Animal Cruelty
Ringling Case: Elephants Await Verdict
Today, lawyers gave their closing arguments in the court case involving Ringling’s use of steel-barbed bullhooks and shackles on the elephants it forces to perform. Over the course of the six-week trial, the following evidence was presented:
* Elephants are chained for an average of more than 26 hours at a time, [...]
Demand an End to Brazil’s Bizarre Festival of Torture!
Throughout March until Easter day, a twisted and sadistic “festival” known as Farra do Boi (translated as “Festival of the Ox”) takes place in Brazil. During this festival, countless oxen throughout the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina are horrifically and methodically tortured—just for “fun.” In the days before Farra do Boi begins, the oxen are [...]
Killing Baby Seals – it is just not right
Soon, hunters armed with crude clubs will descend on harp seals—most of them just a few months old. By the time the hunters are done, the skinless bodies of thousands of dead seal pups will be left to rot on the ice.
With your help, PETA is mounting international pressure on the Canadian government to stop [...]
Tell Obama: Ban on Torture Should Include Animals!
Days after President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning torture during military interrogations, PETA wrote to the president calling for the ban of another form of military torture: trauma and chemical-casualty training exercises conducted on animals.
Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training [...]
Help Animals, the Hungry, the Planet, and Yourself by Taking the New Year’s Pledge to Be Veg!
Help Animals, the Hungry, the Planet, and Yourself by Taking the New Year’s Pledge to Be Veg!
Every year, more than 15 billion animals are slaughtered for food in the U.S. alone. Each of those billions of individual animals is denied everything that is natural and important to them: the space to take a few steps, [...]
Deep into My Mind
Ringling Case: Elephants Await Verdict
Today, lawyers gave their closing arguments in the court case involving Ringling’s use of steel-barbed bullhooks and shackles on the elephants it forces to perform. Over the course of the six-week trial, the following evidence was presented:
* Elephants are chained for an average of more than 26 hours at a time, [...]
How to help people succeed at work ?
This is a tricky question to me. I am an Engineering Director with mixed responsibilities. The primary focus is to make sure I meet the demands of the business unit(s) and also to make sure that the folks who work for me are in a happy place.
The main question for any leader is
“Are [...]
Slumdog Millionaire – Movie review
I finally managed to see the movie in DVD .There is no doubt that the movie is good and entertaining but for an average Indian movie buff this would be just another fairy tale story. The interesting aspect is that the world gets to see the bad side of a third world country and not [...]
ESPN2 sucks !
The producers of the Australian open on ESPN2 should ask their commentators to shut up. I was watching this really tight match between Federer and the talented Tomas Berdych and ESPN chose to show us a tease of the Australian open right at the beginning of the second set . Just to make things even [...]
Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Turkeys
Pardon me, pilgrim! This Thanksgiving, how about ditching the dead bird? These beautiful, inquisitive, intelligent birds endure lives of suffering and painful deaths. Here are 10 good reasons to carve out a new tradition by flocking to vegetarian entrées, along with some scrumptious holiday cooking tips and recipes—thankfully, none of them require stuffing food up [...]
Programming Concepts
Session Management in Axis
There are different types of sessions, and the lifetime of the session may vary from one to another. Some sessions last for a few seconds while others last for the lifetime of the whole system. Axis2 architecture has been designed to support four types of sessions, and we observe that there are minor differences between [...]
Essential HTTP Headers
Age
Type: Response header
If the response entity-body does not come fresh from the server, the Age header is a measure of how long ago it left the server. This header is usually set by HTTP caches, so that the client knows it might be getting an old copy of a representation.
Cache-Control
Type: Request and response header
This header [...]
Essential HTTP Codes
200 (”OK”)
Everything’s fine. The document in the entity-body, if any, is a representation of some resource.
400 (”Bad Request”)
There’s a problem on the client side. The document in the entity-body, if any, is an error message. Hopefully the client can understand the error message and use it to [...]
How to help people succeed at work ?
This is a tricky question to me. I am an Engineering Director with mixed responsibilities. The primary focus is to make sure I meet the demands of the business unit(s) and also to make sure that the folks who work for me are in a happy place.
The main question for any leader is
“Are [...]
TCP/IP Protocol Stack
Application Layer
BOOTP: Bootstrap Protocol
DCAP: Data Link Switching Client Access Protocol
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS: Domain Name Systems
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
Finger: User Information Protocol
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
S-HTTP: Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP)
IMAP & IMAP4: Internet Message Access Protocol
IPDC: IP Device Control
IRCP (IRC): Internet Relay Chat Protocol
LDAP: Lightweighted Directory Access Protocol
MIME (S-MIME): Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Secure [...]
Movies
Aayirathil Oruvan – Tamil Music Review
Aayirathil Oruvan is a forthcoming 2009 Tamil film directed by Selvaraghavan and produced by R.Ravendran .Karthik Sivakumar and Reema Sen have been cast in lead roles while R. Parthiban acts in a guest role as does Andrea Jeremiah.The story and screenplay are penned by the director himself. The background score and soundtrack will be composed [...]
Modhi Vilayadu – Tamil Music Review
Modhi Vilayadu is a Tamil language film set to be released in 2009. It stars Vinay Rai and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles.The film has music of Hariharan – Leslie for the first time in Tamil.
Latcham Varthaigal (Ranjani)
A terrific start to the album. The heavy dusky voice of Ranjani suits the mood of the [...]
Muthirai – Tamil Music Review
Muthirai is an upcoming drama Tamil film starring Nithin Sathya, Daniel Balaji, Lakshmi Rai and newcomer Manjari Phadnis in the lead roles, whilst Kishore of Polladhavan fame plays an important role and Bollywood actress Rakhi Sawant makes a special appearance. Directed by Srinath and produced by Aneez Jeeva, wife of late director Jeeva, the [...]
Angadi Theru – Tamil Music Review
Angaadi Theru (2009) is a Tamil forthcoming film directed by film director, Vasanthabalan starring Mahesh and Anjali in the lead roles. The cinematography is by debutant Richard Maria Nathan, while music is scored by G. V. Prakash Kumar and Vijay Antony. Actress Sneha plays a guest role as herself in the film.
Aval Appadi ( [...]
Vamanan – Tamil Music Review
Yuvan has again hit the right chords with Vamanan.Vamanan is a forthcoming Tamil action thriller film directed by debutant I. Ahmed, who worked as an erstwhile assistant to Kadhir, and starring Jai and newcomer Priya Anandh in lead roles. Produced by R. Ravindran of Dream Valley Corporation, the film features Rahman, Lakshmi Rai, Urvashi, ‘Thalaivaasal’ [...]