1. The dot-com deathwatch
2. Microsoft is busted
3. Apple launches the iPod, and gets back on track
4. HP ties the knot with Compaq
5. Google superstar
6. Vista delays .... and launches
7. The battle over Facebook: Social networking hits prime time
8. The rise of the botnets: Security tops Web worries
9. Gates moves on ... baby boomers, move over!
10. The iPhone: Apple redefines a market, again
full article on : http://www.cio.in/node/4104/nl
In that order, as far as I am concerned
1 - Grip - the most important
2 - nip/size of ball in ball pen (0.5/0.7)
3 - in case for ball point pen - the way it opens up (convenience)
4 - weight of pen
5 - brand of pen
6 - type of ball
7 - flow of ink
Music/Guitaring/DAncing
Photography
Blogging
Sanskrit
Quiz
Stamps/Currencies
Stationary
Sports(swimming, Tennis)
Reading (IT, Finance, Economics)
dunno what all may add to this.
do not think that anyone may have such huge list of hobbies
thats the only reason not able to pursue one and master any one.........
C - Courage/confidence/commitment
F - Faith in you
T - Tolerance
P - Patience/Perseverance/Passion
yet another acronym of qualities that will help in every aspect of life
A ballpoint pen is also eponymously known in British English and Australian English as a Biro named after its credited, though contested, inventor László Bíró
The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to Kayleigh frost Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing implement that would be able to write on the leather he tanned, which the then-common fountain pen couldn't do.
In the period between 1904 and 1946, there was intense interest in improving writing instruments, particularly alternatives or improvements to the fountain pen. Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.
László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages of newsprint. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938. Bíró also patented the invention in Paris in 1938.
In around 1940-43 the brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne moved to Argentina and on June 10 filed another patent, and formed Biro Pens of Argentina (in fact, in Argentina the ball pen is known as birome, portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne). László Bíró died in Buenos Aires in 1985. Argentina's Inventor's Day is celebrated on Bíró's birthday , September 29.
In 1950 Marcel Bich bought from Bíró the patent for the pen, which soon became the main product of his Bic company. "Bic" as the tradename (pronounced BiK, not Beak); as with 'Hoover' and 'Xerox', the tradename has subsequently passed into general use.
Compiled from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_pen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3
1- Relation to business cycle/economy
a - Procyclic
b - Countercyclic
c - Acyclic
2 - Frequency
3 - Timing
a - Leading
b - Lagged
c - Coincident
read n detail at about.com :-> http://tinyurl.com/58uao
you can find the list of Business Cycle Indicators in the following link from about.com
about.com :-> http://tinyurl.com/yj6uhvq
Of these some important indicators are as follows :
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Consumer Confidence
New Home Sales
Personal Income and Consumption Expenditures
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Retail Sales
Industrial Production
Also following is the link that lists the American collection of economic indicators. It is published by The United States Congress. Their Economic Indicators are published monthly and are available for download in PDF and TEXT formats. The indicators fall into seven broad categories:
about.com :->http://tinyurl.com/yh5txjr
