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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.

Apple Announcement: 4th generation Apple iPod Touch 4G