Watch and play on the 4" touchscreen
Drama or comedy?Enjoy on the 4" touchscreen.
And when you want to be part of the action, go for a game.
Or just chill out with your favourite websites.
বুধবার, ১৯ জানুয়ারি, ২০১১
Watch and play on the 4" touchscreen
Enjoy on the 4" touchscreen.
And when you want to be part of the action, go for a game.
Or just chill out with your favourite websites.
মঙ্গলবার, ১৮ জানুয়ারি, ২০১১
New Mobile Phones
Now if that turns out to be the case, we get a feeling that Samsung will have to lower its expectations for the Froyo-running tablet. Being 100 euro more expensive that the 3G-enabled version of the Apple iPad certainly won’t do the Galaxy Tab any favors.
Of course the device is already listed for pre-order at Amazon.de for 750 euro and Amazon.co.uk for 600 GBP (680 euro) so this might turn out to be a mistake on behalf of Samsung staff. Usually pre-order prices are higher than the actual retail value of a product, not lower. Also just the other day Vodafone Spain released their pricing plans for the Samsung tablet, offering it for 200 euro on a contract.
We are obviously doomed to stay unaware of the Tab real pricing until the very last possible moment. The good news is that this moment is just around the corner and the puzzle should finally be solved in the following days. Unfortunately the chances of the Tab being as affordable as we all hoped rapidly dropped after this announcement.
সোমবার, ১৭ জানুয়ারি, ২০১১
World Tiger Summit Conference
For the first time, India will host World Tiger Summit next year where wildlife experts from various countries are expected to congregate to deliberate on conservation of diminishing striped cats in the wild.
“Rajasthan will host the World Tiger Summit at Ranthambore in October or November next year. About 200 experts from across the countries are to participate in the summit with those from the world renowned organisation, Global Tiger Initiative,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
With over 44 royal big cats in the Ranthambore Tiger keep will be showcased as a role model to delegates attending the Summit being held for the first time in the country which is home to around 1,400 endangered species.
Ramesh, however said that India would not agree to any fund from the World Bank for the country’s tiger conservation programme. World Bank has been consistently approaching for pumping in money in India’s tiger protection programmes but NGOs and the Government have been opposing the proposal.
Conservationists effectively feel that the World Bank’s move to invest in tiger protection programme is just an attempt to “meddle” with the India’s green efforts given its huge investments in several developmental projects such as dams and industrial projects which will damage wildlife habitat.
Apparently agreeing with this view, Ramesh said the country is able to protect the striped cats.
“Who else but we being the holder of many of world’s tiger population could know the problems better. We do not intend to take any grants or loans from them. We will, however, stay in touch with the technical experts of other countries and will send our field directors to these countries in case they need expertise in the area,” he said.
The summit is likely to search for to strengthen and expand a patchy system of tiger reserves across the 13 countries, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Russia, that are home to the world's rapidly withdrawing tiger population.
Security and controversial issues such as poaching and tiger-farming in China for making medicines from the animal’s bones and parts which is taking toll on the stripy cats in the wild are also likely to come up for discussion at the summit.
Experts believe there are only about 3,500 tigers left in the wild faced with a problem of reduction habitats besides poaching and man-animal conflict. Just a century ago they were thought to number 100,000.
Ramesh also said that during the summit the tiger census based on new methodology will be at large.
“We plan a three-tier system exclusively based on technical system to carry on the tiger estimation work,” the Union Minister added. The latest census unconfined last year had estimated 1,400 big cats in the country’s landscape.
“Rajasthan will host the World Tiger Summit at Ranthambore in October or November next year. About 200 experts from across the countries are to participate in the summit with those from the world renowned organisation, Global Tiger Initiative,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
With over 44 royal big cats in the Ranthambore Tiger keep will be showcased as a role model to delegates attending the Summit being held for the first time in the country which is home to around 1,400 endangered species.
Ramesh, however said that India would not agree to any fund from the World Bank for the country’s tiger conservation programme. World Bank has been consistently approaching for pumping in money in India’s tiger protection programmes but NGOs and the Government have been opposing the proposal.
Conservationists effectively feel that the World Bank’s move to invest in tiger protection programme is just an attempt to “meddle” with the India’s green efforts given its huge investments in several developmental projects such as dams and industrial projects which will damage wildlife habitat.
Apparently agreeing with this view, Ramesh said the country is able to protect the striped cats.
“Who else but we being the holder of many of world’s tiger population could know the problems better. We do not intend to take any grants or loans from them. We will, however, stay in touch with the technical experts of other countries and will send our field directors to these countries in case they need expertise in the area,” he said.
The summit is likely to search for to strengthen and expand a patchy system of tiger reserves across the 13 countries, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Russia, that are home to the world's rapidly withdrawing tiger population.
Security and controversial issues such as poaching and tiger-farming in China for making medicines from the animal’s bones and parts which is taking toll on the stripy cats in the wild are also likely to come up for discussion at the summit.
Experts believe there are only about 3,500 tigers left in the wild faced with a problem of reduction habitats besides poaching and man-animal conflict. Just a century ago they were thought to number 100,000.
Ramesh also said that during the summit the tiger census based on new methodology will be at large.
“We plan a three-tier system exclusively based on technical system to carry on the tiger estimation work,” the Union Minister added. The latest census unconfined last year had estimated 1,400 big cats in the country’s landscape.
10 simple mindfulness exercises
One of the ways we complicate our lives is by be short of of mindfulness, not being ‘in the moment’. Sometimes this is okay. It isn’t really a problem to not be aware of your chair when you’re online. Now that you’ve just read that, you probably aware of your chair. Perhaps you’re sitting a bit straighter too. That’s the start of mindfulness.
The exercises below are meant for those times when you are so fluttered you knock into doors and chairs, for instance. Or when you just can’t get that quarrel with a colleague out of your head. These are all exercises I’ve tried, but I surely don’t pretend to do them daily or even in all cases successfully. Just something to work with to get reverse to yourself.
1. Mind your feet while you’re grocery shopping.
2. Mind your chair while you’re typing.
3. When going away through a door, think ‘I am I’
4. When putting on your shoes try and put on the one you usually put on second first.
5. Drink your tea without sugar if you’re used to sugar in your tea. If you’re used to no sugar, just once put in sugar. Works with coffee too obviously. The point is, like the previous one, to become aware of patterns and how hard it is to break them (Jiddu Krishnamurti). The point is NOT to change the pattern. A new pattern is just as much a pattern as the old one. Just create a bit more flexibility.
6. When you have to wait for something (grocery line, pc starting up etc.) breathe consciously.
7. Cleaning the house: be aware of every step of cleaning.
8. Keep a diary of your thoughts and feelings. The goal isn’t to create literature, but to observe. So don’t mind repetition.
9. Notice… take a deep breath; notice five things you can see. Notice five things you can hear; notice five things you can feel (shoes, pants, hair against forehead etc.)
10. When you’re annoyed at waiting for a stopping sign, or anything else for that matter, just SMILE (Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhism)
The exercises below are meant for those times when you are so fluttered you knock into doors and chairs, for instance. Or when you just can’t get that quarrel with a colleague out of your head. These are all exercises I’ve tried, but I surely don’t pretend to do them daily or even in all cases successfully. Just something to work with to get reverse to yourself.
1. Mind your feet while you’re grocery shopping.
2. Mind your chair while you’re typing.
3. When going away through a door, think ‘I am I’
4. When putting on your shoes try and put on the one you usually put on second first.
5. Drink your tea without sugar if you’re used to sugar in your tea. If you’re used to no sugar, just once put in sugar. Works with coffee too obviously. The point is, like the previous one, to become aware of patterns and how hard it is to break them (Jiddu Krishnamurti). The point is NOT to change the pattern. A new pattern is just as much a pattern as the old one. Just create a bit more flexibility.
6. When you have to wait for something (grocery line, pc starting up etc.) breathe consciously.
7. Cleaning the house: be aware of every step of cleaning.
8. Keep a diary of your thoughts and feelings. The goal isn’t to create literature, but to observe. So don’t mind repetition.
9. Notice… take a deep breath; notice five things you can see. Notice five things you can hear; notice five things you can feel (shoes, pants, hair against forehead etc.)
10. When you’re annoyed at waiting for a stopping sign, or anything else for that matter, just SMILE (Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhism)
India to host World Tiger Summit in 2010
For the first time, India will host World Tiger Summit next year where wildlife experts from various countries are expected to congregate to deliberate on conservation of diminishing striped cats in the wild.
“Rajasthan will host the World Tiger Summit at Ranthambore in October or November next year. About 200 experts from across the countries are to participate in the summit with those from the world renowned organisation, Global Tiger Initiative,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
With over 44 royal big cats in the Ranthambore Tiger keep will be showcased as a role model to delegates attending the Summit being held for the first time in the country which is home to around 1,400 endangered species.
Ramesh, however said that India would not agree to any fund from the World Bank for the country’s tiger conservation programme. World Bank has been consistently approaching for pumping in money in India’s tiger protection programmes but NGOs and the Government have been opposing the proposal.
Conservationists effectively feel that the World Bank’s move to invest in tiger protection programme is just an attempt to “meddle” with the India’s green efforts given its huge investments in several developmental projects such as dams and industrial projects which will damage wildlife habitat.
Apparently agreeing with this view, Ramesh said the country is able to protect the striped cats.
“Who else but we being the holder of many of world’s tiger population could know the problems better. We do not intend to take any grants or loans from them. We will, however, stay in touch with the technical experts of other countries and will send our field directors to these countries in case they need expertise in the area,” he said.
The summit is likely to search for to strengthen and expand a patchy system of tiger reserves across the 13 countries, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Russia, that are home to the world's rapidly withdrawing tiger population.
Security and controversial issues such as poaching and tiger-farming in China for making medicines from the animal’s bones and parts which is taking toll on the stripy cats in the wild are also likely to come up for discussion at the summit.
Experts believe there are only about 3,500 tigers left in the wild faced with a problem of reduction habitats besides poaching and man-animal conflict. Just a century ago they were thought to number 100,000.
Ramesh also said that during the summit the tiger census based on new methodology will be at large.
“We plan a three-tier system exclusively based on technical system to carry on the tiger estimation work,” the Union Minister added. The latest census unconfined last year had estimated 1,400 big cats in the country’s landscape.
“Rajasthan will host the World Tiger Summit at Ranthambore in October or November next year. About 200 experts from across the countries are to participate in the summit with those from the world renowned organisation, Global Tiger Initiative,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
With over 44 royal big cats in the Ranthambore Tiger keep will be showcased as a role model to delegates attending the Summit being held for the first time in the country which is home to around 1,400 endangered species.
Ramesh, however said that India would not agree to any fund from the World Bank for the country’s tiger conservation programme. World Bank has been consistently approaching for pumping in money in India’s tiger protection programmes but NGOs and the Government have been opposing the proposal.
Conservationists effectively feel that the World Bank’s move to invest in tiger protection programme is just an attempt to “meddle” with the India’s green efforts given its huge investments in several developmental projects such as dams and industrial projects which will damage wildlife habitat.
Apparently agreeing with this view, Ramesh said the country is able to protect the striped cats.
“Who else but we being the holder of many of world’s tiger population could know the problems better. We do not intend to take any grants or loans from them. We will, however, stay in touch with the technical experts of other countries and will send our field directors to these countries in case they need expertise in the area,” he said.
The summit is likely to search for to strengthen and expand a patchy system of tiger reserves across the 13 countries, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Russia, that are home to the world's rapidly withdrawing tiger population.
Security and controversial issues such as poaching and tiger-farming in China for making medicines from the animal’s bones and parts which is taking toll on the stripy cats in the wild are also likely to come up for discussion at the summit.
Experts believe there are only about 3,500 tigers left in the wild faced with a problem of reduction habitats besides poaching and man-animal conflict. Just a century ago they were thought to number 100,000.
Ramesh also said that during the summit the tiger census based on new methodology will be at large.
“We plan a three-tier system exclusively based on technical system to carry on the tiger estimation work,” the Union Minister added. The latest census unconfined last year had estimated 1,400 big cats in the country’s landscape.
রবিবার, ১৬ জানুয়ারি, ২০১১
Terrorism
A Brief History of Terrorism
Terrorism is not new indeed, in some respects, that what is today known as terrorism predates by millennia the modern term accustomed to describe it. This is not to say that the act of terrorism has remained stagnant. Rather, as the difficulties involved in defining it reflect, terrorism has evolved significantly over the years, even if retaining some of the same characteristics that have historically typified it
CDI's Terrorism Program is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on the military, security and foreign procedure challenges as the United States, and the world, faces terrorism. The project will look at all aspects of fighting terrorism, from approaching issues of response and defense, to long-term questions about how the United States should shape its future international security strategy.
Current List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Other Terrorist Organizations
The U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) started in 1997 as a method of tracking down and striking back against specific terrorist groups around the world. FTOs are selected as such based on a demonstrated capability and/or eagerness to engage in terrorist methods that threaten the U.S. national security interests.
Terrorism is not new indeed, in some respects, that what is today known as terrorism predates by millennia the modern term accustomed to describe it. This is not to say that the act of terrorism has remained stagnant. Rather, as the difficulties involved in defining it reflect, terrorism has evolved significantly over the years, even if retaining some of the same characteristics that have historically typified it
CDI's Terrorism Program is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on the military, security and foreign procedure challenges as the United States, and the world, faces terrorism. The project will look at all aspects of fighting terrorism, from approaching issues of response and defense, to long-term questions about how the United States should shape its future international security strategy.
Current List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Other Terrorist Organizations
The U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) started in 1997 as a method of tracking down and striking back against specific terrorist groups around the world. FTOs are selected as such based on a demonstrated capability and/or eagerness to engage in terrorist methods that threaten the U.S. national security interests.
Patriotism
Easier - Patriotism is a feel affection for of and loyalty to one's country. A patriot is someone who loves, chains, and is prepared to serve their country.
Harder - The word patriotism comes from a Greek word meaning homeland. For most of history, love of fatherland or homeland was an attachment to the physical features of the land. But that notion changed in the eighteenth century, when the ideals of democracy, socialism, and communism strongly emerge into political thought. Patriotism was still a love of one's country that included relatives to the land and people, but then also included its customs and traditions, pride in its history, and attachment to its welfare.
Today most people agree that patriotism also involves service to their country, but many disagree on how to best perform such service. Some believe that the national government speaks for a country; therefore, all its citizens should actively support government policies and actions. Others rows that a true patriot speaks out when convinced that their country is following an unwise or unjust action.
Harder - The word patriotism comes from a Greek word meaning homeland. For most of history, love of fatherland or homeland was an attachment to the physical features of the land. But that notion changed in the eighteenth century, when the ideals of democracy, socialism, and communism strongly emerge into political thought. Patriotism was still a love of one's country that included relatives to the land and people, but then also included its customs and traditions, pride in its history, and attachment to its welfare.
Today most people agree that patriotism also involves service to their country, but many disagree on how to best perform such service. Some believe that the national government speaks for a country; therefore, all its citizens should actively support government policies and actions. Others rows that a true patriot speaks out when convinced that their country is following an unwise or unjust action.
Globalization
Globalization is a procedure of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and speculation and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical security in societies around the world.
Globalization is not new-fangled, though. For thousands of years, people—and, later, corporations—have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through the famed Silk Road across Central Asia that connected China and Europe through the Middle Ages. Likewise, for centuries, people and corporations have invested in enterprises in other countries. In fact, many of the skin tone of the current wave of globalization are similar to those prevailing before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
But policy and technical developments of the past few decades have spurred increases in cross-border trade, investment, and relocation so large that many observers believe the world has entered a qualitatively new phase in its economic development. Since 1950, for example, the volume of world trade has increased by 20 times, and from just 1997 to 1999 flows of foreign investment nearly doubled, from $468 billion to $827 billion. Distinguishing this recent wave of globalization from earlier ones, author Thomas Friedman has said that today globalization is “farther, faster, cheaper, and deeper.”
This current wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened economies domestically and internationally. In the years since the Second World War, and particularly during the past two decades, many governments have adopted free-market economic systems, vastly increasing their own productive potential and create myriad new opportunity for international trade and investment. Governments also contain negotiated dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. Taking improvement of new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and established production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. A defining feature of globalization, therefore, is an international industrial and financial business arrangement
Technology has been the other major driver of globalization. Advances in information technology, in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life. Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors—consumers, investors, businesses—valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analyses of economic trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and collaboration with far-flung partners.
Globalization is extremely controversial, however. Proponents of globalization dispute that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, narrow cultures, and common people. Resistance to globalization has therefore taken shape mutually at a popular and at a governmental level as people and governments try to manage the flow of capital, labor, goods, and ideas that constitute the current wave of globalization.
To find the right equilibrium between benefits and costs associated with globalization, citizens of all nations need to understand how globalization works and the policy choices opposite them and their societies. Globalization101.org tries to afford an exact analysis of the issues and controversies regarding globalization, especially to high-school and college students, without the slogans or ideological biases generally found in discussions of the topics.
Globalization is not new-fangled, though. For thousands of years, people—and, later, corporations—have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through the famed Silk Road across Central Asia that connected China and Europe through the Middle Ages. Likewise, for centuries, people and corporations have invested in enterprises in other countries. In fact, many of the skin tone of the current wave of globalization are similar to those prevailing before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
But policy and technical developments of the past few decades have spurred increases in cross-border trade, investment, and relocation so large that many observers believe the world has entered a qualitatively new phase in its economic development. Since 1950, for example, the volume of world trade has increased by 20 times, and from just 1997 to 1999 flows of foreign investment nearly doubled, from $468 billion to $827 billion. Distinguishing this recent wave of globalization from earlier ones, author Thomas Friedman has said that today globalization is “farther, faster, cheaper, and deeper.”
This current wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened economies domestically and internationally. In the years since the Second World War, and particularly during the past two decades, many governments have adopted free-market economic systems, vastly increasing their own productive potential and create myriad new opportunity for international trade and investment. Governments also contain negotiated dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. Taking improvement of new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and established production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. A defining feature of globalization, therefore, is an international industrial and financial business arrangement
Technology has been the other major driver of globalization. Advances in information technology, in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life. Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors—consumers, investors, businesses—valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analyses of economic trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and collaboration with far-flung partners.
Globalization is extremely controversial, however. Proponents of globalization dispute that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living, while opponents of globalization claim that the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, narrow cultures, and common people. Resistance to globalization has therefore taken shape mutually at a popular and at a governmental level as people and governments try to manage the flow of capital, labor, goods, and ideas that constitute the current wave of globalization.
To find the right equilibrium between benefits and costs associated with globalization, citizens of all nations need to understand how globalization works and the policy choices opposite them and their societies. Globalization101.org tries to afford an exact analysis of the issues and controversies regarding globalization, especially to high-school and college students, without the slogans or ideological biases generally found in discussions of the topics.
Deforestation and Climate Change The Global Crisis
The earth is warming up, and the best available proof points to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases as the leading cause.
Deforestation and climate change are intimately connected: Globally, deforestation release nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and is responsible for nearly 25 percent of man-made CO2 emissions. The destruction of the world's forests not only troubles the communities that depend on them, but increasingly affects us all.
While the root causes of deforestation vary from region to region, there are some widespread solutions. Communities need seeds, training, and technical support in order to adapt long-standing cultural and agricultural traditions (such as gathering fuel wood in nearby forests and practicing slash-and-burn agriculture) to new realities. Starting nurseries and planting trees is part of this process.
It is not too late. We are solution-oriented people. We have developed programs that work, which are restoring trees and forests to degraded lands. We are working with individuals, communities, and other organizations around the world with a shared vision for a positive change. We are a hands-on people-to-people program at the grassroots level, and we are leading by example. Read more about sustainable agro forestry program, and how they work.
Join Us! There are many ways to get involved. Donations are gratefully accepted in any amount! We offer a free distance agro forestry training program. You can browse issues of our quarterly newsletter, or sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
Deforestation and climate change are intimately connected: Globally, deforestation release nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and is responsible for nearly 25 percent of man-made CO2 emissions. The destruction of the world's forests not only troubles the communities that depend on them, but increasingly affects us all.
While the root causes of deforestation vary from region to region, there are some widespread solutions. Communities need seeds, training, and technical support in order to adapt long-standing cultural and agricultural traditions (such as gathering fuel wood in nearby forests and practicing slash-and-burn agriculture) to new realities. Starting nurseries and planting trees is part of this process.
It is not too late. We are solution-oriented people. We have developed programs that work, which are restoring trees and forests to degraded lands. We are working with individuals, communities, and other organizations around the world with a shared vision for a positive change. We are a hands-on people-to-people program at the grassroots level, and we are leading by example. Read more about sustainable agro forestry program, and how they work.
Join Us! There are many ways to get involved. Donations are gratefully accepted in any amount! We offer a free distance agro forestry training program. You can browse issues of our quarterly newsletter, or sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
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