Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., outlasted her opponents in swimsuit, evening gown, talent and interview competitions. Miss California Kristy Cavinder was the first runner-up, winning $25,000. Cameron is a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University, and wants to become an anchor.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Miss Virginia wins 2010 Miss America crown
Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., outlasted her opponents in swimsuit, evening gown, talent and interview competitions. Miss California Kristy Cavinder was the first runner-up, winning $25,000. Cameron is a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University, and wants to become an anchor.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Newborn atramentous holes can backfire stars
"The access dynamics in archetypal supernovae absolute the acceleration of the accretion amount to about three percent the acceleration of light," explained Chryssa Kouveliotou, an astrophysicst at NASA''s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., co-author of one of the fresh studies."Yet, in these fresh objects, we''re tracking gas affective some 20 times faster than this," Kouveliotou added.
The astronomers apparent the ultrafast bits by belief two supernovae at radio wavelengths application abundant facilities, including the National Science Foundation''s Very Large Array in Socorro, N.M., and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Apple unveils revolutionary iPad tablet
"It's so abundant added affectionate than a laptop and so abundant added able than a acute phone," Jobs said Wednesday at the device's awful advancing admission in San Francisco.
Jobs approved how the iPad is acclimated for surfing the Web with Apple's Safari browser. He typed an e-mail application an on-screen keyboard and addled through photo albums by flicking his feel beyond the screen.The CEO says the iPad will additionally be added good for account books, arena amateur and watching video than either a laptop or a acute phone.No amount or advice on availability was anon announced.
Now Apple will accept to argue consumers, abounding of whom already accept Internet-connected phones, computers and TVs, that that's the case. Book computers accept existed for a decade, with little success.Shares in Apple fell $4.65, or 2.3 percent, to $201.29 in afternoon trading Wednesday. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's shares accept added than angled over the accomplished year, partly on apprehension of the book computer.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
World Economic Forum begins tomorrow
Every year in the end of January, the affluent and the able from about the apple assemble actuality at the assembly centre to agitation issues that face the all-around economy.But this year's affair assumes appropriate acceptation advancing at a time back the apple is convalescent from the affliction crisis in contempo history, a crisis in which 5 abundance dollars was pumped in as stimulus.
The apple leaders are accepted to altercate a host of issues like the bang avenue strategy, the attributes of the accretion and whether we are headed for a bifold downturn, Obama's arguable cyberbanking reform, worries like aggrandizement and asset amount bubbles and how economies charge to assignment appear abbreviation the ascent budgetary deficits.
The affair will be opened by Nicolas Sarkozy. India Inc will be present in abounding appearance including Mukesh Ambani, Chanda Kochar, Anand Mahindra and Sunil Bharti Mittal.While it's freezing algid in Davos, but leaders are acquisitive that the arctic of the banking crisis is over and all-around abridgement will alpha warming.
22 Gifts For Kangana
She was delightfully surprised when yesterday evening at around 4 pm, Sameer, a Delhi-based fan, sent a huge gift hamper to Kangna’s place. Inside were three boxes – one with 22 wine bottles, another with 22 cakes of different shapes and sizes and the third loaded with 22 accessories including earrings, bracelets, and bangles. There was also a sweet note from the fan accompanying the parcel saying, “22 because you are a 22-year-old and a National Award is no mean achievement at such a young age.” Atta girl, Kangs.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Britney to auction MTV outfit for Haiti
Pop princess Britney Spears is willing to join the celeb bandwagon who are making their own contribution to help the earthquake victims in Haiti by auctioning off the dress she wore to the 2008 MTV awards.
The 'Toxic' hitmaker had worn a sparkly silver minidress to the awards night and had walked away with three awards for her video 'Piece of Me'.Spears had placed a request to be allowed to hold the auction during her conservatorship hearing in an Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, reported Radar online.
"Britney is very enthusiastic about making a donation to the cause," said her attorney Sam Ingham.To the 28-year-old pop star's delight, the judge granted her request.But her independence seems a far-off thing as the conservatorship is still in place with Spears' father Jamie remaining in charge of his daughter's financial and legal affairs, as he has done since it was started in early 2008.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Priyanka bags National Award
Friday, January 22, 2010
Bollywood Dabboo's
Going by the pictures, it's no wonder that the the lensman topped the list for the Most Influential People in the Asian Photography industry.Dabboo takes Patcy N through five exquisite pictures.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
World's biggest Ship
Monday, January 18, 2010
Superheroines or female fatales?
Since we daydream about superpowers so much, we decided to visualise some of our leading divas in the garb of the most popular superwomen of all times and this is what we pictured…
Who: Storm
Her powers:She primarily holds the power to control the weather. She also possesses the "psionic" ability to control earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems.
The actress: Kareena Kapoor.
Who better to the play the skilled and cunning Weather Witch than our blue-blooded Kareena? You can easily imagine her in hand-to-hand combat with her adversaries and pinning them down effortlessly just by her sheer will power. With her size zero frame, she's bound to waft in the winds without using any super power!
Who: Catwoman
Her powers:Agility and speed. She also has a custom cat-themed car called the "Cat-illac" and her weapon is a whip.
The actress: Bipasha Basu we say is the purrrr-fect choice.
Only she can nail the role of revenge-bent babe dressed in a cat suit who seduces both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Say what?
Who: Poison Ivy
Her powers: She is immune to all poisons and viruses. Her body produces pheromones that make people susceptible to mind control.
The actress: Aishwarya Rai.
Ivy has the ability to seduce any man to her will, be it Batman or Superman. And doesn't Ash have the history of doing the same, that too in real life? Just like Ivy, she is stunning and alluring and the world does wonder what kind of love potion does this mistress of spice give to the men in her life that they fall for her hook, line and sinker?
Who: Elektra
Her powers: Elektra has a strong knowledge of martial arts and weaponry particularly Ninjutsu. Her abilities also include low-level mind control and telepathic communication.
The actress: Priyanka Chopra.
Don and Drona proved that this girl can kick ass. She is one of the fittest actresses in town and if anyone can portray the agility and dexterity of Elektra, it’s her. Plus she has jumped from one man to the next with the same agility she has shown in her gravity-defying filmi moves. Need we say more?
Who: Wonderwoman
Her powers: She can FLY. She also has the ability talk to animals. And she has a Magic Lasso (or Golden Lasso) that forces anyone it captures to OBEY and tell the truth.
*The actress:* We thought of Shilpa Shetty, Preity Zinta, Katrina Kaif and even Kajol but for some reason Hema Malini crept in our mind and somehow she as Wonderwoman felt apt.
Her whip wielding Basanti character in Sholay was no less an ability than the bullet deflecting Wonderwoman, wouldn't you agree?
So hailing the ball of femme fatales, you too unleash your inner Diva and let us know which superheroine or which superpower you would like to have?
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Actors turned Singers!
Britney Spears: We think it's safe to assume that all Disney stars who act, can sing as well. Whether they'll all make it as big as Britney Spears is something only time will tell. But Disney is not Btriney Spears only claim to fame on the screen. She had the 2002 dud 'Crossroads'. However, that's behind her now after her hit special appearances on sitcoms ranging from 'The Simpsons' to 'How I Met Your Mother'.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
WORLD'S LARGEST SNAKE
According to the sources of Indonesia, it is not an easy task to subdue such a gigantic snake. It usually needs an accumulation of 8 to 10 strong men’s energy to get hold of this snake. Previously, the Guinness World Records has recorded the world’s longest snake which has a length of 10m. However, this snake was shot in 1912 in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the scientists disclosed that the discovery of this world’s longest snake is the Southeast Asia’s indigenous snake. This snake is commonly seen in Indonesia, Philippines but generally its length hardly reached to such extend.
Monday, January 11, 2010
World's Biggest, Strongest & Tallest dog's
Vestalife Ladybug2 and Firefly
[CES 2010] You might remember Vestalife's ladybug, a very cool speaker system for iPod. At CES 2010, Vestalife has launched multiple new designs, including the LadyBug 2 and the very cool Firefly. All the new designs are bigger, which basically means "bigger" sound - not that the old one was bad. The new ones are also compatible with the new iPhones and iPod touch, so that's an upgrade that opens a lot of doors to Vestalife. Admit it, it’s cute no?
Friday, January 8, 2010
Light Touch Pico Projector Creates Touchscreen Out of Anything
Using a holographic laser projection (HLP) system, Light Touch displays images without scanning, resulting in a clearer picture. Since the company claims that the "image is always in focus," we picked it up, tilted it, and attempted to prove them wrong. But readers, LBO speaks the truth. Check out our hands on video after the break.Currently running both Windows CE and Adobe Flash Lite, Light Touch is a technology that software developers will be able to employ with relative ease. LBO announced at CES that Adobe, Toshiba, and Microsoft -- among others -- have all agreed to support further development of Light Touch applications.
The potential applications for Light Touch are untold. In our demo, we took a look at a prototype menu app, which restaurateurs could use in place of physical menus, allowing diners to order directly from the surface of a tabletop. A wall-mounted Light Touch acted as a virtual closet from which to pick a digital ensemble. On the consumer level, Light Touch would be ideal for the kitchen, enabling you to sift through recipes without the fear of dirtying a screen with greasy fingers. And since the Light Touch has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability, it's able to connect to back-end systems, as well as to the Internet. At this point, Light Touch boasts 2 gigabytes of flash memory to hold software and media, but that's sure to grow.
We did notice some lags and lockups (although minimal) in the interface, but we imagine these poor projectors must be completely exhausted from the throngs of tech nerds flocking to the LBO booth to play. After their six years in development, we expect those kinks to all be sorted out by the time it goes on sale. Unfortunately, we're not sure when that will be, or how much the thing will cost.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Hunting newborn tests for super-rare gene diseases
What doctors initially called cerebral palsy instead was a rare metabolic disorder assaulting his brain and muscles, yet one that's treatable if caught in time.
Urged by John's family, Duke University researchers are working on a way to test newborns for this disease, called GAMT deficiency. It's part of a growing movement to add some of the rarest of rare illnesses — with such names as bubble-boy disease, Pompe disease, Krabbe disease — to the battery of screenings given to U.S. babies hours after birth.
"There's other children out there that can be helped and be saved," says Melissa Klor, John's mother.
But just how many illnesses can that tiny spot of blood pricked from a baby's heel really turn up? And not all are treatable, so when is population-wide testing appropriate?
"Families go through these odysseys of diagnosis" to learn what's wrong with a child, says Dr. Alan Fleischman of the March of Dimes, who's part of a government advisory committee studying what to add to the national screening list. Often, "they argue that they would have been better off knowing even if there were no treatments."
Since 2004, specialists have urged that every U.S. newborn be tested for 29 rare but devastating genetic diseases, using that single heel-prick of blood, to catch the fraction who need fast treatment to avoid retardation, severe illness, even death. States gradually adopted those recommendations, and federal health officials say the testing catches about 5,000 babies a year with disorders ranging from sickle cell anemia to maple syrup urine disease and others with such tongue-twisting names that they go by acronyms like LCHAD.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Slowly vanishing tigers
Tigers are also majestic symbols for many ancient and modern cultures. Tiger images emblazon temples throughout Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet; every twelfth year of the Chinese calendar is dedicated to the tiger; and India’s national animal is also the namesake of Bangladesh’s national cricket team, The Bengal Tigers. Given the tremendous historical and cultural significance of these animals, it is tragically ironic that Asia’s “tiger economies” are now prospering at the expense of wild tigers.