Sunday, July 27, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
art films -
Art films are aimed at small niche market audiences, which means they can rarely get the financial backing which will permit large production budgets, expensive special effects, costly celebrity actors, and huge advertising campaigns, as are used in widely-released mainstream blockbuster films. Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of film, which typically uses lesser-known film actors (or even amateur actors) and modest sets to make films which focus on reflective dialogue sequences. For promotion, art films rely on the publicity generated from film critics' reviews, discussion of their film by arts columnists, commentators, and bloggers, and "word-of-mouth" promotion by audience members. Since art films have small initial investment costs, they only need to appeal to a small portion of the mainstream viewing audiences to become financially viable.
google it out!!! its history !
Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "google," was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."
By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages.[The home page was still marked "alpha test", but an article in Salon.com already argued that Google's search results were better than those of competitors like Hotbot or Excite.com, and praised it for being more technologically innovative than the overloaded portal sites (like Yahoo!, Excite.com, Lycos, Netscape's Netcenter, AOL.com, Go.com and MSN.com) which at that time, during the growing dot-com bubble, were seen as "the future of the Web", especially by stock market investors.
In March 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups.[11] After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1999.The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a play on the word googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.[
The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design.In 2000, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords.The ads were text-based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and click-throughs, with bidding starting at $.05 per click.This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services, before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing).While many of its dot-com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue.
A patent describing part of Google's ranking mechanism (PageRank) was granted on September 4, 2001.[The patent was officially assigned to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor.
Google's declared code of conduct is "Don't be evil", a phrase which they went so far as to include in their prospectus (aka "red herring" or "S-1") for their IPO, noting, "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains."
The Google site often includes humorous features such as cartoon modifications of the Google logo to recognize special occasions and anniversaries.Known as "Google Doodles", most have been drawn by Google's international webmaster, Dennis Hwang. Not only may decorative drawings be attached to the logo, but the font design may also mimic a fictional or humorous language such as Star Trek Klingon and Leet.The logo is also notorious among web users for April Fool's Day tie-ins and jokes about the company.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari, kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] in classical Sanskrit) is a deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
Krishna is often shown as a dark-skinned man during his earthly descent,often depicted as a baby, as a young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana or as a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita.
The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions.Though they sometimes differ in details reflecting the concerns of a particular tradition, some core features are shared by allThese include a divine incarnation, a pastoral childhood and youth, and life as a heroic warrior and teacher.
The worship of Krishna is part of Vaishnavism, which regards Vishnu as the supreme god and venerates his associated avatars, their consorts, and related saints and teachers. Krishna is a full manifestation of Vishnu, and sometimes as one with Vishnu himselfHowever the exact relationship between Krishna and Vishnu is complex and diverse,where Krishna is considered an independent deity, supreme in its own right.All Vaishnava traditions recognize Krishna as an avatar of Vishnu; others identify Krishna with Vishnu; while traditions, such as Gaudiya VaishnavismVallabha Sampradaya and the Nimbarka Sampradaya, regard Krishna as the svayam bhagavan, original form of God, or the Lord himself.[In the list of the epithets attributed to Krishna, he is described as the 'source of all incarnations' by Rupa Goswami.
Since 1966, the Krishna bhakti movement has also spread outside India.This is largely due to the evangelistic Hare Krishna movement, the largest part of which is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).The movement was founded by Prabhupada, who was instructed by his guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, to write about Krishna in English and to share the Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy with people in the Western world.
global warming
The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"via an enhanced greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.
These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.
Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first centuryThis range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.
Increasing global temperature is expected to cause sea level to rise, an increase in the intensity of extreme weather events, and significant changes to the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other expected effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors..
Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Mos national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.
salsa
Salsa is usually a partner dance, although there are recognized solo steps and some forms are danced in groups of couples, with frequent exchanges of partner (Rueda de Casino). Improvisation and social dancing are important elements of Salsa but it appears as a performance dance too.
The name "Salsa" is the Spanish word for sauce, connoting (in American Spanish) a spicy flavorThe Salsa aesthetic is more flirtatious and sensuous than its ancestor, Cuban Son. Salsa also suggests a "mixture" of ingredients, though this meaning is not found in most stories of the term's origin.
FASHION
The terms "fashionable" and "unfashionable" are employed to describe whether someone or something fits in with the current or even not so current, popular mode of expression. The term "fashion" is frequently used in a positive sense, as a synonym for glamour, beauty and style. In this sense, fashions are a sort of communal art, through which a culture examines its notions of beauty and goodness. The term "fashion" is also sometimes used in a negative sense, as a synonym for fads and trends, and materialism. A number of cities are recognized as global fashion centers and are recognized for their fashion weeks, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. These cities are New York City, Milan, Paris, and London. Other cities, mainly Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, Miami, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney, Madrid, Vienna, New Delhi and Dubai also hold fashion weeks and are better recognized every year.
coolest gadgets, football gadgets
Somehow, women in gaming always fascinates me. After all, they’re something of an enigma, and it does turn my legs into mush whenever I see a sexy vixen pick apart her opponents in a virtual sparring match that involves reflexes, wit and skill. Would you rather watch Fatal1ty gun his opponent down in 100% accuracy or would you prefer a hot chick dressed in attire you love, complete a course with 5% less accuracy? I’d settle for the latter, and this is why gaming gear ought to be made available to ladies as well as it has been long established that video gaming is a guy thing. This paradigm shift opens up doors for new possibilities, with SteelSeries releasing the SteelSeries Iron.Lady bundles for female gamers. This bundle will come in either pink or white colors, boasting the SteelSeries Ikari Laser Mouse , SteelSeries QcK mouse pad and a branded wristband.
WIGGYSTYLE FROM THE LAND OF THE VIKINGS:
The purpose of Wiggystyle is to create an extra attitude to helmets of various kinds, make the user feel cool and get an extra attention to be earned when trick with the bike, board or ski. Since virtually all young people have a helmet of some kind, we have chosen to do Wiggystyle to an accessory that is attached to the helmet in place. A package contains two parts, a cool haircut and a black Velcro tape. The Velcro tape is fitted with a water-based glue that does not affect the helmet in any way. The glue makes the Velcro tape solid and reliable but come off easily simply by plenty of lukewarm water. The Velcro tape also makes it possible to use the Wiggystyle when it suits, you can switch between different colors to match the clothes you wear today.
IOGEAR Universal Memory Bank
IOGEAR is well known for their line of peripherals, and today we have yet another couple of offerings from the company that makes it a snap for you to transfer images and files between multimedia devices, gadgets and computers thanks to the IOGEAR Universal Memory Bank. These devices boasts a wide range of functionality, among them a 12-in-1 memory card reader/writer and a 56-in-1 memory card reader/writer that offers bi-directional data transfers at unprecedented speeds. Hey, don’t quote me on the last bit as those are IOGEAR marketing claims, and I suspect you’re limited to a theoretical cap of 480Mbps as with all other USB 2.0 devices.
Head injuries monitored via wireless helmets
Watch any football game of today and you’ll be amazed that the players seem superhuman despite facing tackle after tackle, with no sign of fatigue or pain. Many coaches and team physicians have also seen these happen right in front of their eyes and are wondering how the players endure such punishment, leading to several college teams teaming up with Simbex to create the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System. This is the first and only commercially available system which is capable of measuring head accelerations (a more sophisticated word for impact) in real time during games and practices.
SportsCast Wireless Scoreboard offers free Football stats
Having access to football information when there isn’t a radio, TV, or internet around can be a tricky situation. One of the options is to ask someone the score of a game, but in case you are home alone, it is impossible to do so, in the end you keep wondering if your team lost the match, or if next week’s game is easy, or if the stats are good.
Well, with the SportsCast Wireless Football Scoreboard you are able to check all that information, and much more. The Scoreboard works wirelessly (connects to a satellite) to get game stats about a specific game, which are updated every 15 minutes. This solution means that you don’t need a TV, a computer, or a radio, in order to know how your football team is performing.
Besides the game-by-game stats details, the SportsCast is also able to display information about schedules, standings, scores and so on. There are even special features related to regular, playoff season, pre-season, and off season.
MEDICAL TOURISM
Medical Tourism Guide.org is committed to bringing you the very best information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of medical travel, or health tourism. To learn more about the basics of health tourism, we recommend starting with these articles.
medical tourism in INDIA
For many, India isn't the first place that comes to mind when it comes time to have medical procedure done. Overcrowding and worries about sanitation can be a deterrent to getting treatment in India. Yet, in reality, this is a misconception about the level of care available in Indian hospitals.
The medical infrastructure and technology of India's hospitals is actually on par with that of Europe and the United States. India enjoys some of the best hospitals and treatment centers in the world, not to mention being a key player in biomedical research. The government has encouraged these developments, hoping to turn India into a global health destination, and India's education system turns out tens of thousands of highly qualified doctors and nurses each year.
Many hospitals in India are corporately owned (therefore not subject to the overcrowding that plagues many of the public hospitals) and perform complicated heart surgeries, cosmetic treatments, dental care and even preventative health screenings. The escorts heart institute performs over 15,000 operations each year while maintaining a mortality rate that is actually less than half of that in many U.S. and European hospitals. Many hospitals can't be differentiated from those back home once inside.
Despite this level of quality, prices for treatment in India are some of the lowest in any of the countries popular with medical tourists. Many procedures can be done in India for tenth of the cost of those done in the U.S, and most can be arranged to be done within less than a week, avoiding long waits for necessary surgeries.
Aside from medical treatment, India is also a popular tourist destination. India is a large country with a fascinating history and wealth of cultural diversity. Visitors can also relax with yoga and Ayurvedic massage to help speed their recovery. India is also home to the famous Taj Mahal as well as miles of beaches with aquamarine water and beautiful mountain retreats. Many package deals are available for those wishing to relieve themselves of the hassle of arranging their own accommodations and activities in a foreign land.