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My cousin brotherAravind has started to Blogging. Some of u has known his already, he also wrote some Jokes in my blog 3 months back. As he was going to school and dint have net connection in his house, so he will be post on the weekends, I think. Pls have a look on his blog, if u can. click My cousin brotherhere for the blog

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Fishes inside an Egg

Biologists at the University of Manchester want help in cracking their miracle discovery of three fish inside a sealed egg. The group found the duck egg in a small pond on a field trip to the French Alps and noticed something moving inside it. When they cracked open the shell, three live minnows were inside. They have enlisted the help of other experts, but despite their extensive combined knowledge, the biologists admit they are baffled. m

School of 71 languages

A Secondary school has pupils that speak in a mind-boggling 71 different languages. Southfield’s Community College in Wandsworth, South London, takes kids who have fled war zones around the world and speak no English. Some have never been to school before. But incredibly the college believed to be the most cosmopolitan in Europe has only three translators. It has 1,300 UK and foreign pupils aged 11-18 and 550 of these arrived in Britain speaking no English. So their first lesson was a crash course in our mother tongue. The pupils are then slowly introduced into mainstream classes, supported by the school’s ethnic minority achievement unit. These children have a burning desire to learn. Despite the language barrier the school’s exam results are improving.

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Worst Highway

EnglishRussia.com have posted pictures of a very muddy highway that connects Moscow and Yakutsk. The images were taken over a few days and show around 600 cars that got stuck in the mud. It seems that not much is known about the road. Comments on both Digg and English Russia say that it's a winter road, and not a winter road, completed, and not completed, and of course, you've got people shouting photoshopped. More Photos of the worst road here
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Dance Queen Padmini passes

Old greatest actress Padmini passes away last night in a private hospital. She was 74. She has acted in many Tamil, Hindi films and created a special place in Cinema World. Padmini who was staying in chennai was not welfare for some days.

Padmini is one of the Best actress, Tamil Film world have seen. She born on June 12, 1932 and brought up in Thiruvananthapuram. Padmini and his sister Lalitha are famously known as Travancore sisters. Both were introduced in Tamil Film World as Dance Stars in 1948. After that, for 3 years we can tell there was no film with out Padmini and Lalitha’s dance, in every film their dance performance take place. Eazhai Padumpadu (Poor’s Sufferings) is the first film where Padmini was acted and it was released in 1951. Padmini act as a pair with Shivaji Ganeshan in his second film Panam (Money). Again they join hands as a pair in Thukku Thukke (lift to lift) and the film becomes a blockbuster. Unexpectedly she acted in Amara Thibam, Mankaiyar Thilagam, Puthaiyal, Kavari, Uttamaputhiran, Irumalarkal, Vietnam Vedu, Thillana Mohanambal and much film with Shivaji Ganeshan.

Like this she also acted many film with the top hero MGR. She has acted above 250 films in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and much other languages. Padmini learned Bharathanatyam when she was 4 and stage performance in her age 10. After that she performed many dance programs through out India and honored the award Nattiya Peroli. In 1961 she was married to a Doctor and she refracted from Film world and when Padmini was staying in US she run a Dance school, after her husband’s death, again she acted in some movies.

Actress Padmini was honored as:
Best actress for 4 times by Cinema Fan’s association.
Tamil Nadu Government’s Kalaimamani Award.
Best Bharathanatyam Artiest award in the youth festival, which held in Russia’s capital Moscow.
FilmFare Award.
Special Postal Stamp was released in Russia to honor Padmini.
When there was a battle between India-China in 1965, she directly went to the War field and conducts a Special Program to encourage the Army Soldiers.

A Romantic thief

KD (A Romantic thief), one of my expected films was releasing this 24th Sept. My expectations are not on the hero, heroin or any other, but on the young Director A.M.Jyothi Krishna, who gave a beautiful movie Enakku 20 Unakku 18 in 2003. After 3 years gape he has come with a different movie KD. His dad A.M.Rathnam being a leading producer in kollywood, so he would be having full freedom. KD was expected to be a romantic and action film. Jyothi Krishna was a young director with much talent. I like his last film E20 U18 by the way it was taken. It was a neat love story were the hero and heroine are interested in each other after the chance meeting on the train and later run around in circles looking for one another. The picturisation of every scene dint mention as a new and young director took it. He was 21 when he debut as a director, and he wrote a story for the film Natpukkaga (Friendship) when he was 16.

The graphic on the songs, and the wonderful settings are entice me, the screenplay was very different. There was enough attraction in E20-U18 with its limit to watch with whole family. He was the first director to show Trisha a much beautiful collage girl. His introductions Trisha and Shriya, are leading heroines in Tamil Films. There is any mouth with out mumble the peppy song Alagina Alagi Askava…. the Yetho Yetho Ondru (some thing something one) song recalls the Poovukku Olinthirukkum… song form Shankers Jean’s. And how can I forget the youthful song Santhippoma (can we meet)… that disturbed me. There are much to tell about his film making and I think I am not surprise to expect the same from Jyothi Krishna now.

Already the songs of KD, which was composed by Yuvan, become my favorites, esp. the song Unna Petha Aathavukku (the mother who gave u birth) which was singed by Radio Mirchi Suichitra (wonderful voice she have) was my favorite and it’s a peppy song too. Another one Kunguma Poova Manjal Nelava… (Saffrin Flower, and yellow moon) has pure Tamil words. Every song is very different and wishes how it was picturised. One of the songs is picturised in a different manner with full of fights. Jyothi directed his younger brother Ravi Krishna as the hero and the film has two attractive girl;) as heroine, one was known as Ileana the hot of Telugu and the Tamanna, a super model on the small screen Ad’s, all lyrics was written by my favorite and national award winner Pa. Vijay. I am looking forward to know what different Jyothi Krishna has done in KD; I too got positive reviews form media. I expect it should be a family entertainment with youthful scenes.

Best Earth

Imagine living in a home where you generate your own energy, re-use your waste, and harvest your water from the rain? Where the furniture is made from recycled material, and the windows and walls so designed that the house is cool in summer and warm in winter? Where the bulbs use one-hundredth of the electricity that our ordinary light bulbs today use?

This seemingly impossible dream house is becoming a reality in many parts of the world. One full housing society, called BedZED, has just come up in London, U.K. and already over 60 families are staying in it. Bed stands for Beddington, the locality in London where it is situated, and ZED stands for Zero Energy Development. The entire colony uses no fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and oil. Rather, it uses a mix of solar panels; large windows to capture natural light, and a generator run on waste. These houses use only 10 per cent of the heating energy that is used normally. Passive solar gain stored within each flat by thermally massive floors and walls, reduces the need for both electricity and heat to the point where a 135 kW wood fuelled combined heat and power plant can meet the energy requirements for a community of around 240 residents and 200 workers.

Water too is sparingly used, after the rain is collected on the roofs. The bathroom toilets are designed to use only half of the wasteful amount of water we use in our normal flushes. Wastewater is treated at BedZED through biological means and re-used in the houses. All the families are also encouraged to adopt environmentally friendly lifestyles, e.g. using public transport and bicycles as much as possible, buying organic food, switching to electric cars, setting up office as close to home as possible to reduce transportation needs, and so on. The BedZED reconciles high-density three-story city blocks with high residential and workspace amenity. Workspace is placed in the shade zones of south facing housing terraces, with sky gardens created on the workspace roofs, enabling all flats to have outdoor garden areas, with good access to sunlight, at the same time as providing well day lit workspace without problematic summer overheating.

It is interesting that much of this does not use ultra hi-tech, but mostly common sense applications with and appropriate technologies. As many people working on such solutions will tell us, the thing most missing in our world is just that: common sense! For instance, a skylight (a window on the roof) is enough to bring in light into the house that we don't need to use bulbs and tube lights through the day. A lot of our traditional houses had such a feature is it. Or, it is so easy to put our wet kitchen waste into a pot and make it into compost (we can speed this up by using earthworms), which can be used in our or our housing society's garden.

So, BedZED may be in London, nowhere near where we live in India. But surely we can also start demanding that our architects and builders start using common sense and easily available technologies to make our lifestyles a bit friendlier to the earth.