'It' Happens Everywhere

We used to be ashamed of a brawl in our National Assembly during Benazir's time (if I remember well), but it seems to happen everywhere from East to West to South...

South Korean: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7695329.stm

Czech*: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7695064.stm

Bolivian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7695263.stm

Even in Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7718596.stm

* Must see

A New Addition in Family

Today we got a new nephew. In my brother's family, my sister-in-law has given birth to a baby boy. Both the mother and child are in good health with the Grace of God.

The proposed name is Muneeb. Meaning: one who turns (to Allah). This name is used for prophet Ibraheem/Abraham (peace be upon him).

The name appears as an adjective, verb and noun in total 7 times in the holy Quran. My most favorite use is the following:

50:33 "Who feared (Allah) Most Gracious Unseen, and brought a heart turned in devotion (to Him):

Here are the other uses: [11:75] [30:31][30:33] [34:9] [39:8] [50:8][50:33]

Other facts: he is born on the same day as the greatest poet-philosopher Allama Mohammad Iqbal was born 132 years ago. Therefore his birthday will be celebrated all over the nation as a National Holiday. :)

Fastest Flyers in Nature

The fastest flyers in nature are not some birds, nor any insects with wings, not even humans with all the technology... they are a specie of Fungus!!

Check this out: 

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8941340 - there is a video of this flight on this webpage.

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But the acceleration of the spores still puts them in a class of their own. "One minute they're standing still on a cow pie, and a millionth of a second later they are travelling at 25 metres per second," said Money. 

His colleagues measured accelerations up to 180,000 g – the fastest airborne acceleration seen in the living world. In comparison, a jumping antelope accelerates at 1.6 g, astronauts experience maximum acceleration of less than 4 g during a Space Shuttle launch, and fleas accelerate at 200 g. Jellyfish stingers are fired at 40,000 g in water.

"The fastest spores travelled more than 1 million times their own 'body' length in one second," says Money. "A 1.8-metre human travelling at 1 million times his or her body length in one second would be travelling at a velocity of 1.8 million meters per second, which is more than 5000 times the speed of sound.