Articles Tagged with America

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 a.m.

While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN PHILIPPINES) .

He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN VIETNAM). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA), then he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA), he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

The announcement that India has proposed talks with Pakistan ironically came on a day that saw a massive show of strength by proscribed terror groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, in Muzaffarabad to galvanize the ``freedom movement'' in Jammu and Kashmir.

If there was any enthusiasm over US director of national intelligence Dennis Blair's statement before the Senate that Pakistan looked upon these groups as strategic assets against India, it was quickly wiped off by the terror rally which was addressed by terrorists wanted in India.

Beaches north of Miami remained largely empty on Thursday as panic spread after a bizarre incident in which sharks attacked and killed a kite-surfer off the eastern coast of Florida.

Stephen Schafer, 38, was spotted by a lifeguard as he was floating encircled by sharks and screaming for help off Stuart Beach, 150km north of Miami, police said.

The lifeguard brought the man to shore on his board and tried to resuscitate him on Wednesday before he was rushed to hospital where he died.

The beach, which has never before recorded a shark attack, was swiftly closed after the incident, but reopened on Thursday as shark experts called for calm.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

President Barack Obama “There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America, there is the United States of America”

Barack Hussein Obama (Honolulu (Hawaii), August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current president of the United States and a first black American in this position. A member of the Senate and Illinois state representative and state senator between January 3, 2005 and November 16, 2008 before he was in the assembly of his home state. After defeating Republican candidate John McCain during the U.S. presidential election 2008 Obama was on January 20, 2009 at the inauguration at the Capitol was sworn in as president.

President Obama in his early life:

Norman Rockwell (New York, February 3, 1894 - Stockbridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1978) was a painter and illustrator American. He died at age 89, as a result of emphysema.

Rockwell was very popular in the United States, especially because of the 321 covers of The Saturday Evening Post has done for more than four decades, and illustrations of scenes from American life in small towns.

He painted the portraits of Presidents Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, as well as other important world figures such as Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. One of his last works was the portrait of singer Judy Garland in 1969.

His drawings and paintings are famous for their thoroughness and accuracy of line and color developed capacity because of shyness in adolescence phase due to club feet who had spent as an observer of school friends, enjoying thus draw them because, according to him "Everyone has his talent and my draw is".

U CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY BY FOLLOWING FEW SIMPLE STEPS.

Please spare a couple of minutes here... for the sake of India ... our country.

I got this article from one of my friends, but it's true, I can see this in day to day life, Small example,

Before 5 months 1 US $ = IND Rs 39

After 5 months. Now it is 1$ = IND Rs 50

Do you think US Economy is booming? No, but Indian Economy is Going Down.

Our Economy is in u'r hands

Closing Guantanamo is emerging as a never-ending nightmare for President Barack Obama after he bowed to pressure and backed down from plans to try the accused 9/11 plotters in the heart of New York City.

One year after his landmark promise to shutter the controversial prison at the US naval base in Cuba, Obama has not only missed his self-imposed deadline, but his hands are ever-more tied by the political, legal and humanitarian headache he inherited from his predecessor, George W Bush. His special envoy to close the site, Dan Fried, has travelled around the world and found only a small handful of countries willing to take in detainees.

“Everything about Guantanamo is hard,” he acknowledged on Wednesday. Fried predicted the site would close during Obama’s first term, which ends in January 2013 — a far less ambitious deadline than the president’s vow to shutter the prison by January 22, 2010.

Moreover, the excessive and chronic alcohol is the single most important cause of illness and death from hepatitis and cirrhosis in the United States.

Normal Liver:
Normal functioning of the liver is essential to life. The liver is the largest and, in some ways the most complex organ in the body. One of its main functions is to degrade toxic substances absorbed from the intestine or produced in other areas of the body and then excretes them through the bile or blood products as harmless.

Moreover, the liver secretes bile into the small intestine to help digestion and absorption of fats, vitamin stores, synthesizes proteins and cholesterol, metabolizes and stores sugars. The liver controls blood viscosity and regulates the clotting mechanisms.

College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty?

The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler.

Tech-savvy Ravasio, a 21-year-old UCLA student designing her undergraduate degree around the Internet’s impact on society and communication, is irked by changes privately owned Facebook has made.

But for now, she says, Facebook is keeping her allegiance because of a concept called “technological lock-in.” In other words, the site has become an essential part of her life.

Thanks to his irrepressible sense of humour, Shah Rukh Khan comes across as an easy going person. But in real life the Bollywood star is little different and one of the things he is extremely finicky about is his socks.

“I have a strange attachment to socks. They should feel right. I could be missing a flight, but if my socks are wrong, I have to take them off… I won’t wear nylon socks with sneakers. The only time I get disturbed during shooting is over my socks. I hate brown socks and different-coloured socks,” said Shah Rukh said in an interview to the GQ magazine.

The interview will be published in the February issue of the lifestyle magazine.

In the interview, the 44-year-old also talked about his loneliness.

“I can come across as a user, manipulator, disinterested, weird, reclusive, strange, arrogant from the outside. But the people involved know the truth…there are days I feel lonely on the inside. I guess that’s the way I am.”

Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.

YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based Web giant not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks.

The separate projects went up within a day of each other in mid-January, just after Google's threat to leave.

"This should be an issue with Google's intellectual property, also with China censorship," said Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project at the University of California-Berkeley. "I cannot see how these sites can survive very long without facing these two issues."

India's technology and services industry could face an employee shortage of up to 3.5 million by 2020, says a study. It also points that the sector will earn $225 billion in revenues by 2020 despite the current global economic crisis, said a study released here Tuesday.

Of this, $175 billion is expected from exports and the remaining from domestic sources, said the study by global consultancy Mckinsey and IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).

"This is absolutely feasible, the future of the industry remains secure in the medium to long term even in the phase of recent macro economic trends," Noshir Kaka, director of McKinsey and Co, said.

The report, 'Perspective 2020', highlighted the need for diversifying India's IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry to achieve higher growth.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in his second annual letter, has lauded the efforts of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the area of healthcare.

While the former Microsoft chairman spoke about his first year of working with the foundation in his first letter, he devoted his second letter to ‘innovation’ and how it impacts priorities of the foundation. Gates recently joined the micro-blogging site Twitter (and has nearly 340,000 followers), rejoined social networking site Facebook and also launched a website — thegatesnotes.com — on which he shares his thoughts.

In his second letter, Gates notes: “One particular highlight from the year came last summer, when I traveled to India to learn about innovative programmes they have recently added to their health system. The health statistics from northern India are terrible — nearly 10 per cent of children there die before the age of five.

In response, the Indian government is committed to increasing its focus and spending on health. On the trip, I got to talk to Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, and hear about some great work he is doing to improve vaccination rates.

A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.

A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags

A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.