Coughing up $1 billion – Gates!

After having left rival Sony’s Playstation 3 behind in the race, it is now the turn of Microsoft Xbox 360 to face the wrath of luck. Not only it is going to cost Bill Gates a whopping $1 billion to repair ‘an unacceptable number of repairs’ in the game console but also humiliation for not being able to meet the shipments target by 0.4 million units till June end. The innumerable complaints received about Xbox 360 are attributed to certain hardware failures in the console, like the three red flashing lights. To tackle the problem, Microsoft has decided warranty extension to three years now. Customers who have already spent on the repairs would be reimbursed. The total expense of Microsoft is somewhere in the range of $1.05-$1.15 billion excluding taxes.

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Pratibha Patil

Pratibha’s stint at the Centre began in mid-eighties. From 1985 to 1990, she was a Rajya Sabha member, where she acted as the Deputy Chairman for two years from 1986-88. During her Rajya Sabha days, she also headed Rajya Sabha Committee on Privileges and was a member of the Business Advisory Committee too. In 1991, she added another feather to her cap by getting elected to the 10th Lok Sabha on a Congress ticket. After her stint at the lower house, she quietly went into wilderness to lead a retired life. Destiny had so much more for her to achieve. In 2004, she was recalled by the Congress party to take over the Governorship of Rajasthan. She accepted the appointment with grace and performed the task with élan. A non-controversial, loyal-to the- core Congresswoman, Pratibha had another tryst with destiny, when she was chosen by the ruling party to be its nominee for the prestigious post of President. Neither Pratibha nor her family had ever expected this news to sink in so easily. She was planning her final retirement and was almost through with her political career, but things changed overnight.

Since the UPA has the numbers to ensconce Pratibha in Rashtrapati Bhavan, her victory seems well-nigh certain at this juncture. She has promised not to be a rubber stamp President. She may not be a star politician, but she is certainly a performing politician, a team-person and above all, she has displayed good leadership skills throughout her political career. Now she is most likely to be the first Indian woman Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Way to Go!

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Iran-Malaysia cooperation to checkmate US moves

Kuala Lumpur intends to use the opportunity provided by anxiety over Iran’s eventual fate among global players to its advantage. The game is simple. Singapore, the staunch US ally in the region , is strategically placed close to the Malacca Strait (a shipping route through which oil reaches from Iran to the ports at South China Sea). In order to apply pressure on Iran, the US may use its existing strategic leverage in Singapore and choke the Iranian oil supplies. If this was to happen, China (which draws a lot of its burgeoning energy needs from Iranian oil fields) would feel the pinch. This politico military calculus is causing a lot of consternation, both in China as well as Iran. This anxiety is being used by Malaysia to strengthen its economic base. The solution they are now working upon is to help China and Iran by-pass the ‘Malacca dilemma’ by commissioning refineries and pipelines running from its west coast (Yan in Kedah state) up to Bachok, located on the eastern coast of Kelantan state. This would facilitate the Chinabound oil tankers from Gulf to off –load at Yan, thus obviating the need to cross narrow confines of the Malacca strait.

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...of the current state of India’s defence...and offence!

We are essentially talking about India and Pakistan. While the chances of a nuclear holocaust have subsided much, still, the subcontinent is far from becoming a peace haven. And as if the envy of Pakistan hasn’t been enough, it has rather got a major booster from similar antipathy within many sections of Bangladesh. While the chances of much of the subcontinent becoming a hub of radical fundamentalism essentially remains above average, it can only go up as the increasing prosperity of the Indian economy creates more heartburn in the failing states of Bangladesh and Pakistan. And while an inclusive growth strategy for the subcontinent is of prime essence, in the short run, India is left with not much option but to increase its vigil, the reminiscences of 1948, 1965,1971 and 1999 still fresh in mind.

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"On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light"

Solar energy can generate heat, as Mouchout did, for electricity. And sophisticated engineering applied to converting sunlight to heat can be very effective indeed. A solar water heater has a black surface that absorbs sunlight and gets hot. The water circulating through the black surface absorbs heat from the surface and is stored in an insulated tank. Nothing complicated about it! Solar water heaters were popular in Florida & California in the 1920s. As of 2005, solar water heat is now required in new construction in Israel & Spain, and capacity grew by 23% in China..

Solar energy can be used to produce electricity by first converting sunlight to heat, then using the heat to generate steam to drive a turbine. Like a magnifying glass, solar thermal electric power plants collect the sun's energy. Some common designs:

1. Parabolic trough collectors to focus sunlight on a fluid-filled tube,
2. Flat, moveable mirrors (heliostats) which reflect and concentrate sunlight on a collector tower, and
3. Large reflective parabolic dish which focuses sunlight on a Stirling engine

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The canary is dying, but has anyone noticed?

Is this the millennium melt down, or maybe, the time of change and atonement by humankind? Not only are we realizing that humankind is not separate from Nature, but we are also understanding we are just a single species amongst the myriad of life on this planet. A humbling fact is that while Nature can survive without us, we definitely cannot survive without the intricate processes of Nature. Are we to become as a species, an evolutionary firework, burning brightly and loudly at the beginning, then spluttering, and choking before petering out? Why has it taken so long to heed the warning signs of impending danger? Did the ever rising number of endangered species tell us nothing? We kill the forests and all their layered intricate workings, workings that contain more than half of the Earth’s species. The forests have been described as the most creative laboratories on earth, providing over half the pharmaceutical products used by humankind. Yet we destroy them.

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Save Sunderbans!

Famous author Amitav Ghosh’s book, The Hungry Tide, on Sunderbans might have earned numerous accolades. But what’s really happening to the nation that inhabits the largest mangrove forest in the world? Built over the flood plains of Brahmaputra & Ganges, low-lying Bangladesh (3-7 feet above sea level) is on the verge of submergence. As predicted by environmentalists, the much debated global warming has led to large scale melting of Himalayan glaciers. And if serious steps are not taken now, this may lead to grave impacts by 2015.

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Steel Authority Of India Limited (SAIL)

Iron & steel is the largest energy consuming sector, devouring around 15% of world energy. Carbon trading is one of the major means to curb consumption, where SAIL is also launching huge projects. India is seen as one of the most attractive destinations for CDM (clean development mechanism) linked investments. According to Ernst & Young estimates, over 2,006 Indian companies have made revenues of about Rs.15 billion in carbon trading, a stupendous achievement. SAIL is taking the right step by collecting carbon credits for itself. After all, the future belongs to green business, and SAIL, for one, would be fancying its chances to take the lead.

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. “They have taught us what we know. Peter is the consummate salesman and Nair, a creative genius”

It would be foolish to write-off Star just yet. It has reigned the Indian tele-tube for years at a stretch and is still leading. Sure, they seem to be in a mess right now, but don’t you forget, these are the very guys who introduced many successful formats to Indian television and marketed them like nobody’s business. Only if they find that one gimmick which clicks, Star India will be back at the top of the heap. Well, it’s just a question of a yet another path-breaking format that does a KBC for it. Who knows, Shah Rukh Khan’s thinking cap might be a big help!

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