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Looking
back at 2010 ...
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Looking forward: Happy New Year!
Here
we are, marking an end to another calendar year and moving into
a new one. As any other year, 2010 had its own moments.
We had a successful 2010 FIFA world cup conducted
first time in South Africa, a coalition prime minister was formally
elected for Iraq, the Democratic congress lost it majority, the
TEA party gained momentum among the conservatives.
In US, we had a double dip recession economy (denoting
or relating to a recession during which a period of economic decline
is followed by a brief period of growth, followed by a further period
of economic decline). In Europe it was about the huge reduction
in government welfare programs and the civil unreset that followed
such reductions. Hope the economic situation improves in 2011.
Haiti's earthquake, Chilean earthquake and Indus floods
marked few of the sad moments during this year. Iceland's volcano
Eyjafjallajokull became popular this year after it spewed ashes
into the sky and halted the Atlantic air travel for multiple days.
On the sports arena, Tiger woods lost multi-millions
and his number 1 ranking. In baseball Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando
Galarraga lost a perfect record when the umpire Jim Joyce called
it imperfectly. In basketball, LeBron James had a big backlash when
he dumped Cavaliers. In football, Colts Mohamad Massaquoi's head
concussion highlighted the injury prone nature of the game. In Soccer,
Spain won the FIFA world cup for the first time. In cricket, Sachin
Tendulkar scored the 1st ODI 200 and crossed his 50th Test century
to keep his lead on records. MS Dhoni became the highest paid cricketer
when he signed a $42 million (210 crores) endorsement deal for 3
years. Take note: Sachin signed 180 crores for 3 years in 2006.
So a revision is due for Sachin.
Looking forward, I am sure every one of you will be
taking a nice holiday break, jotting down your memories of this
year and preparing for few new year resolutions to be accomplished
next year. We would like to wish all our readers a very happy, prosperous
and successful new year. Keep in mind, only 1 in 10 (or 12%) succeed
in fulfilling their new year resolutions. There are several techniques
you can adopt to accomplish your resolutions. A simple technique
suggested by psychologists, after studying 3000 individuals over
a period of year, is very interesting. They discovered that a man
who have a detail plan for his resolution and a women who have shared
her resolution goals to her known social network were mostly successful.
So if you are a man, plan your new year resolution with enough detail
and if you are a women start telling your resolutions to every one
around you. Let us know whether it worked for you at the end of
2011 :-)
In this issue, we have hand picked the contents to
review 2010 and help you cherish and reminisce the 2010 moments.
As always, we are confident you will enjoy.
- In the Brain-tickler category:
- "Words of the year!" Test your 2010 vocabulary.
- In the Health Topic section:
- We have covered the top 10 Healthcare stories that is of
interest to you in 2 parts.
- In the English Song category:
- We have some excellent song picks which were very popular
on radio during 2010. Enjoy!
- In the Short Story:
- Read the part-2 of the story "Missing ..."
- In the Seriously Funny section:
- Watch the serious (not funny) video "Trololo Song"
- Read the humors, "Strange Neighbors", "Neighbor,
Is there a problem?"
- In the Surfboard section:
- Read the thought "Award winning corn!"
- In the Tamil Picks section:
- Enjoy the 2010 recommend Tamil songs. You will love our
picks!
- Try our 2010 recommended Tamil movies when you have time.
- Nuggets:
- Don't miss to read "Looking back at 2010" nuggets!
- Main page - iPhone 4!
- Health - Looking old for your age? Blame it on TERC(Telomeres)
gene and FDA approves to sell genetically engineered fish!
- Surfboard - You don't have to be an astronaut to travel
into Space!
- Reader's feeback - Happy birthday Queen Elizabeth II
!
- Your feedback - Living on the road for 9 days!
- Additional Bonus Videos:
- Enjoy our additional bonus videos in the following sections.
- Reader's Feedback - First 200 runs in one day cricket:
Who else but Tendulkar!
- Your Feedback - World's Longest Tunnel: Gotthard Base
Tunnel: Completed
As
always, we are very confident that you will enjoy our picks. So,
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Over to you ...
iPhone 4!
iPhone 4 made lot of news this
year when early adopters reported dropped calls. Apple supplied
a free casing to placate the customers. However, this did not
stop the British Jeweler designer Stuart Hughes to design a jewelled
iPhone 4. This phone priced at $8 million was made with 500 diamonds
and has a platinum navigation button which itself contained a
7.4 carat pink diamond. It has 500 diamonds lined around the steel
band and has 53 diamonds on the Apple logo. There were only 2
phones made and no news on who is owning it or whether it is dropping
calls. Imagine calls getting dropped after spending $8 million!
Be happy that you did not buy it :-)
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