The global gambling market is projected to touch $500 billion in revenue by 2014 with Asia leading the growth as several casinos open up in various parts of the continent. It is a human activity that has been around since time immemorial. The oldest known record of gambling essentially forms the core plot of the Mahabharatha, the longest epic in the world. Gambling touches almost everyone, from friends playing online poker to grannies buying lotto tickets. For many it is just good fun, but for some it becomes a debilitating addiction which wrecks lives. Most people however are not compulsive gamblers. Even so, if you do decide to experience the thrill of betting and risky gaming always do it in world-class environments that are reputable and safe. Plan casino travel vacations to destinations known for their casino resorts and top rate facilities.

Armed with several years of experience and knowledge about the purported science, we sought to conduct a two fold experiment with the goal of understanding the real truth of Nadi Astrology. Do the Nadi leaves truly contain the complete detail of our future? or Is it only an estimation based on insights gleaned from a person's birth chart? Our first experiment involved verifying the future predicted for one of our team members in 2007. To verify the predictions given by the Nadi reader we simply compared the account of events which he described against the reality six years later. The results were not encouraging, the Nadi reader had accurately described the events of the next one or two years although they were referenced to in a vague and general fashion. However, everything that he described beyond two years didn't happen.

In 1978, Lee Iacocca as the President and CEO of a struggling Chrysler Corporation pioneered the concept of the 1 Dollar Salary. Prior to lobbying the government for a bailout, Lee modified his compensation to accept only one dollar in salary per year. He also adjusted the monetary incentives of his executive team linking them strongly with the performance of the company. Following his decision and his ability to get the support he needed to keep Chrysler running, many other CEOs in that period followed suit and since then the concept has been around. Although the notion has existed for more than 35 years its adoption has been rare and limited to only a select group of individuals. So why do these extremely powerful, influential and intelligent executives agree to offer their services and quite literally slog it out for free? Find out as we explore in detail

Given the key differences between the NYSE and NASDAQ one would imagine that the most expensive stocks on the market judged on the basis of absolute price would belong to the former given its structure to work with the big brands. However, in recent times some of the well-known technology players have also risen to the top of the list of most expensive stocks given their market dominance and extra ordinary innovation. Finance pros and stock market experts will argue that absolute price is not the right way to determine the list of most expensive stocks. While this is correct it is also true that the human mind seeks simplicity so we couldn't help compiling this list on the basis on absolute price. Here's a look at five of the most expensive stocks trading on the NYSE and NASDAQ.

New Delhi, the capital of India for the last 100 years is witnessing a boom in Delhi radio cab services as the young and affluent urban middle class grows in size in a westernized metropolitan city. As per the 2011 India census data, Delhi has an urban population of 16 million people of which at-least 40% are educated youth in age range of 18-35 years. That accounts for close to six million youngsters in the National Capital Region of Delhi making it an extremely lucrative market for anything that is cool, trendy and next-gen. Riding on this growth the past few years have seen a boom in the number of private Delhi radio cab services that have started to operate in the city.

Memory, pattern recognition and the order in which you play moves are important in chess, and the same is true in investing. That chess masters have incredibly high retentive power is a well known fact. Leading grand-masters like Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov and Vishwanthan Anand are known to prepare for their key matches by studying previous games of their opponents. They are often able to remember all the moves from those games for long periods of time making it increasingly difficult for them to be defeated. In the stock trading and financial investments world this ability is exhibited by the likes of Rakesh Jhunjhunwalla and Warren E Buffet.

The foreign exchange market is the largest and most liquid in the world, and has grown to turn over more than USD 3 trillion per day. It was born of necessity, and its beginnings can be traced back to ancient times, when gold and silver-smiths had to facilitate barter between industries and lands. There are records of so-called money-changers from well over a millennium ago. It wasn't until the medieval period and early modern times however that the foreign exchange market began to become what it is today. As powers became more firmly established, and economies tied more to money rather than the exchange of goods, there became a need to convert one currency into another

On February 4, 2004 thefacebook.com was launched. On February 9, 2004 Harvard Crimson announced the launch in an article titled "Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website". The article quotes Mark Zuckerberg's response to the fact that 650 students had registered to use the site in four days; “I’m pretty happy with the amount of people that have been to it so far. The nature of the site is that each user’s experience improves if they can get their friends to join it.” Well, one can only imagine how happy Mark feels today given that Facebook is on course to hit one billion registered users by the end of 2012. Social media marketing is no longer an experimental field. With fans 5 times more likely to make a purchase than non-fans, many “best in class” companies now view their social media activity from a strategic perspective

LIKE pilgrims to some holy land, but tattooed and on two wheels, thousands of adventure motorcycling enthusiasts converge in Sturgis, South Dakota, USA every year to be part of one of the country's largest and longest-running gatherings of bikers. Many of them ride for days, enduring miles of blistering sun, bouts of rain and the occasional mouthful of bugs before arriving in a cloud of dust at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Needless to say, the major star of the rally is a brand that has a cult following as massive as that of Apple, Starbucks and even Superman - "Harley-Davidson". The wide open road and the thunderous roar of a V-Twin engine make Harley Davidson stand out as the ultimate motorcycle cult brand.

On September, 2004, at the Transport Dam watering hole in Kruger National Park, South Africa, during a Safari Holiday guided by Frank Watts, something spectacular happened. Members of the safari holiday group which also included an amateur photographer David Budzinski, witnessed something in front of their eyes which no one had ever imagined in their wildest dreams. What Frank Watts, David Budzinski and other members of the tour witnessed in 2004 was later uploaded on YouTube in 2007 under the title "Battle At Kruger". It went on to become one of YouTube's earliest viral video sensations with more than 66 million views and 79 thousand comments as of September 2011.

Even in its current form today, Pinterest is revolutionizing the world of style and is increasingly being used as the chosen platform to showcase new fashion trends. Surely, if you are seeking to learn about what's hip and in-market its easier to view the creations rather than read about them. Scientifically speaking as well, our brains are more receptive to remembering things that we see as proved by the Dale’s Cone of Experience model. This suggests that if Pinterest is able to succeed in expanding globally it can easily become a search alternative to Google. Similar to how Twitter is now the place to search for real-time trends and LinkedIn for looking up people.

Post September 2008 the opportunities and resources to indulge and enjoy life were restricted to a lucky few as the world entered a long standing global recession. Europe in particular is on the verge of a major economic collapse as it battles to resolve the sovereign debt crisis which has now ballooned to enormous proportions. The reason everyone is freaking out now is that while some eurozone countries are relatively sound from an economic standpoint, other countries are way over-leveraged, meaning they have too much debt relative to the size of their economies. And the troubles of a few countries could end up affecting everyone, yoked together under one currency for the last decade -- even though their economies functioned according to different habits and enjoyed very different degrees of financial health.

One of the continents in the world which has striking landscapes, varied flora and fauna, tremendous cultural diversity and beautiful people is South America. However, try and find out how many people you know who have visited this continent and the odds are that the numbers will be strikingly low. Despite the fact that there are many countries worth visiting in South America which are build for travel that excites, thrills and challenges, you will rarely ever find a newly married couple choosing Colombia, Chile or Peru as their honeymoon destination. South America along with various parts of north and central Africa are actually meant only for real travelers.

The social media revolution and the immense success of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn over the last five years has led to tremendous growth in this area. There are more than a 150 niche social networking sites today designed to help you find people who share any one of your many interests. We term these communities as 'Specialist Social Networks' and while there is a great amount of variety to them, only a few do a good job of giving real meaning to social [...]

On 16 March 2012, at Mirpur in Bangladesh, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar while on the score of 99 scored one run with a flick of his wrists onto the legside. In the game of Cricket, one run is the least that can be scored from a single delivery. However, just like an artistic masterpiece is incomplete without its creator's signature, Sachin Tendulkars 100th century was incomplete without that one run. While there were no arguments about his greatness even before 16 March 2012, post that date, his name got etched in stone as he joined the league of extraordinary gentleman in the world of sports.

While there are countless island destinations in the world which offer you a chance to relax and soak in the local culture, there are only a few that can be termed as the ultimate party destinations. These crazy party towns situated near some stunning beaches are as close as you can get to utopia particularly if you are a reveler and party animal. Each of them offer a unique and different experience however they do have a few things in common: the atmosphere is hot, the parties are wild and the hangovers seem easier to handle when on the beach.

In today's hyper-active, always-on and connected world where the alarm clock has been replaced with an iPhone, it is extremely essential to get the right amount and right quality of sleep on a daily basis. This raises the perennial question as to what does it take to get a good night's sleep, does it require a great bed or does it just require the right amount of tiredness and exhaustion? Since people are known to doze off on trains, buses, sub-ways, cars and sometimes even while standing up the latter seems to be a reasonable conclusion. However, most people will agree that there's nothing like crashing into your own bed after a day of intense work or a night of crazy fun. Which is what brings the focus on to the kind of bed that you must possess to make sure you wake up refreshed everyday.

Close to 15 months ago, when The Social Network starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg released, the catch-line of the movie read as - "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies". Today, 15 months later Facebook has over 800 million users and has grown at a rate of 60% in the last five quarters with close to 75% of its users coming from outside the US. With Facebook set to go public in 2012 with a predicted valuation of $100 billion, Zuckerberg's retort to Bob doubting his ability to be the next Bill Gates will come unfounded as he will net a cool $24 billion post IPO.

What is perhaps the single biggest concern that most people have when travelling or in some cases re-locating to a country where they don't speak your first or second tongue? Unless, you are a Sheldon Cooper, an interpreter, or someone with an uncanny ability to pick up foreign languages, it is likely that the thought of leading an active lifestyle while not being able to speak the local native language is what disturbs you the most. Despite the growth and advancement of modern society and the various breakthroughs that are made year after year, there are some basic human problems that are yet to be solved.

Hinduism which is often regarded as the mother of all religions and is the oldest living religion in the world today has a concept called Nadabrahma which in its simplest terms means that the "World is Sound". It is believed that the whole universe, in its fundamental form, is made up of vibrating, pulsating energy. In fact at any given point of time all of us are vibrating. Whether we are standing, sitting, working or resting every part of our body is vibrating at different frequencies. One can almost imagine that each one of us is an individual musical chord and when we are in good health our chord is in harmony with the elements that surround us.