Friday, May 29, 2009

Silvio Berlusconi is not my father, said Noemi Letizia


Noemi Letizia, 18, is accused of being the reason of Silvio Berlusconi’s divorce. Letizia stated that she is not the daughter of the Italian Prime Minister, even if she calls him Papi. Her family said they were in no way related to Silvio Berlusconi, even if now they are close friends, but they didn’t want to say when their relationship began.

“I cannot be with a man who spends time with under-age women,” her wife, Veronica Lario said. The scandal began when Silvio Bersluconi went to Noemi’s birthday last weekend. The Prime Minister offer her a gold and diamond necklace as a gift, but that’s nothing out of the common, considering it was her 18th birthday.

John Rich charged for alleged 'Nashville Star' contestant Jared Ashley's Assualt

Country star John Rich of Big & Rich was charged on May 28 with assault and harassment, E! Online reports. Rich allegedly smacked former Nashville Star contestant Jared Ashley in the face; he has denied the charges. "I trust that the truth will come out through the process of our American justice system and that I will be completely exonerated at the end of the day," the singer said in a statement.

Chitra Singh's daughter commits suicide

According to the reports of TOI
Ghazal singer Chitra Singh's daughter hanged herself to death at her home in Mumbai, the police said on Friday.
According to police, Monica Choudhary's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her suburban home on Friday afternoon. 

Monica, 46, was Chitra's daughter from her first marriage before she married famous ghazal singer Jagjit Singh in 1969. 

Deputy commissioner of police N Kaushik said: "As per our preliminary investigations, she had a troubled life and was in a state of depression.
In early 90's, Jagjit and Chitra Singh's only son Vivek was killed in a road accident. 

Kaushik said that Monica's husband, and Jagjit and Chitra Singh are currently abroad. 

A good news for Security agencies : Detecting sulphur in just one hair could help nab a terrorist

In a new study, scientists have come up with a method that could be used to nab terrorists, by detecting how proportions of isotopes in a chemical like sulphur vary throughout the length of a single hair.
The mid-term objective is to be able to use these methods to track the geographical movements of people, including international crime suspects and victims.
In order to carry out this study, the scientists focused on the most abundant sulphur isotopes in hair keratin - sulphur-32 (32S), which accounts for about 95 percent, and sulphur-34 (34S), which makes up around 4 percent.
This proportion can change slightly in response to people's diets and if they travel from one country to another, and the technique is able to detect these small variations.
The scientists use a laser that makes contact with the selected fraction of the hair, generating an aerosol, which later ionizes within plasma, with the spectrometer providing the exact proportions of the sulphur isotopes.
"The advantage of this method compared with others is the high resolution resulting from use of the laser," said Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez of LGC, lead author of the study.
This advance has enabled the scientists to confirm that the sulphur variations in hair can be linked to peoples' geographical movements.
The researchers collected hair samples of more than 4cm in length donated by three volunteers.
Two were permanent residents in the United Kingdom, while the third - dubbed "the traveler" - had spent the past six months in Croatia, Austria, the United Kingdom and Australia.
"We are what we eat, and the small variations in the 34S/32S relationship reflect changes to our diet, which can in turn be related to movements from one country to another," said Justo Giner, another of the study's authors.
The results of the experiment revealed that the traveller's hair showed significant variations in the sulphur isotopes, while changes in the hairs of the two people living in the United Kingdom were minimal, and similar in both samples.
The scientists are confident they will be able to create databases that will one day make it possible to link the relationship between a specific isotope in hair keratin and a country or region, which would be of great help to the police in tracking down international criminals.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Bing" The New Microsoft Search Engine

Bing, the new search engine Microsoft plans to release, place a fresh focus on "the right ideas," like "organic results, layout and advertising," according to Director-Emerging Media/Client Strategy David Berkowitz of 360i, which demoed the pending product.
"If it's as good as it looks in the demo, this will be the most impressive search experience Microsoft has offered," he vowed.
The Bing search engine places emphasis on image and videos; on a more practical level, it filters data and ecommerce to give users more specific product information, like inventory in stock and prices at retail stores.
Kumo was the code name for Bing within Microsoft.

Microsoft tested Bing internally from March, but has not provided a launch date, though word has it the engine will go live in the next handful of weeks — coinciding with the debut of a major ad campaign.

In April 2009, Microsoft/Windows Live Search dominated all of 9.9% of US-based searches, up 7.2% year over year. It fell behind Google, at 64% of market share; and Yahoo, at 16.3%.

Among shopping-specific search engines, however, Windows Live Search enjoyed a 615% increase in total visitors and was the fastest growing shopping search provider in April. This increase is due in part to the well-received Live Search Cashback program, in which Microsoft promises to pay consumers back for purchasing products its search engine helped find.

Searches on shopping-specific engines comprise between one and two percent of total search activity.
t is confirmed that Microsoft will be spending over a $100 million dollars starting soon, to promote their new Search engine. And we think its going to be called Bing. Binghub.com could be a really hot community if Microsoft goes big with this

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Alice Munro wins Booker


Alice Munro, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, has pipped Mahasweta Devi and V S Naipaul to win the third Man Booker International Prize. Devi and Naipaul were among 13 other writers who were shortlisted for the award this year.

The prize worth 60,000 pound (USD 95,000) is awarded once every two years to recognise a living author for his/her contribution to literature and to highlight the author's creativity and development on a global scale. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005.

The 77-year-old author, popular for her short stories, said: "I am totally amazed and delighted." The judging panel which included Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician and Andrey Kurkov, essay and film script writer, praised Munro saying she "brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels".

"To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before," the panel said. Peter Clarke, Chief Executive, Man Group plc said: "Since her first collection of stories was published in 1968, Alice Munro has been highly acclaimed as the contemporary master of the short fiction genre".

About Alice

Alice Munro was born in the town of WinghamOntario into a family of fox and poultry farmers. Her father was Robert Eric Laidlaw and her mother, a school teacher, was Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney). She began writing as a teenager and published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow," while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950. During this period she worked as a waitress, tobacco picker and library clerk. In 1951, she left the university, in which she had been majoring in English since 1949, to marry James Munro and move to VancouverBritish Columbia. Her daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957 respectively; Catherine died 15 hours after birth. In 1963, the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro's Books. In 1966, their daughter Andrea was born.

Alice Munro's first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), was highly acclaimed and won that year’s Governor General's Award, Canada’s highest literary prize. This success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories that was published as a novel.

Alice and James Munro were divorced in 1972. She returned to Ontario to become Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario. In 1976 she married Gerald Fremlin, a geographer. The couple moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario. They have since moved from the farm to a house in the town of Clinton, Ontario.

In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories, Who Do You Think You Are?, was published (titled The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rosein the United States). This book earned Munro the Governor General’s Literary Award for a second time. From 1979 to 1982, she touredAustraliaChina and Scandinavia. In 1980 Munro held the position of Writer-in-Residence at both the University of British Columbia and theUniversity of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Munro published a short-story collection about once every four years to increasing acclaim, winning both national and international awards.

In 2002, her daughter Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro.

Alice Munro's stories frequently appear in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, Mademoiselle, and The Paris Review. In interviews to promote her 2006 collection The View from Castle Rock, Munro suggested that she would, perhaps, not publish any further collections. She has since recanted and published further work.

Her story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" has been adapted for the screen and directed by Sarah Polley as the film Away From Her,starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. It successfully debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Polley's adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to No Country for Old Men.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

PAKISTANI MATHS QUESTION PAPER

PAKISTANI MATHS QUESTION PAPER

Rules :-i) Students found copying will be shot on the spot.
ii)Any student coming late after 10 minutes after the exam starts will be forced to join Al Qaida group .
iii)Ak 47 -s and Grenades are not allowed in the exam hall. Students may keep their daggers, Revolvers and pack of anthrax bombs only for self defense.
Math’s Exam Time 3 hours. Full Marks 100.... All questions are compulsory.
Kindly read all questions before attempting.
1. Abdul was sent to jail for murder .He has 7 wives in his house.Abdul distributed money to his wives in such a proportion that the youngestand most recent wife receives maximum and oldest wife gets minimum, andeach wife gets double of her former competitor. Abdul has 1700 Rupaye leftin his house. Abdul's oldest wife needs atleast 25 rupaye per month.
So Find out the time when Abdul will have to break Jail to come out and earn moneyso that his wives do not starve.

2. Karim is a Drug seller. Prices per gram of Marijuana, hasis, haroineand LHD s are 50, 60,70,80 Rupaye respectively. Karim offers a discountof Rupaye 20 for his buyers who buys more than 50 grams of drug. If Rahim,a buyer gets Rupaye 37 discount , find out the grams of LHD he bought.

3. Imran tampers the ball thrice per over. He deforms the ball .02% ofits original shape each time . Find the percentage deformation the balldue to tampering in a one day series against India in which Imran bowled9.3 overs.

4. Mohammed has a Company named Al Allah Kidnapping & Murder Private Limited. He has to threat 10 people per day over Telephone.... 40% of thepeople he threats are cinema stars in Mumbai, 30% are Businessman in Delhi , 20% are Cricket Players in Madras and 10% are shopkeepres in Calcutta .
If ISD charges are rupaye 15, 25, 40, 50 per minute from Mohammed's city Islamabad to Bombay, Delhi,Calcutta and Madras respectively and he getsa Telephone bill of 10,230 Rupaya in a month
Find out The No of Cinema stars in Mumbai ,threatened in that particular month.

5. A terrorist group has to provide one Ak 47.one AK 49,one Rocket Launcher, 50 Grenades and one pack of RDX to its Ron roots fortraining. One AK 47 costs 100$; One Ak 49 costs 150 $ ,A Bazuka rocket Launcher costs 250 $, grenade is 3 $ each, a pack of Rdx Bomb attached with remote Control is 500$. The terrorist group admits 2000 new people every year out of which 30% are court-martialed.
Find the amt of Foreign Money Pakistan Govt has to provide each year to run such a group.

6. If stabilty of democratic Govt. in pakistan is given by the following equation X exp3 +X exp2 -16 = i, where the notations have their usualmeaning.
So find out x.

7. Probaliblity of a Pakistani prime minister to be shot is 78 %. Probabilty of a Military general to be shot is 80% . Find the jointprobability of a Prime minister to be shot who is also a Military general....

8) Find out geometrically the area of Paktunistaan using PI Theorem with Osama BIn Ladens Correction (That is taking the value of PI = 786instead of 3.14....), if Pakistaan is taken as a heptagon.

9) A 'GHAURI' missile tries to fly from Drass to Kargil which is not too far from Drass (say 100 miles) and is exactly to the East of Drass.

10)The wind is blowing from the South and the speed of the wind is exactly equal to the speed of the airplane. (The speed of the airplane is measuredwith respect to the air! The pilot decides to steer straight to Kargil all the time during the flight.
Find out that will the airplane ever reach Kargil ?
What if the speed of the wind is k times the speed of the airplane, where k is a positive number (can be greater or less than 1)? Try to sketch the trajectory of the airplane (with respect to the ground, of course)

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Strange English Language

The English language

Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?

Let's face itEnglish is a strange language.

There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in the hamburger And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England

French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted But if we examine its paradoxes we find that

Quicksand takes you down slowly

Boxing rings are square And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing If the plural of tooth is teeth Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth

If the teacher taught,Why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetableswhat the heck does a humanitarian eat!?

Why do people recite at a playyet play at a recital?

Park on driveways andDrive on parkwaysYou have to marvel at the unique lunacyOf a language where a house can burn up asIt burns down And in which you fill in a form By filling it outAnd a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computersAnd it reflects the creativity of the human race(Which of course a point for debate)

That is whyWhen the stars are out they are visibleBut when the lights are out they are invisible And why it is that when I wind up my watchIt startsBut when I wind up this observation,It ends.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Story of Software engineer funny

Story of Software Engineer
Apne Project ke bojh tale daba jaa raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,zindagi se hara hua hai,par "Bugs" se haar nahi manata,Apne application ki ek ek line ise rati hui hai,par aaj kaun se rang ke moje pehne hain , ye nahi janata,din par din ek excel file banata ja raha haiWo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,das hazaar line ke code main error dhoond lete hain lekin,majboor dost ki ankhon ki nami dikhayi nahi deti,pc pe hazaar windows khuli hain,par dil ki khidki pe koi dastak sunayi nahi deti,satuday-sunday nahata nahi, week days ko naha raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,Coding karte karte pata hi nahi chala,bugs ki priority kab maa-baap se high ho gayi,kitabon main gulab rakhne wala , cigerette ke dhuyen main kho gaya,dil ki zameen se armaanon ki vidayi ho gayi,weekends pe daroo peke jo jashna mana raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,maze lena ho iske to pooch lo,"Salary Increment" ki party kab dila rahe ho,hansi udana ho to pooch lo,"Onsite" kab ja rahe ho?wo dekho onsite se laute team-mate ki chocolates kha raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,kharche badh rahe hain,baal kam ho rahe hain,KRA ki date ati nahi,Income Tax ke sitam ho rahe hain,lo phir se bus choot gayi, Auto se aa raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,Pizza gale se nahi utarta,to "Coke" ke sahare nigal liya jata hai,office ki "Thali" dekh munh hai bigadta,maa ke hath ka wo khana baar roz yaad ata hai,"Sprout bhel" bani hai phir bhi, free "Evening Snacks" kha raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,aapne ab tak li hongi bahut si chutikiya,Software engg. ke jivan ka sach batati ye akhri kuch panktiyan,hazaron ki tankhwah wala, company ki karodon ki jeb bharta hai,software engg. wahi ban sakta hai, jo lohe ka jigar rakhta hai,hum log jee jee ke marte hain , zindagi hai kuch aisi,ek fauj ki naukri, doosri software engg. ki , dono ek jaisi,is kavita ka har shabd mere dil ki gehrayi se aa raha hai,Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai.