duptyfied
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There are just 100 days to go for another brilliant season of the Olympics. This time it is going to be held in London and the Olympic committee has set aside a budget of $14.8 billion. London happens to be the first city ever to host the Olympics three times in the modern era.Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/18/sport/olympics-100-days-london-2012/index.html?hpt=hp_mid
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http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ The famous American TV host: Richard Wagstaff Clark”, passed away yesterday (18/4/12), due to a heart attack, he was 82 years old. He started his carrier in 1947 with WRUN-AM, NY as an office worker, who was later asked to fill in for the weatherman temporarily. In 1952 he began broadcasting a show called Bob Horns Bandstand, which later took the name American Bandstand. In 1972 he produced and hosted New Year’s Rocking Eve. He also spent a good time hosting the Top-40 radio countdown. In his personal life he was married three times. He suffered a stroke in 2004, where his speech was impaired. He also had type-2 diabetes.
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Yeah: Solar energy, hydro and winds energy etc. are good alternatives to fossil fuel which are already in use and being developed even further but I feel it is good to venture and look into less traditional means and explore their viability.
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Thanks, you do have a point there about people who care-less about a few things and give ridiculous attention to other contrary things. In the city of Mumbai too I have noticed an increase in the cat population and the decrease in number of sparrows. I remember I once built a sparrows nest out of a shoe box and kept it above my door but there are no sparrow coming to my place now. I live in an apartment on the 3rd floor, cats often come up and liter the place and sometimes rummage through garbage boxes that are kept outside. Very often we have male and female cats growling and fighting at night. The people here say that if you kill a cat you need to make a cat out of gold and present it in a temple they also say that when cats growl someone is going to die. I don’t know who gets on my nerves more, these cats or these people.
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yeah Yordon, he was a handsome dog, a mix, had a little setter blood in him. He was a good guard dog to.
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Alcatel is known for making mobile phones, which are value for money as well as sophisticated. The Alcatel Onetouch 990 runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS. It has a 3.5 inch screen and weighs 144gm. The touch is very smooth and sensitive and the finish of the phone is good, for a phone that Rs.10000 online. The resolution of the phone is good but the photos all have a bluish tinge, even though it has a 5 megapixels at its disposal with LED flash and auto focus. The phone cries out for more internal memory, as every time you download an app, it shows low phone memory. Considering that not all apps can be shifted from phone memory to memory card, this becomes a problem. When the phone memory is low, even the text messages are rejected. This phone is 3G ready up to 7.2 mbps; it also has a Wi-Fi support, which is all powered by a 1300mAH battery. The earphones that come with the phone are not appealing at all and the phone does seem power efficient.
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With fossil fuel rising in price by the day, the tremendous pollution that comes with it and related environmental concerns, it is time that the world invest more in alternative means of energy than fossil fuel. Here are a few ideas: With the human population growing in number, what you are left is feeding more people more food but that food mostly reaches those who already have plenty. As there already is medication that makes a person pass his fat as stools, why can’t this be used as a source of oil? At-least this way the fat people will lose weight which they will like and that oil can be used as some source of energy. The world population is about 7 billion of which 65% is overweight or obese, which will be a lot of oil. Neutrinos: These are electrically neutral particles origination mostly from the Sun’s nuclear activity. These are so much in plenty that 65 billion pass through an area as big as a man’s thumbnail per second. Since these particles are electrically neutral, they pass greater distances through solid objects. If we could harness this energy then this energy would power the whole world inexhaustibly while still giving us clean energy. Thunder and lightning are also huge power sources, why can we use them too or generate environments where we can use them
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Do you know cats around the world have spoiled so much of the natural ecosystem? For example in New Zealand or Australia, cats have been known to diminish so much of the natural wildlife that the best thing the country has sought to do is shoot them. The shooters then proudly wears the cat’s fur as head gear.I hate cats because, they are unappreciative animals. A dog will never bite the hand that feeds it but you cannot expect the same from a cat. I think the best place for cats are Veitnam, at least there they will be put to good use and the fur can be sent back as nice soft hand bags for the ladies.If you ever have a problem of an unwanted cat at your front door, you can just take a cap of concentrated phenyl and throw it on its face. The cat with immediately run away due the strong smell.As I am not allowed to shoot the cats that tear my garage cover and bike seat, I just give them a nice solid football kick and see them do 2 to 3 amazing cartwheels in the air.P.S: A rifle is the best tool to bring a cat down, that is stuck-up in a tree.
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Sometime you figure that the girl is not giving you what you want and you feel like someone who has left home to buy oranges and you are stuck with someone who is selling only apples. They say that the only true love is unrequited love. I don’t think that is true in its entirety because that is like punching a bag and calling it a boxing tournament.I believe everything has a purpose whether you want to see it for its purpose or not. I also believe that everything is predestined with a purpose, right from the moment we spend in deep trash to the happier ones. When a relationship sees failure, I don’t think there is any better thing to do than ‘move on’ but this is so difficult. The hurt is like an emotional maggot wound and keeps us painfully anxious.Sometimes I wonder if I am called to be alone and if these failures in relationship are the thorn in me that keeps my humility in check. All you can do in these times is live of moment and leave the rest in God’s faithful hands for everything has its own time and He will make sure that you don’t brood when that time is up over and out.
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Within just a week of the 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Michoacan, Mexico, there is now a 5450m evacuation around Popocatepetl volcano as the alert level has now reached the ‘yellow stage three’. I guess this will take its toll globally as well, especially considering the rise in global warming. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17750891
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You guys ought to check this out! source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/17/tech/iphone-app-aims-to-program-your-dreams-inception-anyone/index.html This will make nice tool for those who are disturbed and would prefer to have a pleasant dream. I wonder how well this really works and if people can influence your dreams, they how far is the iPhone from influencing your thought process. It seems free will sell soon at the cost of IPhone.
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My pet dog Rip (as in Rip Van Winkle) because of the amount he slept.
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It is unclear from where kickboxing started but Muay-Thai is the best free hand martial art for self defense and street fighting. It also helps you burn huge calories and even builds you in strength. In Thai kick boxing, a person uses his heel, instep, shin, knee, fist and elbow, making the most of his body a deadly weapon.You may also consider Krav Maga, if you can arrange for a good teacher. Alternatively even boxing will help you lose a lot of weight.
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Yordon, your right in saying that buddy,Along with increasing the lens size, I think those lenses which are used in night vision that draw in maximum light would also come in handy especially in low light conditions.
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Yeah it was sad, I'll post you the pic tomorrow Yordon.
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Thanks Yordon, I've heard about Audacity but never really used it, may be your tip will make this exercise easier; thanks.
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Well instrumental seems to be helpful because it is soothing but what works with one person may not necessarily work with another.
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Thanks Yordan!You have a point there with the lens size but concerning the megapixels I feel that 5 megapixel is more than enough for any common user and may be 8 megapixels for a professional, what I feel digital camera need to work more on is the ISO, which helps the camera take out better picture in low light conditions. In low light conditions, the exposure is longer due to which there could be blurring due to movement. If cameras could focus more on the ISO light sensitivity and made it auto adjustable to the environment conditions then it would greatly help the clarity while keeping the image size small. Or may be they can develop an image format, which is rich in quality yet small in size like how we have mp3 concerning music.
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Thanks Yordon, I don't have a pic of my dog with me right now but I will post it here to you tomorrow. My dog's name was "Rip" as he was name after "Rip Van Winkle", who slept for twenty years. My dog was pretty lazy as you can guess, the only time he was active was during mating season, where he would be out of the house for a week or two and came back all bruised after fighting with other males just for a female. When the vet advised my dad to get my dog castrated, I objected but then my dog died because after one such fight he was severely hurt and to add to that he developed a maggot wound but never came home but ran all around the neighborhood and was finally run over by a truck. We haven't got ourselves another dog since then.Cheers mate!
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Have you ever wanted to sing a love song and send it to your girlfriend really far away or may be post it on her facebook profile? Most of the Karaoke softwares do not record and those that do are mostly paid services. Even the online Karaoke services which record and are free, need premium membership to sing the good love songs that you want. So here is a free idea for you. Here is what you will need: Microphone Earphones Small speakers Well here is what you can do. Download the mp3 file of the song you want to sing, then download this free program called Wavosaur. You can get the user guide here. Listen to the song a few times, memorize the lyrics and practice a good pitch. Now plug in your earphones and play the mp3 file on Wavosaur, immediately click on the record button and as the song plays sing along into the connected microphone. Once the song has stopped playing, click on the record button again to switch it off, a window will open to show you your vocals, in which you have the option to adjust the volume (+/- db; multiple times), covert from stereo to mono and save. Now also save a test copy of the original mp3 file, convert that to mono and use the voice remover to remove its vocals, there will still be a hint of the vocals depending upon the compression. Save the voice removed file. Kindly note all files are saved in .wav format. Now open two instances of a media player, in one play your vocals and in the other play the voice removed file, they must be played in sync and on speakers. Before the playing starts, you need to keep the microphone before the speakers, and click record on Wavosaur. It will be good if you can place some kind of box over the speakers and microphone so that there will be no external disturbances. This recorded file is not finished as yet, you now to download a wave to mp3 converter, convert it to mp3, you are then free to post this on facebook on your girlfriend’s wall.
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We have digital cameras today that that just keeping increasing on the megapixels but is that the only thing that can be done to improve picture clarity? More megapixels relates to larger image size, which means you have to pay more for higher capacity memory cards.I have seen pictures taken by a 3 megapixel camera, which was blown up to a poster that was about 4ftX3ft and the clarity was pretty good. May be more megapixel translates into better digital zoom, which has cheaper manufacturing cost compared to the manufacturing cost of optical zoom. Ironically I have notice that the low cost cameras have a low optical zoom as well as low megapixels translating to low digital zoom as well. It begins to look more like a marketing strategy for digital cameras than anything else.
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Many people consider eggs as non-vegetarian but scientifically eggs are vegetarian even in terms of the world.Ok I am going to get a little disgusting here but it is only with the intention of getting the message across. You know women have their periods right and what exactly is that? It is just the flushing out of the unfertilized egg. Meaning no sperm has mated with egg and hence there is no formation of life but it is a good source of protein though.Similarly the eggs in the market are all unfertilized because only unfertilized eggs have a larger shelf life as fertilized eggs need specific conditions so that they can develop, else they spoil soon. These eggs available in the market will not hatch even if you place them in an incubator or under a hen. Besides the poultry farms that we have keep the 'market egg laying hens' seperate from the roosters.So, if you can consider consuming milk as a vegetarian animal product, you can do the same with these eggs too.
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Hi, this is 'duptyfied' from Mumbai - India, you can call me Dupty (pronounced: dup-tee). Dupty is what my dad calls me at home. I am not much of a techie but as long as technology meets my increasing standards, I am fine with that.I am more into mechanics than I am into electronics, I love to ponder on things that people give little thought on. I am not as much technically enthusiastic as I was when in college. I guess life is like this long walk where the longer you walk, you the more you loose what you would like to have and the more you focus on neccesities because it helps to travel light when the journey is long.I love reading, swimming, writing, boxing, beer, candy bars and dogs.
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You can also try distance learning from The Writer’s Bureau.It’s a one to four year distance learning from the UK. The fee in Indian Rupess is 19900, and they will train you as to how to write for various genres, they will even help you explore the writing market.For an Indian writer, a thousand word article will go for £200 i.e. about Rs.15000. So it is not a bad living to be made for a passionate writer to even sell two such articles in a month to a magazine.You may request for free details from the URL below.http://www.writersbureau.com/index.php?source=ppc&gclid=CPXTm6CqtK8CFUx76wodtWxUiA