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Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage the wealthiest people in America to make a commitment to give most of their money to philanthropic causes. The campaign specifically targets billionaires and was made public in 2010 by American billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

i was really shocked and surprised also happy of this thing, billionaires are giving away a LOT of money and i mean it when i say a lot to help people.

and as i quote from Wikipedia:

"The official website states that it "is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy." As of December 2010, 57 billionaires in the US have joined this campaign and pledged to give 50% or more of their wealth to charity.[1][2][3] A minimum total of at least $125 billion has been promised from the first 40 donors based on their aggregate wealth as of August 2010.[4]"


LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THE GIVING PLEDGE

1. Paul G. Allen (Co-founder of Microsoft, worth approx. $12.7b)
2. Laura and John Arnold (Former Enron trader, $4b)
3. Nicolas Berggruen (Founder of Berggruen Holdings, 2.2b)*
4. Michael R. Bloomberg (Financial services, $18b)
5. Eli and Edythe Broad (Founders of The Broad Foundations, $5.2b)
6. Warren Buffett (Investment, $45b)
7. Steve and Jean Case (Former CEO of AOL, $1.1b)*
8. Michele Chan and Patrick Soon-Shiong (CEO of Abraxis, $5.6b)
9. Lee and Toby Cooperman (Hedge funds, $1.5b)*
10. Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg (IAC/InterActiveCorp, $1.2b)
11. Ann and John Doerr (Venture capitalist, $1.55b)
12. Larry Ellison (Venture capitalist, $27b)
13. Ted Forstmann (CEO Oracle, $1.6b)*
14. Bill and Melinda Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft, $54b)
15. David and Barbara Green (Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, $2.6b)*
16. Lyda Hill (Lyda Hill Foundation, unknown)*
17. Barron Hilton (Hilton hotels, $2.4b)
18. Jon and Karen Huntsman (Founder of Huntsman Corporation, $1.6b)
19. Carl Icahn (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)*
20. Joan and Irwin Jacobs (Founder Qualcomm, $1.1b)
21. George B. Kaiser (Oil, gas and banking, $9.4)
22. Sidney Kimmel (Founder Jones Apparel, $1.1b)*
23. Elaine and Ken Lagone (Investments, $1.1b)
24. Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest (Media entrepreneur, $800m)
25. Lorry I. Lokey (Founded Business Wire, unknown)
26. George Lucas (Film producer, $3.25b)
27. Duncan and Nancy MacMillan (Endowed Chair in Genetics, unknown)*
28. Alfred E. Mann (Medical devices, $1.2b)
29. Joe and Rika Mansueto (Joe and Rika Mansueto, $1.2b)*
30. Bernie and Billi Marcus (Co-founder Home Depot, $1.5b)
31. Michael and Lori Milken (Investments, $2.1b)*
32. George P. Mitchell (Founder Mitchell Energy, $2b)*
33. Thomas S. Monaghan (Founder Domino's Pizza, unknown)
34. Tashia and John Morgridge (Cisco, $1.3b)
35. Dustin Moskovitz (Co-founder Facebook, $1.6b)*
36. Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Founder eBay, $5.5b)
37. Bernard and Barbro Osher (Bernard Osher Foundation, unknown)
38. Ronald O. Perelman (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)
39. Peter G. Peterson (Blackstone Group, $2b)
40. T. Bonne Pickens (Oil and gas investments, $1.4b)
41. Julian H. Robertson Jnr. (Hedge funds, $2.2b)
42. David Rockefeller (Standard oil, banking, $2.4b)
43. David M. Rubenstein (Leveraged buyouts, $2b)
44. Herb and Marion Sandler (Golden West Financial Corporation, unknown)
45. Denny Sandford (CEO of United National Corp, $1b)*
46. Vicki amd Roger Sant (TV news presenter, unknown)
47. Walter Scott Jnr. (Construction and telecom, $1.9b)
48. Tom and Cindy Secunda (Bloomberg, $1b)*
49. Jim and Marilyn Simons (Hedge funds, $8.7b)
50. Jeff Skoll (First president of EBay, $4.2b)
51. Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor (Founder Farallon Capital Management, LLC, $1.2b)
52. Jim and Virginia Stowers (Founder of American Century Investments, unknown)
53. Ted Turner (Media mogul, $1.2b)
54. Sanford and Joan Weill (Former CEO of Citigroup, unknown)
55. Shelby White (Wife Leon Levy, £1b)
56. Charles Zegar and Merryl Snow Zegar (Co-founder of Bloomberg, unknown)*
57. Mark Zuckerberg (Co-founder Facebook, $6.9b)*

this is the official website www.givingpledge.org

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Zune HD Vs i-Pod Touch


The Zune HD is a Portable Media Player in the Zune product family by Microsoft released on September 15, 2009 (Three days ago) in 16GB and 32GB capacities. It utilizes a touchscreen interface for navigation and includes Wi-Fi for synchronization, access to the Zune Marketplace and Web browsing.

The Zune HD utilizes the Nvidia Tegra 600 chip, allowing it to play 720p video through the optional HDMI Zune dock on a high-definition television. Otherwise, content will be scaled down to 480x272 pixels on the player's OLED screen.


Specifications:

  • 3.3 inch OLED display capacitive touch screen (480x272 16:9 aspect ratio)
  • Size: 2.07"x4.08"x.35" (52.7 mm x 102.1 mm x 8.9 mm)
  • Weight: 2.6 ounces (74 grams)
  • Nvidia Tegra APX with two ARM11 processor cores
  • Multi-touch technology
  • 16/32 GB
  • Built-in accelerometer
  • HD radio tuner
  • Video support:
    *DVD resolution and frame rate, up to 10 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for:
    o H.264, Baseline profile up to Level 3.1 + B-frames support
    o WMV Main and Simple Profile, Advanced profile up to Level 2.
    * 720p HD resolution and up to 14 Mbps bit rate, CBR or VBR for above supported video profles
    * MPEG-4 Part 2 Simple Profile up to 4.0 Mbps bit rate
  • 720p high definition video output - HDMI or Composite (additional dock required for both)
  • Audio support:

    * CBR and VBR audio, up to 48 kHz sample rate
    o WMA Standard up to 384 kbps
    o WMA Pro Stereo up to 768 kbps
    o WMA Lossless Stereo up to 768 kbps
    o Unprotected AAC-LC (.mp4/.m4a/.m4b) and MP3 up to 320 kbps
  • Audio output: Analog RCA and Optical Digital out (additional dock required)
  • Wi-Fi connectivity 802.11b/g with Open, WEP, WPA, and WPA2 authentication modes and WEP 64- and 128-bit, TKIP, and AES encryption modes
  • A Wi-Fi version of the Zune Marketplace
  • Web browser (based on Internet Explorer Mobile 6 for Windows CE)
  • Games
  • Unicode Support
  • Equalizer
  • Music, up to 33 hours (wireless off); video, up to 8.5 hours
  • Battery : 3.7 Volt, 730 mAh Lithium-Ion Polymer battery

Due The over "Pre-orders" the device is now "Sold out"

Zune HD Official Site: www.zune.net

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

the new 7 wonders

since most of the old 7 wonders had vanished, a new 7 wonders had elected by The New7Wonders organization and here they are:



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too bad the egyptian pyramids aren't in the new list hehehe better luck in the next election after a million year ;P, for more info about the new 7 wonders visit:

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

do you believe in UFO's?

as i was walking home from my friend's house i passed a very dark place i looked at the sky and i saw a shooting star so i was thinking,, what if this wasn't a shooting star? what if this is a UFO? i don't know if this idea got into my head cause i've been watching x-files alot lately or i don't know :\ i really do believe that there's another world somewhere in the universe,,, cause there are alot of galaxy's and stars out there in the universe and there has to be aliens or whatever otherwise how did people say UFO's? and the funny part is they only see UFO's in the us lol maybe cause those aliens can speak english? and people been kidnaped by aliens only from the us? thats kinda strange any whooooo i've got this site called "The National UFO Reporting Center" it shows reports of people saying that they've seen UFO's and another site contains pictures and evidence that UFO's exist "UFO evidence" eeeeeeeeeeh i wanna see one :(

The Truth is Out There

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Awareness ribbon

كثيرا ما نشوف الاشرطه الملونه الي ماندري شمعناتها فا اليوم راح ابط الجربه واقولكم شمعنات هلأشرطه الملونه
تلقب هلأشرطه ب
Awareness ribbon
ويعنون فيها الشريط التوعوي ويستخدم كشعار لمنظمه ما او مجموعه توعويه ضد شي يسبب خطر على البشريه وما
الا ذلك او اي شي ثاني
ونبدى باللون الازرق بما انه اللون المفضل عندي
Blue ribbon
ويستخدم غالبا هالشريط للتعبير عن المركز الاول في المسابقات الرياضيه او غيرها من المسابقات
حمايه حريه الرأي على الانترنت
Red ribbon
الشريط الاحمر يعبر عن التضامن مع مرضى الايدز او التوعيه ضد مرض الايدز
White ribbon
يعبر عن التضامن مع عدم استخدام العنف مع المرأه والأمومه الآمنه
Yellow ribbon
يعبر عن الحزن لفقدان الاسرى او الشهداء (مثل ماتشوفون بشعار محطه الكويت) و يستخدم لدعم الجيش والجنود
Green ribbon
دعم للمجتمعات المسلمه
دعم لإيجاد الاطفال المفقودين
دعم التبرع بلأعضاء
Orange ribbon
التوعيه ضد العنصريه
التوعيه ضد المجاعه
Purple ribbon
التوعيه ضد التعصب الديني
Pink ribbon
التوعيه ضد مرض سرطان الثدي
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واذا كان في اي غلط او زياده انا ماذكرتها اسمحولي لانه كل لون له اكثر من معنى ^_^

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