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US two terms presidentship successors
Ronald Reagan(1911–2004)
January 20, 1981 January 20, 1989- Republican
Bill Clinton(1946– )
George W. Bush(1946– )
Barack Obama(1961– )
Living former presidents
1.Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) October 1, 1924
2.George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) June 12, 1924 Republican
3.Bill Clinton (1993–2001) August 19, 1946
4.George W. Bush (2001–2009) July 6, 1946
Terrible Tsunami
North Pacific Coast, Japan - 11 March 2011
A powerful tsunami travelling 800km per hour with 10m-high waves swept over the east coast of Japan, killing more than 18,000 people. The tsunami was spawned by an 9.0 magnitude earthquake that reached depths of 24.4km- making it the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. Approximately 452,000 people were relocated to shelters, and still remain displaced from their destroyed homes. The violent shaking resulted in a nuclear emergency, in which the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began leaking radioactive steam. The World Bank estimates that it could take Japan up to five years to financially overcome the $235 billion damages.
GANGNAM STYLE-PSY (Park Jae-sang)
2. PSY belongs simultaneously to the worlds of Korean hip hop and K-pop, the country’s all conquering bubblegum genre, a boy and girl band heaven – or hell depending on your viewpoint – where girlish boys and plastic divas compete in a seamlessly regimented sci-fi, fetish fantasia of spikes, boots and plucked eye brows. Here the boundaries between pop and hip hop have become blurred to the extent that rap tends to often be associated with sugary ballads.
3. Pure rap meanwhile – a genre that has existed in Korea only since 1997 – is the intellectual end of Korean pop. While there’s no shortage of third-hand gangster cliché, the prevailing tone is of existential yearning. Videos are high-spec mini-dramas, with earnest student-types undergoing crises in implausibly well-maintained apartments. It’s all a world away from Gangnam Style’s self-mocking, high gloss foolery.
4. Seo Taiji, androgynous, waif-like godfather of K-pop – the country’s unofficial President of Culture – changed the face of Korean music in the early Nineties, introducing hip hop elements along with everything from swingbeat to heavy-metal. His own excursions into the genre range from bland boy band fare to fierce Linkin Park-style rap-rock.
5. The sheer vigour and discipline of Korean breakdancing have made the country an unstoppable force since they hit the international scene in the early 2000s. South Korean crews have been official world champions, winning every Battle of the Year tournament since 2009 with a style that incorporates moves from traditional dance and taekwondo martial arts.
6. The influence of traditional forms on Korea’s underground alternative rap scene is far stronger than you'd imagine. Echoes of pansori, Korea’s drum-backed traditional blues, can be detected, along with the rhythms of nongak, ‘farmer’s music’ whose accompanying dances are weirdly reminiscent of breakdancing.
7. Only a society as preoccupied with order and social harmony as Korea would have come up with the idea of ‘compliment battles’ to avert violence at the end of freestyle rap competitions. Contestants are judged not only on technical skill, but ‘sincerity of respect’, after closing shows by praising their opponents's verbal ingenuity.
8. Yoon Mi Rae. Born Natasha Reid in Texas of Korean and African-American parentage, top female rapper Yoon Mi Rae, aka T (Tasha), is thought of as bringing an appealing earthiness to the brash synthetic world of K-pop. Her music blends anaemic R&B balladry and visceral wordplay in a way that poses no apparent problems either for herself or her audience.
9. G-Dragon & T.O.P. With their big quiffs and oriental bling, pretty boy G-Dragon and his more macho foil T.O.P. emerged from top boy band Bigbang. Representing the acme of a pop-rap mainstream that is remorselessly expanding to dominate the rest of Asia, they’ve even recorded a song in Japanese with Britain’s Pixie Lott.
J`F`C
James Francis Cameron world famous film director creats a new sensation.
On March 7, 2012, Cameron took the Deepsea Challenger submersible to the bottom of the New Britain Trench in a five-mile-deep solo dive. On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. He spent more than three hours exploring the ocean floor before returning to the surface. Cameron is the first person to accomplish the trip solo. He was preceded by unmanned dives in 1995 and 2009, and by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, who were the first men to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep aboard the Bathyscaphe Trieste in 1960. Cameron is making a three-dimensional film of his dive.
Cameron descended 35,756 feet (6.77 miles/10.89km) to reach 'Challenger Deep' in the Mariana Trench, is deeper than Mount Everest is high.
Cameron is a member of the NASA Advisory Council and is working on the project to put cameras on an upcoming manned Mars mission. Cameron has also given speeches and raised money for the Mars Society, a non-profit organization lobbying for the colonization of Mars.Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming surrounding The Abyss (1989) and Titanic (1997).Won 1998 Oscar Award For Best Director.
Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, visual artist and editor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Dark Angel (2000–02), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part-scientist and part-artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible. He was the first person to do this in a solo descent, and only the third person to do so ever.
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Ganesh Chaturthi was being celebrated as a public event in Pune since the times of Shivaji (1630-1680), the founder of the Maratha Empire. The Peshwas, the de facto hereditary administrators of the Empire from 1749 till its end in 1818, encouraged the celebrations in their administrative seat Pune as Ganesha was their family deity (Kuladevata). With the fall of the Peshwas, Ganesh Chaturthi lost state patronage and became a private family celebration again till its revivial by Indian freedom fighter and social reformer Lokmanya Tilak.
In 1893, Lokmanya Tilak transformed the annual domestic festival into a large, well-organized public event. Tilak recognized the wide appeal of the deity Ganesha as "the god for everybody", and popularized Ganesh Chaturthi as a national festival in order "to bridge the gap between Brahmins and 'non-Brahmins' and find a context in which to build a new grassroots unity between them", and generate nationalistic fervour among people in Maharashtra against the British colonial rule. Tilak was the first to install large public images of Ganesh in pavilions, and also established the practice of submerging in rivers, sea, or other pools of water all public images of the deity on the tenth day after Ganesh Chaturthi.
Under Tilak's encouragement, the festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form of intellectual discourses, poetry recitals, performances of plays, musical concerts, and folk dances. It served as a meeting ground for people of all castes and communities in times when, in order to exercise control over the population, the British discouraged social and political gatherings.
Today, the Ganesh Festival is not only a popular festival, it has become a very critical and important economic activity for Mumbai, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Bangalore and Chennai. Many artists, industries, and businesses survive on this mega-event. Ganesh Festival also provides a stage for budding artists to present their art to the public. In Maharashtra, not only Hindus but many other religions also participate in the celebration like Muslims, Jains, Christian and others.In mangalore, there is a belief that the eldest son of the home should be present during pooja.This festival managed to re-establish the unity among the Indians during British Era.
Abroad
While celebrated all over India, it is most elaborate in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa. Outside India, it is celebrated widely in Nepal and by Hindus in the United States, Canada, Mauritius, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and Fiji. Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated in the UK by the migrant Hindu population as well as the large number of Indians residing there. The Hindu culture and Heritage Society, UK - a Southall based organisation celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi for the first time in London in 2005 at The Vishwa Hindu Temple. The Idol was immersed in the river Thames at Putney Pier. Another celebration organised by an Gujarati group has been celebrated in the Southend-on-Sea which attracts over 18000 devotees. Annual celebrations also take place on the River Mersey at Liverpool.The festival is similarly celebrated in many locations across the world. The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh USA, an organisation of Hindus based in the US organises many such events to mark the Hindu festivals.
In USA, Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated by various associations of Telugu speaking people. (Telugu Association of North America, Bay Area Telugu Association and Balaji Temples across USA.)
The Philadelphia Ganesh popularly known as PGF is the largest Sarvajanik (fully contributed by public funds) Hindu festival in North America. Since 2005 the festival is conducted every year in Bharatiya Temple, Chalfont, Pennsylvania. The 10 days are marked by processions, devotional programs, cultural events, India filmi-orchestra and a weekend carnival. While the Marathi community plays a big role in organising the festival, participation from all communities such as Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, North Indian, Bengali etc. is seen as the reason for its success and uniqueness.
In Canada, Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated by associations of Marathi-speaking people. (MBM in Toronto, MSBC in Vancouver, etc.)
Celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in Mauritius dates back to 1896. The first Ganesh Chaturthi Puja was held in the 7 Cascades Valley next to Henrietta village by the Bhiwajee family who is still celebrating this pious festival for more than a century. Over the years the festival gained such popularity on the island that Mauritian government has attributed a public holiday for that day.
iphone 5 review
Add in the more advanced technology and new features that went into this iPhone, and it's clear Apple has come up with another product that will compel hordes of people to line up outside its stores before its Sept. 21 release in the U.S., Japan, Britain, Germany, France and four other countries. The mad dash to buy the iPhone 5 will be repeated again on Sept. 28 when it goes on sale in 22 other countries. All the models of the iPhone 5 will sell for the same prices as its predecessor, starting at $199 with a two-year data and calling plan.
An important caveat about these impressions: I was only allotted about 15 minutes with the iPhone 5 at Wednesday's launch event, not enough time to discover if it might have some technological bugs. I am sure in the coming days other reviewers will have the opportunity to give the phone a more thorough vetting.
For many people, the iPhone is going to be a case of love at first touch. It's incredibly light and seems to be easier to hold. That means it might not be dropped as frequently as previous iPhones, reducing the chances of the glass on the display screen getting damaged.
One woman who also was testing out an iPhone 5 couldn't stop raving about how ideal the new design was for people with smaller hands. "All the other iPhones were made with men in mind because they could easily slip from your grasp if you didn't have big hands,'' she said. "Now we finally have an iPhone for women.''
The new iPhone also is easy on the eyes, thanks to a larger screen and its "Retina Display,'' the high-definition technology that Apple introduced in previous models. Video and photos look even more lush on the iPhone 5's bigger and better screen.
At 4 inches diagonally, the iPhone 5's screen is a half-inch larger than previous generations and Apple make sure to take advantage of it. On the more prosaic side of things, the extra space means you can now see five rows of apps on the home screen instead of the previous limit of four rows. Open the calendar and you can see five days of events on the screen in horizontal mode, instead of just three.
The larger screen really comes to life, though, with what is perhaps its coolest feature - a tool called "Panorama'' that automatically stitches together a series of pictures into a majestic vista. Panorama can be turned on simply by going into the iPhone 5's camera mode and then selecting it on an option menu. Once it's activated, an arrow guides you as you slowly pan the camera around whatever scenery you desire (if you move too fast, Panorama tells you to slow down and also advises you if you are moving the camera too high or low). Once you are done, you can look at the panoramic shot within seconds and zoom into whichever areas of the picture look most interesting.
Not surprisingly, watching video on the larger screen is also more pleasurable, although I still think the iPadand other tablet computers are a much better way to watch movies and TV shows on the go.
The device is also speedier because of a more powerful processing chip and upgraded wireless technology that accelerates Web surfing.
Apple also has equipped the iPhone 5 with a superior sound system, courtesy of the new headphones that the company says it spent three years developing. The headphones, called "EarPods,'' are a vast improvement on the ear buds that Apple has been giving away with its devices for more than a decade. The new headphones actually stay in your ears and make it seem as if the sound is playing inside your head. The EarPods come free with the iPhone 5, and they sounded as good as $100 headphones sold by a variety of other companies.
The new phone's operating system, iOS 6, also introduces another fun toy that makes it easy to share photos with your friends and family. Just select a picture, or even a series of photos, then email them to whomever you want. Assuming the recipients also has an Apple device running on iOS 6, they will get a notification that will send the designated photos to their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The recipients don't necessarily have to own an iPhone 5 because the new iOS can be downloaded for free beginning Sept. 19 on a wide range of older Apple devices, including the three previous versions of the iPhone and the last two versions of the iPad.
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New 7 Wonders of the World (2001-2007): Taj Mahal (Agra, India), Great Wall of China (China), Christ the Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Chichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico), Petra (Ma'an Governorate, Jordan), Machu Picchu (Cuzco Region, Peru), Colosseum (Rome, Italy).
New 7 Wonders of the World was an initiative started in 2001 to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. The popularity poll was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland,with winners announced on July 7, 2007 in Lisbon. The New 7 Wonders Foundation is regulated by the Swiss Federal Foundation Authority as all nationwide-active foundations in Switzerland are. The New7Wonders Foundation claimed that more than 100 million votes were cast through the Internet or by telephone.
S.V Quotes
Learn every thing that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, don`t become others.
(ఇతరుల్లోని మంచినంతటినీ గ్రహించండి. మీదైన పద్ధతిలో దాన్ని మీలో లీనం చేసుకోండి. ఎవరినీ గుడ్డిగా అనుకరించకండి.)
Any thing that makes you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poision.
(మీ శరీరాన్ని గాని, బుద్ధిని గాని, ఆధ్యాత్మికతను గానీ నిర్వీర్యం చేసే దేన్నయినా విషంలా తిరస్కరించండి.)
Let the `dead past bury it`s dead`, The infinite future is before you.
(గడిచిన కాలమే గతాన్ని పూడ్చిపెట్టు గాక, అనంతమైన భవిష్యత్ మీ ముందుంది.)
-SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
worst ever ICC ranking for Australia
| Team | Matches | Points | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 11 | 777 | 130 |
| England | 13 | 904 | 129 |
| Sri Lanka | 8 | 593 | 119 |
| India | 8 | 553 | 111 |
| West Indies | 10 | 663 | 111 |
| Pakistan | 17 | 983 | 109 |
| New Zealand | 12 | 708 | 101 |
| Bangladesh | 8 | 476 | 95 |
| Australia | 11 | 560 | 93 |
| Ireland | 11 | 615 | 88 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 234 | 47 |
World's Largest Black Out in India-july 31 2012 600 million people left without power
600 Million in India Lose Power in World's Largest Ever Blackout
Electric crematoria were snuffed out with bodies inside, New Delhi's Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade Tuesday, cutting power to 620 million people in the world's biggest blackout.
While Indians were furious and embarrassed, many took the crisis in stride, inured by the constant - though far less widespread - outages triggered by the huge electricity deficit stymieing the development of this would-be Asian power.
Hospitals, factories and the airports switched automatically to their diesel generators during the hours-long cut across half of India. Many homes relied on backup systems powered by truck batteries. And hundreds of millions of India's poorest had no electricity to lose.
CBS News' Sanjay Jha reported that Delhi's ever-congested roads turned to complete gridlock in places Monday morning as traffic lights went dark. Police tried to man some of the busier intersections in the sprawling city.
"The blackout might have been huge, but it wasn't unbearably long," said Satish, the owner of a coffee and juice shop in central Delhi who uses only one name. "It was just as bad as any other five-hour power cut. We just used a generator while the light was out, and it was work as usual."
The crisis was the second record-breaking outage in two days. India's northern grid failed Monday, leaving 370 million people powerless for much of the day, in a collapse blamed on states that drew more than their allotment of power.
At 1:05 p.m. Tuesday, the northern grid collapsed again, energy officials said. This time, the eastern grid and the northeastern grid went with it.
In all, 20 of India's 28 states - with double the population of the United States - were hit in a region stretching from the border with Myanmar in the northeast to the Pakistani border about 3,000 kilometers (1,870 miles) away.
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Luxury Cars made at home!!!
All of us associate any luxury car with a huge state of the art manufacturing unit as its originating point. However, you will be shocked to know that not all of these beauties come from a completely automated robotic assembly line. These cars, which are an amalgamation of artistic design and brute performance, can actually be built from pieces of apparently worthless junk. Here is a description of 10 cars whose origin has been nothing short of a miracle.
1. DIY V12 Lamborghini Diablo
DIY V12 Lamborghini Diablo
Unbelievably, this mean machine is built in a backyard by an Englishman, who apparently took 4 years to build this fine piece of art. He has now put it up for sale. A company by the name Parallel Designs originally provided him the kits. The new owner will be a lucky man as he will be the first to drive a V12 Diablo VT 6.0 replica in England.
2. Lamborghini Reventon replica from China
DIY lambo
All of us dream of owning luxurious and expensive cars, but most of us fail to fulfill our dreams because we cannot afford them. Asan, the owner of a hair salon in Kunming, China, also had a big dream of buying the sports car Lamborghini Reventon, but he did not have enough money. However, he decided to do something that most of us do not even imagine in our weirdest dreams. He actually decided and built hisown Lamborghini Reventon!
3. Man builds Bugatti supercar
Man builds Bugatti supercar
Any auto enthusiast will tell you that the Bugatti Veyron is a legendary model. With a maximum speed of 267 mph, it is the world's fastest road legal car. However, before you drive in this wonder machine, you will have to dish out a whopping 1.5 million dollars. Therefore, a person from Florida decided to build his own Bugatti. His base was a complete 2002 Mercury Cougar coupe. Starting his way from the outside, he transformed the base car into his dream one. But the only downside is that he was not able to replicate its performance.
4. Hand-made luxurious Rolls Royce
Hand-Made Luxurious Rolls Royce
A person in Kazakhstan fell in love at first sight with the Rolls Royce Phantom. However, he could not afford the €500,000 super car. Therefore, he bought a car modification kit and transformed his Mercedes into the Phantom. After long hours of some skillful work has probably created the world's most convincing fake Phantom.
5. DIY Lamborghini
DIY Lamborghini
A Chinese mechanic showed his loyalty to his favorite brand by imitating it, literally. He took the saying "imitation is the biggest form of flattery" by fabricating the full body of the Lamborghini. As expected, it took him more than a year to get this beauty to run on the road. However, the most shocking fact is that it took him only $3000 to make it.
6. VW Beetle as electric MG TD
VW Beetle converts into electric MG TD
VW Beetle is more versatile than what you had thought earlier. Doug Small started with his small wonder and ended up with MG TD. He replaced all the steel chassis with a carbon fiber. He also removed the roof to make it into a true replica of MG TD. It took him 4 years to complete this task.
7. DIY luxury car
DIY luxury car
Unlike many other transformations, the birth of this luxury car started with a base car but was entirely created in a junkyard. This takes a lot of skill, as one should have an acute eye for useful things in a pile of garbage.
8. Camaro with the Face of a Lamborghini
Camaro with the Face of a Lamborghini
This is a classic story of a person who cannot decide if he wants a Camaro or a Lamborghini. Therefore, he decides to a build a hybrid one. At first sight, you will see a beautiful Gallarado but the interior framework is of a humble old 1994 Camaro. But the best part is that it costs only $3000.
9. Bailey Blade
Bailey Blade
The Bailey Blade is a monster of a vehicle, powered by a 5.8L V8 engine that produces 500hp at 6000 rpm. Its body was amazingly replicated in a garage by an amateur mechanic.
10. DIY BMW Z3
DIY BMW Z3
This was apparently replicated by a teenager somewhere in Eastern Europe. This teen prodigy has managed to put a 5.0L V10 from the BMW M5 into the hood of a Z3 coupe. It seems that he is in Bulgarian racing scene.
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