October 12, 2010

An Early Run for Riches

Joseph Hudicka needs to make about $999,500 more before he can claim the title of young millionaire, but he's still light-years ahead of his peers in terms of entrepreneurial success.
At the age of 8, Joseph has already joined the ranks of the tech elite: He has developed two applications for the iPhone. 
Pretty good for a kid who doesn't even own a mobile phone.

Bolivian President

"I passed the ball, and suddenly I got hit, and not for the first time."
---- Evo Morales, Bolivian president, justifying himself after he was caught on camera kicking an opponent in the groin during a friendly match to inaugurate a renovated stadium in La Paz.

Time, October 18, 2010

October 11, 2010

10.10.10

I am in US and it's 101010 today!

What confidence!

The first Millionnaire winner...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeqPJojGqxc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Bitter truth about honey in India

Indian companies sell honey contaminated with antibiotics within the country whereas export cleaner product, a new study has found.
Chronic exposure to antibiotics can cause antibiotic resistance and lead to blood related disorders, World Health Organisation has said, leading to its ban in food products in Europe and the US.

The Centre for Science and Environment, an NGO, has found different types of antibiotics, commonly used to check bacterial infection, in 12 brands of honey sold through counter including a brand each from Australia and Switzerland, where antibiotics in honey is banned. In all, these brands account for over 95 per cent of honey market in India.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/Bitter-truth-about-honey/Article1-600675.aspx

October 7, 2010

बाळांना विहिरीत सोडण्याची प्रथा बंद

तान्ह्या बाळांना पाळण्यातून खोल विहिरीत सोडण्याची वर्षानुवर्षे सुरू असलेली प्रथा अखेर जिल्हाप्रशासन व ग्रामस्थांशी झालेल्या चर्चेनंतर बंद करण्याचा निर्णय झाला.

मात्र आता विहिरीशेजारीच लहानशी टाकी बांधून त्यातील तीन फूट पाण्यात 'पाण्याचा स्पर्श करण्यासाठी' बाळाला सोडण्याचा तोडगा ग्रामस्थांनी मान्य केला.

http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6706307.cms

Rich Indians & charity

Rich Indians “are more into temple building and things like that,” said Samit Ghosh, the chief executive of Ujjivan Financial, a microlender based in Bangalore, “rather than putting their money into real programs, which will have real impact on poverty alleviation.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/global/06khosla.html?src=me&ref=general

At Ninety

A 10 km walk every morning, a steep mountain (Sinhgad-Pune, India) climbing session every Sunday, a trek in the Himalayas twice a year...
...meet Mr Narayan Mahajan, 90, from Pune.

http://www.epapergallery.com/IntelligentPune/1Oct2010/Normal/page15.htm

October 6, 2010

Shining Vespa

Vespa-Swarovski1.jpg

http://luxuryes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Vespa-Swarovski1.jpg

The Best Jailhouse Transformation Ever

It was the precinct edition of "Extreme Makeover."

After a Post photographer snapped Rudy Giuliani's dowdy daughter in cuffs outside the cosmetics store she was accused of looting, she asked cops if she could put on a little makeup, sources said.

Four hours and a wardrobe change later, Caroline Giuliani stepped out of a Manhattan station house, her blond hair brushed out, her sleeves stylishly rolled up, ready for her New York cover shoot.

"It will probably go down in history as the best jailhouse transformation ever," said Khalilah Williams-Webb, a celebrity stylist who has outfitted such stars as hoopster Carmelo Anthony.

When cops outfitted her with locking bracelets at an Upper East Side Sephora store, she was wearing a purple T-shirt emblazoned with the letters NYU, for New York University.

But when she emerged from the 19th Precinct lockup with her mother, Donna Hanover, Caroline, a Harvard senior, was wearing a crimson sweatshirt from her Ivy League school with what appears to be a Harvard shirt underneath.

Sources said that after Caroline was processed, she went alone into a women's bathroom on the first floor with a bag that held the sweatshirt and her makeup. She came out 15 minutes later looking like a different person.

Last installment from Germany

On Oct 3, 2010, Germany paid the very last installment of the $ 33 billion debt levied by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles for starting WWI.
The fines crippled the German economy at that time.
Adolph Hitler refused to pay reparations during his rule.
Most of the money will be distributed among private individuals and pension funds.

Time, October 11, 2010

Why did they stop levying fines on arrogant countries for starting a war?