Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Angel Food Ministries

Angel Food Ministries is a nationwide program based out of Georgia that is designed to provide high quality food at lower-than-retail prices.

Using the buying power of volume, Angel Food Ministries purchases food at deep discounts, then passes that savings onto its clients.

Each month the ministry offers a new menu of items in what it calls its signature box. Designed to feed a family of four for a week, the box of food costs $30. There are also senior boxes for $28 and allergen-free boxes for $25. In additions to the signature boxes, clients can choose from a variety of special boxes each month. For example, the June menu featured a meat grill box, which included steaks, chops, ribs and bratwurst for $23.

Source: http://www.hollandsentinel.com/

The charity is now being investigated by the FBI for reasons that are not being made clear by either the charity or the FBI.

India air powered car

India’s largest automaker was set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered car, which was scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008. The Air Car was designed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI.

Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) now expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010. As the U.S. licensee for MDI, ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast and grow for regional production around the country, at a clip of up to 10,000 Air Cars per year.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Magic vs Lakers Game 1 NBA Finals 2009

Games 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals 2009 will be played in the STAPLES Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Then, the series will shift to Orlando, FL, for Games 3 and 4. And finally the last two (if necessary) would come back to Hollywood for Games 6 and 7.

The 2009 Finals mark the Lakers' record 30th appearance in the championship round. They are 14-15 all time.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Bing - Microsoft unveils its new Internet search engine

Microsoft unveiled a new search engine named Bing, the rebranded and rebuilt search engine formerly code-named Kumo, designed to replace Live Search. Microsoft is renewing its efforts to challenge the dominance of Google in the Internet search market.

Bing will be fully deployed worldwide June 3. The new search engine or 'decision engine' as it is termed, is targeted initially to focus on shopping, travel, local business and information, and health-related research and help people make informed decisions in this area. It might help Microsoft gain share in the search business.

Bing will be Microsoft's new default search. Bing uses technology from Powerset (a search technology company Microsoft acquired) to display refined versions of your query down the left side of the page.

Bing also pop ups an excerpt of the text on a search result if you hover over it. This saves a lot of time if you're not quite sure if you want to follow a result. Bing also does very well in video search results. Bing's presentation is excellent when compared to other search engines.

To see the source of this news go to http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10251432-2.html

Sun Mingming

Sun Mingming, a Chinese basketball player, is 7 ft 9 in (236 cm) and weighs 320 pounds (168 kg). He is one of the tallest players to ever play professional basketball. Ming wears size 20 sneakers.

He was born in a small town called Bayan near Harbin, China on August 23, 1983. He started playing basketball only when he reached 15 at which time he was 6 ft 7 in.

Sun was a part of the tallest lineup in the worldm on March 11, 2007, a Guinness World Record, with four players over 7-foot, including former NBA player Gheorghe Mureşan.

Laodicean

Kavya Shivashankar finally won the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition for 2009. "Laodicean" was the word that clinched her the victory as other children could not spell it correctly.

Other words she spelled correctly include "hydrargyrum", "blancmange" "baignoire", "huisache", "ecossaise", "diacoele", "bouquiniste", "isogoge" and "phoresy". Finally, 13-year-old Kavya correctly spelled "Laodicean", after all the others misspelled it. The word means "indifferent or lukewarm", especially in matters of religion or politics.

Kavya had finished tenth, eighth and fourth over the last three years. A budding neurosurgeon, Kavya enjoys playing the violin, bicycling, swimming and learning Indian classical dance. Her role model is Nupur Lala, the 1999 champion featured in the documentary "Spellbound".

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Icosahedron

An icosahedron is a polyhedron that is made of 20 faces. Each face in a regular icosahedron is an equilateral triangle.






It's dual polyhedron is the dodecahedron. That is, when the Icosahedron's corners or vertices are converted to faces, it becomes a dodecahedron.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Lenovo S12 under $500?

Lenovo S12 Netbook at the $499 - $600 range is a steal. It comes with a 12.1-inch, 1,280x800 screen and a Atom N270 processor. The Ion is claimed to deliver a 10x performance boost on existing Netbook integrated graphics with almost identical power consumption. While there is speculation whether the price will be under $500, only time will tell for sure.

The S12 comes in either white or black. The 1.14-inch-thick, 3.7-pound Netbook has a six-cell battery, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160 GB HDD, XP Home, a 1.3-megapixel Webcam and 802.11 b/g wireless.

Will the size be suitable for gaming? Who cares anyway. For this price, nobody could be complaining.

More good news! The arrival of the S12 has dramatically reduced the prices of the S10 range. You got to really see the prices to believe this. Discount Code for S10e range

north korea nuclear test

"North Korean action a threat to international peace" says US President Barack Obama. An emergency session of the UN Security Council is being convened by Russia during which a strong statement of condemnation is expected to be issued to the North Korean action.

Two years back North Korea agreed to close its main nuclear plant but has now withdrawn from all negotiations.

2009 french open tickets

The 2009 French Open at Roland Garros will be on from May 24th to June 7th. We can expect some of the most riveting matches in this year's tournament.

Who will take the cup? Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or someone else? Watch the excitement live on centre court. Get your French Open tickets soon.

Various firms sell tickets for the French Open. You can book on the Internet, but please ensure that the site is secure. When you submit your credit card information, the URL must start with 'https' in the address bar and a padlock should appear at the bottom of your browser window. Also ensure that the firm has provided an offline address and telephone number, so that you can contact them in the event of any problems.