Efforts on to rescue child trapped in a borewell
Massive rescue operations are underway for 5-year-old Saahil, trapped in a borewell for over 24 hours. A team of doctors is monitoring the situation.
Saahil fell into an open borewell at a village about 60 kms from Jaipur around 8 am on Monday morning. He was playing near his house in Jagatpura village when he slipped into the borewell, which belongs to his own family. The borewell was left open after some work on Sunday.
Child trap borewell
The borewell is 270 feet deep and Saahil is lost at a depth of about 150 feet inside it. A team of doctors has put in an oxygen pipe to facilitate the boy’s breathing. He can survive another 24 hours with the help of this supply.
Meanwhile, the administration is trying to dig a parallel pit next to the borewell to reach and rescue the trapped child. 6 JCB machines and several rescue workers have been deployed.
Josy B, Ribkat and Biju Mathew have created a striking combination of music
November 9, 2009
Filed under Music, Ribkat and Josy, about monadarling, lifestyle
Tags: Biju Matthew, Effigy Award, hip hop, Hip Hop song, Josy B, Music, music creators The wrestler, Ribkat, Theory of Addicts, versatile singers of Indian origin
What do you get when you mix a baritone soothing rhyme style with a soft melodic voice? You get an exhilarating potpourri of rap and hip hop of early 90s with intoxicating 80’s music. That’s what Josy B, Ribkat and Biju Mathew are up to, creating a striking combination of music.
Ribkat and Josy
When Ribkat met Biju, the collaboration of east and west was but inevitable. Ribkat and Josy B are also music creators for 2008 Oscar nominated movie, the wrestler, they also have a Hollywood Music Award nomination and Effigy Award for best Hip Hop song in 2009. What can best describe them? The three are innovative, catchy, classy, got swagger, have sound like no other and Josy’s enchanting voice intrigues you deep within. If given just one word, would call them– Hot! That’s what they are!
Their music carries and international appeal, which knows no boundaries of culture or ages.
El Salvador floods, mudslides kill 124, 60 missing
November 9, 2009
Filed under News
Tags: volcano, earth, United Nations, killed, Emergency, house, missing, heavy rains, mudslides, floods, Mud, El Salvador, low-pressure, landslides
VERAPAZ, El Salvador – Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people, authorities said.
El Salvador Floods
Hundreds of soldiers, police and residents dug through rock and debris in Verapaz looking for another 60 people missing from the mudslide, which struck before dawn Sunday while residents were still in their beds.
Matias Mendoza, 26, was at home with his wife Claudia and their year-old son, Franklin, when the earth began moving.
“It was about two in the morning when the rain started coming down harder, and the earth started shaking,” Mendoza recalled. “I warned my wife and grabbed my son, and all of a sudden we heard a sound. The next thing I knew I was lying among parts of the walls of my house.”
“A few minutes later, I found my wife and my son in the middle of the rubble, and, thank God, we’re alive,” said Mendoza, who suffered cuts on his cheek that emergency workers stitched up.
Almost 7,000 people saw their homes damaged by landslides or cut off by floodwaters following three days of downpours from a low-pressure system indirectly related to Hurricane Ida, which brushed Mexico’s Cancun resort on Sunday before steaming into the Gulf of Mexico.
President Mauricio Funes declared a national emergency and said he would work with the United Nations to evaluate the extent of the damage.
Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements
November 6, 2009
Filed under Technology, artwork
Tags: actions, Adobe, batch, Color Balance, Cross-Processing, effect, Enhancements, Photo, Photoshop, Photoshop Action, pre-installed, Saturation
Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing.
Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works.
Color Balance, Hue/Saturation
Photoshop Action 2
by saturn-rings
Cross-Processing ATN
by mutato-nomine
Actions Clyck
by muffim-clyck
Color Enhancing Actions
by Princess-of-Shadows
Cool photo effect action
by Numizmat
Enhancing skin color
by mermes
Jay Sean has done it again with his music
November 6, 2009
Filed under Jay sean, Music
Tags: Billboard Hot 100, Cash Money Records, Down, I Got A Feeling, Jay sean, jay sean down, Lil Wayne, Music, Pop radio chart, Rhythmic Radio, Top 40 Radio Chart, UK artist the year
New comer to the US market, Jay Sean has done it again – sending his sultry signature single “Down” (featuring Lil Wayne) into another number one orbit on the Billboard Hot 100. Pushing back 26 week top slot Black Eyed Peas’ hit “I Got A Feeling”, Jay Sean has jumped from number three to number one on the prestigious Top 40 Radio Chart.
Jay Sean
“Jay Sean’s tremendous success proves the Cash Money creed that great music and great artists know no boundaries,” stated Ronald ‘Slim’ Williams, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Cash Money Records. “We congratulate Jay and thank the Universal Republic staff for their hard work in locking down the #1 slot in so many platforms. We’ve only just begun.”
The infectious single has held a Top 5 Lockdown on the competitive iTunes chart since it hit the digital domain, climbing to # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in near-record time. “Down” is also lighting up the video and online arenas, hitting the # 1 spot on the top urban/Hip Hop Countdown at Fuse in mid-September, and scoring as Top Ten video staple on VH’1’s popular Countdown show. The video has also become a you tube phenomenon, snaring millions of views as it becomes one of 2009’s most popular clips.
4 Indians in US hedge fund scam
November 6, 2009
Filed under News
Tags: new york, people, Indians, companies, guilty, fund scam, Federal, conspiracy, Galleon Group, Wall Street, gaming, Deep Shah, Hilton Hotels
In the US, Federal and state authorities have charged 14 people with fraud and conspiracy as part of an insider-trading network that involves some of the same companies and individuals as the Galleon Group.
Founder Raj Rajaratnam
Authorities are calling it a wake-up call for Wall Street.
Federal prosecutors in New York charged 14 people with gaming the system to the tune of 20 million dollars in profits.
The 14 include two Indian names.
Mumbai based Deep Shah, a former analyst at Moody’s Investors Service. Shah has been charged with passing on tips about Blackstone Group $26 billion takeover of Hilton Hotels before the deal was made public.
Gautham Shankar, a former proprietary trader at Schottenfeld Group in New York who has pleaded guilty.
Fear of losing job drove Chennai pilot to commit suicide
November 5, 2009
Filed under News
Tags: contract, friends, family, suicide, Airlines, Chennai, pilot, commit, losing, job, Kingfisher, fear, Krishna Narayanan, apartment, depressed, high-paying, employment
Police say the suicide by a Kingfisher pilot in Chennai a few days ago could be out of fear of retrenchment just a few days before his contract would end.
Krishna Narayanan
28-year-old Krishna Narayanan, who was found dead in his Chennai apartment last Sunday, was depressed as his contract with Kingfisher Airlines was going to end on November 30.
Friends and family say his flying hours had come down and he feared losing his high-paying job.
“His sister had reassured him that in that case he could come to the US and find employment,” said P Sakthi Velu, Joint Commissioner, South Chennai.
Pilots reveal salary cuts have touched 30 per cent, but worse, they fear that it could also affect their performance.
“For pilots particularly, such feeling of insecurity is not at all good for flight safety,” said Captain Sabu, a pilot.
12 coaches of Gandhidham Express derailed in Mumbai
November 4, 2009
Filed under News
Tags: mumbai, passengers, accident, injured, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham Express, derailed, coaches, miraculous, midnight, 45 degrees, helpline, tilted
It was a miraculous escape for the passengers of Gandhidham Express after 12 coaches of the train derailed at Dombivali in Mumbai.
Derailed Train
Twelve people have been injured in the accident that took place just after midnight.
The train was on its way from Ahmedabad to Bangalore when the accident happened. It was reportedly moving in slow speed.
Some of these 12 coaches are flat on their sides while the others are tilted at an angle of more than 45 degrees.
Helpline numbers: Gandhidham: 02836 228049; Ahmedabad: 079 22161313; Vasai Road: 022 67638006; Vadodara: 0265 2225735; Surat 0261 2418132…
30 Nicest Apple, MacOS and iPod Wallpapers
November 3, 2009
Filed under Uncategorized
Tags: 30 Nicest Apple, apple, ipod, mac, mac os, wallpapers
Fight back pain
November 3, 2009
Filed under Food, health
Tags: Back pain, calcium, complaints, discs, Drinking, fish, grains, Joint Replacement, ligaments, muscles, poor posture, Postural Syndrome, pumpkin, severe back pain, slipped disc, soft tissues, spine, sporadic back pain, til seeds, tremendous pressure, vegetables, Vitamin C, vitamin D3, women
Back pain is one of the most common complaints among people of all classes, affecting both men and women. Earlier the vanguard for old age, back pain has now become a major cause for concern for the late 20’s to 40’s age group. Back pain affects any of the 26 bones connected by muscles, ligaments and discs that constitute the spine.
Back Pain
Back pain is mainly of three types. When the soft tissues in the spinal column get stressed due to poor posture, it is called Postural Syndrome. When the fluid nucleus in the disc gets pushed out of the normal position, or ‘slipped disc’, the other tissues come under tremendous pressure. This is called Derangement Syndrome. Dysfunction Syndrome is the shortening of the muscles, joints, ligaments and other soft tissues resulting in limited movement and sporadic back pain.
Dr Kaushal Malhan, Joint Replacement Surgeon says, “75 per cent to 80 per cent patients today complain of severe back pain due to poor posture. The changes in occupation, a more sedentary lifestyle, long hours of sitting in offices, minimal exercising are the chief reasons for this ailment. 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the cases involve the overuse of the back.” Not surprisingly, office-goers form the bulk of those afflicted. Shalini Chhutani, 24, a bank employee, says “I have been suffering from back pain for the last three months.” She agrees that this could be a lifestyle problem.
The benefits of a good diet cannot be overlooked. She says, “Calcium and magnesium are key minerals in the strengthening of the bone. Fish, grains, pumpkin, til seeds (sesame) and leafy vegetables are a good source of these. Drinking a lot of water and having a balanced diet go a long way in preventing backache. Naini Setalvad, nutrition expert recommends vitamin D3 and Vitamin C, calcium and phosphate to strengthen the spine. “Ragi or nachni, sesame seeds, dried figs, beet and prunes are all good for the back.”
