Animal Cruelty
Fight Climate Change with Diet change
Global warming has been called humankind’s “greatest challenge” and the world’s most grave environmental threat, and science shows that one of the most effective ways to fight global warming is to go vegetarian.
Stars such as Sir Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde are lending their voices to share what science has already proven—that the meat industry [...]
What you won’t see in the coming weeks Olympic coverage
There’s a lot to celebrate about the Summer Olympics in China: The many nations of the world put politics aside and come together in peace so that the greatest human athletes on Earth can compete.
But there’s an ugly side for animals living in the Olympic host country, a side that you won’t see in this [...]
How Animals Wind Up in Labs
Companion Animals
Many dogs and cats used in laboratory experiments come from companies that breed animals for research purposes. Others were once trusting companions who simply got lost–or stolen–from their families.
* Pound Seizure
Animal shelters in certain states are required to turn over homeless dogs to government-run [...]
Help Cows
By supporting PETA today, you can help reduce and end the suffering of more than 40 million cows—each a sensitive individual—who are killed in slaughterhouses in the United States each year.Most cows never enjoy a peaceful day in a grassy field.Instead, cows raised for their milk are commonly confined to filthy sheds and barren dirt [...]
Do you know how pigs in the U.S. live their lives?
Fact #1: In the U.S., more than 97 percent of pigs—smart, social, interesting animals—are raised on factory farms. They spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, where they never see the sun or breathe fresh air. Because of their hideous living conditions, more than 70 percent of the pigs have pneumonia by the time [...]
Deep into My Mind
How to react when an employee loses his cool ?
I was reading an interesting article in CNN and here are excerpts which I found to be very useful.
How to react when an employee loses his cool ?
The author refers a lot to David Wolf, PhD , Author of a new book called Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living (Mandala Publishing, $14.95).
1. Blank [...]
In the Valley of Elah - Movie Review
Paul Haggis is one of my favorite directors. He has made another awesome movie after the hard hitting and controversial crash. This is an anti-war movie and not an anti-soldier movie. Tommy Lee Jones has delivered one of his best performances in this movie. Charlize Theron has provided all the support that any [...]
Cricket and Religion.
Who would have imagined that an Indian crowd would cheer for a Pakistani bowler bowling against an Indian batsman ?. All this hype about the divide based on religion has been proved wrong. Shoaib Akthar is a genuine fast bowler and an exciting cricketer. The support he got from the Kolkata crowd and from his [...]
Aggressive Driver - Just a Clown.
I am currently in India on vacation. It has been a good break from my hectic work life. I was worried about my daughter but she is having a wonderful time with my parents. The roads are still dusty and life is still chaotic in my home town but I am not complaining. I wish [...]
Unthan Desathin Kural - Magical song by A.R Rehman
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Undhan desathin kural
tholaithoorathil atho
seviyil vilatha
sontha veedu unnai vaa enru alaikirathu tamila
antha naadkalai ninai
avai neenkuma unai
nilal pol varatha
ayal naadu unthan veedalla viduthiyeda tamilavaanam engum paranthaalum
paravai ennum than kootil
ulagum engum valnthaalum
tamilan ennum thaai naatil
santharpangal valnthalum[?]
angu selva maram kaithaalum[?]
pull manakum kooval unthan seviyil vilatha
Undhan desathin kural
tholaithoorathil atho
seviyil vilatha
sontha veedu unnai vaa enru alaikirathu tamila
gangai unai alaikirathu
yamunai unai alaikirathu
imayam [...]
Programming Concepts
Vista 64bit - Works for me
There is a lot of bad press around vista. Things get worse when folks start reviewing the 64 bit version. I don’t think vista is all that bad for a typical windows user. I would consider myself to be a power user and I do use my computer for heavy duty video-editing and programming.
I had [...]
Writing your first Android Application.
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Android applications, like most mobile phone applications, are developed in a host-target development environment. In other words, you develop your application on a host computer (where resources are abundant), and download it to a target mobile phone for testing and ultimate use.
To write your own Android mobile phone applications, you’ll first [...]
Web Site Optimization - Choosing Data Formats Wisely
Ajax requests may be small, but there certainly are differences size-wise between the various data formats, especially if you consider the included content versus the structural markup. For example, consider that when we request a simple list of comma-separated values, any returned data will be quite concise:
value1,value2,value3,…value N
If you encoded the same data in XML, [...]
Subversion - commands
Subversion has different options for its subcommands but all options exist in a single namespace—that is, each option is guaranteed to mean the same thing regardless of the subcommand you use it with. For example, –verbose (-v) always means “verbose output,” regardless of the subcommand you use it with.
The svn command-line client usually exits [...]
How to react when an employee loses his cool ?
I was reading an interesting article in CNN and here are excerpts which I found to be very useful.
How to react when an employee loses his cool ?
The author refers a lot to David Wolf, PhD , Author of a new book called Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living (Mandala Publishing, $14.95).
1. Blank [...]
Movies
Silambattam - Music Review
Yuvan Shankar Raja is back with this movie featuring Silamabrasan and Sana Khan. This album is a song for the masses and does not really reflect the talent of the young music director.I really believe the actor influences the music director a lot as there is a lot of similarity in the music scores for [...]
Yuvvaraj - Music Review
Subash Ghai , Gulzar and Rehman are back after Taal and the expectations are naturally very high. Rehman has also been in very good touch with blockbuster hits to his credit in both Hindi and Tamil.
Main Hoon Yuuvraj (Salman Khan)
It is just an introductory song with no value. I have no idea why this bit [...]
Aegan - Music Review
Banner: Ayngaran International
Cast: Ajith, Nayantara, Navadeep, Suhasini Manirathnam, Jayaram, Suman, Nasser, M.S.Baskar, Sriman
Direction: Raju Sundaram
Production: Karunamoorthy, Arunpandiayan
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
This is the third movie for yuvan with Ajith. The first two movies Dheena and Billa were big hits.Yuvan’ s orchestration skills are brought to the fore in this album. Saroja was an interesting album [...]
Abhiyum Naanum - Music Review
The stakes were quite high for Vidyasagar after the immense success of Mozhi. I was really hoping that the Radhamohan-Vidyasagar combination would provide quality music one more time but Vidyasagar seems to lost it big time with this album. He seems to have gone back the 90’s with his music arrangements and the melody and [...]
Varanam Ayiram - Music Review
The golden combination of Gautham and Harris are back and the album simply rocks. Gautham has always managed to get the best out of Harris and this album is no exception. Harris has still not stepped out of this comfort zone but has managed to innovate within his self imposed boundaries.It will be impossible [...]