World's highest radio station enhances reach

The reach of the world's highest radio station was further enhanced when Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurated an FM station and satellite uplink facility in the cold desert region of Ladakh.

The world's highest radio station located at 11,800 ft above the sea level in Leh district of Ladakh region in India was linked to low-power transmitters at Nyoma, Khaltsi and Diskit.

Addressing a function in the premises of the All India Radio at Leh, the chief minister welcomed the introduction of the FM transmitter and satellite uplink station and called for further improvement to cover the shadow areas in the region where television and radio signals were not received due to geographical constraints.

"The inauguration of the FM station here is a boon for the young generation as it was a craze with the youth all over the country. The popularity of FM transmission had transcended boundaries and youth were feeling a special connect with these transmissions," Azad said.

Television or Computer, GOOD or BAD ?

Television, a rectangular piece of glass with some electrical components inside which made us sit in front of it and doesn't make us avoid it, but surely lands us to trouble by making us forget our work and people.
Surely making us gain weight and make us more lazy with just making us to press some button according to what we like.
So, what does it do for us ?....... Enrich us of the world, make us enjoy the famous football and baseball match, entertain us with movies and much more. Though gives us a lot of entertainment, also gives us a lot of health problems.
So what to say whether to say its good or its bad?

Computer , the world famous invention without which I wont be writing this brought the world in our hands but whats the use we cant hold the world with out small hands.
It opened the portals of unlimited knowledge and made us pass time with loads of games, continuous music with lots of entertainment and also with trouble like neck pain, back pain and also making us wear those lenses as vision aid.
So what can I say? Neither I can say the computer is good nor bad, hence you decide!!

Xenitis to make lowest-price mobile phone handsets

Xenitis Telecommunication, a newly floated venture of West Bengal-based conglomerate Xenitis Group, plans to invest Rs 2.5 billion for setting up a mobile handset manufacturing facility in West Bengal, India.

They will set up a mobile handset manufacturing unit with an investment of Rs 2.5 billion in West Bengal. and have already bought 10 acres of land, adjacent to their existing unit in Hooghly district, for the project. They will be producing the lowest-priced mobile handsets at Rs 499 which comes to less than $12.

The mobile handsets, priced between Rs 499-Rs 2,000, are targeted to penetrate the rural areas of West Bengal. These affordable handsets would be available in the market from August this year. It would be the first mobile handsets manufacturing unit in eastern India.


This year the Xenitis Group posted a turnover of Rs 10 billion and Xenitis Infotech, the flagship company of the group, contributed Rs 8.6 billion and Global Automobiles, the two-wheeler manufacturing wing, registered a turnover of about Rs 1.5 billion.

They've have already booked an order for manufacturing 160,000 mobile handsets per month, of which about 50,000 would be exported to Dubai and the Middle East.

They would invest Rs 2.2 billion in Xenitis Infotech for its capacity expansion and Rs 1.1 billion in company's automobile manufacturing business in the current financial year,

A 20-member team from West Bengal state assembly's standing committee on commerce and industries Tuesday visited the factory site of Xenitis Group in Hooghly district to monitor the progress of its ventures.

As gas goes up, driving goes down

Summary

March figures show steepest decline in driving since 1942

Compared with last year, drivers have logged 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT says

Americans planned to drive less over Memorial Day weekend, AAA reports

Public transportation ridership on rise, in part because of gas prices, group

At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a tremendous rate.

Americans are not driving as much as they did a year ago as gas prices explode.

The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded.

Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less , that's 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT's Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history." Records have been kept since 1942.

According to AAA, Americans said they were planning to drive less over the Memorial Day weekend than they did the year before.

Some people decided to camp out in the backyard and enjoy their camp in their backyard, while others share a ride with their friends instead of riding on their own vehicle.

According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to a record $3.936. That compares with an average price per gallon of $3.23 last Memorial Day.

With the price near $4 a gallon, people decreased their speed and start their engines only when they are about to set off.

Some Americans have turned to public transportation. Ridership increased by 2.1 percent in 2007, in part because of rising gas prices, according to the American Public Transportation Association.

Americans took 10.3 billion trips on public transportation in 2007, the highest level in 50 years,

The Energy Information Administration says gas consumption for the first three months of 2008 is estimated to be down about 0.6 percent from the same time period in 2007.

Mars images by Phoenix mars lander

This image, one of the first captured by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars. The flat landscape is strewn with tiny pebbles and shows polygonal cracking, a pattern seen widely in Martian high latitudes and also observed in permafrost terrains on Earth. The polygonal cracking is believed to have resulted from seasonal freezing and thawing of surface ice.

Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north latitude, 234 degrees east longitude.

This is an approximate-color image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter.

The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.his image shows a polygonal pattern in the ground near NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, similar in appearance to icy ground in the arctic regions of Earth.

Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 p.m. Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north latitude, 234 degrees east longitude.

This is an approximate-color image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter.

The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

This view of one of the footpads of NASA's three-legged Phoenix Mars Lander shows a solid surface at the spacecraft's landing site. As the legs touched down on the surface of Mars, they kicked up some loose material on top of the footpad, but overall, the surface is unperturbed.

Each footpad is about the size of a large dinner plate, measuring 11.5 inches from rim to rim. The base of the footpad is shaped like the bottom of a shallow bowl to provide stability.

This image was taken by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager shortly after landing, at 17:07 local time on Mars.

The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

Source: NASA

G8 calls for 2050 emissions goal

Major emerging economies such as China also attended the talks

Environment ministers from the world's biggest economies, the G8, have called for rich countries to take the lead in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

In a statement issued after talks in Japan, they urged their leaders to set a target to halve global emissions by 2050 when they hold a summit in July.

The G8 agreed last year in Germany to "seriously consider" the move - a proposal opposed by the US and Russia.

The talks aimed to set the agenda for this year's G8 summit in Toyako, Japan.

"To halve emissions, advanced countries should exercise leadership to achieve major cuts," the Japanese Environment Minister, Ichiro Kamoshita, told a news conference.

The G8 ministers - who were also joined by major emerging economies such as China - said a strong political will had been expressed to place developed countries at the forefront of the campaign.

The G8 is made up of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.

The World's smallest copter

ONE MAN COPTER: Yasutoshi Yokoyama, employee of Japanese Gen Corporation takes a demonstration flight on the GEN H-4 helicopter, the world’s smallest one-man helicopter, in Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, near Florence, Italy on Sunday 25 may 2008.

Full turnout in Shanghai for relay

SHANGHAI: After a week spent in mourning the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, the city of Shanghai allowed itself a few cheers on Friday as the Olympic torch finally made its way to China’s most prosperous city following a three-day suspension of the relay.

Celebrations were however considerably muted as the torch went its way along a significantly shortened route through the city’s streets. As a mark of respect to more than 55,000 people who lost their lives in the May 12 earthquake, local authorities shortened the distance of the torch route to 200 km and cancel the fireworks display and carnival that had been planned for Friday.

The torch was originally scheduled to reach Shanghai on Tuesday, but the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) suspended the relay for three days after a period of national mourning was declared on Monday for the first time in the country’s history. The relay resumed its course in the eastern port city of Ningbo on Thursday, before making its way north to Shanghai. Residents turned out in full force with tens of thousands gathering amidst tight security in the city’s public places, including the famous People’s Square and the Bund along the Huangpu River.

The relay began at the Shanghai Museum with a minute’s silence observed to remember the calamity of last week. In a short speech, Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng said Shanghai’s 19 million citizens were connected “heart-to-heart” with Sichuan’s victims, and that the passing of the flame would give confidence to those displaced by the quake to rebuild their homes.

As the torch made its way through the city, the hundreds of residents who had lined up along the streets in their replica Olympics shirts cheered loudly, but the memories of Sichuan were not far away. “Go, go China, go, go Sichuan and go, go the Olympics” they chanted, cheering and waving national flags. Rows of donation boxes for earthquake victims were set up all along the relay route, and among the 400 torchbearers were four local residents – a doctor, two soldiers and an IT engineer – who had traveled to Sichuan last week to help in the rescue efforts. They were flown in to Shanghai early on Friday morning, and they will all return to the devastated district on Saturday to carry on their work.

For many, the torch relay presented a time to heal after last week’s mourning. Caught up in the moment, some of the vendors who had set up shop along the relay route started handing out their flags and China tattoos for free.

The relay relay ended in Pudong, the crown-jewel of Shanghai’s districts and China’s financial capital.

The two-day Shanghai leg of the relay will conclude on Saturday afternoon in Anting, an automobile hub in Shanghai’s suburbs, and home to the city’s new $ 240 million Formula One race-track.

Rather appropriately, Sichuan will be the last stop before the torch ends its long journey in Beijing.

The torch was scheduled to reach Sichuan on June 12, but the BOCOG decided to postpone its arrival to August 3 to allow reconstruction work in affected areas to continue. The opening ceremony will be held in Beijing on August 8.

Mozambique cops 'too fat to run'

All Mozambican policemen will have to undergo fitness training

Mozambique police officers are to undergo a compulsory physical training programme, because some of them are too fat to run after criminals.

Interior Ministry advisor Pana Chande told the BBC that the poor lifestyle of many police officers was to blame.

Many of them have very large bellies and drink too much alcohol and smoke cigarettes, he said.

"Some of them are so large it is affecting their health and ability to run," he said.

"We are in a process of training officers and commanders at our training centres… We need men who are able to perform without problems," he told the BBC's Jose Tembe.

Mr Chande said many were slow and inflexible, often unable to chase criminals or act swiftly to avoid crime from occurring.

The physical training involves, among other things, running, gymnastics and simulating the chase of criminals.

He explained that the retraining programme is not a form of punishment, but an exercise aimed at improving the performance of the entire police.

Prince Caspian outbeats Iron Man

Prince Caspian is the second Narnia book to be made into a film

The latest film adaptation of CS Lewis' Narnia books has dethroned Iron Man from the top of the US and Canadian box office, according to studio estimates.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian took $56.6m (£29m) between Friday and Sunday to bump Iron Man off the top spot after two weeks.

Romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, starring Cameron Diaz, took $13.9m (£7.1m) to hit the third spot.

Speed Racer, from Matrix masters Andy and Larry Wachowski, was fourth.

The big-budget anime-inspired film, starring Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci, took $7.6m (£3.9m) in its second week.

Jeff Goldstein of the film's studio Warner Bros' said next weekend - which is Memorial Weekend in the US - was "do or die" for the film, which cost $120m (£61m) to make.

Motherhood comedy Baby Mama, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, made $4.6m (£2.3m) to inch ahead of Patrick Dempsey's romantic comedy Made of Honor, which earned $4.5m.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was in seventh with $2.5m (1.3m), followed by Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay with $1.8m (£0.9m).

Jackie Chan and Jet Li's martial arts movie The Forbidden Kingdom dropped a spot to ninth with $1m (£510,000).

Rounding out the top 10 is newcomer The Visitor with takings of $687,000 (£350,000).

The eagerly-anticipated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, will open in cinemas in the US and Canada on Thursday.

Indian rocket puts 10 satellites in orbit at one go

India's space programme made history on Monday (Apr 28, 2008) with the successful launch of a Rs 700 million ($17.4 million) rocket that placed in orbit 10 satellites - two Indian and eight foreign.

At precisely 9:23 am, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C9 rose into the sky, emitting thick orange flame, and placed in orbit an Indian cartography and a mini satellite to maintain leadership in the remote sensing domain. It also slung eight nano satellites into outer space - marking the world's second largest such mission.

The record is with Russia that launched 16 satellites at one go in 2007.

But there was uncertainty at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota , about 80 km from the Tamil Nadu capital of Chennai, soon after the rocket blasted off. While the signal that three of the satellites had been separated successfully came in, there was no immediate news about the other seven.

Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) heaved a sigh of relief when the news that all satellites had separated came in, signalling that the mission was a success.

Fourteen minutes into the flight, the 44 metre tall rocket first slung the 690 kg Cartosat-2A and followed it by slipping the 83 kg mini satellite and the cluster of eight nano satellites into a high polar sun synchronous orbit (SSO).

"It is a memorable moment for Team ISRO. The rocket stuck to its path without any deviation and delivered all the 10 satellites in their intended orbit," said G Madhavan Nair, Head of ISRO, immediately after the launch.

Mission Director George Koshy said, "The success of this launch has added more responsibility on us for the prestigious Chandrayaan (moon mission)."

Immediately after the payloads were ejected into orbit, the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC (ISRO telemetry, tracking and command network) network of stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia, Biak in Indonesia and Svalbard in Sweden monitored the satellites' health.

Several firsts for ISRO

This is ISRO's second successful launch this year after January when it launched an Israeli satellite.

Monday's launch marked several firsts for ISRO - the first time an ISRO rocket carried 10 satellites at a time, the first time a mini satellite was designed and sent up and the first time the Indian space agency utilised the optimum capacity of the PSLV's core alone configuration.

The two earlier core alone PSLVs carried a payload of 352 kg and 535 kg.

The Rs 2 billion Cartosat-2A is the thirteenth Indian Remote Sensing satellite. The data from the satellite will find applications in urban and rural infrastructure development and management as well as land and geographical information systems.

The satellite carries an advanced panchromatic camera that can take pictures with a spatial resolution of about one metre and can cover a land strip of 9.6 km.

The mini satellite incorporates many new technologies and has miniaturised subsystems apart from multi and high spectral cameras.

India, a world leader in the remote sensing data market, earns around Rs 520 million from this.

After the latest launch, India has a total of eight remote sensing satellites orbiting the earth -- IRS-1C, IRS-1D, Oceansat 1, TES, Resourcesat 1, Cartosat 1 and Cartosat 2 and Cartosat 2A.

The real iron man

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows.

Rex Jameson stretches in a robotic soldier suit that can multiply its wearer's strength and endurance.

But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds -- that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

With the outfit's claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set's bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off hundreds of repetitions.

Once, he did 500.

"Everyone gets bored much more quickly than I get tired," Jameson said.

Jameson -- who works for robotics firm Sarcos Inc. in Salt Lake City, which is under contract with the U.S. Army -- is helping assess the 150-pound suit's viability for the soldiers of tomorrow.

The suit works by sensing every movement the wearer makes and almost instantly amplifying it.

The Army believes soldiers may someday wear the suits in combat, but it's focusing for now on applications such as loading cargo or repairing heavy equipment. Sarcos is developing the technology under a two-year contract worth up to $10 million, and the Army plans initial field tests next year.

Before the technology can become practical, the developers must overcome cost barriers and extend the suit's battery life. Jameson was tethered to power cords during his demonstration because the current battery lasts just 30 minutes.

But the technology already offers evidence that robotics can amplify human muscle power in reality -- not just in the realm of comic books and movies like the recently debuted "Iron Man," about a wealthy weapons designer who builds a high-tech suit to battle bad guys.

"Everybody likes the idea of being a superhero, and this is all about expanding the capabilities of a human," said Stephen Jacobsen, chief designer of the Sarcos suit.

The Army's exoskeleton research dates to 1995, but has yet to yield practical suits. Sarcos' technology sufficiently impressed Raytheon Co., however, that the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense contractor bought Sarcos' robotics business last November. Sarcos also has developed robotic dinosaurs for a Universal Studios' "Jurassic Park" theme park ride.

Jack Obusek, a former colonel now with the Army's Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center in the Boston suburb of Natick, foresees robot-suited soldiers unloading heavy ammunition boxes from helicopters, lugging hundreds of pounds of gear over rough terrain or even relying on the suit's strength-enhancing capabilities to make repairs to tanks that break down in inconvenient locations.

Sarcos' Jacobsen envisions factory workers someday using the technology to perform manual labor more easily, and firefighters more quickly carrying heavy gear up stairwells of burning buildings. Disabled people also may find uses for the technology, he said.

"We see the value being realized when these suits can be built in great numbers for both military and commercial uses, and they start coming down in cost to within the range of the price of a small car," said Jacobsen.

He declined to estimate how much the suit might cost in mass production.

But cost isn't the only obstacle. For example, developers eventually hope to lengthen the suit's backpack battery's life and tinker with the suit's design to use less energy. Meanwhile, the suit can draw power from a generator, a tank or helicopter. And there are gas engines that, while noisy, small enough to fit into the suit's backpack.

"The power issue is probably the No. 1 challenge standing in the way of getting this thing in the field," Obusek said.

But he said Sarcos appears to have overcome the key challenge of pairing super-fast microprocessors with sensors that detect movements by the body's joints and transmit data about them to the suit's internal computer.

Much as the brain sends signals to tendons to get muscles to move, the computer sends instructions to hydraulic valves. The valves mimic tendons by driving the suit's mechanical limbs, replicating and amplifying the wearer's movements almost instantly.

"With all the previous attempts at this technology, there has been a slight lag time between the intent of the human, and the actual movement of the machine," Obusek said.

In the demonstration, the bulky suit slowed Jameson a bit, but he could move almost normally.

When a soccer ball was thrown at him, he bounced it back off his helmeted head. He repeatedly struck a punching bag and, slowly but surely, he climbed stairs in the suit's clunky aluminum boots, which made him look like a Frankenstein monster.

"It feels less agile than it is," Jameson said. "Because of the way the control laws work, it's ever so slightly slower than I am. And because we are so in tune with our bodies' responses, this tiny delay initially made me tense."

Now, he's used to it.

"I can regain my balance naturally after stumbling -- something I discovered completely by accident."

Learning was easy, he said.

"It takes no special training, beyond learning to relax and trust the robot," he said.

Bin Laden urges Muslims to liberate Palestine

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- in a blunt new message that coincides with Israel's 60th anniversary -- urged his followers to liberate Palestine..

This image accompanied a message from Osama bin Laden in November.

In a message titled "The Causes of Conflict on the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israeli Occupation," bin Laden reiterated jihadist opposition to the existence of the Jewish state and its policies.

Bin Laden's audio message, released Thursday, told listeners that "liberating" Palestine should be the aim of every Muslim, according to terrorism analyst Laura Mansfield.

The message, played over a still image on jihadist Web sites, runs 9 minutes and 40 seconds.

Bin Laden's last message came on March 20, when in an audiotape he called Iraq "the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine."

In an audiotape released the previous day, bin Laden condemned European countries for siding with the United States in Afghanistan and for allowing the publication of cartoons considered insulting to Islam's prophet Mohammed.

Al Qaeda -- which is responsible for the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States -- regularly condemns Zionism, the philosophical underpinning of Israel.

President Bush referred to al Qaeda on Friday in an address to Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem.

He decried the actions and the motivations of terrorists and noted that bin Laden teaches that "the killing of Jews and Americans is one of the biggest duties."

Legless lizard discovered in Brazil

Scientists in Brazil have discovered legless lizard, a dwarf woodpecker and another 12 suspected new species in the country's fast-disappearing Cerrado grasslands.

The discoveries were made during a 29-day expedition by US and Brazilian scientists in Brazil's vast wooded grasslands, one of the world's 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots, Conservation International said in a statement.

The grasslands are threatened by encroaching farmland; the expedition focused in and around the Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a 7,160 square km protected area that is Cerrado's second largest.

The 14 suspected new species discovered include eight fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, one mammal and one bird, the environmental group said.

The legless lizard, of the Bachia genus, resembles a snake due to its lack of legs and uses its pointed snout to move about its predominantly sandy environment.

Other outstanding new findings include a dwarf woodpecker of the genus Picumnus, and a horned toad of the genus Proceratophrys.

Besides the new species, the scientists also recorded several threatened animals such as the hyacinth macaw, marsh deer, three-banded armadillo, the Brazilian merganser and the dwarf tinamou, among more than 440 species of vertebrates documented.

Oldest irrigation system safe

BEIJING: The safety of the world’s oldest operating irrigation system was not compromised by 12 may 2008 quake in China, though it sustained minor damage, said the Ministry of Water Resources on Wednesday. The quake caused cracks in the V-shaped dyke in Dujiangyan project, which is more than 2,000 years old, and there were collapses in a sluice control room and a standby power generator room, it said.

The city of Dujiangyan, near the epicentre in Wenchuan County, was one of the worst-hit regions in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

The Ministry urged protection of the Zipingpu Reservoir between Dujiangyan and Wenchuan, and on the upper stream to Dujiangyan. It said the irrigation system and Dujiangyan City “would be swamped” if major problems emerged at the dam and at the reservoir.

The emergency response office of the Sichuan government said on Tuesday that cracks had appeared on the surface of the dam at Zipingpu and workshops collapsed, while all hydropower generators came to a halt.

99 Names of allah

#	Arabic	Transliteration	Translation (can vary based on context)
1	ar:الرحمن	Ar-Rahman	The All Beneficent, The Most Merciful in Essence
2	ar:الرحيم	Ar-Rahim	The Most Merciful, The Most Merciful in Actions
3	ar:الملك	Al-Malik	The King, The Sovereign, The True and Ultimate King
4	ar:القدوس	Al-Quddus	The Most Holy, The Most Pure, The Most Perfect
5	ar:السلام	As-Salaam	The Peace and Blessing, The Source of Peace and Safety, The Most Perfect
6	ar:المؤمن	Al-Mu'min	The Guarantor, The Self Affirming, The Granter of Security, The Affirmer of Truth
7	ar:المهيمن	Al-Muhaymin	The Guardian, The Preserver, The Overseeing Protector
8	ar:العزيز	Al-Aziz	The Almighty, The Self Sufficient, The Most Honorable
9	ar:الجبار	Al-Jabbar	The Powerful, The Irresistible, The Compeller, The Most Lofty, The Restorer/Improver of Affairs
10	ar:المتكبر	Al-Mutakabbir	The Tremendous
11	ar:الخالق	Al-Khaliq	The Creator
12	ar:البارئ	Al-Bari'	The Rightful
13	ar:المصور	Al-Musawwir	The Fashioner of Forms
14	ar:الغفار	Al-Ghaffar	The Ever Forgiving
15	ar:القهار	Al-Qahhar	The All Compelling Subduer
16	ar:الوهاب	Al-Wahhab	The Bestower
17	ar:الرزاق	Ar-Razzaq	The Ever Providing
18	ar:الفتاح	Al-Fattah	The Opener, The Victory Giver
19	ar:العليم	Al-Alim	The All Knowing, The Omniscient
20	ar:القابض	Al-Qabid	The Restrainer, The Straightener
21	ar:الباسط	Al-Basit	The Expander, The Munificent
22	ar:الخافض	Al-Khafid	The Abaser
23	ar:الرافع	Ar-Rafi‘e	The Exalter
24	ar:المعز	Al-Mu‘ezz	The Giver of Honour
25	ar:المذل	Al-Mudhell	The Giver of Dishonour
26	ar:السميع	As-Sami‘e	The All Hearing
27	ar:البصير	Al-Basir	The All Seeing
28	ar:الحكم	Al-Hakam	The Judge, The Arbitrator
29	ar:العدل	Al-`Adl	The Utterly Just
30	ar:اللطيف	Al-Latif	The Subtly Kind
31	ar:الخبير	Al-Khabir	The All Aware
32	ar:الحليم	Al-Halim	The Forbearing, The Indulgent
33	ar:العظيم	Al-Azeem	The Magnificent, The Infinite
34	ar:الغفور	Al-Ghafur	The All Forgiving
35	ar:الشكور	Ash-Shakur	The Grateful
36	ar:العلي	Al-Aliyy	The Sublimely Exalted
37	ar:الكبير	Al-Kabir	The Great
38	ar:الحفيظ	Al-Hafiz	The Preserver
39	ar:المقيت	Al-Muqit	The Nourisher
40	ar:الحسيب	Al-Hasib	The Reckoner
41	ar:الجليل	Al-Jalil	The Majestic
42	ar:الكريم	Al-Karim	The Bountiful, The Generous
43	ar:الرقيب	Ar-Raqib	The Watchful
44	ar:المجيب	Al-Mujib	The Responsive, The Answerer
45	ar:الواسع	Al-Wasse‘e	The Vast, The All Encompassing
46	ar:الحكيم	Al-Hakim	The Wise
47	ar:الودود	Al-Wadud	The Loving, The Kind One
48	ar:المجيد	Al-Majid	The All Glorious
49	ar:الباعث	Al-Ba'ith	The Raiser of The Dead
50	ar:الشهيد	Ash-Shaheed	The Witness
51	ar:الحق	Al-Haqq	The Truth, The Real
52	ar:الوكيل	Al-Wakil	The Trustee, The Dependable
53	ar:القوى	Al-Qawaie	The Strong
54	ar:المتين	Al-Matin	The Firm, The Steadfast
55	ar:الولى	Al-Walaie	The Protecting Friend, Patron and Helper
56	ar:الحميد	Al-Hamid	The All Praiseworthy
57	ar:المحصى	Al-Muhsi	The Accounter, The Numberer of All
58	ar:المبدئ	Al-Mubdi'	The Producer, Originator, and Initiator of All
59	ar:المعيد	Al-Mu‘id	The Reinstater Who Brings Back All
60	ar:المحيى	Al-Muhyi	The Giver of Life
61	ar:المميت	Al-Mumit	The Bringer of Death, The Destroyer
62	ar:الحي	Al-Hayy	The Ever Living
63	ar:القيوم	Al-Qayyum	The Self Subsisting Sustainer of All
64	ar:الواجد	Al-Wajid	The Perceiver, The Finder, The Unfailing
65	ar:الماجد	Al-Majid	The Illustrious, The Magnificent
66	ar:الواحد	Al-Wahid	The One, The Unique, Manifestation of Unity
67	ar:الاحد	Al-Ahad	The One, the All Inclusive, The Indivisible
68	ar:الصمد	As-Samad	The Self Sufficient, The Impregnable, The Eternally Besought of All, The Everlasting
69	ar:القادر	Al-Qadir	The All Able
70	ar:المقتدر	Al-Muqtadir	The All Determiner, The Dominant
71	ar:المقدم	Al-Muqaddim	The Expediter, He Who Brings Forward
72	ar:المؤخر	Al-Mu'akhir	The Delayer, He Who Puts Far Away
73	ar:الأول	Al-Awwal	The First
74	ar:الأخر	Al-Akhir	The Last
75	ar:الظاهر	Az-Zahir	The Manifest, The All Victorious
76	ar:الباطن	Al-Batin	The Hidden, The All Encompassing
77	ar:الوالي	Al-Wali	The Patron
78	ar:المتعالي	Al-Muta'ali	The Self Exalted
79	ar:البر	Al-Barr	The Most Kind and Righteous
80	ar:التواب	At-Tawwab	The Ever Returning, Ever Relenting
81	ar:المنتقم	Al-Muntaqim	The Avenger
82	ar:العفو	Al-‘Afuww	The Pardoner, The Effacer of Sins
83	ar:الرؤوف	Ar-Ra'uf	The Compassionate, The All Pitying
84	ar:مالك الملك	Malik-al-Mulk	The Owner of All Sovereignty
85	ذو الجلال و الإكرام	Dhu-al-Jalali wa-al-Ikram	The Lord of Majesty and Generosity
86	ar:المقسط	Al-Muqsit	The Equitable, The Requiter
87	ar:الجامع	Al-Jami‘e	The Gatherer, The Unifier
88	ar:الغنى	Al-Ghanaie	The All Rich, The Independent
89	ar:المغنى	Al-Mughni	The Enricher, The Emancipator
90	ar:المانع	Al-Mani'e	The Withholder, The Shielder, the Defender
91	ar:الضار	Ad-Darr	The Distressor, The Harmer This attribute can only be found in hadith
92	ar:النافع	An-Nafi‘e	The Propitious, The Benefactor
93	ar:النور	An-Nur	The Light
94	ar:الهادي	Al-Hadi	The Guide
95	ar:البديع	Al-Badi	The Incomparable, The Originator
96	ar:الباقي	Al-Baqi	The Ever Enduring and Immutable
97	ar:الوارث	Al-Warith	The Heir, The Inheritor of All
98	ar:الرشيد	Ar-Rashid	The Guide, Infallible Teacher and Knower
99	ar:الصبور	As-Sabur	The Patient, The Timeless.

Additional Names

Another epithet found in the Qur'an is Dhul Fadl al Azim (ذو الفضل العظيم) "The Lord of Infinite Grace" (2.105, 3.74, 8.29, 57.21, 57.29, 62.4), but it is not part of the traditional list of the 99 names of God.

The following list contains Names that are not in the traditional list of 99 Names above.

#	Arabic	Transliteration	Translation	Qur'anic Usage
1	ar:المالك	Al-Maalik	The True, Complete and Controlling Owner of Everything	2 times
2	ar:المليك	Al-Maleek	The Constant Owner and Controller of Everything	1 time
3	ar:ذو الفضل العظيم	Dhul Fadl al Azim	The Lord of Infinite Grace

Pakistan test-fires nuclear capable Hatf-VIII missile

ISLAMABAD, Thursday, 08 May: Pakistan on Thursday test-fired the air-launched cruise missile Hatf-VIII capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads accurately to hit targets on land and at sea, a day after India successfully tested its long range Agni-III missile.

The test of the Hatf-VIII or Raad missile, which has a range of 350 kilometres, was part of a "continuing process of validating the design parameters of the weapon system", said a statement from the military. The statement did not say where the missile was tested.

India yesterday successfully tested its long range Agni-III ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 kilometres.

Describing the launch of Raad, which means "thunder" in Arabic, as successful, the statement said the indigenously developed missile had "special stealth capabilities".

It said the Raad was a low-altitude, terrain following missile with high manoeuvrability and could deliver all types of warheads "with great accuracy".

The Raad, exclusively developed for launch from aerial platforms, "has enabled Pakistan to achieve a greater strategic stand-off capability on land and at sea", the statement said, adding such complex cruise missile technology has been developed by "only a few countries of the world".

In a message, President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani congratulated scientists and engineers on their success in the test.

The Raad was tested for the first time in August last year. Officials earlier said that the missile had a very low probability of detection due to its stealth design and the materials used in its construction.

In April, Pakistan test-fired long-range surface-to- surface Shaheen-II or Hatf-VI. Pakistan has conducted a series of missile tests in the past few months.

Digital Camera resolution

The amount of detail that the camera can capture is called the resolution, and it is measured in pixels. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can capture and the larger pictures can be without becoming blurry or “grainy.”

Some typical resolutions include:
256×256 - Found on very cheap cameras, this resolution is so low that the picture quality is almost always unacceptable. This is 65,000 total pixels.
640×480 - This is the low end on most “real” cameras. This resolution is ideal for e-mailing pictures or posting pictures on a Web site.
1216×912 - This is a “megapixel” image size — 1,109,000 total pixels — good for printing pictures.
1600×1200 - With almost 2 million total pixels, this is “high resolution.” You can print a 4×5 inch print taken at this resolution with the same quality that you would get from a photo lab.
2240×1680 - Found on 4 megapixel cameras — the current standard — this allows even larger printed photos, with good quality for prints up to 16×20 inches.
4064×2704 - A top-of-the-line digital camera with 11.1 megapixels takes pictures at this resolution. At this setting, you can create 13.5×9 inch prints with no loss of picture quality.

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The size of an image taken at different resolutions
High-end consumer cameras can capture over 12 million pixels. Some professional cameras support over 16 million pixels, or 20 million pixels for large-format cameras. For comparison, Hewlett Packard estimates that the quality of 35mm film is about 20 million pixels [ref].

Next, we’ll look at how the camera adds color to these images.
How Many Pixels?
You may have noticed that the number of pixels and the maximum resolution don’t quite compute. For example, a 2.1-megapixel camera can produce images with a resolution of 1600×1200, or 1,920,000 pixels. But “2.1 megapixel” means there should be at least 2,100,000 pixels.

This isn’t an error from rounding off or binary mathematical trickery. There is a real discrepancy between these numbers because the CCD has to include circuitry for the ADC to measure the charge. This circuitry is dyed black so that it doesn’t absorb light and distort the image.

GTA IV Synopsis

Official Synopsis

What does the American Dream mean today?

For Niko Bellic, fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past.

For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity.

As they slip into debt and are dragged into a criminal underworld by a series of shysters, thieves and sociopaths, they discover that the reality is very different from the dream in a city that worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don’t.

Developed by Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and will be in stores worldwide on April 29, 2008.

More Plot Details

Niko comes to America after receiving word from his cousin Roman. Roman brags of a fantastic lifestyle with 15 sportscars, two beautiful women and hotubs galore. All of this is a lie and nothing Roman claims is true. He is only covering for his own embarassing failure at living the “American Dream” so he dupes Niko into travelling across the world to clean the mess he has gotten himself into.

Niko finds himself in America with Roman as his only contact. Roman is heavily in debt and needs Niko’s help as he runs a failing Taxi Depot business in Broker. You are lowlife European immigrant, and you must fight for survival in Liberty City. Rockstar Games claim that you can ‘choose you destiny’. This means that how you play the game and the outcome of your choices affect what happens between Niko and his friends/foes.

How Digital camera works

In the past twenty years, most of the major technological breakthroughs in consumer electronics have really been part of one larger breakthrough. When you get down to it, CDs, DVDs, HDTV, MP3s and DVRs are all built around the same basic process: converting conventional analog information (represented by a fluctuating wave) into digital information (represented by ones and zeros, or bits). This fundamental shift in technology totally changed how we handle visual and audio information — it completely redefined what is possible.

The digital camera is one of the most remarkable instances of this shift because it is so truly different from its predecessor. Conventional cameras depend entirely on chemical and mechanical processes — you don’t even need electricity to operate them. On the other hand, all digital cameras have a built-in computer, and all of them record images electronically.

The new approach has been enormously successful. Since film still provides better picture quality, digital cameras have not completely replaced conventional cameras. But, as digital imaging technology has improved, digital cameras have rapidly become more popular.

In this article, we’ll find out exactly what’s going on inside these amazing digital-age devices.

Understanding the Basics
Let’s say you want to take a picture and e-mail it to a friend. To do this, you need the image to be represented in the language that computers recognize — bits and bytes. Essentially, a digital image is just a long string of 1s and 0s that represent all the tiny colored dots — or pixels — that collectively make up the image. (For information on sampling and digital representations of data, see this explanation of the digitization of sound waves. Digitizing light waves works in a similar way.)

If you want to get a picture into this form, you have two options:
You can take a photograph using a conventional film camera, process the film chemically, print it onto photographic paper and then use a digital scanner to sample the print (record the pattern of light as a series of pixel values).

You can directly sample the original light that bounces off your subject, immediately breaking that light pattern down into a series of pixel values — in other words, you can use a digital camera.

At its most basic level, this is all there is to a digital camera. Just like a conventional camera, it has a series of lenses that focus light to create an image of a scene. But instead of focusing this light onto a piece of film, it focuses it onto a semiconductor device that records light electronically. A computer then breaks this electronic information down into digital data. All the fun and interesting features of digital cameras come as a direct result of this process.

In the next few sections, we’ll find out exactly how the camera does all this.

Cool Facts

With a 3-megapixel camera, you can take a higher-resolution picture than most computer monitors can display.

You can use your Web browser to view digital pictures taken using the JPEG format.

The first consumer-oriented digital cameras were sold by Kodak and Apple in 1994.

In 1998, Sony inadvertently sold more than 700,000 camcorders with a limited ability to see through clothes.

Top 5 Digital Slr Cameras

Ready to move up from the point-and-shoot minor leagues? Here are our top five digital SLR cameras.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
A great camera for amateur digital SLR photographers, the EOS Digital Rebel XT offers the easiest operation in its class. It features an 8.0-megapixel CMOS sensor, Canon’s own DIGIC II Image Processor and compatibility with more than 50 EF Lenses. Improving on its predecessor, the Digital Rebel, the Digital Rebel XT has an all new lightweight and compact body, nearly as small as digital SLRs get, with the responsiveness of a bigger semi-pro model.

Canon EOS-5D
The new Canon EOS 5D boasts a full-frame 12.8-megapixel CMOS sensor in a relatively compact magnesium-alloy body. Canon’s DIGIC II Image Processor provides outstanding image quality, and “Picture Style” color control gives you superior command of color balance, contrast and sharpness. Pictures look great from almost any angle on the large 2.5-inch LCD, and easy-to-use menus simplify shooting operations so you can focus on your vision.

Olympus EVOLT E-500
Never worry about dust on the image sensor interfering with your pictures with the Olympus EVOLT E-500. This easy-to-handle digital SLR camera uses an exclusive vibrating filter to eliminate dust and produce spotless pictures no matter where you change lenses. It has an 8-megapixel CCD and 25 shooting modes so you can take great pictures with a minimum of effort. A high-resolution, 2.5-inch LCD lets you view and share your shots from a wide viewing angle. And it’s all housed in a lightweight, portable chassis.

Konica Minolta Dynax 5D
It’s called the Maxxum 5D in North America, the Dynax 5D elsewhere, but no matter which name it goes by, this is a great little digital SLR camera from Konica Minolta. It employs an exclusive built-in anti-shake technology, enabling blur-free shooting in just about any situation, even at slower shutter speeds. Its 2.5-inch LCD displays detailed, easy-to-read information about settings and exposure values. And it has a wide variety of customizable settings so you can control color balance, contrast, saturation and sharpness in every shot.

Nikon D50
Compact and lightweight, the Nikon D50 can go anywhere you do, and its lithium-ion battery lets you shoot about 2,000 images before needing to be recharged. It has a high-performance 6.1-megapixel CCD and is compatible with Nikon’s wide variety of high-quality Nikkor lenses. High-speed continuous shooting allows you to shoot for up to 137 uninterrupted frames, depending on the type of SD card used, and a new small-picture function lets you choose the resolution you want when saving each shot, maximizing your storage capability.

The Nokia N96 and N98

Nokia N96

Nokia has added another phone to the n series The Nokia N96 . The design looks stunning and it has a 16 gigabyte expandable memory with microSD slot. It has a 5mp camera with autofocus and also it has 3d speakers. It seems that Nokia has made this as an entertainment device and with this new phone one can also see live streaming TV via DVB-H receiver and it also buffers 30 seconds of instant replay. It is a double slider like its series mate the N95 and it is beautifully designed.

Nokia 98

There are some news about the release of the new Nokia N98. Looks like Nokia is going to release it soon, but the new Nokia n98 looks more like the Apple IPhone clone. But its features are far beyond the IPhone and also looks like a concept.It has an insane 7.2 mega pixel camera with 5x optical zoom and 20x digital zoom with 3.5″ touch screen and also has Graphics Accelerator and has become the Big daddy of cell phones. The Nokia N98 has caught enough attention from the people all over the world.The N98 has the lens of Carl Zeiss with built-in Xenon flash. Nokia has made the N98 a multipurpose superphone (I say superphone because it has enormous features) It’s screen has 16 m clolours

The Nokia N98 also records video at an incredible 60 fps with a resolution of 720 x 576

Acer Aspire Gemstone blue

Acer has launched two series of notebooks under its ‘Gemstone Blue’ brand: the 18.4-inches Aspire 8920 and the 16-inches Aspire 6920 series. Both series are characterized by a dominant feature — the color Blue; hence the brand name “Aspire Gemstone Blue”.

Notebooks under both series are powered by Intel Centrino Processor technology, featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, mobile Intel PM965 Express Chipset, and integrated module for wireless connection.

Aspire 8920 notebooks can be equipped with either Nvidia’s GeForce 9650M GS graphics engine with up to 1280 MB of TurboCache (512 MB of dedicated GDDR3 VRAM, up to 768 MB of shared system memory) or GeForce 9500M GS with up to 1280 MB of TurboCache (512 MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM, up to 768 MB of shared system memory). In either case, these notebooks support Nvidia PureVideo HD technology, Shader Model 4.0, and Microsoft DirectX 10.

According to Spooner , “Acer faces a particularly difficult task in doing so in the United States, where the Acer brand name has largely stood for low-cost brand. The company also faces stiff competition from HP and Dell, which have also been working to improve the cache of their respective PC product lines.” Acer hopes to break through this mental barrier with the Aspire Gemstone Blue which will ship from this month onwards, with prices starting from $900 and stopping at $1,700, depending on what you want to have inside.

The Fastest Car

Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h (407 km/h or 253 mph). It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS and is sold under the legendary Bugatti marque. It is named after racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.

To say that the Veyron is impressive would almost be an insult, considering just how unbelievable this car really is. The luxurious, classic interior is reminiscent of the brand’s racing past while the outside is striking with dual color enameling, chrome-plated radiator shutter and protruding back fenders which enhance the car’s sleek, athletic look. With some cars, looks can be deceiving, but here any performance expectations you might have by just looking at the car are sure to be exceeded.

According to Volkswagen, the final production Veyron engine produces between 1020 and 1040 metric hp (1006 to 1026 SAE net hp), so the car will be advertised as producing “1001 horsepower” in both the US and European markets. This easily makes it the most powerful production road-car engine in history.

Reaching 60 miles per hour in just 2.5 seconds, the Veyron has a seven-speed DSG twin-clutch transmission, a direct-injection 8.0-liter W-16 engine with 64 valves and 4 turbos and a top speed of 250 mph. This means that if you want to grab dinner in Los Angeles and a show in Las Vegas, the Veyron will get you there in one hour! The car’s speed capabilities are enhanced by aluminum and magnesium components, which help keep it light. Its power output tops at 987 horses (1,001 metric horses) at 6000 rpm with 922 lb.-ft. of torque at 2,200 rpm. Toggle switches on the steering wheel sequentially switch transmission, and power is evenly distributed with continuous four-wheel drive.