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FreeAppADay.com to Launch Free iPad Titles on Day One Through www.FreeiPadAppADay.com

April 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
Leading Application Discovery Portal FreeAppADay.com is scheduled to promote
several iPad titles during the iPad Launch weekend through its newly acquired
www.FreeiPadAppADay.com website. The site will reveal the name of the titles on
Saturday April 3rd at 12.00am.

“We are very excited to be involved with the launch of the iPad,” says Joe
Bayen, CEO at www.FreeAppADay.com. “The new device is set to have a major impact
in the mobile industry and we are positioning the new iPad site as a location
where iPad developers can showcase their titles and iPad owners can discover
great paid apps free for a single day.”

The iPad site will initially be merged with www.FreeAppADay.com, however
www.FreeiPadAppADay.com is set to evolve as a standalone website once more
titles become available on the iPad.

About FreeAppADay.com

FreeAppADay.com is a social networking website built to facilitate iPhone
application discovery as well as offer a centralized location for iPhone
enthusiasts and developers of polished iPhone applications.

ICS Mobile
Jennifer Collins, 1-310-598-5199
Press@icsmobile.com

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UK fitness TV teaches bhangra workout class!

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): A new British TV station, dedicated entirely to fitness, is offering a string of classes, including those on Bhangra.

The Fitness TV, a 24-hour station, also hosts a high heel workout class for the women who refuse to get out of their beloved stilettos. Other workouts include those based on Salsa, Hip Hop and Disco.

“Just like a personal trainer, the channel allows viewers to tailor workouts to their own levels of fitness and interests and can be easily scheduled around busy lives,” the Sun quoted a spokesman for the TV shows as saying.

“Programmes range from children’s classes including a mobility and balance workout for pre-schoolers, kids’ yoga and street dance for teenagers, while pensioners and the less mobile are offered Chairobics.

“For the more adventurous, there are boot camp-style workouts and dance-based exercise sessions for Strictly Come Dancing fans, including Bhangra, Cheerleader and 70s Disco.

“There’s even a High Heels workout for more glamorous viewers,” the spokesman added.

Fitness TV founder Luan Underwood, a former personal trainer and mum-of-two, said: “We are positioning the channel as an additional workout option, not as a replacement to gyms, fitness and wellbeing classes.

“We would like to capture the imagination of the 80 per cent of UK citizens that have never visited a gym and inspire them to do so.

“We also aim to reach people unable to visit fitness facilities, perhaps because they have young children, or time pressures that make it difficult to get to the gym for a few weeks.

“With Fitness TV, people can squeeze in a session at a time to suit them, and because the classes are constantly being updated, they’ll be more motivated to stick to them than they would an exercise DVD,” Underwood added. (ANI)

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NASA all set to launch infrared eye to hunt for dark asteroids

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sydney, September 3 (ANI): NASA is preparing to launch an infrared telescope that will hunt down dark asteroids that have slipped beneath our radar.

According to a report by ABC Science, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft recently arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of its launch later this year.

With a quartet of infrared sensors and a wide view, WISE is designed to survey the whole sky in infrared light.

It’s not the first telescope to do so, but scientists expect WISE’s observations will be 500 times sharper than a survey conducted in 1980s by IRAS, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, according to astronomer Martin Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley.

The data will be complied into an all-sky infrared atlas, a tome that is expected to include about 300 million objects, including around 100,000 asteroids.

Many of the asteroids seen by WISE will be known objects.

Scientists hope to use the new observations to nail down details, such as an asteroid’s diameter and surface reflectivity.

“With ground-based scopes, it’s just a point source. You can’t tell size directly,” said University of Texas astronomer Dr Robert McMillan who leads Spacewatch, an asteroid-survey project.

“A big object that is dark and a small object that is bright are going to look like they have the same brightness,” he added.

The solar system contains several million asteroids, most of which reside in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

About 7000 asteroids have been identified that cross or come close to Earth’s orbit.

WISE will be able to spot asteroids emitting heat due to direct exposure from the Sun, as opposed to visible-light searches that find asteroids that are reflecting sunlight.

“Those are two different physical effects,” said McMillan. “An asteroid that has very dark colour in invisible light is going to get heated up more, just like a black car in a parking lot is going to get heated up more than a white car,” he added.

Scientists hope to get enough positioning information to follow up targets with ground-based observations.

McMillan expects that WISE will discover a few hundred new asteroids.

The information will be folded into ongoing surveys to map asteroids that could impact Earth and cause widespread damage.

Other WISE targets include brown dwarfs, which are Jupiter-sized stars that never got their nuclear fusion engines running, and ultra-luminous galaxies, which pump out the equivalent of about 1000 Sun-sized stars every year. (ANI)

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New model of quantum gravity may rewrite Einstein’s theory of general relativity

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 25 (ANI): Scientists at Texas A and M University in the US have developed a controversial new model of quantum gravity, which might reproduce Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

The theory, which Einstein developed in the early 20th century, says that matter curves spacetime, and it is this curvature which deflects massive bodies – an effect that we interpret as the influence of gravity.

The theory has been tested to extremely high accuracy and without it, our satellite global positioning system would be off by about 10 km per day.

Despite the success of general relativity, one of the most important problems in modern physics is finding a theory of quantum gravity that reconciles the continuous nature of gravitational fields with the inherent ‘graininess’ of quantum mechanics.

Recently, Petr Horava at Lawrence Berkeley Lab proposed such a model for quantum gravity that has received widespread interest, in no small part because it is one of the few models that could be experimentally tested.

In Horava’s model, Lorentz symmetry, which says that physics is the same regardless of the reference frame, is violated at small distance scales, but remerges over longer distance scales

The team at Texas A and M, which includes Hong Lu, Jianwei Mei and Christopher Pope, report their investigations into how the modifications proposed in Horava’s theory will broadly affect the solutions of general relativity.

Lu and his team’s calculations suggest that Horava’s model only reproduces general relativity on unobservable scales, “larger than the size of the Universe”.

The research team’s paper is an important contribution to testing the Horava model and shows that a good deal of work remains to understand its full implications. (ANI)

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Why people walk in circles when lost

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 21(ANI): It’s true: When people are lost, they walk in circles. That’s the conclusion of a new research which has also found the reason behind it.

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have presented the first empirical evidence that people really walk in circles when they do not have reliable cues to their walking direction.

The study has been published in the journal Current Biology.

The boffins examined the walking trajectories of people who walked for several hours in the Sahara desert (Tunisia) and in the Bienwald forest area (Germany). They used the global positioning system (GPS) to record these trajectories.

The results showed that participants were only able to keep a straight path when the sun or moon was visible. However, as soon as the sun disappeared behind some clouds, people started to walk in circles without even noticing it.

Speaking about the study, Jan Souman said: “One explanation offered in the past for walking in circles is that most people have one leg longer or stronger than the other, which would produce a systematic bias in one direction. To test this explanation, we instructed people to walk straight while blindfolded, thus removing the effects of vision. Most of the participants in the study walked in circles, sometimes in extremely small ones (diameter less than 20 metres).”

However, it turned out that these circles were rarely in a systematic direction. Instead, the same person sometimes veered to the left, sometimes to the right. Walking in circles is therefore not caused by differences in leg length or strength, but more likely the result of increasing uncertainty about where straight ahead is.

“Small random errors in the various sensory signals that provide information about walking direction add up over time, making what a person perceives to be straight ahead drift away from the true straight ahead direction,” according to Souman.

Marc Ernst, Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics, added: “The results from these experiments show that even though people may be convinced that they are walking in a straight line, their perception is not always reliable. Additional, more cognitive, strategies are necessary to really walk in a straight line.

“People need to use reliable cues for walking direction in their environment, for example a tower or mountain in the distance, or the position of the sun.” (ANI)

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Betullah Mehsud still alive, claims close aide

August 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug. 8 (ANI): A lieutenant of Pakistan’s enemy no. 1 Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday rejected reports of the Pak-Taliban chief’s death in a US drone strike.

BBC quoted Commander Hakimullah Mehsud – who some analysts suggest may be positioning himself to succeed Baitullah Mehsud – as saying that the reports of Mehsud’s death were the work of US and Pakistani intelligence agencies.

“The news regarding our respected chief is propaganda by our enemies. We know what our enemies want to achieve – it’s the joint policy of the ISI and FBI – they want our chief to come out in the open so they can achieve their target,” Mehsud said.

He said the Pakistani leader had decided to adopt the tactics of Osama bin Laden and stay silent. He said he would issue a message in the next few days.

The US has said that it is increasingly confident that its forces had managed to kill Mehsud, while Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Friday he was “pretty certain” Baitullah Mehsud had been killed.

Neither side has provided evidence to back up their claims so far.

The missile fired by the US drone hit the home of the Taliban chief’s father-in-law, Malik Ikramuddin, in the Zangarha area on Wednesday.

On Friday, another of Baitullah Mehsud’s aides had told the press by telephone that his leader had been killed along with his second wife in the attack.

The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, on Friday said that the Pakistani people would be safer if he was dead.

“There seems to be a growing consensus among credible observers that he is indeed dead,” he told reporters.

Believed to command as many as 20,000 pro-Taliban militants, Mehsud came to worldwide attention in the aftermath of the 2007 Red Mosque siege in Islamabad.

He has been blamed by both Pakistan and the US for a series of suicide bomb attacks in the country, as well as suicide attacks on Western forces across the border in Afghanistan. (ANI)

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3-D mapping breakthrough helps docs remove fist-sized tumour from a woman’s brain

July 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 15 (ANI): Experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have successfully removed a fist-sized tumour from the brain of an Indiana woman, using a technology that involves the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient’s brain.

An eight-member team from the Brain Tumor Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute carried out the operation at University Hospital.

“This marks the culmination of one of the most important developments in brain tumor surgery in the last 100 years,” says Dr. John Tew, a neurosurgeon with the Mayfield Clinic, professor of neurosurgery and clinical director of the UC Neuroscience Institute.

For the surgery, Tew and his team fused and installed the multiple brain scans into a surgical guidance computer, whose function is similar to a global positioning system.

They say that the technology revealed the tumour’s relationship to all of the functional centres, electrical pathways and arteries and veins in the patient’s brain, which is why they were able to map out a safe pathway to the tumour.

“This fusion of images is exciting in that it allows us to maximize resection (removal) of the tumour while preserving function for the patient,” says Dr. James Leach, an associate professor of neuroradiology at UC who performed the processing and fusion of images.

Since early 2007, specialists have used the fusion of three types of imaging as a guide to stereotactic surgery-Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that creates detailed pictures of the body by detecting differences in magnetic signals between different types of tissues; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that creates a series of images that capture blood oxygen levels in parts of the brain that are responsible for movement, perception and cognition; and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) that provides a map of critical white-matter tracts, which facilitate electrical connections between different parts of the brain.

Leach revealed that the latest work added the fusion of computed tomography angiography (CTA), which provides a map of blood vessels-arteries and veins.

“The 3T system allows us to image the functional areas of the brain using various language, motor and vision tasks with the patient in the MRI scanner. The addition of the DTI sequence allows the connections between these areas and other parts of the nervous system to be identified at the same time,” Leach says.

Tew said that the three-dimensional brain-mapping enabled his team to navigate a trajectory through the patient’s brain, and to remove 90 percent of the malignant tumour, an anaplastic astrocytoma, without harming the healthy brain tissue-including the deep nerve-fibre tracts-that surrounded it.

According to the researcher, the patient was talking normally right after surgery, and she was walking the halls and able to take a shower without assistance one day after surgery. he team sought to eradicate the remaining tumour by applying a course of 33 computer-guided, fractionated radiotherapy treatments as a first approach. (ANI)

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Space and robotics technology used to improve forest planning and harvesting

June 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 30 (ANI): Space and robotics technology have been combined to develop an advanced Precision Forestry Positioning System, which allows more efficient forest planning and harvesting.

Invented by researchers at the Institute of Man-Machine-Interaction at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the system has helped catalogue 240 million single trees in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia. he system combines remote-sensing maps from airplanes with satellite navigation data to map each tree in a forest.

This information is then used to plan which trees are to be cut, and when.

Finally, the plan is used on harvesters to identify which trees to cut. This helps make the harvesting more efficient, optimises overall wood production and reduces costs.

The system won the North Rhine-Westphalia Region’s 2008 European Satellite Navigation Competition, which was supported by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office.

“We already have one harvester in operation with our system onboard. As the prototype works well, we are fairly close to the stage where we can go into production. Another 6 to 12 months, and we should be there,” said Professor Dr Jurgen Rossmann from RWTH Aachen University, who developed the system together with Petra Krahwinkler, Arno Bucken and Dr Michael Schluse.

The objective of the Precision Forestry Positioning System is to automate and optimize all the work involved in foresting, from the early planning of the forest to the final cutting of single trees, in order to be competitive on the worldwide market, and to overcome efficiency problems related to the forest ownership structure of the region.

“Precision farming is important in today’s agriculture, where farmers can save money with the use of satellite navigation systems,” explained Arno Bucken.

“However, the accuracy of the GPS navigation system, which is of 20 to 30 m, is not enough to identify single trees in a forest. Much higher accuracy is needed,” he added.

“We found a solution to this problem, which increases the accuracy to 50 cm, by using GPS as the initial reference position, and then taking remote-sensing data to identify the single trees in the forest,” he explained.

To help the planning, a virtual computer-based forest has been developed with all trees being identified by their location, based on the GPS and remote-sensing data.
In addition, a fourth dimension, ‘time’, has been added, and is of the utmost importance for this system.

“All trees are not only known by their geo-coordinates, but they are also time-stamped, and all measurement data are archived.

This makes it possible to see ‘how trees grow’, as well as look back to learn from the past,” said Rossmann. (ANI)

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Homing pigeons’ inbuilt ‘satnav’ that uses Earth’s magnetic field helps them return home

June 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 24 (ANI): Homing pigeons have fascinated humans for many years through their uncanny ability to find their way home from thousands of miles away. Now, researchers claim to have found the reason behind it.

Scientists researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand said that the birds have inbuilt ‘satnav’ that uses Earth’s magnetic field to pinpoint position and help them find their way home.

Researchers have discovered that like global positioning technology, they first determine where they are before heading off for home, reports The Telegraph.

In the study, which has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, boffins discovered that the initial flight path involves finding the magnetic waves which can then be used to find their way home.

In order to reach the conclusion, researchers reviewed a number of studies in Germany that saw as many 150 birds returning to three lofts near Frankfurt.

Dr Cordula Mora and her colleagues concluded that “respond to the Earth’s magnetic field at the release site”, calculate their position using the fields and then calculate their way home.

“Our results imply that pigeons use the earth’s magnetic field for determining their position at the release site before laying a course for home,” she said. (ANI)

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Masterline Telebiz, a leading SIM card-manufacturer in India

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mohali, June 19 (ANI): The telecom revolution in India has proved to be a boon for the related firms of this sector.

One such company is Mohali-based Masterline Telebiz, which is producing mobile recharge cards for most of the mobile telecom operators in India. It is now foraying into mobile telephone SIM cards for international players too.

Masterline Telebiz has revolutionized the phone card industry by positioning itself among the leading SIM card-manufacturers in India.

Naresh Nanda, an electrical engineer from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, started the company with a small team in Chandigarh and began supplying recharge cards at Rs. 17 a card to telecom service providers.

Today, the same card fetches him 60 paise i.e. almost a cent per card. It’s still viable for the company, as the volume have grown manifold.

Nanda tells that his company deals with all leading mobile operators who have head on competition for survival. Today, call charges have fallen drastically. They have to compress their operational costs and that pressure comes on us.

“We have to learn from their example so I have a lot of competition. We are the first movers in these industry. We have learnt a lot and still manages survival better than the new entrants because there is advantage of skill sets. There is the advantage of length in these business and plus the expertise know how with the vendors who support us. Now, going forward, the recharge cards hold big growth potential. It is not being fully supported by the numbers of vendors who lack experience and lack professional deliverance. So we have looked them very prospectively about the card business,” said Naresh Nanda, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Masterline.

Masterline has in-house Artwork Studio, which offers expert advice and guidance for the project, right from initial concept through to the finished product.

As the revenue sharing propositions are better with the players in South America and America, Masterline prefers a partnership with global players to offer value added services for 3G Spectrum.

The financial meltdown, according to Nanda came as a blessing as it led to compression in costs.

“The services and the products which we try to sell are necessity based products and I think necessity is quite safeguarded from any recession and the second for our advantage is that the telecom industry which have tremendous growth potential. And, having said that with these potential still lying there, we see a lot of room for us vis-a-vis the competition is concerned competition. Competition is in every line of business but it is the intelligence of every manufacturer to be able to steer his way through the competition by re-engineering the product the concept you can put in the product,” says Nanda.

As the financial markets in India are improving, the company expects the SIM card business to touch two million dollars.

Besides, the company is also in the process of getting a separate trademark for supplying integrated state-of-the-art security systems in Indian market. It has plans to import a range of security equipment from Italy, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. By Sunil Singh (ANI)

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Miniscule magnets in ant antennae act as internal GPS

May 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 22 (ANI): A new research has led to the discovery of miniscule magnets in ant antennae, which act as an internal GPS (Global positioning system), making these insects aware as to where they are going.

According to a report in Discovery News, while human global positioning systems rely upon receivers that pick up information from a network of satellites, the probable ant system weighs next to nothing, requires little energy to operate and appears to be mostly built out of dirt.

“The ants we studied dwell in tropical soils that are full of very fine-grained iron minerals, so there is plenty of material available,” said researcher Dr Jandira Ferreira de Oliveira of the Technical University of Munich and the Brazilian Center for Physics Research.

“The incorporation of minerals probably starts as soon as ants start getting in touch with soil,” she said.

Her team found ultra fine-grained crystals of magnetic magnetite, maghemite, hematite, goethite, and aluminum silicates in ant antennae.

These particles could make a “biological compass needle” that drives ant GPS.

For the study, published in the latest Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Oliveira and her colleagues collected worker ants from the species Pachycondyla marginata in Sao Paulo.

Prior studies found these ants tend to always migrate at an orientation of 13 degrees relative to Earth’s geomagnetic north-south axis, and that the ant’s strongest magnetic signal comes from its antennae.

High-powered microscopes and chemical analysis revealed the presence of the dirt-acquired magnetic particles in the antennae, intriguingly next to a body part called the Johnston’s organ that may also be part of the ant’s GPS.

According to Oliveira, “Our planet is magnetized, likely due to rotational forces of liquid iron in earth’s core. Although the resulting magnetic field is one-twenty thousandth as strong as a refrigerator magnet, ants appear to perceive the geomagnetic information through a magnetic sensor (the dirt particles), transduce it in a signal to the nervous system and then to the brain.”

The University of Oxford’s Dr Robert Srygley, one of the world’s leading insect experts, said that the new study “is a major advance toward finding the magnetic compass in this nomadic ant.” (ANI)

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Informa India brings global leaders’ series to India for the first time

May 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, May 15 (ANI/Business Wire India): Informa, the owners of information super-brands including Lloyd’s List, Taylor and Francis and Datamonitor, have announced the first Indian edition of the world’s largest series of leadership events.

Leaders business fora command audiences of 1000s of top corporate executives every year, with speakers most recently including Kofi Annan, CK Prahalad, Philip Kotler, Stephen Covey, Richard Branson and Steve Forbes.

Leaders in India, is the latest edition of what is widely regarded as the world’s largest series of business leadership events, which so far have taken place annually in major international cities including London and Dubai.

Informa, producers of the event, have received a particularly strong response from Indian and international organisations, with GE, JSW, Johnson and Johnson, Birla, Nokia and Abbot amongst many others already having confirmed their delegations to the event.

“India is one of the most dynamic markets of the world, where innovation, business, and technical acumen will continue to grow and thrive for many years to come,” said Trump Jr.. “I look forward to bringing many incredible projects to this market, which is now primed and ready for world class development.”

Donald Trump Jr., has announced ambitious plans for investment in India’s real estate sector, and will elaborate on successfully dealing with the obstacles faced by international companies when entering the Indian market.

Tom Peters, among the most influential management gurus of today, and renowned author of ‘In search of excellence’, will provide practical tools to tackle one of the most pressing issues on every CEO’s mind – ‘how to win the war for talent.’

In spite of a more favorable employer’s market at present, the ‘war for talent’ is expected to remain one of Indian business’ paramount challenges as the country continues to develop rapidly over the coming decades.

On why Informa has decided to bring ‘Leaders’ to India, Abhaey Singh, Managing Director, Informa India, said, “Indians are ideas people – we love inspiration, and Leaders in India will be two days packed with the proverbial tingles down your spine.”

“But more than just that, our country is gradually positioning itself at the fore of the 21st Century knowledge economy. From our legendary IITs and IIMs, to our booming media and information industry; and from complex analyses performed for global firms in our KPO centres, to continual advances in indigenous rocket science – India’s inherent knowledge resources are now being more comprehensively harnessed by and interconnected with Indian and global business. So we think it’s an excellent time to leverage the hugely respected Leaders brand into this very exciting country”, added Singh.

Featuring Indian leaders such as Adi Godrej, Kishore Biyani and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, along with special guest speakers Abhinav Bindra and Shashi Tharoor, the event will also host The “IIBAAs” (Indo-International Business Achievement Awards), which has been instituted to acknowledge exceptional entrepreneurial and innovative talent, effective and responsible leadership and management, and the setting of new standards within Indian and global businesses. (ANI)

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Myntra launches personalized IPL jerseys from Reebok

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Bangalore, Apr 21 (ANI/Business Wire India): Myntra in collaboration with Reebok today launched a range of personalized IPL jerseys for the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Consumers can log on to Reebok store on the Myntra website – www.myntra.com/reebok-store – and choose jerseys of four IPL teams – Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab and Bangalore Royal Challengers.

After selecting the jersey they can submit the name and number that they would like to personalize their jerseys with.

Myntra would then process the orders and have the personalized jerseys shipped to the consumer at the address provided by the consumer.

Commenting on the launch of the personalized jerseys from Reebok Mukesh Bansal, CEO – Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. said, “Being the leader in the on-demand personalization space in India, it is only fitting that Myntra introduce the concept of personalization to the IPL which is the biggest cricketing event of the year. Cricket fans and enthusiasts now have the opportunity to see themselves in the jerseys of their favourite IPL teams by just adding their names and jersey numbers to the jerseys of their team.”

Added Sajid Shamim – Executive Director, Reebok India Company, “Reebok’s brand positioning is celebrating individuality in sport and life. Reebok celebrates the distinct qualities that make people who they are – their unique points of view, their individual style and their remarkable talents and accomplishments. This association with Myntra enables consumers to personalize jerseys of their favourite IPL teams and is another step towards allowing our consumers to express themselves and celebrate their individuality.”

Myntra.com offers an easy to use and user friendly ordering platform for ordering personalized IPL jerseys. One needs to just select a jersey of one of the 4 IPL teams and enter his / her name and the jersey number that he / she would like to see on the jersey. On doing so a preview of how the jersey would look after personalization is also available.

The personalized IPL jerseys are available in two options – men’s and boys. Payments can be made on the Myntra website through convenient payment options like credit card, debit card, Net Banking and Itz Cash. Mobile payment through the PayMate platform is also accepted. There is also an option of making payments through cheques.

Myntra is also accepting bulk orders from corporates and institutions who would like to gift their priority or loyal clients with personalized jerseys of their favourite IPL teams. This would be a unique gift where the product personalization by the recipient of the jersey is backed by the product quality assurance of Reebok.

The jersey would conjure fond memories in the minds of the recipients long after the IPL is over. Organizations can also order these jerseys to reward their achievers and high performers or for a team building activity or event.

This is also a good opportunity for Non Resident Indians (NRIs) to participate in the IPL by sporting personalized jerseys of their favourite IPL teams.

NRIs can place their orders for personalized jerseys on the Myntra website and the jerseys would be shipped to them at their doorstep. (ANI)

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Ming Dynasty Great Wall in China more than 2,551.8 kms longer than earlier thought

April 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 20 (ANI): A two-year investigation has revealed that the length of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty era in China, is estimated to be more than 2,551.8 kilometers longer than earlier thought.

According to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM), the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Great Wall is 8851.8 kilometers long.

Their joint investigation has increased the length of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall by 2551.8 km.

The Ming portion of the Great Wall is the most visually striking and well-preserved portion of the world famous monument.

The Great Wall was originally built by China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC) in the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). It was listed as a United Nations World Heritage Site in 1987.

The newest survey result shows that the Ming Dynasty Great Wall starts from the Hushan section of the Great Wall in northeastern Liaoning Province, and ends at Jiayu Pass in northwestern Gansu Province.

It passes through 10 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in north China, including Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai.

It has an artificial wall of 6259.6 kilometers, 359.7 kilometers of trench cutting part, and 2232.5 kilometers of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.

GPS positioning system, infrared range finder and other mapping technologies have been used during the survey.

The survey will now go on to research the Qin and Han Dynasty Great Wall and other portions of the Great Wall, lasting until late 2010. (ANI)

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Kasab retracts confession, says it was made under duress

April 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Apr 17 (ANI): Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone survivour of Mumbai terror attacks, has retracted his confession, saying he was forced to confess under duress.

SG Abbas Kazmi, who was appointed Kasab’s lawyer, had earlier claimed that he was a minor and that the trial should be held in a juvenile court. The court, however, rejected the application moved by Kasab’s lawyer.

Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam objected to this, saying Kasab in his own admission had told the court that he is 22. The defence lawyer could not prove his claim and the court rejected the application.

Kasab has been charged with criminal conspiracy, waging war against nation, committing robbery and has also been under various other Indian Penal Code sections.

Kasab has also been charged with the murder of Mumbai police officials Hemant Karkare, Tukaram Ombale, Vijay Salaskar, and Ashok Kamte.

Kasab has been booked for direct involvement in seven cases and as a co-conspirator in five cases. He has also been indirectly charged with killing people at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST).

The trial of Amir Kasab began here on Friday at the special session court inside the heavily-guarded Arthur Road Jail here.

Nikam said that Kasab was an active member of conspiracy that was hatched in Pakistan to commit terror attacks in India.

Kasab also reportedly confessed that he was the best shooter in the team.

“The Pakistani army official was impressed by my firing skills with the Kalashnikov and he also said I was the best shooter in the team. I was the destroyer,” Kasab reportedly confessed.

Kasab also mentioned the involvement of Pakistani officials in the Mumbai attacks. The confession mentioned that a serving member of the Pakistani Army, Colonel Saadat Ullah, has allegedly helped to set up the internet telephony system through which the gunmen received instruction from their Pakistan-based handlers.

He also revealed that he and the other nine terrorists were given training in trekking, warfare in sea, operating Global Positioning System, how to find direction and navigate in unknown and. (ANI)

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Malaysia Airlines plans airline buy-report

April 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) (MAS) is looking at an airline purchase as it has a cash surplus, a local newspaper said on Thursday, citing a top company official.

“People always ask why we keep so much cash. We are positioning ourselves so that when the chance comes, we will be ready to grab it,” MAS Managing Director Idris Jala told the Star newspaper.

“In the next two or three years, if the economic downturn persists, we won’t even have to go looking. Opportunity will present itself to us.”

The company had 3.57 billion ringgit ($990.3 million) in cash as of Dec. 31, the paper said.

A call to MAS was not answered immediately.

MAS also confirmed there were no more discussions with Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX) about a maintenance venture after a memorandum of understanding expired recently, the paper said.

The paper said MAS was targeting 700 million ringgit of cost cuts this year. ($1=3.605 Malaysian Ringgit) (Reporting by Varsha Tickoo; Editing by Dhara Ranasinghe)

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GBP/USD Daily Commentary for 4.14.09

April 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The Cable is making vast strides to the upside, positioning itself for a breakout opportunity as it continues to bask in the glory of this month’s all-around positive economic data from Britain. The GBP/USD is battling with our 2nd tier uptrend line as we speak.

If the currency pair can climb above April and February highs we could witness some large near-term gains as it looks to tackle the highly psychological 1.50 level.

The relative strength of the Pound is reflected in the freefall of the EUR/GBP. However, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the EUR/GBP find some solid near-term support, meaning that if the GBP/USD does break out, the rally could experience some profit-taking relatively quickly.

That being said, Britain only has two medium-weight economic releases on slate for this week, meaning that Cable should have little news to deflect its rise.

The only development fundamentally reversing the Cable’s rally in the near-term would be a sharp downturn in U. S. equities, so keep a close eye on the S and P futures.

Fundamentally, we maintain resistance of 1.4946 with additional resistances hanging at 1.4988, 1.5028, 1.5080 and 1.5121. The 1.50 level serves as a key psychological barrier while the 1.45 area acts as a psychological cushion. To the downside, we find supports of 1.4883, 1.4834, 1.4770, 1.4730 and 1.4676. The GBP/USD is currently exchanging at 1.4902.

GBP/USD Daily Commentary for 4.14.09

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Two dead as Thai protestors clash with local residents – Update

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Bangkok – Two men were killed in the Thai capital after anti-government protestors clashed with residents near their main rally site on Monday night, said reporters at the scene. As the city braced for a final army move against protestors who closed down much of the city over the weekend anti-government demonstrators – so-called Red Shirts – fired shots at people not far from the main rally site.

Two men, aged 54 and 19, were killed and a dozen injured said a government spokesman on television and a member of a medical foundation in local press reports.

Eyewitnesses said people who live around a food market objected to protestors positioning a burning bus near their homes – and so moved it. Gunmen later arrived to shoot at residents, some of whom fired back.

Gunfire was also heard around Government House where the protestors have set up their main rally. A leader of the Red Shirts, Jakrapob Penkair said the authorities are running a dirty tricks campaign to discredit the movement using agent provocateurs and thugs.

There are reports of clashes elsewhere in Bangkok and in the provinces following Monday’s expected army crackdown against an anti- government movement whose members invaded a 16-nation Asian regional summit in the nearby resort of Pattaya on Saturday. The summit was cancelled greatly damaging Thailand’s image.

Thousands of battle-ready troops spread out across the city Monday to clear away barricades, firing bullets into the air and using tear gas to take control of the many key road junctions that had been seized after the Red Shirt success in cancelling the summit.

By nightfall, the demonstrators had mostly withdrawn to the area around Government House where they have been rallying for three weeks.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the protest leader in self-exile, demanded in a CNN interview the army stop using unreasonable force against unarmed protestors – and he accused the government of covering up the “many” deaths in the crackdown.

“They even take the dead bodies up on the truck and take them away,” Thaksin said.

Scores of people, including soldiers, were injured earlier when troops swept down streets, firing in the air and shooting directly at buses driven at them by protestors.

Protest leader Nattawut Saikua called for the demonstrators to regroup to their base in front of Government House by evening.

As the sun set on Monday, a pall of smoke hung over the Government House area of the city from tires and buses set alight by protestors. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has said that no-one has been killed by the military, although.(dpa)

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Amy Winehouse horsing around in St Lucia

April 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 6 (ANI): ‘Back to Black’ star Amy Winehouse, 25, was recently seen trying her hand at horse riding on the Caribbean beach in St Lucia.

She was at first a little nervous as she climbed up on the horse, and took time in positioning herself comfortably, before heading out for the ride, reports the Daily Express.

After a while, she gained enough confidence to make her horse trot along the coast, though her choice of riding attire was not suitable for the occasion.

The ‘Rehab’ singer, who has returned back to St Lucia to focus on writing her third album, was wearing a crop top and hot pants. (ANI)

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Frogs provide clues about alcohol’s effects during pregnancy

April 6, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

Washington, Apr 6 (ANI): Scientists have successfully used the African frog Xenopus as a tool to identify important clues about the effects of maternal consumption of alcohol in early pregnancy.

As the Xenopus embryos are large, easy to work with and very responsive to environmental cues, they make for ideal instruments to understand early vertebrate development.

Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) cause malformations in babies, including facial defects, short stature, and mental and behavioural abnormalities.

Alcohol consumption prevents normal development by inhibiting the production of retinoic acid.

Normally, the levels of retinoic acid made in different areas of the embryo provide cells with necessary information about their proper location and fate.

In the new research, it has been shown that alcohol steals away the molecules that make retinoic acid and use them for its own process of detoxification, resulting in cellular disorientation during a critical period of development.

The study, provides evidence that the characteristics associated with FASD and FAS come from competition of alcohol for key molecules in a pathway that produce retinoic acid from vitamin A.

Retinoic acid is needed for correct positioning of cells in developing embryos and by preventing its normal production.

Alcohol keeps cells from migrating to their correct positions and maturing properly.

Researchers at the Hebrew University in Israel have found that shutting down a molecule needed to produce retinoic acid, known as retinaldehyde dehydrogenase (RALDH2), increases sensitivity of developing embryos to low doses of alcohol.

On the other hand, more of the molecule RALDH2 protected embryos from the negative effects of alcohol.

The research provides evidence that alcohol ‘hijacks’ RALDH2 molecules for its own breakdown process, and steals it away from its important role in synthesizing positional and maturation cues during development.

The study has been published in Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM). (ANI)

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