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Microsoft stock’s leadership in the technology world is threatened by Apple. At the close of Tuesday’s session, the Apple company had a market capitalization of $ 223,000 million (about EUR 182 300 million) against 228 000 million the company of Bill Gates. During the last minutes of trading yesterday, Apple exceeded its rival. At closing, the capitalization of Microsoft was 219 180 million compared with 222.124 million from the company of Steve Jobs. Both are second only to Exxon Mobil in the ranking of U.S. companies by market value. The oil company capitalizes about 282 000 billion.

In this sense, The Wall Street Journal, based on data from FactSet Research, recalled yesterday that when Steve Ballmer became CEO of Microsoft, Apple had a capital of 15,600 million compared to 556 000 million for the software giant. In early 2010, the difference in favor of Microsoft was about 77 000 million.

Thus, the sharp stock market developments throughout 2010 has been crucial in achieving this. Since January, Apple builds an appreciation of close to 17% while Microsoft shares have fallen around 15%. In addition, Apple has outperformed the stock market last shock that is affecting global financial markets. Since mid April, the company Steve Jobs has dropped nearly 7% to 14% of Microsoft.

This trend is coinciding with the progress of iPad worldwide. In fact, the Apple tablet will be launched tomorrow in nine other countries. In the first month in U.S. stores the company on the block sold over a million units.

To meet demand, Apple could decide to raise production of iPad this summer. On Tuesday, the brokerage Sterne, Agee & Leach said the company could produce monthly up to 2.5 million units of its tablet. Currently, it produces between 1 and 1.5 million.

The rumors that circulate in the market suggest that Steve Jobs presented on 7 June, the new iPhone at the meeting with developers planned for that day. By contrast, Microsoft has started a major reorganization of its consumer business, which seems to be losing ground to Google and Apple. Microsoft announced Tuesday the departure of the company of Robbie Bach, head of the Entertainment and Devices division, which includes businesses such as Xbox video game console, the Windows Phone, Zune music player or mobile KIN. It would also leave the firm J Allard, vice president of this division. Bach, who has 22 years at Microsoft, will not be replaced, and those responsible for the areas of gaming and mobile, Don Mattrick and Andy Lees, report to Ballmer, putting the CEO in front of these activities directly.

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You could get with this, or you could get with that. ‘This,’ in case you were wondering, would be the 2010 Kia Soul, and ‘that’ would be, um, anything else. Especially a toaster, washing machine or cardboard box… and we’ll leave those vehicular associations up to you to decipher.

Before you actually watch the video pasted after the break, please know that our collective heads heads have officially exploded due to the sheer awesomeness of this effort from Kia and its marketing firm. First of all, the clip features the oddly popular Hamsters from Kia’s initial marketing launch for the Soul, the first commercial of which managed to win Nielsen’s Automotive Ad of the Year.

More importantly, as far as we’re concerned at least, is the use of Black Sheep’s The Choice is Yours as the musical accompaniment to the Alien Green Soul and its urban backdrop. Also note that the character’s so-called Hamstar clothing will soon be available for purchase by fans at hamstarclothing.com. Seriously.

Expect to see this advertisement all over your television set and in movie theaters starting on Friday, May 28. That said, we highly suggest that you get the jump on everyone else and watch the video now. Seriously, what are you waiting for? Hit the jump.

[Source: Kia]

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Vegan Diet Secrets: Becoming a Vegetarian

A lot of vegans do not even know why they wanted to become vegans in the first place. Why are you a vegan? If you cannot answer this question in depth, then there’s really no reason to become a vegan diet fan.
You have to do some soul searching and find some answers from deep inside you. Find out exactly why you want to become a vegan. If you don’t find any reasons behind your decision then it’s just a phase you’re going through.

So first of all, you have to educate yourself about being a vegan.

1. Know the facts of the vegan diet.
2. Know exactly what you’re getting yourself into.
3. Know exactly why you are doing it.
4. Start reading books, newspapers, magazines about vegan diets.
5. Search the internet for articles or other information concerning vegan diets.

To sum up you have to know the pros and cons of becoming a vegan.

Here are some secret tips to get you started if you’re really desperate about becoming e vegetarian.

1. Start the easy way.
Did you have any favorite dish before becoming a vegetarian? Maybe that dish was a vegetarian dish or could become one easily. So start with that favorite dish. You may not even know that some dishes are vegetarian.
For example you can start with vegetable pasta or lasagne or pasta primavera. There are thousands of choices.

2. Buy a Vegan Recipe CookBook
Being a vegetarian means that you have to learn to prepare your food sometimes. So why not follow some proven tips and recipes from a good vegetarian cookbook?

3. Don’t Push Yourself
So you decide to switch to a vegan diet but you find yourself so tired and really hungry. Well, you may not be eating enough!
Don’t pressure your body. Try to stay balanced and get enough calories and nutrients to keep you going. Don’t just stick to only a few different types of food.

4. Get support from your friends
Make your friends understand the fact that you’re vegetarian. Make them respect your choices. A good example would be to get them to try some of your food and taste what you eat.

5. Do not compare yourself with other vegetarians.
If you’re reading vegan magazines or articles or talking to longtime vegetarians then you will notice that everyone has something to say. And they claim they have the best solution for you. Well, ignore them. Do not compare yourself and your body with anyone else’s! You want to be a vegetarian for your own reasons. So find out what’s right for you and be comfortable with your decisions.

6. Timing matters
Feel free to start on a vegan diet at any time of the year. But be wise. Remember that if you start during the summer you’ll have the chance to try a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. Moreover, people have the tendency to eat lighter during summer months. During the winter there’s the advantage of eating soups or baked food.

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If you are tired of the same, boring, repetitive information found in nearly every book on the raw vegan diet, then you have to take a look at this guide called “The Raw Vegan Diet Secrets & Eating Healthy Tips“. It will help you live sustainably on a vegan diet.

Stastics and Qoutes about Vegan diets ?

Like Statistics which shows that many vegan dieters suffer from anemia, lack of protein etc … Or social problems

And qoutes from doctors or ex-vegans etc …
Okayb for your information everywhere I go I can’t find many negetives things about veganism

Keep it in your mind that I’m not here to make fun of vegans or wtv I’m a student under pressure will do anything to finish her persausive oral presentation T.T

So please I need the harmful ones ! :p

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.

Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

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Vegan Diets is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.

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Podemos dizer que realmente o novo modelo Astra foi um sucesso e podemos considerar os números de vendas como um recorde para a Opel e como um alivio também.

Como todos que acompanham o mundo automotivo sabe, desde o ano passado a Opel não vem atravessando um bom momento, mas o Astra veio para aliviar a tenção da marca, pois o já foi vendido cerca de 150 mil unidades em cinco meses.

Pra quem acha pouco, a Opel esperava vender cercar de 180 mil unidades no ano de 2010, então com essa explosão ela conseguirá fazer em 6 meses o que queria fazer em 12. Agora é só esperar ver o que vem pela frente, como antecipado aqui, a marca está trabalhando no novo Astra.

Fonte: Blog Auto

WASHINGTON– President Obama will hold a press conference at 12:45 p.m. eastern time on Thursday in the East Room of the White House. The last time Obama held an East Room press conference was the evening of July 22, 2009. Obama had a press conference in the briefing room in February.

by Julian Ku

Do we have an emerging consensus that the ICC States-Parties should refrain from adding the crime of aggression to the ICC Statute at its upcoming conference in Kampala?  Michael Glennon, the CFR, Harold Koh, David Kaye, and now Richard Goldstone have all come out against adding the crime of aggression. Here is Goldstone:

Based on my experience as an international prosecutor, and speaking as a strong supporter of the International Criminal Court, I think it would be a mistake to add the crime of aggression to the Court’s docket now. The issue should be deferred again.

By any measure, the I.C.C. has gotten off to a strong start in generating international support and demonstrating its potential to address the problem of impunity for serious international crimes.

But it also has encountered charges of politicization and is still learning, as an institution, how to exercise effectively its jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

One of the greatest challenges I faced as prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (I.C.T.Y.) was convincing the Serbian public that the court was not a politically motivated conspiracy against Serbia. This challenge would have been immensely greater — perhaps impossible — if the Tribunal’s jurisdiction had included the crime of aggression. That would have required me to investigate and potentially prosecute the decision to go to war — which is inherently a profoundly political decision.

Prosecuting that decision would have inflamed Serbian suspicions of a conspiracy; choosing not to prosecute would have incited countervailing charges that the Tribunal was not fulfilling its mandate. Such a debate would have diverted attention and energy from the imperative of fairly and effectively providing justice and accountability for the grave crimes then being committed against civilians in the former Yugoslavia.

Now is not the time for the I.C.C. to risk embroiling itself in similar controversy. The issues that would arise from dealing with allegations of aggression would give ammunition to critics who claim it is a politicized institution.

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Sandra Bullock is back and will attend the MTV Movie Awards on June 6. She will accept the “MTV Generation Award”. The actress, 46, is the first female recipient to be honored with the award that acknowledges an actor who has engages the MTV audience throughout their career. MTV announced that Sandra would receive the award “for her riveting and diverse contributions to the film industry and for entertaining generations of the MTV audience over the last two decades.” The past recipients of the award were Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey.

Her last attendance was when she won her best actress Oscar last March for “The Blind Side”. The event was followed by reports of Jesse James, Sandra’sex- husband, cheating on her. She filed for divorce last April. She announced that she had adopted a 3 ½ month old baby boy earlier this month. The 2010 MTV Movie Awards will be broadcasted Live from the Gibson Ampitheatre in Universal City, California on June 6 at 9 pm ET. The event will be hosted by Aziz Ansari. Some of the confirmed presenters of the event include Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Zac Efron, Jonah Hill, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Shaun White, Vanessa Hudgens, Sean “Diddy” Combs, the cast of “The Grown Ups” (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider), Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Aubrey Plaza.

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The Big Gals are not pleased. The supersized lovelies at the nation’s leading plus-sized retailer, Lane Bryant, still have a bone to pick with the chiefs at FOX and ABC and the lingerie models they love to showcase.

Last month, a mini-scandal broke out when the networks refused to air the one of the brand’s racy lingerie ad during broadcasts of Dancing With The Stars and American Idol. Censors argued that the spot bared too much cleavage. Of course, no one had any problem airing ads with equally scantily-clad yet more petite Vicky’s Secret Models.

Now Lane Bryant is attracting more attention by creating a new ad mocking the Victoria’s Secret commercials.
The spoof features a skeleton modeling a black bra and panties!

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When you think about all of the truly iconic supercars that have been produced throughout history, not many carry the same mystique and world-renowned praise as the McLaren F1. Exactly 20 years ago, a team of engineers and designers came together in an attempt to build the automaker’s vision of “the finest sports car the world had ever seen.” And even though the official F1 road car was not launched until May 1992, McLaren is celebrating 2010 as the 20th anniversary of the F1 project. After all, this car changed how the world thought about lightness, packaging and supercar design.

Over the course of four years, McLaren produced 64 F1, five F1 LM and three F1 GT road cars, along with 28 F1 GTR racers and six test prototypes. At the end of its lifespan in 1998, the F1 became the world’s fastest production car, and while that title is now reserved for the almighty Bugatti Veyron, the McLaren still holds the record for fastest naturally aspirated road car. (Tricky, tricky!) Beyond that, the F1 garnered a healthy amount of respect for dominating Le Mans – these cars took first, third, fourth, fifth and thirteenth place at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as winning that year’s GT1 championship.

McLaren Automotive celebrated the F1’s 20th anniversary by inviting owners, past and present, to a dinner at the automaker’s technology center in Woking, England, which included a display of 21 road and race F1s. Looking to the future, McLaren will begin production of the MP4-12C supercar, followed by an entire range of performance cars, all built in-house. Will any of these new creations be able to hold a candle to the iconic F1? Only time will tell, but for now, we raise our glass to the original McLaren F1. Three cheers, indeed.

Follow the jump to read more about the F1 and the 20th anniversary celebration in McLaren’s press release.

[Source: McLaren Automotive]

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Yes folks, it’s coming! Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Andrew House has confirmed their plans to introduce the often-rumored PSN pay-to-play service in a recent fan in question & answer post.
 

Pois é, pelo visto a nova moda de 2010 são os recalls e nem a L200 da Mitsubishi escapou dessa.

O modelo foi chamado para o recall devido a um problema em um parafuso frouxo na sua suspensão dianteira.

Segundo a marca, com o parafuso frouxo ouvisse ruídos e em casos mais graves o parafuso perde o toque de fixação podendo atrapalhar na condução da picape levando a um acidente.

A Mitsubishi não deu muitos detalhes sobre o recall, mas para quem quer mais informações, pode encontrar no telefone: 0800 702 0404 ou Mitsubishi.

Fonte: Carplace

Currently, the developing world (what used to be called “The Third World”) is experiencing the effects of higher commodity prices and declining agricultural production. Chronic undernourishment now affects an estimated one billion people, most of whom reside in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

At current population trends, another 2.3 billion will be added to the world’s population by 2050. According to the findings of the World Summit on Food Security (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), in order to feed this additional 2+ billion people, developing countries will need to increase their cereal crop output by 70%, nearly doubling current output.

One of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals–to dramatically reduce world hunger by 2015–will most likely not be met, given these current trends.

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They employ about 3.5 million workers and produced about $3.5 trillion in revenue last year, they include 21 Fortune 100 companies, and all 6,000 of them support energy and climate legislation.  We’re talking about the number of U.S. businesses that have joined coalitions and initiatives in support of federal legislation to improve energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The estimate of 6,000 was put together by a group called American Businesses for Clean Energy, which culled membership lists from seven organizations including We Can Lead, which kicked off a major initiative this spring to lobby Congress for more green jobs.  John Deere, Target, Boeing, Gap, General Electric, and IBM are just a few of the economic powerhouses supporting federal action, and they’ve got plenty of company overseas, too.

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The Dow Jones reached today the incredible low, just under 10000, the Dow Jones average wasn’t this low since four months. The main cause of this ever so low value is the drop of euro.

Dow Jones opened in the morning with a high value of 135 points but dropped down about 69 points in the closing, this is the 8 drop since 10 days for Dow.

It appears that investors are frightened by the heavy debt loads in the Europeans segments, probably fearing that this debt loads will spread to other countries too in the region. This fear could explain the heavy sell-off which occurred today on Dow.

The situation was getting even worst at the end of the trading day, since China started to review its government holdings in the European region because of this financial crisis in the euro zone.

The loose of confidence in the euro shows the loose of confidence in the European countries to be able to deal properly with their debt problems.

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If you’re into R/C vehicles, there’s just the slightest chance that you might be interested in a power train that runs three to four times longer than regular battery-only systems, and that requires nothing but sunlight and water to recharge. It also educates people on what will likely be the power system of choice for future real-size automobiles… and oh yes, it looks dead sexy, in a Doc-Brown’s-Delorean-flux-capacitor kinda way. Without any further ado, please open your wallets for H-Cell 2.0, the latest miniature hydrogen fuel cell hybrid drive train from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies…
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