over the field of pay". Security concerns surrounding the Games have also been heightened in the wake of the shooting of two Taiwanese nationals traveling in a tourist bus outside the Jama Masjid in the walled city area here on Sunday.

The Commonwealth Games: The Games Village still not prepared

Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, was sentenced to 86 years in prison on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The case of the scientist, Aafia Siddiqui, 38, had attracted wide attention, including in Pakistan where she was portrayed by politicians and the news media as a heroine, as well as from human rights groups. Her lawyers had requested a sentence of 12 years, while prosecutors had pressed for a life sentence.

Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Aafia Siddiqui as "the daughter of the nation" on Friday and vowed to campaign for her release from an American jail.

“The International Justice Network stands in solidarity with the international community in condemning this unfair and unjust result in Dr. Siddiqui’s case.” “This sentence is not only unjust because of its harshness to Dr. Siddiqui - but also because of its impact on her two small children in Pakistan who may never see their mother again,” “This case is not over. This is just the beginning,” Tina Foster of the International Justice Network told reporters, adding that the real importance of the case, her group believes, is that it draws attention to thousands of disappearances in Pakistan.

Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in 2008, when she was carrying in her purse instructions on making explosives and a list of New York landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.

In 2008, Ms. Siddiqui was taken into custody in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after the local authorities became suspicious of her loitering outside the provincial governor’s compound. While in custody, on July 18, 2008, prosecutors said, Ms. Siddiqui grabbed an M4 rifle from a police station floor and fired on Army officers and F.B.I. agents. She was shot in the abdomen.

Siddiqui was allowed to speak at length at the hearing. In an emotional rush of sentences, she denied that she was mentally ill and repeatedly invoked the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) in urging Muslims not to respond to her sentence with violence.
“I am asking all the Muslims: Don’t do an act of violence,” she said in court. If you want to do anything for me, educate them about Islam,” she said, saying it is a religion of peace that has made her happy and content, even in prison.

Pakistani Scientist Gets 86 Years for Firing at Americans

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is yet again the richest man in America. He was announced for the 17th year in a row the richest man in the United States. Bill Gates is first on the Forbes list with an estimated fortune of $54 billion, up from $50 billion in 2009. No. 2 on the list was investor Warren Buffett, worth $45 billion, up $5 billion. Oracle founder Larry Ellison's net worth was unchanged, in third place, at $27 billion. Christy Walton, heir to Walmart founder Sam Walton's fortune, was in fourth place with $24 billion, up $2.5 billion.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, No. 35, saw the largest relative increase, more than tripling his fortune to $6.9 billion from $2 billion. He manage to rank higher than Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs, who was 42 with a fortune of 6.1 billion.

California is the state with the most billionaires -- 83 -- among them No. 332 Meg Whitman, worth $1.2 billion, the Republican candidate for governor of the state in November elections.

The top ten Richest Americans are:

1. Bill Gates- 54 billion dollars

2. Warren Buffett- 45 billion dollars

3. Lawrence Ellison- 27 billion dollars

4. Christy Walton and family- 24 billion dollars

5. Charles Koch- 21.5 billion dollars

6. David Koch- 21.5 billion dollars

7. Jim C Walton- 20.1 billion dollars

8. Alice Walton- 20 billion dollars

9. S. Robson Walton- 19.7 billion dollars

10. Michael Bloomberg- 18 billion dollars

Still, Bill Gates is the richest man in America

World's oldest man Walter Breuning celebrated his 114th birthday on Tuesday at a retirement home in Great Falls. He was born on Sept. 21, 1896, in Melrose, Minn., and moved to Montana in 1918, where he worked as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway for 50 years. His wife, Agnes, a railroad telegraph operator from Butte, died in 1957. The couple had no children.

The Guinness organization and the Gerontology Research Group each have verified Breuning as the world's oldest man and the fourth-oldest person. Three women were born earlier in the same year as Breuning. Breuning inherited the distinction of being the world's oldest man in July 2009 when Briton Henry Allingham died at age 113.

World's oldest man Walter Breuning, turns 114

Microsoft has released a public beta of their upcoming browser edition Internet Explorer 9 at an event dubbed "Beauty of the Web." After years of complacency, it looks like the IE team has finally decided to start fighting back in the browser wars. Right now, the choice between IE9, Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6 is really one of personal taste.
“The browser is a stage. It is the backdrop of the web,” said Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch.

With vrsion 9, Microsoft's browser has been seriously streamlined, and finally starts looking like an application that belongs on modern PCs. The condensed top bar, which squeezes the OneBox,tabs and navigation buttons into a single row, is a welcome change that lets you see more of a website. IE9 is faster, has better support for HTML5 and CSS3, and seems better-tuned to the needs of the user than previous versions did. Microsoft has streamlined the interface, making the browser less apparent and allowing the user to focus more on content. Likewise, the addition of pinned websites makes accessing frequently accessed bookmarks faster and adds some great features by way of jump lists.

New features of version 9

Perhaps the most exciting feature in the newest IE is Pinned Shortcuts. Drag the favicon from the OneBox to your taskbar, and Windows will treat that site as if it were its own application. Clicking on the shortcut will launch the page in its own browser window.

One of the most important improvements IE9 brings to Web developers — the ability to use a wide variety of fonts without having to Photoshop images of them. This alone could save days in the time it takes to create and update websites, and let designers focus more on the design of the site and less on the mechanics of creating it.

IE9 joins the JavaScript speed team, revving up performance in other ways with graphics hardware acceleration. Finally, IE9 has become a "modern" browser , by supporting new Web coding techniques like HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, and SVG.
From OneBox, you navigate directly to a site, search Bing, Google and other services, and pull sites from your history and bookmarks.

You can rearrange tabs by dragging them around, and even "tear" them off the top of the browser to move windows around. If you have Windows 7, you can drag one tab to the left edge of the screen and another to the right.

IE9's design screen is rather spartan, and that's a good thing. There are fewer visible controls at the top of the browser to clutter things up, though the back arrow, much as in Firefox, is larger now because of how frequently people click that button.

Microsoft has built a somewhat Firefox-y looking download manager into Internet Explorer 9. IE users will finally have a single pane which maintains download history and provides centralized access to running or opening downloaded files.

IE9 also adds GPU-accelerated rendering to the browser. At the moment, this is only minimally useful, but it will eventually enable better video playback and high-quality 3-D graphics on the Web.

IE9 harnesses the PC’s hardware to accelerate graphics, videos and text. The result is that IE9 is able to render heavy graphic interfaces far better than even Chrome or Firefox.

The browser is expected to air in 2011 for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The bad news? Microsoft has said it will not support Windows XP, an OS still used by approximately 60 percent of the market. Crashes and irregularities aside, IE 9 is a great direction for Microsoft and its one we hope it is a path the company continues to walk down.

DOWNLOAD LINK for Internet Explorer 9 Beta
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/download/ie-9/worldwide

Internet Explorer 9 Beta

In Japan, "The Tokyo Game Show 2010" takes place from September 16 to 19 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, introducing a variety of new game software and hardware to visitors. The show marks its 20th anniversary in 2010, and a total of over 1400 exhibitor booths feature video games, computer games, digital entertainment products, mobile games, game machines, game schools, and more.

There are 194 companies represented at TGS 2010 this year. Of those, 103 are Japanese companies. Organizers also say there's a marked increase in PC-based developers and publishers. Show organizers estimate total attendance to hit 180,000 before the four-day show ends. Microsoft has just announced at the Tokyo Game Show that Halo Reach managed to bring in $200 million (USD) on day one alone, breaking all kinds of records in the process. According to VG247, Halo Reach is now the biggest entertainment product of 2010, although $200m for one day is still not enough to take down Modern Warfare 2's figure of $310m for one day sales in the UK and US combined.
It's open to the public on September 18 and 19.

The Tokyo Game Show 2010

Wild tigers, the most beautiful and majestic creatures are on a path toward extinction. Once found in almost the entire world, their population has reduced to just about three thousand and five hundred in the wild and most clustered in fragmented areas making up less than 7 percent of their former range in Asia. Their numbers have declined in the wild from perhaps 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, to more than 10,000 in the 1980s to less than 3,500 today, a study says.

The new study — to which researchers from the conservationist group Panthera, the World Bank, the University of Cambridge and others also contributed — identifies 42 key areas that have concentrations of tigers with the potential to grow and populate larger landscapes. Eighteen are in India — the country with the most tigers — eight in Indonesia, six in Russia's Far East and the others scattered elsewhere in Asia.

The study was issued ahead of a major U.N. conference in Japan next month at which nations are expected to agree on new targets to try to halt the decline in the loss of plant and animal species.

Tiger's habitat in India, Russia, China and Southeast Asia has been carved up, their prey has
been taken away from them and tigers are killed, their parts used in traditional medicine. Despite the millions of dollars that have been spent to save one of the most charismatic and iconic species on the planet, if current trends continue—and there's little reason to expect they won't—tigers will be all but extinct in the wild some day soon.

"Wild tigers are right on the brink," says John Robinson, executive vice president for conservation and science at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

In practicality, there exist just forty two sites in Asia that have any tigers living. It therefore
becomes imperative upon the governments, within whose control the areas lie, to conserve and
protect the grand tigers.

Tigers Are in Peril

Clean energy may also be called green energy or renewable energy, is a term used to describe energy that is derived from resources, like the sun and the wind -- resources that are continually available to some degree or other all over the world.

The use of natural energy sources to provide heating and electricity is rapidly increasing in popularity among homeowners. Wind power is growing at the rate of 30% annually, with a worldwide installed capacity of 158 gigawatts (GW) in 2009, and is widely used in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Sunlight is the source of most renewable energy power, either directly or indirectly. The sun can be harnessed to produce solar energy -- electricity for heating, cooling, and lighting homes, offices, entertainment complexes, airports, and a variety of other industrial structures. Hydroelectric power is produced from streams, rivers, and waterfalls that flow downhill, their tremendous power turning large turbines that convert the flow to electricity. Geothermal energy taps the Earth's internal heat in the form of steam for a variety of uses, including electric power production, and the heating and cooling of buildings. Some new systems are in development for harvesting even more power by injecting water back into underground heat sources to produce more steam. Organic plant matter, known as biomass, can be burned, gasified, fermented, or otherwise processed to produce electricity, heat and biofuels for transportation.

Advantages of Clean Energy

Clean Energy can be considered only energy that doesn’t pollute at all and doesn’t use resources that can’t be easily renewed. It comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat. An additional reason why clean energy can be so desirable is because it tends to come from sources that are free. While harnessing this energy costs money, wind and sun aren’t owned by anybody in particular. After the initial cost of; solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal energy systems, the only cost to the consumer relates to any required maintenance. You could even sell excess electricity back to your national grid.

Some limitations of Clean Energy

Renewable resources are often located in remote areas, and it is expensive to build power lines to the cities where the electricity they produce is needed. The use of renewable sources is also limited by the fact that they are not always available — cloudy days reduce solar power; calm days reduce wind power; and droughts reduce the water available for hydropower.

Despite some negative consequences to the environment from things like wind farms or use of hydroelectric power, these tend to be minimal in comparison to the use of petroleum or non-clean coal. By making the switch to natural and renewable energy sources, you will be doing your part in helping to improve the quality of the environment and the air we breathe.

Clean Energy

Muslims from all over the World Condemn Burning of Quran on 9/11

Labor Day is a legal holiday of United States that is over 100 years old. On the first Monday in September, Labor Day honors the social and economic contributions that the American worker has made to the growth health and prosperity of the country. It was first celebrated in this country in the 1880s -- at a time when people commonly worked 12-hour days. The first Labor Day rally, in 1882, was in support of an eight-hour workday. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. There is still some doubt about who first proposed a holiday to honor workers. Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold." But McGuire's claim on Labor Day history has been challenged; many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. The Socialist Party held a similar celebration of the working class on May 1. This date eventually became known as May Day, and was celebrated by Socialists and communists in commemoration of the working man. In the U.S., the first Monday in September was selected to reject any identification with Communism.

Traditionally, Labor Day is celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. The holiday is often regarded as a day of rest and parties. A street parade to exhibit to the public
"the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations," followed by a festival for the workers and their families. This became the pattern for Labor Day celebrations. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civil significance of the holiday. Many colleges and some secondary and elementary schools begin classes immediately after Labor Day. State parks, swimming pools, and campgrounds are all quite busy on Labor Day, as vacationers take one last advantage of the waning hot season.

Today, Labor Day is observed not only in the U.S.but also in Canada, and in other industrialized nations. While it is a general holiday in the United States, its roots in the working class remain clearer in European countries.

The Labor Day

A strong earthquake damaged much of New Zealand's South Island early yesterday. The quake had a magnitude of 7.0, down from an initial assessment of 7.4, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It struck about 35 miles from Christchurch, a city with a population of some 386,000 people on the east coast of South Island. An aftershock with a magnitude of 5.7 struck not far from the epicenter about 20 minutes later, the survey said.

The earthquake struck at 0435 on Saturday local time(1635 GMT on Friday), when most people would have been asleep. A resident of Christchurch Wright Hadlee said,
"The house felt like it was on wheels, like it was rolling around on marbles".

A state of emergency was declared and army troops were on standby to assist after the quake, which hit 19 miles west of Christchurch, according to the state geological agency GNS Science. No tsunami alert was issued. Police from Auckland and other areas were flying in to help with recovery efforts. Roads had been blocked by rubble, power and traffic lights were out, and gas and water supplies disrupted, while chimneys and walls had fallen from older buildings.

Roughly 100 people were being treated for minor bumps and cuts after the strong quake, hospital officials said. Two people suffered more serious injuries. Minister of Civil Defense John Carter stressed the low number of casualties.
"I think we've been extremely lucky as a nation that there's been no fatalities," Carter told reporters.

Christchurch International Airport was closed after the quake as a precaution, as experts checked runways and terminal buildings, a spokesman said.

Experts said the low levels of injury reflect the strict building codes that apply in New Zealand,
which records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year.
"New Zealand has very good building codes ... (that) mean the buildings are strong compared with, say, Haiti," which suffered widespread death and devastation in a magnitude 7.0 quake this year, earth sciences professor Martha Savage said.

A severe earthquake hits south New Zealand: No deaths reported

Aldi Suganda,a 2-year-old Indonesian boy whose chain-smoking had much of the world fuming has kicked the habit. The tubby toddler of South Sumatra, who reportedly smoked 40 cigarettes a day, has broken his nicotine addiction through a 30-day rehabilitation program, the Jakarta Globe reported Thursday.

Aldi made international headlines this year, after cameras in his quiet fishing village of Musi Bbanyuasin caught the two year old happily indulging in his chain-smoking addiction. The video went viral shortly after appearing on You Tube, and sparked outrage after viewers learned that the tot already had a two-pack a day habit!

The tubby toddler got hooked on cigs when his father gave him a smoke to keep him quiet. One cigarette led to another and soon Ardi was throwing tantrums if he didn't get his tobacco fix.

After the video was released last spring, the child was placed in state custody. After receiving “Indonesia” in Indonesia’s capital, Aldi is now smoke-free.

Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of Indonesia's National Commission on Child Protection said,

“He has quit smoking and the most important thing is that he doesn’t ask for cigarettes anymore” .

His addiction was reportedly overcome by encouraging the boy to play with other children his age. Therapists also kept Aldi busy with activities.

Aldi’s parents have said they were previously unaware of the dangers of smoking, using the cigarettes to keep their child happy as they worked long hours at a street market.According to Earth Times, the baby's brain appears to have shrunk, and he may exhibit further health problems in the future.

The smoking baby has finally broken his nicotine addiction.

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Google has launched a new a voice calling feature that brings instant VoIP calls to the Gmail interface. At a media event at its San Francisco office, Gmail product manager Todd Jackson, Google Voice product manager Vincent Paquet, and Google communications product manager Craig Walker recounted how Gmail has grown from an e-mail client into a communications hub that supports Google Talk instant messaging, video and voice chat, and now phone calls. The service essentially works like a regular phone call. Users can click the "call phone" button at the top of their chat list and enter a contact number. Users choose their own numbers, which can be applied to 6 different devices that can be set up to all ring at the same time or not at all. Calls are free to anyone in the U.S. or Canada, and 2-cent-per- minute calls to 30 select countries. Voice mails are transcribed into text, which are then forwarded as an e-mail to users' g-mail accounts.

At present only users of the Gmail system inside the US are being offered the service. Google hopes to make money from the service by charging for international calls - though  those will vary widely, even within the same country. It has a chart of rates. People also  will be able to receive calls on their PC if they obtain a free phone number from Google,  or already have one through its Google Voice service."We’ve been testing this feature internally and have found it to be useful in a lot of situations, ranging from making a quick call to a restaurant, to placing a call when you’re in an area with bad reception," the company said on the company blog.

The service will thrust Google into direct competition with Skype, the Internet telephone  
company, and with telecommunications providers. Google is also going to promote the service by setting up red phone booths in US universities and airports, letting them make free calls inside North America, and cheaper ones outside it.

This Time Google Offers Phone Calls via Gmail

Bappi Lahiri, the legendary Bollywood music director and the most famous DJ Akhil set Dubai on fire with some breathtaking performances at the recently concluded at Mirchi Nite club, Last Saturday at Ramee Royal.It was truly one of the best stage live shows Dubai have ever experienced from Indian Singer and DJ Mixers. The Songs were mixed by DJ Akhil which made the crowd turning crazy and the Songs from Bappi Lahiri was treat to listen. After setting the disc on fire and people craving for more Bappi Lahiri made an appearance on the jamming stage and drove the crowd crazy with his voice and his classic nos like Tujhe zarurat mere jaise yaar ki mujhe zarurat tere jaise yaar ki jale jo usko aur jalao and naacho chamaa cham chamaa, Tamma tamma. Bappi Lahiri’s son Bappa Lahiri too joined in the action and entertained the crowd. A source close to DJ Akhil Talreja said, “This is surely a night he won’t forget and would cherish throughout his life. DJ AKHIL TALREJA and BAPPI LAHIRI also visited African pubs in Dubai where there were musicians performing live, the sounds from Africa.

Bappi Lahiri pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema with an Indian flavour. Most of his songs would be rendered by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle. He launched Vijay Benedict and Sharon Prabhakar into the music industry. He also used Alisha Chinoy and Usha Uthup extensively for his compositions

Bappi Lahiri and DJ Akhil Talreja's Splendid Performance In Dubai

Swiss Family Robinson is a sparkling family film, full of imagination, adventure, great scenery and diverting animal stars, Swiss Family Robinson holds up beautifully, decade after decade. One of the best Disney live-action films, it will delight children and keep parents entertained as well.It was released in 1960 and it was based on Johann David Wyss’s novel Der Schweizerische Robinson. It’s the story of a shipwrecked family who starts living on an island. The family is going to New Guinea but due to storm and the pirates captain leave the family in an island. Its screen play was written by Lowell S. Hawley and directed by Ken Annakin.

Though Swiss Family Robinson received the mix reviews but most of the reviews were positive and it grossed $40,000,000. It was proved the ‘highest grossing film of the year.’ During the same year films Exodus, Psycho and Spartacus were also released but no one could break its record. The story was a somewhat preachy but still entertaining attempt to teach children values and self-reliance, and was written and rewritten over the years in many different versions and languages.

Swiss Family Robinson

The Ice Hotel of Sweden is an ultimate place to chill. The Hotel is situated in the Swedish Lapland town of Jukkasjarvi. It opens every year in early December and closes at the end of April. Every year in October the artists and local villagers, most from the Sami tribe in the area, begin to build the new ice hotel, which opens in mid-December. Snow canons and front loaders start by forming the snow over the steel sections that are the main structure of the Ice hotel. Sections are moved around and replaced by ice pillars put in place to give support to the snow arches. blocks of ice taken from the frozen Torne River each winter and frozen for use the following year, the Hotel at the moment is in its twentieth re-incarnation and is as impressive as ever. It began meagerly 14 years ago - one room. The 2004 season boasted 50-rooms with 5,000 square metres built of 30,000 tons of snow and 4,000 tons of ice. 

Inside the Ice hotel, there is a reception area, hall of pillars, Iceart exhibition, Absolut Icebar, Ice hotel cinema and an Icechurch and of course there is a warmer option. The hotel also has cabin accommodation, a warm bar where the staff take great enjoyment in asking if you’d like ice with your drink with wry smiles all round.All water that is used in taps and bathrooms coming straight from the river Torne. Each person is given an ultra-warm sleeping bag and most people remark how "warm" they felt during the night even though the temperature is usually a steady five degrees below zero.

The Hotel also has a range of activities provided throughout the day while guests eagerly await night-fall in the hopes of catching a glimpse of those all too elusive Northern Lights. A trip by Snow Mobile is one option. After being taught to drive the equivalent of a jet-ski for on land use, the excursion follows tracks through the fir trees and along-side the frozen river before stopping for hot lingen berry juice (a local specialty), bread, cheese and smoked reindeer heart. Other activities include Hunting, Fishing, Snow driving, Horse Riding and Skiing. Most people stay at the Ice hotel for two or three nights, but you will only spend one night in the actual Ice hotel and the additional nights in the Scandinavian bungalows also on the property.

The Ice Hotel of Sweden

 Can you imagine, you will be able to operate your pc simply by thinking? It is hard believe but the new technology will be capable of directly interpreting words as they are thought, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the roject. The scientists are creating detailed maps of the activity in the brain for individual words which can then be matched against the brain activity of someone using the computer, allowing the machine to determine the word they are thinking. 

 A senior researcher at Intel Laboratories, Dean Pomerleau said that currently, the devices required to get sufficient detail of brain activity were bulky, expensive magnetic resonance scanners, like those used in hospitals. Preliminary tests of the system have shown that the computer can work out words by looking at similar brain patterns and looking for key differences that suggest what the word might be. Turning brain waves into real-world tech action still requires some heavy decoding of brain activity. The Intel team has already made use of fMRI brain scans to match brain patterns with similar thoughts across many test subjects.Plenty of other researchers have also tinkered in this area. Toyota recently demoed a wheelchair controlled with brainwaves, and University of Utah researchers have created a wireless brain transmitter that allows monkeys to control robotic arms. So it is clear that humans are not restricted any more to just using keyboards and mice.

Human mind reader computers are being developed by Intel

“True Blood” Season 3 Episode 10 was aired and like its previous episodes, this week also “I Smell A Rat” was able to receive wide response and attention from its audience. However, the immense craze and popularity of Bill-Sookie love saga has made the audience search for the online streaming of the next episode “Fresh Blood” which will be aired on HBO next Sunday, August 29. It seems that lot of mystery will be unfolded next week and the subtitle clearly promises more bloodshed in episode 11.




In next episode 11,Bill wants to earn back the trust of Sookie, but once again brings her to the danger. Eric Russell seduces with “cherished dream vampire. Lafayette struggling with new demons. Jason tries to understand what he learned about Crystal. Sam pushes all, but Tara. Jessica and Hoyt to take their romance up a notch. 

PREVIEW of True Blood Season 3 Episode 11 "Fresh Blood"

The gala event of Creative Arts Emmy Award 2010 which was held at Nokia Theater, Los Angeles.The awards show aimed at honoring those who work behind the scenes on television's most revered programming featured a red carpet full of on screen stars including Mad Men bombshell Christina Hendricks, comedian Kathy Griffin and actor Neil Patrick Harris. Mini series “The Pacific”, took home six Emmy Awards. The top network winner was HBO with 17 trophies, followed by ABC with 15 and Fox bagged 9 trophies.

The Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards winners are:

THE TUDORS

Best Costumes for a Series
Best Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series

MAD MEN

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series

GLEE

Best Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series
Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (Neil Patrick Harris)

FLASHFORWARD

Best Stunt Coordination

LOST

Best Picture Editing for Drama Series


GREY’S ANATOMY

Outstanding Makeup For Single-Camera Series


And the much anticipated event of 62nd Primetime Emmy Award 2010 will take place at Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. The star studded event will be graced by the veteran celebrities of American television industry. The Primetime Emmy Awards organizers have recently announced the first set of Emmy presenters. The media reports that they represent some of the most popular and most nominated shows of the year.

Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2010

The oldest evidence of a fungus that turns ants into zombies and makes them stagger to their death has been uncovered by scientists. Evidence of the parasitism was found on a fossilized leaf that grew in the Messel Pit, located in Germany, and was discovered by the University of Exeter's Dr. David P. Hughes, who studies parasites that can take over the minds of their hosts. Hughes, along with Conrad Labandeira from the Smithsonian Institution and Torsten Wappler of the Steinmann Institute in Germany, noticed that the 48-million-year-old fossilized leaf had a scar similar to the leaf scars left by the today’s “zombie ants.”

The fungus, called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, makes ants leave their colonies and head for a leaf that provides the ideal conditions for the parasite to reproduce.

When the "zombie" ant gets there, it bites down hard on the major vein of the leaf in a "death grip," so when the ant dies its body remains, giving the fungus time to grow and release spores to infect other ants.

The death grip bite leaves a very distinct scar on the leaves, the researchers say, and they found clear evidence of it on a 48-million-year-old fossilized leaf specimen from Germany.

"This can happen en masse. You can find whole graveyards with 20 or 30 ants in a square metre. Each time, they are on leaves that are a particular height off the ground and they have bitten into the main vein before dying," said David Hughes at Harvard University. Scientists are not clear how the fungus controls the ants it infects, but know that the parasite releases alkaloid chemicals into the insect as it consumes it from the inside.

'Zombie Ants' Created by Parasite Existed 50 Million Years Ago

Well-known conservative talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger went all Michael Richards on a caller who reached out to her for help regarding her interracial marriage.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger hadn't really made waves or angered too many people in some time. But she made up for it on Tuesday's show, when the African-American caller talked to her about her home life. The caller said that her white husband often had talks with his friends that crossed some racial boundaries.

This triggered the Dr. Laura n-word dissertation, as she talked about how black people use the term all the time. In fact, she said it herself three times, when she talked about how it is said all the time by comics on HBO. But the caller took umbrage with her use of it later on.

The Dr. Laura n-word discussion then took another wild turn, when the caller said she couldn't believe Schlessinger used it. In response, Schlessinger said she didn't "spew out the n***** word" - but when the caller said she hoped listeners heard it, Schlessinger said the word three more times.

"I articulated the N-word all the way out -- more than one time," Schlessinger said in comments from the opening of her radio show that she posted on her site.

The former vice-presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin tweeted her support for Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who said she'd quit her radio show after coming under fire for repeatedly using the N-word while on-air with a caller.

Dr. Laura apologizes For offensive language

The nationwide salmonella outbreak, which federal officials said was the largest of its type related to eggs in years, has sickened more than 250 people, according to news reports. A recall first announced last week was expanded from 228 million to 380 million eggs -- the equivalent of nearly 32 million dozen-egg cartons. Eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, were linked to several illnesses in the three states. 

Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said,
"This certainly has the potential to be a very large outbreak, both given the apparent number of reported cases so far and also the fact that many of these eggs may still be in consumer refrigerators," 

Salmonella can cause fever, abdominal cramps and diarrhea and usually lasts four to seven days. Thoroughly cooking eggs can kill the bacteria. But health officials are recommending people throw away or return the recalled eggs.

More than 250 people sickened by Salmonella germ in U.S.A.

Jennifer Love Hewitt Profile

Birthday                    : 2/21/1979 
Nickname                  : Love
Birthname                 : Jennifer Love Hewitt
Hookups                    : Jamie Kennedy, Ross McCall ... 
Hometown                : Waco, Texas
Assets                       : Great smile, orgasmic rack ... 
Vices                          : Sign:Pisces
Height                       : 5'2
Job                            : Actress, Singer
Hobbies                    : vagazzling her vajayjay
Ethnicity                  : White
Country of Origin   : United States

Biography

Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas to Patricia Mae and Herbert Daniel Hewitt on February 21, 1979. After her parents divorce, Hewitt and her brother Todd were raised by her mother. Jennifer was attracted to music at a very young age. At the age of ten, she moved to Los Angeles, California with her mother to pursue in a career for both acting and singing.As a singer, Hewitt has been signed by Atlantic Records and Jive Records. She is primarily known for her recordings in the pop genre. To date, her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 is the 1999 release "How Do I Deal", which peaked at No. 59. In addition, she has ontributed music to the promotion or soundtracks of acting projects.

After appearing in more than twenty commercials, her first break was her role on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated. She began a film star after her leading role in I Know What You Did Last Summer. In 2000 she was voted the most popular actress on television, and hence became Nokia’s spokesperson. After many tries in the music industry, her first single “BareNaked” off her fourth album became her biggest radio hit.

Hewitt's physical appearance has been the subject of much media attention throughout her career. She has been lauded as one of the most attractive women in the entertainment industry by publications such as Maxim, in which she was named the sexiest woman in the world in 1999, and TV Guide, which named her the sexiest woman on television in 2008. In 2007, paparazzi photos of Hewitt on a beach led to a much-publicized matter in which she defended her weight, and was supported by other celebrities. These incidents received coverage from People magazine.

After meeting Scottish actor Ross McCall on Ghost Whisperer, the two began dating in January 2006. The two engaged in November 2007.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

The new, all-encompassing re-launch of StarTrek.com is upon us. The website, which went
live this morning, handles all things Starfleet and is meant to be the official online destination for Trekkies everywhere. It covers all incarnations of the venerable Roddenberry franchise, including the new movie, so even if you are among the many for whom the initials TOS mean nothing, there’s still something here for you.

In a statement on the site, the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, confesses he finds the new website entirely logical, welcoming visitors, saying, “To those of you who have been with us
for so long, my sincere thanks for your interest. For those of you who are new to Star Trek, who are discovering it through the recent movie and are about to explore the franchise in its infinite diversity… welcome. Come aboard and enjoy.”

It’s not the flashiest-looking site, but that totally works for me. I was always more into the slight cheesiness of green body paint and William Shatner’s judo chops than the shiny surfaces and lens flares of the reboot. Plus, the databases are almost mind-meldingly comprehensive. But what do you think, PopWatchers? Like the new site? Ready to surf long and prosper?

Star Trek Online's new executive producer Daniel Stahl recently stated that he "could easily see" a hybrid free-to-play model working for Cryptic's MMO. Stahl specifically mentions (recent Warner Bros. acquisition) Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online as "interesting plans" worth taking note of. DDO went freemium last year to create a dungeon full of gold for the developer; LotRO will roll the die for the same fate this autumn.

Stahl expressed that Turbine's model creates a "robust way to demo the game" and allows those wanting more to pay for a subscription or purchase items á la carte. With Cryptic's parent-company Atari operating at a loss, ways to beam up revenue would appear logical. It's unclear if it's a sign of the future, but Cryptic did conduct a free-to-play away mission back in May.

Star Trek Re-Launches Website...