The 1939 MGM classic The Women was the original Sex and the City. It had everything: gossip and fashion shows and spa workouts, plus a peek into the dishy manners of New York high society. Directed by George Cukor, from a script by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin (which was adapted from Claire Boothe Luce's Broadway smash), the movie was a zinger-strewn orgy of feminine camaraderie and backbiting, yet it also confronted the timeless issue of whether a happy marriage can — and should — survive an adulterous affair. The Women wasn't by any means a great movie, but it had a polished acid vibrance and, for all its over-the-top chatter, an elegantly simple story.
The new version, written and directed by former Murphy Brown writer-producer Diane English, sprawls all over the place, in no small part because it's trying so hard to be a luscious retrograde fantasy and a tale of 21st-century empowerment. Meg Ryan, her hair so mega-permed it looks as if she were hiding under the world's most expensive mop, takes the Norma Shearer role: She's Mary Haines, a wealthy Connecticut housewife whose world collapses when she learns — from a blabby Saks Fifth Avenue manicurist (Debi Mazar) — that her husband has been sleeping with the golddigger who works at the perfume counter. (This floozy is played by Eva Mendes, sexy-vicious where Joan Crawford was sexy-psychotic.) Annette Bening, in the Rosalind Russell role of Mary's treacherous best friend, is now a women's magazine editor, which means that once you've adjusted to how badly Bening has been lit, the film can get sidetracked into one of those awesomely unconvincing inside views of how New York media supposedly work.
Meanwhile, Ryan's Mary reacts to her predicament by experiencing a career-minded awakening (I can be a fashion designer! Because I believe in myself!), which feels like the sort of thing we watched Diane Keaton go through in bad comedies 20 years ago. Nattering around the edges are Debra Messing as a busybody and walking advertisement for the joys of child rearing, Jada Pinkett Smith as a sullen author, and Bette Midler as some weird Mae West noodge of a bat-brained divorcée. For added relevance, Mary's daughter (India Ennenga) has been made into a compendium of up-to-the-minute girl crises. The Women is such an arduous patchwork of ''issues'' it ends up a Frankenstein's monster of a chick flick. The movie is a feminist lesson instead of what it should have been (and once was): a tough, synthetic, high-gloss entertainment that wears its heart on its lacquered fingernails.
Set in a steampunk fantasy world that owes as much to Tim Burton and the Quay Brothers as to James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), this cheeky CG fable tells the story of a hunchbacked lab assistant (voiced by Cusack) whose dream of mad-scientist stardom hits a snag when his monstrous creation (Shannon) turns out to be a big softie who prefers show tunes to screams of terror. The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't. Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch. C
Igor has all the makings of a biting, sarcastic masterpiece. Its animated sets are dreary and bleak. Its dialogue is jaded and clever. Unfortunately, it realizes a few foolish, gangster-wannabe adolescents might get the wrong idea and deteriorates from original Willy Wonka-like magic to second rate Sleeping Beauty imitation. Don’t fault John Cusack. Don’t fault Steve Buscemi. Fault a broken studio system which encourages compromise and easily-digested happy endings.
Igor (John Cusack) is a talented mad scientist in training with one problem. He was born with a hunchback, and in the country of Malaria, being born with a hunchback means changing your name to Igor and working for a mad scientist. The mad scientist in question is named Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese), and he’s not very good at his job. His latest creation, evil lasagna, actually tastes pretty good and causes no harm to its victims. Luckily for Igor, Dr. Glickenstein joins Edward Scissorhands creator Vincent Prince in the afterlife, and the deceptively keen hunchback decides to continue his fallen boss’s quest to win the annual Evil Science Fair.
With the help of a suicidal, yet immortal rabbit (Steve Buscemi) and a robotic human brain (Sean Hayes) with spelling problems, Igor creates life in the form of an eager to please and overly nice Frankenstein-like woman named Eva (Molly Shannon), so named because she rejects her maker’s urgings to do wrong. Hoping for a little less Gandhi and a little more Ho Chi Minh, the trio take Eva to a brainwash emporium, but the plan runs afoul thanks to a remote control mishap and their creation ends up an aspiring actress.
Sounds like a wonderful little movie, right? Erroneous. The entire film soon implodes amidst a plethora of unnecessary bloviations and speeches about morality and aww shucks sensibilities. The best thing about Igor is its unconventional protagonist vs. antagonist relationship. Everyone living in the fictional country of Malaria aspires to be an evil genius. Each year, the king picks one diabolical man-made device and uses it to blackmail the entire world. Now, that’s an interesting and worthwhile plot. Tarnishing it with forty minutes of maybe-we-shouldn’t-pull-the-switch nonsense is, frankly, idiotic. We’ve all seen films about fighting off the conscience for a payday. Why can’t we just have a goddamn feature where borderline, wannabe hipster sociopaths try to create the ultimate weapon to blackmail humanity? Apparently, that violates the Hays Production Code.
Thankfully, the entire movie doesn’t play like a lecture you’re forced to listen to during second grade Sunday School classes. True to form, John Cusack and Steve Buscemi basically play themselves, if they were animated. Sure, Cusack is a hunchback and Buscemi a rabbit, but their personalities shine through. Don’t believe me? Igor is a bumbling, yet loveable, outcast with dreams of carving his own path in a bizarre field, while the rabbit is a morose and witty misanthrope who’s just a little too intelligent to find superficial happiness in a world populated by Philistines. Trademark Cusack and Buscemi.
The soundtrack is also amusingly eclectic. From Big Band throwbacks to jovial pop music, the score surprises and pleases at every turn, which would have been a wonderful compliment to Igor’s dark, satirical tone, had filmmaker Anthony Leonidis had the balls to follow through on his original vision.
If you’re really dead set on going to see this, I won’t discourage you from making the trip. Igor has a few loveable characters and some great voice work by Jennifer Coolidge, but don’t be surprised when halfway through you mumble to yourself, “I should have gone to fucking synagogue.”
Set in a steampunk fantasy world that owes as much to Tim Burton and the Quay Brothers as to James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), this cheeky CG fable tells the story of a hunchbacked lab assistant (voiced by Cusack) whose dream of mad-scientist stardom hits a snag when his monstrous creation (Shannon) turns out to be a big softie who prefers show tunes to screams of terror. The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't. Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch. C
Igor has all the makings of a biting, sarcastic masterpiece. Its animated sets are dreary and bleak. Its dialogue is jaded and clever. Unfortunately, it realizes a few foolish, gangster-wannabe adolescents might get the wrong idea and deteriorates from original Willy Wonka-like magic to second rate Sleeping Beauty imitation. Don’t fault John Cusack. Don’t fault Steve Buscemi. Fault a broken studio system which encourages compromise and easily-digested happy endings.
Igor (John Cusack) is a talented mad scientist in training with one problem. He was born with a hunchback, and in the country of Malaria, being born with a hunchback means changing your name to Igor and working for a mad scientist. The mad scientist in question is named Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese), and he’s not very good at his job. His latest creation, evil lasagna, actually tastes pretty good and causes no harm to its victims. Luckily for Igor, Dr. Glickenstein joins Edward Scissorhands creator Vincent Prince in the afterlife, and the deceptively keen hunchback decides to continue his fallen boss’s quest to win the annual Evil Science Fair.
With the help of a suicidal, yet immortal rabbit (Steve Buscemi) and a robotic human brain (Sean Hayes) with spelling problems, Igor creates life in the form of an eager to please and overly nice Frankenstein-like woman named Eva (Molly Shannon), so named because she rejects her maker’s urgings to do wrong. Hoping for a little less Gandhi and a little more Ho Chi Minh, the trio take Eva to a brainwash emporium, but the plan runs afoul thanks to a remote control mishap and their creation ends up an aspiring actress.
Sounds like a wonderful little movie, right? Erroneous. The entire film soon implodes amidst a plethora of unnecessary bloviations and speeches about morality and aww shucks sensibilities. The best thing about Igor is its unconventional protagonist vs. antagonist relationship. Everyone living in the fictional country of Malaria aspires to be an evil genius. Each year, the king picks one diabolical man-made device and uses it to blackmail the entire world. Now, that’s an interesting and worthwhile plot. Tarnishing it with forty minutes of maybe-we-shouldn’t-pull-the-switch nonsense is, frankly, idiotic. We’ve all seen films about fighting off the conscience for a payday. Why can’t we just have a goddamn feature where borderline, wannabe hipster sociopaths try to create the ultimate weapon to blackmail humanity? Apparently, that violates the Hays Production Code.
Thankfully, the entire movie doesn’t play like a lecture you’re forced to listen to during second grade Sunday School classes. True to form, John Cusack and Steve Buscemi basically play themselves, if they were animated. Sure, Cusack is a hunchback and Buscemi a rabbit, but their personalities shine through. Don’t believe me? Igor is a bumbling, yet loveable, outcast with dreams of carving his own path in a bizarre field, while the rabbit is a morose and witty misanthrope who’s just a little too intelligent to find superficial happiness in a world populated by Philistines. Trademark Cusack and Buscemi.
The soundtrack is also amusingly eclectic. From Big Band throwbacks to jovial pop music, the score surprises and pleases at every turn, which would have been a wonderful compliment to Igor’s dark, satirical tone, had filmmaker Anthony Leonidis had the balls to follow through on his original vision.
If you’re really dead set on going to see this, I won’t discourage you from making the trip. Igor has a few loveable characters and some great voice work by Jennifer Coolidge, but don’t be surprised when halfway through you mumble to yourself, “I should have gone to fucking synagogue.”
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a complex elastomeric compound they call d3o that is both soft and hard.
A shear thickening material, it is flexible when moved slowly, but when it is compresssed by an impact, its molecules lock together. The material stiffens, spreading the impact over a greater area. The Swiss company Ribcap is bringing out a new line of headgear for snowsports based on this material. The Ribcap is a combination soft, flexible beanie and tough helmet.
After five years of development, the Ribcap team settled on d3o as the material of choice. Ruth Gough, d3o's brand manager describes her own experience using the Ribcap while out on the piste, ... she [Gough] had a rather dramatic fall that terminated on her head. "I was a bit dazed, and I almost wasn't sure whether I had actually hit my head, although the concern I got from those who saw it assured me that I really had, and quite hard!" This is a common reaction to real world d3o impact trials. d3o is so comfortable it feels like an extension of you. It's very easy to forget it's there, and you'd be forgiven for thinking, in that split second before you hit the ground "this is never going to work..."
In their 1971 novel The Flying Sorcerers, David Gerrold and Larry Niven write about an impact suit with similar properties:
"It was my impact suit," Purple said. He took a step forward and thumped himself hard in the belly with this fist. His belly was big and soft, so the blow should have made him wince. It did not. I thought for a moment that Purple had become rigid as stone.
Mumbai, Sep 28 (IANS) Sanjay Dutt plays ‘Sattarbhai’, a bully who collects loan instalments from bank debtors, in his forthcoming film “EMI”. The character has been inspired by a real-life collecting agent and the Bollywood actor spent a lot of time with him to get his act right.”Sanju sir’s character is modelled on a real-life agent. In fact, the whole film’s plot about all these debt collectors who have the thankless job of getting bank loans back from debtors was inspired by the real-life Sattarbhai,” said TV tsarina Ekta Kapoor, who is co-producing the film with Suniel Shetty.The real-life character’s identity is, however, being kept a secret right now.
Said Suniel Shetty: “We don’t want the real Sattarbhai to come into the picture until Sanju baba’s fictional avatar is properly unveiled to the public.”
Sanjay Dutt met, interacted with and studied the real-life Sattarbhai very closely to get into the skin of the character. And he was glad that he wasn’t playing an underworld gangster yet again.
“This is my most seriously funny and socially relevant character since Munnabhai. And I’m happy to be doing something that doesn’t require me to go into the underworld,” he quipped.As for the real Sattarbhai, he is free to share the thrill of the film unless he suddenly decides to demand a bigger share in the movie’s investments.
This isn’t the first time this question has cropped up. When Preity Zinta played a real-life battered wife in Deepa Mehta’s “Heaven On Earth”, the woman who inspired the character suddenly came forward to demand a huge amount of money.“She demanded an obscenely astronomical sum of money that really put Deepa Mehta off,” a member of the “Heaven On Earth” team said.However, producers Ekta and Suniel seem pretty sure their real character won’t suddenly demand his pound of flesh.
“He’s more than happy to be a role model for a character that Sanju baba is playing. We’ll include him in the promotional events of ‘EMI’ very soon,” said Suniel.There’s also the debate of “EMI” sharing its title with the international music label. Any copyright hassles on the anvil?"But we’ve registered our title. And EMI is accepted bank jargon, short for Equated Monthly Instalments. If EMI is a music company, then we’re glad to be keeping such musical company,” Suniel joked.
In this film Sanjay will be featured along with Arjun Rampal and Urmilla Matandokar . This film will be directed by Saurabh Kabra & will be produced by Suniel Shetty . It is said that Sunil was very much sure that this role, which is offered to sanju, is made for him and sanjay will be apt for these types of roles. It is also known that sanjay is like a elder brother to suniel shetty and suniel always takes his blessings and his advice before investing in any film. Suniel was reportedly very happy that sanjay is back and is resuming his shooting schedule from a horrified court case.
In this film sanjay will be donning the role of Sattar bhai who is a recovery agent of a reputed bank. But the negative factor of Sattar bhai is that he is a gem at heart and is very soft cornered for the loan seekers. This film is said to feature Arjun Rampal in a interesting role which he did not do till date.Sanjay dutt will be shooting for EMI for one month and then he will go for the com-pletion of his characters in the film’s Alibaug and Kidnap.
Sanjay dutt before going for his first take cleared all the rumors about his break up with sanjay guta. He confirmed that though he and sanjay gupta are not associated anymore in their business, but will continue their friendship lifelong.
"Sanju Sir's character is modeled on a real-life agent. In fact, the whole film's plot about all these debt collectors who have the thankless jobs of getting bank loans back from debtors was inspired by the real-life Sattarbhai."The real-life character's identity is being kept a secret for a very definite purpose. Says Sunil Shetty, "We don't want the real Sattarbhai to come into the picture until Sanju Baba's fictional avatar is properly unveiled to the public."
Also, there's the question of copyrights. Would the real Sattarbhai suddenly stand up and claim money for his character being cannibalized? This isn't the first time this question has cropped up. Recently, when Preity Zinta played a real-life battered wife in Heaven On Earth, the woman who inspired the character suddenly came forward to demand what sounded like ransom money."She demanded an obscenely astronomical sum of money that really put Deepa Mehta off," says a member of the Heaven On Earth team.However, producers Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty and Sanjay Dutt who plays Sattarbhai seem pretty sure the real character won't suddenly demand his pound of flesh.
"He's more than happy to be a role model for a character that Sanju Baba is playing. We'll include him in the promotional events of EMI very soon," says Sunil.Sanjay Dutt met, interacted with and studied the real-life Sattarbhai very closely before playing the character. "This is my most seriously funny and socially-relevant character since Munnabhai. And I'm happy to be doing something that doesn't require me to go into the underworld," says Dutt.
As for the real Sattarbhai, he is free to share the thrill of the film, unless he suddenly decides to become a party-pooper desirous of a bigger share in the film's investments than he deserves. Another copyright puzzle for EMI. The title is also the acronym for the world's oldest music label."But we've registered our title. And EMI is accepted bank jargon, short for easy monthly installments.
If EMI is a music company then we're glad to be keeping such musical company," jokes Sunil.
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Priyanka Chopra who shot to fame in few years contrary to her other colleagues, who entered filmdom through beauty pageants, seems to have lost her way during the recent past. The girl needed hits to go on top of Bollywood has fallen a victim to do duds like 'God Tussi Great Ho' and 'Chamku'. Her fans wonder how come she chose to play the useless role of the glam school teacher in the Naxalite movie that just failed to deliver. On the other hand, Katrina Kaif has been making hit after hit though she hails from a foreign land is too weak to deliver dialogues in Hindi. Her latest flick 'Singh Is Kinng' opposite Akshay Kumar has had a great success.
Similarly, Kareena Kapoor has been basking in the glory of her 'Jab We Met' opposite Shahid Kapoor and Bipasha having scored in 'Race' and 'Bachna Ae Haseeno'. Deepika Padukone isn't far behind. She is constantly hanging onto beau Ranbir's arm. Alas, Priyanka is left much behind all these girls despite her beauty and acting skill. Yes, you are right. She is banking on her forthcoming movies 'Dostana' opposite Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham, in which she looks stunningly charming in a bikini, as never before. Among her other upcoming movies are 'Drona' starring Abhishek Bachchan besides 'Fashion' opposite Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham. So, she would end the year with great success, it is hoped.
Sarah Palin came in second in the Miss Alaska Pageant in 1984. Check out Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Heath Palin’s beauty pageant video after the bump.
“Sarah says she wants to prepare for a career in television broadcasting by majoring in telecommunications and political science,” the emcee says.The announcer continues: “It is no wonder that she has also been recognized by ‘Who’s Who?’ since she has displayed her leadership in all areas, from academics to student politics to athletics… Ladies and gentlemen, contestant No. 8, Sarah Heath.”
Check out vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant video below:
SEPTEMBER 15: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Launch 'Text CHILD to 90999' to raise funds for the Richie-Madden Children's Foundation at an ice cream social hosted by Marble Slab Creamery at Beyond Shelter on September 15, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
After several weeks of Nicole Richie hiding her stomach from photographers, the is-she-or-isn’t-she-rumors can be put to rest: Us has confirmed via multiple sources that Richie is more than 12 weeks pregnant with her and boyfriend Joel Madden’s first child.
“She is extremely excited right now,” a source close to the star tells Us.
Richie, 25, shared the good news with her mom Brenda, and close friends like Mischa Barton, in early May, adds the Richie pal, after a pregnancy test came up positive.And the pregnancy isn’t the only cause for celebration.A source says Madden, 28, along with a few friends and his twin brother Benji, recently went shopping for an engagement ring.And the twins’ older brother Josh Madden tells Us, “Nicole is awesome. I would love for them to get married!”Both families are thrilled about the couple’s baby joy: “Everyone’s happy, everyone’s good, everyone’s getting along” a source tells Us.But Nicole can’t hide her bump forever. The Simple Life star is due in court on July 11 to answer DUI charges stemming from her December 2006 arrest. If found guilty, she faces 90 days to one year in jail because of a previous DUI conviction in 2003.
What will happen if Nicole is sentenced to jail time? Is her weight a worry? For details on Nicole’s pregnancy and upcoming court date
Who in the world gets a neck tattoo? A couple of years back you could have narrowed the answer to gang members, prison inmates, members of Russian mob and the rapper Lil Wayne. Then something occurred. In a mysterious and inexorable process that seems to transform all that is low culture into something high, permanent ink markings began creeping toward the traditional no-go zones for all kinds of people, past collar and cuffs, those twin lines of clothed demarcation that even now some tattoo artist are reluctant to cross. Not entirely surprisingly, facial piercing followed suit.
Suddenly it is not just retro punks and hard- core rappers who look as if they've tossed over any intention of ever working a straight job. Artists with prominent Chelsea galleries and thriving careers, practicing physicians, Funeral directors, fashion models and stylists are turning up with more holes in their faces than nature provided, and all manner of marks on their throats and hands. A year ago, jenny Dembrow, an associate executive director of the Lower eastside girls Club, a Manhattan social service agency, decided to add to her collection of body modifications, which already included a Greek key necklace inked below her clavicle and draped across her shoulders, holes pierced in her cheeks, and earlobe perforations that have been stretched an inch wide over time. The design Dembrow said’ I’ve been drawn to tattoos and counterculture,”as she presided over a tea party held for girls and young women served by her agency.” T this point, though, it almost seems as if you’re more outside the mainstream if u don’t have tattoo.”
Who can say, she added, what would happen if she thrust back into the work force? “Would I be forced to sell punk rock T- shirt in some horrible shop on St marks Place?” she said. She might. While there is ample evidence of tattooing migration from the backwaters of alternative culture into the mainstream ( or at least onto some part of David beckham’s body)’, we are still a long way from seeing facial tattoos on the selling floor of the stock exchange. In case after case, the courts have found on the job appearance requirements – including policies forbidding tattoos and body modifications – to be nondiscriminatory.
It is only relatively recently that tattoo artists were comfortable inking neck and hands. “In the old days tattooists wouldn’t do it.’ Said Bob Baxter, the editor of the tattoo journal skin and Ink . “There are 528shops in New York and maybe 10 won’t do it now.”
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You've been swamped under the iPhone mania but brace yourself because it's not over. You might soon see another frenzy shaping up in the form of the G-Phone. Now we don't need to really specify to the tech geeks about what we mean, but for those who didn't get it, we're referring to the Google Phone, which according to rumours should be expected sometime next year.
No one has any concrete information, or a handset to show, but reports indicate that Google will incorporate its services into this Phone to ensure superior web browsing on the move. This means we can definitely expect the indispensable Google search engine as well as its highly popular interactive maps to be an integral part of the handset.
Now, Google will definitely be hoping that their G-Phone is as wanted as the iPhone. If the recent buzz around the phone is any indication, then the G-Phone is going to as big, if not bigger than the iPhone.
As mentioned earlier, rumours abound this phone, in fact according to a report from an investment guidance firm Anian in the US, Google has spent millions on a development budget and that HTC is being tapped to build a Linux-based G-Phone which will be launched on T- mobiles in the US, with Orange getting the exclusive in France and other countries.
wOMEN who dye their blonde experinces an increase in feelings of attractiveness to the oppsite sex and general, claim researchers from the NOTTINGLAM trent University. Also, women who dye their hair blonde are more likely to sing and dance in front of strangers or ask someone out for a date,"Not only were their confidence and mood levels elevated but heir inhibitiouns seemes to be mitigated with many reporting feeling more attractive and sexually exciting." the experts said
cADNI cHOWK tO cHINA also known as (Made In China) in English. It looks like Delhi and Chandni Chowk have become a favouritehaunting-ground for self-searching explorers of the film industry. Is Akshay Kumar finally getting a dream to come true? For long he has felt that his own success- story has the potential to be made into a movie. And now it looks like he's getting his way. Nikhil Advani's new action-adventure-comedy weirdly entitled Chandni Chowk To China (yup, that's the title which has finally been chosen) has distinct shades of autobiography in its plotting. The film's nimble-footed hero is a cook who goes to China and encounters further adventures. By now it's part of Akshay Kumar's folklore that he served as a cook in Bangkok and earned his way back to Mumbai to make cinematic history. The rasoi-angle isn't the only similarity between the guy from Delhi (Akshay still has his father's family in the Capital) and the hero from Chandni Chowk. Both are also martial-arts practitioners. Also if you look at the film's leading lady Deepika Padukone she's tall, slim and regal looking…like Akshay's wife Twinkle. A coincidence? Akshay has always liked women who are tall and in-charge. One reason why China was chosen for Nikhil's film is to tap Akshay's long-cherished yearning for a full-on martial arts film. Not having done a full action film for over seven years, Akshay has undergone training on a form of martial arts known as Wushu for Nikhil's film. "It's a very intricate art practiced on screen by Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Everyone knows Akshay is a big Jackie Chan fan. This is his chance to get even. Akshay plays a cook who goes to China. But I can't say if Chandni Chowk To China is autobiographical. My writer Sridhar Raghavan (Johnny Gaddar director Sriram's brother) wrote an original screenplay. If he was inspired by Akshay's life he'll know better," laughs Nikhil on his return from China where he was recently finalizing the locations. Chandni Chown To China starts shooting on 22 February in various parts of China including Shanghai. Nikhil wraps up by May. About the corny title, the director laughs, "We earlier called our film Made In China. But we all felt Chandni Chowk To China suits the mood better. We've a song with that title in the film. So why not?"
Fashion always keeps at least one eye on the future. Now scientists are lending a hand, developing tomorrow's super-powered clothing such as garments that can recharge your MP3 player and exoskeletons that enhance strength.
For instance, electronics could get recharged in the future simply by plugging them into your outerwear, because Australian researchers are designing clothing that can harvest energy from a person. The garments would incorporate devices to convert vibration energy from a person's movements into electricity. Advanced conductive fabrics would carry this energy to flexible batteries.
"This kind of technology has important applications for soldiers in the field and could mean they no longer need to carry heavy batteries," Best added. "Essentially, they’d be wearing the battery, not carrying it."
Besides helping soldiers, these garments could also have civilian applications, such as powering radios, mobile phones, MP3 players or medical devices such as vital-sign monitoring systems. Solar-powered handbags could accomplish the same thing.
The Indian rupee fell by 40 paise to 46.74/75 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday due to capital outflow by foreign funds following a plunge in the Asian bourses.
At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex) market, the Indian currency yesterday appreciated by 55 paise to 46.34 against the US dollar following RBI's move to hike the maximum interest on NRI deposits by 50 basis points for dollar and rupee to pave the w ay for increased inflow of greenback.
Meanwhile, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex lost over 700 points in early trade today owing to massive selling by funds in line with deepening global financial crisis.
Yesterday, Commerce Minister Mr Kamal Nath had said that the government is not interfering with the rupee movement but will have to “step in” if it finds “artificial” volatility in the exchange rate.
To make an understatement ,WWE star Dave batista is hard to miss when he walk in to room-6feet 6 inches of bulging muscle, raw attitude and punk tattoos- a Chinese Dragon, his former wife's name and the flags of the Philippines and Greece combined, to pay tribute to his roots. The Animal, as he's called - and even 'Batista the Beast' - was quite willing to pose for our shutter-bug. "I'm ready to give you the animal look," he said with a smile. But The Animal turned out to be preety cool guy. " I didn't expect such a warm welcome in India,"he said. "It's a beautiful place." He'd wanted to visit the TAJ, but all he could see in Delhi was the Red Fort and the parliament building. He had Chicken Tikka and Naan, and was really wanting to have some fried food, his favorite, "but unfortunately, i can't have much of it,' he grinned.
Batista said that getting into wrestling was always his goal."I've spent days and nights training and competing as a body builder and was also a bouncer in nightclubs for a while. Later, I decided to enroll myself in a wrestling school and then WWE became the turning point of my life,' he said.
Does he know of any Indian wrestlers or other Indian sports persons? After a pause, he candidly confessed that he knows no Indian cricketers- in fact, the only Indian sportsperson he knows of is KHALI. In that case does he know of the other great Indian passion - BOLLYWOOD star either.' he grinned, but then added," Last week, I was watching a TV programme in which they were showing some the most beautiful ladies in the worlds. I saw a beautiful face from India who was in it. I don't remember her name....." But as he started to consult his Indian companions, someone prompted, "AISHWARYA?" "Yea,that' her. My God, she's really beautiful. I wouldn't mind acting with her in Indian movies," he said.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee dropped on Thursday as concerns about more capital outflows from local stocks continued to grip market participants, with a rise in global crude prices also pushing up dollar demand from refiners.
At 10 a.m., the partially convertible rupee was at 46.65/67 per dollar, 0.7 percent weaker than 46.33/35 at close on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the rupee fell to 46.99, its lowest since July 2006.
"Regional stocks are negative and oil has gone up, so sentiment is bearish. But the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to step in around 46.70-75, so corporates and exporters start selling around those levels," a dealer with a private bank said.
The RBI said in a statement on Tuesday it would continue to sell dollars in the market either directly or through state-run banks to augment supply.
The BSE Sensex fell 5 percent in early trade, sliding for the eighth session in a row, with emergency actions by central banks and governments around the world failing to ease a financial crisis.
Foreign institutional investors have dumped a net $8.7 billion worth of Indian stocks in 2008, with $1.3 billion so far in September. This has pushed the rupee down 15.5 percent this year.
Dealers said oil firms were seen buying dollars in the market, in an effort to cover their monthly imports, after oil prices started rising again.
Oil , India's biggest import, was trading around $97 per barrel after having surged $6 a day earlier after a fall in weekly U.S. crude stocks.
One-month offshore non-deliverable forward contracts were quoting at 47.03/13, much weaker than the onshore spot rate, providing a good arbitrage opportunity for banks and further weakening the rupee in the local market.
Banks buy dollars in the local market where it is cheaper and sell it offshore, to take advantage of the high price differential.
Today one Greek hacker succeed to hack first monitoring computer system at morning. He gave message in Greek language,He tried to thread about BIG Experimental Errors, n He challenged them to CERN scientist's, Just it was the example, Let's wait for the next.But Cern admit that The accident held this morning, and we are aware all these security concerns, n we have sufficient security monitoring system to protect from these experiences. n we are making more stronger security system network to avoid these hackers.
Missile Launcher-Ishant Sharma were nominated for the Emerging Player Of The Year. It hands on to Lanka's mystery spinner Ajanta Mendis.
On the fifth annual ICC Awards night and each year it is gaining for Jacques Kallis ,He is a further nominee in the Test category.
Lankan's Heroes Are Posing To Grab This Moment, N They Are Feeling Proud To Be The Spirit players of the World Cricketing Nations. Mahela Jaywardaney is also get nominee in World ICC Test Squad.Sri Lanka's cricket players Ajantha Mendis (right) holds his trophy of the Emerging Player of the Year and Mahela Jaywardena holds the trophy for Spirit of Cricket at the LG ICC Awards 2008 ceremony in Dubai
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting poses with his award at The International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards in Dubai on September 10, 2008. Ponting was named as captain of the ICC team of the year. West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named as the 2008 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year at an awards ceremony. The 34-year-old left-hander, a mainstay of his side's batting for over a decade, was chosen ahead of his three fellow nominees - Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, South Africa skipper Graeme Smith and Proteas fast bowler Dale Steyn.
The 1939 MGM classic The Women was the original Sex and the City. It had everything: gossip and fashion shows and spa workouts, plus a peek into the dishy manners of New York high society. Directed by George Cukor, from a script by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin (which was adapted from Claire Boothe Luce's Broadway smash), the movie was a zinger-strewn orgy of feminine camaraderie and backbiting, yet it also confronted the timeless issue of whether a happy marriage can — and should — survive an adulterous affair. The Women wasn't by any means a great movie, but it had a polished acid vibrance and, for all its over-the-top chatter, an elegantly simple story.
