Dead not forgotten on Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook lets people leave their marks online after they have shuffled off their mortal coils, with profiles of the dead remaining as tributes in the global social networking community.
‘When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network,’ Facebook director of security Max Kelly said in a blog post Monday.
‘To reflect that reality, we created the idea of ‘memorialized’ profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed.’
Profiles of dead people do not turn up in friend recommendations or general searches at Facebook, according to Kelly. Privacy settings on memorialized accounts only let confirmed friends or family members see them.
No one is allowed to log into memorialized accounts, preventing alteration of profile content, but friends can still post remembrance messages that are displayed on ‘walls’ for visitors to see.
Contact information and status updates are removed from memorialized profile pages.
Only friends or relatives of deceased Facebook members can request profiles be memorialized, and information submitted must include a copy of an obituary, news article or other proof of death.
‘If you have a friend or a family member whose profile should be memorialized, please contact us, so their memory can properly live on among their friends on Facebook,’ Kelly said.
The service is not new to Facebook, but it reminded members of it this week. —AFP

Daredevil flips bike over helicopter in Australia

SYDNEY: An American daredevil backflipped a dirt bike over a hovering 40-metre helicopter in front of Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge Wednesday in a bid to promote extreme sports.

Travis Pastrana, 26, comfortably cleared the revolving chopper blades by about four metres but the 14-time X Games medallist said it was a closer call than he would have liked.

‘That was a little outside of the box. I didn’t know what to expect with the wash and the wind, there was a little bit of turbulence up there I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone,’ Pastrana told national newswire AAP.

‘The wind affects the bike more than the rider as the bike can take a mind of its own up there and if you lose focus then you can land short.’ Pastrana’s stunt was aimed at promoting the MTV extreme sports series Nitro Circus, which will be filming in all of Australia’s state capital cities in May and June 2010.— AFP

NASA’s new rocket lifts off on short test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA's newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight Wednesday, taking the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could be shelved by the White House.
The 327-foot (100-meter) Ares I-X rocket resembled a giant white pencil as it shot into the sky, delayed a day by poor weather.
Nearly twice the height of the spaceship it's supposed to replace, the shuttle, the experimental rocket carried no passengers or payload, only throwaway ballast and hundreds of sensors. The flight cost $445 million.
It was the first time in nearly 30 years that a new rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center. Columbia made the maiden voyage for the shuttle fleet back in 1981.
Liftoff, in fact, occurred 48 years and one day after the first launch of a Saturn rocket, a precursor to what carried astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The Saturn V moon rockets were the tallest ever built, an impressive 363 feet.
Wednesday's launch, years in the making, attracted a large crowd. The prototype moon rocket took off from a former shuttle launch pad at 15:30 GMT, three and a half hours late because of bad weather.
Launch controllers had to retest the rocket systems after more than 150 lightning strikes were reported around the pad overnight. Then they had to wait out interfering clouds.
The ballistic flight did not come close to reaching space and, as expected, lasted a mere two minutes. That's how long it took for the first-stage solid-fuel booster to burn out. But it will take months to analyze all the data from the approximately 725 pressure, strain and acceleration sensors.
The maximum altitude of the rocket was not immediately known, but had been expected to be 28 miles. Parachutes popped open to drop the booster into the Atlantic, where recovery ships waited.
The upper portion of the rocket, all fake parts, fell uncontrolled into the ocean. Those pieces were never meant to be retrieved.
Wednesday's launch represented the first step in NASA's effort to return astronauts to the moon. The White House, though, is re-evaluating the human spaceflight program and may dump the Ares I in favor of another type of rocket and possibly another destination.
NASA contends the Ares I will be ready to carry astronauts to the International Space Station in 2015, four to five years after the shuttles are retired. But a panel of experts said in a report to President Barack Obama last week that it will be more like 2017, and stressed that the entire effort is underfunded.
The first Ares moon trip would be years beyond that under the current plan, known as Constellation.No matter what happens, NASA managers said they will learn a lot from this experimental flight, even if it's for another type of rocket.
'A lot of the gold that we had to mine in doing this Ares I-X test flight, we've already realized in the people,' Constellation program manager Jeff Hanley said earlier this week.
'The investment that we've made and the people and the learning is preparing us to do whatever the nation asks this team to do in the months and years ahead.' -AP

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Elm ek taqaat hay ya kamxori???
Bachpan se mujhey yehi mere papa nay sikhaya hay key elm ek taqaat hay.baray buzurgh b yehi kehtey hain k sona, chandi , herey , moti ko koi b chora sakta hai ; yahan tak k apki taqat ko koi b nidhal karsakta hai; magar elm ek aisi taqat hai jisko koi mayi ka lala apsey cheen nai sakta.
Yeh sari jhooti baatien hain !!! mein nahi maanti !!!
Taqreeban 19 saal sey mein in baton ko sach samajhti rahi ; magar 24th oct 2009 mein howay “IIU attack” ney meri ankhon par se is jhoot k parday ko haat diya. Is wajah se mein inkar karti hoon in sab baray buzurgon ki baton ko manay se!!!!
Dehshat gardoon ney humsey yah taqaat b cheen li ; aur humari hukumat k nomainday hath pe hath dahray tamasha dekhtey rehgaye!!!
Aisa lagta hay k siyasat danoon ney churiyan pehn li hain; aisa lagta hai jaisa unka kch lena dena hi nai hai Pakistan ki education condition se ; unhon ney koi khaas security intezamaat nai kiye ; humaray siyasat danoon ki is nahili ki wajah se kya kch nai howa ; IIU par attack howa , kitne talib-e-elm shaheed hogaye , balochistan k education minister par attack howa , educational institutions puray haftay k liye bandh hogaye woh b examz k near , kch taleemi idaray abhi tak bandh hain aur jo khul gaye hain un mein koi security ka khaas intezam nai hai!! Yeh humaray mulk aur quam k liye bht khatarnaak baat hai!!! Magar humaray sadar sahib ko koi fikar hi nai parta !! woh kabi kisi k saath lunch karahay hain tyou kisi k sath dinner !!! eur humari awam bhooki maar rahi hai!!!
Waise zardari shaab ko kyun dukh hoga unkay bachay thori na shaheed howay hain ! unkay bachay thori yahan hain k itne khatar naak halat mein school , college ya phr university jatay hain!!! Itni critical condition mein b zardari shab ki batisi chamak rahi hai!!! Mein kehti hoon k bolao ASFA , BAKHTAWAR aur BILAWAL ko!! Behjo unko school, college & university; itni khowfnak sorat-e-haal mei ; mein dekhna chahti hoon k zardari sahib ki batisi kitni dair tak chamakti hai !!
Aisi sorat-e-haal mei bachon ka school college &university jana kitna mushkil hai ; unkay walidein par kya guzarti hogi jab unkay bachay laut kar nai atay??? Chotay se chota bacha khowf zada hai !!! magar humaray siyasat danoon ko kuch farak nai parta !!!!!!!!!!

Ek kahawat hai :
Parhogaye likhogaye, banogaye nawab;
Khilogaye kudogaye, hojaogaye kharab;
Kaise parhain? Kahan parhain? Tamam taleemi idaray tou bandh karwa diye hain!!! Aur jo khulaye howay hain un mein security ka koi khaas intezam nahi… mujhey koi gurantee desakta hai k hum sab students mahfooz raheingaye is security mein??kya koi yeh yaqeen dila sakta hai k ab koi taleemi idarah dehshat gardon ka nishana nai banaye ga ?? kya koi hai jo humari jaanon ki hifazat karay ga??? Yeh sawal har student pochna chahta hai apnay politicianz se!!!!
Agar humaray Pakistan k yehi halaat rahey tou hum apna mustakbil kaise banaingaye?? Humara Pakistan kaise taraki karay ga???
Hum apni aney wali naslon ko kya seekhaingaye??
Mein ilteja karti hoon siyasat danoon se k humaray is Pakistan aur elm ki taqat ko mehfooz karien!!!!!

Pakistan zindabad!!!

Wasim Akram's wife passes away

CHENNAI: Huma Wasim, wife of former Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram, died at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India Sunday morning after being in criticial condition for the past five days. According to hospital officials, Huma breathed her last around 9.45 a.m.

Huma was suffering from sepsis (an inflammation of several tissues, including blood leading to kidney failure) and was admitted to Apollo Hospital Tuesday after developing complications mid-air while on her way to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore from Pakistan.

At Apollo Hospital, she was in the intensive care unit (ICU) since then and died Sunday without regaining consciousness.

Akram was married to Huma for 14 years and the couple have two sons, Taimur and Akbar.
A trained medical practitioner herself, Huma had a stint with some of the leading hospitals in Pakistan as a psychologist and a hypnotherapist.
Arrangements are being made to take her body back to Pakistan, sources said. -Agencies

Thirty-five illegal foreigners arrested

Police said they have arrested 20 Afghan nationals including seven women who were traveling from Islamabad to Quetta, according to a DawnNews report.
Earlier on Sunday morning, 15 more foreign nationals including one woman were arrested by Rangers from the same area. The men have been shifted to sub-jail Kashmore while the women have been taken to the Larkana women police station.
In the past one week more than 160 foreigners have been arrested by Rangers and police along the Sindh-Punjab-Balochistan border.

More Internet users sharing status updates

WASHINGTON: Sharing status updates on online services such as Twitter or Facebook is becoming increasingly popular among Americans, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Nineteen per cent of Internet users surveyed in August and September said they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said.
That was a significant increase from previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009 when 11 per cent of Internet users said they post status updates, according to the Washington-based organization.
Pew said 35 per cent of Internet users who already use a social network site such as MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn are likely to also use Twitter compared to six per cent of Internet users who do not use such sites.
The Pew survey also found a relationship between the number of devices a person owns and their likelihood to “tweet.”
Thirty-nine per cent of Internet users with four or more Web-connected devices, such as a laptop, a cell phone, a game console, or a Kindle, use Twitter, compared to 28 per cent with three devices, 19 per cent with two devices, and 10 per cent with one device.
Thirty-seven per cent of Internet users aged 18 to 24 use Twitter or another service, up from 19 per cent in December 2008, the study found, while the median age of a Twitter user is 31.
The Pew survey found that the median age for an Internet user is 41 years old, the median age for wireless Internet users is 37 and the median age for a social network site user is 34.
The median age for MySpace is 26, down from 27 in May 2008, and the median age for LinkedIn is 39, down from 40, while the median age for Facebook has gone up to 33 from 26 in May 2008, Pew said.
The survey of 2,253 adults aged 18 and older was conducted between August 18 and September 14 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 per centage points. —AFP