What if you have to send a message to some person you don't know directly and communication mediums such as email, mail or telephone were unavailable? Then the only method of communication will be via personal contacts. We can search for a friend of us who directly know the intended the recipient. But what if, none of our friends know ...
The third edition of the Indian Premier League starts tomorrow. Apart from World T20 and World Cup, IPL has become the most exciting and interesting cricket tournament ever. With all those theories and controversies about the comme
First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak out for me. A famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
IPL is rocked with controversies. There were many fears at the start of the initial IPL that the spirit of the game will be damaged due to the extensive amount of money being involved. In this season all those fears have been realized to be true. It was found out that not only players but also officials and owners of ...
Today is Friday the 13th. Here are some 13 facts about Friday the 13th which some people believe as a bad day.More than 60 million people worldwide claim to be affected by a fear of Friday 13th. Some of them won’t go to work, drive cars or get out of bed on this day.The fear of Friday the 13th is ...
The first round of the Champions Trophy is finished and now We are heading to the knock out stage. England have already qualified for the final and one of India or Sri Lanka will qualify from the next semi final. This is a review on the performance of some of the teams so far.PakistanWith zero points from 3 matches Pakistan ...
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating more diverse and ...
The following method may help to calculate squares of numbers from 21-120 easily .Only some basic multiplications have to be done and some basic square values have to be remembered in order to use this method. The base of this method is the well known algebraic identity a^2-b^2=(a-b)(a+b) This identity can be rearranged to the following form. a^2=(a-b)(a+b)+b^2 So ...
"O Holy Night," also known as Minuit, Chrétiens (Midnight, Christians) or Cantique de Noël.The original French lyrics were written by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877) and the melody was composed by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) who composed the score for the ballet Giselle. The song was first performed in 1847 during a Christmas Eve mass in Roquemaure. It was later translated from French ...
Invented in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Alan Paskett, the Snickometer is used in a slow motion display to determine whether the ball did touch the bat , even slightly to determine if it was out. Although this was used earlier in UDRS, but unlike Hawk Eye and Hot Spot currently not used in UDRS. This is also known ...
"Heaven Knows" is a song by the band "Pretty Reckless". Pretty Reckless is an American alternative metal / hard rock band which includes Taylor Momsen as the lead singer . This song has a very catchy tune and is gaining popularity . Jimmy's in the back with a pocket of highIf you listen closeYou can hear him cryOh, lord, heaven ...
You may have seen different kinds of questions such as "What is your library card no ?" , "what is your mothers birth town ?", while registering for an online account.These questions are used in password recovery processes and additional sign in verifications. Normally we all care about our passwords and worry about the security of the password.But do we ...
The ICC Champions Trophy is finished and after a very competitive tournament India has once again crowned as winners. The success of the tournament has prompted ICC to review it's decision of discontinuing the tournament in the future. This is the second part of a review on the performance of teams in the ICC champions trophy. ( visit part 1 ...
JavaCV is a set of wrapper classes used for openCV. Using javaCV any C code used for Image Processing can be converted in to a java code. For a person who have an expertise knowledge on java and a little knowledge on C, javaCV will be very useful as he only have to worry about the logic of the code ...
Bee Gee legend Robin diesRobin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. He had another younger brother, Andy Gibb, who was also a very popular solo singer.Below is one of ...
Although the Duckworth-Lewis method is widely used in international and first class level there are many criticisms about this method.One of the main criticism about the DL method is that it gives a higher weight to number of wickets remaining rather than number of overs left. As an example DL par score jumped from 117 to 140 at the end ...
