Archive for August 2012
2013, Facebook-Ready HTC Smartphone Launch
Facebook social network has long been rumored is preparing to launch a smartphone, in collaboration with HTC. The news was more widely circulated, even a smartphone made by HTC Facebook-are called to be launched next year.Citing Gizmodo page, Facebook is rumored to have built a team of engineers recruited from Apple and Palm to modify the latest operating system. The operating system is then modified to be used on the latest devices.
But it is not clear as to what the latest operating system, is based on Android or the other. A number of differences that arise can not yet be predicted.
Previously, HTC is given a target to launch this smartphone in late 2012. But the target was later pushed back to mid-2013.
Previously, HTC smartphone ever made with a special Facebook button, the HTC Status. Even so, many of which feature on the HTC Status was nothing special, and only considered similar applications that include widgets Facebook Facebook Chat and Facebook dedicated key.
The news that has been circulating since the beginning of this year was considered like the wind. Moreover, now Facebook has a problem with the value of its shares' frustrations and not as expected.
Mudik- Holiday Travel
Josh and Zac Farro departure
On December 18, 2010 a message from Hayley, Jeremy, and Taylor was released through Paramore.net stating that Josh and Zac were leaving the band.In the message they stated, "A couple of months ago, Josh and Zac let us know they would be leaving the band after our show in Orlando last Sunday. None of us were really shocked. For the last year it hasn't seemed as if they wanted to be around anymore. We want Josh and Zac to do something that makes them happy and if that isn't here with us, then we support them finding happiness elsewhere. But we never for a second thought about leaving any of this behind." The post also stated that the remaining members had no intention of disbanding. They also added "As we look back, and now as we look with excitement to the future, in all of this what truly matters are the good times. The pictures of us with our arms around each other, the long van rides, your faces while you sing along as we play. Thank you for getting us right here to this very moment. We look forward to our best times. And we hope you will go there with us." The band also confirmed the scheduled South American tour is still going to happen.Josh Farro wrote a personal response on the departure on his Blogger account, entirely different from the band's response, claiming that the band was "a manufactured product of a major-label." He further accused Hayley Williams of being manipulated by her management, treating the rest of the group as her solo project, and claimed she was the only member of the band who was signed to Atlantic Records, while her bandmates were simply "riding on the coattails of her dream".
On December 30, 2010, MTV News interviewed Williams, York and Davis in Franklin, Tennessee regarding their reactions to Farro's response.The interview aired on MTV.com on January 7, 2011 as Paramore: The Last Word. While the band confirmed many of Farro's statements, notably that Williams was indeed the only member of the band actually signed to Atlantic, they said they felt the statement was irrelevant, adding that they had addressed many of the claims made already throughout the course of their career.
Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish
pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu];
born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business
magnate and philanthropist who is currently ranked as the richest person in the world in 2012. Slim
has been ranked the richest person in the world since 2010. His extensive
holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso,
SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology,
retailing, and finance. Presently he is the chairman and chief executive of
telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil.América Móvil, which in 2010 was Latin America’s largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010. His corporate holdings as of March 2012 have been estimated at US$69 billion.
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an
American industrialist and philanthropist.
He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil
industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller
revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of
modern philanthropy.
In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he
officially retired in 1897. Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by
John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler,
Jabez Bostwick, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness. As kerosene
and gasoline
grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared, and he became the world's
richest man and first American worth more than a billion dollars. Adjusting for inflation,
he is often regarded as the richest person in history.
Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy. He was able to do this through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.
His foundations pioneered the development of medical research, and were instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. He is also the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University. He was a devoted Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions throughout his life. Rockefeller adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life.
He had four daughters and one son; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "Junior" was largely entrusted with the supervision of the foundations.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17,
1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist
and social activist. Considered a cultural icon,
Ali has both been idolized and vilified.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his
name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently
converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently
practicing Sufism.
In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship,
he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military,
based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War.
Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong...
No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of
the era.
Widespread protests against the Vietnam War
had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to
oppose the war for a generation of young Americans,
and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar
upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. – who had been
reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and
its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own
opposition to the war for the first time.
Ali was eventually arrested and found guilty on
draft evasion charges; he was stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing
license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for
nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was eventually
successful.
Ali would go on to become the first and only
three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion.
Nicknamed "The Greatest," Ali was
involved in several historic boxing matches.[8]
Notable among these were three with rival Joe Frazier,
which are considered among the greatest in boxing history, and one with George
Foreman, where he finally regained his stripped titles seven years
later. Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style, which he described
as "float[ing] like a butterfly, sting[ing] like a bee", and employing
techniques such as the Ali Shuffle and the rope-a-dope.
Ali brought beauty and grace to the most uncompromising of sports and through
the wonderful excesses of skill and character, he became the most famous
athlete
in the world. He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would "trash talk"
opponents, often with rhymes.
find out more- Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 –
August 5, 1962) was an American actress,
model,
and singer,
who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of
commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster
homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946
with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film
appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve
(both 1950), drew attention. By 1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock[5]
and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir
that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde"
persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio
to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop
(1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe
nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957),
for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe
Award for her performance in Some Like It
Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable
with screenplay
by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
The final years of Monroe's life were marked by
illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being
difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an
overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of
conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the
possibility of an accidental overdose, as well as of homicide, have not been
ruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the decades
following her death, she has often been cited as both a pop
and a cultural icon
as well as the quintessential American sex symbol.
Andy Warhol
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol's artwork ranged in many forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. Andy Warhol is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".[1] Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.
