Look at some of the numbers … Its a scary picture! Massive Option ARM resets in 2010 Extremely tight lending norms leads to lesser demand for housing and further home price fall A total of 6,130,000 U.S. workers had been unemployed for 27 weeks or more in December 2009. In fact, it is more than double the 2,612,000 U.S. workers who were unemployed for a similar length of time in December 2008.

Most of the times you pick up any report / numbers based article from the media, you will frequently see this animal called “Pie Chart” . Actually if one thinks of it, Pie Chart is nothing but a polar transformation of a stacked bar chart. In that sense , a stacked bar chart gives much more visual information than pie chart. Its an empirical observation that most of us are not too comfortable with judging proportions based on the angles in a pie.

“ Talk doesn’t cook rice ”

It is not the strongest of the species that survives , nor the most intelligent, **but the one most responsive to change ** - Charles Darwin

Via Kiran : The main instrument in the piece that sounds like a wind instrument (like a flute) is a 3000 yr old Armenian instrument called Duduk (pronounced DUDHOOK). The song is called Tears in Armenia. It was composed to mark the 100 yrs of Genocide that Armenians had to face from the Turks in early 1900s. Duduk is made of seasoned apricot stem and bones. It has 2 parts to it.