Highest number of this year’s presidential campaign,gathered in Missouri

Barack Obama set a record again after drawing the highest crowd of this year’s presidential campaign. According to the St. Louis Police Department about 100,000 people gathered to hear Obama’s rally in St. Louis earlier Saturday. Missouri has voted for every presidential winner since 1900, with the exception of 1956. Democratic presidential candidate Obama attracted about 75,000 to an event in Portland, Oregon and drew more than 200,000 in Berlin,Germany.

World Poverty Facts

“Half of the world population starves.. other half diets” when I saw this on a notice board in my University, I didn’t think its an over exaggerated sentence. I think it tells the whole story in few words. But to know how wide the disparity is between the rich and poor and the effect of concentration of wealth and power in few hands we need to carefully look beyond the surface and be willing to learn the world we are living in. Here are some facts from my research about world poverty.

• About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations.
• Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted.
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
• 1.4 billion people live below poverty line that means they earn less than $1.25 per day.
• About 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s assets in 2004.
• The wealthiest 20% of the world’s population consumes 76.6% of the world’s goods while 80% of humanity gets the remainder.
• For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.
• A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.Source .
• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.
• The assets of the world’s three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet. .
• One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

2008 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. For the past twenty years, he took a prominent role in resolving several serious and long-lasting conflicts.

Ahtisaari contributed significantly solving some serious crisis in world stage such as 1989-90 Namibia’s independence,Aceh conflicts in Indonesia and conflict in Kosovo. In 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for Al Gore Jr. for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.

Asteroid to Light Up Sky

Astronomers expect a small asteroid measuring few meters in size will enter earth’s atmosphere over eastern Africa before dawn Tuesday. The asteroid will provide a spectacular light show as it disintegrates. The event is expected to occur at 5:46 a.m. local time (10:46 p.m. EDT Monday). The small space rock, designated 2008 TC3, will be traveling on an eastward trajectory that will carry it toward the Red Sea. Its unlikely any part of the asteroid will remain to hit the earth.

Popular News On September

A list of most popular news last month on Snugd.

1. Send Your Name Around the Earth.
2. Google Plans to Launch Web Browser.
3. World’s Smallest Car : Toyota iQ.
4. Bacteria: Alternative Energy Source in Future.
5. Walmart Advocating Against Obama?.
6. Sony Recalls VAIO Laptops.
7. GPS Bicycles by Yahoo.
8. Reporters Violently Manhandled and Arrested in Republic Convention.
9. World’s Thinnest LCD HDTV.
10. You Can Spot More Aggressive Men By Their Faces.
11. Human Virus : Cool Cartoon.
12. Bill Gates Invests in Bio Fuels.
13. Letterman : McCain’s Last Minute Cancellation.
14. Internet to Africa, Google Takes Initiative.
15. 9/11 moment by moment.

U.N. chief Ask Rich nations to help Africa

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world’s rich nations to spend $72 billion a year to help Africa to fight poverty, improve health and ensure universal primary education. He pointed out the estimated $267 billion spent last year on agricultural subsidies by the world’s richest nations. In 2006, 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of least developed countries are in Africa.

Google Calls for Ideas to Change the World

Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th) is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Google is announcing this project as part of its tenth birthday celebration. To participate users can send exciting ideas for ways to improve people’s lives and Google will give $10 million to turn up to five of the best ideas into reality. Submission dead line is on October 20th, 2008. Watch the video Google created and let the neurons fire up for the humanity.

Unlimited Music Service by Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson today announced the launch of PlayNow™ plus, which will offer users download, play and recommend unlimited amounts of music wherever they are and whenever they like. The service, PlayNow plus, will first be offered in Sweden with a global launch to follow next year, according to Sony Ericsson. The music service will cost 99 Swedish kronor (US$15) per month. Wireless operator Telenor will offer the service with a W902 Walkman phone for 2 year contract.

Google Hosts Africa Conference

“Building the conversation between Silicon Valley and Africa.”, is the mission statement of BarCamp Africa. The organizers expects grass roots changes can be made by building awareness using this event. Google has offered to host this gathering on their beautiful Mountain View campus. What is a BarCamp? It is a gathering to share and learn in an open environment with discussions, demos and interaction among participants. BarCampAfrica 2008 will be held on Oct 11th.

Malaysian PC Teaches Koran

Malaysian PC vendor FTEC System released a new version of Classmate computer bundled with Al-Tasneem’s Digital Al-Qur’an software. The vendor release the version to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Classmate PC is based on Intel’s low-cost Atom processor and designed for children. Approximately 52% of Malaysia’s population is Muslim, which is the official religion of the state.

Rwanda Distributes XO laptops

Rwanda launched the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program with the distribution of 5,000 laptops. The laptops are currently being sold for US$188, but OLPC is working to drive down costs through a give-one, get-one-free program. Nearly 100 teachers have already completed training by the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in the use of specialized OLPC XO-1 computers. The organization has also provided Ethiopia with 5,000 laptops, and South Africa and Ghana have each received at least 100 laptops. Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world with a GDP of $238.30.

9/11 moment by moment

On September 11, 2001,terrorists crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours. As the world marks the seventh anniversary of the attack on the twin towers we look back at the key moments of that day .

• 7:59 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 a Boeing 767-223ER with a maximum capacity of 181 passengers and 23,980 gallons of fuel, lifts off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
• 8:01 a.m: United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222 with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel, rolls from the gate in Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey with 44 people aboard bound for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California.
• 8:13:31 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 last transmission from Boston Air Traffic Control.
• 8:14 to 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 goes off course and is hijacked.
• 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 transponder signal stops transmitting Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) beacon signal.
• 8:21 a.m: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls Vanessa Minter at American Airlines reservations from the seatback phone.
• 8:22 a.m: Amy Sweeney another flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls American Airlines ground manager Michael Woodward and speaks calmly to him until the plane crashes.
• 8:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 is heading westnorthwest, its location is between Albany and Lake George, New York, when it suddenly makes a 100 degree turn to the south and starts heading directly toward New York City.
• 8:32 a.m: Bush�s motorcade leaves The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, Florida for Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota.
• 8:40 a.m: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) notifies NORAD that American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked.
• 8:41:32 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 last communication with the New York air traffic control.
• 8:46:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) of the WTC between the 94th and 98th floors.
• 8:49 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 now deviates from its assigned flight path.
• 8:51 a.m: Bush arrives at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida for a photo op with 16 second graders.
• 9:02:54 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six blocks away.
• 9:08 a.m: FAA orders all aircraft to leave New York area airspace and orders all New York-bound planes nationwide to stay on the ground.
• 9:15 a.m: American Airlines orders no new takeoffs in the United States.
• 9:32 a.m: The New York Stock Exchange closed.
• 9:37 a.m: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon.
• 10.05: The south tower collapses, 62 minutes after being hit.
• 10.29: The north tower collapses. The death toll was feared to be as high as 20,000 but gradually dropped to about 2,800.

For more detail information 911timeline.

NASA Supersonic Airliner Design Competition for Students

A new NASA competition is challenging students in high school and college to research and describe a small, supersonic airliner that could enter commercial service in the next decade. Individuals and teams of high school students can enter the competition by submitting well-documented short papers describing what needs to be accomplished to make supersonic flight available to commercial passengers by 2020. The competition is sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Only U.S. citizens are eligible to receive the awards.

Popular News on August.

A recap of most popular news on Snugd last month.

1. Fragile fictions of ’sovereignty’ and ‘territorial integrity’
2. Symbolization of the Olympic Rings
3. Athletes Have Better Brain.
4. Beijing Olympics Medal Count.
5. Microsoft PhotoSynth Goes Public.
6. Robot Baby With Emotions.
7. Down Syndrome In A Dish.
8. Taiwan wants XP forever.
9. Shade Your AC Save & 10% Energy.
10. Cattle Have Sense Of Direction.
11. Toyota to boost Hybrid Prius production by 70%.
12. Jamaica wins the medal tally, by population.
13. Birth Of 18th Child By A Canadian Woman.
14. Hindus World’s cleanest people.
15. Windspire : Backyard Wind Turbine.

61 Year Old Woman Had A Baby

A Japanese woman aged 61 gave birth to her grandchild. Her daughter donated an egg a clinic said on August 22, 2008. Surrogate births are rare in Japan and banned by industry groups, but it is not illegal. The Clinic refused to provide information regarding the baby. This procedure has been done because the woman’s daughter has no uterus. Both surrogate mother and baby were fine.

Image Credit: www.solarnavigator.net

Free the Air Waves

White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Google and some other telecommunication companies have called on the FCC to open up the white spaces as a way to create wireless broadband networks nationwide. But these efforts may impact wireless microphones and other technologies that have historically relied on these frequencies. As part of the campaign to gain public support for new wireless devices to use the so-called white spaces Google launched a web site Free the Air waves. So if anyone agree that freeing the white spaces represents a vote for the future of the Internet, they can sign a petition in the web site.

How To:

• How to Take Criticism Without Getting Defensive.
• How to Build a Superfast, Superquiet PC.
• How to Keep Your Geek Cred After Seeing WALL-E.
• How to replace an iPhone 2G with an iPhone 3G.
• How to put the fun into learning.
• How to protect yourself from a new kind of online scam.
• How To Convince Your Congressperson Not To Attack Iran.

Hindus World’s cleanest people

Americans comes to second followed by Russians as cleaner people in the world. On average Americans take shower twice a day.  The majority of Russians take shower daily. The Hindus are the cleanest people in the world. Hindus wash their hands and bodies twice as often as Germans and 1.5 times as often as Americans. One should note that world runs out of its fresh water reserves very quickly and a serious fresh water shortage is in sight. A regular shower requires about 50 liters of water.

Birth Of 18th Child By A Canadian Woman

A Romanian immigrant Mrs. Ionce , 44 year-old has given birth to her 18th child in British Columbia. Their 18th child Abigail weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounce. According to the couples,  life of children come from god and they don’t want to stop the gift from god. The couple immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1990 and now live in Abbotsford. Their 17 other children are in age from 20 months to 23 years. God bless them.

Photo Source: www.boston.com

Popular on July

A recap of the most popular pieces from July.
1. US man had a baby girl.
2. Dark Knight Arrested.
3. Identity crisis and Facebook generation.
4. Secret sex lives of female chimps.
5. Rare foreign accent syndrome.
6. Past events control your future planning
7. Color of the Scrubs makes a difference.
8. Recovery from Heroin.
9. Keyboard without physical keys.
10. RIM fixes critical bug.
11. COOl new search engine.
12. Multiple personality when you speak different language.
13. Watermelon : Nature’s Viagara.
14. Female Domination.
15. Pay to Downgrade to XP.

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