Paint your roofs white to slow global warming, says Obama's energy adviser

US President Barrack Obama's energy adviser has suggested that as part of efforts to slow global warming, all the world's roofs should be painted white.

According to a report in the Telegraph, Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said that the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.

More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures.

The Professor described climate change as a "crisis situation", and called for a whole host of measures to be introduced, from promoting energy efficiency to renewable energy such as wind, wave and solar.

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale "geo-engineering" projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favour of "white roofs everywhere".

He said that lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.

"If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years - just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.

BSNL Providing Free Incoming Video Calls for 3 Months

You must be aware that, as of now BSNL have started 3G services in many parts of the country, using which you can make and receive video calls, download data at a high speed and also browse the internet flawlessly.

As such, to promote the newly launched product, BSNL have recently announced that, all its 2G customers having 3G supported handsets can use “Video incoming call” feature for free for a period of 3 months.

Well, we appreciate this new scheme initiated by BSNL, but did you realize the business model of this plan? Simple, every user cannot just use video calls feature for free (as just incoming is free) so, BSNL is trying to make some money by the outgoing calls made by the other party.

Hrithik Roshan to endorse Reliance Mobile

After having endorsed many FMCG products, superstar Hrithik Roshan will now be seen as the Brand Ambassador of Reliance Mobile. According to our most reliable sources, the Krissh superstar will henceforth be the face of the Reliance's mobile, data and DTH businesses and that the promotional campaign for the same is being extensively shot in Bangkok.

News also has it that Hrithik will be shooting for around 8 TVCs for the same all centering around the theme of the ad campaign 'Just pick up the phone, don't wait...go for it'. Even though we, at Bollywood Hungama are not astrologers, but we can surely 'predict' that the sales of Reliance Mobiles are bound to shoot up like a rocket. And need we still tell you the reason?

ICC World Twenty20, 2009- FIXTURES

ICC World Twenty20, 2009


Jun 5 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group B
Eng v Ned - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 6 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group C
Aus v WI - 06:30 pm IST

Jun 6 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group A
Ban v Ind - 10:30 pm IST

Jun 6 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group D
NZ v Sco - 02:30 pm IST

Jun 7 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group B
Eng v Pak - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 7 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group D
Sco v SA - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 8 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group C
Aus v SL - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 8 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group A
Ban v Ire - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 9 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group B
Ned v Pak - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 9 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group D
NZ v SA - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 10 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group A
Ind v Ire - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 10 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group C
SL v WI - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 11 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group F - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 11 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group E - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 12 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group F - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 12 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group E - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 13 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group E - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 13 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group F - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 14 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group F - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 14 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Group E - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 15 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group E - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 15 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Group F - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 16 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group F - 06:00 pm IST

Jun 16 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Group E - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 18 Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Semi-Final - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 19 The Brit Oval, Kennington
Semi-Final - 10:00 pm IST

Jun 21 Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Final - 10:00 pm IST

The Vodafone ZooZoos Win PETA Award

You must have heard about Vodafone Zoozoos that’s creating a buzz across the blogosphere. And, presently, it is not only the bloggers talking about the Zoozoo ads.

If you are a Zoozoo fan, then you will be happy to know that the Zoozoo Ads have won the PETA award (People for Ethical Treatment for Animals).

An article in The Hindu states:

The awards are given to businesses that take advantage of humane alternatives to the use of real animals in their advertisements, PETA said in a press release here

Well, by now you must have understood that this award is usually given to business houses promoting to save lives of Animals. I think, in future, many more companies will clone the Vodafone Zoozoo ads.

Its interesting to see why Vodafone (formerly Hutch ) got an award . Is it because they replaced the dog - pug with ZooZoo ?

What animal sounds are called

Apes gibber Asses bray Bears growl Bees hum, buzz, murmur Beetles drone Birds sing Bitterns boom Blackbirds whistle Bulls bellow Calves bleat Cats meow, mew, purr, caterwal Chickens peep, cackle Cocks crow Cows moo, low Crows caw Cuckoos cuckoo Deer bell Dogs bark, woof, arf Dolphins click Doves coo, moan Ducks quack Eagles scream Elephants trumpet Falcons chant Flies buzz Foxes bark, yelp Frogs croak Geese cackle, hiss, honk Giraffes bleats, grunts Grasshoppers chirp, pitter Grouse drum Guinea fowl cry Guinea pigs squeak, whistle Gulls squawk

Hares squeak Hawks scram Hippos bray Horses neigh, whinny Hyenas laugh Kittens mew Lions roar Loons howl Magpies chatter Mice squeak, squeal Monkeys chatter, gibber Nightingales pipe, warble, jug-jug Owls hoot, screech, wail Oxen low, bellow Parrots talk Peacocks scream Penguin babies bleat Pigeons coo Pigs grunt, squeal, squeak Ravens croak Rhinos snort Rooks caw Sandpipers pipe, whistle Shearwaters shrill Sheep bleat, baa Snake hiss Sparrow chirp Stags bellow, call Swallows titter Swans crey, hiss, grunt Tigers roar, growl Tortoises grunt Turkeys gobble Wolves howl

PINTU - GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

As a daily habit Pintu was reading newspaper.

Suddenly he asked his father, " Dad! What does it mean by 'Governance System' ? "

"It's like..." father said while thinking, "See! I earn and bring money to home, mean's I am a 'Money Holder'. Your mother decides where and how to spend that money and that means she is 'Government'. That maid in our home is doing all the household works, so she will be 'Labour Class'. You are a 'Common man' or 'Public'. Your kid brother is 'Future' or the 'Next
Generation', understand?".

That day Pintu slept with all those thoughts. In the middle of the night he woke-up because his kid brother was crying. He wetted the matrices so he was crying. Pintu went to woke-up his mother. She was in deep sleep so Pintu went to the Maiden's room to wake her up. But there his father was sleeping with the maid. So he came back with frustration.

Next morning father asked Pintu, " Hey Pintu Darling! You understood the 'Governance System'? ".

Pintu replied, "Yeah Dad, I understood! When Money Holder is exploiting Labour Class, our Government is sleeping. Future of our nation is crying for not getting their basic needs fulfilled and in all this Common Man is suffering!"

TRUE, BUT FUNNY, FACTS FOR YOUR YOUTH GROUP!

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"..
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
• Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Starfish haven't got brains.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
• The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• If you are a goldfish, you probably won't even remember what website brought you to this page.

pencil sketch

Pencil sketch is a wonderful art made by an hand made with the help of paper and the pencil. This is typically amazing one. All can have the art language but difficult in pencil art, try this and have wonderful sketch.

HYBRID ANIMALS

The Golden Pheasant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady Amherst's Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors from its parents.

HYBRID ANIMALS

What do you get when you cross a cow with a buffalo? The Beefalo, a hybrid animal that produces red meat lower in fat and cholesterol than beef. Most consumers have never heard of beefalo, let alone tasted it, and only a few Seattle grocery stores carry it.

HYBRID ANIMALS

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (Tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera leo. A liger resembles a giant lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure sub-species. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.

HYBRID ANIMALS

A zebroid (also zebra mule and zebrule) is the offspring of any cross between
a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra mare, called a zebra hinny, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century.The zebroid showed in the picture above, Eclyse, is a very unusual one, because of her coloring. With her über distinct makings, it's really hard not think she's a Photoshop mock-up.

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