Google doodles William-Kate's royal wedding - Trends News - IBNLive: "Google on Friday marked the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton with a doodle that features a London street scene and the royal carriage carrying the newlyweds in a shower of confetti.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Gujarat govt withdraws Bhatt's security cover - India News - IBNLive
Gujarat govt withdraws Bhatt's security cover - India News - IBNLive: "he Gujarat government on Friday withdrew security cover to Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt. A police team from Junagarh arrived at Bhatt's residence to withdraw the SRP constables posted for his security.
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Wedding day dawns for Prince William and Kate - Trends News - IBNLive
Wedding day dawns for Prince William and Kate - Trends News - IBNLive: "Much of the world will grind to a noisy, flag-waving halt Friday morning as Britain's Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, marries his college sweetheart Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Probe ordered into rape of Kolhapur constable - India News - IBNLive
Probe ordered into rape of Kolhapur constable - India News - IBNLive: "Police are investigating the alleged case of sexual abuse of three women trainee constables at a police training academy in Kolhapur by drill officer head constable Yuvraj Kamble. A senior woman Indian Police Service officer is inquiring into the allegations.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
India activates airstrip near Chinese border - India News - IBNLive
India activates airstrip near Chinese border - India News - IBNLive: "Wary of the build up of Chinese military infrastructure along its borders, India has silently activated an advanced landing ground (ALG) for its air force transport planes at Dharasu in Uttarakhand to aid in the swift movement of troops during conflicts.
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Buddhadeb trying to manipulate polls: Mamata - Politics - Politics News - ibnlive
Buddhadeb trying to manipulate polls: Mamata - Politics - Politics News - ibnlive: "Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had tried to manipulate polling in his Jadavpur assembly constituency.
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Air India hits back, sacks 6 striking pilots - India News - IBNLive
Air India hits back, sacks 6 striking pilots - India News - IBNLive: "Air India management has hit back at the striking pilots and terminated the services of six members of the Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA). Among those whose services have been terminated are ICPA President Captain Ashim Bhinder and General Secretary Captain Rishabh Kapoor.
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Rumor: 'Multiple sources' claim new Nintendo console reveal at or before E3
Game Informer has received confirmation from “multiple sources” that the long-rumored HD successor to the Nintendo Wii is a real thing, and it’ll be revealed at E3 2011. Like, for suresies.
You’ve heard similar news like this before: critics, insiders, and secret sources have been predicting or even stating outright that Nintendo will debut a new HD-capable console at every E3 since John Davison first broke the rumor in 2008. His original story, while not gospel, jives with this rumor. At the time, Davison’s sources were stating that Nintendo was showing early presentations of the new console, and their guess as to the tech inside it were vague at best. GI is reporting that Nintendo is going to different publishers and showing off the console in an effort to drum up support for its eventual 2012 launch.
News on the tech, unfortunately, still isn’t incredibly specific, but GI believes the new Wii will spit out HD visuals and might not support the Wii remote that we’re used to, which is an interesting move on Nintendo’s part--dropping the controller (and by extension, the experience?) that gave its original device so much steam seems risky. Then again, the console’s sales have been drooping.
As for backwards compatibility or a storage solution, GI says nothing is confirmed on that front, but IGN, never to be outdone, claims that "additional sources" have confirmed full backward compatibility, and that the console will be revealed prior to E3 in a "pre-announcement." Well, color us "pre-intrigued."
Of course, Nintendo isn't saying anything definitive at this juncture--why would they?--so assume your “wait and see” position that you’ve been taking over the last three years. We know your knees must be awfully tired, but it seems an end is finally in sight.
by "giantbomb.com"
You’ve heard similar news like this before: critics, insiders, and secret sources have been predicting or even stating outright that Nintendo will debut a new HD-capable console at every E3 since John Davison first broke the rumor in 2008. His original story, while not gospel, jives with this rumor. At the time, Davison’s sources were stating that Nintendo was showing early presentations of the new console, and their guess as to the tech inside it were vague at best. GI is reporting that Nintendo is going to different publishers and showing off the console in an effort to drum up support for its eventual 2012 launch.
News on the tech, unfortunately, still isn’t incredibly specific, but GI believes the new Wii will spit out HD visuals and might not support the Wii remote that we’re used to, which is an interesting move on Nintendo’s part--dropping the controller (and by extension, the experience?) that gave its original device so much steam seems risky. Then again, the console’s sales have been drooping.
As for backwards compatibility or a storage solution, GI says nothing is confirmed on that front, but IGN, never to be outdone, claims that "additional sources" have confirmed full backward compatibility, and that the console will be revealed prior to E3 in a "pre-announcement." Well, color us "pre-intrigued."
Of course, Nintendo isn't saying anything definitive at this juncture--why would they?--so assume your “wait and see” position that you’ve been taking over the last three years. We know your knees must be awfully tired, but it seems an end is finally in sight.
by "giantbomb.com"
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
50th Anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Flight into Space
It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
The 27-year-old cosmonaut's mission lasted just 108 minutes and was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennas, a retrorocket and the separation of modules. And there was an overarching question that science had yet to answer: What would weightlessness do to a human being?
The flight was to be fully automatic, but what if weightlessness caused Gagarin to go mad and override the programmed controls? The engineers' solution was to add a three-digit security code that the cosmonaut would have to enter to gain command of the spacecraft.
It proved unnecessary. The flight went off safely, and the handsome Russian with the big smile became a poster boy for the communist world, still a national idol 43 years after his death in a jet training accident, and remembered with enormous affection by the last surviving pioneers of the Soviet space program at Star City outside Moscow, where he trained.
But after a series of botched experimental flights throughout 1960 and a launch pad explosion that killed 126 people, safety was an overriding priority, Ivanovsky says.
The flight was limited to a single orbit because of the questions about weightlessness, and Gagarin was supposed to parachute out of the capsule on return because a soft-landing system was not ready yet.
Even so, Ivanovsky says, the risk was assessed as high. A top design official at the time, Boris Chertok, wrote in his memoirs that "Judging by modern standards of rockets reliability, we had no reasons for optimism by April 1961."
On the eve of the flight, Gagarin and his backup, German Titov, went to bed early and were awakened at 5:30 a.m. Gagarin was joking, his pulse was an exemplary 64 beats a minute and it remained the same after he took his seat in the Vostok.
Before boarding, Gagarin saw Korolyov looking haggard after a sleepless night. "Don't you worry, Sergei Pavlovich, he told the chief designer, "everything will be just fine."
"It was he who was comforting me!" Korolyov would marvel later. He thought of Gagarin as a son, and Gagarin carried Korolyov's picture in his wallet.
The security code for use in emergency was supposed to stay in a sealed envelope for the cosmonaut to open only if necessary, but Ivanovsky was too nervous to stick with protocol. As he escorted Gagarin to the capsule, he whispered the code to him: 1-2-5. Gagarin smiled and said he already knew; his instructor, equally protective, had already let him in on the secret.
Ivanovsky helped Gagarin up the ladder and into the cockpit, patted him on the helmet and wished him luck before closing the hatch, only to hear Korolyov telling him from the control room that a light that was meant to indicate the hatch was hermetically closed had failed to turn on. Ivanovsky and his two assistants had to remove all 32 screws sealing the hatch and then put them back at a frantic pace.
Inside the capsule, Gagarin was whistling a tune. Later he would joke to Ivanovsky: "You should have seen yourself while you were working on the hatch; your face had all the colors of tarnished metal."
Gagarin's rocket lifted off as scheduled on April 12, 1961, at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time. "Poyekhali!" (Off we go!), the cosmonaut shouted as he took off.
Korolyov and his engineers quickly got their first jolt: a signal suggesting a problem with the booster. It turned out to be just a break of a few seconds in data transmission. Gagarin's confident reports from orbit eased the tension, and only after the flight, it emerged that an antenna malfunction had put the Vostok into a much higher and riskier orbit.
On re-entry, a glitch involving a retrorocket made the ship rotate swiftly, and the landing capsule was slow to jettison the service module. Scientists had to take a deep breath as they lost contact with the ship during its fiery earthward plunge.
Gagarin bailed out as planned, and parachuted onto a field near the Volga River about 720 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow. There he was spotted by a forester's wife and her granddaughter who tried to run away from the stranger in his bright orange space suit and white helmet. They may have thought he was a U.S. spy, given that less than a year before, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers had been shot down over the Soviet Union in his U-2 spy plane, an incident that had badly strained U.S.-Soviet relations.
"Hey, where are you running? I'm one of us!" Gagarin shouted. Then others arrived, realizing he was the cosmonaut they had just heard about on the radio.
Gagarin learned to his great surprise that while aloft, he was being promoted two levels higher, to major. Korolyov and others flew to the landing area and met with Gagarin at a Communist Party guesthouse. Their raucous reunion lasted late into the night. On April 14 Gagarin was flown to Moscow, where he was greeted by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and driven into town on a highway lined with cheering Russians.
"People took to the streets; everybody felt excited, it felt like V-Day," Korolyov's daughter Natalya recalled.
But amid the triumph, Soviet officials, ever obsessed with secrecy and image, already were airbrushing history.
Some local papers quoted witnesses who saw Gagarin parachuting down. But the official version had him landing in his capsule, so the KGB rushed to confiscate all the contradictory accounts in print. Soviet officials also lied about the launch pad's location, a foolish attempt to conceal what the West already knew.
Lies about the flight later caused friction with FAI, the international federation certifying aerospace records whose rules require that a pilot land in his craft.
Americans, waking up as the Soviet Union was well into its celebrations, were shocked. The next day members of Congress grilled NASA officials. One demanded that the U.S. be put on a war footing.
NASA explained that the Soviets had a greater lead time, having started their effort in 1954, four years before the American space agency was founded.
Twenty-three days after Gagarin's flight, on May 5, 1961, American Alan Shepard became the second man in space. But his suborbital hop lasted just 15 minutes. It wasn't until John Glenn's flight on Feb. 20, 1962, that an American managed to emulate Gagarin's globe-circling feat.
"Now let the other countries try to catch us," Gagarin had declared after returning from space, and the U.S. quickly set out to do so. Barely three weeks after Shepard's launch, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation to putting a man on the moon by decade's end. The goal was achieved in July 20, 1969.
Gagarin's legacy, meanwhile, has been dogged by conspiracy theories. Rumors still abound of botched and fatal space missions, the result of pervasive secrecy that surrounded the Soviet space program. "The degree of secrecy created shadows in which monsters could lurk," said Oberg, the NASA veteran.
Some early flights used mannequins which might have been mistaken for real people. But at least one death was real: cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko died in a pressure chamber fire during ground training less than a month before Gagarin's flight. His death became known only after Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reforms in the 1980s.
And then there was Gagarin's own death on March 27, 1968. It still drives conspiracy theories that the KGB wanted him dead because he supposedly opposed the Soviet regime.
Shatalov, the former cosmonaut, sat in his own jet, waiting his turn to take off after Gagarin and his crewman. He saw his friend smile and wave, and the next thing he knew, their MiG-15 had crashed into a forest. Shatalov surmises that the shock wave from another plane's sonic boom was to blame.
Maybe he should have stopped flying after his leap into space, Shatalov says. "But he really loved it and fought hard to keep doing it."
After Gagarin's death, the letter he had written to his wife on the eve of his space mission was finally given to her.
Valentina Gagarina has never remarried. She published a memoir but has stayed out of the public eye, living a secluded life at Star City. Daughter Yelena is the chief keeper of the Kremlin museums. Younger daughter Galina teaches economics at a Moscow university.
Gagarin's flight on the Vostok was entirely automated, yet simply by having the courage to face the unknown, he taught his fellow humans a vital lesson: that they had a future in space.
"Before this first flight there were reasonable suspicions that human beings weren't made for this environment," Oberg said. "And once Gagarin answered that question, I think every other discovery on every other manned spaceflight was just details. He answered the most challenging, the most awesome question by his performance."
Source "www.artdaily.org"
The 27-year-old cosmonaut's mission lasted just 108 minutes and was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennas, a retrorocket and the separation of modules. And there was an overarching question that science had yet to answer: What would weightlessness do to a human being?
The flight was to be fully automatic, but what if weightlessness caused Gagarin to go mad and override the programmed controls? The engineers' solution was to add a three-digit security code that the cosmonaut would have to enter to gain command of the spacecraft.
It proved unnecessary. The flight went off safely, and the handsome Russian with the big smile became a poster boy for the communist world, still a national idol 43 years after his death in a jet training accident, and remembered with enormous affection by the last surviving pioneers of the Soviet space program at Star City outside Moscow, where he trained.
But after a series of botched experimental flights throughout 1960 and a launch pad explosion that killed 126 people, safety was an overriding priority, Ivanovsky says.
The flight was limited to a single orbit because of the questions about weightlessness, and Gagarin was supposed to parachute out of the capsule on return because a soft-landing system was not ready yet.
Even so, Ivanovsky says, the risk was assessed as high. A top design official at the time, Boris Chertok, wrote in his memoirs that "Judging by modern standards of rockets reliability, we had no reasons for optimism by April 1961."
On the eve of the flight, Gagarin and his backup, German Titov, went to bed early and were awakened at 5:30 a.m. Gagarin was joking, his pulse was an exemplary 64 beats a minute and it remained the same after he took his seat in the Vostok.
Before boarding, Gagarin saw Korolyov looking haggard after a sleepless night. "Don't you worry, Sergei Pavlovich, he told the chief designer, "everything will be just fine."
"It was he who was comforting me!" Korolyov would marvel later. He thought of Gagarin as a son, and Gagarin carried Korolyov's picture in his wallet.
The security code for use in emergency was supposed to stay in a sealed envelope for the cosmonaut to open only if necessary, but Ivanovsky was too nervous to stick with protocol. As he escorted Gagarin to the capsule, he whispered the code to him: 1-2-5. Gagarin smiled and said he already knew; his instructor, equally protective, had already let him in on the secret.
Ivanovsky helped Gagarin up the ladder and into the cockpit, patted him on the helmet and wished him luck before closing the hatch, only to hear Korolyov telling him from the control room that a light that was meant to indicate the hatch was hermetically closed had failed to turn on. Ivanovsky and his two assistants had to remove all 32 screws sealing the hatch and then put them back at a frantic pace.
Inside the capsule, Gagarin was whistling a tune. Later he would joke to Ivanovsky: "You should have seen yourself while you were working on the hatch; your face had all the colors of tarnished metal."
Gagarin's rocket lifted off as scheduled on April 12, 1961, at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time. "Poyekhali!" (Off we go!), the cosmonaut shouted as he took off.
Korolyov and his engineers quickly got their first jolt: a signal suggesting a problem with the booster. It turned out to be just a break of a few seconds in data transmission. Gagarin's confident reports from orbit eased the tension, and only after the flight, it emerged that an antenna malfunction had put the Vostok into a much higher and riskier orbit.
On re-entry, a glitch involving a retrorocket made the ship rotate swiftly, and the landing capsule was slow to jettison the service module. Scientists had to take a deep breath as they lost contact with the ship during its fiery earthward plunge.
Gagarin bailed out as planned, and parachuted onto a field near the Volga River about 720 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow. There he was spotted by a forester's wife and her granddaughter who tried to run away from the stranger in his bright orange space suit and white helmet. They may have thought he was a U.S. spy, given that less than a year before, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers had been shot down over the Soviet Union in his U-2 spy plane, an incident that had badly strained U.S.-Soviet relations.
"Hey, where are you running? I'm one of us!" Gagarin shouted. Then others arrived, realizing he was the cosmonaut they had just heard about on the radio.
Gagarin learned to his great surprise that while aloft, he was being promoted two levels higher, to major. Korolyov and others flew to the landing area and met with Gagarin at a Communist Party guesthouse. Their raucous reunion lasted late into the night. On April 14 Gagarin was flown to Moscow, where he was greeted by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and driven into town on a highway lined with cheering Russians.
"People took to the streets; everybody felt excited, it felt like V-Day," Korolyov's daughter Natalya recalled.
But amid the triumph, Soviet officials, ever obsessed with secrecy and image, already were airbrushing history.
Some local papers quoted witnesses who saw Gagarin parachuting down. But the official version had him landing in his capsule, so the KGB rushed to confiscate all the contradictory accounts in print. Soviet officials also lied about the launch pad's location, a foolish attempt to conceal what the West already knew.
Lies about the flight later caused friction with FAI, the international federation certifying aerospace records whose rules require that a pilot land in his craft.
Americans, waking up as the Soviet Union was well into its celebrations, were shocked. The next day members of Congress grilled NASA officials. One demanded that the U.S. be put on a war footing.
NASA explained that the Soviets had a greater lead time, having started their effort in 1954, four years before the American space agency was founded.
Twenty-three days after Gagarin's flight, on May 5, 1961, American Alan Shepard became the second man in space. But his suborbital hop lasted just 15 minutes. It wasn't until John Glenn's flight on Feb. 20, 1962, that an American managed to emulate Gagarin's globe-circling feat.
"Now let the other countries try to catch us," Gagarin had declared after returning from space, and the U.S. quickly set out to do so. Barely three weeks after Shepard's launch, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation to putting a man on the moon by decade's end. The goal was achieved in July 20, 1969.
Gagarin's legacy, meanwhile, has been dogged by conspiracy theories. Rumors still abound of botched and fatal space missions, the result of pervasive secrecy that surrounded the Soviet space program. "The degree of secrecy created shadows in which monsters could lurk," said Oberg, the NASA veteran.
Some early flights used mannequins which might have been mistaken for real people. But at least one death was real: cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko died in a pressure chamber fire during ground training less than a month before Gagarin's flight. His death became known only after Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reforms in the 1980s.
And then there was Gagarin's own death on March 27, 1968. It still drives conspiracy theories that the KGB wanted him dead because he supposedly opposed the Soviet regime.
Shatalov, the former cosmonaut, sat in his own jet, waiting his turn to take off after Gagarin and his crewman. He saw his friend smile and wave, and the next thing he knew, their MiG-15 had crashed into a forest. Shatalov surmises that the shock wave from another plane's sonic boom was to blame.
Maybe he should have stopped flying after his leap into space, Shatalov says. "But he really loved it and fought hard to keep doing it."
After Gagarin's death, the letter he had written to his wife on the eve of his space mission was finally given to her.
Valentina Gagarina has never remarried. She published a memoir but has stayed out of the public eye, living a secluded life at Star City. Daughter Yelena is the chief keeper of the Kremlin museums. Younger daughter Galina teaches economics at a Moscow university.
Gagarin's flight on the Vostok was entirely automated, yet simply by having the courage to face the unknown, he taught his fellow humans a vital lesson: that they had a future in space.
"Before this first flight there were reasonable suspicions that human beings weren't made for this environment," Oberg said. "And once Gagarin answered that question, I think every other discovery on every other manned spaceflight was just details. He answered the most challenging, the most awesome question by his performance."
Source "www.artdaily.org"
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
My First blog post, the mug maker
This is my first blog post on my news blog "the mug maker", first of all every one should ask why i name it "the mug maker", every morning you take a cup of tea or mug of coffee, in my idea a beautiful mug always fresh you in the morning, a mug with beautiful paintings, stylish, unique color, customize your name on mug and so so
hope i may help you more will post one blog every day,
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hope i may help you more will post one blog every day,
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