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15 May 2013
Bay of bengal prepares of Cyclone : Cyclone Mahassen may hit BAngladesh on 15th or 16th May: Red alert risen to all port cities.
Whats the difference between cyclones and tornadoes?
Answer:
- Tornadoes can be up to 4km across, and are usually no more than a few hundred meters wide, while Tropical cyclones are hundreds of kilometers across.
- Tornadoes usually only last a few minutes, rarely over an hour, while Tropical Cyclones last several days, maybe even a week.
- Tornado wind speeds typically range from 63 to 177km/h though can exceed 480km/h. When the wind speeds of a tropical cyclone are between 63km/h and 118km/h they are called tropical storms, when the speed reaches 119km/h, they are called hurricanes, typhoons, or intense tropical cyclones depending on the region.
- Tropical Cyclones form over sea then may travel over land, while Tornadoes form primarily over land. When Tornadoes form over seas, they are called waterspouts.
- Tornadoes are formed when wind shear sets thunderstorms rotating, and that rotation then tightens, intensifies, and extends to the ground.
- A Tropical Cyclone is formed when an area of low pressure moves over warm ocean water. The moisture feeds into the system causing it to intensify. An effect called the 'Coriolis effect' causes it to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction, depending on whether your in the southern or northern hemisphere, and as a result become better organized.
Bangladesh reported this storm as: Category 1
Category 1 storms usually cause no significant structural damage to most well-constructed permanent structures; however, they can topple unanchored mobile homes, as well as uproot or snap numerous trees. Poorly attached roof shingles or tiles can blow off. Coastal flooding and pier damage are often associated with Category 1 storms. Power outages are typically widespread to extensive, sometimes lasting several days. Even though it is the least intense type of hurricane, the storm can still produce widespread damage and can be a life-threatening storm.[5]
Examples of storms which made landfall at this intensity include Danny (1985), Jerry (1989), Claudette (2003), Humberto (2007) and Isaac (2012).
More Stories:
CNN: Bay of bengal prepares of Cyclone
BBC: Bangladesh orders Cyclone Evacuation
G-8 : Group Eight
Group of Eight" redirects here. For other uses,
The Group of Eight (G8) is a forum for the governments
of the world's eight wealthiest countries. The forum originated with a
1975 summit hosted by France that brought together representatives of
six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and
the United States, thus leading to the name Group of Six or G6. The summit became known as the Group of Seven or G7 the following year with the addition of Canada. The G7,
that is active even after the creation of the G8, is composed by 7 of 8
of the wealthiest countries on Earth (as net wealth and not GDP). In
1997, Russia was added to the group which then became known as the G8.[1] The European Union is represented within the G8 but cannot host or chair summits.[2]
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09 May 2013
Reshma Rescued Alive After 17 Days From Savar Rana Plaza
The miracle Girl: Reshma is rescued alive from the junk jungle of rana plaza. It is an absolute never seen before incident that shook the whole world with great surprise. May Allah Help the girl.
It’s all a miracle. One is not supposed to remain alive after 72 hours
after being trapped in a collapsed building. Reshma belied it. The young
garment worker was pulled out alive after 391 hours into the disastrous
Rana Plaza collapse.
The miraculous survivor female garment worker is identifies as Reshma hailed from Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district.
Rescuers pulled her alive from the rubble at about 4:26pm. She was taken to Savar Combined Military Hospital and kept at Intensive Care Unit. Her condition is stable and quite fine.
After the resue operation concluded, one rescue worker Rafique who traced the trapped garment worker first said, “I saw a pipe moving around while walking in the area. When I approached the pipe, I heard someone groaning inside. As I laid one of my ears on a hole, I heard the voice of a woman saying ‘save me’, ‘save me’.” - See more at: http://tazakhobor.com/national/4185-reshma-rescued-alive-after-17-days-from-savar-rana-plaza#sthash.hBqLmSeI.dpuf
The miraculous survivor female garment worker is identifies as Reshma hailed from Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district.
Rescuers pulled her alive from the rubble at about 4:26pm. She was taken to Savar Combined Military Hospital and kept at Intensive Care Unit. Her condition is stable and quite fine.
After the resue operation concluded, one rescue worker Rafique who traced the trapped garment worker first said, “I saw a pipe moving around while walking in the area. When I approached the pipe, I heard someone groaning inside. As I laid one of my ears on a hole, I heard the voice of a woman saying ‘save me’, ‘save me’.” - See more at: http://tazakhobor.com/national/4185-reshma-rescued-alive-after-17-days-from-savar-rana-plaza#sthash.hBqLmSeI.dpuf
It’s all a miracle. One is not supposed to remain alive after 72 hours
after being trapped in a collapsed building. Reshma belied it. The young
garment worker was pulled out alive after 391 hours into the disastrous
Rana Plaza collapse.
The miraculous survivor female garment worker is identifies as Reshma hailed from Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district.
Rescuers pulled her alive from the rubble at about 4:26pm. She was taken to Savar Combined Military Hospital and kept at Intensive Care Unit. Her condition is stable and quite fine.
After the resue operation concluded, one rescue worker Rafique who traced the trapped garment worker first said, “I saw a pipe moving around while walking in the area. When I approached the pipe, I heard someone groaning inside. As I laid one of my ears on a hole, I heard the voice of a woman saying ‘save me’, ‘save me’.” - See more at: http://tazakhobor.com/national/4185-reshma-rescued-alive-after-17-days-from-savar-rana-plaza#sthash.hBqLmSeI.dpuf
The miraculous survivor female garment worker is identifies as Reshma hailed from Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district.
Rescuers pulled her alive from the rubble at about 4:26pm. She was taken to Savar Combined Military Hospital and kept at Intensive Care Unit. Her condition is stable and quite fine.
After the resue operation concluded, one rescue worker Rafique who traced the trapped garment worker first said, “I saw a pipe moving around while walking in the area. When I approached the pipe, I heard someone groaning inside. As I laid one of my ears on a hole, I heard the voice of a woman saying ‘save me’, ‘save me’.” - See more at: http://tazakhobor.com/national/4185-reshma-rescued-alive-after-17-days-from-savar-rana-plaza#sthash.hBqLmSeI.dpuf
08 May 2013
24 April 2013
Rana Plaza: The biggest unnatural trazedy of Bangladesh
9-storied building--Rana Plaza collapsed in Savar bus stand area of
Dhaka which housed five garment factories, a branch of bank and a
market.
21 April 2013
10 Unsuccessful Attempted waysto kill Castro
On this date in 1959, Fidel Castro became the Prime Minister of Cuba.
Since then, according to the man who was charged with protecting him
for most of his regime, he's survived over 600 assassination attempts.
Fabian Escalante, the former head of the Cuban Secret Service, claims
that the assassination endeavors break down like this: the Eisenhower
administration tried to kill Castro 38 times; Kennedy, 42; Johnson, 72;
Nixon, 184; Carter, 64; Reagan, 197; Bush Sr., 16; Clinton, 21. (The
accuracy of Escalante's statistics, especially attempts since the Nixon
administration, is in dispute.) There are only so many different ways
you can ambush someone with a sharpshooter, so some of the ways the CIA
plotted to kill Castro were pretty wild. Here are just a few of the
unorthodox methods considered to oust the Beard.
1. Femme fatale. Marita Lorenz, just one of many women Castro counted as a mistress, allegedly accepted a deal from the CIA in which she would feed him capsules filled with poison. She managed to get as far as smuggling the pills into his bedroom in her jar of cold cream, but the pills dissolved in the cream and she doubted her ability to force-feed Castro face lotion, and she also just chickened out. According to Lorenz, Castro somehow figured out her plan and offered her his gun. “I can’t do it, Fidel,” she told him.
2. Poisoned wetsuit.
While there’s nothing suspicious about receiving random diving gear from your enemy right in the middle of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA gave it a shot. In 1975, the Senate Intelligence Committee claimed it had "concrete evidence" of a plan to offer Castro a wetsuit lined with spores and bacteria that would give him a skin disease (and maybe worse). The plan supposedly involved American lawyer James B. Donovan, who would present Castro with the suit when he went to negotiate the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners. A 1975 AP report said the plan was abandoned "because Donovan gave Castro a different diving suit on his own initiative."
3. Ballpoint hypodermic syringe. An ordinary-looking pen would be rigged with a hypodermic needle so fine that Castro wouldn’t notice when someone bumped into him with the pen and injected him with an extremely potent poison.
4. Exploding cigar. But this was no parlor trick – this cigar would have been packed with enough real explosives to take Fidel’s head off. In 1967, the Saturday Evening Post reported that a New York City police officer had been propositioned with the idea and hoped to carry it out during Castro's United Nations visit in September 1960.
5. Contaminated cigar. They may have given up on the TNT stogie, but the idea of spiking his smokes was still being floated around. The CIA even went as far as to recruit a double agent who would slip Castro a cigar filled with botulin, a toxin that would kill the leader in short order. The double agent was allegedly given the cigars in February of 1961, but he apparently got cold feet.
6. Exploding conch shell. Knowing that Castro liked to scuba dive, the CIA made plans to plant an explosive device in a conch shell at his favorite spot. They plotted to make the shell brightly colored and unusual looking so it would be sure to attract Castro’s attention, drawing him close enough to kill him when the bomb inside went off.
7. Nair. Well, maybe not that brand specifically, but according to that 1975 Senate Intelligence Committee report, the U.S. believed that messing with Castro’s beard was messing with the man’s power. The CIA figured that the loss of the beard would show Cubans that Castro was weak and fallible. A half-baked scheme was hatched to use thallium salt, the chemical in depilatory products such as Nair, in Castro’s shoes or in his cigar. The chemical would be absorbed or inhaled and cause the famous facial hair to fall out. (Wait, wasn’t this an episode of Get Smart?)
8. LSD. In what was mostly an effort to discredit Fidel, not kill him, a radio station where Castro was giving a live broadcast would be bombarded with an aerosol spray containing a substance similar to LSD. When Fidel had the requisite freak out live on the air, Cubans would think he had lost his mind and stop trusting him.
9. Handkerchief teeming with deadly bacteria. The CIA was seemingly obsessed with covering Fidel in harmful bacteria and toxins, because they also considered giving him a germ-covered hankie that would make him very ill.
10. Poisoned milkshake. According to Escalante, the closest the CIA ever came to killing Castro was a deadly dessert drink in 1963. The attempt went awry when the pill stuck to the freezer where the waiter-assassin at the Havana Hilton was supposed to retrieve it. When he tried to unstick it, the capsule ripped open.
1. Femme fatale. Marita Lorenz, just one of many women Castro counted as a mistress, allegedly accepted a deal from the CIA in which she would feed him capsules filled with poison. She managed to get as far as smuggling the pills into his bedroom in her jar of cold cream, but the pills dissolved in the cream and she doubted her ability to force-feed Castro face lotion, and she also just chickened out. According to Lorenz, Castro somehow figured out her plan and offered her his gun. “I can’t do it, Fidel,” she told him.
2. Poisoned wetsuit.
While there’s nothing suspicious about receiving random diving gear from your enemy right in the middle of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA gave it a shot. In 1975, the Senate Intelligence Committee claimed it had "concrete evidence" of a plan to offer Castro a wetsuit lined with spores and bacteria that would give him a skin disease (and maybe worse). The plan supposedly involved American lawyer James B. Donovan, who would present Castro with the suit when he went to negotiate the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners. A 1975 AP report said the plan was abandoned "because Donovan gave Castro a different diving suit on his own initiative."
3. Ballpoint hypodermic syringe. An ordinary-looking pen would be rigged with a hypodermic needle so fine that Castro wouldn’t notice when someone bumped into him with the pen and injected him with an extremely potent poison.
4. Exploding cigar. But this was no parlor trick – this cigar would have been packed with enough real explosives to take Fidel’s head off. In 1967, the Saturday Evening Post reported that a New York City police officer had been propositioned with the idea and hoped to carry it out during Castro's United Nations visit in September 1960.
5. Contaminated cigar. They may have given up on the TNT stogie, but the idea of spiking his smokes was still being floated around. The CIA even went as far as to recruit a double agent who would slip Castro a cigar filled with botulin, a toxin that would kill the leader in short order. The double agent was allegedly given the cigars in February of 1961, but he apparently got cold feet.
6. Exploding conch shell. Knowing that Castro liked to scuba dive, the CIA made plans to plant an explosive device in a conch shell at his favorite spot. They plotted to make the shell brightly colored and unusual looking so it would be sure to attract Castro’s attention, drawing him close enough to kill him when the bomb inside went off.
7. Nair. Well, maybe not that brand specifically, but according to that 1975 Senate Intelligence Committee report, the U.S. believed that messing with Castro’s beard was messing with the man’s power. The CIA figured that the loss of the beard would show Cubans that Castro was weak and fallible. A half-baked scheme was hatched to use thallium salt, the chemical in depilatory products such as Nair, in Castro’s shoes or in his cigar. The chemical would be absorbed or inhaled and cause the famous facial hair to fall out. (Wait, wasn’t this an episode of Get Smart?)
8. LSD. In what was mostly an effort to discredit Fidel, not kill him, a radio station where Castro was giving a live broadcast would be bombarded with an aerosol spray containing a substance similar to LSD. When Fidel had the requisite freak out live on the air, Cubans would think he had lost his mind and stop trusting him.
9. Handkerchief teeming with deadly bacteria. The CIA was seemingly obsessed with covering Fidel in harmful bacteria and toxins, because they also considered giving him a germ-covered hankie that would make him very ill.
10. Poisoned milkshake. According to Escalante, the closest the CIA ever came to killing Castro was a deadly dessert drink in 1963. The attempt went awry when the pill stuck to the freezer where the waiter-assassin at the Havana Hilton was supposed to retrieve it. When he tried to unstick it, the capsule ripped open.
16 April 2013
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28 March 2013
27 March 2013
One of the special ' ONLY ONE '
A Hole day at motizheel with Lover boy, While returning Mr. Official Paitara called and we met at dh8.
13 March 2013
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07 February 2013
0Desk
oDesk
2009 Sep 08 By 1 Comment
Freelancing and oDesk.com
oDesk.com is an online service aimed at businesses and individuals that seek to hire and remotely manage freelancers with varying specialties. oDesk Corporation, the company behind this website, is located in Menlo Park in California, and was established by Stratis Karamanlakis and Odysseas Tsatalos. The name “oDesk” connotes the nuance of “no desk“, and its founders even considered 0desk (zerodesk) in its infancy.A Description of oDesk
oDesk.com has facilities allowing employers (or what oDesk calls “buyers”) and freelance workers (or “providers” at oDesk) to form online workteams. Buyers can then post job ads that directly request for proposals from these freelancers. Both service buyers and freelancers need to be registered at oDesk.com to participate, but after a simple registration process, employers can then post job ads for free and workers can create an online profile and portfolio, also for free. oDesk screens freelancers by implementing a basic “oDesk Readiness Test“, to help ensure that listed freelancers know and understand the work process and basic site usage. The company also verifies a freelancer’s work history and certification. It doesn’t vet previous work done elsewhere or individual resumes, however.oDesk collects payments on behalf of the freelancers and takes out ten percent as its commission before crediting the provider with the difference of the agreed upon costing between the buyer and freelancer. Besides providing the venue for employers and service providers to create work agreements and transactions, oDesk uses its own proprietary collaboration software they call “oDesk Team” that records a freelancer’s computer screenshots and keyboard activity level. This information is then reported back to buyers as proof (or not) that the provider has been working on the job and the corresponding billed time is then due and collectible. This aspect of oDesk’s work process has drawn criticism and controversy.
The company calls itself a “marketplace for online workteams“. oDesk reports that as of January 2009, nearly 37,000 out of 170,000 providers registered on the site are based in the US. All transactions are conducted in US currency, and the website itself is entirely presented in English. oDesk.com doesn’t disclose information regarding the locations of buyers and employers, but it does post various statistics of workers and freelancers on the site’s “oConomy” pages. As of January 2009, oDesk reported that the aggregate amount of services paid via the site passed $55 million, and as of the time of this writing, a very obvious ticker displays more than $85 million in United States dollars had passed through the oDesk site.
The fields of expertise reported on by providers and freelancers vary widely, including web development, an assortment of software development/programming skills, writing, graphic design and many kinds of administrative support. oDesk allows for an array of voluntary skills testing across many disciplines, from English usage and aptitude, proficiency in certain popular software, and even specialized programming or technical skills. Job assignments also provide a feedback and rating mechanism to allow buying and selling parties to inform everybody else of their experience working with each other.
The current trend of contracting jobs out (or Outsourcing), allows for the use of employing labor from lower-cost regions. This has inspired the proliferation of many online services for freelancers with the intent to provide a similar marketplace where potential employers and freelance workers can connect with each other. oDesk.com is one of these emerging services, including Guru.com, Elance.com, RentACoder.com, and GetAFreelancer.com. All of these websites manage payments, and charge for membership fees to generate revenue and/or get a cut from the payment that passes from employer to worker. Their commissions range between four to fifteen percent.
Criticism and Controversy
The company’s “oDesk Team” software records the time a worker has spent online in the oDesk “Work Diary“. oDesk’s practice of collecting this information has drawn controversy because some find this being too intrusive. Other information reported in this Work Diary includes a measurement of work activity via keyboard stroke recording (not keystroke logging). Also, screenshots of a freelancer’s workstation are taken by oDesk Team at approximately 10-minute intervals. oDesk Team is required to be downloaded and installed by freelancers, who sign on to log work hours voluntarily. oDesk.com has indeed posted a privacy policy, but nevertheless, this monitoring activity is uncommon among independent/freelance providers, and has elicited an outcry from critics that consider this as unfair and intrusive. Critical questions about this practice have also been brought up in articles that talk about oDesk, and even other competing sites. theglobeandmail.com, owned and operated by Canadian CTVglobemedia, notes that although in-house and permanent employees may be subject to some form of supervision, what oDesk is doing does remind one of George Orwell’s Big Brother, where an authority wields power for its own sake over its constituents. There is also a suggestion of “eSlavery 2.0” in Lesley Taylor’s blog, Healingtheworkplace.On the other hand, oDesk maintains that this “transparency” helps a buyer invest more trust and confidence in a freelancer or provider he or she may not have seen or met previously, and may even be located on another continent. In October 2008, Web Worker Daily interviewed oDesk CEO Gary Swart, where he explained that oDesk’s Work Diaries offer unprecedented transparency and visibility into the actual work performed by providers, and that the oDesk Team software can and does guarantee accurate, safe, and convenient billing for work performed.
04 February 2013
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09 January 2013
EURECCA---Got our Digital number plate
06 January 2013
01 January 2013
New Year Began in Shishu Park.
And it was the most crowded scenario today in recent times we visited here. Till we managed to get on the major rides with rationing queue technique!!
31 December 2012
29 December 2012
2nd Day of Club program : Blood Donation & Cultural Program
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