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As spreadfirefox.com says it: Firefox did it, it reached 100,000,000 million downloads and as http://www.spreadinternetexplorer.com/ weeps we rejoice. Read more
As spreadfirefox.com says it: Firefox did it, it reached 100,000,000 million downloads and as http://www.spreadinternetexplorer.com/ weeps we rejoice. Read more
India is 88th on the Corruption Index! We Indians pay Rs 210 Billion (roughly USD 4.6 billion) in bribes to our Government employees! The departments most corrupt are Indian Police and Lower Judiciary and the states most corrupt is BIHAR! The least is Kerala. I am pretty sure that the Politicians would not be very far - in fact they would be the top!! It is instructive that the three arms of the Government - Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary are all corrupt! So where is the hope? Probably with economics picking up speed... Private sector might start pushing the bureaucracy and the Government.. as Infosys and WIPRO are doing in Bangalore! Read more
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This is an interesting bit on how USA's Stars and Stripes flag was inspired by the flags of East India Company. The proof is below in the pictures of the flags of EIC and the various links. (The flag that inspired the Stars and Stripes) (Stars and Stripes) The story of the flags of East India Company and the pictures of those different flags is given below. Read more
Yet another Hurricane - CATEGORY 5 is about to strike the US coast.. this time in Florida! If this is not enough of a reminder that things in the weather phenomena are "a-changing" - I dont know what is?? This season US has already had TWO record setting Hurrricanes.. and now this is the third one... note the "lowest pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic basin"!! Gathering strength at a fierce pace, Hurricane Wilma grew into a Category 5 monster storm early Wednesday with 175 mph winds. Forecasters warned the storm was "extremely dangerous" and said a key reading of its pressure was the lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Read more
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Source: Fairfax Digital News Highlight: Demand for the services of acclaimed coach Tony Roche continues, with the part-time mentor of world No.1 Roger Federer agreeing to guide emerging Indian player Sania Mirza through a three-week training stint before Christmas. Roche was approached by friend and former Davis Cup opponent Jaidip Mukerjea to work with Mirza, an 18-year-old who has risen from outside the top 200 to the brink of the women's top 30 in a year. He expects to host Mirza in Sydney after returning from his latest collaboration with Federer at next month's Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai. "I think at this stage the people who are looking after her just felt that she needs a bit of work on a few areas of her game, so I'm just going to have a look at her and just see what she needs to do," Roche said. Book link: Sania Mirza: The Indian Tennis Icon Read more
This is a rare footage of bowling of Wes Hall - arguably one of the fastest bowler the World of Cricket has ever seen! He is said to have given a six as a bye... when the ball flew over the wicket keeper's head!! Read more
Source: Washington Post News Highlight: Life in Finland, one of the world's best functioning welfare states and least known success stories, can be complicated. Consider the dilemma confronting parents looking for day care for a 4-year-old daughter in Kuhmo, a town of 10,000 near the middle of the country. Should they put their child into the town nursery school, where she could spend her weekdays from 6:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. with about 40 other children, cared for by a 47-year-old principal with 20 years' experience, Mirsa Pussinen, as well as four teachers with master's degrees in preschool education, two teacher's aides and one cook? The girl would hear books read aloud every day, play games with numbers and the alphabet, learn some English, dig in the indoor sandbox or run around outside, sing and perform music, dress up for theatrical games, paint pictures, eat a hot lunch, take a nap if she wanted one, learn to play and work with others. Read more
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