Facebooks CEO Zuckerberg named Time Person of the Year 2010
December 16, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
Adding one more feather to the largest social network in the cyber world, Time has selected the founder and CEO of Facebook- Mark Zuckerberg -as its Person of the Year 2010.
Considering his attempts to build up and run the biggest social networking site in the world, which made ground breaking changes to the way people communicate and interact, Time has found him as the most befitting personality for the award this year.
Though, the announcement comes at a point when there are apprehensions about the way Facebook proliferates in the cyber world and the way it handles the private data added to its databases every day, Zuckerberg getting this most coveted honor will help Facebook have some real party time. Time has found that the web service Zuckerberg started while he was just 19, from his Harvard dorm, almost seven years ago, has now stitched together a twelfth of the humanity. If Facebook was a country it would have been third with the population just behind China and India. Responding to the announcement, Zuckerberg said that the award is a real honor and recognition not only for him but also for the efforts of his little team.
In the run to be the Person of the Year 2010, Zuckerberg overtook the Tea Party, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange and the Chilean miners. Well, good day social networking.
John Harvard makes his place in Shoe-Club
A person with sentiments against the Iraq War threw two shoes onto the ex-prime minister of Australia John Harvard in a live TV show; however the ex-pm remained safe.
The shoes were thrown on John Harvard when he was attending a live TV show in Australia. The incident created chaos in the hall and the administration expelled the person who threw the shoes from the hall. John Harvard smiled and continued with the show after the shoes missed him.
Before the said incident, a shoe was also thrown on John Harvard when he was delivering a lecture at the Cambridge University England. The series of such events started when an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe on the then US President George W. Bush (Jr.).
FM Qureshi urges US to respect Pakistans sovereignty
Foreign Minster Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that rise in drone attacks made the Pak-US ties suffer a lot, and urged the latter to respect countrys sovereignty. During an address at the Harvard University, the FM maintained that the United States and Pakistan will try this week to get their crisis-prone relationship back on track after the latest US drive to win over hearts and minds faced quick setbacks.
The FM asked the US to pressurize India for an early resolution of Kashmir issue.
Senior officials from the two nations will on Wednesday open a strategic dialogue, an initiative launched by the United States earlier this year to show that it cares about more than just Pakistans help in Afghanistan. But that core cooperation was thrown into doubt last month when Pakistan closed the main land route for Afghan war supplies through the Khyber Pass, incensed after a Nato helicopter killed at least two Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan reopened the crossing after 11 days once the United States formally apologised for the killings, which officials of the Nato alliance said was an accident caused by the borders ambiguity. The chopper incident came just after the United States, conscious of widespread anti-Americanism in Pakistan, mobilised a major humanitarian drive to help victims of the countrys worst-ever floods. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who will represent Pakistan in the talks, praised the aid but said the relationship also suffered two steps back with the helicopter attack and relentless US drone strikes aimed at militants.We are an ally, not a satellite, Qureshi said Monday at Harvard University. We have to protect our borders you have to respect our sovereignty.You have to realise the political price you pay in Pakistan and that my government pays as your friend from the almost daily drone assaults on our territory, he said. If unmanned drone attacks were not difficult enough for our people to absorb, the recent acts of Nato helicopters in Pakistan, killing Pakistani soldiers, are nothing short of infuriating, he said. The three-day talks will culminate Friday in talks between Qureshi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Qureshi said the United States can improve relations by taking up issues on which it has long been hesitant such as pursuing a free trade deal, discussing civil nuclear cooperation along the lines of a US pact with Pakistans rival India, or pressuring India over the disputed Kashmir region.Most analysts consider such items on Pakistans wish-list to be long shots at a time when the public mood in the United States has also soured on Islamabad.US lawmakers have repeatedly criticised Pakistan, accusing it of playing a double-game by maintaining ties with Afghanistans Taliban and of showing ingratitude over US assistance in a time of austerity.The US Congress last year approved a five-year, 7.5 billion-dollar package to build schools, infrastructure and democratic institutions in Pakistan, deciding that development was the best bulwark against religious extremism.A survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in July found that a mere 17 per cent of Pakistanis held a favorable view of the United States.But despite the headlines, Dan Feldman, the deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he has seen a very significant change in Pakistani media portrayals of the United States since the floods.Feldman voiced hope that the United States can sustain the momentum.I think that we can showcase that we are not only there during this crisis, but there for the long-haul, and hopefully that that will change perceptions in Pakistan, Feldman said.However, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, a US-based group which works on behalf of war victims, warned not to underestimate the impact of drone strikes.Christopher Rogers, who spent a year interviewing survivors in Pakistan, said the number of civilian victims was almost certainly more than officials admitted and that survivors received little to no help.The perceived legitimacy of the Pakistani state in conflict areas is key to lasting stability and security, Rogers said. Civilian casualties, especially when left unaddressed, do serious harm to these efforts.
ellie kemper
May 14, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
The popular American comic actress, Ellie Kemper
Ellie Kemper (Elizabeth Claire), born on May 2nd 1980, is a renowned American actress, writer and a comedian. She shot to fame with her role of Erin Hannon in NBC’s The Office. Graduated from John Burroughs in 1998, Ellie went to Princeton University to learn the skills of improvisational comedy.
Perhaps playing a character in the strange office of Dunder Mifflin could make someone run from the secular world and turn to a quiet life of prayer.
Before becoming Erin on NBC’s “The Office,” however, Ellie Kemper considered becoming a nun.
“For a long phase, I wanted to be a nun because ‘The Sound of Music’ was my favorite movie,” she says. “I am a Catholic, but it is a better fit that I am not a nun.”
Kemper, who looks younger than her 30 years, has a serious bent. She studied English at Princeton and wrote her thesis on “irony right after 9/11. I managed to bring in ‘The Daily Show’ and Letterman.”
Mostly she studied Oscar Wilde and turned her talents to improv, which she found in her sophomore year, and quickly realized, “Wow this is something I can do!” she says. “I was interested in getting better and better at it.”
From there it was an intense summer of improvisation in Chicago, and after school, Kemper came to New York.
“I’m having a reunion with New York,” she says from Manhattan during a recent break from the show. “I couldn’t say a bad thing about it. I love that I can walk everywhere. Everyone does something different, a lawyer, a plumber, an opera singer. Nobody cares about what you do.
“And the seasons,” she continues, listing why she prefers the East Coast to the West. “Hikes? I can hike to Columbus Avenue. In L.A., I sit in traffic, and I feel depressed. It is the worst. You are helpless; you can’t read.”
Ellie Kemper has done many modeling assignments too appearing in many national commercials. In 2008, she went to give the audition for NBC’s sketch comedy show, ‘Saturday Night Live’ but unfortunately the makers could not find her a true fit for the role. She dolled up the role of a stand-up comedian with much ease by performing on ‘How to Kick People’. In addition to all this, she did many other assignments with aplomb.
In August 2007, she gained huge Internet fame for her part in ‘Blowjob Girl’ (a humorous video on the sketch comedy site Derrick Comedy’). It was a two minute close-up video where she offers to perform oral sex to her boyfriend but bit on his genitals.
liz murray
May 14, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Liz Murray – From Homeless to Harvard
may 12, 2010 Hood Hargett Breakfast Club awarded $13,000 in scholarships to area student athletes during the 2009-2010 school year, including $6,000 to Student Athlete of the Year Claudia Hanby of HopewellHigh School.
Each month of the school year, Hood Hargett Breakfast Club presents a local high school student athlete with $1,000 from its Liz Murray Scholarship Fund. the Student Athlete of the Year is selected from the eight monthly winners and presented with an additional $5,000 scholarship at the end of the year.
These students are hardworking and driven to succeed in all aspects of life, said Jenn Snyder, executive director of Hood Hargett Breakfast Club. we are proud to contribute to their college educations and help them take a big step toward their future.
Hanby is a varsity tennis and varsity soccer standout with a weighted grade point average of 4.9. She is president of the National Honor Society and National Math Honor Society, and she is ranked second in her senior class of 533.
The winner of Mays Liz Murray Scholarship is Eric Hogue of CharlotteCatholicHigh School. Hogue, who has a 4.25 weighted grade point average, is the 2010 North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3A wrestling champion in the 140-pound weight class.
Other monthly winners include Jeremy Dennis of Zebulon B. Vance High School, Brady Stephenson of South Mecklenburg High School, Alex Polofsky of Butler High School, John Michael Tart of Mallard Creek High School, Montana Horton of West Mecklenburg High School and Jennifer Rosene of Ardrey Kell High School.
Homeless to Harvard a best seller and a true story of an author by her self known as Liz Murray. Liz born on September 23, 1980 in the Bronx, New York, USA. She was daughter of insolvent, HIV infected and heroin addicted parents.
When she was 15 her mother died due to AIDS… She did not attend the school at that time. Her father moved to homeless shelter and left him homeless.
She left alone to in streets of New York eating from the dumpsters and taking shelters at the subway stations. Her life takes twist when she started attending Humanities Preparatory School, in Chelsea, Manhattan. She successful gradates from the while living on the streets. She earned the scholarship for needy students called New York Times scholarship. After accepting into Harvard School, in fall semester she did metrication.
In 2003 , she left Harvard to take care of her sick ADIS infected father and started her studies in Columbia University , so that’s she would look after her farther , still living in homeless shelter. Liz father died in 2006 because of AIDS. In 2008 she returns to Harvard and graduated in June 2009 in psychology. Later she stared class at the Harvard Summer School to take doctorate degree in clinical psychology.
tough mudder
April 29, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
A year ago, Tough Mudder was a semifinalist in the Harvard Business School’s annual Business Plan Contest. A British student named Will Dean thought he could attract 500 people to run a grueling race through mud and man-made obstacles. Professors generally considered the plan too optimistic.
“That was a big discussion,” said David Godes, a Harvard marketing professor last year who now teaches at the University of Maryland. “What was the target for this? Who’s going to do this?
But on Sunday, the Brooklyn-based Tough Mudder will conduct a race for 4,500 people. Each has paid up to $100 for the privilege of negotiating a seven-mile obstacle course of muddy hills, cold water and flaming bales of straw at a ski resort near Allentown, Pa.
Tough Mudder has six employees and two interns, all in their 20s. It has plans for three more races around the country this year and about 10 in 2011, some projected to have as many as 20,000 participants. It announced itself with little more than $8,000 worth of Facebook advertising and a Web site (toughmudder.com), relying on the extrapolative power of social networking to generate an enthusiastic following. Tough Mudder has about 11,000 fans on Facebook and has attracted potential buyers.
Barring a calamitous first event, Tough Mudder appears to have found an opening in the burgeoning action-sports realm, tapping into the growing appetite for accessible-yet-demanding competitions.
The idea, imported largely from similar events in Britain (like the Grim Challenge) and Germany (the Strongman Run), is to stage events more convivial than marathons and triathlons, but more grueling than shorter runs or novelty events, some of which also have a mud-covered theme.
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I Turn Polar Bears White and Make You Cry
I turn Polar bears white And I will make you cry” is the first two lines of a very popular puzzle and 97% of Harvard Grads can’t answer this but 87% of kindergarteners can. There is even a facebook community for this puzzle. If you didn’t knew the puzzle previously.
After storming their brain, and pressurizing your mind it may seem that Pressure is the answer to this riddle. Being under too much pressure will make us cry and pressure in the bladder makes the guys have to relieve themselves. Celebs under pressure do stupid things and normal people under pressure can do extraordinary things. Bubbling is also caused by pressure and squeeze something under pressure and it’ll pop. And if you look at pressure on others you’ll pop. But this answer does not explain some of the points of the puzzle comfortably and is not the solution. There are also some other popular guesses to this puzzle such as, soap, restroom/bathroom, clothes, heat or gun.
But the correct answer to this puzzle is ‘nothing’. 97 % of Harvard grads are shy to admit that they can’t answer the question but Kindergarteners are honest to admit it.
India Vs Australia 6th ODi Today Live Streaming
Guwahati: India Vs Australia 6th ODi Live Streaming, India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against Australia in the do-or-die sixth cricket one-dayer at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadiun here today.
India have retained the same side which played in the fifth game in Hyderabad.
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Australia, meanwhile, have made just one change in their playing eleven, bringing in Mitchell Johnson in place of Ben Hilfenhaus.
The Teams:
Australia: Ricky Ponting (C), Michael Hussey (VC), Doug Bollinger, Nathan Hauritz, Jon Holland, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Adam Voges, Shane Watson, Cameron White and Clint McKay.
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (C), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Praveen Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja.
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India Vs Australia 6th ODi Today Live Streaming was first posted on November 8, 2009 at 8:06 am.
Oldest College Football Stadium
Oldest College Football Stadium, The essence of college football is found in three stadiums that stand as the clocks in a maze around 300-miles of Interstate 95 between Philadelphia and Boston.
No longer attract the country’s largest and rarely its participants will play in the NFL on Sundays, but Penn’s Franklin Field, home of Harvard and Yale Bowl stand as monuments to the past.
Photos yellowish allusion to their history, but only tell part of the story. What those photos do not reveal is how visionaries turned a bloody mess of a game in the most popular sport in the nation.
The NCAA deems Franklin Field (33rd Street at South Street, Philadelphia, Web site), which organized the University of Pennsylvania sports since 1895, as his old football stadium. The facility is believed to have hosted the most games of any team in college football – Penn No. 800 is scheduled Saturday against Dartmouth – although the NCAA does not have official records in this category.
Harvard Stadium (95 N. Harvard St., Boston, Massachusetts, Web site), opened in 1903, is the oldest permanent concrete structure in the country.
The cup of Yale (276 Derby Ave, West Haven, Connecticut, website) hosted its first tilt, against Harvard University on 21 November 1914.
Together they represent three of the four oldest Division I stadiums in the country, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech opened in 1913.
Ed Mahan / Penn Athletic CommunicationsBack in the day, Quakers fans actually could raise a glass to toast “dear, old Penn.” Now throw toast instead. Industrial toasters provide toast before games, and a “toast Zamboni” invented by a Penn engineering student cleans up after.
The basic elements of the game began at three schools and three stadiums, essentially setting up football and college athletics as we know.
Almost every aspect of modern game has its roots in the stadiums – the number of casualties and the game being broadcast on radio and television pet band, the halftime entertainment and shouting from upstairs.
To be sure, Franklin Field, home of Harvard and Yale Bowl have undergone renovations – the latter two only in recent years. But essentially remain unchanged, mostly through carefully planned projects.
The first night game in Harvard Stadium’s history, for example, last September was played before 18,898 fans as Harvard beat Brown 24-17. Renewal of Harvard, also gave a bubble dome for year-round use. The playing field was named Yale Bowl 1954 class field last year after a generous donation. Fortunately, through the best lines of all stages “have been excellent unobstructed view.
In its beginnings, football epic in these areas was more like going to a mosh pit – a mass of pushing and shoving, sometimes with 40 players on the field at the same time.
Walter Camp, a Yale graduate of 1880, with letters in all sports offered by the school, helped revolutionize football and away from this rugby scrum. Among his many contributions were the line of scrimmage; low and patios-To-Go, 11 players per side, the quarterback position, and the standard formation of seven linemen and four players in the line of scrimmage.
He is credited with starting All American teams and wrote over 30 books on football and amateur athletics. He also coached Yale to a 67-2 record from 1888 through 1892.
American football in 1900 was a brutal game popular, but in which serious injuries, broken bones and even deaths were not uncommon. In 1904, 21 players were killed and over 200 were seriously injured, the following year players with 18 dead and 149 seriously injured, according to reports a day. Football was so rugged that even the original Rough Rider, President Teddy Roosevelt, a Harvard graduate himself, considered banning the nation.
In late 1905, Harvard coach Bill Reid – chosen by the opposing football at Harvard and president Charles Eliot – was part of group of representatives who later became the NCAA.
Reid, Roosevelt and others, worked with the newly formed committee to establish standardized rules for football, with an eye toward eliminating roughhousing. Reid informed his constituents that unless new rules were adopted Harvard not play football in the future. The rules were adopted, making the game more consistent and put to rest its rudimentary beginnings.
Sometimes, as in the case of Harvard Stadium, the game has changed literally by design.
When colleges were discussing how to make football less bloody, Camp proposed the field was expanded from 40 feet out to play and reduce the risk.
One problem: Harvard concrete structure standing Stadium to ensure that the field can not be extended. Instead, the step was legalized, although its use was limited due in part to an incomplete pass led to a 15-yard penalty. Finally, the rules were relaxed and the forward pass led to the safest aspect many schools had sought.
In addition to hosting one of the floors of the nation rivalries – Harvard against Yale – the stadiums have held numerous civic and sporting events from football and ice hockey to presidential speeches.
Indeed, Franklin Field debuted the Penn Relays in 1895 and has hosted the competition since then (making a record 113,000 spectators for three days in 2006). Franklin Field also produced one of the runs more miles in history, when Marty Liquori beat Jim Ryun by a few steps in the Dream Mile on May 16, 1971.
Gail Zachary, who has served in many capacities with Penn athletics, said he remembers when the Cornell-Penn game on Thanksgiving was the highlight of the year.
The three stages have been home to professional football teams – the Eagles at Franklin Field from 1958 to 1970, the Patriots at Harvard Stadium in 1970 and the New York Giants at the Yale Bowl in 1973-74. The likes of Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and Chuck Bednarik famous have left their mark on the lawn – where Grange, through mud ankle Franklin Field in 1925 in an amount of 363 total yards.
Oldest College Football Stadium was first posted on November 8, 2009 at 9:41 am.
US shooting suspect off ventilator
November 8, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
US shooting suspect off ventilator: US Army officials say the man who killed 13 people during a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care. Hasan was shot during an exchange of gunfire during Thursday’s attack On Friday he was moved to Brooke Medical Centre in San Antonio, about 150 miles south-west of Fort Hood, Texas. Colonel John Rossi said he was not sure if Major Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate
US shooting suspect off ventilator:US Army officials say the man who killed 13 people during a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care.
Hasan was shot during an exchange of gunfire during Thursday’s attack On Friday he was moved to Brooke Medical Centre in San Antonio, about 150 miles south-west of Fort Hood, Texas.
Colonel John Rossi said he was not sure if Major Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate.
One of two police officers who confronted Hasan has been speaking about the incident which he says lasted less than a minute. Sergeant Mark Todd joined Sergeant Kimberly Munley in the firefight. Sgt Todd was not wounded, but the exchange left his colleague injured.
Sgt Todd said that seconds after arriving at the scene, he saw a calm-looking Hasan, his gun drawn and his fingers pointing at people outside the Soldier Readiness Processing Centre. He then saw Hasan shooting at soldiers as they attempted to flee.
“He was firing at people as they were trying to run and hide,” said the retired soldier who now works as a civilian police officer at the military base.
“I told him stop and drop your weapons, I identified myself as police and he turned and fired a couple of rounds at me. I didn’t hear him say a word… he just turned and fired.”
Sgt Munley has also won wide praise after the incident, and it’s been revealed she “lost a lot of blood” from a gunshot wound to her left leg that had hit an artery.
Military authorities are continuing to refer to Hasan as a suspect in the shootings, and have not yet said if they plan to charge him in a military or civilian court.
His family has described a man incapable of the attack, calling him a devoted doctor and devout Muslim who showed no signs that he might lash out with violence. His brother, Eyad Hasan, said: “I’ve known my brother Nidal to be a peaceful, loving and compassionate person who has shown great interest in the medical field and in helping others.
