Feb 7, 2011

Double Cell Phone Catches Rays To Run : No need to Charge

Double Cell Phone Catches Rays To Run

Double Cell Phone Catches Rays To Run

From design house ZTE Corporation comes the Double Cell phone, a solar-cell using design that lets you talk as long as the sun is up and store that power for use overnight.

Seemingly everyone has a cell phone these days, and is intent on using it as much as possible. From talking while driving, texting while at work or simply surfing the Internet while doing just about any imagined human activity, we’re a cell phone culture that just can’t get enough juice for our jabber.





Double Cell Phone Catches Rays To Run


Many cell users complain about the lack of battery life their favorite phone gets, and now the ZTC Corporation has come up with a way to make sure a phone never runs out of power. Their new “Double Phone” concept – a Red Dot Concept Design winner – features not only solar cells lining one side of the phone but a middle hinge that lets the phone fully flip in either direction.


Double Phone: seeking the sun.


The phone packs in a 3.2” screen, touch interface and transparent panel, enough to stack it up against some of the fancier offerings on the market, but the big selling point here is that it will need almost no charging. When the sun is up, the phone will not only work but be charging itself, and when the sun goes down the stored charge will be used to keep up the gift of gab.

So far, the Double Phone is concept rather than commercial, but we can see the sun shining favorably on this one.

Double Cell Phone Catches Rays To Run

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Visa restrictions: Who has most freedom to travel?

Visa restrictions: Who has most freedom to travel?

Visa restrictions: Who has most freedom to travel?




Visa restrictions: Who has most freedom to travel?

The ability to visit a foreign country without the cost and hassle of obtaining a visa is a welcome bonus for any traveller. It is also a barometer of a country's international alliances and relations. A report released on August 25th by Henley & Partners, a consultancy, shows that Britons have the fewest visa restrictions of the 190-odd countries (and territories) for which data are available.

Visa restrictions: Who has most freedom to travel?

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Butt out for 10 years, Asif 7 and Amir 5

Butt out for 10 years, Asif 7 and Amir 5
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been banned for 10, 7 and 5 years respectively after an ICC tribunal found them guilty of spot-fixing stemming from the Lord's Test against England last year. The sanctions against Butt and Asif have five and two years suspended, which means that the trio cannot play any official, sanctioned cricket, international or domestic, for a minimum of five years, until September 2015.

The suspended sentences on Butt and Asif have been made conditional on their making no further breaches of the code and participating in an anti-corruption education programme, under the auspices of the PCB.

Butt, who was captain during the series in England, received the maximum sentence but one charge against him - of batting out a maiden over during the Oval Test - was dismissed. However, he was found to have not disclosed an approach by Majeed that he should bat the maiden over. The other charges that were upheld relate to the subsequent Lord's Test, where Amir and Asif were found to have bowled deliberate no-balls and Butt was penalized for being party to that. Amir will appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration Sports, but the other two players have not yet said whether they will.

The announcement on Saturday evening followed a day of deliberations in Doha between the three-man tribunal - comprising the head Michael Beloff QC, Sharad Rao and Justice Albie Sachs - the players and their legal teams and the ICC's lawyers. The three players began the day requesting the tribunal for a deferral of any verdict, in light of the statement on Friday by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that the players might also face criminal charges relating to the Lord's Test as the result of a separate investigation carried out by British police. The players, who continued to maintain their innocence, argued that a judgment today by the tribunal could be prejudicial to any criminal trial in the UK, but the request was rejected.

The length of the sentences may be considered surprising to the extent that at least one life ban had been predicted beforehand. Now, in theory, the 26-year-old Butt could return after five years if he complies with the conditions of the verdict. Amir, who will only turn 19 in April, could also conceivably harbour hopes of a return, though in practical terms a five-year gap from any competitive cricket makes the prospect of a return that much more difficult. The situation is most bleak for Asif, who will be 33 by the time the minimum five years are up.

It must also be noted that not until the full judgment is released will the picture become fully clear, especially with regards to the nature of the rehabilitation programme they must undertake and the role the PCB will have in that. The tribunal asked the ICC to publish the full judgment as soon as possible and it is expected to happen tomorrow. The question, however, of whether or not the full judgment may be deemed prejudicial to any criminal proceedings in the UK still looms.

A member of the ICC legal team told ESPNcricinfo that it is "very happy with the fact that the players were convicted." But given that the governing body was pushing for maximum sanctions, there will be at least a tinge of disappointment within the governing body.

The tribunal also recommended that the ICC make "certain changes to the code with a view to providing flexibility in relation to minimum sentences in exceptional circumstances." The lawyers of Butt and Amir later said that the tribunal would've given lower punishments had their hands not "been tied" to the code's range of sanctions.

News of the World, the tabloid that broke the spot-fixing story this summer, released a statement of its own, saying that "it is now clear to everyone in the game that corruption will not be tolerated," and added that it will continue to assist the police in any way it can.

A number of Pakistani fans waited outside the Qatar Financial Centre, some for the entire nine-hour duration of the proceedings, and gave vociferous support to the players when they eventually came out. Amir, in fact, was mobbed and had to return inside the building briefly.
                                            

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12 Regular Kids That Did Heroic Things Around The World

  1. Haruko Maruno, Japan (12 yrs old)
    Invented a way to use an empty milk carton as a more environmentally-friendly doggy “poop scoop”.
  2. Omar Castillo Gallegos, Mexico (8 yrs old)
    Walked 800 miles to a rainforest in order to save it.
  3. Henry Cilly, USA (3rd grader)
    Got a construction company to care about turtles.
  4. Harshit Agrawal, India (10 yrs old)
    Made cloth bags out of old clothes and got people to use them instead of using plastic bags.
  5. Amy Beal, Australia (12 yrs old)
    Saved a dying river and its wildlife by educating and organizing other kids about water conservation.
  6. Aika Tsubota, Japan (10 yrs old)
    Created a comic book about the Earth and its environment that is now used as a text book in science classes.
  7. Santosh Yadov, India (16 yrs old)
    Started training herself and became the first Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest.
  8. Farliz Calle, Columbia (15 yrs old)
    Started the Children’s Peace Movement and despite death threats, mobilized 2.7 million young people to vote for “survival, peace, family, and freedom from abuse”.
  9. Ivan Sekulovic & Petrit Selimi, Serbia (15 yrs old)
    A Serbian and an Albanian boy formed a group of 600 kids to counter hatred.
  10. Melika Sanders, USA (15 yrs old)
    In 1996, Melika organized a peaceful sit-in to successfully stop Selma, Alabama schools from using color as a basis for separating students into remedial and advanced level classes. She then organized a campaign to get a corrupt mayor voted out of office.
  11. Jean-Dominic Leversque-Rene, Canada (10 yrs old)
    After getting cancer from a pesticide used to keep golf course lawns green, he convinced local government to get golf courses to significantly reduce their use of the pesticide. He extended his protest throughout Canada and the United States. Jean-Dominic won both his cause and his own fight over cancer.
  12. Iqbal Masih, Pakistan (12 yrs old)
    From the age of 4, Iqbal worked as slave labor in a carpet factory. After escaping at the age of 10, Iqbal told his story to help the world learn about the world’s 250 million child workers. He was shot and killed at the age of 12 in Pakistan.

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A Heart Touching Story

A Heart Touching Story

I was walking around in a Big Bazaar store making shopping, when I saw a Cashier talking to a boy couldn't have been more Than 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, 'I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll.
Then the little boy turned to me and asked: ''aunty, are you sure I don't have enough money?''
I counted his cash and replied: ''You know that you don't have enough money to buy the doll, my dear.'' The little boy was Still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to. 'It's the Doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much. I wanted to Gift her for her BIRTHDAY. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.' His eyes were so sad while saying this. 'My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.
'' My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said: 'I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall.'
Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing.
He then told me 'I want mommy to take my picture with her so my sister won't forget me.'
'I love my mommy and I wish she doesn't have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister...' Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly. I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. 'Suppose we check again, Just in case you do have enough money for the doll?''
'OK' he said, 'I hope I do have enough..'
I added some of my money to his with out him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money. The little boy said: 'Thank you God for giving me enough money!' Then he looked at me and added, 'I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give It to my sister. He heard me!'' 'I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much.
But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. My mommy loves white roses.' I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl.
The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma. Was this the family of the little boy? Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away.....
I couldn't stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wishes before her burial. She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest. I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed for ever. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.

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Abbasi History : Cast History In Pakistan

Abbasi History : History of Abbasi cast

Abbasi History : Cast History In Pakistan

Abbasid was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim empire, that overthrew the Umayyid caliphs. It seized power in 758, when it finally defeated the Umayyads in battle, and flourished for two centuries, but slowly went into eclipse with the rise to power of the Turkish army they had created, the Mamluks. Their claim to power was finally ended in 1258, when Hulagu Khan, the Mongol general, sacked Baghdad. While they continued to claim authority in religious matters from their base in Egypt, their dynasty was ended.

Revolt against the Umayyads

The Abbasid caliphs officially based their claim to the Caliphate on their descent from Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (AD 566-652), one of the youngest uncles of the Prophet Muhammad, by virtue of which descent they regarded themselves as the rightful heirs of the Prophet as opposed to the Umayyads. The Umayyads were descended from Umayya, and were a clan separate from Muhammad’s in the Quraish tribe.
The Abassids also distinguished themselves from the Umayyads by attacking their secularism, their moral character and their administration in general. The Abassids also appealed to non-Arab Muslims, known as mawali, who remained outside the kinship-based society of Arab culture and were at best second-class citizens within the Umayyad empire. Muhammad ibn ‘Ali, a great-grandson of Abbas, began to campaign for the return of power to the family of the Prophet, the Hashimites, in Persia during the reign of Umar II, Muhammad ibn Ali.
During the reign of Marwan II this opposition culminated in the rebellion of Ibrahim the Imam, the fourth in descent from Abbas, who, supported by the province of Khorasan, achieved considerable successes, but was captured (AD 747) and died in prison (as some hold, assassinated). The quarrel was taken up by his brother Abdallah, known by the name of Abu al-’Abbas as-Saffah, who, after a decisive victory on the Greater Zab river (750), finally crushed the Umayyads and was proclaimed Caliph.

Consolidation and Schisms

The Abassids had depended heavily on the support of Persians in their overthrow of the Umayyads. Abu al-’Abbas’ successor, Mansur, moved their capital from Damascus to the new city of Baghdad and welcomed non-Arab Muslims to their court. While this helped integrate Arab and Persian cultures, it alienated many of their Arab supporters, particularly the Khorosanian Arabs who had supported them in their battles against the Umayyads.
These fissures in their support led to immediate problems. The Umayyads, while out of power, were not destroyed. Reestablishing themselves in Spain) in 756, they not only declared a rival caliphate, but sponsored a Moorish culture that was dramatically different from the fusion of Arab and Persian culture under the Abassids.
The Abassids also found themselves at odds with the Shia, many of whom had supported their war against the Umayyads, since the Abassids claimed legitimacy by their familial connection to Muhammed. Once in power, the Abassids embraced Sunni Islam and disavowed any support for Shi’a beliefs. That led to numerous conflicts, culminating in an uprising in Mecca in 786, followed by widespread bloodshed and the flight of many Shi’a to the Maghreb, where the survivors established the Idrisid kingdom. Shortly thereafter Berber Kharjites set up an independent state in North Africa in 801.
At the same time the Abassids faced challenges closer to home. The Byzantine Empire was fighting Abassid rule in Syria and Anatolia. Former supporters of the Abassids had broken away to create a separate kingdom around Khorosan in northern Persia. Harun al-Rashid (786 – 809) added to these troubles by turning on the Barmakids, the Persian family that had supplied the caliphate with competent administrators, over a personal dispute.

The Mamluks

Faced with these challenges from within, the Abassids decided to create an army loyal only to their caliphate, drawn mostly from Turkish slaves, known as Mamluks, with some Slavs and Berbers participating as well. This force, created in the reign of al-Ma’mun (813 – 833), and his brother and successor al-Mu’tasim (833 – 842), prevented the further distintegration of the empire.
It also, however, led to the ultimate eclipse of Abassid rule. The creation of this foreign army and al-Mu’tasim’s transfer of the capital from Baghdad to Samarra created a division between the caliphate and the peoples they claimed to rule. In addition, the power of the Mamluks steadily grew until al-Radi (934 – 941) was constrained to hand over most of the royal functions to Mahommed bin Raik. In the following years the Buyids, who were Shi’ites, seized power over Baghdad, ruling central Iraq for more than a century before being overthrown by the Seljuq Turks. In the same period, the Hamdanids, another Shi’ite dynasty, came to power in northern Iraq, leading to a tremendous expansion of Shi’a influence. In the process the Abassid caliphs became no more than figureheads.

Learning under the Abassid Dynasty

The reigns of Harun al-Rashid (786 – 809) and his successors fostered an age of great intellectual achievement. In large part this was the result of the schismatic forces that had undermined the Umayyad regime, which relied on the assertion of the superiority of Arab culture as part of its claim to legitimacy, and the Abassids’ welcoming of support from non-Arab Muslims.
A number of medieval thinkers and scientists living under Islamic rule, many of them non-Muslims or heretical Muslims, played a role in transmitting Greek, Hindu, and other pre-Islamic knowledge to the Christian West. They contributed to making Aristotle known in Christian Europe. In addition the period saw the recovery of much of the Alexandrian mathematical, geometric and astronomical knowledge, such as that of Euclides and Claudius Ptolemy, and these recovered mathematical methods were later enhanced and developed by other Islamic scholars, notably by Al-Biruni, and Abu Nasr Mansur, who are thought to have first derived the Cosine rule and applied it to spherical geometry.
Three speculative thinkers, the Persians al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Avicenna, combined Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism with other ideas introduced through Islam.

Abbasi History : History of Abbasi cast

The End of the Caliphate

Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad on (February 10, 1258), causing great loss of life. Al-Musta’sim, the last reigning Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad was then executed on February 20, 1258. The Abbasids still maintained a feeble show of authority, confined to religious matters, in Egypt under the Mamelukes, but the dynasty finally disappeared with Motawakkil III, who was carried away as a prisoner to Constantinople by Selim I.

Abbasid Caliphs of Baghdad

* Abu’l Abbas As-Saffah 750 – 754
* Al-Mansur 754 – 775
* Al-Mahdi 775 – 785
* Al-Hadi 785 – 786
* Harun al-Rashid 786 – 809
* Al-Amin 809 – 813
* Al-Ma’mun 813 – 833
* Al-Mu’tasim 833 – 842
* Al-Wathiq 842 – 847
* Al-Mutawakkil 847 – 861
* Al-Muntasir 861 – 862
* Al-Musta’in 862 – 866
* Al-Mu’tazz 866 – 869
* Al-Muhtadi 869 – 870
* Al-Mu’tamid 870 – 892
* Al-Mu’tadid 892 – 902
* Al-Muktafi 902 – 908
* Al-Muqtadir 908 – 932
* Al-Qahir 932 – 934
* Ar-Radi 934 – 940
* Al-Muttaqi 940 – 944
* Al-Mustakfi 944 – 946
* Al-Muti 946 – 974
* At-Ta’i 974 – 991
* Al-Qadir 991 – 1031
* Al-Qa’im 1031 – 1075
* Al-Muqtadi 1075 – 1094
* Al-Mustazhir 1094 – 1118
* Al-Mustarshid 1118 – 1135
* Ar-Rashid 1135 – 1136
* Al-Muqtafi 1136 – 1160
* Al-Mustanjid 1160 – 1170
* Al-Mustadi 1170 – 1180
* An-Nasir 1180 – 1225
* Az-Zahir 1225 – 1226
* Al-Mustansir 1226 – 1242
* Al-Musta’sim 1242 – 1258

Abbasid Caliphs in Cairo

* Al-Mustansir 1261
* Al-Hakim I 1262-1302
* Al-Mustakfi I 1302-1340
* Al-Wathiq I 1340-1341
* Al-Hakim II 1341-1352
* Al-Mu’tadid I 1352-1362
* Al-Mutawakkil I 1362-1383
* Al-Wathiq II 1383-1386
* Al-Mu’tasim 1386-1389
* Al-Mutawakkil I (restored) 1389-1406
* Al-Musta’in 1406-1414
* Al-Mu’tadid II 1414-1441
* Al-Mustakfi II 1441-1451
* Al-Qa’im 1451-1455
* Al-Mustanjid 1455-1479
* Al-Mutawakkil II 1479-1497
* Al-Mustamsik 1497-1508
* Al-Mutawakkil III 1508-1517

Abbasi History : History of Abbasi cast

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