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Want to know the chances of your death in the near future along with its cause? Well, then log on to - www.deathriskrankings.com

The new website, developed by researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University, allows users to query publicly available data from the United States and Europe, and compare mortality risks by gender, age, cause of death and geographic region.

The website not only gives the risk of dying within the next year, but it also ranks the probable caused and allows for quick side-by-side comparison between groups. For example, if a person wanted to know who is more likely to die next year from breast cancer - a 54-year old Pennsylvania woman on her counterpart in the United Kingdom.

“This is the only place to look. It turns out that the British woman has a 33 percent higher risk of breast cancer death. But for lung/throat cancer, the results are almost reversed, and the Pennsylvania woman has a 29 percent higher risk,” said Paul Fischbeck, site developer and professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon.

“Most Americans do not have a particularly good understanding of their own mortality risks, let alone ranking of their relevant risks,” said David Gerard, a former EPP professor at Carnegie Mellon. They found that beyond infancy, the risk of dying increases annually at an exponential rate.

A 20-year old US woman has a 1 in 2,000 chance of dying in the next year and by 40 years of age, the risk is three times greater, by age 60, it is 16 times greater; and by age 80, it is 100 times greater.

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Twitter did not attract the young trendsetters at the outset. Its growth has instead come from adults - Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, New Jersey, sends and received 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations.

“I just think it is weird and i do not feel like everyone needs to know what i am doing every second of my life,” she said.

Her reluctance to use Twitter, a feeling shared by others in her age group, has not doomed the microblogging service. Just 11 per cent of its users are aged 12 to 17, according to comScore. Instead, Twitter’s unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a decidedly older group. That success has shattered a widely held belief that young people lead the way to popularizing innovations.

“The traditional early-adopter model would say that teenagers or college students are really important to adoption,” said Andrew Lipsman, director of industry analysis at comScore. Teenagers, after all, drove the early growth of the social networks Facebook, MySpace and Friendster.

Twitter, however, has proved that “a site can take off in a different demographic than you expect and become very popular”, he said. “Twitter is defying the traditional model.”

In fact, though teenagers fuelled the early growth of social networks, today they account for 14 per cent of MySpace’s users and only nine per cent of Facebooks’s users. As the Web grows up, so do its users and for many analysts, Twitter’s success represents a new model for Internet success. The notion that children are essential to a new technology’s success has proved to be largely a myth.

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Australia’s Ricky Ponting was determined to carry on as captain despite his team’s Ashes series defeat in England and could even return for another attempt in 2013, he said after arriving home on Wednesday.

“I still think i have got a lot to offer the team, as a batsman and as a captain and as a leader,” Ponting told reporters at Sydney airport. “If it ends up getting to the point where i am not the captain, my hunger and determination to keep playing this game are as good as ever.”

His captaincy has since come under scrutiny in sports-mad Australia, which has basked in its cricket team’s dominance of the game for the better part of two decades. Ponting is the first Australia captain in more than a century to lose two Ashes series in England after the hosts won the fifth test in London by 197 runs on Sunday, giving Andrew Strauss’s team a 2-1 series victory.

“I have got to worry about the next 12 or 18 months and see if all that hunger and commitment is still there,” added Ponting. “Right at the moment it most definitely is. It is probably higher right now than ever before. I would love to go back and give it (the Ashes in England) one more crack. Who knows, 2013 might be something achievable.”

Ponting, who is home for 10 days before he returns for the final four one-day internationals in England, said his desire to continue playing was high even if the selectors decided to split the captaincy or continue to pick him just as a senior player.

“Could i play on without being captain? Absolutely,” Ponting said.

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Hardware costs may be dividing every year but a dream of $1o0 computer is no where in sight, a senior executive from Intel said. The netbook, which may cost less than half of what a notebook currently sells for, is already “naked” and there is little scope to strip it down further.

“There are no components in the notebook which are much more expensive than the microprocessor. There is the battery, the operating system and the screen. It is difficult to say how much the screen cost will go down. We continue to reduce cost but i don’t think we are in the line of sight for a $100 PC,” Intel’s general manager of Mobile Platforms Group Shmuel Eden said.

Currently, netbooks, which are designed for basic PC functions and surfing of the Net, can be bought for $299. Prices for the end consumer can come down only if new business models emerge, Eden indicated. Telcos, for instance, can subsidise netbooks in exchange for guaranteed subscription for say, three years. Much like the iPhone is subsided by telecom service providers in the United States of America. However, price alone may not be a bottleneck as far as notebook penetration in India is concerned. The country is likely to see a “hockey stick” explosion in demand and sales once broadband becomes all pervasive, the executive said.

The small form factor netbooks mushroomed over the last one year after Intel’s Atom processor hit the market. The chipmaker is now readying a handheld platform, codenamed “Moorestown”. It is scheduled to launch by 2010 and will target the mobile Internet device segment. The generation next to Moorestown will target smartphones, Eden said.

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On Thursday, it was a day to remember as it was Sir Don Bradman’ s 101st birth anniversary. Like James Bond, Don Bradman has a timeless appeal. The Australian legend always makes for an interesting discussion, interesting watching and interesting reading. An interesting copy as well. Particularly, if it is on the eve of his birthday.

An effort to find the relevance of Bradman in these times of T20 led to some interesting questions - Would he have played the shortest form of the game, would he have played the IPL and would he have led Australia to victory in the Oval Test the other day? Interesting, isn’t it?

Given the hypothetical nature of the queries, it is anybody’s conjecture if the Don would have done this or not but a discussion with someone who has known the greatest batsman ever from close quarters, makes for an interesting discussion. Yes, interesting.

“It is not right to say Australia would have chased 548 if Bradman was playing,” says Bernard Whimpress, a cricket historian who has written a few books on Bradman and the Australia-England cricketing rivalry.

“The highest Australia chased under him was only 404,” is the reply of the Adelaide-based Whimpress, who has written a book called Bradman at the Adelaide Oval. He would remind: “If you  bring in Sir Don, you have to bring in Jim Laker too. You cannot dispute as Laker is a better spinner than Graeme Swann and 548 would be difficult for Bradman too.”

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In a startling disclosure, Pakistan’s ISI has admitted in the court that it had distributed huge amount of money  to political parties and leaders including former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Zafrullah Jamali and Mohammed Khan Junejo. The distribution of money was not confined to former Prime Ministers but transcended political affiliations to include the likes of Pir Pagaro, Abida Hussain, Lt.Gen. Rafaqat and tribal leaders Humayun Marri, Nadir Mengal and Hasil Bizenjo.

The revelation was made by Pakistan’s former chief justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, who said this case was still pending with the country’s Supreme Court since 1999. He said the sensational disclosures were made in an affidavit filed in the court by former ISI chief Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani.

The Daily Times quoted Mr Siddiqui telling a private television channel that millions of rupees were distributed during former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s regime and ostensibly to convince political leaders to join the then Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI).

The IJI, headed by Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, was formed in September 1988 to oppose the Pakistan People’s Party in elections. The alliance comprised nine parties, of which the major components were the Pakistan Muslim League, National Peoples Party,  Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.

According to the affidavit, acquired by the TV channel, former Prime Ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi received Rs 5 million, Nawaz Sharif received Rs 3.5 million, Zafarullah Jamali received Rs 4 million, Muhammed Khan Junejo received Rs 2.5 million and former Sindh chief minister Jam Sadiq received Rs 5 million.

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