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It wasnt my ambition
It was just my dream..
wch gave me happiness for
years without any fail..
I dint ignite it..
Coz I knew it will never come true..
But it started 2 burn one day
Coz that was its destiny..
The fire was cool in the beggining
it dint hurt me ever
but i foresee ashes
n knew it wl end like dat
knowingly ignored a fact dat
A dream iz always a dream
In an effort 2 make it real
Foolish, I burn my heart
I felt lucky 2 live in my dreamworld
Tho it was only for a few days
Magical was, those days
In the extreme of happiness!
One day i was pushed outta ma world
I Realise it when it started 2 pain
Pain of fire wch swallowed my heart
Fire dat vapourised my blood n tears
Stunned n scared I opened my eyes
I saw my world far away like a dot
I was falling down without a rope
to the real world far down behind me
I thought,soon i can touch d ground
But i got scattered 2 a thousand piece
Pieces of ash,which cant be seen
Taken away by an unknown wind
Now my dream spread everywhere
Though i know dat no one cn see it
Im so happy dat I cn feel it, But
I lost my dream wn I turn it real
I wander with d wind east n west
Searching for the spark dat ignited my heart
thats the place where I lost my soul
Coz Without a soul y shud i live?…
BY,
Ashi
(COOL FRIEND OF MINE)
Termites, one of the peskiest household pests, could become a cheap source of biofuels for fuel-consuming four wheelers.
A cocktail of enzymes from guts of termites seems better at getting around the barriers that inhibit fuel output from woody biomass, according to a new study.
‘People have overlooked the host termite as a source of enzymes that could be used in the production of biofuels,’ said Mike Scharf, professor in molecular physiology and urban entomology at Purdue University.
‘For a long time it was thought that the symbionts (small organisms in termites’ guts), were solely responsible for digestion,’ said Scharf, reports the journal Public Library of Science One.
‘Certainly the symbionts do a lot, but what we’ve shown is that the host produces enzymes that work in synergy with the enzymes produced by those symbionts,’ said Scharf, according to a Purdue statement.
‘When you combine the functions of the host enzymes with the symbionts, it’s like one plus one equals four,’ he added.
Any guesses as to who is the most popular person on Google+, the company’s new social networking service?
Actually, that title is currently held by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook — the very service that Google+ was meant to challenge.
As of Tuesday evening, Mr. Zuckerberg had nearly 35,000 people following his updates on the service, more than anyone else in a broad survey of Google+ profiles by Social Statistics, an outside service. His fan base exceeds that of Larry Page, one of the founders of Google and its recently appointed chief executive, who had only 24,000 people following him.
Google+ is less than a week old and is still not yet widely available to the public. But access to the service, which lets people share photos, links, status updates and video chats with groups of friends, is already in high demand among early adopters who are eager to play with its features. That includes Mr. Zuckerberg, who apparently signed up to keep tabs on his new adversary.
Neither Facebook nor Google confirmed whether Mr. Zuckerberg’s profile was real. But his account is linked with those of several Facebook executives who are also on Google+, including Bret Taylor, the chief technology officer, and Sam Lessin, a product manager, suggesting that it is authentic. Mr. Zuckerberg has yet to post anything that can be seen by the wider public. His own description on his profile page says simply, ‘I make things.’
‘It makes sense that he wants to check it out,’ said Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, who is one of the founders of the technology blog The Next Web and built the Social Statistics service on a whim. ‘Everyone wants to keep an eye on the competition.’
Mr. Zuckerberg’s visit to his rival’s turf may be an indicator that the social networking wars are reaching a new pitch. Plenty of major companies, including Google, Apple and Microsoft, are eager to gain access to the potentially lucrative trove of social data and other information that people share on these services. Facebook has long reaped the benefits of having access to such data, which helps it aim its advertisements more precisely.
‘The battle for the future of the Web lies in the social experience,’ said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Research.
Facebook also has the world’s biggest map of the connections between people. It is not possible to transfer data about one’s Facebook connections into Google+, so most users will have to rebuild that list on the new service. On Tuesday, Facebook blocked an add-on for Google’s Chrome browser that was created by an outside programmer and gave people a way to import their Facebook contacts into services like Google+. Facebook said the add-on violated the company’s terms of service.
Google is hoping to take its new social network to the iPhone and iPad through applications it has submitted to Apple. In the past, Apple has let apps created by Google linger in limbo, without approving or rejecting them.
So far, Google’s new social service has generated positive comments from those with early access, in a turnabout from Google’s earlier attempts to woo the masses with social services like Wave and Buzz, which were met with lackluster responses and concerns over privacy.
Stephen Shankland, a writer for the technology news service CNet, said that Circles, a feature that lets people sort their friends into groups for more private sharing, was ‘the biggest improvement, far and away, over Facebook.’ Adam Pash, a blogger at Lifehacker, described the service’s Hangout feature, which lets people video chat with as many as 10 friends simultaneously, as ‘the best free video chat we’ve seen.’
Even Tom Anderson, a co-founder of MySpace who was famous for being every MySpace user’s first ‘friend,’ weighed in on his Google+ page, saying the service ‘does seem like it could take a bite out of Twitter.’
But will Google+ end up being a mainstream hit? Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst with the Altimeter Group, said it was not clear that the successes of Google+ would extend beyond its early test phase, during which the limited invitations are largely being shared among technology industry people, bloggers and journalists. (As it did with Gmail, Google gave early users the ability to invite a limited number of other users. It is not clear who invited Mr. Zuckerberg.)
Facebook says it is not worried about the competition.
‘We’re in the early days of making the Web more social, and there are opportunities for innovation everywhere,’ said Jonny Thaw, a spokesman for the company.
May be my silence has interrupted many. But I have my own duties and I was made to search for a job for myself. No idea where this ends. I am very ready to do any of the projects if anyone wills to give me any.
Concerned by the latest World Health Organisations (WHO) study linking mobile phone usage with brain tumours, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot has said that the government will come out with stricter norms for mobile handsets and towers.
‘While telecom is a huge success story in India, any possible health related effects of radiation emitted by mobile phones and towers are to be reflected and ensured in the guidelines. The final guidelines would take into account the best global benchmarks and scientific evidence on the subject,’ Pilot said in a statement.
The department of telecom (DoT) had set up an inter ministerial group in August 2010 to evaluate the evidence, revisit radiation guidelines for mobile towers and adopt guidelines for radiation by cell phones.
The group, which consists of experts from DoT, ministry of health, department of biotechnology, ministry of environment and forests and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has proposed stricter norms for both mobile handsets and towers.
Can anyone define this? It will be difficult. You may be having a skill writing, some in photography, and some others in marketting and some others in something else. My question is very simple. What is skill? I can define it to be a special ability for someone to do a specified task.
Please define skill in your words
What is malayalam film industry. Everyone will be familiar of the same. Then which is this malayalam film industry. Actually, malayalam is the mother tongue of the people of kerala. And kerala is a southernmost state in India. Film industry is being at its success in many parts of the world. But when we consider malayalam film industry, it is not so. Here, the maximum budjet of a film yet is 25,000 for the film ‘pazhassiraja’. And it was a great success. Still, it was not able to collect the whole amount back. You want to think it is the film industry which made most of the evergreen films in india like ‘manichitratazh’ (remade to hindi- bool bhulayya), talavattom(remade to hindi- kyon ki) e.t.c. and still the industry is weak. Hope for the best with this industry. Stay tuned for more.
It has been a long time the endosulphan is playing the role of a newsmaker. Definitely, ENDOSULPHAN is more famous; may be more than the Indian prime minister. Still it is being a horror that many parts of India is supporting endosulphan, despite seeing it’s harmful effects a small district,Kasaragod, in Kerala.Definitely, this has prompted me wright an article on this perspective.
WHAT IS ENDOSULPHAN
Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide. This colourless solid has emerged as a highly controversial agrichemical due to its acute toxicity, potential for bioaccumulation, and role as an endocrine disruptor. Banned in more than 63 countries, including the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, and other Asian and West African nations, and being phased out in the United States, Brazil and Canada. It is still used extensively in many other countries including India and China. It is produced by Bayer CropScience, Makhteshim Agan, and Government-of-India–owned Hindustan Insecticides Limited among others.
(source-wikipedia)
USES OF ENDOSULPHAN
Endosulfan has been used in agriculture around the world to control insect pests including whiteflys, aphids, leafhoppers, Colorado potato beetles and cabbage worms. Because of its unique mode of action, it is useful in resistance management; however, because it is non-specific, it can negatively impact populations of beneficial insects. It is, however, considered to be moderately toxic to honey bees, and it is less toxic to bees than organophosphate insecticides.
(source-wikipedia)
HISTORY
Early 1950s: Endosulfan was developed.
1954: Hoechst AG (now Bayer CropScience) won USDA approval for the use of endosulfan in the United States.
2000: Home and garden use in the United States was terminated by agreement with the EPA.
2002: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended that endosulfan registration should be cancelled, and the EPA determined that endosulfan residues on food and in water pose unacceptable risks. The agency allowed endosulfan to stay on the US market, but imposed restrictions on its agricultural uses.
2007: International steps were taken to restrict the use and trade of endosulfan. It is recommended for inclusion in the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent, and the European Union proposed inclusion in the list of chemicals banned under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Such inclusion would ban all use and manufacture of endosulfan globally. Meanwhile, the Canadian government announced that endosulfan was under consideration for phase-out, and Bayer CropScience voluntarily pulled its endosulfan products from the U.S. market but continues to sell the products elsewhere.
2008: In February, environmental, consumer, and farm labor groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council, Organic Consumers Association, and the United Farm Workers called on the U.S. EPA to ban endosulfan. In May, coalitions of scientists, environmental groups, and arctic tribes asked the EPA to cancel endosulfan, and in July a coalition of environmental and workers groups filed a lawsuit against the EPA challenging its 2002 decision to not ban it. In October, the Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention moved endosulfan along in the procedure for listing under the treaty,while India blocked its addition to the Rotterdam Convention.
2009: The Stockholm Convention’s Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) agreed that endosulfan is a persistent organic pollutant and that “global action is warranted”, setting the stage of a global ban. New Zealand banned endosulfan.
2010: The POPRC nominated endosulfan to be added to the Stockholm Convention at the Conference of Parties (COP) in April 2011, which would result in a global ban.The EPA announced that the registration of endosulfan in the U.S. will be cancelled and that it is in negotiations with Makhteshim Agan of North America to phase the organochlorine out.Australia banned the use of the chemical.
(source-wikipedia)
HEALTH EFFECTS
The Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations has concluded that long-term intake of residues of endosulfan from uses that have been considered by the JMPR is unlikely to present a public health concern. Endosulfan is one of the most toxic pesticides on the market today, responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world. Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen—a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens—and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans. Whether endosulfan can cause cancer is debated.
Toxicity
Endosulfan is acutely neurotoxic to both insects and mammals, including humans. The US EPA classifies it as Category I: “Highly Acutely Toxic” based on a LD50 value of 30 mg/kg for female rats, while the World Health Organization classifies it as Class II “Moderately Hazardous” based on a rat LD50 of 80 mg/kg. It is a GABA-gated chloride channel antagonist, and a Ca2+, Mg2+ ATPase inhibitor. Both of these enzymes are involved in the transfer of nerve impulses. Symptoms of acute poisoning include hyperactivity, tremors, convulsions, lack of coordination, staggering, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and in severe cases, unconsciousness. Doses as low as 35 mg/kg have been documented to cause death in humans, and many cases of sub-lethal poisoning have resulted in permanent brain damage. Farm workers with chronic endosulfan exposure are at risk of rashes and skin irritation.
EPA’s acute reference dose for dietary exposure to endosulfan is 0.015 mg/kg for adults and 0.0015 mg/kg for children. For chronic dietary expsoure, the EPA references doses are 0.006 mg/(kg·day) and 0.0006 mg/(kg·day) for adults and children, respectively.
Endocrine disruption
Theo Colborn, an expert on endocrine disruption, lists endosulfan as a known endocrine disruptor, and both the EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry consider endosulfan to be a potential endocrine disruptor. Numerous in vitro studies have documented its potential to disrupt hormones and animal studies have demonstrated its reproductive and developmental toxicity, especially among males. A number of studies have documented that it acts as an anti-androgen in animals. Environmentally relevant doses of endosulfan equal to the EPA’s safe dose of 0.006 mg/kg/day have been found to affect gene expression in female rats similarly to the effects of estrogen. It is not known whether endosulfan is a human teratogen (an agent that causes birth defects), though it has significant teratogenic effects in laboratory rats. A 2009 assessment concluded that endocrine disruption occurs only at endosulfan doses that cause neurotoxicity.
Reproductive and developmental effects
Several studies have documented that endosulfan can also affect human development. Researchers studying children from an isolated village in Kasargod Ditrict, Kerala, India have linked endosulfan exposure to delays in sexual maturity among boys. Endosulfan was the only pesticide applied to cashew plantations in the hills above the village for 20 years and had contaminated the village environment. The researchers compared the villagers to a control group of boys from a demographically similar village that lacked a history of endosulfan pollution. Relative to the control group, the exposed boys had high levels of endosulfan in their bodies, lower levels of testosterone, and delays in reaching sexual maturity. Birth defects of the male reproductive system including cryptorchidism were also more prevalent in the study group. The researchers concluded that “our study results suggest that endosulfan exposure in male children may delay sexual maturity and interfere with sex hormone synthesis.” Increased incidences of cryptorchidism have been observed in other studies of endosulfan exposed populations.
A 2007 study by the California Department of Public Health found that women who lived near farm fields sprayed with endosulfan and the related organochloride pesticide dicofol during the first eight weeks of pregnancy are several times more likely to give birth to children with autism. This is the first study to look for an association between endosulfan and autism, and additional study is needed to confirm the connection.
A 2009 assessment concluded that epidemiology and rodent studies that suggest male reproductive and autism effects are open to other interpretations, and that developmental or reproductive toxicity occurs only at endosulfan doses that cause neurotoxicity.
Endosulfan and cancer
Endosulfan is not listed as known, probable, or possible carcinogen by the EPA, IARC, or other agencies. There are no epidemiological studies linking exposure to endosulfan specifically to cancer in humans, but in vitro assays have shown that endosulfan can promote proliferation of human breast cancer cells. Evidence of cancinogenicity in animals is mixed.
Environmental fate
Endosulfan breaks down into endosulfan sulfate and endosulfan diol, both of which, according to the EPA, have “structures similar to the parent compound and are also of toxicological concern…The estimated half-lives for the combined toxic residues (endosulfan plus endosulfan sulfate) [range] from roughly 9 months to 6 years.” The EPA concluded that, “[b]ased on environmental fate laboratory studies, terrestrial field dissipation studies, available models, monitoring studies, and published literature, it can be concluded that endosulfan is a very persistent chemical which may stay in the environment for lengthy periods of time, particularly in acid media.” The EPA also concluded that “[e]ndosulfan has relatively high potential to bioaccumulate in fish.” It is also toxic to amphibians: low levels have been found to kill tadpoles.
Endosulfan is subject to long range atmospheric transport, i.e. it can travel long distances from where it is used. For example, a 2008 report by the National Park Service found that endosulfan commonly contaminates air, water, plants and fish of national parks in the U.S. Most of these parks are far from areas where endosulfan is used. Endosulfan has also been detected in dust from the Sahara Desert collected in the Caribbean after being blown across the Atlantic Ocean.In 2009, the committee of scientific experts of the Stockholm Convention concluded that “endosulfan is likely, as a result of long range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and environmental effects such that global action is warranted.”
(source-wikipedia)
WHAT HAPPENED IN KASARAGOD
May I show some of the pictures of the victims of endosulphan, which helps you to understand how deadly it is.
These are only some of the pictures, I could find. There are more pictures of the same and can be found on google image search.
Endosulphan is a life hiller as these images clearly states. The problem of endosulphan was known to public, when the people of Muliyar, a small panchayath in Kasaragod district, has started protesting against the same. Due to it’s harmful effects, The Kerala High Court has banned the same for a period of 10 years, in2002. Due to this only, many countries in the world has banned endosulphan. Today there is being a convention going on in Geneva for disscussing endosulphan related issues and for banning endosulphan. It can be considered as a victory for the people of Muliyar. But the central Government has taken a decision to support endosulphan.
The decision taken by the central government was so worse and it indirectly tells the people of kasaragod to die simply just because of endosulphan. Even if the Indian government supports endosulphan, the entire people is against it. This can be proved by the hunger strike conducted by the kerala cheif minister, V S Achuthanandan, on 25-04-2011 at Thiruvananthapuram.. Anyone viewing videos of the same can understand how much people has come to participate in the same and it will count more than tens of a thousand. On the same day, protest against the same was conducted on all the 14 district head quarters of the state. Many unreported protests were also conducted. And those reading this article can imagine how much the people of kerala participated for the same. It may count trillions or more.
Still, the Indian government is taking an action which can support the company making endosulphan only. If something is making more harmful than it’s beneficial side, then it must be considered harmful. Here, endosulphan cannot be considered just harmful, but deadly. It is very much understood for the central goverment. Many studies were conducted by kerala government and state government and concluded that the essence of endosulphan is still there in the farms, where endosulphan was sprayed. The interesting fact is that the use endosulphan was gradually reduced from 1965 and by 1980, it’s use has been minimized by the people themselves and by 2002, endosulphan isbanned by the government. Still, the new born babies in the endosulphan victim areas is still having physical and metal problems. Look, how much it affects. Kasargod is neither an Hiroshima or Nagasaki nor America has attacked there, still the problem is just like an nuclear bomb.
This is not a picture not only of Muliyar, but of 11 panchayaths of Kerala. Cases of endosulphan were also reported from some areas of Kannur and Wayanad of Kerala. It was heard that some areas of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are also experiencing problems due to endosulphan.
I am writing this article to show my strong protest against the indian government for taking the decision to go against the ban of endosulfan in the Geneva conference. May this be read by someone over the conference and may they will get the clear picture that the people of endosulphan victim areas and people of kerala is not with the central government and they still want to ban endosulphan.
Ban ENDOSULPHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After 50 years of tectonic improvements, the microchip may be finally be reaching its limits.Monday will mark the 50th anniversary of the patent for a silicon integrated circuit, awarded to Robert Noyce, an electronics engineer who was later nicknamed ‘the mayor of Silicon Valley.’
Decades later we are still living in the revolution that began almost immediately, but there are growing signs that Moore’s Law – the famously accurate prediction that the number of transistors will double every two years – is ready for retirement, the Telegraph reports.
‘The rate of progress is finally beginning to show signs of slowing down,’ says Steve Furber of the University of Manchester in Britain.
A British microchip legend, Furber designed the first ARM processor for Acorn Computers in the mid-1980s.
The silicon successors to his invention, developed by ARM Holdings in Cambridge, can now be found in most smartphones and the onrushing wave of tablet computers.
But while for 50 years the microchip industry has strived to build faster silicon containing more transistors, it is increasingly coming up against a seemingly insurmountable obstacle: the laws of physics.
The most advanced processors now contain transistors that are just 100 to 150 atoms across. Designing a controllable microchip with such precision takes the equivalent of hundreds of man years, and many firms are finding that the financial risks of pushing further are not worth the return.
‘The economics are beginning to bite and the great majority of people are pretty keen now not to be on the cutting edge,’ explains Furber.
‘There are about 10 years of to go before we reach the absolute limit. People have been saying that for 30 years, but this time I think it’s probably right,’ he concludes.
Moscow’ The world’s tallest building, the one-mile high Kingdom Tower, will be built in western Saudi Arabia.
The skyscraper, expected to cost $30 billion, will be erected in Obhur, some 30 km north of Jeddah City on the Red Sea’s eastern coast, Arab media reported.
It will take 12 minutes to get to the top of the building by elevator. The project stipulates the construction of an 8.9 sq mile city around the Kingdom Tower which can accommodate 80,000 residents and about one million visitors.
Kingdom Tower, which will host offices, a hotel and residential areas, will be almost double the height of the world’s tallest building, the 0.51-mile Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It will also exceed Dubai’s 0.62-mile Nakheel Harbor and Tower whose construction has been put on hold.
Despite the so-so reviews it received before its launch Tuesday, the BlackBerry tablet leaves Apple’s iPad miles behind in multitasking, say the experts.
Its powerful QNX operating system – called Neutrino – allows the PlayBook to perform multitasking at amazing speed, according to experts.Thus, PlayBook users need not stop one application to start up another. They can keep all applications running simultaneously. That’s why the PlayBook has no ‘Home’ button unlike the iPad because users don’t need to stop any running application to start a new one.
‘The (PlayBook) operating system kicks ass,” Roel Vertegaal, a human-computer interaction professor at Canada’s Queen’s University, told the Globe and Mail.
‘If you want to do more than one thing at once and you want to do it very fast – if you want to do work and play together – the PlayBook shines better than the iPad,” the paper quoted Mike Abramsky, managing director of software and wireless research at Toronto’s RBC Dominion Securities, as saying.
The BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) acquired Ottawa-based QNX software company for $200 million in April 2010
to have exclusive access to its operating system for the PlayBook tablet.
The QNX software powers not only the six-wheeled unmanned Crusher combat vehicle by the US Army, but also music, media and navigation systems in cars from BMW and Porsche.
But in the Apple-dominated tablet market, few analysts are giving thumbs up to the BlackBerry tablet – the first product by RIM to diversify away from its trademark BlackBerry smart phone. It is do or die for the Canadian iconic company, they say.
According to them, RIM has been forced to play catch-up with Apple whose first-generation iPad sold more than 17 million units last year, and the iPad 2 has taken sales many notches up since its launch March 11.
They point out how Apple had no presence in the BlackBerry-dominated smart phone market five years ago. Then Apple entered the smartphone market and within four years overtook RIM in smart phone sales in the North American market.
They say Apple revolutionized mobile computing last year by introducing the iPad which has catapulted it into the world’s number one technology company valued at more than $300 billion today.
‘This (PlayBook) is a product that just keeps them (RIM) in the game,’ according to Toronto-based Don Lato, who is a portfolio manager at Goodreid Investment Counsel Corp.
The PlayBook is more of a defensive strategy than a revolutionary product by the BlackBerry maker, he told the local Nation Post newspaper.
‘It’s almost a protection of their BlackBerry franchise more than a whole new growth avenue for them.”
With research firm Gartner forecasting sales of 70 million tablets this year and Apple controlling 70 percent of the market, analysts have projected RIM to sell about 3.9 million PlayBooks.
‘It (PlayBook) is almost in a sense a do or die for BlackBerry, staying relevant, staying up to date,” according to the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC).
The seven-inch, Wi-Fi-capable PlayBook will be available in three models, featuring 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes of storage capacity, and in the price range of $499 to $699.
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