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Top 10 Best Selling Whiskey Brands in the World

WHISKEY” the anglicized Gaelic word means “the water of life”. It is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage, which was believed to be distilled for the first time in the 13^th century in Italy. Italians distilled it from wine. Since then whiskey is being produced by several countries and by various brands in the whole world. Whiskey is actually a distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. These grains may include barley, corn (maize), rye and wheat. Before bottling the liquor into beautiful glass bottles the most important step of the manufacturing of whiskey is observed- It is aged in wooden casks, generally made of charred oak wood.
Though sale of whiskey largely depends upon the demand which in turn depends on the taste of the people makes it a difficult task but still this task is being performed continuously by various agencies such Beverage Testing Institute, New York International Spirits competition, San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Proof66 and the list goes on. They rate the liquor keeping in mind its appearance, smell, taste on palate and aftertaste that is, taste that our follows after swallowing it.
Presently, there are many liquor manufacturing companies in the world. It would be quiet interesting to rate these brands according to the sales. Here is a small effort to perform this task.  Here goes the list.
10. Black Nikka.

The list starts with a Japanese whiskey brand, headquartered in Tokyo, it registered encouraging sales growth of 13% in the year 2012. Black Nikka is a 37% alcoholic whiskey, presently owned by Asahi Breweries. Its founder Masataka Taketsuru went to Scotland in 1918, at the University of Glasgow to learn the process of distilling Scotch whiskey. In 2008, Yoichi (distillery of Nikka Whisky Distilling co.ltd.) was voted best single malt at the World Whiskies Awards. The Yoichi Distillery firm still uses coal fire to heat the pot stills, practice that has been almost entirely abandoned in modern whiskey production. In 2009, Nikka decided to rename Black Nikka brand to “BLACK”.
9. Black Velvet.

Another whiskey brand with the name black hitting the list is “Black Velvet”. It is a Canadian whiskey brand owned by Constellation brands. It is one of the largest beer, wine and spirit companies. It is touching 2.1 million sales figure since past three years. Its original name was “Black Label” as per its strong taste but, in the late 1940’s, the master distiller Jack Napier changed its name to “Black Velvet” because he thought that it had a velvety taste and smoothness. The company has always employed famous stars such as Christie Brinkley, Kelly Emberg, Larry Hagman for its advertisement. The current Black velvet Lady is Tami Donaldson.
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TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PRODUCTION CARS

TOP 10 MOST EXPENSIVE PRODUCTION CARS
           
              NAME                                              PURCHASE COST($)

1. Bugatti veyron super sports             2,400,000
2. Aston martin one-77                        1,850,000
3. Pagani zonda clinque roadster         1,850,000
4. Lamborghini reventon                      1,600,000
5. Koenigsegg Agera R                        1,600,000
6. Maybach Landaulet                           1,380,000
7. Zenvo ST1                                         1,225,000
8. Hennessy Venom GT Spyder           1,110,000
9. McLaren F1                                          970,000
10. Ferrari Enzo                                         670,000  

Make your computer FASTER

1. First, run a scandisk or checkdisk. Let Windows fix any errors.

2. Run a disk cleanup utility...this will flush your temporary internet folder, trash can, temp system files, etc.

3. Delete any garbage files or data...if possible, run a Duplicate File Finder program.

4. Run Defrag on all partitions (NOTE: run this after you have deleted all trash and excess files!)

5. Run a registry cleaner utility and delete or get rid of any orphaned entries in that registry.

6. Check your exisiting swap file for it's size and location (*will explain location later in the post). If you have alot of ram (i.e. 1 gig and over) set this swap file to something small, like 250 mb. The reason is that this will force Windows to load more into memory, resulting in faster performance (note: some games and applications actually require a certain sized swap file so check your applications performance after making a size adjustment for any error messages.)

7. Under XP, you can tell Windows to use Classic Style on your desktop, - this will remove the neat single click and internet-style desktop but for lower end systems this will improve performance in other areas, such as gaming and multi-tasking.

8. Run msconfig and under startup and only keep the programs that are essential to load in the tray icon (and hence stay resident in memory). Uncheck anything else non-essential, like an ATI or Nvidia control panel, Quicktime utility, Real Audio, etc.

9. Upgrade drivers! Check for the latest BIOS, video, motherboard, sound, etc drivers from the manufacturers. Alot of my friends had chipsets on their motherboard that had advanced disk management capabilities or AGP port settings but the drivers weren't loaded for them so they were never being used. A simple upgrade realized a noticeable difference. For instance, they didn't have the latest driver for their AGP port so it was set to 1x, instead of being used at 4x!

10. (OK, so this won't speed up your PC but it could save you alot of time and trouble later on!) After making all these improvements, make a working backup! I use Ghost, but for XP users you can also use System Restore...

-FOR ADVANCED USERS-

1. Take a look under the hood (for IDE owners). How are your IDE devices configured? If you have more than 1 hard drive, put the master hard drive on the primary IDE channel and the secondary hard drive on the secondary IDE channel (most motherboards have two IDE channels).

2. Place all CDROM drives, DVD readers etc. on the secondary IDE channel (or SCSI bus, etc). This will reduce I/O contention with your master hard drive which should have your OS and apps installed...

3. Remember when I mentioned the location of the swap file? OK, if you have 2 hard drives and you have one on the primary IDE channel and the other on the secondary IDE channel, move the swap file to a partition ON THE SECOND hard drive (on the secondary IDE channel). This will greatly improve system performance as the PC can write to the swap file while loading and running OS and system commands without I/O contention on the primary IDE channel!click here to know more

THE LONGEST CAR IN THE WORLD

Worlds Longest Limousine Car..

Limousines are all about being noticed and that is certainly what Jay Ohrberg of Burbank California gets in his 100 foot limo.

Jay designed his monster limo himself and now hires it out through his car hire company. The limo has 26 wheels and can be driven rigidly or adjusted to bend in the middle around corners. This incredible car is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest car in the world and even has two driver's compartments - one at each end - to help with reversing.

The longest car in the world is better equipped than many Hollywood mansions, including luxuries like a large Jacuzzi tub, a sun deck, a helipad, a swimming pool (with a diving board of course), a king sized bed and a satellite dish, just to name a few.

While the limo isn't actually street legal, it is mainly hired out for exhibitions and to be used in movies. Could you imagine a 100 foot limo driving around your neighbourhood? Only in America!

You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206

You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become 

an adult, you only have 206

• A baby’s bones are not hard and strong like an adults bones but slowly, year-by-year the bones change and become hard and strong – it’s called ossification.
• When you're born you have about 300 bones but by the time you're an adult you only have about 206 bones because some of your bones join together as you grow.
• Your bones use calcium to grow strong and hard.
• Your bone cells are constantly being replaced. (Although an adult might be 35 most of their skeleton is under 10 years old.)
• The strongest bone in your body is your femur – your thighbone.
• The smallest bone in your body is in your ear.
• Your skull is made up of 22 bones

world's first photographic image

Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. 

Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest.

 In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.