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2014-08-28T12:19:00.002+05:30

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Kate Middleton baby

2013-05-24T00:23:00.003+05:30

Kate Middleton's due date is approaching fast as her baby bump grows, and it might be announced on Twitter.

According to Entertainment Wise, Now magazine reported that the royal palace would announce the baby's arrival on Twitter. That could be any day now since we know that Middleton's due date is July 13.

The report said that this sets a precedence when it comes to modernizing the royal family, among other things they did such as their 2010 November engagement announced on Twitter.

The 31-year-old Duchess of Cambridge has been steady in the spotlight, showing off her big baby bump to everyone.

Her and husband Prince William are expecting their first child together soon, and since Middleton plans on being a stay-at-home mom (at least for a while), she has taken up cooking lessons.

According to Us magazine, an insider said that the couple's new housekeeper, Antonella Fresolone, was hired three weeks ago and is known for her "delicious" Italian cooking. She is showing Middleton how to make "a number of new dishes" in the small kitchen at Nottingham Cottage.

In recent news, the Duchess was recently spotted shopping in London for the Kensington home she shares with husband Prince William, and she did it all in the pouring rain.

E! Online said that Middleton carried her own bags after shopping at a home furnishing store with security holding an umbrella for her on top of her head on Tuesday.

Sources said that Middleton had breakfast at the Dome Café in Chelsea Harbour around 11 a.m. before heading out to do her shopping duties. She "sat in the atrium like everyone else" and was "totally normal" as she enjoyed a leisurely breakfast, Marie Claire reported.

She then went to Design Centre looking at lighting. Then she went to a carpet shop on Lots Road and stayed there for 45 minutes.

Jennifer Lawrence new haircut

2013-05-24T00:17:00.001+05:30

Jennifer Lawrence is no stranger to makeovers — she’s been blonde, brunette, then blonde again over the past two months — but the short haircut she debuted at this weekend’s GLAAD Media Awards is a whole new look for the Oscar-winning actress. ”It’s the shortest her hair has been her whole life,” Lawrence’s hair stylist Mark Townsend told Harper’s Bazaar. “She didn’t want the conventional asymmetrical bob (shorter in the back, longer in the front). She wanted tons of layers—so we went with a full-on shag, with bangs and a lot of face-framing layers,” Townsend explained. (He also posted an adorable post-cut pic on Instagram.)

The textured chop reminds us of another recent haircut: model Karlie Kloss’ wavy bob, which has been called “the haircut of the year.” It looks like Jennifer is onto something.

What do you think of Jennifer Lawrence’s haircut?

Science quiz makes fun

2013-05-24T00:09:00.002+05:30

In a 4th grade science quiz given to students at the Blue Ridge Christian Academy, you were right if you answered that God made dinosaurs on the 6th day of creation.

The quiz, titled “Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel,” was posted on Reddit and quickly went viral.

Getting a huge influx of both criticism and praise, school officials decide to speak back regarding their beliefs.

While religious freedom is a right given to every person, does creationism have a place in schools, and in science class for that matter?

child killed by his sister

2013-05-22T18:42:00.000+05:30

A 5-year-old boy shot and killed his 2-year-old sister, Caroline Starks using a .22 caliber rifle that he received as a gift.

The children’s mother was home at the time of the shooting. The little girl was quickly sent to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Cumberland County Coroner Gary White explained that the rifle was given to the boy last year as a birthday present and he was “trained” in using it. Unfortunately, the gun was kept in the house and the family failed to realize that it was still loaded.

The gun, dubbed “My First Rifle” is a Crickett rifle, a smaller weapon designed for and marketed to little kids. In the website, the rifle is designed similar to a toy and comes in different colors and styles.

“The little Crickett rifle is a single-shot rifle and it has a child safety,” White said. “This was just a tragic accident.”

The death is ruled as accidental.

5 Funniest moments in office

2013-05-22T18:33:00.000+05:30

CPR Training

In the season five episode "Stress Relief," one of the most hilarious moments on the show came when Michael arranged for a woman to come to the office and give the employees CPR training. It was a mess from the start, with the instructor's advice to think of the song "Staying Alive" by the BeeGees causing Andy and Michael to sing the song and disrupt the entire process.

But that wasn't the funniest part! Dwight decided, for whatever reason, that it would be a good idea to carve into the CPR dummy with a knife and wear the face as a mask.

Michael vs Toby

One of the funniest running gags on 'The Office' involved Michael's extreme, unjustified hatred of Toby, the HR rep. While this hatred was shown many times throughout the years, the most memorable came in the season two finale "Casino Night," when he unleashed the following words on his mortal enemy:

"Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be."

His reaction to Toby's final day in the office in "Goodbye Toby" was also quality, with Michael dancing, throwing a huge party, and singing a farewell song to his least favorite human being.

Andy's Ringtone

One of the all-time funniest pranks on 'The Office' was played against Andy Bernard in the season three episode "The Return." After Andy showed off his self-recorded "Rockin' Robin" ringtone, Jim and Pam teamed up to hide his phone in the ceiling above his desk.

When they called the phone and Andy couldn't find it, he had an even bigger meltdown than they could've possibly predicted, smashing his hand through an office wall and getting himself exiled to Anger Management courses.

Identity Theft

Just about every fan of 'The Office' will remember this gem! In the season three episode "Product Recall," Jim dressed up in a Dwight costume, complete with stopwatch, glasses, mustard yellow shirt, and bobbleheads, in order to mess with him. At the end of the episode, Dwight retaliated by coming to work dressed as Jim, even imitating Jim's silly looks at the camera. It doesn't get much more perfect than that!

Agent Michael Scarn

Michael's screenplay, which Pam discovered in his desk while he was away from the office, detailed the adventures of Agent Michael Scarn and his love interest, Catherine Zeta-Jones. In the season two episode "The Client," the Dunder Mifflin employees did a read-through of Michael's hilarious script, which he eventually made into a "movie" called 'Threat Level Midnight' in season seven.

We'll never know how he convinced so many people to appear in his movie, but we sure are glad he did!

Unrealistic gaming characters

2013-05-20T19:00:00.003+05:30

We all know one of those people who are relatively good at anything they try and do. They’re the overachievers who do anything to win and do anything to get the job done. Unfortunately in the gaming industry, overachieving is taken to an entirely new height by watching normal people do incredible things that just wouldn’t be possible in real life.

Today we honor these men and women who have been given incredible abilities that we know, if they were real, would never be capable of doing what they do.

Super Mario

Mario is probably the biggest overachiever in the history of gaming. This guy is nothing more than your average, overweight plumber who rarely, if ever, does his job. Yet as Mario, you’re tasked with taking down wave after wave of enemies all in the hopes of one day rescuing your kidnapped love. And what does any of that have to do with plumbing or the expectation of a plumber? Absolutely nothing. Mario has no business being Chuck Norris.

Max Payne

Max Payne is a badass. That’s hard to argue. He’s a former New York Police Detective and used to work for the DEA. However, this guy has the uncanny ability to take on entire multi-international gangs with nothing more than a few guns and some tripped out effects. Really? Are we supposed to believe that this guy is some form of Punisher? Everyone knows cops love donuts, not going on crazy ass vendettas.

Lara Croft

O-V-E-R-A-C-H-I-E-V-E-R. Lara Croft is that kid in your class that was always doing bonus credit and getting a GPA above the maximum grade possible. However, despite just being an archaeologist, she’s capable of also taking down an entire small privatized army in order to save the world. That’s right. It’s not just a vendetta or killing those who killed her family. She’s saving the world one adventure at a time.

Tony Romo

You’re thinking, “What?” But come on man. Any of you that play Madden on a yearly basis and have succeeded with Tony Romo in the game can verify that that’s complete nonsense. In what world would Tony Romo be capable of winning a Super Bowl or even multiple playoff games? The virtual world, that’s what world. Honestly, he’s probably a bigger overachiever in gaming than Mario.

Nick Groove

Groove grew up on the streets and there is nothing he can’t do. He’s smuggled drugs, killed cartels, taken over a vast amount of territories, kicked an unlimited amount of people in the crotch and has even ran for the office of President (and won). You’re probably confused by now and have no clue who Nick is or how come you haven’t had the privileged opportunity to play as him. That’s because he’s my character in Saint’s Row and he overachieves daily.

Xbox 720 just awesome

2013-05-20T18:49:00.003+05:30

The rumor mill is a perilous place, filled with scant facts but heaps of hearsay, malarkey, bunk, and all kinds of nonsense that rhymes handily with bull spit. As we get closer to the May 21 announcement of Microsoft’s Next Xbox, though, it’s been remarkable just how many rumors about the future of the company’s video game business have turned out to be true all along. The Xbox ten-year plan memo allegedly leaked straight out of Microsoft in June 2012 described, amongst other things, the next console’s ability to project images into a player’s living room. The Next Xbox can’t do it itself actually. Microsoft’s IllumiRoom, which works with it, can.

Microsoft CTO Eric Rudder debuted the IllumiRoom technology at the Consumer Electronics Show this past January. The “raw” technology demo demonstrated proposed – as described in old Microsoft patents – a living room device that would project video images on every surface in your living room; television shows, Xbox games, a PC’s web browser, or even video and music editing tools. Its uses would range from the practical to the outlandish, from something as simple as projecting a virtual keyboard on your coffee table to displaying game enemies coming at you from all angles.
While Microsoft didn’t discuss IllumiRoom’s role in gaming in detail at CES, that functionality is going to happen. The company is holding an event at the Paris-based CHI 2013 event on Tuesday to properly unveil the technology. A video teasing the event shows, as pointed out by Eurogamer, an example of how IllumiRoom and Kinect would work together to let people play Portal. “IllumiRoom can extend the gaming content out of your TV, creating a truly immersive experience,” says the video, “Or we can selectively show game elements, like explosions, or make it snow in our living room.”
The video below goes in to a bit more detail on the system and how it would work in your living room.
The big tease, however, is Microsoft discussing how IllumiRoom will work with “a next-generation gaming console.” This is the first tacit acknowledgement that the Next Xbox, whatever it may be called, will work with new projection technology just as described in the ten-year plan manifesto.

Brad Pitt's Emotional About Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy

2013-05-20T18:35:00.000+05:30

Brad Pitt chatted with USA Today about partner Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy after learning that she had about an 87% chance of developing breast cancer, and the 49-year-old actor reveals that he has been "quite emotional" about it all.

"She could have stayed absolutely private about it and I don't think anyone would have been none the wiser with such good results," he says. "But it was really important to her to share the story and that others would understand it doesn't have to be a scary thing. In fact, it can be an empowering thing, and something that makes you stronger and us stronger."
Pitt said the experience has been "an emotional and beautifully inspiring few months. And I'll tell you, it's such a wonderful relief to come through this and not have a spectre hanging over our heads. To know that that's not going to be something that's going to affect us. My most proudest thing is our family. This isn't going to get that."
Pitt also noted that "just weeks" after she had had the surgery she visited Congo, as well as London for the G-8 Foreign Ministers Conference and New York City for the Women in the World Summit.
So how are the couple's six children handling mom's recovery? "We set up our own little post-op recovery that became pretty fun. You make an adventure out of it."

Biggest mistakes in Hollywood

2013-05-18T04:20:00.000+05:30

Most movie fans watch movies hoping for the best. We don’t want to see something bad, we want to be transported to another place and entertained for two hours so, even with a bad movie, we’ll try to find something good in it. On the flip side, if you watch a movie looking for the negative, you’re going to find it.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Why is there snow in Hogsmeade when the trio gets there and meets Aberforth? Hogsmeade and Hogwarts are within walking distance of each other, yet there is no snow at Hogwarts.

2. X-Men: First Class – In First Class, Professor X is made handicapped in 1962 at the end of the movie. In the previous X-men movie, he was walking when he visited the girl (Jean) in the mid 70s with Magneto.

3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon – In the first scene with Carly coming up the stairs she is wearing a white cap, when the camera changes to the front view and she is holding the stuffed rabbit the cap is gone.

Google atari

2013-05-18T04:10:00.000+05:30

If you head on over to Google Images and type in “atari breakout” you will be blessed with a playable old school favourite game. Try it right now and then come back and read on here because we will talk about the Atari Breakout Boost iOS app.

Google laid this egg to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the 1976 Atari Breakout game, now lets move onto the app for iOS device users.

So far Atari Breakout Boost has had well over 2-million downloads in the App Store, and its last update was in March that added 10 new levels for free as well as 5 more free levels by clicking on in-game Facebook button.

This is the enhanced version of the Atari classic that features stunning graphics and more gameplay, you got new power-ups such as Grenade Balls, Fire, Acid, and Splitting boosts. There are also some unique brick types such as Mystery, x4, Exploding and Metal bricks.

You can purchase additional packs once you have completed what the app already has, the library can be increased to 200+ levels.

Main Game Features Include: 10 free levels, 200+ more levels available via in-app purchase, Boost Indicator that can control the speed of the game, Missiles & other power-ups and so much more.

Please do head on over to Google Images and type in “Atari breakout” for some online fun then download this app because you will be come addicted.

It is a shame that this game is not available for Android users, but there are alternatives

strangers in dreams are real

2013-05-18T04:06:00.001+05:30

The human brain is responsible for many complex creations, but it can’t invent the image of people. So the “strangers” that you meet in your dreams actually have the faces of people who you’ve once seen in your real life but forgotten, like your childhood mailman or that guy bumped into on the side walk that one time.

Chances are that you’ve laid their eyes on more than a few individuals, and so the brain as a huge cast of characters to play with when you drift off to sleep. Except for in the case of extreme psychological disorder, every human being dreams. In fact, in a recent study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream but still allowed 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty concentrating, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis in a span of three days.

When they were allowed their REM sleep, their brains compensated for the lost time by increasing the percentage of the sleep spent in the REM stage. Dreams are a window into the subconscious. Even though most of the time, they’re completely random, disorganized, and we forget 90% of them within 10 minutes of waking up; many people have drawn inspiration from their dreams. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein was a based on a dream that she had.

Pakistan election Nawaz sharif won

2013-05-18T03:55:00.004+05:30

As the initial enthusiasm about Pakistan’s elections abates and serious questions are asked about the integrity of the polls in a number of constituencies, a new fragmented political landscape is emerging. Although strong support for the Pakistan Muslim League-N, one of Pakistan’s oldest parties, suggests a degree of stability in the political party scene, the striking novelty of these elections is the regionalisation of political support. This raises tricky questions in the context of greater powers granted to the provinces by the recent constitutional reforms.
No political party enjoys anything that comes close to consistent support across the four provinces. Nawaz Sharif’s party, the PML-N, won an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly in Punjab with 116 seats, while taking only eight in other provinces. The former ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which secured 88 directly elected seats in 2008 from all four provinces, has now been reduced to a regional party, securing 29 direct seats in Sindh and only two seats in Punjab. Strikingly, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province where the PPP garnered 10 seats in 2008, the party failed to win a single one this time round. Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek Insaf (PTI) owes its strong showing to KP, winning 17 of its 27 seats fielded in the province, while only succeeding in eight seats in Punjab and a seat each in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Islamabad.

This regionalisation of Pakistan’s politics is also reflected in the results from the simultaneous elections that took place in the four Provincial Assemblies. In Punjab, the PML-N now enjoys a whopping two-thirds majority, removing the checks and balances that had come from the strong opposition presented by the PPP and PML-Q until now. In Sindh, the PPP has once again emerged as the majority party, and will form a government without need of a coalition. In KP province, the PTI emerged as the largest party and is likely to form a coalition government. In Balochistan, the Pashtun nationalist party Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) has emerged as the largest party with 10 seats followed by the PML-N, Jamiat Ulema Islam-F and nine independents, who will have a decisive role in forming a government.

What has become clear is that although the PML-N will form the national government, it does not have a majority in the Senate (the upper house). This is dominated by the PPP and its allies. For the Senate, which has a significant role under Pakistan’s constitution, to pass legislation, a degree of co-operation between the two houses will be required – tempering PML-N’s dominance. And at the provincial level, a patchwork of power is emerging, with each region being ruled by a different political party or by coalition.

This colourful political map with huge regional variation raises questions of how this will all play out in a context of strong devolution of powers to the provinces through the constitutional amendments adopted over the last few years. Perhaps the biggest challenge for the national PML-N government will be to establish itself as an honest broker for all provinces. Fear of Punjabi domination in Pakistan, a long-standing feature of the country’s political psychology, will gain renewed prominence.

The practical questions are manifold. The outgoing government had not completed the handover of power and resources to the provinces that was mandated by the constitutional overhaul. The PML-N government must continue this process even-handedly. The most sensitive challenge ahead will be to determine the resource sharing arrangements between the provinces and the centre, known as the National Finance Commission Award, which is due in 2014. In 2009, the PPP led coalition took the credit for deciding the award through consensus among all provinces, a historic achievement that sets a high bar for the incoming PML-N government. The PML-N will also have to tread carefully in order to make good one of its central campaign pledges: to swiftly end the electricity shortages and power cuts. Every new dam-building project will now need provincial co-operation.

What is likely to emerge in Pakistan is a situation of federal competition where each major party will use its provincial home base to show its capacity and achievements. Already Imran Khan promised to turn KP into a model province. At the same time, the new set-up will place an onus on consensus-making between the two houses of parliament as much as between the centre and the provinces. Pakistan’s political class has been oscillating in recent years between extreme partisan politics and divisive rhetoric, and remarkable statesmanship, as seen in the unanimous adoption of the 18th constitutional amendment in 2010, which restored parliamentary democracy.

A similar team spirit was seen during the appointment of the election commission and later on the caretaker government, which had seemed practically impossible, yet at the last moment consensus was achieved. If the political class manages the balance between federal competition and problem-solving consensus, the new situation can turn into an advantage. If it does not however, Pakistan faces years of acrimony about the allocation of resources and the role of Punjab, further weakening an already fragile sense of nationhood. The key role will be played by the PML-N. Being the strongest party, it will have to lead by example

Mystery of Jackie Chan and Bruce lee

2013-05-18T03:51:00.001+05:30

Bruce Lee could land a punch in around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second) from 3 feet away, and from 5 feet away it was around eight hundredths of a second (0.08 second).
Lee could take in one arm a 75 lb barbell from a standing position with the barbell held flush against his chest and slowly stick his arms out locking them, holding the barbell there for several seconds.
Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.
Lee could cause a 300-lb (136.08 kg) bag to fly towards and thump the ceiling with a sidekick.
Lee could hold an elevated v-sit position for 30 minutes or longer.
Lee performed a sidekick while training with James Coburn and broke a 150 lb (68 kg) punching bag.

In a move that has been dubbed "Dragon Flag", Lee could perform leg lifts with only his shoulder blades resting on the edge of a bench and suspend his legs and torso horizontal midair.
Bruce Lee was able to jump 8 feet from a stand still (this was shown in pictures and his films such as the one where he kicked the lightbulb out).
Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.
Lee could throw grains of rice up into the air and then catch them in mid-flight using chopsticks. - Witnessed by many such as Joe Hyams
Lee could thrust his fingers through unopened cans of Coca-Cola. (This was when soft drinks cans were made of steel much thicker than today's aluminum cans).

Windows phone at Third

2013-05-16T20:49:00.002+05:30

Microsoft's Windows Phone grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
Windows Phone accounted for shipments of 7 million smartphones, earning itself a market share of 3.2 percent last quarter. That was a gain from the first quarter of 2012, which saw shipments of 3 million and a market share of 2 percent.

Over the same period, BlackBerry saw its fortunes fall. Last quarter, shipments fell to 6.3 million from 9.7 million in the year-ago quarter, while BlackBerry's market share dropped to 2.9 percent from 6.4 percent.
Windows Phone posted the largest gain among all operating systems, a feat largely due to Nokia, IDC said in its report. The Finnish phone maker was responsible for 70 percent of all Windows Phone shipments last quarter. Since partnering with Microsoft, Nokia has shipped a total of 20.3 million Windows Phone handsets. Other vendors also offer Windows Phone devices but mostly as an alternative to their mainstay Android phones.

"Windows Phone claiming the third spot is a first and helps validate the direction taken by Microsoft and key partner Nokia," IDC analyst Kevin Restivo said in a statement. "Given the relatively low volume generated, the Windows Phone camp will need to show further gains to solidify its status as an alterative to Android or iOS."
Despite the boost for Windows Phone, Google's Android and Apple iOS operating systems still completely dominate the smartphone landscape.
Android phones saw shipments of 162.1 million last quarter, up from 90.3 million for the prior year's quarter. Market share climbed to 75 percent from 59.1 percent.
Apple shipped 37.4 million iPhones in the first quarter, up from 35.1 million, though its slice of the market dropped to 17.3 percent from 23 percent.

cancer angelina

2013-05-15T20:18:00.002+05:30

Actress Angelina Jolie has today written an op-ed in The New York Times explaining that she has opted to have a double mastectomy because she carries the hereditary BRCA1 gene, which she says increases her risk of breast cancer by 87%. Her mother died from breast cancer after a ten-year struggle at the age of 56.
We asked an expert in breast cancer and genetics to explain more about the breast cancer genetic mutation and what it means for women.

What are the BRCA1 (and BRCA2) gene mutations?
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that have been linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Women who inherit one of these faulty genes are at an increased risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Men who inherit a faulty gene may be at increased risk of prostate cancer. Breast cancer in men carrying BRCA2 has also been described in the medical literature.
These genes are important in helping repair breaks in the DNA in our cells, so a faulty gene can mean that DNA repair is less than optimal. In some people this can lead to the development of cancer.
Should I be getting tested for them?
Not routinely. In general terms, genetic testing should be carried out following counselling in a familial cancer centre after a proper assessment of risk.
Testing is offered to people who have developed breast or ovarian cancer where there are features that might suggest a mutation is present.
These can include an early age of onset of cancer, or cancer in both breasts, multiple cancers in the family, male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, certain ancestry (such eastern European Jewish ancestry), or where there is a known mutation in the family.
Sometimes the appearance of a tumour, reported by the pathologist can help make a decision regarding whether testing is necessary.
How are they tested for?
This is generally done through a blood sample.
What is the cost of the test/s and why?
At present testing for these genes in Australia is expensive – about A$2,000 to A$2,500 – but costs are coming down.
Once a mutation has been identified in a family member, other members can be tested and this is much cheaper.
In Australia, the test is offered for free in familial cancer centres where a person meets suitable criteria for testing.
How many people are affected?

About 5% of all breast cancers are hereditary, and can involve the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. That is why it is important to look for special features that suggest risk.
In our community the risk of carrying a gene is relatively rare at about 1:800 for each of the mutations.
Say I have the gene/s, what is the likelihood that I will develop (a) breast cancer and (b) ovarian cancer?
Having the gene does not mean that a woman will definitely develop either of the cancers.
The risk is believed to be on average somewhere between 40% and 65% for breast and 15% to 40% for ovary, depending on the gene.
In her op-ed, Angelina Jolie said her risk of developing breast cancer was 87% and that she had a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer. This is because the risk for BRCA1 carriers can be higher than for BRCA2 carriers.
Jolie has reported the upper end of risk for breast cancer that was first described when the gene was discovered. Looking at the general population, the risk is probably less, but for some families with very striking family histories, it could be this high.
What are the treatment options?
If a cancer develops, it is often treated in a very similar fashion to other breast or ovarian cancers.
For breast cancer, sometimes women might consider more extensive surgery (such as mastectomies). There are new drugs called PARP inhibitors that are being developed tested for BRCA-associated cancers.
What are the prevention options?
There are a number of options. For breast cancer, this includes close monitoring which includes MRI scans and mammograms starting at a suitable age.
Breast cancer prevention drugs such as Tamoxifen are likely to be helpful and may even halve the risk of getting breast cancer.
Some women may consider mastectomy with breast reconstruction. The uptake of this option differs; on average about 20% of women carrying the genes take this option in Australia but the precise numbers are not known.
Importantly, due to the potential risk of ovarian cancer some women will be advised to have their fallopian tubes and ovaries removed at a suitable age (and after they have had children).
If this is carried out at age 40, it can halve breast cancer risk. It is known to be safe to give women hormone replacement therapy in most cases, so that they don’t experience menopausal symptoms.
What are the side-effects of mastectomies, if any?
These are generally minimal. In the short term, there can be surgical risks of infection and bleeding and, of course, cosmetic results (breast reconstruction) may differ.
What are the chances of survival for preventative measures vs treatment options?
The chances of survival for preventative measures are excellent and the risk of breast cancer is very substantially reduced. Since screening can detect cancer early, this helps improve outcomes.
Treatment for breast cancer has substantially improved over the last two decades, including for BRCA1 and BRCA2-associated cancers, so with proper treatment of early cancers, the outlook can be very good.

Adolf Hitler

2013-05-15T13:53:00.002+05:30

It was a moment Hitler had been working towards for years. Having joined the small German Workers Party in the autumn of 1919, the young World War I veteran -- originally from the Austrian border town of Braunau am Inn -- worked ceaselessly to transform the small group of conservative agitators into a national political force. Relying on a mix of nationalist demagoguery, vicious anti-Communism and virulent anti-Semitism -- topped off with an unceasing flood of invective aimed at the Treaty of Versailles -- Hitler rode a wave of street popularity he hoped would help him overthrow the Berlin government.
His first attempt, in November 1923, would fail in a hail of bullets in Munich -- the so-called Beer Hall Putsch. Yet even though the Weimar Republic -- the democratic regime which emerged out of Germany's post-World War I chaos -- managed to stabilize the country both politically and economically in the mid-1920s, Hitler's Nazis would get a second chance.

From today's perspective, it is tempting to pin the blame for Hitler's eventual rise to power on the great New York stock market crash of 1929, an event which put millions of German workers out of a job. Others point to the onerous conditions placed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, which required Germany to accept responsibility for starting World War I and forced Berlin to pay 132 billion goldmarks in war reparations. Still others argue that Germany's history somehow made the country predestined for the kind of murderous dictatorship that Hitler's reign became.

The NSDAP got most of its support in the July 1932 election in northern Germany.
Entire libraries have been filled with books attempting to explain how a once-homeless failed artist could have launched a war machine that eventually resulted in 60 million dead, and a death machine that killed 6 million in the Holocaust's gas chambers. More are certainly to come. The rise of the Nazis defies any simple narrative, coming as it did out of a myriad of interlacing events, ideologies and historical accidents.
One thing, however, is clear. Nazi Germany, and the flood of destruction it unleashed on Germany, Europe and the world, was far from inevitable.

The ill-fated Weimar Republic emerged from post-war chaos that verged on civil war. German soldiers, defeated on the battlefield, returned home only to be sent into skirmishes against communist revolutionaries. Right-wing monarchists and conservative anti-leftists in the military, judiciary and bureaucracy saw to it that little mercy was shown. Over 1,000 people were killed in the fighting, with Hitler's adopted home of Munich seeing a revolving door of bright red governments that only ended when a local paramilitary force combined forces with a federal army unit to brutally put down the red threat. A number of future Nazis took part in the slaughter, and the political climate in Germany remained poisoned for years.

But stability remained elusive. The Weimar Republic's constitution made it almost inevitable that governments would have a short shelf life, and in the 14 years of the republic, fully 20 different governments would rule. But even still, the infant German democracy had a chance.

Bear Grylls

2013-05-14T23:33:00.000+05:30

Bear Grylls will be the UK’s youngest Chief Scout, aged 34. Whether it is crossing oceans in an open boat, scaling Mount Everest or flying a powered paraglider to 29,000ft in the Himalayas, Bear knows a thing or two about adventure.

As an ex Special Forces soldier, he is not only known around the world as the host of the hit TV series Born Survivor and Man Vs Wild, he is also an inspirational speaker, best selling author of nine books and a fervent supporter of young people getting out there to experience adventure for themselves.

Bear got his taste for the outdoors as a Scout, whilst a young boy. He was taught to climb by his late father on the sea cliffs of the Isle of Wight, and this interest rapidly developed when he left school.

His military service saw him trained in combat survival, parachuting, demolitions, trauma medics and mountain warfare as a trooper with 21 SAS.

During one parachute jump he sustained a massive injury breaking his back in three places. After intense military rehabilitation, he made a full recovery and went on to become one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the summit of Everest and has led numerous other expeditions around the world.

‘Honoured to be offered this position’

When invited to take on this role with the UK’s largest co-educational youth movement Bear said ‘I feel so honoured to be offered this position, and have always held such admiration for Scouts and all they do around the world. The Scouting Movement is a massive force for good, touching many, many young lives. Above all, it gives millions of kids the chance to live and learn about the wild and to experience real adventure. My hope is to help Scouts of all ages, including adults, to reach their full potential, to follow their dreams and to enjoy the camaraderie that the Scouts is famous for.

'In particular I want to continue the inspirational work that the current Chief Scout Peter Duncan has begun by showing the public how Scouting continues to open young people’s eyes to a world of extraordinary promise and possibilities.'

This is not Bear’s first volunteer role. He is also an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and is Vice President of the Journey of a Lifetime Trust, which helps young people from troubled backgrounds experience the 'journey of a lifetime'.

Bear also balances his demanding life with a young family. Married to Shara, he has three sons all aged under six.

A global ambassador for a global movement

Scouting is a global movement and Bear has travelled extensively to every continent in the world. Known and respected in many countries outside the UK he is truly a global ambassador for a global movement. His languages include Spanish and French, and he has a deep respect for diverse faiths and cultures.

‘I can't wait to
meet as many of the UK’s Scouts as I can,’ says Bear. ‘Supporting and representing our members is a huge privilege, and I want all Scouts to know I am here for them and willing to listen and help where I can.’

Lincoln the great man ever

2013-05-14T23:17:00.000+05:30

We rarely find examples of constant persistence for success, like those of Abraham Lincoln. If anyone wants the inspiration of how many efforts a human can make, here’s his life sketch.
Born in poverty, he had to face defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business, suffered nervous breakdown and was bedridden for six months. He could have quit many times, but he didn’t quit and became one of the greatest presidents in America.

Here is a sketch of Lincoln’s road to White House
His family was forced out of their home AND He had to work to support them
His mother died
Failed in business
Ran for State legislature –lost
Also lost his job-wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in.
Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year
He was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt.
Ran for state legislature again—won
Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken
Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months
Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated.
Sought to become elector – defeated
Ran for Congress –lost
Ran for Congress again – this time he won-went to Washington and did a good job
Ran for re-election to Congress-lost
Sought the job of land officer in his home state-rejected
Ran for Senate of the United States-lost
Sought the Vice Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention – got less than 100 votes
Ran for U.S. Senate again- again he lost *
Elected President of the United States.
The part was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself," It’s a slip and not a fall". Abraham Lincoln –After losing a senate race-1858
One who never fails, but learns, succeeds finally.
Abraham Lincoln

We chat

2013-05-14T23:10:00.002+05:30

Highlights:Text, talk and watch, WeChat is the latest free messaging cross-platform mobile application, which ensures to keep you connected with everyone close to you. Reliable and interactive, WeChat proves to be a perfect social networking app available for free download.
Pros:
• Clear voice quality
• Free
• Sharing between group
• Catches voice perfectly
Cons:
• Interface takes time to understand
• Needs quick response unlike IM and email
Introduction
There is no dearth of free SMS mobile applications these days. We do have loads of option to select from, like WhatsApp, Numbuzz, Viber and TalkBox. But still, there is space for some better cross-platform applications in the mobile market. To fill-up the space, Tencent Technology launched its new mobile app, WeChat, a new text and voice SMS communication service available for Android, iOS, Windows Phones and Symbian platforms.

A robust and fat performing free mobile text and voice messaging app, WeChat can be downloaded from Google Play for Android devices. With the estimated download of more than 100 million, WeChat is sure to attract more users in coming days. Let us check out whether this new text app is worth the installation?

GetConnectedwithWeChat
To get started with, you need to download and install WeChat in your smart phone. After the installation, the app will prompt the users to create user ID and PIN, which require them to enter their mobile number and 4 digits PIN sent via SMS to their phone number.

After completing the registration, WeChat will access the Address Book from the user’s mobile phone and even from Facebook to create a list of contacts already in WeChat. This new text app has taken a great leap since its launch in the mobile market. The use of WeChat allows the users to send and receive voice messages at a speed, which far more fast then sending the text messages. Just speak up and your message gets delivered to the recipients ASAP.

Also, the app makes use of front camera from your smart phone to start the video calling. Just click on the add button given at the lower bar and select video call.

Interface

The interface will take some time to get used to. WeChat’s Home screen showcases all the contacts who are themselves installed app in their mobile device. Start the conversation with your friends just by clicking on the names. Also, convert the chat into a group conversation by clicking on the Face Icon located at the right hand corner at the top of the screen.

Overall, WeChat’s interface comes in a simple design, though it will a bit time for the users to understand its functionality Also, the app does not include any sort of Ads running despite being a free download. Further, the Plus Sign based next to the Keyboard Icon offers additional options like emoticon, live chat, image, video, location, name card and video call.

WeChatFeatures
This app comes with features that are sure to make it one of the best text messages available for free download. It allows the users to talk faster with voice messages compared to texting. WeChat provides user to make use of animated smileys with instant messaging and group chats.

Other features include:

Facilitates in sending videos and photos
Mke use of Real walkie-talkie mode to chat with up to 40 friends
Always on and never logouts
Push notifications activated
Share, comment and like the images with your friends
Import contacts
Add friends instantly
WeChat runs on existing data plan or any Wi-Fi connection
FinalVerdict
WeChat comes as a perfect alternative to other networking applications. And if you have got bored of using WhatsApp, why not try your hand on WeChat? However, it could be quite challenging to covert to this new app, but there is no harm installing the free app. What makes WeChat awesome is its Video Calling feature, which is even not available on WhatsApp. With fast messaging service and reliability, WeChat is usre to find its space on your handset, sooner or later. Hope, this WeChat Review must have given a brief description about the latest application.

Global warming 100

2013-05-14T18:29:00.003+05:30

The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years has found 20th century warming was a global event that has produced the hottest global average temperature in 1400 years.
The study by 78 scientists from 24 countries was published in Nature Geoscience and combined Northern and Southern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions has highlighted the unusual nature of the 20th century warming.
The findings are in stark contrast to the Mediaeval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, which the study revealed did not occur simultaneously across the globe.
The international study led by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) network in Switzerland, included Australian scientists from the University of Melbourne, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Antarctic Division.
Co-author of the paper from the University of New South Wales’ ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Dr Steven Phipps said the striking feature about the sudden rise in 20th century global average temperature is that it comes after an overall cooling trend that lasted more than a millennium.
“This work has transformed our understanding of temperatures over the past 2000 years,” he said
“This research shows that in just a century the Earth has reversed 1400 years of cooling.
“Armed with this information, future researchers will able to better understand the causes of climate variability at a regional and global level and help forecast the changes we can expect as our planet warms.”
To reconstruct 2000 years of temperature, the researchers used data from 511 individual proxy records. The majority of these records came from tree ring measurements but also included coral reefs, cave formations, ice cores, lake sediments and some historical documents.
The 2000-year temperature snapshot revealed by the researchers showed a long-term cooling trend before human influences began to become significant. This trend was primarily driven by natural cycles in the Earth's orbit. At the same time there were also natural fluctuations caused by volcanic eruptions and variations in solar activity.
It is these natural variations, and in particular the changes in the Earth’s orbital cycle, that explain why some of the average global temperatures prior to AD 600 were as warm as today. However, none of these natural influences account for the dramatic global temperature rises of the 20th century.
Palaeoclimatologist Professor Jonathan Overpeck from the University of Arizona, US who is a Visiting Fellow of the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Scientist with the ARC’s Centre of Excellence For Climate System Science, said the work was very exciting.
“The work has confirmed that there was no period of global warmth similar to that of the last 60 years in the preceding circa 2000 years, and adds to the evidence that the so-called Medieval Warm Period was quite different from the recent period of human-caused warming,” he said
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“This paper has provided confirmation that recent global and continental scale warming was very unusual in recent Earth history, and that this recent warming is driven mostly by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
"The evidence in the paper is overwhelming that Australia will continue to warm, and this means the region will likely also experience more periods of unusual dryness unless global warming is stopped."

words of ice age

2013-05-14T18:02:00.002+05:30

A University of Waikato academic involved in a groundbreaking and controversial new study on words which have remained in use for around 15,000 years says the team involved expected the results to be controversial but the years of work that went into it were worth it.
"It's a new thing and won’t be accepted by everyone," Dr Andreea Calude says.
Dr Calude, from the University's Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, was part of a team led by Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England, which has come up with a list of words which can be traced to old forms around the time of the last Ice Age.
These 'ultra-conserved' words suggest that separate language families - thought to be unique - can be traced back to a common ancestral language dating back centuries and used across much of Europe to North America and as far south as the Indian Sub-Continent.
Dr Calude says it had been generally accepted that while languages could be classified into families, there was no good way of making links between the different families.

"Most people think you can't reconstruct history beyond language families," she says.
"They think going beyond a single language family is impossible. We had the sense that one should be able to go beyond a language family to a super language family.
Language families do not 'know' that they are a family and not a language, so the process of reconstruction should be the same between families as it is across individual languages. That was the start of this idea. We thought, does it even make sense to look beyond a single language family? It could be rubbish but we looked to see what was in it."
What they found was startling.
They looked at cognates as established by the LWED database (Languages of the World Etymological Database) - words which have a similar sound and the same meaning in different languages - across language families, rather than within languages from the same family, and found systematic relationships where none had been thought to exist.
"We constructed a language tree and what's cool about that is we got relationships between language families, not just languages," Dr Calude says
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The researchers looked at cognates across several language families, including Indo-European; Dravidian (from southern India); Altaic (which includes Turkish, Uzbek and Mongolian); Uralic (which includes Finnish and Hungarian); Kartvelian (east European, Baltic area); Chukchi-Kamchatkan (from the far northeastern part of Siberia) and Inuit-Yupik (from the Arctic).
The results showed that a 'proto-language' existed which, over time, evolved into the different language families, giving rise to many individual languages spreading all over the continent.
The research, published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on some of the most common words and Dr Calude says she and her colleagues spent years coding words which had similar sounds and meanings across different languages.
She says the coding had to be right for the research to stand up to scrutiny and they had been hard on themselves throughout the process.
"If the LWED database had a word meaning 'hand' in one language family as cognate with another meaning 'palm' in another language family, how should we code these? If unsure, we tried to bias results against ourselves, so in such cases, we would not code these words as cognate, unless they both had the exact same meaning."
"We were really hard on ourselves but it was a fun project," she says.
And while some may not accept the findings, one of the world's most influential linguists, Professor William Croft from the University of New Mexico, has backed the research, telling The Washington Post the study supports the plausibility of an ancestral language whose audible relics cross tongues today.

planet made of ice

2013-05-13T17:08:00.001+05:30

Gliese 436 B one of the most unusual properties found anywhere in our known Universe. It's about the same size as Neptune, yet it orbits its star at an unusually close 4.3 million miles.

That’s almost fifteen times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun! And yet 436 B stays completely frozen! Therefore is literally and ice cube on fire!Well, the ice on 436Bs surface is not like the ice we know here on Earth. It was created by water being so compressed that it became solid.

However, tt would look much like the ice we have here on Earth, but if you were to and pick some up, you would need a new hand, because it's burning at such a high temperature.

truth of pirates

2013-05-12T18:58:00.001+05:30

Piracy was a really difficult profession. Even the most famous pirates didn’t really last very long. Think about it: Many were killed or injured in battle, there were fights amongst themselves and don’t even think about going to a doctor. In fact, even Blackbeard, probably the most famous of pirates, was only active for 3 years, from 1719 to 1722.

Other pirate facts:

The didn’t really do the whole treasure-burying thing. In fact, most of the loot gathered after a raid was split among the crew, and it also included perishables.
Women pirates were uncommon, but not unheard of.
It was not uncommon for some merchants to join a pirate ship when they were raided. The ‘honest’ work at sea was even tougher.
Piracy was not limited to just poor people trying their luck at see. Many were from higher social classes and they just happened to turn to piracy.

Brad Pitt's Valentine's Day Gift

2013-05-12T18:51:00.001+05:30

This just in: Angelina Jolie is not perfect. I repeat, Angelina Jolie is not perfect. I know that's hard to accept, considering she's one of the most beautiful women on the planet, living the most envied life possible -- but it's true.

You heard it here first, people -- Angelina has a flaw. And even worse? Brad Pitt completely mocked her for it on Valentine's Day.

I'll just cut to the chase here, Angelina has bad breath. And no one would know that little secret better than her own husband. So instead of wining and dining the mother of his children, Brad decided to get Angelina breath mints. As in, take these before you kiss me and thank me for this wonderful gift. I know, right? Totally "uncool" of him.

Apparently Brad is "always teasing" Angie about her breath -- and that it's "sort of a joke." Oh yeah, I'm sure Ang is laughing real hard about this. I mean, no diamonds? No flowers? Really, Brad? This is sort of mean. Think about it -- would you buy diet pills for someone who's overweight as a "joke"? I seriously hope not.

Bottom line is, I understand that Brad and Angelina probably have a relationship where they joke around and tease each other, but perhaps Valentine's Day isn't the appropriate time to tell your loved one her breath smells like crap.