Archive for May, 2011
May 31st, 2011
Netflix Inc.’s, movie-by-mail business shares hit a 52-week high on Tuesday, and reached their highest price in the company’s public history.
Los Gatos-based Netflix hit $267.78 per share on Tuesday, after closing Friday at $264.51.
The company for years depended on a solid, simple, low-tech business model, where it mailed DVDs to customers in distinctive red-and-white envelopes, charging people a monthly fee based on how many discs they wanted at one time. Netflix still has plenty of loyal customers who watch those movies and faithfully mail them back in postage paid envelopes.
However Netflix has not steered away from try
May 31st, 2011
A British MP has been banned from playing football for the Parliamentary side since she is a woman.
Tracey Crouch, who represents Chatham and Aylesford, used to play for the team between 1996 and 1998.
Crouch has complained at the ridiculous new rules, which prevent her from playing football for the Parliamentary football team.
She played as a right winger or centre forward and has played for both the 11-a-side and five-a-side teams alongside her male colleagues.
Yet, the Football Association recently took over the running of the 11-a-side team and under its rules only girls aged 13 or under can play in mixed teams.
Cro
May 31st, 2011
The U.S. economy uses biomass-based materials as a source of energy in many ways--- Wood and agricultural residues, are burned as a fuel for cogeneration of steam and electricity in the industrial sector--Biomass is used for power generation in the electricity sector and for space heating in residential and commercial buildings--- Biomass can be converted to a liquid form for use as a transportation fuel, and research is being conducted on the production of fuels and chemicals from biomass--- Biomass materials can also be used directly in the manufacture of a variety of products--In the electricity sector, biomass is used for power
May 31st, 2011
With the series of allegations of corruption in FIFA, the Football Association has called for immediate postponement of Wednesday's elections in the world soccer body.
The FA, has decided to abstain from the elections to protest against England losing World Cup rights, and has also received support from Scottish Football Association.
FA made it clear earlier that they will not support the incumbent Sepp Blatter, who is running for the fourth term as FIFA chairman.
FA chairman David Bernstein said there are two reasons why they want the elections to be postponed.
One is a concern that a series of allegations relating to Fifa
May 31st, 2011
British political party Liberal Democrats has been reprehended for its policy to hire unpaid interns. The volunteers get a small reimbursement for travel and an allowance of five pounds for lunch, a media report said.
The Telegraph reported, an advertisement on the jobs section of the party website says that the posts at the Lib Dem head office in London do not come with a salary.
The add says in return for their free labor, the interns get the opportunity to gain experience of the practical and professional side of party politics, and experience life at the heart of Westminster.
Campaign group Intern Aware has said the ad
May 31st, 2011
British Formula One racing driver, Lewis Hamilton, who was the 2008 Formula One Champion, had apologized for his foul mouthed out bursts against two other drivers, Pastor Maldonado from Venezuela and Felipe Massa from Brazil.
The British driver, who was currently racing for McLaren team, called the other two drivers “fricking ridiculous” after the Monaco Grand Prix, where Hamilton tried to go past Maldonado, who was driving Williams, and Massa, who was driving Ferrari, but got entangled between the two and all three cars crashed. Both Maldonado and Massa had to pull out of the race and Hamilton finished at sixth place. The race
May 31st, 2011
On Sunday Britain said that it is to add bunker-busting bombs to the arsenal its warplanes are using over Libya, a weapon it believes would send a loud message to Muammer Qadhafi that it is time to quit. Britain and the other NATO powers are building up their military intervention in Libya to try and break a deadlock that has seen Qadhafi hold on to power despite weeks of air strikes and a rebel uprising. British Defense Secretary, Mr. Liam Fox, said in a statement that they are not trying to physically target individuals in Qadhafi’s inner circle on whom he relies but they are certainly sending them increasingly loud messages. He added
May 31st, 2011
Five people, including a nurse and midwife, have been arrested on the charge of terminating the five-month pregnancy of a young woman who had married a man of her choice against the wishes of her family. Parveen Mahar says that she was taken by her cousin to the house of nurse Shoukat Begum, in the colony of the old taluka hospital in Mirpur Mathelo, on Sunday where midwife Mukhtarian Sheikh forced the abortion.
Ms. Mahar has contacted various television channels and informed them of her plight. Ali Mohammad Mahar, father of the young woman, mother Khandul and cousin Mauj Ali were also arrested.
Ms. Mahar said that she had not been
May 31st, 2011
Art center Stroom Den Haag, presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the renowned versatile French artist Raphael Zarka, on display from May 29 through August 21, 2011. Art exhibition includes sculptures and photographs and Zarka latest production “Gibellina Vecchia”. In his latest short film he scrupulously records the monumental artwork Alberto Burri created in the 1980s on the ruins of the Sicilian town of Gibellina, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968.
French artist Raphael Zarka is fascinated by forgotten spaces and undefined areas, where objects and buildings are reminders of a once promising future. Z
May 31st, 2011
Canadian professional ice hockey center, Manny Malhotra, currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, who had his career sent into oblivion by getting hit in the left eye from a deflected puck on March 16, has been finally cleared by the doctors to take part in the finals of the Stanley Cup against the Boston Bruins.
The 31-year-old star’s season with the Canucks was supposed to be over but his strong will power and excellent work by medical staff enabled him to make a comeback at the right time of the season. Manny Malhotra was certain that he will play his due role and enable his team to win the cu
