Glowing Anemone

Anemone was discovered by Jörg Wiedenmann of the National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton in the UK and his equals on a mission to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, 500 to 600 meters down. The fish is glowing with stripes tentacles of the fluorescent anemone come out out of the darkness and there was nothing mainly special about that, apart from that this species, which may by no means have been seen before, is one of just a handful of organisms whose fluorescence can be switched on and off.

The anemone may perhaps be a species that is new to science, as the researchers have not been able to make out it up till now. Although it is possible that the anemones use their fluorescence to attract prey, Wiedenmann points out that it might not have any evolutionary purpose. Wiedenmann and his colleagues have now secluded the protein that makes the anemones glow, which they have named cerFP505. It has one particularly unusual characteristic: it can be switched on and off by shining a light of a certain wavelength onto it.

Interesting and amazing facts:

 The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
 The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.
 The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.
 A person can live without foodstuff for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel dry.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
 A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it.
 Do you know that books can breathe? People visiting the British Museum complained of getting headaches. This was for the reason that books seem to absorb or "breathe" in air and "breathe" out smells of their own. There are so many old books in the Museum that there was no fresh air left which meant people got headaches from breathing in bad air
 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield invented land tennis in 1873, which later became the "tennis" we know today.
 The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
 The Sumerians invented writing.
 India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian marketplace for gold will reach 1000 tons.
 Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
 Chinese made the first wheelbarrow.
 India has 3.5 million professionals trained in medicine or other technical sciences. Ranking India as one of the ten largest emerging markets in the world .
 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.
 India is the biggest diamond-cutting center for small roughs. These diamonds are eventually sold in shops on Fifth Avenue.
 Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
 The first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram Company in London, England in 1847.
 The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
 India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in100 BC. Albert Einstein said: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.

Reviews Reports On Recalled Diet Pill

Health Canada says it has received 17 "adverse reaction" reports related to Hydroxycut, an Ontario-made diet supplement linked to serious liver damage and at least one death in the U.S.

While the federal agency didn't officially authorize the pills for sale in Canada, the product was still available as a non-authorized product, Health Canada told CTV News.

Still, in a statement released on Friday, the agency said that none of the 17 reports in this country were related to liver injuries.

"These adverse reactions relate to the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological systems," the agency said.

Health Canada said: "Authorized health products will bear either an eight-digit Drug Identification Number (DIN), a Natural Product Number (NPN), or a Homeopathic Medicine Number (DIN-HM) on the label."

Source: http://www.ctv.ca/

Motorola's Rough And Tough Handsets Comes to India

Motorola has announced the launch of its FR Series of enterprise grade, rough and tough handsets in India.The series include two new phones, the FR 6000 and the FR68-both of which are aimed at enterprise level consumers and users. Designed for weathering tough working environments and conditions, both the phones offer smartphone abilities and can go places where no smartphone might have been ever been before.

Both the phones come equipped with 3.5G HSDPA/WAN and GPS navigation and a 1D laser scanner built in along with Bluetooth and IrDA. On the imaging front, one of the models, the FR68 features a decent 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and not to mention optical character recognition.

Source: http://www.techtree.com/

Funny Accidents

Bulls May Take A Breather; Global Cues Mixed

Stocks are likely to remain in a consolidation mode on Friday after a sharp rally in the previous session. The market is likely to take cues from the Asian markets which had a tepid start.

US stocks rose on Thursday, with the Nasdaq turning positive for the year-to-date, as a batch economic data that was not as dire as expected fed optimism the economy's worst days were behind.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 174.75 points, or 2.25 per cent, to 7,924.56. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 18.98 points, or 2.33 per cent, to 832.86 and the Nasdaq Composite Index added 58.05 points, or 3.80 per cent, to 1,587.00.

Stocks across the Asia Pacific were trading mixed following cues from Wall Street. The Nikkei climbed 0.8 per cent, Topix rose 0.93 per cent, Hang Seng edged 0.04 per cent lower and Straits Times fell 1 per cent.

Back home, bulls were on a rampage fourth day running Thursday, helping the Sensex reclaim the 10,000 mark. The Nifty also tested the 3100 mark during the day but retreated towards the fag end of the session.

The market opened trade on a firm footing, and then there was no looking back. In step with strong global markets and boosted by short-covering on the last day of monthly derivatives contracts, the Indian stock market marched northward.

Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex settled at 10,003.10, up 335.20 points or 3.47 per cent. The index soared to an intra-day high of 10,061.36 after opening trade at 9,739.93. This is the first time since January 7, 2009 that the 30-share index scaled the 10000 mark.

National Stock Exchange’s Nifty advanced 3.28 per cent or 97.4 points to 3082.25. The 50-share index rose to a high of 3103.35 during the day. Midcaps and smallcaps space was also buzzing with activity. The BSE Midcap Index was up 1.16 per cent and the BSE Smallcap Index rose 0.69 per cent.

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Drop Charges Against Zuma

he leader of the ruling ANC Jacob Zuma, will have more than 700 counts of fraud and corruption charges against him dropped soon.

This follows representations made by Mr. Zuma's lawyers to the National Prosecution Authority(NPA), which has instituted the charges against the ANC leader.

The representations follow a recent rejection by the Appeal Court against a ruling by the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the charges be thrown out. Mr. Zuma subsequently made representations to the Constitutional Court, which ruled that

Mr. Zuma should be entitled to make representations to the NPA and that the ANC could be a friend of Zuma in court.

Mr. Zuma has been charged with fraud and corruption after his Indian-origin financier and comrade, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of bribing Zuma to the tune of more than 25,0000 USD over a ten year period since 1995. Shaik was released three weeks ago on medical parole after only serving two years of a 15-year sentence.

Mr. Zuma is scheduled to appear in court again in August, four months after he's expected to be elected President of the country.

The wide speculation about the dropping of charges against Zuma has reached a feverish level in South Africa after Shaik's brother, Mo Shaik, told a university students meeting in Pretoria yesterday that newspapers would report that the NPA would drop the charges against Mr. Zuma.

Carroll Helps Missouri Pull Away From Texas Tech

Oklahoma City, OK (Sports Network) - DeMarre Carroll led the way with 19 points and five rebounds, as 14th-ranked Missouri returned some order to the Big 12 Tournament, blitzing Texas Tech, 81-60, in a quarterfinal matchup at the Ford Center.

A 31-31 halftime tie quickly turned into a 50-point second half for the Tigers, who used the full court press and efficient execution to overwhelm the Red Raiders (14-19).

J.T. Tiller and Matt Lawrence added 13 points apiece for the Tigers (26-6), who are the only top-four seed remaining after the wild quarterfinals. Kansas, Oklahoma and fourth-seeded Kansas State all fell on Thursday, leaving Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas and Missouri left in Oklahoma City.

Missouri will face Oklahoma State in the semifinals.

Mike Singletary, one day after scoring 29 straight points as part of a 43- point effort, managed only 17, while Nick Okorie added 13 points for Texas Tech.

A 35-35 stalemate turned into a 13-point Tigers lead in a flash. Leo Lyons converted two buckets from in close off the bat, Tiller scored from in close right after that and Carroll's bucket put Missouri in front, 48-35 just over five minutes in.

Alan Voskuil's free throws brought the Red Raiders back within single digits, 55-46, but they never got closer. The margin grew to 67-48 on Zaire Taylor's two free throws with 6:11 to play, and Missouri rolled from there.

Game Notes

Missouri shot 55.4 percent on the game, while Texas Tech made just 36.7 percent of its shots, including only 4-of-15 from beyond the arc...The Red Raiders bench scored more points than their starters (31 to 30).

Chris Paul Leads

New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Chris Paul scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half and dished out 15 assists, as the Hornets stretched their season-best winning streak to six games with a 104-88 dismantling of the Dallas Mavericks.

David West netted 19 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks for the Hornets, who also received 10 points and 11 boards from Tyson Chandler. Rasual Butler scored 18 in the win.

"We're definitely not peaking, but we're playing a lot better than we were," said Paul. "Ever since I got my big man back, we're 6-0, so I'm glad to have (Chandler) back and we're doing a good job right now."

After losing 21 straight games to the Mavericks in the all-time series, the Hornets have won four of the last six meetings, eight of the last 11 games including their 4-2 first-round playoff series win over Dallas last season.

Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points and seven rebounds for the Mavericks, who have dropped two of their last three contests. Jason Kidd added 13 points and Jason Terry scored 10 for the Mavs, who shot 39.5 percent from the field, while allowing the Hornets to make 56 percent of their attempts.

"We could never get a consistent string of shot making," said Dallas coach Rick Carlisle. "We were playing from behind all night. We just couldn't sustain them."

Nowitzki nailed a three-pointer to extend Dallas to a 51-46 lead just over two minutes into the third quarter, but the Hornets came back with a stinging 25-7 spurt to take control. Butler's three-pointer capped the burst for a 71-59 lead with barely over two minutes left in the third.

Paul and Chandler combined for 18 points in the third quarter as New Orleans shot 66.7 percent (12-of-18), while holding Dallas to 29.4 percent (5-of-17) in the period.

"In the first half, we weren't aggressive enough," said Paul. "We didn't push the tempo enough. In the second half, I knew that was my job, and that's what I tried to do. In the first half, they started switching ball screens. I was passing, deferring to my teammates. Coach told me I just needed to be more aggressive. I attacked him (Nowitzki) a few times, and finally my jump shot started falling."

Facing a 75-67 deficit entering the final quarter, the Mavs fell apart defensively as the game turned into a rout. Paul's three-pointer expanded the lead to 91-76 and that was the start of a sealing 10-0 flurry, which was culminated by a Butler three-point play.

New Orleans led 24-21 after the opening quarter and the game remained tight until the half, when it was tied at 45. Nowitzki hit a jumper at the buzzer to seemingly give Dallas the lead, but the basket was waived off as replays showed the shot barely came after the red light went on before he fully released the ball.

"In the first half I thought we played their style of basketball, they looked like the younger fresher basketball team which I wasn't really happy about," said Hornets coach Byron Scott. "So I let the guys know at halftime that we have to come out there and be more aggressive. Then we got going in the third quarter at both ends of the floor."

Boxing Championship

The Indian Boxing Federation's (IBF) request to postpone the Commonwealth Championships here from December to February-March next year has been accepted by the Commonwealth body.

The Commonwealth Boxing Federation (CBF) has agreed to reschedule the tournament in the city from December 2009 to February-March next year, the IBF said in a statement.

"The Indian Boxing Federation has now requested the International Boxing Association to allot a suitable date in February-March 2010 so that it does not clash with any other major international boxing competitions in the world," IBF secretary general PK Muralidharan Raja said.

This change was necessitated since construction work at Talkatora Stadium, venue of the boxing event for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, will be completed by November this year.

"Although NDMC has promised to hand over the stadium by December, the federation in consultation with the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games has preferred to host the Commonwealth Boxing Championships, which will be a test event for the Commonwealth Games, in February-March 2010 rather than trying to squeeze it in December this year," Raja added.

In another development, the first international (16th AK Mishra) boxing tournament will be held in Chandigarh from March 11-15 this year.

Researchers for HIV work

Even as Connecticut considers reducing funding for AIDS programs, state public health researchers are winning accolades for their work with those living with HIV.

A program developed at the University of Connecticut's Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention is among a group of eight intervention programs commended recently by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Under the program, known as "Options," clinicians are trained to counsel HIV-positive patients during routine medical appointments to avoid risky behavior, such as unprotected sex and drug use, developing a list of behavioral prescriptions for patients to follow as they live with the virus.

"Most interventions focus on people not infected with HIV and not likely to become infected," said Jeffrey D. Fisher, a social psychology professor at UConn and director of the intervention center. "But we also need to help people who have HIV to practice safer sex and drug use."

Such precautions are necessary not just to protect the health of those living with HIV or AIDS, which make patients substantially more susceptible to infection and disease, but also to ensure that continued risky behavior doesn't spread HIV to those with whom diagnosed people share needles or have sex.

Fisher developed the program in the late 1990s with his brother, Bill Fisher, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, and three other researchers from CHIP and Yale University.

The Options program was developed from current behavioral theory and a process of collaboration with those struggling with HIV diagnosis and problems with substance abuse or risky sex, Fisher said. The intervention plan asks clinical workers to work with patients to develop strategies for reducing risk, and to evaluate each patient's willingness to change.

The program was included this year in "The 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions," which is compiled annually by the CDC, and recognizes programs that have proven successful at reducing HIV infection and behavior that can increase the chance of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

The CDC estimates that 46,000 people were infected with HIV in the U.S. in 2006, the most recent year for which data was available.

Source: theday.com/re.aspx?re=76b88ed9-71a3-4510-a675-6361d367da02

Language

A language is a dynamic set of sensory symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Strictly speaking, language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication. Although other animals make use of quite sophisticated communicative systems, sometimes casually referred to as animal language, none of these are known to make use of all of the properties that linguists use to define language.

In Western Philosophy, language has long been closely associated with reason, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols. In Ancient Greek philosophical terminology, the same word, logos, was used as a term for both language or speech and reason, and the philosopher Thomas Hobbes used the English word "speech" so that it similarly could refer to reason, as will be discussed below. More commonly though, the English word "language", derived ultimately from lingua, Latin for tongue, typically refers only to expressions of reason which can be understood by other people, most obviously by speaking.

CD Logical structure

The largest entity on a CD is called a track. A CD can contain up to 99 tracks (including a data track for mixed mode discs). Each track can in turn have up to 100 indexes, though players which handle this feature are rarely found outside of pro audio, particularly radio broadcasting. The vast majority of songs are recorded under index 1, with the pre-gap being index 0. Sometimes hidden tracks are placed at the end of the last track of the disc, often using index 2 or 3. This is also the case with some discs offering "101 sound effects", with 100 and 101 being indexed as two and three on track 99. The index, if used, is occasionally put on the track listing as a decimal part of the track number, such as 99.2 or 99.3. (Information Society's Hack was one of very few CD releases to do this, following a release with an equally-obscure CD+G feature.) The track and index structure of the CD carried forward to the DVD as title and chapter, respectively.

Genetic diversity

Genetic diversity is a level of biodiversity that refers to the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a specie. It is distinguished from genetic variability, which describes the tendency of genetic characteristics to vary.:)

The academic field of population genetics includes several hypotheses regarding genetic diversity. The neutral theory of evolution proposes that diversity is the result of the accumulation of neutral substitutions. Diversifying selection is the hypothesis that two subpopulations of a species live in different environments that select for different alleles at a particular locus. This may occur, for instance, if a species has a large range relative to the mobility of individuals within it. Frequency-dependent selection is the hypothesis that as alleles become more common, they become less fit. This is often invoked in host-pathogen interactions, where a high frequency of a defensive allele among the host means that it is more likely that a pathogen will spread if it is able to overcome that allele.

Ruminantia

The biological suborder Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semi-digested cud to re-chew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value.

Note that not all ruminants belong to the Ruminantia. Camels and llamas are among the exceptions, a suborder known as Tylopoda. Also, there are a number of other large grazing mammals that, while not strictly ruminants, have similar adaptations for surviving on large quantities of low-grade food. Kangaroos and horses are examples.

Landlocked seas

• Aral Sea
• Lake Balkhash
• Caspian Sea
• Lake Chad
• Lake Chilwa
• Chott Melrhir
• Dead Sea
• Lake Eyre
• Issyk Kul
• Namtso
• Sea of Galilee
• Great Salt Lake
• Qinghai Lake
• Salton Sea
• Tonle Sap
• Lake Torrens
• Lake Turkana
• Lake Van

Leather

Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides and skins of animals, primarily cattlehide. The tanning process converts the putrescible skin into a durable, long-lasting and versatile natural material for various uses.

Together with wood, leather formed the basis of much ancient technology. The leather industry and the fur industry are distinct industries that are differentiated by the importance of their raw materials. In the leather industry the raw materials are by-products of the meat industry, with the meat having higher value than the skin. The fur industry uses raw materials that are higher in value than the meat and hence the meat is classified as a by-product. Taxidermy also makes use of the skin of animals, but generally the head and part of the back are used. Hides and skins are also used in the manufacture of glue and gelatin

Chesapeake Bay impact crater

The Chesapeake Bay impact crater was formed by a bolide that impacted the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" or marine impact craters, and the largest impact crater in the U.S. Continued slumping of sediments over the rubble of the crater have helped shape Chesapeake Bay.

Formal languages

Mathematics and computer science use artificial entities called formal languages (including programming languages and markup languages, and some that are more theoretical in nature). These often take the form of character strings, produced by a combination of formal grammar and semantics of arbitrary complexity.

Polyadenylation

Polyadenylation is the covalent linkage of a polyadenylyl moiety to a messenger RNA molecule. In eukaryotic organisms, most messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules are polyadenylated at the 3' end. The poly(A) tail and the protein bound to it aid in protecting mRNA from degradation by exonucleases. Polyadenylation is also important for transcription termination, export of the mRNA from the nucleus, and translation. mRNA can also be polyadenylated in prokaryotic organisms, where poly(A) tails act to facilitate, rather than impede, exonucleolytic degradation.

Polyadenylation occurs during and immediately after transcription of DNA into RNA. After transcription has been terminated, the mRNA chain is cleaved through the action of an endonuclease complex associated with RNA polymerase. After the mRNA has been cleaved, around 250 adenosine residues are added to the free 3' end at the cleavage site. This reaction is catalyzed by polyadenylate polymerase. Just as in alternative splicing, there can be more than one polyadenylation variant of a mRNA.