World's Most Obese Man Celebrated his 43rd Birthday  

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Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house.
In only his third outing in six years, Uribe, sitting on his huge reinforced bed, was dragged outside his garage bedroom and onto the pavement outside his house in Monterrey in northern Mexico. Presents of suckling pig and lamb arrived.
Still weighing the size of three hefty men, Uribe sat on his bed wearing only a bedsheet, drank a beer and chatted to his mother, girlfriend and neighbors in the cool evening air, waiting for a cake.
"I'm happy that it is my birthday," he told reporters interviewing the man who weighed 717 pounds (324 kg) in May after losing 518 pounds (235 kg) since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables.
Uribe is still unable to move his swollen legs and his dream is to walk again and visit the mountainous countryside around Monterrey.
Uribe spent the 1990s eating pizzas and burgers in the United States where he worked as a computer repairman. Addicted to junk food, he eventually tipped the scales at 1,235 pounds (560 kg) back in Mexico, bingeing on greasy tacos.
His bulk made him the world's heaviest man and won him a place in the 2008 edition of the Guinness World Records.

World's First Pregnant Man (Thomas Beatie)  

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An American man who claims he is six months pregnant said it was a "miracle" in his first TV interview.
Thomas Beatie, 34, of Bend, Oregon, used to be a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
He first claimed he was pregnant in an article headlined "Labour of love" in a gay magazine, the Advocate, last month.
Many were sceptical, particularly after Beatie said he would not give any interviews until April Fools' Day.
But speaking on Oprah Winfrey's US chat show yesterday, he said: "Different is normal and love makes a family. And that's all that matters."
Beatie appeared with his wife, Nancy, for the interview. The audience was shown footage of his ultrasound scan and heard the sound of a heartbeat.
As he saw the scan on the monitor, Beatie told the doctor: "She's kicking. I can't believe it. I can't believe she's inside me. This is a miracle. We see this as a miracle."
He described pregnancy as a "human desire", not limited to women.
"I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child," he said.
Beatie said pregnancy did not make him feel more feminine.
"It doesn't make me want to go and shave my legs or something," he said. "I'm a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man."
He told Winfrey he had had a sex change but had not altered his reproductive organs because he wanted to have a child.
"I didn't know how, it was just a dream," he said.
"There was no plan laid out."
He said many organisations the couple had contacted for help had advised them against going public, warning: "The world's not ready for something like this."
But he said: "I think people will be shocked because no one's ever heard of a man giving birth before.
"I guess it's a shocking concept, but in this day and age that's possible. And it's happening now."
Dr Kimberley James, the couple's doctor in Bend, Oregon, told the show the pregnancy was "normal".
"This baby's totally healthy and this is, I consider, an average pregnancy," she said.
Beatie was born female and called Tracy Lagondino before undergoing gender reassignment surgery. He is legally married and has been married for five years.
He was a Miss Teen Hawaii finalist but described himself as a tomboy growing up.
Beatie told Winfrey he "found himself" at college after a boyfriend told him he was not feminine enough.
"I feel like I was meant to be exactly who I am today," he said.

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Forex Assassin  

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Forex Assassin Features:

A unique 100% 'set and forget' forex trading system that you will not find anywhere else which allows you to trade forex even if you have absolutely no time - you calculate your trade on the weekend! A system based on my unique trading zones discovery so that you don't have to spend all day in front of your computer. You can start with as little as $100 in your forex account. The beauty of the system is that you can test the system without trading any of your capital. Open a demo account and 'paper trade' to test the system first. If you follow my step-by-step system exactly you have the opportunity to make a huge profit in a very short space of time. The system I have developed is reliable and consistent, time after time. The system is simple and extremely easy to understand and implement for both newbies and the average independent forex trader. The system protects your trading capital because it cuts your losses short and rides your winners - reducing the risk of losing capital. The system works in any country and with any broker. The system can be applied to any currency pair. A perfected, simple and easy system that will tell you exactly when to enter and exit the market - removing the decision making process for you.
What is so good about this product?Forex Assassin generated 89 pips ($890) on a trade of AUD/USD on Feb 19, 2008. On another trade of USD/CHF, Forex Assassin produced 75 pips ($750) on Feb 5, 2008 with less than 5 minute of work.
Forex Assassin is quite a radical and bold system because the developer tells you don’t need to know any knowledge about Forex trading such as indicators, fibonacci charts and other formulas.
This revolutionary new system uses no indicators and “pick and choose” trading zones - so you can choose the hours that you want to trade. Forex Assassin uses price as the only indicator. Because the system uses trading zones, you don’t have to sit in front of a computer all day long or for hours at a time. Forex is a ‘set and forget’ system designed for 9-to-5’ers. The system tells you exactly when to enter and exit – no decision making required.
Forex Assassin Features:1. Can start trading with as little as $1002. You work out your trades during the weekend.3. No trading experience necessary. It’s impressively easy to learn. No need to understand a bunch of indicators, charts and formulas4. Works in any country5. Works with any broker6. Can be applied to any currency pair
What is your labor part to run Forex Assassin?Step 1: Each and every Saturday or Sunday, you sit back in the comfort of your home and extract exact prices from the market. This is a black and white process which takes less than 5 minutes to do.Step 2: You take those numbers and plug them to the secret Forex Assassin Formula.Step 3: The formula immediately spits out exact entry, take profit and stop loss prices.Step 4: You set the orders with your broker (based on the prices Forex Assassin provide you with) and simply wait for the pips to roll in.
What you get with the Forex Assassin Trading System:1. A complete exact step-by-step guide of the system over 50 pages2. A guide on how to trade on a demo account before you activate your real account.3. A sample copy of a trading plan for you to use. You will receive a unique trading plan that took the system developer over seven years to perfect.4. A list of sites where you can get your free demo account to paper trade5. A time tested formula in a spreadsheet where you simply enter desired currency pair prices. The course will teach you how to extract these prices mechanically within less than 1 minute.6. Unlimited email customer support
You just need to fill out the spreadsheet to get the long and short entries for the week. The profit target is set after reading the manual and adjusting your trading plan to suit your own capital situation.
The system operates on 7 – 12 trades per month. Forex Assassin cuts your losses short and rides your winners, reducing the risk of losing capital.
You can subscribe to FREE The Forex “For A Living” Formula newsletter to occasionally receive trading tips and methods.

System Creator: Chris, The Memeplex Ltd.

Forex Spread Trade  

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Kareena Kapoor Is Impossibly Hot  

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And that’s despite her remarks confirming the absence of any tiny bikinis that would show-off her size-zero tits in Tashan.


But we can’t seem to agree with media reports about the 3.5 crore superstar starving herself to nothing for the movie - because it’s clear from the promo pics that she’s maintained nice amounts of flesh in all the right places.

I am in agreement of course with expectations of the new Kareena Kapoor blowing away everything else in the movie - which is why our specially doctored Tashan stills ensure you see nothing but her.

Enjoy.

A Blooming Great Idea  

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This is a cool idea. I would buy one in a second. No picture. You have to trust me and click here. More cool gadget here too.

Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship  

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Myths of Entrepreneurship
Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are ten of the most common and the realities that bust them:

It takes a lot of money to finance a new business. Not true. The typical start-up only requires about $25,000 to get going. The successful entrepreneurs who don’t believe the myth design their businesses to work with little cash. They borrow instead of paying for things. They rent instead of buy. And they turn fixed costs into variable costs by, say, paying people commissions instead of salaries.


Venture capitalists are a good place to go for start-up money. Not unless you start a computer or biotech company. Computer hardware and software, semiconductors, communication, and biotechnology account for 81 percent of all venture capital dollars, and seventy-two percent of the companies that got VC money over the past fifteen or so years. VCs only fund about 3,000 companies per year and only about one quarter of those companies are in the seed or start-up stage. In fact, the odds that a start-up company will get VC money are about one in 4,000. That’s worse than the odds that you will die from a fall in the shower.

Most business angels are rich. If rich means being an accredited investor –a person with a net worth of more than $1 million or an annual income of $200,000 per year if single and $300,000 if married – then the answer is “no.” Almost three quarters of the people who provide capital to fund the start-ups of other people who are not friends, neighbors, co-workers, or family don’t meet SEC accreditation requirements. In fact, thirty-two percent have a household income of $40,000 per year or less and seventeen percent have a negative net worth.
Start-ups can’t be financed with debt. Actually, debt is more common than equity. According to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Small Business Finances, fifty-three percent of the financing of companies that are two years old or younger comes from debt and only forty-seven percent comes from equity. So a lot of entrepreneurs out there are using debt rather than equity to fund their companies.

Banks don’t lend money to start-ups. This is another myth. Again, the Federal Reserve data shows that banks account for sixteen percent of all the financing provided to companies that are two years old or younger. While sixteen percent might not seem that high, it is three percent higher than the amount of money provided by the next highest source – trade creditors – and is higher than a bunch of other sources that everyone talks about going to: friends and family, business angels, venture capitalists, strategic investors, and government agencies.
Most entrepreneurs start businesses in attractive industries. Sadly, the opposite is true. Most entrepreneurs head right for the worst industries for start-ups. The correlation between the number of entrepreneurs starting businesses in an industry and the number of companies failing in the industry is 0.77. That means that most entrepreneurs are picking industries in which they are mostlikely to fail.

The growth of a start-up depends more on an entrepreneur’s talent than on the business he chooses. Sorry to deflate some egos here, but the industry you choose to start your company has a huge effect on the odds that it will grow. Over the past twenty years or so, about 4.2 percent of all start-ups in the computer and office equipment industry made the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. 0.005 percent of start-ups in the hotel and motel industry and 0.007 percent of start-up eating and drinking establishments made the Inc. 500. That means the odds that you will make the Inc 500 are 840 times higher if you start a computer company than if you start a hotel or motel. There is nothing anyone has discovered about the effects of entrepreneurial talent that has a similar magnitude effect on the growth of new businesses.

Most entrepreneurs are successful financially. Sorry, this is another myth. Entrepreneurship creates a lot of wealth, but it is very unevenly distributed. The typical profit of an owner-managed business is $39,000 per year. Only the top ten percent of entrepreneurs earn more money than employees. And the typical entrepreneur earns less money than he otherwise would have earned working for someone else.

Many start-ups achieve the sales growth projections that equity investors are looking for. Not even close. Of the 590,000 or so new businesses with at least one employee founded in this country every year, data from the U.S. Census shows that less than 200 reach the $100 million in sales in six years that venture capitalists talk about looking for. About 500 firms reach the $50 million in sales that the sophisticated angels, like the ones at Tech Coast Angels and the Band of Angels talk about. In fact, only about 9,500 companies reach $5 million in sales in that amount of time.

Starting a business is easy. Actually it isn’t, and most people who begin the process of starting a company fail to get one up and running. Seven years after beginning the process of starting a business, only one-third of people have a new company with positive cash flow greater than the salary and expenses of the owner for more than three consecutive months.

How To Always Remember Names  

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Forgetting people’s names can prove extremely embarrassing and a complete disaster at time. Specially if it’s that pretty girl’s name you can’t recollect even though you got introduced five minutes ago (although that’s possibly because you were staring down her cleavage at that time).
The key to remembering names lies in association and repetition. Follow these two simple steps and you’ll never be in sticky situation again:
ASSOCIATION: Examine the person’s face discretely when you are introduced. Try to find an unusual feature, whether ears, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, lips or any other part (without going south again). Create an association between that characteristic, the face, and the name in your mind. The association may be to link the person with someone else you know with the same name. Alternatively it may be to associate a rhyme or image of the name with the person’s face or defining feature.
REPETITION: When you are introduced, ask for the person to repeat their name. Use the name frequently during the conversation. If it is unusual, ask how it is spelled or what it means.

Happiest Country In The World  

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Socialogists have finally found the equation to happiness:Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live.
Iceland tops the latest table of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Index rankings. In terms of wealth, health and education - this is the country to be in.

The country has the sixth highest GDP per capita in the world, it’s where people buy the most books, where life expectancy for men is the highest in the world, and not far behind for women, Iceland banned armed forces 700 years ago, it has the highest ratio of mobile telephones to population, the fastest-expanding banking system in the world, a rocketing export business and crystal-pure air.
And therefore not surprisingly according to an academic study Icelanders are also the happiest people on earth.

Also read:Lovely Icelandic Women

Richard Calmes Shows Beauty of Incredible Artist Athletes  

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MT6227 Info  

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You can access system files for the MT6227 Chinese phones by turning off the phone, connecting it trough USB, you will have 2 drives for example E: and F:, one is for the system and the internal memory of the phone, the other is for the memory card if inserted, Now copy all of the files on the system and save them into your PC, when you get things messed up or your phone sadly stated to restart "Like the bluetooth problem" just copy the files back into the phone.I know that this trick works, but for an actual firmware I can't find or suck out the MT6227 firmware,

I hear there is a version can be installed trough Linux, but whatever who is going to install Linux on their machine for a stupid phone.

My advice don't puchase any chinese phone whether it is first/second/third copy. Especially in MT6227 Chipset because MT6227 chipset does'nt have actual 2.0MP camera feture and has very slow images/camera/display processing.

T-Mobile Tips & Tricks  

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T-Mobile Tips & Tricks
Voicemail

Voicemail is included with your service. Voicemail will take messages for you when you are unable to take calls.
Your voicemail does not tell you "envelope" information by default i.e. the number calling you or the date and time of the call. To enable envelope information press 4 (mailbox options) then 3 for "message header" this will let you toggle between no information and message information (number calling you if caller ID information is available) time and date of message.
The following are key presses that control what your voicemail will do:
1 Rewinds 6 seconds. Press 11 to rewind to the beginning
2 Pause
3 Fast forward 6 seconds. Press 33 fast forward to the end
4 Slow down
66 Speed up. Press 6 for normal speed
7 Delete message
9 Save message
* Interrupt outgoing message to enter passcode when accessing voicemail from an external phone or if you have your phone set to require password when accessing it from the handset
# skip message
Change the length of time before your voicemail picks up:
Your voicemail can be configured so that it will pick up from 5 seconds to 30 seconds. To change the length of time for the voicemail service to pick up the line enter the following:
**61*+18056377243**30# This will configure your voicemail to answer after 30 seconds of ringing. If you wish your voicemail to answer in a shorter time change the final value from 30 to another number as little as 5.

Picture Messaging

By default, Picture Messaging isn't enabled for the MDA. To enable Picture Messaging: Send a picture to your own phone number in the MMS section of Outlook.
This signals to the T-Mobile network that your phone is picture messaging capable, and pictures will be received in your MMS section of your phone. Until you do this, you'll receive text messages instead with unclickable links to a website that doesn't work - so make this one of the first things you do after starting T-Mobile service!

GSM Service Codes


Some characters explained
activate
* register and activate
# check status
# unregister
## unregister and deactivate
The codes are used by for example writing ##002# and the pressing the key corresponding to "Send". There are some codes where you are not supposed to press "Send". These codes are only to be used within the phone itself and they don't take any use of the net services. The symbol © signifies pressing the send/talk key on your cellphone.
Not all codes are functioning in all nets. It depends on what the operators have included in their software.
If a phone number is expected you should enter it in the international format e.g. +13115552368. This will always do the trick whatever net you are logged in to.
The codes are divided into different categories:
Security, Call forwarding/diversion, Barring, Call Waiting, CLIP: Incoming Call Presentation Number (Caller ID), COLP: Current Reached Number Presentation (If called number was diverted to another number), GSM network service codes

Security

Command string Description Change call barring code **03*OldCode*NewCode*NewCode#©
Change call barring code **03*OldCode*NewCode*NewCode#©
Change PIN code **04*OldPIN*NewPIN*NewPIN#©
Change PIN2 code **042*OldPIN2*NewPIN2*NewPIN2#©
Unlock PIN code (PUK) (when PIN is entered wrong 3 times) **05*PUK*NewPIN*NewPIN#©
Unlock PIN2 code (PUK2)**052*PUK2*NewPIN2*NewPIN2#©
Activate PIN code (works on some Sony models) *09*PIN#©
Deactivate PIN code (works on some Sony models) #09*PIN#©
Display IMEI *#06#©
Default T-Mobile SIM PIN's: PIN1= 1234 PIN2= 5678
Forwarding/Diverting
I tried the 'activate' codes below on my T-Mobile phone and they did not work. However, when I used a slight variation, they did work. I'll give just one example: Unconditional Call Forwarding - To activate, I used **21*number# - and not **21number#. The '*' after 21 was required for me. I suspect all those ** codes may require this.
Command string Description
De-register all call diversions ##002#©
Set all configured call diversions to number and activate **004*number#©
De-register all configured call diversions (no answer , not reachable, busy)##004#©
Unconditionally divert all calls **21number#©
Activate Unconditionally divert all calls to number and activate **21number#©
Activate unconditionally divert all calls *21#©
De-register unconditionally divert all calls ##21#©
Deactivate unconditionally divert all calls #21#©
Check status of unconditionally divert all call *#21#©
Divert on no answer to number and activate **61*number#©
Activate divert on no answer *61#©
Divert on not reachable to number and activate **62*number#©
Activate divert on not reachable *62#©
De-register divert on not reachable ##62#©
Deactivate divert on not reachable #62#©
Check status of divert on not reachable *#62#©
Divert on busy to number and activate /td> **67*number#©
Activate divert on busy *67#©
De-register divert on busy ##67#©
Deactivate divert on busy #67#©
Check status of divert on busy *#67#©
Change number of seconds of ringing for the given service before diverting a call (such as on no answer). Seconds must be a value from 5 to 30. De-registering the same divert will also delete this change!**service*number**seconds#© (Service numbers, see below)

Barring Call

Activate barr all outgoing calls (see Security to set code)**33*code#©
Deactivate barr all outgoing calls #33*code#©
Check status of barr all outgoing calls *#33#©
Activate barr all calls **330*code#©
Deactivate barr all calls #330*code#©
Check status of barr all calls /td> *#330*code#©<
Activate barr all outgoing international calls **331*code#©
Deactivate barr all outgoing international calls #331*code#©
Check status of barr all outgoing international calls *#331#©
Activate barr all outgoing international calls except to home country **332*code#©
Deactivate barr all outgoing international calls except to home country #332*code#©
Check status of barr all outgoing international calls except to home country *#332#©
Activate barr all outgoing calls **333*code#©
Deactivate barr all outgoing calls #333*code#©
Check status of barr all outgoing calls *#333#©
Activate barr all incoming calls **35*code#©
Deactivate barr all incoming calls #35*code#©
Check status of barr all incoming calls *#35#©
Activate barr all incoming calls when roaming **351*code#©
Deactivate barr all incoming calls when roaming #351*code#©
Check status of barr all incoming calls when roaming *#351#©
Activate barr all incoming calls **353*code#©
Deactivate barr all incoming calls #353*code#©
Check status of barr all incoming calls *#353#©

Call Waiting

Activate call waiting *43*#©
Deactivate call waiting #43##©
Check status of call waiting *#43#©
Calling Line Identification The following only works if CLIP and CLIR are enabled.(ask your service provider)
COLR: Calling Party's called number presentation (if the call is diverted to his cellphone)
Activate COLR *77#©
Deactivate COLR #77#©
Check status of COLR *#77#©
GSM Network Service Codes
11 Speech
13 fax
25 data
In the future one will be able to control each individual call by use of the following service codes. To do this the user has to insert the service code in front of the last # in the MMI command above.

For example the sequence *21*number*16# would divert all SMS calls (and only these) to the given number.

Cellphone Services

10 All types of cellphone services
11 Speech service
12 Data service
13 Fax
14 Datex-J
15 Teletex
16 Short message service (SMS)
18 All data services without SMS
19 All cellphone services without SMS
Carrier Services
20 All services
21 All asynchronous services
22 All synchronous services
23 3.1kHz services
24 Synchronous point-to-point connections including PAD's (all synchronous data services)
25 Asynchronous point-to-point connections including PAD's (all asynchronous data services)
26 Data packet sending including PAD's (all synchronous data packet services)
27 Services with PAD-share
29 Digital connection with 12kbps

Note: Please use all above T-Mobile Tips & Tricks at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage if occurs.

Cherry Liu, My GF  

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Meet My GirL Friend, Cherry LiU, The best about her is that she is very cute and simple.
She is from Shenzhen, China. I have'been in china for two years, planning to go to china again this year. Soon, I will share my trip pictures with my readers.

GiRLs On Karachi Beach (II)  

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Part (II) Of GiRLs On Karachi Beach (II)
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GiRLS On Karachi Beach  

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Karachi is a great place to visit; there is quite a bit of history behind the city too. The founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah is buried in Karachi. Today a huge domb covers the tomb and around it many parks. Karachi is also home to a large Polish population.
Visit Karachi and take pictures!

MT6227 Driver Download Link  

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MT6227 MASTER PASSWORD 1122

Because you don't get an English manual with the phone.
With this password you can master reset and do all closed functions.

Download MT6227 English User Manual

I have tested it with my Nokia N95 (First Copy) Mobile, Drivers for Chinese phones that you can't find elsewhere, You can Download here:

PC Sync Manager: http://perlhosting.net/download5/2d969410.html
"MT6227" USB Modem Driver: http://perlhosting.net/download5/58815404.html
MiRRor: http://www.4shared.com/file/35053642/d9f75235/MT6227.html

Note: This Driver works for p168 also, if you tried other phones please tell me by commenting or email me.This driver works On All Chinese Phones

Remember One Thing about MT6227:

All MT62277 are cheap Asian phone, not a real windows mobile. They rip-off windows icons and say random stuff like Vista is the OS but the reason you are not finding anything for it is because it is really just made for playing MPEG4 movies and MP3s. The only documents I know off that it can open are plain TXT files. I hope you did not pay much for this device because they are very cheap, check the sources for an example." http://www.uxcell.com/ocean-260k-tft-colour-inch-lcd-mobile-phone-with-pixel-camera-mp3-mp4-silver-black-p-6120.html ...

So, Dear Readers, If you are so concern about connectivity and compatibility, then you should change your phone.

Densuke Watermelon  

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A Japanese man took his support for the country's fruit growers to extraordinary lengths today when he paid a record 650,000 yen (£3,100) for a single watermelon on the opening day of the annual season.

The black Densuke watermelon, grown only on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, fetched the highest-ever price at a Japanese auction and may be the priciest watermelon in the world, according to local officials.

The premium watermelon, which weighed 7.7kg (17lbs), was bought by an unnamed seafood trader who made his sky-high bid to show his support for Japanese agriculture, local reports said.

The Japanese are no stranger to outrageously priced melons. Last month, a pair of coveted Yubari cantaloupe melons, another Hokkaido speciality, sold for a record 2.5 million yen, beating the previous year's highest price of 800,000 yen for a pair.
Melons, a popular antidote to Japan's humid summers, are often given as presents during the summer ochugen, or gift-giving season. Their status as luxury items - with hefty price tags to match - makes them an obvious choice among businessmen hoping to hold on to clients and office workers desperate to find their way into their boss's good books.


However, even veteran fruit traders gasped when the melon's buyer made his winning bid this morning. "This is the highest price on record for a Densuke watermelon, and that means it's probably the highest of any watermelon in Japanese history," Kazuyoshi Ohira a local agricultural cooperative spokesman, told the Associated Press.
The melon was the first of an initial batch of 65 and one of 9,000 that will be sold throughout the year. Growers say the unusually warm weather will mean this year's densuke watermelons should be sweeter and juicier than usual.
Fortunately for shoppers of more modest means, the melons will sell in supermarkets and department stores for between 20,000 and 30,000 yen - though many would doubtlessly consider this still a ridiculous sum for fruit.


Auction officials attempted to explain why anyone should part with just a few hundred dollars for a watermelon, let alone £3,000. The key, apparently, is in its unusual black skin and its crisp flesh.
"It's a watermelon, but it's not the same," Ohira said. "It has a different level of sweetness."

See Picture here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/japan.food

Reducing Your Webpage Load Time (Fastening Page Loads)  

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1. Use of External Scripts :If you use the same script on multiple pages of your site then use of external script can help reduce loading time. I don’t mean to host them remotely. I mean to load Javascript from the same source. Example :

This way the browser caches the script and it won’t have to read it again and again.

2. Reduce HTTP requests :Loading each item on your website, has an average round-trip latency of 0.2 seconds. So if your site is loading 10 items, regardless of whether they are stylesheets, images or scripts, that equates to 2 seconds in latency alone. If you have a portion on your site with many images within it, such as your footer, you can reduce the number of HTTP requests with image maps. If you are using K2, you can get rid on one extra HTTP request by using one stylesheet, style.css, and no schemes.

3. Don’t Rely on other WebSites :Relying on other sites can also decrease site loading time. If you have several component on your site loading from other sites then it can slow down page loading speed because the other server might be receiving too many HTTP requests.

4. Optimize your Images :Always use the “Save for the web” feature included on image editing software(such as PhotoShop). Images represent the heavier load on virtually any website so make sure you are optimizing them. Alternatively you can also turn to an online image optimizer.

5. Remove WhiteSpace :Whitespace is the spaces between your coding, removing the unneeded tabs and spaces can help a lot. Doing this will take a lot of extra bytes off the total size of your page and will speed up load time quite a bit.

6. Use of CSS and CSS Optimization :CSS can greatly improve your web sites load time. With your styles in an external .css file, the browser can cache all the formatting and stylizing for your pages and it won’t have it read it again and again. Make sure you aggregate and clean your CSS. You can use CleanCSS to merge similar selectors, remove useless properties and remove the whitespace from your code.

7. When a user opens a link on the form “http://www.ddomains.com/contact” the server will need to figure what kind of file or page is contained on that address. If you include a slash (/) at the end of the link the server will already know that this is a directory page, reducing the load time of the site.

8. Which Image Format to use? :You should use GIF or PNG image format. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors. JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-color images.

9. Use of Height and Width tags :Height and Width tags are also important for your images(never forget to add them). Those tags will make sure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. The result is that it will reserve a spot for the images while loading the rest of the page, speeding up the whole process.

10. Use of Caching :Use WP-Cache plug-in if you are using a Wordpress blog.*Set the browser’s cache expiration. This can be easily done using PHP in order to send some headers. For example, let’s take a js file called scripts.js. In order to use caching we will create a new file called scripts.js.php and add the following code at the very beginning of it which will set the cache to expire in 3 days :
header("Content-type: text/javascript; charset: UTF-8");header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");$offset = 60 * 60 * 24 * 3;$ExpStr = "Expires: " .gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",time() + $offset) . " GMT";header($ExpStr);?>

And last but not the least, host your site on a fast server or buy a dedicated server for hosting your sites(like i have bought). HostGator is one of the popular hosting service now a days, I am using this service on many of my sites.

Online Video Editing Websites  

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Web is populated by sites that allow users to edit videos online within their browsers, without the need to install a specific software on their computers.

These video editing sites are generally characterized by a great ease of use, which makes it a breeze to do both basic and advanced editing even for the non experts. Most of them allow users to publish their edited videos on any web page, embedded in a video player; however, only few of them let users save their edited videos on their computer.
In this mini-guide I have collected for you the most popular sites that allow users to edit videos online. Characterizing traits that I have taken in consideration while reviewing them are:
Input file formats: which are the supported file formats of the video that can be edited online.
Output file formats: in which file formats can be saved the videos edited online.
Embedding support: the possibility to post the edited video on any webpage.
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: whether the videos can be uploaded from the hard disk, mobile phone or URL.
Max video size: the maximum size of the video that can be uploaded.
Transition effects: the capability to add transition effects to separate different video clips.
Audio dubbing: the option to edit audio, reduce noise and add special effects to it.
Titling: the possibility to add titles and captions within the video.
Special video effects: the availability of special video effects that can be applied to the video.
Save video to desktop: the capability to save the edited video on the computer.
Price: information about the cost of the service.
Please note that this mini-guide is only a collection of the online video editing tools available in the Web and in no ways intends to represent a complete resource.

Online Video Editing Tools :

EyeSpot
Input file formats: .avi, .mpeg, .mov, DivX, .wmv, .mp3
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD and mobile
Max video size: You can upload up to seven items at a time, with a 100 Mb file size limit.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: YES
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: YES (both Windows and Mac)
Price: free
Eyespot is an online video mixer that makes it easy to upload, organize and share video, photos, and music. It allows you to apply special effect and add transitions to any videos; audio dubbing is supported too. You can also send your cell phone videos to your account via MMS. Eyespot organizes all your videos in albums and lets you embed them in any webpage. Eyespot works on any platform and within any browser.
Link: http://eyespot.com/

Jumpcut
Input file formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .rm, 3GP.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD and mobile
Max video size: 100MB
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: YES
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free
Jumpcut is an online video editing and remixing tool that lets you edit your videos, create slideshows and post them on any webpage. You can easily add and arrange content in your movie by dragging and dropping thumbnails, select the best parts of your video clips, change duration for your images, add your music or sound effects, choose transitions, add titles and special effects.
Link: http://www.jumpcut.com/

Motionbox
Input file formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf, and .qt.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: HD
Max video size: 100MB per file.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: NO
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free

Motionbox is a web-based video editing service that features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment” within the clip itself. The integrated video sharing support gives users the power to select any number of highlights in their online videos, assign them with tags, and share them with friends, giving Motionbox a temporary space under the spotlight. Motionbox works on the most popular browsers, both with Windows and Mac.
Link: http://www.motionbox.com/

Photobucket
Input file formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: HD
Max video size: Max 10 minutes.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free
Photobucket enables video editing within a browser using Flash and lets users remix their photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions, and transitions. Photobucket also provides a simple service that enables you to store, share and publish your visual digital content online. Images and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site.
Link: http://photobucket.com/

StashSpace
Input file formats: .avi .mov .wmv
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, mobile or URL: HD
Max video size: Not relevant
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free with 5 Hours of Video / 500 photos. The Nickel Stash plans costs $5/month or $50/year with10 hours of video / 1,000 photos. The Dime Stash plan costs $10/month or $100/year with 25 Hours of Video / 2,500 photos.
StarterStash is a web-based service that allows you upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record directly from your camcorder or digital camera with StashPad to create a library of video that you can organize on your local computer and sync with your online StashSpace. You can mash together scenes from any video in your stash to create new movies on the fly.
Link: http://stashspace.com/

Cuts
Input file formats: .flv
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: URL
Max video size: Not relevant
Transition effects: NO
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free
Cuts is a service that makes it easy to create and share your take of any online video. With Cut it’s only a few clicks to insert sound effects, add captions, loop the best parts and in minutes you can share your creation by embedding it on any webpage and blog, or emailing it to your friends. All you need is the page URL of your favorite video. Cuts works on any platform and within any browser.
Link: http://www.cuts.com/

VideoEgg
Input file formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .rm, 3GP.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD
Max video size: N/A
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: N/A
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: N/A
Price: To be discussed with VideoEgg
If you want to build a video community, VideoEgg is a video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and offers opportunities for monetization. Users can take any file format, from anywhere (their hard drive, web cam, camcorder, etc.) drag it into the editing platform and then create a movie. And thanks to the publishing platform, users are able to edit, add effects, make slide shows, create mash-ups, etc- all within the context of your site.
Link: http://www.videoegg.com/