The Great Global Food Gap!

The Great Global Food Gap!

A study with pictures showing what the sharp contrast of eating habits for 24 families living around the world in one week.

In Bhutan, Namgay family from the village of Shingkhey costing around £3.20 for their weekly shop.

A refugee camp in drought-hit Chad, north Africa, six members in Abu Bakar family are forced to last an entire week on a few bags of grain, air-dried mutton and a few jerrycans of water, costing around £37 a week.

Families in Ecuador, South America, such as Aymes, also struggle to survive on their measly provisions. They have just £20 to buy a week's worth of food - usually cabbage and yams for soup - to feed a family of nine.

Germany: The Melander family from Bargteheide who spend around £320 on their weekly shop

Luxembourg: The Kuttan-Kasses of Erpeldange who spend around £298 pounds a week on food

France: The Le Moines of Montreuil who spend around £269 every week on food

Australia: The Browns pictured with a week's worth of food costing £242

Canada: The Melansons of Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, who spend around £220 a week on food

America: The Revis family from North Carolina spend £220 on the weekly food shop which includes several fast food take-aways

Japan: The Ukita family from Kodaira City with their £200 weekly food shop

Greenland: The Madsens of Cap Hope spend around £177 a week on food

Italy: The Manzos family spend £167 a week on food including fish, pasta, fruit, vegetables and soft drinks

Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis spend £155 on their weekly food shop. They list their favourite foods as avocado, prawn cocktail and chocolate fudge cake with cream

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family from Kuwait City with their £140 weekly shop

Mexico: The Casales family from Cuernavaca who spend around £115 a week on food

United States: The Caven family from California who spend around £103 a week on food

China: The Dong family from Beijing who spend around £99 on food every week

Poland: The Sobczynscy family from Konstancin-Jeziorna who spend around £99 on their weekly shop 

Turkey: The Celiks of Istanbul who spend around £93 a week on food

Guatemala: The Mendozas of Todos Santos who spend around £48 a week on their weekly food shop

Egypt: The Ahmed family from Cairo who spend around £43 a week on food

Chad, North Africa: The Aboubakar family from Darfur, Sudan, spend £37 a week on food to feed six people

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar who spend around £25 a week on food

India: The Patkars of Ujjain who spend around £25 a week on food

Ecuador: The Ayme family pictured with a week's worth of food costing £20 at their home in Tingo

Mali: The Natomos of Kouakourou spend around £16 on food

Bhutan: The Namgay family from Shingkhey Village with their weekly shop costing around £3.20

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319825/The-great-global-food-gap-Families-world-photographed-weekly-shopping-reveal-cost-ranges-3-20-320.html#ixzz2SUdYIpJ0

How to Quit from Twitter, Google+, Facebook & other social networks!

How to Quit from Twitter, Google+, Facebook & other social networks!

There could be a few computer users, who doesn't have at least one social networking account but everyone loves Facebook or Twitter, which were so prevalent these days!  

Signing up an account is easy but closing is not always so simple!! I'd like to share through this post 'how to quit from some Social Networks'?

Before taking the steps to terminate your accounts, you should have to consider, twice, which keeping you to have at least a record of your online activity!

Quit From Twitter Account:

Go to the Twitter website, then log into your account.

Click the Cog-Wheel icon, which is in the upper right of the page then select Settings. 

At the bottom of the page, click on 'Deactivate my account'.

Now a warning message will be displayed. Read the message carefully in which they indicated after deactivation, your user data will be kept for 30 days then your account will be permanently deleted. You can also reactivate the account within the deactivation period of 30 days by logging back in.

Quit From Facebook Account:

If you really want to quit from 'Facebook', the most popular social network service, then two options are standing in front of you to decide. 

The first option basically keeps your accounts on-hold status and enables you to reactivate, whenever you've changed your mind. To start the process, visit the deactivation page.                       

Now you should click the radio button(s) to tell 'Reason for leaving' and also specify something -like, have another account etc.,- in the box of 'Please explain further'. After this process, click 'Confirm' button. Now you'll be vanished from Facebook and your Facebook friends would not be able to contact you until you've decided to reactivate. (The reactivation could be performed by logging into your account, as normally). 

The second option will delete your account, completely, then you would not be able to reactivate or retrieve any of your contents. 

To delete your account completely, visit account removal page  and click 'Delete My Account' button. 
 
Now you'll be asked to provide your password then fill the letters of captcha.    

             

After these process, click 'Okay' button. Now your account will be in deactivation mode for two weeks then will be erased forever.   

Quit From Flickr Account: 

To delete your account and online photos, log into your account by visiting Flickr.com, then click the smiley icon from upper right corner and choose Settings from the drop down menu.

Now you'll be taken to another page. Scroll down to bottom of the page and find out for 'Delete your Flickr account'. 

Now make confirmation by clicking 'OK-NEXT' button that you'd like to delete your account.                      

Quit From Google+ Account: 

Log into your Google account by using Google website. 
Click over on your account avatar image, which is in upper right of the page and then click 'Account link'.

 

Now you'll be taken to another window then scroll down and find out for 'Account Management' portion. Under Account Management, two options are listed. If you just want to abandon Google+, then click the link: ‘Delete profile and remove related Google+ features’.  

Now you'll be directed to another window 'Delete Google+ content or your entire Google profile', which has two options.

Now you can choose 'Delete Google+ content'  to delete your Google+ content and click over on ‘Remove selected services’ button. 

Alternatively, you can select the option ‘Delete your entire Google profile’. This enables to wipe out your presence from not only Google+, but also YouTube and Google Buzz.
Google also enables to completely delete your account. Click over on ‘Close account and delete all services and information associated with it’ in the Account Management section. This process will deleting a large amount of data and you'll be asked for a confirmation that you want to proceed.

Tick the boxes from Google AdSense to YouTube then enter your password. You've also to tick ‘Yes, I want to delete my account’ option before you click 'DELETE GOOGLE ACCOUNT' button. 

Quit from Other Accounts:  

AccountKiller is a website, which provides details for how to delete all the online accounts and it is organized as White-list (a simple account deletion process); Gray-list (little troublesome process) and Black-list (account deletion not-allowed).             

I insist, again, to reconsider twice or thrice before terminating your accounts, which keeping you to have at least a record of your online activity! 

GPS: What's it? How Actually it Works?

GPS: What's it? How Actually it Works?

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation, which provides location, time information, weather reports and etc., anywhere on or near the earth. This system was originally created by the United States for military purposes, and later it was opened to civilians, who can access the system freely with a GPS receiver. The GPS program provides critical capabilities to military, civil and commercial users around the world. In addition, GPS is the backbone for modernizing the global air traffic system.

  

At least 24 GPS satellites are always in orbit around the Earth, and they’re constantly broadcasting data. The GPS project was developed in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems, integrating ideas from several predecessors, including a number of classified engineering design studies from the 1960s. GPS was created and realized by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and was originally designed and run with 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1994.

The satellites are arranged in orbit and four satellites are visible in the sky from any point on earth by a direct path of radio transmission. If the transmission signals are being blocked then GPS system wouldn't be functioning. The system, also, wouldn't working in a cave under a mountain or in an under ground bunker.

Nowadays, many of us using handheld devices, which use satellites to pinpoint our locations almost anywhere on the planet. But anyone ever wonder how GPS works? GPS enabled devices do not interact the satellites to transmit information; instead they only receive data, which being always transmitted from satellites. 

How GPS Determines the Location: The device that built-in GPS, for instance - a car navigation unit or a smartphone, acts only as a GPS receiver and they do not contact the satellites to determines its location; but observing the radio signals, which were being broadcast, from the satellites, all the times. So, a GPS receiver listens for signals from 4 (or more) satellites and the signals from the closer satellites will reach sooner while signals from the farther satellites will arrive later. The actual time difference is very small and could be detected by GPS receiver. The timings of signal broadcasted from the satellites and the timings of signal received on the GPS receiver are compared and estimated by the receiver for the relative distances between all the satellites. Using Trilateration, which is a process of geometry, the receiver can determining its location.

 

Alternatives to GPS: Other alternate services, for GPS, are the cell phone towers in which the towers working in the way of measuring the signal strengths between multiple towers, then the GPS receiver could be estimating the current location. Through Wi-Fi enabled devices, it could also be determined the current location. The smart phone scans the nearby wireless networks, then sending the list of wireless network names with signal strengths to Google's servers. Google uses these database then estimates the location.

Devices could also be using Wi-Fi based positioning system (WPS), where GPS is inadequate due to various causes including multipath and signal blockage. Using WPS, the device is determining its current location, capturing street views (of Google), Traffics and nearby access points such as Restaurants, Petrol Stations, ATM Centers etc., for certain locations. Google wouldn't be the only provider for WPS, but it's most familiar to us. So, WPS is convenient, especially for the indoor locations, where GPS signals couldn't reach.

In addition, GPS could be restricted or shut down during the time of war or conflict; so, every nation needs their own satellites. Russia has its own GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), European Union's Galileo Positioning System, China's Compass Navigation System, and India's Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System are their own, self sufficient satellite systems.

What’s a Browser Cookie?

What’s a Browser Cookie?

Browser Cookie(s) is a small piece of information for websites that stored on your system. They contain bits of text only! The text could be an user ID, session ID or any other text. Cookies are doing an important roll while browsing and if you disabled them then you'll find yourself unable to log into websites.
 

Web pages could be configurable through cookies, as the web page having a hide link, which hides certain elements of the page, then hiding elements are saved on your system as a cookie. When loading the same page in later times, the page will be examined by the cookie and the element will be concealed automatically. 

More over, if you deleted the cookies, you'll be logged out from the web site then the web site wouldn't remember the settings you've changed. So, cookies are very essential for our browsing and your system perhaps stored a hundred or thousands of cookies!

The cookies (for Firefox) are stored in Cookies window. To get Cookies Window, right click over on Firefox window then choose View Page Info.

The Page Info window will be opened, as pictured below. From Page Info's Security tab, click View Cookies button.

Now Cookies window will be opened, as pictured below. From this window, cookies could be removed, as for Selected or All.

Cookies are helpful to the user in several ways.

• They remember the status of log-in details and identifying the user.

• They stored preferences of the web site in order to load the web pages to the previous manner.

• They allow online shopping websites to keep and provide user's personalized contents, such as for the products the user browsed, to be remembered and recommending, too, for similar products or brands.

However, cookies also doing bad rolls of tracking such as spying the users activities across the web. Advertising and tracking networks are using scripts in order to trace the users profiles then setting them as cookies in the browser. 

When visiting a website, which uses scripts from adv network and tracking network as well, then both networks could set cookies on the browser. The aim of these networks, to setting up cookies on browser, are to collect and keep users info then using them to target the user's desire. 

Through Google Ads Preferences page, the user may able to view the adv categories, which assigned by Google based websites.  

Managing Cookies is simple; they could be managed from browser's setting window.  Browser's Clear Private Data tool will also remove cookies.
  

Keep in mind that some websites wouldn't work properly if you disabled cookies for them.