By diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to biofuels, world is confronting a dangerous new bubble called food inflation. (What Is Inflation? - explained here)

Rice, wheat and corn - the price of the world’s three main grains, have all more than doubled in the past year.

• The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year.
• By diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry.
• An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs.
• Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation.
• Studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it’s dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it.

Full article at TIME - The Clean Energy Scam

Yahoo on Monday launched a Web site for women ‘shine‘.This new media site is focused on providing information relevant to women’s daily lives.

Shine offers nine categories ranging from fashion and beauty to parenting. It syndicates material from popular lifestyle publishers including Conde Nast and Hearst Corp.

The site aims to create a single destination for the approximately 40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 .

This is the latest in a string of sites that include Yahoo Tech and Yahoo Food. According to market research firm Hitwise, Yahoo Tech ranks in the top five of US technology media sites and Yahoo Food ranks in the top 10 of food lifestyle sites.

Yahoo has hired an editorial team to publish original stories on a daily basis,as well as Shine also offers items from existing Yahoo sites covering food, astrology and health.

Yahoo Shine is located at shine.yahoo.com/

According to the survey conducted by The Nielsen Company, India ranked 3 rd after Greece and Hong Kong in the list of most fashion brand conscious countries in the world.

The survey found that, over 35% of Indian respondents agreed they spend money on luxury brands, most bought luxury brand was Calvin Klein with over 34% surveyed having purchased it at some point, Gucci ranked as the most coveted brand for Indians, other brands that Indian consumers spend most on are Diesel, Christian Dior and DKNY.

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Sending a Holi Greetings and Holi SMS is one of the best way to show your heartiest feelings and blessings on the dear ones.

About Holi Festival

The “Holi” festival is a very fun-filled and popular occasion in the northern part of India. It is an occasion when people smear each other with bright colored powders, which are known as Gulal, and colored water.

The colors come from Hindu deities Radha and Krishna, and the spreading of colors represents equality and harmony between people.

Entire country wears a festive look when it is time for Holi celebration. Market places get abuzz with activity as frenzied shoppers start making preparations for the festival.

Here is the some sites which offers you

Holi Greetings

• http://www.123greetings.com/events/holi/
• http://www.dgreetings.com/holi/
• http://www.freeholigreetings.com/

Holi SMS

• http://www.holifestival.org/holi-sms.html
• http://www.kathiyavad.com