Saturday, 30 April 2011

Royal Wedding


With less than 24 hours to go, grey storm clouds are gathering over what until the last few days was looking set to be one of the most meteorologically blessed Royal Weddings in history.
After near-record early April temperatures, the warm, dry south-easterly airflow over southern Britain has swivelled around to a chillier north-east.
Although it won’t be cold - temperatures in London tomorrow should reach a respectable 16-19C - it might be overcast, with a stiff breeze and, worst of all, there is a 30 per cent risk of heavy showers.
Having subjected everything else to such meticulous planning, organisers of the wedding may be wishing they could interfere with nature and use science to ensure clear blue skies over London.
An impossible dream? Not necessarily. This has, after all, been attempted before elsewhere.
Seven years ago, for instance, a Russian company called the Atmospheric Technologies Agency was hired, at a cost of £20,000, to sprinkle several tonnes of dry ice into the clouds over St Petersburg, before a huge open-air concert by Paul McCartney.
The aim was to disperse the big cumulus clouds which had been building up over the city - a technique known as ‘overseeding’, in which the ice causes the water in the cloud to coalesce into tiny droplets too light to fall as rain.
The Russians are big fans of ‘weather control’ - the harnessing of technology to modify the pattern of clouds and, in particular, rainfall.
As well as being ‘seeded’ to try to stop rain, clouds can also be treated with chemicals to make them produce rain. Scientists can also intervene to make rain fall in one place and not another, to tackle droughts and try to avert floods.
Indeed, the savvy Russians boast that it has not rained on a Moscow May Day parade for decades.



Largest Easel


The largest easel is 17.22 m (56ft 6 in) tall and 9.45 m (31 ft) wide. It was made by Rajasekharan Parameswaran of Meenachal, Tamilnady, India, and was measured on 19 April 2008.






Friday, 29 April 2011

World’s Longest Eyelashes


On 29 December 2009, a woman broke the guiness world record as the woman with the longest eyelashes in the world. Yet, the proper information hasn’t gotten about that Chinese girl. According to sources, the growth of eyelashes is the result of side effect of the drug that she intake. By the side effect of drug, she looks like a freak now. After seeing her photos on the internet, some people are astonished regarding how she sees this beautiful world with long eyelashes! People are thinking that does she comb her eyelashes everyday and suggest that be careful that not heart her eyes and tie it with ribbon to look nice.

Chan win skating title in record breaking fashion





In Moscow, Patrick Chan of Canada won the world figure skating championship while setting three world records in skating in just two days. Chan was the silver medalist in 2010 and 2009 but scored 187.96 points in the free skate earlier today for a total score of 280.98. Those scores broke the record of Daisuke Takahashi that was set at the Four Continents tournament in 2008.Chan also set the record in the short program.
Takahiko Kozuka of Japan won the silver medal. Russia’s Artur Gachinski won the bronze medal in his first appearance at the world championships. The U.S. will only able to send two skaters to the world championships next year after the top two American skaters failed to finish with a combined placement of 13 or better. Richard Dornbush was the top U.S. skater finished at 9th place. Ross miner placed 11th and U.S. champion Ryan Bradley placed 13th.
“The whole week here has been a great experience. It’s gone really well and I can say I’m happy,” Dornbush said in a statement. “Being at worlds and seeing all the other skaters and what they’ve done is great inspiration for next year.” Dornbush had previously won the junior Grand Prix title in December of 2010.
Chan was considered the favorite after an impressive victory at the Grand Prix final. His performance dramatically opened the world championships. The worlds had been previously scheduled for Tokyo in March was moved to Moscow after Japan had suffered the earthquake and tsunami followed by a nuclear crisis.
“I didn’t change my program, which is very important to me,” said Chan, a native of Ottawa, Ontario. “I did have some doubts in my mind if I should, but I said ‘No, no, no,’ because I’ve been training this program all season long since nationals. I’m very proud of myself to be able to do two quads in the opening of the program.” As of December 2010, Chan was ranked 2nd in the world by the International Skating Union, although that may change after his performance.
The world championships will resume later this week with the pairs free leg, where defending champions Pang Qing and Tong Jian of China will be competing with the lead. The first day of the women’s competition will also start later this week. Mao Asada, the defending champion, and Miki Ando will be facing South Korea’s Olympic champion Kim Yu-Na.

Thursday, 28 April 2011

achievers world records


                  

Indian Cricket Team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni found himself among the list of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for the year 2010. The magazine rated him above football icon Lionel Messi and even US President Barack Obama. He become the only second sports indian sports personality to enter the list,previously Sachin Tendulkar had featured on the list.
The inclusion comes not even a month from India's world cup win which Dhoni himself scripted with an unbeaten knock of 91. His inclusion seems fitting as can be proved from his record as a a captain and India's rise to number one team in Test Cricket and a World Cup win after 28 years. He was also instrumental in taking India to a win in the inaugral twenty-twenty world cup after India's 2007 world cup debacle.
The Time Magazine has called him as the most likeable captain. He has also been an sited as an example where success has come in without any association with power or money but with excellence. The accompanied extract in the magazine was written by Chetan Bhagat, an Indian novelist.