Posted on 16 March 2010. Tags: below-the-ice, figured-nothing, life, orange-critter, president, stupid-things, taoiseach, the-3-inch-long, the-underbelly, u.s. news, were-operating, white-house
Lyssianasid Amphipod, In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimplike creature and a jellyfish beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That’s why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. a curious shrimplike creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera’s cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
“We were operating on the presumption that nothing’s there,” said NASA ice scientist Robert Bindschadler, who will be presenting the initial findings and a video at an American Geophysical Union meeting Wednesday. “It was a shrimp you’d enjoy having on your plate.
“We were just gaga over it,” he said of the 3-inch-long, orange critter starring in their two-minute video. Technically, it’s not a shrimp. It’s a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
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Posted on 15 March 2010. Tags: crime, execution, hang-on-friday, imminent, judge, lawyer, life, matter, policemen, room, rwanda, singapore, World News
Yong Vui Kong, We’re back from Rwanda with plenty of photos and stories to share. But all that will just have to wait. Because right now, there’s something far more urgent we have to tell you about.

It’s about the imminent death of a boy called Yong Vui Kong. You might have already heard his name. Read his sorry tale somewhere. That stupid kid who at 19, got busted for trafficking drugs into Singapore.
Vui Kong was caught with 47.27 grams of heroin – he was a runner taking instructions from his so-called ‘Big Brother’. He sits in a prison cell now, waiting to pay for his crime, with his life.
We saw the boy in court last Wednesday. A pale, skinny thing surrounded by four policemen. He had been scheduled to hang on Friday. And his lawyer was trying to convince the judge to stay the execution pending an appeal. The judge agreed. It was a decision no one, least of all Vui Kong, expected. He broke down and cried as he was being led out of the room.
Does Vui Kong deserve to die? The mainstream media in Singapore has been strangely silent about the matter. But there’s been plenty of debate online. We won’t rehash what’s already been said (for more please read this and this). We will instead, share with you, an interview we did with Vui Kong’s older brother, Yun Leong. Please listen to what he has to say:
We’re back from Rwanda with plenty of photos and stories to share. But all that will just have to wait. Because right now, there’s something far more urgent we have to tell you about.
It’s about the imminent death of a boy called Yong Vui Kong. You might have already heard his name. Read his sorry tale somewhere. That stupid kid who at 19, got busted for trafficking drugs into Singapore.
Vui Kong was caught with 47.27 grams of heroin – he was a runner taking instructions from his so-called ‘Big Brother’. He sits in a prison cell now, waiting to pay for his crime, with his life.
We saw the boy in court last Wednesday. A pale, skinny thing surrounded by four policemen. He had been scheduled to hang on Friday. And his lawyer was trying to convince the judge to stay the execution pending an appeal. The judge agreed. It was a decision no one, least of all Vui Kong, expected. He broke down and cried as he was being led out of the room.
Does Vui Kong deserve to die? The mainstream media in Singapore has been strangely silent about the matter. But there’s been plenty of debate online. We won’t rehash what’s already been said (for more please read this and this). We will instead, share with you, an interview we did with Vui Kong’s older brother, Yun Leong. Please listen to what he has to say:
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Posted on 13 March 2010. Tags: dohrn, eternal-diva, film, from-the-other, Hollywood, life, martin lawrence, opening-18th, professor, shrek-forever, spend-the-life, storyboard, the-storyboard, work
Walt Dohrn Shrek Forever After, Walt Dohrn is a very famous actor of the Hollywood. He has done many movies and is rewarded by many awards. Walt Dohrn has now done an animated movie named Shrek Forever After. Shrek is the most famous cartoon character now days. Children just love to watch the Shrek movies.
They also love to wear its products like T-shirts with the Shrek tattoo and the Shrek watches, wall hangings, posters, bed sheets and the list is very long.
This animated movie has many other parts also. But this part Shrek Forever After in which Walt Dohrn has worked is very different from the other parts. In this parts Shrek wants to go on a far away land and he wants to discover that how he will spend the life on such a new and unknown far land. The plot of the story is very interesting. The Shrek has now become a famous personality. He has married to a princess also so now nobody is afraid of Shrek.
This thing makes the Shrek upset. He is the big green ogre. But now everybody knows him so nobody is afraid of him like the past but Shrek wanted to get the previous status. For this reason he moves to a unknown far far away land where there is no shriek’s when he moved there everybody get scared and the Shrek finally gets his status back.
Walt is the famous actor and the storyboard artist. He has done the storyboard of this film. He has done it excellently. Everybody likes his work. The interesting story is made by Walt.
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Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: asaram, asaram-bapu, entertainment news, Hollywood, kumudham, life, murder, ranjeeta tamil actress, sexiest-women, street, tamil, video
Swamis and Scandals, Swami Paramhansa Nityanand: The founder of
the Nityanand mission, which claims to have 1,000 branches across 33 countries, has been untraceable since certain Tamil TV channels recently aired a video which allegedly shows him in a compromising position with a Tamil actress. Nityanand, who has ashrams in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Puducherry, hails from Tamil Nadu and has a sprawling ashram in Bidadi, 30 km from Bangalore. He claims to lead a worldwide movement for meditation and peace. Lenin Karuppan, a former disciple, has said that he shot the video to expose the swami. Lenin has alleged that his life has been under threat from the swami, adding that he also suspected foul play behind the death of a woman inmate a year ago. In the complaint filed with Chennai City Police Commissioner T Rajendran, Lenin, who claimed to be an inmate of the ashram in Bangalore since 2006, said the swami used to lure young women devotees claiming that he was the reincarnation of Lord Krishna.
Anup Kumar Sahay: A self-proclaimed godman in Ghaziabad, he was booked on Sunday for abducting his cousin. According to a complaint filed by Subha Srivastava, mother of the victim, the accused along with his brother Ashok Kumar Sahay abducted her daughter Priyanka Srivastava on February 15. The self-proclaimed godman has been booked under sections 363, 313 and 366 of the IPC which pertain to kidnapping and forcing a woman to undergo abortion without her will.
Kripaluji Maharaj: Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.
Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale: Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.
Asaram Bapu: Two minor boys of the Asaram Ashram-run gurukul in Ahmedabad were found dead in the Sabarmati riverbed two days after they mysteriously went missing from the gurukul in February 2008. The police booked Asaram Bapu in a criminal case pertaining to attempt to murder last year in December on the basis of a complaint filed by Raju Chandak, a former disciple of Asaram. Chandak was shot at by two persons on December 5 and he sustained injuries on his chest and shoulders. Chandak alleged that he was targeted at the behest of Asaram, as he had testified before the D K Trivedi Commission probing into the death of the two boys.
Jayendra Saraswati: The influential Kanchi math Shankaracharya was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh in November 2004 in connection with the murder of a former accountant of the math.
Santosh Madhavan: The temple priest-turned-astrologer wanted by the Interpol – was arrested in Alappuzha in May 2008. Apart from a Rs 50 lakh fraud case that has a Dubai-based businesswoman as the complainant, Madhavan, who had turned himself into Swami Amritachaitanya presiding over a posh ashram and flaunting high connections in the state’s political circle and the bureaucracy, was also charged with raping a 15-year-old girl repeatedly.
Premananda: Also known as Trichy Sai Baba, he was awarded life imprisonment in 1994 for two terms on the charges of multiple criminal offences including rape and murder. Premananda, who reportedly had powerful supporters in the AIADMK, had not only raped many of the inmates of his ashram at Trichy but also carried out crude medical terminations of some of the consequent pregnancies with the help of a couple of associates. He was also charged with the murder of an engineer who had opposed the nefarious activities at the ashram.
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Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: again until she is 50, characters, diane, entertainment news, gossip girl episodes, gossip-girl, joshua-jackson, life, music, the-marriage, watch-gossip, young-teenagers
Inglourious Basterds” actress Diane Kruger won’t marry again until she is 50.
The 33-year-old who is dating former “Dawson’s Creek” star Joshua Jackson was previously married to Guillaume Canet for five years and says the end of their union taught her that getting wed isn’t necessarily meaningful for a successful relationship, reports contactmusic.
“I don’t think I’ll marry again. Because I’ve realised commitment is important and no matter what paper you’re going to sign, if that commitment ceases to be there, you’ll get out of the marriage anyway. You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say ‘for the rest of my life’,” she said.
Despite dating Jackson for almost four years, Diane admits they have never really discussed his views on marriage.
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Posted on 09 March 2010. Tags: actually-means, dating-former, diane kruger will, entertainment news, gossip girl episodes, joshua-jackson, life, marriage, music, not marry again till 50, the-marriage, years
LOS ANGELES: Inglourious Basterds” actress Diane Kruger won’t marry again until she is 50.
The 33-year-old who is dating former “Dawson’s Creek” star Joshua Jackson was previously married to Guillaume Canet for five years and says the end of their union taught her that getting wed isn’t necessarily meaningful for a successful relationship, reports contactmusic.
“I don’t think I’ll marry again. Because I’ve realised commitment is important and no matter what paper you’re going to sign, if that commitment ceases to be there, you’ll get out of the marriage anyway. You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say ‘for the rest of my life’,” she said.
Despite dating Jackson for almost four years, Diane admits they have never really discussed his views on marriage.
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Posted on 08 March 2010. Tags: akshay-kumar, biography, broke-leaving, chinese, chong, entertainment news, jack neo, life, singaporean, truly-enjoying, wendy, wife-on-friday
Jack Neo Wendy Chong, Wendy Chong is Jack Neo affairs girl. When Jack Neo extramarital affairs was exposed yesterday, we didn’t know Wendy Chong’s official English name, so we directly translated her name to Zhong Jia Yan according to the Chinese pinyin.
Wendy Chong is a Singaporean Chinese, so it’s not surprised that she has a Chinese name. About herself, Wendy Chong under the username of tiramisu_wendy introduced on her now defunct blog http://smile2wendy.blogspot.com
I am WENDY – JIA YAN – And what else about me.. Okie,i think i’m lovely, smart, daring, very very imaginatve and i don’t love talking to strangers. and most importantly, there’s one thing i will never give up no matter how hard it’ll be or how many rejections i’ll go through, that’s acting. Because to perform,to act is not just a dream, but my life. It keeps me going even when life is down. I can only see the real me when i’m performing. It’s when im truly enjoying life.
More than that, now we know Wendy Chong is 22 years old in some news reports, but according to her biography on a model agency’s website she is 23, anyway, she was born around in 1988. Jack Neo was born in 1950, so now he is 50 years old.
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Posted on 08 March 2010. Tags: after-the-rakhi, entertainment news, family, kids, life, marriage, married-forever, media, movie, movie-allu, rahul, reality, sandra-bullock, varudu audio songs, wedding
Rahul, Dimpy ‘married forever, Rahul Mahajan who married Dimpy Ganguly, the contestant who introduced herself to him by saying, “I’m Dimpy from Kolkata. By the way I hate noodles and can’t cook”. The couple speaks to TOI about their marriage not being a time-bound agreement and the age difference not that serious an issue .
So, Rahul dulhaniya sahi mein le gaya. Isn’t this what the viewers are talking about? Obviously, yes! The excitement is not just because it is Mahajan who tied the knot, but also because the reality-show-can-find-the-right-match model has proved right. Something the viewers were neither expecting nor willing to accept, particularly after the Rakhi-Elesh fiasco. While the critics continue to speculate the span of this marriage, Rahul says he knows the significance this bond carries, for him at least.
“Whatever I’ve done has always been under the media glare, irrespective of me wanting it or not. But I’m glad that I haven’t gone back on the promise (of getting married) I had made to my mom and the country. Mom was aware of Dimpy as my choice and supported my decision. She only wants to see us happy. I feel blessed to have found my soulmate in Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega – Swayamvar Season 2. Bhagwan ke ghar dair hai, andhaer nahin. For Dimpy’s father to have told her to take care of me, considering all that I have gone through in life, was quite touching.”
Contrary to the cynics’ opinion, Rahul tells us there is no time limit to this relationship. “I will stay married to Dimpy till the end of my life. Our marriage will get registered tomorrow in Bandra, Mumbai.” Even though Rahul’s statement might appear like a strong message meant for Rakhi and Elesh who ended up making a mockery of the reality show, he denies any such intention. “Going by the family that I belong to and the values that have been instilled in Dimpy and me, it is not right to break the promise we both have made.”
Having witnessed several hardships on the personal front in the past, Rahul believes this wedding is the first step to a much-sought after blissful life. “This is like second birth to me. I believe positive things have begun to happen in my life and I’m hopeful that it will continue.” And if you think Dimpy alone was experiencing the wedding jitters, you’re wrong. For, the groom tells us that he wasn’t all that comfortable either. “Mera dimaag blank tha. I had no clue about what I was supposed to say. It was pretty difficult for me. Par jaise hi Dimpy ko dekha speech apne aap mooh se nikalti gayi. All this while, only girls had proposed to me. But it felt great when I proposed to Dimpy on national TV. Yeh sammaan ek ladki ko milna bahut zaroori hai. Yeh sammaan mein apni biwi ko doon isse bhadkar koi aur cheez nahin thi. It was a romantic moment that I will narrate to my kids and grand kids. They obviously need to know how I met and married Dimpy.
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Posted on 06 March 2010. Tags: ailments, chester taylor, couple-decline, cranbury nj, eduardo garcia valseca, eduardo valsecas, hannah, life, masons-cranbury, sent-out-six, synthetic-light, u.s. news, updates, valseca-jayne
Eduardo Valseca, Here is a holiday photo of Eduardo Garcia Valseca and
wife Jayne Rager Valseca. This Eduardo Garcia Valseca Jayne Rager holiday card was sent out six months before his life changed.
In 2007, Eduardo’s kidnapping in Mexico captivate a continent. Tonight the story is revisited on television.
Two years after his ordeal, Eduardo opened up for the first time to the Washington Post. The Post wrote of Valseca’s ordeal in 2009 the following:
” Eduardo, now 60, spent 7 1/2 months in a tiny, filthy box. The couple decline to say exactly how much ransom was paid, for fear of future extortion attempts. They say it was less than $1 million. The kidnappers had demanded $8 million.
“Eduardo weighed about 160 pounds when he was kidnapped. He came home weighing about 90, with two gunshot wounds, three broken ribs and other ailments.”
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Posted on 04 March 2010. Tags: another cop drama, antoine-fuqua, entertainment news, film, finest, life, michael-martin, movie, pressure, read-the-script, role, story, the-movie, writer, york
NEW YORK: After the success of ‘Training Day’ in 2001, director Antoine Fuqua didn’t think he’d ever do another movie about corrupt cops until he read the script for ‘Brooklyn’s Finest.’
“For me the movie is the story of Job, are there any good men left?” said Fuqua. “And the finest will be standing at the end of the movie, which you’ll find out which guy is actually standing. They’re all good guys in some way to do that job, but they make some bad choices sometimes, based on the pressure they’re under.”
Ethan Hawke, who earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in ‘Training Day,’ plays a task force officer who doesn’t have enough money to care for his growing family. Richard Gere plays a senior cop on the verge of retirement who doesn’t want to offend anyone or take any risks. And Don Cheadle plays an undercover narcotics officer who’s too close to his drug world contact, played by Wesley Snipes.
“You can relate to where he’s at in his life right now,” Fuqua said he told Snipes about the role of Caz, Snipe’s first major feature film role since his tax troubles surfaced in 2006. “And he said, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’ I said, ‘I just want some truth. I want the truth for how you feel right now in your life. And this is that guy.’ And so I took a big chance because, you know, the bond companies and everyone was nervous about certain things, and I just said I can’t see anybody else. I don’t even know if I would do the movie if I can’t get the right guys in each role.”
It’s the performance of those guys that make the film, which weaves together their three stories throughout until they explode in a powerful climax. But is the title meant to be ironic?
“I found something fine in each one of them,” said Fuqua. “But I think the writer, Michael Martin, sort of ripped that right out of the headlines, you know. For me the movie is the story of Job, are there any good men left? And the finest will be standing at the end of the movie, which you’ll find out which guy is actually standing. They’re all good guys in some way to do that job, but they make some bad choices sometimes, based on the pressure they’re under.”
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