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Friday, 1 July 2011

doctors day message

In today's day and age, a doctorplays an important role in our lives - from being a confidante to our health problems, to a healer when we are down and from being a life saver during our trysts with death to being a caregiver to our loved ones.

Doctor's Day is celebrated on July 1 all across India to honour the legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy. He was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years. Dr Roy was honoured with the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.

National Doctor's Day is commonly celebrated in healthcare organizations as a day to recognize the contributions of doctors to individual lives and communities. These events are typically organized by staff at a healthcare organization.

The most common recognition on National Doctor's Day is a handwritten note or greeting card signed by the doctor's staff.

buddha hoga tera baab reviews

Seeking its spirit from Guy Ritchie's cult classic Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), morerecently employed in Bollywood films like 99 and Sankat City,Delhi Belly polishes the crime-comedy genre by a few notches despite its unrefined ambience.

Three friends who share a dingy Delhi room land into trouble when a parcel of smuggled diamonds is erroneously exchanged with a stool sample. Tashi (Imran Khan), who is newly-engaged to Sonia (Shenaz Treasuryvala), rams in his car, the first gift from the in-laws, after getting into a brawl for another girl Meneka (Poorna Jagannathan). Arup (Vir Das) has just been ditched by his girlfriend for an NRI. The fatso foodie Nitin (Kunal Roy Kapoor) who is on a perpetual pooping exercise is the one responsible for all the shit that follows when an underworld don (Vijay Raaz) is behind the trio for his diamonds.

While the multiple monetary rotations in Lock Stock... (and its Indian offshoots) have been intricate, Delhi Belly doesn't complicate the tradeoffs to that extent, yet doesn't dilute on the essence of the original. Delhi Belly has a soul of its own with its unique characters and side-characters and imaginative situations. Writer Akshat Varma gets the grammar of the genre correct, evoking humour out of the most unusual situations – be it grim, gross or serious, making way for a perfect dark comedy. The language used blends with the setting and the dialogues range from the hilarious to laugh-out-loud moments. The humour is absolutely situational and, though there is a lot of mayhem, there is no space for slapstick.

Director Abhinay Deo is in as much sync with the script, never making you lose the narrative for a
moment. The pacing is quick, the milieu is authentic, the dialect is unadulterated and the characters real. The track between Tashi and Meneka is never treated as a romance track per se. Yet when they indulge in a spontaneous smooch in the pre-climax, their chemistry doesn't seem abrupt. The final shootout in stylized slow motion shots works as a tribute to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Be it the burka-clad diamond tradeoff in a jewelry shop or a ceiling-collapsing sequence which literally brings the house down, almost every scene results into hilarity.

Thursday, 30 June 2011

glenn beck fired

Here's one way of making a point. Though Glenn Beck may be better known for his tears, the host knows how to get hotheaded when the spark hits—literally. During a demonstration accusing President Obama of fire and brimstone, the host poured gasoline over a colleague while griping about the administration's policies. Beck did provide a caption on-screen saying that the gas was, in fact, water, but we wouldn't put it past him to use the real thing.

Beck's Favorite Things

Not to be outdone by Oprah Winfrey, Beck hosted his own “Favorite Things” episode after Winfrey's big giveaway episode. The host gifted his audience chalk, books, and tickets to his favorite Broadway Show, Billy Elliot, for the holidays. But, no cruises or Australian vacations were in sight.

Beck's Guest Faints

During an explanation of U.S. investments, guest David Buckner told the host he needed to sit down before fainting on air. Buckner recovered from the spill that Beck later chalked up to an illness, but the clip proved one thing: Anything can happen on Glenn Beck.

Beck Admits He's Inept

Self-professed “boob” Beck wanted his viewers to know—time and again—that he is no elite Ivy Leaguer. The departing host instead said he's a self-educated recovering alcoholic and former DJ. In fact, Beck told viewers in a spirited refrain, “You couldn't get dumber than me.” Sounds like a man worth listening to.

Cebu's SRP

The best way to travel when visiting a new city is not via bus, MRT, or taxi. It’s not even while riding on a chauffeur-driven E-class Mercedes Benz. It’s by foot. I did that last Friday. Starting at 7 in the morning, I stepped outside our hotel and was greeted by the Singapore sunshine. I walked, stretched, jogged towards the Singapore Recreation Club, just 300 meters away, where green fields awaited. Football rectangles, covered with pristine grass, smiled. Then, I saw a sight that sparkled: Grass courts. Yes. The same ones you’ll see tonight on Star Sports. The club is exclusive and I did not carry my Babolat gear—so no chance to swing a volley. But the sight was more enticing than any 70-percent-off store in the Singapore Sale.

I ran. Along the famous The Fullerton Hotel, I glided. This was the same strip that our Cebu Executive Runners Club (CERC) group passed during the 2008 Singapore Marathon. I relived that 42K. As sweat rolled down my cheeks while running, another smile emerged. For that’s the secret of running; the satisfaction earned comes from within. Some call it “runner’s high” or “adrenaline rush.”

In Singapore, running is the most popular recreational sport. At their annual Marathon held every first Sunday of December, 50,000 join. Last Friday, I saw snippets of that as dozens exercised, planting one rubber shoe in front of another.

The best part of running Singapore? The Marina Bay. You’ve seen the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. Its design adorns every postcard of this first-world nation. With three colossal towers standing to hold a “boat” at the summit, the sight is majestic. (It’s the world’s most expensive stand-alone casino at $8 billion.) The Marina Bay Sands is the Eiffel Tower… The Burj… the Petronas Towers of Singapore. It’s now the land’s most photographed structure.

Friday, 10 June 2011

Disturbia: the Spectacular

While there is very little that is original about Disturbia, it unfolds with a slow intensity and builds to a nauseatingly suspenseful finish. ShiaLaBeouf is one of the most watchable young actors and has a great screen presence; here he brings out your inner voyeur as a 17-year old confined to house arrest after punching his Spanish teacher. The premise -- borrowed from Rear Window -- is simple: when confined to the home curiosity takes over, and sometimes you get more than you anticipate when you spy on the neighbors. It's a nailbiting PG13 thriller along the lines of Wes Craven's Red Eye and -- while it contains its fair share of unrealism and cliche -- it will keep you on the edge of your seat. A modern update of Rear Window with less subtlety, it nevertheless has humor and style and the first ten minutes will really mess with you.

us airways and aeropuertos argentina 2000

STATESVILLE, N.C. — With blankets and children and umbrellas to ward off the Southern sun, hundreds gathered at overpasses and grassy wide spots on the shoulder along Interstate 77 on Friday morning.

“We’re waiting here for the miracle plane,” said Doris Eades, 69, as she sat on a guardrail.

Suddenly there it was, the battered, wingless fuselage of US Airways Flight 1549, the star of what has come to be known as the “miracle on the Hudson,” rumbling by on a custom flatbed trailer.

“Look at it. Oh, I love seeing it,” said Linda Speelman, 60, a retired US Airways flight attendant.

When word got around that she had once flown on a plane with Capt. Chesley Sullenberger III, the pilot who made that pitch-perfect water landing in 2009, she became an instant celebrity among the overpass crowd here.

It has been this way nearly all week, as the remains of the Airbus A320 and the caravan escorting it from New Jersey moved south along the highway to its new home at theCarolinas Aviation Museum.

People followed the plane’s progress on Twitter and Facebook, and tracked its exact location on the Web site of J. Supor & Sons, the New Jersey trucking company in charge of the move.

Admirers drove for hours to find the weigh stations where it parked each night, joining hundreds just to touch its side.

Although the plane made its spectacular emergency landing on the Hudson River in New York, and New Yorkers rescued all 155 passengers and crew, this Southern city is where it belongs, said Shawn Dorsch, the president of the museum. He spent 18 months working to secure the plane for his museum, and rode with it the length of the journey.

“It’s a Charlotte story,” he said. “The airport it was going to was Charlotte. Eighty percent of passengers and crew were from Charlotte.”

Ben Bostic was one of those people. He was in Seat 20A. He had a clear view of an engine that burst into flames after taking in several geese shortly after the plane took off.

He spent Thursday and Friday riding with the fuselage on its final leg to Charlotte, where he works as a technology executive for a bank. The last time he saw the plane, “she” had been in the water, he said.

He calls it “she” or “her,” terms of affection for an aircraft he initially blamed in the weeks after the crash.

“I was like, why did your engine have to go out and catch on fire and scare the crap out of me?” he said.

With time, he saw things differently.

“She did everything that she could, that she had to do for us to survive, staying afloat and not breaking apart,” he said. “I grew really fond of the plane as I started to understand how she was extremely vital in our survival.”

Mr. Bostic will be at a reception Saturday in a hangar at the Charlotte airport where the plane will be restored and then moved to the museum.

Designers spent hours gathering stories from him and other passengers as part of their work to turn the plane into a multimillion-dollar exhibit. It will be as much about aviation safety and history as it will be about hope.

The black boxes, personal stories and even life jackets from the boats that rescued passengers will all be part of it.

So will the wings, on which passengers stood waiting for help as millions watched on television.

“There are passengers who couldn’t care less about anything but the wings,” Mr. Dorsch said.

Mr. Sullenberger will offer a speech at the private fund-raising event, which will be the first time the crew and the passengers have all been gathered in one place since that cold day in January.

The last time he saw the plane was at a New Jersey salvage yard shortly after the accident. He took an emotional walk around the plane, touching it and making note of how little damage it had sustained considering how hard it hit the water.

In an interview before he headed to Charlotte from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Sullenberger said he was surprised so many people followed “his” plane home.

Then he pondered why.

Was it the chance to show their children a piece of American history, as many people along the route said?

Or the opportunity to see something they saw on TV in real time?

Or maybe, as others said, watching the plane roll by was simply a way to enliven an otherwise sleepy Southern Friday morning.

No, said Mr. Sullenberger, who now makes his living writing books, giving speeches on leadership and consulting on safety.

“It’s a reminder of selflessness and cooperative behavior and goodness,” he said. “It’s a reaffirmation of life, ultimately.”

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

elephants in mysore

Two wild elephants stormed into Mysore on early Wednesday, trampling one person to death and causing panic in this cultural city. "The wild elephants entered the city around 6am from a nearby forest, wreaked havoc in a suburb trampling one person to death and caused panic in the area," state higher
education minster SA Ramdas told reporters in Mysore, about 140 km from Bangalore.

After three hours of high voltage drama and mayhem, the twin jumbos were tranquilised by forest guards and chained to trees.

The victim has been identified as Renuka Prasad, a 55-year-old resident of Bamboo Bazar in the old city.

"Prasad was trampled to death by one of the young tuskers near his house when he came out on hearing the commotion in the area. Though he was rushed to a nearby government hospital, he was declared brought dead," Ramdas lamented.

Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa announced Rs 500,000 as compensation to Prasad's kin.

"As a precautionary measure, we have declared holiday for schools and colleges in the city for the day (Wednesday) and deployed additional policemen in the suburbs to prevent any untoward incident," Ramdas said.

While one elephant entered a women's college by crossing over the compound wall and menacingly roamed in the ground, the other jumbo entered into the residential area and the nearby market, attacking Prasad and a cow.

"The forest guards and officials from the Mysore zoo were alerted and they rushed to the spot to control the jumbos by tranquilising them. They will be sent to the nearby forest by the evening," Ramdas pointed out.

According to the state forest department officials, the twin young jumbos came from T Narsipur forest range, about 35 km from Mysore along with two others, who, however, remained on the outskirts of the city.

"The growing man-animal conflict due to encroachment of forests, decline in forest area due to unregulated expansion of farm lands and increasing movement of people and transport vehicles through the elephant corridor are making the wild jumbos enter villages and towns in search of food and shelter," a forest official said.

KPN Travels Bus Accident: At Least 22 Killed in Tamil Nadu Bus Accident

According to Latest News, KPN Travels Bus met with an Accident, in which at least 22 Killed near vellore district in Tamil Nadu. KPN Travels, which is a private bus headed from Chennai to Tirupur went off the road and crashed near Ocheri by taking away the life’s of 22.

KPN Travels Bus Accident happened at 10.45 pm on June 7, 2011 near Avalur as according to sources the bus that is reportedly run by KPN Travels attempted to overtake a lorry at a high speed, and the lorry allegedly departed to the right causing the bus to far off the road.

The KPN Travels bus then crashed into a canal there and toppled before landing on its roof. Witnesses say that when they arrived the bus was engulfed in a ball of flame after a series of small explosions as Karthikai Rajam, the lone passenger and driver were luckly escaped from the bus. Bus driver Nagarajan, who survived the accident, surrendered at the Vellore North police station. Badly injured, he was taken to Vellore Pentland Hospital by the police.

The bodies are charred beyond recognition and it will take a long time for the identification to be carried out, a source from the bus agency said.The bodies of the dead have been taken to a hospital in Wallajan for post mortem.

Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday (June 8, 2011) declared a compensation of Rs.100,000 to the families of the dead and Rs.50,000 to the injured in the accident.Jayalalithaa said in the assembly that she had told Transport Minister V. Senthil Balaji, Health Minister V.S. Vijay and the minister for backward classes and environment to reach the accident spot.

gold cup 2011 schedule

Michael Bradley, left, may be a regular on the U.S. national team, but Clint Dempsey has become its leading man.Martin Rose/Getty ImagesMichael Bradley, left, may be a regular on the U.S. national team, but Clint Dempsey has become its leading man.

June should be a telling month for the United States national soccer team.

On Saturday, Bob Bradley’s squad travels to Foxborough, Mass., to take on Spain, the No. 1 team in the world.

Three days later the Americans will square off against Canada in their first match of the Concacaf Gold Cup, a tournament the U.S. federation very much wants to win. If the Yanks make it to the June 25 final, they will have played seven intense international matches in the space of three weeks.

Many questions about the U.S talent pool will be answered along the way: Is Freddy Adu really back in the mix for the national team? Do the veteran defenders Carlos Bocanegra and Oguchi Onyewu still have something left in the tank? Will someone step up and stake a claim as Jozy Altidore’s strike partner?

Here are 10 observations about the U.S. Gold Cup in the build-up to the tournament.

mavericks vs heat nba in miami heat

Well, it's taken five years, but we made it back to the NBA Finals, and somehow we are facing the same foe. I suppose that's helpful to the story line of redemption, right? This Miami Heat team that we're going to be playing is juuuust a little different than the last time, but then again, so it's this Dallas Mavericks team. With the way our boys have been playing these past few weeks, it's hard to keep a level head about our chances in the finals. But as we've been doing all along, we will remain cautiously optimistic and bite our tongues to keep from jinxing the Mavs.

We've had the distinct pleasure of watching Dirk Nowitzki prove to the entire basketball nation why he deserved his MVP and why he'll leave a lasting legacy as the greatest seven-footer of all time. Yeah, I said it. Now the rest of the world can understand our joy when watching him take those contested Euro Leanbacks. They can join in our celebration when he sticks his tongue out and gives a fist pump after dropping a transition three. And they can appreciate why he never enjoys a win for what it is, and rather recognizes it as one more step towards his ultimate goal:

A ring.

Star-divide

Here is the game schedule for the series:

Game 1: Dallas at Miami, Tuesday, May 31st at 8:00pm CST on ABC

Game 2: Dallas at Miami, Thursday, June 2nd at 8:00pm CST on ABC

Game 3: Miami at Dallas, Sunday, June 5th at 7:00pm CST on ABC

Game 4: Miami at Dallas, Tuesday, June 7th at 8:00pm CST on ABC

*Game 5: Miami at Dallas, Thursday, June 9th at 8:00pm CST on ABC

*Game 6: Dallas at Miami, Sunday, June 12th at 7:00pm CST on ABC

*Game 7: Dallas at Miami, Tuesday, June 14th at 8:0pm CST on ABC

*if necessary

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NEW TAMPA Tennis rackets were as popular as shopping carts outside the Walmart at Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and Regents Park Drive June 2.

The USTA has teamed up with the discount retailer to take SmashZone, an interactive fan experience held annually during the U.S. Open tennis championship in New York City, on a 16-city tour throughout the state.

The U.S. Tennis Association brought the SmashZone mobile tour to the supercenter at 19910 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. for the first local stop.

Its purpose was to introduce tennis to a new generation of potential players and serve as an encouragement to children to lead healthy lifestyles through sports and fitness.

"It's definitely a factor to help bring more kids to the game," USTA communications coordinator Trina Singian said of the mobile tour visit.

The SmashZone mobile unit is equipped with a portable tennis court, interactive games, prizes and information about local tennis programs. It is a complement to the USTA's ongoing youth initiative known as 10 and Under Tennis.

An event such as SmashZone is designed to get tennis rackets in the hands of youth of all ages and abilities.

The USTA, the national governing body for the sport of tennis, aims to reignite interest in an international sport once dominated by Americans, including many professional players who lived in New Tampa and trained at the famed Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel.

No American tennis player is currently ranked in the Top 10 men's or women's world rankings.

CollegeHumor Video roasts Facebook

When comedy Web site College Humor decided to roast Facebook, it couldn’t help itself from picking on the much easier target, too: MySpace.

In a three and a half minute animated cartoon that features every online behemoth site and every online wannabe, the comedians doing most of the bashing are Google, Twitter, and Foursquare. Audience members like YouTube, Linkedin, and Flickr giggle at the jokes that are meant to point out the failings of Facebook but more often than not go back to how lame MySpace has become.

Pandora Radio, fittingly, is responsible for doing the punchline drumroll “ba-dum-bum-CHING.”

Google, voiced by Penn Jillette of eccentric magician act Penn & Teller, kicks off the roast by making fun of Facebook’s extensive privacy settings:

“Facebook collects so much information he’s going to be on an episode of Hoarders! He stacks up ad keywords like they’re back issues of National Geographic!”

Twitter is surprisingly voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, known for his trademark loud and grating voice. (Remember the parrot Iago in Aladdin and Aflac duck?) Somehow, I always thought Twitter would sound much nicer.

When Twitter takes over the mike, he continues the merciless mocking of Myspace, saying someone should call a janitor to clean up the vomit from a 13 year-old girl — oh sorry, that’s just Myspace.

But Twitter doesn’t let his nemesis Facebook off the hook either, saying he knew “The Social Network” was a lie “because it made Mark Zuckerberg interesting. The Terms of Service could be more a dynamic leader!”

When Foursquare, voiced by Lisa Lampanelli (known as “Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean”) gets on stage, she plays on how much hipper Foursquare is than the hasn’t-been-cool-for-years MySpace.

“The only thing more popular than [Facebook’s] like button is the Myspace’s delete account button,” Foursquare jabs. “Thank god for failed musicians!”

The audience is starting to feel pretty bad for Myspace at this point, which is not too different than reality. And then Myspace makes it worse by getting on stage, where it makes a string of failed jokes about Facebook which is met with boos all around.

Finally, MySpace appeals for help from Friendster, who has got a bowtie on and is holding cocktail glases in the aisle. But even Friendster doesn’t want to be associated with MySpace: “Hey, hey, I’m just working tonight man.”

Ann Coulter Gets 'Demonic

Liberals eager to find offense with Ann Coulter’s latest book need only thumb over to page 4, where the blond provocateur lumps left-wing protestors in with the Maoist gangs looting villages and impaling babies in China.

Or they can simply read the title.

Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America is yet another pull-no-punches tract from the Right’s Queen of Mean.

She’s as divisive as ever, lobbing red meat to her base while driving the Left to fits of rage. It’s in her DNA. But her tabloid style distracts from a larger truth. Few can illuminate the chasm between Right and Left like Coulter. You just have to endure her baiting prose to see it.

Demonic feels as packed as her political columns, and often nearly as riotous. At nearly 300 pages long — not counting the bibliography and various appendixes — it’s hardly a rush job. It’s the breadth of her examples which will leave readers gasping. Thank goodness for her fiery sense of humor. It’s a mandatory release valve for the anger her prose is sure to inspire.

What conservative wouldn’t get red-faced over the Left’s tactics, what Coulter describes as an amalgam of hate, insincerity, and outright deception.

Coulter ties the Left in knots via her mob mentality description, based on the 1896 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon — who might as well get a co-author credit here.

“Democrats activate mobs, depend on mobs, coddle mobs, publicize and celebrate mobs — they are the mob,” she writes. And if that weren’t scabrous enough, she’s just getting started.

“The Democrats’ playbook doesn’t involve heads on pikes — as yet,” she writes.

It’s Coulter being Coulter, and if you’re offended it would probably make her day.

Coulter boils down support for ObamaCare via the “mob mentality” lens: “it will provide health care for 30 million uninsured Americans, everyone’s health care will improve — and their plan would save money! … Only the mob could believe it,” she writes.

In “The Historical Context of the Left,” Coulter fashions herself a politically incorrect professor out to label the Left as the heirs to the French Revolution, a topic previously explored in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism.

“Liberals don’t like to talk about the French Revolution because it’s the history of them,” she writes, before recalling the beheadings and other atrocities from the era.

It’s an imaginative, if incendiary, way to view the likes of MoveOn.org and the union thugs, but Coulter wastes far too much pulp on the matter. A Coulter book should be read in a few intoxicating sittings.

She later turns her attention to the American Revolution, delivered in her own inimitable style. The text does support tea partier Sarah Palin when it describes how Paul Revere warned the British they would be massacred if it they went near Lexington Green.

One tenuous connection between the two revolutions was Thomas Paine, who inexplicably supported the mob-like tactics practiced by the French.

“He was a historical one-hit wonder, desperately trying to find that follow-up single that would put him back on top,” she writes.