What do u think?

Do you know what is democracy?
When people say' Get lost from our place...' people like nuts reply 'this is democracy,we have a right to'

Democracy and rights are two different things,if you think you can link them up its absurd,absolutely!

Understanding what is democracy is important.

Rights are basically not formed by council of men in the government or socialists.They are mere practices which you can exercise throughout your life,anytime,any number of times and framed by nationalists who are idealists!

Also is a Right of 'freedom of expression'.That doesn't mean,it gives power to criticize or oppress people of a region.You are at freedom of pursuing your education,job any where in the world and can use products of world fame(imports of brands into our country should be stopped if people say 'we just encourage products of our country' ) and you are just shouting to ecstasy 'Get away bas***ds' to your fellow human beings of a region.You wont shout on other people,but shout on your fellow beings of same mother tongue?

This expression of mine is not letting the importance of this article into your brain?

Then I may use a version which should be nailed into your head.

Do you know what creature you are?
Do you think you are a human?Yes?
Do you get the RIGHT of talking as it is included in the constitution?
Basic living principles are RIGHTS.You are at freedom to be born at any place and live in mansions and use peeing jars.Did you ever think upon saying I had freedom of life,why do I think it narrow about fellow human beings who come for livelihood from one region to other and I oppress them by saying 'GET AWAY BAS***DS'.

You can feed upon and live at any place but show oppression towards people of a particular region who GRABBED your opportunities.Which you think are GRABBED.This world would have been chaos if there is no point of merit,and these opportunities are based on merit but not on gratitude for a particular set of people (of a region).

Its a thumb rule that meritorious are always first hand and given preference.

You can pledge over RIGHT FOR OPPORTUNITIES but not over OPPRESSION.

Stand up being an idealist but not a crumble-ist 

Had if Slaughter houses bear glass walls,everyone will be a vegetarian

Animals raised on modern factory farms and killed on slaughter houses endure an unimaginable suffering.I hope once you read about the routine cruelty involved in raising,transporting and killing animals for food,you will join millions of people who have decided to leave meat off their plates for good.

Chickens and turkeys are the most abused animals on the face of the planet.They are crowded into filthy sheds by tens of thousands and forced to live in their own EXCREMENT.Chickens and turkeys are selectively bred to grow so large,so fast,that many become crippled under their own weight .Workers in slaughter houses and mechanized farms are poorly paid and their work goes often un-noticed.Investigation into chicken and turkey slaughter houses have shocking cruelty that goes beyond the standard abuses.

Hens used by egg industry are crammed into cages so small that they cannot do something that is natural or important to them,not even space enough to spread a single wing.THE ENDS OF THEIR SENSITIVE BEAKS ARE CUT-OFF WITH A HOT BLADE THAT CAUSES CHRONIC PAIN WHICH THE STUDIES SHOW LAST FOR MORE THAN A MONTH.Chickens are intelligent animals ,whose ability to reason in some instances is greater than that of dogs and children.Chickens are also very social animals with an elaborate pecking order ,yet cage-space confined to them is very small for their ENTIRE LIFE.THIS CAUSES MUSCLES TO WASTE AWAY AND BONES TO DETERIORATE AND BREAK FROM LACK OF USE,THEIR FEET BECOME LACERATED AND THEIR BODIES BRUISED AND CUT FROM STANDING ON WIRE FOR 18 MONTHS BEFORE SENT TO SLAUGHTER HOUSES.AT THE END OF THEIR LIVES,CHICKENS AND TURKEYS ARE FORCIBLY PACKED INTO CROWDED CAGES AND TRANSPORTED FOR HOURS THROUGH DIFFERENT WEATHER CONDITIONS AND WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER.AT SLAUGHTER HOUSES THESE BIRDS LEGS ARE FORCED INTO SHACKLES AND THEIR THROATS ARE CUT WHILE THEY ARE CONSCIOUS.


Pigs are crowded into filthy farms like chicken and turkey and many will go insane from stress,abuse, and complete lack of mental simulation.Breeding sows are treated like machines forced to turn out litter after litter.They give birth in barren stalls without enough room to nurture them.Conditions are so dismal in today's pig breeding facilities that the sickness of piglets is common and considered acceptable by the industry.Pigs are bred unnaturally fast which causes un-natural sickness and pain then they are subjected to grueling transport before being killed.Stunned  by electrical tongue method which is unreliable,which means many pigs are subconscious while throats are cut.


Cows never forget a face or a place,they have problem solving capabilities,study show that out of problem solving they jump into air with excitement.Cattle used for meat and milk are bred in un-natural places.During winter they are bred at crowded,filthy places,like chicken and pigs.Female cows produce milk for their off-spring and not for humans.Mother cows are perpetually kept pregnant to keep milk flowing all time.Their calves are taken away from them shortly after their birth which causes profound distress .In today's farms female cows are treated as nothing more than milk machines.Sometimes they are genetically induced to produce 10 times quantity of the milk they generally produce.When they are no longer used for milk production they too are sent for slaughter houses used to  ground for BURGERS AND SOUPS.Whether they are raised for milk or meat they endure a harrowing journey at the end of their lives.Some dont even survive the trip.As with pigs,the stun gun is often more ineffective ,causing even more agony.Ritual slaughter is at least as cruel as conventional slaughter methods.


There is a scientific consensus that fishes are intelligent and have distinct,individual personalities,they can use tools and have sophisticated memory.Dr.Sylvia Earl a leading biologist says:I never eat anyone I know personally.They are so good natured,and hurt when they are wounded,they also feel pain as mammals and killed in billions and many illegal ways to kill unlike any other species on the planet.Massive trolling nets capture hundreds of tons of animals as they are dragged along ocean floor when they hulled onto ships,animal suffer from decompression are suffocated or even crushed due to weight of all other fish bodies .Dolphins,whales turtles and non target fish which the fish industry calls 'by-catch' are all routinely snared by hooks and entangled into nets,their bodies dumped back into ocean again.Environmental scientists are sounding alarm about tragic state of world's oceans.If we continue fishing industries rape of the oceans at current rate,marine scientists tell us that oceans will be empty of fish by 2048.Aqua-culture or underwater factory farming are horribly abusive to animals.Fish are forced to swim in small congested cesspools and own waste water.Diseases are rampant,condition on some farm are horrendous that 40% of fishes are killed before farmers are ready to kill and sell them as meat.Fish consumption is number one cause of food poisoning and the only significant means by which humans are exposed to mercury,a documented poison that causes wide range of neurological dis-orders.Whether the flesh comes from an animal of 2 legged or 4 legged or no legged all meat is truly RED MEAT.Modern meat production is responsible for recent outbreaks of MAD COW DISEASE ,SARS,BIRD FLU and other disease and animal products are also contaminated by bacterial stew of campylobacter,salmonella and e-coli.The consumption of animal meat all of which is riddled with fat and cholesterol is also a prime contributor to epidemics like obesity,heart disease and cancer.Study show vegetarian is less prone to all these.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT ENVIRONMENT PLEASE KNOW THAT UNITED NATIONS SCIENTISTS SAY ,EATING FLESH IS MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO WATER POLLUTION,LAND DEGRADATION,AIR POLLUTION.

IF WE CARE ABOUT ENVIRONMENT,CUTTING MEAT OUT OF OUR DIET IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTION WE CAN TAKE.ITS PREJUDICE THAT ALLOWS ONE TO THINK THERE IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABUSING A CAT,ABUSING A CHICKEN ,ABUSING A DOG OR ABUSING A FISH.

SUFFERING IS SUFFERING HOW-EVER YOU SLICE IT.EATING MEAT IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH,BAD FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT AND DIRECTLY SUPPORT APPALLING CRUELTY TOWARDS ANIMALS.

THE DECISION IS YOURS .PLEASE MAKE A COMPASSIONATE CHOICE AND

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 Have look at this video which can be an eye-opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8xkSYvwJs#t=160

Nasa plans 3D printer space launch

US space agency Nasa is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity.
It will be the first time a 3D printer has been used in space and could help reduce the costs of future missions.
The device will have to withstand lift-off vibrations and operate safely in an enclosed space station environment.
Nasa has chosen technology start-up Made in Space to make the microwave-sized printer.
"Imagine an astronaut needing to make a life-or-death repair on the International Space Station," said Aaron Kemmer, the company's chief executive.
"Rather than hoping that the necessary parts and tools are on the station already, what if the parts could be 3D printed when they needed them?"
In 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts had to cobble together a home-made carbon dioxide filter using a plastic bag, a manual cover and gaffer tape.
A 3D printer might have solved the problem in minutes and helped them reach the Moon.
"If you want to be adaptable, you have to be able to design and manufacture on the fly, and that's where 3D printing in space comes in,'' said Dave Korsmeyer, director of engineering at Nasa's Ames Research Center.
Nasa is also experimenting with 3D printing small satellites that could be launched from the International Space Station and then transmit data to earth.
Additive manufacturing, as 3D printing is also known, builds up objects layer by layer, commonly using polymer materials.
But laser-melted titanium and nickel-chromium powders are now being used to build much stronger components.
In August, Nasa successfully tested a metal 3D printed rocket component as part of its drive to reduce the costs of space exploration.

Scientists want to turn smartphones into earthquake sensors

For years, scientists have struggled to collect accurate real-time data on earthquakes, but a new article published today in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America may have found a better tool for the job, using the same accelerometers found in most modern smartphones. The article finds that the MEMS accelerometers in current smartphones are sensitive enough to detect earthquakes of magnitude five or higher when located near the epicenter. Because the devices are so widely used, scientists speculate future smartphone models could be used to create an "urban seismic network," transmitting real-time geological data to authorities whenever a quake takes place.
The authors pointed to Stanford's Quake-Catcher Network as an inspiration, which connects seismographic equipment to volunteer computers to create a similar network. But using smartphone accelerometers would be cheaper and easier to carry into extreme environments. The sensor will need to become more sensitive before it can be used in the field, but the authors say once technology catches up, a smartphone accelerometer could be the perfect earthquake research tool. As one researcher told, "right from the start, this technology seemed to have all the requirements for monitoring earthquakes — especially in extreme environments, like volcanoes or underwater sites."

Guided by Touch Screens, Blind Turn to Smartphones for Sight

Luis Perez loves taking photographs. He shoots mostly on an iPhone, snapping gorgeous pictures of sunsets, vintage cars, old buildings and cute puppies. But when he arrives at a photo shoot, people are often startled when he pulls out a long white cane.
In addition to being a professional photographer, Mr. Perez is almost blind.
“With the iPhone I am able to use the same technology as everyone else, and having a product that doesn’t have a stigma that other technologies do has been really important to me,” said Mr. Perez, who is also an advocate for blind people and speaks regularly at conferences about the benefits of technology for people who cannot see. “Now, even if you’re blind, you can still take a photo.”
Smartphones and tablets, with their flat glass touch screens and nary a texture anywhere, may not seem like the best technological innovation for people who cannot see. But advocates for the blind say the devices could be the biggest assistive aid to come along since Braille was invented in the 1820s.
Counterintuitive? You bet. People with vision problems can use a smartphone’s voice commands to read or write. They can determine denominations of money using a camera app, figure out where they are using GPS and compass applications, and, like Mr. Perez, take photos.
Google’s latest releases of its Android operating systems have increased its assistive technologies, specifically with updates to TalkBack, a Google-made application that adds spoken, audible and vibration feedback to a smartphone. Windows phones also offer some voice commands, but they are fewer than either Google’s or Apple’s.
Among Apple’s features are ones that help people with vision problems take pictures. In assistive mode, for example, the phone can say how many heads are in a picture and where they are in the frame, so someone who is blind knows if the family photo she is about to take includes everyone.
All this has come as a delightful shock to most people with vision problems.
“We were sort of conditioned to believe that you can’t use a touch screen because you can’t see it,” said Dorrie Rush, the marketing director of accessible technology at Lighthouse International, a nonprofit vision education and rehabilitation center. “The belief was the tools for the visually impaired must have a tactile screen, which, it turns out, is completely untrue.”
Ms. Rush, who has a retinal disorder, said that before the smartphone, people who were visually impaired could use a flip-phone to make calls, but they could not read on the tiny two-inch screens. While the first version of the iPhone allowed people who were losing their vision to enlarge text, it wasn’t until 2009, when the company introduced accessibility features, that the device became a benefit to blind people.
While some companies might have altruistic goals in building products and services for people who have lost their sight, the number of people who need these products is growing.
About 10 million people in the United States are blind or partly blind, according to statistics from the American Foundation for the Blind. And some estimates predict that over the next 30 years, as the vast baby boomer generation ages, the number of adults with vision impairments could double.
Apple’s assistive technologies also include VoiceOver, which the company says is the world’s first “gesture-based screen reader” and lets blind people interact with their devices using multitouch gestures on the screen. For example, if you slide a finger around the phone’s surface, the iPhone will read aloud the name of each application.
In a reading app, like one for a newspaper, swiping two fingers down the screen will prompt the phone to read the text aloud. Taking two fingers and holding them an inch apart, then turning them in a circle like opening a padlock calls a slew of menus, including ones with the ability to change VoiceOver’s rate of speech or language.
The iPhone also supports over 40 different Braille Bluetooth keyboards.
On all the mobile platforms, people with vision loss say, the real magic lies in the hundreds of apps that are designed specifically to help people who are blind.
There are apps that can help people see colors, so pointing their phones at an object will yield a detailed audio description of the color, like “pale yellow green” or “fresh apricot.” People who are blind say these apps open up an entirely new way of seeing the world. Light detection apps can emit a sound that intensifies when someone approaches a light source. This can be used to help people find a room’s exit, locate a window or turn off a light. There are apps that read aloud e-mails, the weather, stock prices as well as Twitter and Facebook feeds.
In the United States, one of the biggest challenges for blind people is figuring out a bill’s denomination. While coins are different sizes, there is no such differentiation between a $1 bill and a $100 bill. In the past, people with impairments had someone who could see help them fold notes differently to know which was which, or they carried an expensive third-party device, but now apps that use the camera can identify the denomination aloud.
“Before a smartphone was accessible we had to carry six different things, and now all of those things are in one of those devices,” Ms. Rush said. “A $150 money reader is now a $1.99 app.”
She added: “These devices are a game-changer. They have created the era of inclusion.”
While some app makers have made great efforts to build products that help people with impairments, other developers overlook the importance of creating assistive components.
Mr. Perez said what he could do now with his smartphone was inconceivable just a few years ago. But even well-known apps like Instagram, which he uses to share some of his photos, do not mark all of their features.
“When some developers design their apps, they don’t label all of their buttons and controls, so the screen reader just says, ‘This is a button,’ but it doesn’t say what the button actually does,” Mr. Perez said. “That’s an area where we need a lot of improvement

Surface Pro 2: hands-on

Microsoft just unveiled the Surface Pro 2 at an event in New York City. Like its predecessor, it's a 10.1-inch tablet with enough specs that can turn it into a laptop or even a PC replacement. This latest refresh doesn't change much visually, but under the VaporMG casing Microsoft has bumped the specifications to the latest Intel Haswell processor, extended the battery life, and generally improved what was already a fast tablet. The battery life on the Surface Pro 2 is said to be 75 percent better than Surface Pro, while graphical performance is up 50 percent and overall performance is 20 percent better. Microsoft is calling it the "most powerful, professional, and productive tablet ever made." We'll be sure to put those claims to the test in our full review.
One big change is a new two-step kickstand. Like the Surface 2, it works by simply pushing the kickstand further out to create a wider 55-degree angle for the device. It appears to offer a new solution for lap use, but only if you're really willing to use the onscreen keyboard as a Touch or Type Cover as the new angle could be difficult to use.

Surface pro 2 on display,which features with far better battery life and colored keyboard pads.

The Surface Pro 2 looks the same visually as last year's model
Picking up and holding the device in tablet mode still feels a little chunky and heavy, and the size and dimensions are unchanged from the original Surface Pro. Microsoft has also swapped the Windows logo at the rear of the Surface Pro 2 for just a Surface wordmark using the Segoe font. The Surface 2 also includes the new wordmark.
Performance in our brief time with the Pro 2 was good, but the Surface Pro never really felt slow or laggy to begin with, so it's hard to say how much better the new model is until we can test it in real-world situations. Same can be said for the battery life, though it is impressive that Microsoft says it's able to increase the stamina by so much while still maintaining the overall size and weight of the original. Microsoft claims that the new display offers 46 percent more color accuracy, though it's hard to get a gauge of that without comparing the two side by side.
The Surface Pro 2 is a welcome improvement over the Surface Pro
The other half of the Surface Pro 2 story is the new power cover keyboard and docking station. The power cover offers a 30 watt hour battery that gives the Pro 2 two and a half times the battery life of the original Surface Pro, according to Microsoft. The new Docking Station accomodates the Surface Pro 2 with the power cover attached, and offers three USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, audio in and audio out, a Mini DisplayPort, and an ethernet jack. Microsoft says it can support external resolutions of up to 3840 x 2160 pixels. Microsoft is pushing the Surface Pro 2 as a complete replacement for your main computer, so the Docking Station helps get it there.
Overall, the Surface Pro 2 is a welcome improvement over the Surface Pro — it's faster, lasts longer, and is more flexible than before. Paired with the updates coming in Windows 8.1, the Pro 2 might not only be the Windows tablet to get this holiday season, it is likely the laptop to beat, too.

Bionic leg is controlled by brain power

The act of walking may not seem like a feat of agility, balance, strength and brainpower. But lose a leg, as Zac Vawter did after a motorcycle accident in 2009, and you will appreciate the myriad calculations that go into putting one foot in front of the other.

Taking on the challenge, a team of software and biomedical engineers, neuroscientists, surgeons and prosthetists has designed a prosthetic limb that can reproduce a full repertoire of ambulatory tricks by communicating seamlessly with Vawter's brain.

Bionic leg of Vawter which works on brain stimulus.A remarkable engineering of 21st century

A report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how the team fit Vawter with a prosthetic leg that has learned — with the help of a computer and some electrodes — to read his intentions from a bundle of nerves that end above his missing knee.
For the roughly 1 million Americans who have lost a leg or part of one due to injury or disease, Vawter and his robotic leg offer the hope that future prosthetics might return the feel of a natural gait, kicking a soccer ball or climbing into a car without hoisting an inert artificial limb into the vehicle.
Vawter's prosthetic is a marvel of 21-st century engineering. But it is Vawter's ability to control the prosthetic with his thoughts that makes the latest case remarkable. If he wants his artificial toes to curl toward him, or his artificial ankle to shift so he can walk down a ramp, all he has to do is imagine such movements.
The work was done at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago under an $8 million grant from the Army. The armed forces hope to apply findings from such studies to the care of about 1,200 service personnel who have lost a lower limb in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We want to restore full capabilities" to people who have lost a lower limb, said Levi J. Hargrove, lead author of the new report. "While we're focused and committed to developing this system for our wounded warriors, we're very much thinking of this other, much larger population that could benefit as well."
The report describes advances across a wide range of disciplines: in orthopedic and peripheral nerve surgery, neuroscience, and the application of pattern-recognition software to the field of prosthetics.
Weighing just over 10 pounds, the leg has two independent engines powering movement in the ankle and knee. And it bristles with sensors, including an accelerometer and gyroscope, each capable of detecting and measuring movement in three dimensions.
Most prosthetics in use today require the physical turn of a key to transition from one movement to another. But with the robotic leg, those transitions are effortless, Vawter said.
"With this leg, it just flows," said the 32-year-old software engineer, who spends most of his days using a typical prosthetic but travels to Chicago several times a year from his home in Yelm, Wash. "The control system is very intuitive. There isn't anything special I have to do to make it work right."
Before Vawter could strap on the bionic lower limb, engineers in Chicago had to "teach" the prosthetic how to read his motor intentions from tiny muscle contractions in his right thigh.
At the institute's Center for Bionic Medicine, Vawter spent countless hours with his thigh wired up with electrodes, imagining making certain movements on command with his missing knee, ankle and foot.
Using pattern-recognition software, engineers discerned, distilled and digitized those recorded electrical signals to catalog an entire repertoire of movements. The prosthetic could thus be programmed to recognize the subtlest contraction of a muscle in Vawter's thigh as a specific motor command.
Given surgical practices still in wide use, the prospects for such a connection between a patient's prosthetic and his or her peripheral nerves are generally dim. In most amputations, the nerves in the thigh are left to languish or die.
Dr. Todd Kuiken, a neurosurgeon at the rehabilitation institute, pioneered a practice called "reinervation" of nerves severed by amputation, and Vawter's orthopedic surgeon at the University of Washington Medical Center was trained to conduct the delicate operation. Dr. Douglas Smith rewired the severed nerves to control some of the muscles in Vawter's thigh that would be used less frequently in the absence of his lower leg.
Within a few months of the amputation, those nerves had recovered from the shock of the injury and begun to regenerate and carry electrical impulses. When Vawter thought about flexing his right foot in a particular way, the rerouted nerve endings would consistently cause a distinctive contraction in his hamstring. When he pondered how he would position his foot on a stair step and ready it for the weight of his body, the muscle contraction would be elsewhere — but equally consistent.
Compared with prosthetics that were not able to "read" the intent of their wearers, the robotic leg programmed to follow Vawter's commands reduced the kinds of errors that cause unnatural movements, discomfort and falls by as much as 44 percent, according to the New England Journal of Medicine report.
Vawter said he had "fallen down a whole bunch of times" while wearing his everyday prosthetic, but not once while moving around on his bionic leg.
He said he could move a lot faster too — which would be helpful for keeping up with his 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. But first, Vawter added, he needs to persuade Hargrove's team to let him wear it home.