Randiv gets one-match ban, Dilshan fined

It was the no-ball of the century, and wrists have been slapped. Ensuring that the breach of the spirit of the game did not go unpunished, an interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket has reprimanded captain Kumar Sangakkara, penalized instigator Tillakaratne Dilshan and banned perpetrator Suraj Randiv for one game for deliberating overstepping to deny Virender Sehwag a century.

It was a grey area in the laws and no rules were flouted. But the issue snowballed into a major controversy, forcing the Lankan board to take strict action on a day in which Sangakkara took on Sehwag and hinted that the powerful Indian cricket board’s strong-arm tactics had put his team in a corner.

Sehwag might have missed a ton but the evidence presented by the TV cameras and boom microphones was not so easily denied. Sri Lanka Cricket has suspended Suraj Randiv for Thursday’s game against New Zealand and his match fee from the India game has been forfeited.

Tillakaratne Dilshan’s match fee too has been forfeited, though he has not been banned. Kumar Sangakkara got away the easiest, though the board said he had been advised to ensure that repetition of such incidents did not occur where disrepute will be brought to the game of cricket.

"We know the International Cricket Council (ICC) was watching us keenly and even the MCC said its laws were valid, but we did not go into the intricacies of the law as such," SLC secretary Nishantha Ranatunga told TOI after the board’s verdict, which came after a marathon three-hour meeting of the interim committee in Colombo.

"We were just concerned about the team not playing in the right spirit. It was a tough decision to arrive at but our job was made easier because the evidence we had asked for us was very strong. It is a must to ensure that the spirit of the game is upheld at all times by the players, no matter what the situation is. We have been twice winners of the ICC Spirit of Cricket award and the captain has been told such actions will not be tolerated at any cost," he added.

The committee had asked for footage from the broadcasters of the last over. Dilshan, who was fielding at point, was in action during the second and third balls of the 35th over, which Sehwag played toward him. After the second ball, when scores were level and Sehwag was on 99, Dilshan threw the ball to Randiv and said loudly in Sinhalese, ‘Oney nam, no ball ekak danna puluwan’ (If you want, you can bowl a no-ball). The footage shows Sehwag taking guard at that moment but Dilshan’s voice is so loud it is apparent the captain and a few others would have heard it, including Sehwag, who doesn’t understand Sinhalese.

At the post-match media interaction, the issue escalated when Sehwag said the captain and a senior player must been known about Randiv’s intentions. The SLC’s verdict seems to bear him out. Sangakkara, however, has denied playing any role in the incident and said he "strongly disapproved of coercion".

Adding an ironic twist to the whole saga is the fact that Sehwag and Dilshan are IPL teammates. Two SLC members, Ranatunga and DS De Silva, were headed to Dambulla from Colombo to further meet with the players.

The ICC, which expressed regret on Tuesday that it could not act, has commended the SLC for acting swiftly and decisively. As far as the ICC is concerned the matter is now closed, chief executive Haroon Lorgat was quoted as saying in a statement, "This is a clear sign that the notion of fair play is still very important."

ICC’s media manager James Fitzgerald told TOI that under article 2.1.8 of the Code of Conduct, action could have been taken by the world body itself, but no one had filed a complaint.

Militant groups LeT, JeM, HuJI set up relief camps in Pak for flood victims

Banned militant groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, blamed for terror strikes in India, have set up camps in Karachi to raise funds to help victims of the worst ever deluge sweeping Pakistan. Office-bearers of the groups said the ban imposed on them has compelled them to work under different names. The work of these groups is reminiscent of their activities during the 2005 earthquake, when they had more resources than the government itself.

The groups claim they have collected millions of rupees for the flood victims and that they are engaged in relief and rescue operations in affected areas, a newspaper reported. The groups have given food and medical facilities to the survivors. Other militant groups engaged in relief operations are the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, blamed by India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Harkatul Mujahideen, Hizbut Tahrir and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. "JuD, under the name of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan, has set up around 29 relief camps at Khalid Bin Waleed Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulstan-e-Jauhar, Landhi, Clifton, Korangi and other areas (of Karachi)," an office-bearer of the organisation told the daily.

Initially, the JuD set up its camp under its own name but police started demanding extortion money, said a man identified only as Hussain, who is in-charge of the camp outside the Jamia Masjid at Khalid Bin Waleed Road. "(The police says that since) we are a terrorist organisation, we have to give them a share of our earnings," said Hussain. "When we tried to explain that this is charitable work, they started demolishing our camps, saying that we were banned organisations." The chief of JuD's Karachi division, Naveed Qamar, believes that the organisation was banned to appease the US and its allies as it has "nothing to do with terrorism."

He claimed the JuD runs a large network of Islamic schools and clinics and is engaged in welfare activities like disaster relief. "We provide cooked food to 50,000 flood survivors in all four provinces every day and very soon we will reach out to 100,000 survivors," said Qamar. The JuD claims to have distributed ration packets to around 8,000 families. Each packet costs Rs 3,200 and has ghee, rice, pulses, soap and other items.

Mamata welcomes Kishenji’s offer

Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday welcomed Maoist leader Kishenji’s ceasefire offer and said all problems should be solved by diplomatic process.

“In a democratic set up we are for amicable and peaceful solution. I have heard the Independence speeches of the President and the Prime Minister. They also spoke in the same line,” she told reporters here before leaving for Delhi.

“If they (Maoists) responded to the President’s and Prime Minister’s appeal it is good for the country. Let the problem be solved through democratic process,” she said.

Referring to Kishenji’s statement calling for a three-month ceasefire by both sides and that they have no problem if Ms. Banerjee mediates, she said, “It is the government to decide. I have seen only media reports (on Kishenji’s statement). Let me cross check all details.”

On her statement on the killing of senior Maoist leader Azad during her recent rally at Lalgarh on August 9, Ms. Banerjee said “Whatever I had said in Lalgarh I stick to it. I made the statement in my party capacity.”

Deadly diseases could hit flood-stricken Pakistan

In grief-stricken Pakistan, where relentless flooding has destroyed houses, taken lives and ruined entire villages for more than two weeks, water is both villain and savior. About one-fifth of the country is submerged under murky water from torrential monsoon rains. Children and adults wade in the filthy waters, pleading for help. The only recourses are clean water and medical care -- but both are in short supply.

Polluted floodwaters, officials fear, could lead to deadly diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis and cholera -- especially among children. Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk of deadly waterborne diseases, said Maurizio Giuliano of the United Nations' humanitarian affairs office. The United Nations has called for $166 million for clean water and medical care, but has only received $25 million.

The death toll has now topped 1,400. About 900,000 homes have been damaged, and the monsoon season is only about halfway over. The overall global response has not been nearly enough, according to an International Rescue Committee-chaired consortium called the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum. About $150 million had been received from nations around the world by Monday, the group said in a statement, but much more is needed.

"The international response to the disaster has been too small to even begin to effectively address the needs of survivors," said Tammy Hasselfeldt, the country director of the International Rescue Committee. "The most urgent priority is to ensure that safe water as well as medicines are available, food supplies are restored and transportation networks fixed to accelerate the delivery of desperately needed aid."

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said over the weekend that about 20 million people had been affected by the floods. According to ReliefWeb.int, more than two dozen countries, organizations and individuals have pledged more than $300 million in aid. The United States has committed about $76 million for emergency flood relief assistance. But delivering the goods to flood victims is another nightmare in itself. Travel by vehicles and foot is often impossible, and the country is relying heavily on helicopters and boats to bring aid. Meanwhile, families continue to stomp through mud carrying whatever belongings they can salvage, passing dead livestock, with nowhere to go.

Bomb Wracks Offices in Colombia Capital, Injures 9

A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia's capital Thursday, shattering windows in dozens of buildings and injuring nine people, police said. No deaths were reported.

It was the first car bombing in Bogota since a blast killed two people a year and a half ago, and came five days after Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in as president.

The blast occurred at 5:30 a.m. outside a 12-story building housing Caracol Radio, the Spanish news agency EFE and the Ecuadorean consulate, as well as the offices of several banks and politicians, including former President Cesar Gaviria.

Investigators were not sure of the target or who was behind the bombing, said Hermes Ardila, chief of prosecutors in a special anti-terrorism unit. He said by telephone eight hours after the bombing that investigators had not linked the attack to any particular armed group.

The president hurried to the scene and called the explosion "a terrorist act," saying it was meant to sow fear and create skepticism about the government.

"We are going to continue fighting terrorism with everything we have," said Santos, who took office Saturday. He replaced Alvaro Uribe, whose tough tactics sharply weakened the leftist guerrilla groups that have fought the government for decades.

Santos toured the blast site surrounded by security agents and urged Colombians to go on with normal activities.

Bogota's health secretary, Hector Zambrano, said at least nine people were injured. Most were treated for cuts and released, but three people remained under care, he said.

Pinzon said most of those hurt had been on a bus that was passing by as the bomb exploded. Authorities said no arrests had been made.

The national police operations director, Gen. Orlando Paez, said the car was packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives and the blast shattered windows in at least 30 buildings, smashed the facade of a bank and left scraps of the destroyed car scattered in the street.

Zimbabwe launches 'humane' diamonds sale

Zimbabwe launched its first multi-million dollar diamond sale this week since obtaining certification last month that the nation's precious stones are harvested humanely and are not "blood diamonds."

The sale of 900,000 carats of diamonds Tuesday netted some $72 million, according to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which certifies rough diamond exports.

The World Diamond Council last month authorized Zimbabwe to carry out two supervised exports of rough diamonds by September.

"If this is a victory for anyone, it is a victory for the Kimberly Process," said Kimberly Chair Boaz Hirsch. "The past several months have been difficult, but they have clearly demonstrated that not only does the Kimberley Process have teeth, it also is able to achieve results."

Kimberley had prohibited the export of diamonds from Zimbabwe since last year after the military took over the nation's diamond fields in late 2008.

The Kimberley Process said last year that illegal diamond mining by Zimbabwean troops was leading to bloodshed and attacks against civilians. The global watchdog group made the claims after residents and workers contributed accounts of attacks during a week-long probe.

The probe started days after a Human Rights Watch report accused the nation's armed forces of violently taking over the diamond fields in Marange district and killing about 200 people since last year. Some victims of the clash were buried in mass graves, the report said.

After an investigation last summer, Kimberly Process officials urged the government to demilitarize the diamond fields and investigate the accusations against the military.

Separately, Human Rights Watch accused Zimbabwe's armed forces of funneling money from the diamond fields into ZANU-PF, President Robert Mugabe's party. The government decried some aspects of the report, saying the critics were trying to smear the Mugabe's party.

"I can confirm that there has been illegal mining taking place in Zimbabwe, but we seem to be getting on top of the situation now," Kembo Mohadi, Zimbabwe's co-minister of home affairs, said at the time.

The government has not been able to verify allegations of deaths and mass graves, Mohadi said.

"As a responsible government, we have started investigating these reports," he said, adding that mining proceeds in the cash-strapped nation are not being distributed to any particular group.

"The money will not be handled by any party but by the Treasury," he said.

Blood diamonds have been in the news in recent weeks because of the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is accused of fueling a bloody civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone through the sale of diamonds that led to widespread murder, rape, and mutilation. The conflict ended in 2002.

During the decade-long conflict, teenagers from the Taylor-backed Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder. They were supplied with weapons directly funded from the proceeds of diamond sales, according to the United Nations.

In 2002, a United Nations-backed court was established in Sierra Leone to try Taylor on war crimes charges. It was later moved to The Hague in 2008 over concerns that Taylor's presence would harm stability and security in the region.

Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement. He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law. He denies the charges.

He is the first African head of state to go on trial for war crimes before an international tribunal.

Under the Kimberley Process -- launched in 2003 -- members are required to certify that all rough diamond exports are produced through legitimate mining and sales activities and are "conflict-free."

Each shipment carries a certificate that details where the diamonds came from, how they were mined, where they were cut and polished, the parties involved, and their ultimate destination. The idea is that members of the Kimberley Process cannot trade with non-members.

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China braces for more floods as heavy rains predicted

Survivors of the landslides in north-western China are braced for further misery as forecasters predict more heavy rains.

At least 702 people died when mud and debris swept through Zhouqu, in Gansu province, late on Saturday night and 1,042 are missing. There is little hope of finding more survivors among what are thought to be the hundreds who were buried alive in metres of sludge.

The 10,000 rescue and relief workers are continuing to search for bodies but attention is turning to the threat of disease.

Crews in protective suits have sprayed chemical disinfectant across the ground and over machinery. State media has reported numerous cases of dysentery and warned of a serious shortage of drinking water, with most local sources destroyed or polluted.

One survivor, Yang Jianjie, gave a graphic description of the moment landslides engulfed the county seat. He stood hand in hand with his parents and grandfather on the roof of their home as the tide of mud swept towards them – only to be separated as the two-storey building collapsed.

"Mud and rocks slammed my parents and grandfather in the face and buried them," the 20-year-old told the China Daily newspaper.

The Bailong river burst its banks, sending water coursing through the narrow valley.

Shen Si watched as troops dug at the site of her buried home to reach the bodies of her relatives. "My mother and father were in their 60s and my younger brothers, all three of them, are buried here in our house still," she said.

Torrential rains on Saturday night triggered the landslide and flooding. Experts have said 2008's earthquake in neighbouring Sichuan loosened rock faces. But government reports show that officials had been warning for years that deforestation and rapid hydro development were increasing the risk of landslips in the area.

"This has happened before. The government knew it could happen again and did nothing to prevent it," said a farmer called Yang, who did not want to give his full name. Five of his relatives were buried in the mudslide and he was digging to find them.

There are concerns the barrier lake that has formed could overflow or burst, especially if there is further rain. Soldiers have been blasting explosives at the barrier to clear debris and help reduce water levels. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated.

Separately, a Chinese paper reported that residents along the north bank of the Yellow river in Henan province fear for their lives after heavy rain gouged holes in a newly built flood control dam.

"Every time when we hear the rain is coming we are too scared to sleep in the evening," a party secretary from one village was quoted as saying in Dahe Daily.

Wang Dayong, head of the Yellow River Affairs Bureau of Yuanyang, acknowledged the dam had been damaged but told the Global Times reports were exaggerated and the structure was strong enough.

Oil slick coats Arabian Sea after ships collide

Indian coast guard vessels and helicopters worked Monday to contain an oil spill from a stricken container ship that collided with another vessel in the Arabian Sea, a spokesman for India's defence ministry said.

The Panamanian-registered MSC Chitra smashed into the St. Kitts-registered MV-Khalijia-II on Saturday near Mumbai's Jawahar Lal Nehru port. The accident caused MSC Chitra to run aground and list heavily to one side, Capt. Manohar Nambiar told The Associated Press.

Helicopters sprayed chemicals on the oil spill to prevent it from spreading, Nambiar said.

The amount of oil leaked was unclear. The environment minister of Maharashtra state told reporters Monday about two tonnes of oil was pouring into the water every hour.

The MSC Chitra's cargo included several thousand tonnes of oil products such as diesel and lubricants, Environment Minister Suresh Shetty said, adding the government was consulting foreign experts on how best to contain the spill.

Government officials in several coastal areas near Mumbai have been asked to test sea water samples in their area to check how far the oil from the spill may have spread Chhagan Bhujbal, another senior minister, told reporters.

The captains of both vessels have also been asked to appear before local officials to explain how the collision took place, police said.

At least 250 containers from the damaged vessel fell off and port officials were trying to salvage them to avoid navigational hazards to other ships, officials said.

Crews from both vessels were rescued without any serious injuries, Nambiar said.

Chinese military clears landslide debris blocking river

Rescue teams cleared debris holding back potential flood waters in northwestern China Monday, where massive mudslide have left at least 127 people dead and some 1,300 missing, state-run media reported.

The Chinese military used explosives to blast the blockage in the Bailong River, in Gansu Province, a spokesman with the emergency rescue headquarters told China's Xinhua news agency. Excavators also were used to remove the debris and start a controled release of the water.

Authorities report 76 people have been injured and about 45,000 have been evacuated from Zhouqu County in the country's northwest, according to a statement from the provincial civil affairs department.

The landslides occurred early Sunday morning after heavy rains started pummeling the area Saturday, authorities said. On Sunday afternoon, Premier Wen Jiabao and other government officials arrived at the mountainous region to survey the damage, according to Xinhua.

Wen also insisted that electricity be restored and traffic resumed in Zhouqu County as soon as possible.

The premiere sludged through the mud and rocks in the badly hit Sanyan Valley, where some 300 households were totally submerged by the mudslides, Xinhua reported.

The mudslides caused the Bailong River to become obstructed and overflow, and sent water rushing over its banks, state-run CCTV reported.

The water level in the county seat of Chengguan Township had receded by 40 cm (16 inches) Sunday, after floodwaters carrying mud and rocks submerged half the town, Mao Shengwu, head of the prefecture, told the news agency.

"Torrential rains began to fall at around 10 p.m. Saturday. Then there were mudslides and many people became trapped. Now sludge has become the biggest hindrance to rescue operations. It's too thick to walk or drive through," said an official identified by Xinhua only as Diemujiangteng, head of the county.

"Since excavators can't reach the site, we can only use spades and our hands to rescue the buried," He Youxin, an officer with the Gannan branch of the Gansu Headquarters of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, told the news agency.

His rescue team has saved 23 people and recovered 15 bodies, he said. But, "It's very hard to locate the people washed away by floods. It's hard to say what their chances of survival are," he said.

The news agency said the police rescued two children and three adults who were trapped atop a seven-story building, half of which had been washed away by the flood waters, according to a video clip shot by a police officer shown on Chinese Central Television.

More than 300 homes in Yueyuan Village in the county had been buried. But the number of deaths were not known, Mao told the news agency.

A total of 600 soldiers arrived at Zhouqu County in China's Gansu Province to perform relief work, Xinhua said. Three other detachments consisting of more than 1,700 soldiers as well as a 180-member medical team are on their way to the affected areas. China's armed police have also sent 2,100 members to help, the news agency reported.

By Sunday afternoon, the provincial civil affairs department had sent 3,900 tents, about 40,000 boxes of instant noodles and 31,300 boxes of bottled drinking water to the county. But the county still needs 441 tons (400 metric tonnes) of drinking water and 22 tons (20 tonnes) of instant food, said a spokesman with the prefecture's government, according to Xinhua.

The county needs an estimated 11,023 tons (10,000 tonnes) of water and 551 tons (500 tonnes) of instant food in the next 25 days, Xinhua reported.

16 killed, seven trapped in China gold mine fire

At least 16 workers were killed and seven trapped underground after a major fire engulfed a gold mine in east China's Shandong province, officials said today.

The fire broke out last night at Luoshan gold mine in Zhaoyuan city and rescuers workers managed to pull over 300 workers to safety.

Most of the 16 workers died due to suffocation caused by overwhelming toxic smoke in the underground mine, officials said.

Some of them died in hospital, according to medical workers at Luoshan gold mine.

The fire broke out when 329 miners were working underground, local officials said. The underground blaze had been put out by this morning but power to parts of the shaft was yet to be restored.

All but seven miners had been lifted to the ground, official Xinhua news agency reported.

The rescue authorities initially reported that eight remained trapped but later corrected the figure to seven.

The rescued miners appeared in good health but had their eyes covered with white cloth to avoid sudden exposure to the sun.

Dozens of the injured had been hospitalised.

Rescuers said they had established contact with the seven trapped miners and were on track to lift them from the mine.

An initial investigation showed that the fire was likely to have been caused by an underground cable. The owner of the mine was taken into police custody, a spokesman with the rescue headquarters said.

Luo Lin, head of the state administration of work safety, led a ten-member work-team to Zhaoyuan. Previously, top provincial officials had arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue and the investigation.

Top Obama Economic Adviser Christina Romer Bailing Out

Christina Romer, one of President Obama's top economic advisers, plans to step down effective Sept. 3.

Romer, head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, has been one of the administration's most prominent voices on the economy, making frequent appearances on TV and at White House events to promote Obama's policies. She also was reported to have butted heads with other members of Obama's economic team, in particular Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council.

In December, the she sand Summers even seemed to contradict each other -- in interviews conducted on the same day -- on whether the recession had ended.

"Everybody agrees that the recession is over," Summers said.

"Of course not," Romer said in a separate interview.

The clash appeared at the time to speak not just to the differing views on the economy within Obama's inner circle but also to the sharply conflicting signals out of the economy itself, which continues to struggle to rebound.

Her resignation comes as the White House labors to convince the public that the economy is on the right track amid near-double digit unemployment.

"Christy Romer has provided extraordinary service to me and our country during a time of economic crisis and recovery," Obama said in a written statement. "The challenges we faced demanded more of Christy than any of her predecessors, and I greatly valued and appreciated her skill, commitment and wise counsel.

The White House cast Romer's decision as an unsurprising one driven by family reasons: Romer plans to return to California, where her son will be starting high school. She also is returning to the University of California, Berkley as an economics professor.

One administration official, speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss internal relations at the White House, downplayed any tension between Romer and Summers, saying the pair often emerged as strong allies.

Summers said Monday night that Romer has been "an extraordinary friend and colleague at the White House," and he looked forward to drawing on her advice in the future.

Latest deaths spark fresh protests in Indian Kashmir

Two more protesters died in clashes with security forces in Indian Kashmir, police said Thursday, dashing hopes of calm returning to the region roiled by weeks of anti-India protests.

Violent demonstrations erupted despite an appeal for restraint from influential separatist politician Syed Ali Geelani.

"Demonstrations should be peaceful," Geelani said on Wednesday. "Wherever you are stopped, sit down and tell them 'now you can fire at us', but don't indulge in violence."

Police officials said security forces late Wednesday opened fire killing two people in Srinagar, the summer capital of Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir.

The shootings sparked further protests in Srinagar in defiance of curfew orders. Police said protesters attacked police and paramilitary posts.

The Kashmir Valley has been rocked by violent protests against rule from New Delhi since the death in early June of a teenage student who was killed by a police tear-gas shell.

Some 47 people have been killed, most of them shot dead by security forces.

'Solar tsunami' may hit Earth anytime: Scientists

The Earth could be hit by a 'solar tsunami' anytime now as an unusually complex magnetic eruption on the Sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards our planet, scientists have warned.

Several satellites, including NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), recorded on Sunday a small solar flare erupting above sunspot 1092, the size of the Earth.

The satellites also recorded a large filament of cool gas stretching across the Sun's northern hemisphere also exploded into space.

The explosion, called a coronal mass ejection, was aimed directly towards Earth, which then sent a 'solar tsunami' racing 93 million miles across space, the New Scientist reported.

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Rainbow Bridge Centennial - National Monument!

Less than ten months after the discovery expedition to Rainbow Bridge, President William Howard Taft proclaimed the site a National Monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act.

Rainbow Bridge NM was set aside on May 30, 1910 by President Taft because the natural bridge itself "...is of great scientific interest as an example of eccentric stream erosion, and it appears that the public interest would be promoted by reserving this bridge as a National Monument..."

(Wayne Ranney)

Appearence Saturday, May 29, 2010
10:00am - 12:00noon at Rainbow Bridge National Monument

Wayne Ranney will be at Rainbow Bridge to speak casually with visitors and answer questions about the geology of the bridge and the area.

This appearance was made possible by the Arizona Humanities Council.

New 3D Playstation 4!

PlayStation - 3 to stream Major League Baseball!

Sony Corporation announced yesterday plans to stream live out-of-market Major League Baseball games over the Internet via the league’s MLB.TV subscription service to its PlayStation 3 consoles to expand its online offerings and attract users other than gamers.

Sony is preparing an update for the console software to enable streaming on its existing machines for North American PS3 owners, the company said in a release. The streaming deal is Major League Baseball’s first such agreement with a video-game company, according to the New York Times, and Sony’s first for the PS3. The two companies will split revenues, the newspaper said, without giving further details.

PlayStation Network online service customers will be able to gain access to the existing MLB.TV package, which includes hundreds of baseball games — excluding local team games and others that are broadcast on TV — for an annual fee. MLB’s internet package is the No. 1 most-profitable video-streaming service on the web, according to CNET.

The MLB.TV subscription package is already accessible on some cellphones and web-stream devices, some of those favoured by other sports leagues. National Hockey League games were recently made available via subscription on Boxee, a media centre software that allows users to watch TV programs and movies on personal computers, according to a posting on Boxee’s official blog. The National Basketball Association offers game highlights and statistics free on Roku, Netflix’s streaming receiver box.

IPL Matches,schedule Dates and Locations

The IPL (Indian Premier League) 2009, which is the second season of the most popular Twenty20 tournament, will begin on April 18 in South Africa. The first match will be played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Cape Town. The revised IPL Schedule has been released by IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi.

The semi-finals will be held at Pretoria and Johannesburg. Final will be held at Johannesburg on May 24. There will be eight venues in the IPL Season II. The day matches will begin at 4 PM and the night matches will begin at 8 PM. All matches are according to the Indian Standard Time (IST).

The eight teams in the fray are: Rajasthan Royals (RR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Kolkata KnightRiders (KKR), Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Deccan Chargers (DC), Mumbai Indians (MI), Delhi Daredevils (DD) and Kings XI Punjab (KXIP).

Complete Schedule of IPL Season II (2009) with IST:

April 18: RR vs RCB (Cape Town) - 4 PM
April 18: MI vs CSK - 8 PM
April 19: KKR vs DC(Cape Town) - 4 PM
April 19: DD vs KXIP (Cape Town) - 8 PM
April 20: RCB vs CSK (Port Elizabeth) - 4 PM
April 21: RR vs MI (Durban) - 4 PM
April 21: KKR vs KXIP (Durban) - 8 PM
April 22: DD vs CSK (Durban) - 4 PM
April 22: RCB vs DC (Cape Town) - 8 PM
April 23: KKR vs RR (Port Elizabeth) - 4 PM
April 24: KXIP vs RCB (Johannesburg) - 4 PM
April 25: KKR vs CSK (Cape Town) -4 PM
April 25: DC vs MI (Durban) - 8 PM
April 26: RR vs KXIP (Cape Town) - 4 PM
April 26: RCB vs DD (Port Elizabeth) - 8 PM
April 27: KKR vs MI (Cape Town) - 4 PM
April 27: CSK vs DC (Durban) - 8 PM
April 28: DD vs RR (Pretoria) - 4 PM
April 29: MI vs KXIP (Durban) - 4 PM
April 29: KKR v RCB (Durban) - 8 PM
April 30: DD v DC (Pretoria) - 4 PM
April 30: RR vs CSK (Pretoria) - 8 PM
May 1: RCB vs KXIP (East London) - 4 PM
May 1: MI vs KKR (Durban) - 8 PM
May 2: RR vs DC (Johannesburg) - 4 PM
May 2: CSK vs DD (Port Elizabeth) - 8 PM
May 3: MI vs RCB (Durban) - 4 PM
May 3: KXIP vs KKR (East London) - 8 PM
May 4: DC vs CSK (Port Elizabeth) - 4 PM
May 5: DD vs KKR (Durban) - 4 PM
May 5: KXIP vs RR (Durban) - 8 PM
May 6: MI vs DC (Pretoria) - 4 PM
May 7: KXIP vs CSK (Pretoria) - 4 PM
May 7: RCB vs RR (Pretoria) - 8 PM
May 8: DD vs MI (East London) - 4 PM
May 9: DC vs KXIP (Bloemfontein) - 4 PM
May 9: CSK vs RR (Port Elizabeth) - 8 PM
May 10: KKR vs DD (East London) - 4 PM
May 10: RCB vs MI (Johannesburg) - 8 PM
May 11: DC vs RR (Bloemfontein) - 4 PM
May 12: RCB vs KKR (Pretoria) - 4 PM
May 12: KXIP vs MI (Pretoria) - 8 PM
May 13: DC vs DD (Durban) - 4 PM
May 14: MI vs RR (Durban) - 4 PM
May 14: CSK vs RCB (Durban) - 8 PM
May 15: KXIP vs DD (Kimberley) - 4 PM
May 16: CSK vs MI (Johannesburg) - 4 PM
May 16: DC vs KKR (Port Elizabeth) - 8 PM
May 17: RR vs DD (Kimberley) - 4 PM
May 17: KXIP vs DC (Johannesburg) - 8 PM
May 18: CSK vs KKR (Pretoria) - 4 PM
May 19: DD vs RCB (Johannesburg) - 4 PM
May 20: CSK vs KXIP (Durban) - 4 PM
May 20: RR vs KKR (Durban) - 8 PM
May 21: DC vs RCB (Pretoria) - 4 PM
May 21: MI vs DD (Pretoria) - 8 PM

May 22: 1st Semi Final (Pretoria)
May 23: 2nd Semi Final (Johannesburg)

May 24: Final (Johannesburg)

Child Safety Points While Using Airbags

• Children 12 and under should ride buckled up in a rear seat.


• Infants in rear facing child safety seats should NEVER ride in the front seat of a vehicle with a passenger side air bag.

• Small children should ride in a rear seat in child safety seats approved for their age and size.

• If a child over one year old must ride in the front seat with a passenger side air bag, put the child in a front facing child safety seat, a booster seat, or a correct fitting lap/shoulder belt — AND move the seat as far back as possible.

Next Barbiedoll is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

As the Barbie doll inclusive its 50th year, Mattel Toys has determined to launch a Barbie doll foundation on the looks of beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The actress is said to have been come up to by the makers, a couple of months back. But Ash required to be sure about the entire look of the doll.

We spoke to our source,

“Aishwarya is quite happy and delighted that she had been approached for this honor. But she is very particular about her image and therefore didn’t covet the doll to look anything that she wasn’t comfortable with,”

added the source also adds that the early reports of the doll have been good and so Mattel Toys is now planning to speed up production and allocate the dolls within India and globally in countries like United Kingdom and Dubai where Bollywood has a strong fan following, predominantly Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s fans.

Aishwarya Barbie Doll all set to hit our shops; the actress will connect the ranks of Hollywood divas like Beyoncé Knowles, Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross, who have all had their own restricted version superstar Barbies.

Try these breakfast tips and ideas

• When you're choosing a breakfast cereal, try to go for one that contains wholegrains and is lower in salt and sugar. Serve your cereal with semi-skimmed, 1% or skimmed milk, or low-fat yoghurt (but remember 1% or skimmed milk isn't suitable for children under five).

• Try to fit in some fruit - fresh, frozen, tinned or dried fruit all count towards your five daily portions of fruit and veg. Put slices of banana on your toast, or add chunks of apple, berries, or dried fruit to your cereal.

• Wash down your breakfast with some fruit juice - this will count as one of your fruit and veg portions, as long as it's 100% juice. A glass (150ml) of fruit juice counts as a maximum of one portion a day.

• Make your toast with wholemeal or granary bread. And use just a small amount of low-fat spread and some jam or marmalade. Choose a spread that is high in polyunsaturates or monounsaturates (both types of unsaturated fat), instead of one that's high in saturated fat, such as butter. Having unsaturated fat instead of saturated fat can help to lower your cholesterol.

• Why not try a fruit smoothie? If you have time, you could make it the night before and store it in the fridge, or prepare all the ingredients ready to buzz in a blender in the morning. Use fresh fruit such as banana and strawberries and some plain low-fat yoghurt or milk. Try adding some wholegrain cereal for extra fibre. Or puree a few canned apricot halves with some orange juice.

• Porridge oats are cheap and contain lots of vitamins, minerals and fibre. Make your porridge with semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, or water. If you add salt to your porridge, try to get out of the habit. Add a few dried apricots or a sliced banana for extra flavour instead.

• For a change from ordinary toast, try a wholemeal English muffin or some toasted fruit bread.

• When you have more time, why not have a poached egg and mushrooms on toast? Fry the mushrooms in a non-stick pan with just a small amount of vegetable oil.

• If you have kids, try to have breakfast together when you can. This will help encourage them to eat breakfast.
• When you have time, it's fun for kids to help make their own breakfast - you could keep different cereals in the cupboard that they can mix together in a bowl. And try to have a variety of foods they can sprinkle on top, such as raisins, nuts and dried banana.

• An occasional full English breakfast can be part of a healthy balanced diet - just try not to have one too often.

Amazing Rainbow Displays

A rainbow spans an incessant spectrum of colours. Conventionally, however, the series is quantized. The most commonly cited and remembered sequence, in English, is Newton's sevenfold red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. "Roy G. Biv" and "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" are popular mnemonics.

Rainbows can be caused by other forms of water than rain, including mist, spray, and dew.Rainbows can be experiential whenever there are water drops in the air and sunlight shining from behind a person at a low altitude angle (on the ground). The most amazing rainbow displays happen when half of the sky is still dark with draining clouds and the observer is at a spot with clear sky in the direction of the Sun. The result is a luminous rainbow that contrasts with the darkened background.

The rainbow effect is also commonly seen near waterfalls or fountains. The effect can also be artificially created by dispersing water droplets into the air during a sunny day. Rarely, a moonbow, lunar rainbow or night-time rainbow, can be seen on strongly moonlit nights. As human visual perception for colour is poor in low light, moonbows are often perceived to be white. It is difficult to photograph the complete arc of a rainbow, as this would require an angle of view of 84°. For a 35 mm camera, a lens with a focal length of 19 mm or less wide-angle lens would be required. From an aeroplane, one has the opportunity to see the whole circle of the rainbow, with the plane's shadow in the centre. This phenomenon can be confused with the glory, but a glory is usually much smaller, covering only 5°–20°.

Heliocentrism

In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Milky Way. The word came from the Greek (ήλιος Helios = sun and κέντρον kentron = center). Historically, heliocentrism was opposite to geocentrism, which located the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but very significant relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion). The Greek Aristarchus of Samos, in the 3rd century BC, was the first known person to wonder that the Earth revolves around a stationary sun. It was not until 1,800 years later, though, in the 16th century, that the Polish mathematician and astronomer Copernicus obtainable a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system, which was later, elaborated and prolonged by Johannes Kepler.

Fat

Fats consist of a wide collection of compounds that are usually soluble in organic solvents and mainly insoluble in water. Chemically, fats are normally triesters of glycerol and fatty acids. Fats may be either solid or liquid at normal room temperature, depending on their structure and composition. Though the words "oils", "fats", and "lipids" are all used to refer to fats, "oils" is usually used to refer to fats that are liquids at usual room temperature, while "fats" is usually used to refer to fats that are solids at regular room temperature. "Lipids" is used to refer to both liquid and solid fats, the length of with other related substances. The word "oil" is used for any substance that does not combine with water and has a greasy feel, such as petroleum (or crude oil) and heating oil, in spite of of its chemical structure.

Why is my kid a choosy eater?

Little kids start to extend taste predilections in the early days and like to pursue their own normal instincts concerning what and how greatly they consume. Their tastes tend to be exaggerated by intensification series. If they are not departing throughout a quick growth segment their desires are more liable to be unpredictable and this is frequently the case in this age faction. Immature children strive to apply some quantity of self-rule by emphasizing power over their ingestion habits and grasp awareness. A stage of finicky intake may occur subsequent illness or may concur with the confinement of a brother or sister. Blood relations may see this behavior as a setback but in this age faction it can be well thought-out reasonably normal.

What Are Overweight and fatness?

The terms “obese” and “fatness” refer to a person’s general body weight and where the additional influence comes from. Overweight is having additional body mass from muscle, fillet, plump, and/or water. Obesity is having a soaring amount of additional body plump. The most helpful measure of flabby and stoutness is the body mass index. It is based on tallness and heaviness and is used for grown-up, kids, and teens.

Millions of Americans and populace all-inclusive are overweight or corpulent. Being overweight or stout puts you at hazard for many infections and stipulations. The extra body obese that you carry around and the additional you weigh up, the more likely you are to expand heart illness, high blood anxiety, type 2 diabetes, gallstones, inhalation problems, and certain malignancies.

Certain belongings, like family narration, can’t be distorted. Yet, other things—like a person’s everyday life habits—can be altered. You can help avoid or treat stout and obesity if you:

• Follow a healthy diet, while keeping your calorie desires in mind
• Are actually active
• Limit the instant you splurge being physically dormant.

Weight loss remedies and surgical treatment also are alternatives for some people who need to drop weight if existence changes don’t work.

The Importance Of Cell Phones In Modern Society

Mobile phones enclose a requirement for many people right through the world. The facility to keep in touch with people, production associates, and right to use email are only a small amount of the reasons for the rising consequence of cell phones. Today's precisely sophisticated cell phones are proficient of not only getting and placing phone calls, but storing data, enchanting pictures, and can even be utilized as walkie talkies, to name just a small number of the accessible options.

When mobile phones were foremost launched to the public, they were large, costly, and some even requisite a base component that had to be moved along with the mobile phone. Good welcome was a main problem and in common, early cell phones could merely be used in definite locations were the gesture was predominantly sturdy. As cell phone equipment highly developed, the complex in using them became less of a hitch.

Cell phones are the wonderful way to stay related with others and afford the user with a logic of protection. In the urgent situation, having a cell phone can consent help to get you hastily and could probably save lives. Recent cell phones are proficient of internet use, sending and getting photos and files, and a few cell phones are prepared with GPS technology, agree to use in most localities around the earth and permitting the mobile phone to be found or the consumer located in the occurrence of thrashing or urgent situation.

Nuclear Plant In Wisconsin

The point shore nuclear plant in Wisconsin is undergone some extraordinary examination by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the effect of an electrical transformer breakdown last week, the NRC said on Tuesday.

The transformer was unsuccessful on Jan. 15, which causes the 514-megawatt Unit 1 to drop power from exterior to the plant, which is situated near Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and owned by FPL power. The FPL Group Inc contributory last October bought the two-unit plant for $924 million from Wisconsin power Corporation.

Power supply networks are the time support of new industry, except their quality and consistency are not often questioned. Manufacturers are essentially involved only in whether current is flowing or not. The greater part of company never inquiry how good or bad the value of the power source they are using basically is.

Health

Health is the intensity of functional and metabolic effectiveness of an organism at both the cellular and macro social level. In the medical field, health is generally defined as an organism's aptitude to efficiently respond to challenges and effectively restore and maintain a "state of balance," known as homeostasis.

A rising measure of the health of populations is height, which is powerfully regulated by nutrition and health care, among other set of living and quality of life matters. The lessons of human growth, its regulators and its implications are known as auxology.

Wellness is a word sometimes used to describe the psychological position of being healthy, but is most frequently used in the field of alternative medicine to describe one's state of being.

Geography is the study of the earth and its features and of the circulation of life on the Earth. A literal transformation would be "to describe the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.). Four historical civilization in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena, area studies, study of man-land relationship, and investigate in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-inclusive discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities-- not merely where things are, but how they have changed and come to be. It is said to be the "mother of all math" and "the synthesizer of information." Geography is mainly divided into two main branches - human geography and physical geography.

conventionally, geography as well as geographers has been viewed as the same as cartography and people who study place names. Although many geographers are capable in toponymy and cartography, this is not their main preoccupation. Geographers study the spatial and temporal allotment of phenomena, processes and feature as well as the interaction of humans and their environment. As space and place persuade a variety of topics such as economics, health, climate, plants and animals, geography is highly interdisciplinary.

spoorts

Sport is an activity to facilitate is governed by a set of rules or customs and frequently engaged in competitively. Used by itself, sports generally refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the participant are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome, but the term is also used to comprise activities such as mind sports and motor sports where psychological acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Sports are used as hobby for the player and the viewer. It has also proved by experiments that daily exercise would boost mental strength and power to study.

Sports have been ever more organized and keeping pace from the time of the Ancient Olympics up to the present century. Industrialization has brought improved leisure time to the citizens of developed and developing countries, leading to more time for people to be present at and follow spectator sports, greater contribution in athletic activities, and increased accessibility. These trends continued with the beginning of mass media and global statement.

Currency

A currency is a component of exchange, facilitating the transfer of supplies and services. It is a form of money, where money is an capable medium of exchange, and it is also considered by a number of people as a store of value, created through a claim to its central bank assets. A currency zone is a country in which a specific currency is the main medium of exchange. To facilitate trade between currency zones, there are exchange price at which currencies can be exchanged beside each other. Currencies can be classified as also floating currencies or fixed currencies based on their exchange rate regime.

In general usage, currency at times refers to only paper money, as in "coins and currency", but this is confusing. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency.

In most cases, each country has control over the supply and manufacture of its own currency.

Computer Networking

Computer networking is the engineering discipline anxious with communication between computer systems. Such communicate systems comprise a computer network and these networks generally involve at least two devices able of being networked with at least one usually being a computer. The devices can be separated by a small number of meters or nearly unlimited distances. Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of telecommunications, and sometimes of computer science, information technology and computer engineering. Computer networks rely a lot upon the abstract and practical application of these scientific and engineering disciplines.

A computer network is any set of computers connected to each other. Examples of networks are the Internet, a wide area network that is the largest to always exist, or a little home local area network (LAN) with two computers connected with standard networking cables connecting to a network interface card in each computer.

Internet Marketing

Internet marketing is the use of the Internet to advertise and vend goods and services. Internet Marketing includes pay per click advertising, banner ads, e-mail marketing, associate marketing, interactive advertising, search engine marketing (including search engine optimization), blog marketing, article marketing, and blogging.

Internet marketing is a factor of electronic commerce. Internet marketing can sometimes comprise information management, public relations, customer service, and sales. Electronic commerce and Internet marketing have become popular as Internet access is becoming more extensively existing and used. Well over one third of consumers who have Internet access in their homes report using the Internet to create purchases.Internet marketing first began in the early 1990s as simple, text-based websites that offered product information. Over time Internet marketing evolved into more than just selling information products, there are people now selling advertising space, software programs, business models, and many other products and services

White Throated Kingfisher

The White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher or Smyrna Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, is a tree kingfisher which is generally spread in south Asia from Turkey east to the Philippines. This kingfisher is fundamentally occupant over much of its range, not together from seasonal movements.

The first of the alternative English names is to be favorite because the geographical name is too preventive for this widespread bird, and the easternmost race lacks a white breast.

This is a large kingfisher, 28 cm in length. The mature has a bright blue back, wings and tail. Its head, shoulders, flanks and lower belly are chestnut, and the throat and breast are white.

There are four races opposed mostly in plumage shades, but H. s. glairs of the Philippines have only the neck and throat white. The flight of the White-throated Kingfisher is quick and straight, the short rounded wings whirring. The large bill and legs are intense red.

In flight, large white patches are visible on the blue and black wings. Sexes are similar, but juveniles are a duller adaptation of the adult. The call of this noisy kingfisher is a chuckling chake.

White-throated Kingfisher is a common class of a variety of habitats with some trees, and its range is expanding. It perches noticeably on wires or other exposed perches within its territory, and is a frequent sight in south Asia. This species mostly hunts large insects, rodents, snakes, fish and frogs. It is alleged to eat tired migratory passerine birds like Chiffchaffs where the opportunity arises.

Yoga

Yoga is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy, focusing on meditation as a trail to self-knowledge and freedom. Yoga is seen as a means to mutually physiological and spiritual mastery. Outside India, Yoga has become mainly related with the practice of asanas of Hatha Yoga, although it has influenced the whole dharmic religions family and other spiritual practices throughout the world

5,000 year old carvings from the Indus Valley Civilization represent a figure that archaeologists think represents a yogi sitting in meditation posture. The sitting in a conventional cross-legged yoga pose with its hands resting on its knees. The explorer of the seal, archaeologist Sir John Marshall, named the figure Shiva Pashupati.

A seal from the Indus Valley Civilization, The first known written reference to yoga is in the Rig Veda, likely by the western scholars to be at least 3,500 years old. The Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali also converse the concepts and teachings of yoga.

Asian Paradise Flycatcher

The Asian Paradise Flycatcher, also known as the Common Paradise Flycatcher, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It was in the past classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now usually grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has the majority of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.

The Asian glory Flycatcher breeds from Turkestan to Manchuria. It is wandering, wintering in tropical Asia. There are resident populations further south, for example in southern India and Sri Lanka, so both visiting migrants and the in the vicinity reproduction subspecies take place in these areas in winter.

This species is typically originated in thick forests and other well-wooded habitats. Three or four eggs are laid in a cup shell in a tree.

The adult male Asian Paradise Flycatcher is about 20 cm long, but the long tail streamers double this. It has a black crested head, stale joke upperparts and pale grey underparts.

By their second year, the males of the wandering Indian race T. p. paradisi begin to obtain white feathers. By the third year, the male plumage is totally white, other than the black head. Males of the sedentary Sri Lankan race T. p. ceylonensis are forever stale joke.

The female of all races resembles the stale joke male, but has a grey throat, minor peak and lacks the tail streamers.

A Rose for Emily

The Factors that Form the Character Emily Grierson the characters in a work of writing are not only created by their characteristics, but also by the story. There are lots of factors in a story which form the characters. It includes the background, mood, and theme. In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, the conflict between past and present, sequential order and generations, her physical appearance and the fantastic mood affect the way the reader view Emily Grierson. In the little town of Jefferson, everywhere in the south, lived a woman named Miss Emily.

After her father died, the Colonel pardons her levy. This caused difference as she got older since there was no printed record of this information. During the two years after her father’s death the only person that left the house was a Negro man that went to get her provisions and tended to the house. As time passed, Miss Emily’s neighbors began to notice a stinking smell coming from her house. The judge refused to do anything about it, so men of the town would put down lime around her house late at night. The smell gone after a few weeks.

Cooking Apple

A cooking apple is an apple that is used mainly for cooking rather than eating fresh. Cooking apples are larger, and can be not as much of sweet and more sour than eating varieties. Some varieties have a solid flesh that doesn't smash down too much when cooked. Only the British grow a large range of apples particularly for cooking. Some apples are double purpose, often becoming sweeter and softer under storage.

Cultivars can be separated into apples which are cooked whole in the oven and become soft and fluffy and those which keep hold of their shape. These apples are often sweet-smelling. A baked apple is one that has been parched in an oven until it has become soft. The core is generally removed and often stuffed with fruits, brown sugar, raisins, or cinnamon.

Dieting

Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a synchronized fashion to get a particular objective. In several cases the aim is weight loss, but some athletes hope to gain weight and diets can also be used to keep a stable body weight.

There are numerous kinds of diets:

Weight-loss diets control the intake of particular foods, or food in general, to reduce body weight. What works to decrease body weight for one person will not essentially work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors. Also, for a variety of reasons, most people discover it very difficult to maintain major weight loss over time. There is some notion that losing weight promptly may actually make it more difficult to maintain the loss over time.

Formal Wear

Formal wear or formal dress is a common fashion term used to explain clothing suitable for formal procedures, with weddings, debutante cotillions, etc. Western formal dress has had a invasive influence on styles in various countries. It is almost forever the standard used in countries where there is no formal edition of the national costume. Foreign dignitaries and honored visitors in Western countries often take on Western evening dress on formal and state occasions, although it is not unusual for distinguished persons to wear the formal versions of their general dress if such exists; the sari and the dashiki are easily-recognizable examples.

Unlike for the most part of the fashion world, the styles of formal dress take their names from men's wear rather than female dress. Traditional 'rules' oversee men's formal dress; these are firmly observed at socially traditional events such as royal weddings, and provide as starting points for the creative formal wear seen at high school proms, formal dances and leisure industry awards shows.

Cooking

Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating. The term cooking encompasses all methods of food preparation with non-heated methods. It encompasses a huge range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to change the taste or digestibility of food. It is the method of select, measuring and combining of ingredients in an planned procedure in an try to get the desired result. Factors affecting the finishing outcome include the inconsistency of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the person doing the actual cooking.

The variety of cooking universal is a reflection of the many nutritional, aesthetic, agricultural, cultural and religious considerations that crash upon it.

Cooking frequently requires applying heat to a food, which regularly, though not always, chemically transforms it, thus varying its flavor, texture, appearance, and nutritional properties. There is archaeological proof of roasted foodstuffs, both animal and vegetable, in human campsites dating from the initial known use of fire, some 800,000 years ago

A Burning Desire for Hockey

Many people are tried to have many special hobbies. Ice Hockey immediately happened to be mine. It is been almost twenty years since my mother and father takes me Ice Skating. When i was three years old. Before I move any further I would like to tell you that I come from a family that has an extended record of hockey players. My grandfather on both my mothers and fathers part played hockey. I still had a grandma on my mother’s side that play field hockey in Duluth, MN. My biggest pressure in the game of hockey was from my father, he and his brother played hockey for the college of Illinois.

As a childhood I wore my dad’s old hockey jersey throughout my few years of hockey. To say the least, I dreamed of being a qualified hockey player. It was not until I was playing at the high school level that I learn hockey is other than a game.

It was always expressed that hockey was a very physical and dangerous sport and it really did not sink in until I started playing confirm to hockey. A hockey player generally enters this physical state of the game around the age of twelve to fourteen. As I grew older the speed of the game got closer, thus made the complexity of the game do a180.

Business

In economic business is the social science of managing people to systematize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular imaginative and productive goals, usually to make profit.The etymology of "business" refers to the state of being busy, in the circumstance of the individual as well as the community or society. In other words, to be busy is to be doing commercially viable and profitable work.

The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the general usage (above), the particular usage to refer to a particular company or corporation, and the comprehensive usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the record business," "the computer business," or "the business community" -- the community of suppliers of goods and services.

The singular "business" can be a legally-recognized entity within an economically free society, wherein individuals systematize based on expertise and skill bring about social and technological expansion.

However, the exact definition of business is disputable as is business philosophy; for example, most Marxist use "means of production" as a rough synonym for "business." Socialist advocate either government, public, or worker ownership of most sizable businesses.

Fire Extinguisher

A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control small fires, often in emergency situations. Typically, a fire extinguisher consists of a handheld cylindrical pressure vessel containing an agent which can be discharged to extinguish a fire.

The modern fire extinguisher was invented by British Captain George William Manby in 1818; it consisted of a copper vessel of 3 gallons of pearl ash solution contained within compressed air.

The soda-acid extinguisher was invented in the 19th century, which contained a cylinder of 1 or 2 gallons of water with sodium bicarbonate mixed into it. A vial was suspended in the cylinder containing concentrated sulphuric acid. Depending on the type of extinguisher, the vial of acid could be broken in one of two ways. One used a plunger to break the acid vial, while the second released a lead bung that held the vial closed. Once the acid was mixed with the bicarbonate solution, carbon dioxide gas was expelled and thereby pressurize the water. The pressurized water was forced from the canister through a nozzle or short length of hose.

Amusement park

Amusement park is the general word for a collection of rides and other leisure attractions assembled for the purpose of enjoyable a reasonably large group of people. An amusement park is more involved than a simple city park or playground, as an amusement park is intended to cater to adults, teenagers, and small children.

An amusement park may be stable or temporary, generally periodic, such as a few days or weeks per year. The short-term amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a funfair or carnival.

Theme parks form a more closely defined type of an amusement park. They are permanent conveniences that use architecture, signage, landscaping to help express the feeling that people are in a different place or time. Often a theme park will have a variety of 'lands' of the park committed to telling a particular story. Otherwise, an amusement park often has rides with tiny in terms of theming design elements. The main difference among a theme park and an amusement park is to in a theme park all the rides go all with the theme of the park, for example Disney World.

A Day in Malaysia

A Malaysian Day is not to be conceived as a day famous by Malaysians to symbolize any particular event. In reality it should denote a usual day of any Malaysian, a microcosm of what is in the daily life a Malaysian amidst the rapid developments in the urban areas and the well-conserved rural environment. My story is spin from my knowledge during a five-day holiday in Malaysia. You are going back to Malaysia, my parents announced suddenly, handing me air tickets, thus ending weeks of uncertainty as to where I was to spend my month-long winter holiday. I was to spend four days in Malaysia, my birth place, a place I had not seen in 16 years, since we motivated to Birmingham. Day 1 All doubts seemed to lighten however, as I step on board Malaysia Airlines aircraft.

I was lovingly by the smiling kebaya-clad air stewardesses of the airline. Hours seemed to fly as the flight progress, leaving London in the evening and arriving at dawn in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. I gaze out of the window, impressed by the rolling acres of palm trees which sprawled over the humongous oil palm estates.

Selecting a "beauty queen"

Beauty pageants are usually multi-tiered, through local competitions feeding into the bigger competitions. The worldwide pageants, thus, need hundreds, sometimes thousands, of local competitions. In the United States, there is currently a commercial beauty pageant industry that organizes thousands of local events for all ages for profit supported by magazines like The Crown Magazine and Pride of Pageantry, the online epiczine.com, the Pageant News Bureau (pageant.com), and The Crown Magazine, and a crowd of retailers of all from tiaras to cosmetic surgery.

Beauty Queens are selected on many criteria. Every individual pageant will provide to future delegates its exacting methods of competition and scoring. For example, The universal Pageant http://www.worldwidepageant.net has a sole scoring method wherein delegates have the possible of earning a score of 110%. The breakdown is 25% evening wear (may be pants or gown), 25% physical wear, 50% personal interview, and an optional 10% for a getting portfolio. Diamond Dolls is a pictorial only competition which provides 100% of the score based leading submission of required photos.

There are other pageants who take a completely different approach on the whole. Mostly in reference to on-line photogenic pageants, there are competitions in which a winner is selected on a monthly or even weekly basis. There are persons who will take each of these as a "preliminary winner" with the aim upon a "final" competition at some later date. Others delight each of these as a "final" winner and give a title.

In spite of the method of competition, break down of scores or frequency of selection; all are defined as "activity in the form of a beauty pageant." It is up to the person to determine which is best suitable for competition or of particular entertainment interest.

Personal computer

A personal computer or PC is usually a microcomputer intended to be used by one person at a time, and suitable for general principle tasks such as word processing, programming, sending messages or digital documents to other computers on the network, multimedia editing or game play, usually used to run software not written by the user. Unlike minicomputers, a personal computer is often owned by the person using it, representing a low cost of purchase and simplicity of operation. The user of a modern personal computer may have trivial knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not unavoidably interested in programming or even able to write programs for the computer.

In modern usage PC nearly always refers to an IBM compatible and the term may even be used for machines that are in no way personal computers but still use the basic architecture of the IBM pc. The first generation of microcomputers were called just that, and only sold in small numbers to those able to operate them: engineers and accomplished. The second generation micros were known as home computers, and are discussed in that section.

VAT

Value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST), is tax on exchanges. It is levied on the added value that results from each exchange. It differs from a sales tax because a sales tax is levied on the total value of the exchange. For this reason, a VAT is neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer. A VAT is an indirect tax, in that the tax is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). To avoid double taxation on final consumption, exports (which by definition, are consumed abroad) are usually not subject to VAT and VAT charged under such circumstances is usually refundable.

The VAT was invented by a French economist in 1954. Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, the Direction générale des impôts, as taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA in French) was first to introduce VAT with effect from 10 April 1954 for large businesses, and extended over time to all business sectors. In France, it is the most important source of state finance, accounting for approximately 45% of state revenues.

A Burning Desire for Hockey

Many people are tried to have many special hobbies. Ice Hockey immediately happened to be mine. It is been almost twenty years since my mother and father takes me Ice Skating. When i was three years old. Before I move any further I would like to tell you that I come from a family that has an extended record of hockey players. My grandfather on both my mothers and fathers part played hockey. I still had a grandma on my mother’s side that play field hockey in Duluth, MN. My biggest pressure in the game of hockey was from my father, he and his brother played hockey for the college of Illinois. As a childhood I wore my dad’s old hockey jersey throughout my few years of hockey. To say the least, I dreamed of being a qualified hockey player. It was not until I was playing at the high school level that I learn hockey is other than a game.

It was always expressed that hockey was a very physical and dangerous sport and it really did not sink in until I started playing confirm to hockey. A hockey player generally enters this physical state of the game around the age of twelve to fourteen. As I grew older the speed of the game got closer, thus made the complexity of the game do a180.