Sunday, May 31, 2009

Susan Boyle Loses on British Talent TV Show

She is an internationally acclaimed Internet phenomenon and a symbol of the folly of underestimating people because of the way they look. But in a shocking upset, Susan Boyle, the 47-year-old Scottish church volunteer whose stunning auditionfor the “Britain’s Got Talent” TV show last month has been viewed something like 90 million times on YouTube, lost in the final round of the program on Saturday night.

After the audience votes had been tallied, Ms. Boyle placed second, beaten by a joyfully innovative dance troupe named Diversity.

Winners of “Britain’s Got Talent,” one of a host of talent shows that are among the most-watched programs in Britain, receive about $160,000 and a spot on the roster of the Royal Variety Performance, presented in front of the Queen. Their high profiles also virtually assure that they will have lucrative careers in show business.

But the same is often true for the runners-up, who in this case included Julian Smith, a soulful saxophonist who was a darling of the studio audience and came in third. And the exposure Ms. Boyle has received since her original audition, culminating in an appearance on “Oprah” in the United States, means she is a hot property who is virtually guaranteed a recording contract.

For weeks she seemed to be a shoo-in for victory. To see a middle-aged woman from a small town — who lives alone with her cat, Pebbles, and seemed at first to be almost comically awkward — open her mouth to reveal such a beautiful voice was revelatory and inspiring. Celebrities like Demi Moore said she they were rooting for her.

But in recent days there were worries that Ms. Boyle — who is said to have suffered slight brain damage when she was deprived of oxygen at birth, and is so unworldly that she has no computer — was cracking under all the pressure. Various tabloid reports had her paralyzed with nerves, lashing out at reporters and swearing uncharitably about her competitors. She was said to be a packed suitcase away from quitting the competition and going back home, to the town of Blackburn in Scotland.

Piers Morgan, one of the judges, described her in his blog as “a frightened rabbit caught in the headlights.”

But in the end Ms. Boyle proved stoic in defeat, graciously congratulating her opponents.

As popular as it is, the show has also come been criticized for the way it so cruelly raises contestants’ hopes and then smashes them. Several performers who made the semifinals, and were then rudely dismissed by Simon Cowell, one of the judges, and voted unceremoniously off, began weeping with disappointment.

“This show is all about manipulating the eagerness for celebrity among vulnerable, often desperate people,” David Wilson, a professor at Birmingham City University who briefly worked as a psychologist on “Big Brother” several years ago, wrote in The Daily Mail. “The more tears, humiliation, conflict and embarrassment, the more the public loves it.”


Saturday, May 30, 2009

DCE 2009 Solutions, Key, Results declered

Delhi Combined Entrance Exam DCE 2009 for admission to Delhi University’s College of Engineering DCE & NSIT for 2009 - 2010 will be held on May 30, 2009.
To check result go to link http://www.dce.ac.in/

CBSE AIEEE 2009 Result announced

Results of All India Engineering Entrance Examination were announced by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday. Result is available in the CBSE website, www.cbse.nic.in, a release issued by the board said. 
About 9,62,119 students had appeared in the test conducted at 1460 centres across the country. Students qualifying the exam will be eligible for admission to National Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology, government-funded institutions and deemed universities. There were nearly 78,000 candidates in Delhi. For foriegn candidates CBSE has set up centres in Dubai and Riyadh. The state-funded engineering institutes have 15 per cent reservation for the students qualifying AIEEE. There were about 18,000 seats in these institutions last year. 

The number of seats are expected to cross 20,000 this year. Central counselling for admission will be held in third week of June.

Wisdom Twisted - Wallpapers saying something else



































































any way you want it lyrics

Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it

She 
lovesto laugh
She 
loves to sing
She does everything
She loves to move
She loves to grove
She loves the lovin things

Ooh, all night, all night
Oh, every night
So hold tight, hold tight
Ooh, baby, hold tight

Oh, she said,
Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said, any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it

I was alone
I never knew
What good love could do
Ooh, then we touched
Then we sang
About the lovin things

Ooh, all night, all night
Oh, every night
So hold tight, hold tight
Ooh baby, hold tight

Oh, she said,
Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said, any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it

Misunderstanding Lyrics

Misunderstanding Lyrics
Artist(Band):Genesis

There must be some misunderstanding
There must be some kind of mistake
I waited in the rain for hours
And you were late

Now it's not like me to say the right thing
But you could've called to let me know
I checked your number twice, don't understand it
So I went home

Well I'd been waiting for this weekend
I thought that maybe we could see a show
Never dreamed I'd have this feeling
Oh but seeing you is believing
That's why I don't know why
You didn't show up that night

There must be some misunderstanding
There must be some kind of mistake
I was waiting in the rain for hours
And you were late

Since then I've been running around trying to find you
I went to the places that we always go
I rang your HOUSE but got no answer
Jumped in my car, I went round there
Still don't believe it
He was just leaving

There must be some misunderstanding
There must be some kind of mistake...

America - Ventura Highway lyrics



Chewin' on a piece of grass walkin' down the road 
tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe? 
Some people say this town don't look good in snow 
You don't care, I know. 


Ventura Highway, in the sunshine 
Where the days are longer 
The nights are stronger than moonshine 
You're gonna go I know 


Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair 
and the day surround your daylight there 
Seasons cryin' no despair 
Alligator lizards in the air 


Wishin' on a fallin' star 
Watchin' for the early train 
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain 
Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name 
Thanks alot son, just the same 


Ventura Highway, in the sunshine 
Where the days are longer 
The nights are stronger than moonshine! 
you're gonna go, I know 


Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair 
and the days surround your daylight there 
seasons cryin' no despair 
Alligator lizards in the air 
in the air 

Friday, May 29, 2009

Kavya Indian Kids Rock : Kavya Shivashankar wins 82nd Spelling Bee championship


Well, it could not have got better for young Kavya Shivashankar as she came out with flying colors at theScripps National Spelling Bee 2009. On Thursday’s finals she outlasted the other 11 finalists to win the champion’s trophy and to take home more than $40,000 cash money along with other prizes.

Thing came a bit late in Kavya Shivashankar’s life since she could win the championship with her fourth appearance in the competition. The last three times when she had taken part in the same competition she had finished Tenth, Eighth and Fourth.

However, this time 13-year-old Shivashankar proved her mettle by winning the title she had been vying for so long. Her last challenge was to spell out “Laodicean,” she spelled it correctly and a big smile appeared on her face. The Olathe, Kansas girl who aims to become a neurosurgeon wrote the words on her palm and spelled every word correctly. All her answers were followed by a smile.

After winning Shivashankar exclaimed, “I can’t believe it happened…. It feels kind of unreal. “Kavya Shivashankar’s family was there to support her through the competition. Her father, Mirle Shivashankar said, “The competitiveness is in her… but she doesn’t show that. She still has that smile. That’s her quality.” He went on to say that this was “the moment” they had been waiting for so long. It was like “a dream come true” for them.

Tim Ruiter from Centreville, Va. came in second. 12-year-old Ruiter lost to Shivashankar as he had misspelled “Maecenas.” 13-year-old Aishwarya Pastapur from Springfield, Ill, came in third. This year’s contest was the 82nd annual Spelling Bee contest and it involved a record 293 participants.

Silvio Berlusconi is not my father, said Noemi Letizia


Noemi Letizia, 18, is accused of being the reason of Silvio Berlusconi’s divorce. Letizia stated that she is not the daughter of the Italian Prime Minister, even if she calls him Papi. Her family said they were in no way related to Silvio Berlusconi, even if now they are close friends, but they didn’t want to say when their relationship began.

“I cannot be with a man who spends time with under-age women,” her wife, Veronica Lario said. The scandal began when Silvio Bersluconi went to Noemi’s birthday last weekend. The Prime Minister offer her a gold and diamond necklace as a gift, but that’s nothing out of the common, considering it was her 18th birthday.

John Rich charged for alleged 'Nashville Star' contestant Jared Ashley's Assualt

Country star John Rich of Big & Rich was charged on May 28 with assault and harassment, E! Online reports. Rich allegedly smacked former Nashville Star contestant Jared Ashley in the face; he has denied the charges. "I trust that the truth will come out through the process of our American justice system and that I will be completely exonerated at the end of the day," the singer said in a statement.

Chitra Singh's daughter commits suicide

According to the reports of TOI
Ghazal singer Chitra Singh's daughter hanged herself to death at her home in Mumbai, the police said on Friday.
According to police, Monica Choudhary's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her suburban home on Friday afternoon. 

Monica, 46, was Chitra's daughter from her first marriage before she married famous ghazal singer Jagjit Singh in 1969. 

Deputy commissioner of police N Kaushik said: "As per our preliminary investigations, she had a troubled life and was in a state of depression.
In early 90's, Jagjit and Chitra Singh's only son Vivek was killed in a road accident. 

Kaushik said that Monica's husband, and Jagjit and Chitra Singh are currently abroad. 

A good news for Security agencies : Detecting sulphur in just one hair could help nab a terrorist

In a new study, scientists have come up with a method that could be used to nab terrorists, by detecting how proportions of isotopes in a chemical like sulphur vary throughout the length of a single hair.
The mid-term objective is to be able to use these methods to track the geographical movements of people, including international crime suspects and victims.
In order to carry out this study, the scientists focused on the most abundant sulphur isotopes in hair keratin - sulphur-32 (32S), which accounts for about 95 percent, and sulphur-34 (34S), which makes up around 4 percent.
This proportion can change slightly in response to people's diets and if they travel from one country to another, and the technique is able to detect these small variations.
The scientists use a laser that makes contact with the selected fraction of the hair, generating an aerosol, which later ionizes within plasma, with the spectrometer providing the exact proportions of the sulphur isotopes.
"The advantage of this method compared with others is the high resolution resulting from use of the laser," said Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez of LGC, lead author of the study.
This advance has enabled the scientists to confirm that the sulphur variations in hair can be linked to peoples' geographical movements.
The researchers collected hair samples of more than 4cm in length donated by three volunteers.
Two were permanent residents in the United Kingdom, while the third - dubbed "the traveler" - had spent the past six months in Croatia, Austria, the United Kingdom and Australia.
"We are what we eat, and the small variations in the 34S/32S relationship reflect changes to our diet, which can in turn be related to movements from one country to another," said Justo Giner, another of the study's authors.
The results of the experiment revealed that the traveller's hair showed significant variations in the sulphur isotopes, while changes in the hairs of the two people living in the United Kingdom were minimal, and similar in both samples.
The scientists are confident they will be able to create databases that will one day make it possible to link the relationship between a specific isotope in hair keratin and a country or region, which would be of great help to the police in tracking down international criminals.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Bing" The New Microsoft Search Engine

Bing, the new search engine Microsoft plans to release, place a fresh focus on "the right ideas," like "organic results, layout and advertising," according to Director-Emerging Media/Client Strategy David Berkowitz of 360i, which demoed the pending product.
"If it's as good as it looks in the demo, this will be the most impressive search experience Microsoft has offered," he vowed.
The Bing search engine places emphasis on image and videos; on a more practical level, it filters data and ecommerce to give users more specific product information, like inventory in stock and prices at retail stores.
Kumo was the code name for Bing within Microsoft.

Microsoft tested Bing internally from March, but has not provided a launch date, though word has it the engine will go live in the next handful of weeks — coinciding with the debut of a major ad campaign.

In April 2009, Microsoft/Windows Live Search dominated all of 9.9% of US-based searches, up 7.2% year over year. It fell behind Google, at 64% of market share; and Yahoo, at 16.3%.

Among shopping-specific search engines, however, Windows Live Search enjoyed a 615% increase in total visitors and was the fastest growing shopping search provider in April. This increase is due in part to the well-received Live Search Cashback program, in which Microsoft promises to pay consumers back for purchasing products its search engine helped find.

Searches on shopping-specific engines comprise between one and two percent of total search activity.
t is confirmed that Microsoft will be spending over a $100 million dollars starting soon, to promote their new Search engine. And we think its going to be called Bing. Binghub.com could be a really hot community if Microsoft goes big with this

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Alice Munro wins Booker


Alice Munro, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, has pipped Mahasweta Devi and V S Naipaul to win the third Man Booker International Prize. Devi and Naipaul were among 13 other writers who were shortlisted for the award this year.

The prize worth 60,000 pound (USD 95,000) is awarded once every two years to recognise a living author for his/her contribution to literature and to highlight the author's creativity and development on a global scale. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005.

The 77-year-old author, popular for her short stories, said: "I am totally amazed and delighted." The judging panel which included Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician and Andrey Kurkov, essay and film script writer, praised Munro saying she "brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels".

"To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before," the panel said. Peter Clarke, Chief Executive, Man Group plc said: "Since her first collection of stories was published in 1968, Alice Munro has been highly acclaimed as the contemporary master of the short fiction genre".

About Alice

Alice Munro was born in the town of WinghamOntario into a family of fox and poultry farmers. Her father was Robert Eric Laidlaw and her mother, a school teacher, was Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney). She began writing as a teenager and published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow," while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950. During this period she worked as a waitress, tobacco picker and library clerk. In 1951, she left the university, in which she had been majoring in English since 1949, to marry James Munro and move to VancouverBritish Columbia. Her daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957 respectively; Catherine died 15 hours after birth. In 1963, the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro's Books. In 1966, their daughter Andrea was born.

Alice Munro's first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), was highly acclaimed and won that year’s Governor General's Award, Canada’s highest literary prize. This success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories that was published as a novel.

Alice and James Munro were divorced in 1972. She returned to Ontario to become Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario. In 1976 she married Gerald Fremlin, a geographer. The couple moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario. They have since moved from the farm to a house in the town of Clinton, Ontario.

In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories, Who Do You Think You Are?, was published (titled The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rosein the United States). This book earned Munro the Governor General’s Literary Award for a second time. From 1979 to 1982, she touredAustraliaChina and Scandinavia. In 1980 Munro held the position of Writer-in-Residence at both the University of British Columbia and theUniversity of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Munro published a short-story collection about once every four years to increasing acclaim, winning both national and international awards.

In 2002, her daughter Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro.

Alice Munro's stories frequently appear in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, Mademoiselle, and The Paris Review. In interviews to promote her 2006 collection The View from Castle Rock, Munro suggested that she would, perhaps, not publish any further collections. She has since recanted and published further work.

Her story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" has been adapted for the screen and directed by Sarah Polley as the film Away From Her,starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. It successfully debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Polley's adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to No Country for Old Men.