Lionel Andres Messi >> The Great Footballer !!

Lionel Andrés Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi]; born 24 June 1987) is anArgentine footballer who currently plays for La Liga team Barcelona and the Argentine national team. Considered as one of the best football players of his generation^[3][4][5] and frequently cited as the world's best contemporary player,^[6] Messi has received several Ballon d'Or andFIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21 and won both by the age of 22.^[6][7][8][9] His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to football legend Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi his "successor".^[10][11]

Lionel Messi began playing football at a young age, he used to train with his brother Sonny Williams Messi and his potential was quickly identified by Barcelona. He left Rosario-basedNewell's Old Boys's youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offered treatment for his growth hormone deficiency. Making his debut in the 2004–05 season, he broke the La Liga record for the youngest footballer to play a league game, and also the youngest to score a league goal. Major honours soon followed as Barcelona won La Liga in Messi's debut season, and won a double of the league and UEFA Champions League in 2006. His breakthrough season was in 2006–07: he became a first team regular, scoring a hat-trick inEl Clásico and finishing with 14 goals in 26 league games. Perhaps his most successful season was the 2008–09 season, in which Messi scored 38 goals to play an integral part in atreble-winning campaign.

Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals, including two in the final game. Shortly thereafter, he became an established member of Argentina's senior international team. In 2006 he became the youngest Argentine to play in theFIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with theArgentina Olympic football team.

Dats Mathematics

prof : how much 7 x 24 = ?
student : it's 168.
prof : prove it.
student: 16 + 8 = 24
prof : and 7 x 27 + ?
student : 189 prove 18+9 = 27
prof : and 21 x 7 = ?
student : 147 prove 14 + 7 = 21
prof: and 18 x 7 = ?
student : 126 prove 12 + 6 = 18
etc..

HTC's Incredible addition to the Android phone market

It's an exciting time to shop for a new smartphone. Which is to say, it's a confusing and maybe frighteningtime to buy a smartphone.

Consider the sleek Droid device, running Google's Android software, that Verizon Wireless's site touts. Its form and features could make that carrier's older devices look a little old and busted.

That might be a problem if you bought the sleek Droid device that Verizon touted in November. While the Motorola Droid finally gave Verizon a respectable competitor to Apple's iPhone, it compares poorly with the HTC Droid Incredible that Verizon began selling Thursday.

That smartphone, $199.99 to new or renewing customers, is a remarkable piece of work by multiple measures. Its 3.7-inch touch screen has a higher resolution, 480 by 800 pixels, than my first laptop's display. Its camera's 8-megapixel resolution exceeds that of many "real" cameras, even if its lack of an image-stabilization mode limits you to blurry or flash-oversaturated photos indoors.

At some point, HTC's engineers even crammed an FM radio into the thing.

And where Verizon offered no way for Droid owners to lend that device's mobile-broadband connection to a computer, the Incredible ships with "tethering" enabled. Note, however, that Verizon provides software only for Windows and charges $25 a month extra for tethering in most cases; the unsupported PdaNet program also works on Macs and is free.

(The Incredible requires a voice-plus-data bundle, starting at $69.98 but not including text messaging or visual voice mail.)

In a quick evaluation, the Incredible showed itself to be one of the fastest, most responsive smartphones I've seen. With multiple applications open, it zipped from screen to screen without bogging down or pausing. Older Android devices can stumble when multitasking, and the iPhone, for now, doesn't let add-on programs multitask at all.

Barely thinner than Apple's iPhone 3GS despite employing a user-replaceable battery, the Incredible lasted five hours and 50 minutes on a call even with its Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi wireless options all enabled.

And, like other Android phones, the Incredible can run a vast and growing number of add-on programs -- some 50,000 by an outside estimate -- in addition to such standard applications as the brilliant driving-directions software introduced on the Droid.

(Confusingly enough, Verizon's two other Android phones, HTC's Droid Eris and Motorola's Devour, ship with significantly older versions of Android.)

HTC added to Android's usual features with some worthwhile enhancements, most notably a smarter, auto-correcting on-screen keyboard that gets closer to, but doesn't match, the elegance and efficiency of the iPhone's.

Its included Windows software can also synchronize the Incredible's calendar and contacts list with Microsoft's Outlook. That remedies one sticking point for many would-be Android users: the need to move their data to Google's own Web services first.

But HTC and Verizon missed a chance to include comparable sync tools for a Mac's Address Book and iCal and for Apple's iTunes music software. The model lent by Verizon had enough storage to do much of an iPod's work, with about 6.5 gigabytes of storage free and a microSD card slot open for more.

It could be enough to make a Motorola Droid owner think again about the wisdom of that purchase -- but then again, the phones forecast for this summer might inflict the same punishment on Incredible buyers.

Sprint's Evo 4G, for example, will match the Incredible's camera but will add a second, front-facing camera for videoconferencing; offer a bigger screen; and connect to that carrier's new, much faster 4G network.

Verizon, presumably, will have to match that with its own upgrade at some point -- perhaps with a "Droid Inconceivable"?

And then there's whatever new iPhone Apple will ship this summer. The prototype model infamously lost in a Silicon Valley bar featured a higher-resolution screen and pair of cameras, among other virtues.

Those aren't the only options to note. Palm -- considered scrap-heap material a week ago -- will gain some badly needed money and marketing resources after its impendingpurchase by HP.

And Microsoft, after years of inertia, has decided to rewrite its smartphone software from scratch. Its upcoming Windows Phone 7 may bring a surprise or two toward the end of the year, if buyers can wait that long.

More so than in any other area of computing, the smartphone market looks like a hothouse environment right now. It's fascinating to watch things grow so fast -- but at some point, I won't mind seeing it return to the placid stability of the digital-camera business.

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SA hopes to go the distance.....

After all the fuss over Afghanistan dies down, India's campaign will begin in right earnest. The advantage the team has is that the win over the minnows in the opening match gives them cushion in the first round. India now need not worry about their South Africa clash on Sunday.

For a team that plays under pressure all year, the chance to just go out on the field and express themselves will be very welcome. For the Proteas, though, the reverse is applicable, given that they open with a game against an Indian team high on confidence.

Graeme Smith is an articulate and thoughtful captain, but even he could not find appropriate ways to brush aside concerns that his team were in prime position to perform their latest rendition of the "choke."

"The time has always come (to put the record straight on choking), you know," said Smith. "Every one of these tournaments, each team arriving here is trying to win the tournament. The nature of the Twenty20 tournament is that the teams are so close together, it's such small margins that make the difference at the end of the day."

The last time these two teams played each other in a major T20 match was in Nottingham in the 2009 ICC World T20, on a sluggish deck that took more spin than anyone anticipated. The pairing of Johan Botha and Roelof van der Merwe comfortably out-bowled their Indian counterparts. Obviously that was still fresh in Smith's mind as the teams got set to play on another pitch that is expected to help spinners. "It is an option to play two spinners, but it is also what we left ourselves with (in the warm-ups) with the decisions to rest players. It was really the only option we had in those games but it is something we will conside," explained Smith. "Most of the wickets seem to be a little bit slower and taking a bit of spin. Our options are open."

In contrast, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was almost irritated when his mind was taken back to the loss to South Africa in the last ICC World T20. "Sometimes people force you to think about these things, but it doesn't really work that way," said Dhoni. "If you look at it like that, staying in the past, we should have never won the ICC World T20 in 2007 after we just lost the 50-over World Cup."

With back-to-back matches there's little time for this Indian team to pace their preparations. Perhaps that's why Dhoni insists that his team should "stay in the present" and think merely about the next game. It's not the worst strategy, and it gives the team the best possible chance of succeeding.

Countdown begins , first match against Afghanistan !!

St Lucia: Up against an unheralded Afghanistan in their tournament-opener, India will have to guard against complacency to ensure a flying start to their campaign in the ICC World Twenty20 here.

Considering there is very little room for errors in the slam-bang format of the game, India would have to be at their best to avoid the ignominy of being destroyed by the minnows of international cricket.

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has already warned his star-studded legion not to underestimate Afghanistan and teammate Yuvraj was also worried about the X-factor of their opponents, who have caught the imagination of the world over the last two years.

"It can be dangerous when you don't know what the opposition is like. After ten overs you will end up in a situation when you don't know what you are going to do."

Meanwhile, Afghanistan coach Kabir Khan has warned the Indians, saying his side were unperturbed by their reputation and will look to exploit the surprise element to dazzle Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men in their ICC World Twenty20.

"If one batsman fails, the other one will win us the match. If one bowler doesn't perform, another guy will bowl well. It has been a story of total team performance. I think we have good side which is capable of pulling off an upset," Karim explained.

Another important component of their team, all-rounder Karim Sadiq feels the fact that they don't depend on any individual gives them an edge over the mighty Indians.

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