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This photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona shows the surface of the northern polar region of Mars from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Sunday May 25, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

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It's not just friend who view your profile

For the interviews it is said that 'First impression is last Impression'. Does it still works? Search has made it more simple. Now your first impression could be your social networking profile.
Survey by Vault.com found that 44% of employers use social networking sites to snoop the profiles of job candidates.
According to a survey by Ponemon Institute, a privacy think tank, 35 percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, and 23 percent look people up on social networking sites. About one-third of those Web searches lead to rejections, according to the survey.
In such hiring activity fresh college graduates become more prone to get affected.
Career consultants advise students to check their online appearance before applying for jobs. Some tips:

-- Google yourself early and often, to know what has been said about you. If you see false or unauthorized information, ask the webmaster to remove the content.
-- Be careful about what you post on social networking sites. Don't post anything you wouldn't want a potential employer to see. Change the privacy setting to make personal information available only to close friends.
-- Create a positive virtual presence. Start a blog about your industry. It might not lead to a job, but it will help define your online persona and help push down unfavorable items in Web searches.

Rocky Marciano - The Rock from Brockton

Rocky Marciano was born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, on September 1, 1923, in Brockton, Massachusetts. During his career, Marciano held the heavyweight boxing title for four years in the 1950s, and he is the only boxing champion to ever retire undefeated.
His father, Pierino, worked at a shoe factory. His mother's name was Pasqualena. Rocky would spend much of his life making sure she would not live in the poverty he had known growing up. He worked many different jobs to help his family, including as a dishwasher, in a candy factory, as a gardener, and in a shoe factory.
As a youngster Rocky played baseball and football and dreamed of a professional career in one of those sports. He got into many fights when he thought he or his friends had been insulted, but he did not take up boxing until after 1943, when he was drafted into the army. He took the sport up because it helped him avoid "KP" (kitchen police) and other less desirable activities. He showed a natural ability and fought as an amateur following his discharge from the army in 1946. He won twenty-seven of his thirty fights.
On October 26, 1951, with 37 wins and 32 knockouts under his belt, Marciano faced his most formidable opponent in former heavyweight champion Joe Louis. Louis was past his prime and when Marciano knocked him out in the eighth round, he had such mixed feelings at beating his hero that he cried in Louis' dressing room after the fight.
On August 31, 1969, the day before his forty-sixth birthday, he died in a private-plane crash near Des Moines, Iowa. He was survived by his wife of nineteen years, Barbara, and his two children, Rocco Kevin and Mary Anne.
Marciano was never among the top boxers of all time in terms of skill, speed, or power, but he knew how to use the skills he had developed and his fans recognized his grit. One sportswriter commented that if all the heavyweight champions of all time were locked together in a room, Marciano would be the one to walk out.

Gravity's Relentless Pull - Black Hole

Black holes are places where ordinary gravity has become so extreme that it overwhelms all other forces in the Universe. Once inside, nothing can escape a black hole's gravity — not even light. Black holes are the evolutionary endpoints of stars at least 10 to 15 times as massive as the Sun.
A black hole has something called an 'event horizon'. This is a spherical surface that marks the boundary of the black hole. You can pass in through the horizon, but you can't get back out. In fact, once you've crossed the horizon, you're doomed to move inexorably closer and closer to the 'singularity' at the center of the black hole. The horizon has some very strange geometrical properties. To an observer who is sitting still somewhere far away from the black hole, the horizon seems to be a nice, static, unmoving spherical surface. But once you get close to the horizon, you realize that it has a very large velocity. In fact, it is moving outward at the speed of light! That explains why it is easy to cross the horizon in the inward direction, but impossible to get back out. Since the horizon is moving out at the speed of light, in order to escape back across it, you would have to travel faster than light. You can't go faster than light, and so you can't escape from the black hole.
The nearest black hole is many lightyears away, so we don't have to worry about threats to the Earth.

Calculation of Inflation in India

In India, inflation is measured as change in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI).
WPI is the index that is used to measure the change in the average price level of goods traded in wholesale market. In India, a total of 435 commodities data on price level is tracked through WPI which is an indicator of movement in prices of commodities in all trade and transactions.
WPI was first published in 1902, and was one of the more economic indicators available to policy makers until it was replaced by most developed countries by the Consumer Price Index in the 1970s. It is also the price index which is available on a weekly basis with the shortest possible time lag only two weeks.
To provide the current price data for the construction of the index, a monthly survey of wholesale prices is conducted. The WPI is disaggregated into five commodity groups: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying, Imports and Exports, where each sector consists of sub commodity groups.

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ISRO sets world record

After placing 10 satellites into their orbit India has become second country in the world to achieve such a difficult goal. First is Russia. Russia has put 8 satellite into the orbit in April 2007. However Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV)- C9 carried 820 kg as compare to 295 kg of Russian satellite.
PSLV carried 10 payloads including 690 kg CARTOSAT-2A along with the 83 kg Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight foreign Nano satellites, all put together weighing 50 kg.