Bill Gates sells 5m shares in Microsoft

Software giant's founder has sold 90m shares in 12 months, but still has 500m; cash goes to help his foundation's charitable work

Bill Gates sells 5 million shares to fund the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Bill Gates has sold another 5 million of his Microsoft shares, according to a regulatory filing.

Microsoft's multi-billionaire founder has been selling shares in recent months. He is the company's non-executive chairman, having stepped back from running the software firm in 2008 to concentrate on his charity work.

According to the filing, Gates sold 5m shares in Microsoft at an average $27.59 each on July 27. He has sold more than 90m Microsoft shares in the past 12 months.

Gates still has more than 500m shares in the company, but has decreased his shareholding over the last two years to fund his charitable endeavours and to diversify his portfolio.

This week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it was making $42m available for eight universities to develop a toilet that does not need a sewer connection, water or electricity to operate. The ain is to improve people's health in parts of the world where there are few if any flushable toilets.

He is also backing research into improving education. "Every student needs a meaningful credential beyond high school," Gates said in a speech last week. "Higher education is crucial for jobs," he said, calling education an equaliser in society and the answer to getting urban America back to work and fighting poverty.

Forbes magazine estimates Gates's fortune at $56bn. Once the world's richest man, he is now second to Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim after giving away a large chunk of his fortune to his charity.

Gates and long-time friend Warren Buffett have pledged to give away the majority of their fortunes to charity before their deaths, and have convinced a host of other billionaires, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, to follow suit.

source : www.guardian.co.uk

NASA probe poised for launch to Jupiter

(Reuters) - A NASA satellite was hoisted aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednesday in preparation for launch next week on an unprecedented mission to the heart of Jupiter.

The robotic probe called Juno is scheduled to spend one year cycling inside Jupiter's deadly radiation belts, far closer than any previous orbiting spacecraft, to learn how much water the giant planet holds, what triggers its vast magnetic fields and whether a solid core lies beneath its dense, hot atmosphere.

"Jupiter holds a lot of key secrets about how we formed," said lead scientist Scott Bolton, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Scientists believe Jupiter was the first planet to form after the birth of the sun, though exactly how that happened is unknown. One key piece of missing data is how much water is inside the giant planet, which circles the sun five times farther away than Earth.

Jupiter, like the sun, is comprised primarily of hydrogen and helium, with a sprinkling of other elements, like oxygen. Scientists believe the oxygen is bound with hydrogen to form water, which can be measured by microwave sounders, one of eight science instruments on Juno.

Jupiter's water content is directly tied to where -- and how -- the planet formed. Some evidence points to a planet that grew in the colder nether-regions of the solar system and then migrated inward. Other computer models show Jupiter formed at about its present location by accumulating ancient icy snowballs.

LARGER THAN SISTER PLANETS

However it grew, Jupiter ended up with a mass more than twice all its sister planets combined, giving it the gravitational muscle to hang on to nearly all of its original building materials.

"That's why it's very interesting to us if we want to go back in time and understand where we came from and how the planets were made" -- which Juno can help NASA do, Bolton said.

Juno's journey to Jupiter will take five years. Upon arrival in July 2016, Juno will thread itself into a narrow region between the planet and the inner edge of its radiation belt. The solar-powered probe will then spend a year orbiting over Jupiter's poles, coming as close as 3,100 miles above its cloud tops.

Only an atmospheric probe released by Galileo, NASA's last Jupiter spacecraft, has come closer, though that spacecraft was able to relay data for only 58 minutes before succumbing to the planet's crushing pressure and intense heat.

Juno's electronic heart is protected in a vault of titanium, but it too will fall to the harsh Jovian radiation environment after about a year. Juno's last move will be to dive into the planet's atmosphere to avoid any chance of contaminating Jupiter's potentially life-bearing moons.

Juno's launch is scheduled for August 5. The spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics of Denver, Colorado. The mission, the second in NASA's lower-cost, quick-turnaround New Frontiers planetary expeditions, will cost $1.1 billion.

source : uk.reuters.com

Manchester United have post-Sir Alex Ferguson plan, says David Gill

Manchester United chief executive David Gill (right) with Seattle Sounders owner Joe Roth pose before the pre-season friendly between their clubs. Photograph: John Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images

David Gill, the Manchester United chief executive, has acknowledged he will always be unpopular with some supporters – the "anti-people", as he describes them – but he has spoken of his belief that the Glazer family have now won over the majority of the club's fans.

Gill, describing the Glazers as "genuinely long-term owners", reiterated the point by revealing that he and the American owners already have a strategy in place for when Sir Alex Ferguson retires. He said: "What we're trying to do is make sure we get the quality of team and the correct age profile so the new manager coming in, whoever that might be, has the nucleus of a world-class team."

Gill expects the Glazers to still be in control when Ferguson ends his long association with the club, but he was candid enough to accept that his comments would go down badly among the fans who were involved in the green-and-gold protest movement.

"We are never going to win [over] those people," he said. "If we won four European Cups in a row, there will be certain people who won't like the owners and what they stand for. The anti-people were here before the Glazers. But we are running the club for the vast majority of millions of fans around the world who believe the club is moving in the right direction.

"The minority – Must [Manchester United Supporters' Trust] etc – will always be against it, but the vast majority can't be dissatisfied with the seasons we've had [under the Glazers]."

The campaign against the Glazers has become less visible, in Gill's words, "once the Red Knights went away," referring to the consortium of businessmen who embarked on a failed bid to buy the club. "The green-and-gold campaign has not disappeared completely, but it has died down dramatically during the past season and we move on," he said.

Gill, speaking on the club's pre-season tour of the United States, dismissed the allegation that the Glazers, with an average net spend of £2.5m in their first six seasons, had not backed Ferguson sufficiently in the transfer market, citing the arrival of Ashley Young, David de Gea and Phil Jones for a combined £50m this summer. "One thing the owners have never shied away from is supporting Alex in terms of investment."

Similarly, he rejected the argument that the Florida-based businessmen had unfairly hiked ticket prices. "They are sensible prices to watch top-class entertainment and players worth millions on view. Other clubs have clearly raised their prices more than us," he said.

Gill has been singled out for particular criticism because of the way he fought against the Glazer takeover in 2005, once infamously saying that "debt was the road to ruin", before siding with the new owners and turning against the supporters' groups he had previously backed. "You say I did a volte-face, but we are going back many years now," he said. "Directors and chief executives aren't often liked, but I am trying to look after the employers and the fans, and there will always be an element among the fans who don't like you."

At times the anger has manifested itself in something more sinister, with graffiti appearing on his house and several incidents that have led to increased security. "It has calmed down now. It would be naive to say you don't want it to happen, not necessarily for yourself but because of your young children, but you just move on. I have never sought a profile; I just try to do my best for the club."

His son, Oliver, was booed when he was named as a substitute for one match, and has recently turned down the offer of a contract with the club to go to university. Gill, however, says it is unrelated. "He did take some stick, but he is quite a strong character. I don't think he ever thought like that."

Going into a season during which Ferguson will turn 70 and mark his 25th anniversary at the club, Gill talked about himself and the Glazers planning ahead to when the most successful manager in the business retires. "There won't be meltdown. It will clearly be a sea change for the club and we have to be ready."

He will be in charge of appointing the successor, although Ferguson will also be heavily involved. "I will co-ordinate the process, but, clearly, I will take great store in what he [Ferguson] says and what other key people at the club say. The owners will clearly have a view. All these things will come together. It would be a collective body, not a big body, but we would get all the input to make sure we make the appropriate choice."

There was no one in mind yet, he added, and he was unclear when Ferguson would stand down. "We never discuss it, put it that way. He delegates well and football keeps him young."

Source : www.guardian.co.uk

Animal experiments increase 1%

Scientists are breeding more GM mice. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

More than 3.7m scientific procedures were carried out using animals in 2010, an increase of around 100,000 on the previous year, according to data released by the Home Office. The rise is largely due to the production of more genetically modified mice and greater use of fish in basic biological and medical research.

Excluding the 1.6m procedures involving the breeding of GM animals – mostly mice – the 2010 total was up by 1% from 2009. The number of procedures is not equivalent to the number of animals used – one animal might undergo several procedures, and the act of breeding a genetically modified animal counts as a procedure in itself.

"If we exclude genetically manipulated breeding, there's an increase of less than 1% in the total numbers," said Judy McArthur Clark, chief inspector at the Animals Scientific Procedures Inspectorate of the Home Office. "That's largely due to the increase in the use of fish. Fish numbers went up by 23%, about 93,000 animals. That's more than the 1% increase, which means there's an accompanying decrease in other species."

Professor Dominic Wells, of the neuromuscular disease group at the Royal Veterinary College, said one of the reasons that scientists are breeding more GM mice is because they have refined their procedures. "Instead of creating animals that are adversely affected by the genetic modifications, we will very often keep two lines of mice, neither of which show an adverse phenotype until they are crossed. You can therefore generate precisely the number that you need in order to conduct that experiment. By breeding two lines we increase the number of animals used but we decrease the overall severity of what we're doing."

Primates, dog, cats and horses get special protection under the law and the total number of procedures on these groups was 19,773, around 0.5% of the total. Among the non-human primates, there was a 10% increase in procedures since 2009, though the number of actual animals used has dropped, according to McArthur Clark.

"The main change in the number of procedures is accounted for by new-world primates, such as marmosets, and the main reason for the increase is that it's a very fluctuating figure. The baseline numbers are quite small – one extra experiment or study in the year can actually have quite an impact on the numbers. Mainly these animals are used for collections of blood and tissue that are then used in pharmaceutical R&D. The number of old-world primates, macaques, the numbers have come down there, minus 2% on the numbers for 2009."

Procedures using dogs dropped by 2% – most of these were purpose-bred beagles mostly used in pharma development and safety evaluation - while the procedures on cats dropped by 32%.

There was also a fall of 11% in the number of animals used in toxicological tests, as a greater proportion of tests can now be used to satisfy more than one regulatory requirement.

Professor Roger Morris, head of the school of biomedical sciences at Kings College London, said 90% of his work was done with individual molecules and cells in culture. "But real diseases are diseases of the whole body, and can only be studied in the whole body. To take the example of Parkinson's – a disease that is very common and devastating. Part of this disease is a dopamine deficiency in the neurons, but the underlying cause is a complex set of interactive problems, that probably involves an inflammatory or autoimmune component. Thus we need to understand the interaction between two very complex bodily systems – the brain, and the immune system, to understand the defects causing this multi–tissue, multi–step disease. We can't study that in tissue culture of individual cells."

Barney Reed, senior scientist at the RSPCA, described the rise in procedures as "astonishing", pointing out that they equated to a 37% increase in animal use over the past decade. He also raised concerns over the implementation of a new EU directive on animal research into UK law that would legally allow the UK to drop its standards in many areas of inspection and practice in the use of animals. "A watered-down law could mean laboratory animals in the UK being allowed to suffer 'long-lasting, unalleviated, severe pain, suffering or distress', it could allow some animals such as dogs to be kept in even smaller housing, and some UK laboratories may not be visited by Home Office officials for years at a time – this is simply unacceptable," he said.

Martin Walsh, head of the Home Office's animals scientific procedure division, said he welcomed the EU directive because it would raise standards across the continent to the UK level. "We're ahead of the game in lots of areas. It's not going to reduce the protection of animals in the UK."

He added that the Home Office was also looking at ways to meet a commitment in the government's coalition agreement, which pledged to reduce the use of animals in scientific research and end the testing of household products on animals. Officials hope to publish a consultation on their ideas before the summer recess of parliament, said Walsh.

Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk

Beaches in the World of Colorful sand

Almost everyone would be swayed when enjoying the symphony of sighs a breeze and the roar of the waves that frame the expanse of white sand and smooth. Sand and beautiful sheen exposed to the sun's rays in the morning, afternoon, evening, even when the full moon to say hello.

Try if it is done when both of us.... certainly a very romantic view of Blue Ocean off without borders, pamper our eyes after all this time staring at the bustle of the life of the world. Beautiful is not it?

But did you know? This was probably limited to our knowledge, in various parts of the earth. Apparently there is a difference on a beach, on sand beaches with colors and textures are a little different but instead it brings freshness and magic of your vacation.
But where would the colors of sweet that bind the sand come from? Of course instead of food coloring, but from solid minerals and other earth materials are destroyed thanks to the linkage between the onslaughts of the waves with the earth's surface until into small granules. And the sheen of coolness Hawaii to California, these four beach with sand the color of the most remarkable. We have not been there most often Kuta Bali is no less beautiful, but what if we consider together.

Green sand beach in Papakolea, Hawaii

Papakolea coast that is rich in the mineral olivine (one of the main elements produced by deposits of volcanic lava in Hawaii) has an indentation that was almost like a sand-colored cone-cylinder with a surreal dark green, lies like a meadow. This beach can be found in the southern Big Island, protected by a fairly high hill.


Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur area, California, the sandy mauve.

At night, when moonlight bouncing off slowly, then the manganese particles that colored the sand until you see the purple will look radiant, and its reflections on the water surface looks like the aurora. Stretches from the southern coast stretches to the north, the color of the sand will gradually appear more and more concentrated. In daylight, the color still looks stunning.

Pink sand beach in Harbour Island, Bahamas

Sand in the area of Harbour Island is made from natural formula that consists of little pieces of coral, shells, and calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates are very small, as well as the secret ingredient in the form of additional content Foraminifera, a microscopic amoeba that has a body shell red or bright pink. With patience which only the nature, processes millions of years produces a grain of sand beach was beautiful, flushed pink.

Glass sandy beach at Fort Bragg, California

Locations that had once been a garbage dump has now been transformed into one of the manmade beach of the most stunning in the world. The process of tidal beach that has been running for several decades has been smooth shards of glass up to become a comfortable jagged crystal grains in the foot. Expanse of glass pebbles which in league with a grain of sand Fort Bragg is one of the tourist destinations you must visit among all the brilliant dazzle of California Cities.

Exotic Night Light Fireflies

Firefly beetle is included in the family of the order Coleoptera. There are over 2000 species of fireflies are dispersed in the tropics worldwide. They can be found in damp places, such as swamps and areas filled with trees.
In humid areas that fireflies find many sources of food for the larvae.

We know that the fireflies come out at night, but there are also fireflies are active in the daytime. Those who come out during the day is not generally give off light. Only a few fireflies are able to give off light when in the dark.

But why yes, fireflies give off light? How do they hold the heat generated by light?That unique firefly! The light they produce light without heat are called luminescence.

Luminescence in the firefly's body produced by a substance called luciferin. Well, this substance luciferin combines with oxygen to give off light.

You know, even though scientists have been able to make the same type of light produced by fireflies, scientists still have to take some elements from the body of the firefly, because the chemists have not been able to make such substances. It is still a mystery of nature until now.

Baby fireflies

In the adult fireflies, in addition to warning signs of danger, light on his serve to draw attention to their partner. Not only adult fireflies, baby firefly larvae which still form also give off light. Light on the larvae are useful to warn other animals that would prey on them not to close.

After mating, the female firefly will lay its eggs under the soil surface. The eggs will hatch into larvae after 3-4 weeks and will continue to be fed until the summer ends.After approximately 1-2 weeks from the end of the summer, the larvae will turn into pupa and then turns into an adult firefly.


Being Lantern

As in some other animals, fireflies also has significance in some of the legends and culture. In Mayan mythology, fireflies are often associated with the star. The fireflies are also considered to represent the messengers of god Mayan temples.

Ancient Chinese people often put fireflies in a transparent box for later use as a lantern. While the Japanese culture and folklore, fireflies have the same meaning as great as the famous Sakura flower.

Well, if you see a firefly in flight, fireflies are certainly male sex. Why so? Yes, because only male fireflies that have wings, while the female clung to the leaves and soil.

Goat Twins Without Legs!

Parjiyo 45 Years old, villagers Srihardono, Pundong District, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, do not expect the maintenance of goats gave birth to twins without legs.

Both kid-sexes male and female was born on Friday (7/15/2011) ago. At that time, Parjiyo just returned from the field and was about to feed the goats in the barn beside his house.

Arriving in the goat pen, he was surprised that the kid is born no legs. "I raise goats since five years ago and had twice the oddity of this happening. The first two children of the tail, one has no legs. Now both of them do not even have legs," said Parjiyo.

Furthermore, Parjiyo explains, stem from bringing goats goat's Church Patalan, earth earthquake relief in May 2006. At first he only kept two tails, is now bred into six tails.

Responding to the strangeness of this, had no inkling Parjiyo admitted anything because of pregnancy the mother goat was also normal. For him, this event is considered as an oddity.

Now, the magic, it makes a lot of residents in local villages to be surprised and flocked to witness this strange goat. Because the parent does not want to breastfeed, were forced to use a pacifier for breastfeeding Parjiyo two goat kids.

It has been five days he buys fresh milk from dairy farms, not far from his home. Although slightly disappointed, Parjiyo intend to continue to nurture the kid without legs can.

If someone wants to buy it, then he would give that up. "Actually I was disappointed because it had trouble maintaining and give us to eat, how birth defects such as this," said Parjiyo.

A White Two-headed Snake New Stars Ukraine

A two-headed snake that can eat from both his mouth and even fighting over food, anew star at the zoo Ukraine.

California King snake this albino, as reported by the Straits Times, is a new occupant resort on the Black Sea, Yalta. Zoo keeper like him because of self-and second head does not always agree with each other and often steal food.

"Sometimes they want to go a different direction. When hungry, they were stealing food, "said zoo owner, Oleg Zubkov.

However, a guard out in the end they remain full due to sharing the same stomach. King snake hunting other reptiles, so do not rule out one head wanted to eat the other head.

Source : www.dunia-unik.com

Google's Android Not Owned?

Android was originally or formerly owned by Google is not really.
Google's acquisition of Android.

The range of 2005, Google bought Android, Inc., a small company that just had to grow based in Palo Alto, California.
Some people go there once worked at Google, such as Rich Miner, co-founder Wilfire Communications, then there is Andy Rubin, founder of Danger [enterprise software services], Chris White, an engineer on the Web TV and Nick Sears, a former VP at T-Mobile.
Rubin and his colleagues began developing the Linux-based operating system for mobile phones and other mobile devices.

Their main target is to handset developers and operators.
According to Google the information, move the acquisition is a brilliant idea.
Throughout the history of Google, it is the right step and the most profitable companies.
Indirectly Android Andy Rubin as co-inventor and becoming part of the history of Google's products, as well as have responsibility for the continuity of the open source operating system.
Together with his team, Rubin was able to demonstrate that they can make Android be the center of attention at the time.

Andy Rubin

At first David Lawee who served as vice president of corporate development, was hesitant with his decision.
Because for two years after the acquisition, Rubin has not produced a commensurate payoff for Google.
Finally, Lawee have raised two thumbs up for Rubin with the advent of smart phones that rely on Android operating system as the basis in the not long after.
As we think they are also successful with the business.

Moreover, Android is a system that is easy to operate, is quite flexible and upgradeable.
Time passed, and the right moment for the world to witness the entry of Google's mobile phone to the market, as it will appear soon followed by rumors of new handsets branded Google.
Android handset that we encounter today.

Source : bopfive5.blogspot.com

Make your memory stronger

Check out the top 10 ways to keep your brain waves active and your memory strong.

1. Brain food
Don’t let yourself run on empty. A balanced diet will help keep your mind running strong all day long. Make sure to include plenty of fruits and leafy green vegetables. They are loaded with essential antioxidants and nutrients to boost your brain power. Some of the best foods for thought include: blueberries, blackberries, fish and fish oils, eggs, spinach, strawberries and almonds.

2. Exercise
Get your body moving and your memory will soon follow. Exercise improves the heart’s blood flow. This, in turn, helps the brain function better and stay sharper. Studies have also found that cardiovascular exercises done over a long period of time help reduce the amount of brain tissue you lose as you age.

3. Brain Games
Unscramble your memory with Scrabble. Intellectually stimulating activities and games such as Scrabble, crossword puzzles and trivia games are great for boosting your memory. Have fun and challenge your brain with these fun memory games.

4. Pick Up a Book
The key to keeping your memory sharp is to continue to challenge it. Try to always have a book in hand. After you’re done reading a chapter or two, question and review the material you’ve read. Try to imagine what you’re reading. Discuss what you’ve read, and talk about it with friends or join a book club.

5. Take a Sip Down Memory Lane
Coffee is good for more than just getting you out of bed in the morning. Researches have found the stimulant affect of caffeine can help boost memory. Studies have also found that key enzymes found in green and black teas help improve memory functions.

6. Cultivate interest
We tend to remember the things that we enjoy. Find ways to make a boring subject fun by associating it to something you already know. If you have to remember a list, try to make a fun sentence out of the first letters of each item or try categorizing things into a group. You can also use your imagination and create a fun story behind a subject to help make it easier to remember.

7. Catch some those Zzzz’s
Sleep plays a critical role in your physiological function and is vital for your intellectual development. Memory failure is a common occurrence for many sleep-deprived individuals. A study conducted at the University of Luebeck found that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep.

8. Repeat After Me
When learning new information, the more you repeat it, the more likely you will be able to recall that information. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory.

9. Give It a Beat
Music not only helps trigger memories of past events, but also stimulates learning skills. Music has also been shown to help retain information and provide multiple modes of information retrieval.

10. Pick Your Own Brain and Share it with Others
Don’t keep your knowledge stored up. Teaching others is another great way to boost memory skills. You should also become your own teacher. Don’t be afraid of taking on new challenges. You might not be in school anymore but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t test yourself. After you learn something, it’s important to put the new information to use.

IBM Software Executive Briefing Center

IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in Rome has been completely renovated and has significantly expanded its territory. The entire project, designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini and his studio, outlines the "strip" the famous IBM logo with an innovative and exciting ways.

Advanced Audiovisual Technologies who have been carefully chosen to give guests an experience with who added value and high comfort.

IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in Rome is located within the same structure that hosts an international laboratory for the development of the IBMSoftware Group and provides all the tools to explore IBM's technology and innovative solutions in a new and exciting atmosphere.

IBM Software Executive Briefing Program is designed to provide professionally managed activities and to maximize the value of time that consumers spend time at IBM. Each "briefing" typically includes presentations and demonstrations, to bring consumers to run an activity that they follow. Listen, discuss and describe how IBM's new technology can help in facing and solving technical and business issues, get people away from the traditional concept of communication, to get closer to where the comparison is useful: a new agora.

Sources: plusmood.com

Inside Ins USA Air Force One

Actually, Air Force One is not a brand or type of aircraft. But Air Force One is a code name for the plane owned by U.S. Air Force (U.S. Air Force), which climbed by the President of the United States.
So all that such US-owned aircraft in an emergency ride to the president, then his name to "Air Force One". Code name serves to distinguish between aircraft that are being ridden with the American President who did not.

Likewise, when the American president to travel by land, known by the code name "Army One". Meanwhile while riding a helicopter (owned by U.S. Marine), then the code name is "Marine One".

Even so, the U.S. government still has a president and a special vehicle for each vehicle that has a code name. The vehicles are routinely used and later President of the American community known as Marine One (helicopter), Army One (armored vehicle), and Air Force One (the aircraft).

Its Origin And the ins and outs of Air Force One


The U.S. government began to think a presidential plane when the time of President Theodore Roosevelt in the 1910s. At that time, the duties of the President of the United States is getting more and need a special aircraft to support its performance.

Now, aboard Air Force One there are two pieces, all made by Boeing. Kind is the 740-200 jumbo jet engine with the serial number VC-25A. Two planes are almost identical, both color and shape. The difference lies in the number on the tail, namely 28 000 and 29 000.

Each plane has four jet engines CF6-80C2B1 electrically. Speed limit is between 630 and 700 miles per hour with a maximum flying height is 45,100 feet. Air Force One carrying 53,611 gallons of fuel and capable of around half the world without refueling in flight once.

If the White House President to work in the Oval Office, then in the Air Force One, the presidential compound called the Presidential Suite located on the front of the plane. In the area of 'belonging' president are available bedrooms, bathroom and lounge. Like an office, the president's senior staff was also given their own workspace. In addition it is also available with a fairly large conference room to discuss important matters.

In flight procedures they also have strict standards. Before Air Force One flying, thorough preparation done on this plane. All devices checked the plane, reportedly even the crew that was already selected, will be lodged for days at Andrew Air Force Base before the day of departure.

A few days before Air Force One landed at a destination, the U.S. Air Force first send a C141 Star lifter cargo plane. This aircraft contains van for the guards, presidential car, weapons and equipment. While in the air too, Air Force One will be escorted by at least two fighter planes.

To maintain security, ahead of the landing of Air Force One, the entire flight in the landing site will be clean. Nothing else should a plane landed before Air Force One landed smoothly.

Sometimes the flight line clearance takes at least half an hour or more. Since the troublesome procedures of Air Force One flight, no wonder these rare aircraft landed at a commercial airport, but at the air base.

Inside the aircraft, the President and his staff are in room 4000 square foot room that consists of three floors, including room suite for the office of President of a large, tub, and meeting rooms. Air Force One has a medical room suite that can serve as an operating room, and doctors permanently. The aircraft is also capable of preparing food for 100 people at once

In addition to the presidential plane, Air Force One could also function as a bunker fly. Until now nobody U.S. officials know the exact details of the parts inside. The aircraft is able to withstand the brunt of the missile attacks and nuclear electromagnetic pulses.

Thus, Air Force One is no longer just a presidential executive jet aircraft. This aircraft has increased the status of a bunker move that always suspect that any place that will stop off at a place that was safe and highly vulnerable to attack.

For that reason do not be surprised if the convoy planes, helicopters, transport vehicles and the U.S. President has also been arranged so that each potential murderer - including the journalists who chase fooled. Air Force One, for example, not allowed to visit a country alone. He is always accompanied by another aircraft that has a similar shape.

Source : kaskus.us

The world's most expensive nail polish

Nail into the lifestyle of modern women. Its function is no longer simply beautify the fingers and toes, but also indicates the wearer's social class.

Proved by the appearance of nail polish products 'the Models Own Gold Rush' for U.S.$ 132 thousand. Nail polish with a price 'exorbitant' aims to emphasize the economic power of the wearer.

What makes it expensive nail polish? Certainly not the raw material, because even though showing a shiny gold color, nail polish does not contain gold.

What makes the product expensive nail polish just the packaging? Just imagine, gold-colored nail polish is housed in a tiny glass bottle cap studded with 1118 diamonds. This exclusive product can be obtained at the boutique jewelry Frost of London, London, England.

The appearance of the product is even evocative of 'creativity' beauty industry players to make a replica. With the appearance as closely as possible, these counterfeit products will be marketed with a super-economical price i.e. £ 5.

So, if you are interested in buying an original or replica versions?
Source : Kaskus.us

Apparently Google Brain Blunt. Why?

The results of recent studies have revealed a surprising fact. The more often a person using Google, the more 'blunt' brain person. Why?

The study results are published in research journal Science stated, Google is making people more stupid. This conclusion is based on the results of the study 'Google’s Effects on Memory: Cognitive consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips’ Betsy Sparrow carried from the Columbian University that examines when and how transitive memory access.

As is known, a few popular sites are the diggers of data (a search engine like Google or Yahoo) or data storage (such as Wikipedia or IMBD). At these sites, the amount of data generated each year increased exponentially.

That is, no one else can know everything about something like an ancient era. Able to export knowledge and remember it whenever, you are able to release more brain power to do important things, including thinking and creativity, which requires more than just the storage capacity.

Furthermore, too often use sites like Google will make the untrained brain and make the ability to slow down.

Almost in the Arctic Ozone hole

Ozone continues to thin out, almost hollow in the Arctic. Stratospheric temperature decline is a cause.

The cause of the formation of the ozone hole is three, according to Professor Ross Salawitch, chemist and biochemist from the University of Maryland, who studied the chemical substances in the atmosphere. All three are sunlight, halogen, and low temperatures.

When the temperature drops exceeding the threshold, the clouds formed in the stratosphere. Halogen, in particular pollutants, such as chlorine and bromine, turned into chemical compounds that react quickly in the ozone. "Everything was changing drastically," says Salawitch.

This year the polar wind system known as the "polar vortex" very calm

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Low Latent Inhibition (LLI) Illnesses That Makes People Become More Genius

Low Latent Inhibition (LLI)


When your body grows and develops, the mind learns to recognize and filter out various objects and information, a process known as Latent Inhibition or shortened by LI.

In some cases, people have excessive sensitivity to various environmental conditions, such as sounds, serial number mobile phone on your desk, or the brand and production date of the lights in your room. This disorder is called Low Latent Inhibition or LLI.

Signs of people who suffer from LLI:

1. More sensitive to the information in your neighborhood:
You see more, hear more, more smell and feel better through touch contact. Without conscious effort, your mind has a greater intake of information. After facing all forms of stimulation (which appeals to you), your mind automatically explore its components. So you can get information about something that is overlooked by normal people.

2. Can knowing a person's lies:
You are usually able to see the lies and deception that people use in everyday life.

3. Able to learn quickly:
When learning, you can make changes instantly. You can practice the lesson you just absorb, and able to make connections or associations between two or more things that are usually normal in people, looks like not related at all. Easy to understand explanations. You see the background information on this non-verbal and often provide a more comprehensive picture than what is spoken.

4. There is no talking voice in your head:
You think clearly with your conscious mind. Information is completely submerged in your conscious mind without the influence of the subconscious mind.

5. It's hard to express what you have in mind:
Because your mind is very thorough and detailed about the things that are considered trivial by others, then you will be hard to explain verbally to others.

6. Other people look stupid and boring with the explanation:
You will feel annoyed when listening to normal people because in your mind, that person explain something that you think should have been explained a few hours earlier. So like, someone to talk is still up in the points A, while your mind has reached the point P (in the alphabet).

7. Science is the source of tranquility:
You can find serenity and tranquility in studying things that smelled of science.
People who suffer from LLI are at risk of mental retardation if the person does not have enough IQ to process all the information he got from the surrounding environment.

While people with LLI who have a high IQ would be someone who we would call a genius.

Scientific Facts Why We Must Bathing Every Day

Apparently not just makes a fresh bath body, but there are other benefits behind it. Recently there are studies about the bathroom where the body was in addition to cleaning the bathrooms also have a role performance boost the immune system, preventing skin diseases, even to heal a serious medical problem.

Several studies showed that the bath was efficacious among others:

1. Diabetes
For diabetics, with a half-hour soak in a tub of warm water can lower blood sugar levels around 13%.

2. Heart Health
With a 10-minute soak in warm water can improve heart health of both men and women.

3. Eczema
Eczema is a chronic inflammation of the skin dry and itchy. For patients with skin diseases like eczema, rashes, hives can add baking soda into the tub because it's based on the research of baking soda acts as an antiseptic.

The trick first water fill with warm water, add about a tablespoon of baking soda and stir until blended. It is advisable to soak for 10-20 minutes.

4. Infection
For infections such as thrush can add the warm water that is three or four of cider vinegar and Soak for 15-20 minutes. It's also good for removing toxins from the body because the vinegar can rebalance the acid.

5. Flu and Headache
to cure the flu and headaches can be done by soaking the feet in warm water. Put warm water in the tub to cover the foot and ankle, add a few drops of oils such as lavender, peppermint or lemon. When finished rinse with cold water. Do it for 10-20 minutes.

6. Insomnia
For patients who have insomnia or sleep problems can soak the feet in cold water. Put feet to feel cold feet. This treatment is also useful for tired legs, nose bleeds, and constipation.

7. Circulation
if you have circulation problems then try to begin to soak the feet for one or two minutes in warm water, then 30 minutes in cold water. Try to do for 15 minutes then settled with cold water.

Benefits and a healthy bathing instructions
Warm water bath of about 32-35 degrees Celsius may open pores that can help remove toxins. Where functioning helps lower blood sugar levels, heal sore muscles and help keep the colon working properly. The recommended time for 10-20 minutes.

Apparently a cold shower can relieve stress due to ease tension, and encouraged by temperatures around 12-18 degrees centigrade. Well this is the opposite of warm water because it will narrow the blood and improve blood sugar levels. Therefore not recommended for diabetics to take a cold shower.

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Google Plus Competitor Facebook

Google launched a social media service called Google+ (Google Plus) that supposedly would bulldoze the popularity of Facebook. then what makes a great impression of this service? There are at least four features of Google Plus service.

1. Circles. Services that serves to put the names of friends into groups and users can share content with different formats in this circle of friends.

2. Hangouts. If Facebook is still relying on the conventional style chat with messenger-style, then make your hangouts and friends can use the video call.

3. Huddle. This service provides the groups in this network to send instant messages are not much different from other social media services.

4. Sparks. Service is able to relate to people on the network to the people who have the same interests against something.

With four services on top, it looks like google has figured out how the latest in the world of social media services.

What is certain is the launch of Google+ reap a lot of speculation. Those who are not satisfied with facebook relieved. The skeptical, as always advised to wait and see.However, experts agree social media Google+ presence is a threat dire enough to facebook

Blackberry / RIM is In Danger of Collapse?

Many conditions that cause RIM's arguably in a state of dying.
So there are three companies that are dying NOKIA, YAHOO, Blackberry / RIM
this is the seventh sign of the bankruptcy or the RIM BlackBerry familiar with it:

1. the lack of new innovations

there are only two series of new BlackBerry that will be issued in the near future, the bold series Touch 9900 and 9930.
Indeed there are some feature enhancements such as the BlackBerry OS 7.0, touch screen and 1.2 GHz processor.
Improved features in was regarded not as an innovation because it does not create a new thing, but to maximize the things that already exist.

2. Boring designs.

Since the emergence of modern BlackBerry series in 2006, its design does not differ greatly from those present if there are other designs such as the touch screen [series Strom], candy bar [Pearl series] and clamshell [series Style] can not be compared with competitors growing Smartphone design simple and looks elegant.

3. Limited number of applications.

BlackBerry App World, introduced in 2009 but until now the application is available only as many as 26,000.
Compared with competitors who already has 200,000 Android and Apple's applications as much as 350,000 applications continue to grow every day.
Limitations of the application also caused less despise the developers to create applications because they feel a lot of convoluted rules that an application be approved and entered into the BlackBerry App World.

4. Applications Expensive.

It's a bit much to pay, that's too expensive picture of the applications available on BlackBerry App World.
Imagine the game Angry Farm for BlackBerry is available at a price of $ 4.99 compared with Angry Birds [ad-free] for IOS and Android with prices $ 0.99 only.

5. Dualism of leadership.

RIM led the two men co CEO Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.
Leadership 2 people in a large company become the important thing obviously related to the decisions related to the company's future.
Even sites www.joyoftech.com create comic strips that tell about the humor the two CEOs who are taking the decision to release a BlackBerry again.

6. Weakness on the BlackBerry Playbook.

RIM enliven the tablet market with the release Playbook to compete with the iPad and tablets Android.
But the problem is there are major drawbacks like not support email features and advantages of fuel is a BlackBerry.
If this feature is not famous there, how to compete with Android and iPad tablet far away is experienced and in search of many people.
Besides the launch of the latest series Playbook 4G also experienced delays.
This caused the number of operators [overseas] are reluctant to work together to market the Playbook 4G.
RIM preach the delay will last until August.

7. Profits fall of the Company.

In June 2011 RIM announces first quarter 2011 profit forecast.
They explain income fell for the first time in nine years, and they plan to reduce the number of employees.
Although the initial launch BlackBerry Playbook capable sold as many as 500,000 pieces, but the proceeds have not been able to raise the company's overall revenue.
Time is running if the value of RIM's stock continues to drop to single digits [under $ 10] said the bankruptcy would ringing in the minds of Mike Lazaridis in recent years [or month] back.
Purchases by investors [the company] could be a solution if you do not want a BlackBerry [in this RIM] is lost in the bare earth.

So there are three companies that are dying NOKIA, YAHOO, Blackberry / RIM
And again on the rise who? ANDROID course, with its Android mobile phone

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Avoid Heart Disease with 4 Effective Ways

Heart disease is the most sadistic murderer. Every year, tens of millions of people worldwide die from this disease and there are millions of people who are convicted as a new sufferers. Unfortunately, most people do not know that heart disease could be prevented through natural means and dietary adjustments.

Experts from Europe joined in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) in recent years to study the pattern and nutrient intake in 10 European countries. The researchers also devised a means or strategy in suppressing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
According to researcher and author of Your dietitian Healthy Weight Loss Plan, John Phillip, the results of various research shows that heart disease can be formed since the beginning of one's life and later developed into a deadly threat when they grow up. The good news is the risk of heart disease can be controlled and avoided by making simple changes in lifestyle and diet person.

EPIC's research, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that changes in diet can reduce the risk of heart attack up to 81 percent. Through proper diabetes management, reduced risk of inflammation and blood pressure can be controlled.
The experts stressed four important factors that one can do to avoid the risk of heart disease:

1. Reduce foods containing refined carbohydrates, sugars, and grains.

Processed food has now become a staple menu every day. In fact, these foods contain simple carbohydrates that easily processed into glucose and cause blood sugar to rise in a short time. This is the trigger of insulin resistance and cause thickening of the endothelial lining of coronary vessels. It is recommended to gradually reduce the food of the types of bread, pasta, rice, sugary foods, and all foods made from wheat or corn.

2. Limit the Omega-6 vegetable oils.

Vegetable oil or vegetable oil is relatively stable at room temperature and used in almost all the roasting and processing of food to add flavor and make it more durable. According to experts, excessive consumption of vegetable oils can also trigger the release of chemicals that increase oxidative stress and trigger damage to the vascular system. But avoid the use of vegetable oils for cooking and limit eating fried foods.

3. Do not forget the Omega-3 fatty acids

Modern diets are almost never include healthy foods that contain Omega-3 fatty acids, which in fact never been part of human diet for centuries. According to experts, the ideal ratio between the fatty acid content of Omega-6 and Omega-3 in the diet of 1:1.
Experts also agree that most people in Europe currently consumes food with a ratio of 20:1. As a result, this phenomenon is causing an imbalance and trigger a systemic inflammation. Advice from the experts, enter the types of fish, like tuna, salmon, and sardines, nuts, and grains to balance the ratio of your fat intake or by taking fish oil supplements.

4. Avoid oxidative stress

women workers are very vulnerable to oxidative stress

Akitivitas normal body such as breathing, eating, and moving can generate free radicals that damage the genetic structure and cause bad cholesterol (LDL) oxidized. We can not prevent this process completely. However, we can mute it by eating fresh vegetables, fruits of this type of berries, and certain supplements to suppress the effects of free radicals on the heart and other organs.

Too soon to enter the food into the oil could make the food absorbs excess oil and destroying it.

Insects Killer Instincts With the Strongest

We knows the insect as one type of living creature with the most population on this earth. Of the many insects, there are harmless, but some are dangerous.
Well, insects below may indeed designed as a perfect killing machine, even they may be far more efficient and better than other creatures.
These insects seem below is designed as the perfect killing machine. Indeed, most are harmless to humans, but some insects can cause serious injury to humans.

Robber flies:

We all must be familiar with flies flying around us. Flies are more commonly known as a carrier of germs, even from the school, the flies are considered as detrimental to the human animal. Flies that we often see at home is just one of many fly species ever found.

According to scientists, about 120,000 species of flies have been identified and some of them are deadly predators are completely different from the flies that we often encounter, and robber flies are one of them.

These flies have a keen vision, can fly at high speed, and catch its prey in midair. When the fly gets its prey, he will inject a neurotoxin and digestive juices through his mouth which is designed in such a way, then he will suck the prey body fluids to dry.
Almost all types of small insects are the prey of these flies, even the spider webs are not able to withstand the strong pace of these flies. Although these flies have a poison, but it is not harmful to humans, only if bitten by these flies, then the pain will be tremendous.

Tiger Beetles:

Everyone also knows if the cheetah is the fastest animal on earth capable of running up to 115 km / h. Compared with these tiger beetles, would be very much the comparison because the beetle is only capable of running at speeds up to 8 km / h.

But wait, if the size of the beetle is the same as the cheetah, the cheetah will then struggling to pursue this beetle because it is capable of running as fast as 500 kilometers / h and will probably replace the cheetah as the fastest animal on earth, even the mass-made supersport cars would be difficult after him.
That glimpse of the ability of these beetles. I was so fast he moves, until he had to stop several times to determine the location of prey.

Once he determines the location of prey, he ran quickly to grab prey. Besides relying on speed as a weapon to kill prey, the beetle also has a strong jaw.
Because of its exceptional ability, the beetle is used by humans to control pests such as caterpillars, grasshoppers and other insects.

Retreat-retreat:

Termite insect is certainly not a stranger to us. Animals are believed to be a blood pressure-lowering drugs should not be underestimated. Maybe for us termites only a small insect which is unique because the movement of a unique way, ie backwards.

However, for insects are smaller such as ants, termites are ferocious predators that must be avoided. Termite itself is a larval stage before metamorphosis perfect.
Usually termites are found in sandy places due to their anatomy and way of moving termites are very suitable for trapping in a sandy place.
Termites will wait grounded funnel-shaped trap, and when there is an insect that unlucky because of a fall in the trap, the insects will be difficult to escape.

Because the trap is located in sandy areas, then the prey will be difficult to ride because it will slip again and be fine termites. If you are curious, please see the picture termite nest on top of this, if there are ants that happen to get into his trap, then you will see how it kills its prey insects perfectly.

Insect Killer:

Insect killer is a type of insect that has the ability to kill the best among other insects. There are many kinds, but most are harmless to humans.

Oh yes, these insects have their own specialty in killing prey. There are species that only kills the spider, there is also the only hunting ants and flies.
Insect killer armed with the mouth shaped like a needle, which serves to inject saliva that kill. Water will digest the eggs of this organ in the prey.

Like other insects are not able to eat the prey directly, these insects suck the prey body fluids. Not pictured is not what if the animal is huge.

Grasshoppers Worship:

Praying mantis is one of the best insect killer with physical support which support it as a true predator. Although the species is also widely, but the praying mantis or mantis is famous for its forelegs designed specifically to capture prey.

These insects rely on camouflage to wait for its prey with its body and when prey through, he will soon be ambushed by a high speed. Mantises usually prey on animals - small animals. These insects are also known to eat their prey directly, but he also has a strong jaw.

Bees Tigers:

This giant-sized bees are insects that live in Asia. Insects which are the mortal enemy of a praying mantis have a sting that is large enough to kill a large spider like tarantulas. These bees possess a higher dose of venom from any bee, which can result in death for humans if stung by bees in large quantities.

In Japan alone, this bee kills at least 40 people in a year and makes people scared. Bees sting Tigers actually only use as a defense, and to hunt prey, they use powerful jaws to kill smaller prey.
There is a story about bees, a beekeeper from the European honey bee Tigers try to combine this with a kind of honey bees in order to cross the two types of bees for the production of more honey bees because of the size of a tiger bigger than honeybees.
But what happened? Bees tiger which amounted to only a few are destroying all of the honey bee colony in just a few days.

Additional comments from my friends
from bopfive5:

I saw him on television yesterday, Bees Tigers could kill thousands of honeybees with ferocity, just as quickly kill enemies honey farmers. unique before killing him to send spies, honeybees had set him up anyway, Bees Tiger in there later invite the incoming signal of honey bees who only shook his body, constantly surrounded Bees in Tiger, not bite or sting, and hundreds of body friction movement struggles it can generate heat and kill the tiger, the Tiger can come out if bees hive of honeybees / escape, honey bee hive will be destroyed, sorry want to share as well.

No one was left of honey bees, all bees were killed by a tiger, while the European honey bee colonies amounted to about 30,000 bees. Maybe that's portrayal of how ferociously these bees, but bees are not the strongest types of bees because of the Japanese honeybee has tricks and special way to kill this tiger bee.
First they would encircle the bees of this tiger, and then by relying on their numbers are many, they form a dense ball-shaped formations, and swarms of bees surrounded the tiger.
Japanese honey bees then begin to flap their wings faster, causing heat in the formation of the ball until the temperature reached 47 degrees Celsius.
At this temperature, tiger bee trapped in the formation of solid ball was not going to survive and will die slowly. Proverb sky above the sky still seems really suited to this story.