Clothes That Make Men Look Slimmer

Some Trim-down the ideas for men

It's a fact of life that most men—as well as women—fight the battle of the midlife bulge. A well-tailored suit and sport coat—two-button with a center-back vent—will be the most slimming for you. Stick to solid navy, charcoal, black and herringbone weaves, and nix the plaids, checks and most patterns.

Whenever you wear your shirt tucked in, try to position your belt near your natural waistline instead of underneath your belly to avoid an unsightly overhang. If you're not too heavy, consider flat-front or single-pleated pants, instead of wider-legged double-pleated slacks, which actually make most men look thicker.

When you're not in a blazer, consider wearing a long-sleeved dress shirt layered like a jacket over a loose—but not sloppy—T-shirt worn untucked. Another variation on this sportswear idea is simply an untucked long-sleeved shirt—with the sleeves rolled up to mid-arm for a jauntier look.

And guys, take note: There's a new generation of belly-taming, Spandex-infused "body shapers for men," including undershirts and briefs from brands like Spanx, which has popularized such support garments for women.

You can look slimmer immediately if you sit up straight, suck your abdomen in, and walk taller: shoulders back, chin up—stride confidently with a manner that belies the fact that you're carrying a little extra weight.

But of course, your real solution is exercise and a change in diet—something all of us have to face as we grow older. Get into the exercise habit by walking short distances, and take the stairs whenever you can. Splurge on two professionals: a personal trainer (if only for a few months to get you in the swing) and a dietician, who will be able to direct you on the best eating habits from now on.

Tweet it from Everest

Tweet it from Everest: "OMG! we're halfway up!"

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) You can't get away from a cell phone call, even at the top of the world. Thanks to 3G towers newly installed near Mount Everest's base camp, explorers can surf the Web, tweet and post Facebook updates without worrying that their signals will disappear into thin air.

The new high-speed service, announced Friday by Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish telecom company TeliaSonera, will allow mountaineers setting off to the summit of the world's tallest mountain to access wireless Internet and make video calls to family, friends and supporters. "You know, I think it's kind of good and kind of bad, but to me it's kind of inevitable," said renowned climber Ed Viesturs, frequently described as the strongest U.S. high-altitude mountaineer.

The 51-year-old veteran of seven climbs to Everest's 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) summit said the new technology is not for him. "I'm kind of old school," said Viesturs, who has climbed all 14 of the world's highest peaks.

"But you can imagine the newer generation saying, 'No, bring it on. The more the better.

'" Every year, thousands of trekkers from all over the world walk to Everest's base camp at 17,000 feet (5,182 meters), and hundreds of mountaineers take on the arduous and dangerous route to the summit. Until now, they were forced to carry heavy and expensive satellite equipment to transmit information and images from base camp.

On the climb, mountaineers carry hand held VHF radios to talk with base camp, though an expedition might also carry a satellite phone to contact sponsors and family. For 25-year-old Leif Whittaker, who summited Everest for the first time in May calling his mother on the descent, using a satellite phone the advantage comes down to being able to easily phone home.

"Just being able to communicate with your family and friends would make it a lot easier to spend two months in a tent away from home," said Whittaker, whose father, Jim Whittaker, was the first American to summit Everest. But there is a risk that it could be a dangerous distraction, the Port Townsend, Washington, resident said.

When attempting the summit, "you need to stay focused in the moment." Dave Hahn, who has climbed Everest 12 times, more than any other American, noted that the north side base camp in Tibet has had cell service for several years, but not the south side in Nepal.

The 48-year-old from Taos, New Mexico, said that when he first climbed Everest in 1991, he had equipment that allowed him to transmit lines of Telex. "That was pretty high-tech in 1991.

" And in 1999, when Hahn was on the expedition that found the body of legendary English mountaineer George Mallory, who died on Everest in 1924: "I remember sitting up all night figuring out how to send the photos out in big enough resolution." That will be a thing of the past now.

But might Facebook, Twitter and the high-pitched sound of dozens of cell phones ringing cheapen the experience? "I hear that all the time," Hahn said. "And what can you say? Things change that way.

And those of us who've beamed home pictures and stories from the place, well, we've accelerated that change." Gordon Janow, who helps set up base camps for expeditions led by Alpine Ascents International of Seattle, agreed.

Trekkers in the lower elevations of the Himalayas also use cell phones, and "I don't know if it's good or bad," he said. "It was one of the few places you could go and lose yourself from the world.

Indian School student creates a robot having emotional intelligence

Doon student creates robot having emotional intelligence

 

Dehradun, Oct 31 (PTI) This robot may not have a Rajnikanth-like image, but the model created by a 17-year-old Doon School student possesses emotional intelligence and can even dish out answers for unexpected questions with the help of the internet. The 3-dimension Robo ''iTalk'', an award winning working model, talks in English, lisps like a human and understands human moods of happiness and anger with the help of unique programmed algorithms and a ''software development kit'' offered by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. "The iTalk is a robot capable of communication in a manner similar to humans.

Technically, his functional construct also emulates the basic blueprint of the human body. By interpreting data in the same manner we do, he is able to emulate human behavioural tendencies," Arjun, a class-12th student at the Doon School, said.

"He (the robot) is an intelligent module, able to take decisions on his own, learning from past experiences," he added. Once developed to an advanced stage, the Robo can be used for interface with children and humans for counselling and other purposes, he said.

The ''iTalk'' Robo can distinguish between different humans with an accuracy of 97.68 per cent as it is enabled with a stereoscopic vision and face recognition software. "The speech analysis software put inside it enables it to differentiate between different pitches and voice samples," Arjun, who displayed his creation during his school''s 75th founders day celebrations recently, said.

Arjun, who was assisted by his junior Sookrit Malik from class 10th in the project, now plans to take the Robo to international innovation forums and get a larger technical assistance from institutes like the MIT. The students have put an initial investment of Rs 70,000 in the project which was funded by the school. The ''iTalk'' although has no sci-fi movie connection but it bears resemblance to the 2008 Walt Disney produced science fiction film WALL-E, in which the computer is designed to clean up a waste covered Earth sometime in the future, Arjun said.

"For each new person it meets, it creates a new profile, logging all information. This allows it to carry out various tasks such as having a conversation, and as soon as it is told something which is not already stored, it logs on to the internet and gets the information and also saves it," he said.

The ''iTalk'' stands 2.5-feet tall, has two eyes as web cameras, a speaker for the mouth and a track system for legs.

When Will the Universe end?Is there an end to the universe

Universe to end in 5 billion years, predict scientists

Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): Right around the time when Sun is slated to die, the universe too would come to an end-in just five billion years-a new study has predicted.The prediction comes from the theory of eternal inflation, which says our universe is part of the multiverse.The problem with a multiverse is that anything that can happen will happen an infinite number of times, and that makes calculating probabilities-such as the odds that Earth-size planets are common-seemingly impossible."Normal notions of probability-where you say, Event A happens twice and Event B happens four times, so Event B is twice as likely-don't work, because instead of two and four, you have infinity," National Geographic News quoted Ken Olum of Tufts University in Massachusetts, as saying.And calculating probabilities in a multiverse wouldn't just be a problem for cosmologists."If infinitely many observers throughout the universe win the lottery, on what grounds can one still claim that winning the lottery is unlikely?" theoretical physicist Raphael Bousso of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues wrote in the new study.Physicists have been circumventing this problem using a mathematical approach called geometric cutoffs, which involves taking a finite swath of the multiverse and calculating probabilities based on that limited sample.But in the new paper, Bousso's team noted that this technique has an unintended and, until now, overlooked consequence."You cannot use [cutoffs] as mere mathematical tools that leave no imprint."The same cutoff that gave you these nice and possibly correct predictions also predicts the end of time," said Bousso.In fact, many physicists think eternal inflation is a natural extension of the theory of inflation, which solved some of the problems with the original big bang theory.Eternal inflation is a next step in inflation theory, and it allows scientists to avoid some other tricky cosmology questions, such as what existed before our universe (answer: other universes) and why our universe appears to have properties fine-tuned for life."Although we don't have a theory [to explain the earliest moments of the universe], we have some pretty good ideas about what such a theory would look like ... and these ideas seem to necessarily include other universes," said Charles Line weaver, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.If probabilities are to work in a multiverse, there must be actual cutoffs that bring various universes to their ends, study leader said Bousso.According to the formulas used to calculate cutoffs, a universe that is 13.7 billion years old will reach its cutoff in about 5 billion years, his team concludes.For most people, the idea that a mathematical tool could be elevated to a real-world event might seem strange, but there are precedents for it in physics.Scientists think our sun-now a middle-age star at about 4.57 billion years old-will be reaching the end of its life in about five billion years.At that point in time, the sun will run out of fuel in its core and will start to shed its outer layers of gas, inflating to become a red giant and ultimately a planetary nebula.Earth's exact fate during this event is unclear, but few scientists would argue that life on the planet could survive the sun's death.The story was published at the Cornell University website arXiv.org. (ANI)

Types of Women Men really hate

5 types of women men can't stand

We all know what women don't like in men, but do we have even the slightest idea about what type of women put off men? Here is the lowdown on the personality types men don't like at all. 

Cribber: Women who crib, talk negatively and belittle people are a great turn-off. Sure we all have our bags full of complaints, but it is one thing to complain once in a while, and it's something else to crib big time 24x7 about every issue or every person one comes across. Men can't understand why a woman has to crib and bitch all the time. Either you do something about the issue or stop complaining - it's as simple as that. 

Weight-watcher: 'Oh can't have beer, it has 150 calories', 'I must hit the gym everyday' - if these are your favorite catchwords, you have trouble coming your way. There is only so much diet, exercise regimens men can take and if you are too conscious, a man is likely to be exasperated. Women need to know when to give in 'without throwing their weight around'! 

In-law brasher: Agreed only the fortunate is blessed with a good set of in-laws. So if you are not one of the lucky ones, will you constantly bash them up verbally? They are somebody's parents and if you don't have anything nice to say something about them, don't say anything. How does that sound? 

Worker bee: If you are buzzing nineteen to a dozen only about the presentations you have to make for the boss, deadlines, colleagues, HR head and the office janitor - it's obvious you have nothing else to talk about. A man may want to know about your interests, your views on him, and more, but you prefer to hide behind 'work' all the time. If you want a man, any man actually - get a life first. 

Agony aunt: There are some women who constantly feel they are an 'advisory body'. They feel it is their business to hear out the whines of everyone around them and suggest suitable solutions. They are so deeply involved in this part-time job that they inadvertently sound like they are advising you as well. Nobody wants to date a mom, you know.